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C.T.C.S Episode 229 Workplace Cliques, Wisdom From Texas And War In Iran · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I live in the real world. I mean, everybody has
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  Speaker 1: You know, solutions, relationships, keeping your team motivated, to keep
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  Speaker 1: a constant connection with each and every person who has
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  Speaker 1: chosen to stop into your location. In that very moment
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  Speaker 1: of now episode number two twenty nine, work place Clicks,
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  Speaker 1: Oh words of wisdom from Texas and the United States
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  Speaker 1: has just gone to war with Iran.
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  Speaker 3: This is CTCs and now CTS pet peeve of the Week.
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  Speaker 3: Is that really where we want to start a brand
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  Speaker 3: new episode the pet peeve of the week. I think
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  Speaker 3: so because it deals with workplace clicks. How many workplace
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  Speaker 3: clicks can you stuff inside four walls of a building
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  Speaker 3: and still find a reason to collaborate with another creative mind, body,
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  Speaker 3: or soul. See, the thing is is that with these clicks,
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  Speaker 3: these collaborations are thrown into corners because everybody's drinking the
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  Speaker 3: Jesus juice.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Oh this is worse than before the COVID lockdown. People
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  Speaker 3: just drinking the Jesus juice. And that creates a click
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  Speaker 3: because you've got those that want to do right and
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  Speaker 3: they want to make sure that the boss is patting
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  Speaker 3: them on the back. And then you've got people the
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  Speaker 3: rebels that don't need that pat on the back. And
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  Speaker 3: what do you mean it comes with rules? Ooh, I
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  Speaker 3: like that team, But come on, relax a little bit
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  Speaker 3: on this click of the week kind of thing, because
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  Speaker 3: you know what, when your popularity is down, I cannot
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  Speaker 3: imagine what it does to a coworker's soul when you
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  Speaker 3: feel like you're going to work and you really don't
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  Speaker 3: have any friends. You're just part of a clique. This
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  Speaker 3: is where I tend to get into a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 3: I do a lot of studying. I do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of research. Things come to me, I experience different things,
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  Speaker 3: and the first thing that I do I run into
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  Speaker 3: the research and I find out different paths and ways
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  Speaker 3: to handle certain solutions. That's me the solutions man. That's
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  Speaker 3: what customer services solutions. But not everybody's on the same
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  Speaker 3: plate as CT. Never have been, even in terrestrial radio.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody was ever in the same mindset or mood of
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  Speaker 3: CT or Arrow. So what happens is is that it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter how much time and energy you put into research.
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  Speaker 3: What you're getting is is you're get this step in
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  Speaker 3: the wrong direction. And that's when you begin to fall
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  Speaker 3: because you have nobody on your team. And this is
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  Speaker 3: how I put my big fat foot in my mouth.
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  Speaker 3: Great guy comes up to me. He's the preacher guy
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  Speaker 3: we've talked about the preacher got the Southern preacher. Man
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  Speaker 3: comes up and says, you know who you need to
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  Speaker 3: get onto your show. He gives me the person's name.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big, big, big name in the world of
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  Speaker 3: religion today. Oh my god, she is just unbelievably huge.
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  Speaker 3: You need to get her on the show and just
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  Speaker 3: start asking her questions. I said, I don't think that'd
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  Speaker 3: be a good fit. I really don't. He goes, why
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  Speaker 3: don't you think it'd be a good fit. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you claim to be a lover of Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 3: you claim to have podcasts that take care of that.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you're absolutely right, And he goes, why wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: you want to talk to her? I said, because they
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  Speaker 3: have nothing to say but what they're saying in the
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  Speaker 3: news every single day. It is the same answers to
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  Speaker 3: the same questions every day. I'm going to come in
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  Speaker 3: to be different and they're not going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to handle it. You gotta love it when it snows
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  Speaker 3: or when it rains. Every time we have weather like that,
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  Speaker 3: there's always going to be a new leak somewhere in
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  Speaker 3: the ceiling. This was right in front of the bacon.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, when you're not making bacon, you are
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  Speaker 3: making yourself available for one thing. Hell, because going home,
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  Speaker 3: what are you gonna say, I didn't want to get
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  Speaker 3: the bacon.
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  Speaker 2: It was in the wet zone. What do you mean
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  Speaker 2: it was in the wet zone. It was they had
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  Speaker 2: a leak. Get back there. And get that bacon. They'll
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  Speaker 2: never believe you that there's a leak in the bacon section.
