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Cam and Jennifer Special Edition: Pet Peeves Part 2 · Coffee In The Park with Jennifer and Cam

• 0:18
  So, you know what, Jennifer, I'm really excited because here it is the middle of November almost, and there's no snow.
• 0:26
  Not yet.
• 0:26
  No, it's kind of nice out actually today.
• 0:28
  Well, it's supposed to stay nice, and you know what, if there's no snow until Christmas, I would be perfectly fine with that.
• 0:34
  Yeah, me too.
• 0:35
  And so, hey everybody, I know we talk a lot about that for those of you that live elsewhere, but you know, it's a big deal for us, no snow, because the rest of the year is snow.
• 0:45
  So, but I want to welcome you to another edition of Coffee In The Park with Jennifer and Cam, and we are coming to you live from The Wall Coffee Roasters in the heart of beautiful downtown Acheson.
• 0:59
  That's right.
• 1:00
  So if you hear some noises in the background, coffee machines whirring, people talking, all that kind of stuff, it's because we're in a live coffee shop.
• 1:06
  Wait, Cam, have they unveiled the holiday drinks yet?
• 1:08
  I don't think they have yet.
• 1:09
  Okay, when is that happening?
• 1:10
  I don't know, but you know, there's another major coffee chain that's doing a two-tiered unveiling.
• 1:16
  Did you know that?
• 1:19
  We shouldn't mention their name, two tiered? Starbucks, but they've released a couple of already holiday drinks.
• 1:24
  Well, I know I had, I'll be honest, I had the peppermint mocha from Starbucks.
• 1:28
  And?
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  Well, it was good, but...
• 1:31
  Well, and so I was informed yesterday, actually by my daughter, who's a Starbucks aficionado because she used to work there, that December 2nd, they're releasing two more holiday drinks, it's just smart marketing, which one of them will be the eggnog latte.
• 1:45
  Well, they're bringing it back.
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  They're bringing it back.
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  But we're not doing this from a Starbucks.
• 1:50
  We're doing it from The Wall Coffee Roasters.
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  So I don't know when, but as soon as they release here at The Wall, it'll be breaking news Cam.
• 1:57
  Well, yeah, we'll we'll make sure everybody knows what it is, because, yeah, it's Christmas and everybody's doing their thing.
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  And so, yeah, so that's where we're coming from live today.
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• 2:09
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• 5:02
  Well, today, Jennifer is a different kind of show.
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  Yes.
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  So the guest today is Cam and...
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  Is us.
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  Is, yeah, you and I.
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  Yeah.
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  Because we got such great feedback.
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  Yes.
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  If you recall, now this was a while ago.
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  Yes.
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  We did a Pet Peeves show.
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  That's right.
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  That people keep saying to us, when is part 2 coming out?
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  That's right.
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  Because we have a lot of Pet Peeves.
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  We do.
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  And people thought, as they listened to Pet Peeve 1, those are all...
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  I agree.
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  That's my Pet Peeve too.
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  Yes.
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  And so today, we want to have Pet Peeves 2.
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  We didn't start the show like we normally should.
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  We should, hi, I'm Jennifer.
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  You're supposed to say, no, hi, I'm Cam.
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  Are you being me and I'm being you?
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  Let's not confuse people.
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  I don't even know why I said that.
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  Hi, I'm Cam.
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  And I'm Jennifer.
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  And this is Coffee In The Park with Jennifer and Cam.
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  There, we made it official.
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  Because we always have our guests start the show.
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  So yeah, so today we're going to do Pet Peeves.
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  And some of them are Christmas related already.
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  Well, you know what?
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  It is that time of the year.
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  It is.
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  It is.
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  Yeah, it is.
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  But we won't spend all day telling you our pet peeves.
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  Okay, so you go first.
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  So just in case folks are wondering how we come up with these, it's mostly when Jennifer and I are either going to a meeting or sitting around and planning something.
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  And all of a sudden we just start talking about things that really bug us.
• 6:42
  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  It's organic.
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  Everybody has a pet peeve.
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  Everybody.
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  Everybody.
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  You can't tell me you don't have a pet peeve in life.
• 6:48
  I agree.
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  If you're listening to us today, no, I don't have any.
