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Malcom Jamal Warner passes · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here thinking, you know, I've changed the
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  Speaker 1: eating over the past few months with the awakened one
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  Speaker 1: to eighty and uh, I don't consume what I used
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  Speaker 1: to consume. And we've been taste testing the bacon eat
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  Speaker 1: or cheese. It's here. Blazer brought those in data, the
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  Speaker 1: taste tests. And I'm sitting here thinking, now I know
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  Speaker 1: what my mom met by ruining your appetite. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I want dinner because I had the cheeses. How
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  Speaker 1: many did you eat? I don't whatever he gave us
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  Speaker 1: in the cup, yeah, I ate them all. They were good,
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  Speaker 1: like a third. I got two left in there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting here. I don't I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: need dinner now that I had my little uh my
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  Speaker 1: little cheese at break Speaking of coffee cups, which is
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  Speaker 1: what we have the cheese. It's in our sales department.
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  Speaker 1: Let me down today. Every Monday, I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: coming in here because the sales department has their Monday meeting,
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  Speaker 1: and at their Monday meeting they usually have you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: pastries and breakfast stuff for the sales department, and they
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  Speaker 1: get two boxes of this really good coffee and I
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  Speaker 1: come in and there's usually a box and about a
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  Speaker 1: third of a box left, so I get some good coffee. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: at today's meeting they only had one box of coffee
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  Speaker 1: and it was empty when I got here. They've let
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  Speaker 1: me down. Maybe not everything's about you, everything should be
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  Speaker 1: about me. I don't know. Did you not read the
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  Speaker 1: memo HR sent out that memo everything is officially about Chuck? No,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't get it that. You need to read
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  Speaker 1: that because it's very important. You wrote it to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows what you're talking about. You think. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure he'll get a pedicure. Hey, Hey, if everybody's been
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  Speaker 1: on the Facebook, I did a little little man card
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  Speaker 1: thing about Blazer two. And let me just say, now
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  Speaker 1: that we're done with that, I just playing with my buddy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how guys are. We got to pick on
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  Speaker 1: each other and Mark mentioned getting a pedicure, and I
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  Speaker 1: of course had to make fun of that. Not something
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  Speaker 1: I have ever done, but it was fun and the
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  Speaker 1: phones lit up and everybody wanted He had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of backup too, Seventy year old guys calling in talking
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  Speaker 1: about getting pedicures and how much they enjoyed them, and
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  Speaker 1: so I had to take the Facebook with it, as
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  Speaker 1: I do with so many things show wise, and he
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  Speaker 1: for the first I don't know, fifteen comments or so,
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  Speaker 1: it was almost it was like evenly split. All the
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  Speaker 1: women were saying good, the guys were saying no. And
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  Speaker 1: then the tide changed. The tide turned on me, and
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  Speaker 1: it kind of balanced out. But I don't care. I
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  Speaker 1: was just playing with my buddy, that's all. There's nobody
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  Speaker 1: that could have taken that seriously, right, but it is.
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  Speaker 1: People can take stuff seriously to all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I also posted a little a dad joke on the
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  Speaker 1: Facebook page, and you know, people like Chuck I can't believe,
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  Speaker 1: but it said, look, I said, I put to my
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  Speaker 1: queen on the Facebook page. I swear I am not laughing.
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  Speaker 1: I am not laughing loudly. And then the dad joke
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  Speaker 1: meme that I reposted said, my wife just turned to
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  Speaker 1: me and said, I was talking to you and you
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  Speaker 1: yawned six times? Am I boring you? And I said,
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  Speaker 1: those were not yawns, those were six unsuccessful attempts to
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  Speaker 1: try to speak one. No, it's funny. It's funny because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't apply to us, which is why it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: We talked pretty well most days and just see people
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  Speaker 1: take stuff too seriously. You can't. Life is short, Time
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  Speaker 1: is life? Enjoy? Speaking of time? Is life? Up? Just
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  Speaker 1: just blasted in the face today by the Malcolm Jamoal
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  Speaker 1: Warner News. He was only fifty four, vacationing with his
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  Speaker 1: family in Costa Rica, and reports are that he he
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  Speaker 1: was swimming and it was just it was rough, the
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  Speaker 1: current was rough or whatever and pulled him under. And
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  Speaker 1: I understand he was not like a major star, but
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  Speaker 1: he was well known. And as I was telling Mark,
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  Speaker 1: you know Cosby Show debut in nineteen eighty four, I
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  Speaker 1: had been out of high school for a year. I
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  Speaker 1: was young, I was idealistic, and in spite of what
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  Speaker 1: Bill Cosby is now known for, what he did then
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  Speaker 1: I think was a phenomenal service to all of us,
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  Speaker 1: both in the Cosby Show and in the spin off,
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  Speaker 1: A Different World, because you saw this family, black family,
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  Speaker 1: a doctor, a lawyer, raising children who were just as
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  Speaker 1: goofy as your children, and you watch them go through
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  Speaker 1: the trials and the tribulations, with a little comedy thrown
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  Speaker 1: in there to keep you laughing through the tears. NBC
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  Speaker 1: dubbed it Thursday Night must See TV because America was
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  Speaker 1: watching and this was such a positive role model situation,
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  Speaker 1: especially for young black minds. Every Thursday night they would
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  Speaker 1: sit down with their families in front of the television
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  Speaker 1: and watch this family. And then as the kids grew older,
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  Speaker 1: they had to spin off with Lisa Bonet, which she was.
