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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time. Time sign sion, luck and load. The
Michael Arry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerrys Mother. I can feel a good one coming on.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Oh yes it is. It's a Friday drive home. We're
glad you're with us. I love this country. You love
this country, and we want the best to this country.
And we want to know that when we put our
team on the field, they're going to play their hearts
out because they're wearing our jersey. So when President Trump
went into the meetings with the President of the European Union,

(00:54):
she understood that this president picks winners and losers. Do
right by the United States, you'll get a good deal.
Do wrong by the United States, you'll get a bad deal.
We're not going to work against our own interest. The
deal that was cut was so good for the United

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States that it was referred to as being asymmetric. It
wasn't equal on both sides. It was to our benefit.
Kevin O'Leary was on CNN with Abby Phillips when he
made the point President understood the EU had no choice
but to deal with him.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Bine two percent was the tariff level on EU imports
now it's fifteen percent, and that's supposed.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
To be a huge victory for Americans.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Fifteen to twenty seven. That the EU deal was negotiated
by a team of five representing twenty six different jurisdictions.
Both the French and the German came out this morning
and said we're not happy with the outcome of that negotiation.
The only reason the Europeans have agreed to an asymmetric tariff,
in other words, they're paying more to come and bring

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their products here than we are paying to go into
Europe is because of two sectors, pharma and automotive. They
can't give up access to the American market for these
behemoth businesses they.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Have in pharma and automotive.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
What's interesting about this whole narrative about rebate checks, because
Trump also brought it up and these other ideas, that's
a bad idea. What should be happening now with any
extra income is to pay down the national debt. That's
the opportunity, because the great greatest gift you can give
of the future is to pay down the debt, which
is just really, really big. And so I think at

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the end of the day, we're still in negotiating with
these countries because we don't have deals with Mexico, no
deals with Canada, Indian no deal. Europe looks like it's
negotiating something here, but the real big Mama is China.
And we're just starting to dance with those guys. That's
a big deal. And no administration has ever tried to

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do all this.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
He's right, He's absolutely right. And why not? And why
haven't they imagine learning that somebody on your team was
working to help the other team win because they believed
your team was evil. That's what Americans have been subjected
to for too long. We're excited you're here with us.

(03:25):
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Sam Haskell, Connie Francis, THEO from the Cosby Show, Ozzy Osbourne,
Chuck Manzioni, and Hogan Hall. Just in a row. There
we add to our sense of loss those taken from
us to early Uncle Jerry's pinky top.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
University of Colorado head football coach and Dion Sanders describing
his battle against an aggressive form of bladder cancer.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I depend on depending, you know, if you know what
I mean.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
I truly depend on depend like I cannot control ladder.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
He's going to make incontinence and everything for men and
women something that you feel comfortable talking about because Dion
opened the door to it.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
The w NBA player on Sunday losing her wig in
the middle of a game, and then.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
A fan got kicked out from making fun of the
lost wig that went.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Through the up. Oh no, oh no, oh no, she
don't go ahead to the back.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
The announcers tried to avoid It's like when somebody streaking
in a game. They tried to avoid talking about it,
but there was a stoppage of play because lord knows,
we can't mention that a player lost her wig. That'd
be ra On the top ten shortstops in MLB history,
I will off the cuff make you a list of

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my ten favorite shortstops alone. I must start with Craig
Rentols because number one. I loved his little side arm
throw that he did. And number two, he's the last
white guy to ever play shortstop in Major League baseball.
You know, one day the way we study Rush, now,
one day they will go back in the archives and
they will study the show and they'll say, so, you're
you're telling me that what you consider good radio is

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the host trying to come up with a list from
when he last paid attention to baseball in the seventies
of his favorite shortstops, and he gives extra credit for
dudes being white. This rove in Down. January twenty, twenty

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twenty five is day Elizabeth Warren, like Rachel Dolosol or
Sean White, all the other white people claiming to be
one of the minorities that she loves to pretend. She

