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Best Buy Refused to Sell Laptop Over Wrong Pronouns · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Greeting salutations, welcome my friends. Do another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: Power Hour on six ten Double U TV. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Douglas. You know who you are, and we take
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  Speaker 1: it from there. We get one hour together, which means
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  Speaker 1: I talk really faster and you must listen even faster
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  Speaker 1: my number eight two one nine at eight six eight
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  Speaker 1: two one double U TV and or one eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: six ten Double UTV and continuing during that break to
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  Speaker 1: check out Mackinac Island. I think that's Alizach. We can't
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  Speaker 1: go there, just m I don't want to get your
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  Speaker 1: hopes up, Okay, it's a little pricey, oh not keeping
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  Speaker 1: little pricey. Yeah, I mean by the time you get
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  Speaker 1: done paying for parking in the ferry and the the
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  Speaker 1: you know wherever you stay in the rooms two forty
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  Speaker 1: nine up to about seven to fifty a night. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can go. I'll support you if you want to
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  Speaker 1: know that's okay, because I'd use all my money just
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  Speaker 1: on the basics, I wouldn't have time to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be able to spend money. Although they do have a
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  Speaker 1: fudge festival.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's yeah, you can't miss that.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't had fun so long they.
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  Speaker 2: Either actually haven't thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had fun.
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  Speaker 2: I rarely eat it, but what I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my sister used to make fudge when I was
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  Speaker 1: a little kid, and it was just like melt in
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  Speaker 1: your mouth. I don't even know what fudge is aside
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  Speaker 1: from being chocolatey? What is what? What is? What makes
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  Speaker 1: fudge fudge? Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: She would make two, she'd make one with nuts and
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  Speaker 1: one without nuts because I didn't like nuts. And so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you get a square that fudge and just
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  Speaker 1: put it and it just melted over your tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like there's anything different than what the machine,
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  Speaker 2: the inner web says.
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  Speaker 1: It's just real, real, real milk thick chocolate e stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I just you don't. People don't even
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  Speaker 1: talk about fudge anymore, fudge or brownies or all those
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  Speaker 1: little treats that I used to love when I was young,
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  Speaker 1: borrow in the you know, prepackaged talkie crap and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff now. But anyway, fudge fudge days almost Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that sounded good right here in Ohio. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: when the they do the tree sap, the maple syrup
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  Speaker 1: thing up in sugar Creek, but I wanted to go
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  Speaker 1: back up there. For a long time, Sugar Creek was
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  Speaker 1: I called it my fortress of solitude. But it has
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  Speaker 1: grown to the point now where it's not what it
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  Speaker 1: was back in the early nineties. It was, it was
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  Speaker 1: not as populated as it is now. And I stated
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  Speaker 1: a place called the Bed and Breakfast Barn, which was
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  Speaker 1: an actual It was a big amish barn that had
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  Speaker 1: been converted into a bed and breakfast. Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: went back some years later and they had added all
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  Speaker 1: of these little like mini trailers all around the property
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  Speaker 1: of the Bed and Breakfast Barn as cottages, and it
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  Speaker 1: just killed you know. There was something about being able
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  Speaker 1: to walk out on that deck. They have a deck
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  Speaker 1: that goes around the entire barn, and walk out the
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  Speaker 1: sliding doors from our room to the deck and just
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  Speaker 1: overlook that beautiful countryside. Six o'clock in the morning, the
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  Speaker 1: fog is rolling across the fields, and.
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  Speaker 3: That was just there.
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  Speaker 1: It was beautiful. And then when I went back, not
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  Speaker 1: so much, not so much more people showing up.
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  Speaker 2: They got to try and figure out a way to
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  Speaker 2: make more money.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess, and I understand when I stayed there
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  Speaker 1: the first time. The barn was actually owned by the
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  Speaker 1: chief of police.
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  Speaker 2: Probably the safest place, so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean well, and also if you were staying there,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't getting a speeding ticket, which was kind of nice.
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  Speaker 1: But it's you know, it's Amish country, and there were
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  Speaker 1: lots of little shops and you know, crafts and Amish foods.
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  Speaker 1: And I bought some Ohio wine up there. I got
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  Speaker 1: this bottle of wine called frost Fire that was a
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  Speaker 1: really good and I just I always, I always loved
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  Speaker 1: that place. It was just that place I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: fly back to whenever life got tough. And when I
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  Speaker 1: finally did get the opportunity, they had killed the uh,
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  Speaker 1: they ruined it. Yeah, I'm just constantly searching for that
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  Speaker 1: little small town, Like I said, Jessica Fletcher town, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who that is. Do you know who that is? Murder?
