January Jones sharing Senior Golden Bachelorette & Chicago Honey Bear - Renee Halverson-Wright

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FOURCY Radio. Who is January Jones. She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is
not an older, gorgeous exotic dancer

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from The Johnny Carson Show. She
is an author and she wrote thou Show

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Not Why, the Eleventh Commandment that
ates number one at Amazon dot com.

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She is a reality TV golf personality
with World High Stakes Golf televised on hd

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Net. She is a huge and
whyologist expert. She is your featured host

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today on January Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax, and

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get ready to laugh and listen to
Ms Jones with her eclectic roster of guests.

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As you learn life's lessons. These
stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome

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and remember beware because you are entering
the no whining world of January Jones.

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Hello everyone, I hope you're having
a wonderful, terrific day. I'm January

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Jones and I'd like to welcome you
to our podcast today. As you see,

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I'm wearing my glitter cowboy hat,
my silver one and it's because my

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will have affiliate market Amazon as an
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selling books and products and there'll be
more information coming as we get closer to

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the launch date. Never my listeners, let me ask you a question.

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What do you know about the Chicago
Bears cheerleaders? Probably not too much,

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but I've been doing some research and
they were called the Honeybears. Now that's

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really a great brand name, isn't
it. Would you like to meet someone

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who can tell us about the history
of the Honeybears And we have some big

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questions as to why they were disbanded
after they had been cheering for the Bears

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for nine seasons and then it all
ended. Tell me have you ever heard

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of a book called Missing from the
Sidelines. Oh? Also, and by

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the way, did you watch The
Golden Bachelor? Yes? I think most

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of us did, of course.
Now you can meet a real Golden Bachelor

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at who is with us today?
And if you can answer yes or maybe

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to any of our questions, then
you are in the right place. And

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I'd like to welcome you to January
Jones sharing Senior Success. Now it's time

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res relaxed, go get some wine, get some cheese and crackers so you

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can join us in the no wine
zone. Now, let's welcome my guest

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today. She is Renee Halberson Wright, co author of Missing from the Sidelines.

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It's our pleasure to welcome you to
the podcast today. Renee, Hi,

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how are you doing. I'm so
excited to be here with you,

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January. Oh, it is wonderful
and I'm just curious. Are you Where

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do you live? Where's your home
base? Well? I grew up in

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Didevil, Wisconsin, really small,
magical town. But I've been in my

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twenties. You know, I studied
dance, so my dream was to go

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and pursue that. So I was
in Chicago in my twenties up till just

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recently. I moved back to Wisconsin
to be near my badger dad, who

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is ninety nine years old now,
and hopefully get a lot of trips back

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to Chicago sea friends. You know. Oh, that's terrific, And we're

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going to talk about his book too. What an amazing family. And I

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was doing some research and I saw
that your father was the one who encouraged

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you to audition for the Golden Bachelor. And how did that come about?

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Well, you know, that came
up a few years ago and then COVID

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happened and I was in Chicago,
and at that time in my life,

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I thought this would be a great
opportunity. I wasn't doing well on the

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dating sites and I really just you
know, and I was like, I

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want to just meet someone organically,
and I just don't wasn't working. So

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I thought, well, what I
why not try the Golden Bachelor. And

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it went away and went away,
and I'm like, now I'm back in

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Wisconsin here with my dad because he
had had a fall and I wanted to

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be near him. And it came
back up again. So I went through

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the whole audition process, which was
a lot. There was actually thirty four

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thousand applications. Oh my god.
Yeah, a lot of people don't know

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that. Yeah, And so they
say, oh, you think it was

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a big deal when you were trying
out for the Honeybeers, you had fifteen

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hundred or two thousand girls, you
know, auditioning. We'll look what you

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were up against here. So I
told my father about it, and they

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love my father's story because my father
and I are super close, and he's

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the oldest living letter badger, you
know, football players. So he was

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the one during this time he was
doing well, and he said, you're

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taking care of everybody, Renee.
It's now it's time for you to take

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care of yourself. And I want
you to go to do this. I

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want you to have fun. And
so I don't think I could have gone

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without his encouragement and support. So
yeah, he was the one that kind

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of pushed me out the door and
on the plane to California to experience a

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quiet experience. It was a huge
experience for me, and like at Wonderful

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Woman on my journey, you know, it looked like it was so much

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fun. I have a friend and
her daughter's been working on the set there

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doing the set work. Since the
show started, so I've been following it

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for a long time, and you
know, thirty four thousand, that's really

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impressive. Yeah, I was shocked
myself. I was like, wow,

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yeah, that's right, you know, talking about your dad being a Badger.

