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C.T.C.S Episode 240 Fake Smiles, Busted Cow Butts Plus Call Me The Baby · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: It's not just a podcast, it's a podcast network. 21
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  Speaker 1: only on Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy your exploration. Transition Walk, day
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  Speaker 1: number one out of three. Got a live performance this
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  Speaker 1: coming Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think the average person
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  Speaker 2: would say, I ain't doing it. Because that's just the
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  Speaker 2: way that we are these days. I mean, that's like
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  Speaker 2: these interviews that I do for the podcast. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how many of them really do pay off and show
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  Speaker 2: up on time, if they even do show up? This
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  Speaker 2: lifestyle that we get into anymore, which is no call,
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  Speaker 2: no show. I don't understand why it's become the acceptable,
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  Speaker 2: but I have to deal with it at the grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: I have to deal with it in podcasting. I have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with it in everything that I do. A no-call, no-show.
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  Speaker 2: And then, somehow, someway, you've got to be happy about it.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not, oh, crap, now everybody around you
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  Speaker 2: on your team thinks you're just being a jerk. So
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  Speaker 2: I guess my motions should be just no-call, no-show then, right?
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  Speaker 2: I always love it when people come into the room
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  Speaker 2: and they go, I'm looking for something right now. And
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  Speaker 2: you're going, okay, I'm pretty good at finding things. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's called peace. Peace? Yeah, P-E-A-C-E. Peace? That's all you
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  Speaker 2: got on it? Peace? Yeah. So I go over to
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  Speaker 2: the probiotic section because they've got a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: things over there, which includes your poppy, and they've also
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  Speaker 2: got your peril. and purify and bloom and recess, but
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  Speaker 2: no peace. And it's like, God damn it. She goes,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's in the refrigerated section. I said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's in the refrigerated section. There's a
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  Speaker 2: can here that I know somewhere in the store that
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  Speaker 2: has the word peace on it. I know which one
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  Speaker 2: it is. So I went over into the iced tea section. Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da.
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  Speaker 2: There it was. Man, we had a victory dance. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we really did break out in a victory dance. With
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  Speaker 2: our Western Union system, you can pay your rent here.
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  Speaker 2: And so a lot of the times you just put
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  Speaker 2: in the place where you're living and you pay your rent. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I did that and it ended up in Virginia. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in Carolina, but it ended up in Virginia. and of
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  Speaker 2: course they're all pissed off at me and I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: look this is exactly what they told me to do
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  Speaker 2: they didn't give me a different name they didn't do
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  Speaker 2: anything and it says so how am I in trouble
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  Speaker 2: if they were very adamant in making sure that I
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  Speaker 2: did exactly to the T what they put on that
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  Speaker 2: piece of paper that they were asked to fill out
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  Speaker 2: and so that's where we are right now but yeah
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  Speaker 2: it was a rent and you know how much rent
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  Speaker 2: is these days somewhere around $ 1, 700 so well what the
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  Speaker 2: fuck I guess I could get written up hey that
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  Speaker 2: rhymes what the fuck I could be written up I
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  Speaker 2: got busted by the candy-coated plastic bathroom mirror smile. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that fake smile that you display because you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: be positive even though the inside of your core is
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  Speaker 2: a little bit on the dark side. And so someone
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  Speaker 2: came up to me and they go, you must be
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  Speaker 2: in a real cranky-ass mood today. Ooh, God, you've been
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  Speaker 2: this way for a while. And I looked at them
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, who are you to judge me like that?
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  Speaker 2: And did I drop my guard or something like that?
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  Speaker 2: Was I not displaying a bright enough candy-coated plastic bathroom
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  Speaker 2: mirror smile? I mean, it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: it's like, how dare you cross a line to say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you must be a real crank ass. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: do complain about people that are in a cranky mood
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  Speaker 2: at work, but I never say it in front of
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  Speaker 2: their face. And the reason why is because I have
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  Speaker 2: enough respect to not put them in a position of, well, fuck,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what I feel like right now. My candy-coated
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  Speaker 2: plastic bathroom mirror smile. Obviously, it fucking failed me. My God,
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  Speaker 2: what is going on with me today? Seems like every
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  Speaker 2: time I pick something up, I end up having to
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  Speaker 2: pick it up. In other words, I'll get it in
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  Speaker 2: my hand, and then I drop it. Pick it up,
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  Speaker 2: I'll drop it. And then I try to carry a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things in my hands, because when you're putting
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  Speaker 2: shit back, you know, you don't want to just do
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  Speaker 2: it one at a time. Not in a store this big.
