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There Is Only Good & Evil · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Only dead enders and lunatics are still defending Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 1: and Karen Bass.
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  Speaker 2: It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I got a question before we get to that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what percentage of the people on the Price is Right?
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  Speaker 2: Or let's make a deal are mentally ill? M qualified
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  Speaker 2: as mentally ill? Because this woman's with a mentally ill
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching this woman. She just got picked out of
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  Speaker 2: the crowd by Drew Carey to be on The Price
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  Speaker 2: is Right. She is so freaking excited. I mean she's
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  Speaker 2: just crying with I just feel like you gotta be
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  Speaker 2: in Milton. I think just a simpleton and.
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  Speaker 3: She just sound like you hate joy. She's like.
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  Speaker 2: She's like in her mid fifties. I mean, you've been
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  Speaker 2: around a little bit, you know, you've seen some ups
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  Speaker 2: and downs, You've raised some kids.
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  Speaker 4: She's probably been watching the show for years and it'd
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  Speaker 4: be great to be on there.
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  Speaker 3: Now she's just living.
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  Speaker 2: Her dream and now she's got to ejaculate that joy.
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  Speaker 1: That is clearly the case, Katy.
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  Speaker 2: Now she's got a chance to win this Hyundai size
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  Speaker 2: of a couch car. Okay, good luck with that, hope
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  Speaker 2: you win.
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  Speaker 1: It's a gas zipper. You know what's It's all coming
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  Speaker 1: clear to me now, Katie. He's admitted proudly he thrives
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  Speaker 1: on shodenfreud joy from other people's pain. Clearly he gets
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  Speaker 1: pain from other people's joke. Whatever the opposite of Shotenfreud is. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: exactly goes both ways. Freuden shod.
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  Speaker 2: You know what it is. You know what I think
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  Speaker 2: shod and you know what it actually is. Probably I
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  Speaker 2: wish stuff like that made me happy. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: the things that make other people happy, I wish it
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  Speaker 2: made me happy, but it doesn't. It just doesn't. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of envious, so people that can get that
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  Speaker 2: excited about things that just don't do it for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking earlier, Katie, off the air. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if you around and heard it. And it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with some emails we got on certain
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  Speaker 1: topics and some it would be a distraction, honestly to
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  Speaker 1: go into a topic was but there are I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out if people are just being stubborn and
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  Speaker 1: being dicks, or they're rigid or whatever, or if there
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  Speaker 1: are people who actually can't emotionally deal with if say
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  Speaker 1: I don't know an issue or a politician if you
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  Speaker 1: agree with them eighty five percent and there's just fifteen
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  Speaker 1: percent that yeah, I can't quite go that far, or
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  Speaker 1: I got to point out this problem or whatever. They
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  Speaker 1: are enraged by that, or they can't even process it.
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  Speaker 1: They like can't even live with the idea of you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's mostly good, there's a little bad. And I just
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  Speaker 1: I find myself wondering if there are people who because
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  Speaker 1: they it's been said many times, the most terrifying place
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  Speaker 1: you could ever go is into somebody else's mind for
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. I just wonder if there are people that
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it does to me when they
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  Speaker 1: have to deal with ambivalence of any sort, because, judging
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  Speaker 1: by the emails, unless they're just angry trolls, they literally
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  Speaker 1: cannot admit nothing is perfectly pure.
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  Speaker 2: Your own husband, wife, or kids aren't. Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: who doesn't have something they wouldn't. I don't know the
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  Speaker 2: right way to say, but you don't particularly like about
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  Speaker 2: your husband, your wife, or your kids. You don't like
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  Speaker 2: this personality trait they have. I mean, it'd be impossible
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  Speaker 2: that you like every personality trait of your people you're
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  Speaker 2: close to. That's impossible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if anybody says that, then they're lying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You just realize it's part of the package, and on
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  Speaker 2: the whole you like them, and you know, you deal
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  Speaker 2: with it, and then you know they deal with yours.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's like a symptom of
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  Speaker 1: dumbness in some cases that they just can't noodle through.
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  Speaker 1: There are flaws to this, but it's okay. They just
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  Speaker 1: get angry at the idea that there's any you know,
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  Speaker 1: any fudging at all of this has to be one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent good. This is one hundred percent bad, and
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  Speaker 1: anything with any more subtlety than that freaks them out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very black and white attitude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a mental thing. That is a state.
