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Talk Good morning.
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Welcome or welcome back to that Gen.
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X Friend podcast. And before I begin, I want to
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give a shout out to MBA Radio. Thank you so much for this
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platform. As always, I'm always grateful.
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All right, so let's get to it. So I think most people are aware
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of what's going on recently, right?
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Especially concerning the past, let's say five years or so.
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Yeah. So that's what's kind of
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inspired this this topic. So have you ever done something
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you're like, oh man, I wish I would have known this before I
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went and did that or no, next before I went and did.
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Why? Like that information would have
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been great, like yesterday kind of thing.
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Because, you know, we didn't know the rest of the story.
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We were bamboozled to do things because we were given portions,
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meager portions of a situation or whatever, but sold as the the
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whole truth, nothing but the truth kind of thing, you know,
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may help me God or something kind of thing.
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So, but you know, there are also devices, things that people say
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these phrases that help add to the validity of and weightiness
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of whatever advice given or promote their version of
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whatever I provided some of them.
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I'm going to read it because I want to read in order.
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The early bird gets the worm right.
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We've been told this for whatever reasons.
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Jack of all trades, master of none.
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Blood is thicker than water. Great minds think alike.
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That one kind of makes you feel good depending, you know, like
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whoever is the person saying to you like saying it to you, the
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customers always right. Money is the root of all evil.
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Sounds legit and well, there's so many, so many more and just
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like being given half or portions of situations,
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happenings or whatever and being sold as the whole thing like
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legit many of these things that we've heard.
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This is just some some of the most common ones.
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I I know, I've heard it so many times in my life.
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I already know. Yeah, I know.
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I get it. But never once, never once have
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I actually asked like is there more to it?
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I just accept these like these things wholesale because when I
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was when it was, I experienced them and told me it was passed
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on as irrefutable wisdom or condemnation.
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Especially like the ones like Jack of all trades, master of
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none man, I've heard that so many times when I was young,
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especially by my parents because they're like, well, you don't
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know anything, you don't know anything.
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You know a little bit about this, a little bit about that.
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And that phrase, by the way, it is cross cultural, but I heard
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it from English speaking people and also my parents who did not
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use English to say this. You know, it's stuff like this
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that's drove me to either feel bad about it, like about get all
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the feels and feel bad about myself or take actions to alter
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this indictment because this whole truth, nothing but the
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truth. So help me God kind of thing,
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because then that's where they stood and I was indicted on
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things that I didn't even know about.
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And, and I didn't question the truth.
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I, I didn't question if there was more to it.
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I just took it. I bought a wholesale.
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I was like, oh, this is a deal. I'm getting some wisdom.
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Let's let's act on it. And also some of this stuff
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pigeonholed me to certain outcomes, which I thought was
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fixed in in in mobile like, and I just had to accept these
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things and do my best to alter me.
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I'm not saying all of when these sayings were said or told to me
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or maybe to you and you heard it that they were always
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incorrectly used, right, incorrectly applied.
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Perhaps it was, you know, by chance it, it was correct based
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on whatever the situation. Like great minds think alike,
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right? Perhaps you were in the presence
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of a great mind, which is, you know, not in the mind of the
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person who thinks they're a great mind, but widely accepted
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as somebody who has a great mind.
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And you said something and then the person's like, wow, great
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minds think alike. And you're like, oh, that's
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awesome. Like this person's a great mind.
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And this person just said that I am also a great mind because we
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I think like it. It leads us me you to act a
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certain way, right. We got all the feels good or
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bad, but this one is good. Or else you were commended on
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like showing up early and getting some good out of it.
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Like early bird gets the worm, you know, So you're like, Oh,
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that's awesome. I I love this thing and this is
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me. I'm an early person.
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Especially for U.S. military people. 15 minutes before the 15
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minutes before the 15 minutes before the three hours, we have
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to show up early. And you got 15 minutes on top of
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that kind of thing, like, oh, yeah, no, no, early birds gets
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warm. But like I said, I rarely until
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recently and like wait it just out of curiosity.