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  I would challenge that.
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  Everybody has a pet peeve.
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  And you know what, Cam?
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  In fact, we want people, our listeners, to send us what their pet peeve is.
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  Actually, I think that is a brilliant idea, Jennifer.
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  I'm going to go one step farther on you.
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  If you send us your pet peeve out of all the pet peeves you receive, we're going to pick one and we'll send the winner a $25 coffee.
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  Where are we?
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  Wall Coffee Roasters gift card.
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  It's a rough day today.
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  A Wall Coffee Roasters.
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  We'll pick one and we'll send you a $25.
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  There's a couple of ways you can do it.
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  You can either on our Instagram page, you can send us a DM.
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  Yeah.
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  Or we'll tell you the email address you can send it to after.
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  Right.
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  So just send us your pet peeve.
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  We'll pick one and you could use it yourself.
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  Or you could give it away as a Christmas gift.
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  And then we get to know what your pet peeves are too.
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  That's right.
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  So yeah.
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  But keep it, you know.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what I mean.
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  We don't need to go into that.
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  No, we don't need to go into that.
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  Anyway, okay.
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  So pet peeves, you get to start.
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  You know, this was a pet peeve of mine the other night.
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  This is a live pet peeve.
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  This is a live pet peeve, a true pet peeve So after work, I stopped at the grocery store.
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  Right.
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  Because I had to pick up a few things.
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  Sure, yeah.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  People that do not put their shopping carts away.
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  Yes.
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  I agree.
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  The parking lot was littered with shopping carts.
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  Yes.
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  They leave it either in the middle of the parking stall or on the edge that is impeding the parking stall.
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  And why?
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  I know you go to drive in, you wheel your car around, you have to hit the brakes because otherwise, you're going to take out a shopping cart.
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  And you don't want to park in some of those spots because what if the cart rolls and hits your car?
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  That's right, and scratches your car.
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  And then insurance doesn't, they won't cover that.
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  I agree.
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  People, put your carts away.
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  Is it just not common courtesy?
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  I don't understand.
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  Is it laziness?
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  What is it?
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  I don't know.
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  You unload the cart, you get your kid in the car seat, whatever you got to do.
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  Just, it takes what?
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  Like 30 seconds to put the cart away.
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  You know what?
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  It's healthy for you.
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  Get your steps in.
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  Get your fitbit and get your steps in to return the cart.
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  Be a good cart returning citizen, is what I say.
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  Yes.
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  Because somebody needs to park in that spot.
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  I will admit, in my younger years, in my younger years, true confessions coming out.
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  In my younger years, I might not have been the best person.
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  I might have been a guilty party.
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  But now that I'm older and wiser, I put my cart away every time.
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  No, I agree, but when we were younger, we didn't know better.
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  No.
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  I don't think.
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  And I'm going with that excuse.
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  But you're right, we're older, we're wiser.
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  And it gets worse, as Cam talked about, snow in Alberta in winter.
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  It gets worse because people get stuck in the snow, and then they just...
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  I know, it's a little bit of effort.
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  The trouble is, though, it could be a great parking spot.
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  And you know how that is.
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  When the mall is busy, or the shopping center is busy, or the store is busy, if you score that great parking spot, and there's a cart there, now you have to get out of your car, your vehicle, and move that cart so you can park there.
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  Oh, it becomes like a cart graveyard.
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  No, it's a hassle.
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  Okay, this is gonna turn into another Pet Peeve.
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  This is like feeding off another one.
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  You just talked about the mall.
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  Yeah.
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  Now, holiday season is coming.
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  Oh, you're telling me.
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  I was there.
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  You'd think Christmas was tomorrow already.
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  I know.
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  What's the deal?
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  I don't know.
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  Like millions of people at literally millions.
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  I'm not prone to exaggeration.
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  Well, that's not true, but like literally millions of people at the mall already.
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  It's a little ridiculous, but we talk about parking.
• 10:51
  Yeah.
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  People get just right wound up around the holiday season in parking lots.
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  I bet you there are more fights in shopping mall parking lots at Christmas time than in bars on a Saturday night.
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  I'm not even kidding.
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  No, I know.
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  Let's talk about our younger days.
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  I admit there I had a few skirmishes, but I was right.
