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C.T.C.S Episode 223 Snow Is Coming CT's Big FU And Taste Testing Calm · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: How many times have you gotten inside the car and
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  Speaker 1: what's up? My name is ct When I'm not busy
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  Speaker 1: being Arrow the Podcaster, I live in the real world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean everybody has to have a job, right Mine
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  Speaker 1: just happens to be CUS customer service, you know, solutions relationships,
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  Speaker 1: keeping your team motivated, to keep that constant connection going
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  Speaker 1: with each and every person who has chosen to stop
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  Speaker 1: into your location. I mean, seriously, what are the chances
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  Speaker 1: they'll ever come back? Did you do anything special? Episode
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  Speaker 1: number two twenty three Snow is on the way, the
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  Speaker 1: big ct FU and taste testing calm. What is this
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  Speaker 1: all about? Transition Walk Day number one had a four
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  Speaker 1: out here in this forest, ye know, that's the one
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  Speaker 1: thing about a window. I always talk about the writing
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  Speaker 1: window or a window from inside the podcasting studio. You
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  Speaker 1: look out that window, you see that bright sunshine, you think,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, this is a gorgeous, warm southern day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: until you get out here and it's barely thirty two degrees.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, wow, how do you move through something like this?
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  Speaker 1: That's me thinking about the construction workers, the police officers,
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  Speaker 1: all of those that have to live on the outside
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  Speaker 1: of those four walls. And that's what I take in
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  Speaker 1: to see us, is that when I meet you and
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  Speaker 1: you've got one of these positions, I've got empathy.
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  Speaker 2: I've got compassion for you. That's all I love about
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 1: That you're with real people with real laughs. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: stealing from another radio show. I'm just saying, when you're
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  Speaker 1: with real people with real laughs, now you have a
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  Speaker 1: purpose and a plan to serve your community.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's a freezing out here. Who you hear that wind?
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  Speaker 3: I'll see you at CS.
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  Speaker 1: I don't expect the average consumer to understand this. When
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  Speaker 1: you work at a grocery store, especially me, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: the put back king.
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  Speaker 2: So you grab the things and you get them off
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  Speaker 2: that counter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see any of that stuff up
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  Speaker 1: there on that counter area at all, because people judge
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  Speaker 1: you immediately. So I'm taking back a six pack of
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  Speaker 1: mountain Dew that's got some.
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  Speaker 2: Crap in it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's got some crapping it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I don't want to take a guess,
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  Speaker 1: put the tape on it, take it to the back. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I've been gone for three days. I picked up that
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  Speaker 1: six pack of mountain dew for some efn reason.
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  Speaker 2: It's heavy.
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  Speaker 3: It's heavy. How can a six pack of soda be
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  Speaker 3: heavy to carry? Oh crap, what is this leading to?
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  Speaker 2: And now ctsieve of the Week? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Only two breaks in the CTCs and Marty doing a
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  Speaker 1: pet peeve of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The people who hire I swear to God, they don't
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  Speaker 1: think about the repercussions of their so called Oh I
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  Speaker 1: found someone who's gonna help us, and then that someone
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  Speaker 1: is a no call nose show or basically, they come
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  Speaker 1: up with the rules of how they can't do something
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  Speaker 1: and then who suffers. But the rest of the players
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  Speaker 1: and the people that did hire them, well, what do
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  Speaker 1: they do while they sit around in their offices and
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  Speaker 1: they count the chickens up on the wall. Well, there
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  Speaker 1: aren't no chickens up there. I'm telling you I know
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  Speaker 1: that already. But yeah, I wish that the hiring practices
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  Speaker 1: of corporate America would wake up.
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  Speaker 2: I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to the psychologists, I talk to the different
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  Speaker 1: people when it comes to hiring.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing it so effing wrong.
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  Speaker 1: NFL playoffs this weekend, which means that people are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be crowding the store up because their favorite team is playing,
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  Speaker 1: or they could be a transfer fan, and so people
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  Speaker 1: are buying, buying, buying because everybody's gonna throw a reason
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  Speaker 1: to throw a party. Because everybody's gonna have a reason
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  Speaker 1: to throw a party. And the problem is is that
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  Speaker 1: that nobody usually knows what to bring. So it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna bring wine. Oh, we're gonna bring the cheese.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get the chips, and then we're gonna get there.
