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C.T.C.S Episode 235 Dirty Moumtain Dew, Wheres My Sub And Too Many No Shows · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 2: S CTC.
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Speaker 1: CTC Well here I am. I am the ct in CTCs.
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Speaker 1: When I'm not busy being Erro the podcaster. I got
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Speaker 1: to live in the real world. I mean, everybody else
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Speaker 1: have a job, right mine just happens to be CS
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Speaker 1: Customer service. Get it CTCs, you know, solutions, relationships, keeping
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Speaker 1: your team motivated. In an age of constant connections, each
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Speaker 1: and every guest has chosen to stop into your location.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing as a business to get them back?
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Speaker 1: Episode number two thirty five, Dirty Mountain Dew has arrived.
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Speaker 1: Hey dude, where's my sub? And too many no shows?
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Speaker 1: This is CTCs CTCES.
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Speaker 3: Transition number one out of three. We have a live
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Speaker 3: performance this coming weekend. It's our very first festival. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we've seen festivals all over this station and around the world,
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Speaker 3: and we're part of one. This coming weekend. It's gonna
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Speaker 3: be the first of three that we've got coming up.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, suddenly we're on the festival tour and
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Speaker 3: looking forward to that because that means people are on
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Speaker 3: the move. People are in search, seek and explore mode,
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Speaker 3: so you can try new things without having to be
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Speaker 3: trapped into one particular identity. But then again, that has
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Speaker 3: nothing to do with the grocery store. It has everything
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Speaker 3: to do with being that entertainer up on that live stage.
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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be very fun to be a part
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Speaker 3: of that. Now, the question is, as we get home
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Speaker 3: around what one two o'clock in the morning, what's that
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Speaker 3: gonna do to see us? To me on Sunday? Ha ha
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Speaker 3: Ah's anybody even listening, I'll see and see us. The
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Speaker 3: very second that I walk in the store, phone call
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Speaker 3: after a phone call, people coming up to the desk.
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Speaker 3: They're hunting down one thing, this brand new product which
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Speaker 3: is called dirty Mountain Dew, and dirty Mountain Dew is
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Speaker 3: the way that explained to me is that it is
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Speaker 3: mountain dew with cream soda in it. And so it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna buy it because it's in a twelve
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Speaker 3: pack of cans and what happens if I don't like
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Speaker 3: the cream soda part of the entire process. But I
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Speaker 3: am a sucker for cream soda. But now the other
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Speaker 3: side of me is going. But it's mountain dew mixed
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Speaker 3: with cream soda. You know, we're gonna have to find
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Speaker 3: a single can somewhere or a single bottle. But that
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Speaker 3: is the hot thing right now, and that's what everybody
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Speaker 3: is hunting down when being the putback king, taking everything
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Speaker 3: back because people don't want it, or they're bringing stuff
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Speaker 3: back when it bites you in the ass. So CT
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Speaker 3: where did the keeper go? What do you mean the keeper?
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Speaker 3: It was up on the counter. Where did he go?
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Speaker 3: Did you take it back? I did not take it back. Well,
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Speaker 3: it was just here. You must have taken it back.
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Speaker 3: I did not take it back. So I'll go find
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Speaker 3: the price out for you. So when I get over there,
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Speaker 3: I go, can you just say that it's four nineteen? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: But where did you put the one you took back?
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Speaker 3: I didn't take it back. Oh my god, do people
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Speaker 3: listen to anything that's going on. I'd have an answer
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Speaker 3: for you, But I didn't take it back. CTS pet
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Speaker 3: peeve of the week, they're a breath? Did us formulated
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Speaker 3: whitening fresh breath oral rints? What a title? Right? And
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Speaker 3: this one's dazzling meant? Okay? So it comes in a
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Speaker 3: plastic bottle, it's got one little itty bitty dent or
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Speaker 3: a day in it. And the person says, I don't
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Speaker 3: want that, and so bad. You just wanted to say
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Speaker 3: your basket is the one that created that because you
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Speaker 3: threw the coke on it. But no, no, no, no, no no,
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Speaker 3: they don't want it because it has a little ding.
