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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Everybody, it's Bill Cortney, Shop Talk number thirty four. Welcome
in today. We're going to talk about your legacy and uh,
it's got to be worth more than five bucks. So
if your legacy is worth only five bucks, you're screwing up.
That's the title of Shop Talk number thirty four. Don't
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screw up your legacy and make it worth five bucks.
Right after these brief messages from our general sponsors, everybody,
it's Bill Courtney, Shop Talk number thirty four. There you go.
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I love that thing, all right, Vita Scott. Vita Scott,
got your bill. In fact, we're putting a picture of
the bell up on social media, aren't we. Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Because why teller? I mean number one. It's cool too
as a Christmas president. But it also that it says
an army and normal folks on it.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Wow, so cool. Yeah. So you're putting that picture. So
if anybody wants to see the shop Talk bell when
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
On social media and you're going to see the bell, wonderful.
So I'm going to die and so is everyone listening
to me? And I'm fifty six now, and it's interesting
how hard I've worked on my legacy and accumulating my legacy.
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And then now as I'm a little older in my
twilight years, what's interesting is you go from a shift
of accumulation to worrying about who gets it. So you
work your life accumulating all this legacy, and then you
spend the twilight years of your life dividing it up
and making sure it's all fair in fact, and some
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of you, like me, might actually employ someone and pay
them to write up documents to make sure everything's divided
up nice and fairlight. And then you croak. And when
you croak, about a week and a half, two weeks,
maybe a month after, you're put in the dirt or
cremated and put in a jar or whatever. Those people
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that you divided up, the legacy that you worked your
entire life to accumulate, and the twilight years of your
life dividing up nice and fair like, show up at
this attorney's office that you paid, and there's your legacy separated,
in my case, into four subsets, which will be the Maggie,
the Molly, the Will, and the mix you forgot me.
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Alex gets nothing. I'll leave you the bell you can
get the bell. Okay, it'll be divided up nice and fairlight.
And what will happen, and it happens all day, every day,
is they will take the money. They will take the jewelry,
some of which they light wear, some of which they
might sell or melt down. And then all the other stuff,
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and all the other stuff, this legacy that you've rt
your entire life to accumulate, in the twilight years of
your life, dividing up nice and fairlight. They might put
a piece of it in a room to remember you buy,
typically that front room in your house. Some of you
put plastic on the sofa in that room, but it's
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the room that pretty much never anybody ever goes into,
which when they put something to remember you buy in
a room that nobody ever goes into. I'm really sure
how much remembrance is actually going on on your behalf,
because you're dead and they've got your money and your
jewelry and the other stuff they throw in boxes and
stick in the attic. That's the truth about the stuff
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that we work our entire life to accumulate, and the
twilight years of our life divide up nice and fairlight.
So I got to tell you something about Christmas. I
grew up an apartment, never had a big family, and
as such, as a father, I've always enjoyed the day
after Thanksgiving, which in the Courtney household is Christmas decoration day.
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I want it to last all day. I want Christmas
music playing. I want I want everybody in the boxes decorating.
I want to go do the Griswaldian thing. I want
to go cut down a tree. I want to trim it.
I want to put it in the stand and fight
that stupid thing and put the skirt around it, and
then decorate the tree. I want to spend all day
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doing it. I think it's awesome. About six years ago,
we left the tree up too long and the needles
fell off the tree and they were all over the floor.
And Lisa got a brand new Electrolux vacuum cleaner and
she was using it to clean up the needles and
it burnt the vacuum cleaner up and ruined it. That
was the last day we ever had a real Christmas tree.
