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Wicked Radio 12-8: News Lady Trolls Her Haters, Kiss Kennedy Honor & Headlines · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny some of these stories I'm interested
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  Speaker 1: in that, you know, I want to follow on, like
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: the Kennedy Center Honors, but I never thought i'd actually
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: bring it to the podcast. And then I started to
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: watch the Kennedy Center Honors. I'm like, wow, you know,
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  Speaker 1: beyond just Kiss getting honored, and I'm a big Kiss fan,
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  Speaker 1: so I wanted to see how that went, how Trump
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  Speaker 1: would honor Ace Frehley and all that with the good
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: stuff and you know, posthumously. And then I looked at all
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  Speaker 1: the other attendees that I didn't really paid attention to before,
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  Speaker 1: and I noticed something. Every one of them has an
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  Speaker 1: amazing story of resilience, every saying it was really actually
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. Anyway, we'll get into that as well as
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  Speaker 1: my favorite story of the day. You know, there's an
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  Speaker 1: old expression that says your haters online or your biggest marketers.
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  Speaker 1: There's a newslady in Missouri. You probably saw the video already.
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  Speaker 1: She's a curvy girl and she's turning her trolls, her
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  Speaker 1: online haters into her online content fodder as she reads
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  Speaker 1: her comments to her mean co it's on the air,
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  Speaker 1: and she makes fun of it. It's fantastic and there's
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  Speaker 1: a feel good story that is perfect, just absolutely perfect
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  Speaker 1: for this season. Probably saw this too, and I hope
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  Speaker 1: you did. You may have even contributed to it because
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  Speaker 1: the donations are over a million bucks. Ed Bambas is
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  Speaker 1: an eighty eight year old retiree down on his luck.
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  Speaker 1: And despite what you hear about TikTok and social media
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  Speaker 1: podcasters and social media influencers and I hate that term too,
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  Speaker 1: what they did for this guy, this retiree down on
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  Speaker 1: his luck who's a cashier now well not needmore is
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  Speaker 1: an amazing story of a turnaround and people actually giving.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the good side of online stuff. Anyway, let's
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  Speaker 1: get to it. Speaking of online thanks for finding the
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  Speaker 1: live stream and the podcast replay later all the channels.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you check out the YouTube channel as well
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: for the replay and the clips from the show and
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  Speaker 1: TikTok like we mentioned, and also don't forget about the
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  Speaker 1: audio podcast as well. Where ab you like to find those.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Kennedy Center Honors appened this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I had an interest because of kiss Kissing the aval off.
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  Speaker 1: How's that gonna go? How was Trump going to react
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  Speaker 1: to those guys. Well, it was actually pretty awesome, but
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  Speaker 1: I noticed something else. Everybody that was honored. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just Kiss, it was sliced alone. Let's see Michael Crawford
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  Speaker 1: from Broadway, Gloria Gaynor from the Disco Ere you know
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  Speaker 1: I will survive, and George Strait and I noticed this
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  Speaker 1: thread with all of them. They all have amazing stories
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  Speaker 1: of resilience. First of all, let's get to the Kiss thing.
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  Speaker 1: Who if you know Kiss at all, if you're a fan,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a rock fan, you know what they went
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  Speaker 1: through earlier in their career and survived. But this is
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  Speaker 1: really nice because recent loss as Freehley founding member. I
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  Speaker 1: was heartbroken about this. I think I talked about this
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  Speaker 1: when it actually happened, but wanted to see how they
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  Speaker 1: kind of actually handle this. His daughter was there accepting
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  Speaker 1: his award.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually pretty much and the members of the
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  Speaker 2: incredible rock band Kiss, Paul Sanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Chris,
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  Speaker 2: and Ace Frehley, who now is resting in peace, and
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  Speaker 2: his beautiful daughter is here too accept the award. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much, thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a thing of being a Kiss fan It's
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  Speaker 1: funny because Ace Freddie might have heard his Ace freely.
