February 23, 2024 • 24 mins
John & Heidi share funny stories of people doing weird things... plus John chats with a guest. We visit with McCracken Poston - Zenith Man
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Welcome to the John and Heidi Showpodcast. Here's John and Heidy. Today
is a special day, Heidie,do you know what today is? What
is today? John? I thoughtyou'd never ask, Hidie. It is
Friday, the twenty third day ofFebru Array. It's Curling is Cool Day,
so you know, for those ofyou who curl, curl, you're
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cool. Diesel Engine Day, NationalBanana Bread Day, National Chili Day.
I'm a fan of chili. Iwonder why today is Chili Day. I
know I do like chili. Isseems like a weird I didn't used to
when I was a kid. ByNational Dog Biscuit Day. Oh you make
some really good chicken chili, bythe way, thank you. So that's
really good. So if you nevertried that, maybe maybe today's the day
to try that. National Dog BiscuitDay. I don't think that belongs in
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Chili, so just keep that away. National Hospital Workers Appreciation Day, that
should be every day, National ToastDay, Pinocchio Day, Play Tennis Day,
TUTSI Roll Day, all of thatand much much more. And I've
got a guest joining me. We'veseen him on TV, Heidie. He's
been on several pro but one thatwe watch is Forensic Files. Okay,
(01:03):
McCracken postin. He's got a bookout called zenith Man. He is an
attorney who defended a man who wasaccused of murdering his wife because she had
passed away and he never reported thatshe passed away. He just kept on
living. And then it was theyears later they find out, wait a
minute, she's dead. He's like, you's been dead for years, so
(01:23):
they thought he murdered her. Andthis guy was the attorney. He's got
this new book out, Zenithman,because the guy was a Zenith television repairman.
Anyway, fascinating story. I'm excitedto chat with him. Coming up
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And not until I'm assuming I wascoming this. Yeah, and not
until they have some sort of healthscare. We both had health scares.
(02:27):
We're like, oh, man,I thought I was sick. I guess
I'm good, and I go backto eating my chili dog. Now.
The poll of two thousand adults inthe UK, Oh, it's in the
UK, it's probably you knew.The translation on this is probably in the
fifties. Study found that eleven percentof adults admit they still don't take their
health very serious, even after theyhave a health issue that they think they
(02:49):
have. Celebrities also play a partin making people take notice to their health.
After it was announced that King Charleswas undergoing treatment for and enlarged prostate,
it sounds like UK Health Services saidthat they had eleven times more visits
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I'm a big fan. I like. A team from Vanderbilt University Medical
Center found that more than half ofAmericans fall short of the recommended daily intake
of nuts and seeds. In theirexperiment, nut consuming people saw significant health
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(04:25):
saw a forty two percent decrease.Now both males and females maintained their body
weight, and women showed reduced wastecircumference. Men exhibited lower blood insulin levels.
This is just from eating nuts andseeds. They also found that your
body might absorb five percent fewer caloriesfrom nuts than we thought of before.
I ate some of both every singleday. I know nuts, ansy I
(04:46):
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irs on your behalf. One hundredthree one oh five eight three one eight
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fifty eight thirty one. Thanks forlistening to the John Ed Heidi Show.
Excited to visit with our guest.Name McCracken post and he is an attorney,
but he's also an author. He'sgot a new book out called Zenith
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Man. McCracken, We've actually seenyou on TV on Forensic Files. This
is the hermitic television repairman in RingoldGeorgia whose wife had not been seen in
three decades and then suddenly turns updead. And there was a rush to
judgment, and Alvin didn't help himselfby the way he reacted and responded to
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it. He had already dug himselfa hole by being the most litigious malcontent
in the community. He sued everybody. He had these outlandish claims of causation
of what was causing all of hisills. Really, as a TV repairman,
it was solid state circuitry that didhim in because no longer did anybody
(10:01):
need somebody who could fix a pictureto And so Alvin was so difficult.
My father encouraged me to help him. They were friends and traded with each
other, but he was so difficult. What really inspired me to keep with
him was when my former opponent,who defeated me in a race for Congress,
(10:24):
called and ordered me to keep AlvinRidley away from his congressional office.
That inspired me. So I seethat this actually happened. In nineteen ninety
seven is kind of when this started. But then there were trials, There
were all kinds of different things.When did it all finally settle down?