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  Speaker 4: So I know you don't know what I'm gonna ask you,
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  Speaker 4: But no I don't, which is scary as hell. The
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  Speaker 4: last customer you just dealt with.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what do you think of it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know that everybody doesn't like him, and you
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  Speaker 3: know me that I'm attracted to people that people don't
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  Speaker 3: like because I'm gonna figure out a way to get
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  Speaker 3: him to laugh, to smile.
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  Speaker 2: You have a reaction, Oh, he treats me on crap.
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  Speaker 2: He's a piece of shit. Yes, sexist him. He comes in,
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  Speaker 2: he talks shit to everybody. Yeah, tries to help him
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  Speaker 2: up here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I was listening to be so fucking nice, light
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  Speaker 4: and cordial to that guy. I wanted to grab you
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  Speaker 4: and go right in front of him. I want to go,
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  Speaker 4: why are you being so fucking nice? So how do
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  Speaker 4: you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Because I can't do that without being starcastic? Right right?
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  Speaker 4: And I might give a piece of shit and some
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  Speaker 4: people say I am and that's probably it, but I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I can only thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a way that I call it, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: not saying that I coined the phrase, but I must
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  Speaker 3: have learned it somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: I call it hidden speak.
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  Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is is that to
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  Speaker 3: every negative that I feel, if I if I can
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  Speaker 3: work on creating a positive out of a negative, like
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  Speaker 3: a song, songs come from negative, art comes from negative,
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  Speaker 3: movies come from negative. If I can turn it around
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  Speaker 3: and create a positive, and that's what I'm always doing.
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  Speaker 2: How long have you been doing that? Forty six years year?
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  Speaker 3: So you were I've always been every and I've had
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  Speaker 3: where people yell at mean, quit being so happy, You
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  Speaker 3: got to quit being captain happy.
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  Speaker 2: Well I wasn't going there with it, but but I
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  Speaker 2: want to.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just like that guy is such a cock
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  Speaker 4: his and you were so unbelievably fucking nice and polite
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  Speaker 4: to that guy. When that guy comes up, I hate
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  Speaker 4: that fucking guy.
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  Speaker 2: So so I don't know. I did baffles me. I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I can't do that, And yet there are days that
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you've seen me do it to where I
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  Speaker 3: try to do the fake and I can't and I
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  Speaker 3: and I and I break, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm so. So you can do it, but
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  Speaker 2: you can. You have there's a finite limit. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: run out, I run out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think what it is is that a
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  Speaker 3: preacher once said to me, he goes, he says, being
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  Speaker 3: up here the pull pit, you give, you give, you give,
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  Speaker 3: you give, you give, and when you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Get something in return, you break.
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  Speaker 3: And when I'm not getting anything in return is when
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  Speaker 3: I break.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, you open my mom is something in yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: When your kids are going to have kids, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we get so close to everybody that's on this team.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this really is a true family atmosphere when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to creating together. Inside the grocery store, everybody
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  Speaker 3: kind of just knows what everybody else's story is. And
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  Speaker 3: if you don't, it just means you haven't been listening
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  Speaker 3: because everybody's so willing to share with you what their.
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  Speaker 2: Life is like.
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  Speaker 3: And so when we just happen to Gail is what
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  Speaker 3: we do on good days and on bad days, when
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  Speaker 3: we're not yelling, there's somehow, some way we still make
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  Speaker 3: our way through that particular storm. But when your babies
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  Speaker 3: are going to have babies, this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a big story in the months ahead, in the way
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  Speaker 3: of a baby is having a baby. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's as far as I can go for right now,
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  Speaker 3: because it's too early to say when this baby is
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  Speaker 3: going to have a baby. This dude brings in his
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  Speaker 3: oyster shells. He says, Oh my god, there's something wrong
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  Speaker 3: with this. There's parasites in it. I mean, it's really
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  Speaker 3: really bad. And you're going, I've never heard of anything
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  Speaker 3: like that. And then so you open it up. Oh, hell,
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  Speaker 3: yes there was. There were baby crabs inside the oysters.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of something like this? And from
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  Speaker 3: what I understand that they enter it and live off
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  Speaker 3: from the oyster But yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: So have fun. You guys have fun.
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  Speaker 3: And so what you do you know, do you know
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  Speaker 3: the guy is upset, he doesn't want crabs and his oysters,
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  Speaker 3: So therefore you give him back his money and you
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  Speaker 3: double it. Is what you do, double the money back.
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  Speaker 3: But I've never seen baby crabs inside oysters before.
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  Speaker 5: Please do not move. There's more CTCs right around the corner.
