The Brett and Larry Podcast #9 with Carter Spotser (Ep 569)

Chula Vista District Speech Competition winner "Student Speaker" Carter Spotser

Episode Transcript

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Off, a pirate and a poet. I'm pawn at a king. I've
been up and down and over andour and I know one thing. Each
time I find myself land flint onmy face, I just picked myself kip

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back in the race. That's life. Welcome to the Bretton Larry podcast show.
We got a good one tonight,folks. But before we get into
that, I hope you're staying outof the ocean. Stay out of the
Pacific Ocean. They found sewage,you know, all the way up in
Salona Beach last week. It's gettingworse, but it's the same. It's

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getting better. They're cleaning up andplant was on k West side other night.
They're cleaning up down are. They'regetting more money, so it's getting
a little bit better. So butwe have to worry about not just the
the water. We have to worryabout the air quality, oh, I
know. And we have to worryabout days when it's foggy, days when
it rains, because the rain actuallypicks up a lot of that stuff off

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the top of the ocean, andso it's bringing it in those areas of
San Diego where people don't go tothe beach that's the main thing now,
which came out in our documentary,The Big Dump. Brett's nickname now is
the Big Dump. Yeah. Peoplesee me, they're like, oh,
you're the Big Dump. I'm like, thanks, nice to meet you.
But real quick, I don't knowanything about this. Brett might know a
little bit. I'm gonna say,I just picked this up half hour ago

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at High Tide and it's a petitionnow to get rid of that nine hundred
and fifty dollars thing where you cansteal nine hundred and fifty they can't do
anything, p and everything. Soit's apparently all over southern California. So
what do you know about it?Because I don't know much. Get this
at the High Tide. Wait aminute, it's on nine thirty three Orange
Avenue in Cornado, and I'm sureit's all around California. Yeah, well

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it is. And it's a situationthat really when it was voted on originally,
the vote did not realize what theywere voting on this thing. I
mean, people can go ten twentytimes a day and steal up to the
nine I think it's nine to fiftylimit. I mean we're talking thousands and
thousands of retailers. I mean eventhe Dollar Tree. I think the Dollar

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Tree is the Dollar Tree started that'sleaving closing all those stores. I mean,
they've taken a big hit. Thisis something that District Attorney Summer Stephan's
was really the catalyst behind to getthis on all these signatures signed, so
I have to give her credit.And then of course the mayors of San
Diego when they first I don't knowif you know this, when they first

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decided to go with the go tothe press with the signature signing, we
were one of the first people theycame to visit and did a podcaster.
Oh that's great, that's great.So I'm glad that. I'm glad that
we've been a part of this somehow. We support the district attorney, we
support the businesses, and we've gotto get this. We're getting get this
on the ballots so people can vote. So the petitions out there, folks,

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so find it, hopefully you cansign it. We want to thank
Sarah in the beginning here Brett's wife, our producer and sound and my boss
and your boss and everybody's boss.He sets everything up. We got a
little audience tonight, so okay,let's get right into our guests. So
Brett and I were at the ShulaVista School District meeting with doctor Doctor Rais,

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and while we were just leaving,he said, by the way,
we have like a speech contest hereand we have some people. So Brett
and I said, well, let'ssee the winner. So he shows us
on a TV the winner. Thiskid is a superstar. Wait till you
meet him, folks, this podcastmay go viral once you meet this guy.
We got him here, Carter Sponsor. Here he is. I can't

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I can't believe you're actually here atthe studio. I mean, it's really
you. I saw you on Larryand I saw you on video and now
you're here on our show, YeahLive. I know. It's really amazing
to be here. Okay, solet's start with the abbreviated speech. We're
going to do an abbreviated speech someof what you did at the school to
win the contest. So there's acamera and show us the audience what you

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got here. We go right now, Okay, how do we use our
how can we use our powers tobenefit the world and create a positive change.
Well, to answer that question,we first need to decipher three things.
One what problem you wish to solve, two what your superpowers are,

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and three what you plan to doabout it. Hello, my name is
Carter Sponsor. Today I'm going toshare with you an important issue that is
the root of our world's greatest problem. War and conflict. By definition,
war and conflict are two quite different, yet similar things. Wars can often

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spread across multiple nations, sometimes acrossentire your continence. They are known to
create destruction, chaos, and death, history tells us. According to the
National History Network, during World WarTwo, the chances of survival drop from
ninety percent to twenty five percent withineight hours. War has the ability to

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erase mankind. You cannot have warwithout conflict, but you can't have a
conflict without war. If you reallythink about it, conflict is the gatekeeper
to war. It's like the oldsaying, where there's smoke, there's fire,
So if you put out the smoke, there won't be a raging fire.

