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C.T.C.S Episode 218 Fuggly Christmas Sweaters Western Union Con Jobs And Eating Bad Food · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: There you are, My name is ct When I'm not
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Speaker 1: busy being Arrow the Podcaster, I live in the real world.
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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody has to have a job, right Mine
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Speaker 1: keeping your team motivated and pumped up to keep that
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Speaker 1: to stop into your location. Episode number two eighteen Fugly
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Speaker 1: Christmas Sweaters, Western Union con Jobs and the Art of
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Speaker 1: e bad Ooh this is CTCs Transition Walk Dame number
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Speaker 1: one out of three have a live performance is Saturday
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Speaker 1: Nights the final live show of this year?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: How is it possible? How did they go by so quickly? Oh? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're busting ass right now. Trying to make sure that
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Speaker 1: we're on stages throughout twenty twenty six. So very difficult.
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Speaker 1: And that's one of the hardest things about being at
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Speaker 1: CS is that I have a life within a life
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Speaker 1: within a life within a life within a life. There's
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Speaker 1: so many different circles. And I mean, just like I'm
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Speaker 1: just coming out of the podcast studio. If I was
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Speaker 1: not in that studio by five point thirty this morning,
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Speaker 1: there's no way that I would be on this transition
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Speaker 1: walk right now because of the interviews I was with
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Speaker 1: actor Danny Houston and so many other people today. And
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Speaker 1: it's a blessing. It's a blessing to share stories. It
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with Oh I talked with so
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Speaker 1: and so sharing stories, baby, that's what it's all about,
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Speaker 1: and so is CS customer service share stories. Low Kate solutions.
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Speaker 1: Outside of that, put up with the pain that's in
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Speaker 1: your legs and back and get on with it. Oh
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Speaker 1: so cute. The closer we get to the big magical
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Speaker 1: day of December twenty fifth, everybody's all decked out in
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Speaker 1: their Christmas gear. I mean, we've got some really fuggly sweaters.
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Speaker 1: People put a lot of pride into their fugly sweaters.
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Speaker 3: Now, I'm not saying ugly.
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Speaker 1: There's a difference between an ugly Christmas sweater and a
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Speaker 1: fugly Christmas sweater, and these are some seriously out of
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Speaker 1: control fugly sweaters. Do you go up and talk to him?
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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do in a situation like that?
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Speaker 1: Do you ever just go up to him and say, oh, hey,
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Speaker 1: whoa Come on now, that's pretty damn fugly. I think
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Speaker 1: one of the best sweaters I've seen so far is
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Speaker 1: one that reads most likely to be run over by
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus's Reindeer. You're familiar with that song, right, Grandma
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Speaker 1: got run over by a reindeer? Yeah? Well, this T
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Speaker 1: shirt said, hey, I'm most likely to get to be
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Speaker 1: that one that gets run over by a reindeer. People
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Speaker 1: just want to have fun, They want to be jolly.
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Speaker 1: You know what, how do you define jolly at a
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Speaker 1: grocery store other than just make someone else laugh. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to make yourself laugh, just make somebody else laugh.
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Speaker 1: Our store has a bar, and it's a beer and
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Speaker 1: wine bar, and tonight is the fourth annual Christmas party.
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Speaker 1: They've got all of the breweries that are coming in
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be giving away free samples and everything.
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Speaker 1: But it's always fun to see the true community of
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Speaker 1: this location in the way that when the people who
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Speaker 1: make the beer come here to sit with the people.
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Speaker 1: Not to me, I'm an image person, that's valuable to me.
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Speaker 1: When those that make your escape inside this world come
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Speaker 1: in to sit down with you, that is powerful. So
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be very fun to see who's gonna win
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Speaker 1: all these prizes. I mean, my god, they've got so
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Speaker 1: much stuff to give away. I mean golf clubs and
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Speaker 1: different trips and dinners out and all that. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a wild ass party tonight. Who's just
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Speaker 1: made a big bust on Western Union? This guy comes in, Man,
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Speaker 1: people will get their stuff together big time. They make
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Speaker 1: it look so professional.