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My husband is Ohio State Buckeye.
Oh yeah, And we have gone

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to so many Opening Day games again
Wisconsin, because that's probably the only time

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we can get tickets in that stadium. And I just love the Wisconsin fans

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because they all wear the cheese heads. And then the part where everyone does

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the polk up well and it's also
jump around is huge. You know.

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So we're got buck guys and Badgers
all in red, right, sea of

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red. When we play Ohio State
is always scary because you guys always have

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the best teams. But oh yeah, well this year, I think this

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year Michigan took care of us.
So we're going to just come back next

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year and get them. You know, Before we do that, we're going

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and she's in Wisconsin right now.
I bet it's cold there. Now before

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we go on, Renee, share
your information and let our listeners know where

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they can get your book. And
also give your dad's book a plug too.

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Okay, Well, my background was
I was a dancer at the age

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of four, and I cheerleading was
a huge part of my life. And

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one day there was an audition for
the Chicago Bears. I was studying dance

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in Evanston, Illinois at Custuerdonald's and
it came out on the news and I

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thought, oh, wow, would
this would be fun? Even though I'm

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from Packer Land, I'm going to
go to bed I mean, cheer for

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the Bears, hopefully, and making
the NFL cheerleaders for the Bears. It

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was like such a dream come true. I really didn't think I'd have a

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chance at making the squad with you
know, fifteen hundred plus other girl with

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numbers you know, all over.
But we had to go through a huge

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process of auditions. So it started
in nineteen seventy seven and went through nineteen

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eighty five through the Super Bowl.
So yeah, we had nine seasons and

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after you know, the Super Bowl, we were disbanded from the you know,

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the Bears. So they what happened
was George Hallis, who was the

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team owner, Papa Bear. He
wanted girls in nineteen seventy seven, and

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you know, the team wasn't doing
so well, and so he thought,

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I want something like Dallas. We
need something, you know, color on

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the sidelines. We need to do
something to entertain our fans. And it

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was. It was such a huge
success, and you know, he said,

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as long as I'm alive, we're
going to have dancing girls. He

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just loved the Chicago Honting Bears.
And unfortunately he passed away in nineteen eighty

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three, so his daughter, Virginia
McCaskey became the team owner. She was

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not really into having dancing girls on
the sidelines. She wanted to get rid

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of us, you know, and
you know, she just didn't think it

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was she thought it was I guess
sexist and whatever. But so she just

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felt that she wanted to get back
to the blood and guts of football and

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we don't need these dancing girls.
However, she couldn't fire us in nineteen

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eighty three because we had a contract
through nineteen eighty five with our agent,

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you know, a plus talent.
So happened to be nineteen eighty five the

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Super Bowl, We win the Super
Bowl, the Honeybears are disbanded, and

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you know, it was a bittersweet
situation, but now it's the biggest,

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biggest, like now, like if
you read our chapter thirteen, My book

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ends in chapter thirteen, and it's
called the Curse of the Honey Bears.

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So a lot of Bear fans believe
this curse because the Bears have not won

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a Super Bowl since the Chicago Hungers
were disbanded. So they bring back in

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solder fields. A lot of people
feel that the Bears will not win a

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Super Bowl. So it's been kind
of a fun thing. But I did

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end my book in chapter thirteen because
you be the judge, you know,

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So it's been kind of fun.
Well I have been the judge. And

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you know that's like that that longtime
curse of the Bambino which the Bold talks.

