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Sheilah Belle: Creator of popular “The Belle Report,” for gospel & entertainment news, & Radio Host · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: you know, they tell their story. My next kiss is
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Speaker 1: one I've writed on the show because she supported me.
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Speaker 1: She's leaved in my brand, and when you start a
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Speaker 1: new brand, you need relationships, and she's always been one
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Speaker 1: that has shown a strong light in the direction of
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Speaker 1: support of what I'm trying to do with money making conversation.
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Speaker 1: Her name is Sheila Bell. Sheila Bell. The Bell has
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Speaker 1: worked in the field of broadcast news journalism and with
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Speaker 1: the press for over thirty years. She's the editor in
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Speaker 1: chief and publisher of The Bill Report, now entering his
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Speaker 1: fifteen year publishing, has become one of the top music
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Speaker 1: industry go to platforms for gospel and inspirational news. The
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Speaker 1: Bill has interviewed and met some of the most influential
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Speaker 1: people in the world, including Nelson Mandela, President Bill Clinton,
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Speaker 1: President Jimmy Carter, President Barack Obama, Oprah went For Dick Gregor, Gretta,
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Speaker 1: Scott King, Jesse Jackson, and many more. In addition to
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Speaker 1: producing The Bill Report that is published Monday through Friday,
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Speaker 1: The Bell Collor currently produces and anchors the syndicated radio
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Speaker 1: news show The Bill Report Entertainment News Update, now airing
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Speaker 1: and fifty seven markets across this country. Please welcome to
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Speaker 1: money making conversations. She said, she got her game on
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Speaker 1: for me today, the media journalist, producer, and inspirational speaker
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Speaker 1: see love Bill, Thank you so much. I'm so excited
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Speaker 1: to be here, so excited to be with you, and
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for that great introduction. I felt
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Speaker 1: I felt special where you are, you know, because you
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Speaker 1: know the thing about it when people come on my
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Speaker 1: show many years of Steve, Steve Harvey UH used to
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Speaker 1: always when I stopped doing stand up comedy, Steve said, man,
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Speaker 1: can you introduce me? Can you just come into my
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Speaker 1: show to just introduce me? And because he just knew that,
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Speaker 1: I knew you always gotta set the stage and everybody
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Speaker 1: has value. And sometimes it's not enough for me to
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Speaker 1: say you were just the you know, the founder of
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Speaker 1: the creative the Bill Report. Let's talk a little history.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little because when people hit these intros,
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Speaker 1: you you guys, you are a legacy maker. You know,
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Speaker 1: you are a groundbreaker, you are a visionary. And that's
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Speaker 1: why I have to put it out like that. I
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Speaker 1: can't just say you know your name and just say, well,
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Speaker 1: here's the question that you sent over me to ask
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Speaker 1: I do additional research, and so the Bill Report is
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Speaker 1: something that's important to my brand. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: had to invite you on my show, I say, I said,
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Speaker 1: because somebody gets sheel on my show, because somebody get
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Speaker 1: on my show. Well, Rich, we we're reaching out. What
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Speaker 1: please get on my show? And because you support my brand?
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Speaker 1: And so why do you feel it's important to support
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Speaker 1: my brand of money making conversations? Well, I'm thinking about
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Speaker 1: all the different people that you're talking to, the different
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Speaker 1: lives that are out there, and it's so much that's
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Speaker 1: going on right now. No one lives the same life.
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Speaker 1: No one thinks the same way. No one processes information
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Speaker 1: the same way. So when you're reaching out to different
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Speaker 1: people on different platforms and different arenas, in different cities
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Speaker 1: and different states, looking at politics and people, and even
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Speaker 1: when you ask them what is your understanding and belief
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Speaker 1: of God, everyone has a different story to tell. Everyone's
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Speaker 1: gonna view something differently. No one processes information the same way. Know,
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Speaker 1: when you're talking to me or Jesse Jackson, or Michael
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Speaker 1: Eric Dyson or Oprah Winfrey, no one's gonna be looking
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Speaker 1: at life the same way because no one has gone
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Speaker 1: through life. The same. Everyone has had different experiences up down, good, bad.
