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I Want It To Be True! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: I want it to be true, but it's not. It's
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  Speaker 1: one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one more thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I got a couple of examples here of growing
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  Speaker 3: up and responsibilities as a youth that are at cross purposes.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know what I think about it this year,
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  Speaker 3: so interested in your all's experience. So my thirteen year
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  Speaker 3: old right now is really big on cooking himself breakfast
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, something he kind of picked up in
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  Speaker 3: boy Scouts from doing it. It can't but he's been
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  Speaker 3: frying himself up eggs and bacon for breakfast every morning.
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  Speaker 3: And he did it the first time, yes, stay, And
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  Speaker 3: I asked him how I went, and he said, well,
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  Speaker 3: I overcooked the bacon a little bit and there was
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  Speaker 3: an egg shell in my eggs. And I said first time.
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  Speaker 3: I said, that's the way it turns out for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I said, so that it'll be fine, said the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: But the idea being in theory, and this is all
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  Speaker 3: in theory, as I will point out that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you learn to do stuf for yourself and that will
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah something when you're older blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: And I think often about how like I had never
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  Speaker 3: done any laundry in my life until I left my
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  Speaker 3: home as an eighteen year old. My mom did all
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  Speaker 3: my laundry, all our laundry as a mom my whole life, and.
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  Speaker 1: Cooking too. I never cooked anything. I ever did any laundry.
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  Speaker 3: And the story I hear from people is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you won't know how to take care of themselves. I
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  Speaker 3: figured out how to do laundry in like five minutes
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  Speaker 3: when I got to college, and I was fine. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure, I mean, other than it would have
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  Speaker 3: helped my mom to not have to do it, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sure it hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Me any in any way that I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Do it really, other than that first time or two,
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  Speaker 4: Like the cooking eggs thing, you're exactly right, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: remember that. Oh oh, you gotta be more careful when
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  Speaker 4: you crack the eggs or you get a little bit
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  Speaker 4: in there, and by like a plate of eggs.
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  Speaker 3: Number two, I was up to speed right before I
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  Speaker 3: go to my second example, That is it kind of
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  Speaker 3: counter purposes to this.
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  Speaker 1: What was your experience, Katie? Did you do some stuff
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  Speaker 1: for yourself as a kid? Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Not really, I mean my mom did the laundry and
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  Speaker 5: cooked for us.
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  Speaker 1: And all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: And I really only learned how to cook when I
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  Speaker 5: started working at Trader Joe's and I was the demo
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  Speaker 5: girl that made the samples and that didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting that the three of us had that similar experience,
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  Speaker 3: because I hear a lot from people and then they'll
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  Speaker 3: go off and they won't know how to do anything themselves.
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  Speaker 3: And I always think, yeah, but I picked up those
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  Speaker 3: things like immediately. I mean again, you could make the
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  Speaker 3: argument that my mom didn't need to work that hard.
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  Speaker 3: She could have had me doing it. But from a
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  Speaker 3: life lessons standpoint, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't actually I think there's a
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  Speaker 1: value to it.
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  Speaker 2: Probably probably is.
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  Speaker 1: So okay.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the other one, the other example I have
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  Speaker 3: that I this is why I started with.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want this to be true, but it is.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 3: The flip side of that is I worked a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I started working when I was like twelve, mown lawns,
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  Speaker 3: and then I started working in feed lots when I
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  Speaker 3: was fourteen, and I worked a lot. I worked forty
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  Speaker 3: hour weeks or longer in the summers. For four summers.
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  Speaker 3: I got up at five o'clock in the morning. I
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  Speaker 3: did weekends through the school year, I worked a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and I would like to believe that I learned some
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  Speaker 3: sort of work ethic in blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: But I have plenty of examples of rich kids who
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  Speaker 3: never did a liquor. I worked all through college to
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  Speaker 3: full time job all the way through college. I have
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  Speaker 3: plenty of examples of friends who never worked a lick
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  Speaker 3: in high school or a moment in college, and then
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  Speaker 3: they got jobs and they busted ass and they're successful
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  Speaker 3: and they were fine. They just worked less than I
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  Speaker 3: did in their lives, which sounds like a plus to me. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I would like to be able to brag about work
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  Speaker 3: ethic and lessons I learned.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not sure it's true.
