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The Last Ice Bucket Challenge You Need To See — And You Really Should See It

Sometimes we forget why we are doing things. Take dumping cold buckets of water on our heads, for example. You’ve probably seen a lot of videos of your friends doing it this week. Well, here’s a really important reminder of the reason we’re doing it. Next week the Internet will get back to its regularly…

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Matt Orr

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h07OT8p8Oik%3Frel%3D0%26start%3D118%26end%3D410%26autoplay%3D0

I started this video after the actual challenge, so if you’d like to see the guy get covered with freezing water, go ahead and restart it at the beginning. When I saw this video, I felt it needed to be shared. If you feel the same, feel free to pass it along. And if you want to donate to ALS in his name, I would totally click here.

UPDATE: Thanks to your support, Anthony is going to be on the season premiere of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, to spread even more awareness about the terrifying disease (and its underfunded research). We want everyone to tune in and support Anthony.

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