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Speaker 1: Karen is forcing me to take in a homeless man.

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Speaker 1: Her kids are worth protecting.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not Okaop. This is Okayop. I'm Samuel Daughter

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Speaker 2: and I'm John Frut And we tell the funniest stories

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Speaker 2: on the Internet.

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Speaker 1: And at the same time we also get people from

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Speaker 1: the internet commenting on our funny stories.

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Speaker 2: That we do. Commentary from internet people is that's one

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Speaker 2: of the things the sweet joys out of life.

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Speaker 3: The sweet joys.

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Speaker 1: And one of those sweet joys came by way of

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Speaker 1: Swift Ninja ninety one.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: On YouTube, Swift Ninja ninety one says about your southern accent.

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Speaker 2: Oh what we're attacking the Southern accent? The gun bring

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Speaker 2: it up again? Oh God, I thought we buried that.

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Speaker 1: John Swift ninja ninety one says, man, that accent had

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Speaker 1: me desperately trying not to laugh at work.

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Speaker 3: Op is an amazing writer. E wow see wowee.

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Speaker 2: So not everyone hates the accents.

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Speaker 3: It's the I wanted to show the second side of

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Speaker 3: the coin. D Dude.

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Speaker 2: That accent is great as my grand Pappy Roy. Yeah

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Speaker 2: it is, Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: What else is as great as great grand Pappy Roy?

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Speaker 1: Is this here story?

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to hear it. Tell me a tale, just.

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Speaker 1: Getting into it. Karen is forcing me to take in

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Speaker 1: a homeless man. Her kids are worth protecting.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not wow. Like every time these stories start,

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Speaker 2: I'm just like, what, Well, at least at least you're

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Speaker 2: taking in something. I guess that sounds nice.

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Speaker 1: Maybe again, it's one of those where like it would

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Speaker 1: be great, but aggressor pushes it too far, and it's like,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing?

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Speaker 2: What happens?

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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: This happened a few years ago, but it still makes

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Speaker 1: me super upset when I think about it. I also

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Speaker 1: think it's important to state that my neighbor and I

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Speaker 1: used to volunteer at a homeless youth drop center together.

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Speaker 1: I volunteered there first and made the awful mistake of

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Speaker 3: Oh, a terrible mistake, someone to help them homeless? What

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Speaker 3: have I done?

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Speaker 2: My God, believe I've made this grave error.

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Speaker 1: On a cold winter day in January, we had a

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Speaker 1: new homeless kid come in for our dropping services. He

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Speaker 1: was twenty two, very tall and lean, and actually wearing

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Speaker 1: very expensive looking clothes and a ton of jewelry. He

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Speaker 1: even had a MacBook.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what, bro, why are you homeless? Sell the MacBook,

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Speaker 2: saw the jewelry, invest in real estate.

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Speaker 3: Buy's a big con.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, guys, biquet before or after the fall.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've never had a kid come in with such

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Speaker 1: incredibly nice things, so it was really unusual. He stated

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Speaker 1: that he had somewhere to stay, but they'd only let

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Speaker 1: the rest of the days of the week he had

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Speaker 1: him immediately and told me that I should take him

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Speaker 1: home with me. She said she'd do it, but she

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Speaker 1: has six adopted daughters, all in their twenties. I'm also

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Speaker 1: in my twenties and own my own home across the

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Speaker 1: So you know, she's got three furry children to take

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know all alone as a woman

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Speaker 2: has all these fancy chains and MacBooks. Yeah, it's it's

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Speaker 2: I don't know about that man.

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Speaker 1: It's a strange scenario. So I told her I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: I told me who was a stranger, like just any

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, no, no, no no. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: She told me to lock myself in my bedroom. Hmm.

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Speaker 3: Interesting prisoner.

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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking I'm supposed to give a man who

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Speaker 1: I don't know free range of my house and rely

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Speaker 3: To keep me safe.

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Speaker 2: No, don't do this. This is a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: That made me feel so worthless and bad about myself

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Speaker 2: And I'm yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, fair fair, I

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Speaker 2: mean like why, Like they're the same age, there's the

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Speaker 1: Cats, unless those cats are like serious. Ninja's just like

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Speaker 1: she kept trying to shame me into taking him home, saying.

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Speaker 3: Oh what if he gets robbed?

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Speaker 1: Also, like what about all every single other homeless person

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what happens when you come in with a

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Speaker 2: get robbed, asking.

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Speaker 3: Him to get robbed.

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Speaker 1: But then also it's like, by Karen's logic, oh, you

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Speaker 1: should take in this homeless person, Well why not any

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Speaker 2: It's because he's wearing nice chains and has a MacBook,

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming.