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Speaker 1: Some people have money, some people don't. Some people are
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Speaker 1: challenge some people are not. And then sometimes when you
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Speaker 1: look at you are approached with the door, and then
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Speaker 1: the door closes in your face. What do you do?
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Speaker 1: Do you sit back and do you complain? Or do
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Speaker 1: you realize that God allowed that door to close? Knowing
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Speaker 1: that you are the fighter, and the fighter that's within
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Speaker 1: you needs to come out of you. And when it
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Speaker 1: comes out of you, you're gonna push harder. And then
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Speaker 1: you're gonna realize some things that you didn't realize before.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna learn some things about yourself that you didn't
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Speaker 1: know before, and you're gonna see that you were stronger
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Speaker 1: than you actually thought that you were. So when I
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Speaker 1: look at all the different people that you have interviewed,
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Speaker 1: when I think about all the time so that I've
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Speaker 1: seen you and the different people that you have decided
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Speaker 1: to interview, when it comes across my desk, and as
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Speaker 1: an to put into the Bell Report, I put it
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Speaker 1: in the Bell Report with pride because I know that
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Speaker 1: you are not about buffoodery, You're not about foolishness, but
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Speaker 1: you want to make sure that not only the people
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Speaker 1: that you're interviewing that you give them an opportunity, but
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Speaker 1: you're also educating people who are listening to other people
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Speaker 1: when they are listening to you, and when they're listening
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Speaker 1: to your guests, and when your guests have something to
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Speaker 1: say that's worth listening to, it says a lot about you.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the people who you're interviewing, we
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Speaker 1: become an extension of you. So you're gonna make sure
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Speaker 1: whoever you interview has some sense about them to take
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Speaker 1: up this time space. Absolutely, because you're so articulate. Let's
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Speaker 1: go back with one of the courses I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about doing researching a starter, you know, a person
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Speaker 1: who started as a young person, which lead to you,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure, ridicule jokes, and sometimes that leads to bullying.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of people think the word
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Speaker 1: bully is as a modern term. I can know that
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Speaker 1: in my middle school I was bullied, bullied in my
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Speaker 1: high school, use I was bullied, just didn't understand and
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Speaker 1: and I just know that I just said, they picked
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Speaker 1: on me, mom, they're picking on me at school. That's
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Speaker 1: the term I used instead of the word bullying. These
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Speaker 1: kids picking on me. So, as a young stutterer, how
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Speaker 1: did you deal with that and how did you overcome
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Speaker 1: it to be so articulate and so mindful and so
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Speaker 1: motivational Today, if you're talking to the the young millennials
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Speaker 1: and the GENETU, you would say it's a God thing.
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Speaker 1: But if you want to be real about it, God
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Speaker 1: healed me from what I was going through. I was
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Speaker 1: in the first, second and third grade, and the stuttering
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Speaker 1: was so bad it would take me a good two
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Speaker 1: or three minutes to articulate three or four or five
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Speaker 1: words just to say. Back in the day when we
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Speaker 1: were in school, sometimes the teacher would say, hey, Sheil,
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Speaker 1: would you go to miss harris room and give her
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Speaker 1: this message? The message maybe tell miss Harris that we're
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Speaker 1: going to be going outside to play on the playground
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Speaker 1: at twelve o'clock. So, because they knew I stuttered, and
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Speaker 1: because my mom also taught in the same school that
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Speaker 1: we were in, they were trying to help me to
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Speaker 1: get out of it, to get out of that zone
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Speaker 1: of not feeling comfortable around people. Because even then, while
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Speaker 1: it was stuttering, I was also extremely shy. So by
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Speaker 1: the time I left the first grade and went up
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Speaker 1: to the second floor and I would tell Mrs Harris
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Speaker 1: the message. The message sort of went like this, ms
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Speaker 1: ms mss ms mss mss mss mss Harris, Miss, miss miss,
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Speaker 1: and it went on like that. So you're trying to
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Speaker 1: deliver this message, you got other kids looking at you
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Speaker 1: like what is the problem. And this went on, and
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Speaker 1: my mom tried to work with me. We would read
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Speaker 1: books on the front porch. She would try to get
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Speaker 1: me to calm down. But after the first, second and
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Speaker 1: third grade, third grade, I was told that I was
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Speaker 1: going to be going to a middle school for the
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Speaker 1: fourth grade. So the day that we were waiting for
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Speaker 1: the yellow cheese bus to come down the street to
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Speaker 1: pick us up to get on this bus to go
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Speaker 1: to Robert E. Lee Middle School, I heard this voice.
