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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to TMG, tell me something good part has.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hi everybody, welcome to tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host Travis Patton Senior.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I enjoy discovering his sharing real life's moments of inspiration from everyday people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this show is about sandy moments of inspiration for our everyday life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And look, and if you're going to tell me something, then tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey everybody, welcome to tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host, Travis Patton, senior.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey guys, I'm so glad that you here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know how I'm going to do this right before we get started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's always, I'm going to give you who's shout out to my biggest supporter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My biggest fan, my love to watch the Co. Hey, girl.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How are you doing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you're watching.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you're listening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As a matter of fact, Nicole, this is for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I won't give you a round of a club, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's so exciting.
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[SPEAKER_03]: To be here, guys, this is going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's good to have a little more exciting.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Usually, but I'm so glad that everyone is joining them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So glad, guys, that you here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe you're saying Travis, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, this is my first time tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is my first time listening to your show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me take this time to tell you thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If this is your very first time tuning in to the show, you're a very first time hearing my voice.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do me a favor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is your first time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead and put it in chat and say, I'm new.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, put it right there, I'm new.
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[SPEAKER_03]: With every language that you speak, put it in chat and say, I'm new.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there it is, I see it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see it, I see it right there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There it is, I know, oh, there it is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're listening, you're new.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much for joining.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I knew you would not let me show up by myself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you would not let me come here today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and be here by myself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What I do day, Tuesday, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tuesday, so I'm so glad guys that you here, so glad that you joined it into a Travis Lissiman.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is my first time tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've been streaming and watching your show ever since you've been streaming, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so glad to hear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, let me tell you something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you very much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad that you here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I certainly am in weather.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You are listening here in the United States.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or maybe you're listening in Canada, maybe you're listening in Guam or Puerto Rico, South America, Australia, Japan, China, anywhere around the world, I'm gonna take this time and tell you, thank you, you guys have made this so global.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had literally, I had no idea that the show would take off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I did not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: even think it would go as far as it did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just so excited.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm humbled that each week you continue to tune in and you're here to stay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You went from Thursdays to Tuesdays with me and you're still here, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, let me do this for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just glad that you did that God.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so glad that you I can't oversee that enough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much And if you've been watching the show for any amount of time any period of time you're a couple of things You know I love a good story, but you also know that this show is all about finding moments of inspiration in our everyday lives So if you have an inspiring story that you think to tell and maybe come on a show drop us an email
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[SPEAKER_03]: at T-E-L-L means something 21 at gmail.com that T-E-L-L means something 21 at gmail.com and you have a Travis Listen Man, I know someone that has an amazing story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There'll be great things show man, but I don't want to come on to show up because I'm a little camera shot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to come on, but since there's information to TELL, me something 21 at gmail.com and it has been working.
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[SPEAKER_03]: People have been emailing me saying, hey, look, I heard this episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I heard this show and I want to know, oh, I know someone will be great on the show or I will be loved.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would love to want to show it to be a guest on your show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So send in those things and guys listen, here's a great way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: for everyone to be a part of the show, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be a part of the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have what's called here, it tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They tell me something good moment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now that's any moment that you're proud of, whether you've got a new race, new job, whatever it may be, but anything in your lives that you're proud of, it was a goal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That you were trying to achieve and you finally achieved it and you want a little what that celebration to last us a little bit longer We want to celebrate with you right we want to be able to give you a round of applause
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can see me in your tell me something good moment to tll me something 21 at gmail.com and what we will do is on the following show I will read your name and you'll tell me something good moment live on the air can you imagine someone in Brazil?
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[SPEAKER_03]: hearing your name and celebrating with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mom, I'm crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Would that be awesome to get a hand clap for somebody and Portugal for someone in Poland, from someone in China, from someone in halfway across the world who doesn't even, who's never met you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But they celebrate you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So send it in, you're telling me something good moment to T-E-L-L.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 20 what at gmail.com guys listen I ain't want to go ahead and play some very important information from our sponsors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Once I do that guys we're going to come back and we're going to dive into this episode man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me tell you something this episode this show today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to say an episode because I believe that everything that we share on this show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: has the ability to change our lives, has the ability to impact us in a positive way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see this as going from one episode to the next episode.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see this as a story that has the ability to change things in our lives.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know it does, because everything I've done, I've said in the show, the things I have done, things I've put into practice, so it will work.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So guys, I'm going to play our information
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[SPEAKER_03]: Get that underway once they do guys want to come back if you're gonna get started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know When there is a commercial break you want to see you want to go get to the chips get to the soda It's a bottle of water whatever you're gonna do do it Come on back guys, we're just getting started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, I'm so excited to have you here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So glad that you're being a part of the show today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: God, it is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't get a chance to catch the title of today's episode, guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you didn't know what we were gonna talk about today, guys, if you didn't catch a day's episode, guys, it's called One Match.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, one match, just one match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, today's episode is One Match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I know you're wondering, where the world is Travis,
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[SPEAKER_03]: going to go with that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean honestly, this episode comes about I was actually sitting at home and I was scrolling through social media and I came across a old commercial that I used to see when I was coming up as a little kid.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're anywhere in my age range, I'm 55, if you think you're 60, 70, 70, when I mentioned this, you'll instantly pop on your head, you'll know what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I thought about that, and I thought about, wow, how true is that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's how I came about this episode, but I began to look at that commercial, and I realized that it only takes one match
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[SPEAKER_04]: to change everything that you see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you grew up when I did, you remember, you might remember those old commercials that had smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who remembers Smoky the Bear?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't talk about that big brown bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you remember Smoky the Bear,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do me a favor, go ahead and put a thumbs up and chat, thumbs up, thumbs up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you remember smoking the bear, put a in chat, put a thumbs up, yeah, just like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're listening to this and you're driving, just say, I remember, I remember smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, man, I was watching on social media, sometimes I used to show almost everything on social media.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they've shown these old commercials, and I happen to watch and see smokey the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you don't familiar with it, smoking the bear was his big brown bear that walked around and he wore a forest rangers hat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He had a forest rangers hat on and he had this hat on and he was pointing his finger directly at the camera and he was said, only you!
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[SPEAKER_03]: to prevent forest fires.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You remember that as a kid coming up and he would put him around say, only had anybody standing, only you could prevent forest fires.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They would walk around and say this real deep, deep voice and those commercials, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They had a way of making you remember.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They had an absolute way of making you remember.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They show you,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, something that makes you remember that, hey, you know what, I might need to think about something, but they had a way of making you remember because here I am 55 years old.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be 56 in December and I still.
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[SPEAKER_03]: remember those commercials as if it was yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember those commercials just as if they played them fresh brand new yesterday, but they had a way of positioning those commercials and showing those commercials that made you remember what they were talking
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[SPEAKER_03]: what they were about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They would show you this less green forest.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That would show you, you know, the green trees growing, it would show you how quiet and the animals just rowing free trees growing tall and beautiful blue sky and the birds would be chirping and you could hear the the leaves crackling on your feet and all the smell that fresh pine in the air.
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[SPEAKER_03]: all this beautiful picture-esque stuff, everything that you would see would be familiar.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You would see owls and burrows and bunnies and deer and all this kind of stuff, everything that you would normally usually or expect to see in a forest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then they show you what it was like
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[SPEAKER_05]: in the forest.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They show you what it was like.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They show you the burned, blackened, charred, ground, thick, choking, smoke.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The trees would be gone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The animals would be absent.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And everything you knew would be changed.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They had a way of making you remember everything that you expected to see would be changed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And here's the thing, here's the thing about those commercials that while I was watching
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the thing about those commercials.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't telling us that fire was bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't telling us never to use fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were teaching us to understand what fire can do because one little match.
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[SPEAKER_05]: can change an entire landscape.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We've been taught to be careful with the match.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So since we've been taught so much to be careful with the match, what we start doing in explicitly, uncontrollably, uncontrollably,
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[SPEAKER_05]: Unconsciously, says we've been taught to be careful with the match.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we put the match back into the box.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And idea comes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We put it back in the box.
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[SPEAKER_05]: A dream comes.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We put it back in the box.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And opportunity shows up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: back in the box.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we forget all it takes is one match to change everything.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because what happens when you finally strike it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we've been taught to be careful with
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[SPEAKER_05]: watch the match.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So what we've begun to do is put our matches back aside the box.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we forgot that all it takes is one match to change everything that we
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[SPEAKER_04]: our matches.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Back in the box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ideas come to our minds and I don't know, I'm not going to do that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I don't know anybody else who's doing that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So why should I do that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A dream we think about having and, but I don't even know what to do with that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, since it's going to take too much work to even get started
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, so we put it back in a box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have a gift that we can use, but I don't know if anybody will accept it if anybody's even listening, I'm just gonna put it back in a box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But all it takes is one match to change everything.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let me ask you this, what happens when you finally strike it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What happens when the idea catches on?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What happens when the opportunity you've been praying for actually opens the door?
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[SPEAKER_05]: What happens?
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[SPEAKER_04]: The thing you've been waiting on finally starts working.
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[SPEAKER_05]: with our real story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what our real story really begins.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because we spent, we spent, and I remember being a kid.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do, I do, I remember being a kid, and I learned that only you can prevent
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[SPEAKER_03]: forest fires.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I learned to put my matches back inside the box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll get excited about something and I learned to keep my match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Inside the box, I learned because that match, it changed the whole landscape.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It made the familiar, become unfamiliar.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It made the comfortable, become uncomfortable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It made what I knew, became something I knew nothing about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I put my match back inside.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's box because I
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was taught only you can prevent forest fires I was taught to put my match back inside.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was taught to put my match back inside his box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Don't speak up, put your match, back inside this box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you try to change nothing, put your match, back inside, it's box don't you rock the boat, put your match, back inside, your box don't try to change, put the match, back inside, the box, what happens when the idea catches on,
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[SPEAKER_03]: where the opportunity opens the door.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What happens when the very thing you've been waiting on?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Finally, start working.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's where our real story begins because we've spent so much time asking ourselves should I strike the match?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the better question is, where am I going to do with the fire once I see it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because fire changes landscapes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if we're going to change our, we better be ready for the thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We better be ready for things to look different.
