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Some Wednesday Thoughts... · Billy & Lisa in the Morning: The After Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's get into it, everybody. Hi, After Show Podcast. Welcome in, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Wednesday. It is September 16th. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for listening. Yeah, the show just wrapped up, so
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  Speaker 1: I jump on to the podcast. That's how it works.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll give you the behind the scenes of the show,
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes of my life. Take your questions, your
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  Speaker 1: comments via the talkbacks. That's how this podcast works. So
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  Speaker 1: if you listen to the Billy and Lisa show, you
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  Speaker 1: would benefit from this podcast, especially if you're you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the show podcast, then you can listen to this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if there are podcasts where I don't bring
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  Speaker 1: up the show at all, you can always yell at
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  Speaker 1: me on the talkbacks because that does happen as well.
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  Speaker 1: There's really no plan when it comes to this. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of just riff off of what's going on. I
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  Speaker 1: want to start with this today because if you listen
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  Speaker 1: to the show, we didn't get any calls or talkbacks,
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  Speaker 1: literally none about the Ed Sheeran situation and the tickets
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  Speaker 1: that we were giving away. So Behind the scenes, we
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  Speaker 1: did not address it on the air. But we made
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  Speaker 1: a decision here, the whole radio station as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: after yesterday's developments, that we just put it on pause
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  Speaker 1: because we don't know what's going to happen with the
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran show. There's a chance he might cancel it.
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  Speaker 1: His band backed out. All of his openers backed out.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not really sure what's going on. It's such
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  Speaker 1: a touchy situation. But I will say the one– I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say positive of it, but one benefit
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  Speaker 1: maybe is– That it's forced me to read about the
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  Speaker 1: situation because I just did not understand what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Jewish. I know there's conflict and there's been
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  Speaker 1: conflict for a long time. So I spent the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of days reading about what's going on and the
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  Speaker 1: history of it. And it is so convoluted and really
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  Speaker 1: so terrible. But I've been educating myself on it. And
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like both sides have their points, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like if I were on one side,
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  Speaker 1: if I was Jewish, I would have what I believe,
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, that would be it. I'm sticking by it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you have the other side, which is the
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  Speaker 1: Free Palestine as well. The part that I'm confused on is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to the Macklemore speech itself, okay,
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  Speaker 1: when it first came out on Monday, the story broke everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Macklemore has been doing this for a while,
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years. He has a song about this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, about free Palestine. So this one though, caught
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  Speaker 1: the attention of everybody. He came out and I watched
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  Speaker 1: what he said and what he said was free Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: And then he also, you know, said, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love all Jewish people. I just want peace. That's the
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  Speaker 1: goal of this. Also free, you know, Sudan and all
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  Speaker 1: these other places around the world that have all these
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  Speaker 1: terrible things happening. So that part, I didn't understand why
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  Speaker 1: it's hate speech. But then I talked to my sister-in-law
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  Speaker 1: who's Jewish. Her dad is from Israel. And she kind
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  Speaker 1: of explained it to me that it's when you use
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  Speaker 1: words like free Palestine, it has multiple meanings. And so
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  Speaker 1: it goes back to the Holocaust and Israel being kind
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  Speaker 1: of a safe space that Jewish people could go. And
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  Speaker 1: when you say free Palestine, they take that as they
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  Speaker 1: don't want Israel to exist anymore. Something along those lines.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I see both sides. But You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: more to the Macklemore thing, I guess. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: had dressed up in a costume many years ago that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of poking fun at Jewish people. And then
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  Speaker 1: maybe he said some things prior. That's surprising to me.
