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Engagement Rings, Logo Swings, & Cheerleading Things · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and that Michelle chick.
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I'm that Michelle chick. And I'm Rick.
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Welcome, welcome. So podcast #13 I can't believe.
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It this is Taylor Swift's lucky. I mean, we're going to talk
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about Taylor coming up, so this must be Taylor Swift's lucky
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number as well. It is, yes.
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So. Ironic.
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Yes, as Alanis would say, exactly.
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But first, let's hear about the house.
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Any updates? Oh, about my house.
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Yes, No, no, no, it's right now, thanks to thanks to Megan, it's
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been demoed basically. So the the guest room, the guest
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room is gutted base basically. And Yep, it's going to need it's
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going to need new carpeting, new drywall.
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Looks like it's interesting that it has a concrete foundation to
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some extent, but it looks like there's a big crack in the
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foundation or I mean, just, you know, a crack and it looks like
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it'd been filled before. So it had yeah, it had goop it
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before. So I think that this has
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actually been a reoccurring problem in this old.
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This house was built in 1970. So my gut is yeah.
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So we're going to have to, to replace the outside, you know,
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the, the wood on the outside and put, Oh my gosh, put some
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weight, yeah, insulation in there and then but it's dried
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out. Megan, Megan being superwoman
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and well beyond my skill set. She had, she had that thing
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demoed in, in a day. And, and, and she, she is just
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way, way better at this because to me, I freak out.
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I, I do anything financial. I'm like the Tiger King.
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I'm like the Tiger King. I'm never going to financially
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resent. So, so my biggest, one of my
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biggest weaknesses is I totally overreact.
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Right, which we talked about that last episode, we were.
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Talking about. Yeah, I don't.
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Even want to deal with the problem like I, I want it to go
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away. I want to hide my and and then
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she has and then she has to walk me off the ledge and she's like,
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the house is still here. It's one little section.
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We'll get through it. So yeah.
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So it's it's it's, it's one of those things that's hey.
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Which dog is that? That's Barkley.
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Well, Barkley's gone deaf. So Barkley.
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Barkley. Poor Barkley's deaf.
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So, yeah, so. And then we have a guest dog
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staying with us in Cairo. And so so that's why Barkley's
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barking. So if Cairo is upstairs making
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any sound or if Bodie's making sounds up there, he feels like
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it's his duty to protect and he's way down here in the in the
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basement area. But I know, but, but Ford
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Barkley has yeah, he has no hearing.
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So I don't, I don't know how he hears.
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I think he can still hear the the he can still hear movement
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or something or vibration. Maybe I was going to say
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vibration, yeah. Yeah, that, but that's that's
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about it. But if you try to call him or
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anything, you have to get in front of him where he can
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actually see you feel like. So the good news, houses
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fixable. I mean, we haven't got an
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estimate yet. It, it dried out over the
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weekend. Megan and Kyron went and got a
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big giant blue, one of those massive industrial fans.
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So it's been, it's been drying out.
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But yeah, she, she pulled up the carpet and, and got rid of the
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drywall area and, and basically dried it over the weekend.
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And so we'll have to, we're going to go get, we already have
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a HELOC, so we may have to add to the heel, heel lock a little
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bit in terms of fixing that that little section.
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So, but me, of course, I have to over exaggerate and freak out
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and lose my mind. And as you know, growing up
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poor, my biggest fear is is back to the poor house.
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And it's not about the money. It's just the fact that I don't
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want to ever have that those feelings and that that stress
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and that worry. Right.
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It takes us back. And we've talked about this on
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multiple, multiple podcasts. It takes us back to our
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childhood, like literally takes us back.
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Those feelings, the places we were.
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Yeah. I love, I love it's.
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Just a trauma response. I know I but I love people who
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can I, I mean people who go through life like nonchalantly.
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That would be wah, deal. I'll just, I'll just swipe a
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credit card. Big deal.
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Great. It's like I, I, I can't, I just
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for some reason, I can't live like that.
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It just it terrifies me. So that's what I, you know, I'll
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be the first to always concede my, you know, if Megan and I, we
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don't fight very often, but if we ever fight about anything,
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it's always fight. It's always finances or
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something financial. Isn't that the number one cause
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of divorce? I mean it is are the same so
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it's no different. They think that's any couple.
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Yeah, but and, and, and, and for us as, so I, you know, I plot
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out my budget monthly. And so it's like, I know what I
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can spend. And so when something, yeah, we
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have, we have savings and different things like that.
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But it's like, but it takes me a long time being in radio to save
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some money. It just doesn't happen
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overnight. And so it takes me months and
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months and months. Then I do a project, let's say
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it's a $2000 project. It took me 8, took me 8 months
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to save that money and then it's gone in one project and then I
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have to start over again. So, but the house will as, as
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Megan says, the house survived, we're still there.
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There's no mold and sounds like Megan got it all clear.
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Just to show you how you know, financially crazy I am, it's
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man. I'll live in that mold.
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I'll let you know. She's like, no, you won't.
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She's. Like, hell no, no, she got a
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sledgehammer. She got a sledgehammer and she
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went to town because I will not live in this.
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What the? Hell, that is so unhealthy.
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Yeah, well, she's because I said, I said well, we'll just
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fix it when we sell the house. So she did not take kindly to my
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advice on that. She no because.
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What about like the floor joists?
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The main like. Well, it's concrete.
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That's concrete because it is in the basement.
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But there's no but there has to be wood, you know, floorboards
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and joists's connecting. To the door, concrete at the
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bottom, so like. Your but the next floor like
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your next level. Oh, I'm sure don't.
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Have like the wood. Yeah.
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The nice thing about it, I think we're going to be OK because the
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sprinkler was really hitting this one area where that crack.
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Was. So I mean, it's oh, if you go
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upstairs and look on the outside, it's a couple panels on
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the outside where it where it strategically would just stay.
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Right. So so not a lot of the wood.
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No, it wasn't going back and forth along the wall.
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It's just one area. Oh, good, good, Yeah.
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So that's the good news. You were over exaggerating it.
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That's yeah. Don't I always?
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Kidding. My eyes are brown.
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I always that's that's what I do Every every story is an over
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exaggeration. Once you know that, then then
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you know that I'm just a big bullshitter.
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Yeah, yeah, that, that's. So, so yes, but my kryptonite,
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my weakness is anything financial because I have, I have
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as Dave, as Dave Ramsey would say, I have every dollar
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accounted for in my budget wait. And so when I get hit from the
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side, I just, I literally lose it.
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But then I get over it. You, you know me, Michelle.
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How many years have you known me?
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O25. Right.
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So I freak out in situations like, yeah, like crazy.
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And then once I come back to Earth, I'm more reasonable.
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And you also freak out when you don't want to go do something.
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Oh, you whine and complain that like the entire Lego run up to
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this event, and then once we get you there, then you're like,
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fine, and you're having a good time.
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Yeah, but we have to hear about it the entire time leading up to
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this event because you don't want to do it or you're dreading
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it or this and that, and then you get there and it's a good
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time. And I turn on the, I turn on the
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Rickster charm and then and then once I'm done with it, I always,
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usually when I leave an event, I'm like, oh, I'm glad I did
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that. Yeah.
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That's what I always say, yeah. Isn't Jay like that a little
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bit? No, I mean, he's he's pretty
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social. So I think I'm more the
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reserved, quiet person. I mean, like you, I can turn it
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on when it's necessary, but if it's just like, I don't have to.
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Yes, I mean I'm wasting, I'm wasting precious energy.
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Right. But I think mine being like the
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reserved stand up, like basically I have to read the
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room and figure out everybody's personalities.
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But that is a trauma response from growing up because I never
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knew what was going to come through the front door.
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And so you have to gauge everybody's, you know,
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personalities and you're always in that mindset.
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And so that's something as an adult, I, it's been really hard
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for me to break that cycle. Talking to my therapist, she's
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like, yeah, this is going to take a lot of work.
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Like it's not just going to happen overnight, so.
