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Wicked Radio 8-29: Holiday Weekend Vibes Up, Gas Prices Down, & College Football Is Back! · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: Long holiday weekend vibes are up. I mean they're through
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  Speaker 1: the roof. I mean you could feel it. You can
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  Speaker 1: just sense the vibes.
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  Speaker 2: People are ready to celebrate, celebrate their freedom, celebrate their work,
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  Speaker 2: celebrate their time with their family and loved ones, and
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  Speaker 2: get some traveling in this weekend. Those vibes are up.
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  Speaker 2: Gas prices coincidentally are down, and we are good vibes
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  Speaker 2: only today. It's amazing how things turn around. And it's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely true. I mean, we had one of the most
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  Speaker 2: horrific stories of all the time yesterday, and then today
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  Speaker 2: people are ready to focus on good things and good things,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna reflect that as well, because we're talking
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  Speaker 2: good things today, all those things that I just mentioned, as
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  Speaker 2: well as you know what else we're talking about. That's right,
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  Speaker 2: college football is back. I gotta I gotta comment from
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  Speaker 2: one of my OG's, Chris Bigfish, yesterday, and he said,
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  Speaker 2: like all he said was tomorrow we're talking college football.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, that's a great idea, Chris, and yes
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  Speaker 2: we are. Because look, even if you don't like sports,
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  Speaker 2: even if you don't follow college football, even if you're
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  Speaker 2: not a fanatic or you went to these schools or
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  Speaker 2: your student, yourself, whatever, come on, just be honest with yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it nice that it's there?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it nice that college football and pro football brings
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  Speaker 2: in the fall. It's the end of the long hot summer.
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  Speaker 2: We've all dealt with not as hot as me in Florida,
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  Speaker 2: but we've all had heat waves this summer. Isn't it
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  Speaker 2: a good feeling to know it's back that American tradition
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  Speaker 2: of college football.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it is all part of the good vibes.
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  Speaker 1: Good vibes for you too. Thanks for being here. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, and I love you as always.
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  Speaker 2: The Wicked Radio Livestream, part of Wicked Wisdom with Bill
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  Speaker 2: Adams find that on all of the socials you audio
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  Speaker 2: podcast listeners to pressing subscribe. I love you too. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get right to it. Let's talk about it, because I mean,
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  Speaker 2: mostly this is a traveling week. It's a last weekend
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  Speaker 2: of the year to get your little road trip in
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  Speaker 2: before school starts for a lot of the country, spend
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  Speaker 2: some extra time, maybe some nicer weather before fall hits.
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  Speaker 1: In the Northern States. I totally get that.
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  Speaker 2: But in fact, by the way, this morning, I've already
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  Speaker 2: been to an airport dropping off my daughter who's going
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  Speaker 2: on a trip.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhat busy. It was all right, But this is mostly
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  Speaker 1: a driving holiday, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you think of Labor Day weekend, you think
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  Speaker 2: of driving road trips and all that stuff. Well, how
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  Speaker 2: about those gas prices. Let's go to this report, and
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  Speaker 2: he's reflecting the information from gas buddy.
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  Speaker 1: How are we doing on those gas prices?
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  Speaker 4: Buddy, good news for Labor Day travelers. Gas prices are
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  Speaker 4: the lowest in five years. The price tracker called gas
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  Speaker 4: Buddy expects the holiday average to be about three fifteen
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  Speaker 4: a gallon. That's fourteen cents cheaper than last year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who that guy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what local market that guy was from,
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  Speaker 2: but I just love it. Though I think it was
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Midwest somewhere. He's like, let's go
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  Speaker 2: to a website called gas Buddy. Like I always forget
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that local yogal TV guys are still like that
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  Speaker 2: they still exist. I'm glad that they do. It was
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  Speaker 2: like the prototypical, like mid market TV guy. He was
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  Speaker 2: perfect good news on gas prices. But anyway, it's true.
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  Speaker 2: So nationally, gas prices are down locally. I actually this
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  Speaker 2: is weird. Though this week, I think it was on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: I got gas for less than three bucks a gallon,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm like, oh, let me scoop up on that,
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  Speaker 2: And then I saw some other gas stations.
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  Speaker 1: That were above that national average.
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  Speaker 2: Gas prices have never made any sense to me because
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they follow traditional supply and demand. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just weird. And whenever they talk about national gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: you may be thinking, wait a minute, in my city
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  Speaker 2: it's way above that. That's just national you know, when
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  Speaker 2: they take the national average, that's all gas.
