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[crickets chirping]

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[sprinkler rattles]
[birds chirping]

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[dog barks]

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[laughs]

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- This is the...

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one of the type cases
that was in the shop

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when the copy was
produced on a Linotype.

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Sentences were formed
letter by letter. [laughs]

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Which you know, you just
think about that,

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and that's pretty amazing.

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This is just a huge
piece of my history.

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My dad was always working.

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He'd bang out editorials
all weekend long.

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He wrote a lot of editorials.

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But there was this whole
other part of the newspaper

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that was the news and the sports

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and the things that were
happening in the community,

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which were also given as
much weight and importance

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and effort as opinions were.

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We have always reported the
news that is most important

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to the people who live here.

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It's the news of the community.

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[upbeat music]

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[people chattering]
[people laughing]

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Man, there's fire everywhere,

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and I've done a lot of
this in the last few years.

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[upbeat music]

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A bad day starts about
two o'clock in the morning,

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and a good day probably
starts at four.

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No one else is gonna
tell the stories

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that we're telling.

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Nobody.

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There's all these things
that we do on a daily basis

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that I don't know
who's gonna do that

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if the newspaper doesn't.

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What happens if
nobody's doing this?

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[birds chirping]

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[car ambience]

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This is the assisted living
center that you see up here

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and the nursing home
they're building below that.

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Just recently we voted to
build a new nursing home.

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There's a nursing home here
that was built 50 years ago,

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and it's falling apart.

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I understand this day,
in a year,

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we're going to be--

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- Should open the doors.
- opening the doors.

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- That's the goal.

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[Laurie] We'll put it in print.

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We may even put it
in the big headline.

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- Everybody take a shovelful.

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- That was something we wrote
a lot about and supported.

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[group applauds]

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I think there are
things like that

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that you can be influential
in helping to happen.

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That are good things
for the community.

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- Okay, four and five,
right, you got that.

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- They were so excited.
- I love it.

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Oh, there, is that Norma?

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There's Norma.

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- I love having all these people
looking over my shoulder.

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[Mary laughs]

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- I don't even remember asking.

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- You said, "I need help."

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- You said, "I need help."

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We're here to help.

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I've been here for 23 years,

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23 years.

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Mostly because
Laurie's desperate.

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We have a good group here.

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We all work very well together.

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Even though Cathy and I keep
trying to retire. [laughs]

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Yeah, it's okay, and Laurie too.

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But we have to keep
going, huh Laurie?

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[Laurie] That's right.

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Cathy Ricketts,

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she and I have been friends

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since the first day
of first grade.

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We met on the playground,
on the edge of the playground

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where we were both positioned

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safely away from everybody else.

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And it became obvious
to me and to her,

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I think at the same time,

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we were both incredibly shy,

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and that we could be shy alone

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or we could be shy
together and--

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- Right.

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- we've somehow remarkably
managed to remain friends

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all this time,

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even after Cathy worked with me,

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which is a real miracle.

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- My brothers and I worked
here as child laborers

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when it was, you know,

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when everything was
manual labor at the paper.

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- These roots run deep,

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don't they?

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- They run deep, yes.

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[Laurie] This is
a legacy business.

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My parents bought it in '47,

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and it's been in
the family since.

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It was just part of the
fabric of life for me.

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I'm the baby, sitting
in my father's lap.

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This is rare.

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We didn't do family photos,

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you know, there wasn't
time to do family photos.

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I admired my dad enormously,

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but he wasn't present

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the way some dads are.

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Our family time was sitting
at the dinner table.

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That was what you did.

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You were home for dinner,
and we sat and we talked.

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We talked about our day,

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we talked about politics,

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we talked about what was
happening in the world.

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That was a treasure.

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And it really informed
everything I've done since.

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[train horn blares]

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[clanking, pages turning]

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[Mary] Canadian Record,
may I help you?

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- Every week we try to put
out the red flag first,

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just to let 'em
know it's paper day,

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and the green flag to let
them know that it's here.

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This is the day that
people come in the office

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and we talk about nothing.

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It's sort of the weekly checkup,
you know, check in on people.

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- What's going on, young man?

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You staying outta trouble?

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- Yes sir.

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- The older you get,
the easier it gets.

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[all laughing]

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[Customer] So what
were you groundbreaking?

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- The nursing home.

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[Cathy] We're
securing our future.

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[Customer] Yeah, you are.

