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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel Show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would be the Nigel from the Hammer and

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Speaker 2: Nigel Show. That would be the Nigel the Hammer, the

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Speaker 2: Jason Hammer right over there with a very special in studio.

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Speaker 1: Guest, the Traffic Beasts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt Bear joins us the best traffic reporter in

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Speaker 3: all of Central Indie.

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Speaker 1: Man, how are you doing? Matt?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for the kind words.

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Speaker 5: It's great to be here on this huge, huge weekend

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Speaker 5: coming up for downtown Indianapolis.

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Speaker 2: So I used to have for some reason, my wife

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Speaker 2: and her friends would always have their their friends Christmas

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Speaker 2: party downtown on this weekend with the Big Ten championship,

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Speaker 2: and I would shake my head every time for years,

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Speaker 2: what are UK's doing? Are you crazy?

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Speaker 1: And that's about teams we didn't even care about. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know, Jack Iowa be here in.

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Speaker 3: Michigan State this year. Kurt Signetti and those Indiana Hoosiers

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Speaker 3: are involved.

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Speaker 6: Matt.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: We have the local kids in town and this is

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Speaker 1: It's like the FFA is in town. All the little

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Speaker 5: Running around, except instead of teenagers looking up at the buildings,

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Speaker 5: we're gonna have drunk people looking up at the buildings,

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Speaker 5: and those are the ones you have to walk out

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Speaker 5: for on the crosswalks. Okay, And I know not everybody's

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Speaker 5: going to be driving downtown this weekend. It's a good

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Speaker 5: idea not to drive downtown this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Man, oh man.

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Speaker 4: It was already starting with I was kevin in a

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Speaker 5: We had people with their jerseys on and things and

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Speaker 4: You know, they're just having fun.

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Speaker 5: I'm not mad about it, but there was some jaywalking

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Speaker 1: That's kind I'm telling you, man.

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Speaker 3: I know everybody thinks it's going to be some IU

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Speaker 3: to this whole Big Ten Championship, traveling with their team thing.

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Speaker 3: They go hard in the paint. Man, buck guys are

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Speaker 3: going to be represented tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Are they well behaved? Are they going to behave themselves

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Speaker 3: I can't promise that, Okay, whatever joking aside, though, downtown tomorrow, Matt.

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Speaker 3: In addition to cold temperatures, we still got a little

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Speaker 3: a big time basketball game, there's a big time football game,

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Speaker 3: and people are shopping, people are going on date night.

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Speaker 3: It's downtown Indie on a Saturday. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 5: No, it's gonna bedlom. It's going to be the wild,

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Speaker 5: wild West. And I do like it when it's like that.

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Speaker 5: As far as the people out having a good time

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Speaker 5: else can, and I love to see it. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it end's going to be a good weekend in downtown.

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Speaker 5: But again, you have to be careful and you have

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Speaker 5: I mean, you got to watch those rams and bridges

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Speaker 1: I still can't make it up my driveway. The man

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Speaker 2: I had to kind of turn into the yard to

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And Matt, I'm sure you probably get the feedback

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Speaker 3: We're criticizing the decision makers, right because those people are

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Speaker 4: Yeah, i'mb right there with you.

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Speaker 5: It's like whatever I report a semi crash, I'm not

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Speaker 4: You know, it's the same thing.

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Speaker 5: And a lot of times with these salt guys in

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Speaker 5: delivering the salt, you put it down beforehand. But as

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Speaker 5: far as the plowing goes, you have to wait to

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Speaker 4: And we you know these like when.

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Speaker 1: Does Matt Maher start plowing in the forget in the snow?

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Speaker 1: Just you could have stopped the.

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Speaker 4: Plowing medical into hell of a drug.

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Speaker 3: That should be your next podcast, Plowing with Matt Bear.

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Speaker 1: It's a dating show.

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Speaker 5: You're plowing in the snow with Mad Bear. Seven step

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Speaker 5: process number one. Yeah, it's nobody's yellow. Get the plow

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Speaker 5: drivers and they're cool and they're working their butts off.

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Speaker 5: And remember a lot of times when we get upset

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Speaker 4: And sometimes they're like, well, we don't really believe the forecast.

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Speaker 5: No salt goes down and everybody is sliding all over

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Speaker 3: The decision makers have their phone and their text message

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Speaker 3: is set to silent. Whenever I see somebody that'll set

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Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes you know, every time one of my good

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, well, you know, SO.

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Speaker 1: Needs to get a hold of the person that's trying.

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Speaker 1: We really need to get a hold of this perduel

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Speaker 1: has that's setting on it. I've tried to add dull.

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Speaker 2: I've tried to text Abdul before excuse me, I'm driving.

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Speaker 1: I'll call you.

