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Wicked Radio 11-27: Thanksgiving Special! What Are We Most Grateful For? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: The holiday. It says it all right there in the name,
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  Speaker 1: the Great American Holiday and Thanksgiving, and here's to you
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  Speaker 1: and yours thanks for finding me. By the way, this
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  Speaker 1: is our Thanksgiving special And I thought maybe we'd do
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  Speaker 1: something different, different time. It's a different topic. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: out of the news for a little bit and just
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  Speaker 1: talk about what really matters in life. And I think
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is a perfect time, the ideal time to actually
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  Speaker 1: do that, because it is it's about giving thanks And
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  Speaker 1: how about this holiday. And I was talking about this
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  Speaker 1: the other day. I've talked about it for years. I
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  Speaker 1: love this holiday so much because it's the great American holiday. Food, football, family, fun,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, reflection, thinking about all the great things that
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  Speaker 1: you have in your life. And I know it's not
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  Speaker 1: just uniquely American. I know Canada has Thanksgiving too. They
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  Speaker 1: celebrate it in October. That's weird, Canada, just weird. Work
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  Speaker 1: on that, Just kidding. And I know it's not without
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  Speaker 1: controversy all of history is. I totally get that too.
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  Speaker 1: But it's an amazing and amazing holiday and it really
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  Speaker 1: truly is as cheesy as this is, as corny as
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  Speaker 1: it is, it's a great time for all of us
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  Speaker 1: to reflect on what's great in our lives. It's really,
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  Speaker 1: really true. There's not a mental health expert, or a
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  Speaker 1: motivational speaker, or just anybody that you know that's lived
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  Speaker 1: any amount of time in the real world that won't
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  Speaker 1: tell you putting gratitude towards something in any phase of
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  Speaker 1: your life, whether the things are going well are things
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  Speaker 1: that going really shitty. Nothing isn't made better with gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: It's really true, and it doesn't. It adds positivity to everything, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always loved it because gratitude when you take
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of time and just be grateful for
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  Speaker 1: the things that you do have in your life that
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  Speaker 1: are going on or the things you want. That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think manifest is included in this too. I love
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  Speaker 1: it because it motivates me to do more right and
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  Speaker 1: it puts you in that better mindset and frame of mind.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't take a lot, it really doesn't. And
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  Speaker 1: here's a trick too, Even when it's it seems like
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  Speaker 1: nothing is going right, just try this little trick that
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  Speaker 1: I found it in my five decades on this earth
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  Speaker 1: that actually does work. Just try to find even the simplest,
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  Speaker 1: smallest things to be grateful for. You got up this morning,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're six feet above ground instead of below ground.
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  Speaker 1: That's a win. Your alarm clock went off, your car started.
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  Speaker 1: Little things you'd be grateful for. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: grateful for. I'm grateful for that little clock radio in
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  Speaker 1: my clock radio, that little clock in my car that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be changed manually by me. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love this. I love that frickin' pen that works.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is cheesy, I know it, I get it,
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  Speaker 1: but it works. When you find gratitude and even the
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  Speaker 1: littlest things, it can motivate you and get you momentum
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  Speaker 1: through the big things in life when you have some
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  Speaker 1: real mountains to climb. That's why it's so important. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of history. Let's go to the history
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  Speaker 1: of this great holiday of us. For us, it became
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  Speaker 1: a national holiday and by honest day, Blan in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty three, which is pretty interesting, took Abe to proclaim
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  Speaker 1: it a national holiday to be held each November. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it was established after decades of lobbying by magazine editor
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Josephina. Hell, wait a minute, it took somebody to
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  Speaker 1: lobby to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. We know about
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  Speaker 1: the origins of it, right. It was about the pilgrims,
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  Speaker 1: and in colonial New England it was always observed by
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  Speaker 1: the colonists and the tribe, the Wampamog tribe. That's who
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  Speaker 1: it was. By the way, say that ten times fast.
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  Speaker 1: I only know it because I grew up in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise I would never know what the name of the
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  Speaker 1: tribe was. That's a little bit of history on it too.
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  Speaker 1: Nationally now, most people say is survey after survey, And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I love my sociological surveys. What are we
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  Speaker 1: as a nation most thankful for? What do most people say? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there was too many individual surveys to go through. So
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  Speaker 1: what did I do, Like most of you these days,
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  Speaker 1: I went to chat chpt and I asked chet gpt ai, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I'm also grateful for. It's actually an
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  Speaker 1: awesome thing. Compiling all the surveys nationally, what are most
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  Speaker 1: people grateful for? No surprises here? Family course Number one. Health,
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  Speaker 1: rising up of the ranks among these surveys. Number two. Friends,
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  Speaker 1: good home of course, if you have one pets that
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  Speaker 1: look at our pets. We should be grateful for our pets,
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  Speaker 1: a little furry animals, and personal freedom crack in the
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  Speaker 1: top ten this year looks like actually top seven amongst
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  Speaker 1: a conglomerate of all the national surveys our personal freedom.
