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Seahawks, Spills, and Septic Thrills · Rik and that Michele Chick

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Welcome to Rick and That Michelle Chick, the weekly
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podcast where your hosts, Rick and Michelle, confidently dive
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into topics they know absolutely nothing about and somehow make
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it sound legit. They're not experts.
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They're not qualified. Honestly, they barely googled
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it. So grab a drink, lower your
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expectations, and let's pretend this counts as content.
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So buckle up. Facts are optional, but the
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bullshit? That's premium grade.
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This is Rick and that Michelle chick.
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I just started following a podcast with two of my favorite
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Star Trek actors and it's their very first episode.
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They did a live stream, you know, and they did and they did
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a good job, but it, it made me more appreciative because again,
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for what we do, being from radio and all that, and, and so here,
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whenever we do this podcast, I'm like, no one cares, we suck,
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blah, blah, blah, blah. That's, that's the, the, what I
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think about. And then I realized watching
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these two Star Trek actor, which are, they're fabulous.
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I mean, they're great actors, right?
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But them doing a podcast is totally different than being an
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actor. Oh yeah.
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And, and you can really see the difference.
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I I became more appreciative actually of this podcast or what
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we're doing and not to give myself such a hard time about it
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because after seeing my two favorite actors, like kind of
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they muddled through it. They muddled through it And I
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know it was like their their first episode or whatever, but
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but they did a great they did a good job.
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But I but I but but there was a lot of it was just coherent, the
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organization and all that the. Interest, especially if they did
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it live, they did it. Live we are recording.
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This. Yeah, I can go back and chop up
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whatever I need to, but. But I but it was interesting.
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I saw they can do a teaser where they're, I mean, they were, you
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could tell they were eating off cue cards.
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They were, there was cue cards, you could tell.
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And then when I watched, when I watched their first episode,
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they have a producer, they have a producer, they have a writer,
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all these different things that we don't have at all, right?
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None of that. And so it was interesting to
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watch it. And then and I, I again, I
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became appreciative that, oh, you and I can sit and have a
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conversation. I'm not saying it's a perfect
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conversation. I'm just saying that at least I
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don't feel like there's there's any awkwardness in the
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conversation. No, I think probably the first
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couple, but that was mainly because I had been on a radio
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for so long that it was weird for me to hop back into that and
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just. Plus I again I am not used to
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being the one in control or the driver.
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Your this is your. Right.
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Like I'm the one that edits it. I'm the one that usually has
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like, hey, can we talk about this, this?
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I mean, you have creative ability to your input, your
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creative input too. It's not like I'm going to be
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like, no, we're not going to talk about that.
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I don't want to talk about. That well as as our listeners
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have commented, I have a way of taking things over.
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So yeah. And that is that is a fair, that
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is a fair statement that and that's a fair statement.
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I don't try to I mean, I don't try to, but no, it's who you
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are. But it but I got all these great
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stories and like, oh, that's a good story.
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Oh, that's a good story. Oh so.
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Yeah, yeah. So.
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Anyway, so anyway, it just again, I'm just saying thank you
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for doing this podcast and thank you and I'm just a more
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appreciative and your friend. What was your friend's name
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again? Risa.
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Risa. OK, Risa, you know, thank you.
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Thank you for the observations. And as I always say, we'll do
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better. But we never do.
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We never do. We never.
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Say we do, I think we do a little bit, but we we never do.
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We do. But but I I didn't.
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Again, I at least some of this is coherent, which is is a good
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thing. Yeah.
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I mean, sometimes I think we're not paying attention to each
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other as well as we could be. Oh, absolutely.
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You know, but that's with any conversation.
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So that and it's kind of who we are.
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And I will tell you this from a radio standpoint.
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So I do a daily radio program. And even when you and I were
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doing mornings together and Tom and I doing mornings, I've done
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mornings for a long, long time. You know, every day is not the
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same. And so that's what make what
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that's what makes it unique. When you're doing a radio
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program, every single day is like you said, that engagement.
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And it doesn't mean you're not trying to be engaged, but but
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some days you're on, some days you're off.
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It's great. And and so I, I think it's
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totally different. I'm sure you can agree when you
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do a comedy show, comedy show that the, you know, you have
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your bits, you have your, you know what you're doing.
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And you do that at every town you go to.
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So you. Over and over and over.
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Yeah, you work on that every single day and every single
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night to where it's absolute perfection.
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Timing, all of that radio, you're doing it, especially if
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you're live, you're doing it without a safety net.
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And so some days you're you're really engaged and some days
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you're not feeling it. And I've learned.
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There, or you're hungover. And I've learned on those days,
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you shut up, play some music. But we can't do that here
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though. But I will tell you, when you're
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in the zone, it's the best feeling ever.
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Right. Yeah.
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When you know, everybody's like firing on all cylinders.
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Yeah, yeah, when you when you know you've done a great radio
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bit and you know it's good. And and one of my favorite
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stories, of course, is Becky Brenner or Jay Albright.
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Remember, they were monitoring the show.
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We kicked off at 6:00 and I said, we're going to make this
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the best show ever, 'cause we know the consultant is
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listening. And we got to 810 and somebody
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came in and said, hey, this, this, this radio spots missing
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or something. And so that next brick brake
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crashed hard. And then when we got talked to
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Jay or it was Becky at 9:00, she's like, hey, Oh my.
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She goes, oh God, the show was so and she even said was she
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not? She was absolutely
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complimentary. And then she goes, what happened
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at 8:10? Yeah, yes, yeah.
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Which is funny that you, you know, like we knew the
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consultants were going to listen.
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And usually when that happens, it's reversal.
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Like you freak out and have like the worst show of your career
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because, you know, they're listening.
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And so that gets in your head and messes with you and luckily
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with us, but. But I and you, you know, you,
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you know that that show we up until 8:10, I know for a fact it
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was probably the best show that you could possibly ever do.
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And because we had, we had callers, we had phoners.
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I mean, we was, it was smooth as butter.
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And then and 8:10 someone comes in, Oh, there's a, there's a
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spot missing. Can you take a look at it and
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blow, we blow the brake, we try to get to the break.
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And then and it's funny, the consultant goes, what was that?
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Which? Which they they weren't supposed
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to come into the studio at all. Even if there's a missing spot,
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they're not supposed to come in and disrupt our show.
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But they never ever and no one listened to those roles ever.
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No, ever. Ever, ever.
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So when you're so on your favorite, on your favorite radio
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station, when you're like, why do they sound distracted?
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Well, it's usually some bozo coming and saying something that
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let's throwing the whole show off.
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They're not. Well, and let's describe so the
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door, it's like, sure, the door is closed, but there is a window
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in the door in all the studios. And So what would happen is if
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somebody needed something, they would stand right outside the
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door, like looking in the window.
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And it's like, how can you not acknowledge these?
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You might be on the air, but you're distracted because now
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you see this person looking through the window, staring at
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you. You know they need something and
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so. That throws you off and that
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makes you rush the brake or rush this dead and then.
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Yeah, you're not paying attention anymore.
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And yeah, yeah. Anyway, those are just our
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little, little idiosyncrasies that would happen to us on the
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radio. So today I know that Michelle
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has got some great topics and let's get it.
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Let's get it. Well, I.
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Know that, Yeah, we call it. Yeah, I know.
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That. Logan thinks we shouldn't talk
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about politics too much. But I can't not talk about the
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Alex pretty thing. Yeah, it's topic.
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A. I know that we are living in the
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upside down world when the NRA is starting to make sense, I.
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Saw that? For me, I was like, damn.
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And so I've just been in Alex's honor, just trying to be more
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conscious of doing something to help someone, even if it's a
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small act, because I feel like, you know, that's what he was
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doing right before he died, was helping that woman that was on
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the ground that they had pepper sprayed and pushed.
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And so I've been trying to be more conscious of that and
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trying to do more things like that in his honor.
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So, and the statement that his sister, I read that yesterday,
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Oh my God, I was like bawling, bawling.
