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Uncalled for responses to tragedy in the world · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I am trying. I'm making every effort. I'm really putting
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  Speaker 1: in a great deal of effort to not be angry today.
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  Speaker 1: But it's it's been a little challenging. And it's your fault,
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  Speaker 1: not you, Zach where you and I are on the
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  Speaker 1: same page, but it's I don't know, it's first of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's been it's been a rough couple of days. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Gary passing away today. I don't know if you saw
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  Speaker 1: that I post on my Facebook page earlier and then
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  Speaker 1: and I got somebody said, also, you're mourning a guy
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  Speaker 1: who raped Laura to herb Apperts rise, No, I'm mourning
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  Speaker 1: an actor who played a guy who raped Laura. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Gary was Luke Spencer on General Hospital. Back in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: All my children had one life to live, and they
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  Speaker 1: did it at General Hospital. That was the thing. You
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  Speaker 1: had to know what was going on with Luke and
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  Speaker 1: Laura in order to talk to girls. When I was
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  Speaker 1: in high school and General Hospital came on at three o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: school was out at two thirty. You rushed home to
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  Speaker 1: watch General Hospital so you could talk to girls about
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  Speaker 1: it the next day. Really, it was a phenomenon. General
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  Speaker 1: Hospital was the hottest thing going. They were just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: This just through the roof, Through the Roof, and Luke
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  Speaker 1: Spencer and Laura Weber were They were a very weird
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  Speaker 1: romance that did, in fact begin as a rape. Luke
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  Speaker 1: Spencer was the manager of a club. Laura was I
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  Speaker 1: believe nineteen years old at the time. She was in
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  Speaker 1: the club and uh, and that's what happened, and somehow,
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  Speaker 1: some way this became an actual romantic relationship. It's freaky
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  Speaker 1: as all get out, but it's a soap opera. And
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Cross released the song Think of Laura right about
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  Speaker 1: the same time this was turning into a phenomenon. The
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  Speaker 1: song had nothing to do with the show, but because
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  Speaker 1: it was Think of Laura, then everybody associated it with
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that couldn't have been bad for him.
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  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. It helped. It helped sell the song,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody wanted to hear the song, right was that song? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It was a good song. And then Patty Austin and
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  Speaker 1: James Ingram also had One Baby Come to Me, which
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  Speaker 1: was a general hospital thing. General Hospital also relaunched the
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  Speaker 1: career of one Rick Springfield, who had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: hits in the late seventies but really didn't make a
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  Speaker 1: big impact, and then he became doctor Noah Drake on
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  Speaker 1: General Hospital released the album Working Class Dog with Jesse's
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  Speaker 1: Girl on it that went through the roof. Jack Wagner,
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  Speaker 1: who played what was his name, Frisco Jones. Jack Wagner
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  Speaker 1: ended up with a couple of hits All I Need
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  Speaker 1: and Lady of My Life. John Stamos, who Blackie Parish
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  Speaker 1: went on to, uh, you know, establish himself as a
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  Speaker 1: very popular musician and timeless person. General Hospital was a
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  Speaker 1: cultural phenomena and Tony Gary as Luke Spencer was part
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  Speaker 1: of it. And my sadness and his death is because
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  Speaker 1: an actor who was part of a show that was
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  Speaker 1: part of a big part of my life passed away
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  Speaker 1: and it just really got under my skin when somebody
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  Speaker 1: pops on my Facebook page and says, so you're mourning
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  Speaker 1: a guy who raped the Laura. Really, we'd stop it.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of brain cells please. In addition to Tony
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  Speaker 1: Gary passing away, z act, do you have that that
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  Speaker 1: that song cued up? Blazer finally remembered it after I
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  Speaker 1: started kind of humming it to him. Yeah, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: Another big part of my eighties life passing away today.
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  Speaker 1: Born in nineteen thirty five, Carl Carlton was his name.
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  Speaker 1: She's a bad, bad Mamma, gemma. This has been sampled.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard this on other songs. Oh, everything's been sampled.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's been sampled. So anyway, you know, we lost Carl
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  Speaker 1: Carlton in.
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  Speaker 3: Addition to Anthony Gary today, and then of course the
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  Speaker 3: insanity of Rob Reiner and his wife being homicided by
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  Speaker 3: their son, who.
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  Speaker 1: That's just tragic. And I had very little to say,
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  Speaker 1: very you know, as far as anything positive about Rob Reiner.
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  Speaker 1: He was a big fat liberal blowhard and and said
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  Speaker 1: a lot of nasty things. Absolutely, I don't argue that
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  Speaker 1: point at all. That doesn't mean I celebrate his kid
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  Speaker 1: killing him. And I was very discouraged by the number
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  Speaker 1: of people who jumped on the Facebook page today that
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say, oh, he got what he deserved. He
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  Speaker 1: said lots of nasty things about Trump and he did
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  Speaker 1: so what so what you know? Honestly, that is the
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  Speaker 1: same logic used by the people who celebrated Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 1: being assassinated. Well, he said a lot of stuff people
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  Speaker 1: didn't agree with and he just so we shot him.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we did. We killed him. God bless these
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  Speaker 1: United States of America, where the First Amendment of our
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  Speaker 1: Constitution does indeed guarantee us the right to freedom of speech, religion,
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  Speaker 1: and assembly, where we can say and think what we
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  Speaker 1: want to say and think without fear of retaliation. Now
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  Speaker 1: specifically from the government, we are protected from that retaliation.