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  Speaker 1: You think we found that more relevant these days, more
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  Speaker 1: than ever. I think. So it's the little things to
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  Speaker 1: be able to do that. And I try to tell
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  Speaker 1: my kids that too. When it was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've had this. If you're a spiritual family at all,
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  Speaker 1: you understand this. You try to get kids to say
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  Speaker 1: prayers and they ask you why and who I'm talking to.
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  Speaker 1: It's something to work for my kids too. I think
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  Speaker 1: I hope that they at least do this. Look, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to pray, okay, whatever, we'll work on
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  Speaker 1: that later. But at least takes some time each day.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be before bed. It could be
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  Speaker 1: driving somewhere, it could be walking somewhere. It could be
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  Speaker 1: in school, it could be in class, it could be anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And just list some of those things we just talked
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  Speaker 1: about that maybe you're grateful for. They could be small things. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course they could be big things. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to be grateful for these particular days. Yes, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: mention it, Yes I am. I am very grateful and
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  Speaker 1: I was I will always be grateful for the events
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  Speaker 1: that unfolded on November fifth, twenty twenty four, because, yes,
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  Speaker 1: it looked very unlikely for a long time, and I
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  Speaker 1: still was thinking. I didn't say this here in the
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  Speaker 1: live stream. I was still was thinking the whole time
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  Speaker 1: leading up to it. I don't know if Trump's gonna
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  Speaker 1: pull this off. I don't think so. And I was
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  Speaker 1: very afraid, as a lot of you were, of what
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  Speaker 1: the past four years were going to look like extended
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  Speaker 1: into the future. And I was worried about that. I
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  Speaker 1: was worried about law fair and all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one conversely now, because of the way things happen,
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  Speaker 1: Because if you and me and ordinary people pulling Trump
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  Speaker 1: over the finish line to try to get some change
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  Speaker 1: into government and the people taking back power, I'm very
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  Speaker 1: excited for the Trump effect going into the future and
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  Speaker 1: the positive things that can happen. It's been mentioned, I've
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  Speaker 1: said it a lot too, we all have. We're all
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to it. This golden age of America. The
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  Speaker 1: possibility that's there tying technology with power to the people.
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  Speaker 1: This could be fantastic. I'm incredibly excited about that, and
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  Speaker 1: I was off by a little bit. It looks as though.
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  Speaker 1: It looks as though and hopefully this hadn't changed since
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  Speaker 1: I just read it a few hours ago. There very
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  Speaker 1: well may be a peace deal Israel agreeing to that recently.
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  Speaker 1: Is it the Trump effect? I think so, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: grateful for it. Speaking of his pal, this is a
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  Speaker 1: huge part of it. I'm very grateful that Elon spent
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  Speaker 1: forty four billion dollars. That's the price of personal freedom.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's the price of free speech to buy
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and turning it into X because I think I
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  Speaker 1: truly believe this. I think without that, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at the situation we're in now where we
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  Speaker 1: can talk about a golden age. Because what happened, Legacy media,
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  Speaker 1: which has been lying to us for sixty plus decades
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  Speaker 1: now maybe longer, is dead. We have the information that's
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  Speaker 1: what changed. It's a massive deal. We were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this the other day in the live stream. Legacy media
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  Speaker 1: is dying like a squealing animal because they know that
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  Speaker 1: they're dead, because they can't lie to anybody anymore. We
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  Speaker 1: got the information. It was key to everything. Also, very grateful,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. And I know a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this is like cheesy and it's corny, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: time for gratitude, So now's the time to get it
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  Speaker 1: off our chest. I'm really grateful for this. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about it every once in a while on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Grateful for health and technological advancements. That's really exciting to
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  Speaker 1: me now. Never used to be before, but now that
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  Speaker 1: I see some of the things that are happening, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about some of the things that could
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  Speaker 1: actually could happen in the future here. Maybe we'll find
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  Speaker 1: a cure for cancer. Maybe we can do it. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we'll go to Mars. Maybe you'lonill get that done. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we will have AI not being this big scary thing,
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  Speaker 1: but helping us in our daily lives, and robotics and
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  Speaker 1: neuralink and helping people who or you can't walk, or
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  Speaker 1: old people. Maybe we'll find a cure for Alzheimer's. Great
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  Speaker 1: advancements in that area. It's another thing. I'm grateful for
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  Speaker 1: all of it. There's so much to be grateful for,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't have to look too hard, all right.
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  Speaker 1: My personal life, we talked about this Americans are grateful
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  Speaker 1: for I think it was number one. I just listed there. Family.
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  Speaker 1: I am too. I have an awesome family. They are
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  Speaker 1: just been with me through thick and thin and vice versa.
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  Speaker 1: And I just love them. And I talk to my
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  Speaker 1: wife all the time and I say, hit it out
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  Speaker 1: of the park. Two grand slams with our two kids.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't have changed it for anything, love them both. I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 1: I have a home. I'm grateful for that every day.
