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Girl Pranks The Police · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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Speaker 1: Why are you in my car?
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Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if you can take me to the bar.
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Speaker 2: I'm of age.
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Speaker 3: I'm of age.
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Speaker 4: Are you f * * *.
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Speaker 5: Ing kidding me?
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Speaker 6: On April 20th of 2024, a 22-year-old college student decided
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Speaker 6: to play a prank on a female cop by sitting
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Speaker 6: down in the backseat of a police cruiser while the
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Speaker 6: cop was occupied with something else. When the officer discovered
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Speaker 6: the girl in her car, she wasn't very happy.
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Speaker 1: Both of you get over here right now. Give me
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Speaker 1: your IDs. What in your mind would make you think
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Speaker 1: that you should get into the back of a cop car?
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: Give me your ID now.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Ma'am, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: Give me your ID.
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Speaker 6: Oh no, don't call her ma'am. That implies that she's old.
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Speaker 6: The last thing you want to do is piss off
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Speaker 6: a cop when they have the ability to let you
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Speaker 6: go free after a few minutes or force you to
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Speaker 6: go to the bathroom in front of everyone for a weekend.
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Speaker 7: Just call her officer if you want to be polite.
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Speaker 1: She called it a taxi instead of an Uber. She
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Speaker 1: might be old. But what a poorly aimed target for
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Speaker 1: a prank.
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Speaker 8: Messing with an on-duty officer is probably not the smartest
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Speaker 6: slash thinkbeforeyousleep. All right, so Officer Hillary West is pretty
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Speaker 6: mad about this college student getting into her police cruiser,
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Speaker 6: so she brings in her supervisor to talk and explains.
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Speaker 7: What's going on.
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Speaker 1: Both of you stand right here with him. Do not
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Speaker 1: go anywhere. Stand right there with him. Do not go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: So I made a traffic stop.
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Speaker 8: Basically, this lady almost hit me trying to pull out.
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Speaker 8: So I walked up to her car. I had my
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Speaker 8: car parked here. And as I was talking to.
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Speaker 1: Her, that girl had the audacity to get into the
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Speaker 1: backseat of my car. Is she drunk?
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Speaker 7: Yes, she was drunk. And if she wasn't, then she's
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Speaker 7: got bigger problems.
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Speaker 6: I know there are a lot of people out there
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Speaker 6: who really lack situational awareness, but if you're sober and
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Speaker 6: think that it's a smart idea to prank some random
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Speaker 6: cop that you don't know, then you need to read
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Speaker 6: some books about human psychology. Maybe study statistics, too, so
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Speaker 6: you can make a more educated guess on what the
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Speaker 6: odds are of you messing with a cop who is
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Speaker 6: likely to go on a power trip and turned this
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Speaker 6: situation into a lot more than a drunk prank.
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Speaker 8: She just said, so she's over 21. She's like, oh,
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Speaker 8: I need you to drive me to the bar. What
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Speaker 8: can I cite her with?
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Speaker 1: Criminal mischief, and she can go to jail. If she
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Speaker 1: wants to sit in the car, she can take a ride. Okay, perfect.
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Speaker 1: Criminal mischief, I'm good with that.
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Speaker 8: Okay, yeah.
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Speaker 1: You can't just sit and put your lights and sirens on. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: my lights were on. I was in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the stop.
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Speaker 7: I would do criminal mischief, and you could do a
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Speaker 7: disorderly conduct mischief.
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Speaker 6: I think everyone would be on the cop's side until
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Speaker 6: this moment here. What do you mean you'll look it up?
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Speaker 6: You don't know if they committed a crime? I get
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Speaker 6: that you're mad, but doing a little Google search to
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Speaker 6: figure out how to arrest this girl just because she
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Speaker 6: did a harmless prank is ridiculous. How is this being
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Speaker 6: a public servant?
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Speaker 7: Mess with what?