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Yeah, it takes it takes forever. I will say I think one of the
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best compliments I ever got was from Andy Winfred who said,
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Rick, you're very self aware. And I to me that I think that
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that was a great compliment because when you're with a group
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of people and OK, so I'll give you a great example.
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One thing that you honestly never hear me talk about, even
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all the years we've worked together, is comic books.
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You have talked about it. But but not in depth.
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But not in depth, No, no so so even though I love.
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You would you would love Superman #1 or whatever how much
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you sold for. But there are people I work with
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when it comes to sports or when it comes to comic books or just
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their likes. It's like I want to hear their
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likes and then they go on and on and on and on and on.
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Because that's their personality.
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So you have to yeah, takes over who they are.
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Yeah. So when you're in a conversation
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with somebody, it's good to know some, a lot of, it's good to
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know a lot of a little bit of a lot of things, right.
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And then, and then if you're in the conversation, you can gauge
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yourself in that conversation. So I always say you don't
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overstay your welcome. So let's say you're talking
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about sports or you're talking about anything, you talk about
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living, growing up on a ranch, I mean, different things like
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that. All the share, all the shared
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experiences that you have. And then, but you're able to
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with, with being self aware, you're able to gauge the
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conversation to where, OK, now I'm really boring this person
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like I they're, they're, they're glossed over, they're glossed
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over, they're, they're, they're gone.
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And so if you're self aware, you're like, oh, hey, well, all
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right, I'll see you later, you know, and you and you tie it off
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and it's kind of most like doing a radio break a bit.
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You know, it's like, OK, we lost the audience.
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You lost them. OK, so in this podcast, I can
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say you've overstayed your welcome when you start telling
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his story. Keep going.
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Probably that'll be the queue. Overstayed your welcome.
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Well, I mean, I didn't, I didn't say I was an expert at it.
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I just said I, I did try to try to gauge myself in those in
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those conversations, but you know, I have to worry about
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that. It was funny.
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We have a Co worker that drives Patty nuts because he'll come in
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and he is I I think he's a little on the autistic side,
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which is perfectly fine, but he's an expert in everything.
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Like it doesn't, it doesn't matter what it is.
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He's an expert. Is he more like the expert or
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the know it all? Because like, there's
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differences to some. Extent a know it all.
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And the know it alls are annoying as hell so they.
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So yeah, so Even so any you know, he's a good Co worker, but
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it's funny, even when he comes in and talks about comic books,
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which is my #1 love right within the first couple minutes.
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OK, I'm good. I'm good.
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Great. You're done.
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I'm still. I'm done.
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I did. I will give you, I will give a
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little. I will have a little fun with
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this one though so it it is nice to get one up on a know it all.
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Yes, it is. So so Benton Franklin Fair and
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rodeo this last week Daughtry was performing and so we went
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backstage to Daughtry. So I'm talking to Chris
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Daughtry, you know the lead singer of Daughtry and a lot of
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people don't realize this. He has done several comic book
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covers so for decent comics and marvel.
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So spider man and Superman and Batman.
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Well my my my Mr. know it all Co worker was there and guess what
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he didn't know. So I walk up to talk to Chris
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Daughtry. I'm like, oh man, I really love,
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love your, your, your work on DC Comics and Marvel Comics.
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And he was like, what? He does comic books.
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He's a comic book nerd. I'm like, well, he does have a
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song called Waiting for Superman.
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But that could just be nothing to do with the real Superman.
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But like normal folks like us that don't have that information
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or know that information, that song to me is just, oh, that's a
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really good song. But he.
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Just yeah. So he he wrote the song, but
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it's it's one of those. So it was nice to get a A1 up.
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But again, yeah, you try not to in those conversations.
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You try not to overstay your welcome.
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Or we have I have another Co worker and I and he's very proud
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of his very proud of his daughter.
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She's doing great and she's been a baseball player real time.
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Well, he'll come in and he'll it's not in the first minute or
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so I'm I'm caught up and then he starts going into the rules and
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coach says, so it's always like coach says, coach says I'm like,
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well, I don't number one, I don't know Jack's shit beyond
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the basics of baseball. So when he starts going, and
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that's the same with football. I, you know, we haven't talked
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about this. Football is my favorite sport.
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I do love football. I love football.
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Football as a kid was my favorite sport, but definitely
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not at the depth and level these that that people get crazy on.
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Baseball was always my sport, but yeah, I'm not into like,
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stats. And who did?
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This join the. Game in 1989.
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It's kind of like, it's kind of like what I learned about NASCAR
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is you pick your driver and then you talk and then you talk shit
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about everybody else's driver, even if your driver's not.
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For a crash, yes. That's the whole, and that's the
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whole thing about NASCAR is you pick your driver, you talk shit
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about everybody else and then it's amazing when you go to
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because I have gone to Fontana and I've gone to an actual
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NASCAR race. The boobs have, it's all merch
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on each driver, so each driver as their merch.
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So if it's Jimmy Johnson or you know, any of those guys, they
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all have their own merch booth. And so I thought, ah, the secret
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to NASCAR, picking your driver and talking shit.
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Even if your driver's not, even if your driver's not very good,
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you're still talking too. Well, I mean, you have to.
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Yeah, little things like that, but I also have a Co worker
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who's in a NASCAR. But if he came in and went
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beyond that, oh, I'm out of my I I can't keep up the
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conversation. Oh, no one shows the number #3
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for the Cup. I'm like, OK, yeah.
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OK, well, I think we've overstayed our welcome in this
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conversation, so let's move on to the good news of the day.
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This is the big one. I mean, I know why you're
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excited because it is the IT is the 13th episode.
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Go ahead and break the. News Everyone who is a Taylor
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Swift fan has been waiting for this news that she and Travis
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are engaged. Oh my God.
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When I saw it on her Instagram, I had to make sure it wasn't a
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joke, that it was real. It was like, true.
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Well, I mean, so much is like fake on the Internet.
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We've all been waiting for this moment.
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I had to be like, OK, OK, is this real?
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Like, I need to verify this is real.
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And once it was, I was like, yay.
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And I love how she posted it. So Taylor posted on her
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Instagram. It read, hold on.
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I know your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting
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married. Are getting married.
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Yes, yes, yeah. And I thought that was so sweet.
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The ring is beautiful and then I did I thought OK, this has got
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to be $1,000,000 ring and it is they had already listed the
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jeweler was an elite jewelry place.
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So it's very unique of. Course, yeah.
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I mean, you know, only the best, like both of them had the
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finances for this. Now this wedding I'm thinking is
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going to be like the royal wedding for the United States of
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America for us, since we don't have like a royal family like
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this is going to. Be, I mean, they probably won't
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televise it, but growing up, Oh no.
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But growing up as a kid, 1981, I remember when Prince Charles
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married Princess Di and I, it was on TV.
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We, I mean, I watched as a kid. So it's a big, big moment.
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And so I, I, I suspected something was up.
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So when she announced her album on on the podcast, you know,
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when they announced that just the way that they were looking
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at each other. But they're in love.
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I went no, I knew it. I'm like, oh, this one, this
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one. This is not this is not this is
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not this. Is not quite my nine years,
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yeah. I when I saw the podcast and
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just how gooey eyed they were at each other, cuckoo for Cocoa
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puffs. I'm like, Yep, they're gonna,
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they're gonna get hitched here, right?
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Which I was and and he's cool I. Mean I, I, again, I don't get
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into this. I know you get into the big
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celebrity stuff like that. I, I'm happy she found her guy
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And and I, I like, I like him a lot.
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I'm like this guy seems very down to earth.
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Yes. And and the brother, Jason and
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the mom, I mean, we, we were, we already liked them before Taylor
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Swift came into the picture. Right.
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She just made that invisible to more people, right?
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I wouldn't have known that unless you started dating them
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because that's not my team so I don't know much about them.
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So the cool thing about yeah, so so Travis and yeah, so Travis
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and and Jason, he's on the Eagle Sea, he's on the Chiefs.
