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  • Episode 64: We Talk, Talking Books

    Episode 64: We Talk, Talking Books
    2025/10/04

    Kimberly talks with Jenny Smith, Branch Manager at the Kentucky Talking Book Library. They talk about the talking book library, its history, and who is eligible for services. Though KTBL is known for supplying reading materials for people with visual impairments, the benefits are available to people far beyond just that group. Give the episode a listen to see if you qualify.

    Visit the Kentucky Talking Book Library at their Frankfurt location, 300 Coffee Tree Rd., for an open house from 1-4 PM EST on Sunday, October 10th.

    Call KTLA at 1-800-372-2968.

    Visit their website at Kdla.ky.gov

    Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.”

    The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here.

    Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page

    Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance.

    Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog.

    Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com

    Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living.

    You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available.
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  • Episode 63: Advancing Advocacy with Amanda

    Episode 63: Advancing Advocacy with Amanda
    2025/09/21
    Kimberly talks with Amanda Mobley, Executive Director of the Center For Accessible Living, about the 2nd Annual Advocacy Summit coming up on October 16–17. They also discuss exciting new things happening at CAL. Plus, Kimberly and Sam play tourism trivia. Spoiler alert, Kimberly loses. Register here for the 2nd Annual Advocacy Summit Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.” The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here. Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance. Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog. Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living. You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available. Transcript You're listening to Demand and Disrupt, the podcast for information about accessibility, advocacy, and all things disability. Welcome to Demand and Disrupt, a disability podcast. I'm your host, Kimberly Parsley. And I'm your host, Sam Moore sitting here. I've got a hot cup of black coffee to my direct left. And you've got a a cup of black tea. I know, Kimberly, but you're not real. You're not super happy about it being black tea, are you? I am not, I cannot find. I like tea with cream in it and I cannot find the cream in the refrigerator. And so now it actually, Michael hates tea and he calls it, uh, there's an episode of Ted lasso where they refer to tea as tree juice, as a tree juice. Yep. And, uh, also pigeon sweat. They call it that. So I can maybe go with the tree juice. So for any of y'all, if any of y'all have some cream that you don't need, you know where to send it. Oh, the thing is it's in that refrigerator somewhere, Sam. It's just, I can't find it. And it's cold in there looking around for cream. I just, I know it's in there. I just can't find it. Don't you have to, while your hands get cold and you just need to warm up. It's, it's just, it's just a blind problem. You know, it's, uh, I've been there, done that today on the show. I have Amanda Mobley. She is the director of the center for accessible living. And she is going to tell us all about the upcoming, the second annual advocacy summit sponsored by Cal, and it is going to be in Louisville on October 16th and 17th, and I am going, and I am super excited. Uh, I'm going to go, I'm going to go. I'm going to go learn how to advocate and do it better and be awesome at it. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to learn. You know what? I may take my, uh, my recorder and you never know what's going to happen. I may interview some people for the show. You just never do know. It's good to go. And then we can play highlights here on the, on demand and disrupt. We just might. So y'all all should, uh, all should, should go to that. So I'm gonna talk to her about that. And you know, I don't, I don't go to Louisville much, Sam. I, here in Bowling Green, we're closer to Nashville. I don't go to Louisville much at all, except for work stuff. And you know, I think I know why. You think you know why? I think I do. When I was young and they found the disease that I have, which of course started in my retina, they sent me to Louisville. So he was like all the time, every two, three months, every Easter break, every Christmas break, summer vacation. I was always going to Louisville for surgery. And I think when I became an adult, I just decided I was done with Louisville. You were, you were burned out on it. I just was. It had, it had some bad, bad experiences there, but I think I haven't been fair. Do you, so I'm excited to go back to Louisville. Tell me, do you know much about Louisville? You know, I actually, I would like to think that I do Louisville, Louisville has really grown on me over the years. In fact, if I, you know, if I had to move outside of my current locale of Henderson, you know, my, a lot of times I'll say it would almost be a, a three-way tie among my top choices, Louisville, Lexington and Bowling Green, because I, I have a, a soft spot in my heart for all of those places, Bowling Green, because I went to college there, Lexington, because mom and dad went to college there and we made quite a few trips there growing up and then Louisville, because I have quite a few second, third, fourth cousins there. My, my ocularist who used to polish my prosthesis used to be in Louisville. So we had to go there twice a year to see him. And of course, you know, I did the short courses at Kentucky School for the Blind there a few times a year when I was in school. And so, so yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a great place. Of course I could plug restaurants there all day long, but then people would be like, Sam, do you do anything else but eat? You know what, there are people who make their whole online presence about restaurants. Everybody loves to talk about food. It's ...
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  • Episode 62: A Guru of Adaptive Golf