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  Speaker 1: I would like it to be true, but I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not sure it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was okay with the bargain that if you want stuff,
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  Speaker 4: you need to earn money.
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  Speaker 2: And buy it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The other I say I was doing it for entirely
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  Speaker 4: selfish reasons. It's not principled ones.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no doubt, that's the main That was the entire reason.
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  Speaker 3: I'd asked my dad, did you talk to them today?
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  Speaker 3: Did you talk them today? When I was wanting to
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  Speaker 3: get a job, I wanted money, which I made and
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  Speaker 3: then I bought a motorcycle. But my friends who had
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  Speaker 3: their stuff given to them, I would love it if
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  Speaker 3: they turned out to be drug addict derelics who nevermounted anything.
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  Speaker 3: But they didn't. They're incredibly successful, hardworking people who went
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  Speaker 3: off into life and did well. So I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what to do with those stories.
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  Speaker 5: If they came from a well off family, they probably
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  Speaker 5: saw how hard their parents worked could.
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  Speaker 3: Be, could be maybe I caught that second generation, the
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  Speaker 3: old saw that is shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in
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  Speaker 3: three generations or work works do work boots and three genders.
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  Speaker 3: You have the generation that made the money and then
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  Speaker 3: their kids saw dad make the money, work hard. But
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  Speaker 3: that next generation there's ruin that blow.
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  Speaker 4: I've never known anything but affluence.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that could be. Maybe I just saw that
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  Speaker 1: second round with my friends when I was young. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what I think about either.
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  Speaker 3: One of those things that I went off and learned
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  Speaker 3: how to do laundry and cook an egg pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 3: and my life was fine, which you still can't grill,
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  Speaker 3: But did I benefit anything from working all the I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: You should ask your dad about the grilling technique. Then
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  Speaker 4: you could be a full man. Yeah, card carrying man.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I got married young, so I'd never have to learn
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  Speaker 4: any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I found a loophole. A loophole, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Not true.
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  Speaker 4: Although our current washing machine, which I have used occasionally,
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  Speaker 4: is I think you could climb in it and go
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  Speaker 4: to the moon in it if you needed to. It's
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  Speaker 4: got so many settings and dials and digital readouts and everything.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's an incredibly sophisticated piece of machinery that
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  Speaker 4: allegedly saves water and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure the clothes are any cleaner.
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  Speaker 3: I think what they like about that is if something
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  Speaker 3: you can't possibly fix it yourself, you have.
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  Speaker 1: To yea need to buy any machine or call somebody
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  Speaker 1: different fix.
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  Speaker 2: Oh the other place, the brain is five hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 5: The other thing, you were the one who said you
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  Speaker 5: have to like do updates on your washing machine right right?
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  Speaker 1: Software up software update, Hell firm is very annoying.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. The other example I was gonna use is and
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  Speaker 3: I don't want this to be true either, I've known
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  Speaker 3: lots of people that that that work starting at a
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  Speaker 3: young age, and they got to adulthood and their layabouts they.
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  Speaker 1: Just don't benefit to it. So I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: think it might have more to do with your personality.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, well, yeah, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: I was just going to say, having raised three kids
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  Speaker 4: to adulthood, I have two who absolutely have the entrepreneurial spirit.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make money, I want to be independent,
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  Speaker 4: blah blah blah, and then one who just doesn't give
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  Speaker 4: a damn about money, having grown up with significantly more
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  Speaker 4: money than than I did, for instance, and among my
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  Speaker 4: siblings and I, there is definitely a difference in our ambition,
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  Speaker 4: specifically financial ambition. I just I don't I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how much correlation there is between you know, you busted
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  Speaker 4: your ass as a kid, worked part time after school,
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  Speaker 4: bl blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know me well, I for instance, you know,
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  Speaker 4: as long as we're telling stories, gladys to tune.
