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Toxic social media · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I just can't anymore. The the I've complained, I've moaned,
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  Speaker 1: I've growned, I've griped over social media and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I believe it it's one of the most anti
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  Speaker 1: social things on the planet. And today I find that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna have to unfollow. I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna have a friend in real life. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll still say hey and and be social because I
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  Speaker 1: like the guy. I like the guy a lot, but
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  Speaker 1: he's just he is so he is so anti Trump
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  Speaker 1: everything that I just I can't take it anymore. And
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  Speaker 1: I find that I am putting myself in that mindset
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  Speaker 1: more and more lately, where I don't mind if you
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  Speaker 1: you don't like the guy. I don't mind if you, uh,
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  Speaker 1: if we would disagree on policies and practices and procedures
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  Speaker 1: and so forth, that's fine. That's America, that's that's humanity,
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  Speaker 1: that's how we're supposed to be. But these people that
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  Speaker 1: they just they they post the most ridiculous things just
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  Speaker 1: out of their their pure hatred of the man. I
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  Speaker 1: just I can't do it anymore. So I hope you
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  Speaker 1: understand that if, uh, if you are I've got some
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  Speaker 1: you know, people that are Democrat that listen to the
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  Speaker 1: show and and uh and quite a few on social
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  Speaker 1: media and they all know. You know, I'm a very
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  Speaker 1: fair minded person and I don't mind genuine disagreement over things.
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  Speaker 1: But those who are posting and I'll do the same,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, to conservatives, the ones that are you know,
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  Speaker 1: constantly the conspiracy theorist and so forth, I can't take
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  Speaker 1: you either. I'm just I've I've I've reached. I have
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  Speaker 1: reached my honest, my honest limit. As to the silliness
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  Speaker 1: and the post today that kind of really set me
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  Speaker 1: off was this. This is an educated man. Okay, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's educated. He is a professional person. He's a good guy,
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  Speaker 1: he really is. He's a good human being who's done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things, and I like him. But
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  Speaker 1: in response to this, the Michigan shooting that happened over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend at the LDS church, here's what he put
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  Speaker 1: out here today. Another murderous attack by the radical left Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wait, he has a Trump T shirt and drove
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  Speaker 1: his pickup with two American flags into the church. Why
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  Speaker 1: do all these guys have or what do all these
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  Speaker 1: guys have in common mentally ill white men with easy
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  Speaker 1: access to assault weapons. On so many levels, this is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, assault weapons, Come on, you are I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna say what you do for a living. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna call you out to that point. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know the meaning of words is important. Words mean things,
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  Speaker 1: as Rush used to tell us. You know, damn well,
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  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as an assault weapon. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what kind of gun the guy was using, Zach.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen that published anywhere? Is there?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what kind of gun he was using.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. Nobody referred to that wing
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  Speaker 1: nut in South Carolina as a guy with an assault knife,
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  Speaker 1: did they? No?
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  Speaker 2: I think the gun thing is a mute point unless
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  Speaker 2: you're I honestly, unless you're going in and shooting up
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  Speaker 2: something with a rocket launcher, then we could go. We
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  Speaker 2: may be tamp down on.
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  Speaker 1: That, but that's a military weapon, right.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, then it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as an assault rifle. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, it is a media created phrase to scare people.
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  Speaker 1: If it looks scary, it's an assault weapon. The thirty
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  Speaker 1: odd six boat action rifle that used to kill Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk was not an assault weapon. Nonetheless, the man's dead,
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  Speaker 1: you know better, and you yourself are a white guy.
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  Speaker 1: This shows you how liberal this self hatred man. You
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  Speaker 1: love to point out white people, and I don't get
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  Speaker 1: that either, Seriously. The Trump T shirt from a picture
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  Speaker 1: that he took in twenty twenty. The guy was wearing
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  Speaker 1: a Trump T shirt. So you need to do whatever
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  Speaker 1: you can to ascribe this crime to Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 1: finally to decry his display of the American flag as
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  Speaker 1: some sort of red line issue. Defining his mental illness
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  Speaker 1: is offensive to every patriot out there of any political persuasion.
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  Speaker 1: This is a sad, sad post from a decent, articulate,
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  Speaker 1: intelligent human being, and I just I don't understand. I really,
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  Speaker 1: I seriously don't understand why. And it frustrates me because
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  Speaker 1: right now it's social media where I will unfollow or unfriend.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, as this becomes more and more of
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  Speaker 1: your daily mantra, your your set of beliefs, the way
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  Speaker 1: you conduct yourself, the way you speak, the way you
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  Speaker 1: treat other people. As this poison seeps into your person,
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  Speaker 1: it will end real friendships, and that is a foul
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  Speaker 1: and disgusting outcome as far as I'm concerned, those people
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  Speaker 1: that are so so ridiculously political, politically bitter that they
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  Speaker 1: feel the need to just spew stupidity. You're going too far.