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And so the Mama would have a split jersey.
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Yes. So that was kind of oh, yeah.
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So this is before Taylor. And so it was kind of fun to
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watch. You knew there were brothers on
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each teams and both of them tried to get a ring.
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So the good news is, is the brother got 1, Jason got the
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ring and then retired. So it's kind of cool.
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And I think Travis going to go try go for a third ring here
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with the the Chiefs this year. So see, I know a little bit
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about football. I mean, I know that if you stay
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in the NFL for five years or longer, you get retirement
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benefits. Oh, yeah, they, I know that
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much. They're.
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Taken care of, they're. Taken care of, but not this
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isn't. But this is amazing.
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I mean, it, it, it is normally normally, like you said, you
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don't get drawn into all the celebrity of it all.
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No, but this is it's a fairy tale.
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It's a love story. I like, I like and, and I you've
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met Taylor. Yes, a couple of times and.
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Yeah, the and she's the sweetest I have.
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Next, this person. Yeah, I stood next to her, did
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not get introduced to her. So I never, I never, I never
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take credit. I have been next to Taylor
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Swift. I was not.
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Introduced to Taylor. So I never take credit for
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meeting Taylor even though I breathe the same air as Taylor.
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It's. Kind of because I because to me
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is like I didn't get introduced. So if I didn't get introduced
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even though I was right next to her, No, I mean, isn't that how
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you would look at it? Well, yeah, I haven't officially
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met them yet, unless I've officially met them, right?
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I may have been in the same room, but they haven't met me
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right? So you have officially met her,
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which is very sweet a couple times.
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And I already know her reputation.
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She's very she's she is amazing. She's one of the best period.
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I do have an award from Taylor Swift when I was in Bakersfield,
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the song Tim McGraw, her very first song was a massive hit.
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So I did get so it's in my it's in my storage locker.
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But I do have a signed award from Taylor Swift for for me for
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breaking, sorry, breaking the record back in the day, 2005
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Rick Michaels. Here's a brand new one from an
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unknown girl named Taylor Swift. It's Tim McGraw on BIG965 S I
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got an award for it so that I do have I do have an autographed.
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Taylor and I'm sure she autographed many that day.
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Thousand many 1000 program. Director Famous by Jessica
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Simpson autographed poster that says Hey, Rick, thanks for
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playing my record, said Jessica Simpson.
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But all right, you. Don't know, that's probably what
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she wrote to all of them. Well, I feel bad for Chuck and
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Greg and everybody else. You've got to hate Rick.
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You know that, you know, thanks for playing my record.
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You know, not part, not part. My yeah, my Jessica Simpson one
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is hilarious because it did come from the record company and it
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is spelt Rik, same as the tailor Rik.
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Great. So it is, I mean, they don't
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know me, but it is my, it is my, you know, my award.
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Great. Well, I'm.
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Happy. Yes, me too.
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I wanted to share when I was in fifth grade, my 5th grade math
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teacher, she married my dad's cousin.
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And so I thought that I was like the hot stuff of the school
20:27
because I was like the only one that was getting invited to this
20:30
wedding. So that's.
20:31
Funny. That's that's how I kind of
20:33
think of this this whoever is getting invited to this wedding,
20:36
the guest list of this is probably going to be better than
20:39
just Bezos. I mean I.
20:41
Mean again. I mean, it could go one of two
20:44
ways. It could be the celebrity
20:46
wedding of a lifetime. Or it could be the small, or it
20:49
could. Be small intimate.
20:50
I will say that my good friend and I can honestly say she's my
20:54
friend Katie Cook posted up a picture of pictures of her and
21:00
Taylor. And, and so if somebody's going
21:01
to get an invite, I'm sure Katie's going to get an invite.
21:04
So I'm so I'm 2° separated from Taylor.
21:08
So because I did go, I did go to I did go to I did go to Katie's
21:12
wedding in Nashville. I got invited.
21:14
We went to to Nashville years ago.
21:16
And you especially like you especially like it because her
21:19
husband is the lead guitarist and Tim Mcgraws band.
21:22
Yes. So, so that's legit, I mean.
21:24
And I was super envious because I remember, I mean, we were
21:27
working together when you went to this wedding.
21:30
And also the former mayor of Yakima.
21:33
And I was super envious just because I want to know, like, is
21:35
Tim McGraw going to be there? You know how they're going to
21:37
play songs like Gorgeous. Wedding Tim did not.
21:40
Yeah, it was gorgeous. Wedding Tim did not, did not
21:43
show up. But there was, I don't know, you
21:45
know, I didn't. I mean, it was it, but it was an
21:47
intimate wedding. It was like, I don't know, a
21:48
couple, maybe a couple, 100, maybe 100 or so.
21:50
So felt pretty proud to be a part of that.
21:53
So I'll be curious to see if Taylor does the big wedding or
21:56
if it's gonna be the intimate wedding.
21:58
Right. Some people say she's already.
21:59
Married this are gonna look like.
22:01
I mean, I'm all I know. Someone is, I saw someone are
22:04
like, oh, what's the I mean, it's all yeah.
22:05
You girls, you girls, you girls. It's the one, you know, fantasy
22:12
of childhood that we have. You know, we dream of this
22:15
wedding day. And I mean, not all girls.
22:18
I mean, some girls just like to go, you know, so the justice, so
22:21
the peace. And that's fine too.
22:22
But what you have, But the majority of us grow up on these
22:26
Disney movies and we have this fantasy about these weddings.
22:29
And most of the time, it's not like real not real.
22:32
Like y'all give Taylor credit, I think yeah, I definitely think
22:34
she's a a Disney Princess. There's no doubt about it.
22:37
But I also look like but but when you have like more more
22:40
money than God, it's like, I just don't.
22:43
I mean, I, I guess I just don't understand the fascination with,
22:47
with that, that incredible wealth that that's a normal day
22:53
for them. Right.
22:55
Yeah, I mean, it is so. But it'll be, it'll be.
22:58
A grand event? You already know Michelle, they
23:01
also, what's crazy about all of us is they will make money off
23:04
the photo shoot they will make. I mean, the insanity of what
23:07
people will. You know, This is why paparazzi,
23:10
I'm not a I'm not a fan of paparazzi, but this is a reason
23:12
why paparazzi follow these folks around.
23:15
Because people get the money shot.
23:17
And they and they want to, they want to feel like they're a part
23:20
of this life. Yeah, yeah.
23:22
So. Well, it's an escape for us.
23:25
It's like no different than escaping in a book or a movie or
23:28
for you comic books. For us, it's just an escape and
23:31
we're living through this person and we get, you know.
23:34
I I did see that Big D and Bubba the country guys posted an
23:38
invite that said it was February 8th.
23:42
Oh, that's well. For, for Super Bowl or whatever
23:46
it was like it actually says, oh, Travis and Travis and
23:49
Taylor, we've been invited and I think it was a joke.
23:52
You know, unless, unless the Chiefs win a Super Bowl is what
23:54
it says. I was going to say, is that like
23:56
getting a dig that they're not going?
23:57
To And that's what the joke was on the invite.
23:59
I see, you know, of course so. Yeah, yeah, but but it's super
24:03
exciting. And I think, like you said,
24:06
Princess Di was was a big what other incredible weddings can
24:10
you think of off the top of your head?
24:12
Besides that, I know of Prince that was a massive that was.
24:15
The right Yes. Prince Trials?
24:17
Princess Diana? Probably Kate Middleton.
24:21
That was the Prince William. So yeah, I'm gonna.
24:23
Give and then Megan and Harry yeah because well and like OK
24:28
and Carolyn and JFK junior Yep I kind of remember their wedding
24:34
but it wasn't a big, you know grand affair like no, I.
24:40
Just. Like what we would want in that
24:43
family because they are the closest thing that we would have
24:46
to a royal family here in America and I and I.
24:48
Can see that with and I and I see that with Taylor.
24:50
I mean it's so funny when that news broke, my entire Facebook
24:53
Insta feeds were. Just all.