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  And they were wrong.
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  Isn't that how it always works?
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  Now, as you would say, now that I'm older and wiser, but you're right.
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  People just like it's just get fired up.
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  It's a hill to die on for some people.
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  I know.
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  You know what?
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  I refuse from this point on to go near a mall on a weekend.
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  I hear you.
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  But even weekdays, like even at it unbeliveable, like do people not have anything better to do.
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  I guess they could say that about me.
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  I'm there.
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  I always have purpose.
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  I'm not there to just browse.
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  No, I don't browse.
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  But this goes back to the parking situation.
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  Because, yes, you might find that prime parking spot.
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  So my son and I get into this all the time.
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  Because I tend to park further away and walk.
• 12:01
  And he's like, mom, there's a parking spot up there.
• 12:04
  That's right.
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  But do you know why I park further away?
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  Because sometimes when you get that prime parking spot, your doors get dinged.
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  This is because everybody parks so close at Christmas.
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  Which is the other thing.
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  It's parking, crowding, hoarding.
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  You got to respect.
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  You got to respect space.
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  Sometimes you can't even get your door open.
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  I hear you.
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  You got to have...
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  And people, you got to...
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  Okay, can I just say this?
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  And we talk about Costco as one of our pet peeves sometimes.
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  They have wide spots.
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  They do.
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  But somebody told me they're narrowing their spots.
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  Did you hear that?
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  Yeah, I heard that.
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  Is that true?
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  If I can say right now if that's true, that'll be a pet peeve.
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  Can a Costco employee confirm that?
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  We'll keep you anonymous.
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  Let's go undercover to a Costco and just casually say, are you making your spots narrow?
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  Anyways, I agree with you.
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  I don't want my doors ding.
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  So yeah, you park a little further away.
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  And but then, you know, again, here in Alberta, that means it could be minus 30.
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  And you got to walk a long way to the mall.
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  And you know, you don't want to wear your hot winter jacket walking around the mall.
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  This is so true.
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  It's a problem.
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  It's minus 30 out.
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  So you're wearing your parka, your mitts, your whole bit.
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  You get inside the mall.
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  They turn the temperature up to like 1000 degrees.
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  Again, no exaggeration.
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  With a million people, again, no exaggeration.
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  Now, it's 2000 degrees.
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  And then you're carrying your bulky coat and you're wearing your winter boots.
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  With your bags and running into people.
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  And I know I said this in our last Pet Peeves, Pet Peeves 1, but it's still a pet peeve.
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  People, when you're walking in the flow at the mall, the flow, there's a flow.
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  Well, there should be a flow.
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  There's a flow.
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  And all of a sudden, your family of 12 decides to stop in the middle of the flow to have a conversation about where the nearest Dairy Queen is.
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  This really bothers me.
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  It causes bottleneck.
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  You know, I think that the malls, although this is another Pet Peeve.
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  Oh boy, there's a lot today.
• 14:01
  The mall should be like the right lane and the left lane of the highway and traffic.
• 14:05
  I totally agree with this.
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  Don't you think?
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  I always kind of thought there was.
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  But not anymore.
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  That's out the window.
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  If you're slower and you want to shop and browse and talk, go to the right. Why can't they put arrows?
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  Maybe for some people that'd be like COVID.
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  Remember during COVID, in the malls, we had arrows.
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  But I agree with you.
• 14:25
  Can they not put signs or lanes or, you know, and you know how in my car anyway, if I cross the yellow line, it vibrates or beeps.
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  We can have things where we beep if we cross the line.
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  We could.
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  And there'll be no more bottlenecks.
• 14:41
  I guess.
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  And the other thing is, is when you're coming out of a store, look both ways.
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  Do not just bolt.
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  It's like, is that how you drive?
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  You just bolt into traffic from a side street?
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  When you're coming out of the store?
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  I know.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Do you know the other pet peeve of the mall?
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  Boy, the poor mall is really getting it today.
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  I love the mall.
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  I'm not saying which mall.
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  I'm just saying the mall.
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  The mall.
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  But hey, you and I had a meeting not long ago at the mall.
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  Yes.
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  Early, remember?
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  We had to go to that meeting.
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  Remember, there was nobody in the parking lot.
