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X Poll - Adult Things Not Prepared For From July 17th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, X bowl is a simple question. What were
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  Speaker 1: you not prepared for?
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  Speaker 2: What? What were you surprised?
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  Speaker 1: You became an adult and you went what, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: how did this happen?
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  Speaker 2: Or you thought it would be Yeah, you weren't prepared
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  Speaker 2: for you know, you knew it might be hard, but
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  Speaker 2: you didn't realize how hard paying taxes.
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  Speaker 3: So I got my first credit card, yeah, when I
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  Speaker 3: was sophomore in.
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  Speaker 2: Call made you feel important, didn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a two thousand dollars limit.
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  Speaker 4: Were in a card? Look at you?
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  Speaker 3: And you know my payment was only thirty dollars a month?
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  Speaker 2: How about that? And you could just keep paying that forever?
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  Speaker 3: And so I very quickly racked up a two thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars bill on that card. And I did not realize
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  Speaker 3: four months that if I just paid thirty dollars.
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  Speaker 5: It was never going to pay much forever.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big, big lesson for interest on it
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  Speaker 1: was probably like twenty Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I just I just thought, oh, I have this
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  Speaker 3: credit card and the payment's only thirty dollars.
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  Speaker 5: That's no, no, you will.
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  Speaker 3: Never pay it off if that if you only pay
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  Speaker 3: the minimum.
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  Speaker 1: I know another thing you weren't prepared for putting oil
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  Speaker 1: in your card.
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  Speaker 5: That was an expensive Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I had to go on to consumer credit counseling to
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  Speaker 3: help me pay that card off. And what I learned
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  Speaker 3: from that is you should pay your credit card. Use
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  Speaker 3: a credit card, but pay it off every month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know what I learned from consumer
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  Speaker 1: credit counseling the fifth time I went through it was
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  Speaker 1: that lesson.
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  Speaker 5: But it took me five took you five times?
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  Speaker 2: I did it. I think I did it four times.
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  Speaker 3: Credit cards are a They're a good thing to have,
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  Speaker 3: but you've got to you have to treat it like
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  Speaker 3: a debit card.
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  Speaker 1: If you can pay more than always pay more than
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  Speaker 1: the minimum. You can't pay the whole thing off. Pay
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  Speaker 1: more than the minimum. Having to pay for my own
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  Speaker 1: health care.
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  Speaker 4: I thought insurance was there for that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, nope, not so much.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, there's a text making enough money to pay
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  Speaker 4: for my cost of living and then the process of
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  Speaker 4: making the payments.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the whole cost.
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  Speaker 4: Of living things.
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  Speaker 3: You don't realize how expensive life is until you're paying
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  Speaker 3: for all of it yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Although I remember one day sitting there thinking, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I have a house, and I have cars and I have.
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  Speaker 2: How did this happen?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Texter, the endless cycle of trying to figure out
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  Speaker 4: what's for dinner every night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, here's one settling the estate of a dead parent.
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  Speaker 3: Even if they have prepared things for you, which which
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  Speaker 3: everybody should, it could it can be.
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  Speaker 5: A real hals All right, let's go to Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Jason, Hi, Jason, where are you calling from Saratoga Spring?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: What what did you Yeah, You're welcome. What did you
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  Speaker 1: realize as an adult?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I suck at that text.
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  Speaker 6: It's the endless cityle of trying to figure out what's
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  Speaker 6: for dinner for the kids. It never stops.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have to eat every day.
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  Speaker 2: It's every you know, do do what I do.
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  Speaker 1: It's for just you know't have for one week, it's
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  Speaker 1: hot dogs every night, the next week, it's macaroni and
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  Speaker 1: cheese every night, then the next you know, and then
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  Speaker 1: just rotate those things.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we're stuck in the month of chicken
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  Speaker 6: nuggets right now.
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  Speaker 4: Now there you go months. Let's go to Jenna, Hi, Jenna, Hello.
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  Speaker 6: I was unprepared for living with.
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  Speaker 4: My boyfriend for the first time when I.
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  Speaker 2: Was eighteen, that wasn't what you expect.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 4: You know, some parts of it were fine, Like I
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  Speaker 4: think just the idea that like, oh.
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  Speaker 6: We're both in love and we're both adults, everything will
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  Speaker 6: work out is very misleading.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah we're TV.
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  Speaker 4: TV lied to me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, you made it though, Jenna.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a here's a text that's a good one, a
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  Speaker 4: bit lighthearted but very real. Waking up and being on
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  Speaker 4: time by myself for work, doctor, appointment, meeting, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody, Mom, I'm not saying you gotta get up, time
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  Speaker 3: to get up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not being there to roust you out of bed.