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Speaker 3: Back by the way, speaking of plowing. Twenty five more

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Speaker 3: likes and we'll get that Ai Alison video. Oh at

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Speaker 3: some point on our social media twenty five more likes

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Speaker 3: on the YouTube stream. And if that's not a motivating

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Speaker 3: And Matt, you look like a million dollars.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I was kind of just joking around with it. Was

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Speaker 5: I was flexing for the YouTube jat It's yeah, thanks man.

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Speaker 3: It's it's like, how do you stay in shape during

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Speaker 1: I'm not quite as buff as you are, Matt, but

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Speaker 3: But I found myself trying to behave a little bit

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Speaker 3: more but still enjoying life and enjoying food.

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Speaker 5: That's excellent. That's what you have to do. Sometimes. I'm

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Speaker 5: it's just okay, how is this radio show so?

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Speaker 3: But then they when they grab your shoulder and whisper

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Speaker 5: No you do, I tell them, I say, I won't

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Speaker 5: kind of tickle my ear too. It's like this radio show,

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Speaker 5: how why is it so good? Well, it's because of consistency.

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Speaker 5: You guys work together, and you know that's the same

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Speaker 5: thing with anything you do, like exercise. You have to

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Speaker 5: be consistent. In this December, I don't see for a

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Speaker 5: single reason I'll stray from my diet or my regime

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Speaker 4: That's all it is. It's it's what hard work is.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you have to cheat day?

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Speaker 2: Not really like I mean as a recovering alcoholic. I

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Speaker 2: realize that's a a whole different animal. You can't cheat

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Speaker 2: on that at all. But can you have a piece

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Speaker 2: in a while?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 5: The problem I have is is, and I had this

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Speaker 2: Is with certified this paperwork you have to fill out.

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Speaker 3: Somebody is getting a six figure salary to see Matt

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Speaker 3: Baar pantils on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's official, fifty more lights, that's all we need.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's uh, it's just I'll have a cheap day,

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Speaker 5: but it won't be anything significant.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll go get a euro across the street from

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Speaker 5: you know, so eat the price. So you have kids

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Speaker 5: And I know nothing about being a pair, but it

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Speaker 5: sounds like a good life. It sounds like you're doing

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Speaker 3: Man, I appreciate that bad as totally. And look, it's

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Speaker 3: okay to ask for help, whether it's in weight loss

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Speaker 3: to Premier Weight Loss. Now full disclosure, I've become an

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Speaker 5: Well, these products and like with Premiere weight loss you're

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Speaker 4: And I get that a lot here at WIBC.

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Speaker 3: Have you learned as you've gotten older it's easier to

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Speaker 3: ask for help Because when I was younger, and this

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Speaker 5: and it's it's just in the evidence that if you

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Speaker 5: the reason is, for yourself, for your wife, for your kids, you.

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Speaker 4: Go out and you say, how do I do this?

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Speaker 5: And hopefully you're asking the right people, the people you

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Speaker 5: a friend or family, a member enough to say, here's

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Speaker 5: what you're doing wrong in my opinion, and here's what

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Speaker 1: Because that's a good friend, right there. Matt Bear, what

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Speaker 1: clip do we have?

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Speaker 5: We have Supporting I'm on this podcast Fellas Allison.

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Speaker 4: It's called Supporting.

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Speaker 5: Sobriety and it's for the caregiver of the recovery now

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Speaker 5: caholic and addict Dad. I do this with my glorious

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Speaker 5: WIBC Supporting Sobriety podcast and actually tomorrow we're taping an

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Speaker 5: episode on Christmas and inviting your addicts. Still in use

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Speaker 5: Christmas festivity, So just gonna be good stuff for the caregiver.

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Speaker 5: And one of the things the holidays are just it's

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's tough.

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Speaker 5: There's so much families, maybe some fractured relationships, and it's

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Speaker 5: tempting to kind of think, Okay, this is a little

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Speaker 5: steal a drink here, and it's very.

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Speaker 1: Possible for that to happen.

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Speaker 4: Make a poll, yeah, sneak a little bit of a poll.

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Speaker 5: And you know, anytime you think about that, there's always

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Speaker 6: And I'll tell you what, man, when my father first

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: A wreg.

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Speaker 4: He was a bank, he was a credit card.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I tried to extort him. I tried to extort him

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Speaker 5: That's the fun thing about addiction is that you never

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Speaker 5: do anything wrong. Sure, yeah, everybody owes you all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I was a victim. Yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a victim. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: People have treated me like crap my whole life and

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Speaker 5: this is not my fault. And that's the interesting thing

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Speaker 5: when we start to attack our emotions and I don't

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Speaker 3: So, Matt, we're up against it here. But where can

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Speaker 3: we find this podcast? Because it helps so many different

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Speaker 3: types of people. I love this. Where can we find it.

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Speaker 5: Supporting sobriety at any major podcast provider? I use Apple

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Speaker 5: and Spotify. You can find it anywhere at sobriety, Underscore,

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Speaker 5: pod Onix, and Instagram.

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Speaker 4: We'd love to have you.

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Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you, thanks for having me.