• 15:13
  I've decided this Christmas, if I have to go shopping, Christmas shopping at the mall, I'm going to go like at 7 in the morning, park my car, bring a pillow, and sleep till 9.
• 15:24
  Well, the fascinating thing was all the seniors doing the mall walking.
• 15:28
  Exactly.
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  That's not a pet peeve, by the way.
• 15:29
  No, that was a good thing.
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  And then they all stop off at A&W for breakfast.
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  I think there's a special.
• 15:36
  I think there's a special, a senior's special.
• 15:38
  Anyway, I'm just saying, go early, like at 7, sleep for another couple of hours in the car, and you got the best parking spot in the house.
• 15:45
  Yeah, I know.
• 15:47
  Okay, well, there, we've covered the mall, we've covered parking.
• 15:51
  Okay, here's, I'm going to, this is one of my pet peeves that has arisen in the last little while.
• 15:58
  Again, for those who are watching baseball or are baseball fans, the Toronto Blue Jays were in the World Series.
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  What a series it was.
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  It was, we almost won that.
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  I know, it was so exciting.
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  Wouldn't that have been something?
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  Anyway, okay, I was just getting over that, I shouldn't have brought it up, but can I just say I watched every game, I watched all seven games of the World Series.
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  Can I just say, and I don't know about other countries or how they do it, I watched the Canadian Channel because it was the Blue Jays.
• 16:27
  The same commercials run about 10,000 times.
• 16:33
  I can now quote every commercial.
• 16:38
  I'll sing the jingle to one of you.
• 16:40
  Raise a little hell, raise a little hell.
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  If you were listening in Canada, you know exactly.
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  You know the business we're talking about.
• 16:47
  Homehard-, we're not going to mention.
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  Did I just say the name?
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  First of all, it just didn't fit to me the genre of that particular store.
• 16:57
  But every break in the game, raise a little hell, raise a little hell.
• 17:03
  I'm like, come on.
• 17:04
  While it might be a Pet Peeves, talk about effective marketing because you're talking about it and you're singing it.
• 17:09
  I disagree because I determined after about the 5,000th time, I'm never going to that store.
• 17:15
  I'm done with that store.
• 17:16
  I'm never...
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  But can they not get enough commercials that there's variety?
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  There's no variety.
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  It's the same ad.
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  It's the same with the Christmas ads.
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  We're talking about it.
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  And you and I, we don't watch a lot of mainstream TV.
• 17:29
  We watch like, you know...
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  Streaming, yeah.
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  But when you do, like seriously, people, it's the same ads.
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  Over and over.
• 17:37
  Like, and I guess you're right.
• 17:39
  I guess they think if we see it enough, we'll go there.
• 17:42
  Maybe.
• 17:43
  Not me, man.
• 17:43
  I'm boycotting.
• 17:44
  I'm going to make a boycott list and I'm going to post it.
• 17:47
  And I'm going to, don't go to these stores because their ads are like everywhere all the time.
• 17:51
  Speaking of, I'm going back to traffic.
• 17:53
  Okay, let's go back to traffic.
• 17:55
  Yeah, well, traffic, we could go.
• 17:57
  That could be a whole show in itself.
• 17:59
  Well, but lately, what's really irking me about traffic, Cam, have you tried to merge onto a highway lately and the person in front of you merging on a highway that is 110 kilometers an hour is going 60?
• 18:14
  Yes.
• 18:15
  I can't take it.
• 18:15
  Right.
• 18:16
  And I don't know if it's because they're scared or they're confused or they're not sure of the merging process or how to do it.
• 18:22
  You don't merge at 60.
• 18:23
  No.
• 18:24
  And it causes accidents.
• 18:25
  I know.
• 18:26
  Or near-death experiences.
• 18:28
  100%.
• 18:28
  Because then people behind get mad and they zip out.
• 18:31
  Yeah.
• 18:32
  I agree.
• 18:33
  It's people you got to learn to drive in, like got to know.
• 18:37
  They used to call it the flow of traffic.
• 18:39
  The flow of traffic. There's no flow of traffic anymore There's no flow.
• 18:42
  No flow.
• 18:43
  And part of that, if I could just add to this driving highway, Pet Peeve, is people, it says right in the manual, I checked it.