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- But the good news is

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we got them on record saying

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we will be doing the ribbon
cutting next year on this day.

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- This is the
heartbeat of the town.

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I mean, she has
institutional memory,

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but The Record is a
memory that is in print

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and will not go to
the nursing home.

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Uh...

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[Laurie] It may.

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We may be producing
it from there.

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- Well you might be doing it,
but it is an institution.

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It's not just a business.

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It has to be a business
in order to survive,

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but that's not its
primary function.

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- No, it really isn't.
[laughing]

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You have no idea.
- Yeah.

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[all laughing]

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[traffic passing]

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[car ambience]

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- Hey Ms. Aida.

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[Ms. Aida] Well, hello sweetie,
whatcha doing girl?

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- Well, we have done
for the band...

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so this is what we
had done last year

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and I was just wondering
if you would like

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to stay with the
black and white

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or would you like
to do the color?

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- What's the difference
in the price?

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- Well, you've got
67.20 for the color,

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and then we've got 47.20
for the black and white.

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- We can go to color.

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- Oh, okay.

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That'll work.
- Okay, all right.

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- Great.
- Thank you Ms. Aida.

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[Mary] And so, these are
the classified displays,

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and these are just
the regular word ads.

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[Laurie] We sure don't
have many of them anymore.

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- They've picked up
a little bit,

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but yeah, they're
still kind of slim

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compared to what they
were a long time ago.

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[Laurie] Well, they used to
be a huge source of revenue.

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[gentle music]

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[Laurie] Ninety percent of our
revenue comes from advertising,

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and that model is failing.

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They have a Facebook page now,

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the radio station does.
- Yeah.

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- And they're posting all these
ads on their Facebook page.

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I'm sure they're not
charging for them.

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I mean, it's just one more
thing that takes away revenue.

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You know, you can just
watch small town newspapers

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just dry up and blow away.

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There have been weeks
when I wasn't sure

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we were gonna be
able to keep going.

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When I was publishing
a newspaper

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that was costing me more
money than I was making.

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[somber music]

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I've looked at
trying to sell it.

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Newspapers with small
circulation

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in small rural communities

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aren't exactly the hot ticket.

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Mary?

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[Mary] Oh, there it is.

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Okay, I got it now.

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- Hey, how's it going?

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[laughing]

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- Don't get too close to me.

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I swear to God,
I will break it.

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[Mary] Laurie Ezzell Brown.

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- Laurie Ezzell
Brown has been up

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since three o'clock
this morning.

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I decided I would do an ad

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letting people know the
newspaper's for sale.

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I don't feel great about it,

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but I don't want to just
drop dead at my desk.

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[Mary] I don't want you
to drop dead either.

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- 'Cause that's what my dad did.

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[Mary] I've been worried
about that

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for a while actually.

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- Me dropping dead?

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- Oh yeah.

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[Laurie] Look at that.

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It's an early night.

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It's way before midnight.

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Awesome.

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- You did good.
- I did work a lot.

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[Mary] You did good, boss.

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Yay. I don't know if I'm
getting this at all.

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[car passing]

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[birds chirping]

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- I'm Gabriel.
- Yeah.

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- Heir to the newspaper,
whatever.

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- Tell your whole name, Gabe.

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- Gabriel Freedom Brown.

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From a Janice Joplin song.
- Yeah.

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"Freedom's just another word..."

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Gabriel could easily
do this job,

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but I've never
bugged him, have I?

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- No.

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- I never would.

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- Just watched my
grandparents and my mother

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not have any time
ever to do anything

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other than the newspaper.

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- You weren't completely
abandoned though.

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We did do things.

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- I know.

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[gentle music]

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- This is a picture
of me and Gabe.

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He was about three years old.

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He was a very cute kid.

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He's cute now.

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But yeah, he was
pretty adorable.

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I love this picture.

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We went down to the office

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and he sat at
Granddad's typewriter.

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Gabe grew up having a very
controversial grandfather

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as editor of the
local newspaper,

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and then having a very
controversial mother

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as editor of the newspaper.

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Every once in a while, when
I'm feeling overwhelmed,

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Gabe says, "I should help you."

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I'm like, "Gabe, it's not
fair to you or to your family

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to feel like you're being
guilt-tripped into pursuing it."

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I think he has a huge respect

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for what the Canadian Record
is and what its history is.

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A lot of newspaper owners,
they're like me.

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They don't have a family
who wants to take over,

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which is sort of
what you counted on.