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Also curiosity killed the cat, right?
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Out of curiosity, I, I guess I was a cat.
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I was, I was looking this up. I'm like, I wonder is there more
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to this? And there is there is.
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So I'm going to read it 'cause I actually saved it.
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So just so you guys can hear some of these things, it's only
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half the story. And like Paul Hardy, shout out
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to him. I know he's gone, but man, I
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used to listen to and here's the rest of the story.
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So not that I'm as eloquent, not even close, but I want to share
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with you the rest of the story. The early bird gets the worm,
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Here's the second-half, and the second mouse gets the cheek.
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I think we can see the why the second mouse gets the cheese
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because, you know, there's a mousetrap.
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You know, we don't have the picture.
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Well, you can picture like Tom and Jerry, kind of cartoonish,
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like the mouse with the XS on his eyes and his tongue hanging
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out. And here's the other one.
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Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than
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master of 1. Man, I wish I would have known
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this like, you know, 1/4 of a century ago.
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I was often made to feel so bad because I knew a little bit
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about this. I knew a little bit about that.
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I wasn't quite, you know, sure what I was interested in.
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So I, I kind of knew a little bit about whatever and I used to
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get berated and condemned for never having because I'm ADHD
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guys squirrel. I it was used, this one phrase
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was used to condemn me to never being good at anything because I
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was never good at anything. That's what they told me.
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That was the way it was used. Man, this information would have
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been good like 1/4 of a century ago.
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Here we go let's continue. Blood is thicker than water.
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How many times have you guys heard this?
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Because I've heard this. This is also cross cultural now
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and but here's the full phrase. The blood of the covenant is
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thicker than the water of the womb right?
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Whatever that means to you, it it's the bond, it's the, it's
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whatever you fortify, right compared to the blood of the
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womb. You guys can look up the meaning
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however you want to interpret it.
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Here's another one. Gray minds think alike that
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example like, Oh my God, I'm part of the great minds.
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What? You know, people usually, I
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believe from my experience, use it for good 'cause it's a
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compliment, right? I've never personally
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experienced it as a dig, at least I don't remember anyways.
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But here's the rest. Great minds think alike, but
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small minds rarely differ. So what if somebody like the
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same situation? Great mind you're, you are in
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the presence of this great mind. Everybody, let's just say like a
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fairy tale, everybody adores and just trust that this person has
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a great mind and you just happen to say something, not repeating.
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You're you're not being a parrot and regurgitating anything this
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person said. And you said something and the
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person's like, well, great minds think alike, but small minds
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rarely differ. So is that how how would that
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make you feel? Right?
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Taking in the first portion, you're like, yeah, great mind.
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But with the second portion added on, would you feel
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offended? Like, what is this person saying
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to me? Like, let's continue curiosity,
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kill the cat, right? Because I was so curious because
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I love language and words. I, I'd like to get into the
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meaning things and curiosity got me eventually late in not like
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1/4 century earlier. I, I, I didn't know to look it
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up. I just accepted all this
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wholesale. Like, Oh my God, I'm I'm part of
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the I'm just going to use my favorite like wholesale store
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Costco. I'm like, Oh my God, I'm part of
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Costco. Anything they sell is great.
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I'll just buy it all kind of thing.
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Like so only recently have I arrived at a place where
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curiosity and I'm the cat. I guess I was going to accept
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the fact that it might kill me and I looked it up.
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Here's the rest. Curiosity killed the cat, but
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satisfaction brought it back. So when people say, well, you
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know, let's not poke up here. Curiosity, like it is sort of
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used. This one is used in a way to
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deter perhaps that like the curiosity of like investigating.
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Is there more to it? Like I want to know more.
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But this sort of stunts you into depending on who's saying it to
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you, right? Because with let's just talk
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about Marines, like don't do that.
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And guess what? We're going to do it.
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We're going to do it on a grand scale in which mayhem chaos will
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always be a part of it. So depending on who's saying it
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to you and who the the audience is, it might not end so well or
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it might end great. So but when we here as children,
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like curiosity killed a cat in a like I'm waving my finger at you
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like this. What do you do?
