Good Guys Always Win
In this video, Clinton Miller spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Good Guys Always Win" at the 39th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
Transcription
My son, who's passing out the letters and I apologize. I did not think there would be this many people that want to hear this good message. I thought we were filled with depressed people that wanted to blame others. I liked the topic. How many of you like a topic? Good guys always win.
Oh, OK, now. But I have is a form letter, which is the standard here. But before I get up, go into that, we need to go through the pecking order.
How many of you are over 90 by show of hands?
Well, as long as I'm the only one that's six months into my 90th year, I want to explain to you the pecking order.
That pecking order is that the oldest man is the wisest man. How many of you agree? No question about that. Okay. Now, how many of you can recognize a good guy? When you see him, they this guy on the front row knows the answers to everything. But he also knows the one. Back in my days when they first started Western movies, I was never disappointed because, you know, I could go to the movie and I knew who the good guy was.
He always wore a white hat.
And he always won. He always won, and he always got the girl. Oh. Who are you?
I think it's this this who are down here is Joe White. Come any of you know Joe Walsh? Joe Biden.
Oh, give him a hand. He's going to change the world.
Jill is now this piece of machinery up here is called technology. And I am back in the smoke signal days. But let's see what happens. Look at that.
If I had known this 15 years ago, I'd have been here 50 years ago. Here's the key. Here's the key to how you and I are going to make sure that the good guys win this battle.
Number one key is you learn from the past. You have to learn from the past. Number two, you have to prepare for the future. That's what we're doing here at this meeting. And number three, you have to live in the present.
I was shocked when I learned recently that a poll found out that more than half of the US citizens believe that a nation's best days are in the past. How many of you agree with that poll? How many of you don't?
How many of you don't know what you think? I see a lot of horizontal boards.
This is a terrible, terrible, terrible, pessimistic view. No, as one who's grown up always knowing that the next year