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  Speaker 2: Up to harp, would you, babe? If the woman is ninety.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just I think she probably appreciates it,
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  Speaker 4: she appreciates hearing that she is still an attractive woman.
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  Speaker 1: Right exactly the Gams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh please, yeah, like Betty Grable. Anyway, how was
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  Speaker 2: I gonna say? Oh, I would.
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  Speaker 4: Go to I would get up very early, go to
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  Speaker 4: jazz band before school and do school, then go to
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  Speaker 4: baseball practice or golf practice. Get home from I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: get back to school from there, go directly to my job,
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  Speaker 4: work till nine forty five ten o'clock at night, and
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  Speaker 4: then do my homework. What homework I did at night,
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  Speaker 4: get barely enough school, a sleep, rather rinse, repeat, do.
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  Speaker 2: It again the next day.
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  Speaker 4: And I am one of the laziest people I have
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  Speaker 4: ever met.
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  Speaker 2: From a man who craves leisure.
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  Speaker 3: I've often wondered that too, because I had a similar schedule.
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  Speaker 3: If you just have so much of those you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, widget energy, how are.
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  Speaker 1: You measure that in your life? Right? I spend it
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  Speaker 1: all young, I used it all up.
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  Speaker 2: British thermal units or whatever it is. Yeah, I wonder, So.
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  Speaker 4: You hit your peak and then it was all downhill?
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  Speaker 1: Just use I peaked at night, Oh my, go getting
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  Speaker 1: I used up at like nineteen and then what are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna do after that?
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  Speaker 2: You know? What serious note.
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  Speaker 4: And I've mentioned this on the air before. My late
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  Speaker 4: sainted mother once said to me, I was probably fifteen
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  Speaker 4: years old or something like that. She said, Joe, you
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  Speaker 4: are a mystery to me. If you care about something,
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  Speaker 4: you work harder and longer than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: I've ever known.
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  Speaker 4: And if you don't care about something, you can't be
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  Speaker 4: troubled to put out the least effort.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, you know that's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's true, and so I don't think it's an accident
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  Speaker 4: that I've found a fair level of success we have,
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  Speaker 4: And Jack, I know you can relate to this through
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  Speaker 4: a career where we have a deadline every single day.
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  Speaker 4: Every single day, it's either do the work and show
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  Speaker 4: up prepared or be humiliated. That's really the only thing
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  Speaker 4: that can get me going. If there's some big sales
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  Speaker 4: report that has to be done next Wednesday, guess what
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing next Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the beauty of this career.
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  Speaker 4: Up and show you got the goods or be embarrassed
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  Speaker 4: every single day.
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  Speaker 2: It's why it works for me.
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  Speaker 1: Driven by humiliation. The Armstrong and Getty show.
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  Speaker 3: Michael, you didn't weigh in on that, did you do
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  Speaker 3: laundry or anything when you were a kid, or did
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  Speaker 3: your mom do it all?
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  Speaker 1: Mom did it all. I learned how to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and I got older, and I'm going to take you
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  Speaker 1: to catch on to the whole laundry thing. Not too bad.
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  Speaker 1: That's maybe twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: It's not rocket science. So I don't know. I hear
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  Speaker 1: that regularly from people. Then they'll go out in the world. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they want how to do anything, all right.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I wish I had a picture of,
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  Speaker 4: speaking of college, is the legendary closet monster where you
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  Speaker 4: just wear everything you have and.
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  Speaker 2: All of your clothes are dirty down to like one.
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  Speaker 4: Sock with a hole in it, and the rest of it,
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  Speaker 4: and everything you own is dirty piled up in the closet.
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  Speaker 2: The closet monster. We used to call it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not like you go off to you know,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you do after you get out of high school,
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  Speaker 3: and you're just wearing soiled clothes for years at a time,
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  Speaker 3: you don't even.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine, and you just crunching on eggshells every day. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure which part of the egg No.
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  Speaker 1: I never cooked eggs as a child.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you don't like these smart washing machines,
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  Speaker 4: Go old fashioned, Find a nearby creek, put your clothes
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  Speaker 4: in there, and just start scrubbing. Well, I guess that's it.