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So here we go. We've got
another episode. Thank you guys so much

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for tuning in once again. This
one is coming a little bit late,

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but better late than never. Always
I do my best to try and upload.

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I'm trying to upload them with a
little bit more consistency, but this

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one did come a couple of days
late. But that's totally fine, totally

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fine. Here we go. We
did have a crazy weekend here in Nashville.

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I don't know if you guys are
here, whatever you're doing, but

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here in Nashville, we had a
really crazy weekend. It was just events

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on top of events on top of
events, which was crazy. It's not

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unusual for the city to have those
kind of events and have those numbers of

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people that we did have, But
this one was really kind of the first

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one of the year. It was
really kind of a kickoff for the entire

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rest of the season. We're really
in the spring now. We're kind of

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getting through rainy season, through tornado
season a little bit, and into nice

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weather. Like right now, I'm
looking outside and it's sunny. It's warm

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outside, and my thermostat says eighty
two degrees, so it's fantastic. The

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humidity hasn't quite come in yet,
which is fine. It'll come in in

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the next few days. When there's
rain, it really comes in and like

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a week solid of rain, and
then all of a sudden that just the

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humidity just sticks around and you'll winter
again, which is a pity because I

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really like this weather without the humidity. It's really perfect out here without the

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humidity. But the rain will come, the humidity will drop, and it's

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fine. But this was a big
weekend. We had all sorts of things

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happening. The big one that you
probably have heard about, especially if you're

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here in Nashville. If you've not
heard about it, if you're not from

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Nashville, now you're to find out. As we had Taylor Swift. She

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was here for three straight days.
She played three shows at the Titans Stadium,

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totaling a grand total of about three
hundred thousand maybe a shade over in

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ticket sales, which is absolutely absurd. So there was a mass descendants upon

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the city of Nashville by teenagers.
Essentially, it was basically just overrun.

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The entire city was completely overrun,
which is a little obnoxious because now you

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can't get into your favorite restaurants.
There's traffic everywhere. They take over everything,

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and then they don't buy anything because
they don't have money, or they

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spend all their money getting a Taylor
Swift ticket for over a thousand dollars to

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sit in the nosebleeds. And then
on top of that, they're going to

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spend about a thousand dollars a night
because the hotels understand that they're going to

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spend a lot of money and they're
forcing them to. So you're going to

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spend thousands of dollars and it seems
insane to me. It feels it feels

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uncomfortably insane. But I am a
little bit of a businessman, and so

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a lot of you know that I
drive for Uber. I really do enjoy

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it. I'm actually one of the
ogs of Uber. I've been driving for

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Uber for like almost ten years,
and it's just a lot of fun.

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I really do like enjoy it.
I really only drive during the day,

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So all of you that are like, oh, like he drives at night,

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that's weird. No, absolutely not. I drive during the day,

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and I like the people during the
day. I like people that kind of

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have their wits about them, are
going from you know, their house to

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whatever to work. Or to business
meetings or you know whatever, just kind

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of like daytime people. But really, as soon as the as the crazy

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start coming out at about three o'clock, I'm already done. So I really

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do, i'd really do enjoy driving
for Uber. So I went out Friday

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morning. It was the first day
of the concerts, so they've already descended

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upon Nashville. A lot of them
had already come in. The Swift fans

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had already come in Thursday night,
So they're gonna spend so much. Oh

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my goodness, gracious, imagine spending
two thousand dollars for a hotel room that

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you're going to spend less than six
hours in. Oh my goodness, gracious,

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shocking. I can't believe it.
Anyways, Anyways, I digress.

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But anyways, so I go out
drive for Uber. First ride of the

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day. First ride. I picked
this girl up, Taylor Swift fan.

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She's excited, she's got her friend
with her whatever. I'm driving him around,

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taking him to wherever we were going. So in order to pull out

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of this place, I had to
take two right turns. But there's only

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I can only go right out of
this out of this establishment parking lot whatever

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it was to get to the main
streets. So I'm only going right,

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so I'm turning right. I go
to the stop sign and I'm turning right

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again. The road goes nowhere else
but right right. So doing that,

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I know that I've done that that
ride dozens and dozens of times. I've

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given over like four thousand rides here
in Nashville over the last few years,

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so I'm pretty familiar with the area. So i just made the quick right

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turns literally less than a minute.
Like it's it's really short, no traffic.