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  Speaker 1: They called him freely the whole time. The guys and
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  Speaker 1: kiss said, it's such a shame in a number of
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  Speaker 1: different levels, he's not here to accept his award, because
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  Speaker 1: he would have been so happy that Trump pronounced his
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  Speaker 1: name correctly. It was great. And then his daughter was
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  Speaker 1: there to accept his award posthumously and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But so I was interested in that. But then I
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  Speaker 1: had to watch the entire at least the meddling ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: even the oval office. These are all in tuxes. It
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  Speaker 1: was all interesting. And then I looked at the connection,
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  Speaker 1: said Slice stallone, Oh, he's a big Trump fan anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he's a big supporter. Sliced alone, George Straight, Gloria Gaynor,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Crawford and kissed themselves. They all have survival stories.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Gloria Gaynor remember her big hit in the
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  Speaker 1: disco era, Not like I'm a disco fan, but it
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  Speaker 1: was I will survive first and Foe mar her story.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know this because I'm not really in
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  Speaker 1: that world. Apparently, leading up to the Kennedy Honors, when
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  Speaker 1: she was first nominated, she faced a massive level of
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  Speaker 1: online pressure to not accept it because you know why,
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  Speaker 1: it happens to be Trump. And apparently at a lot
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  Speaker 1: of her fans were telling her and you know, threatening
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  Speaker 1: to cancel her so that she wouldn't show up and
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  Speaker 1: accept her award. And she said, no, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go there and I'm going to accept it. It's an honor.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's this age old argument. It's like, even
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't, of course you go. Of course you
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  Speaker 1: go and accept an honor like that, and don't ever
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  Speaker 1: let anybody threaten you. Any online trolls threatened to cancel
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  Speaker 1: you if you happen to do that. Good for her.
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  Speaker 1: And then George Strait was there, and I remember his
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  Speaker 1: survival story. You may not know this. I just remember
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  Speaker 1: this from the country radio world. He had a horrific
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  Speaker 1: tragedy in his life as he lost his daughter pretty early.
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  Speaker 1: I guess the first like third of his career. Overcame
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that. He was going to retire at
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  Speaker 1: the time, overcame that and had this amazing career, kissed
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  Speaker 1: themselves nothing until they had that big hit in the
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  Speaker 1: mid seventies and they just lost ace and slice stallone
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  Speaker 1: if you ever read about the slicedalone story so Vester
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  Speaker 1: Salon where everybody knows Rocky and all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He was absolutely destitute to start his career. You think
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  Speaker 1: of him as the past forty years as this megastar
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  Speaker 1: forty five maybe is this megastar didn't start off that way,
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  Speaker 1: and he took the ultimate gamble. If you've never heard
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  Speaker 1: this about the Rocky script wrote Rocky. If you think
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  Speaker 1: he's a terrible actor, fine, now you know you can
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  Speaker 1: have that opinion. I get it. But he wrote Rocky
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  Speaker 1: that is one of the greatest screenplays of all time.
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  Speaker 1: It's the original, not the sequels. The original Rocky in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five, wrote it, pitched it around to Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: studios and they all said, we love it, we'll buy it,
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  Speaker 1: but we have these people in mind to play Rocky,
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  Speaker 1: and and he said no. And this guy he had
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  Speaker 1: zero money, I mean, absolutely destitute, beyond poor, and was
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  Speaker 1: willing to take the gamble because he knew he was
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  Speaker 1: the guy who had to play Rocky. Stuck to his guns.
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  Speaker 1: Finally worked out and now look at them now, and
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  Speaker 1: every one of them had that story. So I was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Kennedy Say Center Honors. They did a
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  Speaker 1: really good job. I never really paid attention to it
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  Speaker 1: in the past years. I don't know what it was like.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it's a big change. And remember it was controversial
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  Speaker 1: when Trump took that thing over. But every one of
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  Speaker 1: those stories of those people, literally Gloria Gaynor too, I
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  Speaker 1: will survive great stories. So check that out some of
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  Speaker 1: the coverage of it if you didn't see it yet.
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  Speaker 1: All right, just a little bit of the swampy swampy news.
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  Speaker 1: What's the latest on the Minnesota Somali fraud connection. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what do we always talk about, You know, when they
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  Speaker 1: hit the media trail to deflect and you know, diffuse
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  Speaker 1: and explain their way out of things, it's even more trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently, as of Friday, the fraud they discovered was
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  Speaker 1: in the billions. Now it's the multiple billions. Here's ilhan Omar,
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  Speaker 1: representative of Minnesota, trying to explain her way out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And we're not gonna spend a lot of time on.
