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Speaker 1: out on Wednesday, I just text a couple scouting directors,

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Speaker 1: I was watching these highlights last night. A Mookie Betts.

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Speaker 1: Fuck steal money. My ass Otani was funding that operation.

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Speaker 1: I have two ideas for Fugazi Friday. I recently did

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Speaker 1: The set well come on anytime. I didn't know until

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Speaker 1: I mean, the racket and the scam the fugazi that

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Speaker 3: But listen, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't really ask for permission, ask for forgets later with

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Speaker 1: in the construction industry. You can't even break ground till

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Speaker 1: you get the permits. So I obviously I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: everything is has the ability to do it that way.

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Speaker 1: But anytime you're waiting for permits, unless you can fucking

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Speaker 1: grease the skids, baby, you could be waiting a while.

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Speaker 1: The second is even more annoying. Trying to find a

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Speaker 1: responsive and professional serial service provider, landscaper, mason contractor is impossible.

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Speaker 1: It makes me think they don't even want my business.

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Speaker 1: How does someone in the customer service industry survive when

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Speaker 1: they can't even return a phone call? I think one

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Speaker 1: thing you're underestimating. And I had one of my brother's

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Speaker 1: good friends is like a general contractor, and he's like, uh,

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Speaker 1: they're like thirty thirty one years old.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they're thirty two or thirty three. Now, maybe my

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Speaker 3: brother just turned thirty three, so they're in their early thirties.

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Speaker 1: And he said, you know the best part, over the

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Speaker 1: last seven eight years, my competition are all these older

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Speaker 1: guys that are getting ready to retire. People my age

447
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: where he lives. He's like, everyone wants a white collar job.

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00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 1: No one wants to do this. I've never been more busy.

449
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: My phone rings off the hook. I'm not saying this

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Speaker 1: is the case, but there is a chance that these

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Speaker 1: people are swamped with work. I remember when the guy

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Speaker 1: finished doing my romodel, He's.

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Speaker 3: Like, we got about ten more projects lined up.

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Speaker 1: It's insane.

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Speaker 3: So I just think that I think a lot of

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Speaker 3: these people were packed.

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Speaker 1: Wanted to share another tipping culture story I had this

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Speaker 1: past weekend. I went to Jersey Mike's and after I

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Speaker 1: got a sub I like Jersey Mikes, they flipped the

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Speaker 1: screen where the tip started at twenty percent. Not to

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Speaker 1: mention there was three different people who make my sub.

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Speaker 1: Who does the money even go to? Who? Guys? He

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Speaker 1: If you run a business, any business, deli, uh you

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Speaker 1: name it, car dealership, grocery store, selling sandals, whatever, and

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Speaker 1: you make twenty percent on every transaction, like that is

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Speaker 1: your profit, Parchin, you're gonna be really rich. You're gonna make.

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Speaker 3: A ton of money.

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Speaker 1: The notion that twenty percent has now become the norm,

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Speaker 1: like that's should have to kind of work for that, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's that crazy. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people are sending me U the tipping fugazi. How

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Speaker 1: they've upped I remember it used to start at like

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Speaker 1: I don't even think it used to start at fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent that long ago. It used to start pretty low, ten, fifteen, twenty.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't think we're that far away from it,

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Speaker 1: just starting to like thirty five percent. I went to

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Speaker 1: a restaurant and the worker said I had to place

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Speaker 1: the order through the kios, which I don't have a

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00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: problem with, but as I was paying, the kios asks

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Speaker 1: for a tip. Oh man, I just think everyone is

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Speaker 1: wiring these companies this way. I think I got it.

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Speaker 1: Who guys are here? Most of the traditional mail is

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Speaker 1: junk that nobody wants and goes straight.

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Speaker 3: To the trash.

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Speaker 1: Yet we all act like this is just a normal

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Speaker 1: part of life. Why does it have to be It's

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Speaker 1: a waste of resources. In twenty twenty four, we pay

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Speaker 1: the bills online, we shop online email. Why do we

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Speaker 1: need this anymore? As an added slab in the face?

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Speaker 1: Taxpayers are the ones paying for it all as the

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Speaker 1: postal service loses billions of dollars each year. Partly, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's a reflection again back to the government officials

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Speaker 1: being incompetent. If we ever lost billions of dollars a year,

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Speaker 1: we'd be out of business. But obviously this is a

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Speaker 1: something we need to operate. But how how much longer,

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Speaker 1: let's think about it, how much longer is the postal

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Speaker 1: service as currently constructed going to keep operating the way

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Speaker 1: they do? Right? Obviously, if I if I send something

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Speaker 1: to my mom in California, let's just say I send

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Speaker 1: her my zins. She wants some zins, and I because

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00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: they don't sell flavored zins, she doesn't want zins. But

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Speaker 1: let's just hypothetically say this, I'd have to package it

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Speaker 1: and send it. But in terms of the mail, because

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00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: it originally started right, mail is a line of communication,

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Speaker 1: we don't communicate that way anymore. How Whenever I see

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Speaker 1: older people love talking on the phone, my generation and

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00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 1: younger like that. Unless it's very very serious, we can text,

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Speaker 1: we can email. Phone call is not necessary now if

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Speaker 1: it's very serious phone call or in person meet one.

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Speaker 1: But the amount of phone calls the older generationation still

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Speaker 1: takes is pretty wild. I don't like talking on the phone. Why,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's necessary unless it's important or family

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Speaker 1: and friends. But in terms of business, like, we don't

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Speaker 1: need to do it, and I don't really do it,

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00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: but I see some people, I'm like, what a waste

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Speaker 1: of time? So I think getting back to the mail,

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Speaker 1: like even think about this?

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Speaker 3: The uh the Christmas card?

