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Speaker 2: of being kind to everyone, you know, like people you

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Speaker 2: don't know, and spreading kindness and then also just service

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Speaker 2: to other people, and so she kind of got her

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Speaker 2: pulse on the radar of good news. I would say,

436
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Speaker 2: shout out, Ronda. But anyway, this is a story from

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Speaker 2: Texas and it was I thought, really beautiful. But these

438
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Speaker 2: students had this janitor who went into retirement and then

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Speaker 2: he had to come back out of retirement because his

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Speaker 2: rent went up. Okay, and he's eighty. So this sweet

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Speaker 2: man is just like eighty, he's been working.

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Speaker 1: His living life, yes, and.

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Speaker 2: He was like, well, my rent went up, I can't

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Speaker 2: afford it. So the students, I'm actually just gonna read

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Speaker 2: some of the story because I think it'll do a

446
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Speaker 2: better job. But high school seniors managed to secure a

447
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Speaker 2: quarter of a million dollars for the sweet, their sweet

448
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Speaker 2: eighty year old janitor who came out of retirement after

449
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Speaker 2: his rent went up. The money was raised through GoFundMe,

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Speaker 2: which was started at the simple goal of ten thousand

451
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Speaker 2: dollars but quickly took on a goal of its own.

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Speaker 2: Several of the students at Kallisburg High School in Texas

453
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Speaker 2: noticed that their school had a new janitor, mister James

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Speaker 2: and at eighty years an eighty year old former retiree

455
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Speaker 2: retiree sorry, who went whose rent had gone up four

456
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars and needed a job to support it. Believing

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Speaker 2: they could use their knowledge of the Internet and social

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Speaker 2: media to help out, they got the idea to open

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Speaker 2: a GoFundMe to help the eighty year old mister James

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Speaker 2: get back to doing eighty year old things. It's crazy

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Speaker 2: to see something that we knew people would have wanted

462
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Speaker 2: to help, but we didn't know it would blow up

463
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Speaker 2: like this. So one kid basically posted on his TikTok

464
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Speaker 2: and he's like, I have two thousand followers, but that

465
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Speaker 2: was enough to get the word out, and then it

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Speaker 2: just like spiraled. I think it's maz We've seen this

467
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Speaker 2: in Nashville Covenant people. It's just like everyone actually does

468
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Speaker 2: want to help. But I just loved this that the

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Speaker 2: man was like, he's due a retirement at eighty and

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Speaker 2: also like janitorial work is very physical, yes, and so

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Speaker 2: I love that the kids were the ones that set

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Speaker 2: it up. They raised two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: They actually had to cap it off because I guess

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Speaker 2: you can't send that much money at a time like

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Speaker 2: that's the cap to be able for him to get it,

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Speaker 2: and so they just gave him his retirement.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. I just while you were reading the story,

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Speaker 1: I googled the average school salary for our jenitor sorry.

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Speaker 1: The average salary for a school janitor and Glassdoor says

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Speaker 1: that it ranges in the United States between twenty five

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Speaker 1: and forty thousand dollars a year.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So if you on the low end of that, where.

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Speaker 2: Did you say he was from in Texas?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's probably somewhere on the lower you know,

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Speaker 1: like the higher end is probably a New York City

487
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Speaker 1: school school. Yeah, if it's a rural school, it's probably

488
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Speaker 1: on the lower end of that. So say, let's say

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Speaker 1: it's twenty seven thousand dollars a year, it would have

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Speaker 1: taken him ten years to make that money. He would

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Speaker 1: have been working till he was ninety years.

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Speaker 2: Old, could you imagine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, I thought it was a really great story and

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Speaker 2: I love that it came from kids. That was awesome.

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Speaker 1: This one will probably surprise you guys that I'm bringing

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Speaker 1: this story, But I figure there are probably some athletes,

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Speaker 1: some sports fans out there. But if you didn't know

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Speaker 1: that the safety for the Buffalo Bills, DeMar Hamlin, who

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Speaker 1: basically died on.

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Speaker 2: The fielded it happen live?

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Speaker 1: He died of He died of cardiac arrest and in

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Speaker 1: January well, and obviously he was revived. He did not

504
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Speaker 1: I die, but.

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Speaker 2: He had he not had the right care at the time,

506
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Speaker 2: said that a million times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: On the field.