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- What do you got for me?

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- Nine hundred.

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Last nine.

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Lots going on.

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Lots going on.

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- See ya.
[Laurie] I gotta come by

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and see your mom at some
point and congratulate her.

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- Well, thank you very much.

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- It's just good to have
a newspaper in your town,

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especially as small as we are.

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You do a good job.

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Y'all do a good job.

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Okay, well, I'm moseying on.

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All right, I'll see
you at homecoming.

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Love ya, love ya, bye.

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[marching band music]

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- Football in Canadian
is everything.

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If you wanna rob a home
in Canadian, Texas,

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rob it on Friday night
'cause everybody's gone.

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My dad was covering a
playoff football game,

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had a heart attack,

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and he collapsed.

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He was working too much.

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You know, he probably
should have lived longer,

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and he could have
maybe lived longer

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if he'd let up a little bit.

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I mean, Dad was stubborn.

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He was a stubborn man.

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He did it his way.

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The Vietnam War and the Civil
Rights Movement changed him.

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And at the same time,

00:14:03.277 --> 00:14:06.413
this community was
becoming more conservative.

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He took some very difficult
stands in the newspaper

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that were not very popular here.

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The house would be vandalized,

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rocks thrown.

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There was one time when
a small bomb was set off

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underneath my bedroom
window, actually.

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I'll never forget that.

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Our politics do not reflect
the prevailing politics

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of this community,

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and they never have.

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[Speaker] Keeping Texas red
is the number one priority.

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We don't have a problem
keeping Texas red

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in the Texas panhandle.

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I tell folks I never
have a general election

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'cause we don't
have any Democrats.

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[crowd laughs]

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[Laurie] This county
voted 87% for Trump in 2016.

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"Trump wins election he
denounced as rigged."

00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:10.978
"He set new-- and far lower
standards-- for qualification

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to the nation's chief
executive office,

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with his crude language,

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his tendency to incite and
encourage violence,

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and his oft-repeated
insults towards women."

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I think there are many issues

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that totally transcend

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national politics

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and partisan politics,

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and they're really just about

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making this a good
place to live.

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- National news...

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you don't know who to trust.

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We know her.

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We can trust that she's
gonna report the news to us.

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- All in favor, aye.

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- Aye.
- Aye.

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- Laurie goes to
all the meetings,

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and people know what's
going on because she goes.

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- "Opposition to corporate
hog factory

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develops at Lipscomb
County meeting."

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This was a big meeting.

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Mainly, it was just
educating people,

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calling the politicians
to account for it.

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People started following
our coverage,

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and we started getting lots
of letters to the editor.

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That debate grew

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based on the reports
we'd written.

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The county commissioners
actually voted unanimously

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not to invite or incentivize
the corporate hog farms.

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That was a big deal,
and it was sort--

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it sent a really strong
signal to these companies.

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This isn't the place
you want to come.

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I've tried to make this effort
to find some common ground

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that we have,

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and how can I move that
slightly forward?

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- The paper does make us think,

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and it informs us about
some issues that

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maybe we're not aware of.

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- And they have different
viewpoints than we do

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or other people do,

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but we recognize that
and we like that.

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[Laurie] We've had people
who canceled advertising

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because of things I've written.

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There've been some
called-in threats.

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But people come to me
all the time and say,

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"Please don't ever
stop doing this."

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And so it's kind of hard
to turn away from that.

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[gentle music]

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[car passing]

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[birds chirping]
[dogs barking]

00:17:31.118 --> 00:17:36.456
[birds chirping]

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[birds chirping]

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[gavel bangs]

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[Judge] I call the meeting

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of Hemphill County
Commissioner's Court to order.

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Monday, August the 10th,
2020, 9:00 AM.

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Covid 19 matters--

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things are moving along.

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It seems to have slowed
down here a little bit.

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Still no hospital admissions.

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You know, we're fortunate not
to have had anybody admitted

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to the hospital.

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It may be the nature of
the virus is changing.

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It's not as serious.

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- We're in Commissioner's
court yesterday morning

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and George Bryant announces

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that we have had
some cases here,

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but they're in control.

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And fortunately, we've
had no one hospitalized.

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So I walk out, Cathy's
sent me a text saying,

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[silenced] has Covid,
and she's in the hospital.

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I have made a conscious
effort not to politicize it,

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though God knows the
temptation has been huge.

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Right now, I just want people
to have good information.