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00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: Right, everyone likes taking a cute picture with their with

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00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: their wife, their girlfriend, with their family, their kids.

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Speaker 3: It's cool. How much longer does that have?

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it'll go away, but it does feel

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Speaker 1: like are we ten years away from our refrigerator being

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Speaker 1: essentially like an iPad and I just email and I

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00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: can post it all and it's all that way. How

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Speaker 1: much longer is the hard copy Christmas card? Because I'll

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Speaker 1: promise you this, I would short the shit out of

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Speaker 1: that if it was a stock. I'm not saying it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen next year, but that the Christmas card the

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Speaker 1: way currently constructed. No chance that has a twenty more

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Speaker 1: year shelf life. Zero, I no chance none. Just ordered

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Speaker 1: an item on Shopify. I used to own that stock

533
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: and it didn't really do much and I kind of

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00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: got out of it. But I'm a believer in the

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Speaker 1: company because clearly that's way everything's going.

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Speaker 3: Internet sales.

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Speaker 1: They had a spot for a tip for people who

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Speaker 1: pack and ship the order. It's crazy, man, it really is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, aren't hey Shopify, aren't you paying the guy

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Speaker 1: to do that service? What if? What if I every

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Speaker 1: time I did a podcast and and I posted on

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Speaker 1: you know, on Instagram, TikTok Twitter, I had a link

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Speaker 1: to my venmo. Anyone who liked what they heard, he

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Speaker 1: could send a tip. Talk about fugazi Friday. I went

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Speaker 1: to the dog groomer and used a self service washing station.

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Speaker 1: My girlfriend and I washed the dogs ourselves and paid

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Speaker 1: twenty bucks for that, which is ridiculous on its own.

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00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: And then the guy spins the iPad around and asks

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Speaker 1: me for a tip. The dude sat behind the desk

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Speaker 1: the whole time while we washed the dog. You know

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Speaker 1: what's funny is uh Maria's dog. Now I consider my

552
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: dog as well, Lolly. She is a Pug Shitsu mix.

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00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: Pugs obviously don't really shed. Shitsu's deal. She sheds a lot,

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Speaker 1: so we take her to the groomer. She gets really

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Speaker 1: fluffy and hairy. So she goes a groomer I'd say

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Speaker 1: once a month, sometimes a little longer. Once every six weeks.

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Speaker 1: Take her to this place kind of buy where we

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Speaker 1: live now called fur babies. I like fur babies, and

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Speaker 1: forever you take her. She's twenty five pound dog costs

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Speaker 1: like fifty bucks. Well, we took her a couple weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Marie went to pick her up and they're like, actually,

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Speaker 1: we realized we were mischarging you. We were charging her

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Speaker 1: as a pug, not a shitsu. Like, well, yeah, she's

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Speaker 1: fucking both. So before the shitsu or excuse me, the

565
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: pug was fifty dollars. Shitsu's because they have more hair,

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Speaker 1: are ninety five dollars. I wasn't there, but I've been

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Speaker 1: thinking about this, Okay. I could see somewhat of the logic.

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Speaker 1: Certain dogs costs more than others based on their hair.

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Speaker 1: But she's half and half right, So it's like, could

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Speaker 1: we meet in the middle. How about we give you

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Speaker 1: seventy dollars. You've been mischarging us forever.

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Speaker 3: Bullshit.

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Speaker 1: I guess she was very rude as well, So Lully,

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Speaker 1: we're in the process of looking for a new groomer,

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Speaker 1: little Fugazi. I'd like to hear your take on the

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Speaker 1: amount of time people spend on their phone all ages

577
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: at the gym. It's crazy. You're usually there for about

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Speaker 1: an hour and people are on their phone half the time.

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Speaker 1: I saw a kid today scrolling TikTok in the middle

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Speaker 1: of doing sit ups, not even texting someone, just scrolling

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Speaker 1: his phone. Do you notice this out of the gym,

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00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: other public places at all? People are too dependent on technology.

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00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: Here's what I think it is, and i'd be lying

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00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: I can be guilty of this, I can't, right, it's

585
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: the dopamine hits. Apple's getting sued right now. All these

586
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: social media platforms are going to be They're eventually going

587
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Speaker 1: to go through it. They have us addicted to the hit.

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00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: I used to be able to be to be bored

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00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 1: and just kind of sit around and do nothing. It's

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Speaker 1: impossible for me. Honestly, I find it hard to read

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00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: because my mind wanders and wants that hit. It is

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Speaker 1: not something I'm proud of. But I think most of

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00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: these people ideally no human. It's one thing to be

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00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: a kid you don't even know what you don't know.

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00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: But how often, like you said, do you see like

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00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty year olds just on their phone, sitting

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00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: on the bench right or sitting by the squad racks.

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00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 1: I think it's an addiction, and I think they got

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00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: us buy the balls Now I'm torn. Right, my career

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00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: has benefited from technology. I'm not anti technology, but I

601
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: also battle it a lot Mentally. I do think if

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00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: at the gym and there are people waiting, I find

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00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: myself sometimes no one's waiting, I'll look down again. It

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00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: might even just be checking, like who's any of the

605
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: guys I'm betting on for golf? What are they doing right?

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00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: Or scroll stocks. It's not always like TikTok, but then

607
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: sometimes you look up and the dude's waiting, and you

608
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: feel like shit. Now, you could argue some of the

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00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: youth do they even care? They might not, but I

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00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: don't think you're alone to notice that. I think a

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00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: lot of us are guilty. It's not proud, but it's

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00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: a dickted culture to that little phone, and I think

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00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: way more people are than not. So uh yeah, happy

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Speaker 1: for Gazi Friday.

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Speaker 2: The volume