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Speaker 1: In radio, they always tell us one thought per break.

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So why would I put an NFL star with a

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YA author or a movie star with a doctor who

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says I've cured cancer. Aro dot net A R R

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O E dot net, Seventeen different podcasts and subjects to

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enhance your life. Thank you so much for being a

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part of mine. Hello Arrow, Hello, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I am great. I love your name.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's just one of those radio names. We were

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sitting around in Lewistown, Montana, trying to think of a

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club owner for my wife's first book, and I said,

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how about Arrow, And she said, put an E on it.

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We'll go for it. And I said, I'm stealing that

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from my radio.

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Speaker 2: Love it? Yeah, I love it. That's great man.

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Speaker 1: I think that, I mean, I'm a fan of Christmas cards,

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but I think that people need to retire the Christmas

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cards this year and add this book and send this

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book out to all of their family and friends because

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you embrace it. You have got the magic tool inside

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this book.

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Speaker 3: Oh that is a beautiful Yes, I agree, I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love it well.

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Speaker 1: I mean for you to be able to sit down

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with all of your paintings and I can relate with

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you on this because I'm also an artist. And the

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styles that you have selected, and then to put the

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words in there, it's everything that I wanted to do

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with my first book when it came out. Get the

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paintings up there. They will come to the words after

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and my god, you've got the magic going on.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's been a journey, I will have to say.

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Speaker 3: And you know, I painted my first angel.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to be an artist when I was a

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little girl.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I wrote a paper in the third grade,

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what do you want to be when you grow up?

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Speaker 2: And highlight it was I want to be an artist.

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Speaker 3: And fast forward tenth grade, I made a D minus.

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I'm flunked out of college. I mean, I'm giving you

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my dirty laundry. But you know, God had different plans.

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And anyway, fast forward two thousand and three, I break

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out my oils. I'm painting landscape, still lives figures, kind

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of self talk.

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Speaker 2: And I wanted something that reflected my faith.

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Speaker 3: Not that I'm an angel, but I painted my first

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angel and I sent it to my sister and I said,

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what do you think? And she said, I think you

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found your voice. Yes, And that was twenty two years ago.

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And I will tell you when I'm in my studio,

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I put my praise music on and is my time

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of worship, and I just get lost in worship and

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I allow the Holy Spirit to flow out from me

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onto the blank canvas.

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Speaker 2: And it is a time of painting.

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Speaker 3: And worshiping and creating these ethereal abstract angels.

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Speaker 2: So it's been a journey and I love it.

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Speaker 1: See that's the very reason why when people say, oh, ero,

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I'm blocked. I can't create right now. I just can't

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bring it to life. If you didn't give it to

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the universe, then obviously you've you've got a disconnection in

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your in your smartphone. And because it's all about receiving,

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it ain't about your ego. It's about receiving.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I always say surrendered hands and a

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surrendered heart.

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Speaker 2: And I will say, you know, I've been.

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Speaker 3: Painting these angels for twenty two years. I guess back

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in twenty twelve, I had a lady, Kathy Lee Gifford

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held it up my first.

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Speaker 2: Book on the Today's Show.

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Speaker 3: And I had a lady call me and she said,

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I lost my four year old grandchild two years ago.

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I have not been able to grieve.

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Speaker 2: I got your.

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Speaker 3: Book and the Angels and I read it cover to cover.

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The floodgates of heaven have opened up, the healing has begun.

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And that's when I knew that this, you know, hobby

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of painting and writing shifted from being a hobby to

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a ministry and allowing just you know, it's.

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Speaker 2: All about God, It's all about Jesus.

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Speaker 3: And I do tell people, you know, everybody's like, why

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angels have said, Well, it's just what God placed on

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my heart.

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Speaker 2: We do not worship the angels.

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Speaker 3: We worship the God who created angels for a specific purpose.

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Speaker 2: On this earth.

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Speaker 3: I believe in angels. You know, He created them. They

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were in the field the night Jesus was born, and yeah,

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so they will.