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I'm just following the road. She
goes without saying anything. We said

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hello, like exchange pleasant trees or
whatever, you know, and so that

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was the only thing she said.
The next thing she says to me as

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I made that second right turn onto
the main road, was you don't like

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using your blinker, do you mind
you I had not used my blinker pulling

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out of the two right hand turns, because again I said, there are

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only there's only one way to go
out of these park out of this parking

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lot to get to the main road, which is a right and a right.

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There's that's it. There's no cross
traffic, there's nothing happening so when

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she says, you don't like using
your blinker I replied and said, well,

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I usually do most days, but
in the last couple of days I

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ended up running out a blinker fluid, so it's a little bit of an

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issue. And she says, oh, my gosh, I've actually heard of

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that, Like does that happen often? And so then I was under the

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impression that for the next four and
a half minutes of the ride that we

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were going to engage in a highly
sarcastic conversation that was pretty quick witted and

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like pretty funny, Like it was
a pretty funny conversation that we were just

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going back and forth. I was
completely under the impression that everything that we

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were saying was just not real based
on my statement about running out of blinker

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fluid. Then Okay, we get
to the place that we're going and I'm

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like, oh, that was funny. This girl's pretty funny. We pull

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up to the place that I'm dropping
him off at and she goes, hey,

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I just want to make sure like
you're safe out there, So I'm

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gonna give you this like twenty dollar
bill so you can like take a break

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and go get your blinker fluid fixed
and gives me a twenty dollar bill and

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then I said, I said thank
you, but I was a little shocked,

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and she shut the door and walked
away. And I sat there stunned

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because I really think she believed that
Blinker Fluid was a thing. And that's

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what I was dealing with the entire
weekend with Taylor Swift fans. That was

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my opening impression of Taylor Swift fans. Unbelievable. And I will give you

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her benefit of the doubt here.
I will give her the benefit of the

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doubt. And I will say,
the more that I thought about it,

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we were what I thought was having
a very funny conversation. And I think

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maybe there is an option that she
was just fully committing to the joke and

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she was willing to eat twenty dollars
just to stay committed to her part of

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the joke, which is really funny. If she did that, that is

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very funny. That is extremely highbrow, even for me, but that is

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that would be super funny. But
the way that she was talking, her

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body language, the way that she
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in that instance, anyways, that
I think she thinks Blinker fluid is actually

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a real thing. So that was
my weekend in a kind of a nutshell.

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If you're still wondering and listening to
this wondering if blinker fluid is a

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thing, it is not a thing
that's not real. It's not real.

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It was a bad joke that I'm
not sure was picked up by T Swift

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fan. But I will keep that
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pretty funny given a certain demographic that
will actually hook line and sinker on that

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joke and not realize it's a joke. But if that girl is smart,

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like I'm giving her the benefit of
the doubt of then hur eating that twenty

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dollars to send, like to commit
to her side of the joke, she

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might be the funniest person I've ever
met. And I just did an episode

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about that the other day. Who's
the funniest person? You know? And

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if she was, like really committed
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that twenty dollars joke, she is
now the funniest person I've ever met.

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Because it rattled me for the rest
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twenty dollar bill. I am rattled
by it. In multiple ways, and

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I think either way it's extremely hilarious. So there, that's my Taylor Swift.

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That's my Taylor Swift story. That's
my experience this weekend. I hope

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you guys were able to enjoy your
weekend. It's getting really nice out.

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It's starting to become like hiking weather
and going out on trails and camping weather.

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It's fantastic. Fishing and going out
on the lake and doing your thing,

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and playing volleyball, doing your thing. It's fantastic. Jeanie's starting to

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get the itch for some roller skating. She really loves doing that in the

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summertime. She's really been excited about
that. She started doing some like outdoor

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yoga and doing some stuff like that. She's really enjoying that. We'll see

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how she gets as soon as ze
humidity drops in here. But she doesn't

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actually mind it as much as I
do. I'm really sensitive to it,

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if I could say gently, But
yes, this is gonna be a good

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summer. Starting to plan some things, some trips, some goal planning,

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some dream making. It's gonna be
awesome. I'll let you guys know over

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that in the next couple of episodes. Genie and I do have some like

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crazy life changes coming along that will
be pretty exciting. I'm pretty excited.

