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No, I'm Not Going to Help You! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to actually help you. That's not
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  Speaker 1: why I'm here. It's one more thing. I'm one more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm liking the sound of this. I Joe Getty, bitter
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  Speaker 1: middle aged man, frequently rail about Everything's got to have
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  Speaker 1: a clever name these days.
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  Speaker 2: Right. On the other hand, I came across the next concept.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you're doing a staycation right exactly. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. I wish I had a list of
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  Speaker 2: those annoying, annoying terms in front of me that they
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  Speaker 2: come up every day. I'd never run into the concept
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  Speaker 2: of a personality higher before the Wall Street Journal was
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  Speaker 2: writing about this.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard this term, katie just out of curiosity? No,
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  Speaker 1: as you are, I have not, younger and hipper. So
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  Speaker 1: as the journal describes it, if you get further on
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  Speaker 1: charm than skill, and you carry a workload light enough
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  Speaker 1: to float atop your bubble lead demeanor, then you might
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  Speaker 1: be a personality hire. And this has actually become a thing. Charismatic, friendly,
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  Speaker 1: likable employees who might not be that great at their
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  Speaker 1: job or even work that hard, but employers are so
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  Speaker 1: desperate for any sort of joy and camaraderie in the workplace.
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  Speaker 1: They're hiring these people, they call them personality hires.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, so that's how I got hired exactly mimiter personality
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  Speaker 2: Me too, Michael. So I'm thinking of somebody right now.
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  Speaker 2: I won't say their name. They're out there in the newsroom.
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  Speaker 2: I could see hiring them because of their personality, because
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  Speaker 2: they just make the whole room better. Everybody's happier when
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  Speaker 2: they're around. I can tell just because of their personality. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here are a couple of facts. In this case, they're
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  Speaker 2: also competent, but I would I would like I would
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  Speaker 2: have hired this person if they were not quite as
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  Speaker 2: competent as person X, just because their personality the kind
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  Speaker 2: of place that's gonna make the place more lively and happy.
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  Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah, well here they quote. They start off the
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  Speaker 1: article quoting this one gal who's definitely not a personality higher.
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  Speaker 1: She's a very matter of fact person, just gets crapped done.
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  Speaker 1: But she says, oh, some people actually proudly advertise themselves
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  Speaker 1: as personal personality hires on LinkedIn. By the way. Interesting,
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  Speaker 1: So they quote this gal who's not that and finds
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  Speaker 1: it very annoying and described.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're like me, kind we kinda bitterly are resentful
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  Speaker 2: against people who are like that because we're not and
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  Speaker 2: they're advertising it. Though that's what I'm like.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to advertise, Hey, I'm not very good
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  Speaker 3: at my job, but I'm funny.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you leave that first part unsad, right, But she
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  Speaker 1: cites she worked with a personal personality hire in a
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  Speaker 1: previous job. Though fun to be around, the person eventually
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  Speaker 1: generated resentment, didn't really pull her load, and after winning
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  Speaker 1: a promotion, prompted several coworkers to quit. There's just too much.
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  Speaker 2: Well I would I I would think if they're not
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  Speaker 2: good at their job, that's not enough to overcome it.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd never thought about this before. I could see
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  Speaker 2: hiring somebody, you know, if you're going to weigh them
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  Speaker 2: on a bunch of different things. Man lump in the
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  Speaker 2: hole brings the room up as opposed to down, So
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  Speaker 2: bosses want the warm and fuzzies is The mood at
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  Speaker 2: work is generally sour.
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  Speaker 1: One third of US employees say they're engaged in their jobs,
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  Speaker 1: only a third near an all time low. Half of
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  Speaker 1: workers say they feel a lot of stress, half are
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  Speaker 1: interested in new jobs are actively applying With so many lonely,
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  Speaker 1: unhappy charges. Bosses are desperate for good workplace energy. They
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  Speaker 1: say camaraderie is hard to build on hybrid schedules, so
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  Speaker 1: they prize upbeat employees whose energy is hopefully infectious. Then
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  Speaker 1: they quote a bunch of people and recruiters from various
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  Speaker 1: industries and saying, yeah, we really, we really need more people.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's clearly true. I haven't had a job I
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  Speaker 2: don't like in a long long time. But when I
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  Speaker 2: worked jobs that I didn't like, oh, there were certain
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  Speaker 2: people that made it bearable, and when they weren't there,
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  Speaker 2: it was awful.
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  Speaker 1: Right or if they quit everybody who's like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: do this, right.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if they're hiring these people to make it
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  Speaker 3: more appealing to come back into the office too, like
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  Speaker 3: after COVID, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Got to be a fact or sure, yeah, so but anyway,
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  Speaker 1: this there's this comedian gal who has done a couple
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  Speaker 1: of bits about being a personality higher that I think
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  Speaker 1: are brilliant and illustrating what it is all about. Her
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  Speaker 1: name is Vienna Aila and it's clip fifteen. Michael, my guy, La,
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  Speaker 1: you look gorgeous. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm very stressed out.
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  Speaker 2: We have the big presentation today.
