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Season 2 - Episode 78 - Tales of a night out! · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the good morning from the chicken coop, podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and master mindset.
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  Coach filled with inspiration, distinctions, perspectives and
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  possibilities. We help you to cultivate a
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  mindset that leads you to create the best version of yourself.
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  You could ever imagine join Kim. Every morning from one of her.
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  Favorite happy places her chicken coop, along with all her
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  chickens. Hey everybody.
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  Good morning from the chicken coop.
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  Ooh, so I want to tell you A Tale of a story that happened to
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  us yesterday because it it's so important like know that even I
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  have these issues. It's just cracking me up and I
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  figured since it's still in my head, I should talk to you about
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  it. So last night we went out to
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  dinner and it's a neighborhood restaurant and it's my husband,
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  my son, myself, and it's a place that we haven't been in a while.
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  Probably a little bit of a long while but really haven't thought
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  much about Italian place. We go.
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  And after we get out the chickens all tucked away and,
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  you know, as soon as we walked in, it was really strange
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  because there weren't any tables open.
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  But there are seats at the bar, ask, if it's okay, if my son
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  sits at the bar, you know, it's bartender says sure we sit down
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  and Order calamari and comes out pretty quickly.
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  And the my son immediately says, well, there's tons of peppers
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  that are in here to like they fried Peppers into it, which my
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  Even liked but I was I'm not into like that.
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  Can't even eat a pepper because it's so hot kind of food.
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  But he is. So he liked it but there was not
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  a lot on the plate but I didn't say anything.
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  I was just like whatever it is what it is.
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  So you know, it's Italian food you thinking pasta.
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  It's going to be good size. My husband always typically
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  asks, hey, is it portion size? Good on this because he works
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  out a lot. So he's, you know, wants bigger
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  food, but he doesn't ask And he orders some pasta dish, that's a
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  baked Bolognese of some sort. I get a small, a 10 inch of
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  pizza, out of the oven and my son orders meatballs and you
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  know, they we ask them. Do they do a meatball sub?
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  They said, no, they do it at lunch, which is the key to the
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  store like kind of part of the story.
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  So but they but they don't have it on the dinner menu and I say,
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  oh okay well can you do something so that he can make a
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  sub out of it? They're like, well, the
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  meatballs are just Like in a dish on the side for me balls
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  and I'm like, okay, can you bring them some bread?
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  Like I'm I'm looking and they're not like problem-solving.
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  They're not problem-solving at all.
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  Which I have to tell you is one of my biggest pet peeves, about
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  people in life right now that they don't problem solve, so I'm
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  but I'm not coaching at that point.
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  I'm just being Kim. The girl, so I'm like, okay well
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  what do you have? So he says, we have a half loaf.
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  We can order you and it comes with olive oil and butter, and
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  I'm like, all right, whatever, just bring the half loaf.
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  So I'm thinking I'm going to get like a half a sub roll, but
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  whatever. So now check this out, 45
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  minutes later we still don't have our food now, which is
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  fine, you know, it's we're not in a rush at Saturday night,
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  whatever it is, and then my husband has a beer, I have a
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  beer in my, husband orders, another beer and all of a sudden
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  the waiter. It's like the bartender's.
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  Like all right, well let me let me go out and make sure where
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  this is comes back. He brings over the Ball and the
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  pizza, and then he finally brings over my husband's.
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  Now, when I tell you that my husband's food is small, it's
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  ridiculous and it was, you know, baked Bolognese pasta.
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  You would think that would be big.
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  I mean, pasta is cheap to produce, but it's small.
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  And I say to my husband, that dish is really small and it and
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  here's the funny thing about this, this is on the specials
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  menu as a special meal, not as an appetizer as a meal.
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  So my husband says to To the to the Bartender.
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  Hey, listen, this is really small and he immediately says,
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  let me go get the owner. So the owner comes over and his
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  response to my husband is priceless.
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  He says, well, we have small dishes and we have big dishes.
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  This just happens to be the small dish.
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  And my husband goes. Okay.
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  And that's all he says. And he walks away, and I'm
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  sitting there and I looked at my husband and I said, okay, I just
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  and In This Moment, any of you who follow me regular, you know,
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  I talk about who your emotions are in your bus and everything
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  else. And the girl who grew up in
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  Massachusetts wants to get up and go over and strangle
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  somebody because that is an unacceptable, unacceptable
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  response from an owner let alone Loan.
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  Anybody else in the restaurant business?
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  To just say that Captain Obvious great.
