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• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Instead, theos assemble the boss to sample.
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  Speaker 2: Instead the.
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  Speaker 1: Lamber less of the world.
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: You're gonna start out this morning by saying happy birthday
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: to Bob Nelson. It's on the list today.
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  Speaker 3: The cool cheek, very cool, you know Bob. I do
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: know Bob.
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  Speaker 2: That's almost like, I mean, who the hell doesn't know
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Bob Nelson? Right?
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  Speaker 4: If you say I don't know Bob Nelson, then obviously
• 1:53
  Speaker 4: you don't live in central Vermont, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that we should say that he's sixty
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  Speaker 2: years old today, though, I think that's kind of you know, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's it's kind of private. I mean, but say sixty.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of times men don't care as much
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  Speaker 4: as women do when it comes to saying ages.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think we should keep that between.
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  Speaker 2: Us, the whole sixty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's smart.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So once again, just to reiterate, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be saying that Bob Nelson is sixty no today.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think that's inappropriate, all right, I won't do it. No,
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  Speaker 4: don't do it.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Drake is fifty one today. Louise Peterson on the
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  Speaker 2: birthday list today, along with Brandon Kate's Frank Burrios, Paul Kea,
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  Speaker 2: Wendy Gould, Katie Cassidy. I think I'm saying all these names,
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  Speaker 2: right Chie, But I hope so I don't know. Good morning, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: How the hell are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm well, how are you?
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: I'm well? Good, I feel I feel I feel better good.
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  Speaker 3: You look like shit?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome. Thank you.
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's start it off right. Yes, this thing, uh,
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: this thing just kicked my ass?
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  Speaker 3: It did it?
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  Speaker 2: Did we have a comment already this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Oh god?
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  Speaker 2: And it's from Glenn Prommert. And do you know what
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  Speaker 2: he says?
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  Speaker 3: Was he picking on my sweater?
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: He says, nice sweater?
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  Speaker 3: Gee, thank you Glenn.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I thought to myself, geez, every time I'm on,
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  Speaker 4: Glenn's got something to say about my sweater or my
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  Speaker 4: shirt or whatever. So this time I went neutral because
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: last time I had the shirt that made me look
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  Speaker 4: like the day before Christmas. The time before that, I
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  Speaker 4: had a black turtleneck with a black sweater, they came
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  Speaker 4: up that made me look like Count Dracula. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: this time I said, I'm gonna I'm gonna nail it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, h you just and you did? What was it?
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  Speaker 4: A little touch up makeup on my face and little
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  Speaker 4: bit of shaving and some yeah, and there I am.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good to go, and now I don't look dead.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Valerie and Glenn and Becky, and thanks for
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: getting your day started with us. It's uh Friday eve, right,
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: yeah already? Yeah? You ready for some football this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to be doing any of that.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, if my team's not doing anything press, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just not gonna watch all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, All right, Well that's that's fair enough. Maybe next year.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: Logan looses with us this morning. I know he's ready
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: for football. Well, at least he was with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is like a fanatic man. I mean, it's
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: like there's nothing that he loves more, and it's just
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: like that's all he does. Is nothing wrong with that,
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  Speaker 2: pay attention of football. See if we can get him
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  Speaker 2: on this morning, I will be watching some football. I
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: don't know how much of it I'll be watching.
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: But you'll be watching it while you're doing all this work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what about Jed?
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  Speaker 3: No, he doesn't watch football?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Oh well we lost him. We had him,
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  Speaker 2: but we lost him.
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  Speaker 4: Jed likes he likes watching you ready, for this golf golf,
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: all right, it's like watching paint drive.
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  Speaker 2: Well if he's if he's listening right now, I hope
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  Speaker 2: he's listening and not looking at the monitor. Mm hmm. Okay,
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: all right, well what do you do? What do you
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  Speaker 2: what do you do when he's watching golf? What do
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  Speaker 2: you do?
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  Speaker 4: I am clearly in another room. God, my brother watches
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: golf and tennis. So when they're upstairs in the living
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: room and they have either golf or tennis on, I
• 6:08
  Speaker 4: walk in and the first thing I say is, oh,
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  Speaker 4: hell no, And I grab the remote and I change
• 6:14
  Speaker 4: it because there's fricking five other TVs in the house.
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  Speaker 3: Go to one of those rooms.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, don't use the sixty five inch TV
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  Speaker 4: that I can watch my shows.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, no.
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  Speaker 4: And then they play video golf, the two of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: at dinner, just before dinner, I'm cooking, I turn around
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: and on the TV there's Jed playing, swinging his characters whatever,
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  Speaker 4: and my brother cursing because he missed the hole in
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  Speaker 4: one or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, Jesus, people, come on, we.
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  Speaker 2: Have a YouTuber that's saying don't make fun of golf,
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  Speaker 2: and Jed is saying that he's gonna remember that you
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  Speaker 2: said that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I quiver with fear. Uh, listen, how you feeling, buddy.
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, I'll be honest with everybody
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  Speaker 4: that I'm just kind of like in a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of uh, I don't know, a funk of fog something
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, just not well, you're not recovered yet,
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  Speaker 4: not feeling No, you're not recovered. It's like people who
• 7:28
  Speaker 4: recover from COVID still feel sick for a week or two.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, you know you're pushing and pushing. Could you
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  Speaker 4: want to get back on the air, which we all appreciate,
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, you're kind of tuckering yourself
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  Speaker 4: out and the last thing you want is a relapse.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: But you do have that magic potion. I have Glenn's
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: magic postion.
• 7:51
  Speaker 4: I was going to bring a fire extinguisher because you
• 7:53
  Speaker 4: told me last night that your ass was burning from
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: all that uh that hot stuff in it.
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: It was Kanye Pepper, ginger, enough lemons to kill an elephant,
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: and a bunch of other stuff.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: Well, Glenn told me yesterday, don't knock it until you
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  Speaker 4: try it, So I said, send me the recipe and
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  Speaker 4: he didn't, So I did.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: I did a little something that a little different from
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  Speaker 2: what Glenn told me. I put it all in the uh,
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  Speaker 2: the bullet, the bullet blender, and I dropped a couple
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  Speaker 2: of tangerines in there.
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  Speaker 3: Did you throw any tequila in it?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't put the splash at tequila.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I would have done a couple of splashes. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't drink, but I would have definitely. If I
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: was making it for you, you wouldn't even know it's coming. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'd just be.