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Speaker 1: Well, on Tuesday he was able to work out with

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Speaker 1: the team for the first time and he has been

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Speaker 1: cleared to play again.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a pretty remarkable story. This is what

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Speaker 1: he said. My heart is still in it, he said,

515
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: my heart is still in the game. I love the game.

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Speaker 1: It's something I want to prove to myself, not nobody else.

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Speaker 1: I just want to show people that fear is a choice,

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Speaker 1: and then you can keep going in something without knowing

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Speaker 1: what's at the end of the tunnel. Wow, it's a

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Speaker 1: great lesson.

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Speaker 2: I mean, could you imagine talk about overcoming trauma by

522
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 2: taking steps in there, like rewiring your brain. I mean,

523
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Speaker 2: he literally died.

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Speaker 1: That.

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Speaker 2: To me, I'm like, there doesn't there isn't a fear

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Speaker 2: greater than that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, in some ways, you could argue, like,

528
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Speaker 1: what's the worst thing that could happen. You've already died,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 2: It's like, it's not funny if there's.

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Speaker 1: Anyone on earth that should be like saying, fuck it,

532
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I'll.

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Speaker 2: Want to do.

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Speaker 1: It's him.

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Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, but it's so amazing that.

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Speaker 1: He's able to actually get back and do what he loves.

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Speaker 2: He's only like twenty four or like, he'll mar you

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Speaker 2: twenty five in this next season. I think, yeah, that's crazy. Well,

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Speaker 2: keeping on the sports note, I loved this story, and

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Speaker 2: of course I just swiped and got rid of it

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Speaker 2: as I said that it's from the pause. Sorry, y'all,

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Speaker 2: I literally hit the wrong button. Okay, here we go.

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Speaker 2: So this kind of deals with mental health, but it's

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Speaker 2: about baseball too. So the Los Angeles Dodgers have re

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Speaker 2: signed outfielder Andrew Tolus. I don't know, I don't know

546
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Speaker 2: how to say it, but he has schizophrenia and he

547
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Speaker 2: hasn't played since twenty eighteen, but they re signed him

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Speaker 2: to give him access to the team's health insurance and

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Speaker 2: mental health services. He is not expected to play for

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers this season, but signing with the team will

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Speaker 2: allow him to continue to receive treatment, including counseling, therapy,

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Speaker 2: and medication. And I just loved that because not only

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Speaker 2: are they not like ostracizing him, like, oh, you have schizophrenia,

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Speaker 2: go away. I don't know if they have any intention

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Speaker 2: or plan of letting him play at some point or

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Speaker 2: him coming back to the team, but just to be like, hey,

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Speaker 2: we support your work and your therapy and all the

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Speaker 2: work you're doing to heal and help yourself, and so

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Speaker 2: we want to help you financial.

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful and I also think to it it highlights

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Speaker 1: something at the level of the organization and the eyes

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Speaker 1: that are on it. It highlights mental health, an acceptance

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Speaker 1: of an acceptance of it, and the need for care. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like, look, someone that would suffer from schizophrenia.

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Speaker 1: Probably you know, I don't know what the statistics are,

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Speaker 1: so I hope I don't put my foot in my mouth,

567
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Speaker 1: but I would guess that a lot of homelessness can

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Speaker 1: be equated to schizophrenia too.

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Speaker 2: It's probably hard to keep a job.

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Speaker 1: It's probably very hard to keep a job. It's it

571
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Speaker 1: becomes very hard to know what reality is. It probably

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Speaker 1: leads to drug use.

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Speaker 2: So the facts if you aren't getting cared, if.

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Speaker 1: You're not getting so what I'm my point is is

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Speaker 1: it's a really loving thing to do because recognizing that

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Speaker 1: someone needs care and being accepting of the fact that,

577
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Speaker 1: like we're not in control of our brains. Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: people want to believe that it's just that easy. Yeah,

579
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: crazy right, you know, like it takes real professional care.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that an organization like that is shining

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Speaker 1: a light on it, I think it's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well I've always really tried to say this on the podcast,

583
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: but to me, it's crazy that we put so much

584
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Speaker 2: weight into our physical health or like physical appearance, working out,

585
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 2: but we don't really talk about working out your brain

586
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 2: or working out your emotional health, and like those things

587
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 2: are just as important, if not more important, because it's

588
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 2: all related. So we're finally having these conversations, which is

589
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 2: so positive moving to meet anyway, but for like you said,

590
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Speaker 2: a huge organization and to publicly talk about that like

591
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: that they're doing it, I think does destigmatize some of

592
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Speaker 2: these things.