• 18:51
  I went to the manual and I looked and it says, slower traffic, keep right.
• 18:55
  There's signs.
• 18:56
  There's signs.
• 18:57
  Yeah.
• 18:58
  There's signs.
• 18:58
  I know.
• 18:59
  People.
• 19:00
  When you're oblivious driving in the left lane and you're going slower than the right lane, that's a problem.
• 19:05
  I don't care if you're thinking about dinner tonight or thinking about next, what you're going to wear tomorrow or whatever.
• 19:12
  Move over.
• 19:13
  Just move.
• 19:14
  Be courteous.
• 19:15
  Be courteous.
• 19:16
  This is the word courteous.
• 19:17
  You know what?
• 19:18
  I think this all stems around our pet peeve.
• 19:20
  The lack of courtesy.
• 19:21
  Right.
• 19:22
  There's no courtesy on the highway, on the roads anymore.
• 19:26
  We don't let people in.
• 19:27
  Now, I admit, I at times, I don't, I admit, I admit, but I'm getting better because, well, I have people encouraging me to get better who drive with me, but I'm not going to mention any names.
• 19:40
  It's family.
• 19:41
  But I'm just saying, we have to be courteous.
• 19:44
  We do.
• 19:45
  Because you know, the worst, the worst road, and I don't care.
• 19:49
  Yeah.
• 19:49
  I just don't care at this point.
• 19:51
  In Alberta, where?
• 19:52
  The QE2.
• 19:52
  The QE2.
• 19:53
  I agree.
• 19:54
  The QE2.
• 19:55
  Now, for those that don't know Alberta, the QE2 is the highway between Edmonton and Calgary.
• 20:01
  The two major cities in Alberta, yes, Edmonton and Calgary, they were about what?
• 20:05
  Three hours apart.
• 20:06
  About that, yeah.
• 20:06
  Three hours.
• 20:07
  It used to be two and a half hours apart, but now, okay, when I was young, the QE2, there was like nine cars on the QE2.
• 20:16
  Now, there's nine million cars.
• 20:18
  It's too much.
• 20:20
  Can, Premier, you know I like you.
• 20:23
  Can we widen this highway?
• 20:25
  Can we get a few more lanes going?
• 20:27
  Because it's crazy.
• 20:28
  It's crazy.
• 20:29
  I drove it on Friday night.
• 20:31
  It didn't help that part of it was a snowstorm.
• 20:33
  I know.
• 20:34
  But nonetheless.
• 20:34
  I feel like you take your life into your own hands every time you drive that highway.
• 20:37
  It was unbelievable.
• 20:38
  It's very stressful.
• 20:39
  And then, again, people, when you're on a major highway like that, the speed limit is 110 kilometers.
• 20:45
  It's 110.
• 20:46
  So at least go that.
• 20:47
  Yeah.
• 20:47
  I'm not advocating anything, but it's 110.
• 20:51
  If you're not doing 110, move over.
• 20:56
  Right lane.
• 20:56
  Yes.
• 20:57
  Let cars pass.
• 20:58
  Yes.
• 20:59
  Because it's crazy.
• 21:00
  I know.
• 21:00
  It's just nuts.
• 21:01
  No.
• 21:02
  And it's going to cause major accidents.
• 21:03
  And the other thing, and Cam, I say this because we are in downtown Acheson.
• 21:08
  Yes, we are.
• 21:09
  And it is very industrial here.
• 21:12
  So there's a lot of transportation companies here with very big semis and trucks and loads.
• 21:16
  Big trucks.
• 21:17
  Big semis.
• 21:18
  There's nothing worse than when somebody is in the other lane in that semi's blind spot.
• 21:24
  Yes.
• 21:25
  That's right.
• 21:26
  Right?
• 21:26
  Yeah.
• 21:28
  You got to understand these things.
• 21:29
  You got to understand it.
• 21:31
  Okay.
• 21:32
  A little bit of education here, folks.
• 21:34
  Like, if you are tailgating a semi, he can't see you.
• 21:38
  Right.
• 21:38
  Yeah.
• 21:38
  Because you probably never thought of that.
• 21:40
  Oh, I just looked in his mirrors.