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  Speaker 1: Buddy does on that. So the bottom line is, here's
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  Speaker 1: the good news. It's working.
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  Speaker 2: So energy production is up as we were promised, and
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  Speaker 2: it is starting to and they're already starting to project
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  Speaker 2: into the fall and winter starting to lower gas prices nationwide.
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  Speaker 1: That's the good news. Wait a minute, now, what this
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  Speaker 1: is a little weird though.
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  Speaker 2: I was told two months ago, I was told by
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  Speaker 2: the national media the gas prices were going to be
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  Speaker 2: higher than ever for Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Huh could it? Wait a minute, no, No, it couldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: No, it couldn't be that the news was not exactly
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  Speaker 2: truthful about that, could it?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, right, all right, let's take that as the first
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  Speaker 2: piece of good news. The second thing is, this is
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. I mean, you know, it's people take
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  Speaker 2: this for different things, traveling, road trips, this and that.
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  Speaker 2: Just got a little takeaway for you and talk about
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  Speaker 2: this because this is all based on you know, I
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  Speaker 2: love my social surveys.
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  Speaker 1: I love these things. This is from wallet hub.
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  Speaker 2: What they do and when you take the big ones,
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  Speaker 2: they actually do a lot of big phone surveys of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people. It's like thousands of people. So
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  Speaker 2: sometimes these things are goofy, but you do get a
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  Speaker 2: sense of what people feel. And they ask people about
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  Speaker 2: how hard they're working and what their thoughts are about
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  Speaker 2: their current job situation.
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  Speaker 1: This was kind of interesting. These are the top responses.
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  Speaker 2: Seven out of ten people in this wallet hub survey
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  Speaker 2: said they're working harder than last year. I tend to
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  Speaker 2: agree with that. I think maybe a big part of
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  Speaker 2: that is less people are doing remote work. Maybe I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Second thing is interesting, Nearly six and ten
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  Speaker 2: people think tariffs and inflation are erasing their hard work. Well,
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  Speaker 2: haven't completely gotten the inflation taking care of yet because
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  Speaker 2: they printed up so much extra money in the previous
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  Speaker 2: four years. But here's the real interesting thing. They found
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  Speaker 2: in this wallet Hut sub survey. More people than ever
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  Speaker 2: are afraid of losing their jobs. They specifically talked about
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  Speaker 2: AI taking their jobs eventually, but in the short term
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  Speaker 2: them getting outsourced and automated and replaced, which is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm here to give you a little message here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get a little preachy on you as well,
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  Speaker 2: because only because I can throw some personal experience into this,
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  Speaker 2: and if you know my story, I can add to this.
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  Speaker 2: If you're worried about this, and a lot of people are,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the daily struggle and grind of trying to
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  Speaker 2: hold on to a job, and then you've got this
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  Speaker 2: extra outsource fear of people happening. And with the AI thing,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, I totally get it. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: companies in almost every industry are cutting back. I understand this.
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  Speaker 2: Here's why I understand this. Let me take it back
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, last Labor Day. I've talked about this
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  Speaker 2: a million times and a lot of you already know
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  Speaker 2: me from radio days. A year ago Labor Day of
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. I hadn't even started this podcast yet Dad,
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  Speaker 2: even stars talked about it, did some videos or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: like I had been because I was fresh off getting
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  Speaker 2: let go. You know, they just didn't renew a contract.
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  Speaker 2: Well basically they bought me out from radio days, so
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  Speaker 2: that was only a year ago. I'm not saying this
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  Speaker 2: to brag. I wouldn't do that to you, not even
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  Speaker 2: that impressed myself. I'm just telling you, if I can
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  Speaker 2: figure this out of having a massive change in a
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  Speaker 2: year's time, if my little pea brain can figure this out,
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  Speaker 2: you definitely can figure this out, because you're a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a lot smarter than I am. In a year's time,
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  Speaker 2: my wife and I have started a completely new business
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  Speaker 2: on top of the one we already had, and ground
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  Speaker 2: is set to be broken in that probably within five weeks, okay,
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  Speaker 2: within a complete from a thought of an idea one
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  Speaker 2: year ago to groundbreaking and will be opened by late
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  Speaker 2: December early January. That's one big thing. Got healthier eight healthier,
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  Speaker 2: really really focused on getting better in almost every single
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  Speaker 2: area personal success in those areas. Again, I'm just talking
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  Speaker 2: about how things can change quickly and turning an obstacle
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  Speaker 2: into a reality and a positive thing. And speaking of
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  Speaker 2: this podcast started, this just started talking to you guys
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  Speaker 2: every single day, this thing, mostly on the audio side.