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[SPEAKER_03]: May have to change the way we do thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: May have to change the skills we have.
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[SPEAKER_03]: May have to change the people we listen to.
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[SPEAKER_03]: May have to change the habits we've gotten comfortable with.
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[SPEAKER_05]: May have to change because you can't ask for fire and then complain when it gets hot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me repeat that, you can't ask for fire and then complain when it gets hot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't get to ask for our business to grow and then complain when we have to get up early to open the door and be the last one to leave.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We cannot ask for promotion, and complain, we have to learn new skills.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We cannot ask for inspiration for the book that we want to write, and then complain when inspiration comes at three in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I learned about inspiration.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I watched, I told you that little cart, to that little advertisement about smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I watched it about eight o'clock in the evening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration hit me at two in the morning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I learned about inspiration?
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[SPEAKER_03]: inspiration is inconvenient.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration will inconvenient you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Fire is inconvenient.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you've ever been in a house fire and I've been in a fire we was in the new I was living
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[SPEAKER_03]: in the middle of the night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So imagine this, it's a typical, what you would think, a typical New York winter.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ice, snow, frigid cold winter, weather, the air's blowing, the wind's blowing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's a fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's the middle of the night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you got your pajamas on.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Fire is inconvenient.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration is also inconvenient.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it is that we want to do or become will inconvenience us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you aren't willing to be inconvenienced, you aren't willing to grow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Fire will inconvenience you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Inspiration is inconvenient.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You have to get youth to be an inconvenience.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe, maybe, I get this, let's say, maybe this, maybe we're looking at it all wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we're looking at fire all wrong, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we're looking at the fire all wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is it possible we have been looking at fire all these years?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we need to look.
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[SPEAKER_03]: at the inconvenience of better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe we need to take a look at the inconvenience of better because better will inconvenience us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Better will inconvenience you because nothing ever got better without first being an inconvenience.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe the better thing we need, the thing we need to look at is the inconvenience of better, the match is the opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The fire is the responsibility.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And maybe that's what we've really
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[SPEAKER_05]: to finally do something with the fire.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: A reason to finally do something with the fire.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, finally something to do with, you know, I keep thinking about that commercial and it only takes one small match to change everything you see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes
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[SPEAKER_03]: The smallest things bring substantial change, the smallest conversations, the smallest acts of, the smallest actions, the smallest ideas.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even the smallest invention can change the way everybody else lives.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In 1826,
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[SPEAKER_03]: and English chemist and pharmacist named John Walker was experimenting with chemicals in his shop.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No joke, this is the true story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's the honest thing in this true story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was working with a mixture and some of it fell on some stones on his heart, which is like a fireplace, and it fell on these stones and it had dry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: it fell on his stones and it dried in the spot where it fell.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he's going to clean it up and he reached down to scrape it up with some small sticks that he had available.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But when he scraped it
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[SPEAKER_03]: At that moment, he realized that he was on to something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was just mixing chemicals in his shop, but he normally does.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was doing his doing something ordinary, that he would normally do in his pharmacy, that he would normally do every day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was mixing stuff, doing his normal, everyday routines.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He was doing his normal stuff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He dropped some chemicals.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They fell on some bricks in his and his fireplace.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it dried in the spot where it fell.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he reached down to spray it up with the small stick.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when he did, it, it, it, it, it nighted.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it caught fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it was at that moment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that it lit up and caught fire, that he realized that he has stumbled onto something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just give you a public service announcement right here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just give a public service announcement and say this to those
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[SPEAKER_03]: who ain't looking around and you're seeing how well others are doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me say this to those who are looking around and you don't, and you listen, you're looking around and you're never the one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that they acknowledge.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're not the one that they pat on the back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're not the one that they call up front.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're not the one they look for for the promotion first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just say this, public announcement to everybody who's looking around and seeing how well someone else is doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Every time you look on social media, they always look at that happy couple.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They always look like they always repeat me in love.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They always look like that's something good going in that life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just say this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: to everyone who's looking around, and you see how well others might be doing, listen, John Walker realized that when he started to scrape up what he had dropped, he was scraping up, not just what he dropped, but he was scraping up what he had created.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And while he was scraping up what he created, he realized that he had stumbled onto something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So for everybody out here that you see other people and it looks like they're doing a little bit better than you It looks like they are ahead in life listen you might be stumbling
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you're on to something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know they said it doesn't look good for you But you're on to something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you don't have as many followers as they do I know you don't have as many likes and hearts and all those things, but you're on to something I know they went public before you did but you're on to something
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody else may be aware of what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your idea, you may be working on it in silence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You may be working on it in private, but you're on to something just because they got their first, doesn't mean they're always going to last.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're on to something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if you're feeling some kind of way right now, let me remind you that you're on to something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I think, I was reading about him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't you know, I was reading about him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think, and I kidding man, I think the last,
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[SPEAKER_03]: records show that his first fail of the friction lights.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is that's what he called them, friction lights, because you're the rubbing against something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Friction lights came in 1827, just a year after him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He discovered this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is there this kind of conflicting about whether or not he was able to establish a patent for his idea?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it has kind of conflicting idea whether he was able to get one or he was not able to get one, you know, it kind of has a, you know, conflicting ideas about whether he was able to get one or not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But that's not the real question.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's that's not the real question.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The real question is will you hold on to your match?
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[SPEAKER_05]: or will you strike it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Think about that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want you to think about that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Before there were cars, before there were airplanes, before television, before the internet, a match was already sitting in somebody's hand.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's what got me thinking.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How long have
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[SPEAKER_04]: onto your match, how long have you been holding on to your match?
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[SPEAKER_05]: When the match was invented, it was a really good idea.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was a good idea.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was a good idea.
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[SPEAKER_03]: but it also created a new responsibility.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it solved one problem, but it also created a new responsibility.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Once you have fire, what are you going to do with it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, a match didn't invent fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It just changed who could access it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A match just made fire more accessible.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A match made fire accessible to individuals who have might not have been accessible for.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It made this an, it made fire more portable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now it could go in many places that it typically couldn't go.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It can go to a top of a peak of a mountain as long as you got a match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because, now, you have a match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, you can now carry it in your pocket.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can put it in a glove compartment on a car.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can put it in your sock.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, you can put it in a bag and carry it with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What is it that we have that people need, that they can carry to other parts of their lives?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What has been put in your hands?
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[SPEAKER_03]: There was meant to become accessible to somebody else.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What if?
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[SPEAKER_03]: your experiences is somebody else's access point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What if your story and your knowledge and your creativity, your testimony, your courage, your failure, your recovery?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you aren't carrying those things merely for yourself, maybe you've been,
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[SPEAKER_03]: given something that somebody else can't access it yet until they encounter you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The match made fire portable, maybe we're supposed to make hope portable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: think about that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we're supposed to make hope portable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A person can carry hope into a hospital, into a classroom, into a board room, into a prison, into a kitchen, into a neighborhood, into a community, into a marriage that's struggling.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the responsibility isn't simply
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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe it's to take our fire somewhere because what good is a match that only ever likes itself?
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[SPEAKER_04]: How long have you been holding your match?
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[SPEAKER_05]: How long have you been holding your match?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe we have been given something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The others can't access until they encounter you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You have met someone that when you left them that you were better off
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[SPEAKER_03]: that you were better off after meeting them?
