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C.T.C.S Episode 219 Wheres Captain Happy, No Heat No Electricity And Jewish Gingerbread Houses · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: each and every person who has chosen to stop into
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Speaker 1: your location. Episode number two nineteen, where is Captain Happy?
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Speaker 1: No electricity means no heat plus the Jewish gingerbread House.
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Speaker 1: This is CTCs.
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Speaker 2: Transition Walk, Day number one out of four. This is
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Speaker 2: it Man the final weekend before Christmas. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I can sit here and try to write a story
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Speaker 2: that hasn't happened, and sit there and get all worked up.
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Speaker 2: My anxiety is going through the roof. But that's just
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Speaker 2: gonna make me be like everybody else. Oh imagine that,
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Speaker 2: not trying to be like everybody else. How about if
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Speaker 2: we just walk in there and you're mister calm, cool, collected,
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Speaker 2: mister happy for the moment, be a little jolly like
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Speaker 2: Santa Claus. I don't know. I mean, it's just one
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Speaker 2: of those things that gets inside your head. And everybody
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Speaker 2: that I know in retail, we're stressing out because people
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Speaker 2: do not have money. They're buying whatever they can at
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Speaker 2: whatever way they can do it. And the thing is
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Speaker 2: is that we're on the opposite end of that. We're
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Speaker 2: on the end decision and that means that a lot
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Speaker 2: of thought was put into it. While in the store,
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Speaker 2: you pay for it. That's the end decision. But the
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Speaker 2: good news is you can always bring it back, and
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Speaker 2: trust me, you will, and when you do, be nice
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Speaker 2: to the people in retail. There's a lot of people
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Speaker 2: like yourself coming back with the bringback. Trust me, anybody
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Speaker 2: that deals with the public. They're in retail, be it
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Speaker 2: at school, be it a bank or whatever. When your
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Speaker 2: head and you're thinking get away from you and all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, it begins to poison you, and shit, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's exactly what happened today, because it occurred to me
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Speaker 2: while I was out there on that transition walk. Why
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Speaker 2: is it I don't like answering the question, hey, CT,
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Speaker 2: how you doing today? And CT freaks out. And the
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Speaker 2: reason why is because I just came back from three
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Speaker 2: days off. Did any one of these team players just
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Speaker 2: call me during this three time period and just sit
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Speaker 2: there and say, hey, how you doing. No, they wait
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Speaker 2: until I get here, and it's like, you know that
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Speaker 2: that's fake, that's Kennedy coat of plastic bathroom mere smiles.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it's just me outside of myself.
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Speaker 2: I've not really met any scrooges here today. No, not
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Speaker 2: even with a guest or co workers. Everybody seems to
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Speaker 2: be on the up tempo so and I think we've
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Speaker 2: talked about this so many times in the past on CCCS,
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Speaker 2: and that is I rely on people to give me energy.
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Speaker 2: I can't be Captain Happy at all times. Captain Happy
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Speaker 2: has a bump in the middle of the road sometimes,
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Speaker 2: and you know, as of late, it could be because
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Speaker 2: of the seasons, could be because it's rainy, like cast
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Speaker 2: and dogs outside, it's freaking cold. You know that, I
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Speaker 2: got that grumpy side going on, but you know, outside
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Speaker 2: of that, I mean, I'm loving the people of this
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Speaker 2: store right now. And it's like what you came in
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Speaker 2: here with a real grumpy ass attitude and you're saying,
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Speaker 2: I love the people I'm with what I know, kind
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Speaker 2: of strange, but you know, it's gonna be a very
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Speaker 2: interesting next four days. Today. When I first arrived, I
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Speaker 2: noticed that we had a Pokemon displayed there stands maybe
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Speaker 2: like maybe six and a half feet tall, and it's
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Speaker 2: all Pokemon cards in side, their packages, full all the
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Speaker 2: way to the brim. And so within about thirty five
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Speaker 2: to forty minutes after they put it out, gone every
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Speaker 2: single one of them. And I'm thinking, well, shit, what
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Speaker 2: the hell's that all about? And then people had to
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Speaker 2: go and they had to tell me their version of
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Speaker 2: how Pokemon is still you know, the biggest thing going.
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Speaker 2: So they refilled the actual display and like not even
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Speaker 2: fifteen minutes later, gone one percent gone that fast, and
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Speaker 2: it's like, God, dang, it's something that is such a
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Speaker 2: thing of the past, but they sure the hell made
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Speaker 2: it very much in the present. But that's a big
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Speaker 2: thing right now, Pokemon. I got word a few minutes
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Speaker 2: ago back in the warehouse there's something that is going
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Speaker 2: to shock you. And they're going, do you sure you
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Speaker 2: want to go back there and look at it by yourself?