24:55
It is, it's all it was. And even people making jokes
24:59
too. I mean it just nothing but me.
25:00
I mean just the list goes on and on and on.
25:02
But I will I will give them credit.
25:04
The podcast, when she announced the album, they looked like they
25:07
were in love and I thought, oh, this is going to stick.
25:09
Yes, I'm just so happy she's fell in love and someone who
25:12
obviously looks like he loves her back and treats her well,
25:15
like that's what any girl deserves.
25:17
And I mean, as much as we love Taylor, let's put it in
25:20
perspective, too. She's 35.
25:24
It's it's not like the clock is ticking.
25:26
If she's going to have she. Seems tight yet, but she seems
25:29
timeless in her eyes because we still think of her as 16 or 22
25:33
or 23. She's she's 35, she's pushing
25:36
another, she's pushing 40. Right, so.
25:39
And he's 35. They're the same age.
25:42
Right, Yeah, biological clock's a ticking.
25:46
Yeah, basically. I mean, at the at the end of the
25:48
day, she's 35 years old. I get it.
25:50
So she found her true love. I love it.
25:52
Yep. All right, well, let's talk
25:53
about this Cracker Barrel logo because I, I did not.
25:57
OK, OK, First off, I when I started seeing all this come up
26:02
in my social media, I'm thinking, oh, why is everyone
26:07
upset about this? I don't, I didn't understand why
26:11
everyone is so upset that they changed the logo.
26:15
Is it OK? Is it because they took the guy
26:18
out of the logo? I mean, yes, the new logo is
26:21
super plain and generic, which is that's what they wanted.
26:24
That's what they wanted. But is is that why they're mad?
26:28
Because they took the guy out of the logo lately?
26:31
Well, there's a, there's also a, the guy, the guy in the barrel,
26:34
there's a, there's a barrel too. So he's he's leaning against the
26:36
barrel. He's leaning up against the
26:38
barrel, right? He's sitting there like.
26:40
I, I, again, I've never been to a Cracker Barrel.
26:43
I know that they're predominantly Midwest down
26:44
South. I've been to one in Texas, like,
26:47
yeah, this is 15 years. Ago it's a big deal, but it's
26:51
like I just have never seen people freak out over well,
26:53
every people freak out over everything these days And so
26:57
they, they, they feel like they're taking the Americana
27:00
away or you know, the Americanness of it.
27:03
And it's funny, if you look at and somebody posted up, which I
27:06
thought was very interesting, was McDonald's or Taco Bell or
27:10
Taco Time back in the day, all the the restaurants look like
27:14
boxes now. Right, it has.
27:17
Well, I think because it has to be something simple and quickly
27:21
recognizable, like it can't be this busy.
27:26
Well, America. That word, a busy logo like it
27:29
has to like you have to instantly recognize it when you
27:32
see. But you recognize McDonald's
27:33
when you were a kid, you recognize Taco Bell?
27:35
Definitely, yeah. So there's, there's, I think
27:37
that there's been this move and I don't know what it is
27:40
modernism to where you everything, basically everything
27:43
is a square box. It just is like Taco Bell's a
27:47
square box. McDonald's is a square box.
27:49
And so I like, I like when I see a retro McDonald's or I see
27:52
something retro looking because it takes us, takes us back to
27:55
childhood. Maybe that's because of social
27:57
media. Everything's a square box.
27:59
We like in this program are a square box like.
28:02
Our logo is a square box like and I understand.
28:06
And I understand because like for me, my, my favorite logos is
28:12
I love the neons of the 80s, you know, the, the 80s.
28:16
So, so there was a record album like Duran Duran or it and it
28:21
and it was the I love the font where it's like paint.
28:25
So it so it has the person's name.
28:26
So if that said Rick and that Michelle chick and it was like
28:29
the. Graffiti looking.
28:30
Yes. And it like splotchy paint, kind
28:32
of like kind of like, so how see how this key logo is that I'm
28:35
wearing, right? It's got a little splotch right
28:37
there, you know? Yeah.
28:39
Yeah, so it's kind of a paint. Even this even this logo
28:42
probably is, is retro looking considering, but it's very you
28:46
know, it's got that it's got that cool 80s neon.
28:49
I I like that. Now I don't know if it would
28:52
work today. So but I know people are are
28:55
freaked out about it. I mean, I understand the Aunt
28:59
Jemima or the Uncle Ben's rice different when you take it away,
29:03
when you take it away ethnicity from logos.
29:08
The squaw that was on the Indian that was on the butter land.
29:12
O'lakes. Yeah, little things like that
29:15
and streamlining, streamlining those things, I think you're
29:19
doing a disservice. But a guy at the crack, I mean,
29:23
yes, if someone wants to put comments in below about the
29:25
Cracker Barrel and #1 because we don't live there, we don't know
29:28
it as well. But I don't, I, I just have
29:32
never understood the, you know, but people get upset.
29:35
You change your name. Look at the Washington.
29:37
Look at the Washington Redskins. People don't like change.
29:41
They don't like. Well, yeah.
29:42
But we have to progress and change in everything.
29:45
We can't just. Just social media.
29:46
The social media today make it worse.
29:50
Well, yes, I think, I think they almost make these like outrage
29:55
over things that aren't people aren't really outraged about
29:59
like or like maybe one person tweeted about this Cracker
30:02
Barrel thing and then it just blew up from there and now
30:05
everybody is upset about it. Where we wouldn't have been, it
30:09
would have just been, we would have seen the commercial on TV
30:12
and the logo would have been changed when we went, oh, they
30:14
oh, this has changed. They changed their logo or
30:16
whatever. Or it wouldn't have even like
30:18
been a blip in our minds. We're busy day-to-day.
30:20
Like we wouldn't have even paid attention to a logo change.
30:23
You know, like well, when you I mean.
30:25
Coke or Pepsi or Sprite, those all change.
30:28
Well, which one was the one that it's called Starry, but it was
30:32
called something else. Remember that's the soda
30:34
puppets. The the Pepsi version of Sprite
30:36
was called something it they changed it to Starry, but it was
30:39
something totally different. Yeah, I don't remember that.
30:41
One yeah, yeah, you see for yeah I.
30:43
Don't remember, I don't remember that one.
30:47
Just for that I've got to pull up starry soda because I'm
30:49
curious. Oh gosh, yeah.
30:51
Because it had a different name and they changed it and people,
30:54
people, people lost their their minds about it.
30:57
Is that kind of like when Garth Brooks went to Chris Gaines?
31:00
Remember that whole? Oh, Sierra Mist.
31:04
Oh, OK. Sierra Mist.
31:06
So, so Starry was once called Sierra Mist and they changed
31:09
that and people lost their lost their mind.
31:12
Yeah. So I don't get it.
31:14
I mean the a logo and, and and all the logos like you said are
31:19
now simplified because like they're like busy work or
31:22
whatever. Yeah.
31:23
Yeah. They're not, I guess they're not
31:25
gaudy, I mean. They're just, yeah, they're well
31:30
and. And it makes, and again, if you
31:32
see the building that they're, it's like they, things don't
31:35
look like Denny's anymore. They don't look like Sherry's.
31:37
They they again, they look like they're in a box, right?
31:42
The restaurant is now a a oh when you go to Oh my gosh, when
31:46
you go to Kaluchi Canyon it it all has a very box warehousey
31:52
feel. Yeah, it's very industrial.
31:54
That one is very industrial. Like, come on, concrete exposed
31:59
beams? You know, yes, that yes, that
32:01
all has that, that all has that kind of same, I don't know, kind
32:04
of that same feel. It's kind of modern.
32:06
Deconstructed. Deconstructed.
32:08
I think that was the word they did.
32:09
Probably use OK, not so much crap.
32:14
Well, since we're talking about things that people have been
32:16
complaining about, let's talk about the NFL male dancers that
32:24
everybody was losing their minds over that.
32:28
I it's like, OK, the Seattle Seahawks have had male dancers
32:33
for years. I mean years.
