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C.T.C.S Episode 237 Swapping Managers, Locating Your Farts And Working With An Ass · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, if you love your sports beyond the sports world,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the NBA, Major League Baseball and NFL. If
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  Speaker 1: you want some real sports such as professional wrestling and
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  Speaker 1: even American Ninja. Hey, here's where you got to go. Arrow.net. A-R-R-O-E.net.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Yo, yo, yo, it's me, CT. When
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  Speaker 1: I'm not busy being Aero, the podcaster, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: live in the real world. Everybody's got to have a job, right?
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  Speaker 1: Mine just happens to be CS, customer service. You know, solutions, relationships,
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  Speaker 1: keeping your team motivated in an age of constant connections.
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  Speaker 1: Each and every person who has chosen to stop into
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  Speaker 1: your location, what are the chances they'll ever come back?
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  Speaker 1: Episode number 237, Swapping Managers. Locating your farts?
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  Speaker 2: Really? Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: And working with an ass. Welcome to CTCS.
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  Speaker 2: CTCS. Transition Walk, day number one out of three. Have
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  Speaker 2: a live performance this coming Saturday night. We got to
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  Speaker 2: do some traveling on this one, dude. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: it's way, way, way, way, way out of town. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be getting home about one o'clock in the morning to
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  Speaker 2: be right back at CS the next day. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: I just came out of the studio. Five unbelievable conversations.
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  Speaker 2: One of them being with David McKenzie, who's got this
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  Speaker 2: brand new movie out called Fuse. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: see it early and experience it and talk with him
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  Speaker 2: about it. I was with Leonard Maltin, who's got a
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  Speaker 2: brand new book out with his daughter, Jessie. And it's
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  Speaker 2: based on, you know, we all have our love for movies.
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  Speaker 2: We'd like to watch them at home. Well, how about
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  Speaker 2: dinner and a movie? And they give you this menu
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  Speaker 2: for the different themes you can do with things like
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  Speaker 2: Adam's Family or The Sound of Music and stuff. It
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  Speaker 2: just went on and on and on. In fact, one
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  Speaker 2: of the people I talked with today was the person
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  Speaker 2: that is known as Hannah the Kitten Lady. And we
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  Speaker 2: talked about kittens, adopting cats, protecting cats. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I do. And then I go to see us.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, what? Exactly. Now you know why I'm on
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  Speaker 2: this path inside this forest on this beautiful spring day.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to transition. I ain't that guy anymore. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to become the guy in CS. There's two kinds
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  Speaker 2: of prayers that you share when you're on the highway
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  Speaker 2: or the roadway trying to get to the actual store itself.
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  Speaker 2: And the first one is, please, please, Lord, don't let
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  Speaker 2: me get in a car accident. And then when you
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  Speaker 2: get on the road and you realize there's not just
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  Speaker 2: a car accident, but the car is 100% upside down,
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  Speaker 2: Now you're praying for the people. And that's how the
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  Speaker 2: day started. It's like, please, Lord, take care of these people.
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  Speaker 2: That does not look good. I got the shock of
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  Speaker 2: my life yesterday when I was walking through another store
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  Speaker 2: that is owned by this company. And my wife and
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  Speaker 2: I were just having a conversation. All we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do was just pick up a few things. We were
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  Speaker 2: looking for Gatorade, you know, that tastes like candied apples.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're in that kind of a mood. And
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, I see a manager that we
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  Speaker 2: have at this store in that store. And you talk
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  Speaker 2: about a moment... That maybe a woman would say, my
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  Speaker 2: man is cheating on me. No, really, it feels like it.
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  Speaker 2: When I see another manager or another employee in another
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  Speaker 2: grocery store that I've worked with or I know that
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  Speaker 2: I am working with, I'm sitting there thinking, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 2: you're cheating on us. And find out that, no, he's
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  Speaker 2: not here anymore. And you just sit there and you go,
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  Speaker 2: this is worse than radio. My God, the turnover in
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  Speaker 2: a grocery store is worse than radio. And then I
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  Speaker 2: come back and I go, wait a second. I should
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  Speaker 2: have known this last week because I met somebody new.
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  Speaker 2: And then I confronted new guy Bill. And I said, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: here's the situation, dude. I confronted you. I asked you
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  Speaker 2: because I knew something wasn't right. And he goes, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know anything was wrong until they said he was leaving.