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Speaker 2: I said, yeah, what is it? Just go back there,
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Speaker 2: you're just going to be shocked. You just make sure
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Speaker 2: that you've got something to lean up against when you
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Speaker 2: find out what it is. I said, well, what is it? Oh,
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Speaker 2: you'll know it when you see it. And I'm thinking,
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Speaker 2: what the hell? What's going on back there at the
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Speaker 2: warehouse part of the grocery store. So what it is
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Speaker 2: that I'm going through it right now. I mean there's
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Speaker 2: boxes everywhere. I mean, if you've ever been in the
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Speaker 2: back of a grocery store, it's like freaking endless. Oh
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Speaker 2: oh god, here's what. Oh hold on, this really is
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Speaker 2: one of those. We're give me a pull where I
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Speaker 2: can lean up against it. What is today? Today's date
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Speaker 2: is December eighteenth. Okay, by the time you hear this,
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Speaker 2: it could be February or even March. But here here's
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Speaker 2: the shocker point of it all. So if today is
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Speaker 2: December eighteenth, we got Easter stuff already arriving. The Valentine's
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Speaker 2: Day stuff will arrive last week. But now the Easter
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Speaker 2: candy and the Easter cars, everything has arrived too much,
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Speaker 2: too fast, too too fast. Probably because I'm in the
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Speaker 2: wedding business. When a couple stands in front of me
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Speaker 2: and they're checking out and I'm going to throw on
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Speaker 2: a party tonight, you know, no, probably tomorrow, I said, Oh,
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Speaker 2: that's so cool. What's the occasion. Oh, we're getting married
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Speaker 2: tomorrow you want? Oh my god, probably tomorrow. Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: So there was a moment talking about, you know, because
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Speaker 2: I've been married for thirty three years, and they were
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Speaker 2: asking questions about what is the secret to love, and
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Speaker 2: I said, don't ever forget that you started out as
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Speaker 2: best friends, and that you'll be forever best friends if
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Speaker 2: you put focus on it. That's the secret to staying married.
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Speaker 2: Don't ever stop being best friends.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more CTCs right around the corner.
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Speaker 1: I am a spoiled ass baby, plus no power in
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Speaker 1: the building. Oh oh, these cranky travelers are going to
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Speaker 1: be up to something now. Hey, thanks for coming back
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Speaker 1: to CTCs. The Spoiled Ass Baby, no power in the building,
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Speaker 1: and cranky Ass Travelers.
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Speaker 2: Transition walking day number two out of three. Windy Ass
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Speaker 2: day out here in the forest one of those that
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Speaker 2: cuts right through you. It doesn't matter how heavy your
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Speaker 2: jacket is, it just cuts right through you. It's almost
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Speaker 2: like your guests at a grocery store. Somehow, someway, they're
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Speaker 2: going to cut through you. The people that you love,
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Speaker 2: the people that you're kind of bothered by. But I
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Speaker 2: kind of smile on the inside when I come face
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Speaker 2: to face with the liars, the stealers, the beggars, and
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Speaker 2: it's because you know, it's one of those things. It's like,
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Speaker 2: how many steps away are we from them? Do you
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Speaker 2: understand what I'm coming from here? Is that you know,
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Speaker 2: people will judge the book by its cover, only to
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Speaker 2: realize when they take a look in the mirror that,
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Speaker 2: in reality, how many steps away are they from that
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Speaker 2: deep thought? Going in to see us today, holy craft,
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Speaker 2: just do me a favor. Keep me positive, because it
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Speaker 2: is too easy to get negative up there and see us.
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Speaker 2: Call me the big spoiled ass baby, because I am
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Speaker 2: I know that, at least I admit it. You walk
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Speaker 2: into the store. The very second you get in the store,
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Speaker 2: get over there right street. Ever four. We got a
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Speaker 2: bunch of people in here. We got to get them
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Speaker 2: out of here. And of course I don't even have
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Speaker 2: the time to think about who am I? Where am I?
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Speaker 2: Is this really where I'm supposed to be? Did I
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Speaker 2: make the right turn, the right left? You know, I
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Speaker 2: don't know what I'm doing. Go to number four? Hurry up?
