Ep. 263: "Rear Admiral Crunch"
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hello hi John hi Merlyn how's it going
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super good
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are you having a nice morning so far a
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pretty good morning yeah T good morning
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you know I'm trying to I'm trying to
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practice better sleep hygiene I've heard
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rumors about this yeah and the Sun now
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the Sun has become my friend the Sun
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accommodates us it's finally like a
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normal day yeah I accept we're about
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daylight savings time it again uh like a
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week from now it's all gonna go to shit
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it's only in the last week that sunset
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feels like a normal time and I don't I
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don't mind the dark mornings but it
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feels like it came up I mean you're in a
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different latitude longitude you're in a
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different horizontal than I am that's
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latitude what does that do to your day I
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mean it's both right cuz I remember
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being in Portland and thinking their
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time feels different here it is
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different yeah and the summertime the
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Sun doesn't go down until like almost
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10:00 but in the winter especially after
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the after the the daylight savings time
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comes in the Sun Goes Down at 4:00 yeah
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and so that's too early John that's
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right it's the worst and there's no
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reason for daylight savings time up here
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it doesn't it all it does is is pummel
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us nobody cares if it's like light at
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give your family more time to collect
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their potatoes yeah yes so so appalling
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it's like when you get home from work
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it's already dark when you get home from
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school it's like already dark there's no
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daylight that is hard on my lady friend
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man she works for a living
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it sucks to leave work while the Sun is
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setting is gross it's terrible well you
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know what I was growing up in the winter
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you never saw the Sun I had a classroom
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my fifth and sixth grade classroom was
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in a converted locker room because the
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hotter the school my elementary school
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had been a Catholic school like a
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private school and somehow the city
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absorbed it but there but it wasn't
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quite big enough to to accommodate all
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the students and so they and also there
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weren't
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locker rooms because it was an
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elementary school now instead of I mean
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I think it was a Catholic junior high or
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something okay so they turned the locker
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room into a into a class and it was
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great in there it was like this it was
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like this little it wasn't little it was
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big but it was all carpeted they had
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carpeted the floors I think they'd
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carpeted like they put carpet on
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everything they could and it just felt
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like a little womb in there but the
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problem is you would go in in the
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morning and it would be dark and you
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would come out at night and it would be
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dark and it was like you just I mean I
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guess on sunny days they would they
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would give us recess and we'd go outside
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and get a little Sun but there were
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windows right so you couldn't look out
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and even see no good that's good body
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clock it does but it was like living
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inside of a beanbag chair I'm talking
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about it I kind of miss it I would take
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it go back to my fifth grade class and
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just curl up in the corner and read
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watership down a Sat book you left alone
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it is a sad book huh
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it is that book um I want to circle back
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to your sleep because I I'm not up to
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date on your other program but I'd like
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to hear about your sleep I'm just saying
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I've talked about this too much lately
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so I'm just gonna say this I'm uh I have
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feelings about time and I have a lot of
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feelings about time and keeps on tickin
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and yeah I my thought on this is just
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pick one just pick one good time I mean
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if we're gonna do daylight saving time
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let's do that all the time if we do the
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other one let's do the other one but
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let's just do one and stick with it it's
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the change is you have a kid now that's
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old enough that you're probably facing
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this when daylight saving time starts it
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feels criminal to a child
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mm-hmm it's not even near sunset you're
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supposed to go to bed while the Sun is
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still visible in the sky I will farm
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people no thanks Marcia are we what what
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what is happening we need to just get
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one in and stick with it I think that
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Jim I have a lot of other feelings but
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just for the purposes of this program I
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just want to say let's not
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overcomplicate this it seems like
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daylight savings time
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and the electoral college gam starting a
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list are the same right they're both
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things that we need to eliminate but
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there's a lot of investment in it that
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no you know it's like the sunk cost
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fallacy nobody really cares what we've
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invested in them like it's not it's not
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like it's not like it would cost us
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really any money we just were just
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emotionally invested in these dumb ideas
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that are and also like the electro
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college is getting worse the time thing
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sucks but it's always sucked mostly the
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same the electro college problem is
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getting worse yeah but there's no you
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know that's not like the it's not like
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the people in power presently are going
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to do anything about I know I know but
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as more people move to cities and as
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collections of various political parties
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tend to get more kind of collect or pool
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down to these same areas I mean come on
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Montana really it's awful so but what do
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we do it's another example of of what
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what of a situation where they just need
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to give us the keys let's that
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do-nothing Congress Congress keeps
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changing or changing our clock the
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government wasn't it Arizona that
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decided in their in their way the path
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they passed a referendum where they
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wouldn't celebrate Martin Luther King
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Day and also they wouldn't go on
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daylight savings yeah oh yeah and is
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that still true is it still the one
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state that won't switch over hip-hop
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songs about that I feel like and I'm
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pretty sure that Arizona is still off
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the daylight saving time but you know
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there's videos you can watch about this
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that are that will that will make you
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extra super mad because there are there
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are areas where like to two different
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sides of the street you know are like in
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different times there's stuff it's just
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bananas oh I'm so mad already
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yeah that's I'm so mad I'm so mad you
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know that's like splitting families
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apart it's like kind of temporal Civil
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War yeah that's right that's exactly
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what it is one side over here the other
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side over here it's got no soup yeah and
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the brother against brother but the
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other one doesn't find out for an hour
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it's just like in East Germany I
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remember seeing after they took the wall
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down there were all
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these situations where it I guess when
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the wall was there it was maybe less
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clear because there was a giant wall but
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when the wall went down you realized how
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many places came out in the countryside
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that they'd that just like in Berlin
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they ran this wall down the middle of
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the street and there was a house over
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here and there was a house over there
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and all of a sudden there was a no-man's
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land between them where they had been
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like neighbors where you could call from
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the porch and like your Leahy who that's
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that's so arbitrary it's like a tornado
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you know you just it's ridiculous right
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it's crazy it's crazy and and you you
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can stand in those places now and just
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be like wait a minute wait a minute wait
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wait these were two separate countries
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before like like really it's across the
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street what else goes on the list I've
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got don't talk about your sleep I got
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daylight saving time I got the electoral
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college are there other things that were
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once a good idea for a reason that are
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sticking around in a way that's that's
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perhaps harming us more than helping us
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hmm that's a good question
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yeah we'll think on it I got I got a
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list start it if you think of anything
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well you know I'm thinking I'm I'm
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thinking about that stuff all the time
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you know I usually usually think about
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it in terms of like top-down
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organization rather than bottom-up
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organization mmm-hmm