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Speaker 1: Love it all right, I guess we're on a sports

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Speaker 1: theme because well on this one, it is a story

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Speaker 1: so in sports, Okay, So this is about a woman

596
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Speaker 1: named Rachel Foster who in November, she's in Oklahoma, she

597
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: was riding on a lecture schooter with her husband and

598
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Speaker 1: she fell off it, okay, and she suffered major head

599
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Speaker 1: injuries and was in a coma for more than a week,

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Speaker 1: and they were getting ready to take her off of

601
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Speaker 1: life support. And she woke up and she was removed

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Speaker 1: from life support.

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Speaker 2: They were about to take her off the next the

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Speaker 2: next day.

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Speaker 1: They were taking her off, like the plan was to

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Speaker 1: take her off life.

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00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: Support and she woke up.

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Speaker 1: Nope, And just over the past weekend she ran the

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Speaker 1: Boston Marathon.

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Speaker 2: Did they say how much time had passed in between.

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Speaker 1: Them, Well, it happened in November, so she had months,

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Speaker 1: she had months of physical therapy and then she ran

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Speaker 1: the Boston Marathon.

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Speaker 2: What was her name again?

615
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 1: Her name is Rachel Foster.

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Speaker 2: Damn Rachel. That is crazy. Five months from being literally

617
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Speaker 2: about to be taken off of life support to running

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Speaker 2: a I don't even want to run a marathon and

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Speaker 2: I'm in good health.

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Speaker 1: I've run a few marathons, and I can tell you

621
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Speaker 1: I don't think I could do that after a car.

622
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Speaker 2: Oh oh my gosh. I just love the fact that it

623
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Speaker 2: was the next day. And that's when you know, too,

624
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Speaker 2: like when it's I don't mean to say, like when

625
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Speaker 2: it's your time to go or whatever. There is some

626
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 2: piece for me in that if our if our soul

627
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Speaker 2: is not ready to go. It does like even Damar Hamlin,

628
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Speaker 2: it was like not yet, No, we have more work

629
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Speaker 2: to do here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I just think that's such a cool story. All right.

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Speaker 2: My last one that I was going to read was

633
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Speaker 2: this kind of hit home for me. And maybe I

634
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Speaker 2: don't know if this will resonate for a lot of people,

635
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Speaker 2: but I've talked about a little bit. My grandmother house Alzheimer's,

636
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Speaker 2: and so we have good days and bad days, and

637
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Speaker 2: so some days, especially if I haven't seen her, you know,

638
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 2: she's always really excited to see me, but she can

639
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 2: be very disoriented and confused on like who I am,

640
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Speaker 2: and especially like my brother came to visit not too

641
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Speaker 2: long ago, and having a new person in the mix,

642
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Speaker 2: Like I see her pretty regularly, but if you throw

643
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Speaker 2: something new into the mix, it really throws her. And

644
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: so then she really couldn't figure it out because it

645
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 2: was like, wait, who are you? How do I know you?

646
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 2: You know, it was just all the things, and it's

647
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 2: so hard to watch a person that you love, and

648
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: that obviously I've known my whole life, so I've seen

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00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: her in good health just be in that place where

650
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: they can't even connect with you because they don't recognize you.

651
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: You know, it's very it's painful for everyone. And so anyway,

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Speaker 2: I saw this story and it was this father with

653
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Speaker 2: Alzheimer's was able to say I love you to his

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Speaker 2: son for the first time in four years. That's amazing,

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Speaker 2: it says David. Greg writes, My dad Wayne has been

656
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Speaker 2: almost nonverbal for a little while, but thanks to some

657
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Speaker 2: great caretakers, he's been thriving. He said the words I

658
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Speaker 2: love you to me for the first time in four years.

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Speaker 2: These little bursts of clarity are the greatest gifts, and

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Speaker 2: I can speak to that, like I went to cut

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Speaker 2: my grandmother's hair a couple of weeks ago, and she

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Speaker 2: was having a good day and it was just so

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Speaker 2: it warm. I was the same thing we were talking

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Speaker 2: about earlier. I was exhausted, it had been a long week.