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  Speaker 2: Like my son who has a variety of things. He
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  Speaker 2: takes a lot of pills for. He has a very
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  Speaker 2: black and white with a lot of stuff, and there's
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  Speaker 2: just no budget him off of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm not coming out of I'm not coming
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  Speaker 1: at this And I wish i'd like gotten my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: in order, because this would make more sense if I had.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not trying to come at this like in
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  Speaker 1: a snarky way or to mock people. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: understand them, and I've got to admit, it's like they're
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  Speaker 1: telling me, no, there are three moons in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and that's so foreign to the way I think. I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, I got to figure out why they think
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  Speaker 1: there's three moons in the sky.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and there's It's definitely more so more common on
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  Speaker 4: the left side of politics too. I mean, just in
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  Speaker 4: the last week, the amount of people where I have
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  Speaker 4: seen the anti Trump post on Facebook and one person
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  Speaker 4: mentions like an executive order that isn't all that terrible,
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  Speaker 4: and they get pissed. It's not a conversation anymore. It's
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  Speaker 4: an attack.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Manichaeanism, the reduction of the world into only good
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  Speaker 1: and evil and everything must be one or the other.
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  Speaker 3: Huh huh.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like that's something to want to a tendency
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  Speaker 2: you'd want to avoid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and you have to avoid it in a
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  Speaker 1: political system like ours. Our entire political system is based
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  Speaker 1: on differing ideas, factions, whatever. They come together in Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Mostly they come together and say here's who I am,
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  Speaker 1: and here's what I believe. Oh, here's who we are,
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  Speaker 1: here's what we believe. But we got around the country.
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  Speaker 1: Let's figure out how we can compromise. That is our
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  Speaker 1: system and our system can't stand you know, that sort
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  Speaker 1: of dualism.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking so some people who do that around
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  Speaker 2: politics and issues and stuff like that, did they do
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  Speaker 2: that in their personal lives that I was just talking
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  Speaker 2: about a little bit ago? Can they accept that? You know?
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  Speaker 2: I like my uh, I like ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 2: my wife, but she puts our dog in coats and
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: So we're thrilled, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: So I moved all of her shit onto the lawn
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  Speaker 1: and we're divorced. Now. Yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I had a friend like this, or really emphasis on
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  Speaker 4: had and it was her way or the highway every time, always, always,
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  Speaker 4: and for some reason I put up with it for
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  Speaker 4: more than twenty years and finally audios biac.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So, but is it? Is it a personality trait?
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  Speaker 1: Is it like a kink because of the way you
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  Speaker 1: were raised, you were abused? Whatever is it? Inborn?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know how you feel about the whole nature
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  Speaker 2: and nurture thing, having raised three kids with two kids, man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so far down the road of nature for almost
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  Speaker 2: everything I used to think before I had kids, it
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  Speaker 2: was you know, the way you were raised or your
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  Speaker 2: parents or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But man, every kid's a blank slate. It was just
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  Speaker 1: an expression of how their parents raised them.
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  Speaker 2: And when you have kids that have these very strong
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  Speaker 2: tendencies that you know they didn't get from your household,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, what the hell?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, her parents were great. Both of her siblings aren't
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  Speaker 3: like this.
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  Speaker 2: She's just nuts.
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  Speaker 5: Was who did what was the final straw?
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  Speaker 1: If you don't mind me asking.
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  Speaker 2: You question, Michael good interview question.
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  Speaker 1: Good gossipy question. Yeah, I love it?
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  Speaker 3: Uh she?
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy? Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I when I had I had three strokes back in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty, and after that happened, she became really judgmental
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  Speaker 4: of me, and uh, it just ended it. It ended
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  Speaker 4: up blowing up pretty much. I told her that fuck off.
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  Speaker 4: Did she did she feel like you had done something
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  Speaker 4: to earn the strokes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah she did and tried depending on me, and then
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  Speaker 4: when I wouldn't listen to her, she tried to go
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  Speaker 4: to my parents to make them get on her.
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  Speaker 3: It was really bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: That was a ballsy move for a woman while you
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  Speaker 1: were trying your best to deal with it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well even if even if she were right, it's
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  Speaker 2: just I don't know what the upside would be of
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  Speaker 2: a point.
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  Speaker 4: No, I wasn't taking great care of myself and she
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  Speaker 4: tried to blow it up into something it wasn't. And
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  Speaker 4: I am very glad that I am no longer dealing
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  Speaker 4: with that garbage.
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  Speaker 2: Good question, Mike, Michael's smiling, good sound the smile on
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  Speaker 2: your face. Michael, that would be a great call in topic.
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  Speaker 2: We don't do that anymore on the radio show. But
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  Speaker 2: what broke up your friendship? Oh, that'd be a good'd
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  Speaker 2: be a good topic.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I've got a great story. I can't tell it,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think I have. Damn shame.