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I mean there are ones that are just like
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bees in my bonnet you take like
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something like a fax machine where it's
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almost like like anthrax or polio or
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something we're like as long as any of
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them are still out there we might get a
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fax or need to get a fax they need to be
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eradicated think we need to just say as
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a people we were not going to use this
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it lets served a very important purpose
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but there are so many better ways to do
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that at this point unless met with fax
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machines on the list yeah please do you
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know until very recently only it feels
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like only a year ago even I was still
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getting emails from people saying well
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just fax just print this out sign it and
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fax it back to me and I always refused
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to do it
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and there were a lot of well
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yeah it's been like oh no you DocuSign
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but I do a lot of my business on my
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phone and a lot of those apps are badly
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well I don't have to tell you about an
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app that's badly you said this to people
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in positions of power or basically if
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you can't do it on your phone you're not
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gonna do it right and I said I said to a
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guy the other day he was like well just
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send me an invoice for that and I said
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you and I've been doing business for 22
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years uh-huh do you need me to fucking
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send you an invoice are you serious are
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you serious right now
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you need an invoice from me legging
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write it out on a piece of paper and
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sign my name to it you know I don't give
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a shit but what world are we living in
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they use yeah I need to send you an
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input Britney's for a system probably
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sky Sesenta the thing is I sent him one
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he's like oh I can't open that because I
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because I did it in pages because I
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don't have word I don't know I don't
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know man I don't know send a text file
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it says send me $200 motherfucker right
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so don't make it a check I'm putting
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checks on a list so he says oh well if I
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was the business I can't send it to you
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because I'm not the business manager if
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I was the business manager I'd do it and
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I'm like you're the manager what do you
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mean business you're doing with the
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manager manager you're the manager
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manager you telling me that the business
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manager has got some system that you are
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like yes ma'am Trump won but DocuSign
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and I know this is not a plug but
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they're like just put in your email
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a pint of blood and stand here and put
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my email address and for my blood
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you know what you're gonna get before
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you get a email address I want you to
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fax me the receipt yeah I want you to
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fax it between two slices of bread
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go on about checks but you know the
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thing is a check made sense at a time
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when you hmm
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the Czech people oh no sorry now I'm not
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talking about the metal the metal is no
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sense so like if you want to get your
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sea-monkeys right you might you might
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send a senate check or what a check or
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your rent because it doesn't make sense
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sense to send your $200 rent check or to
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send your $200 in cash in the mail look
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you don't want to do that no and so you
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say please accept this little piece of
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paper with my signature that's going on
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the list with my signature on it so you
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know it's me and then my bank will give
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you this much money if it's in them it
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made a lot of sense but now
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doing that so much now people especially
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the millenniums the millenniums don't
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even understand what cash is anymore by
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some Altoids and the user leaves their
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chip card yeah
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that's why I keep I keep paying
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millenniums for things in in Canadian
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currency because they don't know the
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difference I'm like here you go this is
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two loonies and a toonie and they're
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like thanks thanks man priests process
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is real gold
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that's a Canadian doubloon blooney a
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doubloon e huh yeah they they put it up
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into their mouths and they they bite on
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it because they've seen Olympians do
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that with their gold medal our
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prospectors counterfeit money I learned
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from prospectors I actually still get a
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book of checks oh I think I know because
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I pay people that come around oh sure
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my psalm wouldn't turn down a check I
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bet no no in fact they paid him with a
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check I pay people that come around I
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like to have every kind of financial
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instruments available because there are
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a lot of people that I do business with
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the don't they don't trust the banks do
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you want a German bearer bond yeah
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that's right that's right and the way I
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get them is that I shut down the entire
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electrical grid mmm
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ladies and gentlemen I give you the
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f-b-i smell that coffee they pack them
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with coffee but I just I just found out
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the other day because you know that I
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don't like to sit and yell at companies
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or corporation you know that's not gonna
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happen I don't like to do it but
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recently Chase Bank some kind of a
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problem and Jesus was now in your bed
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box yeah there's a problem we've written
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a thousand word letter to them to the
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States Attorney General so so you know a
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letter was drafted a minute went out and
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we edited it down
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and now it's ready to send cowboy the
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about it when I was growing up we always
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used the National Bank of Alaska and
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there were a lot of there was the bank
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it's a National Bank
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well the National Bank of Alaska it's
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the bank of the nation of Alaska okay
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when my dad worked for the Alaska
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Railroad we used the Alaska Railroad
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employees Federal Credit Union and that
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was my first book of checks and when my
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and that was like 12 years old my dad
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was like I'm getting you a checking
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account and I was like oh my god I'm so
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big I could almost drive and they let me
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pick out the kind of checks I wanted and
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of course I got the ones with the
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Western theme that looked like old
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parchment and my checkbook looked like
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hand tooled leather that's a good look
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that's a really good look it's really
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impressed by it and so because I wanted
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to be prepared I went through and I
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signed every check in advance so I
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didn't have to worry about doing it a
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hand-tooled leather book of checks a
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blank side checked in
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that was my first experience before that
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my bank account that I had down here in
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a bank book they not only millenniums
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one book yeah but even like Generation Y
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won't understand what that is but they
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give you a password a book like a pass
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it was and it was like a little ledger
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yeah and every time you made a deposit
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they would like write it in this book
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and and and every time you you admit it
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withdrawn so you could keep this little
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book oh my god I pored over this little
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book you know because every every time
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somebody would give me 25 cents I would
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put it in a shoebox then when I got up
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enough money that it was worth a trip to
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the bank I would carry my shoebox in to
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the bank and give them and open the lid
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and say like here I made a dollar doing
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this and I mowed the lawn for six weeks
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and let's say say that there's a lot of
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people in life
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they loved kids because everyone had all
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the time in the world but that's true
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that's true
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you can't there be 16 people at windows
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yeah right and the carpets on the floor
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and they were giving away toasters going
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to the baby I got my first digital clock
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radio came from a bank bank right first
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Supertramp was on a bank radio really oh
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the rig wasn't at the bank no no I had
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to take it home plug in and take out the
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box and whatnot yeah but National Bank
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it wasn't a real digital clock it was
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one of the ones that flipped away
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couldja flipper Chuck I was at a thrift
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store the other day and I saw one of
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those and it was the same one that I'd
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had as a kid and I I was walking through
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the shelves you know looking at all the
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crap and I saw this thing from afar and
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just had that like that bursts of
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familiarity of like what the hell is
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that like there I've seen a billion
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clocks at thrift stores why am I having
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this reaction I walked over to it and it