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[SPEAKER_05]: How long had you been holding onto your match?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because some of us have been carrying a match for years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: ideas with that since we were young.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A business, we keep talking about a class.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You keep saying you're going to take a conversation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know you need to have and we keep holding it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We put it back in the box.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We tell ourselves we're waiting for the right time, but sometimes we're just holding
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[SPEAKER_03]: the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And here's what I think we need to separate two things.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The match isn't the fire.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The match is the possibility of the fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And a possibility can sit still in your hand
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[SPEAKER_03]: It becomes fire when you strike it, not the perfect opportunity, not when every question has been answered because you can hold a match so long that you forget what it's made for.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's the easy part.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not because striking it is easy, but because it only takes a moment.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The hard part comes after, because now you have fire, and fire needs something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It needs fuel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It needs attention.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It needs direction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Have you ever met somebody, or you know somebody who asked a man, man, how you doing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Girl, how you doing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What I'm doing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got this going on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I got this going on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is happening for me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is going on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they just lighten matches everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're striking matches everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're striking matches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You ask them,
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[SPEAKER_03]: How's this happening and this is going and they got a match over here and they got a match over here They got a match about they doing this they doing this over here They're doing this over here and they're looking round and they got a whole bunch of matches They got a whole box of matches just lit up
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just a whole box of matches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're not focused on one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They focused on this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't focus on that many things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're not match on me here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match on me here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match on me here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match on me here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match on me here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They have matches lit everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But fire needs something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It needs fuel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It needs attention.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then you ask them six months ago, again, six months passed, and you asked them about one of the matches they told you, they got going, oh yeah, I just decided to, you know, I wasn't y'all, it wasn't meant to be the timing, it doesn't cause the fire's out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't pay attention to that many matches and expect your fire to keep burning.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Fire needs fuel, it needs attention, it needs direction.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because the fire without purpose and without some direction can cause more damage.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that in good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe that's why our dreams sometimes feel so overwhelming, not because it's necessarily too much, but because we don't know what to do with the fire once we have it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they taught us how to strike the match, but never taught us how to head to the fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know why I watched those commercials again, I told you about smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I was watching those commercials, I realized something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know why they ran those public service announcements in the 70s and 80s with smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't trying to stop people from striking matches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They were trying to show us what to do with the fire once we get it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fire wasn't the villain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The match wasn't the villain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The villain was, we just didn't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How many times have we made choices and decisions and looking back, we can honestly say, we just didn't know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The dream isn't necessarily too big.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fire isn't necessarily too much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we simply don't know how to handle what we've been given.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, learn the fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Learn the business, learn the craft, learn the responsibility, learn yourself, learn what the opportunity requires of you, a match made fire accessible, knowledge makes the fire
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[SPEAKER_05]: in these fuel.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't strike the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Watch the flame.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and then walk away expecting the fire to figure itself out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's where some of us, we get stuck.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We finally do a thing, huh?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We did a thing, oh, I did a thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we posted on social media, I did a thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm doing a thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we celebrate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We do a handcuff emoji.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we do always do it all kind of hearts and likes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I did a thing, oh, I did a thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We do a thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We make a call, we start to business, we start writing the book, we start learning AI, we sign up for a class, and then nothing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Because we thought starting was the finish line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you look at a race, if you've ever seen people run a race, in race, running a race,
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[SPEAKER_03]: The starting line has a white line, and the finish line has a white line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The starting line looks just as exciting as the finish line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The only difference is one says start, and the other says finish.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They both look alike.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They both look alike.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The starting line looks just like the finished line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They both look alike and set one set, start and one set, finish.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we've spent more excitement about the start than we have been the finish.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We put more energy into the start.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then we have for the entire race.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a race that we end.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta pace yourself in this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta pace yourself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We do all this, we do a thing and then nothing because we thought the start was the finish line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But starting is the finish line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Starting is when the responsibility began.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that idea you've been holding now you have to learn that opportunity you've been praying for now you have to prepare that door you've been asking God to open now you have to walk through it and sometimes let me help you out let me help us all of us out because I had a problem with this in the beginning I had a problem with this
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[SPEAKER_03]: sometimes walking through, I get listen, I had a problem with this next statement.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had a problem with this by ego, my arrogance, whatever it was, both I think had to be a combination of both, but my ego kept me out of this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had a problem with this next statement.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes walking through it means admitting we don't know what we're doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We just don't know what we're doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you find something, and when you don't know what you're doing, you find somebody who does.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You ask questions, you learn, you practice, you get better, you put some word on your fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You see, here's the part that nobody puts on all those inspirational and those motivational posters that we see on a social media and we join these motivational groups, but here's the part that gets left off to those motivational posters.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't get to starve a fire and complain that it went out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some fires die because the idea was bad they die because nobody fed them we asked somebody
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[SPEAKER_03]: who was all excited about some fires they had.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You asked them six months after.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh well, you know, man, and excitement is gone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The thrill in their eyes is gone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The passion is gone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You've got to feed the fire.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We don't get to start a fire and then complain when it goes out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some fires don't die because the idea was bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They died because nobody fed them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody made the next call.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody learned the next thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody showed up again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody asked for help.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody kept putting fuel on it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe that's the difference between having an idea and building something with it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The match gives you the spark.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But what you do next?
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's on you, but let me show you let me show you we talk about John Walker the guy who you know they gave credit for and being the fire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to show you exactly what he kept his matches in and I want to show you what the original matches look like.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Here they go.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So the original matches look just like there's a little flat piece of stick as you can see it had a little brown stuff on the tip of it there, but they were kept in the small 10 can nothing spectacular if you saw it, if you have questions about it, it would be questionable if you saw it, it was a look like anything that you said you look, let me have that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was questionable, had questions all about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's in that can, man?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What questions was everywhere?
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is what he used to keep his matches in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's right here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is what he kept his matches in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: John Walker didn't have some, it was his own fancy name for what he created.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He got him like sticks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He got them like sticks, sticks, they gave life.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And he kept them in simple, 10 can.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know what you've been keeping your match in, maybe you've been keeping your dream in a box called some day.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe you've been keeping in a box called, I'm not ready.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or your opportunity in a box called, maybe later.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you're still figuring it out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: like this tank hand, maybe it's questionable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's okay, but somewhere in there, you know, you're on to something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because that's almost your favorite, this week.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This week, I won't you do me a favor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do something,
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[SPEAKER_03]: that makes it catch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do something that makes your fire catch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll write the book, meditate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever you have to do, something that makes your fire catch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you've been waiting for another mat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When you've already gotten one in your hand, you
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[SPEAKER_05]: To change something, sometimes all you need is one little flame pointed in the right direction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So strike it and give it somewhere worth going.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There's a Latin word I'm going to share with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: E-N-T-O-V-I-V-E-R-E. Memento-The-V-R-E. And it means, remember, to live.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because life isn't waiting for tomorrow to become perfect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the match you've been holding isn't asking for another reason to wait.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's asking,
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I was thinking about this episode, something kind of hit me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, out of the blue, and I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, all this time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about matching flame and fire and matches.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It all this time, I thought I was talking about one moment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All this time, I thought I was talking about one opportunity, one chance to change our life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not talking about one moment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not talking about one chance to change your life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about your life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because your life is the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's your life is the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As the only way to experience was incited.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's to strike it, yay, you've got to strike it, your whole life is one match now, strike it, your entire life needs to be stopped, listen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you've heard the show, you know, I love a good story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do, I love a good story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I love reading a good book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And one of my favorite books among many that enjoy reading is the Bible.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I love the stories that are in it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I love the truths that are in it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if I was in the pool, and if I was a preacher, and I was saying that you are the light, I wanna say something that Jesus would say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He said, Jesus said you are the light.
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[SPEAKER_03]: of the world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not you might be, not go find the light, but you are the light of the world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You are the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your life is the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe I've been looking at this all wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe this was never really about the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe this was never really about one moment in history.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe this was never about an opportunity in your life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the match is you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fire is already there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The light is already there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe the question isn't whether you had another opportunity waiting somewhere out there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the question is, in the same way you would strike a match, what are you going to strike your life against?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because sometimes you have to strike your life against what you've been taught, what you've been 50 against your own thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you have to strike it against
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[SPEAKER_03]: fear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you have to strike your life against the door that you've been too afraid to open.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you have to strike it against an opportunity you never thought will come.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Or that you never thought you'd be ready for because your life is the match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the only way
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[SPEAKER_03]: is to strike it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What if you've been waiting on something that has been waiting on us?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Now strike it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You got to strike your match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're one, one match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You, your life
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[SPEAKER_03]: match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I got to get out of here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got to get out of here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But it's always in party, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a real blast of tuning in right here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, every Tuesday, 630 PM Central, 730 PM Eastern, didn't listen to this show or you can tune in right here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, every Tuesday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is a guy on your famous German platform on an Apple podcast, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music and
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so many more guys I gotta get out of here, but it's always imparting if you're gonna tell me something, then tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not a hero, I gotta go, peace!
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, look at you, you made it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Glad you hear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now that you hear, graphs and slacks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because this, this is gonna be good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to TMG.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me something good part has.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hi everybody, welcome to tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host Travis Patton Senior.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I enjoy discovering his sharing real life moments of inspiration from everyday people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this show is about finding moments of inspiration for our everyday life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And look, and if you're going to tell me something, then tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody!
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to tell me something good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your host Chaps Pat and Senior.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey guys I'm so glad that you hear you know how I'm gonna do this fight before we get started Never to visit subscribe share and like our YouTube page That's tell me something good when it comes to TV and it's always I'm gonna give you who's shout out
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[SPEAKER_03]: to my biggest supporter, my biggest fan, my love to back to the co. Hey, girl, how you doing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you're watching.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you're listening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: As a matter of fact, Nicole, this is for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is my first time listening to your show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me take this time to tell you thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If this is your very first time tuning in to the show, you're a very first time hearing my voice, do me a favor.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is your first time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead and put it in chat and say, I'm new.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, put right there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm new with every language that you speak, put it in chat and say, I'm new yet there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I see it right there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: There is I knew.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, there it is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're listening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're new.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much for joining.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I knew you will not let me show up by myself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you will not let me come here today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and be here by myself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What I do day, Tuesday, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tuesday, so I'm so glad guys that you here, so glad that you joined it into a Travis Lissiman.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is my first time tuning in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've been streaming and watching your show ever since you've been streaming, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so glad to hear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, let me tell you something.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you very much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad that you here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I certainly am in weather.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You are listening here in the United States.
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[SPEAKER_03]: or maybe you're listening in Canada, maybe you're listening in Guam or Puerto Rico, South America, Australia, Japan, China, anywhere around the world, I'm gonna take this time to tell you, thank you, you guys have made this so global.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had literally, I had no idea that the show would take off.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I did not,
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[SPEAKER_03]: even think it would go as far as it did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm just so excited and I'm humbled that each week you continue to tune in and you're here to stay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You went from Thursdays to Tuesdays with me and you're still here, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, let me do this for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Man, that's just what I'm talking to you, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Man, I am just saying that to you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, I'm just glad that you did that, guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so glad that you here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't oversay that enough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much, and if you've been watching the show for any amount of time, any period of time, you're a couple of things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know I love a good story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you also know that this show is all about Friday moments of inspiration in our everyday lives.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if you have an inspiring story that you like to tell and maybe come on a show, drop us an email at tllme721 at gmail.com that tllme721 at gmail.com
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you said with Travis Listen man, I know someone that has an amazing story that would be great for each show man, but I don't want to come on to show because I'm a little camera shot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now that's any moment that you're proud of, whether you've got a new race, new job, whatever it may be, but anything in your life that you're proud of, there's a goal that you were trying to achieve and you finally achieved it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know it does because everything I've said in the show, the things I have done, things I've put into practice, so it will work.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You didn't get a chance to catch the title of this episode, guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you didn't know what we were gonna talk about today, guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you didn't catch a day's episode, guys, it's called One Match.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, one match, just one match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, today's episode is One Match.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I know you're wondering, where the world is Travis,
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[SPEAKER_03]: going to go with that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean honestly this episode comes about uh I was actually sitting at home and I was scrolling through social media and I came across a old commercial that I used to see when I was coming up as a little kid.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're anywhere in my age range of 55 with these 60, 60, 70, 70, when I mentioned this, you'll instantly pop on your head, you'll know what I'm talking about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I thought about that, and I thought about, wow, how true is that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's how I came about this episode, but I began to look at that commercial, and I realized that it only takes one match
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[SPEAKER_04]: to change everything that you see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you grew up when I did, you remember, you might remember those old commercials that had smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who remembers Smoky the Bear?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't talk about that big brown bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you remember Smoky the Bear,
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do me a favor, go ahead and put a thumbs up and chat, thumbs up, thumbs up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you remember smoking the bear, put a in chat, put a thumbs up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, just like that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're listening to this and you're driving, just say, I remember, I remember smoking the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, man, I was watching on social media, sometimes I used to show almost everything on social media.
