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Episode #4 August 6th 2026 · The Kevin Stone Podcast

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  Speaker 2: If you are listening to the Kevin Stone podcast broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: Which makes me a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: I have beef ancheladas in the oven. Yes, and you
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  Speaker 2: made them? Or are they frozen? Well, they won't be
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  Speaker 2: frozen in about thirty five minutes. All right, folks, we
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  Speaker 2: got something special today. It's not very often that I
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  Speaker 2: get to report some good news from our government, well
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  Speaker 2: at least from the Arkansas government. If you're a homeowner
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  Speaker 2: here in the state of Arkansas, you are going to
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  Speaker 2: want to hear this. So don't go anywhere, folks. When
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  Speaker 2: we get back, we got some good news from the government.
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  Speaker 2: all right. I promised some good news about the government
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  Speaker 2: in Arkansas. Now, if you're a homeowner in Arkansas, this
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  Speaker 2: should make you happy. They have passed a homestead tax
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  Speaker 2: credit increase for the state of Arkansas. That means that
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  Speaker 2: if you own your home and you have it homesteaded,
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  Speaker 2: which means it's the house that you live in. Credit
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  Speaker 2: used to be six hundred dollars. Our government has increased
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  Speaker 2: this to six hundred and seventy five dollars. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a seventy five dollars increase to the homestead tax credit.
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  Speaker 2: Unless if they increase the assessment by seventy five dollars,
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  Speaker 2: it won't really make that much of a difference. I
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  Speaker 2: am paying attention to that when I get mine this year.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm hoping fingers crossed that the government's actually done
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  Speaker 2: Our Arkansas government has actually done something good and give
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  Speaker 2: us twenty five or seventy five dollars extra credit on
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  Speaker 2: our homesteads. Like I said, it's not very often that
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  Speaker 2: you get to report good news from the government, but
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  Speaker 2: this is something I'm happy about, and I'll be quick
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  Speaker 2: fastening in a hurry to get up here and complain
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  Speaker 2: about something. So I also want to give them an
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  Speaker 2: Ada boy pat on the back, whatever you want to
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  Speaker 2: call it, starting with the assessment year on or after
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  Speaker 2: January first, twenty twenty six, so it should be this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think our government are Arkansas State Senate has done
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  Speaker 2: something good. Well, I guess I shouldn't just say the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: It was the House too, had to go through both chambers.
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  Speaker 2: But I really think they did something good. Congratulations. I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy looking forward to it because I will be paying attention.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here's something that I have been thinking about
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  Speaker 2: a lot lately, and we're going to talk about it now.
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  Speaker 2: Well I'm going to talk about it now, and that
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  Speaker 2: is be very careful who you consider to be your friends.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody out there who claims to be your friend
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  Speaker 2: is your friend. There are people out there who throw
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  Speaker 2: the word friend around like it doesn't mean anything. There
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  Speaker 2: are people out there that don't think friendship means anything.
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  Speaker 2: I hold friendship near and dear to my heart, and
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people out there who think
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  Speaker 2: they're my friend that they're not. A friend is generally
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  Speaker 2: somebody who shares interest, likes, hopes, dreams, ideas, goals. They
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  Speaker 2: generally want to see you succeed without any kind of
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  Speaker 2: jealousy or personal agenda about your success. And if you
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  Speaker 2: are a friend of somebody, that's the way you should
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  Speaker 2: be to them too. But if you have somebody, if
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  Speaker 2: you have a friend who does not value you the
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  Speaker 2: way that you value them, then you don't have a friend.
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  Speaker 2: Friends are going to value each other. Friends aren't going
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  Speaker 2: to try to take advantage of each other. Friends aren't
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  Speaker 2: going to try to acquire gain from the other friend
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  Speaker 2: unless it's mutual gain. And I think as these generations
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  Speaker 2: croceed that we're losing that understanding, or that need or
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  Speaker 2: that want to establish such friendships. If I consider you
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  Speaker 2: a friend, that's a special relationship that not everybody gets.
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  Speaker 2: I see people out here who act like their friends
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  Speaker 2: when they're in front of each other, but then when
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  Speaker 2: they're apart, they're talking smack about each other. That's not
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  Speaker 2: a friend. That's not my consideration, that's not what I
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  Speaker 2: consider to be a friend. If I'm truly your friend,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk smack behind your back when
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  Speaker 2: you're not there. But there's people out there that do
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  Speaker 2: it and then say that they're friends with each other.
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  Speaker 2: And I've called some people out for that, and they
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  Speaker 2: get offended at the fact that I called them out
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  Speaker 2: for that. There are people out there that get offended
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  Speaker 2: if you tell them you're not they're not friends. We're
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  Speaker 2: not friends, and they get offended because, oh, I'm supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be your friend. I don't understand why people are
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  Speaker 2: like that. I don't understand why people want to be
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  Speaker 2: like that. I promise you there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: out there that think they're my friends that they're not.
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  Speaker 2: And I promise you that if you're somebody that has
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  Speaker 2: to come up to me and ask if we are friends,
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  Speaker 2: we're not friends because my friends know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful about who you choose as a friend. Be
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  Speaker 2: careful about who you allow to hold that title. That
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  Speaker 2: title ought to mean something, because if you if you aren't,
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  Speaker 2: if you aren't careful about it, it could cost you
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Because they don't value you the way you
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  Speaker 2: value others. They'll take advantage of you. Find you some
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  Speaker 2: true friends. They're few and far between. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Find you some true friends.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be well worth it.