And when did you start on thisbook? Well, it was the trial
ended twenty five years ago last month, but we managed to get through it.
(10:46):
Alvin actually Jesus told him to testifyagainst my advice, and turns out
Jesus is a pretty good legal advisor, because Alvin actually did very well on
the stand. I thought the jurorswould be very concerned when all he wanted
to talk about was the county takinghis van, which ultimately is what he
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always circled around to. What Iforgot was how literal Alvin is, and
I would get ahead of myself,thinking, man, he's doing great.
Alvin, tell the jury what youlost here? And I was wanting to
say, the love of my life, you know, my best friend,
and he said, oh, Iguess the funeral bill, which obviously the
DA ran with. Well, Ionly learned three years ago that Alvin Ridley
(11:33):
is very much on the autism spectrum. Only knowing that three years ago makes
me feel so guilty that, youknow, I obviously was putting him through
hell equally the demands I was makingon him, you know, and he
was, in my opinion, hewas knee capping our defense. And but
(11:56):
we found a way to work together. We found a way to get to
the end zone. But there werea lot of interesting twists and turns that
are absolutely true. The trial testimonyis directly from the transcript nice and so
it's when you read something that hesaid or somebody said in trial, please
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know that really happened. That's fromthe transcript. I remember watching this on
Forensic Files, and I remember justthinking that this seemed like it wouldn't be
a true story, Like it seemedalmost like a movie, or like in
your case, here a book.A lot of the reason is he did
things that most people wouldn't do.But like you mentioned, he wasn't like
most people. In the book ZenithMan Death, Love, and Redemption in
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a Georgia courtroom. He got thatredemption in the Georgia courtroom because of you.
And I think if he didn't haveyou on his team, he might
be in a completely different place rightnow. Well, and I was just
hell bent on not losing again.I had lost so much just in the
last few years, and I justreally wanted to win for the sake of
winning. But that inspiration by myform opponent trying to order my client around,
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that that was inspiring. And Isee you're launching the book at a
presidential library. That's cool. AndAlvin is going to be there. I've
just bought him a four hundred dollarssuit nice and it's going to be really
looking fine. Alvin will turn eightytwo soon. That is awesome. My
secretary and I look after him.We make sure he gets to the VA.
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We just I just took him onas like a brother. I love
it. A quick Alvin question.Did he ever get his van back?
He got his van back in threeweeks, but he refuses to touch it
because in his mind that triggers sometype of statutal limitations theory that he has.
So this van is slowly returning tothe earth. It has trees now
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boxing it in and he still hasn'ttouched it since nineteen eighty four. Well,
thank you so much for your timetoday, and thank you for putting
out the book zenith Man. Thankyou so much again. Our guest today
has been McCracken posting Junior. Hisbook is called zenith Man, Deathlove and
Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom. It'savailable now. I've got a link to
it in the show notes for todayat John Adheidishow dot com. Give you
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John? Zoologists say tiger scent markingssmell like buttered popcorn, So when
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a tiger urine urinates to like markyour sin, it smells like butter popcorn.
Which that's kind of weird to know. Fun fact for you, Heiding,
it's the average person spends two weeksof his or her life kissing.
We need to up that it.I think we definitely need to up that.
It's been a while. We've beenmarried now twenty four years. It's
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whatever you get it, you knowwhat I mean. Fun fact for you,
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heartwarming tale of courage and quick thinkinga six year old Quinn Hill became an
unexpected hero when she took this divisiveI'm sorry, decisive action not there's no
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Jennifer Hill, it's thirty nine.She's the mother of three. She was
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The last thing she remembered was sittingin a chair, looking up at
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sprang into action. Recalling the incident, she told Good Morning America,
Quinn told me that I actually satdown in the chair that I'm sitting in
right now, and I looked upat the ceiling and I started breathing weird.
She said that I fell out ofthe chair onto my left side,
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and my fists were clenched and mybody was convulsing. My eyes were open,
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So Quinn made a spontaneous decision totake her three year old brother and
seek help from neighbors. She said, this is the first time they'd ever
left our home without us. Sothis little girl, three years old decides,
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Okay, we're going to go findhelp. And she wandered around until
finally got somebody who called nine oneone, And because of this, the
mother was saved. The little girlgot a City of Conover resolution certifying the
recognition of Quinn Hill. So lookat that fancy document right there, so
cute stamped and signed by the mayor. And yeah, this little girl is
(23:41):
a hero. And Mama says,she's my angel. She's my hero for
what she did. And I've gota link to this story if you'd like
to read it, and there's avideo and there's images and all of that.