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  Speaker 1: She wrote, She's out. Yeah, she's out riding her bicycle
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  Speaker 1: seven o'clock in the morning and people wave into each
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  Speaker 1: other and just a small town thing, or like Gilmour girls,
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  Speaker 1: they had that small town thing going on. Star I
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  Speaker 1: never saw that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the town is?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the name of the town? Okay, I just
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  Speaker 1: I like that kind of atmosphere. When I saw this
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  Speaker 1: Mackinac Island, I'm like, that looks perfect and it's an island,
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  Speaker 1: but no, we're not going.
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  Speaker 2: I could tell you where an island is. That's like
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  Speaker 2: that where in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: No, I it sounds crazy, but I just I'd rather
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  Speaker 1: stay in the control of the United States. I know,
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  Speaker 1: even you know, going down to the Caribbean, no, unless
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  Speaker 1: it's Puerto Rico. And I've heard people who have gone
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  Speaker 1: to Puerto Rico and said, oh, it's great, and people go, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't go.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard birth too, because I had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: friends who went down there and said, don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it. I heard many of the same mornings
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  Speaker 1: like I heard when I was in the Dominican Republic.
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  Speaker 1: Don't leave the resort, do not go out, stay inside
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  Speaker 1: the resort. I'm like, really, it's it's a US territory.
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  Speaker 1: Why why you shouldn't feel like that? Bahamas, Jamaica, neither
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  Speaker 1: one of them really doing anything for me.
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  Speaker 2: Hur it's beautiful this time.
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  Speaker 1: The other side of Haiti is the Dominican Republic. That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Don't cross that border.
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  Speaker 2: It's just fascinating how one land mass could be so different.
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's like driving across Ohio and seeing nothing
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  Speaker 1: but you know, beautiful things and perfect trees and well
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  Speaker 1: cut lawns and happy people, and then you cross the
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  Speaker 1: border into Indiana and everything is just in darkness. And
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  Speaker 1: that's that's the way it is between the Dominican Republic
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  Speaker 1: and Haiti. It's you cross that border and it's a
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  Speaker 1: completely different country. Yeah, that's very, very odd. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the island is out, but you find someplace we can go,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe we go, Okay, just saying. I posted on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook over the weekend a video from a best Buy.
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  Speaker 1: Let me be clear, that is I don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: best Buy is here. I think it was down south,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere like Louisiana. Maybe I don't think it was here,
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  Speaker 1: although I didn't hear any southern draw on anybody talking.
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  Speaker 1: But people got fired up, and I won't be going
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  Speaker 1: there anymore. I'm not good. That wasn't the That wasn't
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  Speaker 1: thing I said. It's either going to get him a
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  Speaker 1: lot of business or cost him a lot of business.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea because I don't know where the
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  Speaker 1: store is, and you know, that that's If that's a
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco store, they may be overwhelmed with business. If
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  Speaker 1: it is a you know, so say, Tampa, Florida store,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not so much. But if you did not see
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  Speaker 1: the video, the gist of it was guy goes into
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  Speaker 1: buy a laptop and the customer person service person says
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back and get that, and the guy said
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  Speaker 1: thank you, sir, and the the employee turned and was
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  Speaker 1: not happy about that because apparently the employee likes to
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  Speaker 1: think of themselves as female or at least not male.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's eighty seven different genders to choose from,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know. But so the employee refused to
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  Speaker 1: go get him the laptop and then brought in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a department manager who said, you know, if you admit
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  Speaker 1: you were wrong, that you just made a mistake, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go get the laptop for you. Customers said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna do that. I'm not gonna I was being I
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  Speaker 1: said thank you, sir. I wasn't thinking I said thank you, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and I wasn't even thinking about that. But I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to play into the fantasy and call that person
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  Speaker 1: a man or a miss or whatever. So then they
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  Speaker 1: called in the supervisor supervisor who wasted very little time
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  Speaker 1: on this whole situation and walked away. Then the department
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  Speaker 1: supervisor said again, if you would just just say it
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  Speaker 1: was a mistake. And I don't know why you have
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  Speaker 1: to record all this, but if you say mistake, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go get it. The video never really culminated to say
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  Speaker 1: whether you about the laptop or not. But I just
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  Speaker 1: I was amazed, honestly at all of the responses that
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  Speaker 1: people had on there that were so very uh, definitive
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  Speaker 1: about their their I'm not going there, I'll never buy anything.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're fortunate here in you know, central Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: we've got different options, and you know, everybody's got Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: so you don't have to go to one of their stores.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm kind of surprised that the corporate has not
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  Speaker 1: spoken out and said, you know, here's where we stand.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, make make your statement for better or for worse,
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  Speaker 1: and either take the glory or the lumps one or
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  Speaker 1: the other. Did you watch the video yourself? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: can't find it.
