Unfiltered Union

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The Unfiltered Union Podcast.

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50.

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You joined 50?

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50th episode.

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Oh, gotcha.

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I'm Linz.

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I would hope that you know how old I am.

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We've been married for 76 years.

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In your?

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35.

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I said I'm Linz.

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Oh, this is already starting off very nice.

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I'm Russ.

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Thanks.

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There we go.

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Okay.

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50th episode.

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Yeah, I can't believe it.

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Does that include when we tried this back in 2016?

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Yes.

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okay wow well the thing though is we have a lot more we have a bunch that were

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awful i'm not saying the content was awful no the quality was awful because we had

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no idea what we were doing and we just did it and we didn't have a studio like we

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have today we didn't this ain't really a studio look at our background decorations

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you did such a good job it's a pair of headphones

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It looks so good.

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Oh my gosh.

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I mean, that's a good feat.

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We've been doing it for 50 episodes.

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And this go around has been over a year and three months, I think.

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I think we started in March of last year.

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Wow.

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I didn't realize it had been that long.

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So it's been over a year.

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But we've had guests come on this go-round.

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Yeah, that's a new thing for us is doing the guest thing.

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Absolutely.

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But I think our core is typically when we do episodes where it's you and me, right?

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Don't go to HR.

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I'm going to use my hands.

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You and I talk about what's happening in the world or with us, but it always comes back to...

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We can have our own opinions and still be married at the end of the day.

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And not get mad.

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Right.

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Well, I mean, we do get mad.

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Not at each other, though.

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Well, we get over it.

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Right.

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You don't have to end your marriage or end your friendship or end your friendship

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online just because you don't agree with somebody.

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For sure.

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I don't know why you would.

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Well, people do.

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And they're crazy.

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I don't get it.

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Let's kick it off.

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with our kid who got her ears pierced this weekend super random she asked this week

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we've been asking her ever since she was born we asked her as an infant do you want

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your ears pierced she said yeah you know after she shat herself but no we've been

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asking her for a long time and she never wanted to because she's afraid of course

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that's scary to kids needles

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Well, we don't lie to her.

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We show her videos of other people doing it.

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We explain the process.

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I never want my child to be uneducated about a decision she's about to make.

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Right, for sure.

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And she finally came up to us this week and said, I want to go get my ears pierced.

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And we're like, we'll take you this weekend.

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And we went,

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and I was going to bet money that she was going to chicken out at the last second,

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and she didn't.

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It was the sushi.

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She went for, oh, yeah.

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You can buy that kid off with sushi.

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It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen, but you can definitely buy this kid off with sushi.

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She's nine and loves sushi.

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And we're not talking just California roll.

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We're talking...

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Raw fish on top of a chunk of rice.

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Yep.

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Tuna sushi.

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Yeah.

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Tuna sushi.

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She loves tuna.

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Raw tuna or salmon.

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She's a big salmon fan.

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Yeah.

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But we went to the mall and we did the Claire's route, you know, hate us if you want.

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But I think for me, that's where I got all of my piercings done.

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I've never had an issue.

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So that's the route she wanted to go as well because she wanted to buy additional

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earrings while we were there.

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And they were very caring about how she felt.

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We said, if you're going to do it, you have to do it right.

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You have to get both pierced.

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And they said,

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oh,

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don't worry about that because we'll have two people doing it,

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which was super nice because not just

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Her chickening out, but getting one done and being like, ow, that hurt.

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Done.

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Yeah, I'm not doing the other one.

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Mm-hmm.

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Which would suck.

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Right.

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Because she wants both.

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Well, they brought a second person in, and they did everything at once.

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Yep.

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And it went really well.

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There was no tears.

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She didn't even cry.

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I know.

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She was stronger than me.

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No, she bossed it, let's just say.

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But while we were there, her thing is also escalators, but...

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As long as she gets to ride a couple escalators, she's happy at the mall.

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Other than Claire's, the trip was free.

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I mean food, but you have to eat.

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The trip was free.

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She loves escalators.

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And that's free.

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Go to Macy's and ride the fucking escalator up and down and you're good to go.

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She was happy.

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But what surprised me is she and my daughter,

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she and my daughter,

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my daughter and I,

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goodness,

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we go to the...

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We go to the mall very sparingly.

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Typically,

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it's to return stuff from Christmas or to just get out of the house for a bit,

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ride the escalators,

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get sushi.

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But other than that, we don't venture out to the mall very often.

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And most of the time, it has been pretty...

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empty, but there aren't many people there.

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Today, it was bumping.

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Oh, yeah.

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It was packed.

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That food court, you had to be lucky to find a seat.

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Right.

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Which was good.

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I like seeing that because people...

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Even though we're the economy is not really good.

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People are still.

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I guess they're trying,

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you know,

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trying to go out and about and do things with their families because it's expensive.

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For sure.

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Claire's cost us.

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What was it?

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Eighty five dollars just for the piercing.

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Yep.

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I mean, we did upgrade the earring, but we wanted to make sure she got.

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What is it called?

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Like gold gold because it's anti allergen or whatever.

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Right.

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It's supposed to be more for sensitive ears.

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But there's lots of debate as to what Claire's provides.

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But it all came down to her choice as to where and what to do after.

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But ultimately, the fact that the mall was so packed, I feel like there were a lot of people.

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Yeah.

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there and i keep hearing that moles are dying right like moles are becoming a thing

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of the past they were big when they first came out in the 70s 80s and then you know

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you're all my childhood i was at the mall every weekend oh my god not just your

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childhood when we started dating at you were 14 14 i was 15 you're at the mall

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every week i remember calling you on saturdays

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I'll call you right back.

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I'm at the mall.

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I'm like, how the fuck do you have so much money?

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We didn't.

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It was just the thing to do, something to do.