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was like yeah oh the but this is the
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button that I would every morning hit
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hoping that I would the alarm would stop
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bringing in that I would never have to
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go to school again speaking of sleep the
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one that I had when I was probably at my
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nearly most sleep-deprived I want to say
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around eighth grade it we had a real
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nice feature if you're having trouble
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sleeping you can get sleep at night and
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you know what I do before the minute
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card flipped you behind a little bit
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just a little bit of like pumped up I
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guess it's 12:03 now Oh back with bings
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word things Oh things were just things
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it was so simple then these were things
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clocks were clocks well I hope you'll
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follow up and you know get a response to
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the letter oh well so anyway this is bad
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OPSEC for even talking about banking
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things but since you're walking out the
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door I guess you're free to talk about
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it yeah no it's good that so so
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Washington Mutual I got my first washing
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mutual account really early on in
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91 because I tried to use US Bank and US
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Bank had this program that they were
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really excited about they touted this
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program called overdraft protection
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where if you if you wrote a check and
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you didn't have enough money to cover it
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they would cover it
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it was overdraft protection that's
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imagine I was like I was like that's
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gonna be great you guys cover it
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fantastic alright and then I made the
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natural assumption that when you then
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put more money in the bank they paid
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themselves and whatever little charge
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they had and and everybody was good but
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in fact what overdraft protection was
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was the a paid your debt and took the
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amount that they'd paid and put it in a
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separate account because they were loan
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it was alone oh that's how they get you
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yeah and so then I would make my deposit
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of my paycheck and burp interpreter
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Merilee on my way well one day I went
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into the bank and they were like you're
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you have $500 in your overdraft
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protection account and it's accruing at
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24 percent interest or something like
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this and some banker told this to me and
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I was like what are you talking about
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because each one of these $20 checks
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that had that had would that would have
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bounced oh it's accruing toward them
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were them oh that's that's the wrong
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kind of accrual right and they had not
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it was not clear and they were like oh
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well if you'd read the fine print on the
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thing that you signed it was one of
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those if you'd read the fine print
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things and so at the time I was pretty
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young I didn't fully understand the
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repercussions of everything that I did
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and I said I am closing my account good
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day sir
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and that set in motion a situation where
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I was getting phone calls in an attempt
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to collect a debt and any information
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will be used by Miranda uniforms for
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spor eleven more years so ye every time
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every time I had a house phone mr.
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Roderick
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does it make you feel like a big man not
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to pay your bills but anyway I went to
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Washington Mutual I loved my
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relationship with them they were right
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there on Broadway I remember them being
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in Florida it was they were they became
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a big bank but they were originally a
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local bank
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I had a count number that when I would
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when I would go up to the teller and
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they would read my account number they'd
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say oh wow you've been here a long time
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this is the old style of account number
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and I always took a lot of pride in that
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you know I like I like to have an old
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style account number and then they got
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too big for their britches they screwed
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up they they became a big behemoth and
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they fell apart well they lost a little
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bit that personal touch
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you really did they really did and they
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also lost like several tens of billions
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of dollars yeah and then they were
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absorbed by Chase Bank a faceless New
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York banking enterprise and and largely
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it was because of my old account number
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my mind now like account number that
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predated five different iterations of of
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the bank but I just hung in there I was
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like all right I'm gonna hang in there
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you know because I've got this account
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number that starts with zero five nine
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or something which you know which it's
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it's hard for me to you know when I call
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triple-a and they're like thank you for
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being a member since 1997 I'm like you
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goddamn right uh-huh
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you goddamn right triple-a you provide a
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good service even though you're even
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there customer service is about 50/50
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yeah anyway Chase Bank has started they
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wanted us to use their take a picture of
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the check in a little little deposit
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nothing yeah but in the last year they
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have disappeared three separate checks
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know where they they said your check has
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been deposited here's your number you
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know here's a transaction up and they
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sent the people who whose check it was a
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canceled like canceled check the back X
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Emily but did not deposit the money
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that's that feels like I don't want to
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talk out of school here that feels like
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a a failure at a fairly fundamental
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level for what one considers a
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professional bank for what a bank is
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being asked for what we still actually
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need a god damned bank to do that's
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right and so they're like hey early
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adopter grab on this technology where
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you just take a picture with a jack why
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do we do it's like when you go on do on
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an app and they're like oh just put your
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phone over your credit card and we'll
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scan it and then it'll be in your
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account and you sit there with your
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phone trying to square up the credit
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card like a minute and yeah you know I
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could have just put the number in by now
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anyway so we so it was my bookkeeper who
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discovered this my bookkeeper who said
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wait a minute
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there's like five thousand dollars
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missing that's a lot of money John it's
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a lot of money so we called them we
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called their customer service operation
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which was in Bangalore right next to
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where they make the torpedoes okay and
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we talked to some people who they were
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able to resolve it very quickly I
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imagine ultimately what they said was
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that a banking relationship between a
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bank and a customer is a relationship
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that requires some mutual effort in the
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sense that the bank can take your money
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and give you a number for the exchange
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but then it's really the onus is on the
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customer to make sure that the money was
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there oh you fucked up this is what
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they're saying by not being sure you
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didn't follow up follow up make sure the
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cheque went through is that what
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happened yeah I didn't check the bank's
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work and that was part of our mutual
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obligations one I'll see now you know
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yeah the bank takes my money and get and
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tells me that it's fine but then I have
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to make sure mmm
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so that precipitated well that really
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really kind of like if you think about
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what is it bad
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actually good for I mean one of the
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obvious things is like okay they got a
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pretty secure facility if you want to
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put your deed in a safe-deposit box you
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would do that if somebody sends you a
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piece of paper that says it's worth
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$5,000 they'll take care of that what
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they said then you know you should
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really be checking in on that box you
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should pop in once in a while make sure
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that deed is still there the way you
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left it
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yeah make sure that the that we didn't
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like break it open with a crowbar
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I thought you pushed it our relationship
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so believe you me my bookkeeper really
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had a lot to say on this matter and
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wrote she tends to write very long
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letters and then my job is to you know
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punch him up a little bit make make him
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a little bit tighter tighter anyway
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she's going to the state's attorney
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general but in any joke a but you're the
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manager in that case yeah but we have so
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we're now switching our bank and I and I
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this is another Bank I've had a long
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relationship with it because this was