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  Speaker 2: And I go, these are the signs, man. They will
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  Speaker 2: always give you signs if you don't start paying attention.
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  Speaker 2: And here's, for the love of God, give me a
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  Speaker 2: call even on my day off. I need to know. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: People will do anything for TikTok. Yes, they will. Today,
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  Speaker 2: they decided to go over to where the toilet paper
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  Speaker 2: and paper towels are, and they dumped it everywhere. So
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  Speaker 2: that's my job right now, to put it all back together,
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  Speaker 2: to stack it, to make it look good, to make
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  Speaker 2: it look like that nobody came in here and threw
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  Speaker 2: this stuff out like a big old 7.7 earthquake. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we had one, and my little flakiness was sitting there going, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that was a good buzz. Oh, yeah, man, let me
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  Speaker 2: feel it again. Oh, bring it on. Too much Cheech
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  Speaker 2: and Chong when I was a kid. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: know who that is, oh, boy, I'm getting to be
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  Speaker 2: an old man. I'm a radio guy who happens to
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  Speaker 2: work at a grocery store. I've been here almost six years.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things that you have to do here,
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  Speaker 2: not everybody, but I think that I have to do,
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  Speaker 2: is I have to make sure that I work out
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  Speaker 2: every freaking day. The ups, the downs, the twists, the spins,
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  Speaker 2: the lifting, the bending, everything. Because I'm the one that
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  Speaker 2: tore my rotator cuff. I'm the one that totally destroyed
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  Speaker 2: my Achilles tendon. So you've got to work out all
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  Speaker 2: the time. So what did I do today? I freaking
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  Speaker 2: did planks before coming here. Never in my six years
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  Speaker 2: have I ever done planks. Because I thought, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be sore. And I thought to them, ah, you've
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  Speaker 2: got the balls to do it. Just make sure you
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  Speaker 2: do it. And don't do it as long. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: in freaking pain. This is hell. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's because I'm a radio guy, but I can be
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  Speaker 2: a very dark guy with the subject. I can take
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  Speaker 2: it in any direction and handle it because, fuck, that's
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  Speaker 2: just what radio people do. And you take it into
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  Speaker 2: an area where you can create emotion and some sort
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  Speaker 2: of reaction. So when people say, okay, man, I'll see
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  Speaker 2: you on Saturday, I hope. And they look at you like,
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  Speaker 2: what do you mean? Is there something wrong? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if the world's going to be here on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's two days away. I mean, what? What
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  Speaker 2: the hell? You know what the headlines? Everything changes in
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  Speaker 2: five minutes, even less. And they go, why are you
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  Speaker 2: so dark? Because it made a reaction. You reacted. It
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  Speaker 2: brings up a little bit of fear. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's healthy or not. I don't know if HR
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  Speaker 2: is going to be calling my ass in or not.
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  Speaker 2: This is a little bit selfish, but I love it
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  Speaker 2: when the little martial artists come in. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking anywhere from maybe seven to maybe 13 or 14.
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  Speaker 2: And because I'm a third degree or a third Don
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  Speaker 2: in martial arts, what happens is that I instantly go
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  Speaker 2: into instructor mode. And I'll walk up to them and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just talking to them about their studies, everything that
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  Speaker 2: they're doing when it comes to, you know, did they
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  Speaker 2: do this for a move? Are they practicing this? What
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  Speaker 2: are they doing? How do they get by? When the
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  Speaker 2: master in the class or the instructor in the class
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  Speaker 2: is pooping the hell out of them, I don't say that.
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  Speaker 2: But when they're really super tired, how do they find
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  Speaker 2: their perseverance and growth? And the parents are digging exactly
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, but those kids are looking at me
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  Speaker 2: like going, stranger danger, mama. Stranger danger. Who the hell
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  Speaker 2: is this guy? CTCS.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh, the drama is going to increase as we continue
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  Speaker 1: to check out CTCS. A woman loses her phone and
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  Speaker 1: then gives us every single F-bomb in the world. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: a new Western Union, and I could find your fart
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  Speaker 1: hidden away in our shelves. Hey, welcome back to CTCS.
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  Speaker 1: When someone loses their phone and ends up giving you
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  Speaker 1: a big old southern cuss storm involving that F word
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  Speaker 1: like you wouldn't believe. Finding your fart on the shelves.