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Speaker 3: So my pet peeve is is that why do people
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Speaker 3: do that? You dent the stuff? Why do you expect
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Speaker 3: us to take it back and lose the money on it?
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Speaker 3: And here's how I'm thinking. Call me a selfish, conceited fool.
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Speaker 3: I don't care, but it affects my profit sharing check
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Speaker 3: twice a year. That when you take stuff back all
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Speaker 3: the time or you dent something, it affects me. But
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Speaker 3: bye bye, bye, bud. We are here to serve the people. Okay,
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Speaker 3: I gotta do it. New guy Bill says he's already
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Speaker 3: done it. It is the Dirty Mountain Dew cream soda
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Speaker 3: Dude's popular. Fuck dude, we got people all. I know
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Speaker 3: that when I got here and they were asking about it,
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Speaker 3: What did you like it? Uh? Let me see you
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Speaker 3: drink it? Here you go, Aaron Ernie, this is the
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Speaker 3: dirty Mountain dew.
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Speaker 2: You want one, I guess, so if you're fucking Bill,
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Speaker 2: Bill's already had one off.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have one yesterday. Try it. You should have
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Speaker 3: got it ice cold. But oh, I don't know. I
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Speaker 3: don't know. That's kind of irritating after case, I don't
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Speaker 3: like it. No, do you get the same the bitter
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Speaker 3: after taste afterwards too? I mean when it when it's
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Speaker 3: going down, you're going, oh, this is cream soda. This
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Speaker 3: is great, and then all of a sudden something comes
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Speaker 3: in and bites you. Oh bad. Yogurt is the answer, Bill,
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Speaker 3: Did you get that?
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Speaker 4: So? The one I had yesterday I put on the
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Speaker 4: ice bin over there before we saw ice for about
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Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe fucking an hour.
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Speaker 3: I liked it until they started warming up. Yep, Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's what we're drinking is a warm one. Yeah, let's
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Speaker 3: probably he has ice cold. I think you'd like it.
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Speaker 1: Oo oo, please do not move. There's more CTCs right
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Speaker 1: around the corner. Where's my sub over crowded shopping lanes
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Speaker 1: and openly talking about bodily functions.
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Speaker 3: Really, CTC, Hey.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to CTCs this time around. Where is my
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Speaker 1: sub over crowded shopping lanes and bodily functions, openly talking
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Speaker 1: about yeah, the stinky stuff. Welcome back.
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Speaker 3: Transition Walk day number two out of three, twenty four
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Speaker 3: hours away from that music festival, our first festival, first ever.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be very exciting and getting there early and
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Speaker 3: then getting to know what the plan is and to
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Speaker 3: work with all the other performers that are going to
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Speaker 3: be there to make it one incredible day. Oh my god,
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Speaker 3: it sounds just like CS working with people that you're
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Speaker 3: not familiar with and making a great day. Oh. I
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Speaker 3: need this walk through this forest today big time. And
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Speaker 3: I do suggest that you take a transition walk as well.
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Speaker 3: It can be through a park, it can be through
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Speaker 3: a mall, it can be wherever your mind really finds
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Speaker 3: its place of peace. Had a big interview today in
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Speaker 3: the podcast Studio actor Chad Michael Collins from the Sniper movies.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I haven't had people from Crunchy role
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Speaker 3: because the tenth Annual Anime Awards are coming up so
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Speaker 3: that was fun to talk to them about how powerful
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Speaker 3: anime is becoming just an amazing world. And then you
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Speaker 3: have to go a real frickin job. I have never
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Speaker 3: said radio or podcasting is a real job. It's mental,
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Speaker 3: but it's not a real job. I'll see you and
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Speaker 3: see us. Keep it positive, all right. I don't mind
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Speaker 3: doing self checkout, I really don't. I think it's a
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Speaker 3: fun little sport. But the thing is, though I said,
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Speaker 3: I usually get over here, how are you doing? I
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Speaker 3: get over here because someone has to go to the bathroom. Well,
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Speaker 3: when they go to the bathroom, they're going in there
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Speaker 3: for twenty five thirty minutes. It'say, guess, not a bathroom break.