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  Speaker 1: There's eighty billion dollars worth of chip's there.
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  Speaker 2: But no meat. Oh you forgot the meat. A No,
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  Speaker 2: I'll get that at the next game.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, here's a little twist in the plan which is
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  Speaker 1: going to effect the next three days or maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little bit longer, depending on what really happens.
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  Speaker 2: On the opposite side.
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  Speaker 1: The official forecast weather forecast says there's snow on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday is a big day for the playoffs, Sunday is
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  Speaker 1: a big day for shopping.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday Sunday will it's snow and if it snows? A
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  Speaker 1: who comes to work? Who's gonna drive in? Who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: make sure they're here and be our guests?
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  Speaker 2: Do they walk in? Because here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I've been that weenie, even though I'm from the state
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  Speaker 1: of Montana. My excuse has always been and this is
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  Speaker 1: what makes me a weenie, a real and that is
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  Speaker 1: is that you don't pay me enough to pay for
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  Speaker 1: my pickup. If I reckon because of the snowstorm, I
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  Speaker 1: ain't coming in the moment you know that you have
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  Speaker 1: stepped on someone's toes. I laugh at that because I
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  Speaker 1: am a conversationalist.
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  Speaker 2: It is one percent radio.
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  Speaker 1: You can take the four walls of a terrestrial radio
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  Speaker 1: station away from me, but you can't ever take away
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  Speaker 1: the radio guy. He's always going to be there. So
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  Speaker 1: at our bar, which is a beer and wine bar.
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  Speaker 1: Here at the store, I like to go over and
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  Speaker 1: kick up a great conversation. I like to just you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe it's just a Southern thing, just just kick
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  Speaker 1: up a conversation, laugh a little bit, and just just
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  Speaker 1: feel good about whatever moment you're creating.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is the second time this has happened.
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  Speaker 1: I've gone over there to laugh about different things and
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  Speaker 1: talk about, you know, the latest in content, to try
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  Speaker 1: out new material on different things.
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  Speaker 2: And the bar looks me and says, you can go now,
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  Speaker 2: what you can go? You can go. That's twice now
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  Speaker 2: within a two week period. You can go now.
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  Speaker 1: And it's almost like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I get it, I get it. This is your zone.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Who hey, please don't move. There's more CTCs right around
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  Speaker 1: the corner, the big ct FU, moaning like Tim Allen
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  Speaker 1: and tasting the sting in calm. Hey, I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank you for coming back to CTCs this time around
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  Speaker 1: the big CTF you moaning like Tim Allen and the
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  Speaker 1: taste of calm. Ooh, we gotta check this out. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to CTCs.
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  Speaker 2: Transition Walk, day number two out of four. Who what
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  Speaker 2: is it like?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty one degrees inside this forest and now there is
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  Speaker 1: snow in the forecast. Of course, Jazzy, my beautiful disaster artist,
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for another blanket of snow, so it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be quite interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's what happens here in the South.
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  Speaker 1: When there's any idea that any type of white stuff
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be falling from the sky.
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  Speaker 2: People freak out.
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  Speaker 1: And I would say that some of them started to
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  Speaker 1: believe it yesterday. But as we get closer the snow day,
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  Speaker 1: which is Sunday, a couple of days away, forty eight hours,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna get rough and it's gonna get crowded. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna feel like there's a hurricane out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the way. But it's just snow, snow, snow.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm injured. So I got injured pretty badly last
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  Speaker 1: night my right foot. I could barely walk to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, I could barely walk this morning. I've done
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  Speaker 1: my stretching exercises. I'm out here in this forest and
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  Speaker 1: I'm relying on this soil to help give me a
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  Speaker 1: good old Southern healing.
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  Speaker 2: I need a healing. Bring me a Southern preacher and
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  Speaker 2: let me feel that healing. Let that happen to me. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can.
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  Speaker 1: Feel it from the universe, God Almighty, I'll see you
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  Speaker 1: at see us.
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  Speaker 2: A big factory.
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  Speaker 1: He's going good, right down, he's up at the bus.