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Speaker 2: It was a Friday night. I was like, oh my gosh,

666
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Speaker 2: do I have this in me today? Because what if

667
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Speaker 2: I show up and it's just draining, you know. But

668
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Speaker 2: instead I showed up and she was in a great mood.

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Speaker 2: She was very coherent, and that little bit of connection

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Speaker 2: that I got with her. And then, of course, because

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Speaker 2: you're doing her hair, like we as women, especially, like

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Speaker 2: you don't lose that moment where you're like, ooh, I

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Speaker 2: just got my hairted. Like right, she's eighty seven, I

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Speaker 2: want to say, and she still felt that. I could

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Speaker 2: feel it, Like when I got done with her blowout,

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Speaker 2: she was like feeling it, you know, ready for She's

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Speaker 2: just in a good mood. Yeah, she probably is. Who knows,

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Speaker 2: cafeteria She's like yeah. But it was just so same thing.

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Speaker 2: It was like my aunt was very grateful for me

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Speaker 2: to come, for coming to do that, you know, but

681
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Speaker 2: then it was also like, yeah, but like this gave

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Speaker 2: something to me actually too, and those little moments of

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Speaker 2: connection are just so great. So I was really happy

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Speaker 2: to read that story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll button mine up too. With a little

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Speaker 1: bit more Boston Marathon news. I thought it was interesting

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Speaker 1: that I found two stories today.

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Speaker 2: So maybe this means that you're supposed to run it again.

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Speaker 1: I maybe I've never done Boston. I think Boston's the hardest,

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Speaker 1: or I did New York. Yeah, so the Boston Marathon.

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Speaker 1: The bombing was ten years ago ago. Wow, And I

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Speaker 1: promise this is good news. And one of the people

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Speaker 1: that was killed in the bombing was an eight year old. Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: and one of his dreams was to run the Boston Marathon.

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Speaker 1: You can't run the Boston Marathon until you're eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so it would have been this year.

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Speaker 1: It would have been this year. So several of his

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Speaker 1: friends from childhood ran it in his honor, which is amazing.

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Speaker 1: I want to read. I want to read some of

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Speaker 1: these things. This I got on the Good News movement

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Speaker 1: and it's from reporting from the dortch Chester Reporter. And

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Speaker 1: these are some of the names of the people that ran. Nolan.

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Speaker 1: Nolan Cleary, eighteen years old, still has a pair of

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Speaker 1: old sneakers that Martin gave him. They still hang in

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Speaker 1: his closet. Jack Burke is nineteen recalled how Martin uh well,

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Speaker 1: the student that was killed, his name is Martin Richard.

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Speaker 1: Jack Burke nineteen recalls how Martin wouldn't let the basketball

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Speaker 1: wouldn't let basketball games start at recess until every kid

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Speaker 1: had been picked for a team. Ava O'Brien eighteen has

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Speaker 1: used her involvement in the Martin Richard Challenger Sports League

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Speaker 1: for physically challenged kids to remember her friend because she

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Speaker 1: knows he would have been right there beside her. And

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Speaker 1: then Jack Burke was quoted it it was perfect when

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Speaker 1: they called me to participate, and I jumped on it.

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Speaker 1: He is now a goalie for the Cape Cod Seahawks,

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Speaker 1: and he's continued he said it was kind of like

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Speaker 1: his dream growing up to run the marathon. Now that

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Speaker 1: I'm old enough, I get to live that dream for him. Wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty a amazing.

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Speaker 2: Like it is amazing too because it even at eight

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Speaker 2: years old, it sounds like that kid had a good

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00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 2: heart and was trying to be kind to others. And

723
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Speaker 2: look ten years later, even they're still taking steps in

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Speaker 2: their lives because of the influence that had on them.

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Speaker 1: And then wow, there's a link to the nonprofit organization

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Speaker 1: called the Martin Richard Foundation and it's Martin Richard Foundation

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Speaker 1: dot org. And they provide opportunities for young people to

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Speaker 1: learn and grow and lead through volunteerism and community engagement.

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Speaker 1: So wow, they're shining a light those those you know,

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Speaker 1: childhood friends are also shining a light on you know,

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Speaker 1: what this kid's memory is doing to help other people.

