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Wicked Radio 12-18: Holiday Heart Warning, Feds Told To Get To The Office, & Funeral Drinking! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: One week till Christmas. Oh my, how did this happen
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: so quickly? Here? We are welcome to it. Everybody, Happy holidays.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: This is flying by and always say this every single year,
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  Speaker 1: but holy cow, is December flying man. But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good thing. It's a great time of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get your Christmas shopping done? A little bit
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  Speaker 1: about that coming up here about adult gifting, because I'm
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: seeing more and more trending online, a lot of people saying,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: you know what, it's just it's too much. Why don't
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  Speaker 1: we just limit gift giving to the kids. I'm all
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  Speaker 1: for it. In fact, in my family, I'll talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: We actually limited this a while ago because it does
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  Speaker 1: it gets too much. Christmas is about the kids, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it talk about that? Trump has a Christmas gift for
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: federal workers. You know what it is. He says, get
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: your ass back in the office. He said that yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a direct response to a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: that Biden administration is instituting before the transition of power
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  Speaker 1: happens before next month. It's not too happy about Biden
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  Speaker 1: telling them that they can stay home. We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have holiday heart, you don't want it. Health
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  Speaker 1: experts out with this. I think it makes sense. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little extreme, but it's not what it sounds like.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, and this is my favorite story of the day,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to Finally we have figured out how to
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  Speaker 1: do funerals. That's right. It's a feel good story about
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  Speaker 1: funerals because there's a funeral home in Ohio, the first
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  Speaker 1: in the world to register for a drinking license. How
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: has nobody thought about this yet? Any who welcome to it.
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• 1:34
  Speaker 1: my personal thing, and you gotta call it something, so
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: it's called Wicked Wisdom with Bill Adams. That's where you
• 1:38
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  Speaker 1: replay on a YouTube and all that good stuff in
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: the audio podcast wherever you get those. Let's get to
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: the stuff we talked about it. One week till Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: crazy crazy shopping time so far and you always go
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: to the National Retail Federation about this where they kind
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  Speaker 1: of predict about right about now and the numbers will
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  Speaker 1: be coming out. What kind of a holiday shopping season
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  Speaker 1: are they predicting apparently huge. Now we haven't gotten to
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  Speaker 1: the point where we're fixing the economy just yet, people
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  Speaker 1: don't care. I think people are just going overboard and
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  Speaker 1: they're counting on the economy turned around, not afraid of
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more credit card debt right now because
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  Speaker 1: it's expected to be despite inflation, despite the job numbers,
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  Speaker 1: despite tough economic times we're hopefully just coming out of.
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  Speaker 1: People are believing. You can believe in Santa Claus if
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  Speaker 1: you want, or you can believe in a strong economy,
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  Speaker 1: and there is a lot of faith. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of optimism. There's a lot of we talk about the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Age coming here with Doge and cleaning up government,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a little rough for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta find out things that you didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: find out about your own government. But there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hope and there's a lot of optimism with that.
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  Speaker 1: Though I've seen this trending online a lot, a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than I ever have. I mean, I've talked about
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  Speaker 1: it in my personal life obviously, and I think you
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  Speaker 1: probably have too, if you've got an extended family. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot more shatter these days if you've got to
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  Speaker 1: get together with you know, you gotta fly somewhere, get
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  Speaker 1: together at a party, or you're hosting a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Invariably there's somebody's relative, like a cousin's daughters, sons, nephews,
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  Speaker 1: new baby, that you have no idea who they are.
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  Speaker 1: If there's a family get together and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to buy gifts for them too. When did
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  Speaker 1: that become a thing. Don't pressure yourself into doing that.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this idea, this is the trending part I'm
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  Speaker 1: seeing more and more these days, the whole idea about
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  Speaker 1: just limiting gifts. If you're an adult too, the other adults,
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  Speaker 1: you take care of your kids or the kids and
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  Speaker 1: your family that you know, you're really close to and
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  Speaker 1: you know and you love, take care of them. But
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  Speaker 1: this overboard thing about getting a gift for you know, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: is just insane. Just limit gifts to like the kids,
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  Speaker 1: and just calm down a little bit about the adult
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  Speaker 1: gift giving. Or you could do this. My family, my
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  Speaker 1: extended family's very smart. My sister in law started this
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago because we always get together back
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  Speaker 1: up north. There's a lot of families flying in for
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  Speaker 1: them all over. But it's usually a huge get together, right,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. You could go broke, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're flying in trying to take care of everybody. So
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  Speaker 1: and this is how it incorporates the adults too. Do
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  Speaker 1: it like a Yankee swap kind of deal. Everybody gets
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  Speaker 1: assigned to people when you find out exactly who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be at the party, and you get gifts for them.