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You know, they finally broke the
curse. Do you think there's chances

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is the mccowsky family still the owners
or who owns the Bears? Yes,

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and you know Virginia's I think she's
a hundred God bless her though, yeah,

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you know, but I think that
eventually, maybe one day they'll bring

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back some I think, come on, cheerleaders on the on the sidelines in

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white booz versus boys running with flags
down the line is not going to Yeah,

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I think people really enjoyed, like
seeing the dancing, and a lot

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of us were just you know,
cheerleaders through high school and college, and

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we just I grew up in a
sports family, so obviously my father playing

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football. You know, it's been
my life. I mean, I love

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football. I'm still my life is
around football to this day. So yeah,

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and you know, we have a
granddaughter who is has studied ballet since

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she was four or five. And
at high school they had and it's very

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popular now at most every high school
as a dance team. And basically these

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girls practice, practice and rehearse,
and then they go out during halftime and

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they do a show that is just, you know, practically, in my

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opinion, professional caliber because they practice
probably as much and as hard as the

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football team does. And this is
what the fans like, This is what

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they want, you agree, Oh, they like the entertainment. Yeah,

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especially if they are teams are not
doing well. They have to have something

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to cheer about, right, So
yeah, I think we had practiced like

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three times a week, sometimes even
more, you know that we had to

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be at and we also back then
had weigh ends before games like you can't

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do that now, right, But
I remember like having to make those weigh

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ins, like putting a towel under
my bathroom door and trying to sweat before

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way and night, you know,
because you could get replaced by an alternate

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if you didn't fit into your uniform
or you're not looking the way you were

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supposed to look. So things were
really different back there, and very a

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lot of stressful. You know,
you had to know your dance. You

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had to learn your dance, and
you also had to keep yourself in good

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shape. And yeah, there's a
lot of work. Yeah, speaking of

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weighands many ancient history. I flew
as the stewardess for Eastern airlines and we

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had to weigh in before every trip. I mean and they never get away

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with that now, but we had
to weigh in. We had to have

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a certain color nail polish, our
hair had to be a certain way.

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Oh and you know, like one
hundred and twenty pounds. We had to

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wear girdles. Can you imagine,
and they would pack. I mean,

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it's very similar. And I know
a lot of the Chicago Honeybears, a

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lot of them were also airline stewardess
as well. Yeah. Yeah, Now

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when you were a Honeybear, and
this also goes for when you were a

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Golden Bachelor. Did how much did
the Honeybears pay you? Oh? I

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think it was a wop in fifteen
dollars, So that was enough to clean

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our uniform, so, you know, but I have to you know,

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what we did is when we had
an agency with a plus Sharon Cooper,

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she would book us out so we
would make money doing you know, different

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with a dance team, a talent
team. So we were getting paid for

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and we also did so many charities
and we still do today. We still

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do today charities. We're very much
involved with that and to this day that's

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always meant a lot to us and
it's a way to get together with each

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other. So so basically, are
the Cargo Bears they don't have cheerleaders or

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a team dance team? Are they
the only team that doesn't have one?

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There's like six other teams that do
not have cheerleaders. Some are brought them

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back. I'm not exactly sure,
but thrown that most of them all have

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cheerleaders, that's hard to believe.
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took over the whole country. Let
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about Sharon Cooper and the talent agency
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your careers. Yeah, she and
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us and she had a huge talent
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I have to mention the Ma Bear
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she is still a very important part
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was. It was you know,
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our choreographer. We also I got
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as the other girls too. But
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her today Kathy Corr and the sharing
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Nearman who was you know, the
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in with the Chicago Bear cheerleaders,
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Oh wow, yeah, and you
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Now do the Honeybears? Are you
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All of them were we have a
sisterhood. And what really bonded us was

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the book. And we were when, you know, disbanded. They were

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always like, what happened to the
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Jam Show and WGN. They've always
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and I thought, my gosh,
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Maybe it's time we write a book. And so that's how I started to

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write the book. And I thought, oh, I'll do this like in

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six months to a year. Was
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it was eighty five some people in
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did is it brought all of them
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nineteen eighty five Chicago, we had
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known each other, but because of
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family and we, like I said, we are, we were doing we

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do book signings and and you know, coach Mike Ditko is in our book

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and his wife he showed up at
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so it was very exciting. And
today, yes, we talk all the