01:08:16.516 --> 01:08:17.936
[SPEAKER_03]: And they were showing these old commercials.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I happened to watch and see, smokey the bear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're not familiar with Smoky the Bear, was this big brown bear that walked around and he wore a forest rangers hat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He had a forest rangers hat on and he had this hat on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he was point this finger directly at the camera and he was said only you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: to prevent forest fires.
01:08:48.423 --> 01:08:56.745
[SPEAKER_03]: You remember that as a kid coming up and he would point around and say, only had anybody standing, only you could prevent forest fires.
01:08:56.765 --> 01:09:02.766
[SPEAKER_03]: They would walk around and say this real deep, deep voice and those commercials, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They had a way of making you remember.
01:09:07.747 --> 01:09:08.187
[SPEAKER_03]: They did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They had an absolute way of making you remember.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They show you,
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[SPEAKER_03]: something that makes you remember that, hey, you know what, I might need to think about something, but they had a way of making you remember, because here I am 55 years old.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be 56 in December, and I still...
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[SPEAKER_03]: remember those commercials as if it was yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember those commercials just as if they played them fresh brand new yesterday, but they had a way of positioning those commercials and showing those commercials that made you remember what they were talking
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[SPEAKER_03]: what they were about.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They would show you this less green forest.
01:10:07.011 --> 01:10:10.574
[SPEAKER_03]: They would show you, you know, the green trees growing.
01:10:10.594 --> 01:10:15.557
[SPEAKER_03]: It would show you how quiet and the animals just roaming free.
01:10:16.138 --> 01:10:28.407
[SPEAKER_03]: trees growing tall and beautiful blue sky and the birds would be chirping and you could hear the the leaves crackling on your feet and all the smell that fresh pine in the air.
01:10:28.647 --> 01:10:33.090
[SPEAKER_03]: They had a way and you would see all this beautiful scenery.
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[SPEAKER_03]: all this beautiful picture-esque stuff, everything that you would see would be familiar.
01:10:40.996 --> 01:10:53.325
[SPEAKER_03]: You would see owls and burrows and bunnies and deer and all this kind of stuff, everything that you would normally usually or expect to see in a forest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then they show you what it was like
01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:09.421
[SPEAKER_05]: in the forest, they show you what it was like.
01:11:09.441 --> 01:11:17.845
[SPEAKER_03]: They show you the burn, blackened, charred, ground, thick, choking, smoke.
01:11:18.225 --> 01:11:20.786
[SPEAKER_03]: The trees would be gone.
01:11:22.027 --> 01:11:25.488
[SPEAKER_05]: The animals would be absent.
01:11:26.769 --> 01:11:34.192
[SPEAKER_04]: And everything you knew would be changed.
01:11:36.932 --> 01:11:56.439
[SPEAKER_04]: They had a way of making you remember everything that you expected to see would be changed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And here's the thing, here's the thing about those commercials that while I was watching
01:12:05.383 --> 01:12:06.824
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's the thing about those commercials.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't telling us that fire was bad.
01:12:12.268 --> 01:12:15.169
[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't telling us never to use fire.
01:12:16.190 --> 01:12:25.076
[SPEAKER_03]: They were teaching us to understand what fire can do because one little match.
01:12:28.553 --> 01:12:32.115
[SPEAKER_05]: can change an entire landscape.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We've been taught to be careful with the match.
01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:56.592
[SPEAKER_05]: So, since we've been taught so much to be careful with the match, what we start doing in explicitly, uncontrollably, uncontrollably,
01:12:58.006 --> 01:13:03.407
[SPEAKER_05]: Unconsciously, so we've been taught to be careful with the match.
01:13:05.948 --> 01:13:10.149
[SPEAKER_05]: So we put the match back into the box.
01:13:13.150 --> 01:13:14.290
[SPEAKER_04]: And idea comes.
01:13:15.710 --> 01:13:16.851
[SPEAKER_05]: We put it back in the box.
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[SPEAKER_05]: A dream comes.
01:13:21.052 --> 01:13:22.292
[SPEAKER_05]: We put it back in the box.
01:13:22.932 --> 01:13:24.492
[SPEAKER_05]: And opportunity shows up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: back in the box.
01:13:31.165 --> 01:13:40.668
[SPEAKER_05]: And we forget all it takes is one match to change everything.
01:13:41.989 --> 01:13:50.432
[SPEAKER_05]: Because what happens when you finally strike it.
01:13:51.613 --> 01:13:54.474
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we've been taught to be careful with
01:13:59.225 --> 01:14:00.306
[SPEAKER_05]: watch the match.
01:14:02.368 --> 01:14:11.955
[SPEAKER_05]: So what we've begun to do is put our matches back aside the box.
01:14:14.718 --> 01:14:23.385
[SPEAKER_05]: And we forgot that all it takes is one match to change everything that we
01:14:28.520 --> 01:14:29.280
[SPEAKER_04]: our matches.
01:14:32.721 --> 01:14:33.621
[SPEAKER_04]: Back in the box.
01:14:36.662 --> 01:14:37.382
[SPEAKER_04]: Ideas.
01:14:38.602 --> 01:14:41.703
[SPEAKER_03]: Come to our minds and I don't know.
01:14:41.723 --> 01:14:42.623
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to do that.
01:14:42.663 --> 01:14:43.123
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
01:14:43.243 --> 01:14:45.103
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know anybody else who's doing that.
01:14:45.123 --> 01:14:46.224
[SPEAKER_03]: So why should I do that?
01:14:48.724 --> 01:14:49.344
[SPEAKER_03]: A dream.
01:14:49.844 --> 01:14:51.165
[SPEAKER_03]: We think about having.
01:14:51.705 --> 01:14:53.705
[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't even know what to do with that.
01:14:53.745 --> 01:14:53.825
[SPEAKER_03]: You
01:14:58.325 --> 01:15:00.927
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, so we put it back in a box.
01:15:00.947 --> 01:15:11.313
[SPEAKER_03]: We have a gift that we can use, but I don't know if anybody will accept it if anybody's even listening, I'm just gonna put it back in a box.
01:15:12.334 --> 01:15:17.657
[SPEAKER_03]: But all it takes is one match to change everything.
01:15:19.278 --> 01:15:24.822
[SPEAKER_05]: Let me ask you this, what happens when you finally strike it?
01:15:26.267 --> 01:15:30.750
[SPEAKER_03]: What happens when the idea catches on?
01:15:31.870 --> 01:15:39.495
[SPEAKER_03]: What happens when the opportunity you've been praying for actually opens the door?
01:15:40.615 --> 01:15:41.336
[SPEAKER_05]: What happens?
01:15:43.117 --> 01:15:51.862
[SPEAKER_04]: The thing you've been waiting on finally starts working.
01:15:55.221 --> 01:15:56.922
[SPEAKER_03]: with our real story.
01:15:57.923 --> 01:16:00.345
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's what our real story really begins.
01:16:01.266 --> 01:16:05.909
[SPEAKER_03]: Because we spent, we have spent, and I remember being a kid.
01:16:06.109 --> 01:16:12.434
[SPEAKER_03]: I do, I do, I remember being a kid, and I learned that only you can prevent
01:16:13.850 --> 01:16:15.011
[SPEAKER_03]: forest fires.
01:16:15.771 --> 01:16:21.554
[SPEAKER_03]: I learned to put my matches back inside the box.
01:16:21.594 --> 01:16:27.537
[SPEAKER_03]: I will get excited about something and I learned to keep my match.
01:16:28.980 --> 01:16:30.001
[SPEAKER_03]: inside the box.
01:16:30.101 --> 01:16:35.623
[SPEAKER_03]: I learned because that match it changed the whole landscape.
01:16:36.403 --> 01:16:40.305
[SPEAKER_03]: It made the familiar become unfamiliar.
01:16:40.665 --> 01:16:44.087
[SPEAKER_03]: It made the constable become uncomfortable.
01:16:44.527 --> 01:16:48.909
[SPEAKER_03]: It made what I knew became something I knew nothing about.
01:16:48.969 --> 01:16:52.571
[SPEAKER_03]: So I put my match back inside.
01:16:52.931 --> 01:16:54.492
[SPEAKER_03]: It's box because I was torn
01:16:57.393 --> 01:17:07.039
[SPEAKER_03]: The forest fires I was taught to put my match back inside was taught to put my match back inside as the box.
01:17:08.921 --> 01:17:13.444
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't speak up, put your match back inside as the box.
01:17:13.844 --> 01:17:20.008
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you try to change nothing, put your match back inside as the box don't you
01:17:27.524 --> 01:17:47.588
[SPEAKER_03]: But the match, Becca's side, the box, what happens when the idea catches on, what happens when the opportunity opens the door, what happens when the very thing you've been waiting
01:17:55.195 --> 01:18:06.538
[SPEAKER_03]: Our real story begins because we've spent so much time asking ourselves, should I strike the match?
01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:16.861
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the better question is, where am I going to do with the fire once I see it?
01:18:23.204 --> 01:18:33.451
[SPEAKER_03]: And if we're going to change our, we better be ready for the thing, we better be ready for things to look different.
01:18:35.192 --> 01:18:52.903
[SPEAKER_03]: The way we think may have to change the way we do think may have to change the skills we have may have to change the people we listen to may have to change the habits we've gotten comfortable with.
01:18:54.082 --> 01:19:07.851
[SPEAKER_05]: may have to change, because you can't ask for fire as then complain when it gets hot.
01:19:08.071 --> 01:19:09.452
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me repeat that.
01:19:10.212 --> 01:19:16.496
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't ask for fire as then complain when it gets hot.