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  Speaker 2: Stop right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, so here's your pickle.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's always yep. This is how I started day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're going into a brand new weekend snow
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  Speaker 1: of the forecast. People here are gonna steal no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing I can do about it.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that you can do is just make
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  Speaker 1: sure that our guests don't feel.
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  Speaker 2: A third world grocery store. Oh yeah, we.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'll take you to the scene of CT's big
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  Speaker 1: fuck up of the day, the big fuck up, fuck up,
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  Speaker 1: fuck up.
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  Speaker 2: You know you.
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  Speaker 1: Muscle memory is something that I put a lot of
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  Speaker 1: trust in. Maybe it's the martial artist in me, but sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't trust my my muscle memory.
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  Speaker 2: And today was one of those examples.
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  Speaker 1: A gentleman that was paying for his rent twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hundred ninety nine dollars, and what did I do. I
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  Speaker 1: went over to the money order and I wrote it up.
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  Speaker 1: And he said that he was trying to send it
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  Speaker 1: through Whip, which is through Western Union.
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  Speaker 2: I fucked up.
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  Speaker 1: I did the money orders twenty four hundred ninety nine dollars. Crap,
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  Speaker 1: is somebody gonna get written up here because I did
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  Speaker 1: it through the money order?
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  Speaker 2: Wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Wrong, the actual repercussions of that two hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: six dollars rip off.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, the general manager comes up and says, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys like to stand behind the counter here at customer service.
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  Speaker 1: You should be out there. You can stop this stuff
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  Speaker 1: long beforeham. If you feel he had too much soap,
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  Speaker 1: which is more than number one, you can go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and go up there and let him know that you
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  Speaker 1: just have enough I on him. But you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to get away from the counter, is what you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to do. Really, Okay, In my five years we've
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  Speaker 1: been at customer service. We're supposed to be at customer
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  Speaker 1: service who serve those that come to customer service. But
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: now you're saying to get out there on basically the path.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Do whatever you want me to do, but hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna sit here, and I'm not gonna sit here
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  Speaker 1: and profile someone because they got two things at a digent. No,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that, but you're thinking and going don't
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  Speaker 1: tell me that I have the right to go tell
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  Speaker 1: somebody who I think is stealing something and I find
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  Speaker 1: out they weren't.
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  Speaker 2: I gave it to the benefit of the doubts.
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  Speaker 1: I went over and talk to the employee that is
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  Speaker 1: in self checkout that was part of the two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty six dollars ripoff, and I asked him, I said, so,
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  Speaker 1: what would you do differently.
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  Speaker 2: The next time? He says, I should have locked.
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  Speaker 3: The cart, And I thought, what a brilliant idea.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is, though, is that I think they've
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  Speaker 1: got an extra key when it comes to those cards,
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  Speaker 1: because they're always getting out where the normal everyday person's going,
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  Speaker 1: what the fuck, man, why the fuck is this cart's
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  Speaker 1: stopping on me all the time. But that's that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do from now on. I'm just gonna lock
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  Speaker 1: the cart. And if they say that, I'm, you know,
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  Speaker 1: basically profiling it.
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  Speaker 2: So I just take the hit.
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  Speaker 1: I don'st feel like Tim Allen, you know, he's like
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  Speaker 1: the master of making sounds, those grunt sounds and moaning sounds.
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  Speaker 1: He's That's all I've been doing now for about two
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  Speaker 1: or three days.
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  Speaker 2: Huh oohoo, yeah, yeah, yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
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  Speaker 1: You know, And so instead of talking, I'm just basically
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  Speaker 1: showing my emotions. And it's like, it's like, do people
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  Speaker 1: think that who's the old motherfucker over there? All he
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  Speaker 1: does is.
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  Speaker 2: Grunt who go hoo, go oh go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm making these sounds and it's
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  Speaker 1: just like, maybe it's just a loss of interest or something.
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  Speaker 1: I do have my jealousy moments here at the grocery store,
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  Speaker 1: and there's serious jealousy moments, but I learned from them.
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  Speaker 1: Fatherhood has changed in this country from where we are
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  Speaker 1: today versus where I was in the lower part of
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies up to teenage years in nineteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 1: and that is we never went grocery shopping with my father.