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  Speaker 3: And Hi, thank Dereline and I have worked on this
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  Speaker 3: project NonStop.
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  Speaker 2: I mean like it's our baby.
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  Speaker 1: Been up all night about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, shoot, what's the project about today? I have no idea?
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys think we need to get an extension? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: We can't call Greg. He's so scared.
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  Speaker 2: So Greg is our CEO.
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  Speaker 1: I'll call Greg, of.
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  Speaker 2: Course, are you sure y? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let's call Greg. Greg is so terrifying. Greggy,
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  Speaker 1: Hey you where are you? How are your kids?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: Starts doing school production. Annie love, she's playing Annie.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Greg, that's so amazing. Hold on one, said Greg
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  Speaker 2: when I asked me presentation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg, you know I've been sen here and talking
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  Speaker 1: Annie with you all day.
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  Speaker 2: But Greg, I have to ask you something.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna need a couple of days, Greg, take a week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's such a place.
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  Speaker 2: Next week I want to come to Annie, back to
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  Speaker 2: the important stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'll come me through right now. Let's freaking eat a
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  Speaker 1: free ocean talk Annie.
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  Speaker 3: My guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Thank you, Thank you, Greg. I'm
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  Speaker 2: coming to you.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's another bit where they have the permit
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  Speaker 1: revoked for an event at the last minute, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, the only way we could deal with
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  Speaker 1: this is to like have the mayor on our side.
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  Speaker 1: She says, the mayor. The mayor's in my ass in
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  Speaker 1: EBS class. I'll call her right now. She comes, Hello, girl,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Oh my god, you don't need that class.
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  Speaker 1: Your ass is amazing anyway, and she gets the permit reinstated.
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  Speaker 2: The ass she's just.
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  Speaker 1: A schmoozer and a networker and that sort of super
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  Speaker 1: uppy person doesn't but and it's harder to tell without
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  Speaker 1: the visuals in that first video, but she doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: anything about the project. Then she gets the on the
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  Speaker 1: call with Greggy and says, what am I asking for
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  Speaker 1: again to our coworkers? An extension? Oh right, right, she
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  Speaker 1: goes into that. So it's a parody obviously, But that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I've never I don't think enough attention is paid to
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  Speaker 2: like chemistry in a group of people for work. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think most bosses ever even think about it.
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  Speaker 2: They should. And now in the modern world of boy that,
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  Speaker 2: like they said, the hybrid working in zoom, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure any of that translates to zoom, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I meant to talk about this on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I will. But I was talking to my son,
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  Speaker 1: who's just about to turn thirty, and he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about and he's been a performer of various sorts for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. He's a musician and a gifted
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  Speaker 1: actor who decided not to act. That's fine, but he said,
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  Speaker 1: coming out of COVID, the very thought of performing just
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  Speaker 1: seemed enormous and terrifying and overwhelming. Just so, and it's
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  Speaker 1: worth mentioning he lived. He lives in Oregon, which is
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  Speaker 1: so cultish in its or was in its adherence to
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  Speaker 1: every COVID policy, and as a show of hating Trump,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't let their children play with other children for
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half. And it's just devastating to
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  Speaker 1: so many people of so many ages, even people in
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  Speaker 1: their twenties. It's horrible anyway, speaking of people who have
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  Speaker 1: difficulty communicating and communing and looking people in the eye
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of it, Man COVIDU Deco declan. My
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  Speaker 1: son said to me, he said, I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who are really damaged by it, and they're
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  Speaker 1: not healing very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Was it was it just the act of having to
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  Speaker 3: go out and perform again, or was were there people
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  Speaker 3: that weren't going to the shows?
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  Speaker 1: What made it so much more difficult post COVID, Well,
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  Speaker 1: because everything was so locked down. You just you had
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  Speaker 1: like your roommate and you would interact with maybe somebody
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  Speaker 1: at work if you were allowed to work a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: It was like living in solitary confinement in a prison.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously not that bad, but I know a.
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  Speaker 2: Couple of people who talk about that dark period where
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  Speaker 2: they they didn't have any communication and they would uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, struggle to have any opportunity just to like
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  Speaker 2: wave to another car far away, like all right, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't live that way, so I.
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  Speaker 1: Guarantee they lived in a blue state. There's a prominent
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  Speaker 1: musician who thinks a wonderful songwriter, but he tweeted at
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  Speaker 1: one point that he felt bad for his kids because
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  Speaker 1: his kids hadn't had a plate aid or hugged another
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  Speaker 1: child or whatever for a year. And I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: fly to Portlandia where he resides, and punch him in
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  Speaker 1: the stomach and just to wake him up and say
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? And all the dad about children
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  Speaker 1: and being fine was out there, all of it, but
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  Speaker 1: you had to virtue signal how much you despise Trump
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  Speaker 1: by torturing yourself and your loved ones. And Declann lived
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of that, and anyway, sorry to get
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  Speaker 1: started on that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a reality a lot of people are dealing
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  Speaker 3: with still, and that's why his.
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  Speaker 1: Company needs a personality hire to just things up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit full circle. Well, I guess that's it.