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How Matthew McConaughey’s Dad Still Drives Him 30 Years After Passing · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Matthew McConaughey was deservedly
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  Speaker 1: named the Hollywood Reporters Philanthropist of the Year. Due in
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  Speaker 1: Part two is Just Keep Living Foundation, raising nearly eight
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  Speaker 1: million dollars from storm victims in his home state of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: But his foundation had already been going strong for years
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  Speaker 1: helping at risk kids, and Matthew credits much of the inspiration, dedication,
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  Speaker 1: and strength he finds for his charity work to his dad,
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  Speaker 1: even though he lost him all the way back in
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  Speaker 1: two and Matthew says he only lost him in the
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  Speaker 1: physical sense, telling the magazine, I thought my dad was invincible.
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  Speaker 1: I miss him all the time, but I also maintained
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  Speaker 1: my relationship with him spiritually. I say to the kids
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  Speaker 1: I work with, if you want to talk to your
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  Speaker 1: teacher and they're no longer there, do it anyway. Keep
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  Speaker 1: the spirit alive of that person, showing your own life
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  Speaker 1: what they taught you. That's how they're always alive. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you just keep living. That philosophy is exactly where
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  Speaker 1: Matthew got the name for his foundation, Just Keep Living,
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  Speaker 1: which is now in forty different low income schools. In
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  Speaker 1: fourteen cities that's direct from Holly would