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  Speaker 1: That's how good I am when it comes to doing
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  Speaker 1: putbacks at a grocery store. I'll find your fart, trust me.
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  Speaker 1: And really, dude, come on. Why don't we just go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and talk about a brand new Western Union? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's all coming up next on CTCS. Transition walk, day
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  Speaker 1: number two out of three. Sunshiny, bright, not a cloud
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  Speaker 1: in the sky. We are experiencing the worst drought in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the South.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're told. No rain is still in the forecast.
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  Speaker 2: So he almost felt like a biblical character and going, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what did Lazarus, what did anybody inside those pages do?
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  Speaker 2: What did Peter do? And why am I bringing religious knowledge?
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  Speaker 2: features into something that's going to take me right into CS.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you just got to rely on the big books
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  Speaker 2: sometimes because during a drought, people go badass crazy. And
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  Speaker 2: do I expect that at the grocery store? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I do. You team that up with a Friday? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: badass crazy. Oh, we'll be documenting it. Oh yeah, starting
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  Speaker 2: the new day off with a brand new Western Union.
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  Speaker 2: They've gone even more digital. They're trying to make it
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  Speaker 2: a lot easier for us to use. But the strangest
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  Speaker 2: thing about it is I believe that the people at
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  Speaker 2: Western Union did not come from a grocery store. I
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  Speaker 2: think they probably came from a Western Union store. And
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  Speaker 2: we deal with a lot of people that are just
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  Speaker 2: trying to get money to whomever they can as quickly
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  Speaker 2: as they can. And they usually have a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 2: And by God, if you go anywhere near private information,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to look at you with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: bad stuff in your eyes. This sounds pretty conceited, but
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  Speaker 2: you would understand it if you're in retail because everybody's
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  Speaker 2: got putbacks. You can be at Walmart. You can be
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  Speaker 2: at Whole Foods. You can be anywhere. Even at some
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  Speaker 2: little mall store, everybody's got putbacks. Well, I am such
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  Speaker 2: a master at putting things back that I am truly
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  Speaker 2: convinced that as I walk up and down these aisles
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  Speaker 2: every day and I see stuff on those shelves, I
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  Speaker 2: am convinced. that if you were to come by here
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  Speaker 2: and hide a fart on one of these shelves behind
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  Speaker 2: six six-packs of Diet Coke anywhere in the store, I
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  Speaker 2: would find your hidden fart. Oh, trust me. So please
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  Speaker 2: do me a favor. If you release one and you're
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  Speaker 2: hiding it, don't make it a stinky one. And now
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  Speaker 2: a CT is a total buffoon moment. Gentleman comes up
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  Speaker 2: to customer service. He's getting a new money order with
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  Speaker 2: Western Union. I'm sitting there popping off jokes and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: talking about we've had no rain. It's a dry spell
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  Speaker 2: and ha ha ha and ha ha he and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to be upbeat and all that kind of stuff. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even with acting, you know, you want to
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  Speaker 2: be upbeat. And and the guy he's acting he's reacting
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  Speaker 2: he's smiling i'm thinking motherfucker likes my jokes he was
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  Speaker 2: on the phone another buffoon moment with c3 in hot
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  Speaker 2: pursuit of someone's smartphone Older woman doesn't want to walk
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  Speaker 2: the store, but she knows she left it in the cart,
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  Speaker 2: and she saw the person that took the cart, and
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  Speaker 2: now I'm walking the store to find the woman and
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  Speaker 2: the phone. Will we find the woman and the phone?