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Speaker 1: On going into the fourth grade, I heard this voice
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Speaker 1: that said, slow down. They will hear you. Slow down.
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Speaker 1: And I remember just thinking I'm hearing a voice. I
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Speaker 1: don't know where this voice is coming from, but it's
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Speaker 1: telling me to slow down. And something within me, maybe
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Speaker 1: down in my shanana, that told me to slow it down.
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Speaker 1: And once I got that in my spirit and understood
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Speaker 1: when I walked on that yellow bus. I no longer studied.
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Speaker 1: It was just like that. It was just like that.
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Speaker 1: A blessing, It was just like that. And and now
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Speaker 1: when you look at your life now, you're in the
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Speaker 1: creative side, journalistic side, media side, because that that that
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Speaker 1: ability to translate information is what your gift is. Promote
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Speaker 1: information what your gift is. Now, let's let's set that
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Speaker 1: in the world. We have a president who came into
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Speaker 1: office in and established a term called faith news, and
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Speaker 1: as he exits, that's all he's about, is creating fake news.
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Speaker 1: When you review information like that, how has it impacted
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Speaker 1: how you report things, how you deliver information to our community.
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Speaker 1: What has helped me over the years to even have
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Speaker 1: the brand that I have today and to report the
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Speaker 1: news that I have today is integrity. And for years,
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Speaker 1: every time when I would write a story, I had
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Speaker 1: to learn really early that there are two sides to
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Speaker 1: the story. You can always write the story the way
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Speaker 1: that you want to write the story to favor the
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Speaker 1: person who you like, but you have to remember that
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Speaker 1: there are two sides to the story. So in being fair,
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Speaker 1: I've always been fair to everyone who I deal with. Integrity,
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Speaker 1: your name goes a long way. So even when I'm
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Speaker 1: on the air now, I praise one or four point seven,
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Speaker 1: when I'm writing stories up on the Bell Report, when
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Speaker 1: I'm pushing stuff out on the Bell Report, Entertainment News Update,
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Speaker 1: when I'm having a conversation, if I'm in the pulpit,
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Speaker 1: if I'm ministering, if I'm talking, if someone just a
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Speaker 1: proaches me, It's about being true to who you are
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Speaker 1: so you can be true to other people. Sometimes it's
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Speaker 1: even about being transparent so people can know that you're
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Speaker 1: not trying to hide anything. So when the facts do
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Speaker 1: come out and when you see what is going on
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Speaker 1: for what it is, you just tell the truth. And
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget the day when Michael Jackson died. I
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Speaker 1: had people calling me and it shocked me. They said, Belle,
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Speaker 1: we're calling you because we know if you say that
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Speaker 1: he died, then we know that he died. Because we're
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Speaker 1: just not trusting the other media. We just can't we
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Speaker 1: just can't believe it. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm
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Speaker 1: watching CNN and ms NBC and and be just like
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Speaker 1: everyone else trying to figure out what's going on. But
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Speaker 1: they were trusting me with that, But it spoke volume
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Speaker 1: to me realizing that people are trusting me with information,
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Speaker 1: and when people trust you to tell the truth, and
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Speaker 1: when you think about the world that we're living and
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Speaker 1: now people want to have a relationship with people who
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Speaker 1: can tell the truth because often people will twist it.
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Speaker 1: Look social media, I'm looking at how social media has
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Speaker 1: played mind games with people as people have gotten so
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Speaker 1: caught up trying to be something that they're not trying
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Speaker 1: to please people for a like or coming just so
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Speaker 1: they can do whatever it is that they're trying to do.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, be real to yourself. There's too many
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Speaker 1: games out here mentally, emotionally, spiritually. When do you find
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Speaker 1: the time to back up to find out who you
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Speaker 1: are and being true to yourself. If you can't be
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Speaker 1: true to yourself, you can't be true to other people.