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  Speaker 4: The eighty seven people charged, All but eight are of
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  Speaker 4: Somali descent, and that has added to the spotlight being
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  Speaker 4: put specifically on your community. Why do you think this
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  Speaker 4: fraud was allowed to get so widespread.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say, you know, this also has an
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  Speaker 5: impact on Somali's because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: We also could have benefited from the program and the
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  Speaker 5: money that was stolen, and we're.
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  Speaker 1: The victims here. Hold on, so you know how to
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  Speaker 1: read through. We all know how to read through that now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think everybody knows it. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: great thing. You want to look at a positive in
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  Speaker 1: this is infuriating as a story as that is massive.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about billions of dollars in fraud, billions in
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  Speaker 1: medicaid fraud in that state. It's infuriating. Obviously, it's pretty scary.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at it that way. You can see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of liars who were knew exactly what was
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  Speaker 1: going on in this. You have to look at this
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  Speaker 1: as a positive takeaway and that this got exposed and
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  Speaker 1: to the point where look at how different this is.
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  Speaker 1: Would CBS's Sunday Morning Show be talking about this if
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  Speaker 1: this was four years ago, five years ago. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the line of questioning. She wanted answers, wasn't getting them,
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  Speaker 1: but wanted answers. That's the good news. In all this
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  Speaker 1: is this kind of fraud gets exposed. It's like seems
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  Speaker 1: like it's you know, you know, look at the headlines
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, is everything fraudulent all these states?
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  Speaker 1: What else is going on? Well, yeah, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it. Again, what's the takeaway. It's getting caught now
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  Speaker 1: and exposed. Not all of it, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it is that's good news too. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 1: to you my favorite story of the day. A Missouri
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  Speaker 1: news anchor Springfield, Missouri is trolling her trolls. Somebody told
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  Speaker 1: me once when we first started to getting now, I
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: was back in corporate radio, broadcasting regionally, and when really
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  Speaker 1: the big push, because when you're in radio, you're looking
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: for every possible angle you can to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: So we looked at the online We looked at social
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: media and online presence and the internet and the sites
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  Speaker 1: and the blogs and everything is said, this is a
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  Speaker 1: big chance to get out there. This is this is
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  Speaker 1: where we can you know, go beyond just spoken word
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  Speaker 1: and use video, and all of a sudden, well quickly
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  Speaker 1: you're and this is what you know, like two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one, Quickly you realize what else is out there?
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  Speaker 1: In the Internet, and we all hear the stories about
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  Speaker 1: how bad it is and the trolls, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Twitter used to be an absolute cesspool. X is still
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad. But let me tell you, somebody realized pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody told me once. He said, you know, your online
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  Speaker 1: haters are your best marketers because they increase your reach
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  Speaker 1: and they get you into the algorithm. So if you
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: have a thick skin and he knows how know how
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  Speaker 1: to actually use them, it's to your benefit. And you
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  Speaker 1: know what, online it's mostly the old age old image
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  Speaker 1: of some fat dude in his mom's basement, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: a keyboard warrior typing out insults.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They would never actually say this to your face. They
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: don't have the guts to do that, but they're but
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: they're hiding behind the screen, and there's so much of
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  Speaker 1: that these days. Well, this lady, I want to get
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  Speaker 1: her name right, just did an absolute job turning this
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  Speaker 1: around and turning her haters, or at least her trolls
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  Speaker 1: who are trying to insult her because she's a curvy girl.
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  Speaker 1: She turned this into her online fodder. Her name is
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  Speaker 1: Carissa Codell. She's twenty six. Morning News anchor Springfield, Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: and in her news anchor voice, she actually takes the
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  Speaker 1: comments she gets online and she turns them around and
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  Speaker 1: laughs about it. This is the best story of the day.
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  Speaker 6: Brick wall more like brick house, and I'm looking to
• 10:25
  Speaker 6: move in. After the commercial, We're going to explain how
• 10:29
  Speaker 6: you can securely lock your house to keep Brennan out
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: from Harry Jones. I mean she is overweight. That being said,
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: she's an absolute smoke show bill like my grandma's prescription lenses,
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: and she's blind as.