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  Speaker 5: Wise words from somebody from Texas. Plus the grandfather alarm
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  Speaker 5: has gone off. Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs.
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  Speaker 5: Wisdom from the people of Texas. That's what's straight ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Plus my grandfather, alarms have gone off.
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  Speaker 2: Transition Walk day number two out of four.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's raining inside this forest today. So why
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  Speaker 3: would I be a crazy fool and be out here
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  Speaker 3: in this beautiful forest with all these birds calling and
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  Speaker 3: deer roaming around, and every now and then you'll catch
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  Speaker 3: the fox.
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  Speaker 2: Why why? Why? Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's because it's actually called a transition walk. We
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  Speaker 3: go through several different mindsets and moods. We may have
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  Speaker 3: covered this already, but you know, you can never get
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  Speaker 3: old reminding people that just take the time to take
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  Speaker 3: a walk. It can be a three minute walk, it
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  Speaker 3: can be a ten minute walk. It could be through
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  Speaker 3: a park, it can be through them all. But man,
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  Speaker 3: I'm fresh from the studio, and when you've got as
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  Speaker 3: many interviews as I do with the podcasting, you gotta
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  Speaker 3: shake it. Man, because when I go into that grocery store,
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  Speaker 3: I ain't that guy. I'll never be that guy in
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  Speaker 3: a grocery store. I don't want to be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to create solutions and then get the
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  Speaker 3: hell out of there. Is that how you speak in retail?
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  Speaker 3: Is that how everybody does it? I just want to
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  Speaker 3: be like people in retail. Oh wait, a second, here's
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  Speaker 3: the reason why I'll never be in management. I will
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  Speaker 3: never tell you.
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  Speaker 2: What to do. Who what do you mean. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: I might suggest that we all work together in doing something,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm never gonna pinpoint you and say I.
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  Speaker 2: Need you to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, That's why I'm not a management figure. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: CT just like the show prep for my podcast, the
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  Speaker 3: show prep that I do for my weddings, anything that
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  Speaker 3: I do, I usually prerep everything that I do.
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  Speaker 2: I will prep for even coming to a grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: I will prep.
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  Speaker 3: I look for the most bizarre conversations to have where
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  Speaker 3: people go are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: For instance, like the one I'm bringing in today. I
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  Speaker 2: had an interview today.
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  Speaker 3: With a couple of journalists that we're doing a story
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  Speaker 3: on the Moorhouse College down in Atlanta where the president
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  Speaker 3: of Morehouse in nineteen sixty nine was kidnapped. That man
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  Speaker 3: was Martin Luther King Senior.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the dad now junior, the dad he.
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  Speaker 3: Was the president and he ends up getting kidnapped because
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  Speaker 3: there was an uprising at the school.
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  Speaker 2: Guess who was part of that uprising.
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  Speaker 3: Samuel L. Jackson, the actor that is an absolute true story.
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  Speaker 3: And you can hear that podcast. It's called The a Building,
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  Speaker 3: which you can find at iHeartRadio. But to hear that story,
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  Speaker 3: that right there is an oh wow moment that will
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  Speaker 3: create talk at a grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: So he just gave me a word of wisdom. Who
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  Speaker 2: that guy? That guy did.
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  Speaker 3: He's from the state of Texas and he said, he says,
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  Speaker 3: don't ever pass a bathroom and don't ever trust a part.
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  Speaker 2: The bottle. I just walked by.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, yeah, that part that was a lance
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  Speaker 3: in the long bottle. So I had to show up
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  Speaker 3: to the money before I got rid.
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  Speaker 6: Of it, because you know, that's five points.
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  Speaker 3: I brought that up yesterday that I saw the purple
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  Speaker 3: stuff up here, and I asked Bill, I said, I
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  Speaker 3: thought that we were.
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  Speaker 2: We can have the green stuff, now, what about the
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  Speaker 2: purple sauce?
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  Speaker 6: The purple stuff we can have.
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  Speaker 3: We can have the green stuff now. Yeah, they can't
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  Speaker 3: make three of mine. You can have a wide range now,
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  Speaker 3: but we have to speak all in all one. Oh
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  Speaker 3: my God, constantly spinning, constantly spinning. Wow, Camaiah, you needed
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  Speaker 3: something you have Somebody number two gained the life of
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  Speaker 3: somebody at a grocery store.
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  Speaker 2: It just never is.