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Speaker 1: And I really pride myself on doing the best that
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Speaker 1: I can to be honest and being truthful. Well, the
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Speaker 1: thing I love about your whole A presentation is that
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Speaker 1: it's about branding. It's about marketing and UH and brand association.
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Speaker 1: I remember when Steve when I first started. I first
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Speaker 1: I met Steven eighties six, when I was a stand
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Speaker 1: up comment I was headlining. He was my opening that
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Speaker 1: and didn't they need to you know, Deaf Comedy Jam
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Speaker 1: came through town and he was headlining the show. That
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Speaker 1: asked me to come down and do a set. And
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Speaker 1: he would always see his name on stage, Steve Harvest.
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Speaker 1: It is was Steve Harvey, Steve Harvey, Steve. He was
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Speaker 1: constantly branding himself and name recognition. If you didn't know
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Speaker 1: what's performing, he's gonna tell you. So the be All Report,
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Speaker 1: when I see the Bell Report that every time is
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Speaker 1: your last name? Is part of the Brandy process. Tell
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Speaker 1: us how that came about, the whole magazine and also
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Speaker 1: the Bill Report name the All Report. It's such a
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Speaker 1: gift from God and how it came into fruition. It's
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Speaker 1: it's pretty uh. Years ago, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years ago now,
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Speaker 1: my cousin Kevin was riding his motorcycle out in Charlottesville.
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Speaker 1: He had a motorcycle accident. His mom called and she said, Sheila,
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Speaker 1: let the family know what's going on with Kevin, because
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Speaker 1: what happened with him the motorcycle accident. He slid a
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Speaker 1: tree branch limb went through his eye. His son was
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Speaker 1: behind him following him, and his son got involved in
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Speaker 1: the same accident, but his son was not to really hurt.
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Speaker 1: They met like him to the University of Virginia hospital.
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Speaker 1: And while all this is going on, I'm now keeping
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Speaker 1: the family, the Bell family of where of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: So what I had to figure out. That's when the
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Speaker 1: Internet was still pretty new, and I had to figure out, okay,
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Speaker 1: just put something on it. So I said, hey, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is the Bell Report for the family. So I
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Speaker 1: kept updating people what was going on, because I was
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Speaker 1: still doing news at that time of another radio station
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Speaker 1: at another TV station. I was updating people what was
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Speaker 1: going on. And as he got better, I remember that
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Speaker 1: was an event that was going on in the city
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Speaker 1: and I said, hey, by the way, Kevin, if you're
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Speaker 1: feeling a little bit better, there's an event that we
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Speaker 1: can go to. And he said, hey, that's pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: He got better, and then a couple of days later
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Speaker 1: I said, I found out there were two more things
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Speaker 1: that's going on. So this went off all about a
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Speaker 1: good week and a half and somebody in the family
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Speaker 1: sent that Bell Report to somebody else and it started
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Speaker 1: to float in a About two or three weeks later,
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Speaker 1: I got an email from a friend of mine in
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Speaker 1: the industry who said, Hey, I understand that you're sending
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Speaker 1: out a newsletter or something. Can you send out this
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Speaker 1: event as well? And here are five hundred additional emails
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Speaker 1: that you can also have and distribute this to as well.
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Speaker 1: So a lilife bub went off that made me think, alrighty,
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Speaker 1: I don't think they want to hear about my cousin.
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Speaker 1: Let me split these and keep the Bell Report for
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Speaker 1: the Bell Report for the family, and make the other
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Speaker 1: one the Bell Report for everyone else. And initially started
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Speaker 1: with the split with the Bell Report, that stayed the
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Speaker 1: way that that was. But when it came for the
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Speaker 1: Bell Report for the industry, I started to try to
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Speaker 1: find information about what was going on and what was interesting.