01:19:17.337 --> 01:19:21.300
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't get to ask for our business to grow.
01:19:22.540 --> 01:19:29.323
[SPEAKER_03]: and then complain when we have to get up early to open the door and be the last one to leave.
01:19:30.864 --> 01:19:37.326
[SPEAKER_03]: We cannot ask for promotion and complain we have to learn new skills.
01:19:38.007 --> 01:19:49.752
[SPEAKER_03]: We cannot ask for inspiration for the book that we want to write and then complain when inspiration comes at three in the morning.
01:19:51.742 --> 01:19:54.424
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I learned about inspiration.
01:19:54.504 --> 01:20:00.929
[SPEAKER_03]: And I watched, I told you that little cart, to that little advertised about smoking the bear.
01:20:02.470 --> 01:20:07.874
[SPEAKER_03]: And I watched it about eight o'clock in the evening.
01:20:08.854 --> 01:20:10.916
[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration hit me at two in the morning.
01:20:11.576 --> 01:20:13.638
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I learned about inspiration?
01:20:14.997 --> 01:20:17.459
[SPEAKER_03]: inspiration is inconvenient.
01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:21.842
[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration will inconvenient you.
01:20:23.523 --> 01:20:27.186
[SPEAKER_05]: Fire is inconvenient.
01:20:27.927 --> 01:20:36.513
[SPEAKER_03]: If you've ever been in a house fire, and I've been in a fire, we was in the new, I was living in New York,
01:20:44.333 --> 01:20:46.715
[SPEAKER_03]: in the middle of the night.
01:20:47.216 --> 01:20:52.400
[SPEAKER_03]: So imagine this, it's a typical, what you would think, a typical New York winter.
01:20:53.621 --> 01:21:00.367
[SPEAKER_03]: Ice snow, frigid cold winter, weather, the air's blowing, the wind's blowing.
01:21:01.408 --> 01:21:02.248
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's a fire.
01:21:03.349 --> 01:21:04.510
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's the middle of the night.
01:21:05.031 --> 01:21:06.492
[SPEAKER_03]: And you got your pajamas on.
01:21:07.393 --> 01:21:09.515
[SPEAKER_03]: Fire is inconvenient.
01:21:10.985 --> 01:21:23.152
[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration is also inconvenient, whatever it is that we want to do or become will inconvenience us.
01:21:23.773 --> 01:21:27.875
[SPEAKER_03]: If you aren't willing to be inconvenienced, you aren't willing to grow.
01:21:29.116 --> 01:21:31.538
[SPEAKER_03]: Fire will inconvenience you.
01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:35.760
[SPEAKER_03]: Inspiration is inconvenient.
01:21:41.462 --> 01:21:44.143
[SPEAKER_03]: You have to get youth to be an inconvenience.
01:21:44.743 --> 01:21:50.726
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe, maybe I get this, maybe this, maybe we're looking at it all wrong.
01:21:51.426 --> 01:21:56.228
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we're looking at fire all wrong, right?
01:21:56.688 --> 01:21:59.490
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we're looking at the fire all wrong.
01:21:59.910 --> 01:22:05.972
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it possible we have been looking at fire all these years?
01:22:07.353 --> 01:22:09.314
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we need to look.
01:22:10.840 --> 01:22:13.622
[SPEAKER_03]: at the inconvenience of better.
01:22:14.203 --> 01:22:24.411
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, maybe we need to take a look at the inconvenience of better, because better we'll inconvenience us.
01:22:25.111 --> 01:22:34.999
[SPEAKER_03]: Better we'll inconvenience you because nothing ever got better without first being an inconvenience.
01:22:35.619 --> 01:22:45.725
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe the better thing we need, the thing we need to look at is the inconvenience of better, the match is the opportunity.
01:22:47.206 --> 01:22:52.089
[SPEAKER_05]: The fire is the responsibility.
01:22:53.049 --> 01:22:55.271
[SPEAKER_05]: And maybe that's what we've
01:23:03.559 --> 01:23:26.778
[SPEAKER_04]: To finally do something with the fire, yeah, no, I know, I know, a reason to finally do something with the fire.
01:23:32.523 --> 01:23:32.803
[SPEAKER_04]: I know.
01:23:33.503 --> 01:23:33.783
[SPEAKER_04]: I know.
01:23:38.465 --> 01:23:57.030
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, finally something to do with, you know, I keep thinking about that commercial and it only takes one small match to change everything you see.
01:23:58.371 --> 01:23:59.031
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes
01:24:00.471 --> 01:24:11.839
[SPEAKER_03]: the smallest things bring substantial change, the smallest conversations, the smallest acts of the smallest actions, the smallest ideas.
01:24:12.020 --> 01:24:19.745
[SPEAKER_03]: Even the smallest inventions can change the way everybody else lives.
01:24:21.647 --> 01:24:21.987
[SPEAKER_03]: In 1826,
01:24:24.747 --> 01:24:34.410
[SPEAKER_03]: and English chemist and pharmacist named John Walker was experimenting with chemicals in his shop.
01:24:34.750 --> 01:24:36.350
[SPEAKER_03]: No joke, this is the true story.
01:24:36.551 --> 01:24:37.991
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the honest thing in his true story.
01:24:38.691 --> 01:24:50.915
[SPEAKER_03]: He was working with a mixture and some of it fell on some stones on his heart, which is like a fireplace, and it fell on these stones and it had dry.
01:24:51.635 --> 01:24:56.278
[SPEAKER_03]: it fell in his stones and it dried in the spot where it fell.
01:24:57.319 --> 01:25:05.844
[SPEAKER_03]: So he's going to clean it up and he reached down to scrape it up with some small sticks that he had available.
01:25:06.704 --> 01:25:07.885
[SPEAKER_03]: But when he scraped it
01:25:22.419 --> 01:25:27.622
[SPEAKER_03]: At that moment, he realized that he was on to something.
01:25:28.943 --> 01:25:33.446
[SPEAKER_03]: He was just mixing chemicals in his shop, but he normally does.
01:25:34.366 --> 01:25:43.532
[SPEAKER_03]: He was doing his doing something ordinary, that he would normally do in his pharmacy, that he would normally do every day.
01:25:43.832 --> 01:25:48.055
[SPEAKER_03]: He was mixing stuff doing his normal, everyday routines.
01:25:48.920 --> 01:25:50.780
[SPEAKER_03]: He was doing his normal stuff.
01:25:51.181 --> 01:25:52.861
[SPEAKER_03]: He dropped some chemicals.
01:25:53.361 --> 01:25:56.962
[SPEAKER_03]: They fell on some bricks in his and his fireplace.
01:25:58.162 --> 01:26:01.643
[SPEAKER_03]: And it dried in the spot where it fell.
01:26:02.343 --> 01:26:05.984
[SPEAKER_03]: So he reached down to scrape it up with the small stick.
01:26:06.024 --> 01:26:09.825
[SPEAKER_03]: And when he did, it, it, it, it, it nighted.
01:26:10.906 --> 01:26:12.046
[SPEAKER_03]: And it caught fire.
01:26:13.706 --> 01:26:15.587
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was at that moment.
01:26:16.922 --> 01:26:26.112
[SPEAKER_03]: that it lit up and caught fire, that he realized that he has stumbled onto something.
01:26:26.713 --> 01:26:31.258
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just give you a public service announcement right here.
01:26:32.099 --> 01:26:36.804
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just give a public service announcement and say this to those
01:26:37.821 --> 01:26:43.028
[SPEAKER_03]: who ain't looking around and you're seeing how well others are doing.
01:26:43.529 --> 01:26:50.938
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me say this to those who are looking around and you don't, and you listen, you're looking around and you're never the one.
01:26:51.915 --> 01:27:04.087
[SPEAKER_03]: that they acknowledge, you're not the one that they pat on the back, you're not the one that they call for upfront, you're not the one that they look for for the promotion first.
01:27:04.528 --> 01:27:13.457
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just say this, public announcement to everybody who's looking around and seeing how well someone else is doing.
01:27:14.097 --> 01:27:18.663
[SPEAKER_03]: Every time you look on social media, they always look at that happy couple.
01:27:19.003 --> 01:27:21.806
[SPEAKER_03]: They always look like they always in beeping in love.
01:27:22.026 --> 01:27:24.670
[SPEAKER_03]: They always look like that's something good going in that life.
01:27:25.090 --> 01:27:26.372
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me just say this.
01:27:27.707 --> 01:27:48.624
[SPEAKER_03]: to everyone who's looking around and you see how well others might be doing, listen, John Walker realized that when he started to scrape up what he had dropped, he was scraping up, not just when he dropped, but he was scraping up what he had created.
01:27:49.225 --> 01:27:56.571
[SPEAKER_03]: And while he was scraping up what he created, he realized that he had stumbled onto something
01:27:57.051 --> 01:28:10.586
[SPEAKER_03]: So for everybody out here that you see other people and it looks like they're doing a little bit better than you It looks like they are ahead in life listen you might be stumbling
01:28:11.582 --> 01:28:13.383
[SPEAKER_03]: But you're on to something.
01:28:13.683 --> 01:28:19.965
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know they said it doesn't look good for you But you're on to something.
01:28:20.365 --> 01:28:37.112
[SPEAKER_03]: I know you don't have as many followers as they do I know you don't have as many likes and hearts and all those things, but you're on to something I know they wouldn't public before you did but you're on to something
01:28:38.301 --> 01:28:42.504
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody else may be aware of what you're doing.
01:28:42.845 --> 01:28:46.488
[SPEAKER_03]: Your idea, you may be working on it in silence.
01:28:46.868 --> 01:28:56.736
[SPEAKER_03]: You may be working on it in private, but you're on to something just because they got their first, doesn't mean they're always going to last.
01:28:57.036 --> 01:28:59.037
[SPEAKER_03]: You're on to something.
01:28:59.358 --> 01:29:06.003
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you're feeling some kind of way right now, let me remind you that you're on to something.
01:29:09.240 --> 01:29:14.544
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think, I was reading about him.