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Speaker 2: Where's everybody? I don't have time to answer a question. It'say, oh,
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Speaker 2: for the love of God. And you just sit there
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Speaker 2: and you know, you do everything you can to put
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Speaker 2: on that candy coated plastic bathroom mirror smile. Will it
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Speaker 2: worked today? Holy shit, it's gonna be tested. I kind
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Speaker 2: of figured the Friday before Christmas people would be on
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Speaker 2: the edge because what they're doing is this is a
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Speaker 2: traveling day. People are leaving town. They're gonna be gone
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Speaker 2: for about a week, week and a half. They may
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Speaker 2: be gone all the way until the brand new year. Cranky.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you think I'm cranky nothing compared to them.
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Speaker 2: And they're very short with their words. They're very short
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Speaker 2: with their their glances at you, and they have no
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Speaker 2: problem looking at you saying can you hurry up? Please?
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Speaker 2: Can you hurry up? I gotta get on the world, man.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get hit with that five o'clock traffic. Dude,
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Speaker 2: can you please hurry up? What do you do in
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Speaker 2: a situation like that? There you go? That would be
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Speaker 2: this week's what would you do? How would you keep
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Speaker 2: your calm when somebody's telling you hurry up? Honey? It's
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Speaker 2: like this reind me so much of what it's like
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Speaker 2: to be a Yellostow National Park at Old Faithful that
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Speaker 2: you're sure you saw the ground do its a little
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Speaker 2: boom boom boom. The water goes everywhere. It's hot water.
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Speaker 2: Please don't touch it. But the thing is is that
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Speaker 2: when everybody's walking away, those are people that come from
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Speaker 2: around the entire world. And I remember being there the
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Speaker 2: last time and I thought to myself, I will never
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Speaker 2: see these people ever again. And for some reason that
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Speaker 2: affected me. And that's kind of the feeling that I'm
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Speaker 2: getting here today, is that because it is the Christmas week,
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Speaker 2: then what's happening is is I'm seeing these people for
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Speaker 2: the first time and only time. I mean that it's
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Speaker 2: a holiday weekend, which you've got a lot of people
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Speaker 2: trying to make some extra cash on the side, you know,
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Speaker 2: that side hustle. So what are they doing. They went out,
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Speaker 2: they landed themselves a job with instacart or door dash.
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Speaker 2: But the problem is those they're not going through their lessons.
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Speaker 2: They just think that, oh, I'm gonna download the app,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to go shopping for somebody, and everything's going
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Speaker 2: to be one, two, three. Well it doesn't work that way.
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Speaker 2: We've got a gentleman that's been here since four thirty
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Speaker 2: this afternoon. It's now a quarter to eight at night,
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Speaker 2: so three and a half hours. He still can't get
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Speaker 2: his Instacart to work. And it's like, we can't do anything.
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Speaker 2: We're not associated with Instacart. They're a third party here.
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Speaker 2: We don't have the numbers you're talking about. We don't
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Speaker 2: have what it is. You have to physically call instacart
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Speaker 2: to get this thing worked out. And he swears up
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Speaker 2: and down that he's doing it, but it just won't run.
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Speaker 2: And so but I mean, when does he give up?
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Speaker 2: And because most people would have given up already, and
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Speaker 2: it would have been something that we would have put
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Speaker 2: back on the shelves. Am I looking forward to putting
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Speaker 2: three hundred dollars or the groceries back? Hell no, but
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Speaker 2: how long is this guy going to stay here? I'm
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Speaker 2: always amazed at the number of people who do some
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Speaker 2: sort of service to the community will share their stories
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Speaker 2: if you would just take the time to listen to them.
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Speaker 2: For instance, there was a massage place that came in tonight,
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Speaker 2: a couple of them that have spent all day today
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Speaker 2: making sure that everybody is looking and feeling great, and
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Speaker 2: has said, so, what gave you that opportunity to really
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Speaker 2: dig in and start serving people at that level? And
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Speaker 2: both of them both said, I'm here to serve my community.
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Speaker 2: She says that that church is a building you go to,
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Speaker 2: but more importantly, if you truly believe in your church,
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Speaker 2: then you're going to go serve people in places where
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Speaker 2: the people are. It's not about those that are going
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Speaker 2: into a building, it's about those that walk about our
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Speaker 2: everyday streets and it's like, oh, I just want to
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Speaker 2: hug you, gey ah ah. I love that kind of attitude.
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Speaker 2: And we are without power. Someone has taken out the
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Speaker 2: traffic lights up on the corner a very very busy
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Speaker 2: corner in this town. It is. I mean, it's it's
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Speaker 2: always balls to the wall, it's always crowded. It's just
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Speaker 2: if you're gonna get in that line, you're gonna be
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Speaker 2: there for a long time. And now it's really screwed
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Speaker 2: up because somebody has taken out the traffic lights and
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Speaker 2: it's shut down the majority of all the businesses around here.