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the bank where I did the banking for the
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Roderick group right and what I had
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realized I didn't know this I guess
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because I had registered several aliases
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at that Bank because I was in a phase
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then before I started before I really
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started taking by the kitchen if you
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have the option of registering an alias
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I would I would do it out the door what
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I did and didn't even realize I done is
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that you can write me a check you can
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write a check to hashtag supertrain and
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I can catch I can cash it please someone
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do this and I don't know why like four
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years Wow if somebody's like oh yeah I
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can write you a check just say like yeah
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make it a hashtag supertrain I can do
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that Wow what is that ever seen I could
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see that screwing up the system because
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that's got a special character in it
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well it does and I'm and I'm not sure
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about whether or not the hashtag is just
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for fun
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I see but to accuse about this heat now
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well and I and I actually I sent an
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email to my banker and I was like can I
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really do this and then I realized wait
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a minute I can get checks made that say
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hashtag super training oh my god
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I could get a platinum business card
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that says hashtag super train on it oh
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and if it was one of those new ones
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where the numbers just like kind of
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itched on the back that would look so
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badass it's super bad I'm okay for this
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bounce on super train it's also also I
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can get checks written to all the great
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shows oh my like I don't even remember
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doing this I must have been in an
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absolute fugue state and I think at what
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I did at the time I was very busy I
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think even my banker offered me the
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option of getting checks made with with
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a stencil picture like a like a clipart
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picture of a GMC RV on them and I guess
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I I guess I maybe forgot to give him the
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go-ahead on that now I'm kind of now i
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partly regret it and partly am kind of
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fine with it but I don't have this so
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you're moving thanks that's good it
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feels like a good step but now you're
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gonna feel like you need to ride that
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like if you do the I mean that's a
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pretty common thing now you take a photo
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of a check yeah like you feel like you
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need with your new bank or your new old
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thank you super training bank you still
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feel like you need to kind of ride that
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and monitor the relationship well it's
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interesting because when I was at
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Washington Mutual I didn't have enough
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money coming and going that I had a
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banker but I knew the tellers you know
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I'd go in there and like hey cuz I it
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was like the old style of banking those
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people worked there for a long time and
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you would go to posit your paycheck all
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the time you would he'd go in there and
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it was two blocks from where I work and
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it was like part of your day go to the
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bank that was part of the ritual like go
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to the butcher shop go to the bank there
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was like this is this certain like these
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at least weekly errands that I was
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compelled to attend as a kid that were
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just like part of life go to the post
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office yeah
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right oh stop aside fire 13 cent stamps
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most of his bank hardware store or
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grocery store that was back when I
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tiny little letters i smart then I
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packing tape it was like a piece of
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paper and I would put packing tape over
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you know this is we still had the
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specter of nuclear war hanging over our
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bunker at any time oh I'm reading a book
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right now about the United States
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government's like the basically the cold
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war strategy for continuity of
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government and I'm the hole like where
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the plan started during the Truman
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administration like wait a minute
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if the Russians were to drop a bomb on
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the White House do we have a plan right
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for that and the answer was no why would
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we never had a plan like like like the
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first I think that somewhere in the book
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is a story like the first day of Harry
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Truman's presidency after FDR died
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they're like you're the president now
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and he was like great I'm going to the
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bank and he walked out the door of the
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White House and started walking to the
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bank where he had where he did his
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banking and and the Secret Service was
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like chasing after him and they shut
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down the street and suddenly all of
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Washington DC is like paralyzed because
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the president like snuck out a side door
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and went to the bank and didn't realize
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or didn't factor in that he couldn't do
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that he was already vice president how'd
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he not know that but as vice president
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in 19 in the 45 but like in the 40s like
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just because he wasn't he wasn't FDR's
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vice president until that that final
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term right until 40 44 44 and up until
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that point you know he'd been a senator
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in it so wait a minute if he was elected
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in 44 he came in January 45 so he'd only
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been that was April when Roosevelt
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thought it
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he was he was vice president for two
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months oh my goodness and then it's like
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oh you're the president now I if I knew
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that I forgot it that's super
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interesting it's really interesting and
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I think the story is that he can't that
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he got a message like Harry come over to
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the White House we need to talk to you
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and he said huh that's weird
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I've only seen the president twice since
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the election I wonder why I wonder what
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they want and he walked over to the
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White House and Eleanor Roosevelt was
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waiting for him oh my goodness
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and she was like Harry you're the
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president now and he's like shit I gotta
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go to the bank until the middle of the
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war there was no Secret Service
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protection for the vice president they
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didn't think it was necessary who would
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bother so he just walked around and then
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I think it was then they realized oh
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wait a minute he's the next in line and
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FDR could die any day we'd better put
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we'd better give him two agents you know
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to kind of make sure he doesn't get lost
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and and and Truman there's more like
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minders yeah and he was like get off me
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you know you get out of here kid you're
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bugging me but then he realized oh you
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can't do that anymore Harry you're the
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president but so this book yeah it's
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about all of the secret you know grass
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gradually and I I didn't know this
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either but there was a whole period in
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the late 40s early 50s where
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conventional wisdom in the United States
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seemed to be that our future as a
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country was going to involve us
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basically moving our industry
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underground because of the threat of
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nuclear war yeah yeah so that a
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seemingly survivable nuclear war that
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will let us continue to have milling
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machines underground for perpetuity
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that's right so they so government
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agents went around and did an enormous
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survey of all the caves in the United
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States and they were like well let's see
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if we just requisition all these caves
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if we eminent domain all these caves and
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we build like
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General Mills I guess it's real this is
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real dr. Strangelove in the mineshaft
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gap was not so far off no no no they
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were it was it was it there was a period
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there and I think it was I think
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depending on who you were talking to if
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the period was either long or short I
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think a lot of people in government who
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had actually seen the pictures of her
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Oshima were like oh wait a minute this
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is a lot worse than we thought there's
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nobody there's no surviving this yeah
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but they didn't really they didn't
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disseminate that to everybody and so
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there were a lot of people running
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around like well you know not just
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building bomb shelters but but but
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really envisioning that the entire
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country was going to move out from the
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cities get out of the center so that we
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weren't as easy a target and sort of you
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know like disseminate our business and
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and and manufacturing sort of out into
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the out into the woods the United States
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basically becomes a series of Horcruxes
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so we distribute everything and I've
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seen that that movie where they were
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sunglasses when they're watching Bikini