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  Speaker 3: Like three quarters tequila and the rest of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I put it all in the blender. I put some
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  Speaker 2: orenches in there to get some extra you know, fiber.
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  Speaker 5: And.
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: Came out hot fiber.
• 9:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because last night you told me, oh, my ass
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  Speaker 4: is gonna start burning, and I said, you want me
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: to run over there with a fire extinguisher. Gods, what
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: happens when you listen to Glenn?
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, listen, we have a We have an accident this
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  Speaker 2: morning on eighty nine southbound right by the Wenuski River
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  Speaker 2: Bridge Exit fifteen. That is. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 2: cleared up yet or not, but if anyone knows if
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  Speaker 2: it has let us know. But the last I was
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  Speaker 2: aware that it was backing up traffic very very far.
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  Speaker 2: There's an accident by exit fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Like daily.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say twice a week, but it's it's
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  Speaker 2: closer to like three times a week.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you just know that time.
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  Speaker 4: In the summertime, people don't know how to drive, but
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  Speaker 4: they don't hit each other. But in the winter. You
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: live in Vermont, people learn to drive. In the winter,
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: there's always accidents because everybody's got to get here and there.
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  Speaker 4: They don't make enough time sure for the travel. And
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: you know, Jed had to go to work at eleven
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  Speaker 4: o'clock at night and he was working all night doing
• 10:15
  Speaker 4: a computer change, a networking change, and he had to
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  Speaker 4: be there by I think it was one o'clock. And
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  Speaker 4: he left at like eleven thirty. Okay, and it's only
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  Speaker 4: to Burlington because he knows, hey, there's snow on the ground, right,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to take it easy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's common sense.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of people they leave their regular time
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  Speaker 4: and then they look and say, oh shit, I'm running
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  Speaker 4: late because everybody's driving saw and that's when accidents happen.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: Right, Well, I you know, you asked me how I was.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: How how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I got up this morning. I looked in the mirror
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  Speaker 3: and I said, holy shit, you look like a corpse.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: So, which is what happens when you get older, You
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: start looking you know, little. So I went over to
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: my neighbor's house and knocked on her door, and she
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: had her coffee in her hand, and yeah.
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: I said, Tracy, do you ever see missus doubtfire?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, do you remember when he goes to his brother's.
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  Speaker 4: Door and says, make me a woman and the brother says, oh,
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  Speaker 4: thank god. Well I went to there and Tracy opened
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  Speaker 4: the door with her cup and she's like hi, and
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: I says hi, I says, make me look alive. So
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: she says come on in, and we went over to
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  Speaker 4: the makeup and she just put just a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of clear stuff that just gave me enough color that
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  Speaker 4: when I came back out, people didn't think, oh, look
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: at the dead walking in the snow.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, so I'm doing well now, Thank God for Tracy.
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: Lily Lily is now that she's ten years old, she
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  Speaker 2: loves doing makeup.
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  Speaker 3: I know you send me pictures of how absolutely beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: You look.
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  Speaker 3: I think she uses every color in the rainbow on you.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen so much multicolored eyeshadow and lipstick that
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: goes up your cheek.
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: I'm like, look at his mouth has extended.
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: Up to his cheek. Looks like the joker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then your nails are all done, and and then
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  Speaker 4: you and and she puts the little rubber bands in
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  Speaker 4: your hair and before you know it, yeah, you send
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  Speaker 4: me a picture and I'm like, I can only say
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  Speaker 4: one word, lovely.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: What am I going to say? Lily? She says to me,
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  Speaker 2: She's like, all, you know, getting in my face and
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: doing this, and she's like and she's serious, which I love.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: It's just the fact that she says these things and
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: she's serious just cracks me up on the inside. But
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: she'll be like, Okay, dad, Dad, you really need to
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: get your eyebrows done, you know. And then she's like,
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: you know, and then she puts the lipstick on the
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  Speaker 2: and then she's like, Dad, you have to do this.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, pucker it.
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: I'm scaring people right now. I am. There's certain people.
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  Speaker 2: Glenn is probably one of them. Scar.
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  Speaker 3: I do have some of those pictures you've sent me.
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  Speaker 2: We should show them.
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  Speaker 4: We should Maybe maybe if I can, I'll pull one
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  Speaker 4: up here in.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit that I'll send you.
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: I'll send you the latest one, and you can you
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  Speaker 4: can put it up on your Facebook page and ask
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: people what they think needs to be added. Oh okay,
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: other than other than an oriental veil fan that you
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: can cover your face with.
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: God, Hey, you're gonna be you gonna be watching any
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: basketball tonight, NBA.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not. I'm definitely not a basketball person. See.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: I used to be a football person. I used to
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: watch it all the time. But somebody that I was
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: with at the time didn't like football and they felt
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: that I was spending too much time in front of it.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Because the Miami Dolphins is my favorite team. It's also
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Diane's up at the meltdown.
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  Speaker 3: Both of us love the Dolphins.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: Okay, and we're faithful to you know, you know, somebody's
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: faithful to a team when they cheer the team on
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  Speaker 4: even when it's last all right, Okay, But when it
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: came to basketball, that was something I never really got into.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: I guess because I was white and short. Oh was
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  Speaker 4: that inappropriate?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't take any offense to that okay at all?
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, some people, why do you have to
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: say you're white?
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: But gee, this is Oklahoma City in Cleveland, seven thirty tonight.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: This is the big rematch. But it's awesome.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: I can't I can't wait to hear what happens. What
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: about How are you feeling about TikTok these days?
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: I literally have no feeling about TikTok Okay, none at all.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that are really worked up
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  Speaker 2: about this that we're winding down here on a US
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  Speaker 2: band of TikTok.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's their platform. So if they if you take
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: their platform, mohay, they get lost.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the choices.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: You remember when they always said, you know, the choice
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: between Trump and Biden was kind of a shitty choice,
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: but you had to choose one because that's all you had.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Well, the same thing with this. You either have.
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  Speaker 4: Facebook or X or TikTok. Those are kind of your
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: only choices, So you pick one and you go with it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I go with Facebook.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: Because it's mindless. I just go on and scroll through
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: and then shut it off. Have you heard of red
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Note No.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of the kind of the new TikTok people
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: are kind of leaning towards that. Now. My buddy Chuck
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: is having a nervous breakdown over this. Why because he
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: just lives on TikTok. He just loves it.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: And some people get a hobby, Chuck get a hobby. Yeah,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: seven thousand new users have joined Red Note.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: What is red Note?
