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Speaker 1: looking at your website. I'm gonna give you the category.

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Speaker 1: We're at ninety five and we're only three in Okay,

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Speaker 2: We just got to get a good location. Uh, sell

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Speaker 2: everything for internet price. Uh, make sure you have everything

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Speaker 1: Well, it strikes me that this is the sort of

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Speaker 1: at the shelves. You just don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, it's like looking at the iceberg. Man. You know,

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Speaker 2: you see the iceberg, and you see the top half,

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Speaker 2: and it's just about twenty feet tall, and you know

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Speaker 2: you can get out there and walk on it. But

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Speaker 2: it's what's underneath that parts one hundred, one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty feet deep, that's what's holding it all together.

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Speaker 1: You know how many square feet you have in that warehouse?

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Speaker 2: Thirty two hundred square feet.

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Speaker 1: How far where are you in Perland? How far are

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Speaker 1: you from the original Gringoes?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Man, that's my favorite. I remember one that was

447
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Speaker 2: the original building. I loved those guys. I used to

448
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Speaker 2: reait there when we had to have a when we

449
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Speaker 2: had to have a membership card to get a beard.

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Speaker 2: I'm right now to eighty eight in Magnolia, which is

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Speaker 2: one exit past the five eighteen which the old Green

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Speaker 2: Days is on. That by team.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, that's still his number one location over twenty locations.

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Speaker 1: That's still his number is crazy to how much be

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Speaker 1: the lother performance RC hobby dot com. April, You'll be first,

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Speaker 1: hang tight, stay tunn doing it's big on the Michael

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Speaker 1: Berry Show.

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Speaker 4: Oh hey, you.

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Speaker 5: Daring this Shirley Cue licking on the Michael bed program.

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Speaker 4: Ain't now one of you asks my opinion on this hell,

461
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Speaker 4: but I've been seeing it all day on the internet.

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Speaker 4: And this Hunter Biden, the former president's son, with ninety

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Speaker 4: percent motif now than he used to.

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Speaker 5: All of them is dential Veniera's just like his father had.

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Speaker 5: His father even got hair plug. His father used to

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Speaker 5: be bow head. Do anybody remember a bowhead Joe Biden?

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Speaker 1: But anywhere Hunter.

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Speaker 6: Is so nasty and he's so foul mouthed. He reminded

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Speaker 6: me of Watusa. When she get on that THCCBD, yeah,

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Speaker 6: mix it with her five ball liquor.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: She starts cursing, and I expect to see her on

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Speaker 6: a body cam video soon. And I expect to see

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Speaker 6: hunting Biden on a video cam soon because you cannot

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Speaker 6: continue to be that ignorant and get away with it.

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Speaker 4: It's just not possible.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to April, which is the name of Chad

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Speaker 1: Knockanishi's wife, but I don't think she would call because

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Speaker 1: they're in Hawaii and she's busy being a lawyer. I

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Speaker 1: don't think she even listens to the show, which is

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Speaker 1: probably better. We don't want the spouse is listening, do

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Speaker 1: we remote? April, you're on the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, sweetheart, Hi, it's special to speak to this.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, it's Melina. It's chalk tall for soothing.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, you got some chalk taw in you.

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Speaker 3: Well supposed boy.

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Speaker 1: Where'd you grow up?

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Speaker 3: Lo Max outside of Laport, Texas?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, go ahead, My dear.

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Speaker 3: You were speaking earlier about people that dropped out of school,

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Speaker 3: and it's hard to follow up, mister Carey, But I

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Speaker 3: dropped out in tenth grade, and my husband, my husband,

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Speaker 3: my son's stepfather, he dropped out in the eighth and

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Speaker 3: I ended up working very hard and owning Mount Bar

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Speaker 3: which I've since sold, and he is a project manager

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Speaker 3: at a plant. The reason I was calling you is

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Speaker 3: because my son, he's a twenty year old junior in college.

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Speaker 3: He's like college football with and he got injured. He

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Speaker 3: is home because he lost his scholarships because the injury,

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Speaker 3: and he's thinking about he got accepted to ut now,

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Speaker 3: but he's kind of wanting to quit enjoying the military.

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Speaker 3: And I know it's kind of a skew from your

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Speaker 3: conversation earlier, but you know, I will support him no

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Speaker 3: matter what. But why I called you specifically is because

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Speaker 3: he wants to be in politics, so he's terrified of putting.

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Speaker 3: He wanted to finish and go into as a officer. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: I guess my point is is that we both would dropouts,

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Speaker 3: and we worked hard, and we raised a different fun

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Speaker 3: and I'm very proud and your opinion about the military,

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Speaker 3: I'm nervous.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, I first of all, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: noble thing to do the fact that he would want

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Speaker 1: to do it, I think he's a good sign I

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Speaker 1: think under President Trump, in the direction they're taking, we're

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Speaker 1: seeing record sign ups that will make it that much

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Speaker 1: more important at the next president after Donald Trump, if

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Speaker 1: he's still in office, if your son is still in

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Speaker 1: the military, you know, four years from now, it'll make

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Speaker 1: it that much more important than that we get the

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Speaker 1: right person there so we have the right commander in chief.