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  Speaker 1: The costume thing is weird. I don't get that. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I've met Macklemore. He's in recovery. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I like his music. I've had long discussions with him.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't come off as a hateful person. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote Same Love, which was about gay marriage. So
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  Speaker 1: when I watched back the clip, I'm like, OK, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking for the hate speech part here and I just
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  Speaker 1: kind of don't 100 percent see it. That's just my
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  Speaker 1: opinion on it. But as far as where I stand,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's such a touchy thing and I
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  Speaker 1: think that goes back to the decision being made by
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  Speaker 1: the radio station, which was not us, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: That's the entire staff that after yesterday, like there's no
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  Speaker 1: right answer here and like whatever we say about it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be wrong to a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: and people are going to get upset. So even when
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  Speaker 1: we did the story and covered the story, the talkbacks
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  Speaker 1: came in. And they weren't yelling at us or anything,
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  Speaker 1: but mostly just like saying their point. And if you
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  Speaker 1: go on social media and read the comments, you'll see
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  Speaker 1: both sides. And yeah, it's a really crazy situation. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with Ed. So we
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  Speaker 1: pulled the tickets just because we don't know. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. Is Ed going to perform?
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  Speaker 1: And then you think about, you know, if Ed does perform,
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  Speaker 1: is he taking the side of Robert Kraft and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that side? And if he doesn't perform and he stands
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  Speaker 1: by his openers and by Macklemore, is he taking that side?
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  Speaker 1: This is a PR nightmare for Ed Sheeran. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to this and you have an opinion on it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure if you're Jewish or you have a strong
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  Speaker 1: opinion about it and what I say may bother you,
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  Speaker 1: just know it's not my intention here. I have no
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  Speaker 1: dog in this fight. It's awful, awful. My sister-in-law was
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  Speaker 1: explaining to me the history and the conflict and the
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  Speaker 1: amount of deaths and atrocities that that have gone on
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  Speaker 1: over there. And she's like, Justin, this is my life.
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  Speaker 1: Like I grew up learning about this and following this.
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  Speaker 1: And she's like, honestly, it's so bad. I can't keep up.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's a different conflict every year. It just never,
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  Speaker 1: ever ends. And she's like, I don't, I don't, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be in your position as somebody on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. Who's kind of doesn't really, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of in the middle almost, even though I know
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  Speaker 1: that's probably wrong because one quote that I saw was,
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  Speaker 1: By saying nothing, you're basically saying that the people that
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  Speaker 1: are being hurt, the children that are being hurt, that
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  Speaker 1: that's OK. And that really sticks with you there. It
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  Speaker 1: really does. But yeah, it's a tough situation, man. It
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  Speaker 1: really is. So we just– the Ed Sheeran tickets didn't do.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't cover the story because again, there's just no–
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  Speaker 1: there's no right answer. There really isn't. Yeah. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I'd give you the behind the scenes in case
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  Speaker 1: you were wondering if you listen to the show today
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  Speaker 1: and did not hear the tickets or here is talking
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  Speaker 1: about the story. Crazy, crazy times. I wonder what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. I don't know. Phineas dropped out. Ed Sheeran's
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  Speaker 1: own band backed out because that's another part of the
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  Speaker 1: argument that people have is free speech, right? Like, don't
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  Speaker 1: we have free speech? Can't Macklemore go on stage and
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  Speaker 1: say what he wants? Isn't that what? America is all
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  Speaker 1: about and then to be shut down by Bobcraft. So
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  Speaker 1: that's another argument. So there's many different angles to this.
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  Speaker 1: And I just know it's it it angers a lot,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. It really does. Just reading all
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  Speaker 1: of the comments on all of the Instagram pages on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter of people just going at it with each other. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm right. I'm right. You're wrong. You're wrong. It's like politics.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same thing. You know, it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we don't really do the politics thing. When
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  Speaker 1: Matt retired, Matt hated Trump obviously. Every day was about
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  Speaker 1: how much he hated Trump. When he left, we're like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to isolate most of the audience. It's
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  Speaker 1: like we're never going to change people's minds. Sorry. People
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  Speaker 1: who have an opinion will never change anybody else's mind.