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is defending. If it's so bad to be a woman
in America today, why does so many men pretend to
act like one? If it's so bad to be a
minority in this country today, why does so many white
people try to pretend to be one? I mean, if

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it's so much better to be a white male, how
come black women aren't pretending to be one? Folcahontas was
on CNBC in April, and she was perfectly happy with
Jerome Powell not cutting interest rates because that's how the
system was meant to work.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
The infrastructure that keeps this stock market strong and therefore
a big part of our economy strong, and therefore a
big part of the world economy strong, is the idea
that the big pieces move independent of the politics, that
somebody is making his there her best decisions economically and independently.

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We understand that if the New York Stock Exchange, if
interest rates in the United States are subject to a
president who just wants to waive his magic wand this
doesn't distinguish us then from any other two bit dictatorship
around the world.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
You talk about having a cold shower effect on my
feelings listening to Elizabeth Warren talk, My goodness, can you
imagine being married to that woman. Oh well, she doesn't
believe that President Trump should be calling on Jerome Powell

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to cut interest rates to spur the economy. She doesn't
believe that, at least not today September, just a matter
of months ago, when Biden was president, she was trying
to gin up some economic activity. She was on the
same CNBC then as well, and at that time she

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was calling on Jerome Powell to cut the rates.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
He waited too long. And the best way you can
show that you waited too long and that you get.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
It, and that you are becoming.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
More responsive to where we are on interest rates is
actually go ahead and do a nice big rate cut.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Keep in mind that keeping.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Those rates high as he is done, keeping those interest
rates so high, actually has contributed to our measure of inflation.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh you do. Ramon thinks this makes her an Indian giver.
Ramone said, Elizabethwarree is an Indian giver. I don't think
you understand what an Indian giver is. The term Indian
giver came from early misunderstandings between European settlers to the

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New World and indigenous people. The settlers saw bartering as
gift giving and then took offense when something was expected
of them in return. That's not what's going on here. Okay,
she speaks with a fourked tongue. Okay, now that's a

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better reference, thank you. Joe Kernan and Rick Santelli of
CNBC called out the left, namely Elizabeth Warren, saying they
just don't like Donald Trump, so they don't want anything
to work. They're not disagree being over raising or lowering
the interest rates, or who should and shouldn't be calling

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on the Fed chairman to raise or lower the interest rates.
They just want America to do well when they're in
power and to sink when they're not. That's they have
no consistency to their positions.

Speaker 8 (10:18):
The left and people that don't like the president and
don't want things to work, and you know, like the
center of Elizabeth Warre will come out and say, inflation's.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Out of controlling the economy.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
Is that this is getting killed by what's happening by
these tariffs, this three percent with the market at new highs,
and really we haven't seen inflation, you know, go up
to back to three for maybe it will this week,
maybe we'll see it. But none of these things, none
of these horrible things have happened. But they still talk
like it's happening.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's amazing.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Well, the important there's an important lesson there. Don't pick
a congressman to be your money manager atte That's what
I would say. But in the end, Congress has their
own reasons to point out certain things. And the Democrats,
of course, as you pointed out, really don't want to
see the current administration have some success. But there's no
doubt that this is some success. We're seeing more worse power,

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we're seeing better equities. Inflation, Inflation really hasn't changed.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
President Trump heralding domestic auto production, which has surged by
thirty six percent.

Speaker 9 (11:25):
Critics said that our tariffs would hurt the economy, but
the data shows the exact opposite, and the exact opposite
is happening. The US Treasury has taken in one hundred
and fifty billion dollars from tariffs, and we'll be adding
about two hundred billion dollars next month, four totals that

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nobody's ever seen before. Frankly that foreign imports were down
thirty percent in the second quarter, while the domestic auto
production surged by setting thirty six percent.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Number.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Doctor ohs, that's good. That's good. We want to do
that with your patients too. Will be very well, very healthy.