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: It's another It's a Chinese based app that is similar
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  Speaker 4: to TikTok. So eventually that'll be banned too, because they'll
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: say that that's also getting all out.
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  Speaker 2: Personally, I really don't know anything about it. I don't
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  Speaker 2: too busy to get into that shit. I mean, my god,
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  Speaker 2: you could spend all day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing, all these platforms and stuff. It
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: actually avoids people from socializing face to face. Yes, they
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: do all this socialization on the computer or on their phone.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: They don't look up even to cross the street, right okay.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: And I love that because when somebody's crossing the street
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: in front of me while I'm at a red light
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: and they're looking down at their phone, what do you do.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I honk the horn really quick and they jump and
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: drop the phone to the ground, and I'm like, oop, sorry,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: my bad.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Because it's like, look up, people Jed, does he really
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: do that? Yes?
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Jed does it too?
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: And now I got these cords that I ordered. Ready,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: this is gonna make you laugh. I got these cards
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: that I ordered that are in my truck. And when
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: somebody parks like an asshole in a parking spot where
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: they take up two spots of this their asses sticking
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: out because they don't know how to pull all the
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: way in, I put the card on the windshield and
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: I say to them, stop parking like an asshole and
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: start parking like a normal person.
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  Speaker 3: This way they know that I know that they're an asshole.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Well, we all know because you just told us.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: All that that I'm the one giving out the card.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: You're the one that's giving up yees. So if you
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: see a big orange card, you'll know it either comes
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: from me, Jed or my brother because we all have
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: them in our car.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: So don't park like an asshole?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Have you? You and Jed and Michael been sitting in
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: watching some of the high stakes confirmation hearings.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so. That is so.
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  Speaker 4: It is probably the lowest thing on my priority to watch.
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  Speaker 4: I would rather watch something. I would rather watch paint dry, Okay,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I have been paying attention to it, and it's it's
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: amazing how all these people who are coming up for
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: the confirmation hearings are going to the hearings so defensive
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: and so with their backbone up that if they're asked
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: a question that one of the answers was, you can't
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: bully me. It was a fucking question people, right, you know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: But they're so defensive, and they should be because not
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: for nothing that a lot of these people aren't qualified
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  Speaker 4: for the position.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, you know what I mean. And and it's just shocking.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Did you see I did getting grilled for drinking and
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: his sexual sexual he said, none of that has been
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: proven with women in combat?
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what did you see that? Did you see
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: the Biden farewell speech?
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  Speaker 2: I missed it.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm watching that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Can you please tell me? Well?
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: And I knew it was happening, but he tooted his
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: own horn, you know, well, I've done this, I've done that. Great,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: wonderful and then he won America that that the country
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: is going in a don't I don't remember how he
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: said it, so I'm going to paraphrase it, but basically
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: that the country is going to be run by the
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: one percenters and that we need to stand up and
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: protect ourselves from that because there's a lot of people
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: that are coming into the cabinet that aren't qualified. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: even the Trumpster supporters and hey, you know what, he's
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: going to be the president, okay, but even the supporters
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: have to look at some of these people that he's
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: bringing in and saying, really, we couldn't do a little
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: bit better. You're putting somebody in the Defense Department that
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: really has no experience in that department, or in the
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: judicial department that the person that they put up a
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: judicial department. She was like, you can't bully me, you
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: can't make and they asked her very simply, do you
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: agree with the twenty twenty election? And she's like, I
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: agree that Biden is president, yes, but do you agree
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: that the election was fair? I agree that Biden was president.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: It's like, come on, people, and she said, you can't
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: bully me into saying nobody's bullying. Just step up and say, yes,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: he became the president, he was voted in. Now we
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: have a new president coming in, you know, come on, right,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: because you're showing us exactly what we're going to.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Be dealing with going down the road.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Sure. Sure.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: And when you put people in who used to be
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: a news person on Fox and now they're going to
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: run an important cabinet, come on, are.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: They really qualified?
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: I know, can we not get better people to I mean,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: our country is having issues. Let's get some people in
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: that can work with. But Trump just wants to align
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: with people that he knows is going to Yes, I'm
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: to death and I worry about where we're going with this.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Linda says, hahaha, Gee, I watched her too.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: So stupid, right, Linda, wasn't she Wasn't she so evasive
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: and not even able somebody who's asking for a position
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and to be confirmed in a position of importance such
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: as the judicial system. My god, you can't even answer
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: a question. You have to be political even on that.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw a I saw a comment last night
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: on Facebook about the inauguration coming up on Monday and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that carry, yeah, it's Monday, Monday, four days, and that
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Carrie Underwood is going to be singing. I don't know
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: if it's America the Beautiful of the National anthem or
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: what she's gonna be singing something. And I made fun
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Trump a little bit yesterday. I said, you know, I
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: wonder if does Trump even know who Carry Underwood is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: If she likes him, he knows, and I'll bet you
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you have the camera on me because I
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: have to show this.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I'll bet you.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: While she's singing, Trump is going to be dancing like
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: he's jerking off two guys like he does every single
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: time he dances. He's got this jerking off two guys
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: move And if you ever watch any of the Daily Show,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: that's all they talk about and Bill Maher how he's
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: always jerking off the two guys in that dance. So
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I'm sure he'll be doing that. Sorry, Trump says, I'm
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: just calling it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Like I see it, Nikka Glenn spitting up his coffee
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: this morning.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Putty yelling at me or laughing laughing, Oh okay, but
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: it's true.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: So I saw this comment where this lady was like,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I used to respect Carrie Underwood, and I'm like, I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: don't know, man. It's like it's sad to me that.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: It's like if you like someone's talent, if you like
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: a singer performer, right, you like their music, you think
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: they're great just because they're being represented at the inauguration
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: that all of a sudden you don't like them.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't minimize who they are as a person.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: One of the things that I have to say, one
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: of the things that I have to say is and
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I say this to the people who voted for Trump,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: because you know what's that's what makes America great.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Are we talking about politics right now?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: No?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: What I am going to say though, is I I
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: am a Biden person. Okay, only because the man has
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: fifty years of experience. Okay, Now he's gotten to the
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: age where all right, Ruth Bader Biden is what people
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: call him because he's you gotta know when to quit.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Okay. But as as a Biden person.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I still know the flaws that he did, and I
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: accept and talk about them. It's not like, oh, Biden's
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the greatest thing. He can do nothing wrong.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: But people that support Trump, I'm okay with you supporting Trump,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: but at least you have to acknowledge the foolishness that
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: comes with the intelligence and I use the word intelligence
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: lightly when it comes to Trump, Okay, but you have
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: to at least be adult enough to say, you know, what,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: he does have some bad qualities. He has some good
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: ones that he can be intimidating, and that may help
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: us in the long run dealing with with overseas issues.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: But he also yeah, he kind of fabricates, and he's
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: kind of a liar at times, right, Okay, at times
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: most of the time. But I don't care who you support.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: If you're gonna support somebody, you have to be able
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: to acknowledge their pros and their con sure, Okay. That's
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: what makes you an intelligent person that you can recognize