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  Speaker 2: But then, you drop it. So it's like all day,
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  Speaker 2: that's been going on. Paper, and then you do something
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  Speaker 2: like a, I've got a can opener here. What did
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  Speaker 2: I do when I grabbed it? I dropped it. Of
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  Speaker 2: course I'm going to be researching that. But the last
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  Speaker 2: time that I did, it pretty much said, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a part of every day. It's normal. You can expect it.
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  Speaker 2: By dropping stuff? Man, that's how I'm going to throw
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  Speaker 2: my lower back out. Please do not move. There's more
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  Speaker 2: CTCS right around the corner. Good deeds gone bad. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: what's up with the cow butt and eating plant-based hot dogs?
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 2: CTCS. Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCS. Good deeds
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  Speaker 2: gone bad. Cow butts that look like human butts? Really?
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  Speaker 2: And eating plant-based hot dogs. We are back. CTCS. Transition Walk,
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  Speaker 2: game number two out of three. I am in need
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  Speaker 2: of this force today. I come out here for the transition.
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  Speaker 2: I come out here to look, to listen, to study,
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  Speaker 2: to smell, to break free of the consequences that are
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  Speaker 2: waiting for us in every step that we take inside
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  Speaker 2: this world. In fact, I just got off the interview
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  Speaker 2: podcast stage with a gentleman by the name of David
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  Speaker 2: Roberts and David was talking about the microplastics that we
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  Speaker 2: are consumed by and it's like oh for the love
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  Speaker 2: of God and who is the enabler in all of
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  Speaker 2: this grocery stores why look at all that plastic so
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  Speaker 2: it makes me wonder working at a grocery store am
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  Speaker 2: I going to get hit with a crime come on
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  Speaker 2: people are dying I work at a grocery store You
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  Speaker 2: see what I mean? Or does it go deeper into
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  Speaker 2: the bowels of the manufacturer? I don't know. Just things
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  Speaker 2: to think about as I wander back into C.S. You
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  Speaker 2: try to start things off with a good deed of
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  Speaker 2: the day. A woman has a child. She says she's
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  Speaker 2: parked about three quarters of the way from the store.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big parking lot. When you say three quarters
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  Speaker 2: of the way, I'm talking... That could be maybe three-quarters
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  Speaker 2: of a mile or even over a mile. So I said, here, here, here,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take care of your car. You take the hand
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  Speaker 2: of your baby and you go to the car. You
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  Speaker 2: don't need to be worried about your baby going down
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  Speaker 2: this big-ass hill that's attached to this damn parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: So that's how it's going to start. We're at least
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  Speaker 2: trying something positive. Let's see how long that lasts. You
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  Speaker 2: go from doing a good deed right into probably one
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest mysteries possible. Only because everybody is so
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  Speaker 2: convinced that this zero alcohol beer shit has zero alcohol
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  Speaker 2: in it. And this lady, it's a grandmother. She said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give this to my grandkids. They think
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  Speaker 2: they're missing out on something by not having any of this. Besides,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be cool. It's going to be almost
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  Speaker 2: 90 degrees. So you need to give this to the grandkids.
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  Speaker 2: I'll put it on ice. It'd be like Kool-Aid. I'm going,
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  Speaker 2: it still has beer in it. Something like. 005. Oh, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It says zero alcohol in it. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give it to my grandkids. Okay, even if it had
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  Speaker 2: 0% alcohol in it, Can you give this crap to kids? Seriously? Oh, God. People.
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  Speaker 2: This is a strange subject. You know I grew up
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  Speaker 2: in Montana and Wyoming, and we spent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time on the ranch, right? It was a cattle ranch.