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We understand that there
have been some positive tests

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at the nursing home.

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Were these people who were in
proximity to the residents?

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Why can't you get
rapid tests for this?

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That really is the problem.

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There is no national standard,

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national set of protocols,

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national source of materials.

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We're a United States
for a reason, right?

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But that's no longer true.

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- Oh, it's all awful.

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The thing that has changed
during all this is the tension.

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The ugly in the world.

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The media has just
taken a wrap, you know,

00:19:22.629 --> 00:19:23.964
and it's not fair.

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It's not fair.

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[somber music]

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Okay, we need a headline.

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- The yellow of the
sky was amazing,

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then you walk out,

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and then you see the rainbow.

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- Not yellow. Gold.

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- It was orange.
- Gold.

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- How about golden showers?
[group laughs]

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[Mary] Nooo! Okay, I dare you.

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I double dog dare you.

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Oh gosh.

00:19:53.059 --> 00:20:00.233
[somber music]

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Okie doke.

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[Laurie] I have too.

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We may only talk about
how hot it is outside--

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- That's exactly right.
- but it's something.

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[somber music]

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This is where it starts.

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- What?

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- Superintendent Pulliam
has reported

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that they've had their
first Covid positive

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on the football team.

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They're quarantining now

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to determine how much
exposure there's been.

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People need to know
that this is spreading.

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- Yeah.
- This is happening.

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We are about to start school

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and this is serious.

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[birds chirping]

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[wind whooshing]

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[Woman on phone] It's not
a time to relax.

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We have another month
of potential waves coming

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with the holiday--
- Yeah.

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- and the football games.

00:21:26.819 --> 00:21:28.621
[keyboard keys clicking]

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- We'd have two or three cases,

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and then those just
grew exponentially.

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And we've also had
some deaths in August.

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We have nine active, and
then suddenly from 12 to 26.

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From 26 to 54.
- Wow.

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- But then it just
kept climbing.

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- Yep.
- We're up to 65.

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It would help me a lot
if you would mark the ads

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that you know we're
not gonna have.

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[Laurie] Yeah.

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- Bob's even thinking about
shutting down his shop,

00:22:06.926 --> 00:22:10.130
it's gotten so bad there.

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That's out.

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[Laurie] Well, I know
it's really hard on you

00:22:15.669 --> 00:22:18.338
'cause you have to
hear this from people,

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and you have to go ask 'em.

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I had a feeling this was coming.

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We're just gonna try
and keep the doors open.

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We know lots of businesses
that are closing

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and people who are
getting laid off,

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and it's all hitting,
really, right now,

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and it's not looking good.

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It's just, you know,

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it's just hard knowing how
many people are gonna be...

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in trouble.

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[Paula Kay Hargrove] I prayed
about it this morning.

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I asked God to help
me tell the story

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that can help somebody else.

00:23:13.360 --> 00:23:16.563
Ty was diagnosed with
Covid October 1st.

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Sure enough, he's got pneumonia,

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and they're putting
him in the hospital.

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He's like, "Paula,
I can't do this.

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You've got to get here."

00:23:23.269 --> 00:23:24.471
He said, "I can't breathe.

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I'm scared."

00:23:25.973 --> 00:23:29.141
He said, "I thought I
was invincible to this."

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I've always been with him
every step of the way.

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Every step of the way.

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[crying] I've never had
to leave his side.

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- Are you okay?

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Do you need to...

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you need a break?

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You need to stop?

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[Paula] No.[sniffles]

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You'd better pay attention.

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If you're immune-suppressed,
if you're elderly,

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you better pay attention.

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This thing's real.
- Yeah.

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[Paula] And it's mean.

00:23:55.335 --> 00:23:58.137
- That was tougher than
I even expected.

00:24:07.280 --> 00:24:09.416
[keys clicking]

00:24:09.416 --> 00:24:10.617
- Well, I don't know.

00:24:10.617 --> 00:24:13.353
I think everybody
thinks they're above it.

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- There was not a
living soul in there

00:24:15.321 --> 00:24:19.292
that was wearing a
mask except for us.

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And it was weird.

00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:22.696
[Jenny] And they look at you
like you're an idiot--

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- Yes.
- for wearing that mask.

00:24:23.864 --> 00:24:26.999
- Like we're somehow subversive.

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The fact that journalism
is being denounced,

00:24:33.707 --> 00:24:36.910
there's no longer much
value placed on the truth,

00:24:36.910 --> 00:24:40.546
is just about the scariest
thing I've ever seen in my life.

