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C.T.C.S Episode 234 The Mystery Man, Olive Branch, Tang And The Poet · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: Hate something to check out later on in the day
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Speaker 1: when you're driving home, or maybe you're just sitting in
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Speaker 1: There is so much going on a lot of people say,
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Speaker 1: We want to have what we want right now? Right
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Speaker 1: your exploration.
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Speaker 2: CTC CDC CDC.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on? My name is ct When I'm
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Speaker 1: not busy being Arrow the Podcaster, I live in the
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Speaker 1: real world. I mean, come on, everybody has to have
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Speaker 1: a job, right Mine just happens to be CS customer service,
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Speaker 1: you know, solutions relationships, keeping your team motivated. In an
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Speaker 1: age of constant connections, every guest has chosen to stop
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Speaker 1: into that location today, Will he come back tomorrow? Episode
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Speaker 1: number two thirty four, The Mystery Man, Olive Branches, Tang
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Speaker 1: and the Poets CDC.
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Speaker 3: ES Transition Walk day number one out of four. Inside
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Speaker 3: this Beautiful Force, Ooh, I need this force today. I
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Speaker 3: invite people to take their own transition walk and boy
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here and preach at the
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Speaker 3: beginning of this show, but you need to take a
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Speaker 3: transition walk so that you can find a little bit
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Speaker 3: of separation between your personalities. We've all heard of the
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Speaker 3: separation between church and state. Well, we know how that's
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Speaker 3: moving in this country right now, right, that's a little
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Speaker 3: political Holy crap. Yeah, you gotta find some separation. So
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Speaker 3: I'm going from podcasting, where I've just spent unbelievable amounts
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Speaker 3: of hours putting together these interviews posting them. Ah, you
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Speaker 3: know what, it's probably above your head because if you
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Speaker 3: don't do podcasting, you don't understand podcasting. So God, that
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Speaker 3: might be sund like an ass today. What is it
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Speaker 3: going to be like in CS I'll see you there today.
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Speaker 3: I decided to wear my hair down. It's not gonna
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Speaker 3: be up, so the length is in the middle of
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Speaker 3: my back was just a little bit longer, so it's
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Speaker 3: hanging like a real rock star. And didn't shave hell no.
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Speaker 3: And so people are going, so, what's going on? Man?
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Speaker 3: You feeling okay? You're okay? Right, I mean, you're not
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Speaker 3: a bad mood or you're you're unhappy? Right? No, I
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Speaker 3: feel like being a fucking rebel. That's what I feel
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Speaker 3: like being. But of course, a second I walk in here,
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Speaker 3: that's the first thing that they talk about, and you
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Speaker 3: get the frown, and it's like, if I'm the only
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Speaker 3: one that's gonna smile out of this today with the
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Speaker 3: way I look, I think that that counts right at
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Speaker 3: least for something. Well, it turns out I'm not the
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Speaker 3: only one letting their hair down today. So niner, niner, naner,
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Speaker 3: naner neaner, Niner. There are a couple of people up
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Speaker 3: there in the front part of the store that are
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Speaker 3: letting their hair down. Maybe it's a spring thing. You
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Speaker 3: just want to feel free. You don't want to be
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Speaker 3: tied up with your hair back all the time. Plus,
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Speaker 3: like I just told Dave, who's always criticizing me, Oh,
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Speaker 3: it's not the way Jesus would want you to wear
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Speaker 3: your hair. Then what about those pictures of Jesus then, David,
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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, they got it wrong. He used to pull
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Speaker 3: his hair by it. How do you know that, David?
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is such a struggle. This is
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Speaker 3: the year that we're celebrating our two hundred and fiftieth
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Speaker 3: anniversary here in the United States, which is kind of
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Speaker 3: weird because I was there in nineteen seventy six when
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Speaker 3: we went two hundred years. So yeah, I'm the old
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Speaker 3: fuck is what I am. Anyway, I thought it's very
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Speaker 3: cool that Coca Cola is all over this. They've created
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Speaker 3: a campaign now to where the cans of coke will
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Speaker 3: have a state on it. I can see all of
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Speaker 3: the people because I've been those people. They're gonna collect
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Speaker 3: as many of those states as possible. They're gonna go
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Speaker 3: butt hoole crazy and try to figure out exactly where
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Speaker 3: those fifty one cans are. Fifty one states, right or
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Speaker 3: fifty states Puerto Rico. Come on, don't you be knocking
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Speaker 3: them at all. We're getting hit with the double wammy
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Speaker 3: this weekend. It's Eastern Sunday plus at the Final Four.
