Awesome Sauce: Influencer sets up fundraiser for man to allow second retirement

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Awesome B ninety three Awesome Sauce. Start your
day on a positive note. Awesome Sauce right around six'
ten weekday mornings with THE v ninety Three Morning, show
brought to you By. Modernistic Awesome sauce about an eighty
eight year Old michigan man whose life changed because millions
of strangers decided he deserved a little bit better At.

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Bombas An army veteran and FORMER gm, worker has been
working full time at The meyer In, brighton not because
he wanted something to, do but because he had. To
WHEN gm went bankrupt in two thousand and, Nine ed
lost his, pension his health, coverage and most of his life.
Insurance right when his, Wife, joan was very, sick so

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he sold their. Home he worked to stay, afloat and
after his wife passed away seven years, Ago ed quietly
kept showing up At, meyer working eight hour, shifts five
days a, week just trying to. Rebuild and then something incredible.
Happened An australian, Influencer Samuel, weedenhoffer Met ed during HIS

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Usa Kindness, tour heard his story and shared it. Online
ed teared up When samuel handed him a four hundred dollar,
tip And samuel promised to try to help him out
a little bit. More and what happened Next the entire
internet exploded with. GENEROSITY i saw. THIS a GoFundMe Started
wednesday and within thirty six hours had hit one million.

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Dollars by the end of the, Week ed was presented
with a check for nearly one point eight. Million he
still hadn't spent that original four hundred dollars because he
said he was too. Cautious now financial experts are helping
him secure a trust for his family at no. Cost
ed said he never expected anything like, this but he's.

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Grateful it honors the memory of his late. Wife and
this is what kindness looks like when the whole world shows.
Up no one who's worked hard their entire life and
cared for people they love should have to struggle alone
at eighty eight years. Old awesome sauce today goes out
to everyone who helped Make ed's dreams come. True that

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is how you start your day on a positive. Note
yesterday there was just or yesterday last, week which feels
like just. Yesterday there was some serious charitable magic in the.
Air what people did For ed and What West michigan
did for The helen De Oz Children's hospital was just absolutely.
Incredible we've got three things you should know coming up

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