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Welcome back listeners to Mercury, a broadcast

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of Hope. This is Max O 'Brien,

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and this marks day 2 ,761 of us

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being back on the air. And

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today, we have a special guest with

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us, another one of Dr. Clark's students. Okay,

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Millie, introduce yourself. Millicent,

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I hate when people call me Millie.

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Makes me seem young. And don't say

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you are young. I'm an adult, have

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been for a while. All through

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school it was milli, milli, milli. Millicent

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is too old of a name, it ages you.

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Well, maybe I want to be older, which never seems

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to occur to anyone. Anyway,

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hi, anyone still alive out there?

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My name is Millicent Bradbury

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and I'm a finance student. I

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primarily study quantitative easing. That's what I

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did my final project on at least. Now

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I'll study whatever I can see. I

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don't know if anyone I love

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is still alive out there, but If

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they are, hi mom, hi dad. I

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hope you're doing well. I mean, as

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well as you can be doing, I guess. I got

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my degree. I didn't get a chance to tell you

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before all this happened. So if by

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some miracle you're listening to this, I'm

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okay. I hope you're proud of me wherever

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you are. We're doing good work up

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here, as good as we can, but we're getting

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close. I'll see you soon. Hopefully,

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I don't know, I guess. I would hate

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to make any false promises. If

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anyone needs any financial stuff done, let me

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know. Was that good?

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No. I mean, yes, it was

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fine. It was, however, just

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a little bit depressing. We were

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kind of looking for something hopeful. You

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know, like Mercury, a broadcast of

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hope, emphasis on the

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hope? Um,

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hope? Mercury, a

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broadcast of hope. Share

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your advice with our wonderful listeners. We

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might be all they have right now. Okay.

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Hope. I can do this. Um...

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What's one thing you think people should

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know during this outbreak? In your

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medical opinion, of course, Millicent. You

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know what I wish people knew? It's okay

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to be angry. This whole time,

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everyone here, especially you, Max, have been

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wandering around this station and blathering on

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about this broadcast about hope and seeing

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the beauty in what awful, terrible life

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we're leading right now and I'm sick

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of it. Everything is horrible. Humanity

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is separated and lost and clinging onto

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scraps. And that's even if there is any

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humanity left, we have no idea. I'm

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tired of you guys acting like everything is alright

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because it's not. It's okay to be

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frustrated and angry and complain and see the

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hardship in what's happening because it's hard. It's

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difficult. And sometimes you'll drive yourself

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crazy trying to look out the window or

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what's left of the window and see yet

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another desecrated leaf wilt on a torn down

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tree and try to see something beautiful there.

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Sometimes there's nothing beautiful to see and that's

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okay. My whole life, I've been

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told that I'm rude and mean and pessimistic

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and prone to anger and quick to strike.

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I've been told that I won't get anywhere

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with that attitude and I might as well

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give up because I can't possibly survive in

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this world. And yet I proved them all

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wrong. I crawled my way up and I

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was angry and I was rude and mean

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and pessimistic. But now I'm rude and mean

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and pessimistic with a degree in finance during

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the zombie apocalypse. Sometimes it's

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cathartic to let out a little anger, you

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know, if you try to force yourself

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to be positive all the time, you'll start

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to become And there's nothing worse in

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this world than being fake. You can't lose

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yourself, especially now. Sometimes all you'll have

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is yourself. And if you can't do yourself

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the decency of sometimes being a little

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rude and mean and pessimistic, you'll be gone.

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And then you'll truly be alone. So

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allow yourself the decency of talking about how

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much everything sucks, because it does, and

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that's okay. Beauty is important to see, and

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happiness is, of course, also important. But

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there's so much focus on positivity until it

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becomes fake and gross, and your face

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starts to hurt from smiling, and your tear

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ducts are swollen, and you just need

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to let yourself scream and cry and destroy

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something because a little more destruction isn't

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going to mess anything up. The world is

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already gone. and you'll be doing the

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people around you a favor too, if you

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have any. It's horrible being around someone

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who's angry all the time, So much so,

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in fact, that they might leave you

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too, and then you'll still be alone and

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still angry. Wow, um,

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do you have any final

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sentence to send us off with?

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Go through a broken bottle at a

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broken TV screen and scream until your

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vocal cords hurt and then cry

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for an hour and then go to sleep. You'll

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feel better in the morning. Well,

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you heard it here first, folks. This

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was Max O 'Brien and Bradbury off

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for today Mercury, a broadcast of

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hope. Take care of each other.