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Here we go.

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All right, welcome to this week's Water Talk.

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I have with me today my dad.

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So much to say about my father,

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but at this point in my life, one of my best friends.

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My dad taught me how to surf when I was 12 years old.

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We had been around the world together.

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I could go on and on about my father,

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and I love him so much,

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and it's an honor to have him here with me today.

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So thanks for doing this, dad.

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Thank you.

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Yep.

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So Neil Delemater, my father,

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when you are at home these days,

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which we've all spent a lot of time at home,

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where do you like to go,

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and what do you like to eat when you're hungry?

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Where do you want to get something to eat at these days?

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Well, I usually,

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I'm pretty much of a vegetarian,

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so I drink a lot of milk.

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So some of my meals are just,

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consists of a glass of milk on the run.

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I know a lot of people don't think that's the meal,

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but quite often I'm okay with just a glass of milk

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on the run.

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That gets me going, you know?

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Otherwise I eat mostly vegetarian diet

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with a little bit of fish.

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Yep.

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You've been that way my entire life.

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I have never seen you eat meat.

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So you've always been that way my whole life.

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So awesome.

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Okay, so dad, what are you doing these days,

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and how did you get into it?

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Oh, well, lately these days,

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I've been doing a whole lot of work around here.

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This house is 50 years old or more,

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and 60 years old,

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and these things don't take care of themselves.

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So every once in a while,

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you're hit with a whole bunch of things at once,

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which lately it seems like everything's just been

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needing repair a lot.

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So it's been a lot of yard work lately,

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and replacing slider, and painting,

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and fixing plumbing, and all that sort of thing.

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That kind of thing goes in waves.

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Sometimes you don't have to do anything for five years,

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and then all of a sudden it'll hit you all at once,

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and you'll be just busy for six months.

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And so lately I just,

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I'm just now coming out of one of those busy periods.

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Now everything's kind of like buttoned up,

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and fixed, and painted,

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and everything like that for a while.

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So we're kind of getting ready to go

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into coast mode here for a while.

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So that's what I've been doing with my time.

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Well, that's great.

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Well, you certainly earned it

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for those of you who don't know my father.

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My father was a teamster,

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worked in the union for 37 years,

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and he has now been retired for 14 years, I believe.

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And so now you're doing that.

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That's wonderful.

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So what are some things that you wish you had known

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when you started out?

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So like if current Mr. Neil Delemater

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could talk to 25 year old Neil Delemater,

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what are a few things that he might say?

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Well, the one thing that does kind of bother me,

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they say not to have any regrets.

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However, I do have a couple of regrets.

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And one of them is that I never finished college.

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So I say if I was talking to a 25 year old Neil Delemater,

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I'd tell him to finish college.

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So it's, it isn't absolutely necessary to do that.

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I mean, I've done pretty good for myself,

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even though I didn't finish college,

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but I think it would have been real good

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if I would have finished college,

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but that's just not the way it happened.

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So anyway, my life took a different turn.

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So you've always been a very curious person.

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One thing that people don't know about my dad

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is basically my entire life,

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I'd come home when I was a kid.

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And after working as a teamster,

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you would come home and read the dictionary,

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and you would read a different word every day.

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And you would always tell me what the word was.

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And so you've always been curious.

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So what was the word that you would use

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to describe your life?

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And what is something that you're curious about these days?

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Like what are you interested in at this stage in your life?

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Well, I just, by the way, the word for today is fractious.

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Fractious?

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Yes.

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Look up, every time I, I've been reading a lot,

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and I just finished a book by Colin Powell,

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he was a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

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and he was the highest ranking general in the army.

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He retired in about 95, 93, like that.

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But anyway, one of my favorite things to do

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is look up words that I don't understand.

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And it's easy now, because you just Google it,

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and you don't even have to type it in,

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which makes it even easier.

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So there's no excuse for someone

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not to know the meaning of words.

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So that's, you know,

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that's what I like, this part,

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one of the things I like to do.

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Yeah, you've also gotten into stocks,

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you're really enjoying your stocks, that's great.

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Yeah, we like doing some stocks.

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Today was not a good day, but

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it seems like all the money we made in the last three months,

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we just lost it.

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But that's okay, it'll be all right,

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it'll straighten out, you gotta.

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Yep, so what is something that you have failed at,

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that you want to talk about?

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Ooh.

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There's things we fail at that we don't wanna talk about.

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So I always say something you fail at

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that you want to talk about.

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Nothing really comes to mind right now.

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Yeah, yeah, great.

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Well, I know for myself, it's a long list, so.