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You get deterred, right? Let's continue.
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The customer's always right. And depending on what kind of
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job you've had and if you ever had a service job like I have
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had, I've had service job. I was a waitress for many years.
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You know, that's kind of the golden rule, right?
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Supposedly, maybe not so much as recent years.
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But here's the rest. The customers always write in
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matter of taste. Everybody has their own taste.
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Like what? I'm going to use a real world
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example. Some people love cilantro.
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OK, I'm one of those people. And guess what?
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My son hates it because he's like, it tastes like soap.
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But it doesn't make me wrong in liking it.
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It's a matter of taste, right? Because I'm billed differently
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than they are. So is the customer always right
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based on their own taste? What if they just didn't like
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for whatever reason, they are customers of the store and they
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just hated, hated whatever for whatever reason.
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Are they right? What if there are there are
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customers out there that just love the store for that exact
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reason? That information would have been
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great yesterday. Or here's the the the last one
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I'm going to share. Money is the root of all evil.
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Sounds legit man 'cause you know, especially right now in
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this current state of being, I'm sure you can whatever comes to
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mind People are saying, you know, capitalism, money, greed.
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I'm sure you can get the reference.
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Here is the rest or the the complete saying.
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The love of money is the root of all evil, right?
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Instead of indicting this currency that we need to use on
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a daily basis to to get things done as a equal form of exchange
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for services or whatever, we're indicting the existence of it
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rather than the individual use of it and how we treat it.
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Do we idolize it? Do we misuse it?
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Do we use it for crime? Whatever.
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Right. So and I've heard that too.
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That's also cross cultural and it's just funny as I begin to
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examine myself and why I say the things I say and where do these
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things come from, especially because I have, I have said
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various sayings like this to my son.
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I think one of them is the absence makes the heart grow
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fonder. But there's actually here if you
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want to look look it up and peak your own curiosity, You can look
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up the rest of that saying, but I only heard the first portion
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of it. And that is how I then
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communicated to my son, wrongly applied because the rest of that
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saying could have made a world of difference in how I used it,
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why I used it, and it's in thinking if I used it
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appropriately within that conversation.
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I use these sayings as an example, right?
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Because they are commonly known. Most people have heard of them
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in situations. All we do is we want to roll our
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eyes so hard that you can hear them rattle in our heads kind of
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situations. But also as a way to perhaps
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shine a little light on how most of the things we think we know,
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we hear, we are being told is only a portion of the story.
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Or of a saying or whatever. That's why Paul Harvey, like
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people like Paul Harvey, was so needed.
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Like he gave you the, the, the complete, as complete as he can
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give it from all different views, right?
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So when we operate on a daily basis being bamboozled by
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portions of a story, portions of a truth, depending on who's
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telling it for what reason, what angle, what is the intent?
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And we don't investigate for ourselves.
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I'm not saying when we investigate that we will get to
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the bottom of things. Like I'm still questioning like,
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are UFOOS real? Like for it was just a
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distraction. What's going on, Like curiosity,
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morbid curiosity? How many people have been
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arrested at Area 51 just out of morbid curiosity?
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Just to 'cause I want to know the rest of the story.
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I don't want to operate on jumping to conclusions.
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Man, I love Office Space for all.
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You got to see that movie, guys. It's a great movie given a piece
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of information but sold as the complete version and jumping to
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conclusions because I took it as the whole truth and nothing but
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the truth kind of thing and which led me to act a certain
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way, feel a certain way, and perceive a certain outcome was
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fixed. It impacts it would have man
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knowing the full or as fully as I can investigate a situation
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more of the situation. I think I would have done things
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a lot differently in my life. For example, I I was sold like
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most people for a good 23 generations were sold.
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That's you know, going to college was the only way to
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succeed in life. Well, Kern situations, it's
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proof that that that is not true.
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We are lacking severely lacking skilled workers.
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I wish I would have, you know, learned.