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  Speaker 2: I can't find where it is, though it may it
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  Speaker 2: looks like it may have taken place in Columbia, South Carolina. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't want to say that for sure. I
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  Speaker 2: just the guy's profile doesn't even say we're live. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: because I found the guy who who posted it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I don't and I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I do. I very frequently say thank you, sir, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you do stuff out of habit. I've told before
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  Speaker 1: about the the guy that I knew that decided he
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  Speaker 1: was going to have the uh, the surgery. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's been thirty years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Almost it didn't he have to go to like Brazil or.
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  Speaker 1: Something, Switzerland. I think it was oh wow, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: I was not very convinced at the outcome. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't my convincing that needed to be worried about. However,
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  Speaker 1: I'd known this guy for years, and I I was
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  Speaker 1: very dedicated to not looking at him and going every
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  Speaker 1: time I looked at him, see, I'm still saying him
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  Speaker 1: he had surgery. I'm still saying him. And I would
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  Speaker 1: slip occasionally and say him in his presence, and he
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  Speaker 1: would just give me a look. I'm like, hey, old
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  Speaker 1: habits man. We never got into a fight over it,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't something I was doing intentionally. But when
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  Speaker 1: you have known somebody, what if you know Zach decided
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  Speaker 1: to Okay, tomorrow, I want to be I identify as
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  Speaker 1: Penelope pit Stop. I'm still gonna be saying Zach half
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  Speaker 1: the time, at least, because that's what I'm used to.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a matter of being offensive or trying to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hurt anybody's feelings or whatever. You got to
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  Speaker 1: work your way into it. And when this adult man
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  Speaker 1: has gone through his whole life saying sir or ma'am
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  Speaker 1: and identifying people one way or the other, it's that's
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  Speaker 1: a hard habit to break too. I don't think there
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  Speaker 1: was any malice intended. I really don't. But they would
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  Speaker 1: not sell that guy a laptop, refused because he said
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  Speaker 1: thank you sir to the first. If you haven't watched that,
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  Speaker 1: go to my Facebook page. Just look up Chuck Douglas
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  Speaker 1: on my profile pictures at Chihuahua. That's my lupa. And
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  Speaker 1: when watched that video, and see if you're as confused
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  Speaker 1: as I am about what you would do. Because honestly,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm just honest, no posturing, no nothing, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I do. I really don't. I may very well,
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  Speaker 1: have said thank you sir myself, not trying to be mean,
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  Speaker 1: just because habits and stuff. A two one nine six
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  Speaker 1: two one WTV and we can get Rick in here. Rick,
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  Speaker 1: You're on six ten WTV.
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  Speaker 3: And Hi, Hi Jack Lies Rick. Hey, you were talking
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  Speaker 3: about the small town fill. I live in Chilacothie. I've
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  Speaker 3: been here. I moved in town when I was eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: moved up on farm and live term my whole life,
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  Speaker 3: and people do that day waved say Hi, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Chili COOTHI my best friend lives down there,
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  Speaker 1: so I visit a lot, well, not as much as
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you ever get to Takeumsa? No, it is a
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  Speaker 3: great outdoor drama, historical and it's a really good show.
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  Speaker 3: You won some Chief Entertainment for a weekend. I'd recommend
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  Speaker 3: coming down seeing Takeumsa.
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  Speaker 1: I have I heard three or four years ago that
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  Speaker 1: they kind of changed the staging and changed the audience
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  Speaker 1: and it was a little more difficult to hear what
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  Speaker 1: was going on and things like that. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: if they've addressed that, Have they made that any better
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean it's been I'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: it's been I've been there four or five times, but
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  Speaker 3: it's probably been twenty years since i've been there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I used to tell myself I was going
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  Speaker 1: to go basically to see Ganol, and I never did
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  Speaker 1: get down there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, you have a good.
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  Speaker 1: You two, Rick. I appreciate the call, buddy. Thank you.