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Atoll we should be pretty good to go we
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dig a hole be hard it's three into
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Oklahoma and everything will be fine
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yeah there were actually real estate
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advertisements at the time for houses in
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upstate New York and southern Virginia
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that we're like you know this is a
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beautiful farm it's well outside the
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blast zone oh my god was this also run
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so I mean I there's gosh there's been so
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much presidential stuff floating around
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about just boy laws work like when did
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it is it officially like a law a rule
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policy for example that the President
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and Vice President don't fly together
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isn't that a thing so this happened
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circus it's that era is this was that
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era okay yeah that that that they
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realized that the this is when they
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developed those elaborate hierarchies
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where you know I mean it's on it I think
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it had always been that the that the
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Speaker of the House ascended to the
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presidency if you know that the
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President and the Vice President were
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finally codified like when interior
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comes into the picture yeah and this
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went all the way down to eventually what
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happened was if the Secretary of
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Interior dies there the guy that's
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running the Tennessee Valley Authority
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is next in line to become Secretary of
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the Interior in the future
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administration post apocalypse and
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somewhere down the line there there's
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like there's a list of succession that's
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like 60 people deep like that's insane
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like the mayor of Skokie Illinois
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becomes the President of the United
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States at some point if the 75 people
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ahead of him in line are at we're all
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vaporized and every single cabinet
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member also has this train of potential
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successors and in situations where the
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US gets on a real war footing all of
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those people know they're on that list
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and they get some like like like some
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telegram activating this like DEFCON 1
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thing that it actually has a name like
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that like like con-com when when this
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set of conditions occurs this plan goes
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into action the word goes out we're now
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in space White House mode right and some
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of those people the Tennessee Valley
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Authority person or the person that is
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in charge of the Grand Coulee Dam like a
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federal agent or someone else empowered
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to do this shows up and becomes that
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person's bodyguard like we need to
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protect you sir like don't you can't go
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to the bank today because you are a
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forty second in line to be the Secretary
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of Housing in human welfare or whatever
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yeah so and so as the 50s wore on the
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government became less and less
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convinced and then less and less
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interested in this project of putting
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the American all of the American people
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underground and all of our industry they
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were like you know what
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this isn't gonna work this is really
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something very scalable no like Carl's
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brought the bad Canyon's we could put
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like it off you pretty I think it cave
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is pretty moist John it's how its moist
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it's disgusting it's dark it's there's
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not much parking no and where the where
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the potties where would you go where
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would you go out to smoke
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I'll think about that at the time that
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would have been a big issue not a huge
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issue what do you do you gonna go up the
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mine chef's you're gonna ride an
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elevator outside to have a but every 20
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minutes I'll tell you what I'll go up
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your mind chef's fifties but so the
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government did not abandon this project
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when it came to themselves so they so
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basically they as far as the American
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people were concerned the government was
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like let's do that civil defense thing
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where we show them a lot of like
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cartoons kids ducking and covering and
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hey that was the extent of the plant oh
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and they built the interstate highways I
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guess in the internet and well
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eventually I mean is that in the book
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but isn't that at least the lore that I
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always heard was that what we could
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consider the Internet today started as a
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DARPA project to be able to maintain
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continuity of communication and
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structure after some kind of a
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devastating event yes right and that
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whole problem that so I'm I'm not that
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deep into the book but that all came
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after they realized oh wait a minute
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how are we going to like how are we
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going to stay in contact with the
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Department of the Navy if everything
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blows up how are we going to stay in
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contact with General Mills how are we
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gonna get our Captain Crunch and little
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by little you know they he got a you got
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a field promotion he's a colonel now
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Colonel crunch he'd be the captain is
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like a colonel right he'd be Admiral
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crime this is confusing so you think a
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hot guy hot guys a captain with two bars
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in the army but I believe a captain in
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the Navy is like a
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colonel or yeah full yeah full fuller
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colonel that's right okay so come on
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he'd become a would he become a
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brigadier general he would become a rear
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end he'd become rear admiral car things
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but so they continued to build secret
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installations for government people to
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survive the war caves and and
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underground bunkers not just the one
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from war games but like all over every
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single state has an underground bunker
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for the government people to escape to
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and all these elaborate plans and they
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have they have secret laminated cards
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that have not only the numbers of all
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their friends written on them but also
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dr. Strangelove were written and
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directed by Wes Anderson yeah right you
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get walkie-talkies you get laminated
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cards you get cool uniforms oh I bet I
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bet those what what is it's that
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Terminator movie the third one where
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they find that that bunker in the
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mountain right isn't that the third time
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they go in and and the whole thing is
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decorated super mid-century multum at
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bachelor pad right right it's like it's
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like it's like the Playboy Mansion
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except like hardened against the ground
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has a real grotto and does that come in
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it okay no but it has a lot of a lot of
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hanging moss that came from the sweat
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in there coughing there'd be in that
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cave that wet air those pall malls farts
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have you been recently to a hotel that
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has not been upgraded from from times of
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your well I feel like I got I think you
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told I told you my sad tale of woe where
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I got stuck in
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where was I anyway I recently got stuck
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somewhere my flight got canceled had to
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stay overnight and you know I'm a
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Marriott man they put me up in a
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Marriott and I think it was that rare
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thing where I was in this Marriott
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probably right at the end of the cycle
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where the furniture is a little
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oversized and like brown wood and stuff
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it hadn't gotten that light look that
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you see in most hotels today right yeah
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yeah yeah I mean it always strikes me
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how much especially given how many
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basically old like disused SROs get
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turned into hotels now like it's weird
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what gets attention and what gets
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upgraded but yeah most of them seem like
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they've gotten an upgrade in the last
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10-15 years but do you still get
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somewhere there's like also the one you
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were at in San Francisco where there's
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bits of carpeting that had been replaced
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because probably blood total it's that
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was a total SRO a classic a classic
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hotel that probably until recently
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sure-sure down to a shared bathroom
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right well the rooms had bathrooms and
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and looked like bathrooms that had been
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there a long time but but almost
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certainly almost certainly 25 years ago
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if you walk down the halls of those of
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those floors it would smell like fried
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fish because people had that is not a
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very friendly thing to fry in an SRO oh
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my goodness oh my gosh she's gonna cling
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to every fiber and it's not gonna it's
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gonna be like close to like a bait fish
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quality probably like a lightly saute
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column and I've looked in it enough in
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enough doorways at a guy in an
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undershirt you know when I was 22 or
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whatever I didn't realize that the world