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Speaker 6: Fortunately, they showed a shot of the back seat and
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Speaker 6: there wasn't anything in it. She couldn't even leave the
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Speaker 6: car without her friend opening the door for her because
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Speaker 6: the backseat of police cars.
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Speaker 7: Lock when you close them.
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Speaker 6: And if you want to say, well, the cop was
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Speaker 6: doing a traffic stop with another person, so that makes
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Speaker 6: it more serious in case she had to arrest someone. Fortunately,
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Speaker 6: Officer Hillary West mentioned that she was already finished with
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Speaker 6: the traffic stop with that other person when she found
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Speaker 6: the college student in her car.
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Speaker 1: So, traffic stop already left, I take it? Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, this was a traffic stop that
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Speaker 6: resulted in what sounds like a nonsense citation.
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Speaker 8: So I was standing right here trying to explain to her, hey,
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Speaker 8: you either have to exit this way or this way.
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Speaker 1: You can't exit this way. You almost just caused an
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Speaker 1: accident when I was trying to come in here because
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Speaker 1: you tried to proceed out. And I was explaining her
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Speaker 1: ticket to her.
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Speaker 8: And so basically I'm in a bad spot and I
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Speaker 8: couldn't see my car while.
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Speaker 1: I was standing here talking to her.
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Speaker 6: So you ticketed her for a mistake. Like she wasn't
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Speaker 6: maliciously breaking the law. She's not going 90 in a
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Speaker 6: school zone. She didn't hurt anyone or damage anything, and
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Speaker 6: she's not a repeat offender as far as we know.
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Speaker 6: She just happened to be absent-minded for a few seconds,
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Speaker 6: which is something that everyone does at some point. Most
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Speaker 6: of us are lucky enough to not have that happen
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Speaker 6: in front of a cop car, though. Anyway, going back
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Speaker 6: to the college girl, the cop car story takes a
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Speaker 6: little turn in this next part here.
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Speaker 1: This supervisor sucks. He's worse than her.
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Speaker 6: It absolutely is her fault that she didn't lock her car,
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Speaker 6: especially considering that she was in a position where she
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Speaker 6: couldn't see it. This really should be a wake-up call
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Speaker 6: for the officer. What if a real criminal entered the
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Speaker 6: car instead of a college senior doing a bar crawl?
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Speaker 7: Why would she leave her vehicle unlocked and unattended?
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Speaker 6: Don't they have computers and weapons in cop cars and
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Speaker 6: maybe a possible criminal knows how to hotwire a car?
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Speaker 6: But all this kind of makes the overreaction make sense now,
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Speaker 6: and I can understand the reason for the brainstorming session
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Speaker 6: where this cop.
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Speaker 7: And her supervisor.
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Speaker 6: are trying to find a legal excuse to put the
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Speaker 6: college girl in jail. Officer West is embarrassed because of
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Speaker 6: her screw-up.
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Speaker 1: And I can take her to jail for criminal mischief? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's an M4.
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Speaker 2: Perfect.
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Speaker 7: I believe it's an M4.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to hand this back to you.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and hand me your purse. Yes, absolutely. Go
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Speaker 1: ahead and turn around and face the car. Put your
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Speaker 1: hands up on the side of the car. I sure am.
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Speaker 1: Put your hands up on the car.
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Speaker 8: Step up here for me.
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Speaker 1: You wanted to ride in the back of the cop car?
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Speaker 1: You will get your wish. Turn around and face that way.
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Speaker 6: Technically, her wish was to ride in a cop car
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Speaker 6: to go get alcohol, so unless you present her with
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Speaker 6: a beer, you haven't given her what she wished for. Again,
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Speaker 6: I think the cop's whole response to this was ridiculous.