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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be and there's fire engines everywhere. For
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Speaker 2: the love of hear it. To hear that fire engine
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Speaker 2: going by, it's amazing. You know, everybody has to come together.
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Speaker 2: When you're in an area where there are no traffic lights,
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Speaker 2: the traffic has to move. Somebody's got to be there.
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Speaker 2: So that's where we are at this present time. That's
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Speaker 2: how we're going to pretty much in the night tonight.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more CTCs coming up, Emotional
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Speaker 1: Magnet and the Jewish Gingerbread House. Is that possible? Hey,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to CTCs Emotional Magnet and the Jewish Gingerbread House.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to CTCs.
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Speaker 2: Transition Walk Day number three out of four, the final
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Speaker 2: weekend before Christmas. Who today is a reflection day for
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Speaker 2: some reason for me as I walk through this very
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Speaker 2: very cold force. Definitely wintertime, definitely wintertime, and my reflections
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Speaker 2: are based on that. Today being a Saturday, just my
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Speaker 2: imagination is stepping back into every one of the live
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Speaker 2: performances that I've had on Saturdays for the past fifty
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Speaker 2: two weeks. And you just you're grateful. You're just very grateful,
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Speaker 2: and you know, and I kind of share that message
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Speaker 2: with so many of our guests that come into the
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Speaker 2: grocery store. They don't understand how grateful I am that
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Speaker 2: they come into that store. I really am. I'm one
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Speaker 2: of those people that just I appreciate others who take
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Speaker 2: the time, who make the decision to be a part
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Speaker 2: of a path that is so ever changing. WHOA, that's
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Speaker 2: way over a lot of people's heads. Okay, well let's
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Speaker 2: get into see us today after this force. Today is
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Speaker 2: our Christmas party. And early reports from what I understand,
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Speaker 2: they've got steak, they've got ham, they've got turkey, they've
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Speaker 2: got burgers, They've got so much food there force. And
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Speaker 2: it's like, am I going there to work? Or am
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Speaker 2: I going there to be rolled around like those big
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Speaker 2: old fat people in willy Wonka and the chocolate factory.
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Speaker 2: If I ever get the opportunity to sit down with
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Speaker 2: the spiritual power, you know, the guy up in the sky,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think they're calling God or whatever. The
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Speaker 2: first question I'm ever gonna ask is why is it
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Speaker 2: that you gave me that little magnetic thing on me
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Speaker 2: that when someone's having a real shit day, I'm drawn
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Speaker 2: to them, When somebody's having a stress filled day, I'm
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Speaker 2: drawn to them because is the second that I get
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Speaker 2: anywhere near them? Then what do I do? I suck
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Speaker 2: up all that negative energy and I start carrying it myself.
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Speaker 2: So I want to have that question with the big guy,
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Speaker 2: going what what? How do I remove this magnet off
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Speaker 2: me so that I can just walk about like so
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Speaker 2: many other people say how are you doing today? Like
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Speaker 2: they don't have a care in the world. I see
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Speaker 2: that you're down. I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna be e mt and more. You are not going
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Speaker 2: to believe what I just found. This is a yeah,
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Speaker 2: gingerbread house man. People have been looking for this thing
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Speaker 2: now for a long time. I just found the hidden
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Speaker 2: the hidden house. Now here's the thing that may scare
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Speaker 2: some people away. And this This is not you know,
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Speaker 2: judging religion or anything like that. But it doesn't say
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Speaker 2: gingerbread Christmas house? Is this gingerbread Honka house? Would that
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Speaker 2: really push you away? What it really pushed you away?
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't me? I'd still get the damn thing and build
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Speaker 2: that house, because who's gonna call it that when you
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Speaker 2: get it home and get it all set up. So
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Speaker 2: for the past two to three weeks, everybody's looking for
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Speaker 2: these gingerbread houses, and we've been telling them that they're out.
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Speaker 2: So I found a big stash. But let me ask
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Speaker 2: you a question, though, when when they come here looking
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Speaker 2: for him, and it's today or tomorrow, I'm gonna take
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Speaker 2: them to it. But how much you want to bet
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Speaker 2: that when I take it over there, because it says
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Speaker 2: honka gingerbread house, will they buy a Honka gingerbread house?
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Look labels everything to these people.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, especially in this neighborhood. Yeah, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: oh yeah had Christian. Yeah. I don't think they'll just
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Speaker 2: ask me. I'll see, like I mean, it's a gingerbread house.