• 21:41
  He can't see you.
• 21:43
  No.
• 21:43
  He doesn't know where you are.
• 21:45
  It's a hazard.
• 21:45
  It's very dangerous.
• 21:46
  It's very dangerous.
• 21:47
  And we've seen accidents here.
• 21:49
  Yes, we have.
• 21:49
  And even on the highway, when you're on the QE2, you can't tailgate the semi.
• 21:53
  No.
• 21:54
  He can't see you.
• 21:55
  He doesn't know you're there.
• 21:56
  That's right.
• 21:56
  It's very dangerous.
• 21:58
  Plus, it's dangerous for the other cars around you.
• 22:00
  Yes.
• 22:00
  It's a good point.
• 22:01
  It is.
• 22:02
  It's a very good point.
• 22:02
  Sorry.
• 22:03
  That's not a pet peeve.
• 22:04
  It's an educational fact.
• 22:06
  I agree.
• 22:06
  But it is a bit of a pet peeve because you think people would know better.
• 22:09
  And I don't know what it is, but urban traffic is getting...
• 22:14
  It's the worst.
• 22:14
  It's just getting out of control.
• 22:16
  Okay.
• 22:16
  So another pet peeve.
• 22:18
  Okay.
• 22:19
  Pet peeve.
• 22:19
  Here we go.
• 22:20
  There's a lot of driving pet peeves today.
• 22:21
  Yeah, there is.
• 22:22
  Yeah.
• 22:22
  And I am going to make this statement, and it might be controversial, and that's okay.
• 22:26
  It's okay.
• 22:26
  It's all right.
• 22:27
  You can email us and let us know.
• 22:29
  I think that if you are going to get your driver's license, that you need to take the test in the winter.
• 22:38
  Oh, I agree.
• 22:40
  No, you can't take your test in the summer.
• 22:42
  I agree.
• 22:43
  Take it in July, piece of cake.
• 22:45
  A major snowfall in February.
• 22:46
  Take it in February when there's three feet of snow.
• 22:49
  And ice on the road and everything else.
• 22:50
  If you can drive in winter and pass your driver's test, that's right.
• 22:54
  You're good.
• 22:54
  I agree 100%.
• 22:56
  I agree, I agree, I agree.
• 22:57
  Because most people, and I'm not, there's just people, whether they're 16 year olds getting their license, or whoever new to Canada, whatever.
• 23:05
  You've never experienced driving in those conditions. In the winter.
• 23:08
  Ice?
• 23:09
  Snow?
• 23:09
  So yeah, you should have to, maybe you could go in the summer and get a provisional four month license and then re-test in February.
• 23:17
  I really think so.
• 23:17
  I know that's not, I know, right?
• 23:19
  I can hear it right now.
• 23:20
  You know what, that would mean millions of people.
• 23:21
  But I'm telling you, you gotta, they don't know how to drive in the winter.
• 23:25
  They don't know.
• 23:25
  No.
• 23:26
  And by the way, you have to get snow tires.
• 23:29
  You really do.
• 23:29
  I'm just saying.
• 23:30
  I know.
• 23:30
  Slicks don't work.
• 23:31
  No.
• 23:32
  And then we're pushing you out of the ditch and you're sliding all over the place and it's causing traffic backups.
• 23:37
  There's nothing worse than on a February night at 5 o'clock, minus 30, you're getting home and the roads are a mess.
• 23:44
  And that happens quite frequently.
• 23:46
  It does.
• 23:47
  It does.
• 23:48
  And makes me want to move.
• 23:49
  But what can you do?
• 23:52
  You live here.
• 23:53
  You got to do it.
• 23:53
  All right.
• 23:54
  Any other pet peeve?
• 23:55
  Any other non-road pet peeves?
• 23:57
  Oh, yes, I do have some non-road pet peeves.
• 24:00
  Again, as we go into the holiday season, a lot of people like to bake.
• 24:05
  Baking.
• 24:06
  I love baking.
• 24:07
  However, have you seen the price of some of these baking items?
• 24:13
  The price of groceries, period.
• 24:17
  It's ridiculous.
• 24:18
  To buy a nice steak, you have to take out a mortgage.
• 24:23
  It's unbelievable.
