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Ohio to ban soda purchase with SNAP and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Snap ebt, food stamps, whatever you want to call on Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: revamping the way that they are to be utilized or
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  Speaker 1: can be utilized, Eliminating sugary drinks right now, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you trust me on this. Sugary snacks, empty calorie snacks, chips, cookies, candies,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that, those are gonna go. This is the
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  Speaker 1: first swipe. There will be more. I do understand the intent.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know if the brush here is too broad.
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  Speaker 1: You're you're Essentially it's a human situation. The whole idea
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  Speaker 1: behind having snap ebt is the human element in our society,
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  Speaker 1: sustaining them, feeding them, helping to keep families from going hungry.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is this is kind of cold and
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  Speaker 1: eliminates the human side of the equation. And like I
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  Speaker 1: said that, somebody painted that picture of single mom with
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  Speaker 1: the child and can't buy a birthday cake or whatever
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  Speaker 1: if they take away the sugary food. And that's stuck
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  Speaker 1: with me. There are some people scamming the system, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: scam scam scam all over the place. They it was
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  Speaker 1: either food stamps or open daycares. They had to do
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  Speaker 1: something to steal government money. And this is the way
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  Speaker 1: they do it. There are also some people out there
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  Speaker 1: who are in serious and desperate need of that assistance
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  Speaker 1: every month, even if it's even a couple of hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's that's the difference between having food and not
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  Speaker 1: having food. And I just I don't want us to
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  Speaker 1: overcompensate and end up creating a bunch of mean, evil
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  Speaker 1: adults because little children were told no, no, you can't
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  Speaker 1: have a birthday. You can have a birthday cake. No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care once a year. It's still too much
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  Speaker 1: to have a can of pop. Wait, a little humanity
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  Speaker 1: in the equation, is what I'm saying. So if we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take away the sugary stuff, the stuff that
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  Speaker 1: the woman who called before and was talking about, how
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  Speaker 1: you know sugar is hurting us, I think high fruit
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  Speaker 1: toast corn surfa is hurt is more quite frankly, But
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a show unto itself. These people will grow up,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, I just while you get to
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  Speaker 1: be a child, i'd like your childhood to be as
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  Speaker 1: decent as possible. Not everyone's a saint, not everyone's deserving,
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  Speaker 1: but some are. And I cutting off your nose to
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  Speaker 1: spite your face as they say, A two one nine
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  Speaker 1: FOLM mindes open and William, you're on sixth N DOUBLETV
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  Speaker 1: in Hey, Zak.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on the Power Hour. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: I I just had a small comment. You know, it
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  Speaker 3: is a good thing to suggest to people to try
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  Speaker 3: and help them, to try and get them understand. But
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  Speaker 3: when you start banning things, you're opening a can of worms.
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  Speaker 3: Like you just said in that little brief intro there,
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  Speaker 3: You're going to cause larger problem by telling people that
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  Speaker 3: they can't do something versus suggesting that they eliminate things.
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  Speaker 1: Government has a tendency unless there's some profit margin in them,
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  Speaker 1: for the government to find a way to make things
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  Speaker 1: illegal or unattainable for people. I mean, hey, we were
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  Speaker 1: busting up stills. We had prohibition, but government found a
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  Speaker 1: way to put those stamps on the bottle, so legal
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  Speaker 1: alcohol came back. Cigarettes are bad, man. They can't advertise
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  Speaker 1: cigarettes on anything, anywhere, anytime, for any reason. But as
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  Speaker 1: long as you got that government tax stamp on a
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  Speaker 1: pack of cigarettes, you're okay. Weed can't have weed. Weed's illegal,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a gateway drug. Can't But now we
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  Speaker 1: have legalized weed in the government's taxing the crap out
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  Speaker 1: of it. This that kind of stuff flies in the
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  Speaker 1: face of the logic of this, if you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you for taking the calls.
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  Speaker 1: You have a great well you might, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: making it. Thank you for listening to A two one
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  Speaker 1: ninety eighty six A two one WTVN. Tiffany's up on
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  Speaker 1: sixten and Tiffany, how are you? Hey?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hi, I'm fine. I was calling to make a
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  Speaker 2: comment about the food stamp situation. So on and off
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  Speaker 2: throughout my life, I've qualified for food stamps, and personally,
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  Speaker 2: like and I'm in my forties, I have always when
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  Speaker 2: I had them, bought store brand preps like things that
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  Speaker 2: you would cook, not sugary junk food box. And I
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  Speaker 2: acquainted it too. I had an aunt and she would
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  Speaker 2: buy name brand everything and all of these sugary snacks
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  Speaker 2: and treats, and within like a week and she would
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  Speaker 2: had like five kids. So she almost got like one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a month in food stamps. Back in the
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  Speaker 2: nineties and she'd be out of food stamps like within
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  Speaker 2: two weeks and then the kids were star So whenever
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  Speaker 2: I've qualified, I was like, you know what, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna do that. I'm gonna be very smart and treat
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  Speaker 2: it like money, not you know, waste it. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been able in my life to make two hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars feed a family of four for an entire month
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  Speaker 2: being buying things.