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Speaker 6: What the college student did was stupid, but she didn't
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Speaker 6: damage anything, she didn't steal, she didn't hurt anyone, and
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Speaker 6: didn't put anyone in danger. There's no real reason to
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Speaker 6: arrest her. Maybe you could yell at her and tell
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Speaker 6: her not to do it again. Maybe at worst, write
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Speaker 6: a citation if one applies. But doing stuff like taking
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Speaker 6: a person to jail over a harmless prank makes people
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Speaker 6: not like cops. It makes them think they're being abused,
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Speaker 6: not protected and served. And you know this is an
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Speaker 6: overreaction because if I left my car unlocked at the store,
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Speaker 6: someone got into it, and asked me to drive them
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Speaker 6: to a bar but they didn't threaten me, and they
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Speaker 6: didn't damage or steal anything, then a cop would just
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Speaker 6: laugh at me if I asked them to haul that
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Speaker 6: person off to jail. And if someone wants to say, well,
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Speaker 6: it's different because cops have weapons in their car, welcome
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Speaker 6: to Texas. Lots of people keep guns in their car here.
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Speaker 6: This charge is so nonsense that after they threw her
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Speaker 6: in the car, they are still trying to figure out
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Speaker 6: what to charge her with.
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Speaker 1: I'll take her for the criminal mischief and then see
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Speaker 1: if I can... If you want to look... I'll look
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Speaker 1: real quick and see if there's any.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 6: Oh, so now criminal mischief isn't enough? You need a
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Speaker 6: higher charge? Now, the supervisor said that it counts as
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Speaker 6: criminal mischief because Officer West was involved in a traffic stop. Well,
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Speaker 6: great news, because she announced on camera that she was
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Speaker 6: finished with the traffic stop before she noticed the girl
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Speaker 6: in the car. So how do we know that Officer
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Speaker 6: West was still involved in that traffic stop when the
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Speaker 6: girl got into her police car? Fortunately, the dash cameras
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Speaker 6: and the body cameras are all time-stamped and dated, So
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Speaker 6: if the times line up properly, a lawyer could argue
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Speaker 6: that the college student was not interrupting a traffic stop
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Speaker 6: or getting in the way of an arrest, which is
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Speaker 6: probably what the cops are attempting to charge her with.
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Speaker 6: And obviously her involvement had no effect on the traffic
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Speaker 6: stop because it was already over. But that's okay because
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Speaker 6: next the cops show they have a sense of humor
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Speaker 6: when they talk to the college girl's friend.
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Speaker 1: Are you going to be able to get home all right?
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Speaker 3: I'll be fine. I agree.
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Speaker 8: Okay. We can give you a ride if you.
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Speaker 1: Ask us and talk to us, right?
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Speaker 8: Like, so, because of the situation, like, if you're... But
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Speaker 8: giving you a ride home is a lot different than
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Speaker 8: you jumping in my car and.
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Speaker 1: Asking for a ride to a bar.
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Speaker 6: Speaking of, why aren't they arresting the friend? Because you
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Speaker 6: can see on the dash cam footage that the friend
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Speaker 6: opened the car door to help the college girl out,
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Speaker 6: and I know that Officer West was aware of that
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Speaker 6: because she yelled at the friend for it when the
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Speaker 6: college girl got out of the car.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 6: If opening the back door of the cop car was
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Speaker 6: so disruptive to your traffic stop, then both of them
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Speaker 6: were guilty. But I imagine the reason they didn't think
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Speaker 6: to do that is because it didn't actually cause any
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Speaker 6: interruption to the traffic stop, so the whole charge is nonsense.
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Speaker 6: And the reason I'm so belligerent about this is because
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Speaker 6: it's a clear abuse of power, because they wanted to
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Speaker 6: charge her with a fourth-degree misdemeanor, or worse, which can
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Speaker 6: land you up to 30 days in jail, And that's
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Speaker 6: a pretty severe penalty for someone who was simply a
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Speaker 6: minor inconvenience to a cop. Even if the college girl
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Speaker 6: only spent the weekend in jail until she got to
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Speaker 6: talk to a judge, I still think this is overkill.
