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...and I Took the Road Less Travelled... · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: And I took the path less traveled by and that
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  Speaker 1: has made all the difference. What a load of crap.
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  Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: Label this. Jack spits on the classics.
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  Speaker 1: I spit on people who don't understand the classics. I've
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  Speaker 1: done this before. I got to do it again. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I need to do it every couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get to that. This very erudite podcast coming up
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  Speaker 1: in just a little bit, but first I want to
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what that word means. So fancy
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  Speaker 1: kind of uh uh. This is maybe a little longer
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  Speaker 1: than it needs to be, but well, you got something
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  Speaker 1: better to do. This is uh, somebody being funny about
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  Speaker 1: British band names. Some of these are pretty hilarious. Here
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like all British indie bands have the same
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  Speaker 3: type of name, you know, They're all like, Hi, We're
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  Speaker 3: hell Sinky Border Patrol and this is our debut single,
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  Speaker 3: getting Tipsy with Rita, Hi with the Inquisitive Night Towels
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  Speaker 3: And this is our debut single Drowning in the Simple Times. Hi,
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  Speaker 3: We're the Curious Architects and this is our debut single.
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  Speaker 3: Library cards and cash receipts were Grandad's New Haircut, and
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  Speaker 3: this is our debut single, love Letters to Know Where Land.
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  Speaker 3: We're Magpies with Diplomas and this is our debut single,
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  Speaker 3: Remote Controls and Magazines. We're Academic Whiskey Garden and this
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  Speaker 3: is our debut single, Searching for Trolley Change. We're a
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  Speaker 3: Full Moon Garden Party and this is our debut single,
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  Speaker 3: January's Regrets. We're Statues in Munich and this is our
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  Speaker 3: debut single. Gregory was a simple Man with the Candle
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  Speaker 3: Makers and this is our debut single. Kevin was a
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  Speaker 3: city dweller. We're Japanese Trousers and this is our debut single,
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  Speaker 3: Lampshade and the Sky.
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  Speaker 1: Japanese Trousers might be my favorite band. They're all great,
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  Speaker 1: but they're perfect. Grandpa's Haircut, full Moon Garden Party. Eh,
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  Speaker 1: those are good names right there. Pipes with the plumbers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: A something so came across.
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  Speaker 2: So that reminds me. You know, I was going to
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  Speaker 2: bring this up to you off the air. You haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen the Devot documentary on Netflix, have you? No, I
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  Speaker 2: got to bring this up to my son. They were
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  Speaker 2: for years and years a dead serious and were as
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  Speaker 2: a band when We came to know Devo back in
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  Speaker 2: the eighties. They were an art project that sincerely believed
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  Speaker 2: human beings were de evolving. They were formed on Kent
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  Speaker 2: State in the early seventies during the Vietnam protests when
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  Speaker 2: the kids were shot dead by the National Guard. It
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  Speaker 2: was a militantly serious art collective trying to protest American life.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're staunchly anti American at that time and in general,
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  Speaker 2: in that way lefty artists tend to be. They concentrate
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  Speaker 2: on their own society, which is absolutely the right, but
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  Speaker 2: point out all of its flaws and helps bad and
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  Speaker 2: stupid it is. They don't take a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: on oh shit, so are the rest of societies around
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  Speaker 2: the world, and they pretend that America is uniquely flawed.
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  Speaker 2: Really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Devo had one big hit well, Whip It.
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  Speaker 2: Whip was huge, and their version of Satisfaction was a
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  Speaker 2: pretty big hit too.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, again, my same thing I said before, art ain't
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  Speaker 1: it something? So I came across this poem a little
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  Speaker 1: bit earlier, go into two poems road. This one I
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  Speaker 1: had never heard before. I guess. It's a November poem
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  Speaker 1: fairly famous by someone named Gwendolyn Brooks called the Crazy Woman.
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  Speaker 1: This is a serious poem. I kind of liked it.
