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Dirty Little Secret:I Pawned My Son's Future Away! · Billy The Kidd In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This this dirty little secrets.
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  Speaker 2: You nixed one or two point nine.
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  Speaker 3: Confess it is time. It's barely to kid Cannice Lopez
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  Speaker 3: this year. So let's producer poo and your secrets, your confessions.
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  Speaker 3: We do it eight three three seven eight seven at
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  Speaker 3: one o two nine. You just call us anytime.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, Hey, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good?
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  Speaker 3: So here we are with your confession and your secret.
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  Speaker 3: Go oh god, go go for it.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I share cust of your mate,
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  Speaker 1: your old son with my ex wife, and so for
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  Speaker 1: the last few years, he's been obsessed with Pokemon cards. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it's like our thing that we do together. We go
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  Speaker 1: to the card shows together and hit up local shops
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  Speaker 1: and I've even stood in line with them outside of shop,
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  Speaker 1: like because we knew there was new cars coming in.
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  Speaker 1: You know. We trade with other collectors and spent a
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  Speaker 1: time in going through the binders getting everything organized. It's really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, some of my favorite memories with that kid
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  Speaker 1: or because of those cards.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, and we actually built a pretty incredible collection.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's got some that are pretty rare. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much you guys know about Pokemon cards.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are you know. Yeah, so all together
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  Speaker 1: that collection is worth about like a few thousand bucks.
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  Speaker 2: That Oh yeah, time for real.
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  Speaker 1: Here comes the This is the tough part. I I
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  Speaker 1: pond his Pokemon collection. No, I mean it well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I need that money. I've hit some really hard
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  Speaker 1: times financially and I you know, I share custody. I
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  Speaker 1: have to be able to provide. You know, my hours
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  Speaker 1: got cut back at work and I'm behind on bills.
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  Speaker 1: It just feels like every week something goes wrong, Like
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm about to get my head
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  Speaker 1: above water and then oh I need new tires. You know, No,
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  Speaker 1: I get it, Like my all my mail is like
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  Speaker 1: overdue notices and so I'm just I'm trying to keep
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  Speaker 1: the trains running over here, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the dad, and I got to keep the lights one.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't sell them, you know. I took them
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  Speaker 1: to pawn shop and I got the loan against him.
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  Speaker 1: And my plan is, okay, to pay back and get them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Okay, you know if I don't. If I don't,
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  Speaker 1: they're gone.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So you can, okay, because I'm kind of familiar
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  Speaker 3: without it. And I've never really pawned anything I have.
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  Speaker 3: So you could put you could take a watch. You
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  Speaker 3: could take you could take a watch and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: hold this, give me two hundred bucks cash, and.
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  Speaker 4: They'll make an offer and they'll say, hey, this watch
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  Speaker 4: is worth five hundred dollars, right, and then they'll give
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  Speaker 4: you get a loan for that.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to pay the loan back, but you get
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  Speaker 2: to pay it back in a time of fashion.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't, that watch is gone, and those payments
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  Speaker 4: that you paid leading up to that, they gone are
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  Speaker 4: gone because I've done it before.
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  Speaker 2: You pawn Huh some tools a long time ago? Were
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  Speaker 2: they yours?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Great? God?
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  Speaker 1: Like the worst part, Like the last time we were together,
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  Speaker 1: he was asked me where the cards were, and so
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  Speaker 1: I lied to them. This is part of it too.
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  Speaker 1: I told him they were in a safety deposit pockets
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  Speaker 1: at the bank so they wouldn't get damage or stolen.
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  Speaker 1: And he actually was like, he was like, hey, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea, dad, and that just oh heart, this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, I like that You're doing the
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  Speaker 1: best you can. Look, I still have a few weeks
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  Speaker 1: and I'm doing everything I can I come up with
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  Speaker 1: this money. I've been picking up odd jobs. I've been
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  Speaker 1: selling other stuff, and I definitely haven't told my ex
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  Speaker 1: wife about this, but yeah, if I don't get those
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  Speaker 1: cards back, I mean, it's not just about losing the money,
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  Speaker 1: it's about losing the one thing that my son and
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  Speaker 1: I have sort of built together over the last few years.
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  Speaker 3: And they said, there's no way, there's no way, you're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna if you got to call us back and
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  Speaker 3: we got to help you out here, you gotta get
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  Speaker 3: this kid's Pokemon cards back, right man.
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  Speaker 2: So you'll get You'll get it. You sound like a
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  Speaker 2: good dad.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, there's a lot of parents who have
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  Speaker 3: fallen on struggles.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I feel a little better talking to
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  Speaker 1: you guys, as you can well imagine. It's not my
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  Speaker 1: finest hour as a father.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I never went through with it.
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  Speaker 4: But my oldest son, Chris, he has a big Pokemon collection,
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  Speaker 4: really like, yeah, he's got a shar Zard or whatever
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  Speaker 4: that character's name. It's worth about twenty five hundred by itself,
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  Speaker 4: that one card.
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  Speaker 2: Where's that right now? Did you say no, no, No,
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  Speaker 2: it's with him. It's with him. Good And you never
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  Speaker 2: sold it when he was no.
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  Speaker 4: But there were some times I was like who, But
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  Speaker 4: I never knew about him. You know, they became a
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  Speaker 4: real popular what you're saying, if you knew it was
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  Speaker 4: worth that, there's some nights of lights would have been
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  Speaker 4: on instead of lighting candles.
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  Speaker 2: All right, two showers are well, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Let us keep us in the loop on what happens,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll we'll make sure that he doesn't lose his
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  Speaker 3: Pokemon cards.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys, if you get your hands on.
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  Speaker 2: That, yeah, send it his way. Yeah, that one card. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let us know, Okay, it happens sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Though I told you earlier, my dad did the same
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  Speaker 3: thing to me now in Pokemon cards. He did it
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  Speaker 3: with everything though he did it to my grandma, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the end of her life. She was in a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 3: She couldn't really walk around, and he pondered a wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: he did, he did.
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  Speaker 2: You're awful, No, No, he's awful. It wasn't me. Who's dying.
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  Speaker 3: I'm serious? Yes, And she conceiver will ponder seen eye
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  Speaker 3: dog too.