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: The band air Grandma. I'm sure she's a nice lady.
• 10:49
  Speaker 6: She looks like Barbie if Barbie actually ate a sandwich.
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: I actually did have a sandwich today. I made it
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: out of Hawaiian rolls, too.
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  Speaker 1: So that is just awesome. That's how you do it.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: So she's going viral for this, obviously. So she was
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: getting constant and obviously has a great sense of humor
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  Speaker 1: about it. Constant comments about her weight because you're not
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  Speaker 1: one of these skinny little bitby models on there. She's
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  Speaker 1: actually like a real person who has a real body.
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  Speaker 1: Turn that around. Used her, She trolled her trolls, and
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  Speaker 1: she used her haters. I don't know if they're really
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: haters for her online content fodder. That is fantastic. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you do it. I remember, what's the takeaway your haters,
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: whether it's online or in real life, or your best marketers,
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: because they get your name out there. I love it.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: There's another feel good story and perfect for the Christmas season.
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  Speaker 1: You probably saw this. I don't know if you donated
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  Speaker 1: to this, but boy a lot of people did, and
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  Speaker 1: perfect for the Christmas season. His name is ed Bambis.
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  Speaker 1: He's eighty eight years old. Now there was an online benefit.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll give you the end and then we'll kind
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  Speaker 1: of backwards engineer this and get to the original part
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  Speaker 1: of the story. Here eighty eight years old, retiree and
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  Speaker 1: I this kills me every time I see it. And
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  Speaker 1: you see this a lot more these days, at least
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  Speaker 1: in my observation. You go to a store, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a big retail store or you know, anything with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of checkout lines, or maybe like a Walmart with
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  Speaker 1: the greeters or whatever it is. Sometimes you'll actually go
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  Speaker 1: to an offbeat kind of hour at a retail store
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, and you see like an older
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  Speaker 1: person doing stock work and I mean older, like seventy
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  Speaker 1: five plus. I see that a lot more of these days,
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  Speaker 1: and it just absolutely kills me because, you know, what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Something happened with the retirement. They didn't get it, something
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: happened with the benefits not enough. They probably have somebody sick.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: It's not always a case where they just want to
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: stay busy. It's just not And you know that, It's
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: always bothered me, and I think it bothers a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people because the benefit for this particular guy when
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  Speaker 1: his story was told is everything that's great with the internet.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we were just talking about the online haters
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: and the trolls with that newslady in Springfield, Missouri. This
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: is what's good about the Internet. An Australian TikToker. I know, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: TikTok's bad. It's all it's all terrible. It's all bad stuff.
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  Speaker 1: No it's not. This is the good stuff. And this
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  Speaker 1: is how great it actually can be. Social media influencer.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody hates that term. I know Samuel I think his
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  Speaker 1: name is Widenhffer, so he does feel good stories on TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: That's his niche he learned about ed Bambis from a follower.
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  Speaker 1: This was late in November. He went to see him
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  Speaker 1: at his job. He's a checkout guy again, he's eighty eight,
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  Speaker 1: and started to talk to him. This is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit long. I trust me, it's totally worth it. This
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  Speaker 1: is when he walks up to him at his own
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  Speaker 1: checkout line. Again, this guy's almost ninety and is on
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: his feet all day, and then it takes off from here.
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  Speaker 1: Little long. Trust me as we seem. If I could
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  Speaker 1: have help scanning this?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you? What was your name?
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  Speaker 5: Ed?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sad Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I actually had someone nominate you from this store and
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  Speaker 1: said you're very hard working.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I try to be. May I ask how old
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  Speaker 3: you are? I made I'm still working, yes I have to.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you have to keep working?
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  Speaker 7: Retired from General Motors in ninety nine twenty twelve, I
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  Speaker 7: went bankrupt.
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  Speaker 3: And they took my pension away from it. Do you
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  Speaker 3: have a wife? She passed away seven years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Seven years ago.
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  Speaker 3: She was sick when I lost my pension. So you've
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  Speaker 3: been struggling a bit little bit.