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Speaker 3: You just took a lunch break. Did you have any
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Speaker 3: sandwiches or anything like that? And then you really want
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Speaker 3: to be kind of smart assy about it, because it's like, look, man,
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Speaker 3: do you want to they just send you home? You
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Speaker 3: were in there for thirty minutes. I mean, if you're
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Speaker 3: not feeling good, let's get your ass out of here.
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Speaker 3: Then so the rest of us don't pick it up.
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Speaker 3: But you know, people don't need to be taking thirty
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Speaker 3: minute breaks. What they're doing is they're going in there
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Speaker 3: to read their damn phone? Am I wrong? Come on,
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Speaker 3: retail people, am I wrong? Man? For a weekend that
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Speaker 3: really doesn't have anything going on, there's no special holiday.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there is the Masters, there is the Greek Easter.
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Speaker 3: Oh we say, I take that back. That is a
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Speaker 3: major holiday and they've been in prayer and celebration all
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Speaker 3: week with the big dinner on Sunday night. So whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 3: I am seeing a lot of Greeks that are coming
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Speaker 3: through here getting dinner ready. So maybe that's what the
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Speaker 3: big crowd is. And because on a Friday, this is
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Speaker 3: more than just people going out of town. This is
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Speaker 3: like Super Bowl Sunday kind of crowd, which means people
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Speaker 3: are traveling here. So are they coming here to watch
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Speaker 3: our NBA team make their way to the playoff for
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Speaker 3: the first time and god knows how long? Don't know,
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Speaker 3: but there's a lot of people in the store. Man,
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Speaker 3: Just crank up the charm and don't put on the
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Speaker 3: candy coat of plastic bathroom mere smile. I think people
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Speaker 3: are seeing fake Oh well, that's gonna be normal, all right.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna show you the difference here. Okay, okay, So
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Speaker 3: this is what you've got. See how it's full. It's
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Speaker 3: the one that's healthy. Yeah, there's a good way. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna sell you this and you're gonna get home and
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Speaker 3: you're gonna get sick. I can't, yeah, I can't do that.
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Speaker 3: But I'm gonna give this one to you for free though, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: because I there's no way that I'm sorry. My protection
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Speaker 3: mode so quickly that I really do. I really appreciate that.
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Speaker 3: You know, not too many people won't do would do that.
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Speaker 3: You know. I don't want you to get sick. I
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Speaker 3: don't want you to get sick. I don't I'm being selfish.
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Speaker 3: I'm being really super selfish. I don't want you to assent. Well,
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Speaker 3: thank you. It's usually on Fridays when when they say
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Speaker 3: I don't have any bread back here, and and she.
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Speaker 4: I was in the partying lot. I was coming up
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Speaker 4: here to pick them my order, and she's like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: we're out of rest.
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Speaker 3: We have brath after you place the order.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well what you Yeah, they need you back there.
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Speaker 3: No, no hold on, girl, Hey listen to that. This
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Speaker 3: is Philip right here, sir.
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Speaker 4: Hey, uh so I just got the call in the
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Speaker 4: parking lot.
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Speaker 3: I was coming up here.
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Speaker 4: They're out of bread and the bakery to do subs, okay,
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Speaker 4: so they said, hey, we need to.
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Speaker 3: Be a wrap. This is every Friday.
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Speaker 4: This happens at six hundred and nine sub day and
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Speaker 4: they don't they don't anywhere near but what they need
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Speaker 4: to cook for Yeah, and I mean this is every Friday.
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Speaker 4: This isn't like a one time off day.
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Speaker 3: And I'll bitching about it because I'm here to bitch
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Speaker 3: about it, just like, are you kidding me? I'm literally in.
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Speaker 4: The parking lot. So I don't know what we need
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Speaker 4: to do or what.
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Speaker 3: You need to do is to get done to fix it.
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Speaker 4: So I'll give sure, but this is like an every
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Speaker 4: week thing because Fridays are.
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Speaker 3: Is there another bread or something that I can use
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Speaker 3: for you to make a sun.