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? And here's where it gets really cool.
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  Speaker 1: When they open them, they have the option to trade
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  Speaker 1: with somebody else that's already gotten something. Makes a lot
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  Speaker 1: more fun. I'm just throwing it out there. I think
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  Speaker 1: we go crazy trying to get gifts for every adult
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  Speaker 1: in your life that you don't know. Just keep it
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  Speaker 1: at the kids, just saying, all right, here's a gift
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  Speaker 1: from President Trump incoming President Trump for the second time
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  Speaker 1: to federal workers, and it is gift wrap with a bow.
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  Speaker 1: Get your asses back to the office. Good if we're
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  Speaker 1: all being told that, well except me, this is coming
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  Speaker 1: from the guy that mostly works from home now. But anyways,
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of America, for most corporations that are
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  Speaker 1: finally turning things around and telling their workers to get
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  Speaker 1: back in the office. COVID rules don't apply. Accepting some
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  Speaker 1: very very unique circumstances. Sometimes working from home is actually
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  Speaker 1: more efficient. But for the most part, and Elon found
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  Speaker 1: out this out with Tesla and SpaceX directly, if you
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  Speaker 1: work in creative teams, you have to be able to
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  Speaker 1: get some facetiming with those people at least a few
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  Speaker 1: times a week get back into the office. Well, Trump
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  Speaker 1: just told federal workers that exact same thing yesterday, but
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  Speaker 1: it was in response to a federal order that Biden
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  Speaker 1: just signed.
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  Speaker 2: Wonder is that if people don't come back to work,
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  Speaker 2: come back into the office, they're going to be dismissed.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody in the Biden administration gave a five year
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  Speaker 2: waiver of that, so that for five years people don't
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  Speaker 2: have to come back into the office. That involved forty
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  Speaker 2: nine thousand people. For five years, they don't have to go.
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  Speaker 2: They just signed this thing. That's ridiculous. So it was
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  Speaker 2: like a gift to a union. We're going to obviously
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  Speaker 2: be in court to.
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  Speaker 1: Stop, okay, going in court to stop that. The first
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  Speaker 1: part of the press it was a little it was
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  Speaker 1: a little long, it was long winded. Trump and this
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  Speaker 1: was just the other day. He was responding to a
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  Speaker 1: couple of different things, and he but his main point
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  Speaker 1: was that the transition so far is going very well.
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  Speaker 1: The nominees, the picks, the whatever, the you know discussions,
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  Speaker 1: and they get these classified briefings as well, but those
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  Speaker 1: that one thing in particular really pissed him off about
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  Speaker 1: the federal workers. Biden signed an executive order kind of
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  Speaker 1: like cementing in with the unions that they can work
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  Speaker 1: from home, which is you know, government with because they
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  Speaker 1: know doze is coming in Department of Government efficiency and
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  Speaker 1: they gotta find out who's doing absolutely nothing. It is
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  Speaker 1: just living on taxpayer money doing nothing, bloated, swampy, bureaucratic government.
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  Speaker 1: They know that a lot of those people are gonna
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  Speaker 1: get blown out. And I don't ever want to see
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  Speaker 1: anybody lose their job. But still a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: have to go, we're broke. You have to clean up
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  Speaker 1: government and get it more efficient. That's what's coming in.
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  Speaker 1: In response to that, Biden signed to things saying, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're gotta lock it in here and I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna pander to you, and we're gonna you can stay
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  Speaker 1: at home and work. That's one thing. What worries me
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  Speaker 1: is what are the other things he's signing in? Not
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  Speaker 1: even the pardons, we didn't even get to that yet,
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  Speaker 1: most pardons in presidential history by the way outgoing president.