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  Speaker 2: But this thing has grown way, way beyond I ever
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  Speaker 2: expected this amount of time. I haven't even put any
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  Speaker 2: marketing towards this yet, but you guys are here sharing
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  Speaker 2: some time with me, mostly on replay, mostly on audio.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever, that's what can happen in a year. My
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  Speaker 2: takeaway taking all that information from the survey, where I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's true. I mean you're probably going through this
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  Speaker 2: yourself or anybody you talk to in the working field,
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  Speaker 2: as long as we're talking about as long as we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about labor day, weekend and jobs and what you
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  Speaker 2: do for work. Everybody's afraid of getting replaced. But don't
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  Speaker 2: fear the change, is all I'm here to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only reason why I bring up my personal
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  Speaker 2: story because it can turn into something freaking amazing.
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  Speaker 1: In many cases, many things amazing.
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  Speaker 2: You're never completely out of it, and if you don't
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  Speaker 2: identify yourself as your whole being being your job.
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  Speaker 1: It makes that transition a whole lot better.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, no matter what you do for work,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what It is how you make a living.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you hate your current job, you hate your situation,
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  Speaker 2: you hate where you are, it still has value.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you're at.
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  Speaker 2: A dead end job, well, you're not gonna be there forever,
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  Speaker 2: and you can chalk that up as one more freaking
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  Speaker 2: thing you don't ever want to do, and you can
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  Speaker 2: segue that into the next step and making it better
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  Speaker 2: for yourself. So my little positivity for today, I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to share that with you, because things can turn
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  Speaker 2: around quickly. Take it from me. If I can figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, you can. All right, let's get into some
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  Speaker 2: other stuff. I'm gonna slip this into and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: sneak this into the good news category, even though it's
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  Speaker 2: attached to a news story, the most horrific news story
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  Speaker 2: obviously we had yesterday. But I'm not gonna dwell on that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. I'll say this, we have begun,
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  Speaker 2: in a small way. It's gonna take years, it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: take decades. Maybe we have begun solving the mental health
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  Speaker 2: crisis in our country.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it.
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  Speaker 2: That's how big of an announcement this was. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit long, but you got to hear the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: And let's be honest, he's kind of tough to listen
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  Speaker 2: to sometimes. But RFK Junior made an announcement yesterday that
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  Speaker 2: was earth shattering and it's not getting nearly enough attention
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  Speaker 2: as it should. And it's this looking at these mass
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  Speaker 2: shootings like we had yesterday as a mental health crisis.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it starts.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time anybody of that stature has
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this. And looking into the rugs that were pumping
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  Speaker 2: into these people. I said yesterday, more than anything, I
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  Speaker 2: want to know what drugs they were on. Right, here's
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  Speaker 2: what he said.
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  Speaker 1: It's long. You got to listen to it.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis, and we are
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  Speaker 3: doing for the first time real studies to find out
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  Speaker 3: what the ideology of that is. And we're looking for
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  Speaker 3: the first time as psychiatric drugs. You know, he's kind
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  Speaker 3: of man shooting. People have had guns in this country forever.
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  Speaker 3: When I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at
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  Speaker 3: our school and people kids, my classmate, it's other people
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  Speaker 3: would bring a twenty two rifle where their guns to
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  Speaker 3: school and market in the parking lot. Nobody was shooting. Said,
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  Speaker 3: there's never been a time in America in the history
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  Speaker 3: of humanity and people walked into a crowd into a
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  Speaker 3: church or a movie theater or a school, or crowd
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  Speaker 3: of standers that just started randomly shooting. It's happening in
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  Speaker 3: our country. It's not happening around the world.
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  Speaker 1: And there are men takeaway.
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  Speaker 2: We're the most medicated country in the world in human
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  Speaker 2: history for the first time ever. And boy, if you
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: thought they were attacking him before, he is about to
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  Speaker 2: be and he doesn't care. That's why I admire him
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  Speaker 2: on this. If you thought he was attacked on the
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  Speaker 2: VACS thing, now that he has launched being an official
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  Speaker 2: study through HHS to look into the medications and the
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  Speaker 2: hormone changing drugs and everything else that's going on with
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  Speaker 2: the mass shooting and the trans community specifically. If you
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  Speaker 2: thought they attacked him on the autism opinions he had before,
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  Speaker 2: way do you hear and see the attacks on this?
