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You Met Gramma At a Kegger? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: You met Grandma and to Kegger and you're both drunk.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be damned. It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty,
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  Speaker 1: one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get to whatever horror that is. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do an in podcast tease of the radio show,
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  Speaker 2: or I guess our other podcasts I've never done before.
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  Speaker 2: So we talked about shreking on the radio today. Shreking
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  Speaker 2: is the concept of women dating guys who are unattractive
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  Speaker 2: on purpose, with the idea that the guy will treat
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  Speaker 2: them better. You feel like, we'll be so grateful. It
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  Speaker 2: includes the term dating down, which I find horrific. Anybody
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  Speaker 2: who ever uses that term should be Joe said, thrown
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  Speaker 2: into a volcano. Ye ye, if you're dating down, that
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  Speaker 2: is that is not good dating down whatever the hell
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  Speaker 2: that means.
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  Speaker 1: Evil.
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  Speaker 2: But if you want to hear more about that horrible
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  Speaker 2: concept of shrekking, which actually exists, apparently according to a
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  Speaker 2: friend of mine who texted me and said, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: lots of her friends in La do it. They date
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  Speaker 2: have done it. They date less attractive guys than they deserve,
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  Speaker 2: which is an interesting term, thinking they'll treat them better.
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  Speaker 2: But we did that an hour two of the Armstrong
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  Speaker 2: and Getty show, so look for the podcast Armstrong and
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  Speaker 2: Getty on demand.
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  Speaker 1: Horrified by that, I know anyway, So I thought this
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  Speaker 1: was actually semi charming at first. It doesn't seem so,
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  Speaker 1: but hang with it. Ordering having somebody write a memoir.
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  Speaker 2: For you of you, unless you've done something really interesting
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  Speaker 2: her historic in your life, does there need to be
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  Speaker 2: a memoir?
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  Speaker 1: I like this headline you met Grandma at a keg party.
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  Speaker 1: The rich order one hundred thousand dollars memoirs for family
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  Speaker 1: only grab her headline kind of click baity. Subhead's kind
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  Speaker 1: of amusing too. Some just want their heirs to know
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  Speaker 1: they worked hard for their money, while others are more forthcoming.
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  Speaker 1: By one and only acid trip blah blah blah. But
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  Speaker 1: they profile this gal who's ninety two. Rudy is her
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  Speaker 1: name with an eye. She paid twelve thousand dollars, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where the headline with one hundred grand
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  Speaker 1: came from there. I don't think they mentioned anybody paid
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near that. But she paid twelve thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty five page book about her family
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  Speaker 1: and her life history and her family history from life
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  Speaker 1: book memoirs. The book, entitled From Mensingen to Lake Chellen,
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  Speaker 1: starts off with her German immigrant grandparents living in a
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  Speaker 1: sad dugout on a Nebraska farm. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, five of the couple's fourteen children died,
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  Speaker 1: including two in a lightning strike. Ooh Ms Paully and
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  Speaker 1: her late husband Jim were the majority owners of a
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  Speaker 1: Washington State fruit business that packed two million boxes of
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  Speaker 1: apples and cherries a year, which is now very big
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  Speaker 1: and successful. But she says, quote, I want to my
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  Speaker 1: kids to realize is realize the sacrifice is made by
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  Speaker 1: the family which led to our current lifestyle. I think
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  Speaker 1: that could be so lost. And again again it's funny
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  Speaker 1: the clickbaity headlines like trying to make you resent the rich,
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  Speaker 1: but a couple of the stories they go through are
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  Speaker 1: utterly charming. And I'm reminded, Jack of your stories about
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  Speaker 1: your dad who didn't have indoor plumbing till what college.
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  Speaker 2: When he left home. When he graduated high school, they
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  Speaker 2: still didn't have electricity or plumbing.
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  Speaker 1: Right late thirties or nineteen forty issues more.
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  Speaker 2: Than thirty seven. He graduated high school in fifty five. Yeah, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: you grew up in San Francisco. It's hard to imagine
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty five in Iowa they didn't have electricity,
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  Speaker 2: because in San Francisco they had electricity in like eighteen eighty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But I think like your kids are, if grandkids ever
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  Speaker 1: come along them, hearing that is really good and interesting
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  Speaker 1: and helps them understand history and how what is now
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  Speaker 1: hasn't always been.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, no, I agree, because then.
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  Speaker 1: You realize what is now won't necessarily always be, so
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  Speaker 1: you can change it if you like.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that for two generations. I was somebody
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  Speaker 2: was talking about this the other day, and I agreed
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  Speaker 2: that for whatever reason, you really only can wrap your
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  Speaker 2: head around or have much interest in, like your parents
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  Speaker 2: you're interested in and your grandparents, who you've probably met.
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  Speaker 2: But you go back one more generation to people you've
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  Speaker 2: never even met, and maybe there aren't even pictures of it.
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  Speaker 2: It drops off pretty quickly, which is your interest in them?