    Episode 62: A Guru of Adaptive Golf
    2025/09/06
    Our guest this week lost his right arm in a 1993 workplace accident, but that didn’t hinder his passion for golf in the least. Al Gentry founded the Kentucky Amputee Tournament in 1994, which has allowed individuals with various disabilities to enjoy competitive golf. Gentry also helped established the North American One-Armed Golfer Association. Pull up a seat as he describes the nature of his incident, the disabilities commonly represented in the Kentucky Amputee Tournament, and the other means by which he has been instrumental in the growth and development of adaptive golf. Enjoy this hole-in-one episode. To find out more about the North American One-Armed Golfer Association, visit www.naoaga.org To learn about adaptive golf tournaments in other areas, along with a set of adaptive golf standards co-authored by Al Gentry, visit the United States Adaptive Golf Alliance web page www.usaga.org Visit the Kentucky Secretary of State at vrsws.sos.ky.gov Register to vote at vrsws.sos.ky.gov/ovrweb As a disabled person, if you have trouble registering to vote or casting your ballot, call the Kentucky Protection And Advocacy Hotline 1(800)372-2988 Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.” The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here. Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance. Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog. Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living. You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available. Transcript He developed a passion for golf at a very young age and despite losing his right arm in a workplace accident come about 1993, he continues to golf regularly and also helping inspire others in his shoes to golf regularly as well through his creation of the Kentucky Amputee Tournament which we'll talk about here shortly along with the North American One-Armed Golfer Association which he co-founded along with a few others, also the Fightmaster Cup which is also known as the Rider Cup of One-Armed Golf commonly, a lot of people refer to it as that and he also published a book of golf standards for individuals with disabilities maybe limited to one arm like Al is and so that's actually unique because it was the first of his kind to ever be published in the United States so all of these and even a little more that we can dabble in as we go along here with a man who's actually a state representative as well representing the 46th district which includes part of the city of Louisville and then somebody's coming to us today from the state capitol so please welcome via zoom in Frankfurt none other than Mr. Al Gentry. Al it is a pleasure to have you aboard here thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule there in Frankfurt to join us. Have you seen Andy lately? Have you seen the governor floating around? Yeah I run across Andy every now and then so we're not in session at the time when we are in session we meet pretty regularly but we're in what we call the interim session so we actually work on committee meetings on the committees that we work on but yeah from from time to time I bump into the governor. Yeah I figured you did and I know he spreads his business across the state so no telling where he is today but at any rate we're sure glad you're here now how long have you been a state representative Al? Well Sam I was elected in 2016 so my first legislative session was in January of 17 and in my if I can count right in my fifth term right now. Yeah I was gonna say you've served continuously ever since so you know it's obviously still still going strong and momentum is certainly in your favor now you're a lifelong Louisvillian I know and you've held a steady passion for the game of golf most if not all of your life sir so first off why don't you tell us sort of when and how you developed an attachment to the sport? Okay well it goes back to I guess I was probably 11 or 12 years old and and when I was a kid growing up I loved playing every sport I could I was very active and in my grade school years St. Lawrence Catholic school I played about every sport a man could play or a boy could play I should say so it was rare that you sat down yeah when I got into high school I was exceptionally talented in the game of golf so I played golf now I had two arms back then I was very I was so good at golf I really had to quit the other sports and focus on the one sport because you know how that works when you're good and you play at a certain level you got to do it all the time just to stay at that level and continue to improve yeah I really didn't like that a whole lot because I liked playing so many other sports so as the story goes by the time I made it to my senior year in high school I was being heavily recruited in ...
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  • Episode 61: Mental Disability and Loneliness

    Episode 61: Mental Disability and Loneliness
    2025/08/23

    Kimberly talks with Reese Williams about Dissociative Identity Disorder, the link between homelessness and mental illness, and the importance of places like Bridgehaven for people living with mental health disabilities. Plus Kimberly and Sam talk about a study showing higher rates of loneliness among people with disabilities.

    Visit Bridgehaven Mental Health Services

    Read more about the study on loneliness among people with disabilities

    Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.”