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  Speaker 2: She'll get him.
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  Speaker 1: I've only like really actively ended one friendship.
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  Speaker 2: I don't you know what I got. I got a story.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd be willing to tell it
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  Speaker 2: on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sure you're okay doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, But anyway to get back to the theme, and
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  Speaker 1: then we can either do what we were going to
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  Speaker 1: do or not here out of time, well, we can
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  Speaker 1: do it tomorrow is speaking of kids, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: bring it all together. That's what I do I raised
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  Speaker 1: three children who, in terms of well they are, they
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  Speaker 1: unquestionably have traits that remind me of Judy and myself.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's as if they were selected randomly from
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  Speaker 1: all the children in the United States in terms of
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  Speaker 1: their strengths and not so strength these strengths and and
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  Speaker 1: and their personalities and stuff like that. And and my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: who is autistic fairly mildly, but unquestionably, her crap detector
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  Speaker 1: does not work. Her vulnerability to scams has been a
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  Speaker 1: big problem that we've been working on for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and she's getting way better at it, thankfully. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: the opposite, you know, the old saying, don't bullshit a bullshitter.
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  Speaker 1: The minute I hear even like three percent bullshit from somebody,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, yep, I'm watching and listening carefully, go on,
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  Speaker 1: what were you saying? I mean, it's just but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't earn that. I just I was born with it,
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  Speaker 1: and I to a large extent, although being in show business,
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  Speaker 1: as Don Geronimo, the Great Radio Guy would say, the
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  Speaker 1: lowest rung of show business, but being in show business
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  Speaker 1: for a career tends to make you a little more
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  Speaker 1: skeptical and cynical, but anyway, I just wonder whether some
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  Speaker 1: people are born without the ability to understand ambivalence, meaning
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  Speaker 1: this is true, and this is also true, and I
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  Speaker 1: kind of wish it wasn't, but I can accept it.
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I got one kid who's got very black and white,
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  Speaker 2: strong political views on a controversial topic. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to mention. I mean, just like, very strong and outspoken
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  Speaker 2: about it, and it's caused him problems. He's lost friendships
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  Speaker 2: at a very young age over this. I'm like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: why do you think this? I don't think it, your
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  Speaker 2: mom doesn't think it. We've never said anything, and I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea where he came to this, but he
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  Speaker 2: just does.
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  Speaker 3: Type stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe No, I really don't know, And trust me, I've
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  Speaker 2: spent a fair amount of time thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the designated hitter? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that very strong. He thinks it's an abomination.
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  Speaker 1: Well, keep sending your angry, enraged emails that seem to
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  Speaker 1: be ignoring major points. But if it's a good vent
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  Speaker 1: for you, a good outlet, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: I have a very smart friend, quite possibly the smartest
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  Speaker 2: person I've ever known, who would rather die than express
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  Speaker 2: anything Trump ever did as being even slightly positive. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it at all. I just don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: I know you can say Trump shouldn't be present. I't
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  Speaker 2: think you'd hear the reasons. But this was a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Why does that bother you.
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  Speaker 3: When you say they're one of the smartest people you know?
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  Speaker 3: Are they like book smart?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Very very okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, categories are smart.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: True takes all kinds. I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I ended a friendship. Guy wouldn't quit bringing up stupid
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  Speaker 5: things I did in the past. And I was like
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  Speaker 5: thirty five, and this was stuff in high school. And
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  Speaker 5: I finally said, you know what, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to hear this anymore and just left the Chili's restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: That was it, really, Yeah, left my steaks right there.
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  Speaker 2: So you said something, though, Yeah I did?
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  Speaker 5: I said, yeah, I said, you know what, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: I'm thirty five years old, and you know I don't
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  Speaker 5: think about this stuff anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So wow, good for you for one thing?
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  Speaker 3: Did you leave him with your bill?
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  Speaker 5: I put some money down and just walked out of there.
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  Speaker 5: I said, here, here's twenty bucks.
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  Speaker 2: I've got two examples i'd like to talk about, but
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  Speaker 2: in both cases I ghosted them like a coward. Silence
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  Speaker 2: is definitely, but also I just I'm not sure it
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  Speaker 2: was worth they weren't it was worth getting into You've
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  Speaker 2: you've fixed them, You've entered into the arena of you're
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  Speaker 2: not worth my time anymore. So whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love that Travis Kelcey thing. Do the
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  Speaker 1: people in your life give you energy or do they
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  Speaker 1: sap you of it?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder where he is on Taylor at this point.
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  Speaker 2: She's still giving him.
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  Speaker 4: Energy, probably sucking the life out of him.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.