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: the cons and you can look past the cons at
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: the pros. Okay, I know Bud's cons. Okay. I don't
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: agree with some of the things he did, okay, or
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: that he's done all right, But at the same time,
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: he was a very powerful, influential person in the Senate. Okay,
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: he has a lot of experience and knowledge. He's just
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: gotten too old, you know. So you got to be
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: able to say, here's the pros, here's the con. I
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: accept both.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Just like when you get married, you love your partner,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: but you know your.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Partner has flaws and you accept those flaws because you
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: love your partner. The same with this, people just know
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: that Trump is not the God, and he's not a demigod.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: He's a person who makes just as many mistakes as
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: other people that are in position. I think that's important
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: that because you say something about well, you know, Trump
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: led about and right away people, oh, you can't say
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: that he lied to admit it doesn't.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Mean that you they've all lied.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's politics. If it's if you're in politics,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: you're a liar. You gotta skirt the issues. You got
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to be able to not commit to something specific until
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: everything's unfolded.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I think they all suck.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Well, yes, yes, I think that.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: I think every I think we need younger faces because
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: our world is going to be run by the younger
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: people as we get even older. So let's get these
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: younger people in and have them start making some of
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: the positive changes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Not all this DEI shit.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Let's just go to the positive changes that need to
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: be made, and that incorporates DEI and everything else. But
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: let's not take one topic and make that the primary
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: topic for the world.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: You know, you know who, you know who I like
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: because he's he it just doesn't give a shit and
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: says it like it is is Senator Senator Mullen. Yes, yep,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine if we had someone and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know that much about him, but I just
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: know how outspoken he is. Trump's outspoken too. But if
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: you if you get Mullins rhetoric, exactly, it's a different
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: a difference. Okay.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: You know, when you're when you're trying to win popularity
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: because you got a big mouth and you want to
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: appeal to a certain group of people, so you come
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: across inappropriate or unprofessional. Right, That's different from somebody who's
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: got something to say. Yeah, you know, like the governor
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: of California. I'm gonna make people pissed now, But I
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: would love for him to run. I would love for
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: him to run because he doesn't fuck around. He just
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: says it like it is. And now, of course we're
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: going to have a million people saying, gee, you were
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: doing good until.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: You said that. Again, it's my opinion. It doesn't mean
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: that I'm.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Right, you know. And there's a lot of finger pointing
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: going on about California and the governor there, and.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, because he started the fires and he sat back
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: watching football while the fires were.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Burning down California, right, and the mayor in Africa, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: the mayor was in Africa, yes, I mean, and he
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: let the reservoirs go dry. And you know there's a
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: there's a ton of stuff.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Well there's a million excess.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: There's always a blame, right, there's always a blame.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: And instead of blaming, let's look at this solution. You know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: there's always a blame game. Barry, Barry got flooded. So, well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: what was the mayor doing? And how come they haven't
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: done this? And it's therefore because they weren't prepared. It's
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: so easy to blame people. And it's so easy to
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: blame politicians.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: California is is it's a whole bunch of problems that
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: all came together. It wasn't just the mayor that was
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: a bimbo and you and the governor. It was a
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: lot of different things that all came together.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: That And you know what makes me laugh.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: I laugh when I see the movie stars and the actors, yeah,
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: in front of the TV saying I lost my home,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: I lost everything that I Oh, so you're going to
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: go stay at one of your other homes?
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Are you opening up your other three homes to the
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: people who really are homeless and can't afford to rebuild,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: so they're crying.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I look, you know what.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. G there's that that fire ripped
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: through some some pretty middle class neighborhoods too.
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: I mean it did both, Yes, it did both. It
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: chose it didn't have a side. It just went right down.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: So there's there's a lot of people that were not rich,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and I mean, you know, if they if they moved here,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: they would probably be considered rich. But in Hollywood, in
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the outskirts, you know, they just didn't have They're they're
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: not part of the Hollywood uh celebrity.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Hollywood class class.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I know, man, it's there's and there's still
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: so much going on about this.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Well, thank goodness, mother nature has kind of mellowed down,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: which is giving them a chance to get ahead, right,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: but it's going to take years.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Did you did you hear me saying that Elon Musk
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: is going to be has a has an office now
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: in the in the White House so that he can
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: be right next to Trump as he builds his Department
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: of Government.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Efficiency President ms.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Will Musk be the next president? Oh dear god.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: If people vote for Musk too, you don't know.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: How about Daffy Duck. Daffy Daffy Duck is entertaining. Not
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: a bad idea, you know what I'm saying, not a
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: bad idea. Daffy Duck doesn't have to put on orange
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: makeup to look ridiculous, you know what I'm saying.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Well, Elon is going to be right there in the
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: White House. I would love to see the inside of
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: his uh, his office. But did you hear last summer.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Uh when he was leaving Capitol Hill, Elon said that
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: he would challenge Mark Zuckerberg to a fight. Yes, I
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: remember that, And he's like, I'll fight Zuckerberg any place, anytime,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: any rules.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Well, now he's like showing up at at Zuckerberg's house
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: saying let's go, let's go. Showing up at the house
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: for what purpose? Because he wants to He.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Wants to show that he's what, that his platform stronger
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: by kicking the other guy's ass. I know, you know
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: these are the people that you're supporting people.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Come on, Oh, still wants to fight Mark Zuckerberg. The
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: billionaire recently visited Capitol Hill and told reporters he would
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: fight Zuckerberg any place, anytime, any rules met has founded
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: a not seem eager to Musk's challenge, posting on threads
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: are we really doing this again? Musk originally challenged Zuckerberg
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: to a cage match last year, but then later said
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: he needed to get an MRI first before competing. Zuckerberg,
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: who trains in jiu jitsu, eventually dropped the idea for
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: the fight after waiting for his challengers confirmation, saying Musk
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: wasn't serious about the idea.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: Unreal, amazing.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: And now this intelligent man, because he's a very intelligent man,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: is now going to be in the White House and
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: his primary goal is basically to tell Trump what to do. Unreal,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: that's his goal. So we'll just call him Presidents Musk.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: If my father were alive and could witness all of this,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: he was ninety when he passed a couple of years ago,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: but he I don't know if he'd be able to
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: handle all of this.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: No, your father be like, what the fuck?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just politically, I mean, our country is just
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: such a shit show. I know it is in other
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: countries too, but my god, in different ways. But it
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: is like over in Europe they're looking over the pond
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: over here in America going, oh my god, Are you
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: kidding me? This is like a Broadway comedy show.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: And the thing that's scary is we have allies that
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: are now telling Trump and our country, don't.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: You dare fuck with us. So we have allies that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: Are already gearing up and preparing to defend their turf
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: because Trump's goal is to make the United States of
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: the world, you know. And you've got Britain and other
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: countries that have always worked with us. They didn't always agree,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: but they always found a way with our standing president
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: at the time whoever they were, to get past the
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: differences to help benefit other countries that are suffering. And
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: now they're turning to us and looking at us saying
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, wait, what are you.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Planning to do? And do you really want us to
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: be your enemy?