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  Speaker 6: You said that you lost your pension.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I did. I was in the Army Bank
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  Speaker 3: in sixty sixty six, so a veteran too.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I think that hurt me the most with my
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  Speaker 7: wife was real sick. And when they took the pension,
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  Speaker 7: they also took the healthcare coverage and all but ten
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  Speaker 7: dozen dollars of my life issuance. So I sold the house,
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: sold property I had, and we made it through. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I've died seven years ago. The trying to re establish myself.
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  Speaker 1: And you're working here how many days a week?
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  Speaker 3: I work five days a week, eight hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: And you do that because you have.
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  Speaker 3: To, or yeah, I don't have enough income.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: What's your dream?
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  Speaker 3: Live somewhat for life? Hope?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, like to show your story and try and
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  Speaker 2: you know, get people to help you retire.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, of course, amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you four hundred dollars here as
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  Speaker 1: a tip. Of course, you're amazing again. Of course, just
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  Speaker 1: remember it doesn't get the attention like this thing is
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  Speaker 1: going viral. And good for the TikToker there from Australia
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  Speaker 1: who actually did this and put this together, because what
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  Speaker 1: gets clicks, what gets views, all the negative stuff and
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: the divide stuff and the conspiracy theories and all that
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: other good stuff. Good for this guy for getting that
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  Speaker 1: story out there, and good for Ed for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a four hundred dollar tip he gave him
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  Speaker 1: right away, which is pretty amazing there. And he was
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  Speaker 1: brought to tears by it. And you heard his old story,
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  Speaker 1: lost it, he lost his pension. General Motors goes bankrupt.
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  Speaker 1: It was ninety nine for you know, first of twice
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  Speaker 1: they get bailed out. People like Ed didn't lost. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: work there his whole life after he got out of
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  Speaker 1: the army, work there his whole life. He didn't get
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  Speaker 1: bailed out, did he? Now the workers didn't, But boy,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: those companies did bailed out by the American taxpayer. But
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  Speaker 1: a guy like this was lost in the cracks. So
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  Speaker 1: here he is almost ninety working eight hours a day,
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  Speaker 1: five days a week for this. How many more are
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: out there like him? Ed was lucky because this tick
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  Speaker 1: talker found it and Ed was smart enough to take
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: it and agree to have his story told. So he
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: tells the story. And I think the Australian guy on
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: his channel actually puts together go fundmes for certain stories
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: that he sees because he was because Ed was nominated
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  Speaker 1: and he's in Michigan. By the way, it raised, Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready for this. This was determined over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: and one point seven seven million dollars for ed Bambis.
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  Speaker 1: How great is that next time somebody tells you that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's only bad stuff online, it's only the bad stuff. No,
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  Speaker 1: there's plenty of good stuff online. This is the good
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  Speaker 1: use of the internet. This is the great stuff that's
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: out there, and good for him. Don't forget about the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: people that are lost in the cracks and remember them.
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  Speaker 1: Remember you see him. You see him all the time.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: You see older people working, You see people down in
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the luck working. Ever see this. You ever see somebody
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: who work at a retail job and another job and another.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: You see him a bunch of different places, Like I
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: always see that guy. You know why he has to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: work four or five jobs. That's why. That's what's out there.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And there's always a way to help, always, always, always,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: whether it's an online influencer hate that term, by helping
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: somebody like this with a GoFundMe, or you just help
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: them out directly. And it's not always money. Sometimes it's
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: just a word of support. But that's what it's all about.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: It's a great story there and again, so that's the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: good side of the Internet. But what's the big takeaway?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Like the Missouri News lady, your haters are your best marketers.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Use them, whether it's online or in real life. All Right,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: I'm out of material. You gotta get on with your Monday.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Make it a great one. Thanks for finding me. By
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the way, don't forget about the YouTube channel because it's
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: grown and growing. The entire replay of the entire podcast,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: but also clips for the show on there, all the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: other channels as well, and don't forget about the audio
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: podcast as well, about to be posted in minutes wherever
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: you like to get them. Thanks for finding me. Appreciate
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you making a wicked awsome Monday. I'll talk to him
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  Speaker 1: or all