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Kind of like when I take our kiddo out.

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It's, you know, go out, have lunch.

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We didn't have escalators at our mall in Virginia.

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But anyways, so the idea that malls are dying, I'm like, that doesn't seem like that's proof.

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I don't.

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Yeah.

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Today kind of changed my mind.

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So what I think about that is maybe that high rent type deal is dying.

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Like.

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I couldn't imagine the rent at a mall, but a store owner.

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Maybe they just couldn't afford.

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I don't know.

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I keep spinning it around in circles with this because I feel like.

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Most businesses can't afford that massive high mall rent,

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I would assume,

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especially in the economy the way it is right now.

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So is that what they're talking about?

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Malls dying because the people that own the malls are like,

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I'm not making any money anymore because people don't want to pay this rent.

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I feel like that kind of goes back and forth with...

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The idea of COVID, right?

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And remote work that people want still today want jobs of remote work.

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Companies are like, we've spent billions of dollars on infrastructure.

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You're bringing your asses back.

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Yeah, well, that's not.

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I don't know.

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That's not good.

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I don't think that.

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I think it should be a choice.

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Well,

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I agree,

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but I'm just saying,

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like,

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when you think of the idea of infrastructure,

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if a mall already is built,

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right,

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and you essentially are renting out to tenants.

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So you're saying that high rent is a thing of the past.

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I don't know.

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I'm just guessing.

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I don't know if that's what they mean.

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Because what I saw today, malls ain't going nowhere.

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That place was freaking packed.

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Yeah.

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And people were in every single store we walked by.

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Claire's was packed.

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Yeah, was there a tax refund?

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Could it be tax refund?

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No.

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I don't even think it's tax-free weekend.

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I know that because of the hurricane stuff down here in Florida,

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they do like a tax-free month or something,

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I thought.

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But that's on like generators and I forget what else.

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No.

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No, but speaking of things being expensive, you told me today about Amazon.

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Yeah, Amazon Alexa.

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Not in here.

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Okay.

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They are,

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from what I read,

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they're planning on charging something for the next generation of Alexa,

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which is all this generative AI,

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your chat GPTs,

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your large language model type assistance,

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not just...

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Alexa, turn my lights off type shit.

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It's like you can converse with it.

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Things of that nature.

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They're supposedly they're talking about there's going to be a price tag for it.

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Now, some people have said five bucks and some people have said all the way up to ten bucks.

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I feel like Amazon fumbled so hard on this generative AI stuff.

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It is mind boggling.

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They have, I'm pretty sure they're the number one home speaker type deal.

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You know, Amazon Alexa type shit.

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They're the number one retailer for that.

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You have literally millions of these units in people's houses.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You should have been the first company out there to release some kind of generative AI on those things.

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Well, it sounds like they're still going to be.

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Yeah, but they're late.

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Now it's like they're late and they're not doing it.

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Like charging money for it is nuts.

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But if they're trying to put a device in your house, whole new device, it's an Apple Play, right?

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No, they're not doing whole.

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It's not going to need whole new devices.

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It's all server based.

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Oh, all your devices that you have.

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That's what I'm saying.

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Everybody that has an Alexa, I'm pretty sure has the capability of this new large language model.

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So you're like upgrading your software on your existing Echo.

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It sends all your queries to the cloud.

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Yeah, it sends all your queries to the cloud so it can work on essentially anything.

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So the fact that they are

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So it's essentially a software as a service.

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Right.

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That you can put on any device.

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Well, you can put it.

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It's going to be a pay for upgrade for your existing Alexa devices.

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OK, so I guess I don't understand what the benefit would be.

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Well,

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you could ask it a lot of different things and converse with it,

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like say,

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hey,

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my wife's birthday's tomorrow.

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Give me 10 good ideas for a birthday party that are local to blah, blah, blah.

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And it will spit it out.

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It's smart.

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It's a really good freaking idea.

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But why aren't they...

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They should be moving a lot faster than they are.

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Everybody else is.

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When I think of the AI, chat, GPT, those type things, those are more for... What do I want to say?

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When you ask Alexa a question... I don't want to make it go off in our house.

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If you ask it a question, then...

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your response that you get back, it's already searching the web, right?

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So to me, the chat GPT becomes more about like deep dive prompts, I guess.

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So if you're doing a research paper, like it can help you with the research paper.

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If you're doing just how do you fix an Excel formula?

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I've done that.

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Smart way to do it though.

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Well, I know, but like putting that on your website,

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Echo Dot,

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we'll call them,

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in your house,

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which is an Amazon product,

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what benefit do you have of that versus what it already does?

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Well, I think part of it is like what I said.

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You could ask questions like that.

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You could say,

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hey,

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give me seven different action movies or something like that from different eras

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that I can add to my playlist.

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Anything, really.

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It'll integrate with your music software.

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Make a playlist for Tay-Tay.

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I am starting to feel like such an old person.

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Yeah.

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I'm not even kidding.

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Like, how are you going to use that technology?

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Like that's how I feel.

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Yeah.

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But it's, it's got a lot.

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I don't even, I don't even know how much, like what else the Alexa can do.

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And you know,

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the next gen Alexa can do inside of your house,

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but it's mostly,

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I would assume it's mostly things that you can already do with Google.

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search and things like that.

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But it,

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instead of typing,

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you just talk,

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you converse in natural language instead of,

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you know,

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going to Google and say,

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find me five things to do tonight in Tampa.

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Yeah.

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I guess.

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I just... I'm old.

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We said it at the beginning, right?

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We're in our mid-30s, and I just feel like... It's going to change a lot.

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We're getting so old with how all this technology is being used and implemented and

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trying to...

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It was all about smart homes a few years ago,

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right?

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So the Echo Dots were a thing.

