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Fake brands for gifts and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the fake stuff as I'm shopping. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I was doing during It's Christmas time, so I
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  Speaker 1: was online shopping during the commercial break. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: fake right there, the idea of getting and I've had
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  Speaker 1: what side, I don't know. It wasn't Macy's, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The h I think that's fake. Oh my god. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this Every now and then you'll see something. Oh that
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  Speaker 1: can't be right. There's no way they would have made
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  Speaker 1: that color or whatever. But yeah, that looks fake. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, if somebody gave you a fake present, would
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  Speaker 1: you call him out? I think it's a legitimate question,
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  Speaker 1: especially as people, you know, they I get trying to
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  Speaker 1: save some money. I really do. It's it's been a
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  Speaker 1: rough uh you know, two three years, four years for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, between COVID and and the previous
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  Speaker 1: economics things that were going on in this country and
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  Speaker 1: so forth. Things are getting better now, but but it's
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  Speaker 1: been rough, and groceries were up, and gasoline was up,
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  Speaker 1: and now the Thanksgiving was as cheap as it's been
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  Speaker 1: in several years. Gasoline averages below three dollars a gallon
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  Speaker 1: around the country. Uh, it did jump up here in
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  Speaker 1: Columbus yesterday a bit. I see a lot of stations
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  Speaker 1: like two ninety now two ninety five. What'd you pay
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  Speaker 1: for gas last time you got gas?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Will you use that? That that high test stuff though?
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  Speaker 1: That stuff was the ethyl eight three twenty eight for
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  Speaker 1: the ethyl for the high test ethyl like high test. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's what Dad used to get the high test ethyl.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw two ninety and two ninety two as
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  Speaker 1: I was coming into work today.
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  Speaker 4: And people are starting to travel though, because it's Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, but for Thanksgiving it went down oddly for
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  Speaker 1: traveling for the Thanksgiving holidays, gasoline went down and it
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  Speaker 1: was I think two forty nine was the cheapest that
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  Speaker 1: I saw in my neck of the woods. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of nice. So it's gone up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but overall, economically, things are on an upswing for most
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  Speaker 1: of us. Now that being said, I also know that
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  Speaker 1: you know, some people, they're more show than substance. And
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  Speaker 1: this doesn't apply just to Christmas gifts. Sometimes this is
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  Speaker 1: just life. You'd be surprised how many homes that I've
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  Speaker 1: walked in that are you know, five to seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Homes with the dining room has maybe a
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  Speaker 1: big lots card table in it or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well they've got a beautiful home, yeah, but inside the
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  Speaker 1: home it's uh, you know, not so much. They don't
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  Speaker 1: they have enough to buy the house, or they're keeping
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  Speaker 1: their heads above water buying the house, but they can't
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  Speaker 1: furnish it. People are like that. These young people love
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  Speaker 1: to walk around. I don't know what's the current thing.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Hollister and Air Apostole were the big deals,
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  Speaker 1: and Pink was the big deal. Oh I'm too old now,
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  Speaker 1: but those are all my previous life. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what really is hot for the young lady these days,
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  Speaker 1: but they love having the logos. For a while, Coca
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  Speaker 1: Cola ware was everywhere, which I didn't get. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: why shouldn't they pay me for me to be a billboard?
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  Speaker 1: Why should I pay them to be their billboard? I
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  Speaker 1: don't get that more money for them, I guess, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: But if if you need to save money that badly,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't buy anything or buy something like a car
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  Speaker 1: or a Christmas card. Just write a heartfelt message inside
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  Speaker 1: instead of giving somebody something fake, especially if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to try to pass it off as something that is
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  Speaker 1: not fake, because I would call you out a two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight eight six A two one WTV And
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  Speaker 1: back to your calls, Mike, you're on six to ten WTVN.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I just had a comment on the gift cards
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  Speaker 5: you had a problems with earlier. The lady had the
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  Speaker 5: zero balance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody gave her a fifty dollars gift cards. She
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  Speaker 1: went to use it a couple months later it was empty.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if I mentioned a lot of scam orders to
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  Speaker 5: get the numbers out of the store and after it's
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  Speaker 5: purchased day zero, they use it by just you having
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  Speaker 5: the number off the card.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this was a friend of hers that gave it
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  Speaker 1: to her. I don't know where it went between the
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  Speaker 1: friend buying it and giving it to her, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it was somebody else.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, when the lady purchased it, originally somebody had gone
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  Speaker 5: into the store and gotten the number and they can
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  Speaker 5: use it after it's.
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  Speaker 1: Purchase gotcha, gotcha. So they just get the numbers while
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  Speaker 1: they're in the store and then play the odds that
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  Speaker 1: somebody is going to buy that number because it's in
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  Speaker 1: front of the stack or whatever on the carousel deal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's say good possibility, that's not bad. It
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  Speaker 5: couldn't have Maybe it wasn't her friend.