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  Speaker 2: I've been meaning to say this, and I don't know how,
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  Speaker 2: because I don't want to ever offend anybody. And that
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  Speaker 2: is when I follow women in the store, it's like
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  Speaker 2: walking out in the field with a cow because a
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  Speaker 2: woman's butt moves just like a cow's butt. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: It really does. The way it shakes kind of to
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  Speaker 2: the right, to the left. I mean, if a woman
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  Speaker 2: had a tail, it would be the cutest damn thing
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  Speaker 2: because cow tails, they got to swoosh the flies away
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  Speaker 2: and all that shit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But you really do feel like you're walking through... the
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  Speaker 2: pastor at a on a ranch all right i would
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  Speaker 2: never walk behind a woman the same way again well
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  Speaker 2: that's why i can't look at everybody i've never thought
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  Speaker 2: about it yeah that's weird but it's exactly like a
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  Speaker 2: horse like even a horse's butt so when someone calls
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  Speaker 2: you a horse's ass say thank you oh well somebody
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  Speaker 2: recently asked me they go so what is the difference
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  Speaker 2: between working in radio versus working at a grocery store
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  Speaker 2: really dude And I said, you know, when I was
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  Speaker 2: in radio, I'd walk down the hallway and be like, dude, dude, yo,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening, man? And you never really used each other's names,
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  Speaker 2: even though we were close knit family. You just didn't
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  Speaker 2: use each other's names. You was just up. And then
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  Speaker 2: at a grocery store, it's like John, Barbara, Sally, Sarah,
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  Speaker 2: you know them by name. And I think that's because
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  Speaker 2: we've been trained, use their name because they want to
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  Speaker 2: hear their name. But that's the biggest difference is that
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  Speaker 2: I'm using people's names and not Zub. I am a
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  Speaker 2: hot dog fanatic. It doesn't matter if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: a baseball game, a football game, a hockey game. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to have my hot dogs. It could be a
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  Speaker 2: grocery store hot dog. It can be a gas station,
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  Speaker 2: stale ass, just burnt to the middle hot dog. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be there even at the movie theater. And
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  Speaker 2: then somebody here, in fact, it's a lot of somebodies,
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  Speaker 2: came together and said, we notice you eat a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hot dogs. Yeah, that's me. I will always cook
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  Speaker 2: me up some hot dogs. You need to do plant-based
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  Speaker 2: hot dogs. Dude, they're better flavored, and they're better for you.
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  Speaker 2: I was sitting there going, I'm not eating no goddamn fucking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, plant-based hot dog. There's no way. That's just
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  Speaker 2: not my thing. And then I tried it. Can you
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  Speaker 2: believe that? They actually taste better than Oscar Mayer. This
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  Speaker 2: is our real world at the grocery store. We have
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  Speaker 2: a amc movie theater about uh have a good night
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  Speaker 2: probably about maybe five or six stores down big old
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  Speaker 2: amc and immortal combat was in the theater this weekend
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  Speaker 2: opening up every kid in the world wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: into immortal combat and according to this one this this
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  Speaker 2: kid may be the seventh or eighth grade Looks at
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  Speaker 2: me and says, yeah, my mom and dad bought the tickets.
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  Speaker 2: We went inside. All of a sudden security came in
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  Speaker 2: and told us, you got to get out. And so
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  Speaker 2: what do they do? They come hang out at the
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  Speaker 2: grocery store and tell mom and dad, come pick them up.
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  Speaker 2: If they're going to pick them up. Because mom and
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  Speaker 2: dad are convinced they're there for at least two and
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  Speaker 2: a half hours. Please do not move. There is more
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  Speaker 2: CTCS right around the corner. Call me a baby. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: bitch and moan. Bitch and moan. Is there a positive
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  Speaker 2: inside a grocery store with all those fruit? CTCS. We'll
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  Speaker 2: find out next. Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCS.
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  Speaker 2: Call me a baby. At least I'm talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Bitch and moan. Bitch and moan. Plus, is there a
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  Speaker 2: positive anywhere in a grocery store wherever there's fruit? CTCS.
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  Speaker 2: Day number three out of three. Can you hear the
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  Speaker 2: exhaustion in my voice? A five-hour live performance out of
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  Speaker 2: town yesterday. Oh my God, so much singing, so much uppity-ness,
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  Speaker 2: so much of something that you really do pay for
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  Speaker 2: in the days that follow because your body is exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: I think we got maybe three and a half, four
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  Speaker 2: hours of sleep last night because the podcast day still
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  Speaker 2: has to happen. It doesn't matter how late I stay
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  Speaker 2: out at night. How long I stay on that stage?
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  Speaker 2: I have to be inside that podcast studio by 7
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  Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning. That means I got to be
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  Speaker 2: up by 6 a.m. But you just went to bed
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  Speaker 2: between 2 and 2.30. It doesn't matter. You still have
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  Speaker 2: to put it on. And then you go to see us.
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  Speaker 2: How do I cheat? What? I'm just like anybody else
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  Speaker 2: in retail. You do something. I call it lacing up.