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  Speaker 3: Conversations just run writing into each other and you've got
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  Speaker 3: to keep caught up. Here's something pretty inventive that we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna start here in the next couple of weeks. We've
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  Speaker 3: been given away free cookies for the past year year
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  Speaker 3: and a half. I mean, the moment the kids get here,
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  Speaker 3: they get a free cookie, which I think is a
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool thing because it makes kids happy. They don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be in a grocery store, give them a cookie.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the inventive thing, because we're trying to promote
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  Speaker 3: healthy starting in a couple of weeks, we're gonna start
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  Speaker 3: offering fruit, and you have to get.
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  Speaker 2: To the fruit first.
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  Speaker 3: Before you get over there to that free cookie, you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna pass right through the produce department. I just think
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  Speaker 3: that's so so smart. You're gonna still get your sugar rush,
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  Speaker 3: but the thing is now you're gonna get something that's
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  Speaker 3: actually good for you. So we have kudos kudos to
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  Speaker 3: this company for putting.
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  Speaker 2: The fruit first.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, here's something that's gonna put a lump in your throat,
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  Speaker 3: or at least it's gonna make you think about what's
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  Speaker 3: going on. In today's world. Yesterday we made the you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of talked about how we have somebody who
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  Speaker 3: is having a baby and they are underage, so basically
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  Speaker 3: they're a high school student, and they say, day I learned,
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  Speaker 3: here's a second one.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the grandfather coming out in me. That's the
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  Speaker 3: father coming out in me. And you and you just
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  Speaker 3: sit there and you go, shit, I can't fucking do anything,
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  Speaker 3: and you just rely on those around you who can
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  Speaker 3: have open discussions with both of these girls. You think
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  Speaker 3: I'm the only one whose dad alarms are going off?
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  Speaker 3: Her grandfather alarms. Do you think I'm the only one
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  Speaker 3: whose parental figure alarms are not going off? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she's sick. We're going to send her home.
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  Speaker 3: Number two and so and we all it's like we
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  Speaker 3: are are our anxiety as parents, as grandparents are through
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  Speaker 3: the roof, because these are our babies here. These are
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  Speaker 3: not just the co workers, these are our babies. And
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  Speaker 3: then and then we have another guy who comes in
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  Speaker 3: seventeen years old.
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  Speaker 2: I've been in the hospital. What do you mean You've
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  Speaker 2: been in the hospital.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? I got really super drunk two nights ago,
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  Speaker 3: and I hit my head on the toilet, shows me.
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  Speaker 2: The big gash in his head.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't think my parental figure anxiety is going
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  Speaker 3: through the roof. We all are right now, every manager
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  Speaker 3: on this floor, our numbers are just through the frickin'
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  Speaker 3: roof because our anxiety is so high. Because our kids
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  Speaker 3: who work here, who are our coworkers, but they're still
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  Speaker 3: our kids, are just.
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  Speaker 2: Going through reality right now.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like, Okay, we need to get control of this,
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  Speaker 3: because what you're dealing with is real life fucking issues
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  Speaker 3: here now. And then Jimmy the Geek walks in, who
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  Speaker 3: is also a senior in high school, and he's going
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  Speaker 3: down to Florida to perform at Disney World with his band,
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  Speaker 3: with the school band, And you don't think I was
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  Speaker 3: grilling that little guy's but I mean, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, that didn't sound right. That why I even
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  Speaker 2: say that. Let me start that one all over again.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't think that I wasn't playing the father
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  Speaker 3: or the grandfather figure on that. And I told him,
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  Speaker 3: I said, I don't need you to be drinking. I said,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to have to read about you in
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  Speaker 3: the paper. I don't want you to come back and
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  Speaker 3: show me videos that you were drinking.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to see any wild ass videos with you.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes, whoa dude that.
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  Speaker 3: He says, I'm not that way, and I'm and I'm
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  Speaker 3: going wait to say what I've just dealt with today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as far as I'm concerned, if one does it,
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: everybody does it.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: Please do not move. There's more CTCs right around the corner.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: We've attacked Iran. Someone has been hit by a car
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: outside our front door, and a very long story from
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: our favorite storyteller, Jim. Hey, thanks for coming back to
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: CTCs and attack in Iran. We've gone to war. A
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: guest has been hit by a car outside our front door,
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: and our favorite storyteller, Jim has a very very long story.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Transition walk day number three out of four who hit
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: his cold in this force Today it's supposed to be
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: a touch of spring. Naw spring, what spring back in
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: the house.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Been very busy in the podcast studio for Saturday. We
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: went camp this week. So what happened was is that
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: I still do the interviews and I did ten to
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: thirteen interviews. Well, you don't edit them, you don't post them,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: you don't do anything. But then you've got every PR
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: person knocking on your block telling you, where's my stuff?