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That's why I think they're fumbling hard.

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Because they were pre... They were like, you're a smart home hub.

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And now they're trying to move it into this generative AI stuff.

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And it's like, you should have done that a year ago.

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Maybe, probably true.

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But I don't know.

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I just...

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What difference?

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It doesn't feel like a difference from what it does now.

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It's smarter.

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Okay, fine.

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Instead of, because, you know, half the time you say, Alexa, tell me who was born last month.

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You know, what famous people were born last month?

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Half the time it's like, der.

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Well, it's a contributor.

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Yeah, yeah, right.

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Gave this response.

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But now it's like real time searching the web, pulling in data.

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It's really cool.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But I personally would not pay $10 or even $5 a month for that.

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I'm not doing it.

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I use my phone.

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Yeah, at this point.

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Because I guess that's your point, right?

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They've missed the mark.

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Yeah.

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And you just will use your phone because it's readily available.

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Exactly.

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Everybody's got a phone.

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Most people have.

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And look, Apple's doing Apple intelligence, which cracks me up so bad.

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Again, I just feel so...

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Yeah, that's the thing now.

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It's an AI arms race.

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Yeah, but they're the only ones charging for it so far.

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Amazon?

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Yeah.

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No, they're all charged.

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Well, Apple's not going to charge for it.

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Google charges for Gemini Advanced, and ChatGPT has a ChatGPT Plus plan.

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Is Copilot built into Microsoft?

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It is, but you have to pay for it.

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Like if you have Microsoft Copilot for your business, I think it's an extra cost per user.

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I think it's actually pretty expensive too.

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It's like 30 bucks a month per user.

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Geez.

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I think.

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Well, guess what else is going up in price?

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Life.

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That's a good answer.

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Spotify.

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Yeah, that's bullshit, man.

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I'm about sick of them.

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Yeah.

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We use Spotify a lot.

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I love it.

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Even our kiddo has it.

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She's got the Spotify kids version.

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I mean, we have it for our family and we have a family plan.

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Right.

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And it's, it's good.

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I love it because it has all of our like songs ever, right?

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Ever.

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That's the issue.

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And I, well, I can't imagine not having that.

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So I have found services that will transfer your playlists and your like songs to another service.

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So one thing you need to know about Russ, technology is his thing, right?

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You're all about technology and you love finding the new best thing.

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Me nerd.

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Yeah.

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But when we switch profiles over and over again, I've lost things in the past.

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It's not my fault.

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No, I'm not saying it is.

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I'm not saying it's your fault.

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I'm saying that I've lost it.

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I don't want to lose my songs.

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I know.

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That's why we do the services that allow the transfer.

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I've done it with Apple Music before.

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Or we just bite the bullet and we keep Spotify.

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I want to switch out of principle right now.

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I understand.

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Because it's a constant.

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It hasn't stayed the same price.

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It seems like they increase it once a year now.

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i don't i feel like everybody's doing that though yeah not only spotify netflix is

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doing it you've got amazon prime you've got like all of these subscription services

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are just going up i don't understand why it's like are you not meeting your so your

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subscriber count i don't know but i can't imagine that's true

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But they wonder why people are cutting the cord and not having cable TV.

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It's like, that stuff is so freaking expensive.

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And we are being subscription to death.

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Right.

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Everything's a subscription anymore.

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Yep.

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It's like rent.

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You can't... If you...

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If you cancel Spotify, boom, your music library's gone.

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Yep.

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That's crap.

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You own nothing.

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I would be very sad.

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I would probably slip into a deep, dark depression.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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It's just weird, though, that that's how everything is now.

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Even gaming is like that.

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Yeah, you said that before.

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You don't own games anymore.

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You don't own games.

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There was a game that just, I can't remember.

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It came out a couple years ago or whatever, but they just closed down the servers.

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It's like, okay, then let me play a single player.

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No, it requires an online connection to the server to play.

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So you can't even play that game anymore at all.

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Even if you want to just play it by yourself, you cannot play it even though you bought it.

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That's sad.

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It's a bunch of crap.

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I remember going to the freaking store,

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buying a disc,

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sticking it in the console and I can play that thing whenever I wanted.

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Right.

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Unplug the internet from it and I can still play it.

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Not anymore.

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Sad.

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I don't like it.

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It's kind of freaky to me.

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You don't own anything anymore.

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You own nothing.

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I think the World WEF, what is it?

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World Environmental Federation?

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Something like that.

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Water Environmental Federation?

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No, I think it's World.

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Okay, regardless.

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Anyway, WEF, I think they said something like that.

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They had a quote on their website.

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In the future, you will own nothing and you'll be happy.

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That's a very philosophical thing to say,

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because if you think about it,

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it means does it mean less responsibility or more responsibility?

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Who has the responsibility?

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There's a lot to unpack there.

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You own nothing.

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That's not good.

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But I know, but is it a shifting of responsibility?

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Is it I have responsibility or no more responsibility because I don't own it?

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It's like the idea of who is responsible?

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Where does that go?

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No, it means if you stop paying your car.

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I understand fundamentally what it means.

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It's messed up.

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But philosophically.

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But then again,

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as of right now,

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you technically don't really own anything,

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even if you pay your freaking house off.

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I mean, depending on what state you live in, but if you pay your car off.

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You're paying taxes.

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Right.

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Why?

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Lord knows.

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It's not right.

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Back to Spotify.

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So, yeah, all the services are doing it.

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I personally can't imagine not having my liked songs.

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I understand their services, but I can't imagine not having Spotify.

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Well, I like Spotify's interface a lot.

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And that's my biggest issue is I've tried Apple Music.

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Wasn't much of a fan of their interface, but it's something I can work through.