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's a little scary because we always
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: had certain allies that we depended on to work with
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: us so that we were all united fronts. And now
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: our fronts are stop or stop or I don't know
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: how to phrase it, are no longer interested in uniting
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: with us if we're going to threaten their being as
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: to what they always want.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I think I think that we all need to impose
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: this acceptable Community Conduct ordinance.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I knew you were going to fit that in some way.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, come on, so you did you see
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I was not able to obviously I had the flu.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to make it. Oh and I didn't
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: watch online either, But did you go to this public
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: form or did you hear any of this public forms?
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I heard?
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: I heard the first half hour. I have to watch
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: the rest of it.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Later.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: One of my friends sent me the video of the forum,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: and the only thing I saw up to was at
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: the very beginning, Nick made the comment that, well, this
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: is this forum is for you people to tell us
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: your concerns and us discuss your topics. And all I
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: watched was the first half hour, which was Nick doing
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: all the talking. So I'm curious to watch the rest
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: of it to see.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: How it unfolded.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Yesterday front page of the Times Argus, Jeff right here
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: in front of me was and this is and I'll
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: give this to you so you can read it. Frustrations
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: aired it form. This is a big article and if
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: you missed it in yesterday's Argus, you ought to pick
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: it up and read it. But I mean, there's you know,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: there were all just all sides that spoke, and you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: the whole time I'm reading this thing, I'm like, this
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: should be one of weekly forms. I mean, this shouldn't
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: this form, in my opinion, shouldn't be like a one
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and done type thing. Right. A lot of people showed up.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I think there were like ninety people online alone, and
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: it was a packed house up there. And obviously the
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: community has a lot to say on all spectrums. Yes,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: and there was you know, there was everything from you know,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: stronger police presence, consequences for behavior. There's a lot of
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: people that were there expressing concern that they you know,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: there was a young lady that's like, you know, I
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: used to walk walk in downtown and I never do anymore. Right,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: I don't let my kids go out past dark to
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: pump gas right in the car.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: What's interesting one of the things Nick had said was
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: that there's like or eight I'm not sure the exact numbers,
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: So don't quote me people that are on the major
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: watch that the police are watching or whatever, and they've
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: only apprehended one and the rest of them are out
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: and about walking around.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and go ahead right here. During the last year,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: stir Elli Castro said eight individuals, four men and four women,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: have collectively been the subject of three hundred and sixty
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: seven police contacts and four hundred and fifty one contacts
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: from other agencies.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Right, and only one has been actually stopped, right, which
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: is just which? Can I have one second?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Okig two?
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: You got a microphone?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: And it may have been this Carlos Perez that that
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: they may have and the only reason why he was
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: stopped is because he was thrown in the big house
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: up and I don't know right, right, but go ahead.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: This is actually to Judy from last week and a
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: couple of other people. We had talked about this, that
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: these people up at Hannaford's and down at Price Chopper
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: and here in town that are abusing people and confronting
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: them and all that stuff. Aggressive paying here, Yes, And
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: I tried to take the human side or the I
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: tried to look at what are these people's problems and they.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Need help, they do.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: However, I had not done my research and looked into
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: this whole thing like I did this week. And so
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: to Judy and all those I am one hundred percent
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: agreeing that these people need to be stopped. That their
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: actions are inappropriate to the everyday person, and my humanitarian
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: view goes towards those people who are the victims that
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: are treated this way, because now I find myself wanting
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: to carry when I go to Price Chopper or when
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: I go down to Hannaford's, or wherever the case may be,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: because I feel, after everything I've read, threatened and I
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: haven't even been confronted, and I feel threatened. So to
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Judy and the other people, I apologize for coming across
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: more on their side because I didn't do my research,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: but I did it now and God helped them. If
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: they confront me, because I'll be packing, okay, because I don't.