    The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here.

    Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page

    Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance.

    Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog.

    Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com

    Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living.

    You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available.
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  • Episode 60: Everyone stares at my walker because it’s cool!

    Episode 60: Everyone stares at my walker because it’s cool!
    2025/08/10

    Kimberly talks to Carrie Sessarego, a blogger on a popular book review website. Carrie named her wheelchair the Blue Beetle, and she has found ways to individualize her mobility devices so that her personality shines through. In this episode, they talk about making mobility aids feel like more than medical devices, what makes healthy community, and whether audiobooks are actually reading. The answer to that last one is, absolutely yes!!!

    https://smartb*tchestrashybooks.com

    Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.”

    The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here.

    Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page

    Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance.

    Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog.

    Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com

    Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living.

    You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available.
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  • Episode 59: People Are People

    Episode 59: People Are People
    2025/07/27
    Kimberly talks with Mary-Jo Lord, Coordinating Editor of Magnets and Ladders, a publication for people with disabilities to showcase various kinds of writing. The submission deadline for the fall/winter edition of Magnets and Ladders is August 15. To read the latest issue, visit Magnetsandladders.org Behindoureyes.org Video honoring the ADA's 35th anniversary Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.” The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here. Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance. Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog. Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living. You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available. Transcript You're listening to Demand and Disrupt, the podcast for information about accessibility, advocacy, and all things disability. Welcome to Demand and Disrupt, a disability podcast. I'm your host, Kimberly Parsley. And I'm your co-host, Sam Moore. Kimberly, million dollar question. Are you staying cool? No, as long as I stay inside and still, you know how that goes. That's the best way to stay cool, although, you know, air conditioners are getting quite the workout across the state and beyond. Really are. It is miserable. Y'all stay safe out there. Stay hydrated. Stay hydrated. If you have medical equipment. I know a lot of places here where I live have cooling centers open. So you might want to look into if you have medical equipment that you, you need, be aware of where those cooling centers are in case you lose power. And if you want to share the water and you're in the Bowling Green area, you know, Kimberly's daughter, Sarah is going to have outdoor band camp next week. And they're going to need plenty of water. Yes. Yep. Yep. Yep. Bandcamp school, school starts, uh, less than three weeks. Yeah. I get two weeks from, uh, today in Henderson and in Bowling Green, Bowling Green, I guess is probably about the same. Yeah. Uh, the three, I think it starts on the 13th. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, okay. So yours is the week after us then. Yeah. So, um, it's creeping up on everybody. It really is busy, busy time, busy time today. Speaking of busy, my interview guest is Mary Jo Lord. She is the coordinating editor of Magnets and Ladders magazine, which is a, uh, online publication for people with disabilities, um, it's about people with disabilities, but, or, and, or by people with disabilities. So for both about, and by yes. Yeah. So if you've ever thought about, uh, publishing or writing or just how that whole thing gets done, give it a listen, my interview later on. So Sam, have you ever thought about pinning your biography or writing or any of that kind of thing? I've been told I should write a book, but I'm like, I feel like I still got some more chapters I better add to it before I do, but, um, you know, maybe if I feel real inspired, I, you know, I did write the, I've done writing in its most basic form. Uh, I've written, um, I wrote the theme song to my other podcast, Blavin' in the Bluegrass, which by the way, I need to write one for. You've got a great, we've got a great theme song for the man, but if we ever need another one, I'm going to challenge myself and come up with some more lyrics. And the theme song, you, you wrote the theme song. It's very poetic. I mean, it's just a great theme song for Blavin' in the Bluegrass that you did. Oh, I'm glad to get you. As long as Kimberly approves, I think it's great. And then you performed it also. You sang it. Yeah. With my friend, E.J. Simmons did the background instrumentals and stuff, but wow. So very, lots of creative pursuits. When are you going to sing for us, Kimberly? Um, let's see about half past, never. I know better. So, uh, speaking of creative pursuits, how is the play going? Yes, I am involved in a play for those of you that maybe missed the last episode. I am, uh, uh, acting in a play that one of our local playwrights, uh, just got through writing not long ago. And we started rehearsal about a month back. Uh, I am, uh, I am running a radio station in this play, Kimberly. And it is called, like, let me, let me give me a minute. They don't have a call letters or anything like that. But yeah, but the play is taffy shenanigans. You got it. There you go. There I go. I got it. Pulled it out of your ear in there. I knew it had shenanigans in it, but I was, I was like tabby tacky. No, that's not right. And you finally figured, oh, there's two F's in there. Yeah. I got there in the end. Taffy, by the way, is a real life place or, well, it used to be that it used to be a real life place in Ohio County. How can a place be used to be? How can it used to be? Does it not? I think it's considered, I think Bob Park, the guy that wrote this play. I think ...
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  • Episode 58: CAL Conversation: Navigating Healthcare as a Person with a Disability