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  Speaker 1: But it's okay. He's the first guy. He's the first
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  Speaker 1: guy to mention.
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  Speaker 2: What we need to do is to look into the
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  Speaker 2: mental health crisis in this country.
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  Speaker 1: It just started. It just started yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: There was the first spark at what's going to become
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  Speaker 2: a massive fire, and it's going to be so much pushback,
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  Speaker 2: it is going to be so much complaining, and there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be so much misinformation and propaganda against him
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  Speaker 2: and against doing that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's happened.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason. Here's the really good news, and then
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  Speaker 2: I'll get off this. The really good news is he
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  Speaker 2: feels confident enough to say this because he knows he
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  Speaker 2: has the support to do it. He knows there's enough people.
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  Speaker 2: And they heard the outcries all week long of people,
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  Speaker 2: well since the day before yesterday, of people clamoring for
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  Speaker 2: a deeper investigation into this. It's gonna be great news.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna take a long time, but I promise you it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be great news.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of great news, and this goes to you, Chris Bigfish,
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  Speaker 2: one of my OG's. I hope you're listening now because
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  Speaker 2: you're the one that kicked this off. I wasn't even
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  Speaker 2: gonna do this, but it's a great idea. Yesterday, just
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  Speaker 2: comments on the live stream. Tomorrow we're talking football.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, great idea. So let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Five straight days of college It's the ton of a.
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  Speaker 5: New college football season, and we are ready to start
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  Speaker 5: of this season.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen.
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  Speaker 2: I said this in the introduction, but if you're just
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  Speaker 2: tuning in now, how about it? I mean, come on, okay,
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  Speaker 2: even if you're not a football fan, even if you're
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  Speaker 2: not a sports fan, you don't like this. You don't
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  Speaker 2: follow a team, you know, you don't have any loyal
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  Speaker 2: to anybody in the College of the Pros.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it nice though? Isn't it nice that it's here?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it tells you that fall is here. It
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  Speaker 2: tells you that we're moving on. It is American tradition,
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  Speaker 2: tailgating and parties and getting together. Come on, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: And it started off last night. Not that I want
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  Speaker 2: to promote ESPN, but they did have a great intro there.
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  Speaker 2: Started off last night where that's right, my very little,
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  Speaker 2: very small football program of the University of South Florida
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  Speaker 2: Bulls beat Rant number twenty five Boise State.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. I had to dig up my USF had
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  Speaker 1: for that one. But it goes on to tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Auburn at Baylor, Appalachid State at Charlotte, UNLV
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  Speaker 2: at sam Houston, Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: State at wake Forest Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: It gets really big Texas at Ohio State, LSU A Clemson,
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  Speaker 2: Syracuse at Tennessee Number eight BAM at FSU in Tallahassee.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Toledo A Kentucky, We've got cal at Oregon State.
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  Speaker 2: And on Sunday, get ready for this Notre Dame at
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  Speaker 2: Miami Virginia Tech South Carolina. College football is back, baby,
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  Speaker 2: we did it. We made it through the summer almost
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  Speaker 2: but officially, fall is here.
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  Speaker 1: I told you it was going to be good vibes.
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  Speaker 1: Just enjoy it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to follow a team to celebrate the
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  Speaker 2: fact that college football is here. I told you it
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  Speaker 2: was going to be short and sweet too, good vibes only.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it's all about. We went through the bad
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  Speaker 2: news of this week. Now it's time to celebrate and
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: again the takeaway Labor Day. You're thinking about your job,
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  Speaker 2: you're afraid about your job, don't ever be afraid of
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: change on living proof telling you you can do it
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  Speaker 2: and all work is valuable.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your long weekend, especially if you're traveling.
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  Speaker 2: Please be safe and a Monday, we'll talk about the
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back on Monday. Probably everybody's going to be
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  Speaker 2: sleeping late and hungover but that's okay. It'll still be
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  Speaker 2: here on the replay for you if thanks for finding
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: the audio podcast as well. And again, a year ago,
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  Speaker 2: this thing wasn't even in exist, but it's growing and growing.
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  Speaker 2: So you're my friends, and I appreciate you and I
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  Speaker 2: love you. Making a great Labor Day weekend. Enjoy your time,
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the efforts and the fruits of your labor. Enjoy
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  Speaker 2: your family and have a great time. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: wicked awesome Labor Day. Thanks for being here. I'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to you later.