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Speaker 4: She literally just called me and she said we're out
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Speaker 4: of all the reds were we only have her okay,
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Speaker 4: So it was.
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Speaker 3: Like going home, I'll find out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, and please because I understand that it
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Speaker 4: takes layers of people. Yeah, this is the first time
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Speaker 4: I've heard of it real.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, this is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I laugh so deep inside when I see the younger
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Speaker 3: generation try to come in and buy beer and wine.
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Speaker 3: And you know it's like this, This one here did
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Speaker 3: not even have a fake ID. It flat out said
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Speaker 3: she was born in two thousand and seven. I looked
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Speaker 3: at it, the first thing on the register, looked at it.
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Speaker 3: We knew it was wrong. But what happens is is
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Speaker 3: that we do it because this is a circus. The
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Speaker 3: nighttime people we hit is a circus. We're going to play.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have a good time. We like suspense more importantly,
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Speaker 3: we like to create emotion in the way of you know,
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Speaker 3: you're gonna think about what you're about ready to do
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Speaker 3: here because she knew she was too young. She was
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Speaker 3: too young, and she was waiting for us to say
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Speaker 3: either yes or no to that bottle of wine. And
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Speaker 3: then finally I looked at her and I said, come on,
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Speaker 3: you know this, You know this more than I do.
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Speaker 3: You know you're too young, and she just gives me
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Speaker 3: this big, big smile and goes, you know, he just
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Speaker 3: lived once. You just gotta do what you gotta do.
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Speaker 3: And I said, you know what, you do what you
12:21
Speaker 3: gotta do, but you're not gonna do it here. Okay,
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Speaker 3: we're waiting for Jimmy the Geek here, help me out
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Speaker 3: with your generation, Jimmy the Geek, I your generation. One
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Speaker 3: of the things that I'm really shocked by by people
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Speaker 3: of your generation is that they are not afraid to
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Speaker 3: say when they have to go to the bathroom. So
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Speaker 3: I was down there at number five and the girl
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Speaker 3: that was on number five looks at me and she says,
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Speaker 3: I have to take a fat shit. I mean, I'm
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Speaker 3: going wait a second. This is a senior in high school,
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Speaker 3: one of the most innocent people on the planet, and
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Speaker 3: she looks at me and says, I have to take
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Speaker 3: a fat shit. Why is that that you guys think
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Speaker 3: that you could just say, why, hey, I gotta go
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Speaker 3: change the ship. Man. I just don't get it.
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Speaker 4: First of all, it's just because we're just comfortable with y'all,
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Speaker 4: Like we're able to say whatever we want with y'all.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're not my brothers and sisters, And I
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Speaker 3: don't remember talking like that's my brothers or sisters. Well,
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that you're creating a sense of you know, security,
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Speaker 3: that we're able to you know, be ourselves around. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: oh okay, you know, be a little loose around. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we like yeah, okay, well okay, well I'm gonna go
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Speaker 3: home and take your fat ship right yeah.
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Speaker 1: Look, oh my god, please do not move. Coming up
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Speaker 1: next a very very raanky CT and the only reason
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Speaker 1: why I kept it in the show because I'm not alone.
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Speaker 1: Retail people know what to do.
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Speaker 2: CTC, CTC, CTC.
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Speaker 1: CTC, Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs. A cranky CT.
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Speaker 1: What would you do? That's one of the big features.
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Speaker 1: What would you do? Plus on top of that, too
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Speaker 1: many no shows. Well, at least we showed up right,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to CTCs.
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Speaker 3: Transition Walk day number three, Hat of three. I need
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Speaker 3: to be on this path today. Oh my god, the
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Speaker 3: heat of the Southern sky. It needs to be ripping
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Speaker 3: through my body and trying to make these muscles feel better.
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Speaker 3: We've never performed at a festival before, and yet we
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Speaker 3: walked away yesterday being signed two more. Oh yeah, I'm excited.