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Speaker 1: My experience, now, I didn't go into the military. But

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Speaker 1: my experience, having lots of conversations with people who do,

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Speaker 1: is that it can be on a personal level. It

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Speaker 1: can help folks develop a sense of independence, confidence, a

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Speaker 1: real revelation of their character. It can teach them discipline,

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Speaker 1: it can teach them self reliance. It's not for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Some people drop out because the systems aren't meant for them.

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Speaker 1: Some people don't play within other people's rules. Some people

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Speaker 1: don't abide, you know, being talked to that way or

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Speaker 1: whatever else. But once you get through that process, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I got to tell you, I've known some

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Speaker 1: people who were not the toughest guys in the group

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Speaker 1: who go off and succeed there. And I've known some

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Speaker 1: guys that were real bad asses that didn't make it.

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Speaker 1: It's as much mental as it is physical. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think you have to be a physical superstar to

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Speaker 1: succeed in the military. In fact, I've seen quite the opposite.

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Speaker 1: It requires a certain blend of brains and self control

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Speaker 1: and discipline and tenacity to succeed. And he's just got

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Speaker 1: to ask himself if that's the case. Here's what I

541
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Speaker 1: believe happens, and this will apply to everybody out there,

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Speaker 1: young people particularly, but it happens older in life too.

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Speaker 1: Young people particularly, they graduate high school, they don't know

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Speaker 1: what to do. And everybody go to college. Why anybody

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Speaker 1: who says go to college has never been to college,

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Speaker 1: doesn't know anything about what college is and is not.

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00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 1: You can always go to college and go to college later,

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Speaker 1: you night school if you need to. Perspective is everything,

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Speaker 1: and that's why when someone has that aha moment, no

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Speaker 1: not take on me, ramon it. When someone has that

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Speaker 1: aha moment, that the whole perspective shifts and they get

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Speaker 1: it right. Everything falls into place after that. Take ourselves

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Speaker 1: back to a state of nature before we had universities

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Speaker 1: and key fobs and all this. Ask yourself this, Why

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Speaker 1: am I here? What am I doing on this earth?

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Speaker 1: What do I want to do? You may not specifically

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Speaker 1: know where you're going to work and what you're going

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Speaker 1: to do, whether an employee of someone else or your

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Speaker 1: own business, But what do you want to do? Ask

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Speaker 1: yourself these questions? What gives you joy? What gives you joy?

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Speaker 1: Is it helping people? Is it being alone? Is it

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Speaker 1: fixing things? Is it inventing things? Is it cleaning things?

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Speaker 1: Is it cooking for people. Is it challenging yourself physically

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Speaker 1: or mentally? Is it solving a problem for other people?

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Speaker 1: Is it soothing the pain of other people? You can

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Speaker 1: start imagining when you realize that those are the things

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Speaker 1: that you enjoy doing. Okay, that might mean a career

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Speaker 1: over here. So many people come to me and want

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Speaker 1: to know what program, certification, school, whatever else they need

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Speaker 1: to go to. If you can't figure it out, here's

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Speaker 1: what you do. Find somebody you know who owns a

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Speaker 1: business and they have tasks to perform. Find somebody who's

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Speaker 1: a plumber, electrician, roofer, whatever else, small shop where they

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Speaker 1: themselves go out every day and do that, or they've

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Speaker 1: got a guy in their shop who does and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: can I go to work for ten bucks an hour

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Speaker 1: to be your helper? And I will commit to you

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Speaker 1: for one year that I will do that. Get up early,

579
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: show up on time, do that job and learn that.

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Speaker 1: When I left practicing law, I bought apartment complexes. Had

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Speaker 1: no money, so I did owner finance and I would

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Speaker 1: get up every morning and I would go and I

583
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Speaker 1: would go to job sites and I would watch how

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Speaker 1: they did things, and I would find somebody I knew

585
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: in tile. I learned how to run a wet saw.

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Speaker 1: Me goofy me learn how to run a wet saw.

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00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: I learned how to install composition shingles on a roof.

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Speaker 1: Would you want me doing that on your project? No?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm not any good at it. But I learned

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Speaker 1: how to do it, and I learned how to do

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Speaker 1: it by doing it with a law degree thinking. I

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00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: went from being limoed around to meetings if I stayed

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Speaker 1: late to now here I am working with rednecks doing

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Speaker 1: projects like that the best thing I ever did. So

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00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: the point is dive in and start doing something. You

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Speaker 1: go to work at that business and you end up

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Speaker 1: never moving in ten years from now, you end up

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Speaker 1: owning that business or another business just like it, with

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Speaker 1: the blessing of the owner. The getting off ground zero,

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Speaker 1: getting started, get started doing something, and signing up for

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Speaker 1: a program and paying somebody a bunch of money to

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Speaker 1: go to their school is not the best approach