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was gonna change yeah cuz this looked
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like what did it what I what it looked
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like in the 50s you know until then
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until the 90s there were still in babies
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[Music]
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but there were always like old guys in
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undershirts fryin fish on hot plates in
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single that would always be true I
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didn't realize that all those hotels
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would become a so tells and I just look
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at my phone trying to find where were we
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where were we when I met the guy from TV
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and we hung out and you got the nice
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room and I got the not nice room was
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that was that Portland guy from TV TV
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with the jaw I like James oh sure James
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Urbaniak I like that guy yeah that was
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the that was a classic hotel comedy but
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don't you be putting the bones down the
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sink that was the hotel room where I
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opened the door one time in there just a
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mystery well there was a single
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walkie-talkie lying in the center of the
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room I was like the beginning of an
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adventure and mine looked like I don't
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know like an updated version of the
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prisoner it was it was like it was a
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very very tidy cell yeah yeah put a TV
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in a hotel room John well because Lingus
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is that what it is like there's no place
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there's nope there's no drawers you can
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only hang your clothes basically you get
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throw pillows and kind of Lingus that's
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the whole thing right you go in there
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you're gonna wash your hands you might
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well sure you might want to brush your
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teeth but like is it because young
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people have so much sex they just want
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to get on the bed is that what it is cuz
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the bed is real central to the room no I
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think you come in you put yeah here's
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what you do you take your your dynamic
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abag you set it down you pull out your
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can of mustache wax cotton can of hair
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wax you can of eyebrow wax your hogs fat
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hair tonic you you untie your
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the next thing it's gonna be oh sheikh
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is good artisanal handcrafted
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bindle yeah you let your hair deal it's
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gonna be your source neckerchief tied
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around an artisanal responsibly sourced
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stick that's right that's right well
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yeah like a like like a renewable stick
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renewables it's gonna be like that a
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hardwood flooring site on NPR it's gonna
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be all recovered hobo sticks that's
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right holy sticks that they found in a
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pile at the big hobo mass it's like it
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reduce like you don't you don't make a
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didgeridoo you find a didgeridoo okay so
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you go in the room you're ready for some
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kind of Lingus you take out your bindle
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you got so here was the philosophy
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initially you remember initially you
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first heard of boutique hotels well and
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artisanal anything oh okay right we're
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going all the way back workers set the
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set the Wayback Machine to all the way
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back to the first time you heard the
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word artisanal bread okay right all
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right now hearing about we actually have
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a loaf in our refrigerator right now
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that says artisan bread then I think
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bread if memory serves is the first
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thing where I heard somebody use that
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where they didn't mean like you're an
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artisan making wagon wheels you're not a
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Cooper you're not a Fletcher right an
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artisan bread right okay I think the
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first time I don't remember the first
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time I heard the word art artisanal but
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well the first time I'm saying was from
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you but I think I think I've really
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given that one some legs you sure did
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yeah I think the first time you said it
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I had I had about 30 seconds of like
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very slow thinking where I was like what
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but but so I dated I dated a gal in the
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90s who was part of that whole I've told
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you about her who was part of that whole
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take find jeans in Montana for 50 cents
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bring them to Seattle fine
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like old jeans for 50 cents at thrift
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stores in Montana bring them to Seattle
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sell them to a broker from Japan for
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he will take those jeans to Japan and
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sell them for $15,000 really early on in
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this case pants minor she was and I know
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a guy who was a literal pants prospector
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and he made a fortune he bought himself
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a house just driving around Montana in
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that weird era where all these old guys
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were dying their old buckle back Levi's
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were going to the goodwill and and you
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could drive around and just go to good
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wills and just flip through stuff and be
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like oh check out these jeans they're
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worth $20,000 and I don't want to break
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the goof here how far off is that really
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how much were they were they charging
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for jeans in Japan like over $1,000
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sometimes up to five figures and you got
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some really authentic 60s made in the
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USA a Jefferson Airplane era Levi's in
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the right condition with the right
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what's called Hin gauging J jeans okay
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he gave you're gonna you're gonna be
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able to move that up to five figures I
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mean right now if you find a pair of of
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sixties biggie Levi's you can sell them
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online for good good money but there was
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there was a bubble in that market just
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like there was a time when when a 1959
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Les Paul I mean there were 59 Les Paul's
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that were selling for a million dollars
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that's not true oh I see bubble yes yes
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said you know what yes yes yes yes
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they're like a tulip type situation yeah
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so there was a while where it felt like
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so yeah right here I have a pair of
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vintage 50's biggie Levi's for $5,500 Oh
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jiminy on Etsy we've got let's see
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now those are from nineteen so this pair
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of jeans from 1987 is $250 like this
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world still exists there's a nice pair
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of vintage men's Levi's xx great
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acid-wash jeans mmm they're after $4.99
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so you can just pick those right up
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acid-wash jeans can you believe that 32
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36 that's a slender to kind of taller
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fella but there were these but but the
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even older Levi's the ones that had like
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a buckle in the back okay were were
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super prized among the the like fashion
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cognoscenti in Tokyo and and I don't
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think you can still get that kind of
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money but this friend of mine who did
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this work who drove around Montana he
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said I have my retirement and my like my
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escape bag mice might keep a small bag
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packed yeah under my bed I have two
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pairs of jeans in this bag that if I
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need to I can live off of he sure
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wouldn't trust it to a bank no it's
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under his bed you know there's a famous
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story of a woman that was out in the
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outing the sort of outside of Sacramento
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and she was just out in the gold country
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they call it gold country and she found
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a mineshaft that was just sort of open
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and she walked in just touristing you
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know just like pooping around boopity
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boop and kind of walked into the mine a
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little bit maybe further than you would
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do if you weren't bold and turned a
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corner and there was a table and there
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was a pair of jeans on them that were
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like a old patch two pair of jeans and
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she pulled him out of there and was like
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oh look at these you know look at these
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old great jeans and they'd been patched
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and whatnot and she brought him out and
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they're the oldest pair of Levi's like
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oldest surviving pair the oldest pair no
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one at Levi's had ever seen them and she
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brought them in and they became like
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these talismanic pants that
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you know that were just the earth right
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right but so that was my first
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experience of understanding that there
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was value in something that wasn't an
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antique but was you know like a soft
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good and it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't
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clear where the value actually was other
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than scarcity I guess scarcity also it's
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interesting how I mean guess this is
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obvious but it also sets a new bar in
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some ways where you think about like oh
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wow it's almost like breaking a record
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right like where somebody breaks a
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record and breaks it by like more than
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5% you're like wow we're capable of much
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more than we realized
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and so that might kind of reset the
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market a little bit cuz now people can
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go oh are there more of these out there
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should we should we go a little bit
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deeper into the cave and see if there's
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some special pants that's exactly right
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and I remember sitting at her because I
