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Hello, everyone.

Jeremy here of Sick Boy Podcast of the Antica Podcast Network.

And before we throw it to this week's episode, I've got a really, really, really big announcement that I am simultaneously super nervous and super excited to announce. Okay, here we go. Donovan, maybe you could

add some like exciting announcement music right around here to kind of spruce this up.

Sick Boy Podcast is doing something brand new. We've never done anything like this before.

We want you, our listeners, to be the very first

people to hear about it. And it is called the Sick Boy Wish Fund. Now, what is the Sick Boy Wish Fund?

You ask? Well, essentially, we want to give one sicko a wish. Just like a children's kids wish,

except this time it's for an adult. 19 years plus,

and we want to give somebody who's living with an illness the experience of a lifetime.

So the way this works is we've started a little application process.

If you want to apply, head on over to www.com slash wish.

You can find all the details there, but essentially we're going to open up submissions.

Submission deadline is December 7th, and we're going to compile all of these applications

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