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0:00Yeah, here’s the mic. If you can do it, I’d like you to do it only once, right? So, what’s up? My name is Maceo. What’s your name? My name is Corey Warner. Okay, oh yeah. And what’s your name? Uh my name is Jan. Jan? Oh yeah. So, I’m going out every weekend and I’m asking different people questions. Last week’s question was what’s the biggest global issue today? Uh this week’s question is what’s something that made you smile this week? And this is for Pictures Didn’t Happen and We Them Media. All right. Um I’m a teacher and I’m on spring break. And uh I got to go down to Moab area and
0:34I got to climb Castleton Tower and just standing on top of a desert tower with the wind whipping through my bald hair um was a joy. Loved being there and just getting out with a good friend and really pushing ourselves to explore new places. Oh yeah. Um this week I had somebody just compliment me on my style while I was like walking through the street and like, you know, small little nice thing to say, but made my day. Um yeah, it was just like a nice thing to hear. Oh yeah. Yeah. And how do you two know each other? We’re climbing buddies. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We climb together. He wasn’t the
1:11one that was with me this week, but he’s one of my main main climbing partners. Okay, hell yeah. And how do you see the the state of the world right now? Oh god, don’t get me started. I think that the world is in a in a scary place right now because people um are losing touch with their humanity and we need to to uplift one another, to support one another, and there’s too much um tearing people down for selfish reasons. Um and I I I I just I can go on for hours about just all of the ways in which that’s happening. But that’s kind of a
1:59generalization of what I’m seeing um with the world today. All right, I got that. I guess to keep it a little bit more simple, uh I feel like we’re kind of [bleeped] right now. It’s it’s pretty [bleeped] bad. Yeah. And if you could ask people around the world one question, what would you ask them? With I guess with that in mind, maybe, right? Yeah. Um [bleeped] that’s a good one. Um I guess like um you know, if uh if there was one thing that like we could do to just kind of like mend the relationship that we have right now, you know, like I guess like how could we do that? Yeah.
2:36That’s a good one. I like that. And then what does reconciliation look like? Yeah, make some peace. What are you doing to take care of the people in your life? Oh yeah. Well, thank you guys. Yeah, thank you, man.