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  Speaker 1: I shall not sing a May song. A May song
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  Speaker 1: should be gay. I'll wait until November and sing a
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  Speaker 1: song of gray. I'll wait until November. That is the
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  Speaker 1: time for me. I'll go out on the frosty dark
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  Speaker 1: and sing most terribly, and all the people will stare
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  Speaker 1: at me and say, that is the crazy woman who
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  Speaker 1: will not sing in May. I don't know what that means,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess it's a famous November poem.
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  Speaker 2: She likes throwing on sweaters and ugs in the fall.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: To something different than the one I was teasing. And
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  Speaker 1: I've done this many times over the years. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know this originally. I have misused the phrase I have
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  Speaker 1: taken the road less traveled by, and that has made
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  Speaker 1: all the difference. I've misused it like most people have.
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  Speaker 1: It is the complete opposite of what Robert Frost meant
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  Speaker 1: in the poem. How it caught on and he himself.
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  Speaker 1: So this poem was written in nineteen sixteen. You're familiar
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  Speaker 1: with this poem, Katie. I think everybody's known this at
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  Speaker 1: least the ending of the poem everybody knows, and written
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixteen, and there are interviews Crackley interviews. Here
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  Speaker 1: he says, I pamel are stupid. They don't understand, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't read it closely or whatever. The poem is the
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  Speaker 1: exact opposite of it's making, the opposite point of the
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  Speaker 1: way people take it. This is the one with the
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  Speaker 1: raven saying nevermore. Right, No, there has no raven in it. Not.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just read a little bit, because it's fairly long.
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  Speaker 1: I'll read to the beginning in the end two from Nantucket.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, I'll shut up. Now, I will shut up.
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  Speaker 1: It starts this way here I sit broken hearted. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the way it starts. Two roads diverged in
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  Speaker 1: a yellow wood, and I sorry, I could not travel both,
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  Speaker 1: And being one traveler long, I stood and looked down
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  Speaker 1: one as far as I could to where it bent
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  Speaker 1: in the undergrowth. And then the ending is somewhere ages
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  Speaker 1: and ages. Hence I will be telling this with a sigh.
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  Speaker 1: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the
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  Speaker 1: one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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  Speaker 1: And it has been repeated forever as if, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't take the common path everybody else takes, man
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  Speaker 1: you take the more difficult, harder, not as used path,
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  Speaker 1: and that it makes all the difference your life. And
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  Speaker 1: it's the exact opposite of what he was intending. And
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  Speaker 1: if you read it even slightly closely, he makes the
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  Speaker 1: point that both pads go to the same place and
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  Speaker 1: are roughly of the same difficulty, and you'll end up
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  Speaker 1: on the same spot either path you take. And then
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  Speaker 1: people look back on their lives and pretend that they
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  Speaker 1: made these bold choices when they could have gone this
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  Speaker 1: way or that's way just as easily, and they took
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  Speaker 1: one and it worked out or whatever, and now they
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  Speaker 1: give themselves all kind of credit for being some bold,
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  Speaker 1: brave person.
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  Speaker 2: So he is making fun of himself in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Makes me a big deal of.
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  Speaker 1: It, Yes he is, which is really interesting given the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's life. The reason it's so popular is
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  Speaker 1: people taking it well wrong. I can't say literally, since
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  Speaker 1: it's literature and the author is saying you're not. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: if you understand my point, it is repeated. You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: all the time efforted a thousand times in my life
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  Speaker 1: about I took the you know, the pathless pavot or
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  Speaker 1: the road to list PATHN, and that traveled and that
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  Speaker 1: has made all the difference. But he said, no, people
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  Speaker 1: give themselves way too much credit for going this way
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  Speaker 1: rather than that, when you could have gone either way,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows how it would have turned out. That's
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  Speaker 1: his point.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if he ever read the poetry of one
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  Speaker 2: Robert Plant of Northern England, who said, there are two
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  Speaker 2: paths you can go by, but in the long run,
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  Speaker 2: there's still time to change the road you're on, which
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  Speaker 2: is more to his point. You know, either way you're
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  Speaker 2: going to adjust your sales and do what right probably
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  Speaker 2: ought to do or a good at doing, or feels
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  Speaker 2: like the right thing to do. It'll just be kind
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  Speaker 2: of a different route to get there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this kind of fits, maybe it doesn't. But you
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  Speaker 1: brought this up the other day, and I spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time thinking about this because I got two
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  Speaker 1: teenagers and one who's a halfway through his sophomore year
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  Speaker 1: of high school. The whole trying to plan out what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to do with your life. Who do you know,
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  Speaker 1: there are some people that know they want to go
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  Speaker 1: to medical school, like I have a niece like this,
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  Speaker 1: who know they want to go to medical school, like
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  Speaker 1: when they're fourteen and they study that sort of stuff
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  Speaker 1: and they'd get that there undergrad and they go to
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  Speaker 1: medical school and they become a doctor and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: But almost everybody else I know in my life, if
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  Speaker 1: you you look at the point they're at here in
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  Speaker 1: the starting point, and there's like no logical way you
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  Speaker 1: end up where.