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Speaker 3: So that means we've got every college basketball represented. Even
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Speaker 3: though there is down to four teams, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 3: It's just every likes to watch the Final Four. So
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Speaker 3: we've got that on our hands. That'll be one, two,
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Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday, and then what is a Monday or
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Speaker 3: Tuesday they play. I don't know. I don't watch it,
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Speaker 3: but you have to know what's going on, and of course,
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Speaker 3: you know then what we also have is his Easter Sunday.
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Speaker 3: And you know, people want their flowers, they want their
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Speaker 3: their gifts, they want they want the Eastern Race. Give
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Speaker 3: me some chocolate. What do you mean you don't have chocolate? Oh,
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Speaker 3: we got chocolate for now. For now. This dude with
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Speaker 3: a buttoned down white shirt comes walking through the building,
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Speaker 3: kind of tucked in, kind of not tucked in, loose
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Speaker 3: feeling kind of vibe about him. And you know, I
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Speaker 3: saw him walk through the store one time and I said, well,
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Speaker 3: that's kind of interesting. This guy walks like he knows
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Speaker 3: what the hell he's doing, and in other words, he's
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Speaker 3: well focused. And so then as I'm putting stuff back,
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Speaker 3: which I do all the time because I'm the put
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Speaker 3: back king, so I walk around the store and I
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Speaker 3: get over by the deli and look, God, dang it,
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Speaker 3: if it's not that guy again. And I'm thinking to myself,
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Speaker 3: what the fuck is this guy looking for? And so
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Speaker 3: so I made it a point to go up to
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Speaker 3: him and say, how can I help you? I mean,
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Speaker 3: you look like you might be looking for something, and
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Speaker 3: he kind of just looks at me a little bit.
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Speaker 3: He says, what's your name, and so I tell him
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Speaker 3: what my name is and all that kind of stuff,
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Speaker 3: and he says, well, my name is blah blah blah
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Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and I'm the regional manager. I've been
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Speaker 3: with the store for thirty one years. It's like you mother, mother,
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Speaker 3: So yeah, come in. You kind of fool me a bit,
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Speaker 3: But dude, because I'm the putback king and I watch people,
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Speaker 3: I saw you first. The child in me is definitely
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Speaker 3: coming out. As I step outside the grocery store tonight
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Speaker 3: on my way home, there's that gigantic full moon, and
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Speaker 3: it was just yesterday that Artemis two blasted off to
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Speaker 3: become the very first spacecraft from the US to take
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Speaker 3: a spin around that monkey in the next one was
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Speaker 3: in like nine days or so, so of course the
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Speaker 3: child inside of me is looking up with that moon,
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Speaker 3: going I think I saw it. I think I saw
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Speaker 3: Artemis too. Yeah I did, Yeah, I did see. I
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Speaker 3: think that's a secret. Don't ever stop being a kid.
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Speaker 3: You got to be a dreamer. You've got to be
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Speaker 3: somebody who's gonna take a chance, break some rules and
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Speaker 3: then believe that space can be reached.
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Speaker 4: We see.
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Speaker 1: CGC CDC, Please do not move. There's more CTCs right
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Speaker 1: around the corner. Tang Tang? What's tang? Does it exist anymore?
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Speaker 1: Plus the extension of an olive branch, and you'll fall
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Speaker 1: witness Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs CGC Tang
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Speaker 1: what is tang Tang? Does it still exist? Plus the
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Speaker 1: extended olive branch, and you're here to witness it.
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Speaker 3: Transition Walk Dan number two out of four. A little
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Speaker 3: grumpy today cruising through this forest. I need to straighten
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Speaker 3: up my look and attitude. My god, I don't know, man,
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Speaker 3: it's it's so many things going on in the world,
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Speaker 3: and he let to cave in and crash on you.
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Speaker 3: And then you step into the world like cus where
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Speaker 3: you're with everybody who's just trying to purchase groceries and
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Speaker 3: make it a better and greater weekend. But the thing is, though,
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Speaker 3: is you know why people are buying because they're looking
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Speaker 3: for certainty, they're looking for security and safety. They're looking
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Speaker 3: for a way to get away from the realms of
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Speaker 3: the reality of where we are in history, and so
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Speaker 3: they go to a grocery store to even if it
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Speaker 3: means getting a free fucking cookie. So you know, but
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Speaker 3: you got to deal with it. You got to listen
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Speaker 3: to their stories, and I am. I'm hearing a lot
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Speaker 3: of stories about how people are trying to deal with
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Speaker 3: situations they have no answers to. I'll see you and
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Speaker 3: see us. What does it smell like tang? You don't
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Speaker 3: know what tang is? Oh, I know what tang is.