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Speaker 6: And if people don't say something when cops do bullshit
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Speaker 6: like this and they keep getting away with it and
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Speaker 6: power tripping over minor offenses, then eventually you get what
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Speaker 6: Germany is going through right now, where people are being
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Speaker 6: arrested for memes.
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Speaker 2: We were with state police as they raided this apartment
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Speaker 2: in northwest Germany. Six armed officers searched the suspect's home,
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Speaker 2: then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those
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Speaker 2: electronics may have been used to commit a crime. The crime,
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Speaker 2: posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time
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Speaker 2: across Germany, more than 50 similar raids played out. Part
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Speaker 2: of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort to curb
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Speaker 2: online hate speech in Germany.
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Speaker 7: That is crazy.
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Speaker 6: But I bet, I'm just making a little assumption here,
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Speaker 6: but I bet they don't arrest people for this kind
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Speaker 6: of racism.
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Speaker 4: White people are inferior species to us. We are homo sapiens.
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Speaker 4: They've got Neanderthal blood in them. This is the science. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: by the strictest definition of what a human being is,
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Speaker 4: white people are just below human beings. You are negotiating
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Speaker 4: with an animal, a wild dog. that you're trying to train.
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Speaker 4: You cannot expect the same behavior of a human being
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Speaker 4: that you're expecting of a dog.
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Speaker 6: Just a sneaking suspicion there. Just a wild guess that
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Speaker 6: you're allowed to be racist against certain races, but not others. Again,
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Speaker 6: it's crazy to watch this from America, as people get
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Speaker 6: arrested for what should be protected speech. Anyway, the college
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Speaker 6: girl prank situation ends here.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you just made a really bad decision. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what in your thought process made.
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Speaker 8: You think that you should get into the back of
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Speaker 8: my car when I had my emergency lights on and
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Speaker 8: asked me for a ride to a bar.
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Speaker 5: I've been a good citizen, and I'm not trying to
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Speaker 5: make a huge fit out of it, and I'm sorry.
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Speaker 6: I had no idea.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, you can talk to the judge about it on Monday.
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Speaker 6: A word of advice to the college girl, do not
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Speaker 6: speak to cops that act like Officer West. They are
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Speaker 6: not your friend, and they will use anything you say
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Speaker 6: as evidence against you. When a cop is hassling you
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Speaker 6: and acting like your enemy, then you need to shut up.
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Speaker 6: Saying sorry isn't going to get you out of the handcuffs.
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Speaker 6: You are already under arrest. Next thing you know, she's
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Speaker 6: going to be stupid enough to admit that she was
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Speaker 6: drunk and land herself a drunken public charge or something. Now,
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Speaker 6: this is not to say that every cop acts like
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Speaker 6: these ones or that every traffic stop is unjust.
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Speaker 3: The reason for the years. I know.
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Speaker 8: That's why I stopped them.
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Speaker 1: Ma'am, that's why I stopped them.
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Speaker 2: Have a nice night, okay?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why I'm stopping you for reckless driving, careless driving, speeding,
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Speaker 4: and the lights you ran, okay? You were doing at
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Speaker 4: least 100 on Kennedy Boulevard.
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Speaker 1: All right, man? You almost struck my car because I
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Speaker 1: was making the right turn.
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Speaker 4: Here's your documents.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We're on a first date being here.
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Speaker 4: That's fine, but almost killing each other is not the
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Speaker 4: way to start.
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Speaker 1: On a first date.
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Speaker 7: Listen, you're getting three tickets.
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Speaker 2: I could have gave you a lot more, okay?
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Speaker 3: You're not even supposed to be driving at this time
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Speaker 3: because you have a provisional license.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. So you're getting reckless.
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Speaker 2: I didn't give you speeding.
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Speaker 1: I'm giving you that break, all right?
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Speaker 3: You got reckless.
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Speaker 7: The traffic light that you're in, end up driving after hours.