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Speaker 3: They crossed their eyes and dot their t's. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they do everything.
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Speaker 1: And I know I said it wrong because obviously they'd
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Speaker 1: done something wrong because it didn't go through. But the
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Speaker 1: gentleman was sending twenty five hundred dollars to himself. In
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Speaker 1: all my years at a grocery store associated with Western Union,
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Speaker 1: I have never been associated with somebody who is sending
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Speaker 1: money to themselves, especially twenty five hundred dollars, and to
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Speaker 1: have this amazing paperwork right there in front of me,
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Speaker 1: everything signed, and oh my god, it looks so so cool.
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking this is gonna be an easy one.
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Speaker 1: No sweat, oh no, oh no. Modern day technology with
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Speaker 1: AI and all that it found out what this dude
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Speaker 1: was up to. Obviously he's been busted before because it
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Speaker 1: shut down and said it ain't happened him twenty five hundred.
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Speaker 1: So it makes me wonder all these newbies that come
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Speaker 1: up to see us, would they have stopped or would
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Speaker 1: they have continued? Because there were red flags all the
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Speaker 1: way through it? Why didn't anybody else see it before me?
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Speaker 1: I had just check in with a Christmas party over
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Speaker 1: there at the beer and wine bar. Because you know,
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Speaker 1: you're hearing a lot of sounds, you're hearing a lot
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Speaker 1: of cheering. Well that's because they're giving away a ton
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Speaker 1: of prizes. But man, I said, you want anybody who
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Speaker 1: is not associated with this store, who has no idea
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Speaker 1: of the attitude of this particular store. I mean, we
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Speaker 1: do have that kind of a rocky edge attitude, alternative
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Speaker 1: attitude in the way of just being a free spirit
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Speaker 1: do what you want, have a great time as long
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Speaker 1: as you don't get arrested for it, and if you do,
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Speaker 1: make sure they spell your name right. Here's the thing
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Speaker 1: about it is, it looks like that there is a
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Speaker 1: huge bar party going on right now, and somehow somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the middle of all of that is a grocery store.
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Speaker 1: Because you would never think that this is a grocery
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Speaker 1: store right now because the party is that big. Please
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Speaker 1: do not move. There's more CTCs right around the corner
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Speaker 1: coming up next. Why do you think I smoke pot
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Speaker 1: when I don't. I'm wearing my real name tag, real
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Speaker 1: name and eating Vietnamese cookies. Oh god, hey, thanks for
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Speaker 1: coming back to CTCs up next. I don't smoke pot.
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Speaker 1: I may have long hair, I don't smoke it though,
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Speaker 1: wearing my real name on my real name tag. That's
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Speaker 1: a shocker. Plus taking the chance on Vietnamese cookies. Oh boy.
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Speaker 1: Transition walk day number two out of three. Do not
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Speaker 1: let this nice weather inside this forest fool you today?
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no. First of all, yes, we have
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Speaker 1: the sunshine here in Carolina, but man, with that temperature
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Speaker 1: at forty one, I know what's happening in the next
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Speaker 1: couple of days, and this grocery story is about to
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Speaker 1: get bumled. We're going down to the mid teens and
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Speaker 1: to a southern air with all this humidity in the atmosphere.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, it's gonna feel like there's ice crystals growing
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Speaker 1: out your butt. So I expect to see a lot
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Speaker 1: of people in melted minds of madness because they're going
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Speaker 1: to try to figure out a how to put food
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Speaker 1: on their damn table, b how to pay for the
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Speaker 1: electricity or the gas running to their house. And see,
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Speaker 1: did I buy a warm enough coat? I'll see you
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Speaker 1: and see us my entire life. People take notes of
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Speaker 1: your long hair, and for some reason right away they
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Speaker 1: just associate it with you must smoke pot. No I don't,
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Speaker 1: I really don't. I never have smoked pot. But it's
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Speaker 1: very interesting how people who do smoke the weed will
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Speaker 1: approach me here at the store, and it's just one
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Speaker 1: of those things where it's like, Okay, what on me
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Speaker 1: is telling you that I'm a pot smoker. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with that, It's just that you're fit into a
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Speaker 1: genre that has nothing to do with the cover of
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Speaker 1: the book that you're bringing forward. So but that's one
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Speaker 1: of the things.