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you what the tang was in the seventies,
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Speaker 3: it was poon tang. Did you tell me? She smells
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Speaker 3: like poom tang? Okay, you know what? Right? They get
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Speaker 3: it on Artemis too, right now? Yeah, I know. So
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Speaker 3: it's like orange juice. It's powdered. To you, I would
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Speaker 3: call it our with powdered milk. Powdered milk, and government
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Speaker 3: get cheese and all that caspitular for many years, many years, I.
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Speaker 4: Don't even know.
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Speaker 3: I don't think they make anymore. But I don't think so,
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Speaker 3: because I've never heard of that. I'd of that. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: not in the jar. Oh, it's gonna be me that's
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Speaker 3: going to cross the line here. It's Passover weekend. It's
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Speaker 3: also Easter weekend. To me, that's a wide open conversation
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Speaker 3: about whatever God you believe in and sure enough. People
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Speaker 3: don't mind I dropped the God car? Do they drop
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Speaker 3: the God card? Next thing? You know, we're in a
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Speaker 3: great conversation. We're not shooting out Bible verses or anything
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Speaker 3: like that. It's more of a feeling that, oh my God,
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Speaker 3: these thoughts, these ideas that I have inside my soul. Really,
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Speaker 3: you know, other people are talking about it as well.
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Speaker 3: I'm not so weird today, and that it's okay to
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Speaker 3: talk openly about different things. But yeah that you know,
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Speaker 3: just bring it up and if you piss off somebody, hey,
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I didn't realize, you know, talking about God
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Speaker 3: was gonna you know, I kind of put you in
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Speaker 3: a situation of mood changes. But it is Easter weekend,
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Speaker 3: It's it's also pass Over weekend. The official taste test
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Speaker 3: of the week. This is gonna be Quaker Dell Pickle
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Speaker 3: of all things, rice.
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Speaker 5: Crisp tiny rice cakes. Yeah, and they smell. They smell
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Speaker 5: just like pickles. Like they smell it just like pickles.
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Speaker 5: They were on sales, so we were gonna go ahead
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Speaker 5: and try this.
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Speaker 3: Week these things. It becomes so popular.
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Speaker 4: Mmmm fuck damn.
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Speaker 5: They did that one right, Yes they did. That could
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Speaker 5: be very addictive, well because it's real light, but then
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Speaker 5: it hits you with the pickle flavor and you're like, oh,
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Speaker 5: it's like a crusty pickle.
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Speaker 3: Well it's almost like a pickle. That's really really good.
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Speaker 2: Wow, but not overpowering either, Like I love that.
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Speaker 3: Now with it being on a cellar, were you gonna
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Speaker 3: sup selling or no?
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Speaker 5: It's just on buy one good one, but I only
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Speaker 5: wanted one. Why would I need to bags of rice chips?
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Speaker 3: I like pickles on it. Yeah, you may need that
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Speaker 3: two bags. That's good stuff, that's very good.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I just had a big faux pas, you know, being
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Speaker 3: a smart ass that I am, and I always blame
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Speaker 3: it I'm being in radio. And the faux pas was
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Speaker 3: very simple, and that is is that one of the people,
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Speaker 3: the co workers up in Customer Services upset with me
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Speaker 3: because this person came in and they only wanted to
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Speaker 3: talk to CT. I mean they were really really mad
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Speaker 3: about that because they said, no, I'm gonna wait till
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Speaker 3: CT gets back up here, and so they were waiting
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Speaker 3: for my reaction to that, and my reaction was very simple,
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Speaker 3: and I said, do you want CET's reply to this,
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Speaker 3: or do you want Arrow's reply to this, and they go, well,
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Speaker 3: what would Arrow do? You know? Arrow's the radio personality
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Speaker 3: that's my real life. And I said, Arrow would look
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Speaker 3: at you and say, of course they were waiting for me.
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Speaker 3: Why would they want to talk with you. Oh Jesus God,
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Speaker 3: this must be the end of the world right now.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just being a real smart ass. I
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Speaker 3: was trying to get him to laugh, and boy, that
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Speaker 3: just blew up in my face. Now they're treating me
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Speaker 3: like shit. They are remodeling our produce department this evening,
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Speaker 3: and that means that they've got a team of people
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Speaker 3: over there right now. They're ripping all of the veggies
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Speaker 3: and the fruit's completely out of there. And of course
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Speaker 3: our guests are coming in here on a Friday night,
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Speaker 3: Easter weekend, passover weekend, and they're going like, what what
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Speaker 3: we have these dinners to get ready for this weekend?
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Speaker 3: Where where's the food? Where are the veggies? I need
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Speaker 3: to have fresh veggies for what we're going to be doing.
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Speaker 3: It's there, it's just not in the normal place. But
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Speaker 3: by this time tomorrow, that rebuilding of the produce department
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Speaker 3: is going to invite them into a better, better selection,
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Speaker 3: and better viewing because if it doesn't look appetizing, you
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Speaker 3: ain't buying it. Trust me, you ain't buying it if
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Speaker 3: it's going to be stacked up and looking like, oh
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Speaker 3: I was just throwing crap in there, eat buying it.