Speaker 9 (12:07):
We're going to have a very healthy country. At the
same time, inflation continues to fall faster than expectations.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I want to be very clear, it's the most important
thing I'm going to say today. You can agree or
disagree with Trump's short term policies. You cannot disagree that
our economy has been emboldened since his presidency began. You
also cannot disagree over this fact. Trump is doing what

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he believes, even if you don't like it. What he
believes is best for this country and the rest of
the world has taken note. America is standing up for itself.
America is looking out for itself. America has a president
who wants a strong America. And yes, to be very clear,

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the Democrats do not want a strong America. They believe
we are a bad people, that we have a bad history,
that we have been bad to our own people, some
of them, and the rest of the world, and that
we deserve a reckoning of failure and misery and to
be overtaken and invaded. They do believe that that's a fact.

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Might sound simplified, but it's true. July four, tragedy occurred
in my great state of Texas, in an area we
call the hill country. We are not blessed with much

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in the way of beautiful mountain range the way the
people of Tennessee and West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky are. We
have a few hills here and there. We have one big,
beautiful canyon called Pollo Duro. It's in the town of

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Appropriately Canyon, Texas. It's the second largest canyon in the country.
But unfortunately, if you're not first, your last, as Ricky
Bobby so appropriately said, the Grand Canyon, which really has
only been available to be toured for about one hundred years,
it's hard to imagine. There's a great book called nineteen

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twenty seven by Bill Brison. I highly recommend that you
will learn so much. Nineteen twenty seven was the year
of the Lenburgh flight and the Spirit of Saint Louis.
That should have never succeeded, but it did, making Lenburgh
the most famous person in the world at the time
and probably drawing the largest crowd ever drawn in history

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to that point. It's also the year that Babe Ruth
broke every record in baseball at that time, and he
wasn't even expected to be any good that year. He
was so drunk, fat, out of shape, listless at the
beginning of the season, seemingly disinterested. And it's such a fascinating,

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fascinating book about how the Grand Canyon came about. Because
pre internet, pre facsimile, pre telephone, for most you had
to go and discover this thing, and imagine when you
start into it, you don't know how far this gorge goes.
You don't know what's down there. You don't know if

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you'll make it out alive. In any case, Texas my state.
I love it dearly, and every Texan does. I don't
know that there's a state that people are prouder they
are from than Texas. People in New York used to
be very proud of where they were from. People in
Louisiana very proud of where they're from. Tennessee, you bet.

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Californians used to be very proud of where they were from.
They had a sign when Duke Magen was governor that said,
welcome to California, and I go home. Well, people didn't
go home, and it changed that place. But in any case,
in an area known as the Hill Country, a lot
of kids from across the state, in fact across the

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country come to these camps that are along the Guadalupe
River and it's beautiful country. It's just beautiful and there's
boys camps and girls camps, and one of them is
called Camp Missed. It been around over one hundred years.
There's girls that go there that their grandmothers went there

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and after their campers there, as kids say, by the
time they graduated high school. Now they become a counselor.
They come back after they graduated high school and after
that first year of college and they'll be counselors. And
we had a horrible, horrible, horrible flash flood. The area
is known as flash flood Alley. Water comes rushing through
there in a hurry and it will literally take a

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house off of its its foundation and run it down
the river. And we lost a lot of people and
a lot of little girls who were at that camp.
One of the girls who was at that camp, her
name is Skylar Derrington. She's twelve years old, and she

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took the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and then I
guess it was back? Was it back? Who did it? Later? Ramon,
not back? Who was it? It was? Who did the Jeff?
Who was it?