• 24:23
  To buy a bag of chocolate chips when you used to bake, a bag of chocolate chips used to cost like three bucks.
• 24:31
  Do you know what a bag of chocolate chips costs now in the grocery store? $47.50?
• 24:34
  Pretty much. Pretty close.
• 24:35
  $7.99 for chocolate chips.
• 24:37
  And that's the no-name brand.
• 24:40
  See, I agree.
• 24:43
  Why?
• 24:43
  Well, why is right?
• 24:45
  The cow is the cow.
• 24:47
  Like, okay, and I get it.
• 24:49
  The grain goes up or whatever.
• 24:50
  I heard there was a cocoa shortage, but still.
• 24:53
  But there's still enough chocolate.
• 24:54
  Have you gone anywhere where you haven't seen chocolate?
• 24:56
  No.
• 24:57
  There's chocolate.
• 24:57
  And you get half the amount in the bag, but I'm paying more.
• 25:02
  Okay, I would like, this is one of my Pet Peeves, is I remember, so for example, when I was a kid and bought Oreos, I love Oreos.
• 25:10
  Oreos was a big cookie.
• 25:12
  And they weren't a bad price.
• 25:13
  I guess relevant to whatever.
• 25:15
  They weren't, have you noticed the price goes up, but the size of the product goes down?
• 25:20
  How does that work?
• 25:22
  Isn't price go up more of a product?
• 25:25
  Price goes up.
• 25:26
  Now those Oreos, and no offense to Mr.
• 25:29
  Christy, if you're the one who makes them, you need a magnifying glass to see the Oreo.
• 25:33
  Yeah, and I feel there's fewer in a package.
• 25:35
  And you dunk it in the milk, and it goes nowhere.
• 25:39
  There's no soaking, no absorbing of the milk into the Oreo, because it's too small.
• 25:45
  But that's like with everything now.
• 25:47
  Everything, everything.
• 25:48
  You go through the grocery store, that box of cereal used to be gigantic.
• 25:53
  Now you're lucky if you get two bowls.
• 25:55
  Cereal is ridiculous! I know.
• 25:57
  You have...
• 25:58
  I was talk...
• 25:59
  Well, actually, I won't say who.
• 26:00
  I was talking to somebody just the other day, who owns a fast food restaurant.
• 26:08
  And they were talking about how even people with limited incomes no longer eat fast food, they can't afford it.
• 26:15
  Fast food has gotten ridiculous.
• 26:18
  Exactly.
• 26:20
  The Big Mac...
• 26:21
  We really shouldn't, but some of the burgers have gotten smaller, but you pay more.
• 26:26
  You pay more.
• 26:27
  The fry portions are smaller, but you pay more.
• 26:30
  Nothing is cheap anymore.
• 26:31
  I don't...
• 26:32
  It's...
• 26:33
  I...
• 26:33
  It's just...
• 26:34
  It's...
• 26:35
  And every elected...
• 26:37
  God bless the elected officials, where they're going to bring prices down.
• 26:41
  Good luck.
• 26:42
  Good luck.
• 26:43
  Good luck.
• 26:44
  How often did we hear that?
• 26:45
  Exactly.
• 26:46
  They've only gone up.
• 26:47
  I know.
• 26:48
  Beef, you can't...
• 26:49
  Again, you got to...
• 26:50
  You got to take out a loan.
• 26:51
  Yeah, it's ridiculous.
• 26:53
  Chicken, I don't...
• 26:54
  Listen, I don't know much about chicken.
• 26:57
  We're raising a few chicken.
• 26:58
  I don't know much about them.
• 26:59
  Eggs have gone up?
• 27:00
  Eggs have gone up.
• 27:01
  It's the same chicken laying the egg.
• 27:03
  I don't know.
• 27:04
  Like, there's nothing...
• 27:04
  It's not like...
• 27:06
  I don't know.
• 27:06
  Do you know the only thing that's gone down and it is affordable right now?
• 27:09
  What's that?
• 27:10
  Gas, Cam Gas.
• 27:11
  I know.
• 27:12
  But that fluctuates.
• 27:13
  It does, but it's been...
• 27:14
  It has gone down.
• 27:15
  Compared to what we used to pay.