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Speaker 3: I'm fired up about this kind of stuff. This is
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Speaker 3: what I live for. I love being on a stage
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Speaker 3: and to be at a festival. You talk about a
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Speaker 3: wide variety of people. It's almost like being at a
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Speaker 3: grocery store because you don't know who's coming in. Listen
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Speaker 3: to my voice, it's all thrashed. So it happens. Man,
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Speaker 3: when you play at a festival, you're going to do
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Speaker 3: things that are so out of the ordinary, which is
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Speaker 3: once again, no different than being at a grocery store.
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Speaker 3: So I'm going in the cus, exhausted, beat up, torn.
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Speaker 3: But you know what the difference is between me and
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Speaker 3: most people that go into retail. I'm going in. I'm
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Speaker 3: not calling in. One of my favorite books on the
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Speaker 3: planets is a book called How to Sell the Invisible.
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Speaker 3: It's the little things that create a continuation when it
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Speaker 3: comes to making a companionship or a collaboration with your
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Speaker 3: client or your listener or whoever. And so grabbing somebody's
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Speaker 3: card from out here in the middle of the parking
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Speaker 3: lot and taking an in form that's called selling the invisible,
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Speaker 3: learn from it, do it become successful? Oh my god,
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Speaker 3: what is this fucking day going to be like inside
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Speaker 3: this store? Huh Jesus Christ, this is how we're going
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Speaker 3: to start it. Listen, I'm not gonna lie to you.
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Speaker 3: I can't be the only one that deals with this.
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Speaker 3: That's in the broadcast industry, where you know, you've got
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Speaker 3: to sauna that you have when you're on the air,
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Speaker 3: you build up this entire following. We were doing social
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Speaker 3: media before social media even became the big dig for
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Speaker 3: everybody else, and so people knew me as Arrow. And
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Speaker 3: so when people come in the store and they look
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Speaker 3: at you, they look at the name tag, they look
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Speaker 3: at you, they look at the name tag, and they go,
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Speaker 3: I've been telling my friend for the longest time that
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Speaker 3: they're wrong about you. And I said, oh god, what
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Speaker 3: did I do wrong? They said, your name is a Row?
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Speaker 3: And I go, Really, I said, as an arrow or
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Speaker 3: a row? Which one is it? They go, I think
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Speaker 3: they said it was a row. Well, I know an arrow,
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Speaker 3: but I don't know an a row because I'm not Arrow.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, the whole entire subject on this is dealing
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Speaker 3: with who you really are. And I had to explain
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Speaker 3: to these people Arrow has nothing to do with the
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Speaker 3: grocery store. Arrow needs to be at home in a
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Speaker 3: studio doing what he does there when I come here,
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Speaker 3: I'm ct No, are there any other broadcasters that think
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Speaker 3: like this? I don't fucking know. I really don't. I
16:58
Speaker 3: don't know what I said earlier today when I came
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Speaker 3: to my transition walk. If you know, I just kind
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Speaker 3: of figured there wouldn't be any people showing up today.
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Speaker 3: You know, when I say that, it's obviously at an experience,
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Speaker 3: and that's why they call it a projection versus a prediction.
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Speaker 3: And sure enough, man, we have four no shows. Four
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Speaker 3: no shows. I don't know where you are with your
17:18
Speaker 3: world of retail and stuff, but when you have a
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Speaker 3: no show, it just irritates the entire team. You're never
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Speaker 3: going to make it to the playoffs. I actually just
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Speaker 3: heard the greatest joke, and I don't know if it's
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Speaker 3: a joke, but it is a joke. And I said,
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Speaker 3: why is it that these young adults I'm talking about
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Speaker 3: anywhere between twenty and thirty years old are not showing
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Speaker 3: up for work. And they go, well, because they're making
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Speaker 3: big boy money. And I went, who, wha, wha what
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Speaker 3: do you mean big boy money? And they go, well,
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Speaker 3: you know, they're making money, and so therefore they feel
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Speaker 3: like they don't have to work because you know, well,
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Speaker 3: they've got enough for what they feel is their amount
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Speaker 3: right now. And I'm still stuck on the they're making
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Speaker 3: big boy money at a grocery store, the hell they are?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess in a real world. You don't
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Speaker 3: work for a grocery store to get big boy money.