    Episode 58: CAL Conversation: Navigating Healthcare as a Person with a Disability
    2025/07/13
    Kimberly talks with Carissa and Keith about dealing with doctors, medical equipment, and the healthcare establishment as people with disabilities. They discuss a recent study that shows disabled people are discovering cancers at later stages because of the inaccessibility or difficulty of early cancer screening procedures for people with disabilities. Plus, Sam and Kimberly talk about disability pride month. Below is an article that talks about the reason for celebrating disability pride. thearc.org/blog/why-and-how-to-celebrate-disability-pride-month/ Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.” The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here. Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance. Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog. Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living. You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available. Transcript: You're listening to Demand and Disrupt, the podcast for information about accessibility, advocacy, and all things disability. Kimberly: Welcome to Demand and Disrupt, a disability podcast. I am your host, Kimberly Parsley. Sam: And I'm your co-host, Sam Moore. Kimberly, we are officially in the dog days of summer. Kimberly: It is so hot here, isn't it? Sam: It's so hot in Kentucky, anywhere around Kentucky. Doesn't really matter where you are. There's no relief at this point. Kimberly: None at all except air conditioning. Sam: Yeah, exactly. Which luckily you and I are in some knock on wood there. Kimberly: I tell you, I tell you, we've been without air conditioning a couple of times, and it is miserable. You and I were talking people in Kentucky. We live here for the spring and the fall, right? Because it is just beautiful in spring and fall. Sam: No better place to be those two seasons. Kimberly: Nowhere. I mean, it is absolutely gorgeous. But, man, it is hot in the summer and it's summers are so long. And then lately, the winters have been cold and either. Sam: Yeah, you definitely get both extremes here. Kimberly: You really do anymore. I mean, even even in the winter, it's even if it's warm, it's rainy, you know. Sam: And so you kind of got to take the good with the bad. But we definitely get four seasons, unlike Florida, where I think they get like two. Kimberly: They get like I think they get like one and then a week or something else. Sam: Yeah, a week or something else. That's probably about right. Anybody from Florida, if you're listening, correct us if we're wrong. Kimberly: Do tell us if we're wrong. Sam: Email demandanddisrupt@gmail.com You know, we've been we've done the vacation thing there. Kimberly and I both have, but just not spent long durations of time there. Kimberly: No, only been there during tourist season. And, you know. Sam: Yeah, well, we started going on fall break before fall break. You know, really caught on. And now everybody goes on fall break. If you have kids, you know. Kimberly: Yeah, you go on fall break. But now you get hurricanes during fall break. Sam: Well, this is true. Yeah. And we used to go to get away from people from Henderson. But now, you know, 70 percent of Henderson go south. Kimberly: Yeah, exactly. Sam: We we we'd we'd be diving right into most of them if we went down to the coast. Kimberly: Exactly. Exactly. But we are in July and it is miserable here. But it is Disability Pride Month. Sam: That it is. Yes, indeed. Kimberly: So I thought, well, today, my guest is for the interview segment is Carissa Johnson and Keith Hosey. And we are going to talk about navigating the health care system as a person with a disability. So real, real fun stuff there coming. Sam: You know, really informative. It's it's, you know, a useful topic. Kimberly: Oh, it's a great conversation. I mean, we had a great conversation. But yeah, but before that, I thought that you and I might just dive into the controversial topic. Sam: I think you'll say dive into the pool. Kimberly: No. Well, that would be better. But that'd be great. The controversial topic of Disability Pride Month and how it's celebrated. Now, Disability Pride Month is celebrated in July because in July, I believe, July 26th of 1990 is when the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. And that really changed the landscape of disability. And sort of since then, people have kind of made disability pride. We celebrate disability pride the whole month. Sam: But hard to believe that was 35 years ago. It's almost to the day. Kimberly: Yeah, it does. But, you know, people have their their feelings about disability pride. So, Sam, what I mean, my feelings are well known on this topic. What and on most topics, to be fair. But so where do you where do you stand on the whole is disability? You should be ...
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  • Episode 57: Breaking Through Barriers to Conquer College