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  Speaker 1: And so you can fight tooth and nail and say
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  Speaker 1: my side is right. But if the other person believes
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  Speaker 1: something different, they're passionate about that and you're most likely
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  Speaker 1: not going to change their mind. It's just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is I feel like. So the politics thing we
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  Speaker 1: don't really cover on the show. I got a talk
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  Speaker 1: back recently. I meant to pull it, but it was
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  Speaker 1: she said something like, oh, it must be nice for you, Justin.
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  Speaker 1: Raise your kids and, you know, nice and safe and just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, don't have to like follow politics and don't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep up with it because, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: live a cushy life with your kids. I'm like, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Like I was shooting heroin not that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: living on the street with nothing, dying, I'm grateful to
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  Speaker 1: be here, and I know the world is a scary
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  Speaker 1: place and a very bad place. I've always known that.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in some fucked up situations in my life,
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  Speaker 1: stuff that I don't talk about publicly. I talk about
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  Speaker 1: a lot publicly about my addiction because it's important, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll share silly stories and just ridiculous things that I did,
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  Speaker 1: but there's some things that I've gone through in my
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  Speaker 1: life that I don't share, like things that I'm ashamed
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  Speaker 1: of and I will never, ever share publicly, but things
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  Speaker 1: that I have shared with another person, work that I've
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  Speaker 1: done on myself. And amends that I made to people
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  Speaker 1: that I hurt. It's not all sunshine and rainbows. Being
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  Speaker 1: cleaned up for this long, it's easy for me to
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  Speaker 1: look back and to kind of poke fun at it,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's not a joke. But to just be like, wow, man,
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  Speaker 1: here's a funny story of something I did, something ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: just to give kind of the scope of addiction. But
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that I went through was
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  Speaker 1: not fun. It was not fun. I was around people
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  Speaker 1: that I did not want to be around and I
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  Speaker 1: did things that I did not want to do, things
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not proud of. So I've been through some shit.
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  Speaker 1: We know that and I'm grateful to be here. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my goal is to raise my kids and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying I don't want to teach them about politics but
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  Speaker 1: I don't really have an opinion. It's simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: Why do I have to choose a side I guess
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. That's just my thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 1: There's some things that I like on one side and
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  Speaker 1: some things that I hate. And there's things that I
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  Speaker 1: like on the other side and things that I hate.
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  Speaker 1: What is that called? An independent? I've never had a party.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't grow up in a political family. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really taught about politics. So yeah, I mean, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of got to make my own decision. But to make
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  Speaker 1: it simple, there's things that I don't like on either side.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know what that means. Some people may think, well,
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  Speaker 1: you need to make a fucking decision, OK, because this
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  Speaker 1: is your country and these– it's important to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: But I just can't and it's very toxic right now. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't vote for many years. I only was able
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  Speaker 1: to vote recently. So– It's not like I had the
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  Speaker 1: ability to choose which side I was on. Um, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I got to do some work on that
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  Speaker 1: and dig up, but you know, the reading up on
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  Speaker 1: this whole situation with Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm learning a lot. I'm learning a lot about things
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  Speaker 1: that I had no idea of. You know, I heard about,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I know the October attacks were horrendous. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: I knew about Gaza, but not really in the West
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  Speaker 1: bank and Israel and all that stuff. But my sister-in-law
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  Speaker 1: gave me like a really good history lesson lesson on it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just there, too. It's everywhere in the world, man.
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  Speaker 1: There's suffering here. And then the other part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and forgive me for saying this, but it's something I
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  Speaker 1: say all the time. I say it to Billy every
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  Speaker 1: single morning, right? There's atrocities in the world. There's atrocities
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  Speaker 1: in this country. And there's so much fighting when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to politics, when it comes to this situation. People
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  Speaker 1: are yelling and screaming, outraged, yelling at each other on
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  Speaker 1: social media. Why isn't there outrage for the people that
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  Speaker 1: are hurting our children? I'm stuck on that, okay? Every
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  Speaker 1: day I come in and on the news is another
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  Speaker 1: story of children being abused, children being raped, and they
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  Speaker 1: just move right by it and nobody says anything, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's like a real problem. I used to say during
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, you know, people were so fucking mad about it.