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  Speaker 4: That you cook.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Man, Tiffany, you need to clone yourself. My gosh,
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  Speaker 1: that's too that if Yeah, doing something like that is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing of it is is, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you buy the store brand. Or back when
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  Speaker 1: I was a youngster, we went through this transition where
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  Speaker 1: everything had to be cheap, and they came out with
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  Speaker 1: unbranded products. It was just like a white label with
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  Speaker 1: black writing on it that said green beans, and that
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  Speaker 1: was that was actually a popular way for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years for grocery stores to get you in there
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  Speaker 1: was to sell unbranded products. Uh, then they found out
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  Speaker 1: that they were the same as the the store brand
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  Speaker 1: products right next to them with a different label on them,
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  Speaker 1: and you were paying more for the store brand label.
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  Speaker 1: So they got rid of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Kroger is doing something like that with
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  Speaker 2: the smart Way or something brand. Actually there's like a
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  Speaker 2: Kroger brand and then a smart something brand.
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  Speaker 1: Well, bless your heart and good to you for buying
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  Speaker 1: the way you did, because that's what the program is for.
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  Speaker 1: It's not so you can have cavir and lobster. It's
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  Speaker 1: to make sure your kids aren't hungry.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And then so I had one more comment. So
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  Speaker 2: my mom and me we have this debate, and it's
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  Speaker 2: her sister, the one that I was talking about. You know,
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  Speaker 2: so my mom grew up and you know, she didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of money, but you know, but she
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  Speaker 2: made her made something of herself and owned a business. Now.
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  Speaker 2: But she remembered like when she was a kid, like
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  Speaker 2: her mom would bake cookies and stuff. But her friends
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  Speaker 2: at school would you know, have the little treats or whatever. Well,
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  Speaker 2: nowadays they have programs at the school where they sent
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  Speaker 2: snaxt home yep with kids, and they have the weekend bags.
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  Speaker 2: So I basically said, with all of the nonprofits out there,
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  Speaker 2: the argument that children couldn't have a Coca Cola or
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  Speaker 2: have you know, an oreo is chilly because a nonprofit
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  Speaker 2: could easily provide that they could honor birthdays. They could
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  Speaker 2: do like a weekend snack.
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  Speaker 1: Bag and you get that stuff where you want it
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  Speaker 1: or not. By the way, Yeah, I got two grandsons
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  Speaker 1: in public school, and they will come home with those
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  Speaker 1: boxes of junk food that you won't be allowed to
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  Speaker 1: buy it with your food stamps, but they'll come home
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  Speaker 1: with those. Then they'll go over to the library after
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  Speaker 1: school and the library sends them home with another box.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, boys, don't bring this stuff home. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need it. You've got a house full of food.
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  Speaker 4: Don't do this.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, it's full of you know, potato chips and
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  Speaker 1: peanut butter crackers and stuff, and they love it.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So I just.
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  Speaker 2: Personally, I think I feel that there are too many
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  Speaker 2: children that don't have meals for a good portion of
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  Speaker 2: the month because the parents on the system don't know
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  Speaker 2: how to cook and they don't know how to shop.
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  Speaker 2: There you get and I feel like that's really the
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  Speaker 2: biggest problem that needs to be a dry.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect Tiffany, thanks very much for being responsible and thanks
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  Speaker 1: for the call tonight. Yeah, you know, buying the pre
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  Speaker 1: made stuff the preseasoned meat and all that said, you're
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  Speaker 1: paying for that. People that ain't free. It costs you more.
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  Speaker 1: Learn to cook, and if you can't learn, then just
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  Speaker 1: make it hot and do the best you can. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you're on sixth enable UTVN.
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  Speaker 5: Hello. Let's say I enjoy the show. Actually, the previous
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  Speaker 5: caller basically took most of my thunders about learning to cook. Right,
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  Speaker 5: So in your scenario, you may not be able to
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  Speaker 5: purchase a pre made birthday cake or even a box
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  Speaker 5: birthday cake, but you can certainly buy you know, flour, butter, eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla,
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  Speaker 5: and you can make a cake. Right. So, uh, it's
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  Speaker 5: about shopping responsibly and learning to cook a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You're a half glass, half full kind of guy, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't even thought about that. But that's the flip
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  Speaker 1: good side of this. Maybe people will learn to actually
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  Speaker 1: bake stuff for their kids instead of going and getting store.
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  Speaker 1: About that. That's a wonderful point, buddy, Thank you very much. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: let's get Dean. We're about out of time, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get you on here. You're on sixte n wtv N.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the last guy took my thunder or basically for that.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of these families, they say they don't have money,
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  Speaker 4: but a lot of them they got to buy their
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  Speaker 4: fifty dollars bag of weed, their cake well cigarettes, Curton cigarettes,
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  Speaker 4: and their case of beer every week before they take
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  Speaker 4: care of food for their kids. Yeah. I mean a
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  Speaker 4: lot of parents that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where I get very unsympathetic. If you're if
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, because yeah, there were times were tough
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  Speaker 1: and I would smoke, Like I go to the store
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  Speaker 1: and get with something that's just called smokes, the cheapest
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  Speaker 1: thing possible and then go through them as slowly as
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  Speaker 1: possible to make sure that I had to do or
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  Speaker 1: I could do what I needed to do for my
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  Speaker 1: family over the years. If you're out there buying weed
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  Speaker 1: and you got your twelve hundred dollars iPhone and you
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  Speaker 1: got four hundred channels on your flat screen TV and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and then want to tell me how
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  Speaker 1: broke you are, I get very unsympathetic.
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  Speaker 4: I get you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Stein for the call. I appreciate