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Speaker 3: So you want something to look very appealing and welcoming.
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Speaker 3: All right, man, This is my way of saying I'm
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Speaker 3: sorry that I tissed you off earlier.
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Speaker 6: Okay, okay, Well yeah, because we're celebrating our friendship because
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Speaker 6: I upset you earlier today.
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Speaker 3: All right, you fell witness to it. I at least
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Speaker 3: extended the olive branch, right, did you witness it that
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Speaker 3: I knew that things got a little bit tight between
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Speaker 3: our nightly friendship here because we need each other, we
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Speaker 3: need to be a team. We can't be at each
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Speaker 3: other's throats or anything like that. Or if one person
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Speaker 3: tries to be a radio disc jockey and you know,
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Speaker 3: try to be funny and all that kind of crap,
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Speaker 3: not all jokes are going to be funny. Not all
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Speaker 3: the things that you want to do to help lift
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Speaker 3: somebody's spirits is going to be taken as a ha
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Speaker 3: ha ha ha moment. So all right, so we celebrated
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Speaker 3: with some strawberry shortcake. What do you think, man, I'm
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Speaker 3: seriously come on, that was a smooth move, right. Oh god, man,
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Speaker 3: would you look at that moon tonight? You know that
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Speaker 3: wouldn't be happening if Artemis II wasn't up there. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's part of the deal man, that they're going to
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Speaker 3: go toward the moon and they're going to like spray
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Speaker 3: stuff on it. To me, look big, bright and orange
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Speaker 3: like this one. Sorry to us tooth, because that's just
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Speaker 3: what we do. We like to paint things on the Earth,
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Speaker 3: and now we're painting stuff on the moon. Okay, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to believe that story because it's just you know,
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Speaker 3: the man in the moon is up there and he
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Speaker 3: just needed a painting on the outside. He didn't want
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Speaker 3: to do like, you know, some sort of acryl exciting
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Speaker 3: and everything like that, so they invited us over to
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Speaker 3: paint the outside of the moon. And that's exactly what
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Speaker 3: they're doing on Artemis too. They're painting the outside. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you just don't read about it in the paper. Hey,
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Speaker 3: I'll see.
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, CTC, CTC, CTC.
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Speaker 1: Wait a second, do not move. There's more Batman around
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Speaker 1: the corner. Bad man No, there's more CTCs right around
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Speaker 1: the corner, visited by a poet, families, THEFTS Easter weekend,
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Speaker 1: and a friendship Rose. It's coming up next, Hey, thanks
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Speaker 1: for coming back to CTCs. CTC still ahead, visited by
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Speaker 1: a poet family, THEFS Easter weekend, and the friendship Rose
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Speaker 1: who gets it? Welcome back to CTCs.
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Speaker 3: Transition Walk day number three out of four. Beautiful day
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Speaker 3: in the sports. I do invite you to take your
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Speaker 3: own transition walk, an opportunity for you to spend time
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Speaker 3: with yourself. Put away your digital device. I don't even
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Speaker 3: want you listening to earbuds. Oh hell no, there is
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Speaker 3: so much going on out here, says the man who
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Speaker 3: was talking into a microphone to people he will never meet.
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Speaker 3: It's not that I want it that way. I would
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Speaker 3: love to meet you. That's why I do a thing
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Speaker 3: at a grocery store, and for some stinking reason, they
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Speaker 3: put me in customer service. Really okay, here we go, though,
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Speaker 3: As we prepare to walk through this forest, sounds are everywhere,
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Speaker 3: the scent of spring. Oh. I invite you here more
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Speaker 3: for that than to appear on a podcast. Then you
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Speaker 3: take all this in, you make it into a positive
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Speaker 3: that fuel becomes your day of learning how to deal
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Speaker 3: with the liars, the steelers, the con artists, and everybody
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Speaker 3: that's going to come into that store because they think
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Speaker 3: they can make money by cheating other people. God, oh, look, oh,
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Speaker 3: how many deer? Well we got three of you guys
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Speaker 3: up there. Oh, you guys are beautiful. Look at that
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Speaker 3: walking on a forest path and you come across three
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Speaker 3: deer that are looking at you, going, can I be
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Speaker 3: on your podcast? Fucker? Okay, I'm gonna do a show
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Speaker 3: with the deer CNCs. I'm very anxious to find out
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Speaker 3: what's going to be happening at the grocery store today,
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Speaker 3: to find out if there's gonna be crowds in there.