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  Speaker 1: You could be onto something there, Mike. Get people are
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  Speaker 1: so deceptive anymore. It's hard to keep track of how
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  Speaker 1: they deceive you these days. But that's a good thought.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. A two one ninety eight six A two
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  Speaker 1: one w TV And Pete, you are on six n
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  Speaker 1: WTV at high.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Chuck, I agree with you pretty much everything,
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  Speaker 4: but not tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Well you're obviously wrong. You're absolutely wrong, and family they'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you, Pete, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I don't. I don't have any friends and family. That's
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  Speaker 4: why I call you guys. I just kidding. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you call somebody out in front of you know,
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  Speaker 4: friends and family, are they ever going to forgive you?
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  Speaker 4: I mean maybe they will, but they're all are they
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  Speaker 4: always going to hold a grudge? I'm maybe they won't.
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm terrible at holding grudges. I think that the
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  Speaker 4: right thing to do would be to call them out privately,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, a text or something saying hey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you really shouldn't do this because you know,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't call you out publicly, but if you do
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  Speaker 4: it again, somebody else might call you out in front
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  Speaker 4: of the family, and you know, it's just it's just
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  Speaker 4: not you know, let's just put it behind us. But
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  Speaker 4: please don't do it again and hurt my feeling And
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  Speaker 4: I don't want you to hurt somebody else's feelings even more.
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  Speaker 4: And you know that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it would depend on the human I'm dealing with, Pete.
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  Speaker 1: If it's somebody who uh who, If they tried to
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  Speaker 1: aggrandize themselves by saying, look what I got you and
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  Speaker 1: tried to make a big deal out of it, I
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  Speaker 1: would probably be more apt to call them off.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: If it was just like a thing where they gave
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  Speaker 1: it to you and they said, man, I really hope
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  Speaker 1: you like it, and they believe that they were giving
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  Speaker 1: you something that turned out to be fake, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would have some empathy for that situation. But if they
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  Speaker 1: knew they were buying fake merchandise and tried to tell everybody,
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  Speaker 1: let's look what I got him. It's this is this
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  Speaker 1: and the it and it's you know, obviously a fake
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  Speaker 1: unit when you open the box. I it's I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't like people who pose for the camera,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I can totally respect that. Yes, they do
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  Speaker 4: need to be called out, but I'm just saying, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta be I guess you're you're right, and you gotta
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  Speaker 4: know who you're dealing with. And but boy, if somebody
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  Speaker 4: really were to do that to you, if somebody were
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  Speaker 4: to do that to me to begin with, I would
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  Speaker 4: be like, well, gee, I really don't they're gonna stoop
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  Speaker 4: that low. I really don't value their friendship or their
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. It's it's not even uh uh,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's a it's a it's a cruel thing to
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  Speaker 4: do to somebody. And you know who needs enemies when
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  Speaker 4: you got friends like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I agree with that too. So now we've
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  Speaker 1: got all that out of the way, Pete, what are
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  Speaker 1: you getting me for Christmas? What can I expect?
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  Speaker 4: Uh? For you?
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  Speaker 1: Pete's like, I have a problem. I must be in
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  Speaker 1: a bad sell.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't hear you, Chuck. What was that.
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  Speaker 5: Pleather jacket and a guess card with nothing on it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I missed my beat there. I should have said that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of slow it takes me two hours to
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  Speaker 4: watch sixty minutes, so I apologize.
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  Speaker 1: I have those nights too, buddy, Thanks very much for
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  Speaker 1: the call. You have a merry Christmas. It's two hours
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  Speaker 1: to watch sixty Yes A two TV and is it
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  Speaker 1: ever run? You're on the legacy retire dot comphone lines?
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  Speaker 2: Hy Hey guys. Yeah, you know, if if somebody did
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  Speaker 2: that to me, they bought me something that was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be high end, which I don't really I'm not
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  Speaker 2: that kind of guy like a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of high and stuff. But if I did and somebody
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  Speaker 2: tried to play it on me, I would definitely call
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  Speaker 2: them out, you know. But if it was somebody that
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  Speaker 2: I thought genuinely thought they were doing the right thing
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  Speaker 2: and got ripped off, I would maybe say something, but
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  Speaker 2: in private, I wouldn't try to embarrass them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If it's if it's a well intentioned person that just
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  Speaker 1: got misled and thought they were doing something, yeah, no
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  Speaker 1: way I'd want to do that. But you know, those
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  Speaker 1: people that I guess are notorious through their reputation or
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  Speaker 1: previous conduct or whatever, I just I don't know. I've
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  Speaker 1: I just I appreciate genuine so very much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, there's there's a lot of obvious people unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and really otherwise some of them are friends and family.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that is the nature of the beast in twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty, right, I got you what you say about that
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  Speaker 3: that pink thing, you know, and you guys were not
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  Speaker 3: sure what's popular these days.
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  Speaker 2: I feel the pink thing is still popular because I
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  Speaker 2: work in a place with a lot of I'm fifty four,
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  Speaker 2: and I work in a place with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: younger ladies, and they all seem to be really into
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  Speaker 2: that thing.
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  Speaker 5: Ron.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put you on hold.
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  Speaker 1: We can exchange info. Where do you were? Oh? Stop it, Ron, Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: you have a wonderful Christmas, buddy, Thanks very much for
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  Speaker 1: the call. Stay warm tonight.