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody should make anyone feel intimidated when
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: they're just walking down the street.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Well especially you know, in a parking lot of a
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: grocery store anywhere and you have your kids with you, right,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: And this isn't just here in central from Aunt. This
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: is a problem everywhere, and it's most notably Rutland. And
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: there's been there's a couple of different Facebook groups that
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: are detailing, you know, some of the incidents of and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: giving example to and in Price Chopper Market thirty two
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: whatever the hell they call it. Now that this this
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: guy Carlos Perez, was one of several. And there's a
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: homeless encampment right over there that abouts right up against
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: the parking lot. Yes, that he was like, you know,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: like right right there in your face, like going around
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: to seeing people unloading their groceries and coming right up
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: to the like personal space, way too close and to
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: the point where not allowing people to even close their doors.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: Now, nobody should be felt threatened right to do a
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: simple basic task like going grocery shopping or walking down
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: the street. The gentleman that got beaten up next to
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: subway in the alley.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: There, right, I mean, come on, Dwayne Beattie.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't even walk in the street. That I
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: said to Jed.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Well, from now on, when I go down to Nelson's
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: or I go to Ubischon's or whatever, it's going to
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: be sitting right there. I'm not even going to conceal it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: I'm going to say, look down before you talk to me.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, And I think we both would agree
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: the last thing that anyone wants is for someone to
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: have to for bullets to be flying.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Well, that's the other thing is it's important to make
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: sure that whatever weapon you use, you are comfortable using
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: it and you know how to use it, because if
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: you're going to pull out I know in Vermont, one
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: of the lords is that you can carry, but if
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: you're going to pull it out, you have to pull
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: it out with intent to shoot, not just to flag
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: it around and try to, you know, scare people. So
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: make sure if you're going to defend yourself, pepper spray, tasers.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: And there was some talk about pepper spray in this
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: articled yesterday in the Times Argus, and there's there's talk
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: about defending yourself and what's what's appropriate. You know, panhandling
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: is is it's it's it's a complicated thing because because
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: there's some people that are just holding up a sign
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: and then there's other people that are aggressive aggressive.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have to remember if you're carrying and
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: you're going to use that weapon, that there are other
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: people in that parking lot. There are civilians and innocent
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: people there, and if you don't know what you're doing
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: with that that weapon, you could hurt innocent people. So
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: don't be so quick to just pull out a gun
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: and threaten a person or whatever. Sure, maybe you go
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: with a less invasive weapon that you're more comfortable.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: With well, and you know, and pepper spray is one
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: of those things that's been discussed. But you know, Rex
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: is going to be in here tomorrow and he's going
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: to be talking about a self def.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Fence program class.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: See this is my foggy seminar that Lucas John over
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: at Granite City MMA is going to be doing soon.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Is that the end of the month, right, Yeah, Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: One of my friends is actually she's worried about her mom,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: and she's worried about herself, and she's worried about her
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: teenage daughter. So all three of them are taking that
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: course at the end of the month. And you know,
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: to take it for your own health and for to
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: keep your body fit and stuff, that's great, but to
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: take it because you're afraid to walk down this street.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Those ordinances should get a little bit stronger and enforced
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: a little bit harder.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Well, this this acceptable let me see what is it
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: called again? Acceptable Community Conduct ordinance was rescinded last month
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: by a vote of seven only six to fifty five
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: in Brattleborough, where it was it was introduced and shot
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: down right away. But now Nicholas Starelli, Castro our city manager,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: is asking, hey, is this something that we should explore
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: as a possibility in in Barry and what he's saying,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: But it's like, what the hell is I mean, it's like, right, well,
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: what he's saying is what's what's what's a violation of
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: the you know, I mean there was a fight out
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: here on the sidewalk a couple of weeks ago. What's
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: you know, what's going to happen?
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: You're you're you know, oh that guy uh yelled fuck
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: on the sidewalk, So he's in violation of the Community
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Acceptable Behavior ordinance, So we need to call the police,
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: right you know. It's like, yeah, but what I was saying,
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: what he's saying is that you the community are complaining
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: about these things happening, and we are trying to come
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: up with a solution. Help us out here. Don't say
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: you people are doing nothing about blah blah blah, and
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: then we set an ordinance and you shoot it down,
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: because if you're gonna shoot it down, okay. I think
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: what they need to do before they set the ordinance
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: is they need to have more meetings with the community
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: and let the communities say yes, hey, yeah, if somebody
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: curses in the street, I'm not going to have them arrested.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: But if somebody walks up and brushes up against me
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: and I say oh sorry, and they say, oh, you
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: want to fight, then we have an issue because the
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: person is aggressively inappropriate. Right, Okay, So they need to
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: hear from the community, and the community needs to go
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: to these meetings with concrete solutions, not complaints, right, because
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: we know what the complaints are, so don't go you know,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: I went down. So okay, man, thank you.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: I hear you. What would you like to see.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Done about it? Well, I don't know.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so many stories of and so we know
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: there's a problem. I have complaints. I mean I've seen things,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I've eat, witness things. But you're right, we need real
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: solutions here.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: He needs to come with the solutions.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: Doesn't mean we're going to follow your solutions or that
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: they are going to go with it, but you need
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: to come with concrete ideas.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Well. This is what I was just going to say.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Glenn just said, if there aren't enough police officers to
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: enforce the ordinance, it's not really going to matter. Perhaps
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: the city needs to enhance their hiring program for the
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: police department. That's a whole another issue.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: That's another can of worms.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, you know I've said before, people are not lined
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: up waiting to get into the policing academy these days,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: right anywhere, not just from un anywhere, right, they just aren't.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: And that's why we have one item eight thirteen you
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: and I in the squad car, not one atum twelve
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: one ATEM thirteen. That's going to be us.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: Just saying, can Jed fit us out with a little
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: with a little light that goes around and put it
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: on the magnet on.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Jed'll be driving the car, okay, all right.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: With his hand on his gun all right, and with
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: his knife, and he'll be like, show me where the
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: problem is.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna get my go pro
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: working and we're going to do a test run.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: On it's we're going to but we have to stop
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: a Duncan Donuts to get donuts.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Fine, that's fine. Would he be willing to? So he'll
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: drive and we'll put the GoPro, we'll suction cup it
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: right on and we'll just go.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: My brother used to have because my brother was an
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: EMT he used to have the light, Yeah, that he
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: put in his car, So I'll ask him if he
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: still has that, because that'll be all light.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sheila just says calling the police about someone cussing
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: in public is absolutely ridiculous.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Well, you're wasting their time, of course you are.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: Okay, Let's use them for what they're needed for, to
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: protect and serve, not to We can't ask the police
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: to baby everything.
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many police officers we have in
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: the Granite City, but I know it's not enough number
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: one to in my opinion, effectively serve and protect the
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: what eighty five hundred residents. Yeah.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well it also extends up to Barry Town because
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: you know, I live in Barry Town and people always say, ooh,
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: you're up in the area where nothing happens.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: No, they do.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: If you we always left, Like if I went to
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: my neighbor's house, I always left my door unlocked in
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: the front because well, first of all, I could see
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: my house, and second of all, I felt safe. Now
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: when we go over there to play D and D
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: on Sunday nights, I locked my doors, yeah right, and
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: I locked my truck because I'm like, people are complaining
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: that there's been breakings and people literally just walking into
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: houses and taking what they want. Yeah, and it's like, wow,
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: this is an issue.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: I have the utmost respect for our Chief Brad Vale
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: and all of the police officers. And I note that
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: I think they just added a new one just a
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: few days ago. But recruitment is it's not easy, man,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: It's not easy. Can you imagine all of the stuff
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: that you have to deal with today. Back in the
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: old days, it was you know, or responded to a crime.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Now it's domestic, and it might be domestic, it might
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: not be. And it's kids, and it's the elderly, and
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: it's it's welfare checks and it's I mean, my god. Yeah.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: Well a perfect example is I was speaking to somebody
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: yesterday and they told me they have a child who
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: has some mental disorders, that the child needs to get help,
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: and the child has gone to the psych water a
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: couple of times for evaluations because this child is just unruly.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: And so when the child explodes and has their event
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: or their fit, the neighbors in the apartment building call
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: the police, and the police come and they put it
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: as domestic domestic argument between the husband and the wife.