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Speaker 3: I realize I am here just to be with people,
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Speaker 3: but man, when nobody shows up, we got a problem.
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Speaker 3: I mean a serious problem. And right now I'm the
18:04
Speaker 3: one with the serious problem because I'm judging somebody because
18:06
Speaker 3: obviously they're they're okay with big boy money or what
18:09
Speaker 3: little they have in their pocket. I'm pretty much convinced
18:13
Speaker 3: that this is probably gonna be the podcast of CTCs
18:16
Speaker 3: after six years. That is not going to make it.
18:19
Speaker 3: Either that or I'm going to figure out a way
18:21
Speaker 3: to eliminate this last day and just make it look
18:23
Speaker 3: like we all lived happily ever after. You know, I've
18:26
Speaker 3: never in my six years felt such absolutely stupid with
18:32
Speaker 3: with no energy, no no control, nothing that's going on
18:36
Speaker 3: where the people that don't show up just yeah, you know,
18:38
Speaker 3: they're not held accountable, so they keep doing it. They
18:40
Speaker 3: keep doing it, they keep doing it, they keep doing it,
18:42
Speaker 3: and you just sit there and you go, well, why
18:44
Speaker 3: do I even come here? So it does a poisoned
18:46
Speaker 3: your ass. But that's not what CTCs is all about.
18:49
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be. Oh, this is the happy times
18:51
Speaker 3: of what goes on at a grocery store. Oh, let's
18:53
Speaker 3: tell a funny dad joke. Oh ha ha, And then
18:56
Speaker 3: I guess the joke here is it's on us who
18:59
Speaker 3: are here, because the joke is we showed up and
19:01
Speaker 3: they didn't. I ain't going to prison for this, but
19:05
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. Some people may think that it's
19:07
Speaker 3: wrong what I'm about ready to share with you only
19:09
Speaker 3: because when you're in a really cranky ass mood and
19:12
Speaker 3: you can't shake it, not even enough gum in the
19:14
Speaker 3: world to chomp it out of your gums, or to
19:16
Speaker 3: go outside and kick the wall as many times as
19:18
Speaker 3: you can, well you just got to double up, double
19:20
Speaker 3: up on what moster drinks, red Bulls, whatever. And what
19:25
Speaker 3: you do is you get in there and you repaint
19:27
Speaker 3: your imagination and you get yourself jacked up. And this way,
19:31
Speaker 3: what do you mean, bad day? I'm not having a
19:33
Speaker 3: bad day because I feel great, No no way to
19:36
Speaker 3: say it. I feel fantastic. And you know, my cardiologist
19:39
Speaker 3: is gonna kick my ass if he hears this. And
19:43
Speaker 3: now another what would you do moment with ct what
19:47
Speaker 3: would you do? Okay? So I mean you can tell
19:50
Speaker 3: through this that I've been working and struggling very hard
19:52
Speaker 3: with a pretty reckless mood today, am I because I'm tired?
19:56
Speaker 3: For me yesterday? Probably? Probably? But you know, I'm always
19:59
Speaker 3: trying to strive to figure out how can get to
20:01
Speaker 3: that next level, even if it means just sit here
20:03
Speaker 3: and down in a bunch of monster drinks or red pulls.
20:05
Speaker 3: But I think I found the winning key. And this
20:08
Speaker 3: is what woke me up. I went by one of
20:10
Speaker 3: our guests and I said, dude, how are you doing today?
20:13
Speaker 3: I fucking feel like shit. Man, I had a really
20:16
Speaker 3: shitty weekend, God damn it. And I looked at him
20:20
Speaker 3: and I went, I thought, I had a bad day.
20:24
Speaker 3: What can I do to make your day better? Just
20:26
Speaker 3: A fucking don't know. Why don't you just fucking just
20:28
Speaker 3: let me hurri up and get out of here. So
20:30
Speaker 3: I went over and I bought a bag of these
20:32
Speaker 3: new tats. They're the Blueberry tats and I don't know
20:34
Speaker 3: if you've had them yet, And I bought them for him,
20:37
Speaker 3: and I said, just have one of these before you leave.
