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Tempt: One night I had this strange dream. I was
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walking through downtown Los Angeles in
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the future. It was a filthy, overcrowded
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megametropolis. Even in a situation of
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seemingly no hope, a spark of creativity
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and beauty existed. I never took anything
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for granted. Because you never know when
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everything will be taken from you. 
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(ventilator pulsing)
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But they can’t take my memories. 
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Chaz: He knew what to do with the Gothic letters to make
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them strong and powerful and put the
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muscle in it. That's what I admire about
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Tempt. His letters were gorgeous. 
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(somber music)
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Angst: As L.A. emerged, Tempt has always been a
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leader in terms of style. 
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Tempt: ALS is a neurological condition where nerve cells
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die, causing full paralysis. 
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Ron: He says to me, “I want you to know I'm gonna fight this
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disease, and the people that are around me
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have to be people who do not believe I'm
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going to die.”
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(wheels grinding)
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Mick: When I heard that story, something in me
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just clicked. I'm not a doctor, I'm
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not an engineer,
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I've got no training in this, but I gotta
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figure out how this guy can draw again.
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Angst: I mean, I do remember those conversations, but they didn't know if it
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could be done or not. 
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(upbeat music)
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Mick: If there's a device that we can get him that allows him to
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move his eyes back and forth and then
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that moves a cursor on the screen to
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select the letters that makes the robot
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talk, then why don't we figure out how he
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can move his eyes back and forth across
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the screen, it moves the cursor, and that
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lets him draw again? And they said, “You
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can do that?” What the heck did I
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just commit to? These guys flew in from all
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over the world. Hacker-maker culture is
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just, you do whatever you need to do to
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make it. 
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James: Dude this isn’t even stranded wire, 
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and it said stranded on the, no it didn’t, it said solid. 
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Well, that sucks.
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Mick: We just dogpiled on it with a
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bunch of mad scientists and misfit geniuses. 
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(somber music)
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This was it, it’s the last night.
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(somber music)
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Mick’s Son: Is he drawing his name? 
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Mick: Yeah, he’s drawing those with his eyes. 
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(applause)
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Tempt: Feels like taking a breath after being
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held underwater for five minutes.
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Mick: Seeing Tempt draw again was one of the most
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incredible things I've ever witnessed.
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That was the birth of Not Impossible.
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(upbeat music) 
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Joe’s Wife: She said, “You’ve got Parkinson’s.”
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Joe: She seems normal now. 
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(cheering)
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Mick: The vibrating stopped.
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(upbeat music)
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Yeah!