• 27:16
  No, you're right.
• 27:17
  You're right.
• 27:17
  So that's not a pet peeve.
• 27:19
  So I guess you could equal it out and say, I pay less for gas and more for food.
• 27:23
  But you know what?
• 27:24
  I don't know.
• 27:24
  Why can't it all just come down?
• 27:26
  I don't understand.
• 27:27
  It's frustrating going...
• 27:28
  I really do feel for people on low incomes, limited incomes, because nowadays, you can't just can't afford it.
• 27:35
  You can't.
• 27:36
  No.
• 27:36
  I don't know about you.
• 27:39
  When I was in college, I was lucky.
• 27:40
  I lived at home, so my mom cooked, but I had friends who lived on their own and they were eating like Kraft Dinner and Ramen. Oh that was me, ramen noodles.
• 27:46
  Was that you?
• 27:47
  Yeah.
• 27:47
  Ramen noodles.
• 27:48
  Well, now, when ramen noodles used to be 10 packs for a buck.
• 27:51
  Not anymore.
• 27:52
  Now they're like 10 bucks for a pack.
• 27:54
  I know.
• 27:55
  It's unbelievable.
• 27:55
  I know.
• 27:59
  Sometimes I think you and I should be voted in as people who...
• 28:05
  Is there nobody?
• 28:06
  Is there not like a group or something that can control all this?
• 28:09
  Apparently not.
• 28:11
  Because it's a pet peeve.
• 28:12
  No.
• 28:12
  It's really driving me crazy.
• 28:14
  It's a monopoly.
• 28:15
  It's a monopoly.
• 28:16
  It's just nuts.
• 28:18
  So, wow.
• 28:19
  It's been 30 minutes.
• 28:21
  We've covered a lot of pet peeves.
• 28:24
  That's just a few.
• 28:25
  I guarantee you that's just a few.
• 28:28
  We could probably go on.
• 28:29
  We could.
• 28:30
  So thanks for listening to our pet peeves.
• 28:33
  And if you have a pet peeve, share it with us.
• 28:36
  Share it with us.
• 28:37
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• 28:40
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• 28:40
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• 28:42
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• 28:43
  Send us a DM.
• 28:44
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• 28:45
  And like I say, we'll pick the best one.
• 28:46
  We'll send you a $25 Wall Coffee gift card.
• 28:50
  Yes.
• 28:50
  But just tell us your pet peeve.
• 28:52
  Tell us your pet peeve.
• 28:53
  And we're serious about that.
• 28:54
  And maybe on Pet Peeve Part 3, we might do a- We'll share some of those.
• 28:58
  Anonymous.
• 28:59
  No, no.
• 28:59
  Yeah.
• 28:59
  We won't use your name.
• 29:00
  We won't.
• 29:01
  It won't be, I was gonna say a name, but I'm not gonna say a name.
• 29:05
  It won't be, it'll just be, you know, anonymous from wherever sent in their pet peeve.
• 29:11
  That's right.
• 29:11
  And we can read that.
• 29:12
  Yes.
• 29:12
  And needless to say, all our pet peeves about the mall and the shopping things and the parking lots and all those kinds of things, still love Christmas.
• 29:22
  Yeah.
• 29:22
  Christmas is awesome.
• 29:23
  And we still have to go out and- Still have to go out, gotta shop.
• 29:26
  Gotta drive.
• 29:27
  Gotta buy stuff.
• 29:28
  Gotta drive.
• 29:31
  It's, we haven't even talked about insurance, but anyway, that's a whole other thing.
• 29:34
  But anyways, yeah, it's coming up.
• 29:36
  And we're, are we doing a Christmas show this year?
• 29:38
  I think we are.
• 29:39
  We're doing a Christmas show.
• 29:40
  That'll be coming up pretty soon.
• 29:42
  So thank you everybody for listening.
• 29:45
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• 29:49
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• 30:15
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• 30:17
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• 30:18
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• 30:20
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• 30:22
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• 30:26
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• 30:28
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• 30:30
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• 30:30
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• 30:32
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• 30:32
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• 30:34
  We hope you have a great day.
• 30:35
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• 30:37
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• 30:40
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• 30:42
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• 30:43
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• 30:44
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