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  Speaker 2: It's always drama, especially when they lose their smartphone, which
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  Speaker 2: I understand, man. These things are very personal, and they've
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  Speaker 2: got our life on them. Well, we found the phone. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we found the phone. And boy, did we ever get
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  Speaker 2: a good cussing out when we found the phone. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we did. I mean, every time I kept circling the store,
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  Speaker 2: she says it's in the seat, the baby seat of
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  Speaker 2: that cart. I said, I'm looking. I swear to God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking. And then, of course, she has to drop
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  Speaker 2: the F-bomb because we live in that generation now where
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  Speaker 2: everybody thinks they can drop the F-bomb. What the fuck
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  Speaker 2: is wrong with you guys? Why the fuck do you
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  Speaker 2: do this to me all the time? And so bad,
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to say why the
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  Speaker 2: from authentic
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  Speaker 2: carrot cakes to, you know, tiramisu, and then you've got
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  Speaker 2: other desserts and other foods throughout the entire store. And
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  Speaker 2: so for the past year, I've been doing everything humanly
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  Speaker 2: possible to lead a clean life. But tonight, I go
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  Speaker 2: around lane number five, lane number five, there I am,
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  Speaker 2: ready to rock, to go on my break, to have dinner,
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  Speaker 2: and then I see it. Oh, yeah. It was hamburger
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  Speaker 2: helper that you add water to it and then you
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  Speaker 2: put it in the microwave. No, you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: put it on the stove. You don't have to sit
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  Speaker 2: there and wait till you brown the hamburger. No, you
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  Speaker 2: put it in the microwave for four minutes. I had
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  Speaker 2: to do it. I didn't eat clean today. Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to pay.
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  Speaker 1: For Oh, please don't move. There's more CTCS right around
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  Speaker 1: the corner. We're taking the show to a live road. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: working with an ass. And a bad taste test? Is
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  Speaker 1: that possible? Hey, thanks for coming back to CTCS. We're
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  Speaker 1: taking the live show to the road. Plus, I'm working
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  Speaker 1: with an ass. More than one, trust me. And a
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  Speaker 1: very bad taste test. Welcome back to CTCS.
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  Speaker 2: CTCS. Transition walk. Day number three out of four? Nah.
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  Speaker 2: Not today. We're traveling today. We're on the road for
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  Speaker 2: a live performance that... About six hours? Six hours on
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  Speaker 2: that live stage. And to get there is going to
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  Speaker 2: be pretty close to an hour, 45 minutes, two hours.
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  Speaker 2: So we're looking at about a 13, 14 hour day.
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  Speaker 2: Which is always very tough for the people that I
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  Speaker 2: work with at CS. And the reason why is because
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  Speaker 2: they always send out that vibe. Oh! You took some
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  Speaker 2: time off. You had to go do a DJ job.
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  Speaker 2: And you really do want to look at them and say,
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  Speaker 2: do you realize that on a wedding day that I'm
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  Speaker 2: up at 5.15 in the morning? Because you've got to prep.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to load the equipment. You've got to mentally
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  Speaker 2: get yourself ready. Make that drive. Set up that stage.
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  Speaker 2: Bring on the biggest performance possible. And you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying something that you already know. But it's like,
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  Speaker 2: at CS, you walk in, you do your eight hours,
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  Speaker 2: you go home. Doesn't work that way when you're live
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  Speaker 2: on stage. Doesn't work that way. Oh my goodness. Eight
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  Speaker 2: and a half hours later, this celebration is over. You know,
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  Speaker 2: DJs don't take breaks. We don't take breaks. Never will.
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  Speaker 2: I never have. I never will. And eight and a
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  Speaker 2: half hours of keeping that floor moving. And, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the groom and his parents come up to me. They go,
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  Speaker 2: how did you do it? How do you keep people
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  Speaker 2: engaged like that for eight and a half hours? And
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  Speaker 2: I've got to be honest with you. It's all about
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  Speaker 2: being in their moment. It's not my moment. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to sit here with some DJ Times magazine saying, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be the biggest hit of the day.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to tap into them. Play their favorite songs.
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  Speaker 2: Do everything humanly possible to keep them ignited. And you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have yourself something pretty special at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the night. Transition walk. Day number three out of three.
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  Speaker 2: Off that live stage and back in this forest. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I need to be in this forest today. Had to
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  Speaker 2: get my God on. Man, you cannot have a gigantic
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  Speaker 2: performance like that on a stage with that many people.
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  Speaker 2: in control of their bodies doing things that aren't natural.
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  Speaker 2: Dancing is not natural. It is an expression. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to go through an experience in order to get to
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  Speaker 2: that expression. And I think that's the same exact thing
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  Speaker 2: what grocery shopping is, is that people are not doing
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  Speaker 2: it because they have to do it. They're doing it
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  Speaker 2: because they're part of the expression. They're reacting to something
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  Speaker 2: that's going on in their life, be it good, bad, ugly.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, everything that's been taking place in the news,
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  Speaker 2: a third assassination attempt on the president, people are going
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  Speaker 2: to be fucked up in the head. So I've got
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  Speaker 2: to take a walk on this path right here through
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  Speaker 2: this forest to get my head straight. And I had
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  Speaker 2: to have some God today so I could be strong
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  Speaker 2: in front of you at CS. Corouted. Corouted. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it is inside the store today. Not crowded like C-R-O-W-D-E-D.