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Where's my stuff?
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: So you spent all this time doing all the editing,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: pulling it off from the zoom l eight and then yea, this.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Is so much talk about. Yeah, this is boring. It's boring.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: This is supposed to be about a transition walk, going
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: to cs, hearing the real people's stories.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Whow and yet all this other crap is going on
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: around you. Man.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: I did a big, big, big lecture or a conversation
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: with Alexa today from Amazon. I do a radio show
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: with her, and we talked about the teen pregnancies and
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: we talked about the team dranking and stuff. And it'll
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: post today on a show called Street Speaking with Clarence
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: and Alexa or Alexa and Clarence. And I invite you
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: to go listen to that because digital technology. You know what,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: if she may not have the human emotion that we do,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: but at least she tells a pretty straight story.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I'll see you and see us.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: The incredible people at Dorito's have now taken the red
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: dye completely out of their product and they've got new packaging.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: This is what they do, and it's got this these
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: three letters on it. And in fact, when I looked
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: at it, I thought, oh, well, Dorito's has teamed up
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: with the WWE. You know how they do next and
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, WWE NXT, and that's what
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I thought they were doing. I thought they were promoting
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: a new WWE. So when the Doriedo man came into it,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I said, what, what, what's the promotion behind this? I mean,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: are they are they getting people more involved with the WWE?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: And he goes, no, it has so soon to do
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: with that red dye. It just doesn't have it. It
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: still tastes the same though, like our good old Dorrito.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: But Miam, it has nothing to do with the WWE.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Totally interesting day today. When I first got up, he
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: of course, I heard that that we had attacked Iran again.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And so you know, you go through the speedo, you
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: go through.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Trying to figure out, you know, to try to be
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: into the game, to know what is happening, how it's
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: going to affect the country, the economy and everything like that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: And now we just learned that Iran as a leader
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: was killed during that bombing. So it's gonna be very
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: interesting to find out how this is going to change
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the persona of everybody that's coming into the store. Do
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: we start seeing fear, do we start seeing retaliation?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: We don't know. We don't know.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: But you've got to have your guard up, you really do,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: so you know, it's just one of those things you've
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: just definitely got to be.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: On your game. That didn't take long.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: There are guests in the house that are definitely in
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: a mode of having a conversation talking about the events
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: that are happening. This is big of what's happening around
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: the world right now with Iran and all the other
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: countries that are involved. And what's really interesting is that
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what side of the political fans that
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: you're on, everybody's getting along and they they really do
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: start the conversation saying this is who I'm for. I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: just want to set that up, and then they go
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: into a conversation. And so there's a lot of nice
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: nights taking place during these times of uncertainty. And that's
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: what I'm falling witness to is that you can be
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: on any team, any team, and you're getting it along.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: That's fucking beautiful. That is just fucking beautiful.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be some big shift in the plans tonight.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of people who came to work,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: but they want to go home now, and they're not
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: giving us any real excuse as to why they want
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: to go home, but they're wearing something, and you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I can assume I know what they're wearing, the weight
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: of the world. Maybe I don't know, but they just
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: feel that they need to go home.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: So by about eight.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: O'clock tonight, there's only going to be few of us
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: in the entire store until we close tonight. So you know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: it's not that we can handle the weight of the
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: world or what's going on in.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: The world, but you know, but you can't. You can't
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: close the store because of that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: So I guess this is part of the repercussions of
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: what happens when the world starts controlling the heartstrings and
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: you've got to sit there and put your thinking cap
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: on and try to find your focus. And these guys
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: are not finding their focus. All they're talking about is
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: everything that's taking place in other areas of the world.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Had in fuel to the fire.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Were just got into the store from security as well
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: as the police officers. And that is is that somebody
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: has been hit outside our store.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: A guest has.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: A family of three walking across the intersection to go
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: out to the car to pick it up and make
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: their way home, and somebody wasn't watching and boom and