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Conflict stems from a class of opinionsand ideals. When was the last
time you were conflicted with something,someone, a social issue, or yourself.
The best thing about conflict is thatthere is a chance to contain it
before it evolves into something bigger thanit has to be. You might be
asking yourselves, is there anything Ican do to help when it comes to

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this critical issue? I say yes. It starts by activating your voice and
only just how powerful it is.It takes resilience and a strong voice to
be able to utilize your power.With that comes great responsibility. The voice
is the intangible force of any personthat, when used conhalination or tear one

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down, it can destroy your friendshipor mend a broken heart. Doctor Martin
Luther King Junior once said, inspite of temporary victories, violence never brings
permanent peace. Doctor King made positivechange by using his voice to boycott and
protest, not using violence. Thinkabout the last time you wanted to use

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your voice and you couldn't. Ican imagine it left you feeling unheard or
unseen in those moments. You haveto depend on your resilience to confirm your
voice as an asset, not alia. But it all depends on how
you decide to use it. Sowhat can we do with the superpower of
a voice? As one person?Your impact can move the needle. Paul

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Shane Spear once said, as oneman. I cannot change the world,
but I can change the world forone person. Challenge your own thoughts and
beliefs in the way that your actionsreflect the change that you wish to see.
As a community, we can workwith the ability to de escalate by
turning conflict into a disagreement, disagreementinto understanding, understanding into acceptance. Accepting

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that multiple things can be true atthe same time allows us to coexist.
Use your voice to make your intentionsclear. You know what you say and
say what you mean. Your maturityand ability to use your voice effectively will
reflect how you respond when met witha difference in opinion. Think of Warren

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conflict literally slime in one hand,Plato in the other. Slime is consistently
sticky, It falls through your fingers, it get out of control. While
Plato can be multible, it canhave structure. The way it starts isn't
the way it has to end.That's the beauty of it. Through the

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power of voice and resilience, wecan discover alternative ways to meet our differences
head on and become a more harmonioussociety. I encourage you to be slow
to take offense and always open forreconciliation. I am a firm believer that
hope is a walking dream. Hopeis not a wish that supports the goal

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of a more solution based resolution thattakes time and effort. With our superpower
your voice, let's make the dreama reality by creating a world that we
would all be proud to live in. My name is Carter Sponser. I
used my voice today, and Ihope you will too for positive change.

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Thank you. That was a betterspeech than Biden or Trump ever gave an
entire life. I agreed that wasgreat. I agree, I was really
great. I was taken back toMartin Luther King, who is one of
my favorite inspirations that I always lookedto. In fact, I just posted

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something two days ago that he said, if you saw that, what was
basically about, how as far asit sounds like it was written recently,
you know, we we should befurther ahead than what we are, and
we shouldn't have all these these trivialthings that we're fighting over. I mean,
I can't remember the details of that, but it's so relevant today.

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Well, what I like is he'sjust his mind. He wants a harmonious
world and harmonious, every harmony inthe world that is just so great.
Okay, So here's what we're goingto do, folks. This was one
of the reasons we wanted him onand why this show is so important.
So we are going to take alot of views from Carter now on other
topics. So we're taking a viewfrom a twelve year old living in the

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United States, and we're going toask him what he would do with these
solutions, because there are no solutionscoming, as you guys know, on
these problems, so he may havea better idea and everybody in the United
States, all right, so let'stalk about a few So what what would
you do about Let's do this oneright away. What would you what?
What could you do that make thesewage thing a little bit better? What
would you do with that? Areyou are you familiar with Yes, yes,

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I did watch your movie. Iwatched it. It was really nice.
Something that I would add, ifyou guys ever made a sequel,
would be to get like the Mexicangovernment's perspective, that's very it wouldn't talk
to us, they would they wouldn'treach back, they wouldn't they wouldn't reach
back out to us. We couldn'tget in, but you're very smart.