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I wish I would have paid attention when I was attached to
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the motor pool or been a mechanic instead of I was a data
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marine. OK, I fixed computers and dealt
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with all that stuff and guess what?
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AI is taking over all that, but mechanics are still needed.
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You know something like that. I I bought a wholesale and never
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investigated for myself. I'm not saying that when you
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hear these things as young and naive minds that you should then
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go back. Oh, I should have known.
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Well, you only know what you know at the time that you know
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it. Your knowledge is limited.
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But now coming from the other side, like, oh man, information
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would have been good like quarter of a century ago.
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Yes, I'm old. I'm OK.
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I'm OK with that, I think. But now that we know and we can
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see in our own lives through our own experiences, that we have
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been bamboozled to do things, to feel things, to back away from
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things by only a meager portion of the story of the situation,
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we can speak up appropriately to those who are coming after us,
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our children or their peers or whoever.
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Because some people have experiences in their youth that
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most people may not ever have but encounter, perhaps also
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encounter later. We can just talk about
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illnesses. There are plenty of young people
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who've gone through illnesses that can probably help if they
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share their stories like give more of a complete version of
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the reality that happens it. It might help a lot of people
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who are older right. So, but not let the typical the
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usual suspects. I'm talking about media and
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these people that we trust for what reason?
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Because we were told to trust them, right, to tell us part of
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the share only part of the story and not be like Paul Harvey.
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Here's the rest of the story to then control, manipulate.
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I don't know, persuade us to act, respond in a way that they
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are staring us to. I remember, I think it was in
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the 90s or I think even in the 2000's, The Enquirer, the slogan
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was Enquirers wants to know. Forgive me, I always come up
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with these things in real time and I'm not good with slogans,
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but The Enquirer wants to know or something to that effect.
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But people don't want to know anymore, even with the
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availability. I'm also part of it.
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Like, there's so much information that's available to
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us at our fingertips, right? I'm not discounting that much of
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what we find on the Internet is now also also, like, half truth
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and meant to bamboozle us. Like, depending on how you feel
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about AI, yeah, it might make things easier.
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It might, whatever you ask, come in a little short package, like
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oh, so condensed. I don't have to look through the
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various little various pages to find that information.
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But it also handcuffs and sort of puts up willingly puts us
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into this little box that it wants to show it.
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Oh, wow. It's so it's, it's the little
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pieces that we're like, oh, that's easily digestible.
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Instead of investigating and perhaps learning the rest of the
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story, like the early bird gets a worm.
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So you're the early bird that's oh, yeah, I'm going to get the
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worm. What if you get up early and
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there's like, I don't know what eats birds?
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All kinds of predators eat birds, right.
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And you go out there and this nocturnal predator has been
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waiting for you as the early bird to get the bird.
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The get 'cause you're going to get the worm right, 'cause you
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believe in it and you get stashed up.
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That's why the second portion of that phrase that the saying the
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second mouse gets the cheese right, 'cause the first one went
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and sacrificed itself. Second one benefits from the
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forerunner, right. But you can't take the we cannot
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also take these as like, oh, I'm not going to be the early bird
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now because I don't want to, you know, be the, the the mouse.
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I sacrificed myself. Yeah, for the second one.
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I want to be the benefit. Well, somebody has to be the
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forerunner, but it's to use to. That's why half truths, half
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stories, portions of the story is not conducive to us acting
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appropriately. For what?
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For some situations, you might not find we might not be able to
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discover the truth until after the fact.
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There's nothing we can do about that, right?
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These situations are fluctuating depending on what you can get,
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how you can get it, and what information is available.
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This is sort of a cautionary thing because I'm a rash.
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I can be very rash depending on how how much in the fields I am.
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I can be like, oh, I'm just going to act this way that way
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without actually taking time to digest investigate the entirety
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of the situation, the story, because I feel I need to do this
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now. Now when we are in our fields,
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like there's this urgency because survival, right?