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't care about it. I don't care.
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Speaker 2: I don't care either. But but when I saw then,
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Speaker 2: I'm going, no, wonder this is still here. The people
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Speaker 2: who are gonna have an issue with it? Yeah. Wow.
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Speaker 2: The con artists are in full motion today. And what
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Speaker 2: they're doing is they're sending out emails to the Silver
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Speaker 2: Hair Generation and and other people who will open up
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Speaker 2: those emails that say, you can have this, you can
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Speaker 2: do this. I will send you this back. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: you've received those damn emails. And the thing is is
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Speaker 2: that they're believing them. And you know the only thing
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Speaker 2: that they have to pay is that they have to
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Speaker 2: go and get an Amazon gift card. It's got to
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Speaker 2: be several hundred dollars. It can be anywhere between three
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Speaker 2: to seven US. This is what the scammers are doing.
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Speaker 2: In order to get this product, you need to do
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Speaker 2: three to seven hundred dollars in Amazon. And then one
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Speaker 2: person actually had two thousand dollars in Target. And then
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Speaker 2: and then the Silver Generation comes up to the desk
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Speaker 2: and they're ready to buy it. And I'll look at them.
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Speaker 2: There's certain questions that I will ask them face to face,
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Speaker 2: and if they fail, I'll sit there and look at
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Speaker 2: them and say, man, there's something wrong here. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what it is. I can't sell those to you today,
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Speaker 2: but I mean it's like the questions are basically, do
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Speaker 2: you know the person that you were sending these target
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Speaker 2: gift cards to? No? I don't. I said, you don't
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Speaker 2: know them? Well, I've been receiving an email for about
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Speaker 2: a week. Okay, I get that. I get that. So
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Speaker 2: if I were to call this person up and I
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Speaker 2: just happen to drop your name going to I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: start counting, and if they sit there, they have to
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Speaker 2: think about who you are. Therefore, what's going to happen
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Speaker 2: is in that moment of Now, I'm going to say
17:06
Speaker 2: that as a con artist. So if I call them
17:08
Speaker 2: up right now, what are they going to say? They go,
17:10
Speaker 2: do you think I'm being conned? All right, I'm gonna
17:12
Speaker 2: give it to you now. Yeah. So now, in your
17:15
Speaker 2: wherever you're listening right now, what would you do? Would
17:17
Speaker 2: you try to protect the silver Hair generation? Or would
17:20
Speaker 2: you just take the freaking money. Let me give you
17:23
Speaker 2: an update on the Gingerbread houses. And we talked about
17:25
Speaker 2: it a little bit earlier, so we've already done the setup,
17:27
Speaker 2: and that is is that I've taken three people back
17:30
Speaker 2: there to where the gingerbread houses are. And you know,
17:34
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know I don't know. In fact,
17:38
Speaker 2: I don't even know why I'm sorry, except for the
17:40
Speaker 2: way that people will look at a book by its
17:42
Speaker 2: cover and judge it. And you said that you were
17:44
Speaker 2: looking for a gingerbread house because that this gingerbread house
17:47
Speaker 2: has something on it that doesn't say Merry Christmas. Let's say, well,
17:51
Speaker 2: then what they're doing is they're saying I don't want it.
17:53
Speaker 2: And huh. Now, if you need to go back into
17:56
Speaker 2: ceetcs and find out what's on that gingerbread, please do.
18:00
Speaker 2: And but but it's it's it's pretty much what we
18:02
Speaker 2: predicted that people will see the name and no wonder
18:05
Speaker 2: we still have them in the storm. But that's not fair.
18:07
Speaker 2: That's not fair. But what's so funny about the whole thing.
18:10
Speaker 2: One of my very very very good friends here is Jewish,
18:13
Speaker 2: and I told him about the gingerbread house and he goes,
18:16
Speaker 2: we don't even do gingerbread houses. Why would they even
18:19
Speaker 2: do that? And he goes, if you could sell them,
18:23
Speaker 2: good luck, dude, But why would they do that? I said,
18:27
Speaker 2: are you offended by the fact that they created a
18:29
Speaker 2: hanuk a gingerbread house. He says, no, I'm not offended.
18:32
Speaker 2: Well in the wait a second, yeah I am, because
18:34
Speaker 2: it's not part of our tradition. All right, it's time
18:38
Speaker 2: for a taste tests. We're doing the Oreo cookie. It
18:41
Speaker 2: is the cookie dough flavor cream. I mean, it looks good,
18:45
Speaker 2: but the thing is is that so many times lately
18:47
Speaker 2: with the cookie dough and oh you're gonna do that
18:49
Speaker 2: one first. Okay, so it's the it's the paia which
18:54
Speaker 2: which is the the Vietnamese candy. Just don't smell us.