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can you and youtube music is actually they've got a family plan and it actually

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includes ad free youtube so i was thinking you know if i have to pay that it's

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going to be like 21 bucks a month for us i think because of taxes why not just pay

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an extra dollar and have youtube ad free included

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Because we watch a lot of YouTube.

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We will talk about the budgetary standpoint of that.

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Maybe off camera.

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We're about to fight.

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No, it's not a fight.

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Spotify is probably going to be the same cost as what you're just talking about.

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So you're talking about on principle again.

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I'm talking about on principle and you get more bang for your buck with YouTube music.

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Ad-free YouTube is shit.

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Fair.

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I want to shift gears.

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Not totally, but a little bit here.

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The idea of music, right?

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You and I have talked about this a lot.

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We enjoy music in general.

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Like if you look at our liked songs, we do it every year, right?

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One of our podcasts is let's go through our, what do they call it?

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The wrap up.

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Yeah, Spotify wrap-up, which we won't get anymore because we're canceling it.

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Stop it.

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So we do the wrap-up every year, and our playlists are pretty diverse.

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I mean,

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yours leans a little heavy on our nine-year-old because she does use yours to play

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music throughout the house.

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It's just what it's tied to.

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But anyways, mine is very diverse, wouldn't you say?

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Yeah, you're weird.

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I like it all.

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I'm talking classical music, jazz, all the way through country rock, rap.

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Spoons.

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but charlie marx is good he really is um so when we think about country music you

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and i've talked about this a lot but i know exactly who you're going to talk about

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too no it doesn't have to be just that one individual artist i want to talk about

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it as a broad landscape country music to me is having an identity crisis country

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there's no such thing as country music anymore

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Right.

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I feel like we have very small subcategories of country music now,

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and there's not one true sound of country music anymore.

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Maybe that's not a bad thing, but...

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When I hear songs... By who?

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By Hardy.

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Which is your new favorite artist right now.

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Even our kiddo likes Hardy.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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But when you hear songs by Hardy, or when I do, I don't automatically think country.

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I never think country.

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Okay, there's a couple that may sound, but they even don't sound country.

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It's like more of that poppy...

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And he talks about redneck life.

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He talks about, you know, country living.

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But it's not country.

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The actual sounds are not country.

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There is no like regular guitar.

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It is an electric guitar.

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And it's metal.

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Right.

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It is metal.

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He screams.

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He growls.

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Is there double bass?

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Because I feel like there should be.

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I think there is in some of his stuff.

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Right.

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So to me, Hardy is more, if we're going to call him country, he's country rock or country metal.

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I saw somebody call him Tennessee new metal.

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Okay.

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I see new metal.

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Nashville new metal.

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Okay.

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I guess.

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I don't know.

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He's not the only one though.

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He's not the only one in country.

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He is pop, right?

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Yeah.

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And you have Shabuzi is a new one.

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Just because you sing about country stuff doesn't make you country.

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Right.

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Like hunting and fishing and loving every day.

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That's not country.

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And,

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I'm not taking away from the fact that he is from the South.

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He's from Georgia.

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Like he is a country boy.

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Okay, fine.

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But your music, like if we go back to the roots of country, Dolly Parton.

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Yeah.

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You've got,

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um,

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all the other names are blanking on me right now,

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but you've got people from that generation where country really came from.

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Right.

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Yep.

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That's not this.

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And that's okay.

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Okay.

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Can you call someone like what if Eminem started rapping about living in the South?

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That's not Detroit.

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I'm just saying.

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I'm just saying.

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But that's that's kind of what's happening, though.

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Right.

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And like Shibuzi is another example.

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Shibuzi is country music.

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pop right like all of his music he sure is talking about things in country life but

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the sound right is pop how is he talking about country life he lives in woodbury

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he's from woodbridge

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Well, I mean, we're from Virginia.

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I'm not a country.

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Well, a lot of people say that Virginia is the country.

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Which part?

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Not D.C.

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area.

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No, which Woodbridge is in.

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And the last one that I'll bring up is Chuck Morris.

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This is a new name to me.

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He was on my Spotify radio list of new artists to listen to.

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You almost said Chuck Norris.

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Morris.

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but he was actually rapping in a country song okay and i'm like again fine country

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rap maybe but if we go back to the roots of what country was and is then you would

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see that it's not this i i just don't i don't country isn't there's no such thing

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as country anymore

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That's what it feels like, honestly.

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And A, that's kind of sad.

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Didn't Beyonce just do a country album?

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Well, again, she's she is from Texas.

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She is from I think it's Houston.

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And she has a background that I believe many would say is a country background.

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So sure, that that's who you know, if that's who you are.

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But the sound of the song, which is Texas Hold'em, I think is the song.

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But anyways, I've said it many times.

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I'm not a huge Beyonce fan.

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Anyways, but that song has more of a pop sound.

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That's all of it.

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And that's okay.

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So it's country pop.

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Yeah.

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So I don't think what country music was exists anymore.

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It doesn't.

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And that's kind of sad.

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Yeah, I agree.

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But I still like Hardy.

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I mean, I love Shaboozy.

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I like the Chuck Morris song.

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I like all the Hardy songs that you've been listening to.

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Do you like the Beyonce song?

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I do.

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It's catchy.

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Do you like it?

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I do.

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It's catchy.

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I haven't even listened to it and I don't plan on it.

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Not your genre.

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I get it, but it is a very catchy song.

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A lot of her music is catchy.

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No, that's not true.

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I do listen to country now because I like Hardy.

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You can get out.

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Just leave.

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It doesn't make sense.

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It's so weird.

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But to double down on country here, let's stick with the South, right?

(00:28:50):
So I've been watching on Netflix the new season of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

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It's an awesome show.

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I love that show.

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I watched it back when it was on CMT.

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I have a dance background.

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I used to dance.

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So I love it.