01:29:14.664 --> 01:29:16.225
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't you know, I was reading about him.
01:29:17.406 --> 01:29:21.289
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think, and I kidding, man, I think the last,
01:29:22.195 --> 01:29:27.999
[SPEAKER_03]: records show that his first fail of the friction lights.
01:29:28.059 --> 01:29:32.562
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that's what he called them, friction lights, because they're rubbing against something.
01:29:33.062 --> 01:29:38.245
[SPEAKER_03]: Friction lights came in 1827, just a year at him.
01:29:38.625 --> 01:29:39.506
[SPEAKER_03]: He discovered this.
01:29:40.406 --> 01:29:49.192
[SPEAKER_03]: Is there his kind of conflicting about whether or not he was able to establish a patent for his idea?
01:29:50.783 --> 01:29:55.986
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it has kind of conflicting idea whether he was able to get one, or he was not able to get one.
01:29:56.026 --> 01:30:01.148
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it kind of has a, you know, conflicting ideas about whether he was able to get one or not.
01:30:02.489 --> 01:30:03.970
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's not the real question.
01:30:05.471 --> 01:30:07.011
[SPEAKER_04]: That's not the real question.
01:30:12.094 --> 01:30:17.657
[SPEAKER_05]: The real question is will you hold on to your match
01:30:19.700 --> 01:30:20.861
[SPEAKER_05]: or when you strike it.
01:30:22.562 --> 01:30:23.222
[SPEAKER_05]: Think about that.
01:30:23.262 --> 01:30:24.183
[SPEAKER_03]: I want you to think about that.
01:30:25.043 --> 01:30:37.890
[SPEAKER_03]: Before there were cars, before there were airplanes, before television, before the internet, a match was already sitting in somebody's hand.
01:30:39.591 --> 01:30:42.133
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's what got me thinking.
01:30:44.094 --> 01:30:45.254
[SPEAKER_05]: How long have
01:30:48.751 --> 01:30:58.494
[SPEAKER_04]: on to your match, how long have you been holding on to your match?
01:31:02.655 --> 01:31:08.077
[SPEAKER_04]: When the match was invented, it was a really good idea.
01:31:08.957 --> 01:31:09.878
[SPEAKER_05]: It was a good idea.
01:31:11.058 --> 01:31:11.638
[SPEAKER_05]: It was a good idea.
01:31:19.529 --> 01:31:23.372
[SPEAKER_05]: but it also created a new responsibility.
01:31:24.592 --> 01:31:31.057
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it solved one problem, but it also created a new responsibility.
01:31:32.538 --> 01:31:38.982
[SPEAKER_04]: Once you have fire, what are you gonna do with it?
01:31:40.923 --> 01:31:44.485
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, a match didn't invent fire.
01:31:45.526 --> 01:31:48.228
[SPEAKER_03]: It just changed who could access it.
01:31:49.495 --> 01:31:53.496
[SPEAKER_03]: A match just made fire more accessible.
01:31:54.176 --> 01:32:00.598
[SPEAKER_03]: A match made fire accessible to individuals who have might not have been accessible for.
01:32:01.418 --> 01:32:04.679
[SPEAKER_03]: It made this in, it made fire more portable.
01:32:05.659 --> 01:32:10.160
[SPEAKER_03]: Now it could go in many places that it typically couldn't go.
01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:16.501
[SPEAKER_03]: It can go to a top of a peak of a mountain as long as you got a match.
01:32:20.093 --> 01:32:22.634
[SPEAKER_03]: because, now, you have a match.
01:32:23.674 --> 01:32:26.615
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, you can now carry it in your pocket.
01:32:27.495 --> 01:32:30.436
[SPEAKER_03]: You can put it in a glove compartment on a car.
01:32:31.156 --> 01:32:32.716
[SPEAKER_03]: You can put it in your sock.
01:32:33.517 --> 01:32:37.518
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, you can put it in a bag and carry it with you.
01:32:38.518 --> 01:32:49.481
[SPEAKER_03]: What is it that we have that people need, that they can carry to other parts of their lives?
01:32:50.964 --> 01:32:53.627
[SPEAKER_03]: What has been put in your hands?
01:32:54.427 --> 01:32:59.352
[SPEAKER_03]: There was meant to become accessible to somebody else.
01:33:01.034 --> 01:33:01.635
[SPEAKER_03]: What if?
01:33:02.996 --> 01:33:08.497
[SPEAKER_03]: your experiences is somebody else's access point.
01:33:09.237 --> 01:33:18.659
[SPEAKER_03]: What if your story and your knowledge and your creativity, your testimony, your courage, your failure, your recovery?
01:33:19.039 --> 01:33:28.441
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you aren't carrying those things merely for yourself, maybe you've been,
01:33:32.415 --> 01:33:41.280
[SPEAKER_03]: given something that somebody else can't access it yet until they encounter you.
01:33:42.861 --> 01:33:55.008
[SPEAKER_05]: The match made fire portable, maybe we're supposed to make hope portable.
01:33:56.077 --> 01:33:56.818
[SPEAKER_05]: think about that.
01:33:57.538 --> 01:34:00.220
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we're supposed to make hope portable.
01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:17.070
[SPEAKER_03]: A person can carry hope into a hospital, into a classroom, into a boardroom, into a prison, into a kitchen, into a neighborhood, into a community, into a marriage that's struggling.
01:34:17.691 --> 01:34:21.733
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the responsibility isn't simply
01:34:25.305 --> 01:34:38.749
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe it's to take our fire somewhere, because what good is a match that only ever lights itself?
01:34:40.509 --> 01:34:47.471
[SPEAKER_04]: How long have you been holding your match?
01:34:54.526 --> 01:35:02.168
[SPEAKER_05]: How long have you been holding your match?
01:35:02.288 --> 01:35:05.048
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe we have been given something.
01:35:06.909 --> 01:35:12.050
[SPEAKER_05]: The others can't access until they encounter you.
01:35:15.091 --> 01:35:20.872
[SPEAKER_05]: You have met someone that when you left them that you were better off when you met them.
01:35:22.040 --> 01:35:25.302
[SPEAKER_03]: that you are better off after meeting them?
01:35:33.087 --> 01:35:39.751
[SPEAKER_05]: How long had you been holding onto your match?
01:35:40.411 --> 01:35:46.555
[SPEAKER_03]: Because some of us have been carrying a match for years.
01:35:47.931 --> 01:36:09.220
[SPEAKER_03]: ideas with that since we were young, a business, we keep talking about a class, you keep saying you're going to take a conversation, you know you need to have and we keep holding it, we put it back in the box, we tell ourselves we're waiting for the right
01:36:13.855 --> 01:36:19.338
[SPEAKER_03]: The match, and here's what I think we need to separate two things.
01:36:20.259 --> 01:36:22.940
[SPEAKER_05]: The match isn't the fire.
01:36:24.821 --> 01:36:28.744
[SPEAKER_05]: The match is the possibility of the fire.
01:36:29.784 --> 01:36:36.988
[SPEAKER_03]: And a possibility can sit still in your hand for a very long time.
01:36:43.876 --> 01:37:04.744
[SPEAKER_03]: It becomes fire when you strike it, not the perfect opportunity, not when every question has been answered because you can hold a match so long that you forget what it's made for.
01:37:13.913 --> 01:37:14.894
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's the easy part.
01:37:16.134 --> 01:37:23.299
[SPEAKER_03]: Not because striking it is easy, but because it only takes a moment.
01:37:24.300 --> 01:37:34.866
[SPEAKER_05]: The hard part comes after, because now you have fire, and fire needs something.
01:37:35.747 --> 01:37:36.407
[SPEAKER_03]: It needs fuel.
01:37:37.764 --> 01:37:39.186
[SPEAKER_03]: It needs attention.
01:37:39.766 --> 01:37:41.428
[SPEAKER_03]: It needs direction.
01:37:42.028 --> 01:37:47.654
[SPEAKER_03]: Have you ever met somebody, or you know somebody who asked a man, man, how you doing?
01:37:47.674 --> 01:37:48.415
[SPEAKER_03]: Girl, how you doing?
01:37:48.695 --> 01:37:49.476
[SPEAKER_03]: What I'm doing?
01:37:49.516 --> 01:37:50.397
[SPEAKER_03]: I got this going on.
01:37:50.557 --> 01:37:51.398
[SPEAKER_03]: And I got this going on.
01:37:51.538 --> 01:37:52.519
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is happening for me.
01:37:52.679 --> 01:37:53.460
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is going on.
01:37:53.820 --> 01:37:55.442
[SPEAKER_03]: And they just liking matches everywhere.
01:37:55.462 --> 01:37:57.083
[SPEAKER_03]: They're striking matches everywhere.
01:37:57.324 --> 01:37:58.365
[SPEAKER_03]: They're striking matches.
01:37:58.625 --> 01:37:59.306
[SPEAKER_03]: You ask them,
01:37:59.766 --> 01:38:15.889
[SPEAKER_03]: How's this happening and this is going and they got a match over here and they got a match over here They got a match about they doing this they're doing this over here They're doing this over here and they're looking round and they got a whole bunch of matches They got a whole box of matches just lit up
01:38:16.610 --> 01:38:18.553
[SPEAKER_03]: Just a whole box of matches.
01:38:18.753 --> 01:38:19.474
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
01:38:19.494 --> 01:38:20.196
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
01:38:20.216 --> 01:38:20.877
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
01:38:20.897 --> 01:38:21.518
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
01:38:21.538 --> 01:38:22.038
[SPEAKER_03]: They're doing this.
01:38:22.339 --> 01:38:23.621
[SPEAKER_03]: They're not focused on one.
01:38:23.641 --> 01:38:24.582
[SPEAKER_03]: They focused on this.
01:38:24.903 --> 01:38:26.906
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't focus on that many things.
01:38:27.126 --> 01:38:28.087
[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match over here.
01:38:28.107 --> 01:38:29.089
[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match over here.
01:38:29.109 --> 01:38:30.110
[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match over here.
01:38:30.291 --> 01:38:31.412
[SPEAKER_03]: They're gonna match over here.