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  Speaker 2: This is corouted. C-A-R-O-U-D-I-D. Corouted. That's how crowded it is
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  Speaker 2: in the store today. Because it's going to get inside
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  Speaker 2: your head and fuck with your soul. Because it's so
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  Speaker 2: damn crowded in here. I just had a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: conversation with one of our soon-to-be graduates in high school.
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  Speaker 2: And she has got this amazing ability to know how
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  Speaker 2: to use her vocal tones, her voice, pitch, volume, tone, pacing.
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  Speaker 2: And I was talking with her, not as CT, ooh,
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  Speaker 2: the guy from CTCS, not the guy that's from customer service,
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  Speaker 2: but as a broadcaster in the way of saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: I have worked with some of the greatest female on-air
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  Speaker 2: radio and television talent, from Sherry Lynch to Pam Stone,
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  Speaker 2: Ramona Holloway. All of these brilliant people have gotten Gracie
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  Speaker 2: Allen Awards because of their pitch, volume, and tone and presentation.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, I need you. In fact, I invite
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  Speaker 2: you to start exploring what it is that you are
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  Speaker 2: setting free into the world because you have a voice.
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  Speaker 2: It is confident. It has courage. It is strong during
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  Speaker 2: these times of unbelievable change where people need vocal leadership
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  Speaker 2: and not always being told what to do, but rather
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  Speaker 2: someone who's going to sit down with you and say,
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  Speaker 2: here's the plan. Here's the reason why we're going to
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: do the plan. And at the end of this execution,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: we all win because we all work together from page one.
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  Speaker 2: Just beautiful. And she just sat there and said, I've
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: never heard anybody talk to me like that. I said,
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  Speaker 2: you inspired me to bring it to you because obviously
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the radio God said, get over there and talk to her,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's for three minutes. Oh, I'm living one
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  Speaker 2: of those moments. I mean, every retail store, every business
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  Speaker 2: goes through this. It doesn't matter if you're a department
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  Speaker 2: head or if you're just part of the totem pole
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  Speaker 2: at the bottom of the hill. Everybody goes through this.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: You do everything humanly possible at home, in the bathroom mirror,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in the mirror inside your car, wherever, wherever, and you
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: try to motivate yourself. Okay, I'm going to go in there.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be better. I was a jerk yesterday,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to be better today. I'm going to
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: be a better listener. I'm going to help people. I'm
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: going to go in there. I'm going to do my
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: job better than what I did because it feels better
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  Speaker 2: when I can be better. I'm going to down a
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Red Bull. I'm going to do a monster drink. I'm
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: going to do something that's going to get my energy
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: up there. And then when you get here and you're
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: experiencing it happen, your coworkers, your managers, everybody around you
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: is an asshole. all of your own personal prep to
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: have a great day out the window because everybody has decided,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: except for you, to be an asshole. The company is
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: called Barbells. They are known for a power bar, is
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: what they are, which I really do support in a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: huge way. And now that I see that Barbells has
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: got a drink that's 24 grams of protein, I'm going
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: to try it for the very first time. It has
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: two grams of sugar, which my wife would have a
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: freaking cow over this. But we're going to try and
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: see if it even works here. Oh, it does. Yeah,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: it does have a bad taste to it. Well, that's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: exactly what it tastes like. No, no, no. So it's
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: fucking yoo-hoo that sucks. Oh, I'll give you that. Yeah,
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: but it comes with 24 grams of protein. Yeah, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: protein's on every goddamn thing. It is. Dude, our fucking
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: donuts have extra protein. Yes. Like, whatever the new fat
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: is is what these companies jump on. Yep. And they
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: sold you on the fucking protein. That's exactly it. But
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the two fucking grams of sugar is why it tastes
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: like shit. And that's what I said in the very beginning.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: I said, oh, yeah, my wife's going to like this. Not.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: So it's... Yeah. Oh, yeah, it does. It sucks. I'm sorry. No,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you're cool. This is absolutely an unbelievable day. I mean,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I have been waiting for this moment two years, maybe three.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: We have this group of people that come in, and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: they're always, always winning huge money with the lottery and
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: playing all these different games. And I keep going, how
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: are you winning $ 500 plus every single day? And it's
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: on Cash Pop. And they would never tell me, never
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: tell me. And then today she sat down with me.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: She says, I'm going to show you. I'm going to
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: show you how to do it. You do this. She
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: gave me her entire graph. layout of the week and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: how she did it and in the process of her
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: sharing that with me what she take home five hundred