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Speaker 1: We didn't have the type of websites with all the
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Speaker 1: information that we have now. So I would drive from Richmond,
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Speaker 1: Virginia to Washington, d c. And pick up all the
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Speaker 1: ethnic newspapers at Howard University to find out all the
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Speaker 1: different events that were going on. And I have to
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Speaker 1: call these people to find out And then it became
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Speaker 1: like a community calendar of all these different events that
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Speaker 1: what's going on and them having reporting skills. Then you
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Speaker 1: start to go to the different events and you start
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Speaker 1: interviewing people, and you start taking pictures, and before you
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Speaker 1: know at the Bell Report became two separate entities. And
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Speaker 1: then I had family members who said, take me off
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Speaker 1: the other Bell Report, just keep me on the other
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Speaker 1: family Bell Report. And it just started to grow from
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Speaker 1: there and it has been growing ever since. And I
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Speaker 1: think that we do well because we try to make
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Speaker 1: sure that we're not sending out emails all day long.
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Speaker 1: We do have the website, but people want that email
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Speaker 1: directly to their email front door, so we send it
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Speaker 1: out late at night. We send it out in the
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Speaker 1: noon day around twelve noon, just twice a day. But
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Speaker 1: if you were to print it out, it's maybe anywhere
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Speaker 1: from eighteen to twenty two pages of information that's going
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Speaker 1: on to the gospel community, from what's happening with the
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Speaker 1: record labels, the gospel artists, the conventions, whatever is going on.
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Speaker 1: People call me, send me stuff to publicists, and what
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Speaker 1: the beauty is about the Bell Report? Which is why
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Speaker 1: no God gave this coming. You have all this information
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Speaker 1: out there, people have websites, people are over the place,
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Speaker 1: but how do people know how to get to your website.
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Speaker 1: How do they know that if you if you're trying
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Speaker 1: to publish it. So I'm like, hey, the Bell Report
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Speaker 1: goes to everybody, and people have gotten so mentally lazy.
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Speaker 1: If you will give me what I can get and
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Speaker 1: just send it to my email. So by sending it
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Speaker 1: to the email, it's right there, everything that you need,
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Speaker 1: everything that you want. And we also put links and
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Speaker 1: other things and the reports if people want to go there.
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Speaker 1: But the Bell Report has done really well. It's a
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Speaker 1: blessing from God. Even told me how to make a
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Speaker 1: couple of coins from it. And when I'm pushing it
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Speaker 1: out and it helps pay my bills, and I thank
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Speaker 1: God for you know, God gives you all the things
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Speaker 1: that you need, It gives you the talents that you need,
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Speaker 1: but He's trusting you with what he has giving you
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Speaker 1: as well. So I just try to make sure what
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Speaker 1: the gifts that God has given me that I use
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Speaker 1: them to help people. But I also make sure that
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Speaker 1: I'm using them to the glory of God and letting
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Speaker 1: God know every day that I wake up that he
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19:06
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19:09
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19:12
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19:21
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19:25
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19:44
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19:47
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19:49
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19:52
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19:56
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20:01
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20:05
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20:09
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20:12
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20:14
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20:22
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20:24
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20:28
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20:32
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20:36
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20:38
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20:41
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20:43
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20:46
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20:49
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20:53
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21:03
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21:08
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21:09
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21:12
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21:16
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21:19
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21:22
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21:24
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21:43
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21:45
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21:51
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22:09
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22:12
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22:15
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22:19
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22:22
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22:25
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22:28
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22:33
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22:36
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22:39
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22:50
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22:53
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22:56
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23:03
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23:06
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23:09
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23:11
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23:13
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23:16
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23:19
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23:23
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23:26
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23:29
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23:31
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23:33
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23:36
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23:39
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23:41
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23:45
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23:48
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23:51
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23:54
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23:58
Speaker 1: So let's handle this. Your mother passed away from bone cancer,
24:01
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24:05
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24:07
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24:11
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24:16
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24:19
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24:23
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24:26
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24:29
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24:32
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24:36
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24:39
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24:43
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24:47
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24:50
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24:53
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24:56
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24:58
Speaker 1: doctor told me um I didn't agree with. And they
25:03
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25:05
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25:08
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25:10
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25:14
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25:17
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25:20
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25:24
Speaker 1: But then they didn't give me all the options. They
25:27
Speaker 1: were telling me that I could have both of my
25:29
Speaker 1: breasts removed, and it was really a mess. So after
25:33
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25:36
Speaker 1: my first chemo therapy treatment. Uh that went pretty well.
