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Speaker 1: And now another gray moment from twenty twenty five Alvis

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Speaker 1: Duran in the Morning show.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: If you look closely, no matter where you go in

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Speaker 3: this world, you'll see the influencers dotting the mall or

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Speaker 3: the sidewalks around the city, dancing to some rhythm they

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Speaker 3: hear in their head and or going out to a

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Speaker 3: restaurant and you know, recording themselves on their phone while

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Speaker 3: they're eating a waffle. And sometimes they just they're in

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Speaker 3: the way. I mean, I know there's there's an importance

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Speaker 3: to influencing. I guess I don't know. I guess we

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Speaker 3: need them, yeah.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes there's just I saw a video the other day.

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Speaker 3: This woman was sitting there at a restaurant and they

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Speaker 3: brought her a bill at the end of her lunch,

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Speaker 3: and she was recording, of course, the whole time on

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Speaker 3: her phone. She's like, no, no, no, no, I'm an influencer.

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Speaker 3: I shouldn't pay for this. I'm doing you a favor.

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Speaker 3: But they're like, we don't know who you are. You

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Speaker 3: should know who I am, and should know that I'm

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Speaker 3: a vegetarian. You serve me meat and whatever. And I'm

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Speaker 3: looking at this self. The self importance in this dumb

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Speaker 3: woman's mind was just gross. Weren't you at a party

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Speaker 3: not too long ago? Gandhi were a bunch of influencers

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Speaker 3: and it was just like a night of living Hell.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I have been to I feel like a few

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Speaker 4: of them lately, and a ton of influencers show up.

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Speaker 4: And to your point, I know why they're there. You

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Speaker 4: want to spread the word, you want to tell everyone

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Speaker 4: you're here. There was no joy among the majority of

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Speaker 4: the people who were there. Nobody was interacting with each

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Speaker 4: other or trying to talk to new people or really

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Speaker 4: just having a moment with a really cool event. It

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Speaker 4: was just all about how many times do I take

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Speaker 4: this one picture which was one hundred and fifty and

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Speaker 4: how can I make it look great? And it just

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Speaker 4: went back. It took me back to the thing we

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Speaker 4: talked about all the time, which is people are so

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Speaker 4: much more concerned, it seems, with what things look like

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Speaker 4: versus what things feel like. And I'm like, Okay, these

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Speaker 4: pictures and everything, they're going to look great online. But

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Speaker 4: I was here and I know what this was actually like.

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Speaker 4: And I felt like the weirdo because I was cracking

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Speaker 4: up with my friends and I felt like that noxious

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Speaker 4: a hole. Who's the only person laughing there? Like we're

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Speaker 4: allowed to still do that.

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Speaker 2: Right of course?

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Speaker 3: Yes you No, I encourage it. I mean they're sucking

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Speaker 3: the joy out of your night. So there's this guy

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Speaker 3: we follow. I love this guy is his name is Dottie.

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Speaker 3: I think D A A D I Dottie Dad Dotty snacks. Yes,

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Speaker 3: he's the best.

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Speaker 2: You've seen him? Right? No, he goes he mocks these influencers.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, guys, we had to go down and

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Speaker 3: get the Macha flavored waffles.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the Indian guy, right.

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Speaker 3: I actually sent him a message and we want you

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Speaker 3: on our show because he makes fun of influencers and

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Speaker 3: they and they get mad at him and they're threatening

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Speaker 3: to sue him all the time. He is gold amazing,

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Speaker 3: this guy, and he's spot on with his views. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I mean I could play him. It's not edited, he

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Speaker 3: may curse. I'm afraid to play it live.

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Speaker 1: What is it for people to follow?

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Speaker 5: And D A A D.

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Speaker 3: I snacks snak his family U has they have some

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Speaker 3: South Asian popcorn? The family recipe handground to Indian resipices

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Speaker 3: is whatever. It sounds great, And I said, come on

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Speaker 3: our show we'll talk about your popcorn and by boy

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Speaker 3: talk about how you love to call out these influencers,

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Speaker 3: and he said he wants to wait until until they

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Speaker 3: have more product to give away or something.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I just I like him. He he's great.

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Speaker 5: He really hammers it home, you know, because we all

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Speaker 5: think and feel the same way about some of the influencers,

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Speaker 5: and this guy just nails it and he goes right in.

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Speaker 4: I just want authenticity. That's it. Just be authentic. If

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Speaker 4: you go somewhere, have a really good time, cool show

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Speaker 4: the good time that you're having. I don't just want

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Speaker 4: to see these like stoic faces, not smiling and just

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Speaker 1: Don't you think they would a lot of times they

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Speaker 1: just come and get their picture and leave.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know the list and look he's posting.

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Speaker 3: A New York City influencer posts their to do list

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Speaker 3: and it's like the most asinine things the life they're living,

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Speaker 3: these these influencers.