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  Speaker 1: So as I walk down the aisles and I see
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  Speaker 1: a father with their kids and they're deciding what cereal
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  Speaker 1: are we gonna do? Or they're deciding what are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna have tonight? We're gonna do tacos? Are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: do hot dogs? And just the fact that he's involved
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  Speaker 1: with them and they're diplomatically they're trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what dinner is or what breakfast is gonna be. I
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  Speaker 1: get a little jealous of that because I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: that with my father. My father would never be caught
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  Speaker 1: dead in a grocery.
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  Speaker 2: Store with his kids, well, because we.
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  Speaker 1: Were the Anthony's, and the Anthonys would drive you fucking insane.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, if my sister was part of that, you
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  Speaker 1: knew that you'd be in that store and you'd have
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  Speaker 1: to figure out a way to calm her ass down.
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  Speaker 2: The snow of the forecast for this coming Sunday, do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's gonna snow? I mean, you grew up
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  Speaker 2: in this area.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a whole life, dude, all all eighteen years Wow. Wow, Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy the geek, I know you're not gonna be here
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  Speaker 1: when it's snowing, but you does it feel like snow?
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  Speaker 1: I mean you've been outside, I mean temperature wise, it
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  Speaker 1: sure does feel like it's December again, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: typically you're Charlie, January is a lot colder than December time.
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  Speaker 1: How much would you charge for me to uh, for
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  Speaker 1: you to come over and I need you to slip
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  Speaker 1: and fall on purpose just to entertain our guests. I
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  Speaker 1: want them to go, Oh my god, oh oh man,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: that's that's why I want you to I want but
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll pay you if you'll come over here
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  Speaker 1: and do slapstick like that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I sick.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: God, I'm just to make myself laugh because I'm just
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  Speaker 1: a loser.
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  Speaker 2: So no, but I get that though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, my my philosophy is is they
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  Speaker 1: think I'm weird, so I'm gonna have to prove it
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  Speaker 1: and so the but I mean, yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: because and I love watching people fall on ice.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and to.
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  Speaker 3: Hear it, oh god.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean it's so weird that you can hear
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  Speaker 1: the body hits.
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  Speaker 2: But then when they grown, man, that's like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you get shivers in your body.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, oh my god. Yeah. Kind of ice skinning.
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  Speaker 1: I went for the first time, and I kept slipping.
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  Speaker 1: I maybe more slips than you know, circles around the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to see you slip and fall on
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  Speaker 1: your back and all that kind of stuff, just for
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: the fun of it. Oh yea love of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the love of the game.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: That's all right, It's time for a taste test tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try something very new and very different. Never
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: had one of these before, never, So this is a
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  Speaker 1: virgin for me. But the product is called TRIP Mindful Blend,
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  Speaker 1: and this one's called Calm, and you find it in HBC,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: which is Health, Beauty and Cosmetics, I believe is what
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  Speaker 1: HBC stands for. But this is basically for people that
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: are doing melatonin at night, somebody who's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: some sleep, which henceforth the answer there or the actual title,
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  Speaker 1: which is Calm. So this will be the first time
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  Speaker 1: that I try this because normally what I do is
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: I go home and I have a THC infused shot
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  Speaker 1: and that gives me enough to just get, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get the grocery store out of my heart and
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: out of my mind so I can get whatever sleep
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get. So I've just opened up this
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  Speaker 1: new thing called Trip is what it's called. It is
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  Speaker 1: t r IP, and the aroma is unfreaking believable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it really is very fruity. Okay, I just
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  Speaker 2: tasted it. Oh God, this sucks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, wow, wow, wow God.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh god.
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  Speaker 2: It's got It's got Lion's main magnesium l el finane.