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Speaker 3: I realize it's final four weekend. I realize it's Easter weekend,
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Speaker 3: Passover weekend. I totally get them, and I know that
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Speaker 3: people need to have their their groceries and their party supplies.
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Speaker 3: I get them. But where I'm coming from is the
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Speaker 3: fact that I'm on these streets, which are usually bumper
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Speaker 3: to bumper for a long period of time. There's hardly
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Speaker 3: anybody out here. It's in the afternoon, there's hardly anybody
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Speaker 3: out here. Gas prices are well over four dollars a gallon.
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Speaker 3: Uncertainty is at one of its all time highs, And
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Speaker 3: I still sit here and wonder if psychologically people are
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Speaker 3: just saying I'm staying home. I'm staying home. I don't
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Speaker 3: care what the world costs right now. I just know
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Speaker 3: that it's free to stay home. Very second I walk
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Speaker 3: into the store, I see an older woman who's got
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Speaker 3: two beautiful roses. Of course, you know it's Easter weekend.
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Speaker 3: Of course it's beautiful. And she says, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: this is not free Easter. This is my friend. She's
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Speaker 3: turning ninety five years old tomorrow. What are you kidding me?
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Speaker 3: And if you know anything about this rose, I said no,
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Speaker 3: I don't. I said, I see a yellow rose. This
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Speaker 3: is called a friendship rose. So she had to tell
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Speaker 3: me he'll be the whole entire story about the friendship rose.
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Speaker 3: And I said, man, you've got the best gift on
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Speaker 3: the planet to give to your friend. See, this is
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Speaker 3: the crap I live for. I live for these moments,
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Speaker 3: one of the biggest culture shocks that I personally have
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Speaker 3: to go through. Maybe this is just a personal thing
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Speaker 3: or a selfish thing, but when I'm in the recording
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Speaker 3: studio doing my podcasting. All my years of radio, I've
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Speaker 3: always had the absolute best earphones. Like right now I'm
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Speaker 3: doing the Doctor Dres the Doctor Dres inside the studio,
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Speaker 3: And that means a quality is like it's got to
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Speaker 3: be stupendous or you go searching for the next one.
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Speaker 3: That's the way it is in the studio. It's got
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Speaker 3: to be quality work. Well, what happens is is that
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Speaker 3: here at the store we've got these real cheap ass
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Speaker 3: things you'd probably get from Walmart or from Amazon. And
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Speaker 3: it's like then they go, see, you can't you're not
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Speaker 3: listening to us, you can't hear us. Well, you a
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Speaker 3: ready can't hear you because you have a piece of
17:31
Speaker 3: crappy earphones. Is witch of God. And I'm not tuned
17:34
Speaker 3: in because the quality sucks. It is a holiday crowd
17:39
Speaker 3: in here today, oh my god. And people do not
17:42
Speaker 3: have the time. They don't have the time to do
17:45
Speaker 3: anything but hurry up and get me out of here
17:47
Speaker 3: as quickly as possible. That's pretty much what the attitude is.
17:49
Speaker 3: And in my mind, of course, I'm thinking, well, that's
17:52
Speaker 3: that's very easter review. That's very passoverview. Maybe you self
17:56
Speaker 3: check out next time. I mean, seriously, what do you
17:58
Speaker 3: do in your own retail business when people want to
18:01
Speaker 3: be button hooks? And I mean, how much of it
18:03
Speaker 3: do you put up before you finally say, you know what,
18:05
Speaker 3: I need to take about ten minutes off and go
18:08
Speaker 3: readjust my thinking, because right now my thinking suck. There
18:13
Speaker 3: was a guy that came in here. He was a
18:14
Speaker 3: business owner, and he was in here last night and
18:17
Speaker 3: he was complaining very loudly about how people aren't showing
18:20
Speaker 3: up for work, especially the younger generation. And he believes
18:24
Speaker 3: that the reason why they're not doing that is because
18:26
Speaker 3: they didn't have any chores growing up, so they have
18:28
Speaker 3: no idea what responsibility or discipline is and so and
18:32
Speaker 3: of course today all these people who decide to come
18:35
Speaker 3: to work for about maybe about an hour and a
18:36
Speaker 3: half two hours, and then they're going, I want to
18:38
Speaker 3: go home. I want to go home. I want to
18:39
Speaker 3: go home. So what does the company do? They let
18:41
Speaker 3: them go home? You know what, that responsibility and discipline
18:46
Speaker 3: is a big thing, and that's the thing that really
18:48
Speaker 3: upsets me the most is that, look, they're never going
18:50
Speaker 3: to learn perseverance if you keep baby in them transition
18:56
Speaker 3: walk day of four out of four, finally, thank God
18:59
Speaker 3: in Heaven. Easter Sunday. And what's happening here? Well, we've
19:03
Speaker 3: got a big rainstorm happening inside this forest. And so
19:07
Speaker 3: the I guess the Christian inside of me is saying, yeah,
19:09
Speaker 3: bring it, bring it, because everything I've ever studied it
19:12
Speaker 3: rained on that day as well, you know, cleansing everything.
