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Track winner victory taken away because of celebration · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I'm Chuck Douglas. This is the Power Hour six ten WTV,
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  Speaker 1: and another another mayor has lost their mind. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you haven't heard
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  Speaker 1: this story already, you are just you're going to jump
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  Speaker 1: for joy when I share this one with you. But
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about this this high school athlete.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the state of California, Okay, where where you
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  Speaker 1: can participate in anything no matter who you are, what
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  Speaker 1: you are. Although Gavin Newsom, who's trying to position himself
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  Speaker 1: as a more moderate Democrat for a presidential run, I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you that's what's on his mind for twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: has said that he doesn't see the logic of having
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  Speaker 1: males competing in girls sports. But he did when they
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  Speaker 1: made it the law in California, So that aside. What
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  Speaker 1: I contend here is that misery is acceptable and joy
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  Speaker 1: is unacceptable. When you're happy about something, just like there's
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  Speaker 1: always somebody ready to make you feel bad about being happy.
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  Speaker 1: You should not be happy. You should not be joyful.
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  Speaker 1: You should unless, of course, you know you're happy for
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  Speaker 1: them or joyful for them, or happy or joyful over
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  Speaker 1: something that they approve of. But we're always we're always
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  Speaker 1: ready to we're always ready to be good and misery together.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason this story actually is a perfect, just
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  Speaker 1: absolutely perfect story, is because the subject matter is someone
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  Speaker 1: with whom I completely disagree. Zach sent me this earlier.
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  Speaker 1: He usually sends out an email with some twisted news
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  Speaker 1: from around the world. And this girl's been in the
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  Speaker 1: news on the car a girl because I'm gonna end
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  Speaker 1: up reading this to you, and it calls her a girl,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a guy. The Cali for it is the
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  Speaker 1: California Track and Field State Championships under increased scrutiny because
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  Speaker 1: of a transgender athlete who participated in and won the
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  Speaker 1: girl's high jump and triple jump events. Separate controversy flew
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  Speaker 1: underneath the radar had to do with the varsity girl's
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  Speaker 1: four hundred finals Supreme Court Clara Adams of North Selenas
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  Speaker 1: High School. I'm sorry, sophomore Clara Adams. I do like
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  Speaker 1: the name. Clara. By the way of North Selena's High School,
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  Speaker 1: finished in second place in the pre limbs and came
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  Speaker 1: off the starting line quickly in the finals ran away
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  Speaker 1: to a first place finish or so she thought. Adams
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  Speaker 1: celebrated with her father after winning the race. She took
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  Speaker 1: a fire extinguisher from her father sprayed her shoes with it,
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  Speaker 1: alluding to the fact that she moved so fast her
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  Speaker 1: feet were on fire.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty funny.
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  Speaker 1: Her father, David, said the celebration was done away from opponents.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't disrespecting anyone, he told the media. California interscholas
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  Speaker 1: Federation determined adam celebration was unsportsmanlike. Shouldn't it be sportswoman
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  Speaker 1: like or sports nothing like? Because you're not here neither
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  Speaker 1: one unsportsmanlike, and adam state championship was taken away. She
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  Speaker 1: was also disqualified from the meet and lost an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to compete in the two hundred meter race as well.
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  Speaker 1: David Adams told the outlet that the CIS investigation was
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  Speaker 1: protested and said he felt like, here we go, here
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  Speaker 1: we go. You need this. The disqualification was racially motivated
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  Speaker 1: because Clara is black. Doesn't have anything to do with
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Clara has a penis. That's got nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with it. So was the California Interscholastic Federation
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  Speaker 1: attempting to right a wrong? By disguising the fact that,
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  Speaker 1: like much of America, corporate and politically, this whole DEI
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  Speaker 1: thing is bs. They're pulling out of it and they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe a boy it should be out here winning
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  Speaker 1: these girls events. Were they trying to fix that without
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  Speaker 1: being obvious about it? I don't know. Am I sad
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  Speaker 1: that this male who's competing against females lost the title
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  Speaker 1: that chap, No, I'm not, but I am sad because
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  Speaker 1: of why, because of excessive celebration. We see it at
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  Speaker 1: the college level, we see it at the professional level.
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  Speaker 1: We've got you know, this is the high school level here.
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  Speaker 1: When this is a legitimate question, When is it okay
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  Speaker 1: to be happy? You just went out there, male, female
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  Speaker 1: or undetermined and kicked but took names cross the line,
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  Speaker 1: got the trophy, got the title, got the accolades. When
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  Speaker 1: is it okay to be happy? My Bengals actually, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pull off a touchdown with ten seconds left
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  Speaker 1: and beat a team that was supposed to beat them
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  Speaker 1: by at least three touchdowns, and they get a whistle
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  Speaker 1: blown because Burrow did the funky chicken back there from
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and they call it excessive celebration.