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  Speaker 4: People are echoing the dinner for for every night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's at some point as an adult you realize, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, I have to plan for the future. I
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  Speaker 1: can't just take it as it comes every day.
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  Speaker 3: Bill, there are plenty of adults that that don't ever
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  Speaker 3: have that fun.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but exactly, and I'm not real good at it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a simple what as you suddenly realized you're
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  Speaker 1: a grown up?
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  Speaker 2: What were you? What were you not prepared for?
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe this thing made you realize, oh wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a grown up now.
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  Speaker 2: Got a bunch of calls here, let's go to candas high.
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  Speaker 1: Candas, where are you calling from? Lake?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? What what? Weren't you prepared for.
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  Speaker 3: Politics?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Just generally?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was assured that it was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be easy and pouring, and nobody talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: at least when I was little.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it used to be there, used to be quiet. There,
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  Speaker 4: used to be quiet competence, you know.
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  Speaker 2: All right, or thing or everybody hid things better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I just some some you started what I
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  Speaker 1: think what you're saying, though, is is true once you realized,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'm starting to pay attention to stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's going on around me. I never used to. That
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  Speaker 1: must mean I'm an adult. That must mean I'm a
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  Speaker 1: grown up now.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you're living in a society. Yep, yep, all
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  Speaker 2: right right, thanks Candice.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see Travis the Pyman says for me, it was
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  Speaker 4: the actual cost of having a baby. All the baby furniture,
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  Speaker 4: car seats.
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  Speaker 5: There's way more stuff than you realize.
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  Speaker 4: Applies that we needed before the kid even arrived. Five
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  Speaker 4: grand for our portion of the C section and then, hey,
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  Speaker 4: kids stop pooping every three hours? Do you know how expensive.
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  Speaker 2: These diapers are diaper Genie. What what the hell do
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  Speaker 2: I need a diaper? Genie?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you need a diaper, You need a diaper, Genie.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see somebody says prepping for a colonoscopee.
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  Speaker 5: The actual procedure is easy. The prep is you're a misery.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's go to Oh it's u's doctor Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, doctor Mike, good morning. Yeah? What uh? What made
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  Speaker 2: you realize you were an adult?
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  Speaker 7: You know? What is this thing called a credit report?
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  Speaker 7: And how do they know everything?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: It goes back to my credit card that I ran
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  Speaker 3: up and didn't Yeah, pay off properly?
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  Speaker 2: What I have a credit score somewhere? What does it mean? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, doctor Mike. Have a good one.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thank you. Let's go to Brent. Hi, Brent,
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  Speaker 4: good morning.
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  Speaker 6: How are you all doing good? Brent?
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead? Yeah? What what did you have to learn?
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  Speaker 2: What was? What was it?
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  Speaker 5: So?
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  Speaker 6: My dad was no longer with us. We were living
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  Speaker 6: in Vermont and my mom's like, hey, you're gonna find
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  Speaker 6: your whole place. I'm selling the house and moving back
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  Speaker 6: to Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: How old were you?
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  Speaker 6: I was seventeen in high school. Had to go get
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  Speaker 6: a condo. I got condo on Sugar Bush and on
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  Speaker 6: and I'm paying all my bills and now get my
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  Speaker 6: own car insurance. I wouldn't have to go get a
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  Speaker 6: reliable chart because I had to drive. You're going to
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  Speaker 6: drive an hour to get anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Awful young to be asked to do those adult things.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry you had to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Tim, Yeah, all at once. Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a couple of couple of good texts. Uh, the
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  Speaker 4: realization that your parents had no clue what they were
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  Speaker 4: doing and they were.
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  Speaker 2: Just winging it him.
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  Speaker 4: And then this one on the other side of the spectrum,
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  Speaker 4: buying cleaning supplies. I as a kid, I didn't have
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  Speaker 4: to buy it, and now as an adult expensive cleaning
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  Speaker 4: supplies are expensive.
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  Speaker 5: And they're not a fun thing to spend money on.
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  Speaker 1: That's where why I spent the probably five years of
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  Speaker 1: my adult, first adult life, stealing cleanings applies. Tim the tree, Hey, Tim,
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  Speaker 1: good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So the hardest thing I had, well two things. You know,
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  Speaker 7: somebody brought up the whole parenting thing. Learning to be
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  Speaker 7: a parent isn't easy when you start too early. But
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  Speaker 7: the other thing was just learning to behave, just learning
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  Speaker 7: to stay out of trouble.