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  Speaker 1: And don't we take it for granted all the time?
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  Speaker 1: I do. I try not to, but I do. I'll
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  Speaker 1: complain about having to fix this or that. But I've
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  Speaker 1: got a home. I've got a place that I can
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  Speaker 1: do some projects and fix things on. And yeah, homes
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  Speaker 1: are expensive, and I get that, but it's a home.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people in this country right
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  Speaker 1: now who can't say the same thing. Another way to
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  Speaker 1: recent at your mindset and be grateful about things. Grateful
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  Speaker 1: for health, health and wellness so important these days. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people my age that don't have that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people younger than me that
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  Speaker 1: don't have that healthful and grateful for the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: find out more about that is I think part of
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  Speaker 1: this Golden Age of America I was talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're getting healthier. I really do. Got a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go, and I think our FK. Junior is
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  Speaker 1: going to work on that. I do. I think it matters,
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  Speaker 1: but I think we're gonna make a lot of progress
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  Speaker 1: in that. I really do believe that. Here's another big
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  Speaker 1: one I'm grateful for personally, if you just allow me
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  Speaker 1: to indulge myself and just talk about a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of my personal history. For a lot of you that
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  Speaker 1: were with me Bill in the radio days. Not too
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  Speaker 1: long ago, a thirty year broadcasting career in commercial radio
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  Speaker 1: came to an end abruptly in a middle of a
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday after my show one day on August twentieth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. And at the time, well, I can't all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I can't say I was devastated because literally,
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  Speaker 1: when they told me I couldn't work there anymore, I
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  Speaker 1: started laughing. It was just so. I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 1: you think when you're in radio, the day's coming. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't last forever, and I had a
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  Speaker 1: great run in that, but it was just so weird.
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  Speaker 1: It was like out of like a scene from the
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  Speaker 1: office or something, you know, the bosses come in and
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  Speaker 1: then there's somebody from PR and I started laughing, so
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  Speaker 1: that you know, That's how I was on it. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for what that led to, because honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: know me and I wouldn't have I wouldn't have gone
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  Speaker 1: on and tried something different and tried this. And I
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  Speaker 1: have to look back now and I have to tell
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  Speaker 1: you what a blessing I've come around to calling this recently.
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  Speaker 1: That was God extracting me from a situation I never
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  Speaker 1: would have left. It was the greatest thing for me
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  Speaker 1: to get out of radio, not by choice at the time,
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  Speaker 1: but to move on. The timing was perfect to do
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  Speaker 1: other business interests. I need to do it. Secondly, and thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: I really mean this to have the chance to start
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  Speaker 1: overshore and to start from scratch and to do this
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  Speaker 1: and to create what Wicked Radio is and what I
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  Speaker 1: want to make it into, and to grow it from
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  Speaker 1: just going on popping on live on X and asking
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  Speaker 1: you guys if you wanted to do a live stream
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  Speaker 1: every single day to growing it more and then growing
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  Speaker 1: it more, and you OG's were with me in the
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  Speaker 1: live stream. Though it starts small, and it has been growing
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to continue to grow. This has been
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  Speaker 1: the greatest gift. So that's not possible without you. I
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  Speaker 1: am so grateful for all of you to be able
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  Speaker 1: to do this. I really, truly, truly am so I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank you for that because I'm excited about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's starting scratching. Yeah it's still minischool at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but exponentially growing as we go on here just talking
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  Speaker 1: about stuff every day, and I wanted to do something
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  Speaker 1: different instead of like back in the radio days, always
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  Speaker 1: have to be entertaining. I get that, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: information and entertainment, but I wanted to take it somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: I can't not talk about current events. It's in my DNA.
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  Speaker 1: I just have to talk about what's going on in
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  Speaker 1: the world with you. I have to, But I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take it somewhere else and apply communication skills and
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  Speaker 1: communication empowerment to that. That's what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: So not just talking about all of this nonsense in
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  Speaker 1: the news with you every single morning, usually in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: but how to talk yourself through it. That's my goal
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  Speaker 1: going forward, and I can't do it without you. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for that change. I'm grateful for being exited
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  Speaker 1: out of radio and starting this, and most of all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful for all of you. And I think
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  Speaker 1: about that a lot, I really do. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep doing it, having fun with it. That's my Thanksgiving special.
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  Speaker 1: It's gratitude. It's easy to find but easy to do,
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  Speaker 1: but it's really really impactful. So thank you again. He's drinking.
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  Speaker 1: Here's to you and yours. Happy Thanksgiving, be grateful, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you after Thanksgiving Friday, after Thanksgiving, I think,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be on the road, but i'll figure
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  Speaker 1: out a way to talk to you. If it's not
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  Speaker 1: a live dream, I'll do some live stuff from the
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  Speaker 1: road and we'll talk about it then. But with that said,
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  Speaker 1: peace and love to you and yours and thank you.