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I like watching the auditions.

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Oh, I like watching the auditions.

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I like seeing them perform.

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I really enjoy that show.

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And one of the things they said on the show really just caught my interest, though.

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They,

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as in the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,

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I'm just going to say specific to them because it was on that show,

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were saying that they have a very low salary,

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meaning they get paid.

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Meaning they get paid as much as a Chick-fil-A worker.

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So I'm assuming that means minimum wage, right?

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I don't see how they can expect more.

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So the way it was explained in the show is they are their own business unit.

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They bring in their own funds,

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their own money,

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because they sell Barbies,

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they sell calendars,

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they sell uniforms.

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Go to events.

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Right.

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They go to events, make appearances, they get paid.

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So that makes sense, right?

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They're their own business unit.

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But I can't imagine that business unit making so much money that they could afford

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to pay these dancers more than that.

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I don't either.

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They don't exist without football.

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True.

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And I know, okay, there may be some people that go to the football game to watch them.

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That's fine.

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But most people at a football game are there to watch football.

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Yep.

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And that's why.

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They are part of the experience.

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Right.

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For sure.

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But that's why the football players make millions and they don't.

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Mm-hmm.

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They're a sideshow.

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I'm not insulting any of them.

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They have skills.

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Right.

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If you go to a concert, there is the main event.

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Right.

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And there are opening acts.

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Right.

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They're an opening act.

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Right.

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It's the same with the WNBA and all that stuff.

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It's like if you want more money, you need to go out there and get more people to show up.

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To show up, to pay for your stuff.

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Buy merch.

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Right.

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All that.

(00:31:23):
You need more people to show up to your games because...

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I don't know.

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What's the Dallas Cow...

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I think it was like 39,000 people can fit in the Cowboys Stadium or something like that.

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Yeah, I think it was more than that because they can fit... They said it on the show.

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They can fit five Astrodomes inside of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.

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Oh, okay.

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So I don't know.

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I don't know what the number is, but... It's huge.

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I'm just saying you've got...

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X amount of people that go there to see the football players buying tickets, buying merch, buying food.

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But then when you swap it over in obviously different arenas,

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but if you swap it over to the WNBA,

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they're not filling stands.

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They're just not.

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Right.

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It's not as popular as the NBA.

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Right.

(00:32:13):
It's not.

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So people complaining about a business that isn't paying them more doesn't make sense to me.

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It's still a business.

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Yep.

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Still has to make profit.

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Yeah.

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At the end of the day, a football team is a business.

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A basketball team is a business.

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How can I pay you more than what we're making?

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It makes no sense.

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I agree.

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In the amount of work that they do out in their community,

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the outreach that they're doing,

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they do a lot,

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it seems,

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for their Dallas community.

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I'm not trying to negate that, but

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When you look at their business unit, how much they bring in their net revenue.

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Right.

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And then they have to subtract all of their liabilities, which is payroll.

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I'm sure that is actually probably taking up a good chunk of the revenue.

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And then whatever's left is profit.

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Are they self-sufficient?

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Yes.

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I see.

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That's cool.

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Yeah, they are self-sufficient.

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But to your point, they are the opening act.

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They are part of the show.

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Right.

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They are not the main event.

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Yeah, I mean, if they want to make more money, they should go out and do events by themselves.

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Right.

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Well, like, think of the Rockettes, right?

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Rockettes do a whole show.

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Right.

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Go do parades.

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Go do... Sell tickets.

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How much the Rockettes get paid?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I'm just saying, though, to make more money, you have to do more events.

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Not eight games a year.

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Yep.

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Well,

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and one of the things they also brought up in the show is the Dallas Cowboy

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cheerleaders have to be...

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in the community right they have to be presenting themselves in a way that they're

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America's sweethearts and they all seem to do that really well however there's a

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lot of control there by the Dallas Cowboys brand if you will as to what they're

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involved in right rightfully so

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Yeah, I mean, they're Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders.

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Right.

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They can't fraternize or date any of the football players, right?

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That's one of the rules.

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Well,

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I also have a personal friend,

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real life,

(00:34:33):
real life scenario situation,

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who posted something on her social media that she did amazing with the writing,

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right?

(00:34:41):
It was very professionally written.

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It was on her specific page.

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And the company that she worked for,

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Did not agree with it.

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Took offense to it.

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So the idea that a company that you work for,

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organization you work for can control those things or have a say in it even.

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Right.

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Seems like a lot.

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Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

(00:35:07):
A little overstepping there.

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But I mean, especially if you're in you're not really in a public facing position.

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Well, that's my question to you.

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Do you think companies should be able to have an opinion on what you post on social

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media or what you're involved in?

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Who you date?

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Ooh, I stumped him.

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I don't know.

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I'm trying to think because I can see it going both ways.

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It's job dependent.

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If you are a public facing person, like you're the mayor of something and you

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you know, you got busted dating your assistant or something like that.

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You're probably going to get in shit.

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Maybe.

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Unless you're on both unmarried and it's a, okay.

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Say it's a, say it's a extramarital situation.

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Yeah.

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Say it's something that's frowned upon in this establishment.

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You're going to get in trouble.

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Yeah.

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But I don't know.

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It's strange to me.

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I don't own a business.

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Right.

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But I could also see where if I did own a business and somebody was out there and

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they were clearly associated with my business,

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being a fucker?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I just feel like I'd probably shit can them.

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Well...

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And that's my right as a business owner.

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True.

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And that's your... Okay, it's your right to post what you want.

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But it's also my right to not like what you post and ask you to take it down.

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And if you don't like it, then I could let you go.

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Or vice versa, you can leave, right?

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Yeah, right, right.

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Everyone has choices in the situation that matters.

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I guess...

