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It's Your Move! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: It's your move. One more thing. I'm strong andy, one
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  Speaker 1: more thing. So I wish I knew the actual number
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  Speaker 1: on this. I don't. Maybe you'd have a guess what
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  Speaker 1: do you think I paid for my used elliptical I
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  Speaker 1: bought fifteen years ago. It's a really good one. It's
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  Speaker 1: actually from a gym, so it's the heavy duty commercial quality. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: like you use it the gym. It's freaking really really good.
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  Speaker 1: But I bought it used. Would you have a guess
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  Speaker 1: what I probably.
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  Speaker 2: Paid for it knew when it was new used?
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  Speaker 1: When I bought it from Craigslist five hundred bucks. I
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  Speaker 1: was going to go seven hundred.
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  Speaker 2: You think it was a gym quality?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, more than that, because I bought one much more
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  Speaker 3: recently than that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: I was just trying to figure out hundreds to low,
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  Speaker 3: like twelve hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, might have been anyway, because I just moved it.
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  Speaker 1: For see, I was living in that house, moved to
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  Speaker 1: that house, moved to this house. This is the fourth
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  Speaker 1: place I've had it in and I've used it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the total I've spent on moving it.
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  Speaker 1: I just googling to see roughly what it costs. But
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  Speaker 1: this is the fourth place I've moved it to, and
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  Speaker 1: so because it weighs more than three hundred pounds, there's
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  Speaker 1: a special price for that. So I paid a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hundred bucks to have it moved again. The total
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  Speaker 1: amount of time cumulative that I've spent on that elliptical
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  Speaker 1: machine has got to be less than twenty minutes in
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years. In fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, you can get like a high dollar hooker for
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  Speaker 3: a lower hourly rate than that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not worried about the price. I'm putting it
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  Speaker 1: in the category of is this the stupidest, craziest, least
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  Speaker 1: sensical thing I've ever done in my life? And that's
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  Speaker 1: a high bar, trust me.
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  Speaker 4: They like, do you have a plan in life where
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  Speaker 4: you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna get on that thing
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  Speaker 4: that's going to be after work going home thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, Okay, I guess I do.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to get a good quality gym level used
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  Speaker 3: elliptical for less than fifteen hundred dollars, okay, which is
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  Speaker 3: essentially what I remember.
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  Speaker 1: I might have spent a thousand dollars on it, but
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  Speaker 1: I've spent another thousand dollars moving it four times at
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  Speaker 1: least and again cumulative over fifteen years, twenty minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably on the high end.
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  Speaker 3: Use it or sell it in a minute and a
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  Speaker 3: half per year. Yeah, I'm gonna use it or sell it.
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  Speaker 1: Jack, you use it or sell it at what point? Now? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's not. It's sort of become like a I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: almost like a Joe. Now.
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  Speaker 4: I was one of those sorry folks that fell victim
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  Speaker 4: to the Peloton during COVID, the Peloton bikes, and I
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  Speaker 4: used that thing twice and then it turned into a
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  Speaker 4: really nice clothing rack, and I was like, I gotta
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  Speaker 4: get rid of this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Wow, that's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I've used a peloton more than that at the gym,
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  Speaker 3: but not for some time.
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  Speaker 4: So the.
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  Speaker 3: We did not love the seats, and I got a
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  Speaker 3: piece of gear. You don't actually so yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Where were we? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, give yourself two weeks and then get rid of
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  Speaker 3: the damn thing. But throwing good money after bad although,
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  Speaker 3: as you say, it's kind of become almost a family.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of be an heirloom of futility, a Charlie Brownish.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking my kids might use it. Yes, Michael, No, I
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  Speaker 1: say just dump it, just take it the dump. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely too nice. I would I would give it
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  Speaker 1: to a family or something before I take it to
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  Speaker 1: the dump, because it's a great piece of equipment. It
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  Speaker 1: really really is high quality, really good one.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what you do.
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  Speaker 3: I got a brilliant idea. You just you're in a store,
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  Speaker 3: you're walking down the street. You come across a heavy
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  Speaker 3: set person and you say, hey, I noticed you're pretty porky.
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  Speaker 2: I have an elliptical for you.
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  Speaker 1: You probably have bad knees, right carrying that luggage around. Huh.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to run or walk. That's what it's
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  Speaker 1: great about the elliptical. All you have to do is
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  Speaker 1: pick it up. As I'll walk up to and say,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably what thirty three thirty four thirty four? What bmi?
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  Speaker 1: Probably thirty four bmi? Wow, not an elliptical?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go up and put a measuring tape around their waist.
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  Speaker 1: Jeez, oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll tell you what there.