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  Speaker 1: We still have weeks to go. But anyway, what else
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  Speaker 1: is he signing in that'll screw things up? What is
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  Speaker 1: this some sort of a mandate maybe for DEI employees
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  Speaker 1: like hire a bunch more that you can't get rid of,
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  Speaker 1: to make it as swampy and as inefficient as possible
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  Speaker 1: before the guys who want to clean up government come in.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfathomable. It's just off. This is why government, this
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  Speaker 1: is why Washington doesn't work because of moves like that bureaucratic, bloated,
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  Speaker 1: red tape, do nothing government. That's what's coming in. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Doje's doing. That's what this administration wants to do
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  Speaker 1: with Vivic and Elon and now Thomas Massey's involved with
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing to clean up that crap. So because
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: we all need it, right, that's going to benefit everybody
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  Speaker 1: except those workers. The counter to that, Biden making it
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  Speaker 1: as inefficient as possible and making their job as possible
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  Speaker 1: before they clean up the government. If I didn't know better,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's on purpose. Oh wait, yeah, it is
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  Speaker 1: all right, enough of the swampy stuff. But anyway, that's
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  Speaker 1: the response to that. Do you have holiday heart on
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  Speaker 1: this day a week before Christmas? Sounds nice, doesn't it. No,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want holiday heart. New health warning out from
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  Speaker 1: the health experts. You don't want holiday heart. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why they have to put a name on it,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess it gets us talking about it. This
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's a medical condition. So not
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  Speaker 1: to scare you. When too much drinking. Oh there's that
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  Speaker 1: holiday drinking again causes aphib aphib is no laughing matter.
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  Speaker 1: You really should be aware of that. It's an irregular
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  Speaker 1: heartbeat where your heart feels like it's fluttering. You may
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  Speaker 1: have gotten that before whatever, But it's not just the
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  Speaker 1: drinking part of it. It's more common this time of
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  Speaker 1: the year because what we go through this kind of
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  Speaker 1: goes back to kind of tampering down in the adult
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  Speaker 1: gift giving where we're talking about just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago, there's too much Okay, yeah, fine, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more drinking this time of the year because of
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  Speaker 1: maybe days off, vacations, holiday parties in the neighborhood, at
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  Speaker 1: the office, at the house, whatever it is. Look at
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  Speaker 1: every other commercial these days, it's about a drinking commercial.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's part of our culture. Just is so that,
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  Speaker 1: combined with what else do we go through these days
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  Speaker 1: that would put pressure on your heart, we do it
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  Speaker 1: all wrong. You probably, in fact, this is scientifically proven,
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  Speaker 1: most of us getting less sleep this time of the
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  Speaker 1: year because the schedule is busy. You have so many commitments.
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  Speaker 1: Combine that with yeah, the extra drinking you're doing right,
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  Speaker 1: not getting enough sleep, the stress, the worry about financial stuff.
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  Speaker 1: In many areas of the country. I'm sure a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you are going through this right now. Some bad
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: weather to deal with as well travel plans, which is
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: stressful enough. There's no wonder why something is called holiday
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  Speaker 1: heart where you would get a fib. So what they
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: do is recommend the usual thing, just cut down limit
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  Speaker 1: your drinking here this time of the year. I would
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  Speaker 1: add on to this because they mostly focused on drinking
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: for this holiday. Hard thing they're talking about. Honestly, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: start to say no during the holiday season. One of
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: the best lessons I ever taught myself years ago, you know,
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  Speaker 1: into adulthood. Stop saying yes to everything because you feel
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  Speaker 1: the pressure for the holidays. Well, I have to because
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  Speaker 1: it's such a nice time of the year and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to let anybody down. Would you rather put
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  Speaker 1: stress on yourself. There are more heart attacks this time
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  Speaker 1: of the year than any other time of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep that in mind, not to bring it down,
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  Speaker 1: not to be a bummer. It's actually a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Take this as a warning. You don't have to do
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: every single commitment this time of the year. Learn the
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  Speaker 1: glorious power of no not doing that. This should be
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  Speaker 1: the way it used to be. I don't know how
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: long ago, but I know for a fact it used
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: to be a time when things slow down. Slow down,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: take account, start to enjoy things in life, to appreciate
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: the things, the good things that you actually do have,
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: and enjoy the holiday season with friends and family without
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: going crazy and making it more stress than anything. There's
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: another reason why we should tamper down in the adult gifty,
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  Speaker 1: giving a little bit. You don't have to get a
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  Speaker 1: gift for everybody. Don't feel bad if you don't. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of drinking, believe it or not, there is a segue there.