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would sit and watch her do her job and
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people would come in with a big stack of
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Levi's did you get bring it I for that
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oh you get a really good eye and she had
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this she already had that that attitude
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you know she had really really dark
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brown hair and she dyed it black she
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dyed it black for no reason like it was
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already as brown as brown could be and
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she was like black dark dark red
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lipstick and she would sit and smoke
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cigarettes behind the counter where she
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worked and people would say I got all
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these Levi's and she would she would
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flip through them with such disdain
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we're so attracted this woman I haven't
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met the person on the other side would
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just feel so bad for themselves for
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bringing this stack of jeans down to her
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and thanks but no thanks for these but I
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will take this pair and you're just like
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wow she was one of those people that had
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the ability to go to a thrift store buy
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a puffy coat and make it seem like it
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was from the future mm-hmm it's like how
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did you make that seem like it's from
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the future that's like a mom coat from
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1981 and she's just like I don't know
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man that's a gift yeah why are you
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talking to me and it's like I'm your
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boyfriend yeah yeah I'm an idol to talk
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to you but so I think the premise as we
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moved into the whole thing
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moved into the whole thing
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like well these boots admittedly these
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boots are $500 the premise was that
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you'd only need one pair right mm-hmm
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right it was it was that yes things that
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are made in America things that are made
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by hand are gonna be a lot more
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expensive this is how you get to the
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artisan thing you're here this is how
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you get okay so it's gonna be a lot more
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expensive but where you're already used
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to paying thirty five hundred dollars
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for a pair of baggy jeans if you're
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anybody you're just making that mental
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transition you're not gonna have seven
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pairs of these boots you're gonna have
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one mm-hm and then just sit with that
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for a second you're just gonna need one
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just one just one it's gonna be very
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expensive but it's all you need is the
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one it's like finding the one true beard
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go yeah yeah that's all you need you're
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gonna have one can of mustache wax not
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four and that idea like I remember it
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kind of reverberating it actually it it
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hit the top pair of Levi's in the stack
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of 40 pairs of Levi's I hadn't had
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reverberating all the way down to the
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bottom and I was like wait I only need
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one pair of Levi's I think that's wrong
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I think I need all these maybe I don't
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need all these Levi's right but I
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definitely need more than one pair and
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then that was all of a sudden there was
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denim that was made at the that the
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white cone mill in being oz back
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Tennessee or whatever in roz but
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whatever
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Carolina it's like oh man these jeans
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are five hundred dollars but you only
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need one yeah jeans are tough now if
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it's a top hat one one really nice
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artisanal time pad yeah don't wonder
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from a small batch Tennessee top but I
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think when they check into those
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fisherman's hotel it's all coming
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together now you know what it would be
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embarrassing don't don't embarrass me
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don't embarrass
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self by giving me the fucking drawers
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what am I gonna put in drawers I have
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one pair of pants on the top hat yeah
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you open the door to your room
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there's no TV there's a walkie-talkie on
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the floor there's two hangers and
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there's a little Larry source neatly
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sourced hangers locally-sourced hangers
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that are carved out of out of
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prehistoric whale bone uh-huh
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you hang your one jacket that cost
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$1,200 on it you put your artisanal
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boots on the floor and then you lay back
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and read your artisanal book you know
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anyone you don't take a few jacket your
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jacket is one of those like bandleader
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ones right there's there's no jacket
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required you're walking around you're
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one pair of pants you get your band well
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what do you call that kind of jacket
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like an atom and jacket there's a name
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for that yeah I would say it was the it
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was the what is the Buddhists ik guy
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what is he called he's the covered this
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damn ant vest
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what's the address best called it's a
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collar jacket you got the knot
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bandleader it's good it's a sergeant
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major the something major the drum major
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yeah but there's a name for that
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particular vest you talked about the one
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with the multiple but the Frog ings and
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stuff on it and they got the Frog in his
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waistcoat they call it a waistcoat in
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England to make it even more confusing
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how they do oh man there's so much
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vintage out of man stuff look at all of
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this you can get it Bonaparte hat
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we call him Bonaparte cause we're still
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mad at me we're against him we're
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against him not for it I'm the one that
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needs to adjust I need to get out of
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this mindset I have I'm gonna bring
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seven pairs of me undies for the two
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days that I'm there I need one pair of
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underwear I need one grand master jacket
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with frogging x' a 31 top hat and even
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though I don't have a mustache I should
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probably bring some some mustache soils
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you can use it on your eyebrows okay if
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you get one of those pairs of Mac weld
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and silver Underpants yeah those aren't
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cheap but you can wear those day in and
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day out because the silver will
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anesthetize the buck
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the antimicrobial silver add the
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microbial yeah our thanks to hellofresh
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for supporting this episode of Roderick
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on the line hello fresh hello yeah
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Froggy's I I was in the market for this
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kind of thing not very long ago as I was
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compiling my King Neptune outfit yeah
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and I contacted a man in Canada because
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what I really wanted was a jacket from
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the Royal Canadian Mounted Police but
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what I learned is that the Royal
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Canadian Mounted Police iconic red
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jacket is not only copyrighted by the
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police but you
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never owned your Mountie jacket when
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you're a Mountie you are only in Lent
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you're just inhabiting it for the for
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the role for the that's right
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because duty the jacket is is sacrosanct
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and just like the way you refer to the
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Queen you've got the Queen but the Queen
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is different from the throne right and
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you got a pope but that's different than
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the Vatican or the papacy there's this
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thing that's bigger than you that you're
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just inhabitant in that case it's a red
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coat yeah you got the Pope over here
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yeah it's like getting a soup right the
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jacket the the emblem of the Mounties is
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is a thing that when you're done being a
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Mountie you give the jacket back so you
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don't see Canadian punk rockers out
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rolling around in old Mountie jackets
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with the big energy it's not like West
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Germany green jackets that are just
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everywhere no it's not and so I am I was
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up in the Canadian internet I don't know
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if you've ever been to it that's the
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dossier
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yeah and it's um but you know there's
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it's almost like a fully functioning
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internet up that's a lot friendlier
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but I'm up there and I'm like look I
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want one of these and they're like sorry
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hmm and then I found a guy outside of
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Ottawa who as far as I could tell lives
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in a shipping container okay and he's a
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very friendly man he actually wanted to
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talk on the phone quite a bit and
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because he was helping me I indulged him
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in this and I spoke to him on the phone
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for a long time and heard all about his
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many adventures driving a truck in the
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Yukon Territories and living in a big
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house with a lot of friends that he
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doesn't have anymore
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but one thing he does have is a small
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collection of jackets which were used in
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the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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Academy oh pretty good and they are in a
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lot of ways fancier than Royal Canadian
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Mounted Police
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normal tunics they're called tunics by
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the way okay
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and because they're like cadet jackets
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right it's not like you're the rank and
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file these are the these are the