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Very, very powerful. Statement now one thing that I
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have to I do have to I will make a mention of which I think it's
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absolutely ridiculous and I don't care who hears this is so
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in our in in the Tri-cities, some of the schools, the
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students are walking out and they're doing and they're doing
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their ice protest. And I cannot believe the
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ignorance in the Facebook comments of of people going they
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should be in school. Oh, I bet a teacher
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indoctrinated them. I mean, the list just goes on
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and on of and I, I am so proud of these kids.
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I am so proud that this is what blows my mind is this is
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America. This is America and you're
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allowed to have an opinion. And and because it doesn't line
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up with somebody else, then you're then the expectation now
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is you're just you're we're just going to kill you now.
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I know. The fact and the fact that they
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don't think that high schoolers should have an opinion.
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Oh yeah? Oh my.
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Well, they don't think, Michelle.
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They don't think entertainers should have an opinion.
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They don't think an actor or an actor should have an opinion.
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I mean, they don't should. We should play a.
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Basketball. Yeah.
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Play A10. And start the play music.
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It's like we're human beings and, and regardless of what our
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job is, we are allowed to have an opinion.
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And I don't care who you are because it's funny.
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And I always, I always say this is I said the only reason why
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it's not your opinion coming out of my mouth, right?
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So, so it's like, so it's like, so is it now if my opinion was
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coming out of my mouth or your opinion was coming out of my
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mouth? Oh we, oh we, we wholeheartedly
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agree with you on that. Oh yeah, we'd be best buddies.
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So I'm very proud I'm very proud of kids.
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I'm very proud of the people that are still there fighting
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the good fight. Absolutely this is not this is
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not a gun issue and on and to see the NRA step in absolutely
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he he was legally carrying so you you you can't have it both
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ways. You cannot sit there and and
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tell people to carry arms. And then it was his
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constitutional right. And then, I mean, he was, he was
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murdered in cold blood. I don't care what anybody says.
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I mean. Shooting someone 10 times is way
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over the top. And so this is the procedure.
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So you know, the one officer that you can see in the video
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like removes the gun and you hear them yell gun with that
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that is what they're they're supposed to yell gun when they
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see one like that, that is procedure.
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But when it gets removed or cleared, so to speak, they are
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supposed to yell that it that it's secure.
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But that doesn't happen in that video.
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Nobody. And then after they are.
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They taking to the ground. They taking to the ground.
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Yeah, and they're looking for the gun.
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Yeah. Well, even from the vice
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president of the country saying that an ICE officer or ICE
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person has absolute immunity. No, that police don't have
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absolute immunity. Fire people.
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It is sickening to the stomach that we have half the country is
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ignoring the truth in the in these situations.
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And because they don't politically line up and and you
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know, not everything has to be stupid politics.
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It's like what happened to the day.
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And I'm going to I'm going to defend George Bush.
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I'm going to defend Bush senior. I'll even defend Ronald Reagan
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in those situations. They weren't doing this
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bullshit. Ronald Reagan in 1980 when he
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talked about immigration. There's a video of Ronald Reagan
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in his campaign talking about we want to welcome everybody to the
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country we want. To open the borders.
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Yes, yes, go look at the Ronald Reagan video from 1980
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campaigning against Jimmy Carter.
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He talks about that. He talks about pathways to
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citizenship and, and no retribution and all these
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different things. This is this is Reagan was the
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Republican God for so many years.
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And so it's almost it's it's it's.
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You wouldn't be a Republican by their standards.
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Now someone, someone put up yesterday like Jesus would have
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complied. Really.
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Jesus would have complied? What?
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Yes, someone put up a meme thing.
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Jesus would have been. Helping that woman, the same
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thing Alex was doing. Jesus would have complied.
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Put his body over her. He would have protected her like
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that's. These people need to go back and
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read their Bible. I don't, I don't know what
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sacrifice. Jesus because he didn't comply,
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yes, they killed him because he did not.
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I mean, so if you want to be religious about this situation
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is Jesus would comply. These people it is.
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I never thought I'd ever see a cult in my life on that level or
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political level. I mean, I've heard of Charles
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Manson. And there was what is the, the,
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there's a guy named Jones from the early 70s when we were
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little kids. But they he's.
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Oh yeah. The kool-aid where they drink,
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called the kool-aid. Yes, that's a Guy Jones.
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No, it's not Alex Jones. But there's a name, there's a
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it's a Jones guy and Jim Jones. I don't know.
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Jim Jones. That's it.
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Thank you. Jim Jones.
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No, you got it right, Jim Jones. And and I was like, well, this
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stuff can't happen in real life. Or, or at least it's a small
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group of people, you know, So even growing up as kids, we had
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the skinheads which were in Coeur d'Alene, remember Hayden
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Lake? Yep, Yep.
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But they lived in their compound for the most part.
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They stayed in their compound. I mean, they come out and they,
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they cause a problem and they, and they would, they'd get,
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they'd pay for it. So I never thought we'd see this
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at a nationwide level. And then and then the lack of
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empathy and they'll just the list goes on and on.
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This is tragic. And then not to hold.
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And then I'm like, where's Congress?
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Where's where's your representative?
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You know, I know Tim Walls is doing whatever he can, but.
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He's the governor. I get it.
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But it's like he did call him the National Guard.
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He called. National limitations, yeah.
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Yeah, he does have limitations, but for God's sake, somebody do
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something. I think the thing that is so
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difficult for me is because when we talk about those that have
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different differing views than you, it's, I think now like it's
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so extreme that someone that has a different view than me is fine
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with me dying or being killed like that.
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I think that's what I really have a problem with is how
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people are so quick to be like, well, you're, you're Liberal
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Democrat, you deserve to die. And it's like, what is going on?
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Where did this like jump off the tracks at some point in in our
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society? It's just crazy to me because.
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I would never. Think that about someone else
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that has a differing view so. But they, but they've made it
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that way. They, you know, the, the
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commander in chief, you know, and, and I know they're having
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meetings now and he's trying to back off the rhetoric.
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But it, it, this is the way it always goes.
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You know, he, he throws the rhetoric out there.
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He throws the red meat out there.
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Right. And then and, and then let's go
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back to, you know, the being armed at a rally.
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Hello. Hello, Trumpsters.
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Yeah, by that standard. You know what exactly they
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should. Have all been shot, then if
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those are the standards that were going by, then all of them,
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the Capitol Police officers should have had the right to
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shoot them then if that's the logic we're using now.
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They're not, and they don't care what he says.
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I don't care what he says. They're not patriots.
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They're not patriots, they're not patriots.
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I'm sorry no matter what and and interested enough that there's
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been a lot and we won't go too far into it.
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But it's interesting that they don't pick Texas or California,
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where there's way more immigration issues, but they
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Florida. And Florida have over each like
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like 1.5 million illegal immigrants.
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So we pick Minneapolis, a blue state where we can go pick on
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Tim Walls or what you know, I'm saying just to disrupt and, and
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then and then again to have the vice president.
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I will. I'm just, I will never vote.
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Well, I never liked him anyway, but I'd never vote for JD Vance
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if he was the last. Super Weasley I don't like.
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Oh. Disgusting.
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And then the I mask air. I'm sorry.
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I don't usually call. I don't need to call people out,
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but he's a punk. It's fine if guys wear mascara
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and fingernail Polish and. Like that's.
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Perfectly fine. Well, and my big thing with JD
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Vance more than anything else is, you know, he, you know, I,
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you know, when I was a foster kid, blah, blah, blah.
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Well, you should have some fucking empathy.
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Exactly. You know he knows Exactly.
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And, and, and the crazy thing about JD Vance is his his
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grandparents paid for his ride to Yale and his grandfather was
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part of a union. Yes, Yep.
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So you fat, you spit in the face, you spit in the face of
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the people who helped you on your way And, and it's just
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disgusting. I there, I don't know, I, I'm so
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proud of the kids here in town or I'm proud of kids that are
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walking out. They have they have every right
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to walk out. I will, you know, I know Logan
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may not be listening or he might be listening.
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That's one thing I'm proud of my son is I know I would.
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I, as a parent, I'd let him walk.