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Speaker 3: And so it's.
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Speaker 1: Amazing how many people who physically smoke pot will come
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Speaker 1: up to me and start talking about things. I have
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Speaker 1: no idea what they are, and I can't imagine what
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Speaker 1: my facial expressions are when they start talking about how
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Speaker 1: they burn their pot. I have no idea even what
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Speaker 1: I just said. But it's just really interesting how people
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Speaker 1: associate my long hair with pot smoking, when if you
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Speaker 1: were to check out my system, it ain't happening. I
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Speaker 1: tried to pull off another joke today that was based
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Speaker 1: on me wearing my real name on a name tag
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Speaker 1: because you know, I got a good reply from a guest,
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Speaker 1: and so they tend to reward you about those things
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Speaker 1: when when you come to the store. But instead of
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Speaker 1: to CT, the reply or the the congratulations or the
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Speaker 1: the acknowledgment was to Clarence, and Bill writes to me
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Speaker 1: a new guy, Bill, and he.
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Speaker 3: Goes, he says, the fuck is this all about?
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Speaker 1: And and so I thought, Okay, what a great time
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Speaker 1: to wear the Clarence name tag. So I wear it
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Speaker 1: as a freaking joke. And then when I get here,
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Speaker 1: I'm about ready to put CT back on because people
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Speaker 1: are asking me what the hell is that name that
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Speaker 1: you got on there? And they and everybody's gonna will
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Speaker 1: like the name is CT better? Well oh shit, huh?
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Speaker 1: And so then what happens is I look for the
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Speaker 1: CT name PAG, I put it in my pocket. I
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Speaker 1: lost it between home and here it's gone. So my
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Speaker 1: joke has turned into a real knock against ahead.
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Speaker 3: So who's the person to put my name on that
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Speaker 3: evaluation thing and use the other names?
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Speaker 1: That's not That wasn't an evaluation, that was the customer
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Speaker 1: survey they did on you. How would they know what
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Speaker 1: I mean?
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Speaker 3: Because you fucking had all your Clarence thing that particular day.
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Speaker 1: It had to be because did you work yesterday?
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Speaker 3: No? Yeah I did, Yeah, But it wasn't a Clarence one.
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Speaker 3: You sure I guarantee it.
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Speaker 4: Because you had it in your pocket today?
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Speaker 1: Well, because I was wearing it today because I was
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Speaker 1: going to be a real smart ass and wear it
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Speaker 1: to you. And then you don't even recognize it a
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Speaker 1: second time.
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Speaker 4: With that, Well, I'm I don't. I just look to
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Speaker 4: see if there's a white plat piece of plastic. You
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Speaker 4: could say fucking Amy or Julie, and I fucking wouldn't. No, dude,
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Speaker 4: they they probably did it last week. I get surveys
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Speaker 4: on you four or five days after you're here, and
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Speaker 4: I'm like, this motherfucker ain't made her four days and
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Speaker 4: he has the survey turned in and I'm here.
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Speaker 3: Like every day, and it's my mom. She's doing it
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Speaker 3: from the grave.
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Speaker 4: Well, so if I get there are two surveys I
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Speaker 4: always get with no names on them, and one says
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Speaker 4: it was a gentleman.
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Speaker 3: He had long hair and it was extremely nice and
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Speaker 3: I always know that you.
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Speaker 4: And then the other one says middle aged man and
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Speaker 4: it's I know that one was fucking always being And
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Speaker 4: then one day someone added balding to it and I
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Speaker 4: was like, oh, all.
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Speaker 3: Right, middle aged balding man.
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Speaker 4: So there that could be ten ten people in here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is what it is. None of
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Speaker 3: these women, no, we wear name tags and they don't.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well I wish they would wear name tags.
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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, No, not me, because then then you're expected.
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Speaker 3: To, like, you know who they are. I don't mind
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Speaker 3: talking a little.