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But if there's information out there, no matter how urgent, no
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matter, no matter how this wisdom or condemnation seems so,
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Oh my God, it was so legit. I, I just, I, I believe that.
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Here we go. I'm going to use it.
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I think this is a Gen. X military word.
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It will behoove us to take some time, take a breath, consider
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the situation before we jump on that grenade in which all we had
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to do was kick it into the ditch, that roll downhill right
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and eliminate the whole situation.
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OK, and I say this as usual is because I have fallen into that
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trap and bought things that people said to me wholesale.
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And looking back on it, I wish I knew the rest of the story.
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I wish I knew the rest of the saying like Jack of all trades,
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master of none, right? Because the rest of it says so
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often better than master of 1. I wouldn't have felt so bad
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about myself. I wouldn't beat myself up for
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the entirety of my life and I still do in my own mind, they're
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they are long gone. But here I am doing their job
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because it was said to me and I bought it without investigating.
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Is this true? Really, is it is it bad?
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I'm sure you guys can come up with all sorts of situations and
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things that people have said to you.
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I, I only picked up these phrases as an examples.
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It, it doesn't have to be a common phrase.
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It could just be a common saying that people can have variations
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of how they say it when they say it to you.
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But the intent is to make you or me think, oh, this is you cannot
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question my wisdom or you're bad for this.
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And then they're wagging a little finger at you because
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they're counting on the fact that we won't investigate
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because we trusted them. And we have, we've been sold
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this bill of goods that this is the whole truth and nothing but
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the truth. You can name endless amount of
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things that's happening now that people will get behind
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regardless of whatever affiliations you have, people
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will get behind it and push it. And the more people say it like
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these phrases, right, the more we tend to believe it.
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That's psychology. It doesn't matter if it's the
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truth or it's of a lie. When it's said repeatedly and
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with confidence and with sort of this authority figure, kind of
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we will believe it once we hear enough.
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We are trained not to question. And This is why it is imperative
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for us to be curious, cautiously and nonetheless curious, and to
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investigate and to learn the rest of the story.
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Because the rest of the story adds flavour, adds dynamics,
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adds death to the conversation to the idea that did a bridge
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version never really brings. You know, I'm sure most of us in
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high school Gen. X population that had the the
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yellow books Cliff notes, right? Like for versions of books that
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we didn't want to read. Mine was Tale of two Cities.
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Oh my God, I couldn't get past the first freaking page.
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It was the best of times. It's the worst of times and it
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was the worst of times for me. I could not read that thing and
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I bought the Cliffs Notes for it.
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And I'm not saying I even read the Cliffs Notes.
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I, I, I think I selectively read pages on the Cliffs Notes to to
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try to do my book report. I don't remember how I did, but
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apparently that book is fantastic, full of great things.
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Not that I'm going to read it, which I I just couldn't suffer
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that book. I'm sorry for all those people
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who love it, But the rest of the story was there and all I had to
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do was go through that. And sometimes investigation
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perhaps is like reading The Tale of Two Cities for me, for you,
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right? Like I can't do this.
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This is so insufferable, but there's a benefit.
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Depending on what the situation is and how investigating and
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knowing the full story or the a good portion of it, it may
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change the trajectory of your life.
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It may change how you act. It may change how you beat
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yourself up or not. It may change what you think
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about an outcome. You're like, Oh no, no, that's
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the only outcome. There's no way I'm not doing
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that. It may change all of that for
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you. And man, all I can say is that I
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wish I wasn't bamboozled so much so by only portions, meager
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portions of the story situation. So I guess I am part of the
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Bamboozle club, but I'm not just a member, I'm also the
36:39
president. So this is quite the a hidden
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club because most people prefer not to share.
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It's really, it's really shameful to reveal, man, I was
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bamboozled, right, Because we got our egos to protect.
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But I'm here to share that there are people out there.
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I'm one of them. Yeah.
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I said I was the president because I've been bamboozed
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quite a few times. But now that I know, then it
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will behoove me to dig a little bit more, ask is there more to
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where this came from, to perhaps find more than what I've been
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told or sold to see if there's something hidden.