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Oh, yeah, I would not. I would not.
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Even if I disagreed with Logan, I would not let my personal
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political beliefs interfere with him doing what he thinks he
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needs to do. Right.
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And like I think my kids remember the March for Life when
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that I think that was right after Parkland happened and that
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whole March for Life and the kids were walking out of school.
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We had we had that discussion because they asked we want to
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leave school. Is it OK if we do?
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And the schools were saying, well, if you leave, you're going
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to get suspended, you know, whatever it.
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Was my kid yeah, Mark my kid absent.
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I love, I love, I love what they.
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Said, I said, yes, I stand behind you.
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You do what? Because I'm not the one that is
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having to go through these lockdown drills and living in
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fear. Like that wasn't something for
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us growing up. So I have no idea what it's like
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for them to be at school every day and be so anxious that
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someone's going to come through that door and just open fire.
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So I was like. Yeah.
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I stand behind you. I.
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You now we weren't doing nuclear drills, but but.
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We. We.
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Lived in the cold, cold, you know, Cold War era and and
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Reagan and Grubishoff and that and you know just thinking about
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the Cold War and nuclear. I mean that was really our big
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fear so but but 100% I would love I mean, again, I don't have
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kids in school anymore, but I would love for the
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administration to calm and go yeah, your kids going to walk
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out Yeah, he is, but we're going to spend him OK, you know what
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I'm saying? I'd love to be that.
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I'd love to be that parents and I'd love for some MAGA MAGA
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person to flip their shut the shut up, you know?
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Okay, did we? I was going to say, are we okay?
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Did you say your piece on the whole, Alex Pretty everything
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you wanted to say or? Have every right to carry you
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now we've talked a lot about this before we go before we get
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done with this I I hate the fact that because I'm a Democrat or
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an independent or whatever, they just truly believe that I don't
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believe that you should not be allowed to carry guns.
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That's not true. I've never seen there.
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Are plenty of Democrats who carry guns and there are also so
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you know, these groups, these militia groups the on the right.
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There are also ones on the left, just FYI.
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So. Yeah, absolutely.
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Well, and and this absurd. So to me, it's like you have the
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right to bear arms. That's absolutely 100% correct.
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2nd Amendment stand behind that. Do you need a howitzer Now
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that's something I that's where that's where I'm at.
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It's like OK, what, what limits should you have that I'm OK with
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because you should you have the right to bear arms, but do you
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need a howitzer to go deer hunting?
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I don't think so, no. So you don't need an A, you know
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that, you know, an AR-17 or whatever.
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I just don't believe that. So I do, I believe you can have
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rifles and, you know, 22 and and guns and all that.
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Absolutely. Handgun, you need to protect
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yourself. I get it.
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So. Trust me, and I love the fact
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because as I've always said, if the military wanted you dead,
19:58
you'd be dead. There are other ways, yeah.
20:00
You've already seen that in these sad shootings.
20:02
I mean, if they want to kill you, they're going to kill you.
20:05
Right. And the stuff that we don't even
20:07
know that they have the capabilities.
20:09
Oh my gosh, the Jerome they could drop a bomb on your
20:11
handmade. Right, they don't need.
20:15
It's not things of science fiction.
20:17
It's not things of science fiction.
20:18
If they want to roll a tank through your town, they could
20:20
roll a tank through your town and you're they don't even need
20:23
to do. That.
20:24
Yeah, your your gun isn't going to do nothing against a tank.
20:27
Right, right. OK, let's move on.
20:28
Like, here's my shirt. There you go.
20:31
Are you getting excited for the big game?
20:33
Yes, so this is my Tyler Lockett jersey.
20:36
I did not want to wear my Shakim jersey because that is signed by
20:40
him, so I don't wear that anymore.
20:43
But yes, this is the redemption match up.
20:48
Yeah, I'm still looking forward to 1.
20:51
I hope that we kick their ass. Yeah, I, I'd called this a
20:57
couple weeks back with Patty. I said, oh, this is a Patriot
21:00
Seahawk. You.
21:00
Said you, and you said that on our podcast too.
21:04
You. Said.
21:04
I really believe, I really believe, I really believe this.
21:08
The Hawks are going to just go like over the top of them.
21:10
I do I I have something so I'm trying not to I think.
21:13
The Seahawks are a better team. Right.
21:15
You try not to be like boastful for your team because it you're
21:18
like, I'll jinx it in my mind. That's what I'm thinking.
21:21
If I'm like, yeah, the Seahawks are going to take it off.
21:24
No, you don't. No.
21:25
Trying to rein that in. Yeah, shit talk.
21:28
And I, I'm with you on the fact that I don't, you know, because
21:32
as you already know, my, my Cowboys aren't going.
21:34
But I don't, I don't ever. Even when I'm at work, I don't
21:37
shit talk anybody else's team because on any given day your
21:40
team can lose. Yes, yeah.
21:42
So. So I don't sit around ever going
21:44
that we're going to, you know, so, yeah.
21:45
But I truly believe the way they're playing, I think they're
21:49
going to roll over the Patriots. Now.
21:51
I'm bummed for the Broncos because I want, I really want
21:55
the Broncos, the Ox. But Bo Nix, once Bo Nix hurt his
21:58
ankle, I went. That's done because you can't.
22:01
You can't put in a cold QB and expect to do anything.
22:04
But I watched that game and he actually did very, very well.
22:08
So the kid did. No, The kid did what he could
22:10
do. I mean, you know, that was some
22:12
amazing shots that kid took. He did great.
22:14
Yeah. But but once the Bonex broke the
22:16
I was like oh that's done. I was, I was, I was hoping and
22:19
praying. I was like, come on, come on
22:22
you. Guys, it would have been cool.
22:23
I would have been, you know, because anybody would have been
22:25
a West Coast thing with the Bronx and.
22:27
The and the whole underdog story of their TV, like, yeah, I
22:30
would. I'm all for an underdog.
22:32
And then, of course, I'm the Mariners.
22:33
Fan Hawks play. You'd want the Hawks to win, of
22:34
course. Yes, yeah, of course.
22:39
All right. So I wanted to talk about, well,
22:43
actually, you know, like you just recently had AC issues in
22:47
your house, right? Well, now it's my turn for house
22:50
troubles. Home ownership sucks.
22:52
Yes. This is this is hang on, hang
22:54
on, hang on, Michelle. This is the section we call home
22:57
Ownership sucks. Go.
22:59
Ahead, this is gonna be our our every other week segment.
23:03
Yes, yes. So this happened to me.
23:07
Our septic backed up, which we've had problems with this
23:11
before. So when this happens, then that
23:14
means it backs up into the bathtub downstairs, on the
23:17
toilet downstairs, right? Yeah, yeah.
23:20
And. That smell, does it have that
23:22
nasty smell? Yes, because it's literally
23:25
like, shit, something like that. I think it literally is.
23:33
And so then we can't flush the toilets, we can't use the sinks
23:37
because you can't have the water going down into the septic.
23:41
And so they couldn't get out to try and fix it until the
23:44
following day. And we were going to go to a
23:48
hotel, but Shelly was like, I don't want to.
23:50
I don't want to leave the cats. And so I'm like, Oh my God.
23:53
They'll survive. They'll survive.
23:55
So we didn't. So that means we couldn't flush
23:58
the toilet, we couldn't take showers.
24:00
And I put like huge metal bowls in the sink under like the
24:04
kitchen sink so that whatever we were using the sink or dumping,
24:08
like if I needed to make coffee, dumping out the old coffee and
24:11
putting it stayed in those metal bowls.
24:13
And then I had to take them outside and dump them out
24:16
outside. So yeah, it was a lot.
24:18
But they did come and fix it. Luckily it wasn't thousands of
24:22
dollars. It was only it was only $450.
24:25
What? What was?
24:26
It but they did we also pump our septic tank at the same time.
24:30
Well, it's and again, this we've had this problem before and it's
24:34
where the the pipe for the septic and drainage coming right
24:38
out of the house is it keeps getting clogged and so Jay has
24:42
to dig it up and fix it and until the weather gets a little
24:46
bit better, that's not going to happen.