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  Speaker 3: What's underrated by people who don't understand economies and markets
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  Speaker 3: and that sort of thing is the concept of and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the technical term, but it's the infrastructure
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  Speaker 3: to sell the ability to you know, obviously taking money
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  Speaker 3: and give out a product, that's the obvious part, that's
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  Speaker 3: the easy part. But to hold an inventory, to ship it,
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  Speaker 3: to deliver it, to be a place where multiple buyers
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  Speaker 3: can come and the price can be set by the
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  Speaker 3: free market as opposed to add dude with analyptical who
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  Speaker 3: wants to get rid of it? You are in such
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  Speaker 3: a weak position.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I will tell you Facebook marketplace and offer
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  Speaker 5: up as where I've gotten rid of both of my
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  Speaker 5: pieces of exercise equipment that were large, and you can
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  Speaker 5: select by pickup only.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's worked easily. So Joe and I both had
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  Speaker 1: Nordic tracks twenty five years ago because we were endorsing
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  Speaker 1: Nordic track thank you Gladys. And it was the nicest
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  Speaker 1: Nordi tracks they made, so they're kind of expensive, and
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  Speaker 1: I use that one like, I don't know, five minutes anyway,
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  Speaker 1: when I went to move, I wasn't going to haul
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  Speaker 1: that across the country, and I uh, I think I
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  Speaker 1: put an ad in the for it. That's how long
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  Speaker 1: it was ago, and nobody was interested. And then I
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  Speaker 1: asked people around and nobody is interested. And then I
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  Speaker 1: took it to the good Will and they said look
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  Speaker 1: over there, and in the corner they had like fifteen
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  Speaker 1: order tracks. Said we're not taking any more tracks. And
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  Speaker 1: I try. I drove around with that thing in the
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  Speaker 1: back of my truck to different good Wills and various
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of places, Salvation Army, and nobody would take it.
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  Speaker 1: You literally couldn't give it away. I finally, out of
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  Speaker 1: frustration after dark, drove behind the good Will, pushed it
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  Speaker 1: out of the back of my truck and drove off.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Oh, confess to felony littering.
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  Speaker 1: Exercise equipment. Just it's amazing that they sell so much
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  Speaker 1: of it new. There are stores. There's a store not
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  Speaker 1: far from here from the radio station that sells that
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  Speaker 1: stuff new all the time. And they've been in business
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, so they must sell stuff. Man,
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  Speaker 1: by that you.
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  Speaker 3: Host you two hundred dollars to get rid of it.
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  Speaker 3: That's my prediction.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably right. I'll keep it. I'll keep it in
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  Speaker 1: this house. Maybe next move I'll finally just nah. You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the problems this this makes me feel better
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  Speaker 1: by myself, so maybe I'm just kidding myself. One of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons I don't use it as much is I
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  Speaker 1: live someplace northern California where the climate is so good.
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  Speaker 1: I always think I'd rather go outside and do it.
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  Speaker 1: So I like, I walk a half hour forty five
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  Speaker 1: minutes almost every single night. But the weather's perfect, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go outside. Yeah, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: God, you're not exercising on that thing because the weather's
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  Speaker 3: so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Right, well, I am getting exercise, all yeah? Or I
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  Speaker 1: ride my bike just.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, ambling down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, walking into the donut shop, walking back out of
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  Speaker 1: the donut shop.
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  Speaker 3: Right, looking for somebody heavy to give your elliptical to.
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  Speaker 1: One other thing on the move in my crap was
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  Speaker 1: I have so many things that I've moved that like
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  Speaker 1: it's a like a kind of a bookshelf where it's
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  Speaker 1: a lamp or whatever. Like I would never buy it.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's crappy and I don't even need it,
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  Speaker 1: but I move it. It's just it's weird. The in
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  Speaker 1: Nurse of Stuff, I kept thinking about that Merry Condo
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  Speaker 1: woman and what did she call that whole thing where
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to hold up rid of crap. You hold
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  Speaker 1: up every item and see if it makes your heart singing.
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  Speaker 1: If it doesn't, you're supposed to throw it away, which
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  Speaker 1: makes more sense than not. I got so many things.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like I would never purchase this if somebody
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  Speaker 1: offered it to me in the street, I wouldn't say yes.
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  Speaker 1: But I have it, and I move it from house
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  Speaker 1: to house. What is that? It's weird. Yeah, the inertia
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  Speaker 1: of stuff or things that belong. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Depends on your personality type and how you grew up too.
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  Speaker 1: Right. The throwing something away that's perfectly good would not
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  Speaker 1: happen in my house as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Well, right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I've been familiar with spoiled, little rich kids who they
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  Speaker 3: would waste crap or get rid of crap or whatever
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  Speaker 3: mean anything to them. It's an odd It's like the
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  Speaker 3: flip side of a good quality. Like you say, you're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna get rid of something that has value that's usable.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to use it until it's crap and then
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  Speaker 3: you'll replace it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Hanson asked the question, is a dad, how many boxes
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  Speaker 1: of kids artwork do I have? I got several, not
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  Speaker 1: very big boxes, because you know it doesn't make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of space, but I got quite a bit kids
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  Speaker 1: art work through the years. I always think I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go through those one at a time someday, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe I will, or maybe I won't. What did you
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  Speaker 1: do finally? You still have that?
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  Speaker 3: Or down to one box per kid? Okay, and he's
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  Speaker 3: the flat plastic boxes that are Did you go through
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  Speaker 3: it painstakingly and pick out your favorite stuff? Or yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we curated it like a museum. Two Revolutionary War soldier
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  Speaker 3: uniforms is plenty.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need thirteen. Let's get a couple of Civil
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  Speaker 2: War era and then you know it's kind of curated
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  Speaker 2: it now.
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  Speaker 1: Every yell, every birthday card, Father's Day card that I
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  Speaker 1: get in from my kids, I got all those still
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  Speaker 1: in one spot. Those aren't going anywhere until I die.
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  Speaker 2: No agreed, yeh one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if I need every stick
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  Speaker 1: figure on a bike from every grade. I think that'll
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  Speaker 1: work well. If anybody wants a Buns of Steel DVD,
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  Speaker 1: contact me well, and a Sie Master, right, I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's it