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I'm going to try to do that and cautiously proceed with my
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curiosity. Because I don't want to be the
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cat that gets killed because there are cats that happen
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killed by curiosity, right? I want to be the part that was
37:57
here. What does it say was brought
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back by satisfaction? Like knowing.
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Knowing is only, wait, what is it, GI Joe?
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Knowing is half the battle, right?
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So man, I'm just going into all these 80s things, 80s, nineties
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things. Yeah, I want to know more and
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not jump to conclusions. And I want to perhaps share what
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I know more to also help others see more of the story, perhaps
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that I have experienced, so they don't have to jump to
38:37
conclusions because perhaps there's not a lot of information
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out there about certain things. And hopefully, whether you are a
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middle member of the Bamboozle Club or not, I, I, I guess this
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is my coming out like, oh, I'm the president of the Bamboozle
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Club. It's OK.
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You're not alone. Depending on whatever the
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situation is. Now that you know, be like Paul
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Hardy, find out the rest of the story and share what you know so
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others don't have to suffer the same shame of being bamboozled.
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If we can help each other with, I don't know, by avoiding the
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avoidable downfalls or potholes or whatever you want to say of
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life's highways. It doesn't have to be big.
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I I think we would be happier. What do you guys think?
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I I, I would have been the happier if somebody warned me
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about a lot of things, especially going to going to
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school. Yeah, I, I went and got a very,
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very. I spent a long, long time in
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school and and sometimes. I wish I would have learned the
40:27
trade. I really do love to tinker with
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to understand cars more. I would love that.
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But I'm not saying I didn't learn things from my time in
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school. But most of the things I was
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taught are useless. The one thing I did learn, which
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I didn't use until, well, recently, is to investigate.
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I did research. I learned how to research.
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I learned to find information which either backed my
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hypothesis or not right. But in finding the most valuable
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part that I gained from investigating is that I learned
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more from information that was opposing to what I thought.
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Like, oh, I did not know that. Wow, that's that's great.
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Or maybe I would have felt sad about it.
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Maybe I felt glad about it. But no matter how little the
41:32
piece of information was, I was glad to have known it because
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now I know a little bit more because I wasn't in this echo
41:40
chamber saying, Oh, great mind's thinking like, look, like, oh,
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look, there's all kinds of information out there that
41:46
agrees with me, you know, And I was able to produce a
41:51
dissertation that I, I was able to present in, in my opinion, in
42:04
my opinion that I presented not just the things that agreed with
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was, has been put out there already.
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And I think the cost was still too much, but that's something
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that I couldn't learn. Maybe I don't know.
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I can't say if I was, you know, a mechanic, would I have learned
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that? Maybe I probably I, I don't
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doubt it. Obviously I didn't come from it
42:38
from that direction. So I I encourage everybody to be
42:47
the curious cat cautiously. Don't be jumping off the
42:50
freaking, you know, third story balcony with your when you're
42:55
paunch a lighter. Don't do that.
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Don't be that kind of cat. OK, There's really no good that
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would come out of it. Protect yourself.
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We're the right gear, right, But it would definitely prevent.
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I believe in as far as everything goes now, these
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reactive behaviors that we see on the media, like people are
43:20
like, oh, let's do all this together.
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And then years later like, oh, that was wrong.
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And and if we consider more, I'm not saying we don't have to
43:30
apologize later, but investigating probably reduces
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the chances of that happening greatly.
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I hope this didn't sound preachy, it's just that I've
43:46
seen I'm seeing so much back and forth backlash like extremes to
43:51
another and I think the rest of the story knowing more of the
43:59
story, whatever is being revealed, investigating my
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reduce that swing, the violent swings that we see now in
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society. If this makes sense to you,
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perhaps investigate. If not, thanks for listening as
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always. But I am going to go investigate
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more the rest of the story and perhaps not act so rashly.
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So that's it for this week. Thank you for listening.
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I pray for you guys all the time and I hope you guys have a
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blessed day till two weeks from now.
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