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Speaker 2: No offense but events, okay, total offense.

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Speaker 6: Yes, n well, you know, not to defend influencers, but

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Speaker 6: I will. I mean that's kind of what we do.

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Speaker 6: But that the thing that's different about your mouth The

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Speaker 6: thing that's different about I'm about to pay you a

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Speaker 6: couple of the thing that's different about us is we're

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Speaker 6: very selective about what we actually do talk about, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: So like Danielle and Gandhi, some of us are so

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Speaker 6: Danielle and Gandhi just went on a vacation and I

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Speaker 6: could tell that they were actually having a good time.

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Speaker 6: It was amazing the entire time they were quote unquote influencing,

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Speaker 6: right because we're we actually have integrity.

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Speaker 5: I just hate when they run into these mom and

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Speaker 5: pop small businesses and then shake them down for free

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Speaker 5: product or to be paid, and then if you don't,

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Speaker 5: then they go ahead and do the opposite and they

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Speaker 5: will crush you.

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Speaker 2: How we not even had an experience.

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Speaker 1: People are trying to make a living and sell their

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Speaker 1: products and make some money, Like you know what I mean, Like,

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Speaker 1: don't go in and ask for free crap.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what if you want to be an influence.

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Speaker 3: And I know that Dottie has I hope I'm saying

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Speaker 3: his name correctly. I don't want to, because he's he

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Speaker 3: deserves it to be pronounced right.

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 3: But he actually found a guy, an influencer who went

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Speaker 3: to a restaurant and said, oh my god, you've got

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Speaker 3: to come try this. This food is from It's a

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Speaker 3: world flavor restaurant with cuisine from another culture and you know,

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Speaker 3: stuff you would never really get in other restaurants in town.

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Speaker 3: You've got to try. He highlighted this guy. He actually

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Speaker 3: gave him a good report. And I want to see

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Speaker 3: more influencers doing that. Yeah, if they go into go

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Speaker 3: into a place and give it a lot of hell,

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Speaker 3: then it's like, okay, well all right, it sounded.

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Speaker 2: I'd rather you give me good reasons to go someplace.

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Speaker 4: For sure. Our friend Dino with the pin Care, she

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Speaker 4: deals with this a lot because she has a makeup

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Speaker 4: line and a lot of people will reach out to

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Speaker 4: her asking for free product, or they'll try to tell

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Speaker 4: her I got your products and I loved it. If

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Speaker 4: you want me to review it, give me more for free,

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Speaker 4: and she can see if people have actually purchased, and

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Speaker 4: a lot of times they haven't. And it's like, Dina

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Speaker 4: is a small business. So when you come and you

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Speaker 4: say I just need product for my entire bridal party,

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Speaker 4: that's crazy. You can't do that to small biz.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy to them.

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Speaker 3: All right, So influencers. I do love following influencers in

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Speaker 3: the wild. Yes, on Instagram. Do you have like a

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Speaker 3: fly on the wall view of people out in public,

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Speaker 3: you know, trying to get the right shot on their

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Speaker 3: camera and they look like idiots? Like we were actually

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Speaker 3: at a resort in the Caribbean not too long ago,

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Speaker 3: and we were at by the pool, you know, and

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Speaker 3: have some cocktails, and there was a guy with his

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Speaker 3: camera phone and a girl who was posing in these

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Speaker 3: provocative poses I guess, and he was trying to get

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Speaker 3: it just right, and they did it. It was like

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Speaker 3: an hour of them trying just to show her, you know,

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Speaker 3: being sexy. I guess at the pool at this right resort.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they look so they looked so embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: If it takes you that long to pose in a

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Speaker 1: sexy way, you're probably not sexy, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Be easy. I just in a snap, look at this

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Speaker 2: sexy turn right around?

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Speaker 4: Sure, bam, wh what up?

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Speaker 5: Nate.

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Speaker 6: You'll see them in New York City a lot, the

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Speaker 6: Instagram boyfriend or the Instagram husband. Yeah, And I just

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Speaker 6: my heart goes out to these poor guys because they're

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Speaker 6: trying to get this shot.

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Speaker 2: And then they get yelled at no higher zero point five.

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Speaker 6: I feel so bad for these poor guys and they're

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Speaker 6: they're just becoming a photographer, trying to do this photo

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Speaker 6: shoot for their girl.

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Speaker 2: And I get it.

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Speaker 4: If it pays for stuff, I understand you want to

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Speaker 4: go and you know, live your life that way and

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Speaker 4: not have like a job job and capitalize on what

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Speaker 4: you can.

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Speaker 2: But it's just exhausting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're gonna have There's a respect factor too,

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Speaker 1: you know, just get up, influencer, be cool.

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Speaker 2: Would you