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Speaker 4: Bit, but I don't want to get to know it
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Speaker 4: about it because it's if that were the case, no
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Speaker 4: one would ever get out of this fucking stool.
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Speaker 2: Would at bes stick in the pocket.
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Speaker 1: So it's Vietnamese and it's like a dang McDonald's biscuit.
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Speaker 2: This bond pia cha bua sow rying vegetarian pia cake,
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Speaker 2: Pandan Durian.
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Speaker 3: But you said that Durian smells is this? Does this smell? No,
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Speaker 3: not at all.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't faking.
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Speaker 1: It.
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Speaker 2: Seems you can do this. It's be difficult because it's weird.
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Speaker 2: It looks like it's a weird texture because I just
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Speaker 2: had to move that little fruit, a little piece off
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Speaker 2: of it.
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Speaker 3: Heavy.
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Speaker 2: It's heavier than I thought it was gonna be. Try
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Speaker 2: this Vietnamese cake with us.
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Speaker 4: All, yeah, because it's it's Durian.
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Speaker 3: Don't smell it.
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Speaker 2: It's duryous. Durian fruit is real.
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Speaker 4: It smells like a dead body.
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Speaker 3: But it's just frue. I don't know, man, it smells
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Speaker 3: like wow, but it just can't.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the real during.
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Speaker 2: And fruit smells like a rocky dead body.
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Speaker 1: That's what.
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Speaker 3: Well, this doesn't smell pretty. Don't smell it.
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Speaker 2: You're not supposed to smell the fruit.
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Speaker 3: You're just supposed to eat it.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's rough.
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Speaker 3: I don't I don't know about that.
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Speaker 2: It has potential, but it's like I can smell it
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Speaker 2: now that it's.
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Speaker 1: In my mouth.
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Speaker 3: Now, read the warning on the side, Yeah, I can't
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 1: Read the water, throw that away? Yeah, anther and reproductive
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Speaker 1: harm Yeah, and now cetas pet heave of the week.
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Speaker 3: Nothing gets underneath my skin quicker than something like this.
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Speaker 1: We're a co worker. Upper in management looks at another
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Speaker 1: employee and says, we need to go somewhere.
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Speaker 3: And have a conversation. We're gonna we're gonna talk, and
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Speaker 3: you know, but we got to.
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Speaker 1: Go someplace where it's private. And I'm thinking to myself,
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Speaker 1: you had to say that in front of me. You
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Speaker 1: couldn't have just gone up to him. You couldn't say, hey,
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Speaker 1: can I just see you? But you really kind of.
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Speaker 3: Dig in and say, oh, man, not only is it.
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Speaker 1: Gonna be a conversation, it's gonna be a private conversation
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Speaker 1: because now you're thinking, are you gonna be talking about me?
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Speaker 1: Which is human nature. That's how humans feel. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you pull off a stunt like that, you say, oh,
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Speaker 1: we gotta go, we got ooh big talk, big talk.
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Speaker 3: I'm not supposed to talk in front of anybody.
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Speaker 1: Then why did you bring it that far? Because now
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Speaker 1: you're creating a mystery, Now you're creating doubt, and you're
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Speaker 1: making the people around you feel like crap because we're
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Speaker 1: not part of that conversation or that meeting. The downside
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Speaker 1: of working in a grocery store is that when your
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Speaker 1: department is down, you know, if there's two of you,
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Speaker 1: that's all you get. You get two. When another department
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Speaker 1: at a grocery store is down, guess what they take
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Speaker 1: from mar two and now you only have one. That's
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Speaker 1: what they do. They put the kind of pressure on
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Speaker 1: you that, hey, look, the front end hires a lot
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Speaker 1: more people. Therefore we're going to take from the front
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Speaker 1: end so that the rest of the store.
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Speaker 3: Can get things done.
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Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. But what's not fair
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Speaker 1: is the fact that you're losing team players up front.
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Speaker 1: You've got six and seven people in line on a
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Speaker 1: Friday night with one person. How is that good business?
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Speaker 1: What's the imaging issue on that situation. One of these days,
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Speaker 1: I would like to sit down with a group of bartenders,
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Speaker 1: food servers, other people who are smack dab right in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the community. I just want to sit
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Speaker 1: down with them and I want to talk about one thing.