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So now we have a fake Christmas tree, which is
kind of communist. It's a communist tree, frankly, because it's
a fake tree and we've got it down to an art. Now, well,
we don't even undecorate this thing. We just put a
sheet around it and throw it up in the attic,
and then then Christmas time rolls around, we pull the
thing off, pull the sheet on, stratton out a couple
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of light bulbs, and that's it. So what is supposed
to take all day to decorate for Christmas and be
this wonderful carol filled eggnog drinking festivities of family fun
now takes about twelve minutes. And there's a communist Christmas
tree sitting in a plastic tree sitting in the corner.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What makes a communist though?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I mean, it's not a real American Christmas because you're
not doing everything else. It's got to be communists. And
I mean the stuff's probably made in China, in their
communist country, so it's communist Christmas tree. In fact, I
would bet everything with you.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I just wanted to hear you say it.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, I think every frank Christmas tree in the world
is probably made in China, like the other seventy percent
and the stuff we consume. But it's, you know, it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Is a wood guy that just has to drive you
nuts too.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, I mean, it's you know, and the other thing
is the guy making it probably has no idea why
he's making a tree. He's probably actually wondering why are
Americans buying these eight foot tall plastic facsimiles of something
they could go in the backyard and cut down.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You just offended half of our listeners.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't care. I'm offending my wife. It's Communists anyway.
That's how we do Christmas now, and it's disgusting. So
back to the division up of your legacy that you
forrtu your entire life to accumulate in the twilight years
of your life, dividing up nice and fairlight. Clearly, my
children learn from their mother. So twenty years from now,
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or twenty years after Lesa My's death, when the money
is spent, the jewelry is worn, and all our legacy
is a boxes in the attic, and my own children
start developing their own legacy. On Christmas, they're going to
be up there trying to get their I mean it's
Christmas tree out to have their fifteen minutes of Christmas
decorating front, to take their sheet off their fake tree,
and they're not gonna be able to get to it
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from all the boxes of legacy piled up, and it's
gonna be frustrating, and Maggie's gonna call Molly and they're
gonna be like, hey, I can't even get my communist
Christmas tree out and decorate for fifteen minutes for Christmas
because of all mom and Dad's legacy sitting up here
in these boxes, that legacy that we've worked our entire
life to accumulate, and the twilight years of our life
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dividing up nice and fair light. And they're gonna call
each other and say, we got to do something about
all this stuff. And they're gonna have an idea. They're
gonna have a garage. Well, no, they're not. No one
in America has groad sells. They're gonna have an estate sale.
It's true.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well I think redneck's probably saw groad sales.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, you just offended a third of our list.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I think in your neighborhood their estate sales.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So attention all listeners. If you have had a quote
garage or yard sale, Alex thinks you're a redneck. That's
what you just said.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You said nobody. I'm just saying. I think a lot
of normal people still have groad sales too.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
I think they have states.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's more fancy people like you who won't go on
Southwest than You can.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Email any time at Bill at normal folks dot us
and let me know if you have yard sales, groad sales,
or estate sales. So next shop talk, the next shop
talk will me that. So the first, the first spring day,
there it is, and all its glory, the legacy that
you've worked your entire life to accumulate, and the twilight
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years of your life divided up nice and fairlight spread
out on tables all over the front lawn with sheets
over it. And it used to be you'd put poster
boards up on telephone polls, but now it's you do
it on Facebook and online. But anyway you do. Four
family estate sale, all must go seventy three thirty one
day only on Saturday. And if you've ever had one
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of these, remember it's seventy three thirty at six thirty.
Here she is, that's right, the lady driving a nineteen
eighty one Caprice Classic parked out on the curb. Molly
opens the door. Yes, are you having a garage sale? Yeah,
we are. That's why all this stuff's in the front
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yard and over sleep deprived because you're setting this crap
all up all night. I'm sorry, this legacy up all night.
Molly follows the woman into the front yard and there
it is, in all its glory, my legacy that I've
worked my entire life to accumulate, and my twilight years
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of my life divided up nice and fair like. And
as the lady picks through the things, she finds it
on the third table in the middle. It's like a
golden chalice from Raiders of the Lost Dark ah like
coming up from it. It's a wicker basket from Peer
one nineteen eighty seven model, and it's got a little
tag hanging off of it and it says twenty bucks.