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These things are like ten years kind
of in the making, just in like

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dream building, and it's just really
cool to like really see it start to

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come through to fruition individually for us
and collectively as well, because we are,

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you know, married, so that's
pretty cool. But anyways, my

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question for the day is a simple
one, and I actually I actually lost

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track. Oh there, I literally
just opened up to it. I grabbed

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my book, my journal book,
my five year Question today, Memory Journal,

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and I shut the book because I
got nervous in my hands started fidgeting,

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and so I picked it up,
and then I shut the book and

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went, oh, that was stupid. I was just about to read the

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question. So now I do have
the question. So the question is for

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the day is can we like start
some music here, get the fade up

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going great, great, great great
great cool. So the question is today,

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can you keep a secret? So
I don't know if you can keep

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a secret. You knew immediately as
soon as I asked the question, if

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you can keep a secret, if
you're that person or you are not that

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person. For me, it is
a very simple answer to that question.

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No, I cannot keep a secret. I do not like keeping secrets.

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I don't know why anybody would like
keeping secrets, mostly because I just feel

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dishonest. I don't like lying.
I don't like feeling like I'm deceiving people.

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Something about it makes me super itchy. And not all of secrets have

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to be like malicious or like hurtful. And I understand that, I get

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that some secrets are good, but
you guys should see me like during like

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Christmas time, I'm an absolute mess. It feels like it's just screwing up

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my moral compass because I'm buying things
like I'm going out and I'm buying things

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like for Jeanie, for example,
for Christmas, things that she's been like,

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oh, like I would really love
to have this great. So I

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go and buy this thing. Great, but this time, out of any

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other time of the year. If
she's like I want this thing, I

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go and buy her the thing,
and I give her the thing, and

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then it's done. But now I
have to sit and pretend like I didn't

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just fulfill a need and now I
have to wait two weeks to fulfill a

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need that she's had for months and
months, and it feels silly and I

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just don't like it. I feel
like I'm keeping secrets. I feel like

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I'm lying to her. It makes
me super anxious. And we open presents

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as soon as possible. I try. If we could, you know,

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come to an agreement where we just
open them, like the twenty fourth,

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that would be even better. I
just really don't like it. I don't

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like it. Um. I do
see, obviously, the practicality of different

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kinds of secrets, like for music
stuff like my my band stuff Like I

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would never be like, oh,
here's a here's a single that we're going

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to release in twelve weeks from now. We have it ready, we have

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the art ork, we have the
pictures. Here's here's the thing. That

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would be weird. You'd be like, that's a that would that's a weird

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secret to to tell like that.
I don't want that or you know,

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but like getting in people's business where
it's like, oh, you have to

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keep this secret. No, don't
tell me, don't tell me. No.

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I hate you for that. I
hate you for that. I'm gonna

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tell somebody because I don't like heating
secrets. I I have a thing about

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being honest. I have a thing
about it. I know some people don't

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have that I I do. I
do. It makes me nuts, it

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makes me itchy, and I'd rather
you not tell me secrets, tell me

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things that I can talk about with
other people immediately. That's that's that's the

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kind of things I want you to
tell me. Like I process that way.

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I like the process, especially like
with a wife or with with the

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guys in the band like it.
It gets really difficult for me because we

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do a lot of like band stuff, and it feels like I'm keeping secrets

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because I'm not telling her kind of
you know, the day to day things,

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but it's not it's not relevant kind
of things like it's not I don't

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know. I don't know. I
just don't like it. So can you

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keep a secret? I cannot.
Maybe you can, but you just have

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to be very aware of the things
that you tell me, because it's gonna

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come out of my mouth unless you
tell me. Don't tell me, don't

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tell anybody this. But even then, it's a case by case basis.

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Here it's a case by case basis. So great, fantastic. So we

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still have a bunch of episodes coming
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couple like in the hopper. We
might get to where we're starting to do

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two a week, which I've had
some clamoring for. Fantastic. We did

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have a really great week and a
really great episode last week. Let me

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see, like I'm actually my my
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week we've had I mean great,
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days, five days, we've had
over like four hundred downloads, so we've

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had even more of that just throughout
like my other episodes and things like that.

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So that's really fantastic that you guys
are listening to that in that kind

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of number, which is actually really
amazing. But thank you guys so much

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for listening, Like, subscribe,
share, find me on Facebook, Instagram,

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the whole thing, dam Reviews podcast, find me on my personal Instagram

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as well. That's really great.
Um, I thank you guys so much

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for listening. I'll see you the
next one, Okay, bye,