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  Speaker 2: I think?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I disagree. I disagree. I mean, if you're not
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  Speaker 1: into the whole genealogy thing, I get that, But if
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  Speaker 1: I knew more about my great grandparents and their lives
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  Speaker 1: and their struggles. I think that's fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is because I went I did. I got
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  Speaker 2: shortly really into the ancestry dot com thing, and I
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  Speaker 2: paid the huge price to be on it for a
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  Speaker 2: while and filled in all the stuff and everything. But
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  Speaker 2: then I quickly realized you don't have to go back
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  Speaker 2: very many generations before you're like looking at one of
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and then one of thirty two, and it just
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  Speaker 2: it's such a minor part of your history. That's where
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  Speaker 2: I lose interest.
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  Speaker 1: Well, especially because there's generally very little that's recorded or
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  Speaker 1: to be said. But if it was something more memoirsh
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  Speaker 1: if my great great grandfather, even my great grandfather had
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  Speaker 1: written a memoir, uh, I would find that absolutely fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: But I see your point. If it's like an inch
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  Speaker 1: deep and there's some guy named Jebediah Getty who lived
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  Speaker 1: from eighteen seventy to nineteen oh seven, I mean, okay, and.
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  Speaker 2: There one sixty fourth or one hundred and twenty eighth
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  Speaker 2: of your lineage.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, it can be interesting the whole I have
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  Speaker 1: an ancestor who dot dot dot. We've discussed this before.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to squash people's innocent fun. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not that significant. Like the whole pathetic and
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  Speaker 1: I mean pathetic celebrity who finds out that fourteen generations
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  Speaker 1: ago or whatever it is one of their ancestors' own
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  Speaker 1: slaves and they're just devastated by it. You have a
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  Speaker 1: soft effing head. Get over it. You had heroes, you
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  Speaker 1: had villains, You had people who worked hard, never got
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  Speaker 1: very far, but their loved ones loved them and everything
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  Speaker 1: in between. And so does everybody else. Now if you
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  Speaker 1: were like your direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll raise a glass to you. Okay, that's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Were the Mayflower families? I know they have a shin
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  Speaker 2: dig every year if you're a direct descendant of the Mayflower.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, great, I'm sorry to me. That's that's the
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  Speaker 1: little pathetic.
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  Speaker 2: But you'd be one. I don't even want it to be,
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  Speaker 2: but it would have to be one. Like at this point,
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  Speaker 2: eight thousandth of your lineage.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it means. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: it means. It means absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but be finds out.
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  Speaker 2: Having everybody doing some sort of well, there will be
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  Speaker 2: a memoir for everybody starting like twenty years ago going forward.
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  Speaker 2: That's the norm McDonald routine of like, you know, everybody
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  Speaker 2: had one picture of their great grandpa. He's standing there
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  Speaker 2: looking like a farmer. It's the only picture you've ever seen,
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  Speaker 2: have you great grandpa?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, in the future, you'll say, hey, do you want
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  Speaker 2: to see fifty thousand pictures of my great grandfather? Because
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  Speaker 2: you'll have everything that ever happened in their entire lives
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  Speaker 2: that was on Instagram or Facebook or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: So they kind of will have a memoir of everybody
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  Speaker 2: starting in like two thousand and ten and going forward,
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  Speaker 2: whether they wrote one or not.
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  Speaker 1: Katie, I think you've heard this that I found out.
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  Speaker 1: I've known for a long time that on my dad's
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  Speaker 1: mom's side of the family, they're directly descended from Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: Secretary War who helped save the Union. And it turns
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  Speaker 1: out on my mom's side of the family, her mom's
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  Speaker 1: side of the family, they're all from South Carolina and
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  Speaker 1: we're movers and shakers in the secession movement. So which
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  Speaker 1: color do I wear in the Civil War? Reenact? What
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  Speaker 1: part of my identity should I really rest on? Which side? See,
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  Speaker 1: that's the point y'all had a murderer and you had
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  Speaker 1: a copper arrested murderers. You had a hero, you had
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  Speaker 1: a villain, and everything in between. Just be you, you be you,
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  Speaker 1: and then pay ten thousand dollars and have your memoir
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  Speaker 1: written because in a couple of generations it might be
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  Speaker 1: mildly interesting.
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  Speaker 2: When things go south for you and the media comes
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  Speaker 2: to me, I won't mention that you were a descended
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  Speaker 2: of slaveholders, so.
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  Speaker 1: It makes sense, you know, yeah, figures liberal. The liberal
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  Speaker 1: media would print that without comment, absolutely easily, absolutely, like
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  Speaker 1: you're making some sort of really important point.
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  Speaker 3: So the people writing these memoirs, I'm assuming they obviously
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  Speaker 3: sit down and talk to the people.
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  Speaker 1: Get their hours and hours of interviews.
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  Speaker 3: Hours and hours. So can you take that part of
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  Speaker 3: it out, insert all of that information into chat GPT
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  Speaker 3: and get this done for nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Probably?
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  Speaker 1: What an interesting question.
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  Speaker 2: Because I would think you give us the prom chat.