    Episode 57: Breaking Through Barriers to Conquer College
    2025/06/28
    She first experienced vision complications at the age of 20, but never let this stop her from pursuing her aspirations...and we're beyond excited to welcome her to this episode of “Demand and Disrupt”!! She is Stephanie Levin of New Jersey, who holds titles ranging from PHD candidate, to student affairs assistant, to even recently published author! Her debut is entitled “Picking Up the Pieces: Finding My Way as a Visually Impaired Woman in Higher Education”. Join Stephanie as she describes the onset of her partial vision loss, the inspiration behind her book, and the content we'll be treated to between its covers. She'll also explain the PHD program in which she's enrolled, detail her Student Affairs position at Rowan University, and explain the means by which we can purchase her book. To learn even more about Stephanie Levin, feel free to email her at levins@rowan.edu or visit her website at stephanieanlevin.com Visit the article Sam and Kimberly discuss at the beginning of the show at https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/disabilityrights/news/why-disabled-people-self-accommodate/ Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.” The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here. Be sure to follow the Advocado Press Facebook page Visit Appalachian Assistive Technology Loan Fund for assistance. Visit Moving Forward, the Advocado Press blog. Send comments and questions to demandanddisrupt@gmail.com Demand and Disrupt is sponsored by the Advocado Press and the Center For Accessible Living. You can find the transcript in the show notes below when they become available. Transcript: You're listening to Demand and Disrupt, the podcast for information about accessibility, advocacy, and all things disability. Sam: Welcome one and all to Demand and Disrupt, a disability podcast. We are so pleased today to be joined by a lovely lady named Stephanie Levin. She is a newly published author documenting her recent disability and vision loss in a book entitled, Picking Up the Pieces, Finding My Way as a Visually Impaired Woman in Higher Education. So we will be chatting with Stephanie in mere, mere moments. But right now I'm pleased to bring in my partner, Ms. Kimberly Parsley. Kimberly, how are you? Kimberly: I'm doing very well, Sam. Thank you. I listened to your interview with Stephanie and a wonderful job. Lots, lots of talking points there. I know we can. Most of us listening to this podcast know what that's like at the beginning of your disability journey. Come into terms with that. It's tough, isn't it? Sam: Yeah, it is tough. And, you know, I've been blind. Well, the first time we discovered my blindness, it was seven months old. But this lady, Stephanie, she first experienced vision loss at the age of 20, which was not that long ago. So, you know, it was new terrain for her while she was going to college. But it didn't didn't stop her from pursuing her goals and and aspirations. But yes, those in our audience who are in the early stages of their disability, whatever that disability may be, they ought to be able to identify with Stephanie for sure. Kimberly: Absolutely, absolutely. It's it's it's tough. And, you know, sometimes sometimes you go through a thing and you think you're done and, you know, disability creeps up again. It's it's not always a straight line, is it? Sam: Yeah. Even when you think maybe it's over and done. Sometimes it creeps back or or sometimes other challenges, other disabilities present themselves. Kimberly: Yeah. You know, what is it they say about disability? It's the one minority that we could all join at any time. Sam: Oh, I've never heard that, but I like it. Kimberly: Yeah, it's true. Sam: And if we if we don't have a disability, chances are we know somebody who does. Kimberly: Or or we could. I mean, you know, Sam: Yeah, maybe that's true. Maybe we have a disability and don't know about it yet. Kimberly: Yeah. You know, things can happen. So, yeah, it's interesting to read people's initial their early stages of that of that journey. And hers was in higher education and fighting for for what she needed and coming to terms with needing those accommodations. Sam: She's a she's a Jersey girl. I guess, as they say at their joys, a girl, they always have their unique ways of saying things. (Laughter) Sam: But anyhow, yeah, as we mentioned, I believe, you know, what's history? My first interview from Jersey and maybe not my last. But, you know, she spent her life in the in the Philly area. And, you know, we had a nice conversation off the air about Philly cheesesteak sandwiches because I am a big fan. Kimberly: Oh, are you? Wow. Sam: Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. (Laghter) Sam: And I don't know about you, Kimberly, but I definitely love them. And they say that you haven't had a Philly cheesesteak sandwich done right until you've had one in Philly, which is that right? Kimberly: Is that right? Not me, me ...
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