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  Speaker 2: You grab yourself a Red Bull, a Monster drink, or
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  Speaker 2: whatever power drink is out there, and you just hope
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  Speaker 2: to God that your heart can handle it today. I'll
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  Speaker 2: see you on CS. I don't know. Call me a
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  Speaker 2: big baby. Maybe it's because I own three different businesses,
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  Speaker 2: plus I just happen to work at a grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got to remember, the real reason why I
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  Speaker 2: did this was in 2020. We were in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a COVID lockdown. I just wanted to be with people.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I wanted to be with. I came here
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  Speaker 2: expecting not to be here that long, and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden I'm still here now almost six years into it. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I guess as a business owner, I am
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  Speaker 2: meticulous about the way that things run and how they look.
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  Speaker 2: So when I walk into the store on a Sunday
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  Speaker 2: and the place looks like a tornado hit it, as
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  Speaker 2: a business owner of three businesses, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: is going through my head? That was the strangest comment.
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  Speaker 2: A woman is walking with her husband. They're in the
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  Speaker 2: drink row, and she says, do we need Coca-Cola? And
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  Speaker 2: it hit me wrong because I heard the word, do
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  Speaker 2: we need Coca-Cola? I'll leave that up to you. Do
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  Speaker 2: we need it? What's your choice? Do you really need
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  Speaker 2: to feed that need? I'm sure it comes across that
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  Speaker 2: I'm bitching and moaning 24-7. That's not it at all.
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  Speaker 2: I know what it's like to walk into any retail
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  Speaker 2: store from Home Depot to where if I walk into
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  Speaker 2: a Walmart store, Or if I'm headed into just anybody,
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  Speaker 2: like a state farm insurance. Everybody is having a real
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  Speaker 2: crap day. But nobody is speaking that street. It's always
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  Speaker 2: that candy-coated plastic bathroom mirror smile. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get on here and just say, this
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  Speaker 2: is what's going on. And if you relate with it,
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  Speaker 2: we grow together. Because do you have anybody to talk
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  Speaker 2: to anybody about? No, we don't have anybody to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have anybody to talk to about this. Because
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  Speaker 2: nobody wants to talk about it. Everybody has had the
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  Speaker 2: Jesus juice. And they want to be positive so they
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  Speaker 2: can keep their job. You can tell when it's over
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  Speaker 2: 85 degrees in the Carolinas. Oh, you can tell. And
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  Speaker 2: the reason why you can tell is because of the smell. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you can tell by the smell. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: people just are buying bad underarm deodorant or they're not
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  Speaker 2: wearing deodorant. Which one is it? Because you can tell.
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  Speaker 2: When it's hot outside. Because you smell. But I can't
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  Speaker 2: see anything. It's always very difficult to come back to
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  Speaker 2: the CS store. After a performance. For several different reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Because when you're doing a performance. There's so much free
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  Speaker 2: spirit going on. You can go in any direction. You're
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  Speaker 2: not following really any rules. But you know that there
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  Speaker 2: are rules. And you know. You're just doing your own thing.
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  Speaker 2: Because you've got to do whatever you can. To keep
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  Speaker 2: that floor activated and moving. And you know. But at
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  Speaker 2: a grocery store. Oh my god. It's... unbelievably hardcore corporate.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to play by their rules, by their stipulations.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't do it, you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: talked to. And so it's very difficult to have a
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  Speaker 2: free spirit day like that with a DJ service. And
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  Speaker 2: then come here and it's like, oh, for the love
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  Speaker 2: of Pete, as my mother would always say. And then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the day comes to an end, the weekend's over,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going camping now. That's going to do it. For
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  Speaker 2: another exciting edition of CTCS, the ups, the downs, the twists,
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  Speaker 2: the spins, the ins, the outs, the over, the tops,
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  Speaker 2: the beneaths, the arounds, whatever it's going to take to
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  Speaker 2: put gas in your car, not at $ 4 or $ 5
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  Speaker 2: a gallon. The only thing we want to do is
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  Speaker 2: we want to live happily ever after. And I often
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  Speaker 2: wonder if my parents lived happily ever after. I never
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: had that conversation. But that's what conversations are all about,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why I want you to create your own podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You know, show us the wizard behind your curtain. Let
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  Speaker 2: us know who you are as a person. Don't go
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: in there and do a podcast that's all about Randy
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  Speaker 2: Radio or Johnny John. Don't care. Don't care. But if
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  Speaker 2: you go in there with your normal accent, your normal voice,
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  Speaker 2: your normal attitude, be it good, bad, ugly, in between, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. It's you. It's you. That's the podcast
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do, be it at work, be
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  Speaker 2: it at home, wherever you want to be. Just be you.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking. I'll see you next week on CTCS.