24:47
But it should be OK now. We shouldn't have any problems
24:51
with it for a while. I think the last time we had a
24:53
problem with it was maybe last year.
24:57
It might have been sooner. So yeah.
24:59
So that was our septic tank drama.
25:02
I I'll take 5. $100 in repairs any day of the week.
25:05
Yeah, instead of thousands. Yeah, yeah.
25:06
Yeah, any day of the week. Oh, we, when we.
25:09
We're like a new septic system that would have cost us like
25:12
$20,000. So, so, so when we moved from
25:15
Prosser, it was interesting that our toilet, the septic, worked
25:19
great, right? But it had a little bubble.
25:22
We had a little bubble what when he flushed it in one of the
25:24
toilets and so the guy which. Means there's a backup.
25:27
I just learned this. Or there was there.
25:29
Wasn't though, but the, but the guy came and the inspector goes,
25:32
oh, you're gonna and he didn't even, he just goes, he saw that
25:34
little bubble and he goes, oh, you need $20,000, you need to
25:37
RIP up the entire septic, you know.
25:39
No, he was. And I'm like, we're like, and
25:41
our, we had a great real estate agent and she goes, Oh yeah,
25:44
we'll find somebody else. And they came and they came and
25:47
said, yeah, your septic's fine. But this guy, you know, I mean,
25:50
I don't, I don't, I don't know about you.
25:52
Luckily you got away with 500 bucks.
25:54
I don't trust people. I just don't, I don't believe
25:58
people and I don't trust people. It's kind of like a mechanic.
26:00
It's like you got to find, you got to find yourself a good
26:02
mechanic that you trust to do the work, right?
26:06
And then you stick with that mechanic.
26:07
It's the same thing as who, who cuts your hair or anything.
26:10
Because because I just feel like in this day and age, I feel like
26:13
they're deliberately trying to, to get, you know, like a
26:15
doctor's like I even going to the vet or the doctor now I feel
26:19
like it's just for the dentist. Yeah.
26:21
I feel like I, I feel like it's now become how can we make more
26:24
money off somebody not what's reasonable.
26:26
So I'm glad it's. Fine, yeah, at least now we have
26:29
YouTube, so we if you are not sure you can go.
26:33
Go, Jay, get the plunger. Jay, get the plunger.
26:36
All right. Have fun with that.
26:38
Jay, get the plunger. I'm sorry if it's between me
26:42
digging out shit or having someone else dig out shit, I'll
26:45
probably pay you the money to have someone dig out shit
26:47
that's. Yes.
26:49
I mean, I yeah. And if it's only that one little
26:52
section that needs that's that might be a pretty easy.
26:54
Fix. Yeah, yeah, I mean, he's had to
26:56
fix it some other stuff before with our septic tank.
26:59
I mean, nothing major, but yeah, when I think there was like a
27:03
crack in it, one of the pipes. And so yeah, he literally had to
27:06
dig it up and it's like poop and.
27:09
Stuff all. Of course, yeah.
27:11
Yes, it's septic, it's nasty and that weird.
27:13
I just hate that weird smell is just the.
27:16
Worst. Yeah, yeah, it was not great.
27:18
It was all in our house. And so I had to like, turn on
27:21
all this smell you. Should have left your daughter
27:23
and got in your own room. I'll see you in six hours.
27:26
I would have. I would have left her.
27:27
I would have. I would have bailed.
27:28
I would have been like, I'll see you.
27:29
I'm gonna be at the Ritz. I'm gonna be at the Ritz.
27:31
Yakima. I'll see you later.
27:33
I I was like what? When she was like, I don't, I
27:36
wanna sing he. The cats will survive then.
27:40
The dats. One night.
27:41
That's why they're cats, right? Yeah, you.
27:43
Know we also have the dogs too, but.
27:44
Well, of course, but you come back.
27:45
You come back about every four hours, let them outside to go
27:47
poop and pee and all that, and you're good.
27:49
Yeah, I mean our dogs are actually good for like 8 hours,
27:52
so they can. I think we pushed it one time
27:55
for our dogs, maybe 10 hours. I didn't like it, but they
27:58
survived, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
28:00
And so then the same day that that happened, I dropped my
28:03
Stanley Cup, this Cup right here on my on my toe, which these
28:07
things are not light. It was full, full of ice and
28:11
water dropped it. I tried to move my foot back,
28:15
but, you know, getting older a little bit slower and so it
28:18
clipped Ouch. My toe right next to my big toe.
28:22
Yeah, I thought for sure I broke it.
28:24
It hurts so bad. Is it?
28:27
Is it, is it bruised now? Yeah, it's.
28:30
Like, yeah, it's swelled up. It was like black and blue.
28:33
I tried putting a shoe on and tried walking and was like, you
28:38
know, every step I took was like.
28:42
The better today. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's better.
28:45
It's hard to tell because I've had my toes broken by my horse
28:48
before. It's it's really and toes and
28:52
toes are just hard to tell if you broke them anyway.
28:56
And so so I don't think I broke it, but honestly, I have no
29:01
idea. I mean, it's a little bit
29:02
better, but yeah. So that was my fun for the last
29:07
couple days. When things happen, they just
29:09
happen all all at the same time. So yeah, I was just trying to
29:12
think fun times. It's.
29:14
Supposed to. Come.
29:14
Oh God. So what's next?
29:17
Yeah, yeah, one more to 111 more to go through and then you're
29:19
good. Hopefully whatever comes next
29:21
isn't thousands of dollars like that.
29:23
Yeah, we don't. Yeah, well, I don't know.
29:25
I just, I just did our taxes and we, I don't know about you guys,
29:28
but we pay thousands in taxes. I think even with the Jay's
29:35
income, we have the two kids in college, so that helps a little
29:39
bit. We have, we have had to pay
29:42
before, so that's not new. But luckily with Jackson and
29:46
Shailene College, it has a bid too too much.
29:49
But. Yeah, it's.
29:50
Possible that could happen this year, Who knows?
29:53
Without without 0 dependence, we got nothing.
29:56
And then and then they and then they've changed the taxes
29:58
because I do our taxes, they change the taxes to where
30:01
they've now made the the exemption for married people
30:04
above, above your mortgage payment.
30:06
There's no, there's not enough student loan, there's not enough
30:10
interest on any of these things to even itemize to get unless,
30:14
unless you have made big, which I'm, I'm a DJ, I'm broke.
30:17
So it's not like I make, it's not like I have boats.
30:20
It's not like I have a boat and a trailer and all these things
30:22
and three or four cars that I'm taking none of that.
30:25
So, yeah. So it's one of those things
30:27
where the personal exemption for 2 married people, there's not
30:30
enough mortgage interest that you pay that's going to make it
30:34
above that 30,000 this year's 3150, I believe.
30:37
So, yeah, the frustrating is, yeah, there's no dependents and
30:40
there's no kids. I mean my dogs.
30:44
Hopefully they'll change it so we can add our pets as
30:46
dependents. I mean, they cost just as much,
30:49
maybe more sometimes. They, they, they, they do.
30:51
And you can't take any of that. You can't take any of that off.
30:54
And you know, so it's as I always make jokes about taxes,
30:57
it's a rigged system. It's rigged.
31:00
It is. It is rigged because because I
31:03
had a a boss many years ago that he leased his family cars and
31:07
use them as business expenses. So they're driving brand new
31:10
cars, but he was taking it off on his tag.
31:12
I mean the list just goes on and on.
31:14
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I worked at AI, worked
31:16
at a radio station where they had A tag on a dot matrix
31:18
printer that hadn't worked in 20-30 years.
31:21
And they're like, that's an asset.
31:22
That's an asset. I'm like it's.
31:24
An. Asset, it's an asset.
31:26
I'm like it's a it's a write off basically.
31:28
But. Yeah, it's, yeah, but it doesn't
31:31
work. But yet they're able to go.
31:32
Well, that's, you know, the IRS is all that.
31:35
Well, that's work, You know, $250 off what?