19:02
Speaker 2: This is given me interesting, Oh sir, they're participating the
19:10
Speaker 2: scary Yeah no, no, no, originonna be scared. It's gonna
19:12
Speaker 2: be a shock, but it's still be don't be afraid.
19:14
Speaker 2: That's gone that fast. Wow wow, yep. So the fire
19:20
Speaker 2: we gotta strike one. What do you think? Oh, you know,
19:24
Speaker 2: I'm good. She's like, yeah, it tasts like bananas. Oh
19:30
Speaker 2: I can't smell it. Yeah, I see. I seems like
19:37
Speaker 2: a very overripe mango. Yeah yeah, yeah, but it's not bad.
19:41
Speaker 2: So you don't think it's bad then, okay, okay, we're
19:43
Speaker 2: we're nang and and Hannah thought it was great. And
19:45
Speaker 2: then everybody else has been going, Okay, that's that's crazy.
19:48
Speaker 2: It's not good, but it's not bad. I was just
19:49
Speaker 2: such a So we're gonna wash it down with the
19:52
Speaker 2: Oreo cookie. Uh the cookie dough. Oh okay, yeah, it's
20:01
Speaker 2: not bad like an over ripe mango. Oh, like overripe
20:08
Speaker 2: isn't bad? Yeah? Yeah, Oh now look at these oreos. Oh,
20:13
Speaker 2: I don't want to tie that though. No, okay, no
20:22
Speaker 2: o is an oriel. There's nothing name there special. Our
20:26
Speaker 2: store is located in a part of town where it
20:29
Speaker 2: bridges so many different communities together. And we just had
20:32
Speaker 2: a visitor here tonight. It doesn't shock me because we
20:35
Speaker 2: get a lot of visitors of this statue that come through.
20:38
Speaker 2: And it was an NFL champion and the NFL legend,
20:42
Speaker 2: Steve Smith that came in and to have a conversation
20:45
Speaker 2: with him, I'm no, seriously, a real, honest to god conversation.
20:49
Speaker 2: It wasn't about football. We didn't talk about that crap,
20:51
Speaker 2: and we just talked about things life, movies, TV, you know,
20:55
Speaker 2: all different types of things. And it's very fun to
20:57
Speaker 2: sit down and share a conversation with people about lifestyle,
21:01
Speaker 2: you know, and and what are you doing for the
21:03
Speaker 2: holidays type of thing, and just you know, and just
21:05
Speaker 2: just to laugh and giggle about things that have nothing
21:09
Speaker 2: to do with the sport and and that, and so
21:11
Speaker 2: people are going, why did you get a picture with him? Oh?
21:13
Speaker 2: I got a picture with him. That picture were the
21:16
Speaker 2: words that he and I shared together. There's nothing that
21:19
Speaker 2: I could ever create that'll match that, and that that
21:22
Speaker 2: remains my picture. Pretty weird, huh. Transition Walk day number
21:27
Speaker 2: four out of four. Inside this gorgeous force got my
21:31
Speaker 2: gut on today. You have to man, when you're on
21:34
Speaker 2: the final weekend before Christmas, you are emotionally drained. And
21:39
Speaker 2: that's why I want to salute all the people of retail,
21:42
Speaker 2: those that are at Low's home depot, those that are
21:46
Speaker 2: serving at our local malls, at something like a you know,
21:51
Speaker 2: just just a kiosk to a major, major corporation. I'll
21:56
Speaker 2: tell you what. The kiosk workers, they come into the
21:59
Speaker 2: store late. Now they've been there eight to twelve hours.
22:04
Speaker 2: They realize that if they don't make the money right
22:09
Speaker 2: here before Christmas, January and February, they're dry and that
22:14
Speaker 2: could be the end of the kiosk. That's how some
22:17
Speaker 2: people that's their livelihood, that's how they're surviving. And so
22:20
Speaker 2: those that are in retail, do you think we're doing
22:24
Speaker 2: it because we enjoy the hustle? Maybe a few. I've
22:27
Speaker 2: always said the best workout on the planet is not
22:30
Speaker 2: at La Fitness or even Peak fitness. Hell no, what
22:34
Speaker 2: a waste. You're in and out of there in fifteen
22:36
Speaker 2: to sixty minutes when you work in retail, like I
22:39
Speaker 2: just said, eight to twelve hours. So I salute all
22:43
Speaker 2: in retail. God bless you all. If you don't do retail,
22:49
Speaker 2: I don't expect you to understand what I just shared.