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Speaker 3: All right, man?
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Speaker 8: Thank you. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: I think this is a case of a genuinely good
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Speaker 6: traffic stop. The driver could have easily killed someone. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 6: not that the officer could have known this, but this
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Speaker 6: was a case that the cop probably should have been
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Speaker 6: less lenient, as he might have saved the driver's life
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Speaker 6: and the passenger's life if he arrested him for reckless
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Speaker 6: driving or took his provisional license away.
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Speaker 2: Yo, this is.
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Speaker 7: The same kid.
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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 3: You okay?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
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Speaker 4: 14 minutes later, the officer finds the guy he just
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Speaker 4: pulled over in a fatal car crash.
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Speaker 3: They're essentially decapitated. The two, he and his passenger are dead.
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Speaker 3: They'd be alive right now if he would have either
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Speaker 3: arrested him or said, you're not driving this from here
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Speaker 3: on out, we're going to have to tow your car.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes cops, by their actions, actually save lives. That cop
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Speaker 3: is going through some shit right now, knowing that he
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Speaker 3: stopped this guy earlier and gave him a break.
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Speaker 6: So I think cops like this are genuinely trying to
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Speaker 6: do good and help their community, but Officer West is
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Speaker 6: not one of those cops. The point I'm getting at
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Speaker 6: here is I feel like there are a lot of
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Speaker 6: people out there who lack the desire to actually provide
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Speaker 6: a valuable service when they're being paid to do something,
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Speaker 6: especially in government work, which is why there's a mass
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Speaker 6: firing going on right now. But it seems like more
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Speaker 6: and more people these days are just there to make
14:51
Speaker 6: the money without doing anything that resembles a good job.
14:54
Speaker 5: The first play that we did was called the Discovery Play.
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Speaker 5: And we were doing Troilus and Cressida, which is not
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Speaker 5: one of Shakespeare's better plays. It's one of his worst plays.
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Speaker 3: Then why do it?
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Speaker 5: Good question. So we're doing this play and it's just
15:07
Speaker 5: got awful. And I'm like, I'm a Juilliard. This should
15:11
Speaker 5: be one of the best plays I've ever done in
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Speaker 5: my life. Like, what is going on? So I stood
15:14
Speaker 5: up three days before opening. I said, we have got
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Speaker 5: to remember that people are going to spend their lives
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Speaker 5: three hours with us. And it is a crime to
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Speaker 5: waste that time.
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Speaker 6: That was James Marsters, who's known for playing Piccolo in
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Speaker 6: one of my favorite movies, Dragon Ball Evolution.
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Speaker 7: And he's right.
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Speaker 6: If your job is to entertain people, then being boring
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Speaker 6: is a crime. You can be awe-inspiringly good or comedically bad,
15:38
Speaker 6: but you can't be boring. This is the mindset that
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Speaker 6: a lot of good entertainers have, and I'm quite often
15:43
Speaker 6: put off by people who take no pride in at
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Speaker 6: least doing a half-decent job for the work that they're
15:48
Speaker 6: paid for, or better yet, they're like Officer West and
15:51
Speaker 6: they get paid for making things worse. I mean, a
15:54
Speaker 6: lot of people can't figure out why certain people are
15:56
Speaker 6: doing better than others, but it's really simple. Do you
15:59
Speaker 6: know why a guy is making six figures a year
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Speaker 6: while you're stuck making 20,000? Generally, it's because that person
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Speaker 6: provides value and displays some level of competence at what
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Speaker 6: he does. The more people take pride in giving people
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Speaker 6: value for what they had paid for, the better things
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Speaker 6: get for everyone. And if you don't provide value because
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Speaker 6: you hate your job, then today is the day to
16:18
Speaker 6: start looking for a new one. And if you can't
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Speaker 6: get a better job because you don't have the required skills,
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Speaker 6: then today is the day to start learning. Anyway, thanks
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