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: thinking shit.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: You know, your heart just sinks.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: It sinks because we see these people, we laugh with them,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: we have a great time with them, and then something
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: like this happens and life changes, not just for them
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: but for everybody. And so we're all everybody, including our guests.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: We're all like in this tight little circle, and you know,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: prayers are being shared. I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring out the God card and yeah, we're
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: doing the God thing. We're back with Infamous Jim. So
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: you had a brush with fame. You reach out to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the first and that inspired you with because you are
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: so into motorcycles and injuries and stuff like that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Tell the story, dude.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Okay, So I went to high school in Key West, Florida,
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: and at the time, many years ago, they still had
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: a vocational education course. So I was in auto mechanics
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: and it was more like shop class was soul Craft.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: That's the name of the book. It's a really great book.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: Really okay, But my instructor, Ed Truman was one hell
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: of a man, a hell of a mentor. He knew
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: everything that he could. There was more things that he
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: could teach us about cars than he could.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: He was my vocation stroke D and he was great.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: He gave us so many life lessons along the way
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: and was always cutting up. He wasn't yelling his creminatus, right,
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: you know, like one of the kids in class, he's
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: smoke a pot. Well that wasn't unusual, right, we were
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: all smoking hot right, But so he went instead of
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: yelling at us, he on he went by the hardware
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: store and got one of those little plastic signs and
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: it said.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Keep off the grass.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: That's cool and hung it up in the shop.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: So, anyway, we're learning about cars, we're learning about life.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: And for my senior project, I'm rebuilding a car. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: didn't have a lot of money, so I started out
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: with a Ford Falcon. It was gonna be ground up restoration.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Did you have any track clear?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Oh my god did.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: What the hell? So, so of course I'm not happy
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: with stock it has to be a hot rock.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Of course, I was were meved for that. It was
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the three in the tree.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: I originally it had the three hundred three and four
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: cubic inch six y hundred engine that getting it okay, Well,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: I found out that there was lots of suspension differences
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: between the very rare V eight Falcons and the inline
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: six Falcons because the engine was hit. So it's like, well,
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: not only can I not afford the two eighty nine
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: DY eight that should go in this, but it won't
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: work in this car because the suspension.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Is right right right, all right?
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Well, I found out there was three variants of the
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: sixth cylinder somehow I figured this out before there was
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: the internet, right in eighteen seventies, and there was a
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: two hundred qbic inch engine.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: That was only in the Vands.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Oh really, it had the same bolt. It would bolt
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: up to the Falcon. So I found one and it
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: was not it needed rebuilding, because that's what I was
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: supposed to be doing anyway, rebuilding. Yeah, but there was
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: nothing horrible broken on it. So I'm wanting to add
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: about how hearts are so expensive and I only get
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: three dollars from an owe to somebody's yard. How am
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: I going to make this happen? And it says, well,
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: what do you think about doing? And I was like, well,
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: this guy Escadarian camp shows Ed Escadarian. He has all
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: these hop up parts for this two hundred cubic engines. Yeah,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: and I need him, but they're expensive. And Ed stops
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: talking for a minute and just lets me babble along.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: And then I realized that I'm supposed to stop talking now, right,
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: and and so I stopped and he says, have you
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: written Ed a letter? It's like, no, why would I
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: do that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah? He goes, well, okay, you think you do possible? Okay,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put this away. I'll be back okay, yep, yep.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: So you were told to write him a letter? So yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: So Ed looks at me and he goes, why don't
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: you write him a letter? I was like, Ed, we
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: all called him at only we're supposed to go with
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: mister Truman. Don't call him at anyway, because that's what
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: he wanted. Ed, what the hell is that going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: give me? He goes, have you ever written anybody that
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: seems bigger than life a letter?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: To see? What would happen. I go no, he goes
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: do it now? Yeah?
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: Huh so I would I well, I was embarrassed, and
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: it's like none. I thought about it for a minute.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It's like, I'm just gonna write him a letter.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: How can I be embarrassed?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: If the worst that can happen.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Is you'll throw it in the trash cannon, I ever
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: see it again? Right?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Fine?