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time. We have a special page
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Good. That is so wonderful to
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take a break. And if you're
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here's a theory you might consider.
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Are you still wondering who killed Kennedy? Over fifty years later? The assassination

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is still a mystery. It is
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ready for a theory that you've never
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than any other conspiracy theory that you've
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speaks the uns speakable in her book
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triangle connecting Jackie and aristotalonases romantically prior
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Ari was Jackie's guest in the White
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the only non family member who was
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funeral. Aristotlonass was one of the
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means, the motive and the money
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crime of the last century. Are
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were perfect for each other. Now
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Amazon dot com and audiobooks dot com. Read by mis Jones, Welcome

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back with another co author of the
very controversial story book. I'm sure in

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Chicago it is still controversial and I'm
sure that people are still debating this issue.

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Now, you did nine seasons.
Did you have to audition every year

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or did you have a slot you
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year. That was what was so

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hard, because once you've experienced being
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so exciting and such an honor.
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you know, it was everything to
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We would show up. Yeah,
the hardest part is every year they

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would cut There's twenty eight of us
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groups of you know that would go
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have to the years up re audition
and we put as veterans audition in our

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white boots and we'd have to throw
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audition, not knowing if we were
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it's very, very it's scary,
and it's like you just you don't want

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to see your other veterans not make
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yeah, every year you have to
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you know there's always someone coming in
wanting to take your spot. Yeah wow,

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and that leads you to a heartbreak
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that was something that we noticed when
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It was devastating to the fans when
you girls would leave or you ladies women,

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because we were you know, we
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different people and it is heartbreaking.
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you had to then readjust for the
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members, right exactly. Yeah,
And the same thing with you know the

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show, the Golden Bachelor Show.
I mean it's a completely different platform.

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their NFL cheerleaders on you know the
show. It happened to be that Gary

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was a Chicago Bears fan big time. So I wore my track suit that

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never really got explained on the show. So everyone's like, why is this

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woman, and like the track suit's
pretty famous now the girl and whatever happened

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to that girl in that track suit, because no one really got to see

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me talk to him and say because
or know that he was a Chicago Bears

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fan. Didn't see this girl doing
this crazy golden Gary cheer, you know.

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And then I did have a dress, and I didn't know where my

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dress was. It was somewhere upstairs
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of the later cars coming in,
so I was like, oh my gosh,

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up on my dress or maybe we'll
remember I find in the dress.

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coming in. He started walking in,

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the cameras were going. So here's
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the track suit. But I was
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So I like, oh God,
I'm never gonna live this down. But

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I think I'm the only one in
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a tracksuit. Okay, numbers me. Yeah, everyone remembers that for sure.

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Yeah, you know, going back
to the Honeybears, Now there were

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twenty eight of you. Now did
you go to away games or were you

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just at home games? Oh?
Papa Bear Palace always took us to one

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one, one away game and thank
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Chicago, right, oh wow,
so that was a treat. We would

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go to Tampa Bay every year and
you know, go to Disney World,

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hangout. We were just everywhere and
just you know, met the uh Tampa

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Bay cheerletters and we had a blast. We just love going to Tampa.

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We have a lot of good fun
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for sure, for sure. I
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who was a very famous football player
and coach, tell us a little

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bit about what it was like working
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mean, first of all, I
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face, but he when I started
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him and his secretary and you know
he's he says, chure, I'll do

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an interview with her. You know, I go, Okay, when you

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want to do this well right now, and I'm like, oh my gosh,

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get my recorder, like do all
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okay, you know, like so
we spent like forty five minutes on

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the phone. Like in his wife
Diana was in the background shiming in.

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It was hilarious, you know.
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about my father and he was also
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mean, when this book was done, I was going to reach out to

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him, like, do you remember
me? You got the most out of

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me? He said that anybody I
know he did show up and I said,

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of course, we're going to do
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at your restaurant, you know,
in Chicago. So he showed up like

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a oh and signed autographs and it
was just a huge event and just we

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were really honored that he did that. He didn't have to do that,

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you know. He was just wonderful
guy. That's so nice to hear that

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the people you think are going to
be so great when you talk to people

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in real life, they really are. That's wonderful. Let me ask you

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a question about uniforms and what you
wore, because you know there's been a

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lot of controversy, uh with after
the Me too movement and as far as

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women's rights and women's stress. Did
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were a honey, Well, I
mean that's kind of why I think we

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were disbanded. It's just that that. But our uniforms were we didn't show

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our mid drifts, you know.
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you know, and many of the
games we had to wear our warm

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ups, you know, because it
was freezing cold up but then we would

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get booed. What's those? So
yeah, that was like, you know,

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conservative. No, no, yeah, and especially with that. I was

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raised in Detroit, so I was
cheering for the Detroit lines along there.