It's in the show notes for todayat johndeidishow dot com. Time to
say goodbye Heidie. Good Bye Heidi, good bye, everybody. Have a
great day. Thank you for listeningto The John and Heidie Show.
Welcome to the John and Heidi Showpodcast. Here's John and Heidy. Today
is a special day, Heidie,do you know what today is? What
is today? John? I thoughtyou'd never ask, Hidie. It is
Friday, the twenty third day ofFebru Array. It's Curling is Cool Day,
so you know, for those ofyou who curl, curl, you're
(00:21):
cool. Diesel Engine Day, NationalBanana Bread Day, National Chili Day.
I'm a fan of chili. Iwonder why today is Chili Day. I
know I do like chili. Isseems like a weird I didn't used to
when I was a kid. ByNational Dog Biscuit Day. Oh you make
some really good chicken chili, bythe way, thank you. So that's
really good. So if you nevertried that, maybe maybe today's the day
to try that. National Dog BiscuitDay. I don't think that belongs in
(00:42):
Chili, so just keep that away. National Hospital Workers Appreciation Day, that
should be every day, National ToastDay, Pinocchio Day, Play Tennis Day,
TUTSI Roll Day, all of thatand much much more. And I've
got a guest joining me. We'veseen him on TV, Heidie. He's
been on several pro but one thatwe watch is Forensic Files. Okay,
(01:03):
McCracken postin. He's got a bookout called zenith Man. He is an
attorney who defended a man who wasaccused of murdering his wife because she had
passed away and he never reported thatshe passed away. He just kept on
living. And then it was theyears later they find out, wait a
minute, she's dead. He's like, you's been dead for years, so
(01:23):
they thought he murdered her. Andthis guy was the attorney. He's got
this new book out, Zenithman,because the guy was a Zenith television repairman.
Anyway, fascinating story. I'm excitedto chat with him. Coming up
in a bit. Gim you self. I've been telling you about Better credit
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And not until I'm assuming I wascoming this. Yeah, and not
until they have some sort of healthscare. We both had health scares.
(02:27):
We're like, oh, man,I thought I was sick. I guess
I'm good, and I go backto eating my chili dog. Now.
The poll of two thousand adults inthe UK, Oh, it's in the
UK, it's probably you knew.The translation on this is probably in the
fifties. Study found that eleven percentof adults admit they still don't take their
health very serious, even after theyhave a health issue that they think they
(02:49):
have. Celebrities also play a partin making people take notice to their health.
After it was announced that King Charleswas undergoing treatment for and enlarged prostate,
it sounds like UK Health Services saidthat they had eleven times more visits
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Okay, so that's kind of cool. There you go. Surveys and
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heard it like an earthshaking, buta tree shaking. New study found that
(03:57):
eating nuts does not lead to weightgain as previously thought. That's good news.
I'm a big fan. I like. A team from Vanderbilt University Medical
Center found that more than half ofAmericans fall short of the recommended daily intake
of nuts and seeds. In theirexperiment, nut consuming people saw significant health
benefits. Women experienced a sixty sevenpercent reduction and metabolic syndrome, while men
(04:25):
saw a forty two percent decrease.Now both males and females maintained their body
weight, and women showed reduced wastecircumference. Men exhibited lower blood insulin levels.
This is just from eating nuts andseeds. They also found that your
body might absorb five percent fewer caloriesfrom nuts than we thought of before.
I ate some of both every singleday. I know nuts, ansy I
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do. There you go, andI should probably have more. All right,
we don't know everything, but nowwe know this now Big screen,
Little screen, brought to you byInsurance Chicken dot Com. House of the
Dragon season two is on the way, and star Matt Smith may have narrowed
down the release date that a podcastappearance recently, he said he heard the
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new season will be out in August. They still haven't announced when, okay,
but then HBO was saying it mightbe out sooner than that, maybe
early summer. So we don't knowwhat it is. Katie Perry is saying
goodbye to American Idol after seven seasons. She announced her exit recently. She
was a judge on there for sevenseasons. It seems like she was the
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new one too, wasn't she.I don't know, I really I have
not seen that show I just don'twatch TV hardly ever anymore. Every once
in a while we'll watch something onTV and they were like, I remember
what we used to hear this,and then the commercials come on. This
is why we don't do this.Watch TV like a bunch of peasants.