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Well, okay, what would youdo with homelessness? Well, with homelessness,
I feel like there's a lot ofthings that we can do. So
there are a handful of countries thatare excellent to live in. One of
these would be Singapore. It's atiny country in Asia, and the reason
why Singapore is such a successful countryis because it gives back to its community.

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The thing is with Singapore, theyhave modernized very quickly. They came
from a rough background being kicked outof Malaysia, but now they are a
thriving republic. I feel like ifwe would just take the time to look
back at everyone who we've left behindand help and help push them forward a

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little bit, I feel like thatwould help solve homelessness. Do you think
Singapore has a homeless homelessness problem?Well, I don't think there's a single
country on Earth that doesn't have ahomelessness problem. However, out of all
of them there are, Singapore wouldprobably be on one of the top five.

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It'd be interesting to look into.I've never heard that before. That's
very good. So what are whatare your hobbies? What do you do
when you're not doing geop political stuff. So me personally, I like to
build stuff with legos. I occasionallyenjoy a strategy game. That's great.
I like to swim too. Yes, I am a competitive swimmer at the

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Southwestern College. That's a very nicepoint. I thought the swimmers half real
short hair if they help the water? Oh no, they They basically came
up with this thing called a swimcap. It pretty much like gets rid
of hair. Remember those? That'sgreat, that's really great. Okay,
So what kind of music do youlisten to? And what kind of movies

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and stuff do you watch? Whatare twelve year olds doing? But you're
not really like a regular twelve yearold? But what are you doing?
So movies I like? I dolike the New Top Gun. That one
was good from here litle bit youknow in Cornado. Really I didn't know
that. I also like the Ilike DreamWorks is How to Train Your Dragon

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series? That one was good.Oh yeah, I actually have looked into
watching Creed a few times. Yeah, the Creed series. I think they
made a third movie not too longago. And what kind of music you
listen to? As for music,mainly just I don't have a specific author

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that I listened to. I kindof just listen to anything that's sounds joyful,
joyful in a way that's great.That's a great word. So what
do you see yourself doing as anadult? Do you have any idea where
you're headed? So in the future, I'm not one sure what I want
to be, but I am mostI'm most likely going to follow in my

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dad's footsteps and become an officer inthe Navy. And if not that,
I don't know. I might becomea politician, maybe a public Your mom
told me you might want to beSecretary of Defense. Possibly. But the
thing is, if I'm going toget there, I have to start from

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an officer. Sure, you don'tjust join in the second you join,
you just get to the I don'tknow. Maybe they'll take you right away.
So so that's true. They might, They might, They might open
ben the rules a little bit.What if you're going to go into politics
and I Larry and I decided thatyou're probably going to be president of the
United States. Who's your favorite president? This one's not even a challenge.

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I loved Abraham Lincoln. Actually thatwas my favorite president. It's not a
challenge. Really, he was myfavorite too, for a lot of reasons.
One of my favorite speeches of hiswas the Gettysburger drugs. Oh my
god, that was amazing. Yeah, so our listeners really don't. I
mean, we try to keep ourshows light happy. We do entertainers and
singers, and you know, howdo you find I know when he is

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happy, go lucky all the way. He wants to talk about geopolitics now
is what to do for the oneof the first times we're going to get
into it a little bit. He'sgoing to tell us his ideas about Gaza
and Ukraine. So tell us whatyou think. Should we order a pizza
for this? No? Not aswell? I like I like pizza,

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okay, okay, No pineapple thatsome people say when you put pineapple on
pizza, it's not pizza anymore.Exactly, it's not. It's not.
Well, I have to disagree withyou. We were going to the debate
on that. But Hawaiian pizza ispizza. Then it's growing playing pineapple on
a pizza. It's not pizza.There, that's a debate. Let's talk
about what he was talking about Ukrainein Ukraine, okay, So we'll start

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with the one I'm a little bitmore educated on We'll start with Ukraine.
So as far so the situation,as far as I'm concerned, Ukraine has
made a counter offensive and it's kindof like a stalemate along the border,
along the current border. This alltechnically started, in my opinion, it

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kind of started all the way back. We have to date this all the
way back to the collapse of theSoviet Union. How many years ago we're
talking, I don't know. Ican't generate a full number right now,
but I know it was nineteen ninetyone. In nineteen ninety one, the
Soviet Union dissolved, with the lastnation a part of it being Kazakhstan.