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  Speaker 1: But in a civilized society, don't you think that should
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  Speaker 1: also mean from each other. Just because someone disagrees with you,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to justify that your life ends. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that's just I'm very disappointed. I was disappointed that our
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  Speaker 1: president jumped on his truth social account today and started
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  Speaker 1: railing on about Trump derangement syndrome and how our reiner
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  Speaker 1: was this and that and the other thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: ends it with the maya rest in peace. That was
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  Speaker 1: a sad, sad thing from our president's post, and it
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  Speaker 1: went both ways. I had one person get on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: and tell me that's right, he's a fake and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know. That's not what I said at all, not
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  Speaker 1: what I said at all. When it comes to economic policy,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to immigration policy, when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: building this economy, when it comes to just about everything
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  Speaker 1: governing the United States of America. I am firmly in
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  Speaker 1: favor of what our president does. But in this case,
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  Speaker 1: I think he got silly and got online and posted
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  Speaker 1: something that was just not acceptable. It's so much, it's
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  Speaker 1: so much less than I want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: expect from him. And it made me sad to see it.
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  Speaker 1: And I said that, and again the number of people
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  Speaker 1: who wanted to come out of the woodwork and tell
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  Speaker 1: me that, well.
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  Speaker 4: Rob Rder deserved it. He has said, here's a list
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  Speaker 4: of everything. Rob Ryder, ever said, I don't care. That
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  Speaker 4: doesn't matter. If we are going to accept and justify
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  Speaker 4: the glorification of someone's premature death at the hands of
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  Speaker 4: another because we disagree with them, We're doomed, man, We're
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  Speaker 4: just doomed. I don't know what to think. I really don't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm I am a bit flabbergasted. I really am.
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  Speaker 1: And I noticed you had essentially the same thing to
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  Speaker 1: say on your Facebook page today about that post. Did
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  Speaker 1: you get any anybody coming at you?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I think one guy, because I haven't really looked at well,
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  Speaker 2: one guy said. While there were people who said the
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  Speaker 2: same thing about Charlie Kurr. I didn't respond to it
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  Speaker 2: because they're both wrong. One doesn't negate the other. There's
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  Speaker 2: variances of degrees of inconsideration when it comes to this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But Donald Trump didn't not need to make this about
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  Speaker 2: not everything is about him and there is no reason
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  Speaker 2: to post it it was.
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  Speaker 1: There was no reason to do that. Yeah, don't I
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  Speaker 1: think I think it was. It was just not said
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  Speaker 1: well and shouldn't have been said at all. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it comes down to. And the fact that these people
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  Speaker 1: were killed at the hands of their own kid again
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  Speaker 1: makes it particularly frustrating to me because I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you want to blame Kim Trail's food at it
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  Speaker 1: is colorings. Uh, I don't know. But we got a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot of crazy running around today, masquerading
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  Speaker 1: as people next door and in our own homes. Crazy crazy,
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  Speaker 1: crazy people are among us now, and frankly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what you say. There didn't used to be like this.
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  Speaker 1: People were not as crazy, They were not as as
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  Speaker 1: off balance as a general rule as they seem to
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  Speaker 1: be today. When I was coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't his son and I don't know that, but didn't
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  Speaker 2: his son have a bad addiction.
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  Speaker 1: Pro he was a drug addict, he was he was
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  Speaker 1: on various behavioral medications over the years.
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  Speaker 2: He all of that combined.
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  Speaker 1: They were just at uh, they were at Codin O'Brien's
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  Speaker 1: house Saturday night for a Christmas party, a formal event,
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  Speaker 1: you know, men in suits, women in dresses, formal event,
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  Speaker 1: Codin O'Brien. And apparently the son showed up and got
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  Speaker 1: in a very loud argument with his parents and he
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  Speaker 1: showed up in a sweatshirt at a formal event, and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, maybe that's what started the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but I know people
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  Speaker 1: I see with people, see people I deal with people
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  Speaker 1: pretty much every day in my life that have issues
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  Speaker 1: and have problems and could go off the deep end
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  Speaker 1: and anyone there but for the grace of God go I.
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  Speaker 1: And in some tragic way, all of us honestly need
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  Speaker 1: to feel that way. People mowed down in Australia the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of Honikah. There but for the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: go I. In this case, they were targeting Jewish people.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're not Jewish, maybe you're black, maybe you're a Latino,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're a Republican. Maybe you're Democrat. Maybe you're tall people,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're short people. I don't know. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what group you are a part of, somebody
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  Speaker 1: out there hates something about you. We cannot absolutely I
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  Speaker 1: look accepting it as one thing. Dealing with it is
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  Speaker 1: one thing, but glorifying it is wrong. Taking joy in
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  Speaker 1: something like this is wrong. Now. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: if it was somebody who was like a mass murderer,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they got run over by seventeen buses
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  Speaker 1: on the way to court, yeah, I probably wouldn't feel
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  Speaker 1: too bad about that because they took action against society.
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  Speaker 1: They physically did something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a rock and roll star I got put
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  Speaker 2: in jail over in Europe for molested, being very bad
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  Speaker 2: to children, the worst things possible. And he got stabbed
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  Speaker 2: to death. And the people were like this is great,
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't feel that bad for
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  Speaker 2: him at all, Like he was the worst kind of person,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a different matter, that's not He had an
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  Speaker 1: opinion different from me, right, exactly, for your political opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Someone will kill you for your race, your national origin.
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  Speaker 1: Someone will kill you for your sexuality. Someone will kill you,
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  Speaker 1: and unfortunately there will be people out there that glorify it,
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  Speaker 1: accept it, and praise it.
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  Speaker 4: And this.
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  Speaker 1: Scares the crap out of me. Not political lines here,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't about politics. This is about humanity. We have
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  Speaker 1: got to be better than this, or we are swirling
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  Speaker 1: the bowl preparing to fush ourselves, or maybe that's just
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  Speaker 1: me