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: So I wrote ed a letter ed Escandarin, Dear mister Eskandarian,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I'm a vocational education student in US high school, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: my senior project is to rebuild this car. And nothing
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: would make me happier than to pour a bunch of
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: your parts under the hood of this car. This is
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: the first hot rod I will have ever built. Oh okay,
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: I think I think I sent him a picture of
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: me and Ed ed Truman, My ya, I just sent
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: him a picture and he says that's what we're doing.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: And and EDT. Truman said, I should write you a
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: letter and see.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: If there was anything maybe you could do for me. Yeah,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: ge you write he wrote back.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Handwritten letter. I think I still have it at someplace.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Handwritten letter says Jim, I'm so impressed with you. Ah,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: you will have a great you know career. Oh, he says,
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: you put anything you want to buy, you can have
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: the racers Net fifty discount. No, you call her office
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: on our you know, eight hundred number, which was very
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: rare back then tell them you spoke to me and
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: that you need the Racer's Net fifty and or if
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: there's a problem, have him put me.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: On the phone, okay.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Or if you order by mail, just put a put
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: a copy of this letter with your order and take
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: fifty off the bottom line.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Ha ha.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: That's like, oh my god, Wow, the letter comes to
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: the mailf take it back into chuck last.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Rightly, Ed, Ed, look what happened? He goes, Oh, oh
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: my goodness.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: That's a guy that looks bigger than life.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: But he's a real person and he.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Has real feelings and he wants to help the rest
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: of the world. Oh my god, what a big surprise.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You should remember that, right, like.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Son of a bitch, you're right so. And then and
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: then in the when so I heard on my stuff,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: and when the stuff came, I got all this stuff,
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: and then I got.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: A T shirt.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: And the T shirt was a caricature of Ed Skanderian,
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: who was a stocky guy with a big shock of
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: Jeff blank hair and a any big stokey That's that
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: was his larger than life caricature. But I met him
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: once in Miami and he that was the kind of
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: man he was. The funny part was Ed Truman, my instructor,
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: and him could have been stunned up.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Really.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there is same size, same you know, same gregarious
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: kind of people and both spoke the same cigars.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome. That's awesome. I will definitely read it later.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: What I think Jim will never get to hear unless
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: he absolutely falls into this podcast is how important his
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: story was to us here at the grocery store today.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: You've heard all of the junk that has happened today
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: and yesterday and the day before, and Jim's story about
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: his dream to build that hot rod was the most
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: positive story that my team needed to hear. You know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: That's what it's all about. It's all about being in
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a place of now accepting what's going on. And I
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: know that his heart is broken because he lost his hero,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: but you know what, his storytelling really brought a lot
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: of life back to us because of what we've been
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: through this week. And I just cannot thank the grocery store.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: God's enough for that opportunity. Transition walk day number four
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: at a four, hallelujah, finally here. Then I can't talk
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: like that as I take this transition walk through this
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: beautiful forest on a spring day. Temperatures today is supposed
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: to be in the mid tepter seventies. Anyway, You know
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: those of us that bitch about how fast time is moving,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and yet we'll also complain about how we can't get
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: through this weekend fast enough. Wait a second, that's an
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: oxy moron. You got to make up your mind. What
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: do you want? You want the weekend to hurry up
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: and get over with, or you want life to slow
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: the hell down?
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: See what I mean?
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: This is what you face on a daily basis when
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: you put yourself out here, such as inside CS because
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: this is the real world. There's no candy coat of
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: plastic bathroom myor smile unless you're willing to put it
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: out there. And the question is are you willing to
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: carry it?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: WHOA can you tell? I got my got on today? WHOA?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Hey do me? But there is one thing I picked
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: up in church today. Start looking at.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: The invisible people everything you want and need in life.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: When you walk into a home depot, or you go
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: to AT and T, or you need something from Amazon,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: stop looking for the superstars and start paying attention to
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: the invisible people because those invisible people are the ones that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Are gonna make your day. Because day came to work.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I'll see you and see us.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the day starts off in self checkout on a Sunday.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: NFL players, you're more than welcome to come and try this.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Trust me, I can kick your ass on this floor
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: like you wouldn't believe. The same is true about a
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: hockey player. You could not do self checkout if you
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: beg someone to teach you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: That's what it's like. Man. You're always on the move.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: You're on a groove.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: If you get out of that groove, then you're gonna
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: be booed out of that damn place in a heartbeat.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: A challenge it. Come on, let me show you how
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: to do it. I'll give you a couple hours and
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: then we're gonna set you free. Somebody that's very new
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: to our Sunday crowd comes up to me and says,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: what is it gonna snow or something? Is there a
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: hurricane out the way. I said, why, and he goes,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: look at all the people in here. I said, have
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: you never shopped in this store on a Sunday? I mean,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the only way we're ever going to clear out the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: storre is you just go ahead and take out all
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: the apartments, take out the assistant living places, take out
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: all the little guys in the world, and you might
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: have a clear store where you can have the whole
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: store to yourself. But you know, you come in here
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: on a Saturday or a Sunday and you're going to
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: wait in line, and not only that, you're gonna have
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: to wade through the meat department because you get back
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: there and those people are back there sharing conversations and everything.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You ain't getting through it. I guarantee you we're not
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: getting through it. I was just told that sixty percent
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: of our business is done through self checkout.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Sixty six oh, And.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I said, well, what about theft? I mean, come on,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: you got to be losing money with that. And they
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  Speaker 3: go the number of people that we would need in
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  Speaker 3: order to put on a register versus what's that self checkout?
