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I'm retired http://burnfund.org/tricor-plc/ tricor hong kong ZIRIN: One of my closest friends - I'm honored to call him a friend - is somebody who I wrote a book with is John Carlos, who was one of the Olympians in 1968 who raised his fist in Mexico City. And what I love about John - first of all, every time he sees me, he says, David. And first of all, that - I got to say this because the only people in my entire life who've ever been able to call me David without my skin crawling are my mom, my grandfather and John Carlos. To everybody else, I'm Dave. My wife called me David. I'm like, no, call me Dave. You know, but John Carlos can do it. And he goes, David, I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. And that just first of all just makes me feel so good. And I say that to my own kids now. I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. And John and I, we traveled the country together with the book, and I got to see him speak to a wide variety of audiences. And his ability to connect with people of all ages was so inspiring to me. And what he would say to people, the thing that would just always connect most sharply is when he would look at them and say, you know what? After I raised my fist in Mexico City in 1968, I had years of poverty, years when I was in the wilderness, years where no one would return my calls. And yet, when people ask me if I have regrets, I always say no. But you want to know who does have regrets? The people who have regrets are the people who were there at those Olympics in 1968 and didn't say anything because they're the ones who are asked, hey, were you one of those people who stood up in 1968? Were you one of those people who stood up when apartheid countries were allowed at the Olympics? Were you one of those people who stood up when there were so much injustice in the world after the assassinations of Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy and the Mexican students who protested outside of those Olympic Games? Were you one of those people who said this shall not pass, this is not the kind of world I want to live in? And the people who say no, they didn't do anything, don't feel very good about saying that. And he's proud of being able to stand up and say, when it was my moment to say that I don't want the world to look the way it does, I stood up and said something. And when he says that to young people, it's really powerful because it makes them really think about, like, long-term. I mean, we're a society that's so microwavable. Where, oftentimes, people aren't thinking past their next iPhone app, basically. And he really fights to try to get kids to take the long view and really think about the fact of how they're going to be remembered 10, 20, 30 years down the line. And it's had an enormous effect on my life, an enormous effect of how I relate to my own children, my children's friends and and enormous effect on the kinds of choices I make on a day in, day out basis. And he gives an amazing hug...