I can't fast forward through these orhappen all right, So, big screen,
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You asked me twenty five seconds ago. Apple's website says, don't put
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Excited to visit with our guest.Name McCracken post and he is an attorney,
but he's also an author. He'sgot a new book out called Zenith
(09:18):
Man. McCracken, We've actually seenyou on TV on Forensic Files. This
is the hermitic television repairman in RingoldGeorgia whose wife had not been seen in
three decades and then suddenly turns updead. And there was a rush to
judgment, and Alvin didn't help himselfby the way he reacted and responded to
(09:39):
it. He had already dug himselfa hole by being the most litigious malcontent
in the community. He sued everybody. He had these outlandish claims of causation
of what was causing all of hisills. Really, as a TV repairman,
it was solid state circuitry that didhim in because no longer did anybody
(10:01):
need somebody who could fix a pictureto And so Alvin was so difficult.
My father encouraged me to help him. They were friends and traded with each
other, but he was so difficult. What really inspired me to keep with
him was when my former opponent,who defeated me in a race for Congress,
(10:24):
called and ordered me to keep AlvinRidley away from his congressional office.
That inspired me. So I seethat this actually happened. In nineteen ninety
seven is kind of when this started. But then there were trials, There
were all kinds of different things.When did it all finally settle down?
And when did you start on thisbook? Well, it was the trial
ended twenty five years ago last month, but we managed to get through it.
(10:46):
Alvin actually Jesus told him to testifyagainst my advice, and turns out
Jesus is a pretty good legal advisor, because Alvin actually did very well on
the stand. I thought the jurorswould be very concerned when all he wanted
to talk about was the county takinghis van, which ultimately is what he
(11:09):
always circled around to. What Iforgot was how literal Alvin is, and
I would get ahead of myself,thinking, man, he's doing great.
Alvin, tell the jury what youlost here? And I was wanting to
say, the love of my life, you know, my best friend,
and he said, oh, Iguess the funeral bill, which obviously the
DA ran with. Well, Ionly learned three years ago that Alvin Ridley
(11:33):
is very much on the autism spectrum. Only knowing that three years ago makes
me feel so guilty that, youknow, I obviously was putting him through
hell equally the demands I was makingon him, you know, and he
was, in my opinion, hewas knee capping our defense. And but
(11:56):
we found a way to work together. We found a way to get to
the end zone. But there werea lot of interesting twists and turns that
are absolutely true. The trial testimonyis directly from the transcript nice and so
it's when you read something that hesaid or somebody said in trial, please
(12:16):
know that really happened. That's fromthe transcript. I remember watching this on
Forensic Files, and I remember justthinking that this seemed like it wouldn't be
a true story, Like it seemedalmost like a movie, or like in
your case, here a book.A lot of the reason is he did
things that most people wouldn't do.But like you mentioned, he wasn't like
most people. In the book ZenithMan Death, Love, and Redemption in
(12:37):
a Georgia courtroom. He got thatredemption in the Georgia courtroom because of you.
And I think if he didn't haveyou on his team, he might
be in a completely different place rightnow. Well, and I was just
hell bent on not losing again.I had lost so much just in the
last few years, and I justreally wanted to win for the sake of
winning. But that inspiration by myform opponent trying to order my client around,
(13:03):
that that was inspiring. And Isee you're launching the book at a
presidential library. That's cool. AndAlvin is going to be there. I've
just bought him a four hundred dollarssuit nice and it's going to be really
looking fine. Alvin will turn eightytwo soon. That is awesome. My
secretary and I look after him.We make sure he gets to the VA.
(13:24):
We just I just took him onas like a brother. I love
it. A quick Alvin question.Did he ever get his van back?
He got his van back in threeweeks, but he refuses to touch it
because in his mind that triggers sometype of statutal limitations theory that he has.