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: But it's not it's the child. So now the apartment
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: building is saying, you know what, you two are always fighting.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: If this continues, we're going to have to ask you
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: to leave, and they're like, but it's not my wife
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: and I. The child has some mental issues that we
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: are trying to deal with. And when the child explodes,
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: we try very hard to de escalate and then remove
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: and bring to someplace where the child can get the help.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: But right away it goes under domestic issues. So we're
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: not even addressing the issue of this child needs help.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: We're blaming it on well, the parents. You know, I
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: think it's a very tough world right now.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I think our mental health agencies in and around here
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: in central Vermont are so tapped. They're so so busy
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: on so many different levels. And I mean, look at
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Washington County mental Health takes the time and pulls together
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: the resources to host these wellness Wednesdays, which they did
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: last night, where you can go and get some massage
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: or some reiki or whatever sound healing, all of this
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: stuff for free. But it's like, you know, there's people
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: that are saying, we need more mental health agencies. We
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: need more mental health outlets, we need more outreach to
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: community from in a mental health perspective. And then we've
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: got other people saying we need more shelters. We need
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: a shelter right here, and Barry, we need I mean,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: it's it's.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Progressing.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Is to find the root of all of this. We
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: could go deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper, and
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: it's so complicated.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: And we can blame. But instead of blaming, let's come
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: up with solutions. And solutions take time and money and
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: energy that people.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: But in the meantime, these quote quality of life crimes
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: is what they're being called aggressive panhandling and stuff like that.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: That is becoming a public safety issue now, yes, where
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: people are not only discouraged about going out at night,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: but also feeling unsafe if they want to go to
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Hannaford's after dark. We've crossed a line here, Buddy's home, right,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, have you seen the video of this guy
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: and this woman the other night, just a few nights ago,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: knocking on this guy's door locally.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: At two thirty in the morning.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bang and bang and banging, looking trying to look
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: in and two thirty in the morning.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's sad. It's really sad.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: What the hell's that all about.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: I know somebody who went their home.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: When they're at their home, they have those doorjams, those poles,
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: and they jam all their doors and they're sitting in
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: their living room watching TV. It's not even I can see. Okay,
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: you're going to bed, so you put. They come home,
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: they lock their door and they put the door jams up,
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: and then they start living their life.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Even people out in the middle of nowhere in the country.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Well, that's even more dangerous because now you're out in
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: bumfuck Egypt. Yeah okay, and there's a lot of places
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: here that are rule.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, your house.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: The other places, those are places that are not instantly
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: in the eye and on the map of people. So
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: those places are perfect targets, especially when they have a
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: bond next to it, where you're in your home but
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: you don't know who's in your bond, you know, and
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: you don't feel safe.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: And so what do they do.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: They put flood lights everywhere, motion activated flood lights everywhere.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: So now when somebody even drives by on my street, Okay,
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: I live on Windywood, which is a pretty much open road.
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: But when people drive by the house across the street
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: has floodlights, and I feel he could probably change the
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: sensor a little bit. But if this is what he
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: needs to do to feel comfortable, great, He's an older
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: gentleman with a disabled wife and a card rides by
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: those floodlights. Boom, they light up the whole area, and
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: they light up the front.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Of my house.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: Sure, and I can't say to him, hey, could you
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: turn it down? Because if that's what makes him feel
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: safe in his home, sure, I, as a community member,
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: am not going to be the dick that says, hey,
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: that's reflecting in my house. I'm going to be the
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: one that says it's a shame that he feels that
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: the only way he can protect himself and his wife
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: at nighttime is to make sure that if you come
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: anywhere near his home, he's going to let the whole
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: world know somebody's there.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great way. That's a great attitude. Gie.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: Well, you have to, you know, instead of criticizing everybody
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: and saying that affects me, flip it over. And that's
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: that humanitarian side that I was trying to look at
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: last week that I realized was not in the best
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: interest of our community.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Judy's listening this morning, Be.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: Careful, sorry, Judy.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: I just think that I look at it as if
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: this is what you need to feel safe. And I
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: even spoke to him because he's right across the street.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: He was snowblowing and stuff, and I spoke to him
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: and said, if ever you feel uncomfortable, give me a
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: hola jed and I'll come right over and check out
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: the property.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: He probably looked at you and went, uh no, he's.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: A really sweet man, you know, he really is.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: And he does the same for The nice thing about
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: my neighborhood is everybody watches out for everybody. And people
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: call me missus Kravitz. You remember Missus Kravitz. Okay, Missus
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: Kravitz stood at her window all the time looking out
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: the curtains, saying, Abna, look she's going here. Look this
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: person's doing that. And so when somebody came down my driveway,
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: a friend of mine was, I was at the door
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: and I opened he says, Jesus Christ. He says, I
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: didn't even get out of my car. You're you're like
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Missus Kravitch. You know everything's going on. Well, First of all,
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  Speaker 4: my windows affloored a ceiling across the whole house, so
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  Speaker 4: you kind of can't miss it. But also I need
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  Speaker 4: to know what's going on, not necessarily in my property,
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  Speaker 4: but everywhere else. Sure you know, who's that person part
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  Speaker 4: in her driveway? She's at work. Why is that person there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh he's picking up that her son to take him
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  Speaker 4: to Okay, fine, but that's the only way we're going
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  Speaker 4: to support each other is by understanding their fears and
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  Speaker 4: trying to help lessen it even.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, you know, Yeah, And if it means taking down
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  Speaker 4: some predator or somebody who's making the community feel uncomfortable, then.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we have to do.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, right, So that's my so perspect Listen, if you
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  Speaker 4: haven't yet read this article on the front page of
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  Speaker 4: the Time Sarcus yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I'll show it to you again right here. Hold on
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  Speaker 2: a second life, fuldish, Hold people right here. If you
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  Speaker 2: haven't read this, you really should. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: insightful stuff in here. And there's just some plenty of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: stuff in here that I don't agree with. H with
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: folks that spoke out and and what they said. There's
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  Speaker 2: some stuff that I very much do agree with. But
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't matter what I agree with or disagree with.