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Speaker 1: So it's amazing in the face of like great loss,

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Speaker 1: there's like something really beautiful that is still coming out

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, Wow, Well, God, doesn't that just feel good?

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Speaker 1: It feels good. I feel like we didn't gossip.

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Speaker 2: No, we didn't like spread just bad stuff, negativity, talking.

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Speaker 1: Bad absorbing either.

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Speaker 2: No, actually, your eyes look clear? Yeah, did you want

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Speaker 2: to sing a tune? I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I

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Speaker 2: will go ahead and tell you, guys some of the

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Speaker 2: good news things. One of the things I said to

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Speaker 2: Chip earlier is like I've immediately started following more accounts.

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Speaker 2: Like if I see one post from an account that's

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Speaker 2: positive and I look at their page and it's just

746
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Speaker 2: positive news, I'm following it right now because I want

747
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Speaker 2: that in my algorithm, for one. But then also just

748
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Speaker 2: amidst all of the other either chaos or divisiveness or

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Speaker 2: just hard news all the time, it's really nice to

750
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Speaker 2: see a video pop into your feet and you're like, huh,

751
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 2: look at that? Are you? It's a reminder, like, go

752
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 2: do something nice for someone if you feel bad. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean I love when I hear stories about like

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Speaker 1: somebody paying for someone's coffee at the drive through and

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00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: it like lasts for hours, like yeah, paying it for

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Speaker 1: Like there are literally a million nice little things that

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00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: you can do for people. Say hello to a homeless person. Yeah,

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00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: hold the door open for somebody who needs it. Like

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Speaker 1: I promise you smile at a stranger.

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Speaker 2: It matters, It bounces back to you.

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Speaker 1: It feels so good.

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Speaker 2: I had got a text from one of our friends

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and he was bitching. He

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Speaker 2: was like, I've been sitting in this Starbucks drive through forever.

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Speaker 2: He was like, I don't understand why people are so slow.

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Speaker 2: It was one of those moments, you know, he gets

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Speaker 2: to the count, like to the ordering thing or whatever,

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Speaker 2: and someone had paid for his coffee, like it was

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Speaker 2: the same thing you always talk about just pay it forward.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, well, I hope you paid for

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Speaker 2: the person behind you. I can't remember what he said.

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Speaker 2: I hope you did. But anyway, okay, So some of

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Speaker 2: the accounts that I follow are at good News Underscore,

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00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 2: Movement at Tanks, good News at good News Network, which

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00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 2: that's all. It's a good Instagram. They also have a website.

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Speaker 2: If you're more of a website person, the Good News Network. No,

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00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 2: it's not the it's just Goodnewsnetwork dot com. And then

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Speaker 2: if you were just a person who doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: read articles and you just want to see videos. At

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Speaker 2: Some good News is all videos, So it's just if

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Speaker 2: you want the little quick you know, TikTok tight videos.

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Speaker 1: What's that one? Some good news at.

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Speaker 2: Some good News. I'll put all of these in the

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Speaker 2: description of the podcast as well, if that's easier for

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Speaker 2: you guys to click. But I just wanted to say

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Speaker 2: them out loud in case you're driving and you can't

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Speaker 2: look at the description.

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Speaker 1: I also follow just at good Good.

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Speaker 2: At good that's easy to remember.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna follow some good News.

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00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 2: Well, I feel all light and airy. It's still beautiful outside.

792
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: The other good thing about right now is it's spring,

793
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 2: like we're moving into a new energy. And as much

794
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 2: as there is just not gonna not be stuff going on,

795
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 2: like I feel like you can get to a place

796
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 2: of just riding the waves of whatever is happening in

797
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 2: our world. There is a lot of positivity around, and

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00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: so follow some of these sites. Go for a walk

799
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 2: outside for twenty minutes. Cherry says, that really does reset

800
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 2: your brain. It's simple things. It's like getting back to

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00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 2: the basics, get in nature, get off your phones, all

802
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 2: of the things. Go be kind to someone, like, let's

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Speaker 2: go back.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, good one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you guys go into the weekend. I got

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00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: nothing interesting and you're living on the edge. Hey. I

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00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,720
Speaker 2: hope you always remember to.

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Speaker 1: Be kind and act casual.

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Speaker 2: Casual today, all right, Love you guys.

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Speaker 1: Bye,