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But those were cold, cold football
games. We used to go every Thanksgiving

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to watch the lines play. It
was a tradition. And we would breeze,

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so I can't imagine you being out
there and and we would wear like

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two or three pantyhose like over us, you know, like and just get

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in the locker room and you know, stand on top of the radiator radiators,

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you know, trying to warm up. Our feet and they're like,

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oh, if you didn't don't want
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a cheer. We were out there.

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We were not. We were out
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didn't the col didn't stop us from
being out there. We love what we

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were doing. Tell us a little
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went to the Super Bowl. Well, I was not on the nineteen eighty

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five squad, and thankfully I have
a lot of the nineteen eighty five girls

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in the book that could that shared
so many wonderful nineteen eighty five stories,

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and that for them, I could
just speak for them is that it was

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a bittersweet situation. They had the
best time, but like you know,

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they flew with the team and coach
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but yet, like I said,
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was to this day, you know, the Super Bowl shuffle. I mean,

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everything was just so exciting back then. And so there's the girls have

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a lot of fun stories in the
book. Each girl in chapter twelve shares

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their story and some of them are
very inspirational stories with girls who have never

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been cheerleaders in their lives and ended
up, you know, trying out for

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the Honeybears maybe three or four times
and not making it and just keep going,

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keep trying. So I say,
you never want to stop believing in

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yourself, you never stop trying,
and you know you never know when you're

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gonna And so there's a lot of
really kind of like heartfelt stories there and

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some really funny stories stories of a
lot of the cheerleaders who with some things

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that happened with the Bears, you
know, just I would say more so

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like I love the stories of the
inspirational parts of these girls who just didn't

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give up and kept trying. And
but you have to read the book.

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There's a lot of fun stories that
I don't want to share all of them,

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but it's just for instance, I'm
gonna share one. Okay, there

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was a truer litter debt was on
our way to we have to show up

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two hours before game time. So
and she got a flat tire on the

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way to Soldier Field. So she
pulls off the expressway right, so she's

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out there, like, oh my
god, she's in her honey bear,

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you know, like warm up here. Some pulls up behind her to help

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her. Who gets out Walter Payton, Peyton of all the people, Our

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sweetness gets out and changes her tire
and he's on the way because he's got

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to be there too, right,
so changes the tire and they both go

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back to Soldier Field like how And
we love that sort because we were doing

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a show with his son, Jared, and Jared share that show that that

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story with us, and I just
think those are the kind of stories that

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are priceless. Yeah, that's wonderful. It's so good that you were able

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to reach out and that they all
responded. Now, the season ended in

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nineteen eighty five, but may I
asked, what year did you write your

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book? I wrote the book.
Uh, gosh, that's a good.

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When did I start writing my book? Well, you said it to the

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four years years? Yeah, so
twenty eighteen. So I've got a book

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sitting right here with all my Yeah. So it took forever to write this

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book because it became such a beast
to write. And you're an author and

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publisher, right, So I really
I just thought this would be not that

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hard, and first thought, maybe
I'm just going to write this book for

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the girls, you know, so
we'll have like a table, you know,

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book kind of thing. Your book
go into the history. All of

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a sudden, I started reading about
Papa Bear Hollis, and he is the

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father of the NFL, and like
his story, you know, he's so

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many inspirational stories himself of what,
how, where he came from and how

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I became the Bears you know,
owner, and so I just kept going

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wow, wow, wow. So
it really became the story of Papa Bear

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Hollis and how it all started and
yeah, you know, and and he

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was the one that started us and
wanted wanted dancing girls on the sidelines to

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the part of like you know how
all these people green near him, Jim

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Finks, Sharon Cooper, Ma Bear
all became together to develop Bring in the

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Honey Bears to Soldier Field. And
since then it's just been you know,

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story after story and such an honor
to be a part of you know,

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Cagle Bears. Yeah, you know, and and I know that the people

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in Chicago appreciate that so much.
Uh. Your book is by the way,

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we'll plug it. It's available at
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with another priceless guest that we're sharing
with you, Renee Halverson right, and

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also Renee, let's talk about your
father's book and it's called Running Country Roads

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and Life Lessons Learned, which you
and that is that available at Amazon two?