31:39
Yeah. So anyway, don't get me talking
31:40
about taxes. Yeah, we haven't done ours.
31:43
We usually wait till. We usually wait till the last
31:45
minute to do ours. For you guys, well, we have.
31:48
A We have an accountant that does ours because where Jay
31:51
works in Oregon, they have state income tax.
31:55
And so we just have him do it because it's super complicated
31:59
and. It's.
32:00
Worth it to pay? For me, because because the IRS
32:04
loves me so much, I need to get those.
32:06
I need to get it done by January.
32:08
Like I need to know what the damage.
32:10
It's almost like. It's almost like Star Trek.
32:11
And. Like damage, damage report, I
32:14
need to know what that money is going to be so I can start, so I
32:17
can start saving up to pay the bill.
32:20
You know, I don't, again, I don't have like excess cash
32:23
laying around to pay the IRS. So, you know, I make the payment
32:26
every year and I wait till April, April 15th at whatever
32:30
that date is like to take it from my account, even though I
32:33
even know four months ahead when I'm going to pay.
32:36
I've got it like clockwork. And so, yeah, if there's any
32:39
secrets out there besides cheating, and I'm not going to
32:43
acknowledge any of that on this podcast, I'm not saying that.
32:47
Give us, give us some tips. Oh, I did want to ask you.
32:53
I saw that Watershed was cancelled this year.
32:58
Yeah. I was shocked when I heard it,
33:00
but they didn't give a reason. And so I thought I'll ask Rick.
33:04
He might have some insider info as to why it got cancelled or
33:08
what. What what really happened.
33:10
I know that. I know that artists are costing
33:12
a lot, a lot more nowadays. And I know last year Watershed
33:17
didn't sell out, did it? I think.
33:18
I did not not to say that it wasn't successful.
33:22
I think so I did the article for the radio station when the news
33:25
broke and they're taking a hiatus, which means they may
33:28
never come back. I mean, so I, I think there's a
33:31
lot, I think you already mentioned a couple components
33:33
why I think it's not happening. Number one, artists cost so much
33:37
money for, for anybody nowadays in the lower, you know, even the
33:41
lower ring is going to cost you a lot of money.
33:43
And I also think that they've been doing it for 13 years and
33:46
they've rotated through a lot of artists.
33:48
I mean, of the big, of the big names, you're never going to
33:51
get, you're never going to get George Strait.
33:53
You're not going to get, I mean, they're, they're a million plus
33:56
if you want them. So you're not going to get,
33:58
yeah, you're not getting those guys.
33:59
You're not getting the, the, the, the, the, the, the tear
34:01
you're not getting. So you're rotating through your
34:03
Miranda Lambert's, your Keith Urban's Luke Bryan, Luke Bryan,
34:06
Jason Aldean. And so after 13 years, I think
34:09
they did a real good gauntlet of who of who's who.
34:12
Then you've got people in the comments bitching about, well,
34:16
you know, these are retreads or these are artists that have been
34:19
there before. And so you I think that's I
34:22
think that's a machine that's hard to please.
34:24
And I think and so I think from a financial and then I and then
34:27
on the other hand, and you and I both know it's Sodom and
34:31
Gomorrah. So unlike all the other
34:32
conscious to go to the gorge, the the shedders I I don't want
34:36
to speak out of turn, but they trash the place.
34:39
They they used to, but I know they've really tried to
34:42
implement cleaning up your campsites.
34:45
They did really bad that one year.
34:47
I remember that that was. Yeah, there was.
34:49
I mean, there was so much. I mean, it was so much crap
34:51
everywhere. And I'm not picking on the.
34:52
Thing because I mean, you could say that about any concert that
34:55
happens at the gorge. I get it, but I don't think it's
34:58
at the level in which the, the level that watershed, the damage
35:02
that watershed does, because again, I think it all comes down
35:08
to the audience and, and, and the shedders are young.
35:11
I mean, they're young, they're young.
35:13
It it's not, it's not 60 year olds going, it's not people
35:17
going to see John Mellencamp, you know, or Dave Matthews Band.
35:21
These are early 20s. They just turned 21.
35:23
They're getting as pissed drunk as humanly possible.
35:26
Wearing as little clothes as humans.
35:28
I mean, it is like 105° out usually when this is going on.
35:32
So yeah. But but I but I believe that, I
35:35
think, I think there's a lot of components to why Watershed
35:38
isn't happening. So I think it all just come to a
35:40
head to where they're like, OK, let's just not.
35:42
I think, I think lack of artists that you know that they can, you
35:45
know that you can just the tickets are outrageous.
35:47
The camping's outrageous. It had just gotten to the point
35:49
to where I don't think it was. It's feasible from all, from all
35:52
sides, from all sides. Right.
35:55
And, and for us here in the tri-cities, we now have the
35:58
Pendleton Whiskey Music Fest, which is 2 weeks before
36:00
Watershed. Zach Top has already been
36:02
announced. So I think a lot, I think that
36:06
takes a lot of, I think that and who was last year?
36:09
I mean, I got to go back and look at who was last year, but
36:11
they've they've managed to bring in some big acts.
36:13
They have. Remember the year they brought
36:15
in Maroon 5? Yeah.
36:18
So yeah, they. Post Malone, they've done Post
36:20
Malone. I can't think I've taught me who
36:23
last year. Oh, Cody Johnson, Cody Johnson
36:25
was last year, Cody Johnson and Nelly.
36:27
I mean, so they you know, they they brought into big acts and
36:30
that's two weeks ahead of watershed.
36:32
Not and and I get a people are traveling from Seattle or
36:35
Portland and all that for watershed, but I think it's just
36:37
a combination. I think it's a combination of
36:40
and the artist costs. I know I don't want to, I don't
36:43
want to defend Kid Rock on anything, but Kid Rock was just
36:46
in front of Congress talking about somehow trying to get a
36:49
rein in on ticket prices. So because, because when we
36:53
brought in years ago when we brought in like Brad Paisley,
36:57
yeah, it was $50,000. This is back in the the I was
37:01
going. To say this is like 15 years ago
37:03
wasn't. It right right, but but you have
37:05
to remember that to do the whole back line that's another $50,000
37:10
people don't realize it's not just the artist that you're
37:12
paying for you know all the. Stage.
37:14
It's the lighting. It's everything, Everything that
37:16
was. $50,000 So it's always, it's always double, you know.
37:19
So if you're bringing in $1,000,000 ACT, well, it's going
37:22
to be $1,000,000 on the other side to draw the equipment and
37:26
stuff. Right.
37:27
So, right, employees that you need to have and you know, yeah.
37:31
It'll yeah, let's go on and on. So, so yeah, I think, you know,
37:34
I, I think I'm hoping it'll be back.
37:36
I mean, maybe you know, but but you never know at these that at
37:39
the current price of things. Yeah, I mean, my husband runs a
37:42
casino and they have entertainment and he always
37:45
jokes about the casino pricing because they artists like to
37:48
Jack up the price for casinos because they know they'll pay.
37:51
It so so that so that you make an interesting conversation and
37:57
so many years ago when casino started coming on big.
38:01
So back in the day you could get Eddie Money or I think she's
38:05
behind me. Dina Carter, Dina Carter.
38:08
So Dina Carter when I was in Bakersfield cost like $20,000.
38:11
You could get her for a concert back in the day.
38:14
And So what happened was I and I, so I got to go backstage,
38:18
talk to a lot of artists and they said we're, we're.
38:21
And so they don't want to do radio shows.
38:24
They don't want to do any of that anymore because they can go
38:26
make 60 thousand $80,000 because casinos again.
38:30
And you already, I don't know about your husband's casino, but
38:33
they just want to get people in there.
38:36
So. So they're willing to take a hit
38:37
on the the entertainment. Because people are going to
38:40
come. Some of them, I think the larger
38:44
ones can afford to do that, but some of the smaller casinos
38:47
certainly can't. And your husband?
38:50
Is it a smaller one? It's probably like.
38:53
Mid size. Mid size, yeah.
38:55
So I mean, what's sometimes, what's an act that he brings in?
