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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to a special edition of Amy

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Speaker 1: and TJ. We are coming to you with some sad,

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Speaker 1: some breaking news that the thirty ninth President of the

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Speaker 1: United States, the longest living president here in this country,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, has died at the age of one hundred.

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Speaker 1: It happened around three forty five pm on Sunday afternoon

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Speaker 1: at his home in Plains, Georgia, and so many people

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Speaker 1: are now reflecting and remembering a president that so many

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Speaker 1: said was the best former president this country has ever had.

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Speaker 2: That's almost the leading line in everything you read about

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Speaker 2: him and everything that folks say about him. And it's true.

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Speaker 2: He is the I don't think there's any argument about that,

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Speaker 2: but to the point that people almost forget his presidency.

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Speaker 2: But it's tough to you always mourn than someone's passing.

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Speaker 2: But man, if there's anybody with a life worth celebrating,

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Speaker 2: it's this guy. You hear about his passing, you before

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Speaker 2: you get sad, you almost smile a little and go

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Speaker 2: oh uh, like wow, what a sweet guy. A sweet life,

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Speaker 2: a sweet story, and almost even a sweet death to

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Speaker 2: a certain degree. At his home planes Georgia at one hundred.

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Speaker 2: He made it to one hundred. I mean, what a life.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: It is incredible. It is incredible. And you know we

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Speaker 1: were talking about this. Anyone who has worked in a newsroom,

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Speaker 1: and we've certainly been a newsroom since the mid nineties

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Speaker 1: already had a Jimmy Carter oh bit ready to go.

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Speaker 1: And I have never recalled more moments thinking someone had

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Speaker 1: being ready and prepared for Jimmy Carter's passing.

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Speaker 3: And yet it never happened. I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 3: Even recently in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: He had a fall and that so my grandpa, it

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Speaker 1: happened to him. When you get to a certain ager

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Speaker 1: in your nineties, you fall, you break your hip, that's it.

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Speaker 3: No, he kept going.

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Speaker 1: And then four years before that, I think everyone remembers,

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Speaker 1: he had liver cancer. Then he was diagnosed with metastatic

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Speaker 1: melanoma that had spread to his brain.

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Speaker 2: He thought that was gonna be.

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Speaker 1: It, right, I mean, he was at that point in

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Speaker 1: his nineties again. So and then months later he announced

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Speaker 1: he was cancer free and no longer needed treatment because

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Speaker 1: of a new type of cancer therapy. Here's the other

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Speaker 1: remarkable thing. He has been in hospice care since February

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, so almost for two years. That

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Speaker 1: is remarkable, and saw the passing of his beloved wife

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Speaker 1: of seventy seven years, almost a year ago. Actually it

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Speaker 1: was November nineteenth, twenty twenty three that Rosalind passed, and

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Speaker 1: at her funeral, if we remember seeing him, he was weakened,

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Speaker 1: he was feeble, he was in a wheelchair. He couldn't

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Speaker 1: even speak, or chose not to. His daughter Amy read

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Speaker 1: a letter that he had written to her seventy five

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Speaker 1: and it was moving and beautiful, but he was in

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Speaker 1: such poor shape. I think a lot of us thought, well,

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Speaker 1: now that Rosalind's gone and all of he's still he

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Speaker 1: lasted a full year plus.

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Speaker 2: It sounds morbid, but this happens in every single newsroom

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Speaker 2: you step in. There are folks. I think Queen Elizabeth

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Speaker 2: is one person that there has been no bit in

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Speaker 2: every newsroom ready to go for decades, literally decades. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure they have them for the King now ready to go.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just what happens when folks get of

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Speaker 2: that age, and you know, it's going to be a

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Speaker 2: big story when they pass, So this is one that

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Speaker 2: he was holding on. Jimmy Carter would not.

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Speaker 3: Go yes, and then you had to keep updating.

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Speaker 1: So I was one of the people who had to

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Speaker 1: read and record these obituaries in anticipation of someone's passing.

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Speaker 1: And so I fully remember reading Jimmy Carter's obituary or

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Speaker 1: reading it into a microphone to be recorded ten years ago,

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Speaker 1: how Jimmy was. It's weird to say Jimmy Jimmy Carter.

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Speaker 1: President Carter was even in the last few years, and

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Speaker 3: He did it by mail.

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Speaker 1: He didn't actually go into a voting booth, but he

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Speaker 2: You know, well, I'm trying to think of stories, but

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Speaker 2: type of mental decline. No, he was active around the

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Speaker 2: He was engaged. And I'm trying it. I'm stopping for

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Speaker 2: a moment, but we did not have those reports about him.

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Speaker 2: So to hear his family say that about him, I

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Speaker 3: It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: And I was you know, you said earlier when we

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Speaker 1: that he brings a smile to your face thinking about

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Speaker 1: how he lived his life. And there are a lot

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Speaker 1: of things we think of when we think of Jimmy Carter,

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Speaker 1: but I for me, maybe this is the emotional woman

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Speaker 1: his incredible political achievements. And he's a Nobel Peace Prize winner,

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Speaker 1: just one of four US presidents ever to have that honor,

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Speaker 1: so obviously he's accomplished so much professionally. But I think

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Speaker 3: And I was reading.