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I hope it is? Yes?
Good? Okay, a link to

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that at our website. And your
dad's in ninety nine? Wow? And

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when did he write his book?
Actually? I wrote my father's book for

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his ninety fifth birthday. And during
the time I was running Missing from the

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Sidelines, which with my co author
Carolyn Crusoe Gilat, we both put in

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so much time as well as all
the honeybreers. I have to say that

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right now, I was also trying
to write my father's book and I had

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to put it on the back burner
because it was just so much, you

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know, for me, and I
needed to get our first book done.

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So I was really happy to finish
my father's book for his ninety fifth birthday.

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And my father came from a family
of seventeen children, yes, and

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living during the Depression in a three
bedroom home, no electricity, no plumbing,

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living off the land for food,
very poor. They basically got you

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know, shoes and clothes from a
boarding house and for them that was like

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new clothes that were left behind somewhere. But he had was the only one

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to finish high school and go on
to college. And his dream was to

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be he loved the Badgers. He
wanted to play football and have a better

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life for himself and his mom and
his family. And so he left home

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at a very young age eleven twelve
thirteen. He was living on his own,

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milking clothes at every farm for room
and board, and running five miles

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to school. So that's where I
got the title running country roads is what

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he had to do to get to
school, teachers, founding homes and places

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to live so he could finish high
school. So it's kind of one of

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those rudy stories you want you want
to read this to your children and to

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your grandchildren, because it's like a
boy that just wanted to go to school,

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you know, and get to a
better place in life. And I

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was always admired my dad's life and
what he you know, for Christmas,

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he might get an orange or share
some color or something with you know,

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everyone back there. And the depression
went through that, but he went through

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so much, and you know,
World War two and then he did it

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to play for the Wisconsin Badgers and
then he got sent off to World War

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two in between and then came back
to play in nineteen forty nine and he

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got the name was right Force,
you know. So his whole thing was

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he wanted to leave home. And
all of his brothers and sisters were wonderful

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and all good athletes and just but
you know, they stayed and worked the

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farm. That's what that they wanted. He said, Mom, but I

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want to get a better life,
and I want to get you out of

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this shock. I want you to
have a better home. And he was

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able to get them a home and
be able to do what he did,

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you know, staying in the attic
at the back badcock house, you know,

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you and just going through everything.
And all his brothers served in World

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War two as well. You know, it's different, and he just knew

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that he had to do that.
But then he came back and lived his

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dream again. And so today he's
the allest living lettered Badger and he goes

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every homecoming, he comes through the
tunnel, leads them out with the thumbs

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up, and they always behind him
in the lever packets. So he's quite

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the you know, he's very honored
here and you know, I'm very honored

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to be his daughter. He helped
me through cheerleading and dance. He was

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the one that taught me how to
do my back walkovers and cheered me on,

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and he had me running in track, you know, like behind the

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car. My mother's like, oh
my god. You know. So he

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was always the one that got pushed
me out to do things and help me

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00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:45.400
through my life because he I have
a brother that's mentally disabled and was not

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able to do a lot of those
things. So I think I was trying

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to fulfill all these things. Play
basketball, do volleyball, track, you

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00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.679
know, all these But what he
loved was my cheerleading. And that's why

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I think he was so proud of
me when I I became a Chicago archu

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leader and then pushed me. Has
always pushed me to do follow my dreams,

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and well, you know, from
my experience, it's one of the

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most amazing things in life to be
able to go to one of the big

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ten towns on game day, and
especially on alumni game day, and everyone

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turns out, and it's a part
of the Maracana that I just wish everyone

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could share in because it's such a
memorable experience. And I'm so glad your

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dad is so honored by the only
other little Badgers, and I still take

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him to the games when I can. You know, he goes in his

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little w jacket and he looks fabulous. I mean he's he's gone through two

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hippoplacements, broke a femur three years
ago and you know, seven hours of

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surgery, seventy stitches, and they're
like, we don't know if your dad's

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going to again. I go,
you don't know who you're talking to.