38:59
What do you think? What do you think the biggest
39:00
act he brought in or has brought in?
39:03
Biggest they've had Old Dominion now keep in mind their indoor
39:07
facility can at Max see 2000 people.
39:11
So, OK, so it's a good one. No Old Dominion is a good.
39:14
One, yeah, they got Old Dominion.
39:15
I mean like recently when they're like super hot.
39:18
And that's only, I think, partly because his entertainment buyer
39:22
guy has so many connections, right?
39:24
That Old Dominion was routed through, and they called up
39:28
Harold. That's an.
39:29
OK, Yeah, Old Dominion has a day.
39:33
It's who you know also. Yeah, and.
39:36
You make a good point about, yeah.
39:38
And Harold jumped on it and they and once Old Dominion played
39:42
there. Now they they asked to come back
39:44
now like they want to. They played there since then
39:47
they get. Old Dominion in tri-cities all
39:49
the time and and because it's it that the seating's what, 6004 to
39:52
6000 people here. But you make a good point and a
39:56
lot of people don't realize it's about rowdy.
39:57
So a great example. Chris Stapleton coming to the
39:59
Gorge. Zach Top is on some of his
40:02
shows. So so Zach Top will book shows.
40:05
Around right, these big, these big tours, that's why that's why
40:09
like you said, that's why you're able to pick up some artists
40:11
sometime or why you see somebody.
40:12
Yeah. So it's absolutely it's actually
40:15
absolutely fascinating. But but casinos, I want to say,
40:18
is probably the number one reason and not just like like
40:21
Jay's casino. I'm talking the big ones, yeah.
40:24
You know, I think they certainly haven't helped and they've made
40:27
it worse. And I think then COVID hit and
40:30
then in just, it's just kind of snowballed from there.
40:33
It's just gotten worse and for everyone involved, it's just
40:37
more expensive. Like you said, having the
40:39
staging and the lighting, all that is more expensive now too.
40:43
So yeah, people don't realize any of that.
40:45
It was, I think it's interesting for the Central Washington State
40:48
Fair they have to cover. So in tri-cities we have to
40:51
cover 5 days. So last year we had Daughtry, we
40:54
had Jake Owen. I mean you have still I'd say, B
40:57
artists and pretty good, you know, C plus to B artists.
41:01
Right. And so there's a fair.
41:02
You said not to have. Anything.
41:04
Yeah, they they didn't even have.
41:06
Would they have the year before? Like tribute bands.
41:08
Yeah, nothing but tribute bands because and I understood because
41:11
they're going out there trying to get Daughtry or Jake Owen and
41:13
even those are now 100 to to 125 to 150, the prices if they just
41:19
priced themselves out and and the fair there has to has to
41:23
fill 10 days. Yeah.
41:25
So and I remember people being so mad a down and blow in the
41:29
comments like, you know, and I'm like, I'm like, it's a so they
41:32
so interesting. They pay $12.00 to get in.
41:35
And I'm not saying that's a great price.
41:36
You pay $12.00 to get, you pay $12.00 to get into the fair and
41:39
then you expect to see Garth Brooks.
41:42
I mean, I'm saying on their way up or you know, but, but I think
41:47
people, I think people's attitudes are real shitty of
41:50
what, of what is owed. No.
41:52
What is owed them what they think is owed them.
41:54
What they expect their dollar again, this is this COVID has
42:00
made everything more expensive. We all see that we all are
42:02
living it now and that accounts for everything.
42:06
And people just think that, oh, I should get this deal or you
42:11
should. I should have to pay less or I
42:13
should have to say pay the same price as before COVID or 10
42:17
years ago. And it's like everything is
42:19
going up. Like it's not going to stay the
42:21
same price for 10 years for God's sakes.
42:23
But they reminisce about about stupid good shit, so great
42:27
example I used. To cost a nickel.
42:29
So I went down to the Walla Walla fair fair in Frontier days
42:33
and I and I got to introduce Chicago, which is one of my
42:35
favorite all time bands, as you know.
42:37
So Greg Lybeck used to be at the fair in Yakima, is now their
42:41
general manager down in Walla Walla and they needed somebody
42:45
to come in introduce Chicago. You know, I'm a huge Chicago
42:47
fan. It was like highlight for me.
42:50
Well, anyway, the night before free concert was Laney Wilson.
42:54
He had booked Laney for $7000 before she had the hits, and
42:59
then she still honored the dates.
43:02
Once the hit started, she honored the day.
43:04
Everybody got to see a free show, but the people who got to
43:07
see her free, if she comes back and they have to pay $200 for a
43:10
ticket, the other one's. Bitching.
43:12
They're habitual. She was free last time.
43:14
It's the circumstances of why she was free that happened.
43:17
For my husband's casino with Megan Mulrainy or whatever her
43:20
name is, such an artist. Yeah, before her.
43:23
They had her booked before her big hit and she's still honored
43:28
the date that she had sold with them even though she had like
43:32
skyrocketed and so. Yeah, now she's playing Climate
43:35
Pledge. I mean, so Megan Maroney, Patty
43:37
loves Megan Maroney, so we're playing on on court and yeah,
43:40
she's fantastic. But that's that same story story
43:42
is that and so you're lucky. You should be appreciative and
43:45
lucky that you get to see a certain artist before they
43:48
because once and and like we I mean, I think we saw big and
43:51
rich in the gorge right before save a horse, ride a cowboy and
43:54
then that blue. I mean, you know, so and, and to
43:57
think that you're going to see them again now, now that they're
43:59
huge is like, but people are entitled.
44:03
They it's the most ridiculous. I do like ticketmasters doing
44:06
the all in ticket price. I finally thank God for that,
44:09
you know, so it's like, Hey, if it's going to cost me 125, it's
44:12
going to whatever it's going to cost.
44:13
Me at least say I want to know, right?
44:14
I don't want to get to check out and see all $50.00 worth of
44:19
extra fees that I'm going. Just tell me what?
44:21
Yeah, I'm with you. Just tell me what it's going to
44:23
cost. Yeah, yeah.
44:25
So. There you go.
44:26
That's my little watershed. What was going on with?
44:27
Water thank. You long, long way around it,
44:29
but I think there was a lot of good, but there was a lot of
44:31
good information about behind the scenes stuff that people
44:34
don't realize that that even that we deal with in radio and
44:37
and booking acts. I mean, we could get soul on
44:39
here to talk about booking acts and all, you know, the different
44:42
things that when everybody's like, well, why don't they come
44:44
to town? Well, it's a lot more than just
44:46
Why don't they come to town? Yeah, it's a lot more
44:48
complicated than everybody realizes.
44:50
Yeah. And, and someone was griping
44:52
about the Sun Dome not getting any great acts or anything like
44:54
that. And so they saw that.
44:56
What Nate, whatever his name, is bargain.
44:59
Bug eyes. Yeah, yeah.
45:02
And it did. Well, I I I know it's the.
45:04
Name of his tour isn't it like but.
45:06
Yeah, something with the bug eyes, not with the eyes, but but
45:09
yeah, it did very well. So, but but again, doing
45:12
comedians, you know, like like Trevor Noah or doing, you know,
45:18
it's just different because the the production.
45:20
Cost so comedians that haven't done well remember George Lopez
45:23
like was at the sun Dome. It didn't even fill half of it
45:27
and so. Yeah, I think it depends.
45:29
So but but that but in terms of cost for a show of that, it's
45:32
different than, you know, than trying to bring a musical act
45:35
that's got all the music that they need, all the instruments.
45:37
Well, even some comedians I know Joe Coy.
45:42
I love Joe Cole. Yeah.
45:43
Yeah, I saw him at Legends, but he was routed through and even
45:47
again, which means that he had was already in Seattle and they
45:51
were able to pick him up because he's on his way to the next
45:54
whatever venue and they still paid 250,000 for him.
46:01
For legends did. Yeah.
46:02
And that's that's him being routed through.
46:04
So I can't imagine like a stand. Alone day, right?
46:08
So yeah, that's my little insight info.
46:11
Hopefully I don't get in. Trouble.