32:36
And my husband's going to hate me for this.
32:39
My husband was a cheerleader back in the 80s.
32:43
But but whenever I say like he was a cheerleader, he he always
32:46
corrects me. He's like, we were called yell
32:49
kings. I'm like, oh, OK, you were a
32:51
cheerleader, but OK, you know? And he basically did it because
32:56
he knew that was like, the place he was going to be where he
32:59
could be around all the girls. Like, you ride, you have
33:02
practice together, You ride the bus together, You're at these
33:05
games together. And back then, sure, they were
33:07
the bottom of the pyramid. They, like, threw the girls up
33:11
in the air, that kind of thing. Which is probably different now
33:13
with these male dancers. But male cheerleaders have been
33:17
around for a long time. This isn't anything new.
33:22
And I think that it is just my thought is these guys, I think
33:27
it's mainly guys making a big deal about this because they're
33:31
mad because now they can't, you know, sexually fantasize about
33:34
these cheerleaders. And for some reason having these
33:38
male dancers interferes with this dream that they have.
33:42
It just reminds me of the guys who think that the stripper
33:44
likes them. Like that's that's what it
33:46
reminds me of. You know, that delusion.
33:50
It's like, it's like, who cares if there's a couple male dancers
33:54
on the field? Who cares?
33:57
There's still women out there. I don't.
33:58
It's not like they took away all the girls.
34:01
No, but I, but I also saw, so I, I, I follow this gal name.
34:05
Her name's Brett Cooper. She's a Republican pundit.
34:08
She's like 2324 years old and she was talking about this.
34:12
And so she showed collegiate or high school cheerleaders, male
34:17
male cheerleaders and a very masculine, I guess, you know,
34:21
doing the the the lifting and of the of.
34:24
The girls and. Then the Minnesota Vikings and I
34:27
think the other one I don't was the Falcons, whatever which one
34:29
they were, and so in a sense they found, I guess the is it
34:34
the the gayest or fem Femi flaming?
34:38
I mean, so she, so her video, you know, that's how she
34:44
contrasted it to get everybody up at arms basically.
34:46
Right. She's yeah.
34:48
So she. Because she, because she showed,
34:49
I guess, in a sense, the least masculine.
34:52
Right. So she's not upset that there's
34:55
a male dancer, she's upset that they're gay.
34:57
Like that's what she's upset about.
34:59
Not that there's male dancers, she's upset that they're gay,
35:02
right? Or she's assuming they're gay.
35:05
Right. That's because of how they are.
35:06
So if these guys, if these guys were full beards, Bears.
35:11
I mean they could still be gay. That, like Bear, is a gay man.
35:16
That is all hairy. Exactly.
35:18
But but if they all look like, you know, if they all look like
35:21
hairy bears out there, they wouldn't be having a problem
35:23
with it. But because because these these
35:27
new cheerleaders are 125 lbs, you know, sopping wet and
35:31
they're not not what you I mean, they don't they're not mask.
35:34
I guess the word is they're not masculine and that's the reason
35:37
that they're not. Yeah, they're freaking out on
35:39
those particular situations and. They're freaking out because
35:42
they think they're gay. Like that's I mean.
35:45
When you see the video, I'm going to go OK.
35:48
I mean, well, I mean, but like, but who cares like.
35:51
I mean who? Cares if they.
35:52
I, I, and, and honestly, when you watch it Tele, televised,
35:57
Tele, Tele, Oh my gosh, I don't. When it's televised, you don't.
36:01
How often do you shoot over to the cheerleaders?
36:03
Really. Very rarely.
36:05
Very rarely. Even in the end you and I both
36:07
been to games, they look like little specks.
36:11
They look like this. Right.
36:13
But men still Ogle over them and their outfits are teeny tiny.
36:17
Like nasty. They're still actualized.
36:19
It's an outrage to be an outrage.
36:22
And, and, and while you're on that topic, I love that people
36:26
think, which is insane, that masculine men are going away.
36:32
Oh yeah, the alpha male is. The alpha male The alpha male is
36:36
an an endangered species. It isn't in danger.
36:39
I personally I don't like. Some of these bullies are.
36:42
I don't like toxic masculinity. Sorry.
36:47
I don't like it in the workplace.
36:49
I don't, I don't. I don't even have friends that I
36:51
would call toxic that are toxic masculinity.
36:54
I, I, I, it's like, you already know I don't like Neanderthals.
36:59
I, I don't have anything in common with Neanderthals if
37:01
they're dragging their knuckles along the ground.
37:04
It's like I always love on Facebook when someone doesn't
37:07
like Cracker Barrel or, or male cheerleaders, they do that meme
37:10
where it's all the same looking dude, there's twenty of them and
37:14
they all, they have glasses and a beard and they're whatever.
37:17
I love that. Guy that's fantasizing about the
37:19
cheerleaders life but. But they all look like the same
37:22
and same and same with the the females too.
37:26
The and they're white and they're all white.
37:29
The Karens, yeah. Yeah, they're all white.
37:32
They're all white people. So, and I, I just think it for,
37:36
I know this is not going to be a popular statement, but I'm
37:38
looking forward to the day when white people are a minority so
37:41
they can shut, so they can shut the F up.
37:45
Why people are scared to be the minority?
37:46
They are scared. Why is?
37:48
That because of how we treat them.
37:49
Exactly, exactly. And it's so it's it's it's to me
37:53
it's just the it's just absurd. It's ridiculous and it was it
37:59
was funny was there was just a big a big article about getting
38:03
rid of the illegal truck driver in California because.
38:08
Oh, they can't speak English I. Think English.
38:10
I just saw a headline. I didn't read the article yet
38:13
but it came up in my feed so I don't know what the So what
38:17
what. So we, so we have two cases.
38:19
There's one in California and there's one in the Midwest or
38:22
something, 2 truck drivers that are duh, one is Ukrainian and
38:26
one and one is in California and is Mexican and it's like and so
38:32
or Hispanic. And so I'm like, why are we not,
38:35
why are we not deporting the Ukrainian?
38:37
Oh, because he's white. Oh yeah, there's there's over.
38:41
And there's now that works. There's over 800,000 your white
38:46
Europeans who who are here illegally and you don't see them
38:51
being deported. Why, why don't we deport them?
38:54
Because, oh, they're white. So, so again, it's, it's one of
39:00
those things where, yeah, I, I feel like the same people bitch
39:04
about the same stuff over and over.
39:06
And, and like you said, they're afraid to lose.
39:08
They're, they're afraid to lose ground in America.
39:10
I think that that's the they and, but, but I also think
39:14
hopefully, don't you think, Michelle, I'd like to think that
39:17
the workplace has changed in my, in my almost 40 years of radio,
39:22
what what was allowed 20 years ago would not fly today, period.
39:26
Oh, no, like like the Gary Myreys of the world, which now
39:32
I'm name dropping. Oh my God, lovely Gary.
39:35
Like he has like that he was a he's a walking HR violation.
39:41
Like every time he opens his mouth.
39:43
I mean, back then, like he got away with some stuff.
39:47
Yeah, he lucky he wasn't sued, mostly.
39:49
Right, right. I thought, I thought about that.
39:52
Gary. I, I, I, I love and adore Gary
39:54
and we all and we all know that he was joking and and didn't
39:57
mean anything by it. But in this day and age.
40:00
He would cross somebody that would that would file an HR
40:04
against him. Right.
40:05
Or the potential is very high that he would.
40:07
Yeah, I will bring up a situation.
40:10
I don't mean to take us off course, but I was very hurt and
40:13
I was very disappointed recently.
40:16
Well, it's been probably about six months, 8 months ago or so,
40:19
I got turned into HR at work and and I was, yeah, totally taken
40:25
by surprise. I'm a I'm, I'm a little, I'm
40:27
more embarrassed by it and more ashamed of it.
40:30
So what happened was we are judged, remember, on those
40:35
LPV's. So we're ranked in our company.