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  Speaker 2: You are, right, or it's certainly not obvious. Here's here's
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  Speaker 2: a poll I'd like to see.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, you adjust your sales on the.
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  Speaker 2: Path, right, Yeah, Well, for one, you have so much
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  Speaker 2: to learn. I would love to see this poll of uh,
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  Speaker 2: ask thousands millions of people, what do you do for
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  Speaker 2: a living? Now? Had you even heard of that when
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  Speaker 2: you were seventeen? Did you know that that job existed? Now?
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  Speaker 2: A certain number of people would say yes, but it
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  Speaker 2: would be far far lower than one hundred percent, is
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  Speaker 2: my point.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway I would sixteen seventeen year old you have had
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  Speaker 2: any interest in doing that?
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  Speaker 1: That a good one, That's a real good one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, somebody this is a a stray tangent. I know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who's in line to be an assistant, like a
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  Speaker 1: well assistant, that's a good word for a super rich dude,
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  Speaker 1: like insanely rich dude, like one of the richest people
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  Speaker 1: in America. They just need somebody to take care of
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  Speaker 1: their stuff, like all kinds of different things, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: everything from book a flight to I need a new car,
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  Speaker 1: or just everything that goes on in their life. And
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  Speaker 1: they're interviewing and they're like, way, way way up toward
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  Speaker 1: getting this job, and it sounds like it would be fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just traveling with him and like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go to Vegas for a meeting, and so
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  Speaker 1: you travel with him in Vegas on the private plane.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to figure out how you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get to the hotel into the conference and where the
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  Speaker 1: rooms are and the meal and just all the stuff
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  Speaker 1: has to be worked out by this person. Wouldn't that
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting job?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you're a buttoned up sort.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this person is very very much that sort. I'd
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  Speaker 1: be the wrong person for the job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be eight o'clock at night, So where are
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  Speaker 1: we sleeping tonight? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Sleeping? Wow? I should have seen that coming.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a minute, Give me a minute, It'll be
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  Speaker 2: cool it, give me a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway. I hope they get the job, just because I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to hear the stories of traveling around the world
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  Speaker 1: with this person. And you know, I'm in the mood
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  Speaker 1: for fish, get and figure out where I can eat fish.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever guaranteed they sign an NDA, Now, they
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  Speaker 2: might whisper a little thing or two into ear.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's really old. He's like, he's like an eighty
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  Speaker 1: old super gazillionaire.
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  Speaker 2: M hm.
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  Speaker 1: The Warren Buffett I by, I can't definitely can't say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's Warren Buffett anyway. No, he's like ninety four,
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  Speaker 2: isn't he. I don't know, uh anyway, Um.
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  Speaker 1: He took the road less travel though, and that has
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  Speaker 1: made all the difference. That's why he got so rich.
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  Speaker 2: How funny. I think that might be like a ninety
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  Speaker 2: five percent a misinterpretation rate rate of that poem, no doubt,
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  Speaker 2: which makes it a sucky poem. Somebody how to tell
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  Speaker 2: Robert Frost you suck nice poem, dumb ass.
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  Speaker 1: I've taken that road less traveled and ended up in
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  Speaker 1: some bad neighborhood. No kidding, I should have should have
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  Speaker 1: taken the road more traveled.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks Apple Maps.
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  Speaker 1: Well I guess that's it.