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Speaker 2: Luck and load.

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Speaker 3: Michael Varry Show is on the air.

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Speaker 1: It's Charlie from BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good

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Speaker 1: one coming on. It's the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 3: It's a real honor to get to share your time

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Speaker 3: with you. I made the point yesterday or day before

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Speaker 3: happens across the country. There's always a natural disaster going on.

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Speaker 3: You just feel it more when it's in your community,

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Speaker 3: and we're feeling it right now. But it has the

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Speaker 3: added sadness, tragedy, pain suffering that his children. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's just something about the innocence of a child. You know,

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Speaker 3: we grieve the loss of what.

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Speaker 3: And we've had these series of funerals now as the

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Speaker 3: they've never visited. And I made the point earlier this

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Speaker 3: to learn with rich people that if you ask them

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Speaker 3: time is an incredible gift. I ask successful people. It's

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Speaker 3: if not every day, many days, because you have so

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Speaker 3: And as a reminder, if you do enjoy our show,

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Speaker 3: we started, Oh, I don't know, Jim, how long ago?

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Speaker 3: Was a year or two ago? We started a Saturday

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Speaker 1: How to say Let's make America great again in Spanish almoso,

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Speaker 3: Micro is a fascinating figure in pop culture. We've had

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Speaker 3: you know, we should all hope we find our lane.

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Speaker 3: I think in life, in all of life. You know

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Speaker 3: vice versa. Mike Rowe found his place, and he was

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Speaker 3: But when you talk about celebrating guys who do tough jobs,

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Speaker 3: Many people don't want to leave the community they're born into.

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Speaker 3: Is that always a good idea? No, but micro has

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Speaker 2: We've been telling kids for fifteen years to code, learn

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Speaker 2: a week that goes by, and my humble little foundation,

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Speaker 2: it's called Microworks Shameless Plug. We award work ethics scholarships

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Speaker 2: every year right to kids who want to learn a

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Speaker 2: call from somebody like the Blue Forge Alliance, who oversees

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Speaker 2: it's pretty skinny out there. How many do you need?

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Speaker 2: He says, one hundred and forty thousand. One hundred and

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Speaker 2: eighty ninety thousand right now. These are our submarines, folks.

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Speaker 2: Right things go hypersonic, little sideways with China, Taiwan, whatever.

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Speaker 2: the underlying thing that I just really hope people take

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Speaker 3: It was on this day in nineteen sixty nine that

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Speaker 3: And the reason the story matters is in an era

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