00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:43.349
Um, I am terrified.

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They didn't want me to report

00:24:44.785 --> 00:24:46.553
that Biden had
won that election.

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[Mary] I know.

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- And they didn't want
me the next week.

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They didn't want me the
next week or the next week.

00:24:51.858 --> 00:24:54.694
And by God, the electoral
college has voted,

00:24:54.694 --> 00:24:56.897
and Joe Biden is gonna
be our president,

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and I'm going to make sure
it's in the goddamn newspaper.

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And that's it.

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I don't understand.

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These are people I care about,

00:25:08.074 --> 00:25:09.142
I respect,

00:25:09.142 --> 00:25:11.711
I've grown up with.

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People who have been kind to me.

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I just am having trouble
coming to terms with it.

00:25:17.550 --> 00:25:23.490
[somber music]
[wind blowing]

00:25:23.490 --> 00:25:29.930
[children cheering]

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I think maybe one thing that's
helping community right now,

00:25:33.800 --> 00:25:35.202
silly as it sounds,

00:25:35.202 --> 00:25:39.305
is the football team working
its way up the playoffs

00:25:39.305 --> 00:25:41.240
to the state championships.

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- Go Wildcats! Go Wildcats!

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[Commentator] False start.

00:25:48.214 --> 00:25:50.550
- A lot of false starts today.

00:25:50.550 --> 00:25:51.918
[Ref] False start.

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- I have to be here so
that once the game's over,

00:25:54.788 --> 00:25:56.857
someone can send me the
story and the pictures,

00:25:56.857 --> 00:25:58.692
and I can finish our paper.

00:25:58.692 --> 00:26:01.127
- Oh. Um...

00:26:01.127 --> 00:26:02.594
[laughs]

00:26:04.397 --> 00:26:06.800
- Here's people just like them,

00:26:06.800 --> 00:26:09.136
probably people they know,
a lot of 'em know.

00:26:09.136 --> 00:26:11.938
And they're saying, we didn't
take it seriously.

00:26:11.938 --> 00:26:14.741
And look, you know,
look at what it did.

00:26:14.741 --> 00:26:17.109
I think it's a good message.

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- Come on! No!

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:21.381
Go, go, go.

00:26:21.381 --> 00:26:22.648
Oh, oh!

00:26:23.817 --> 00:26:25.618
[Commentator] They're gonna keep
pushing the pedal down.

00:26:25.618 --> 00:26:26.653
- We're about ready to score.

00:26:26.653 --> 00:26:28.421
You wanna come watch?

00:26:28.421 --> 00:26:31.090
[crowd cheering]

00:26:31.090 --> 00:26:32.225
Go baby go!

00:26:32.225 --> 00:26:34.927
Woo hoo! [cheering]

00:26:36.896 --> 00:26:38.030
Woo hoo!

00:26:38.431 --> 00:26:40.199
[Announcer] Touchdown.

00:26:40.199 --> 00:26:43.169
[group chattering]

00:26:44.905 --> 00:26:46.573
[Laurie] Oh, there he is.

00:26:46.573 --> 00:26:48.641
This guy trying to stop him.

00:26:48.641 --> 00:26:51.077
That's a really great photo.

00:26:52.311 --> 00:26:53.212
[Mary] Love it.

00:26:54.614 --> 00:26:56.417
[keys clicking]

00:26:56.417 --> 00:26:58.184
[Laurie] There are people
just like me doing this

00:26:58.184 --> 00:26:59.853
all over the country.

00:26:59.853 --> 00:27:02.923
Most of 'em for not much money,

00:27:02.923 --> 00:27:07.427
and most of 'em investing
lots of time in it

00:27:07.427 --> 00:27:10.829
and lots of their heart in it.

00:27:13.867 --> 00:27:17.136
It's getting more difficult
to sustain those businesses.

00:27:17.403 --> 00:27:19.905
And I am not unique.

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Today, the free and
independent press,

00:27:29.082 --> 00:27:32.652
long the trusted watchdog of
local and state government,

00:27:32.652 --> 00:27:35.688
is slowly vanishing from
the American landscape.

00:27:36.557 --> 00:27:40.093
The freefall of newspaper
readership was precipitated

00:27:40.093 --> 00:27:44.197
by the emergence of online
news and social media

00:27:44.197 --> 00:27:47.967
and the subsequent crash
in advertising revenue.