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Speaker 1: Part of I mentioned it earlier, the letter that his

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Speaker 1: was serving in the navy. We were learning about him

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Speaker 1: as a naval officer, and.

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Speaker 2: I forgot a lot of that served the second nuclear

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Speaker 1: What if you forget all of the early daring things

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Speaker 3: But while he was in service, he wrote, Can I just.

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Speaker 1: Read a little bit of the letter that Amy read,

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Speaker 1: because this just just makes me so happy. This is

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter to his wife Rosalind, while he was serving

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Speaker 1: I remember. But when I see you, I fall in

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Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: That is so sweet, And it's been pretty cool not

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Speaker 1: He's survived by his four children. They had four children together,

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Speaker 3: I remember seeing her so much in all the news coverage.

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Speaker 1: But he also had eleven grandchildren, fourteen great grand children.

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Speaker 1: And I just love that the love story between him

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Speaker 1: a huge, beautiful part of his incredible story that I've

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Speaker 1: him even more reading about all that he accomplished in

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Speaker 2: You stop folks on the street these days, I mean,

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Speaker 2: how much can you can folks tell you about his

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Speaker 2: I guess he had forty plus years outside of I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. What can you tell me about his presidency.

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Speaker 2: We can tell you about some of the failures and

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Speaker 2: why he might have left the White House is yes,

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Speaker 2: I can tell you about elections. I can tell you

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Speaker 2: about conflict resolution. I can tell you about disease eradication. Right,

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Speaker 2: all these things I know I can see him doing

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Speaker 3: You know what's cool. I think so much of our.

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Speaker 1: Disdain or even just I don't know, you're just not

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Speaker 1: into politics because of politicians, right, they aren't what they seem.

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Speaker 1: They're in it for the power and the greed and

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Speaker 1: And I think everyone can agree he was there for

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Speaker 1: all the right reasons. So, yes, he might have had

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Speaker 1: an average one term presidency. But to your point, he

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Speaker 3: I don't. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this.

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that while he was president, several of

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Speaker 1: his victories included establishing the Department of Education, which we'll

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Us who are a certain age remember his probably his

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Speaker 1: most notable achievement the Camp David Accords. He broke with

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Speaker 2: You hit on something great there at the beginning about

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Speaker 2: how he's viewed. If you watched him in his life

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Speaker 2: after he left the White House, you would never look

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Speaker 2: at that guy and think he was a Democrat, former Republican,

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Speaker 2: And when you start viewing people as human beings and

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Speaker 2: just as humanitarians and just as I don't know, as

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Speaker 2: you start to get viewed differently. But yeah, he wasn't

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Speaker 3: That's a really good point, and.

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Speaker 1: He took his platform and created the Carter Presidential Center.

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Speaker 1: That was in nineteen eighty two, and that is what

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Speaker 1: ultimately ended up leading to his Nobel Peace Prize in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and two because he took that foundation and

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Speaker 1: he focused on ending conflicts, on promoting human rights and democracy,

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Speaker 1: He all remembered Sorry Habitat for Humanity in nineteen eighty four,

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Speaker 1: that's an Atlanta based organization. He and Rosalind joined that

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Speaker 3: So his life was truly of service.

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Speaker 1: Also interesting, I didn't know this. In between his seven

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Speaker 2: I don't know why I remember this story, my mom

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Speaker 2: Forgot that completely right. And how he made his way

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Speaker 2: Don't feel that way. You You have a story to tell,

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Speaker 1: And I remember watching him be so kind and so patient,

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Speaker 4: If you had told me, hey, Amy, in thirty years,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what his his regimen was, what his yea,

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Speaker 1: Six, she was ninety six, I believe, Yes, unbelievable. That's

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Speaker 1: He's going to be ordering an official state funeral. It'll

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Speaker 1: Thirty ninth President of the United States, seventy sixth Governor

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Speaker 3: That chokes me up even to hear that. And that's

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Speaker 2: That's really really well said yeah by President President Biden.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome to hear that he dignified the office.

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Speaker 1: We're also hearing from President Bill Clinton. He talked about

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's it's just to see now people talk

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Speaker 3: He did land the plane. There was a line about

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Speaker 1: And I hope I was telling my daughters about his passing,

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Speaker 1: He's certainly probably did not connect so much with some

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Speaker 3: He was a good guy. He was in it for

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Speaker 2: And it's wonderful to see him celebrate it in that way,

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Speaker 2: He used that office, if nothing else, he used the office.

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Speaker 2: all the same time.

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Speaker 1: I love that, and it's a you know, you just

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Speaker 1: that definitely hit a nerve with me to know that

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Speaker 1: you can lose an election.

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Speaker 3: And he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He didn't take that and lick his wounds and go

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Speaker 1: off and no, he kept being of service, He kept

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Speaker 1: defeat didn't define him. And I think that's so cool

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Speaker 1: and something we can all take with us into this week.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for being with us here on the

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Speaker 1: Amy t G Podcast. We will see you soon, especially

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