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So we'll take a little bit of a right-hand turn.

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What would you describe as like your

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understanding of like the water

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that you're using,

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understanding of like the water situation in the world, Dad?

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I know that a lot of people are needing good,

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healthy drinking water,

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and I do respect you for what you're doing.

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I think it's very necessary.

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Being a Vietnam veteran, I saw I had malaria myself,

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which isn't from water, but

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there's a lot of people, no,

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people need good, clean drinking water.

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It's almost like I think it should be a basic right

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for people to have that.

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Unfortunately, our governments

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aren't always able to provide that for us.

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Yeah, so you're right.

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In 2010, the UN, I believe it was UN Article 426,

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they made water for the first time was recognized

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as a fundamental human right.

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So that's an important milestone in the UN,

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United Nations recognizing that as a global issue.

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it's still being charged as a commodity, as you know.

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Here in the United States, we get a water bill

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and we pay it.

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And so it's been fun to see that

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and so it's been fun to start to get into,

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building infrastructure projects

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where we're able to bring the price of water down

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for people that really need it.

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So dad, you have actually been with Meets El Salvador

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last March.

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And what did you think about what you saw there?

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Well, I know that people,

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a lot of them can't afford the water, you know.

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And that's a problem.

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I don't wanna speak to something

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I don't completely understand.

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I do know that they're probably busy right now

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trying to solve it.

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So I say something that,

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you know, people might be offended

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because I might say the wrong thing.

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I know, I know.

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There's no right answers to these questions.

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It's always, one of the reasons why I like doing

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these conversations is because most of the important things

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that I've learned in my life have come through,

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just having nice conversations with people.

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A lot of times we learn different ways.

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Some of us learn when we read books,

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that's one way to learn.

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Some of us learn by listening.

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Some of us learn through conversations.

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So I know in my life, a lot of the significant things

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that I've learned have come about

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in what I call sort of spontaneous dialogue

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or spontaneous conversations that I have with people.

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Part of what I do and part of my passion

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is to raise minds and to help

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us think differently about this water issue.

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And so I'm a conversational person

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and I believe that a lot of the best things can happen,

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just one really nice conversation at a time.

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And it was wonderful to have you with me on that trip.

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It was an honor really.

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My friends still say, man, your dad went?

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Yeah, yeah, my dad went.

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So that's been wonderful.

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So that's been wonderful.

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And you-

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The old guy, huh?

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Yeah, no, you're a legend.

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You're a legend.

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I'll brag, my dad is, my dad's 75

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and he has surfed now for 60 years.

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That's six decades.

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So my dad has also lived in California his entire life,

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including a short stint on Catalina

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where my grandfather was the only plumber on the island

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when my dad was in elementary school.

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So my dad spent his entire life living in California,

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seeing a lot of change.

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And so it's fun to keep having this conversation.

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It's also been fun for you and I to use our love

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for the ocean and our love for surfing

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to go on some trips and try to help do,

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help install these systems different places.

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That's been fun.

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In fact, we're supposed to head to Indonesia in March.

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Yeah, I'm looking forward to that, Ryan.

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I know you are.

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And this is a big excuse just to go surfing.

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A lot of people think it's a big excuse to go surfing,

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but I think we'll do some work too.

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It's fine that they think that,

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it's not the first person who's accused us of that.

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It's fine.

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It's fine.

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Yeah, well, I think, you know, with these rising sea levels

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that there's plenty of water out there for us.

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You know, they just need to convert it to drinking water.

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Yeah, there sure is.

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Sure is.

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So we get to be a part of the front end

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of building that infrastructure

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and helping bring the price of water down

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and helping people along the way.

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So that's been really, really fun.

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We're just right at the beginning of this.

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So it's been great.

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And yeah, I love you so much.

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I could talk to you all day.

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I do often talk to you all day.

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For those of you who don't know,

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I still spend a lot of time with my dad.

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We surf together, we ride bicycles together.

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And dad, thank you for coming on

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and chatting with me today.

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Is there any last words that you would like to say there?

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To who?

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Everybody, just any last words that we should hear from you.

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Well, I guess, this thing is, you know,

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just don't give up on things, you know,

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if you get discouraged or you feel like giving up,

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don't give up, just keep going, you know,

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even if you have to take a day off or something,

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but just keep forging ahead, you know,

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whatever it might be, you know.

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You'll always win if you have persistence.

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Thank you, dad.

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Love you so much.

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Thanks for your time.

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Thank you.

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That's it.

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All right, bye-bye.

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Have a good day.

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Thank you.