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Shoot, see this is the problem. What's that? Buckley? Jeff Buckley,
which interestingly was was a fantastic baseball player that I
grew up with. He batted eight ninety one year. He
was a lefty, played first base and pitched. Jeff Buckley
was a hell of an athlete. Different Jeff Buckley, but

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my friend Jeff Buckley. Anyway, this little girl acappella sings
this song. She rewrote the lyrics to tell the story,
and I want you to imagine it's not easy. This
twelve year old little girl. She rewrites the lyrics and

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she sings it with no musical accompaniment, and she's such
a beautiful tribute. She was one of the girls who
was saved by the director of the camp, a guy
named Dick Eastland. He was very, very beloved by the
campers and their parents. He was running back and forth
to get the girls out of the cabins and get

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them to the high ground when he perished. He died
saving these girls. This is one of the little girls
who was rescued. One of the lyrics that she wrote
was on July the fourth, twenty twenty five, or actually
she says, July fourth, twenty twenty fifth, the water rose

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and we went adrift the baffled king composing Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
She sings it better than I speak it. But this
was her on Fox, and I have to tell you
that this is such a moving, moving rendition that this

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little girl survived such an awful thing where so many
of her friends died, and the art that came out
of it. The best art comes out of the darkest moments,
doesn't it. Anyway? This is Skylar Derrington.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
I heard there was a giant flood, but we were
washed in Jesus' blood. And you don't really care for
my news, do ya? On July the four, twenty twenty fifth, the.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Water rose and we win and drift the baffle.

Speaker 10 (20:08):
King composing Hallelujah, halleluyah, holllluyah, halleluyah, hollllu.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, our faith was strawn. You showed us love like
only God from up above. Your prayers, your hugs, and
your love overwhelmed us. We cried, we prayed, We did
our share. You clothed us, fed us, brushed our hair,
and from.

Speaker 10 (20:43):
Our lips we drew the Hallelujah.

Speaker 11 (20:47):
Halleluyah, hollllujah, halleluyah, hollllu. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
They say the water overcame, but I won't never forget
their names, no blame, no fault. So really was it?

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Tu?

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Ya?

Speaker 2 (21:10):
We are apart a mystic hard we spread.

Speaker 10 (21:14):
His light, his love his word, the Holyana broken.

Speaker 11 (21:19):
Holllluyah, hall lou yah, hollelluyah, halleluyah, hollllu.

Speaker 9 (21:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (21:34):
We did our best.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
We left the mark a light that shines within the dark.
I told his shot that.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Didn't come to Polia.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
And even though it was it long, we stay before the.

Speaker 12 (21:50):
Lord of Songs with nothing on a sound but hallllu yeah,
hall lou yah, holla, halleluyah, hallelu.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Does ask me or take me to Texas? I was
talking about he gets out of this state. I think
Michael Berry Rob I like it. The town of Kerrville
in Kirk County was just devastating. I mean, it's just awful.
I'm the producer of a movie about it, and our

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crews have been there filming since this happened and talking
to It's a tribute to the people who survived and
those who saved them. Some of them professionals, firefighters, police officers,
but most of them actually just volunteers, people who you know.
One woman. There's a story of one woman. She shows
up with her husband and he's got a cherry picker,

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and he's there and he's digging things out of the
water and they're trying to recover the bodies. This is
days afterwards, so nobody has survived at this point, and
they're trying to recover the bodies. And his wife is
up on the outside of his cherry picker and she's
pointing at people. When she spots a body, she bangs

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on the glass tells him to stop. It's over there.
You don't want to do any more damage. We want
to get this body in his best shape as we
can because the water has damaged them. At least the
family will have a body to bury. And this woman's
name is lost to history. But what a glorious, glorious
service she performed and probably not even paid for it,

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of course not. She's just I mean, there's such good
people anyway. Here's the parents of scottar Drington.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
I know Joe Lacy, y'all got the news. There was
no communication with the camp, but y'all jumped in the car.
He drove four hours, you said, fast as you've ever
driven in your life to get to your child. You said,
when you got there, You've y'all seen so many signs
of God throughout this experience.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Tell us more about that.

Speaker 13 (24:00):
Yeah, just the humanity that was on display there all
around Hunt and Ingram, the small towns that you passed
through on the way to Camp Mystic. People came from
all over the United States to help out, you know,
to help out with the rescue, to help out with
the clearing. And there's a lot of work to be
done there, a lot of rebuilding to be done there,
and this song I think helps to kind of tell

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that story and remind people that there's still a lot
to be done.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
So good and behind you is the story too, isn't it.
That's right?