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hotshots so they've got a lot of gold
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braids on them and I don't even know if
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the if that Academy still makes them
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wear these jackets but somehow the fact
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that they were cadet jackets meant that
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there was a loophole and he had some and
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I wanted that also you're you're not as
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far as I know Canadian so are you are
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you on or bound are you stealing
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Canadian valour by wearing that because
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it seems to me if you're from a
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different country you should be able to
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get the real deal well but this is the
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thing they're not letting him go they're
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not letting him go the scarcity begins
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scarcity yeah you serve at the pleasure
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of the President
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Yeah right like gifts for the Queen who
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works for the crown it's all that it's
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all that stuff all that stuff that
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government stuff that my dad used to
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have around when he was working for the
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federal government that would say like
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when you're done using this pencil
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return it to the federal government
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[Music]
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anyway so this guy very unusual person
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and and these jackets had an unusual
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sizing system and he and I were
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negotiating
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what what jackets he had and he I said
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listen just send me the biggest tallest
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one you have I know there are big tall
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Mounties but I'm not willing to take
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chances so send me the biggest tallest
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one you have well the jacket arrived and
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it was neither big nor tall but it was
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the biggest one he had and so what I
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have Merlin is a mount is a of 60s Royal
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Canadian Mounted Police Academy jacket
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how long is it well I think it would fit
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you perfectly oh my god but I don't want
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to give you things that you don't want
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right because because there are all
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these people trying to give you things
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you don't want I have a whole closet
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full of things I'm supposed to give you
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at some point but here is this thing if
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you wore this around you would be so
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adamant fancy there's no one in America
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that has one it's called a hazhar a
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huzzah search for hu s SAR hu s s AR but
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isn't aren't I gonna get a bunch of Hot
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Topic stuff here no I think you'll be
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safe I think it's hard to knowing you
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know your Google is not my Google your
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grandma is not my grandma you know so so
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try try try googling it and then you get
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some mannequin in a hussar Oh hussar
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Azhar it looks like for fifteen hundred
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dollars you can get this one Napoleonic
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Wars Dolman
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it's a French hussar Dolman more
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specific Sha Tsui I just literally this
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week really
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Dolman is the kind of sleeve I learned
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about on Project Runway Dolman is a kind
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of sleeve you can you learn about on
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Project Runway I'll be kind of sleep you
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learned about on Project Runway hussar
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hazhar as how did you learn about it and
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why oh because they were talking about
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making a Dolman sleeve and they said
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they're kind of tired of seeing that
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look and they want to see them doing
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something else it's not in black what is
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a Dolman sleeve I think it's where it's
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part of the eyes I don't know exactly
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but I'm not gonna look it up because I
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don't screw up my search history I got
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his are in there I don't wanna mess
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myself up I think it's when you gotta
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front to back and the sleeve is implied
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by the general shape of the garment it's
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not like a separate sleeve that you sew
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on whyphy and now I'll find out if I'm
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what is it called Dolman Dolman now why
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did I not know but was the problem with
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the problem is that there's a lot of
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steampunk overlap here hmm and the
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steampunk overlap anytime I'm walking
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through the world and I walk into any
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kind of Venn diagram that is like
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overlapping a steampunk Venn diagram I
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tread very carefully it's a little bit
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like Juggalos where like there's a
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certain amount where you have like a
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kind of awe and respect but you don't
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you don't necessarily want to be a
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Juggalo you've got to be careful that
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you just state Juggalo adjacent yeah
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right and and with steampunk like I like
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leather
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I like brass sure I like gold braids you
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would love to have a leather typewriter
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I like little tinker II things yesterday
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I was at one of those I was walking
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through one of those little towns where
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the and it's a here in Washington it's a
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little town on the ocean that has a
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store that's basically selling old
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fishing net there's a guy was literally
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a corncob pipe that's meant selling old
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net but then but then the town is is
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trying to decide whether it wants to get
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fancy or not or whether it even can get
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fancy okay
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and so there's a little store where
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there's a guy selling cigars but he also
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sells like nada que Lea hmm and I can
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put that up in your seaman's hotel I
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can't resist it right so I'm in there
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I'm looking at old barometers and I'm
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like how many barometers can a person
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have in their house but you get some
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really nice giant ass compasses you get
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big compasses right nautical nice
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nautical compasses really polished
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really you know like I said like I want
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a sextant I don't even know why oh you
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could use a sextant I bet you could pick
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that up in a weekend but this is really
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reckoning distances like by Sunday what
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I don't want though is to have a chance
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to have more stuff in my house that is
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steampunk adjacent because I already
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have a lot oh yeah yeah yeah you know
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when you put it all into one place
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yeah tells a different story than you
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want to tell so I find this walk give a
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deep sea diving suit no okay have you
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ever wondered what it's no real a suit
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no no no no no really it's too big
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well too big okay do I want one yes but
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am I too claustrophobic
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yes oh I just meant to hang there no but
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if it was there I would want to put it
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on put it on a panic attack put it back
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you might be like I gotta put that on
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act of steampunk self-immolation I have
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12 different Stetson fedoras and I would
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never wear one outside but I wear them
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around the house all day now and I'll
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see another I'll see a fedora like
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across the room and I'm wearing one and
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I'll walk over and I'll take the one I
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have on off and all the place oh the
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other one too
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you gotta have two threes too two is one
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one is none you know like I want a
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shoulder holster yeah what I really
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wearing it wearing my pistol under my
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blender my Levi's best in case you got a
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pistol with a punk but I realized I
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think probably back then that and and
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then this entire show the entire history
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of Roderick on the line all points to
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one thing which is that I should never
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ever ever carry a concealed weapon
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interesting because I'm an eight I'm a
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natural-born Sheriff hmm and all those
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dummies out there carrying you know like
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carrying pistols are all and it was a
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lot of are not even officers they're not
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at all they think of themselves as
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sheriff's too but the problem is I know
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I'm a sheriff and if I was carrying a
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gun around
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I would be sheriffing all the fucking
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time and that is not what the world
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needs there is not a single parking lot
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that you attend to that would go on
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sheriff
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I would sheriff I would I'd be
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sheriffing everybody I'd be like one of
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those Australian Shepherds who's like
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every time he tries to run kids talking
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to the air you grab their pants with
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your teeth you pull him back in New York
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that's you yeah that's you with a pistol
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in the parking lot yeah that's not what
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I mean froggy went a-courtin and he did
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ride but I do want a shoulder holster
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and I'm not sure what to put in it
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obviously oh no I'm not gonna be my
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phone I think what it should be as well
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a collapsible brass telescope
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oh no you to travel sextant you only
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need one but I don't wanna know and so
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here I am I'm looking at these huh Sarge
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jackets huh huh and I'm like oh I really
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like that oh that's fun that's fun stuff
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really fun
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