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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I will say there is one topic we can

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Speaker 2: bring up from last night's Broadway musical we saw with

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Speaker 2: Darren Chris. Yeah, and it has to do with I'm

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Speaker 2: afraid to say, I don't gonna give anything away.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you do it, Okay.

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Speaker 4: So I mean the whole premise of it is about

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Speaker 4: retired helper bots and what they're doing with their lives

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Speaker 4: and you know, all that kind of stuff, and it

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Speaker 4: really makes you think about your identity in relation to

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Speaker 4: your career, what you're doing when your job ends, when

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Speaker 4: your career ends, if you retire, whatever it is you

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Speaker 4: get laid off, how much of your identity is wrapped

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Speaker 4: into that? Who are you without your career?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 4: It's a lot to think about, and I think especially

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Speaker 4: in what we do, and I know it translates to

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Speaker 4: so many other things, but I only know us with

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Speaker 4: what we do. I've seen so many spirals after someone

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Speaker 4: is not doing this specific job anymore because they tied

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Speaker 4: so much of their identity into what they did every

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Speaker 4: day for a paycheck.

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Speaker 2: And it was just something to think about, Yeah, what

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Speaker 2: are you without that? So kind of a heady topic.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, in the entertainment world. Yeah, let's see, you

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Speaker 2: just live to be on stage with lights on you

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Speaker 2: and the the applause, and you love the craft and

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Speaker 2: you love working with other actors, and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden you can't do it anymore.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, that's kind of like Sunset Boulevard, the whole

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Speaker 5: concept of Sunset Bulevard. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, spirally, then you gotta ask Bobby Flay, No, true,

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Speaker 2: why are you laughing?

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Speaker 1: Wait?

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Speaker 5: What are we ask?

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Speaker 2: Let's say let's say you were no longer to step

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Speaker 2: into a kitchen ever again, you're no longer going to

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Speaker 2: make a living at doing that, or restaurants or cookbooks

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Speaker 2: or anything TV shows that have to do with food,

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Speaker 2: you know. And it has nothing to do with money.

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Speaker 2: This has to do with satisfaction in life. What's left?

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Speaker 2: That's why I tell you this isn't only This isn't

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Speaker 2: only about people who are retiring. It's about people who

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Speaker 2: are fired or for whatever reason, can't do it anymore.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people being laid.

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Speaker 4: Off athletes if they get hurt exactly.

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Speaker 2: So, your identity is so so intertwined with what you

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Speaker 2: do for a living. Yeah, plan exactly. So I tell

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Speaker 2: the story a lot, and it's about retirement, but it

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Speaker 2: could be relatable to anyone losing their job for any

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Speaker 2: reason or leaving it. My mom and dad when they retired,

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Speaker 2: they really just kind of died on the vine a

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Speaker 2: little bit. To be perfectly frank with you, They really

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Speaker 2: just didn't have anything to do in retirement. They always

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Speaker 2: heard that or retirement sounds great, It wasn't. They just

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Speaker 2: kind of sat there. And so what happens today? If

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Speaker 2: you lose this job that you work so hard to

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Speaker 2: get and you put everything into it, it was your

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Speaker 2: passion continues to be your passion. You think you're going

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Speaker 2: to move on with it, and you're not. What happens

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Speaker 2: to your identity? What happens to you.

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Speaker 5: My mom's a really good example with this because she's

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Speaker 5: the positive end, right, Like my dad passed away, you know,

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Speaker 5: she moved to a new location, she got all new friends,

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Speaker 5: you know, and at first it was very tough, and

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Speaker 5: she lost her identity one hundred percent. She had just

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Speaker 5: retired and didn't know what to do. Now she's got

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Speaker 5: more friends than she knows what to do with. She's

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Speaker 5: always involved with something in you know, the community. Next

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Speaker 5: week she's going to Ireland with Scotland with friends. Like

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Speaker 5: she's living her life and I'm so proud of her

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Speaker 5: and it makes me feel great because you know, you.

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Speaker 2: Worry about that.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's say a really good friend of yours though,

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Speaker 2: who is in their twenties. Yeah, everything they wanted in

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Speaker 2: life they can't have anymore. What do they do?

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Speaker 5: That happen with Anthony Ramos? Yeah, he was supposed to

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Speaker 5: be a baseball player, all his eggs in that basket,

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Speaker 5: got an injury, couldn't do it. Somebody came to him,

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Speaker 5: his music teacher, and said, you're very talented, and his

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 4: Well, we talk about this all the time. It's so

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Speaker 4: important to pretty much like diversify your personal portfolio and

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Speaker 4: do more than just that thing you're getting paid to do.

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Speaker 4: It's important to have hobbies and have friends and make

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Speaker 4: good connections with people outside of that thing that gives

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Speaker 4: you a paycheck. Because we are in this society where

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Speaker 4: everything is so career driven and focused, and you know,

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Speaker 4: everything is about who you are, is what you do,

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Speaker 4: but that's not actually who you are. That's a part

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Speaker 4: of who you are, and I think we need to

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Speaker 4: do a way better job of focusing on more parts

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Speaker 4: to us than.

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Speaker 2: Just that career aspect. Yeah, give yourself a lot more

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Speaker 2: credit than you do. Maybe you've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: stuff in there, but you got to mine it, you

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Speaker 2: got to go dig in for it. So something to

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Speaker 2: think about. So that's that's one of the takeaways we

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Speaker 2: had from Darren Chris last night. And the musical great

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Speaker 2: music in this thing by the way. Nice, Oh Nate, Nate,

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Speaker 2: are you still thinking about doing the Alaskan Pipeline?