20:39
Speaker 3: I just want you to be in a good mood.
20:41
Speaker 3: It worked. The goddamn dude smiled, and then the moment
20:46
Speaker 3: arrives where it's time to escape the four walls of
20:51
Speaker 3: your little CS department. And you're outside and it feels
20:55
Speaker 3: like summer. There's like an ocean breeze out here. But
20:57
Speaker 3: then again, that's so Carolina, and you can't help but
21:00
Speaker 3: feel guilty about the asshole that you were today and
21:04
Speaker 3: a place over and over and over and over again
21:06
Speaker 3: inside your head, and I'm going, I can't wait to
21:07
Speaker 3: get home so I can write this down, study the behavior,
21:11
Speaker 3: because if you were to look at me today and
21:13
Speaker 3: be with me in my line, because I was on
21:15
Speaker 3: number six off fucking day, you would never know that
21:19
Speaker 3: there was a storm going on inside my head and heart.
21:21
Speaker 3: And but you got me anywhere near a manager and
21:25
Speaker 3: the fire was coming alive. I was you know, what
21:29
Speaker 3: am I supposed to say? What do you think I'm
21:30
Speaker 3: the only one in retail that puts up with this crap? No?
21:33
Speaker 3: I don't, And we all get vocal, and that's usually
21:36
Speaker 3: when managers get tired of even looking at you. But
21:39
Speaker 3: you know, really, and I don't know if I said
21:41
Speaker 3: this earlier, because I'm fucking tired and this weekend is over,
21:45
Speaker 3: But there is one thing that I wanted to do,
21:48
Speaker 3: and that is is make a point, and that is is, Hey,
21:53
Speaker 3: look I understand these people, no call, no show. I
21:56
Speaker 3: totally get it. It's the way it is. But do
21:59
Speaker 3: you get used to it? No, you don't get used
22:01
Speaker 3: to it, just as much as you don't get used
22:02
Speaker 3: to people that come and steal shit from the store,
22:05
Speaker 3: you know, in basket's six seven hundred dollars apiece. You
22:08
Speaker 3: don't get used to it, and you get pissed off,
22:10
Speaker 3: and you get pissed off, and then this is the
22:12
Speaker 3: thing that really is the twister, This is the trigger. Well,
22:16
Speaker 3: it's the best we can do with hiring. Man, We're
22:18
Speaker 3: hiring what we think is going to be the best. Okay,
22:21
Speaker 3: you heard what I just said, Right, We're hiring what
22:24
Speaker 3: we think is the best. We're hiring what we think
22:27
Speaker 3: is the best. Well, how about when I got hired
22:29
Speaker 3: in August of twenty twenty, right smack dab in the
22:32
Speaker 3: middle of the COVID nineteen lockdown. Is that how I
22:36
Speaker 3: got on your team? You couldn't hire anybody else. And
22:39
Speaker 3: I was in there as a freaking radio joke because
22:41
Speaker 3: I thought, Oh, I'll just go get a job at
22:42
Speaker 3: a grocery store. Wow. So it really does it downgrades
22:48
Speaker 3: your ambition, your goal, your steadiness, your vision, your loyalty,
22:53
Speaker 3: your perseverance, because if you're hiring today by getting whatever
22:57
Speaker 3: you can at whatever price, knowing they're going to quit anyway.
23:00
Speaker 3: What were you thinking when I came here in twenty twenty, Hey,
23:04
Speaker 3: do me a favor, create your own podcast? Yeah, I do.
23:07
Speaker 3: I want you to do that because this is what
23:08
Speaker 3: conversations are all about. This is what we're doing. It
23:12
Speaker 3: is a conversation about what's going on in the real world.
23:15
Speaker 3: Because all we've ever done over the past twenty five
23:17
Speaker 3: or thirty years, these are things you just don't talk about. Well,
23:21
Speaker 3: yeah we do, and we need to, so create a podcast.
23:24
Speaker 3: I'll see you next week on CTCs.