Speaker 7 (24:26):
Yes, Schyler said, this was her cabin right here, and
you can see all the clothes in the trunks that
are on the ground, and you were the closest cabin.
You told us earlier to the Guadalupa River. And the
man who runs the camp, mister Westlake is that.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
His name, mister Dick and mister Eastland.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Mister Eastland came.

Speaker 7 (24:44):
To rescue you, got in their truck and came to
get all of your friends out and take you to
higher ground.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Right.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
Saved a lot of lives, right, yeah, uh, there's there's
I don't know how else to say. I know so
many people who are close to the families of some
of the girls who died at Camp Mystic and it

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I mean, you talk about a mass event. A lot
of little girls died, and a lot of people died
in those horrible floods of July fourth. We haven't even
turned the calendar page on the month in which that happened.
And those families, you know, the recovery of a number

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of those children took a while, and the grieving will be.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
A lifetime. You're not supposed to bury your child. It's
just not supposed to happen. But the stories that have
come out from all of this, and and and the
lesson we learn from all of this. You know, I
knew someone pretty well, a distant relative who the last

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time she talked to her father. Her father was very grumpy,
and I adored him, but she and he fought cats
and dogs. Was the phase of life she was in.
And the last time she talked to him, she said,
I hate you. She stormed out of the house, and
she slammed the door behind her. A couple hours later,

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he would have a heart attack, slump down in his
archie bunker chair where he sat every day, and he
would die where her mother, his wife, would discover him
an hour or so later, and there was no chance
he was gone, and she had to process that her
entire life. She had to come to grips with the

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fact that she did not hate him, but that's the
last thing she said to him. She had to come
to grips with the fact that he went to meet
his maker. Maybe maybe he knew, because you know, you
raise a child from birth, You know that sometimes your
kids say things that they don't mean and that in
time that will dissipate. Maybe they'll apologize. You know they

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don't mean it. But maybe at that moment he thought
she did. He had to process this child to whom
he had given life, that he had cared for since
she was brought into this world, and this was what

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she said, And to the extent he knew he was
dying at that moment, could not speak it, seek help
or survive. That that had to be top of mind
to him. I guess that's a complicated way of saying,
ever leave in a bad mood. We have a policy

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in our immediate household that, no matter what the disagreement,
no matter the depth of the disagreement, that we part
on terms of love, because you just never know when
that will be your final parting. And I think we

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have in this this idea that we're going to create.
You know, this, this is how we will last say goodbye.
But it's not we it's it's not in our hands.
I just imagine, you know, I've heard from so many
people involved in this situation that that you know, they

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dropped their daughters off at these camps and never got
to see them again. Then you start replaying in your mind,
you know, the last time she did this, and the
last candy bar she ate, the last question she asked,
the last time y'all went and got a burger and
a shake together, and everything that goes along with that.

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I am a big believer in trying to bring order
to the disorder of the universe. And so what I
try to do, and maybe it's just some silly, ineffectual
thing that I do, but I do it, is I try,
in a situation like this to find, if not some good,
something to learn from it, some way to make myself

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better along this journey of life by learning the life
lessons that were presented to me and not missing them.
And what I take from the life lessons are that
life is precious and that we're not all going to
live to be eighty five, and it's not all going

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to be according to script. To live your life boldly, lovingly, selflessly,
and in such a manner that if this is your
last day, if this is your last parting, if this
is your last action, you would have no regrets, living

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a regret free life based on an understanding that this
life is so incredibly brief for us and for others.
I think you can't help but live a better life.
I can't. I think you can't help but have a
better humanity on that basis. And so, in the midst

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of the craziness of these little girls dying senselessly, seemingly,
I don't know, maybe that's the one thing I can
take away from it.