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  Speaker 1: She was always a little odd in that show. Always different. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: even her personal life shots, ye little bit different. What
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  Speaker 1: was that? A different? Different world? A different world? And
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  Speaker 1: she was the star allegedly when the show began because
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  Speaker 1: she was coming from The Cosby Show and it was
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  Speaker 1: about her going to school Hillman College, this fictitious, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: historically black college, and she quickly fell by the wayside
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  Speaker 1: after the first season. She was almost not thought of.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the cast was so amazingly strong. Is
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  Speaker 1: that the one with the guy at the flip glasses?
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  Speaker 1: He could sill dayne Wayne? Okay, yeah, I remember it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's vague. It's it's when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember much of it. But Dwayne Wayne was
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  Speaker 1: the character's name, and Whitley, Dwayne's love interest, as played
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  Speaker 1: by Jasmine Guy I don't even know what accent jasmine
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  Speaker 1: guy was doing, but it was Once you heard the
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  Speaker 1: character Whitley speak, you couldn't forget her. And there was
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  Speaker 1: an army colonel, the ROTC colonel on campus who interacted
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  Speaker 1: with the kids, there's your respect for authority. And then
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  Speaker 1: there was the cook who ran the little student center.
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  Speaker 1: He was kind of like I don't even remember the
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  Speaker 1: character's name, but he was kind of like a scatman
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  Speaker 1: Crothers in a way, bald, black man, older, not who
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  Speaker 1: that was the actor Vernon Gaines, Thank you, was the
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  Speaker 1: character's name, but he was. He was not overly educated,
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  Speaker 1: but he was still very smart in life and offered
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  Speaker 1: counsel to these students. He was the kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the kind of man says, sit down, let me let
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  Speaker 1: me explain this to you. You know, you had the
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  Speaker 1: money grubbing. Oh what was his name, Dwayne's best friend.
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  Speaker 1: His dad owned car dealerships and I can't recall his
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  Speaker 1: name now, but anyway, Dwayne wanted to change the world,
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  Speaker 1: wanted to teacher, and his best buddy was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all about making the money. And you know, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was taking over dad's car business or whatever. You had
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  Speaker 1: that you had the idealistic young ladies of the campus.
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  Speaker 1: You said this, this hodgepodge, this potpourri of young minds,
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  Speaker 1: not all on the same page, but all friends and
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  Speaker 1: all trying to advance their knowledge. And again this this
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  Speaker 1: was what nineteen eighty eight, when a Different World came out.
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  Speaker 1: I believe you had a ten year run there, all
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  Speaker 1: spawned by the Cosby Show, of which Malcolm ju Want
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  Speaker 1: Mall Owner was a big part. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if America responded to him as Bill Cosby's son THEO
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  Speaker 1: so strongly, because Cosby had lost his own son on
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  Speaker 1: a California highway and it was a tragic story. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, maybe America and their subconscious has
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  Speaker 1: kind of replaced Cosby son with THEO. But he was
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  Speaker 1: a part of a better time, a growing time, and
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  Speaker 1: evolving time, when positivity was there, especially when it came
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  Speaker 1: to you know, shows that featured real, real black people.
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  Speaker 1: And I missed those times, and because of those times,
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  Speaker 1: I was very sad to hear that you know this,
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  Speaker 1: this young man who had played played such an intricate
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  Speaker 1: part of that left the world so early. On the
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  Speaker 1: bright side, he was vacationing with his family. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: alone somewhere, he wasn't with some call girl in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: He was vacationing with his family. And I think there's
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  Speaker 1: there is something cosmically and poetically beautiful about that too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they're in turmoil. They're all hurting, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out why this happened and how
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  Speaker 1: this happened, and everybody's blaming themselves and should I have
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  Speaker 1: been out there with him? And that's just how we
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  Speaker 1: are as people. But he was vacationing with his family.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually kind of a good thing. If it had
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  Speaker 1: to happen, it happened the right way. I know. If
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  Speaker 1: philosophically it doesn't matter as much to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people as it does to me. I just I I
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  Speaker 1: miss a time when we were better. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: When we wanted better, when we dreamed of better, when
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  Speaker 1: we worked for better, and he was part of that,
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  Speaker 1: when we actually aspired two things. We don't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You got plenty of people that are willing to sit
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  Speaker 1: back and tell you about why they can't make it
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  Speaker 1: and how somebody's keeping him down and how this government
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  Speaker 1: program won't do this, and my boss won't do that.
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  Speaker 1: And back then, back then, you had a group of
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  Speaker 1: young minds that were ready to be the boss. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted to own the corporations. They looked at Steve Jobs
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  Speaker 1: and Bill Gates and said, I can do that. They
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  Speaker 1: never heard of Elon Musk at that time. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: hate the one percent, they didn't villainize the one percent.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to be the one percent. And even if
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  Speaker 1: they only made it to the fifty percent, they did
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  Speaker 1: something because of a couple of television shows. I truly
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  Speaker 1: believe those shows had a monumental effect on young minds
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  Speaker 1: in this country. I was one of them.