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Speaker 1: Karen says, he has lots of nice things, and you

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Speaker 1: all have a spare bedroom in your howls, so why

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Speaker 1: can't you give him one?

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Speaker 3: Again, I told her I would feel.

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Speaker 2: Safe, yes, which is totally normal.

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Speaker 1: She goes on and on about how it's so cold

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Speaker 1: all and I totally take him in, but I have

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Speaker 3: Well, who's gonna protect me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? She has no one kept the cats except the cats,

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Speaker 2: ninja cats.

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Speaker 1: And I told her as well, my husband is deployed.

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Speaker 1: What would it look like if I took him home.

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Speaker 1: From the husband's perspective, it's like, wait, why are you

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Speaker 2: Talk people of the town. They'll be like, who who's

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Speaker 2: she taking in with those nice chains? Is that nice MacBook?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And from the husband's perspective, I get it's like, wait,

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, while I was fighting for a country.

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Speaker 1: Karen's reply to that is that I've done something great

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Speaker 1: while he was away. Oh hi, honey, I took in

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Speaker 1: stay safe, and he totally robbed us of our PlayStations.

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Speaker 2: What a great welcome home present.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, not a good enough reason. My flimsy door lock

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Speaker 1: is not gonna keep me safe, and I apparently owe

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Speaker 3: In my own hopes.

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Speaker 2: You don't know. You don't owe this random person anything.

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Speaker 1: So I told her it's against the rules to even

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Speaker 3: Home with us.

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Speaker 2: There's probably good reason for that. Exactly, it's probably very

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Speaker 2: good reason for that, all the rules.

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Speaker 1: I'd get banned if I took him home. She told

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 1: When it was time to leave, she starts up again

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Speaker 1: about how it's such a shame that I spare bedrooms

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Speaker 3: I can't let him have what he's like a little rule.

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Speaker 1: Well as if I could just hand him one and

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be in my own house. I again state,

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Speaker 1: I don't feel safe. He could do any number of

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Speaker 1: Ain't no, tell into what he's capable of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why she's forcing it so much.

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Speaker 3: Just chill.

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Speaker 2: Just yeah, if you want to house him so much,

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Speaker 2: house him yourself.

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Speaker 1: She badgered me the entire ride home, too, just going

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Speaker 2: Her a why freaking again and again this is a

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Speaker 2: broken record.

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Speaker 3: She just won't stop.

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Speaker 1: She knows where a lot of homeless like to sleep, Okay,

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Speaker 1: and we could go back there and search for him.

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Speaker 2: Weird flex but okay, I know we're a bunch of

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Speaker 1: Again tell her, no, I wouldn't feel safe, My husband

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Speaker 2: Just listen to just let her be. Man, Let's let

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Speaker 1: She tells me, while she just hopes nothing happens to him,

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Speaker 1: Why is she making her feel so bad? I walked

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Speaker 1: and would suggest such a thing in the first place.

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Speaker 1: The fact alone that she stated that she couldn't take

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Speaker 1: I should take him in. What that was so devastating

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Speaker 1: to me? As if I'm not worthy of being protected

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Speaker 1: want to scream, f off yead, don't blame you.

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Speaker 3: Don't blame you, Karen. That's what she needs to hear.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, If me locking myself in my bedroom is good

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Speaker 1: her to take it home and have her daughters lock

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Speaker 1: themselves in exactly. At least if something happens, they can

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Speaker 1: together exactly, I'm home alone and I couldn't do anything.

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Speaker 1: And the last sentence is in all cats, you want

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Speaker 1: him out of a cold, then you take.

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Speaker 3: Him home with you.

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Speaker 1: Your daughter's safety shouldn't be any more important than mine.

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Speaker 2: Snap, come on, wow wow, respects yourself. Yeah, honestly, like,

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Speaker 2: huge respect. I'm glad that she thought to speak up.

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Speaker 1: You know, and now she realizes, like, if this happens

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Speaker 1: in the future, I'm not even going to entertain it

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Speaker 1: for a second.

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Speaker 3: Immediately shut it down as you should.

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Speaker 2: Little hack that I think is interesting is if you

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Speaker 2: give excuses for why you can't do something, you are

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Speaker 3: Right right, It's like, well what if you did blah

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Speaker 2: Now excuse isn't a reason exactly, It's like, oh, I

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Speaker 2: can't hang out today, I have to wash my dog.

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Speaker 2: Well what if I wash my dog? Or But you

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Speaker 2: you know, if you want to avoid any of that,

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Speaker 2: you just say nope.

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Speaker 3: I can't, I can't. No, it can't. It powerful. It's

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Speaker 3: it can be challenging, but it's so so powerful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to say, but it's about conserving energy

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Speaker 1: Hundred percent, but you know what you should not conserve

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