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In the specific situation and scenario with my friend,

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like what she posted about,

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to me,

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it had no harm,

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no foul on anything that had to do with where she was working.

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So sounds more like an excuse.

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Agreed.

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It sounds like they were looking to some looking for something to complain about

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with her and they found something.

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And but she she did what she felt was best in that situation.

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She took down her post and left it at that, you know, moved on essentially for sure.

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But ultimately that damages the relationship unless.

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Yeah.

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And that's when you go.

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Right.

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Because it's like, all right, you guys are going to like stick your nose in all my business.

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Right.

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I'm not here.

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I'm not working right now.

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Then it's your choice to leave.

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Well, on top of that, it's almost like it was one of her values.

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I'm just going to say it.

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It was about pride month.

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She posted something about pride month and the company didn't agree with it.

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and essentially said that she shouldn't be voicing those things on social media and

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see what right that's none of your business no and that has nothing to do with any

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anything like that's not disparaging to anybody right that has nothing to do with

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anything yeah see that's different than what i'm thinking i'm thinking like dude

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you're going out in public and you're

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bashing the company no yeah you're vandalizing nothing to do with the company but

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it's like an alignment of values wasn't there so for her she she left eventually

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but when she posted that they asked her to take it down and i think right there is

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what breaks the relationship like we do not have aligned values no so i cannot be

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here see and that's the that's

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That's the beauty of the free market, though, is you can take yourself elsewhere.

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Now, that's easier said than done, obviously.

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But try to find something else.

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Because that's messed up.

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Things like that, you should not be judged about posts like that.

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Now, people are going to disagree with you.

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Everybody disagrees about something.

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But to get reprimanded about posts

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Pride month?

(00:39:28):
Really?

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Right.

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That's a little weird.

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Yeah.

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It's a little much.

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It's like, that is truly none of your business.

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Like what would they have said anything?

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If she said, Oh,

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Happy 4th of July.

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No, I'm happy.

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I'm straight.

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Right.

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Would they have said anything?

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Well, probably not.

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I mean, she, she is an ally to that community.

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Not that she's, you know, in one of the represented.

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Right.

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I understand.

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Yeah.

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But my point is, my point is though, is would they have jumped her shit for saying the opposite?

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Right.

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And I, I feel like they wouldn't have said anything.

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Right.

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And that's strange.

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It's like, OK, if you don't want to see what I'm posting, then don't read it.

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Especially things like that.

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And if it's not about your company.

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Right.

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But like I said.

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Unfortunately or fortunately, it can go both ways depending on the situation.

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They have the right.

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To remove her.

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Mm hmm.

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Because.

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That's sad.

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It's a free country and it's a free country for them, too.

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Yep.

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The owners of that company can say, you know, I don't like that.

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When it becomes a values thing, though, like it's not even just talking the company.

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It's a values thing.

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And our company, the company and she did not align like you made that very clear.

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It's time for me to go.

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Right.

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Clearly it's time for me to go.

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Yeah.

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It's messed up though.

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I don't like that.

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And I don't, I, it's messed up because you, if you think about it,

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There's no real good way to solve these kind of problems.

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Nope.

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Because if you say, well, companies shouldn't be able to fire you for that.

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Well, then that snowballs into this huge cluster.

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It's like, well, you're taking away the freedom of the owner of the company.

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Or you're taking the freedom away from your friend.

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Right.

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She's not allowed to do free speech.

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And it's like, well, yeah, she is.

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But that doesn't mean me as the owner of the company have to agree.

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Unfortunately.

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Unfortunately.

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For that specific scenario.

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Right.

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And I'm not either side.

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I'm not disclosing either side or whatever.

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But it's kind of... It's a slippery slope?

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It is a very slippery slope.

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And a segue from slippery slope.

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I don't know if I like segue from slippery slope.

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Louisiana just passed a law to post the... Whoa, that has nothing to do with the slippery slope.

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Yes, it does.

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Now let me get there.

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Louisiana just passed a law to post the Ten Commandments in all school classrooms.

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Was this voted on by the people?

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I don't know.

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Good talk.

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But I'm just saying, they just passed the law.

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So they're going to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

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What do you think about this?

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So first initial thought, was it voted on by the people?

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If it was voted on by the people,

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to me,

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that is what a majority of people have voted for,

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have voiced that they want.

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So it should move forward.

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Caveat to that, though, is if individuals who are not of that faith are...

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don't believe this should continue, they have the right to challenge it.

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You can take it to the Louisiana Supreme Court.

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Or do you say, I want my religious text posted on the walls in all schools?

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They could very well do that too.

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My issue, it's a First Amendment issue.

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The government isn't supposed to promote or align themselves with any religion.

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Freedom of religion.

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Yep.

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All religions are free.

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Right.

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So they're doing they're aligning themselves.

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That's that is a government agency or a state government aligning themselves with a religion.

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I'm a Christian and I think this is bullshit.

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I'm not going to disagree.

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My caveat here is if the people voted on it.

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The First Amendment is very clear that the government shall not

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I understand.

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But if the people voted on it and that's what they want and that's what lawmakers

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in that state said,

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okay,

(00:44:12):
people said,

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yes,

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we're going to pass the law.

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Then our judicial system needs to get involved and say whether or not it's constitutional.

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That is a constitutional government.

(00:44:23):
Yeah.

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And it's not,

(00:44:24):
in my opinion,

(00:44:25):
it is not constitutional because your state government is aligning itself with the religion.

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And I don't,

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Go to Louisiana and defend them.

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And I don't think that's that's right.

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There's a separation of church and state.

(00:44:38):
Yep.

(00:44:38):
And you're clearly not separating.

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We need to add another one at this point.

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We need to have a separation of church and state as well as a separation of state and social policy.

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Yeah, I agree.

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We need complete separation of religion and social policy from our government.