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Speaker 1: What is it like to be a professional psychologists or psychiatrists.
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Speaker 1: They're all going to look at me. They're gonna think
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Speaker 1: I'm strange, and I go, but we are. We listen,
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Speaker 1: we activate. Not only that, but we give people ideas.
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Speaker 1: They shoot back things at us, and we go, Wow,
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Speaker 1: that's interesting. I just had that experience and this is
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Speaker 1: what happened. See. That's the thing about it is it's
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Speaker 1: almost like you're a life coach when you're servicing people,
14:21
Speaker 1: but you don't have the title. And it's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: so where do I get the title? Well, you got
14:25
Speaker 1: to go to school for that, right, Or you get
14:27
Speaker 1: into bar attending, you serve food even if you're doing
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Speaker 1: it once or twice a week. You get into customer service,
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Speaker 1: or you just go and you do a register at
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Speaker 1: a grocery store. Your life is gonna change like nothing
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Speaker 1: on earth. Sure, you're gonna have those days where you
14:40
Speaker 1: feel like shit. But the thing is, though, is that
14:42
Speaker 1: you've got a connection. Please do not move. There's more
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Speaker 1: CTCs right around the corner. Arrow on tour. Yeah, you're
14:50
Speaker 1: going on the road with me, and I say something
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Speaker 1: really bad and didn't even know it, plus a scandal unveiled. Hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to CCS. Let's get into that
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Speaker 1: conversation Arrow on tour, I said something bad and a
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Speaker 1: scandal has been on veil. It's just after six am,
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Speaker 1: wedding day, the final performance of the entire year. My god,
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Speaker 1: it's hard to believe that you can look at a
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Speaker 1: calendar and say, Okay, this is exactly what's going to
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Speaker 1: be happening over the next twelve months, and then you
15:21
Speaker 1: get to that final month and that final performance and
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Speaker 1: it just kind of gets inside your heart going did
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Speaker 1: we really do that? Yeah? We did, We really did.
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Speaker 1: So it's time to load up the music. We've got
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Speaker 1: a long, long road in front of us today and
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Speaker 1: we're way out of town. So and it's going to
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Speaker 1: involve the actual ceremony itself as well as the reception.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, it's not like we haven't done this
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Speaker 1: before over the past thirty two years. It's just that
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Speaker 1: I think it's associated with the connection, the compassion, the love,
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Speaker 1: the empathy, the celebration, the everything that goes into a wedding,
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Speaker 1: which I started prepping for on this one. I mean
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Speaker 1: physically getting the music and everything ready. Two weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: So this doesn't just fucking happen. It's something that you
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Speaker 1: put your entire life into. We've actually done weddings in
16:07
Speaker 1: the month of December outside here in the Carolina's because
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Speaker 1: everybody's banking on well it's the Carolina's, man, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be that cold. And in reality,
16:15
Speaker 1: although it was like a thirty one degrees or so
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Speaker 1: this morning, it's going to be sixty two sixty three
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Speaker 1: for the high So I mean it's like, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: I'll be peeling off half these clothes, but you've got
16:23
Speaker 1: to go layered. You've got to be prepared for. We
16:24
Speaker 1: are not outside today, that's the good news. We're in
16:27
Speaker 1: a building that was actually constructed back in the mid
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Speaker 1: part of the eighteen hundreds, and so it's going to
16:33
Speaker 1: be very nice. I love that room, and the reason
16:35
Speaker 1: why is because it's real wood, it's real acoustics, and
16:38
Speaker 1: my god, I love to play off the echo in
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Speaker 1: that room. That reverb. It really gives me a sense
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Speaker 1: of you know, like a unique sound is what it does.