01:38:32.457 --> 01:38:35.198
[SPEAKER_03]: They have matches lit everywhere.
01:38:36.098 --> 01:38:38.619
[SPEAKER_03]: But fire needs something.
01:38:39.159 --> 01:38:40.199
[SPEAKER_03]: It needs fuel.
01:38:40.620 --> 01:38:41.940
[SPEAKER_03]: It needs attention.
01:38:42.280 --> 01:38:57.465
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you ask them six months ago, again, six months passed, and you asked them about one of the matches they told you, they got going, oh yeah, I just decided to, you know, I wasn't y'all, it went back and I'd be the timing because the fire's out.
01:38:59.407 --> 01:39:04.412
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't pay attention to that many matches and expect your fire to keep burning.
01:39:07.255 --> 01:39:12.420
[SPEAKER_03]: Fire needs fuel, it needs attention, it needs direction.
01:39:13.481 --> 01:39:23.491
[SPEAKER_05]: Because the fire without purpose and without some direction can cause more damage.
01:39:25.204 --> 01:39:25.825
[SPEAKER_03]: that in good.
01:39:25.905 --> 01:39:40.359
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe that's why our dreams sometimes feel so overwhelming, not because it's necessarily too much, but because we don't know what to do with the fire once we have it.
01:39:41.940 --> 01:39:49.408
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they taught us how to strike the match, but never taught us how to handle the fire.
01:39:50.561 --> 01:39:56.464
[SPEAKER_03]: You know why I watched those commercials again, I told you about smoking the bear.
01:39:56.964 --> 01:39:59.525
[SPEAKER_03]: And when I was watching those commercials, I realized something.
01:40:00.005 --> 01:40:07.509
[SPEAKER_03]: You know why they ran those public service announcements in the 70s and 80s with smoking the bear.
01:40:08.269 --> 01:40:11.550
[SPEAKER_03]: They weren't trying to stop people from striking matches.
01:40:12.071 --> 01:40:17.373
[SPEAKER_03]: They were trying to show us what to do with the fire once we get it.
01:40:18.641 --> 01:40:20.802
[SPEAKER_03]: The fire wasn't the villain.
01:40:21.142 --> 01:40:23.204
[SPEAKER_03]: The match wasn't the villain.
01:40:23.584 --> 01:40:27.066
[SPEAKER_03]: The villain was, we just didn't know.
01:40:28.487 --> 01:40:39.133
[SPEAKER_03]: How many times have we made choices and decisions and looking back, we can answer and say, we just didn't know.
01:40:40.033 --> 01:40:42.335
[SPEAKER_03]: The dream isn't necessarily to be.
01:40:43.360 --> 01:40:46.864
[SPEAKER_03]: The fire isn't necessarily too much.
01:40:47.624 --> 01:40:53.250
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe we simply don't know how to handle what we've been given.
01:40:54.691 --> 01:40:58.035
[SPEAKER_03]: So, learn the fire.
01:40:58.994 --> 01:41:21.371
[SPEAKER_03]: Learn the business, learn the craft, learn the responsibility, learn yourself, learn what the opportunity requires of you, a match made fire accessible, knowledge makes the fire
01:41:29.755 --> 01:41:30.616
[SPEAKER_03]: It needs fuel.
01:41:31.698 --> 01:41:33.882
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't strike the match.
01:41:35.083 --> 01:41:36.526
[SPEAKER_03]: Watch the flame.
01:41:37.400 --> 01:41:42.602
[SPEAKER_03]: and then walk away expecting the fire to figure itself out.
01:41:43.342 --> 01:41:45.523
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's where some of us, we get stuck.
01:41:46.263 --> 01:41:47.664
[SPEAKER_03]: We finally do a thing, huh?
01:41:47.884 --> 01:41:49.485
[SPEAKER_03]: We did a thing, oh, I did a thing.
01:41:50.305 --> 01:41:57.148
[SPEAKER_03]: And we posted on social media, I did a thing, I'm doing a thing, and we celebrate, we do a hand-cap emoji.
01:41:57.748 --> 01:42:02.169
[SPEAKER_03]: And we do all we do, and I'll cut a heart in life, I did a thing, y'all, I did a thing.
01:42:02.430 --> 01:42:03.270
[SPEAKER_03]: We do a thing,
01:42:04.795 --> 01:42:15.277
[SPEAKER_03]: We make a call, we start the business, we start writing the book, we start learning AI, we sign up for a class, and then nothing.
01:42:19.578 --> 01:42:22.918
[SPEAKER_05]: Because we thought starting was the finish line.
01:42:24.178 --> 01:42:32.360
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you look at a race, if you've ever seen people run a race, and when it's running a race,
01:42:33.438 --> 01:42:39.661
[SPEAKER_03]: The starting line has a white line, and the finish line has a white line.
01:42:40.361 --> 01:42:45.304
[SPEAKER_03]: The starting line looks just as exciting as the finish line.
01:42:45.724 --> 01:42:51.307
[SPEAKER_03]: The only difference is one says start, and the other says finish.
01:42:54.728 --> 01:42:57.690
[SPEAKER_05]: They both look alike, they both look alike.
01:42:58.710 --> 01:43:01.452
[SPEAKER_03]: The starting line looks just like the finish line.
01:43:01.672 --> 01:43:05.514
[SPEAKER_03]: They both look alike and set one set start and one set finish.
01:43:07.576 --> 01:43:15.100
[SPEAKER_03]: And we've spent more excitement about the start than we have been the finish.
01:43:15.500 --> 01:43:18.322
[SPEAKER_03]: We put more energy into the start.
01:43:19.703 --> 01:43:22.184
[SPEAKER_03]: than we have for the entire race.
01:43:22.985 --> 01:43:24.666
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a race that we end.
01:43:24.686 --> 01:43:26.687
[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta pace yourself in this.
01:43:28.228 --> 01:43:30.349
[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta pace yourself.
01:43:31.790 --> 01:43:32.630
[SPEAKER_03]: We do all this.
01:43:32.911 --> 01:43:40.815
[SPEAKER_03]: We do a thing and then nothing because we thought the start was the finish line.
01:43:41.556 --> 01:43:44.177
[SPEAKER_03]: But starting is the finish line.
01:43:45.558 --> 01:43:49.120
[SPEAKER_03]: Starting is when the responsibility began.
01:43:49.936 --> 01:44:07.623
[SPEAKER_03]: That idea you've been holding, now you have to learn, that opportunity you've been praying for, now you have to prepare, that door you've been asking God to open, now you have to walk through it.
01:44:08.523 --> 01:44:11.325
[SPEAKER_03]: And sometimes, let me help you out.
01:44:11.385 --> 01:44:12.045
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me help you out.
01:44:12.065 --> 01:44:13.165
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me help you out, let me help you out.
01:44:13.345 --> 01:44:15.406
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I had a problem with this in the beginning.
01:44:15.546 --> 01:44:16.827
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a problem with this.
01:44:17.688 --> 01:44:22.610
[SPEAKER_03]: sometimes walking through, I get listen, I had a problem with this next statement.
01:44:22.870 --> 01:44:32.754
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a problem with this by ego, my arrogance, whatever it was, both I think had to be a combination of both, but my ego kept me out of this.
01:44:33.074 --> 01:44:34.774
[SPEAKER_03]: I had a problem with this next statement.
01:44:35.214 --> 01:44:41.897
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes walking through it means admitting we don't know what we're doing.
01:44:45.063 --> 01:44:47.787
[SPEAKER_03]: We just don't know what we're doing.
01:44:48.188 --> 01:44:52.855
[SPEAKER_03]: So you find something, and when you don't know what you're doing, you find somebody who does.
01:44:53.316 --> 01:45:00.106
[SPEAKER_03]: You ask questions, you learn, you practice, you get better, you put some word on your fire.
01:45:00.747 --> 01:45:17.458
[SPEAKER_03]: You see, here's the part that nobody puts on all those inspirational and most motivational posters that we see on a social media and we join these motivational groups, but here's the part that gets left off to those motivational posters.
01:45:18.738 --> 01:45:24.002
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't get to starve a fire and complain that it went out.
01:45:25.177 --> 01:45:28.862
[SPEAKER_03]: Some fires die because the I don't listen.
01:45:29.163 --> 01:45:33.609
[SPEAKER_03]: Some fires don't die because the idea was bad.
01:45:34.390 --> 01:45:37.133
[SPEAKER_03]: They die because nobody fed them.
01:45:38.595 --> 01:45:39.677
[SPEAKER_03]: We asked somebody.
01:45:40.667 --> 01:45:49.591
[SPEAKER_03]: who was all excited about some fires they had, you asked them six months after, oh well you know man, and excitement is gone.
01:45:50.411 --> 01:45:52.472
[SPEAKER_03]: The thrill in their eyes is gone.
01:45:52.532 --> 01:45:54.193
[SPEAKER_03]: The passion is gone.
01:45:54.453 --> 01:45:56.814
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got to feed the fire.
01:45:58.595 --> 01:46:04.157
[SPEAKER_05]: We don't get to start a fire and then complain when it goes out.
01:46:07.423 --> 01:46:11.405
[SPEAKER_03]: Some fires don't die because the idea was bad.
01:46:12.185 --> 01:46:14.446
[SPEAKER_03]: They died because nobody fed them.
01:46:15.146 --> 01:46:17.667
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody made the next call.
01:46:18.167 --> 01:46:20.528
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody learned the next thing.
01:46:21.189 --> 01:46:23.470
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody showed up again.
01:46:24.030 --> 01:46:25.951
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody asked for help.
01:46:26.811 --> 01:46:30.132
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody kept putting fuel on it.
01:46:30.733 --> 01:46:36.475
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe that's the difference between having an idea and building something with it.
01:46:37.115 --> 01:46:41.477
[SPEAKER_03]: The match gives you the spark.
01:46:43.097 --> 01:46:44.378
[SPEAKER_03]: But what you do next?
01:46:46.280 --> 01:46:55.142
[SPEAKER_03]: That's on you, but let me show you let me show you we talk about John Walker the guy who you know they gave credit for and being the fire.