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  Speaker 1: When is it okay to be happy about succeeding being victorious?
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  Speaker 1: You see, that's what we have demonized the idea of
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  Speaker 1: conquering competition. I guarantee you that ultimately is what is
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  Speaker 1: behind it. Some school of thought that says, well, you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't take joy in beating someone. Everybody deserves a trophy
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  Speaker 1: just because they showed up, and you're wrong, You are
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  Speaker 1: so wrong, And I think honestly that overrides the whole
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  Speaker 1: gender issue. For anybody who you know, cares about the
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  Speaker 1: gender issue. You think I'm onto anything or not. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're honestly not about gender, not about celebration. It is
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  Speaker 1: about It is about deconstructing your natural urge to conquer.
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  Speaker 2: Obstacles, especially in celebration. In sports, they absolutely have taken
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  Speaker 2: that away. Remember an NFL when a team would score,
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  Speaker 2: they used to have all these dances.
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  Speaker 1: Man, the icky shuffle was fun. We did that at
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  Speaker 1: the PROMSFF was hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: They do it in the NBA. You can't do anything
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  Speaker 2: like that now, or it's a penalty, NBA, NFL, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: you can't. You can't do anything. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it's because you're celebrating, and it might make the
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  Speaker 2: other team sad.
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  Speaker 1: Probably you're hurting their feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're hurting their feelings.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care, because you run and you should be
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  Speaker 1: able to go out there and celebrate. You don't have
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  Speaker 1: to go non no, now you stink, but you have
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  Speaker 1: to go non and now we're the best, and that
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  Speaker 1: should not be discouraged. But I believe ultimately putting all
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  Speaker 1: the other race aside, transgender crap aside, all of it aside. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: what they are trying to do is discourage the human
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  Speaker 1: condition of winning. Winning. All the way back to alg
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  Speaker 1: and Groggs. Somebody had to bring home that pterodactyl stake
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  Speaker 1: and if agg did it, Grogg's family didn't think much
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  Speaker 1: of him that night. Winning it matters, and it's being discouraged,
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  Speaker 1: and that, ultimately is what they are trying to take
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  Speaker 1: the competition out of you. Tulsa, Oklahoma, first black mayor there, seriously, man,
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  Speaker 1: first black mayor, and this is what you're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: with it? Really has proposed creating a one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars private trust fund as part of guess what a
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  Speaker 1: reparations plan for the impact of the Tulsa Race massacre,
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  Speaker 1: which took place more than one hundred years ago. Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Monroe Nichols, the fourth elected mayor in November, says the
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  Speaker 1: trust would be used to provide scholarships in housing to
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  Speaker 1: the descendants of those impacted by the massacre. He clarified
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  Speaker 1: that the trust would not involve direct cash payments. However,
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred four years, the Tulsa Rais massacre has
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  Speaker 1: been a stain in our city's history. Nickel set on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and I agree with that the massacre was hidden from
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  Speaker 1: history books, only to be followed by international acts of
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  Speaker 1: redlining on a highway built to choke off economic vitality,
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  Speaker 1: and the perpetual and uninvestment under investment of local, state,
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  Speaker 1: and federal governments. I agree with that it was hidden
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  Speaker 1: from history. Black Wall Street hidden from history absolutely. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why. Had it not been hidden from history,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it would have inspire people to do better, and
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  Speaker 1: there'd be a whole bunch of rich black people now
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  Speaker 1: and nobody would be talking reparations anyway. He said, now
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  Speaker 1: it's time to take the next big steps to restore
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  Speaker 1: Did I mention one hundred million dollars here's here's where
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  Speaker 1: you have a problem. The private charitable trust would be
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  Speaker 1: created with the goal to secure one hundred five million
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  Speaker 1: dollars in assets, with most of the funding either secured
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  Speaker 1: or committed by June first, twenty twenty six. Can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: Nichol said, the city would have to approve the transfer
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  Speaker 1: of any city assets to the trust. Ain't gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: The plan calls for the bulk of the funding, sixty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars, to go toward improving buildings and revitalizing the
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  Speaker 1: city's north side. So that's what you want to do.
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  Speaker 1: Why not just say that instead instead of putting it
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  Speaker 1: under the disguise of this ridiculous notion of reparations. The
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  Speaker 1: thing about history is it's what's already happened. Tomorrow is
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  Speaker 1: the most wonderful day. Ever, how do I know, Well,
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  Speaker 1: because it's tomorrow. Like the song says, tomorrow tomorrow, I
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  Speaker 1: love you tomorrow. You're always a day away. Stop going
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  Speaker 1: back in time and trying to find things to be
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  Speaker 1: miserable about and create victims about, and look toward tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe that's just me