46:12
So about you, Michelle. I'm at a point in my career or
46:15
my life where it's like I will pay to go see somebody, but I
46:17
have to really want to see them. Me too, so I think I got so
46:21
spoiled with getting free tickets.
46:23
Well, yeah. Being greets that now again it
46:26
has to be someone I really really want to see them or my
46:30
thing now is I need to see them before they die.
46:34
Yeah, I think 1. That I like.
46:35
Those are my favorite. Those are my favorite acts and
46:37
artists usually being from the 80s and stuff.
46:40
But but even from a radio standpoint, it's like, it's not
46:43
like we don't get a big old stack of tickets anymore and we
46:45
don't, you know, and so and it and it isn't and it isn't and it
46:49
isn't easy access to the artist either.
46:51
If it doesn't, they just don't go, oh, here, you know, here's
46:54
10 backstage passes to go meet jerks.
46:56
Bentley doesn't happen that way anymore.
46:58
You, you got to be #1 you got to be a reporter.
47:00
And those days for markets like Yakima and Tri-City, those are
47:04
all those now. Now they're even done that.
47:05
Now we're not even rated. So it's even even.
47:08
Worse. Yeah, you might be able to get
47:11
them if they're at a venue in your town.
47:14
You could probably get a backstage meet and greet if your
47:16
station's one of the presenting stations or welcoming stations.
47:19
So yeah, it's a lot more. It's a lot, It's a lot.
47:21
It's a lot tougher than it used to be.
47:22
OK, well, we're still on the subject of entertainers.
47:27
Guess guess who's hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend
47:31
is. It one of your favorites?
47:33
Is it Alexander Skarsgard? I, I almost went, I almost went
47:41
with Taylor Swift, but I'm like, no, I can't.
47:43
Well, Pedro Pascal's already like hosted what, twice now,
47:46
right? But yes, I saw with the.
47:49
OG go with the OG go with the OG.
47:53
I saw you know how they do like the little post it whatever it
47:57
is so that it has written has like the day and then artist and
48:00
the musical artist. And I saw January 31st and I saw
48:03
Alex's name and I went. Oh man, you're so funny.
48:07
So. Funny.
48:08
Oh my God, I can't wait. Like he's gonna, he's gonna,
48:11
he's gonna do great. So are you gonna watch it?
48:14
Do you now? Do you watch it live or just
48:15
wait till it comes out on YouTube the next morning?
48:17
I will watch it live and I will watch it OK, so it will play at
48:22
8:30. Oh wow.
48:25
On Spectrum, so I'll get to watch it at 8:30 and then again
48:29
at 11:30. So you know I'm watching it both
48:31
times. You know I am.
48:34
And the YouTube video later. Yes, yeah, yes, definitely.
48:38
So excited for this. This is fabulous.
48:40
He's funny. He's a good sense of humor.
48:43
Does he have a goofy coming out is why he's on there?
48:45
He had one that came out. I think it was part of the Sun
48:48
Nuts Film Festival. OK, OK.
48:52
So we just. When you get invited, you're
48:53
pimping something, yeah. So I'm gonna choke.
48:57
You're so. Excited.
48:58
Getting all choked up. That will not be on my calendar
49:05
to watch so, but hey, you'll knock yourself out.
49:08
OK, well, I'll give you all the bit by bit.
49:12
Minute by minute details next. Week.
49:14
Yeah, yes, I will painfully make you sit through that now since
49:19
you're not going to watch it. But yeah, I just had to mention
49:22
that because I thought you, you know, it's me.
49:24
Oh yes, Marking it down on my calendar right now.
49:26
Oh yeah, I'm going to be there. I'm going to be there.
49:28
That's how I will that I will be.
49:30
I'm staying up till 11:00. What?
49:33
Not these days? You can watch it at 8:00, I just
49:36
said. Well, not on spectrum.
49:39
But still, you could probably find it somewhere.
49:41
Probably. Yeah, so the nice thing about
49:43
YouTube is they put it out early, so.
49:46
That's yeah, yeah. Or or other places put it out
49:49
early. OK.
49:51
Well, I want to talk about the Southwest Airlines things.
49:53
Where? Yes.
49:55
We're I know we're about to run out of time, so.
49:57
All right, let's this last topic and.
50:00
Yeah. So they have their, yeah, so
50:02
they have, they've implemented a couple new policies like 1 was
50:05
the open seat policy, but they also changed their plus size
50:11
customer policy as well. And both of those things went
50:14
into effect this week. I kind of read a little bit
50:17
about it, Hopefully I'm not getting anything wrong.
50:21
Kind of going off of memory but customers of size who are
50:29
encroaching upon their neighboring seats previously
50:34
could either pay before for the extra seat and then later
50:40
received the refund if they didn't need it.
50:42
And then if they showed up at the airport and had pre bought 1
50:47
they could get one for free. And southwest is changing that
50:51
where now they want them to pre buy the ticket.
50:54
And even if they get to the airport and they haven't pre
50:57
bought the ticket, they have to pay for the ticket now and they
51:00
don't get one for free when they just show up.
51:03
And they will only be refunded for certain things not
51:07
everything. I do remember that much.
51:10
I'm trying to think what the other, what some of the other
51:13
stipulations in that were there was something else.
51:17
Shoot, I'm trying to remember. Oh, if the plane is full, that's
51:22
what it is. So if they don't, yeah, if they
51:25
don't pre buy their ticket. If they don't pre buy the extra
51:28
ticket, they get to the airport and they need another ticket,
51:31
but that flight is booked, then they will be bumped and booked
51:36
on the next available flight or whatever it is and they have to
51:39
buy that other ticket. So some people are having some
51:43
issues with this. As someone who has had to sit in
51:46
the middle seat of an airplane multiple times and had people on
51:51
either side of me encroaching on me in the middle seat, I I
51:55
understand why they this has to be done.
51:58
Also people who are flying this is an unwritten rule.
52:01
Listen to me. The person in the middle seat
52:03
gets both the God damn armrest. I'm so this is this is this is
52:08
flying airplane unwritten rule etiquette.
52:12
The person the little seat gets the armrest.
52:14
OK, that's my that's my little tyrant about that so.
52:18
Yeah, So what what you were just talking about?
52:20
So Yep, passengers needing extra space can purchase an additional
52:23
seat. If you cannot lower both
52:25
armrests which define the seats boundary, you may need a second
52:28
seat. So that is the definition I was.
52:31
I couldn't find I. You've got to be able to lower
52:34
both this. Yep, you've got to be able to
52:35
lower both armrests and passengers unable to fit in one
52:38
seat may be asked to rebook on a different flight if one is not
52:42
available and and extensions can be asked for.
52:46
But yes, but a £300 person says here can a can a 300 LB person
52:51
fit in an airline seat? Yes, a £300 person can often
52:54
often fit in a standard airline seat.
52:57
So we're talking the severely obese.
53:00
Like 3 plus or? Well, yeah, and it says, but it
53:03
depends on body shake, Body shake.
53:04
That's what I was going to say. It depends on where you are
53:07
carrying all that weight. Yeah, it everybody carries
53:11
weight different. Great.
53:12
If you're carrying it right in that in this middle area where
53:15
the armrests are going to come down, then you're screwed
53:18
because you're going to they're not going to be able to fully
53:23
fit. I think I, I, I don't, I don't
53:26
want to speak out of turn not being a heavy heavier person,
53:30
but I think that my foster mom taught me not to be rude.
53:34
So if I knew I was incredibly obese, why would I not buy two
53:37
seats, right? I think that, I think that's
53:40
just, I think that's self-awareness, self-awareness
53:42
about yourself. I know it's sad, it's sad
53:45
situation, but I think you have to be self aware enough to know
53:48
that. Same thing as taking a shower
53:50
before you go on an airplane flight or anything I think.
53:53
That and don't remove your shoes and socks.
53:55
That's the other unwritten rule on an airplane.
53:58
People stop doing that. Stop it.
54:00
But but your budget airline is going to have a narrower narrow
54:04
seat. Narrower.