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For sure.

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It is insane how much they are trying to control and be involved in.

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I'm on a soapbox now.

(00:45:02):
Let me come back down.

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So the first commandment is about God.

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You won't believe in another God, but this God.

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Right.

(00:45:14):
Right.

(00:45:17):
That is against other children who are of other faiths.

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Correct.

(00:45:22):
I understand.

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That, like I said, I believe in the Ten Commandments because I'm a Christian.

(00:45:28):
Oh, I've got something to say about that.

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However,

(00:45:30):
to all these people that are over there that don't believe in Christianity or Jesus

(00:45:37):
and things like that,

(00:45:38):
it's like this,

(00:45:38):
how does that make them feel?

(00:45:40):
I'm getting so excited about this conversation.

(00:45:42):
Okay, go.

(00:45:42):
Okay, go.

(00:45:45):
On The Chosen,

(00:45:46):
the new season came out and the episode,

(00:45:49):
I can't remember which episode it is,

(00:45:51):
but Jesus is explaining to his disciples that the Ten Commandments,

(00:45:57):
yes,

(00:45:57):
are the laws of Moses.

(00:45:58):
They are very important, but they do not trump anything that Jesus came on this earth to do.

(00:46:05):
We are Christians.

(00:46:06):
We've already said that.

(00:46:07):
Believe in Jesus.

(00:46:08):
Big Bib Jesus.

(00:46:10):
Him saying that, like the example was, but we're supposed to honor our mother and father.

(00:46:16):
And Jesus says, you can honor your mother and father, but not before or above me.

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Right.

(00:46:23):
Yes.

(00:46:23):
So,

(00:46:25):
yes,

(00:46:25):
you can put the Ten Commandments in school if that's what people voted on,

(00:46:29):
but the judicial system should be getting involved because Jesus said the Ten

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Commandments do not come above him.

(00:46:37):
It's just strange, though, how...

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I don't think that made any sense what I just said.

(00:46:42):
But it's strange how.

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Because a lot of the people that are supporters of this will get super mad if

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another religion said,

(00:46:50):
well,

(00:46:51):
we want ours on the wall,

(00:46:52):
too.

(00:46:52):
True.

(00:46:54):
Rules for me, but not for them.

(00:46:56):
It's like, no, no, no, no.

(00:46:57):
That's why you don't put any of that shit in school at all.

(00:47:01):
Yep.

(00:47:02):
And that's a home thing.

(00:47:05):
And a personal quest to go on and learn about.

(00:47:11):
Yep.

(00:47:12):
It's not a school thing.

(00:47:13):
Right.

(00:47:14):
School's not there to teach you a religion.

(00:47:16):
And that actually, it really does make me kind of angry.

(00:47:20):
Because that is not the place for that.

(00:47:23):
Agreed.

(00:47:24):
I think... But it's also not the place for a lot of stuff.

(00:47:27):
It's not the place for social policies.

(00:47:29):
Exactly.

(00:47:29):
You teach me math.

(00:47:30):
Yep.

(00:47:31):
You teach me history.

(00:47:33):
And you teach me science.

(00:47:34):
Mm-hmm.

(00:47:35):
And English.

(00:47:36):
And then you send me home.

(00:47:38):
Yep.

(00:47:38):
That was the weirdest face I've ever seen.

(00:47:41):
It went away because you made me... Okay.

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Well, yeah.

(00:47:45):
I just...

(00:47:48):
it's schools are turning into indoctrination stations.

(00:47:54):
When I feel like people would argue with you on what you just said about teach me

(00:47:57):
those basic fundamentals and send me home because a lot of kids aren't getting that

(00:48:03):
at home,

(00:48:04):
aren't getting the social training,

(00:48:06):
aren't getting the exposure to all of these other things that goes through life.

(00:48:12):
It's like,

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But that's a home problem.

(00:48:15):
Yeah, that's not a state issue.

(00:48:17):
Right.

(00:48:18):
You don't you don't then blanket say,

(00:48:21):
OK,

(00:48:21):
everybody,

(00:48:22):
every kid that goes to public school now has to learn about all these social issues

(00:48:27):
and all these religious issues and all.

(00:48:30):
No.

(00:48:30):
Right.

(00:48:31):
That's separate.

(00:48:32):
That is a home thing.

(00:48:34):
Yep.

(00:48:34):
And if it's not at home, they'll learn it.

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Yep.

(00:48:37):
Yep.

(00:48:37):
Kids are freaking smart, man.

(00:48:40):
Ours is she catches up on stuff and we're like, Oh, if they have screens, they'll figure it out.

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I promise.

(00:48:46):
Yeah.

(00:48:46):
It's just wild though, that they're thinking that this is a good idea.

(00:48:49):
I just, like I said, I'm a Christian person.

(00:48:51):
I don't think school public schools,

(00:48:55):
a state run thing or a government run thing should be involved in religion or

(00:49:05):
social issues for sure.

(00:49:10):
So I had a dream the other night.

(00:49:12):
Oh, God.

(00:49:13):
Did I get punched when you woke up?

(00:49:16):
No.

(00:49:16):
I am a very vivid dreamer.

(00:49:19):
I have been that way since, honestly, as long as I can remember.

(00:49:24):
Yeah, you've sat up in the bed and typed.

(00:49:29):
I used to work at a hotel.

(00:49:30):
And, yes, I was checking in.

(00:49:33):
Whatever we called them.

(00:49:34):
A guest.

(00:49:35):
Thank you.

(00:49:35):
A guest to the hotel.

(00:49:36):
I sat up and I was, how am I going to help you?

(00:49:41):
Like, damn, you should call them up and get overtime.

(00:49:45):
Checking people in from the house.

(00:49:46):
That was one of my first big girl jobs, and it was very stressful.