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Speaker 3: I really am, I really so. I've been watching the

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Speaker 3: Pit right, which is excellent. I know it's on your list, Elvis.

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Speaker 3: And prior to doing what I'm doing now, I wanted

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Speaker 3: to be a doctor. And I know being a doctor

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Speaker 3: is not like a TV show. I know that one

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Speaker 3: million percent, but it makes it is reignited that passion

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Speaker 3: for me in thinking about what would have happened if

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Speaker 3: I had chosen that career path. And uh, it's a

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Speaker 3: great conversation you guys just had. I was raptured by

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Speaker 3: in raptured.

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Speaker 2: Raptured. Yeah, okay, so go ahead, Well.

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Speaker 4: What would we all do if we weren't here. How

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Speaker 4: much would that impact?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm going to do it now when

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Speaker 2: we are okay, okay, you can't guess you can. There's

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Speaker 2: a character on the show.

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Speaker 3: She's a forty two year old divorced woman with a baby.

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Speaker 2: Oh so are you.

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Speaker 4: But you're starting at a square one negative one right, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: I've seen the show. I was like eight to twelve years. Okay,

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Speaker 4: you could do it totally.

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Speaker 2: You could ride around with the Ambulans be an ems

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Speaker 2: guy like you do you do that? See, you have

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Speaker 2: the foundation already there. Do what I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: don't garden.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, farm.

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Speaker 2: Man, I don't know. God, I got soybean, I got soybees.

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Speaker 2: We're raising soy beeees. You'd be a great farmer.

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Speaker 3: The guy in Green Acres didn't start until he was

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Speaker 2: Oliver Douglas.

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Speaker 5: Wait, this is your green Acres from back in the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: green Acres.

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Speaker 2: The guy moved his socialite wife from New York City

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Speaker 2: to the country to get out of Saint alex he's

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Speaker 2: a socialite husband. You take him out there, you get

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Speaker 2: a tractor. I'll buy a tractor from mister Haney, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Sam Drunker at the store.

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Speaker 1: Yes, what.

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Speaker 3: The thing is though, you spend your entire life, your career,

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Speaker 3: your education, your time, your resources, and all your energy

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Speaker 3: going in one direction.

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Speaker 2: How the hell are you doing about face? How do

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Speaker 2: you do's?

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Speaker 4: It's important to think about not doing everything in this

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Speaker 4: good for you. If if you lost this job today,

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Speaker 4: it's a very likely possibility with what we do. But

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Speaker 4: you walk in tomorrow and your key card doesn't work,

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Speaker 4: we all know that. Then who are you?

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Speaker 2: What do you do? I gotta figure that out. You

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Speaker 2: better start figuring that out here out because you know

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Speaker 2: I'm out of here.

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Speaker 5: Some time's a ticken.

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Speaker 4: I've gone way too many warnings to make it past

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Speaker 4: next year.

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Speaker 2: I know, giving your heads up for years, I've been

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Speaker 2: quitting this job from over a decade.

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Speaker 1: Yes, don't scare me.

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Speaker 2: I don't even think I work here anymore.

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Speaker 1: I will.

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Speaker 2: I think I resigned, and I don't even think they're

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Speaker 2: paying me anymore.

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Speaker 3: Off space, I just shut up.

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Speaker 2: I just I'm in the basement work and I don't

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Speaker 2: think I work here anymore. I really don't mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: It's like in sixth sense. He was dead all along.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm unemployed the entire time. Penny Penny

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Speaker 2: is in Madison. How you doing, Penny? What's going on? Hey?

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Speaker 1: I love you guys. I'm so glad I get to

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Speaker 1: talk to you today.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thank you so much. So how are

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Speaker 2: you merging into this conversation we're having.

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Speaker 1: So? I had a job a few years ago that

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Speaker 1: I was there for a very very long time, and

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Speaker 1: it was very similar to you guys. You have it's

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Speaker 1: a family for you, right the people you work with,

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Speaker 1: and that was that job for me. It was a

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Speaker 1: big family and I loved everything about it until I

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Speaker 1: lost it and I didn't know what to do with myself.

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Speaker 1: I was like a mess. I'm mourning it every day

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Speaker 1: because I didn't have that family that was a part

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Speaker 1: of it. I was really angry with myself because I

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Speaker 1: didn't take the time to do more outside of work.

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Speaker 1: And so I took that as a lesson and so

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Speaker 1: my new role that I'm doing something very similar. I

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Speaker 1: decided to also take that into my community. So I

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Speaker 1: joined a local community organization where I can do that

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Speaker 1: outside of the day job, so that I know that

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Speaker 1: even if I lose this job, I don't lose who

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Speaker 1: I am as a person.

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Speaker 2: That is exactly what we're talking to.

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Speaker 3: Job.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's awesome.

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Speaker 4: And I think the concept of work family is so

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Speaker 4: fascinating because it definitely feels like that when you're in it.

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Speaker 4: But I'm sure Nate knows this and probably Froggy two.

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Speaker 4: I have been places where I thought we were all

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Speaker 4: best friends and we're a family. You work together all

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Speaker 4: day every day. Yeah, when I move, we're still going

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Speaker 4: to continue this relationship, and we certainly didn't. I tried,

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Speaker 4: you know, I thought, oh, we're all besties, and then

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Speaker 4: you learn, well, no, we all got paid to show

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Speaker 4: up and do what we did, and we did a

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Speaker 4: good job of it. But are they going to be

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Speaker 4: there for the big events of my life later?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: And that's why it's important to really focus on your

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Speaker 4: real life.

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Speaker 2: There you go, Penny, thank you so much for calling.

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Speaker 5: Penny for your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you Penny with thoughts. Thank you