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Speaker 1: We've arrived at the venue three hours ahead of time,
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Speaker 1: which is perfect for me because you know, three hours
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Speaker 1: early is six hours too late. That's the way that
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Speaker 1: I run my book, and so you know it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be very interesting this. I mean, the temperature starting to
16:59
Speaker 1: warm up a bit up here. You know what I
17:01
Speaker 1: love about this wedding parties. They're all just dressed up
17:03
Speaker 1: with their jammis right now, and I thought, damn if
17:06
Speaker 1: we could all wear our pajamas, and I'm gonna wear
17:08
Speaker 1: my pajamas. And I wish it would have known that
17:11
Speaker 1: we've had our performances in uptown Charlotte before, where they've
17:13
Speaker 1: had tastes of Charlotte and all these other music festivals
17:15
Speaker 1: that are going on, and we've had to walk in
17:18
Speaker 1: three four blocks in order to get to the venue
17:20
Speaker 1: to do a performance today. I don't know, maybe it
17:22
Speaker 1: was a stroke of luck, but I mean, there's a huge, huge,
17:26
Speaker 1: huge Christmas parade going on right now. There would have
17:28
Speaker 1: been no way in hell that we could have gotten
17:31
Speaker 1: to this venue at all, even walking, if we would
17:34
Speaker 1: have gotten here when the parade was going on, because
17:36
Speaker 1: everything is closed down. This is a shock to me.
17:39
Speaker 1: And once again I bitch and moan about having to
17:42
Speaker 1: leave as early as I do.
17:43
Speaker 3: Well, now you know.
17:43
Speaker 1: Why the bride actually went out into the parade itself.
17:48
Speaker 1: She walked out in the middle of it, started dancing
17:51
Speaker 1: just and cheers from everywhere, even the fire engine turned
17:54
Speaker 1: on the sideways and stuff. And the people that were
17:56
Speaker 1: in the audience what they did was they threw candy
17:58
Speaker 1: at her as a day of cell So it's fun
18:01
Speaker 1: to see the bride get out there in.
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Speaker 3: The middle of that parade.
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Speaker 1: Transition Walk day number three out of three. First from
18:09
Speaker 1: a live performance. It is cold as hell in this
18:13
Speaker 1: forest today. It's very windy. Temperatures this morning when we
18:17
Speaker 1: woke up at five point thirty, it's fifty seven degrees
18:21
Speaker 1: out here, which is kind of nice, very nice.
18:23
Speaker 3: We live in the.
18:24
Speaker 1: South, so warm weather is our thing. But throughout the
18:27
Speaker 1: day it's going to drop down to fifteen degrees fifteen
18:31
Speaker 1: above zero. So the temperatures are dramatically following because of
18:36
Speaker 1: these winds. So got to take this transition walk because
18:39
Speaker 1: it's still very psychological in the way of learning how
18:41
Speaker 1: to put up with the storms, because solutions are on
18:44
Speaker 1: the opposite side. So often I blame my radio career
18:49
Speaker 1: on my very dry and I mean dry humor. And
18:54
Speaker 1: what happens is that with this dry humor, I'll shoot
18:56
Speaker 1: out a line and people will look at me and
18:58
Speaker 1: it's like, you're being nast today.
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Speaker 3: I said, what do you mean.
19:03
Speaker 1: I was just going for the laugh, you know, the funny,
19:05
Speaker 1: the thing that's gonna make you just kind of get
19:07
Speaker 1: away from what you were just thinking about. And they're going, no,
19:10
Speaker 1: that I took that absolutely wrong. I'm going, holy shit,
19:13
Speaker 1: I said, I swear to God, it's because I'm a
19:15
Speaker 1: radio guy and you say stuff in order to get
19:17
Speaker 1: your partner inside that studio to react to it, and
19:20
Speaker 1: people laugh about it.
19:21
Speaker 3: But god, dang it, man.
19:22
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess real world people don't don't think
19:25
Speaker 1: like that, or do they? And I'm just hanging out
19:28
Speaker 1: with kind of a team that is not in tune.