(00:49:50):
But most recently, how detailed do you remember things from your dreams?

(00:49:56):
Rarely.

(00:49:57):
Literally, I had to look this up.

(00:50:01):
I had a dream about an address address.

(00:50:06):
A full address.

(00:50:07):
Don't know what city, state, or zip I was in, but it was 4755 Moshel.

(00:50:12):
I can't remember if it was Drive, Court, Street, but something.

(00:50:17):
Did you look it up?

(00:50:19):
I did.

(00:50:20):
It doesn't exist.

(00:50:22):
Okay, good.

(00:50:23):
It doesn't exist,

(00:50:24):
but it was the strangest thing that it was in my head when I woke up,

(00:50:29):
and I had to look it up.

(00:50:32):
I had to.

(00:50:33):
I don't think I've ever been able to remember that much about my dreams.

(00:50:38):
Oh my gosh.

(00:50:39):
Like it was insane that an address stuck in my head.

(00:50:45):
It's kind of weird, right?

(00:50:46):
Yeah.

(00:50:47):
A little crazy.

(00:50:48):
Oh, you almost didn't answer.

(00:50:53):
And I was going to congratulate you, but.

(00:50:59):
Okay.

(00:51:00):
Have you heard about the Hawk to a girl?

(00:51:03):
I did.

(00:51:04):
I don't know how you couldn't have heard about Hawk to a girl.

(00:51:07):
That's how you should have asked me.

(00:51:09):
Have you not heard about the Hawk to a girl?

(00:51:11):
Uh-huh.

(00:51:13):
Yeah, she's very popular right now.

(00:51:15):
Yeah, she's a living meme.

(00:51:18):
Mm-hmm.

(00:51:19):
Yeah.

(00:51:20):
I don't even know what to say about it, to be honest with you.

(00:51:26):
I thought...

(00:51:27):
People are dogging her like, her dad's going to be so proud.

(00:51:29):
It's like, honestly, she was being funny.

(00:51:33):
And it was funny.

(00:51:34):
Yeah.

(00:51:35):
I thought that was funny as shit.

(00:51:37):
And everybody's like, oh, the Hulk 2 girl's dad is like... I'm like... But... She's being funny, man.

(00:51:44):
In all of the music that's out there today, there are...

(00:51:49):
wop for example well and how many girls are and dudes are on only fans and all that

(00:51:57):
shit selling access to their hawk tours hawk tours but it's just weird though it's

(00:52:05):
like i don't know you guys are dogging this girl about being freaking i thought it

(00:52:12):
was hilarious to be honest with you but being really funny

(00:52:16):
But who actually does that Haktua sound?

(00:52:19):
I've never heard a Haktua.

(00:52:22):
If you Haktua'd me, I would be fucking pissed.

(00:52:27):
Because that's disrespectful.

(00:52:30):
Oh, God.

(00:52:31):
That's Luke-ian.

(00:52:33):
right that's what i thought too like she's talking about a loo game that's that's

(00:52:38):
not like it's just a friendly that's nasty you're about to become your own little

(00:52:47):
meme that's okay you're gonna be immortalized i'm just saying that's disrespectful

(00:52:51):
neither there's no hawk to in over here that's that's vile i've got a final thought

(00:52:56):
for you final yeah i cast over

(00:53:00):
Before it's over, do you hug with your eyes open or closed?

(00:53:04):
I don't know.

(00:53:08):
That's a weird question.

(00:53:10):
So going back to the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, they all hug a lot in all of those episodes.

(00:53:17):
And some of the girls have their eyes open.

(00:53:19):
Some of them have them closed.

(00:53:20):
And I'm like, oh, no, what do I do?

(00:53:23):
I feel like my eyes are open.

(00:53:28):
Yeah, I feel like my eyes are open because I'm always looking out for like ninjas in the woods and shit.

(00:53:35):
Ninjas in the woods when you're hugging somebody in the house.

(00:53:38):
Fucking weird stray cats out here in Florida.

(00:53:41):
You hug our daughter before she goes to school.

(00:53:44):
Looking all over.

(00:53:46):
Where's our cat Benny?

(00:53:47):
Yeah, I'm always on high alert.

(00:53:49):
I'm serious.

(00:53:51):
I'm terrified.

(00:53:52):
So now I'm going to be very conscious as to whether my eyes are open or closed.

(00:53:55):
You're going to just do it like that.

(00:53:58):
I'm both.

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I'm going to watch out for the ninjas.

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All right.

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So we have swapped hosts again.

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Oh.

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We went to, we are now on, let me just, let me just back it up here.

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Yeah, do that.

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To manage a podcast, it takes a lot of tools, right?

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You were very good at it, yeah.

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We had a Patreon, we had a website, and then we had a host.

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Two or three separate tools, and they all cost money, and they aren't cheap.

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Uh-huh.

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Well, Substack is all three of those tools in one.

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So we've got a website through Substack and now we have our Patreon membership.

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It's not really a Patreon membership anymore, but that's through Substack too.

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And they host our podcast and video episodes.

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Please, please sign up.

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No, you don't have to pay us, but sign up for our newsletter.

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It helps us kind of raise up in the sub stack rankings.

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It's kind of nice.

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And you get you can sign up for free.

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It'll still send you our weekly or biweekly updates and episodes.

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And we're also going to start posting some blog type stuff there, too, because it's kind of fun.

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You know what I'm saying?

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But we're also this is the thing we're going to do some

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specials yeah vip or paid subscriber only episodes to kind of entice you in joining

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giving us some money yeah what did you want to call the the vip membership i don't

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remember unfiltered heathens or something like that no what you lied to me free or

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free opinions i don't know it's still on the whiteboard the heathens were better

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Thanks.

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My first idea was better.

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Okay.

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Gotcha.

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