00:27:49.136 --> 00:27:53.839
A new generation demanded
free news and 24-hour updates.

00:27:55.075 --> 00:27:57.277
While the sheer
volume of news grew,

00:27:57.277 --> 00:28:00.880
the vital connection
between reader and reporter,

00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:03.183
the trusted relationship
between news

00:28:03.183 --> 00:28:06.085
and the community it served,
eroded.

00:28:06.820 --> 00:28:08.488
Newspapers began to disappear

00:28:08.488 --> 00:28:11.890
in increasingly
alarming numbers.

00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:16.296
Not yet quite so obvious
has been the slow

00:28:16.296 --> 00:28:19.866
but relentless
disruption of community

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and of the delicate but
critical balance of power

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that a well-informed and
engaged public can exert

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over its increasingly
unaccountable

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and unresponsive government.

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[somber music]

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Hmm.

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It is depressing.

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[wind whooshing]

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- I am gonna try to leave,

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hopefully after I get the
paper done tomorrow

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to go to Kansas

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to look for a place to live.

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[Laurie] With the oil and
gas business around here

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in limbo, her husband
had to look elsewhere,

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and so he found a job in Kansas.

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- Well, I told Laurie I would
work 'til the end of May.

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This is my family.

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You know, I know all the
customers, and they know me.

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And I was young and skinny
when I came to work here.

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I'm old and fat now. [laughing]

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I don't know,
it's gonna be hard.

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It's gonna be hard.

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So this has been my purpose
for a long time, so.

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[Laurie] Three
people have left.

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First, our very good sports
writer and graphic designer.

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Then my friend and long-time
coworker, Cathy.

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She had medical things
she needed to get done.

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She needed to spend
time with her mom.

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She needed to retire.

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And now Mary, who is the
life of the Canadian Record.

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Both of them have just been
a key part of the newspaper,

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and a key part of who I am
and what I'm able to do.

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And I really can't imagine
doing it without them.

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I've been doing the writing,
photography, editing,

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one person where there
used to be three people.

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It's gonna take a
physical toll on me.

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It feels like it already is.

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So I just think I've
gotta make a life change.

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[Video VO] The reason
we're here today

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is one word,

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sustainability.

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How do we sustain our
values and our traditions?

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Hell, how do we
sustain our ranches?

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Welcome to the 2022 Hemphill
County Beef Cattle Conference.

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- I've been trying to find
someone to take it over.

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I've been working on
it for a while now,

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and nobody wants to
come to the Panhandle.

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Anyway, I'm sort of
struggling right now.

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So.
- I can't even imagine.

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- Well, it's tough.

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I really thought I had
something worked out, and...

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[crowd chattering]

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[somber music]

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[camera clicking]

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[running footsteps]

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I don't want to just do it
'til I can't do it anymore,

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do it 'til I die,

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because I want to make sure
that it has a life beyond me,

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beyond my family.

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It would be devastating
to close this business.

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I would feel that I had failed.

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[somber music]

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[crickets chirping]

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[papers rustling]

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[door thuds]

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[car passing]

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I got home very late
and very tired.

00:33:04.317 --> 00:33:08.287
I was ready to just
toss it all in.

00:33:09.989 --> 00:33:12.658
And this was in my inbox.

00:33:13.727 --> 00:33:17.130
I've tossed around the idea
of emailing you for a while.

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The first time was when
you wrote about the gap

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between what most
Christian voters stand for

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and President Trump.

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I want you to know
that you speak for me

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and most of my friends.

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These past two years have been
completely flabbergasting.

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The basic ideals and principles
our parents instilled in us

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are completely absent.

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I don't know what I am anymore.

00:33:44.157 --> 00:33:47.092
Fed up, disgusted, sad.

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All of this was
to say thank you.

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There's a group of women here
who appreciate your work.

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We need your work.

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Please don't stop.

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Let me think about that one.

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All right.
[camera clicks]

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That's excellent. Thank you.

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I appreciate the
stubborn tenacity

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in which you and your staff
continue to print truth.

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[uplifting music]

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- She used her profession
to help the cause,

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getting this built.

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[Laurie] The Canadian Record
is the linchpin

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in which our community is based.

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Keep pushing us to be better.

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It's pretty amazing.

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[Director] And what'd you think
after you read that?

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- I didn't quit.

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I didn't quit.

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I couldn't quit.

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You can't quit.

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[uplifting music]