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: dollars man three years to get here i've said this
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: so many different times on ctcs over the past six
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: years That I didn't come here looking for a freaking job.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I'm a radio guy. I just wanted to be with people.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: We were in the COVID lockdown and my wife said, well,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: if you really want to be with people, go to
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Home Depot or go get a job at a grocery store.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: And so I did. But here's the thing, which you'll
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: never ever know until you step inside my daily journals.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: During the COVID days, I was doing a lot of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: questioning of the higher power, God. I said, well, where
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: are you at? Where are you at? Where are you at?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Where are you at? I did in my writing. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: then one day it appeared in there and said, I'm here.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Where are you at? And that's when I said, you
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: need to put me where the people are. I need
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to be where people are. So I came here. Today
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: was one of those reasons why I needed to be
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: where I am. We had a prayer circle for a
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: woman who just lost her three-year-old grandchild. To see that,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: to fall witness inside a grocery store, people coming together
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: from Register 1, 6, the lanes, praying for this woman
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: in a frickin' grocery store. That's beautiful. You hear the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: greatest stories from the people between 9 p.m. at night
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and closing. These are people that are just getting back
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: into town from taking long trips, be it a week away,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: be it a couple of days away. We just had
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: a guest that came in from Hawaii, and she's just
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: getting back. Of course, my mind is going, so what's
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that jet lag like, which is pretty typical, but I
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: had to take it to another level, and that is,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: are you like me? Do you feel like that you
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: were even in Hawaii? No, I don't. I say, don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you hate that feeling? It's like you spend all of
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: that time there, and then when you get back and
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you put your feet on the soil here, It's like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I was there, right? And macadamia nuts are going for
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: 30 bucks a bag? And the way that we compared
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: it was that those local people in Hawaii are like,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: you know, it's like a rock band. You've got to
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: sell the merch so that you can make some sort
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of money to keep the lights on at home. God damn,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: it's the best stories between 9 and closing time. And,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you know, if you ever get the chance to go
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to a grocery store and just people watch, that would
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: be the time. We were just talking about that traveler
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a few seconds ago about when you make it back
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: to the soils which you live upon and how it
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: feels so odd that you went to Hawaii. I think so.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I'm back here now. So did I? Did I not?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: And I said, you took pictures, right? You wrote, right?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And of course she did that. That's the way it
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: is when you leave your position at CES on a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Sunday night and that's it for the weekend because you're going,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: this is it. How did I even get here? Because
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: it really feels like I just started four days ago.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Had that big, big seven and a half hour performance
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: with the wedding. How did I get here? It really happened, right?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: You never know. Have yourself a good night, man. Have
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: a good time. You too, sir. You have fun. You are. Well,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: you go in there and get some good stuff then,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: all right? Get yourself some chicken. There's still chicken in there.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I thank you for that, man. All right. I can't
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: even walk outside without people. CT, CT, CT, CT. It's
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: about relationship, baby. It is about relationship. Hey, that's going
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: to do it for another edition of CTCS. The ups
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: and downs, the twists, the spins, the ins, the outs,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the oh my gods, and the hey, did you do what?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: What do you mean it doesn't feel like we've been
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: there and we're here? How did that even happen? A
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: lot of crap happened in the news. I didn't bring
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: it up for a reason because I don't think we
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: need to talk about it. There's enough crap going on
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: in the world where this is not a news program.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: It's not a 24-hour reel. So there's a reason why
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I didn't do it today and Really, in all honesty,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: if you want the news, you know where to go.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And I don't want it to be on CTCS. But
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the world's in a really crappy place right now. And
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the thing is, is I would love for you to
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: find your place of peace and happiness and do everything
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: you can to promote it. And how and why am
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I doing this right now to wrap up this show?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Because I want you to do your own podcast. Because
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: that's where conversations begin. Authentic conversations when you take the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: time to get to know each other. I'll see you
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: next week on CTCS.