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And thank you for listening to the Dolphins Talk.com podcast on this Thursday, February the 5th. I'm your host, Michael Leva, joined by someone who looks way better than me if you're watching on YouTube. Ashley, the 305 sports, babe. Ashley, how you doing? Mike, always great to be on with you. Thanks for having me today. Yeah, this is going to be a little bit of a different show. we are going to talk a little football at the end, but the first part of the show, we're going to make some announcements here as we're trying to help out our good friend here, Biggie Ian Berger, as he's going through a little bit of a health situation here, and we're going to try to have some raffles and raise some money for his family. We've got some cool prizes. I think a lot of fans are going to be interested. So we're going to talk about it. I talk about how you can play, how you can help raise some money, and also win some cool stuff as well. Before we get to that, let me just get a little bit of our podcast stuff out of the way. This show is brought you by Canesware. Everyone go to canesware.com for the best and most affordable.

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Okay. So Ian was on with me last night. And I know for many of you who follow him on social media, you've been following his situation as he's had some health issues with his liver and some cancer and all that stuff. And it's a tough situation that none of us would want to be in. And he's the nicest man in the world. And, you know, he ain't asking for help, but we're going to, we're going to give him help anyways, Ashley, because he is, he deserves it, his family deserves it, and he's one of the good people in this world, and it sucks to watch him go through this. Yeah, Mike, you said it best. He's not pleading for help. He doesn't have a go fund me. He doesn't want to go fund me, but he's being faced with, you know, the liver that's failing and he's not

going to be qualified for a new liver. And on top of that, he has cancer. So we have a double

whammy here. And his cancer has metastasized to a stage four. So as Mike mentioned, he did share

the bad news that, you know, it's rough right now. And we want to make sure that we as dolphins community and

football fans and just people as a whole show him as much love and support so what we thought is

hey how can we do that uh the first thing was make sure first only has two daughters he has one in

college and one going to college we said said, hey, are their colleges set?

And I'll tell you one thing about Ian.

This man, he's a very smart man. And the girls' colleges are set. So he said, okay, as long as the girls' colleges are set, we're good. Then we ask medical bills. You guys see people's insurance medical bills. Medical bills are good, too. So that's why the third idea was like, all right, what can we do to really show and love and and you know, show them that we care?

And that's why the third idea was like, all right, what can we do to really show and love and, you know, show them that we care? And that's when we thought, let's give them experiences. Let's give him restaurant gift cards. Let's help him plan a vacation. And so that's how we need. There's been a lot of trips too when he goes back and forth between South Florida and Philadelphia. And you know, when you're on the road, you're not at home where you can just make your own meals. You're eating out. You're in hotels.

So. and forth between South Florida and Philadelphia. And, you know, when you're on the road, you're not at home where you can just make your own

meals.

You're eating out. You're in hotels. So that gets expensive because that isn't, you know, always paid for by the insurance and everything. That's out of your own pocket sometimes. So, you know, with that stuff, you know, helping them out there. So when they are traveling to go see these medical people, we can help them out there too.

Exactly, yes. with that stuff, you know, helping them out there. So when they are traveling to go see these

medical people, we can help them out there too. Exactly. Yeah. So meals, Uber Eats,

airfare. So just little things like that that, you know, since he's not being treated down here

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