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  Speaker 3: You still have a hard time with that, don't you, Tim?
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, Well but you've done it well enough that
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  Speaker 1: you've you've advanced to a ripe old age of something.
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  Speaker 7: I'm fifty, so I've minted someone.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, there you go? All right, Thanks Tim.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Tim, and to the rest of you.
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  Speaker 4: Ye see, all right, let's go to Mike.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Mike, Hey, good morning. How's everyone good?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 7: Oh I'm on my way to work right now, and
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  Speaker 7: I fifteen okay, pleasant day, a great day.
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  Speaker 5: Good Hey.
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  Speaker 4: I realized I was an adult when I started sounding
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  Speaker 4: like my parents.
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  Speaker 6: I realized they were right after all.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, they figured all.
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  Speaker 2: This out, you know, you know I figured all this out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was kind of the opposite. I was.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I figured out I was an adult when I
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  Speaker 1: did everything to knots sound like my parents. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: they they did a lot of things that I said,
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  Speaker 1: I will never do that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be that way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I said the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I've done it all the way to go. All right, thanks,
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  Speaker 2: I thank you?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Eight seven seven six two nine six nine six. Here's
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  Speaker 4: a couple of text ones. I was prepared for the
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  Speaker 4: hair on my head to turn gray, even my beard.
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  Speaker 2: But what is this gray stuff?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it happens everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: You mean, you're all white down there.
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  Speaker 5: It happens everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It happens.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, let's see, I wasn't prepared for how expensive a
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  Speaker 4: divorce was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are people that desperately want a divorce and
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  Speaker 3: can't get it because they can't afford you get a divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, why can't they afford it?
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  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, why can't they afford it?
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  Speaker 5: It's it's what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Just wondering what the expenses are. Well, let's start with lawyers.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have it. I didn't have any lawyers, So
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  Speaker 2: you can't relate that. Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
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  Speaker 5: It's lawyers.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's do you have to have lawyers?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you share a house, you got to divide up
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  Speaker 3: the house.
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  Speaker 5: If you have kids, there's the kids calimony.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all that. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: The unfortunate thing is is you can't sit down and
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  Speaker 1: discuss it like rational people.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you can, most of the times you can't. That's
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  Speaker 4: why are our friend. Wade is always you to divorce now.
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  Speaker 2: With an exclamation point.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, engaging in sexual activity always has strings attached.
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  Speaker 2: Yeh, college.
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  Speaker 4: I barely made it through high school and my parents
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  Speaker 4: gave me the option of getting a job or going
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  Speaker 4: to college. I was in remedial everything.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 4: I hate our text program.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in a way, that guy from Vermont, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was thrown into everything. But that's in a way
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  Speaker 1: it was. That's a good thing he had to learn
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  Speaker 1: on the spot.
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  Speaker 5: That's too young to ask somebody.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who are even younger that.
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  Speaker 3: Have to do all of that, somebody says, taking care
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  Speaker 3: of elderly parents, becoming a parent and navigating all this
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  Speaker 3: stuff that goes.
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  Speaker 4: Along with it, getting old and hurting all the time,
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  Speaker 4: managing money and budgeting thinking I wanted for kids. Wait
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  Speaker 4: a minute, now, I'm just a dog bomb. How often
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  Speaker 4: I would.
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  Speaker 2: Have to deal with car stuff?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, changing the oil, getting tires, putting gas in the car. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: not hard, but weird. But making as much, if not
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  Speaker 4: more money than my parents did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's a weird one for me.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, realizing you only have so many number of
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  Speaker 4: Christmases left.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, hey, going a bit far. Yeah, come on, you
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  Speaker 2: don't need to have any.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody says, choosing to watch and listen to the news.
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  Speaker 3: Remember when you were a kid and your parents are
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  Speaker 3: watching the news and you're like, why are you You're
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  Speaker 3: into it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and let's see, every time we save money, a
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  Speaker 4: catastrophe happens. In the eighteen months, we had a septic
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  Speaker 4: tank failure and for medical emergencies. It was very expensive
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  Speaker 4: and the savings are all gone now. Home issues, water damage, dead.
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  Speaker 2: Rats in the pool. Ye, gotta get a new roof
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  Speaker 2: on that.
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  Speaker 4: Leaking sink, bad plumbing, HVAC, yard drainage out.
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  Speaker 2: Stop reminding me.
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  Speaker 4: So why is washing and folding and putting the laundry
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  Speaker 4: away so hard