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Speaker 2: They They're very near and dear to my heart. And

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painting them has become it's become a life song. It

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really truly has.

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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with Ann Nielsen coming

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up next, the name of the book and the experience

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Christmas Angels. We are back with An Nielsen. Well, one

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of the things that I have found so interesting with

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your angel paintings is that the wings look like that

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they are draped over the shoulders, that they are part

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of the warmth, the the you know, bringing in the

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moment of now with peace as well as reaching out

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in the in favor of the you know, being in

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the present as well as the future. And the thing

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that it reminds me of instantly when I look at

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your paintings, the story of Elijah and Elijah when it

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was placed on his shoulders, because because it's not coming

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out of his back, it's not coming out of the

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angels backs, it is placed You have earned this to

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put on your shoulders. Now carry yourself forward.

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Speaker 3: Wow, I just got holy fully goosebumps all it from

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my body with that vision and that story. Yes, and

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I like to say there are no two fingerprints alike.

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There are no two snowflakes alike. I would like to

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think that in my twenty two years of painting, there

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are no two angel wings that have been alike.

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Speaker 2: So this is they're very personal. People say, do you

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do lessons.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, not brilliant, because this is really a personal

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ministry for me. I mean, just getting into my studio

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mixing my all paints, you know, layering, layering, and that's

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another thing, you know, our lives. You know, we start

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out as a blank canvas and we go through trials

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and tribulations, but you know, God adds color and texture

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to our lives and we're going to look back one

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day and we're going to see the masterpiece that He

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has created.

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Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, it's been a blessing. It's been such a journey.

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And I hope that this little book. I know that

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we are forging into the holidays, and holidays can be busy,

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they can be overwhelming, they can be sad.

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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of you.

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Speaker 3: Know, loss loved ones during the holidays, and so I'm

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hoping that this book would just bring the reader to

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a place of peace and hope and joy because that

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and love that is the true components of the Christmas season,

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and not get caught up in the commercialism of it all.

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Speaker 2: So that's my hope that.

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Speaker 3: We can all pause and through the art and through

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the devotions and through the prayer and scripture, that we

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can find that hope and love and joy and peace

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this Christmas season.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about technique for those that are hiding inside

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their homes when it comes to their artwork, and they

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won't let the world see it. You do what I

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call peaking. That means that you layer up your pace. Now,

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Peter Max, who I've sat with, he and I really

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got into peaking and why you should do it in

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the shadows that it creates. Whereas when I was with

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Paul Stanley of Kiss, I asked him, I said, do

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you scrape your canvas? Because there's an area here where

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I see some peaking. But I feel like that you

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scraped your canvas. Now I see the same thing with

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your angel wings. I can see where you took that

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energy and you spread it across that angel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I've never heard thout peaking.

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Speaker 3: And I love that you are with those artists fabulous,

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and I want to know about your art too, because

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I do own an art.

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Speaker 2: Gallery where we represent six the artists worldwide.

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Speaker 3: But I do a lot of layering, and I do

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a lot of building up with.

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Speaker 2: The paint, and I use a palette night towards the end.

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And I do have a funny story about scraping.

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Speaker 3: I I hope I am allowed to tell this story.

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But a very famous person over Winfree commissioned me to

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do a painting, an angel painting, and it was a

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painting for Maria Schreiver and it had Sergeant Schreiver on

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one side, units on the other side of Maria in

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the center. And I got the you know, the colors

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and the texture and the palette and everything. All the

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angel wings were on there, and sent the final you know,

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I was sending emails of the final you know, uh painting,

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and I got an email back that I needed just

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scrape Maria's wings off because she was still alive. So

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I got to chuckle out of that. Maria's wings did

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come off. The painting is beautiful. It hangs in her office.

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lot of build up with the paint and the wings.

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be a little surprise heart in the wing or the painting,

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and I'm like, it's not by accident. I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I think God, you know, just clops that right there.

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It's fun.

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Speaker 1: Please fun, Please come back to this show anytime in

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the future. The door is always going to be open

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for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. I love it.

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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, you too.