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He's walking well, you know,
before we close out, let's just quickly

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touch on the Playboy scandal and unbearable
moments. We just have three or four

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minutes could nineteen seventy eight, Wow, my first year that happened, and

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we were approached it. First of
all, was supposed to be like the

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Bears and all of the other NFL
teams knew that we were going to do

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something. But in a classic way, what happened was they reached certain women

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and got them to do other things. So it was a huge shock to

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all of us. I mean even
we had like a couple of girls that

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post, you know, without clothes. So we were devastated during that time,

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you know, because we all looked
at each other as like this hardcore,

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true living you know, next door
girl kind of thing, and that

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kind of hurt our image. It
hurt us in many things. And we

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had a lot of bookings and things
like that for pennies and all kinds of

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00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:15.199
things pennies back in the day,
so we had lost some things from that

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00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.599
and it was really really hard to
go through. We didn't. I remember

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00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:24.800
being in lockdown one night when we
were cheering. They reporters were everywhere and

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00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:30.079
they had to lock the doors because
everyone was trying to find out who who

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00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:36.800
on our team, who on our
squad? Ye know posed And you know,

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00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:40.880
sadly, in some of these situations, some of the teams got totally

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00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:49.639
disbanded, every cheerleader. So it's
we didn't but of course those girls were

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00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:55.199
fired after that happened. But it
was a huge thing in nineteen seventy eight.

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So yeah, now it would be
just a blink and now it wouldn't

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be anything. And you know,
in those days, being a cheerleader,

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a honeybear, or being a stewardess
that was like the version, a nice

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00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:21.000
version of the Playboy bunnies. That
was acceptable to be a cheerleader, a

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00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.719
honeybear, a stewardess. And then
I can see why that would have been

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00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:30.840
a really horrible scandal. Well,
we had seventy seven, I think there

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00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.960
was four or five on nineteen seventy
seven were Playboy bunnies. You know they

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00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:38.599
traded their cottontailing for Palm homes.
So yeah, Playboy was really big in

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00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:42.880
Chicago back then. You know,
they had the whole Playboy mention and everything

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00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:46.679
was going on. So oh my
god, Well, no, I have

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to ask you. I'm going to
close out. I have to ask you

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00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:55.880
a question. I asked everyone if
you could invite someone living or dead besides

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00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.519
me to have dinner with you,
who would you guess? My mom?

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00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:06.440
Oh, wonderful, wonderful. Yeah, I lost my mom in two thousand,

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00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:12.639
so I would love to be able
to. Yeah, I will share.

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That's one of the best answers.
And I'm sure your dad would go

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00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:21.199
to that too. And I almost
bring stears to my eyes. Okay,

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guys, now, my eighty year
old bought for the day. One of

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the nicest things about being eighty is
that when people ask you to do things

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00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:35.920
for them or with them, now, you are so decrepit enough that you

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00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:43.000
can actually say no whenever you feel
like it. But I'll tell you also,

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it's more fun to say yes.
So for now, thank you for

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entering the no Wine Zone with Renee
and I. Please share our stories and

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our show with everyone you know.
Remember you need to stop whining and then

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start smiling. And if that doesn't
work, then you can just start eating

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chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate. Signing off from the soon to be

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glitter Granny, Thank you, Renee
and I hope you'll come back and visit

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with us again. Thank you.
I would love to. It's really been

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fun. I'm so honored to be
able to get to know you. We've

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loved having you to our listeners.
Take care and stay safe until we meet

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again. We want to thank you
for listening to January Jones sharing success stories.

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Always remember miss jones personal mantra,
if you can think it, you

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can do it. That's what all
of our guests have done with their lives,

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and so can you. You are
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life. All you need to do
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with your family and friends. We
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