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  There are small dishes in their large dishes, right?
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  Like what is that? What is that even explain?
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  So I'm your specials menu and they're charging my mind.
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  You. Here's the other thing, the
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  specials menu did not have any prices on it, but they're
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  charging a lot for everything in the restaurant and I was just my
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  general observation, you know, an order of calamari is $16 and
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  it was Tiny, it wasn't even a big order and it was If filled
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  with peppers not even with Squid.
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  So I'm not saying anything I'm trying to chill out but I'm
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  really really irritated. So finally my the the owner
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  comes back at the end of the meal and says to my husband just
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  walks up to him and says I took it off your menu, off your bill
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  and walks away. That's it like rude and I just
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  was like okay I'm so over this place.
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  I'm so over this place right now and We finally get the bill and
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  the bill comes up. Now, any of you who are
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  listening who go out to eat or who go and have a beer here and
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  there, you typically are used to right now, paying seven, eight,
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  maybe even 9 bucks for a beer and sometimes they want to
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  charge you more for high alcohol beer and they it comes in a 12
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  ounce instead of a 16 ounce pint, whatever.
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  Okay, you're out to eat your just know what you're doing but
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  we get the bill and I say to my husband, I'm curious how much
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  were because I don't my glasses on how much were the beers and
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  he goes, I don't know. And he opens it up and he looks
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  at it and he's like, he shuts it, and he's like bug-eyed and
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  he says, you don't want to know and I said, what?
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  Because you don't want to know. And we start he starts laughing
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  and he's like I can't even tell you because you're going to lose
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  your mind and I was like, what? Tell me?
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  Tell me, tell me, tell me. So now mind you, they have this
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  beer board at the bar and it lists all the beers out.
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  And it they take the time and this is the part that's so
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  important to the story, they take the time to write down all
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  the different beer names, the alcohol level of the beer where
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  it was produced but they don't write the price.
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  And so, the there it is $11.75 and $11.25 for each of the
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  beers, we chose. Now mind you.
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  Here's here's the the slap in the face so to speak.
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  One of them is from a brewery that is Literally right down the
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  street from them and we could walk to the brewery and go there
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  and had the beer for six dollars cheaper than they are charging
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  in their restaurant and it's a bigger glass.
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  So I'm just like beside myself and I am in full Massachusetts
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  mode. I'm just like this is
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  unacceptable. Like I wanted to say something
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  so bad and I was so off the rails and then I had to stop
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  myself and say you know what, here's the challenge.
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  Is where my head went wrong because I ordered the beer and I
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  didn't ask what it was be and it wasn't written on the board.
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  And I saw that it wasn't written on the board.
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  And because it's customary here, when they list the beers out all
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  the places around us, do it just the way they did it.
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  But they have the prices and they didn't.
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  And I said to myself, you know what, you can be pissed off as
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  much as you want that. That that's what they're
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  charging, but they can charge whatever they want, I really
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  don't care. The thing with the bolognese in
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  the plate, and the size of the, you know, the we have small
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  ones, we have large ones, that's just asinine stupid, bad
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  customer service. That was the first clue.
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  No, actually. The first clue was probably the
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  size of the appetizer. That was the second clue, but
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  the problem overall is, I wasn't just pissed at that stuff.
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  I was pissed at myself and I recognized, I didn't ask the
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  question, so I couldn't stay mad at the restaurant.
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  I could stay mad at me for not knowing the details going in
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  now. Can I go and write?
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  Review. Yes, I can go write a review.
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  Will we go write a review? Yes, we will go write a review,
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  but the reality is. It really came down to me being
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  irritated with myself for the fact that I didn't have the, the
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  pause the where, with all the smarts in that moment to ask the
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  question, because then I would have gotten something else.
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  I would never ever, ever pay that for that kind of beer in
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  that kind of situation. But the point is, and the point
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  of the whole story is we always find Opportunities to get Hooked
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  and we have to course. Correct.
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  So, it took me full disclosure. I was pissed.
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  Oh, my long came home, sat down sitting put on a comedians.
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  Watch the Ricky. Gervais is to cool my head off
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  because I'm so irritated with the whole thing and then I
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  realized, you know what, I'm really just pissed off at
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  myself. So I want you guys to take this
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  as a lesson to when you're pissed off, figure out what your
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  role is in it because there's always a thread to it.
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  Thanks for sticking with me on this longer one.
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  On today. And I hope you guys have some
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  wherewithal for yourself and see where you get hooked.
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  All right, my friends. I hope you have a blessed day
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  and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.