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  Speaker 1: GPT, take all of that stuff and write a memoir
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  Speaker 1: for me that's.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly two hundred and fifteen pages long or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have to have a Mike the lawyer
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  Speaker 1: from Chicago who was one of my best friends from
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  Speaker 1: uh middle school on and has a dozen unbelievable stories
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  Speaker 1: about me that I have no memory of. Wow, until
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  Speaker 1: he tells them. Then I'm like, oh wow, I can
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  Speaker 1: picture that scene, but unrecalled, no memory, I'd never think
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  Speaker 1: of him again. As long as I love, I love
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  Speaker 1: people like that. I remember so little of my youth.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of tragic and might have to do
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  Speaker 1: with concussions. I don't know, but I would need him,
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  Speaker 1: and I would need a panel of people, because if
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  Speaker 1: you just interview me, it's like, you know, I for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason, I read musician autobiographies and stuff because I'm
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  Speaker 1: music freak, and some of them telling long detailed stories
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  Speaker 1: about the nineteen seventy one tour when we blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, how the hell do you remember that stuff?
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  Speaker 1: But it's a gift. I guess. I envy people like that.
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I recently had somebody tell me a story that I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know anything about with me in it because of drinking.
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  Speaker 2: But it was just like and I had no idea
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  Speaker 2: and they didn't even know I was drunk at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but so and to find out, I was like, God,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder how many stories I have either forgotten from
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  Speaker 2: childhood or forgotten from adult drinking of like just my
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  Speaker 2: own life, my own life story. I can watch a
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  Speaker 2: movie of things like and be all news to me,
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  Speaker 2: things that have happened in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Well right, yeah, you want to hear something crazy? I
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  Speaker 1: have on two different occasions, probably saved somebody's life. And
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  Speaker 1: the one I had practically no memory of alcohol was
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  Speaker 1: involved in that one. And the other one the guy
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen him in the years, and he greeted
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  Speaker 1: with me with, oh my god, there's it's the guy
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  Speaker 1: who saved my life, Joe, how are you? And I'm like, eh, what,
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  Speaker 1: And I totally i'd forgotten about it. I remember that
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  Speaker 1: incident pretty clearly now that he reminded me. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just my.
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  Speaker 2: Brain just doesn't work like I would have thought jumping
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  Speaker 2: in front of that charging bowl you would have remember that.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, well he only took out one of
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  Speaker 1: my testicles with his horns, so I just I guess
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  Speaker 1: I just think about the others left. Yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would have respond. One was the guy, Oh go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: how would you respond?
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  Speaker 3: I would have responded, I'm sorry, I've saved a lot
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  Speaker 3: of lives, can you?
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  Speaker 2: Professor kind of thing, kind of my thing, freighting live.
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  Speaker 1: So one guy was going over a high railing and
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  Speaker 1: I just grabbed him with both hands and hauled him
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  Speaker 1: back because he was hammered. God knows, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been very bad damage. He might not have died. He
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  Speaker 1: might have just, you know, severe concussion or something. Do
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  Speaker 1: you see the other guy? Pardon me, you saved a
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  Speaker 1: concussion at minimum. And the other guy was had viral meningitis,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody knew what to do. They're like, just let
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  Speaker 1: him sleep, and I said, he's not asleep, he's unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: We're calling nine to one one right now. And I
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  Speaker 1: called him and they came and he would have died
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  Speaker 1: within what they said six hours or something. Wow geese anyway,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't remember. That's why I have such clarity
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  Speaker 1: in an emergency, because I'm unencumbered by, like any other thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: Just a quick reminder that if you do any of
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  Speaker 4: the ancestrus stuff, give him usalive sample, not a stool sample, right,
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  Speaker 4: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it screws up the results. Yes, that's right, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: before you go, before we go, ever you go, and
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  Speaker 1: he's got to have to off the top of their head.
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  Speaker 1: What is the title of your memoir that you have
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  Speaker 1: ghost written. Now, because I've put this demand upon you,
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  Speaker 1: I will go first.
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  Speaker 2: I know what minded me. I'll give you time to think.
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  Speaker 2: This is something I say all the time, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not proud of it. Shooting for a bee, that's my
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  Speaker 2: entire life. Shooting for Jack Armstrong is not excellent, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, slightly above average. That's all I ever really
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  Speaker 2: hoped for.
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  Speaker 1: Mine would be focus, try to focus the Joe Getty story,
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  Speaker 1: Michael or Katie. Who's up next? I think Mike, Michael
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  Speaker 1: looks like he's he's I'm still thinking.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you're still thinking it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I would be something along the lines of like more
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  Speaker 3: coffee or something i'd like because I'm always tired, coffee or.
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  Speaker 2: IV of caffeine. That sucks being always tired. My son's
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  Speaker 2: like that too, just always exhausted for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can relate. As the great Eric Clapton said, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: you hit me with this quote many years ago, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of things I do and don't remember. There's never been
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  Speaker 1: a moment of my life I haven't wanted to lie
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  Speaker 1: down or felt like lying down.
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  Speaker 2: That's my memoir.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, mine would be meteorocity like a warm bath.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice, good imagery.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess that's it.