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  Speaker 2: You should read the article. You should read it, think
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  Speaker 2: about it, come up with your own like you say,
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  Speaker 2: come up with your own interpretations of this. What do
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  Speaker 2: I need to do? How do I need to respond
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  Speaker 2: and react to this? Do I need to go to
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  Speaker 2: the next form? Do I need to get a handgun?
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  Speaker 2: Do I need to learn how to how to defend myself?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: How am I going to react if and when I
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  Speaker 2: am confronted by someone who is aggressively panhandling and won't
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  Speaker 2: take no for an answer. Now I can tell you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I go grocery shopping all the time. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I'm with Lily. Sometimes I'm with Lily and Sheerlyn. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I'm alone. I'm going to react differently. If Lily is
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  Speaker 2: with me, then I am if I'm alone. If I'm alone,
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably going to be a little bit more level headed.
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  Speaker 2: I understand what's going on here, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: take a deep breath, and I'm going to be patient.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be consistent with my response, which is no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any cash on me, please step away,
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  Speaker 2: or so on and so forth. But if I got
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  Speaker 2: Lily with me, and then if someone won't take no
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  Speaker 2: for an answer and is moving in on my personal
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  Speaker 2: space and I got my kid with.
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  Speaker 4: Me, yeah, then you're gonna protect I don't know, okay,
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  Speaker 4: but make sure you educate Lily as to why you're
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  Speaker 4: reacting this way. I'm your father and my job is
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  Speaker 4: to protect and if somebody ever comes between my belief
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  Speaker 4: of how to protect you, I will do whatever I
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  Speaker 4: have to do so that Lily is not shocked all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden that dad has done this behavior that
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  Speaker 4: she knows she's that you're doing it as a father
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  Speaker 4: protecting they're young. You know what I'll do. I'll bring
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  Speaker 4: my goddamn air horn. Yeah I got an air horn.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes that's effective enough porn.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just let that thing rip.
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  Speaker 4: Into everybody parking lot knows that you're there. But you
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  Speaker 4: promised me something today. Let's get off that you promised me.
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  Speaker 2: I did today.
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  Speaker 4: I did, and we're going to close out with yes,
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  Speaker 4: I want that all right?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, you got it on my face because you
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  Speaker 3: know I'm going to be like.
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  Speaker 2: What here we go. I want to tell you about
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  Speaker 2: Walmart and their logo Walmart just got its first facelift
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  Speaker 2: in nearly twenty years. That's the company has hired another
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  Speaker 2: company to redesign. Did I say the word redesign? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it scares me.
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  Speaker 2: Their logo, which they say the new design of the
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  Speaker 2: new new Walmart logo is inspired by Sam Walton, the
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  Speaker 2: founder of Walmart and Sam's Club, by his old trucker's hat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to show the logo here in a second, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to see your facial reactions.
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  Speaker 3: When you pipe this up.
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  Speaker 4: I envision like cartoons of something stupid.
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  Speaker 3: How much did they spend on this?
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  Speaker 2: Are you? Are you? Are you sitting down?
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  Speaker 3: I am sitting down.
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  Speaker 2: One point two five million dollars. Good that Walmart gave
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  Speaker 2: to an agency to here's the word again, redesign, redesign.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the logo before we can emp redesign. That's that's
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  Speaker 4: making my mind go somewhere totally different.
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  Speaker 2: This is a global branding agencies. We're worth five point
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  Speaker 2: two billion dollars in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so they're good.
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  Speaker 2: That should tell you something. Yeah, Walmart has right now,
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  Speaker 2: guess how much money they've got in the bank globally.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't even touch it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Listeners, in your mind, take a guess in your mind
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  Speaker 2: how much money Walmart's got in the Walmart bank account.
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  Speaker 2: Here's now that you've got that figure in your mind,
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  Speaker 2: here's the number. Seven hundred and thirty five billion dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking like one hundred and fifty billion, but okay.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, seven thirty five. So putting things into perspective, and
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  Speaker 2: everything's relative. If you got seven hundred and thirty five
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars in the bank, to spend one point two
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  Speaker 2: five million to have nothing to have someone redo your logo, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's like spending ten bucks. Right. The new logo is
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  Speaker 2: going to appear on the Walmart website and app this month,
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  Speaker 2: and it, over time is going to be rolling out
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  Speaker 2: to the ten thousand, five hundred stores in America, so.
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  Speaker 4: They're gradually getting us into it so we don't get shot.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, Before I show you the logo, I want
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  Speaker 2: to I just want to read a quote here from
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  Speaker 2: from your laugh from from the uh William White, who
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  Speaker 2: is the senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Walmart. Really,
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  Speaker 2: here's his here's his By the way, the last time
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  Speaker 2: they tweaked the logo was in two thousand and eight
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  Speaker 2: when they dropped the little star between the wall and
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  Speaker 2: the mart YEP and they combined the words into one.
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  Speaker 2: That was two thousand and eight. So it's been a while.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the quote from William White again, senior vice
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  Speaker 2: President and Chief Marketing Officer of Walmart. This update, rooted
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  Speaker 2: in the legacy of our founder, Sam Walton, demonstrates our
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  Speaker 2: evolving capabilities and long standing commitment to serve our customers
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  Speaker 2: of today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Shit, it's pretty intense. They must have done a lot
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  Speaker 3: of work.
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  Speaker 2: Are you Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: I am ready ready? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sitting down?
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  Speaker 3: I am sitting down. I picked her like this purple
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  Speaker 3: duck or something.
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  Speaker 4: Here it is. I'm gonna show you as the screen
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  Speaker 4: share here. You're not gonna believe this.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Is the left of before?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there it is?
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  Speaker 2: There it is?
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  Speaker 1: Gee, but here it is.
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  Speaker 4: But the one on the left is the before, and
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  Speaker 4: the one on the right is the after?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: What's that? What the fuck did they do? Made it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit darker?
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  Speaker 3: How much did.
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  Speaker 6: They spend one? What a fucking waste of money?
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  Speaker 4: I swear to God, I was expecting something like dress.
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  Speaker 3: The wow wow, I just I can't, I can't