01:46:55.482 --> 01:47:04.905
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to show you exactly what he kept his matches in and I want to show you what the original matches look like.
01:47:05.125 --> 01:47:05.465
[SPEAKER_03]: Here they go.
01:47:06.445 --> 01:47:30.510
[SPEAKER_03]: So the original matches look just like there's a little flat piece of stick as you can see it had a little brown stuff on the tip of it there, but they were kept in the small 10 can nothing spectacular, if you saw it, if you have questions about it, it would be questionable, if you saw it, it was a look like anything that you said you look, let me have that.
01:47:32.166 --> 01:47:34.288
[SPEAKER_03]: It was questionable, had questions all about it.
01:47:34.548 --> 01:47:35.789
[SPEAKER_03]: What's in that can, man?
01:47:35.809 --> 01:47:37.710
[SPEAKER_03]: What the question was everywhere.
01:47:38.230 --> 01:47:40.512
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what he used to keep his matches in.
01:47:41.532 --> 01:47:42.213
[SPEAKER_03]: That's right here.
01:47:42.813 --> 01:47:45.235
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what he kept his matches in.
01:47:45.555 --> 01:47:50.719
[SPEAKER_03]: John Walker didn't have some, it was his own fancy name for what he created.
01:47:50.739 --> 01:47:51.739
[SPEAKER_03]: He got him like sticks.
01:47:53.160 --> 01:47:55.862
[SPEAKER_03]: He got them like sticks, sticks, they gave life.
01:47:56.823 --> 01:47:59.125
[SPEAKER_05]: And he kept them as simple, 10 can.
01:48:01.178 --> 01:48:13.765
[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't know what you've been keeping your match in, maybe you've been keeping your dream in a box called some day.
01:48:16.267 --> 01:48:20.129
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe you've been keeping in a box called, I'm not ready.
01:48:22.190 --> 01:48:26.233
[SPEAKER_05]: Or your opportunity in a box called, maybe later.
01:48:27.733 --> 01:48:29.855
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you're still figuring it out.
01:48:30.787 --> 01:48:33.410
[SPEAKER_03]: like this tank hand, maybe it's questionable.
01:48:33.990 --> 01:48:41.258
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's okay, but somewhere in there, you know, you're on to something.
01:48:41.578 --> 01:48:43.800
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that's, I want you to do me a favor this week.
01:48:44.941 --> 01:48:46.863
[SPEAKER_03]: This week, I want you to do me a favor.
01:48:47.464 --> 01:48:48.405
[SPEAKER_03]: Do something
01:48:49.532 --> 01:48:50.653
[SPEAKER_03]: that makes it catch.
01:48:51.453 --> 01:48:55.895
[SPEAKER_03]: Do something that makes your fire catch.
01:48:56.455 --> 01:48:57.136
[SPEAKER_03]: Do something.
01:48:57.356 --> 01:48:59.237
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll write the book, meditate.
01:48:59.257 --> 01:49:04.559
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever you have to do, something that makes your fire catch.
01:49:04.959 --> 01:49:09.702
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you've been waiting for another mat.
01:49:10.682 --> 01:49:14.864
[SPEAKER_03]: When you've already gotten one in your hand, you
01:49:17.912 --> 01:49:29.816
[SPEAKER_05]: To change something, sometimes all you need is one little flame pointed in the right direction.
01:49:29.856 --> 01:49:35.278
[SPEAKER_03]: So strike it and give it somewhere worth going.
01:49:36.138 --> 01:49:40.100
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a Latin word I'm going to share with you.
01:49:47.057 --> 01:49:59.664
[SPEAKER_03]: E-N-T-O-V-I-V-E-R-E, Memento-The-V-R-E, and it means, remember, to live.
01:50:01.325 --> 01:50:05.708
[SPEAKER_03]: Because life isn't waiting for tomorrow to become perfect.
01:50:06.348 --> 01:50:11.751
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the match you've been holding isn't asking for another reason to wait.
01:50:12.332 --> 01:50:13.673
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's asking,
01:50:17.883 --> 01:50:22.707
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was thinking about this episode, something kind of hit me.
01:50:22.727 --> 01:50:29.473
[SPEAKER_03]: I was like, out of the blue, and I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, all this time.
01:50:29.973 --> 01:50:33.256
[SPEAKER_03]: I was talking about matching flame and fire and matches.
01:50:33.897 --> 01:50:39.962
[SPEAKER_03]: It all this time, I thought I was talking about one moment.
01:50:40.983 --> 01:50:48.001
[SPEAKER_03]: All this time, I thought I was talking about one opportunity, one chance to change our life.
01:50:48.883 --> 01:50:49.404
[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't.
01:50:51.232 --> 01:50:53.054
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not talking about one moment.
01:50:53.734 --> 01:50:57.036
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not talking about one chance to change your life.
01:50:57.817 --> 01:51:00.918
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm talking about your life.
01:51:01.459 --> 01:51:05.101
[SPEAKER_03]: Because your life is the match.
01:51:05.401 --> 01:51:09.584
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's your life is the match.
01:51:09.924 --> 01:51:14.247
[SPEAKER_03]: As the only way to experience was inside it.
01:51:15.091 --> 01:51:31.389
[SPEAKER_03]: is to strike it, yay, you've got to strike it, your whole life is one match, now strike it, your entire life needs to be struck, listen.
01:51:32.458 --> 01:51:37.743
[SPEAKER_03]: If you've heard the show, you know, I love a good story.
01:51:38.203 --> 01:51:39.484
[SPEAKER_03]: I do, I love a good story.
01:51:39.524 --> 01:51:40.925
[SPEAKER_03]: I love reading a good book.
01:51:41.265 --> 01:51:46.310
[SPEAKER_03]: And one of my favorite books among many that enjoy reading is the Bible.
01:51:47.617 --> 01:51:50.539
[SPEAKER_03]: And I love the stories that are in it.
01:51:50.639 --> 01:51:52.641
[SPEAKER_03]: I love the truths that are in it.
01:51:53.001 --> 01:52:01.468
[SPEAKER_03]: And if I was in the pool pen, if I was a preacher and I was saying that you are the light, I wanna say something that Jesus would say.
01:52:01.728 --> 01:52:06.392
[SPEAKER_03]: He said, Jesus said you are the light of the world.
01:52:06.812 --> 01:52:13.177
[SPEAKER_03]: Not you might be, not go find the light, but you are the light of the world.
01:52:13.377 --> 01:52:16.700
[SPEAKER_03]: You are the match of life.
01:52:17.340 --> 01:52:18.841
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, the match.
01:52:18.901 --> 01:52:22.283
[SPEAKER_03]: So maybe I've been looking at this all wrong.
01:52:22.723 --> 01:52:25.665
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe this was never really about the match.
01:52:26.659 --> 01:52:30.102
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe this was never really about one moment in history.
01:52:30.483 --> 01:52:35.508
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe this was never about an opportunity in your life.
01:52:35.928 --> 01:52:39.051
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the match is you.
01:52:39.431 --> 01:52:41.814
[SPEAKER_03]: The fire is already there.
01:52:42.094 --> 01:52:44.336
[SPEAKER_03]: The light is already there.
01:52:44.656 --> 01:52:50.942
[SPEAKER_03]: And maybe the question isn't whether you have another opportunity waiting somewhere out there.
01:52:51.623 --> 01:53:01.752
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe the question is, in the same way you would strike a match, what are you going to strike your life against?
01:53:02.172 --> 01:53:13.582
[SPEAKER_03]: Because sometimes you have to strike your life against what you've been taught, what you've been thinking against your own thoughts, sometimes you have to strike it against
01:53:14.821 --> 01:53:15.181
[SPEAKER_03]: fear.
01:53:15.662 --> 01:53:23.645
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you have to strike your life against the door that you've been too afraid to open.
01:53:24.286 --> 01:53:30.169
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you have to strike it against an opportunity you never thought will come.
01:53:30.669 --> 01:53:37.792
[SPEAKER_03]: Or that you never thought you'd be ready for because your life is the match.
01:53:38.613 --> 01:53:39.653
[SPEAKER_03]: And the only way
01:53:45.143 --> 01:53:46.264
[SPEAKER_03]: is to strike it.
01:53:47.605 --> 01:53:55.730
[SPEAKER_05]: What if you've been waiting on something that has been waiting on us?
01:53:58.171 --> 01:53:59.172
[SPEAKER_05]: Now strike it.
01:53:59.552 --> 01:54:02.414
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, you got to strike your match.
01:54:02.994 --> 01:54:04.595
[SPEAKER_03]: One match.
01:54:05.256 --> 01:54:08.298
[SPEAKER_03]: One match you your life
01:54:16.218 --> 01:54:16.638
[SPEAKER_03]: match.
01:54:17.138 --> 01:54:19.099
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I got to get out of here.
01:54:19.739 --> 01:54:20.679
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to get out of here.
01:54:20.959 --> 01:54:22.700
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's always in party, man.
01:54:23.080 --> 01:54:24.140
[SPEAKER_03]: It's been a real blast.
01:54:24.180 --> 01:54:25.500
[SPEAKER_03]: Put it in right here.
01:54:25.820 --> 01:54:32.202
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, every Tuesday, 630 PM Central, 730 PM Eastern, to listen to the show.
01:54:32.542 --> 01:54:33.842
[SPEAKER_03]: Or you can tune in right here, guys.
01:54:33.942 --> 01:54:34.682
[SPEAKER_03]: Every Tuesday.
01:54:35.022 --> 01:54:42.584
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is a guy on your famous German platform on an Apple podcast, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music and
01:54:42.584 --> 01:54:51.318
[SPEAKER_03]: And so many more guys I gotta get out of here, but it's always imparting if you're gonna tell me something Then tell me something good.
01:54:51.718 --> 01:54:52.660
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not a hero.
01:54:53.000 --> 01:54:53.721
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta go.
01:54:54.082 --> 01:54:54.403
[SPEAKER_03]: Peace