40:39
So explain. What LPV's are?
40:41
Just people looking at our articles online.
40:44
Past podcast, okay. Yeah.
40:45
And so, so just so you know, from a radio point standpoint,
40:49
you are not, at least at my company, you are judged not on
40:53
your personality, not on your ability to be on the air, any of
40:57
these different things. You are now judged on how many
41:01
views an article you write gets, period.
41:03
And then you're pitted against each other.
41:05
You've been a part of this where it's like, well, oh, great job,
41:09
Rick on that article. But did you see so and So's
41:12
article? And they're expecting us to be
41:13
journalists, and we're not journalists in the first place.
41:16
So, so I had made an offhand comment to a Co worker.
41:20
Now they're they're anonymous. So I'm not going to drop their
41:23
name or anything because I'm going to get more in charge.
41:26
They they didn't tell me who it was, but I knew who it was
41:28
because I know what I said. And I was talking to a Co worker
41:32
about the fact that I was not going to hit the goal.
41:35
And you know how I am about hitting what I right And I just
41:40
said in passing, if if I don't hit goal, I'm going to hurt
41:46
somebody now jokingly. Right.
41:50
Jokingly and I had made the joke and I hadn't made the joke that
41:54
I was going to send my I was going to made.
41:56
I made the joke that I was going to spend send my giant yellow
41:59
truck to the front door. Oh no, in passing.
42:05
I mean, that's almost as bad as I'm going to go home and get my
42:08
gun and come back. Well, not even thinking about
42:11
that. So anyway, so Patty, it was an
42:16
awkward thing. So we're working in the studio.
42:18
Patty, a gal named Megan from HR, reaches out to Patty and
42:22
says, hey, do you have time to talk da, da.
42:23
And she goes, oh, yeah, da, da, da.
42:25
And she goes, she goes, I don't know why they want to talk to
42:27
me. Why HR wants to talk to me.
42:29
Anyway, I go, I don't know. And so a couple days later I get
42:34
a call from Megan from HR and she goes, hey, can we talk to
42:37
you? And I said, yeah, absolutely.
42:38
And she's like, she goes, yeah, you've said some, you said some
42:40
stuff to a Co worker recently about hurting, hurting yourself
42:45
or, or other people. What?
42:49
And I said it was just about the LP VS.
42:51
And so I was, I was very upset. So they did not, they did not go
42:57
to my they did not go to the market manager.
42:59
They did not go to my boss. They reached out to Patty.
43:03
I had asked if Patty was safe around me.
43:07
I I mean because she's a female, not I could see because she's if
43:12
she works with you like. You're in the show together.
43:15
Together. Yeah, so hours.
43:17
So then, so then I got on the, I got on the phone with this, this
43:20
Megan person and I, I said, Oh my God.
43:22
I said I'm, I said I, I said I'm sorry, offended.
43:25
You know how you feel when you realize, oh, you might have,
43:27
yes, overstepped. I mean, but you know me well
43:29
enough to know there's not a violent bone in my body.
43:32
No. Like like at all period, like I
43:35
would be the least likely ever to do anything a physical.
43:38
You already know how I I don't like violence, you know.
43:42
So and they and so she goes, well, we understand that.
43:45
I mean, and so she goes, well, we're going to send you an
43:47
e-mail. You just have to confirm that
43:49
you said these things and that you won't say those things
43:51
again. So and, and I was, I was pretty
43:54
hurt. I was pretty upset.
43:55
I was embarrassed, hurt, angry, all the things you go through
43:59
because this Co worker just couldn't come to me and talk to
44:01
me. And so on our backside of our
44:04
website there's a whistleblower where you can remain anonymous
44:08
and you can whistleblow if you see something you don't agree
44:10
with. So it got.
44:13
When I was there because I would have.
44:16
Been doing it right it got. It.
44:18
Got it. Got resolved.
44:19
But what was interesting is the the HR sidestepped the market
44:23
manager and sidestepped my boss. And so they didn't even know
44:26
what was going on. So they were pretty upset by the
44:30
fact that they were talking to Patty.
44:32
Right. So, and I know who said it, and
44:37
Patty said she could not believe it, that when I saw that person,
44:41
how nice I was to them, like just just didn't.
44:46
She goes, She goes, you act. You acted like nothing ever
44:49
happened. I'm like, yeah, because it was
44:50
anonymous. I know who I said it to.
44:52
There was only one person I said it to.
44:54
I knew who it was and I said, I said I can't.
44:56
Acknowledge that you know who the person is, so.
44:59
And she goes, I'm and she goes, I'm surprised you're not
45:01
retaliating, you're not upset, you're not that.
45:03
Type. Of person I'm not if you know
45:05
anything about me, I was more embarrassed, right?
45:08
That I, that I, that I misstepped.
45:10
And then I just realized man, OK, watch your tongue, right?
45:14
Yeah. And and this person, apparently
45:16
I did not realize this had gone to our boss in previous months.
45:19
And so I have another Co worker and myself when it was coming to
45:22
those LPV's, we were competing. Mm hmm.
45:25
We've talked about this where I, if I, if someone wants to
45:27
compete with me, it's not not going to end well.
45:31
So what happened was she, that person had already talked to my
45:35
boss about I'm really worried about so and so and Rick and,
45:39
and, and my boss goes, they're fine.
45:43
Let them, That's just who they are.
45:44
Let them do what they're going to do.
45:47
They're they're not a they're not going to hurt anybody.
45:50
They're not a threat to anybody, right?
45:53
Or to each other. This is their personalities.
45:56
This is this person new like? They were, they were they the
46:00
good news, they moved on to corporate.
46:02
So they, they work at corporate now.
46:03
And so they're not, they're not in our building.
46:05
So, but I just then I just realized and that was a stark
46:10
reminder. Oh, mind your PS and QS.
46:13
So I'm not defending myself. Hey, I, I messed up.
46:15
I, I even told the, I said, can I apologize?
46:17
And they're like, no, we don't. You're not allowed to know who
46:20
it is. And I go I know and I go I know
46:22
who it is. So I felt the best way to handle
46:25
it was just be nice to them and not not ever mention it.
46:28
And I never did. I never mentioned it that just
46:30
be. Careful what you say around.
46:32
That you learn a lesson, you learn a lesson.
46:33
So it takes you back to the Gary Meyer thing you just said that
46:36
that this that it really has changed and you got to be you
46:39
got to be careful. But you know, I'm saying, yeah,
46:43
so I've had a few run insurance through my career that I'm.
46:47
I've had some couple spotty things where I'm glad I got
46:52
through those things. It didn't get sued.
46:55
Well, I don't know about getting sued.
46:56
I didn't do anything that would get me sued.
46:58
But you know you. I mean, it's all about growing
47:01
up. It's even at middle age.
47:03
You make mistakes, Michelle. Oh, definitely.
47:06
You say things like you didn't say that like you weren't really
47:11
like that's just who you are as a person.
47:13
But like you would say that in joke and just and for those of
47:17
us who know, you know that that's who you are as a person.
47:20
But if people don't know you know your personality, then
47:25
yeah, they would totally take it differently.
47:26
Well. Just was intended.
47:28
Yeah, just like when we're in a competitive situation, you know
47:30
my favorite line, I'm gonna gut you like a fish.
47:33
Remember I've said that. A billion.
47:34
Yes. But I've said it with a lot more
47:36
choice words in a Rick rant. Right.
47:39
We haven't talked about a Rick. Rant.
47:40
We have not. We'll do that.
47:41
We'll say that for another podcast.
47:42
I don't even know. I don't even know if I can
47:44
replicate a Rick rant. I know.
47:46
They have to be spontaneous. There's.
47:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It has to be totally.
47:50
They're totally spontaneous. In there, like I don't think you
47:53
ever did you Rick, rant at me. No.
47:57
I don't think you ever it would be, I would be in the room with
48:00
you and you would be Rick ranting about somebody else, but
48:03
it was. So what makes the Rick Rat
48:05
special is it's it's always at the situation and never at a.