22:52
Speaker 2: Sundays are usually my day where I stop in to
22:55
Speaker 2: Total Wine so I can pick up on my THC liquid. Yeah,
23:00
Speaker 2: the infused liquid. It's amazing. It's a good journey. Anyway,
23:05
Speaker 2: So the gentleman looks at me. I've never seen it before,
23:07
Speaker 2: but he goes, I know who you are. I said,
23:09
Speaker 2: oh crap, what did I do this time? And so
23:13
Speaker 2: I was thinking, how could you know that I'm from
23:15
Speaker 2: radio when the last time I was on terrestrial radio
23:18
Speaker 2: was twenty fifteen, So you do not know who I am.
23:21
Speaker 2: And then he wanted to explain what store I work
23:24
Speaker 2: at and he goes, why is it every time I
23:25
Speaker 2: see you that you're always upbeat and you're laughing with people?
23:29
Speaker 2: And I give him a Gene Simmons quote. If you
23:31
Speaker 2: don't look and act like a million dollars, how do
23:33
Speaker 2: you expect anybody else to believe it? Boom, drop the mic.
23:37
Speaker 2: I'm out of there with my THC. I really have
23:41
Speaker 2: made it a concerted effort today, And I hate this
23:43
Speaker 2: about my personality. Sometimes I am making it a point.
23:47
Speaker 2: In other words, I'm using my mental inner strength, pulling
23:51
Speaker 2: from that so called Hey, I got my God on
23:53
Speaker 2: today to be positive no matter what, no matter who
23:55
Speaker 2: pisses me off to me or anything like that. I
23:57
Speaker 2: just want to make sure that I stay positive so
23:59
Speaker 2: far as work. But somebody has to be able to
24:01
Speaker 2: see that it's an act. Our NFL team just picked
24:05
Speaker 2: up a huge win. We are now officially the first
24:07
Speaker 2: place team in our division. My god, people went effing
24:11
Speaker 2: crazy inside this store when the word came that we
24:14
Speaker 2: had won. Here's the strange thing about it, or the twist.
24:17
Speaker 2: That football Stadium is only two and a half maybe
24:20
Speaker 2: three miles from here, So that means that that NFL
24:22
Speaker 2: crowd is coming home. They're in a great mood and
24:25
Speaker 2: they're going to want to buy food, a lot of
24:28
Speaker 2: food for the holiday gets togethers or just going home
24:30
Speaker 2: to munch because I'm in a damn good mood. My
24:32
Speaker 2: team is number one big issue. On the Sunday night,
24:37
Speaker 2: we're we're at a heat The heater is gone. People
24:40
Speaker 2: are very cold inside the store right now. It's blowing
24:43
Speaker 2: cold air. As for hot air, now it's null and void.
24:47
Speaker 2: So we've made the phone call to get somebody in
24:49
Speaker 2: here to get this thing fixed. They said they'll get
24:51
Speaker 2: in here tomorrow, and I said, what GoF really, serio?
24:55
Speaker 2: What I mean there's companies that brag about they could
24:57
Speaker 2: be here within an hour, and who did you hire
24:59
Speaker 2: to take care of your heat? So all the employees
25:02
Speaker 2: are all bundled up in big heavy jackets. Our guests
25:04
Speaker 2: are coming in and they're going, what the hell, man,
25:07
Speaker 2: what do you know? What? What's happening that it's so
25:09
Speaker 2: cold in here? So at this point in time, we
25:11
Speaker 2: have absolutely no heat. With a low tonight, it's gonna
25:14
Speaker 2: be thirty one. So the question is why is everybody
25:18
Speaker 2: in the breakroom. I mean they are lined up in here,
25:20
Speaker 2: the employees, the reason why is because it has a
25:22
Speaker 2: private heater, it's not hooked up to the main system.
25:25
Speaker 2: So everybody's back here doing everything they can to warm up.
25:28
Speaker 2: And so the goal right now is to make several
25:32
Speaker 2: different pots of coffee, get it out to the employees,
25:34
Speaker 2: because we can't disappear from those registers, nor can we
25:36
Speaker 2: disappear from customer service. So we're going to get the
25:39
Speaker 2: coffee out there for everybody, and you know, in little
25:42
Speaker 2: intervals they can come back here to the breakroom, warm
25:45
Speaker 2: up and then get back out there on that field.
25:48
Speaker 2: Got it. So we got a situation on the bridge.