19:32
Speaker 1: There's always a line that's drawing in the sand here
19:34
Speaker 1: in the South when it comes to the winter months,
19:35
Speaker 1: and that line is this, it's either hot, it's cold,
19:39
Speaker 1: it's freezing, or it's just kind of chilly outside. The
19:41
Speaker 1: Northerners are the ones that say, you, guys, here in
19:43
Speaker 1: the South, you just can't put up with it, which
19:45
Speaker 1: is the reason why they drive like wild monkeys out
19:47
Speaker 1: on the highway when there's a little bit of ice
19:49
Speaker 1: going on. So that's what the battle is at the
19:51
Speaker 1: store today, where the Northerners are making sure that they
19:54
Speaker 1: let the Southerners know. Oh, quit it quit ed. Oh
19:57
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be that cold. Oh what's fifteen?
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Speaker 3: And what's thirteen degrees?
20:01
Speaker 4: Oh?
20:01
Speaker 1: Man? When I'm up in New York, I'm in Cincinnati.
20:05
Speaker 1: Oh man, this is nothing. I get it. I'm from Montana.
20:08
Speaker 1: Fifty two blow zero is the coldest I've been in
20:10
Speaker 1: But I also left Montana because I didn't like twenty
20:12
Speaker 1: degrees above. And now CTS pet Peeve of the Week.
20:17
Speaker 1: We have a huge scandal going on in one of
20:20
Speaker 1: our businesses here in town, and it's one of those
20:24
Speaker 1: through the power of association. Something has gone wrong. But
20:28
Speaker 1: because there is an association, then the name of the
20:31
Speaker 1: business and the product from the business has got a
20:34
Speaker 1: huge black eye. And of course you know people are going,
20:37
Speaker 1: oh man, did you stop selling the product? I mean,
20:40
Speaker 1: are you guys gonna sell it more? Or what are
20:42
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Are you supporting what's happening? And you
20:45
Speaker 1: can't give any answers because you don't want to get
20:47
Speaker 1: pulled into something where they say you're not supposed to
20:48
Speaker 1: be talking at all. You got the scandal going on,
20:51
Speaker 1: and people are coming in to see if we have
20:53
Speaker 1: the product, And I always want to look at him
20:55
Speaker 1: and go, were you buying the product before the scandal?
20:59
Speaker 1: And what would you here now to see if we
21:01
Speaker 1: have the product? And if we had it, would you
21:04
Speaker 1: buy it? Because the majority of this product people are
21:07
Speaker 1: selling it all right, but they're also donating the money
21:10
Speaker 1: to the victims of this particular situation. What would you do?
21:14
Speaker 1: That's one of my pet peeves is that you come
21:16
Speaker 1: in and look for something if it's a bad, bad world,
21:19
Speaker 1: But what about when things are great? Do you support
21:21
Speaker 1: that too? The Powerball lottery is up to one point
21:25
Speaker 1: one billion dollars. Weren't we just here recently from Mega
21:29
Speaker 1: and the last time we were with Powerball being over
21:31
Speaker 1: a billion dollars? Holy crap. You know it's stuff like
21:34
Speaker 1: this that really gets my attention. And I wish that
21:37
Speaker 1: you know that some journalists somewhere would say, I think
21:40
Speaker 1: it's time that we investigate this because how is this
21:43
Speaker 1: feasibly possible? Are we really throwing that much money into it?
21:47
Speaker 1: Just give me a story, That's all I want, because
21:49
Speaker 1: if you can't give me a story. As a journalist,
21:51
Speaker 1: what happens I assume and then I talk like this
21:54
Speaker 1: where it looks like I'm a total buffoon. Okay, I'll
21:57
Speaker 1: admit to that I'm a buffoon. Hey, that's going to
21:59
Speaker 1: do it for another edition of CTCs. Do me a favorite.
22:02
Speaker 1: Create your own podcast in the way of creating a
22:05
Speaker 1: conversation that we can all share together, because I think
22:08
Speaker 1: sometimes it's such a pissing contest about who's who and
22:12
Speaker 1: what's what, and what are we gonna do and what
22:14
Speaker 1: happens if this doesn't happen, that we totally forget that
22:16
Speaker 1: we're all human beings and we all have to have
22:18
Speaker 1: a job. So, you know, create a podcast and let's
22:21
Speaker 1: let me listen to it. I would love to know
22:23
Speaker 1: what's going on. Show me the wizard behind your curtain.
22:26
Speaker 1: I'll see you next week on the CTCs.