48:10
Person. Person, Yeah.
48:12
It's always at a situation. If you're going to get a Rick
48:14
rat, it's always at the situation.
48:16
It's never at the person, no. No, but when you're in it,
48:21
you're like, holy shit. Oh, yeah.
48:24
What did it was so funny was Jesse, she's still with us.
48:28
She's a sales manager. She said that when she came
48:31
first come to work at Town Square, she'd heard about a Rick
48:33
rant because I never heard a Rick rant.
48:36
And then? One day something went wrong.
48:38
Since she went, something went wrong and her and her cubicle
48:41
was right next to Jamie Stickles office and she said she had
48:44
never heard more colorful F words in a row.
48:47
And brilliantly, brilliantly, as she said, executed.
48:51
So, so and she goes. She goes and she goes.
48:53
It was a thing of beauty. Yeah, they are masterful.
48:58
I do have to say. It's some good entertainment,
49:01
let me tell you. Yeah.
49:02
People are, and when they happen, you're like, what?
49:04
The he has, yeah. When you're in it with you,
49:08
you're just like, what is going on, right?
49:11
Like I had nothing. I'm like, I had nothing to do
49:13
with this. I don't know.
49:14
Why? But but it's such a it's almost
49:17
like an Incredible Hulk thing where it's such a rarity.
49:20
It's not like it happens like every day or even every.
49:22
Couple. No, they are very rare.
49:24
I think you have to like be really tipped over the edge
49:28
when. I met dinner my.
49:29
Like they like build up and build up and build up inside you
49:33
and then something happens and you just.
49:35
Like and it's not and it's so funny.
49:38
It's it's what makes them hilarious is I'm not throw, I
49:40
don't throw anything or any. It's not that.
49:42
It's just words. Yeah, it's just you like ratchet
49:46
it up. It's just yeah, right.
49:51
And then it's and then it's just the the F words go every, every
49:55
combination you can think of. The creative language of of the
50:00
of the, of the adversary is always hilarious.
50:02
Yeah, yeah. So.
50:04
I think even I learned some F word combinations from you.
50:08
I didn't even know and so and I'm the cusser of the two of.
50:12
Us well, I learned I mean it's so funny so around this person
50:14
that that filed the HR complaint, I went oh crap.
50:17
You know, people around me like Patty or the people I have seen
50:21
on an occasion of Rick rat they've seen it so they're used
50:24
to it like like Paul's seen it. My bosses have seen it.
50:27
I mean it's not like it doesn't harm anybody.
50:29
It's just a there it goes, you know, great.
50:32
It's just you just getting out. The frustration.
50:36
Built on. Right, the frustration of it all
50:38
and she was one of those people that I went oh, I went my little
50:41
brain goes Ding Ding, Ding, Ding.
50:42
You can never do that around her because she is going to go tell
50:47
even and it had it didn't even The funny thing it didn't
50:49
involve her. That's what's so that that it
50:52
was so interesting that that and and as you've learned, So here's
50:55
what you've learned. If you if and you and I've been,
50:57
I've been a manager for a lot of years.
50:59
So here's what I learned. If two people are talking about
51:01
something and there's a third person that just happens to hear
51:04
something and doesn't like what you're talking about, it doesn't
51:07
matter what these two people were talking about.
51:09
You still did you still upset somebody, But you can sit there
51:13
and go. But but I was only talking to
51:14
Michelle. I wasn't talking to, you know,
51:16
Sarah Beth down the hallway. Well, Sarah Beth heard it.
51:20
Yeah, and has a right to file a complaint against you.
51:24
But I'm like, but I wasn't talking to Sarah Beth.
51:26
Well, she heard. Well.
51:29
Lessons. You learned.
51:30
Yep, sorry about that. All right, we're running short
51:32
on time, but I do want to let's talk about the blossom thing.
51:35
And we had several other things. We always talk about, but I do
51:38
ask a Blossom fan. Yes, Blossom.
51:41
I mean, not massive, but I've really loved her show.
51:43
Probably Blossom and Punky Brewster and yeah I.
51:46
I think those are all cheats I love.
51:48
Yes, and there I had read that there was going to be a Blossom
51:52
reboot because Maya Bialik has talked about it, but she just
51:57
announced that it's being scrapped by Disney, so it's not
52:01
going to happen now, which I was completely disappointed.
52:05
I think it would have been an amazing show.
52:06
And if you think about all the reboots that we've had, so like
52:10
we just mentioned, like Punky Brewster, the full house one Sex
52:14
in the City has a reboot 90210 It's like they they've all been
52:18
reboot. So why why not blossom?
52:20
I think it would have been a good reboot.
52:23
And then I was thinking, well, what other shows have not had a
52:27
reboot that I would love to see? Golden Girls.
52:29
Golden Girls, for one. Oh yeah.
52:32
The facts of life, which they've talked about that, but.
52:35
Some, Yeah, one of the one of them, one of.
52:37
Them didn't they sabotage or they wanted more?
52:39
Sabotages. So they so they were going to go
52:41
on as a team, yes. Going to go on as a team.
52:44
And then one of them sabotaged for more money or did something.
52:47
And you know what? It always shocks me because I do
52:50
love her and adore her. Nancy McKeon, who played Joe who
52:54
who has not been in a lot of the reboot or a lot of the movies
52:57
and different things because she's been busy doing other
52:59
things, right. One of my favorite characters.
53:01
You would think that she would be the one not wanting to do
53:03
this stuff. And it's not her.
53:06
Like it's not, it's not Joe, it's not Nancy McKeon.
53:08
I want, I don't want to, I don't want to pick on Blair, but.
53:11
I was going to say, it's the actress who played Blair, isn't
53:14
it? Yeah, I know it is.
53:15
Lisa Winchell and I, I think I and she's and she looks the same
53:18
age. I mean, she is shockingly looks
53:21
identical. I mean, she looks like, you
53:22
know, even today. I mean if you have a good
53:24
plastic surgeon you can still look.
53:25
Good. Well, I know that Mindy Kahn had
53:27
been talking about it on a podcast, and she goes, yeah, she
53:29
goes. I won't tell you who it is, but
53:31
if you go to my Instagram, she'll be the only one that's
53:33
missing. And so you go there and you're
53:35
like, Oh, well, there's, there's two.
53:37
Missing. And there's Natalie and there's
53:39
Joe. Where's Where's Blair?
53:41
I'm like Blair? Blair got kicked.
53:45
And also designing women. I don't know if you watch that
53:48
show, but I loved that show. I.
53:49
Am not as familiar with designing women.
53:51
I mean, I know other. Girls Shows.
53:52
So I know Dixie Carter's on it. Delta Burke.
53:54
I mean, you know, I am AI. Am Mark who's in hacks now and I
53:57
love hacks. Hacks is.
53:59
Amazing. I do have the ability as you
54:01
know, I am a a pop pop junkie or pop, you know pop junkie.
54:05
So I I know I know who usually is in a lot of stuff.
54:08
So perfect strangers. Oh, that's a great one.
54:10
That'll be a good reboot of Wings.
54:13
Nobody remembers Wings and we're always like.
54:15
See again, Christopher Nard, Tim Daly.
54:18
So I I was just for those are great shows.
54:22
I think I was just a little too young.
54:24
I kind of well, I will. You're older.
54:26
Than I am what are you. Talking about I think the big
54:28
deal is I, I, I was thinking about the 90s and why I seem to
54:31
have missed a lot of those shows.
54:33
I was doing nights on radio at the time, 6 to midnight.
54:37
So you would how did I miss, how did I miss all that primetime
54:40
TV? Well, guess what, I was working
54:42
6 to midnight. I worked 6:00 to midnight.
54:44
Oh my gosh, almost up to the early 2000s.
54:47
I mean, I was, I was, again, we've talked about I was not the
54:50
I was not the morning guy or the star person at all, not even
54:54
close. I was lucky to do nights.
54:57
I suck. I suck so bad.
54:59
I had to do nights a lot of for a lot of years.