25:52
Speaker 2: What happened over there in Iowa? When you say steak,
25:56
Speaker 2: is it in the package? And more sneak the hell
26:00
Speaker 2: even possible? So that means somebody took it. So what
26:02
Speaker 2: they do They took it out of the package, probably
26:04
Speaker 2: to put it in their pockets to take it home.
26:06
Speaker 2: Probably so they had a hole in ancoffele shut up
26:09
Speaker 2: must have been or it's so cold inside this building.
26:12
Speaker 2: They just thought that this was just the meat counter, right,
26:14
Speaker 2: So it's definitely coold. I mean seriously, because why why
26:17
Speaker 2: would there be a steak out of its package on
26:20
Speaker 2: the floor aisle number eight and well it's frozen. I mean,
26:24
Speaker 2: well that's the frozen section, so true. But you're right,
26:27
Speaker 2: what what fell out of the cart? And what? How?
26:29
Speaker 2: How tall was the cart for it to fall out
26:32
Speaker 2: because unless they just dumped it and was it at
26:36
Speaker 2: I don't know what it was actually, Yeah, because the
26:39
Speaker 2: one he just passed by here with that was a
26:40
Speaker 2: pretty thick steak. We should take a picture of Rye
26:42
Speaker 2: with a steak. Yeah, it's the kind of stak you
26:45
Speaker 2: would put on your if you had a black eye. Mean,
26:47
Speaker 2: that's what they did on the Brady Bunch. Why did
26:49
Speaker 2: they do that? Actually? Isn't there something to do with
26:52
Speaker 2: the enzymes or something like that in a steak to
26:54
Speaker 2: to and then it gets inside your skin or something?
26:56
Speaker 2: I think so, you know, because it pulls the color back.
26:58
Speaker 2: Yeah in black right. Yeah, that's a good name that's
27:03
Speaker 2: coming too. Yeah. Yeah, see ye bake on the eye,
27:05
Speaker 2: Bake on the eye. I round well, don't they have
27:09
Speaker 2: I round stakes back? There? They do? And that might
27:11
Speaker 2: have been in before Jesus gosh. Okay, so we're gonna
27:17
Speaker 2: be doing the lint Dubai style chocolate bar. Now, this
27:21
Speaker 2: is not like the original one that we tested on
27:22
Speaker 2: CCCS about three months ago. This one looks like it's
27:26
Speaker 2: actually thicker. So this is like maybe a quarter of
27:28
Speaker 2: an inch, you think, Yeah, all right, let's see what kids.
27:30
Speaker 2: I mean they definitely the price on it was through
27:33
Speaker 2: the freaking route. Yeah, what was the total price? Yeah,
27:37
Speaker 2: including tax? Six dollars and twenty one Right, so then
27:41
Speaker 2: I'm gonna break a piece off. Yep, almost, he's got
27:43
Speaker 2: a little bit more. I said, there's a lot more
27:45
Speaker 2: chocolate than the quote unquote Dubai filling inside. Right. Well,
27:48
Speaker 2: that that was our biggest complaint the first time on
27:49
Speaker 2: that bigger bar that was twenty bucks, and even this
27:52
Speaker 2: one at five seventy nine, at least you have a
27:54
Speaker 2: lot more of the pistachio when it What the problem
27:55
Speaker 2: is so is that I want more pista. I can't
28:00
Speaker 2: speak English today. The chocolate is overwhelming the pistachio, even
28:04
Speaker 2: on this one. Yeah, what's the last fight? Yeah, go
28:06
Speaker 2: for you? Yep, yep. I mean it's good, but but
28:10
Speaker 2: but you know good, I would die more to it
28:12
Speaker 2: was the dollars seventy five. The chocolate overwhelmed that I feel, yep, yep, yep, yep.
28:16
Speaker 2: And that's what they're guilty of it.
28:18
Speaker 1: Well, there you have it, another exciting edition of CTCs.
28:21
Speaker 1: The ups, the downs, the twist, the spins, the inside outs,
28:24
Speaker 1: the over the tops, and the oh my gods, you
28:27
Speaker 1: mean I can steal this and get away with it? Yeah,
28:29
Speaker 1: this is retail. There's nobody here that's actually gonna stop you.
28:32
Speaker 1: We're gonna fake it real good. But yeah, okay, hey,
28:35
Speaker 1: do me a favorite, create your own podcast. Let us
28:37
Speaker 1: know what's going on inside your place of business. That's,
28:40
Speaker 1: to me is where conversations actually begin. Let us see
28:43
Speaker 1: the wizard behind your curtain. I'll see you next week
28:46
Speaker 1: on CTCs