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  Speaker 2: I think is what it's called. I don't know. And
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: then uh swawanda or something. Oh Jesus is Oh it sucks.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more CTCs right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really going to snow? Oh, moodiness has set in.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: That's a weather system, right and to be or not
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  Speaker 1: to be wrong? Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCs.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really gonna snow out here? And what about
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: this moodiness? Is it connected to the weather? To be
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: or not to be wrong? Welcome back to CTCs Transition Walk,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Day number three out of four. Big change in the
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: weather plans. I didn't expect us at all. And I'm
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: somebody who's always got their nose all the way up
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to the top, almost like I'm brown nosing a boss.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: When it comes to the weather. I've got to know
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: what's going on with the weather. You know.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I'm on RVaR I perform outside. Weather is such a
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: major part of everything that I do because.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: It controls my moods? Am I the only one on this?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Can I have a hootoot? Anyway?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: They said the snow is coming today instead of tomorrow.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: So we've got a forty percent chance of snow today
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: and that changes everything because people may start taking this
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: pretty seriously.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Now they've it's been.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: The conversation for the past couple of days at the store,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: but it's not been something that people have been acting upon.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: So the snow is arriving a day early and it
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: is in the forecast again tomorrow.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: So accumulations. Yeah, they're saying we're gonna.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Have accumulations stuff, So it's gonna be very interesting.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I keep it positive.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I need to go in there with a candy coade
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: of plastic bathroom mear, smile, and basically fake my shit.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Just fake it. I don't care what kind of a
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: mood a man. Fake my shit, Okay, I'll see in CS.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I actually looked at a manager and I said, you know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: sometimes I think these people talk to me way too much.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It's not that I don't love them, because I do
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: love them a lot, but I think that they keep
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: taking the story on and on and on and it
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: goes too far. And I mean in the radio, I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: would just got your ass off. And the manager looks
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: at me and says, well, you quit being nice to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: them and they won't talk so much. And I said,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: you do realize that me having a conversation with them
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and being nice to them. You do realize that is
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the power of choice, right, I make the choice to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: be that way and to be that nice. I make
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the choice. And he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, well it
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: would be a good idea to change that choice. And
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I said, so are you going to answer the email
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: when the letters start coming back saying ceet, he's being
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: an asshole because you're either an asshole or you make
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the choice to be a happy guy up here with people.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And he goes, I don't want the asshole email. I said, hey,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: then let me go. I really am having a hard
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: time with this one, and seriously, and it's and it's
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: out of control to the point to where it's starting
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to affect me spiritually. And I mean, I'll bring up
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: things that I think are very much up to date.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I had a program director tell me one
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: time because I used to say, hey, it's a carbon
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: copy of the weather that we had yesterday. Program director
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: comes in and says, nobody says carbon copy anymore, dude,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we didn't even know what carbon copy is.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I do well because I lived.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: That day and so a few minutes ago I was
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: impersonating Casey Kasem. Nobody knew who it was I was
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: talking about, and you just sit there sometimes going fuck fuck.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: The old man is showing off his colors, and it's like,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I got to straighten this out. I really do, because
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: it is bugging the fucking.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Hell out of me. And now we're playing the game
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: of is CT right.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: We have been watching a family with two gigantic carts
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: full of food.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: After yesterday's two hundred and sixty six dollars it went out.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: My alarm is definitely if I have some PTSD going
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: on here because of that, because we got yelled at.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: It was our fault according to the manager. And so
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I saw this and right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Away I'm going, okay, we've got a couple of cars
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: we have to watch. They're at the register now. They
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: did not go to self check out. So usually when
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I see two things like this, my prediction is the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: bill's gonna come in, they're gonna have to pay it,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: They're gonna say, hey, it's.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Out in the car.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I'll be back, and they don't come back, and then
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I'm stuck putting it all the way.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Let's find out if I'm right and I was wrong.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: This is where I wanted to be yesterday with a
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty six dollars theft. I wanted to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: be wrong, and that's what I tried to get to
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: my GM. I wanted to be wrong, but I was Yesterday.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I was really wrong because I thought.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're gonna pay for it. Everything is fine. You know.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Here I am, oh man, it looks like it smells
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: like it must be.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And yesterday I was wrong.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Today here I am, I'm ready to go, man, because
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: they've got lots of food.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: They're gonna steal it.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm wrong, and you just you could just never
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: get it right, and you just feel like crap, because
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: now I feel like that I was profiling somebody, when
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: in fact, all it is is PTSD from yesterday's staff.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: That's your cavorite person, is it not. When she found me, yeah,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: she'll she'll get you or she'll get me. And then
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: uh and then so is she trying to do save
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: ten bucks? Well she had to spend one hundred to
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: get ten off. Hey, you spend ninety seven dollars something.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: That we could come off. And then she claims chicken wow,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: wow wow, But she found me. Yeah, she did find you,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: And you know What happens is is that they they're
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: out to get us.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: They make us feel like, crap, we're gonna try to
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: save you money. She's she's she's publicious. She uh.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: She asked me if we had a fuel station Florida.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you when you come back so far, and
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: she's like, it's I don't want to get into it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about it's one of those people that
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: found this everything, the fucking that picky.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but it's a painful thing. Some people are
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: just painful pieces of ship.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, I got I got you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I found something.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: So Nellie and I are going to be doing a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: taste test tonight. She can't look at what I've got, okay,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So the because we always do our taste test. So
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I went back there and I went, We've never done
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: this before.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, whoa what is that?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: This is the salted caramel cake for two?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're not looking incredible. I mean, look
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: at that caramel that's in there. So it's two layers
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of caramel chocolate frosting. The chocolate's up on top.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: What do you think, mia caramel chocolate cake?