55:03
Did you because you all you went right into middays, right?
55:05
Or did you do nights? No, I went right into middays
55:08
because I'm right again. Back then that was the only time
55:11
slot for females, remember? Like.
55:13
That's. The place that you went and
55:14
that's the only place that you went or did you do morning Co
55:17
host? Did you do 6 to midnight at KXTD
55:19
or not? I would fill in for Todd Lyons
55:25
because. He did the first got started was
55:26
more midnight to six, I guess. Yes, midnight to six on the.
55:29
Weekends. On the weekends and then you did
55:32
get like the midday slot. No.
55:35
Then I went to Prosser right and got the midday slot and then
55:38
came there and then KFFM. Got it.
55:41
Got it. I see.
55:42
Yeah. That's my pedigree.
55:44
Yeah, I spent, I spent a lot of years doing the night time
55:47
because I, you know, I and I'll leave you with 1 great story,
55:52
which always hurt my feelings too.
55:54
Mike McCabe, you know Mike McCabe the weather guy.
55:58
Yeah, over at Kaima in your market and keeper in my market,
56:02
yeah. So he and I, believe it or not,
56:04
have known each other for a long, long time because he's.
56:07
From Idaho, right? He is from Sunnyside, he's from
56:10
Sunnyside, WA, but he had made his way to Lewiston, ID and so.
56:15
He. Yes, we know each other.
56:16
So he, we were both working at Cat FM and he really wanted to
56:20
get. So he'd done a little bit of
56:21
weather reporting, but he wanted to get back into it.
56:25
So what happened was they felt that he was a better air talent
56:31
on the radio and they put him, they slotted him 6 to midnight
56:34
and I had to do midnight to six. And then and then he ended up
56:37
doing weather at KLEW, which is the Lewiston TV station.
56:41
And that's how he ended up at KYNA.
56:43
He transferred later. But it always it always hurt my
56:46
feelings that they picked Mike and Mikey and I are great buds
56:50
over these years. But the hilarity now looking
56:53
like well, look who's had the great an amazing radio career.
56:58
Right. I mean, and he and he even
57:00
acknowledged, even Mikey acknowledges.
57:02
And then you've had an incredible career and I really
57:03
have been blessed and had an amazing radio career.
57:05
But back in those early days, Michelle, I got I, I people got
57:10
picked over me every. I mean, it was like being on a
57:12
team. I always got.
57:13
I never got picked. Right.
57:15
I mean, kind of the same thing kind of happened to me.
57:17
I was so young was part of the problem too.
57:20
And being young and a female back then like we just
57:24
mentioned, I only females only did the midday time slot back
57:27
then. But everybody just would always
57:30
consider me the kid or I didn't. I never had enough experience no
57:35
matter how much I worked or how better I improved.
57:38
Like I never had enough experience, like I never was
57:42
going to get a full time time slot at KX Double D because of
57:45
that. I think they just never viewed
57:47
me as having ever experiences. And in today's world, it's such
57:52
a joke because you can have as many females back-to-back as you
57:56
want. You can have as many female
57:57
artists back-to-back, sweepers back-to-back.
58:00
We now put nobody with experience in morning Drive.
58:04
No, that's how. I was told, like, women aren't
58:07
going to like you. Right.
58:08
And oh, and oh, you got to pay your dues.
58:12
Yes, our good friend Cheyenne, who I've known Cheyenne.
58:16
Cheyenne was in radio for a year and a half before she went to a
58:20
major market, Phoenix, AZ. Because they don't look at that
58:24
anymore. Back in the day, you work in
58:26
Yakima, Yeah. You're not working in Seattle or
58:29
Portland. Yeah.
58:30
No. You're gonna.
58:30
You're gonna have to work your way up, yeah.
58:33
Market, remember that the old radio, remember the old radio
58:35
dues and you got to pay your dues and all those different
58:38
things. And now in, in in LA, they'll
58:42
just slide. Well, you never been on the
58:43
radio. Great.
58:44
You're a social influencer. So good.
58:47
Yep, you're in right, right. Well, now they're like, well,
58:49
how many YouTube followers do you have?
58:50
How many Instagram followers do you have?
58:52
And we slot people based on that nowadays.
58:55
So it's kind of it's kind of fascinating.
58:56
I will leave you with two reboots out that I think would
58:58
be awesome. So if you're talking my favorite
59:01
shows. As for me, Silver Spoons.
59:05
Yes, Oh my gosh. And family ties.
59:09
Yes. Michael J Fox to me, if you're
59:11
asking, you know, for me, Michael J Fox, family ties and
59:15
silver spoons are like my childhood.
59:17
Like yes. Right, so.
59:20
If you're talking, I don't know. Superman's already.
59:22
Superman's already been rebooted, right?
59:25
A billion times and I'm a little bummed, you know, I mean, again,
59:28
I, I try not to put politics into into it because hey,
59:30
everybody has a right to their opinion.
59:32
But Dean Kane has now been is is the Superman that's, you know,
59:35
joined ice ice. Right.
59:37
You know, and then, and then even Rick Schroeder gave money
59:39
to the Kyle Rittenhouse kid, shot up those people.
59:44
So I don't try. I mean, I try not to hold that
59:47
because I tried not to hold the TV show again.
59:49
You know, I try to enjoy the TV show for what it was.
59:53
Right. Not the personality of the actor
59:55
or actress that has sadly disappointed me.
59:58
Right. Well, I mean.
1:00:00
I'm sure it's going to be more for both of us.
1:00:02
But so for me, because, yeah, for the 90s, I was a kind of a
1:00:04
Blair, I was kind of a blank because of all the radio work I
1:00:07
was doing. But yeah, a team silver spoon,
1:00:10
Family time A. Team has been rebooted.
1:00:12
Yeah, that was. So has like MacGyver.
1:00:16
I think even another writer has. Yep, Yep.
1:00:18
Knight Rider, MacGyver. See, those are my, like, right
1:00:21
in the heart of my, of my, yeah, right in the heart of my
1:00:23
childhood. For me, of course, doing
1:00:25
nighttime radio. I miss Seinfeld and Friends, and
1:00:28
I know of them. I know of I, I mean, again, I
1:00:31
know those shows who starred in them, but I'm not as passionate
1:00:35
because I just didn't, I didn't get to see them first run.
1:00:40
And this is a reboot right here. If you're curious, what's a
1:00:42
reboot? This is a.
1:00:44
This is a reboot. I mean, it is, yeah.
1:00:47
Did you see the comment from one of actually one of our former Co
1:00:51
workers shut it down, Shut it down on our Instagram.
1:00:57
That was like, oh, seeing you 2 together warms my heart or
1:01:01
something like that. And I was like, oh, thank you.
1:01:04
So. So yeah, our reboot is at least
1:01:08
affecting a few people. All right, I love.
1:01:10
I love it. I love.
1:01:11
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gets out there. Throw some topics out.
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We, you know what? We've not encouraged you to
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throw some topics out if you've got some topics if you want to.
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You want to know more about my psyche or Michelle's psyche or
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questions you've been dying to ask?
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As you can tell, I've been incredibly transparent on this
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podcast. Too much.
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Yeah, yeah. Too much, I probably get it in
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trouble for the HR situation. Because I'm sure because.
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That wasn't that. Aren't those things supposed to
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be private? I didn't say names.
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I. Did you?
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What did you sign? I signed a letter acknowledging
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that I had said what I said. That was it.
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But nothing. I was like, oh, you can't.
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Talk about and they you can't said well, this wasn't going in
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your file. This is just a a reminder that
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you know, don't go against the employee handbook.
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Shit, I go against the employee handbook every day.
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What are you talking about? Why did you have to sign
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something? It's like a thing in your no.
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Just an e-mail. It was an acknowledgement.
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It wasn't. It was like I I received your
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e-mail. Thank you, Grandmaster.
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I will be better. I promise.
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I promise. Be better.
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Well, thank you for listening to Rick and I'm Michelle Chick.