19:15
Speaker 3: I don't want to get all Holy young here. I
19:16
Speaker 3: don't want to do that, you know, day number four
19:20
Speaker 3: people are worried about, Oh, what's it gonna be like?
19:22
Speaker 3: Is it gonna be like July fourth? Is it gonna
19:25
Speaker 3: be like Memorial Day? Weekend?
19:26
Speaker 4: Oh?
19:26
Speaker 3: Is it gonna be like Thanksgiving? Are we gonna have
19:28
Speaker 3: too many people here? No? No, that's not gonna be.
19:32
Speaker 3: What's gonna happen? If anybody's gonna do anything for Easter?
19:35
Speaker 3: What's happening right now at the grocery store. They did
19:38
Speaker 3: it before church, or they're gonna do it after church,
19:40
Speaker 3: and then it's church lunch, and probably about three or
19:44
Speaker 3: four o'clock is when my experience has been that people go, well, crap,
19:50
Speaker 3: we got to go to the grocery store. We spend
19:52
Speaker 3: so much damn time doing Easter today. We forgot that
19:55
Speaker 3: life goes back to normal tomorrow. And guess who's gonna
19:58
Speaker 3: be there? People and c us we've been bumping into
20:03
Speaker 3: this story for many many months, if not maybe one
20:06
Speaker 3: or two years. There's a guest that comes in and
20:09
Speaker 3: for all of these years, he's been doing everything he
20:11
Speaker 3: can to get a job here. No, no, he's looking
20:15
Speaker 3: for a job. He's not looking for a career, he's
20:16
Speaker 3: not looking for a connection with people. He just wants
20:19
Speaker 3: a freaking job and so and he keeps getting turned down.
20:22
Speaker 3: And I do listen to the managers on duty. I
20:26
Speaker 3: hear their side of the story, and I hear his
20:28
Speaker 3: side of the story. And I have to really watch
20:31
Speaker 3: what I'm saying because my beliefs in the hiring process
20:35
Speaker 3: do not match this company's beliefs. I will argue with
20:39
Speaker 3: you until I go to my grave, and even after
20:42
Speaker 3: my moments inside that grave, I will continue to argue
20:44
Speaker 3: with you because I will inspire people to prove that
20:47
Speaker 3: my view is so much greater than your business. Because
20:50
Speaker 3: the world of business, especially today, is all about one thing.
20:55
Speaker 3: Your stupid Wall Street people. They want their money, They
21:00
Speaker 3: made the investment cutting back is happening like you wouldn't believe.
21:04
Speaker 3: And they won't hire somebody who could be physically loyal, determined,
21:09
Speaker 3: they won't do it. I don't know, but I do know.
21:13
Speaker 3: Will I ever share it with him? No, it's pretty
21:17
Speaker 3: much playing out exactly the way that I kind of
21:18
Speaker 3: mentioned it when I was on the Transition walk. It
21:20
Speaker 3: really is playing out the way that I said it
21:22
Speaker 3: would when I was out on that transition walk. It
21:24
Speaker 3: is Easter Sunday. People are having their Easter lunches and brunches,
21:27
Speaker 3: and they're hanging out with family and everything. I do
21:29
Speaker 3: not believe that we're going to get a big crowd
21:31
Speaker 3: in here until way later on when all that stuff
21:33
Speaker 3: is over with, and then they're going to realize we
21:35
Speaker 3: got to get into that store. But right now, what
21:37
Speaker 3: we've got, we just have a lot of people who
21:39
Speaker 3: are coming up to us and they're going mass, thank
21:41
Speaker 3: you so much for being here. I mean, it is
21:43
Speaker 3: a holiday, and God, it's just so important that you're here. God.
21:47
Speaker 3: All I want to do is I try to take
21:48
Speaker 3: it to the next level. And I know it probably
21:50
Speaker 3: comes across as conceited, but I'll go you know, I said,
21:53
Speaker 3: I want to be here with you on the holidays.
21:55
Speaker 3: And they kind of look at me with a crooked
21:56
Speaker 3: head and they go, you don't understand that I am
21:58
Speaker 3: with you all year long. So when I'm with you
22:01
Speaker 3: on a holiday, that's the family that I'm starving for.
22:05
Speaker 3: That's the family that I love. So to see you
22:08
Speaker 3: on a holiday is so important to me. Yeah, I
22:11
Speaker 3: made it about me. I did. I made it about me.