So this van is slowly returning tothe earth. It has trees now
(13:46):
boxing it in and he still hasn'ttouched it since nineteen eighty four. Well,
thank you so much for your timetoday, and thank you for putting
out the book zenith Man. Thankyou so much again. Our guest today
has been McCracken posting Junior. Hisbook is called zenith Man, Deathlove and
Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom. It'savailable now. I've got a link to
it in the show notes for todayat John Adheidishow dot com. Give you
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John? Zoologists say tiger scent markingssmell like buttered popcorn, So when
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a tiger urine urinates to like markyour sin, it smells like butter popcorn.
Which that's kind of weird to know. Fun fact for you, Heiding,
it's the average person spends two weeksof his or her life kissing.
We need to up that it.I think we definitely need to up that.
It's been a while. We've beenmarried now twenty four years. It's
like from across the room and justblow a kiss. There you go,
(15:18):
whatever you get it, you knowwhat I mean. Fun fact for you,
Heiding, John, Flamingos bend theirknees at the ankle, not the
knee, so then they don't bendtheir knees and flamingos. Fun fact for
you, Hiding, lobster's taste withtheir feet. How crazy is that?
Flies? Yeah, and our finalfun fact for you, Heidie, Amazon's
largest warehouse is the size of seventeenfootball fields. Wow. Several fun facts
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now, you know. Thanks forlistening to the John and Heidie show insurance.
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do? Tire no operate cruise control. Oh, if you're driving mainly in
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I'm sure you could find it inyour what's that little book that's in
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business. As he put it,I don't know how to ask for help
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in an elegant manner. So he'sgot a Ramen noodle place and he's struggling
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a tiny dog. I'm not abig dog person. I don't dislike big
dogs. But I've never since,like my entire adult life, I've not
owned big dogs. We've always hadlittle dogs, and from time to time
we've had dogs that feel more likea cat. And there are times our
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dog that we have now is morelike a cat. She doesn't like to
sit and hang out with us.No, she thinks she's a big dog.
Yeah, oh yeah she does.But She also thinks she's a like
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And it's been a long time,but yeah, I can. I can
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relate to that where it's like,so I haven't seen him in a while,
I'm like, oh, that's right. He also borrows some money from
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us on the radio. Je Wealways like to wrap things up round here
with good news, and I thinkthis is good news. Comes your way
courtesy of Jenesei this gold Ira dotcom. Here's a headline. Heidi,
six year old saves a mother's lifeduring a medical emergency. How great is
that? Oh? That's pretty cool? From Connover, North Carolina. A
(22:10):
heartwarming tale of courage and quick thinkinga six year old Quinn Hill became an
unexpected hero when she took this divisiveI'm sorry, decisive action not there's no
division on this decisive action during amedical emergency that saved her mama's life.
Jennifer Hill, it's thirty nine.She's the mother of three. She was
home preparing dinner for Quinn and heryounger brother when she suddenly began to seize.
(22:36):
The last thing she remembered was sittingin a chair, looking up at
the ceiling and experiencing abnormal breathing.Quinn, realizing the severity of the situation,
sprang into action. Recalling the incident, she told Good Morning America,
Quinn told me that I actually satdown in the chair that I'm sitting in
right now, and I looked upat the ceiling and I started breathing weird.
She said that I fell out ofthe chair onto my left side,
(22:59):
and my fists were clenched and mybody was convulsing. My eyes were open,
and she kept saying mommy, mommy, mommy, and I wouldn't respond.
So Quinn made a spontaneous decision totake her three year old brother and
seek help from neighbors. She said, this is the first time they'd ever
left our home without us. Sothis little girl, three years old decides,
(23:19):
Okay, we're going to go findhelp. And she wandered around until
finally got somebody who called nine oneone, And because of this, the
mother was saved. The little girlgot a City of Conover resolution certifying the
recognition of Quinn Hill. So lookat that fancy document right there, so
cute stamped and signed by the mayor. And yeah, this little girl is
(23:41):
a hero. And Mama says,she's my angel. She's my hero for
what she did. And I've gota link to this story if you'd like
to read it, and there's avideo and there's images and all of that.
It's in the show notes for todayat johndeidishow dot com. Time to
say goodbye Heidie. Good Bye Heidi, good bye, everybody. Have a
great day. Thank you for listeningto The John and Heidie Show.
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