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  Speaker 1: Finally somebody has figured out how to do funerals right
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  Speaker 1: adding drinking. I know I just said with the hall
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  Speaker 1: of the medical experts as saying that you should tamper
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  Speaker 1: that down a little bit. But I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about adding drinking to a specific occasion at a funeral.
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  Speaker 1: I've thought for years, like most of my life, we
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  Speaker 1: do wakes and funerals so wrong in our culture. I
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  Speaker 1: think we just do it's just awful. How does it
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  Speaker 1: usually go right? It's sad anyway, you lost a loved one,
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  Speaker 1: you show up, there's usually at least it has been
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  Speaker 1: in my case coming from the Catholic Church, there's usually
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  Speaker 1: like a priest or somebody that has no idea really
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  Speaker 1: who the dearly departed is, and to get up there
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  Speaker 1: and to give some sign of a speech. Bob especially
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed his toy train collection that the family told them about.
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  Speaker 1: And they try to make it sound like and rabbis
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  Speaker 1: do this too, try to make it sound like they
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  Speaker 1: know them. You don't know a damn thing about me. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing. That's the church service. And you get
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  Speaker 1: to the funeral home and it's sad and it's this
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  Speaker 1: and then whatever, and shouldn't it be a celebration of life? Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I think of the one thing and this goes back
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  Speaker 1: to Irish culture, which I'm very familiar with. An Irish
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  Speaker 1: wakes a little bit different. It's a party. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to go wheels off or anything. But really the
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  Speaker 1: focus is yes, of course is a lot of whiskey,
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  Speaker 1: but of course the focus is on celebrating the person
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  Speaker 1: in a in a party. Wouldn't you want that when
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: you go away? Do you want? I don't want people
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  Speaker 1: sad crying over me whenever that day comes. I want
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  Speaker 1: people to have a party. Well, it's a funeral home
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio, Columbus, Ohio that has finally figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: In fact that the first ever to operate with a
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  Speaker 1: liquor license. Here, here's the person from the funeral home.
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  Speaker 3: My role in this position is to kind of be
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  Speaker 3: a party planner for dead people, you know, be a
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  Speaker 3: more of a celebration of life. Then yeah, the multi
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: day traditional services which costs a lot of money. And
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: their inspector called me and they're like is this evergreen funeral?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like yeah, and they're like, you would be
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  Speaker 3: the first funeral home to get a liquor license in
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  Speaker 3: the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: How has no one figured this out? How has no
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  Speaker 1: one done this? I'm sure there are others, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that have. God there's probably funeral homes that have a
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  Speaker 1: bar in the back. I don't know. But the first
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  Speaker 1: to really figure it out, and that guy says it
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  Speaker 1: exactly right. Kind of weird. He says he's a party
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  Speaker 1: planner for dead people. I wouldn't put that on my
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  Speaker 1: business card, but that's okay. But he understands it that
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  Speaker 1: it should be a celebration of life. Shouldn't that be
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  Speaker 1: the way? You know, people getting drug sloppy? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want fights at the place whatever, But that
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: depends on the family. But a celebration of life is
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: the way to go. I would hope, I hope something
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  Speaker 1: that it's my hope for the future that we figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to how to send people off the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Happy memories should be that way, not this moross thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's sitting around God a mighty. I mean, it's sad enough,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean? He had to make it
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: sadder with some gross, more Morgue like situation. God's hope.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, that's all I got for you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. I appreciate it. As always, we're
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: a week before Christmas. Again, the main takeaway, don't go
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: crazy during this holiday season. Make this the holiday season
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: where you say no a lot more to commitments. You
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: don't have to say yes to everything. Get your sleep,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: try to stay on your normal schedule as much as
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: much as possible. And don't get that holiday heart. We
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: get a fib you don't want that. And yeah, even
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: though funeral homes are now gaining liquor licenses, you should
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: tamper down the drink in a little bit. I think
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: we all should, actually, but it's the time of the season.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: We should slow down and enjoy, not go crazy. Don't
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: worry about it. The other takeaway, as always, don't take
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: any crap from anybody. Have a wicked awesome Wednesday. We'll
• 14:45
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• 14:51
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• 14:58
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• 15:01
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• 15:04
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• 15:08
  Speaker 1: get closer and closer to Christmas. Enjoy it. We'll talk
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.