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I don't care for caramels.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, so me is off the list. So it's got
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: chocolate up on top, and Nelly is the first. Wanted
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to jump into the chalk because that was it worth
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: it yet?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Was it good? I'm not going to gag like I
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: did on that stuff I drank last night. An't I
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: thank god?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I thought that was the end of the world last night.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: God.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, God, that's a solid case. No, no, igive that's
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to Brian. Brian is the m O D. So it's
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: like a chocolate flag. Mister Brian will credit the cake.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Now do you have a comedy machine or I like,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: I don't have.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I wish we did you want because.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: It would start something?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: All right, man, I haven't had it yet. You you
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: had a merit? What what do you think of it?
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: You haven't done it? Okay, here we go. Yeah, well
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: that's pretty good. How's your taste with the chocolate? You
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: go to the chocolate purse one, Nelly goes straight to
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the top.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: That's let's not dry at all.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, the chocolate with that caramel, Holy god,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: that's pretty intense.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: One of the pitfalls about driving home after ten pm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: is that you don't know what everybody's been doing before
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: they got on the road. Did they go out to dinner,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: did they drink? Did they go to the movie theater
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: because they serve alcohol there. What were they doing before
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: they hit that road? I'm here on this road. Yeah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: there's a four car accident. There are three cars here
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that are totaled. And maybe it's the dad in me,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the grandfather in me, But when you're seeing girls out
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: there that it looks like they're going to a prom,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a wedding, some that was very formal, and they're freezing.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: But I can't do anything because the fire department said
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: keep going, the police department said, no, you gotta keep going.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: And yet you just want to give them your jacket.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: You want to give them something to stay nice and warm.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: But it still makes you wonder what happened? What happened?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And those of us that are getting off in retail,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: be at the restaurants, be at the airport, at the hospitals.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: We've been putting in a lot of hours today and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: we get on these crazy ass roads where the drinkers,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the smokers, and those who just don't care are out here.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: You do wonder is tonight tonight just something to think
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: about transition walk day number four out of four. They
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: were supposed to be snow on the ground today. Huh,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: typical Carolina style. No snow, which now I feel like
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a total buffoon, like a radio person, like a meteorologist
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: on television, where they say it's gonna snow, it's gonna snow,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It's gonna snow. It's almost like Charlie Brown saying, hey,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: look the sky is falling.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Oh oh my god.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: And then eventually people, you know, they hear that wolf
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: crying in the middle of the night and they go, ah,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: there's not a wolf. Quit crying, wolf quit doing it.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: So it's called a shit out here. Though today I
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: mean it feels like snow. It's just not gonna happen.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: So okay, move forward.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: The playoffs continue when it comes to our professional football leagues,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and I just got my God on, so I'm not
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: gonna get all Jesus on you here, but I'll figure
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: out a way to put it in the normal street speak,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and we'll make our way into a brand new day,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the fourth one. And then finally, finally, finally I can
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: get some rest that ain't gonna happen.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: You know, you try to walk into the store in
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a great mood, you really do.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna put on a candy coat and plastic
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: bathroom mirror smile in a heartbeat. And it's a Sunday,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: it's crowded, the playoffs are r on. You know, just
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: fake it to make it. I mean, just just put
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: on the candy coated smile and you know, and you know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to me, I know it's lying. I feel like I'm
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a liar in front of everybody. And then they come
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: up to you and they say, oh, we're probably.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Gonna needed you to go out and be a bagger
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: again tonight.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Because somebody's not showing up in the meat apartment. And
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: then you're going, oh, wait a second, here, what the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: what seriously? And you're going, there's nobody here and I'm
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: gonna be the only male in the place. So that
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: means I'm going to be out there in this blistering
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: ass cold weather. And it's like, okay, are you gonna
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: be a big pussy about it? And I'm thinking to myself,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, I don't know what