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  Speaker 1: Where was the anger? See, the real pandemic was that,
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  Speaker 1: was our children That are being hurt and preyed upon.
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  Speaker 1: And we just cover the stories like it's nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: we just move on. Like where's the outrage for that?
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  Speaker 1: For our kids? Not to say there shouldn't be outrage
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  Speaker 1: about the other things going on in the world. I
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  Speaker 1: just never hear the energy put towards that. Towards the
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  Speaker 1: kids that have to go through that. It's a really
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  Speaker 1: touchy subject with me. Really, really touchy. And I get–
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  Speaker 1: I'm like where's that energy? Why don't you bring that
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  Speaker 1: energy here? to what's going on. I mean, it goes
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  Speaker 1: on all over the world, but especially here. It's crazy
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  Speaker 1: to me. I'm going to bring Billy on one day
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to back me up. Literally every single
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  Speaker 1: day we come in and we watch the news and
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  Speaker 1: every single day there is a story. There is a
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  Speaker 1: story about a rape or molestation or child pornography. This
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  Speaker 1: man was arrested for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Next headline.
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  Speaker 1: And they just move on. Nobody says anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Bring more energy to that. How about that? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: What else? What else on this Wednesday? The show was
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  Speaker 1: good today. Make sure you check the podcast. We had
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  Speaker 1: a really good topic time about the Super Bowl halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping it light here. You know, we're keeping it light.
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  Speaker 1: And we got a lot of feedback on that. People
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  Speaker 1: have opinions on who should be the Super Bowl halftime performer.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Bieber and Harry Styles are the two frontrunners. So
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  Speaker 1: it was either them two or somebody else. We took
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  Speaker 1: other suggestions as well. The Voice of Logan, that's going on.
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  Speaker 1: People loved the Nani one. It's really funny. I won't
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  Speaker 1: play it. It was on yesterday's podcast. But if you
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  Speaker 1: want to be the voice of Logan, go to voiceoflogan.com,
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  Speaker 1: read the script, and submit it. You could be a finalist.
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  Speaker 1: You will come into the studio, and you could be
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  Speaker 1: crowned the winner, and your voice will be heard at
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  Speaker 1: Logan Airport. How cool is that? Wow. It's this cool
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  Speaker 1: partnership we have with Massport, and we're really pushing this
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  Speaker 1: contest because we think it's really, really fun. So You
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  Speaker 1: never know. You could win. You don't need to have
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  Speaker 1: a Boston accent, but if you sound Boston, that's a plus.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't put on a Boston accent like a fake one. Justin,
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  Speaker 1: I really feel like you should have Abel try and
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  Speaker 1: read that script for the Boston Logan thing because that
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  Speaker 1: kid has the thickest Boston accent that I've ever heard. Well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not that I've ever heard, but he's got a
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  Speaker 1: great Boston accent, and I think it's hilarious. But you
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  Speaker 1: should have him try it. He cannot enter. You need
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  Speaker 1: to be 18. But that would be good. He has
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  Speaker 1: a Boston accent. He's not even from Boston. He's from Salem,
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire. Hi, this is Abel. And you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: Billy and Lisa in the morning on Kiss 108. That's
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  Speaker 1: when he was a little bit younger. You can't really
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  Speaker 1: hear it there. But make sure you go on and
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  Speaker 1: leave it. That would be really cool. You can use
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  Speaker 1: the talkbacks too. You can practice on there. We'll give
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  Speaker 1: you feedback on the air. I know that's a little frightening.
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  Speaker 1: But you can do that as well. Have a great day, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow might be a short one. We have a tour
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  Speaker 1: for the countdown coming in, so it might be a
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  Speaker 1: tight one. But we'll talk regardless because that's what we
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  Speaker 1: do on this podcast. I love you guys so much,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for listening. Bye-bye.