25:41
Speaker 1: Two weeks into the first chemo treatment and I was
25:46
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25:49
Speaker 1: port got infected. And after the port got infected and
25:52
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25:55
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25:58
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26:02
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26:05
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26:07
Speaker 1: Then I wasn't admitted to the hospital. Then I had mercer.
26:10
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26:12
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26:14
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26:18
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26:21
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26:26
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26:30
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26:34
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26:37
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26:40
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26:43
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26:45
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26:48
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26:50
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26:53
Speaker 1: that fight, and that gave me something the focus on.
26:56
Speaker 1: After that third treatment, though, it was just rough, but
26:59
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27:06
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27:08
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27:12
Speaker 1: let's see at this time, remember they took the poor out.
27:17
Speaker 1: So when I left the hospital this time, and now
27:19
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27:22
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27:25
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27:27
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27:30
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27:33
Speaker 1: they can't get a return on the blood. They're trying
27:36
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27:38
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to take the pick out. When this happens,
27:43
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27:45
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27:48
Speaker 1: would make everything all right. And I had to trust
27:51
Speaker 1: my faith to get me through this moment because at
27:56
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28:00
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28:03
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28:06
Speaker 1: they already took the port out. So if you took
28:08
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28:10
Speaker 1: pick out, what are we gonna do next? Because we
28:13
Speaker 1: have either one or two more treatments left. So they're
28:17
Speaker 1: looking at me. I'm looking at them, and it was
28:21
Speaker 1: this moment of silence because I had to get it
28:24
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28:28
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28:32
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28:36
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28:40
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28:44
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28:48
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28:52
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28:56
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28:59
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29:02
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29:06
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29:09
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29:13
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29:16
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29:19
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29:24
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29:28
Speaker 1: was silence. There was you could hear people gasping, You
29:32
Speaker 1: could hear people in shock, and I saw people cry,
29:36
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29:38
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29:40
Speaker 1: was emotional. But we got through it. That was that Saturday.
29:45
Speaker 1: It was a great program to Caitlin Carver was my
29:47
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29:49
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30:04
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30:08
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30:11
Speaker 1: Sunday comes, Monday comes. I'm going back to get this
30:15
Speaker 1: pickline in and we realized that, okay, this is gonna happen.
30:20
Speaker 1: Let's wait and see what the m r I does.
30:22
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30:25
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30:29
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30:31
Speaker 1: believing God's gonna heal me. So we walked through. We
30:35
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30:37
Speaker 1: r I done. The nurse she comes over to me.
30:40
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30:43
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30:47
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30:50
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30:54
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30:57
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31:02
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31:05
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31:11
Speaker 1: and she says, he, I want you to know that
31:13
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31:18
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31:22
Speaker 1: So that what I thought right there, because I remember
31:26
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31:29
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31:31
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31:34
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31:37
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31:40
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31:42
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31:44
Speaker 1: just say cancer free? Did he say a cool and clear?
31:48
Speaker 1: I just went, I gotta confirm this again. I ran
31:53
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31:54
Speaker 1: I went, what did you just say? Okay? Because you
31:58
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32:03
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32:06
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32:08
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32:15
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32:18
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32:22
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32:25
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32:31
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32:34
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32:38
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32:41
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32:44
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32:48
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32:51
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32:55
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32:58
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33:00
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33:03
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33:06
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33:09
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33:12
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33:16
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33:21
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33:23
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33:27
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33:29
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33:32
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33:34
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33:37
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33:39
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33:42
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33:44
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33:47
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33:49
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33:51
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33:54
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33:58
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34:04
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34:06
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34:08
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34:12
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34:15
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34:18
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34:23
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34:26
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34:29
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34:31
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34:34
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Speaker 1: purchase Player PI