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  Speaker 1: You are going too far. Another one of the folks again,
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  Speaker 1: another person. I love, dearly decent human being, known a
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  Speaker 1: lot of years. But there is nothing, nothing that you
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  Speaker 1: can post about a Democrat or the liberals or the
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  Speaker 1: left or whatever you want to call him, Nothing that
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  Speaker 1: you can post on social media where he who he
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  Speaker 1: loves to tell you he's a Republican, but where he wants.
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  Speaker 1: It's both parties, it's both sides, you know what, Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to criticize the other side, the self hatred,
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  Speaker 1: that that personal guilt of its both sides, that is
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  Speaker 1: as annoying as you know, constantly trying to to to
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  Speaker 1: trumpify every bad thing that happens. I just I'm not angry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm frustrated, and I can't I can't be the only one.
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  Speaker 1: There have to be other reasonable, thinking, thoughtful, if not thinking,
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  Speaker 1: people who are feeling the same way, who are opening
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  Speaker 1: up their Instagram or their Facebook or their Twitter, or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and seeing on a daily basis these things that just
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make you mad, It just makes you sad
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  Speaker 1: because this is something maybe it's a neighbor, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: a family member. You know, here we come up on
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  Speaker 1: holiday time. Again, it's right around the corner, right around
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  Speaker 1: I mean, trick or treat kicks things off, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's time for Thanksgiving turkey and
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  Speaker 1: how many how many friends and family won't be gathered
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  Speaker 1: around the table because they can't even control themselves on
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  Speaker 1: the social media platform. Believe what you want to believe,
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  Speaker 1: have the opinions that you want to have. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that. But if you were an autopilot and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll just put anything out there that that is
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  Speaker 1: negative about someone you feel negative about, regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: it is or the truth to or the substance. Just
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  Speaker 1: it's negative. So I'm putting it out there. You're you're
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  Speaker 1: not doing yourselves and the people around you any favors
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  Speaker 1: or again, maybe that's just me. A two one nine
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  Speaker 1: eight eighty six. If you're if you find yourself in
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  Speaker 1: this same situation, I'd love to know I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 1: A two On w TV and as a number, have
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  Speaker 1: you lost anybody's act? I mean, I know you had
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  Speaker 1: that one friend I can't remember the name, but you
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  Speaker 1: had gone to school with the one that you talked to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean she came at me on my Facebook page.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah she's a nice lady.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah she I mean, I don't dislike her, but again,
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  Speaker 1: just out so so far, so bitter, so left that
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  Speaker 1: anybody who knows me listens to me, is on my
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  Speaker 1: social media. I'm a reasonable person. And you know those
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  Speaker 1: people that come at this, this person with rabid attacks
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  Speaker 1: of I just I don't get you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, you could tell the difference between somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's has a disagreement and maybe wants to talk about
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  Speaker 2: things as opposed to the way they come at you.
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  Speaker 2: And it's full of vitriol. They're just looking for a fight.
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  Speaker 2: So there's no real point.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you know.
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  Speaker 2: You want to engage with that and troll them and
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  Speaker 2: make an ass out of them.
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  Speaker 1: But why what's I really? How is that even productive?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're childish like me, but I don't go on
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  Speaker 2: the I don't do Facebook very much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you think you can crush them, but what
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  Speaker 1: good is it? There are other more productive things to
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  Speaker 1: do with your life and to go back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: And I've had people and I've just told them, look,
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  Speaker 1: I do a radio show. I can't be on messenger
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  Speaker 1: with you for two hours debating something. Feel free to
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  Speaker 1: call me out. That's why I give the phone number
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  Speaker 1: all the time. It's a radio show. Social media is
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  Speaker 1: just ancillary. It's a it's an auxiliary product to the
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  Speaker 1: on air product. But this is where we have the conversations.
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  Speaker 1: And there are some people who seriously they want to
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  Speaker 1: they want to get me on messenger and just keep
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  Speaker 1: it going. I'm like, I don't. I've got a life
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  Speaker 1: to live. You know, There's there's work to be done.
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  Speaker 1: There's meals to prepare and to eat, and dishes to wash,
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  Speaker 1: and kids to put the bed, and clients that were
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  Speaker 1: waiting for me to get in paperwork and blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I cannot spend all of this time
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  Speaker 1: on social media with you. And I feel the same
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  Speaker 1: way about you know, public posts, answering somebody on play
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  Speaker 1: and then they just they come back at you, and
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  Speaker 1: then you try to make your point and they come
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  Speaker 1: back and it's just it's pointless. It's useless. It's a
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  Speaker 1: waste of time. And you know there's no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as time. It's just a way to measure life. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're wasting time, you are wasting life. And I
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  Speaker 1: have better things to do. Anyway, I had to get
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  Speaker 1: that off my chest because it just made me so up.
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  Speaker 1: It made me so sad today to realize that I've
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  Speaker 1: just I've got to start cutting people, loose nothing personal
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  Speaker 1: for my own sanity. There are just some of you
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  Speaker 1: will will have to disappear from the roles. Love you
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  Speaker 1: mean it, but bye bye.