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And that lady walks over to it, and she picks
it up and looks at it, and she just thinks, oh,
I got to have this. And then she looks at
my air, who I've worked my entire life to accumulate
my legacy, and then I worked the twilight years of
my life to divide up nice and fair like. And
she looks at my air and she says, I can't
pay you twenty, I'll give you five. And that air
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makes a quick calculation, I either take five dollars for
this piece of crap basket I never wanted in the
first place, or I got to box it up and
throw it back in my attic, and next year I
will still not be able to get my communist Christmas
tree out. And she says sold. And the woman will
take that basket, that piece of your legacy. She'll take
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the code hanger off the trunk, She'll throw it in
the trunk, slam the trunk, put the code hanger back
on the trunk to keep it closed. She'll turn the ignition,
mash the gas on her eighty one capriese Classic exhaust
goes everywhere because every eighty one priest Classic needs a
ring job, and she's gonna drive as fast as she
can to the next dead guy's power crap in somebody's
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front yard. And friends, that happens every Saturday of every month,
across our country all the time. Is that it our legacy?
Five bucks. Albert Pike was a freemason many many decades ago,
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and he said this, what you do for yourself and
this life dies with you. What you do for another
lasts forever and remains immortal. What it might add to
that is when you give of your time, yourself, your effort,
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your riches. You can do that while you're living, and
you can witness the appreciation of your legacy rather than
leaving it after you're dead. And you can leave it
in totality to one hundred percent of the people you
come in contact with, and you don't have to divide
it up, but you can give that all to everyone,
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and you can see the rewards of that legacy, your
legacy of your service, the legacy of your philanthropy, the
legacy of your time, the legacy of giving. That's the
beauty of a true legacy built on service and commitment
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and care and concern for your fellow man. You don't
have to divide it up, and you don't have to
leave it after you're dead, and therefore you can experience
it while you're giving it. Our legacy's got to be
worth more than five bucks, folks, and you have an
opportunity to build that legac see and share that legacy today,
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starting tomorrow. So that's shop Talk number thirty four. Don't
let your legacy be worth more. Please make your legacy
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Speaker 2 (13:58):
Out of those who buy Christmas tree you sixty four
percent or artificial right now.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Then sixty four percent of the people celebrated Communist Christmas.
Did you just look that up? Yeah, that is ridiculous.
Sixty four percent Is that really.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
One of those who buy trees? So, I mean there's
actually a decent amount, and who aren't buying them too?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Well? Okay, So at the end, the call is this,
go back to a real American Christmas, but put plastic
crap up in the corner.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Of your swearing geez who swore crap.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Come on, give me a break.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
PBS actually has a breakdown of how Republicans and Democrats
by trees.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
What is it? I'm not even I want to guess,
but I'm not gonna guess. I want you to read it. Well,
here's the thing, Republicans being more rule. I would bet
more Republicans have real trees. That's not a thing, but
here it is. Okay, Oh my gosh, I cannot believe
this pull exists.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I wasn't looking for that, but that's what popped up.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Artificial fifty five percent, tree, twenty two percent, real tree
twenty one percent. That's a total of ninety eight percent.
So two people are not living. But anyway, you ready
for this Democrats real tree? Oh my gosh, I was wrong.
I'm so proud of the Democrats. Twenty four percent of
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Democrats have real trees, sixteen percent of Republicans. Forty four
percent of Democrats have artificial trees. Sixty three percent of
Republicans have artificial trees, Twenty six percent of Democrats have
no trees. Twenty one percent of Republicans have no trees.
So the Democrats are absolutely kicking the Republicans. But on
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non communist Christmas, hats off to the Blue Party. I
love it. GOP. You got some work to do. You're
listening to me Communist Christmas. You're losing in the polls.
That's shop Talk number thirty four guys, thanks to our
producer ire Light Labs. I'm Bill Courtney. I'll see you
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next week.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Do you do