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Now it's just Russia and Belarus.Russia's main goal right now is to try
and re establish as we've seen they'vetried to. They've invaded Georgia. I
think that was back in two thousandand six ish. They also in the
annexed Crimea twenty fourteen, and thenthey took the Domba. I'm not I

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don't know how to pronounce it.And now it's a full blown war with
Ukraine. What would you do?So there's not much to do in this
situation it's either threatened all out waror ignore it. Because Russia has been
making a few threats towards the West, saying that if they keep enforcing Ukraine

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that this would be all out war. The North Atlantic Treaty or Organization also
known as NATO, which is Ukraine'sbiggest supporter at this time, is kind
of backing It's not fully backing out, but Ukraine's biggest support, America is
backing out. However, apparently thenation of Poland, and it's like right

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along the border they have been Theycalled out the US, the US Senate,
and they said that they were thatthey should be ashamed of themselves for
failing to send more aid to you. As for Gaza, I do know
that there is a slight conflict alongGaza. Who do we blame for this,

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Well, there isn't really anyone toblame. However, if we do
trace this back, it would beBritain, the United Kingdom, because back
in the after World War One,the Ottoman Empire was split into a bunch
of pieces, with one of themone of those remaining pieces now being modern
day Turkey. And back in theday there was this little territory along the

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Mediterranean right above a little bit northof the Suess Canal that is now modern
day Israel and Palestine. Now Israeland Palestine were kind of carved up a
little weirdly. So all I knowis that Israel invaded Palestine, at least
I think that's what happened, andthey fully annexed it, and there is

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a slight conflict going on. Alot of people have a lot of nations
have actually made a few remarks aboutthis, especially Iran, which I believe
might now be developing nuclear weapons andthey have been using those nuclear weapons to

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threaten Israel. However, we haven'tconfirmed if that's actually true. I've been
hearing the same thing. I havea question for you, So, if
you were running for the presidency rightnow, tell me what you would do
and what you would run on.Well, apparently sanctions aren't enough currently,
so I don't know. We're lookingat the country, the United States.

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You know, you're you're in chargeof So what would I do? What
would you do if you're if youcould become president? What would you do?
So what do you mean, like, what what would I do?
And your talent? Vote for me? And then this is why you should
vote for me, So what wouldyou say, So would you mean by
that? Do you mean globally ornationally? Nationally first, because you got

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to take care of your people first. Well, something that I don't like
about America is how we do havea lot of pollution that has been getting
cut down recently, though, soI would try to push a little bit
more effort towards that. Another thingI also don't like how I don't like

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how some areas of America are alot more dangerous than others. How do
you correct that? It's really hardto find a way to correct that because
like, not all police, butthere are a few police officers that are
corrupt, and so there's really nothingyou can There's a few things you can

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do about crime, however, there'snot much now that I think about it.
Okay, well, this is greatto getting a twelve year old view.
We need to have him come back. But now this guy you've seen,
he gave you a history lesson,gave you a geopolitical lesson, and
his personality is unbelievable. Gave abetter speech than either one of the president's

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trying to run right now, Bidenr. Trump. But now he's got
a sister her name is Hazley.Come on over here, Hazley. We're
gonna have her talk him inte.She's just as sharp as he is.
Come over here, can you likegive her a little room for her here?
Come come between us? Okay?Perfect? So are you as smart
as this guy? That's good?Your part here? Are you as smart

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as your brother? Yeah? Really? So you like everything he's doing.
You're kind of gonna follow in thesame footsteps or not? Really? Well,
tell us what your plan is?Go ahead, what's your plan in
life? So? My plan isto be in the Olympics, okay,

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and and also be like an inventor. Inventor okay, what what are we
going to invent that we need?What do you think like stuff for like
dogs? And that's great? Mydog would like to really great, my
dog. My dog was always lookingfor good ideas well. If you were
in the Olympics, what sport wouldyou do? Gymnastics? You're doing that