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to say. I really don't because I'm really.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Fucking pissed off right now.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: You can absolutely tell that we live in the South
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: because where I was a little bit disappointed for personal reasons. Why,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you know, it was disappointing to see that there was
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: no snow today. I'm asking people here in this store,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: so did you miss it? I mean, did you want
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to have snow?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Are you really? Seriously? Are you kidding me?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: We don't want snow, We don't want any type of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: anything on the ground.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And this water is even driving us crazy.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: People were never happy. They are never happy. But that's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, it's like I was. I thought
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: for sure that people would be really kind of excited
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: about about getting some snow or even the threat of it,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and they're going, no, no, I really don't want it,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and they don't, not even the Northerners. I think my
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: biggest problem is everything else that I do on my
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Google calendar. I mean seriously, everything that I do is
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: what other people that are doing it as well. They
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: do it because they have the passion, they have the drive,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the ambition. They you know, they're gullible for it. They're
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: ready to go and take on the fricking day. You know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I have yet to meet anybody that treats working at
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a grocery store as being something that is the dream job.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I've got to do this.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: No, they're forced to take it because likely it's probably
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the only freaking job they can land. And so a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: grocery store is going to give you that opportunity.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: It's almost like one of those credit unions that say
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: we can rebuild your credit for you. The same is
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: true about a grocery store. They're gonna rebuild your resume
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: for you, but you're gonna have to give us some time.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And so people don't come to work because that's what
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: they're conditioned for. I you know, at the last job,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't have to show up. And if you don't
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: think that doesn't eat away at me.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: It does. And I'm not the only one. So don't
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: don't go into hiding. Start saying something about it. Hold
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: people accountable. What do they call this dry January?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: That means that people are trying to cut back on
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: their alcohol use, which is something they do since after
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the holidays, Well, we're gonna give you thirty one days
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to kind of clean your body back up. So they
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: called dry january. Being here at the store, I'm not
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: seeing that actually happen, but I have asked a lot
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: of restaurant owners and managers how their dry januaries are doing,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and they actually sat there and said that, you know
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that people are not coming in because they want to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: stay dry. They want to make sure that things are
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: looking good and having a great time, and if they
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: can't buy alcohol, they're not buying dinner. So yeah, it's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: definitely a dry, dry january and it's affecting business.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: There was one thing that people did.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Talk about a lot this past weekend, and that is
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the monks who are walking from Texas to Washington, d C.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: The monks, twelve to fifteen of them, came through Charlotte
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and it was astronomical the size of the crowds that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: greeted the monks as they walked through. It was a very,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: very very peaceful march, and it was just fascinating that
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: for all four days this weekend, that's all everybody talked about.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Did you see the monks? Did you see the monks?
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I saw the monks. Did you talk with the monks? Well,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: they didn't talk. It was very peaceful. But I just
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: thought that was very interesting that you don't have to
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: say a dang word and you can make a movement
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: something to think about. I don't want to get all freaky,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: weird spiritual on you or anything like that, but it's
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: you know, with all the different playoffs, you know, people
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: aiming for the super Bowl, all the politics and the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: threats of war around the world, here are these twelve
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to fifteen monks that go through Charlotte. Literally hundreds of
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: thousands of people go to the streets. They just want
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to be with the monks. And by the way, Buddhism
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: is not a religion, it is what you practice. So
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: therefore you can be in any religious study that you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: want and still still be someone who is associated with Buddhism. Hey,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this edition of CTCs.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Do me a favorite, create your own podcast? Yeah, because
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: we want to create a conversation. That's what it's all about.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Compare your notes with our notes. There's nothing wrong with that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Business is business is business is business, and you have
• 30:16
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• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Show off the wizard behind your curtain. I'll see you
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: next week on CTCs.