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Speaker 1: solve this mess. Not me. I'm not your uncle, but

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Speaker 1: Uncle Sam is in the USA. The government coming into

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Speaker 1: hat about to dole some justice on you, some democratic justice.

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Speaker 1: This happened almost eighteen years ago. For a little backstory,

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Speaker 1: I was pregnant and my husband had been locked up

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Speaker 1: for a probation violation to that past three times probation

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Speaker 1: violation across the nation, probation violation. Hey, there had been

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Speaker 1: a mistake on his POS not ops, his POS parole

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Speaker 1: officer's part, but caused him to serve a three month

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Speaker 1: sentence two hours away. That is atrocious, atrocious, atrocious. We know,

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Speaker 1: I really thought our criminal justice system was flawless.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they usually do things so well.

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Speaker 1: They used to do it perfectly.

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Speaker 2: Gosh darn, they messed up on this one. Jimmy Cricket,

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Speaker 2: this is one time.

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Speaker 1: We'll let it slack criminal justice system. You were great before.

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Speaker 1: Then let me just take a ship coffee. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's this is tangent. But the reason that some people

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Speaker 1: think that America just like completely surpassed the UK in

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Speaker 1: terms of like technological progress and efficiency. Is because we

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Speaker 1: drank coffee and they drink tea, and coffee as a

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Speaker 1: generally a higher caffeine content and released is like faster

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Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense. Also, English people have

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Speaker 2: ten thousand bank holidays.

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Speaker 1: That is true, and they they so long.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how am I supposed to close the deal talking

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Or if you're doing like the Queen's English, like,

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Speaker 1: Just just tell me what you mean, Just tell me,

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Speaker 1: just tell me how you need to make a dull

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Speaker 1: ber kidding, just kidding. We love our English buff yeah,

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Speaker 1: we do. We love them, We love them, love them

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Speaker 1: to death. My pregnancy was high risk. I had a

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Speaker 2: That is rough.

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Speaker 1: This is a terrible situation, really hard. This is rough.

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Speaker 1: This is rough. Yeah. I had to find work quick

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Speaker 1: so that I would not lose our home while my

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Speaker 1: husband was away on business. Just kidding, he's in prison.

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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, if you were like a career criminal, you

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Speaker 1: could say that, you know, my husband's away on business,

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Speaker 1: but you know, the business is being in prison.

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Speaker 2: And maybe if he's doing business in prison, which some

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, like the entrepreneurial vein within prisons. It's actually

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Speaker 2: It's super super super real.

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Speaker 1: No, it is. It is.

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Speaker 2: Try try marketing your product when you can't have a product.

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Speaker 1: You can't have a product. You have to make it

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Speaker 1: in secret, and you can only charge in cigarettes and dimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or commissary or wait, what's the commissary? Commissary is

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Speaker 2: the like you can have. It's almost like like a

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Speaker 2: little shop and you can have money in there and

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Speaker 1: You can buy your money from the shop.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, you can use It's almost like you're

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Speaker 2: like little credit and you could use that credit at

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Speaker 2: the commissary to like buy soaper.

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Speaker 1: How do you get credit?

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Speaker 2: People deposit money into it?

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Speaker 1: Oh, stuff like that. So if I come a billionaire

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you can do a million, but

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with the max is probably, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There must be a limit that you can So in

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Speaker 2: This says California has a spending maximum of one hundred

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Speaker 1: at a place that is famous for their meats in

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Speaker 1: smoke meats. I like to smoke my meat. Saw my

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Speaker 2: That's nice, you know, A good a good turn in

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Speaker 2: this insane story.

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Speaker 1: She hired me on the spot and had even said

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Speaker 1: I thought this was just great. I found a job

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Speaker 2: Damn, this is great. But we know we had this

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Speaker 2: story here. It's over, guys, hoorray.

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Speaker 1: There's like that. That rule in storytelling is like, end

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Speaker 1: the story when it's a happily ever after, because if

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Speaker 1: It's never happily ever after. It's only when you cut

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Speaker 2: Don't live long enough to become the villain.

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Speaker 1: Die when you are a legend. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: Point stands we're ninety percent there, no good enough, good enough, baby,

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Speaker 1: But let's say we're seventy percent there. I got the gist. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: This is great so far.

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Speaker 1: I also want to add that these kids worked a lot.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot. During spring break, they work well

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Speaker 1: over forty hours and this is illegal in case you

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Speaker 1: didn't know, Oh, during school weeks, they would still get

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Speaker 2: That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: How are they either getting forty hours while during a

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Speaker 2: That's insanity.

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Speaker 1: Is there enough hours in the day? That's what what

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're in school probably twenty five to thirty

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Speaker 1: Right, So that would be No, it's possible if they

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Speaker 2: It's possible.

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Speaker 1: It's possible, but hard. It's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot.

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Speaker 1: Though one was sixteen and the other was fifteen. The

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Speaker 1: work more is that running rampant They're bored, But one day,

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Speaker 1: I was the only manager there and was assigning duties.

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Speaker 1: I assigned the sixteen year older fries as that is

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Speaker 1: The sixteen year old had a whole fit. He wanted

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that that term and anything? Have you

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I wrote him up, and justifiably so for real.

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Speaker 1: The following day, the assistant manager pulled me into the office.

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Speaker 1: She was the mother of one of the teens. She

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Speaker 1: bro incorrect. When he was the one that cursed me out.

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Speaker 1: My only response was that my decision was final and

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. She decided that the write up would not

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Speaker 1: the spot they demoted her.

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Speaker 2: Gee, sorry for doing my job, I apologize, insane, this

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Speaker 2: is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I handed over my keys, stripped off my shirt and

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Speaker 1: kindly told her that she could promptly piss off. By

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Speaker 1: the way, this particular manager was his mother so very biased.

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Speaker 1: I went home and called the labor board. I told

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Speaker 2: There we go.

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Speaker 1: Not too long after I filed my report, I got

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Speaker 1: place was fined fifty K for violating child labor laws.

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Speaker 1: I felt bad she got caught in it because she

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Speaker 2: Hey, all right, that's a win.

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Speaker 1: That's a win. That's a win. That's frick frac bro.

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Speaker 1: But that's intense, crazy journey to get there, but crazy journey.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad that Op is now working can somewhere better though,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Shout out to up Working in Heaven. Shout

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Speaker 1: out to Uop