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now? Okay? Well, youguys are unbelievable combination. We are so
happy to have young people that's smart. They say the schools are going down
and nobody knows how to tell timeon a clock. These two guys are
like way, you guys make ourwhole country proud being honest. Though I
cannot read, you cannot. I'veheard that. I've heard that heard a

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lot. I've heard a lot ofkids don't know how to read about cursive?
Well, I do know that mostschools have actually stopped teaching persons.
So I actually never got a chanceto learn. Really, I did start
cursive back in fifth grade, butthen they then they canceled it. I
didn't get to finish it. Youdidn't get to practice, and so it's

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it's easy to So how are yougoing to write a thank you letter to
somebody? And when you get intraditional English? Or do it on a
computer? Yes, my goodness.So what do you want to tell the
world since you're on the show hereabout life and what's going on in the
world, and what would you liketo tell everybody? What do you think
there was world? A good place, a bad place? What do you

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think I've liked the world could belike a bit better? Better which way?
So like they they could m hm, and like some bear stuff,
so like better pizza? How abouttreating each other better? Be nice to

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everybody? Are kids nice to you? Or is it hard in school?
It's like except that, Oh yeah, no, if I did kids treat
you nice? How do kids?How do kids get along adults adults seem?

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What do you think? So atmy school we follow three horror beliefs,
be safely, respectful, and beresponsible. So so adults are not
doing that. No, adults aren'tdoing it. Why why can't Why can't
we? Why can't we follow thosethree basic things? Well, it depends
on what on what perspective you're lookingat this from. Are you looking at

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this perspective from a parent, froma politician, from a president, from
the average citizen, from a teacher. I'm looking at it as a human
being, as a human as abasis. So I think we've I think
we've we've forgotten how to be humanto each other. I mean, everybody
seems so stressed out, and everybodyseems so it's easy to react rather than

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to think about what you do beforeyou say it. And if that makes
any sense, then you say thingsyou don't really mean and it's too late
to get it back because you've alreadysaid it. So that's why I actually
prefer to write, there you go, because when when talking you have to
you get about five seconds to thinkof the correct words, and if you

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say the wrong word, you cannever bring it back exactly. But typing,
you can take about twenty minutes towrite a letter to somebody. Or
when you mean typing, do youmean on a typewriter or do you mean
like on a keephad Do you knowwhat? He's a typewriter. I sure
typewriters are fascinating. I like typewriters. Yeah, I don't want to talk

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about anything. The things went byquick, folks. Brett's still doing a
little more training. If you wantto get a hold of them, you
still got a few slots open,but he's very busy, so I don't
know how much longer it's going togo. If you need a good book
to read, Directions to a HappyLife by Larry del Rose phenomenal book,
and our wisdom tonight is going tobe Carter telling you the three things that
they do in school. Say themagain. Be safe, be respectful,

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be responsible. What mark can wesay? Well? I think it's great
show. We love you guys verymuch. We're so happy we got to
meet your rape, Brett, andwe have a big event coming up May
twenty. Oh. Yeah, tellthem about you events. So May twenty
if we are having an event,if you haven't been to one of our
events, they're amazing. This one'sgoing to be the top leaders of Southern
California in every area. And thesepeople have been vetted, We've we've we've

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been voted. We have a boardof directors that have voted. We've got
even doctor Raus who runds your schooldistrict, is going to be one of
the leaders that night. We havesome mayors, we have some very well
known people in Southern California. It'sgonna be May twentieth at the Cornado Performing
Arts Center, Monday night. Isthere a website six o'clock, six o'clock.
Is there a website that they cango to? Yeah, we'll keep

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them so, we'll keep you informed. But this is going to be
very well attended, and it's gratefulto see how people have overcome their obstacles
and struggled and a lot of thesepeople have become leaders in every area of
life. We're going to invent byCarter and his mother and his sister.
We're going to be our special guest. Is it possible that maybe he might

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even say a few words to theaudience night. Yes to the audience.
Very nice. You're our new superstar. Both of them, right, all
of them. Good night, everybody. We had a great show. We
had an audience tonight. We hopeyou enjoyed it. Just may be going
viral. There's a lot of goodstuff here, folks. Listen to Brett
and Larry next Thursday. We'll havea great shill for you next week.

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Thank you, everyone connected to takecare of or remember we interviewed the first
future president before anybody even knew whohe was.