54:04
I was going to say, certain airlines have different sized
54:09
seats even like business. So we have first class, business
54:13
class and then economy, whatever you want to call it.
54:16
And all the airlines basically have these tiers now because
54:19
they're charging extra. If you want to sit in business
54:21
class, it's a little bit more and but you get a little bit the
54:23
seats a little bit bigger and you get a little a little bit
54:25
more leg room. And then you do an economy.
54:29
And it's kind of that middle ground in between economy and
54:32
1st class. A lot of people times people
54:34
can't afford first class pretty expensive.
54:37
So yeah, it depends on where you're, what seat you're sitting
54:39
in. There's just a lot of factors.
54:43
I personally, I as someone who, especially as a female, think
54:48
about certain aspects of your body and you're like you like
54:52
you're feel bad about it, you feel whatever it is down on
54:55
yourself, ashamed of yourself. And so I sympathize in that
54:59
regards that it's just I would hate to be that person that gets
55:06
body shaved at the airport basically in front of everyone
55:10
else. Like that would be horrible.
55:13
I think it's AI think it's I think it's it's hard.
55:17
I think, I mean, what do you do in that?
55:19
What do you do in that situation?
55:20
I mean, yeah, you don't, you don't want to have you don't
55:24
want to have to be that person. But it's one of those things
55:27
where but you, I mean, yeah, there's a big group.
55:31
There's a big group, you know, you know that that they're yeah,
55:35
customer of size policy is what they're calling it.
55:38
Customer of size is the policy and and requires plus sized
55:42
passengers who cannot fly entirely within one seat to
55:44
purchase the second one. That's regardless of whether the
55:47
seat next to them is empty. Now I'm kind of in the boat.
55:50
If the seat is empty next to them, I don't think they should
55:52
have to. You know, if they're on a flight
55:54
where it's empty next to them, I don't think they should have to
55:56
pay the extra there. Right, but Southwest is
55:58
notorious for over booking their flights.
56:01
I have never. Bumped flights do.
56:03
Yep, they do. Southwest is the I think one of
56:06
the worst though that does this. And so the chances that there's
56:10
going to be an open seat are probably pretty slim on a
56:12
Southwest flight, just from my experience flying on them.
56:17
So, but I understand, you know how they, if you got to the
56:20
airport and they had a you could purchase your extra, well, not
56:24
really purchase, you could get another seat for free, which I
56:27
understand they can't just be giving away these seats and they
56:31
have just, they have to charge people.
56:33
So I I get that aspect of it. So yeah.
56:37
Yeah, they're, they're the other people.
56:39
People are quite. Kevin Smith got booted from a
56:43
flight because he didn't buy a second seat.
56:45
Remember when he was super heavy?
56:46
He did. Yep, he got booted.
56:49
Yep, back in 2010. Oh my gosh.
56:51
He call he calls the airline S worst S worst.
56:57
I think that's AI think, you know, I I think that's hard.
57:03
Now before this change, it says here they were the airline of
57:07
the fat community, the number one airline that heavy people
57:10
flew with them. So they have a history of being
57:16
of, of being extra generous right in this in this situation.
57:20
Where they could get the extra seat for free when they got to
57:23
the airport, right? You know, if they needed.
57:25
It and now they've changed that. Yeah, they've.
57:28
Changed that, but I mean, yeah, 1 gal says, who described
57:32
herself as disabled and super fat, said the changes are
57:36
preventing her from kidding to fly on the the airlines.
57:39
You don't want to discriminate right now, so you don't want to
57:42
discriminate, but what do you do in that situation?
57:44
Right. You know, it's a it comes down
57:46
to money, to business decisions of.
57:48
Course, of course. Yeah.
57:51
Of course. So I'm curious what's going to
57:52
what this is going to be made of.
57:54
You know, says here Southwest was one of the last fold outs.
57:58
Yeah. I was going to say, I don't know
57:59
of any other airline. Yeah, that was doing what
58:02
they're doing so. Yeah, so they so so for years
58:05
they allowed it and now they're saying, no, you know, we can't
58:07
do it anymore. But I, I think this all comes
58:11
to, I really believe this all comes to self-awareness about
58:15
knowing yourself well enough to know that, hey, and that's not
58:19
a, that's not a slam. It's one of those things where
58:21
if you know you're going to inconvenience that the person
58:23
next to you, you should take every, you know, precaution to
58:26
make sure you don't. And I think it is in the same
58:29
realm as so, you know, the people that would book a seat
58:33
and then book their child sitting someone somewhere else.
58:36
And then when they get on the plane, they expect the person
58:40
sitting next to their child to move with them.
58:42
It's it's in, you know it. You can't expect that from
58:46
people like someone else has paid for their ticket and
58:49
purchased it. It is not their fault that you
58:52
didn't book a ticket next to your child, whatever it is.
58:55
I mean, that is not on them. And people just assume that you
58:59
will like you will change seats or whatever it is.
59:03
And it's like, no. I think that's, I think, yeah, I
59:06
think that's entitlement. I don't, I'm not into that.
59:08
I know when we went to Disneyland one year, we booked
59:11
all three seats next to each Logan Pokey and I were all
59:14
together. Anytime I've ever flown, I've
59:16
been next to the person I'm supposed to.
59:17
I've never been separated, separated from from the person
59:21
I'm supposed to be with. And and if you're doing it to
59:22
save money or doing some crazy thing, that's entitlement.
59:25
I don't agree with that. You know, you're not all hey,
59:29
I'm a big this will drive people nuts.
59:31
I'm a big window person. I like the window.
59:35
I like the window. So whenever I book my ticket, I
59:37
I damn well try to get near the window.
59:39
And then if I don't get the window, I want to be the aisle.
59:42
Yes, I don't want to be in the middle.
59:43
No, no, again, I've had to sit in the middle when you know
59:47
there's no other when you're buying your ticket.
59:49
That's a for this flight that those are the only seats left
59:52
because nobody wants to sit in them.
59:53
It's like if I want to be on this flight, I have to have this
59:56
seat. But yes, I'm definitely, I'm a
59:57
window person. I like to have control over the
59:59
shade and I like to and I like to sleep up against the side of
1:00:04
the plane, so. Yeah, 99% of the time when I've
1:00:08
flown and then I sing nowadays, just like a movie theater, you
1:00:11
can see your seats. Yeah.
1:00:12
Yeah. So, so it's like, yeah, so I
1:00:14
mean, if I had to fly Cinder, sure, if I had to sign aisle,
1:00:16
but I always try to get the window if I can.
1:00:18
I'd rather, I'd rather be on the window seat in the very back of
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the plane. I mean, wherever the window seat
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is open, I don't have any preference.
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If I'm in the middle. I don't like being at the.
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I don't like being on the emergency doors though.
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Oh, don't depend on me to. Save your life.
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You're, I know I, yeah, I'm always like, like, yeah, you get
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extra leg room. But I was like, I don't want to
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have to be that person. Not that it's never going to
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happen, but but it's like, yeah, I don't want that
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responsibility. You usually won't live anyway.
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But well, in my mind, I'm like, I'm important.
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So I'm, I'm helping out first. I'm not helping all these people
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out. Well, I'll be curious.
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We'll be watching this policy in the future.
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But it's a sad it's a sad one. But I think the message is you
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got to be self aware enough to know yourself.
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But they set up to 300 lbs. So that's still good size.
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That's double, that's double me. I'm I'm not giving that as an
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example. I'm just.
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Saying that's almost double me. That's yeah, not quite.
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I weigh a little bit more. Well, I weigh like 10 lbs more
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than 150. So we're close to the same.
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I weigh 165. 165 Ideally I should be like 150.
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Oh yeah. You know, same.
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Here, same here should be I should probably be 140.
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I'd be a person with a big head and a small body, technically,
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if I was going by what I'm supposed to be.
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That's why that's why all actors have.
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That's why all act. That's why actors all have big
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heads and small bodies. What's that?
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I say, what do you mean you're supposed to be That's, that's
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how you look now. I know.
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Yeah. But it's big.
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Big head, small body. Big head, small body.
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