22:15
Speaker 3: Don't ever be fooled by a holiday. To me, the
22:17
Speaker 3: holidays mean one thing. The thefts are going to be larger.
22:21
Speaker 3: And I mean when I say larger, I'm talking about
22:23
Speaker 3: entire carts three four, five hundred dollars worth of food
22:26
Speaker 3: and steaks and stuff in there, usually detersent. If I
22:29
Speaker 3: see you with two or three things of detergent, we're
22:31
Speaker 3: gonna follow you. And today's one of those days where
22:33
Speaker 3: they're coming in here. Maybe they think our guard is
22:35
Speaker 3: down or something because it is the holiday. Well, you
22:37
Speaker 3: know what, I have one thing to say to you.
22:38
Speaker 3: In fact, it's one word, but it comes out in
22:41
Speaker 3: two words. Everywhere you go, Fuck you, mister Matt.
22:47
Speaker 7: I have something, Yes, I found something for you, mister Matt.
22:53
Speaker 7: There you go. Good job man, I'm glad you.
23:00
Speaker 3: Did you up many thank you?
23:02
Speaker 4: Where is it?
23:04
Speaker 3: It was one of those where he's over there to
23:06
Speaker 3: where we looked at in the first and it had
23:09
Speaker 3: fallen down, so we were getting the backside of it, yea.
23:12
Speaker 3: And so it was like saying, I swear I've seen
23:14
Speaker 3: it went in their double look, and there it was,
23:17
Speaker 3: and look at you. You're the one that found it.
23:19
Speaker 3: That's so good for us. Good job you too, and
23:25
Speaker 3: you have a great day, all right, thank you. Look.
23:30
Speaker 3: I don't know where the world is going to be
23:32
Speaker 3: by the time this makes it up to CTCs on
23:34
Speaker 3: iHeart and all of the different platforms, but I know
23:37
Speaker 3: that what we're facing right now on this Easter Sunday
23:40
Speaker 3: is a president that dropped yet another F bomb with
23:43
Speaker 3: unbelievable amounts of threats to Iran and the big talk
23:47
Speaker 3: here at the grocery store. I wasn't gonna talk about this,
23:49
Speaker 3: but this is supposed to be a thing of reality,
23:51
Speaker 3: and that reality is is that people are thinking, what
23:55
Speaker 3: the hell is going on? First of all, why is
23:57
Speaker 3: the president dropping an F bomb and making threats like that?
24:01
Speaker 3: Because if this were high school, your ass would be
24:02
Speaker 3: in the principal's office. Well there's nobody that's gonna grab
24:05
Speaker 3: him by the ear and take him into the principal's
24:06
Speaker 3: office because he is the principal. So I don't know
24:09
Speaker 3: where we're gonna be, but I'm gonna make this just
24:11
Speaker 3: like a mile marker and hope to God that when
24:13
Speaker 3: this does hit the airwaves or gets up on the platform,
24:17
Speaker 3: which is gonna be several months down the road, because
24:18
Speaker 3: that's just the way I play this game. But I
24:20
Speaker 3: don't know where we're gonna be, pretty scary place to be.
24:24
Speaker 3: The part that always gets me, and this is how
24:27
Speaker 3: it really does affect me, so I kind of have
24:29
Speaker 3: a voice in this matter. When people will stack their
24:32
Speaker 3: carts with just tons and tons of food and always
24:38
Speaker 3: on the bottom, what's on there. That's usually where your
24:40
Speaker 3: yogurt is, that's usually where your eggs and your bread are.
24:43
Speaker 3: And by the time they get back up to the
24:45
Speaker 3: front and they're about ready to pay, oh man, there's
24:48
Speaker 3: something wrong with this. I'm gonna need you to like
24:53
Speaker 3: trade it out. And because it's broken. The seal is
24:56
Speaker 3: broken because it was in your cart with five hundred
25:00
Speaker 3: thousand things that are weighing ten and twenty pounds apiece
25:03
Speaker 3: on top of it. But the thing about it, this
25:05
Speaker 3: is how it affects me. It affects my bonus check.
25:08
Speaker 3: I get bonus checks twice a year. And what they
25:10
Speaker 3: do is they call it a profit sharing check. And
25:12
Speaker 3: so when crap like that happens, then we throw it
25:15
Speaker 3: away out of my bank account. It goes go do
25:19
Speaker 3: this one.
25:20
Speaker 4: It's called imprisons.
25:21
Speaker 3: Okay.