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  Speaker 3: Pay for them, pay for the bolognay that goes through
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  Speaker 3: You know, sitting there and having to wait to go
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  Speaker 3: up to that registering things.
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  Speaker 2: It's not worth it.
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  Speaker 3: They said that they're actually saving a lot of money
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of grief by having self check out out,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: and they don't care if.
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  Speaker 2: People are stealing.
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  Speaker 3: They just feel like that they're saving more money and
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  Speaker 3: more time with the self checkout. I don't know, how
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  Speaker 3: do you feel about that? Do you like going to
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  Speaker 3: self checkout? Is it really that much better? One of
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: my guests on the podcast this past week was actually
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  Speaker 3: someone who works for the CIA.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is.
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  Speaker 3: Into protecting you the consumer, as well as protecting yourself
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  Speaker 3: as an everyday, average person anywhere in the world, just
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: protecting yourself and because not everybody has the time to
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: take in a martial arts class, and does that shit
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  Speaker 3: even really work? Okay, look, look, I'm a third degree
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  Speaker 3: black belt, so I'm gonna ask you that question a
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: million times. Do you really think it's gonna work if
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: you're put in a situation where there's a lot of stress.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: So one of the things that I wanted to ask
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  Speaker 3: this dude was, well, what about these businesses that are
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: consistently getting new product in and they put the new
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  Speaker 3: product in the back.
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  Speaker 2: So if there was an active shooter and all of
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: that new product has arrived and.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: You can't get to the door, what is your suggestion,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Because you could talk to your blue in the face
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  Speaker 3: to get people to don't block that door, and they're
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: gonna go, yeah, yeah, whatever, whatever, whatever, because that's what
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  Speaker 3: they do. Don't tell me anything different. That's what they do.
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  Speaker 3: And so the CIA guy, this is really what he said.
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  Speaker 3: He says, you already know plan A and B, and
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: you know that in Plan A and.
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  Speaker 2: B you've got block doors. Don't do it.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Then then you need to come up with your own plan.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: And that plan needs to be Plan K, LMNO, or P.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, you come up with your own plan
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: if there's an active shoot in your place of business,
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: figure it out so you.
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  Speaker 2: Can get out.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many times that I get mixed up
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  Speaker 3: in a conversation that I wish I could just whip
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: out this microphone and just record it. But I think
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: that one thing that I've learned over the years, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: this is the God's honest truth, and that is is
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: that once you put a microphone in front of somebody's face,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it becomes the candy coat of plastic,
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: bathroom mere smile. In other words, you don't know what
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: they're saying. People with a microphone they freeze up. They
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: don't want to talk. They're afraid of people hearing what
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: they have to say, identifying what could be wrong with them. So,
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  Speaker 3: even though I was here with one of the most
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: unbelievable conversations I've ever had, you know, the only thing
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: that we left with it, the only thing that we
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: left the conversation with was you need to sit down,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: you need to write. And you know me, I'm always
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: going to be about writing first. And I said, you
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: need to let it go no matter what. And so,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: you know, and that's how you deal with everything, is that,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: you know, deal with.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Your present place of now. And that's it. You know.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know much about what we really talked.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: About over the past four days, except that in the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: reality of where we presently stand, there's a lot of
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: junk that's gone down. And I just know what everybody's mood,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: swings and mindsets were over the past four days and
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: how the deeper we got into the headlines, things really
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: started to affect people. And so people were coming up
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: today because it really was just monstrous crowded, and they're
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: going to Is it gonna snow?
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Is there something wrong with the weather? You know what.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: I'm going to dig in and try to figure out
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: what the psychology is behind this and wonder if the
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: reason why we were so flooded with people today shopping,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: if it's just not something inside the psyche that says
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: I need some security, I need some certainty, I need something,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: and of going to a grocery store to buy a
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: whole cart full of food is going to bring me
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  Speaker 3: some happiness, then that's what I'm.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Going to do.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, that's just assumption. And that's
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: where we presently stand. Is that where are we? And
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: what is the next CTCs going to be about? In fact,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: that's going to do it for this edition of CTCs.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: The ups and downs, the twist, the spins, the ends,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: the outs, the wars that are starting from out of nowhere.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, what's going on in your world? That's
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: what I want you to do. I want you to
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: create your own podcasts and let us know what's going
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: on inside your world. Show us the wizard behind your curtain.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I'll see you next week on CTCs