25:22
Speaker 4: Labels fly negative and cold as snowballs in winter, then
25:27
Speaker 4: swell in summer, breezes, the sweltering that causes blimish, blurred
25:32
Speaker 4: lines of difference gathered beneath sunlit sky. It's raised, falling,
25:37
Speaker 4: damp and the showering blessings from high. A joy of
25:41
Speaker 4: presence consumes Trouble slips past like grease wine playing in mud,
25:46
Speaker 4: knowing the hedge protecting it. I am free despite the words,
25:51
Speaker 4: the looks that attempt to imprison me in my flesh.
25:55
Speaker 3: See that is every day like you were saying. You
25:57
Speaker 3: said that, you know, you're the everyday man, you're the
25:58
Speaker 3: working man and stuff like that is absolutely what you said.
26:01
Speaker 3: It was, Yeah, and you're you're you're pacing is unbelievable. Yeah,
26:05
Speaker 3: because everybody thinks that poetry has got to be we
26:07
Speaker 3: got into a high cood in red.
26:09
Speaker 4: No, you don't read it, you feel it.
26:12
Speaker 3: And that's exactly. And if you put the traumas in
26:16
Speaker 3: the right places and you pay attention to them when
26:19
Speaker 3: you're reading it or reciting, and then there's emotion in it. Yeah,
26:24
Speaker 3: the draw pieces to the poem.
26:27
Speaker 4: Right. I have a lot of people telling me your
26:30
Speaker 4: poems are so very, very deep.
26:32
Speaker 3: Well, that's because I'm writing about what you know. That's right,
26:37
Speaker 3: that's why you feel it. That's so true, so true. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
26:41
Speaker 3: what a blessing. Yet we have to get in touch.
26:43
Speaker 3: We will. I will outside of this and we will. Yeah.
26:46
Speaker 3: This is yeah, thank you to enjoy. What a blessing today.
26:50
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Yes, sir, oh, I thought for
26:53
Speaker 3: sure we're gonna lose Frank tonight. Frank is a yellow,
26:57
Speaker 3: little plastic duck that has been at the customer ser
27:00
Speaker 3: desk now for six years. I don't know how he
27:02
Speaker 3: got here, but we have all fallen in love with him.
27:05
Speaker 3: Even with the big turnaround that's at a grocery store,
27:07
Speaker 3: every person that has been at the front desk or
27:09
Speaker 3: even on the register has all fallen in love with Frank.
27:13
Speaker 3: Just a cute little yellow duck. You know, you see
27:16
Speaker 3: him usually when they're raising funds, you know, for for
27:18
Speaker 3: a nonprofit organization, and you buy a duck. I'm sure
27:21
Speaker 3: that's exactly where it came from, if somebody just left
27:23
Speaker 3: it there. Well, a little girl comes in and sees Frank.
27:27
Speaker 3: She knows Frank's name. Obviously, she's met Frank before tonight,
27:31
Speaker 3: Easter Sunday. She wanted to go home with Frank. My
27:36
Speaker 3: heart stopped. Oh my god. I wasn't gonna stop her.
27:40
Speaker 3: If she wanted Frank that bad, I would have given
27:42
Speaker 3: her Frank, because that right there, that's what you gotta do.
27:46
Speaker 3: And you know, that's that's the purpose to plan. I
27:48
Speaker 3: realize this for all of us that would have been
27:50
Speaker 3: here as long as we have. But I really thought
27:52
Speaker 3: we were gonna lose Frank tonight. What do I always say?
27:56
Speaker 3: The ups, the downs, the twists, the spins, the inns,
27:58
Speaker 3: the outs, the around, the aboves, the belows, the throughs
28:03
Speaker 3: and the not so throughs, the invisible, the very visible,
28:06
Speaker 3: the oh my god, we shouldn't have seen that, but
28:08
Speaker 3: we did. Will never be the same again, Oh my god.
28:12
Speaker 3: All right Easter weekend is over. Do me a favorite
28:15
Speaker 3: creates your own podcast. And the reason why I say that,
28:17
Speaker 3: and I suggest that I encourage it in a really
28:19
Speaker 3: huge way. I know, businesses like to get together to
28:21
Speaker 3: do a podcast to brag about how great they are
28:23
Speaker 3: and to create sales and stuff. I get that, But
28:26
Speaker 3: you know what, when it really comes down to it,
28:28
Speaker 3: you are not. You are not that person where it's
28:32
Speaker 3: all about the money. You are not. And what I
28:35
Speaker 3: mean by that is is that you put your pants
28:37
Speaker 3: on the same way that everybody else around the world
28:39
Speaker 3: puts on your pants. So, you know, create a podcast,
28:41
Speaker 3: create the conversation, and let's get some unity going on here.
28:45
Speaker 3: And because you're gonna find out that a lot of
28:47
Speaker 3: us have the same thing in common. And when you
28:50
Speaker 3: realize that, there ain't no damn judgment. CDC. I'll see
28:55
Speaker 3: you next week on CCCS.
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