The Opener: April 10, 2024

Here's the opening segment Wednesday April 10th, 2024, featuring a discussion on some of our old jobs 

Episode Transcript

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Good morning, DFW four ten twofour. That's Wednesday, and we are
the downbeat today. We will havethe Big Master's Bet at nine. Comedian
Dusty Sligh calls in at eight tenand way more, way more. I'm
Kevin Turner. We have Mike's Royin here and filling in for Danny's Grego

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witch you gregor wherever you are?I want to do no tired Greg,
Greg tired greg O. JJ Jacksonis taking a very discreet, a mysterious

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trip to Boston. So filling inin her steed stead is a steed filling
in her in her Jake Steed,her steed. I think it's steed.
Maddy is not sitting atop a horseright now. Solar eclipse, Maddie,
Hello, Maddie, Hello, Solareclipse Maddie. I Solar eclipse. Guys.

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Did you get to see it?Because you had to work? I
did. I actually went downstairs mycamera and I put the lens over my
camera. So I took a reallycool shot of the eclipse and total that
worked for you because I tried it. It looked like just an orange black
and then you see like the smallYeah, I took it in Pa so
it's pretty cool. I didn't takeone picture just because I knew there was

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a million and there's no chance i'ddo anything successful here something I'm gonna do
it once? Did you? Soyou're run on the board. That's the
end of that. You're running theboard during Bend's skin right. Yeah?
So did you talk to them likeoff air, You're like guys during the
segment, I'm gonna run down Nope, I just you just went for it.
I just found an opening stairs.Yep, well down the hallway.

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Did you do kind of a littlejog. Yeah, I ran fast so
I can get downstairs quickly and thenget back upstairs to take them to break.
You timed it so you got tosee all of totality right right,
Yes, I because it was youcould see it from the corner of right
there where you're sitting, and Iwas Danny's cardboard camera propped up. So

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I go back and forth. Zachwas watching me go back and forth,
and then I ran downstairs, tooka quick video, saw the totality.
About a minute it was done,I back upstairs and it was It's perfect.
It's perfect. Yeah, it's perfect. Get to see it. I
assumed that you were one of thepeople in this world who had to I

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had to work, you know,like a lot of people missed it because
they just had to work, whenevery company should have said stop what you're
doing. I bet fiutes unless itwas like an essential job, I don't
know what that's fun. What's ajob that you cannot stop? Like a
a assmbly line building planes? Okay, yes, you can stop building buoying

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planes. But that's also in someform an assembly line. You can stop
an assembly line, right, youwould think, do the assembly lines have
a giant red button that stops everything? Yes, they have to write safety
it's stop everything. You remember workingon an assembly line just because you picture
it as a lever. Oh,yeah, I've worked on the floor.
No, you watched cartoons, youwatched the floor? Yeah, I did

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watch the floor. You worked onthe floor, Kevin, I have a
like for a more than like aspring break period. I've worked on the
floor. Yeah, what floor?Yeah, tell us more about that.
It was more like cleaning parts,though it was less uh, piecing something
together. So technically on the assemblyline of building something, no, but

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on the floor of you can't moveand you're getting handed stuff and you're pushing
it. I've done that. Youworked cleaning the floor. People handed you
stuff and then told you to pushthem. Yeah, you're getting it,
and then you handed to the nextperson. They did the next part because
that was just a spring break,you know. But the part you were
in charge of doing was nothing otherthan keeping, so you were sort of

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the assembly line. Yeah, Imean I was on the line, but
you didn't have a role. Youcan't leave. And it sounds to me
like the job only lasted like sixdays because it was during spring break.
It was five, definitely it wasfive. Yeah. Okay, wow was
this an air tractor? I meanthis Turner Empire air tractor and they only
made it five days. You don'town it, Yes, they do.

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No, they don't trust me.They don't. So you just cleaned the
floor. The floor had nothing todo with it. I was on the
floor. Well, don't keep inmind he did hand things to other people
and also pushed these things. Hey, you push them in a little box.
Look, I get it. It'shard for you guys to understand.

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I understand, but when you thinkdeeper about these things, like I tend
to do, then you do realizethat I've got lots of experience. I
mean, you would think after thewhole moon period thing, you guys would
start to believe me a little moreoften than you do instead of looking at
me like I'm a buffoon. Andit funny when the insect gets caught in
the little whirlpool, it never reallyseems to make it back up to the

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top and swim to safety, butit keeps swimming faster and faster. Yeah,
believing that they're on their way outof what they get out. Well,
whatever, I don't you know,maybe I'll run it by my guy,
Dusty Sligh at eight ten. Youknow that guy grew up in a
trailer park, kind of like me. You've never lived in a trailer.

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Yeah, it was probably well amansion was being exactly no air tractor money.
No I lived in in Denton,I lived in I lived in an
RV for about three months one summerwas that with machine. No I lived
alone. Because he claims he livedin a trailer, he is always very
temporary. Oh yeah, yeah,when you say lived in a trailer,
doesn't mean. They were rebuilding theclubhouse to the only country club and they

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had to use a little trailer astheir pro shop for six months. Okay,
First of all, I feel likeyou need to walk through the Only
country Club one a time or two, and then I got it. If
you're if your imagine the way youspeak of it is that it's some luxurious
place. Uh no, how's theNineteenth Hole. It's good. They've done

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a lot of work too. Sometimeswhen I go there, I crank up
the Secret Wizard. We have agood time there, his mysterious billiards game
that he invented that he did tellpeople about at Cash's house. The other
day, he finally unleashed the SecretWizard. Was anyone able to stay awake
during its description? I stayed faraway. There wasn't enough action on it,

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and it was kind of at abad time because it was when the
game started. But trust me,the two guys that played, Cash and
Matt were mesmerized. I don't knowbecause I asked him, I'm like,
so, how a Secret Wizard?And they both kind of gave me the
Larry David like, I mean,well, they sends up two people who
were defeated by the Secret Wizard.All Cash said was it's a game that

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could go on forever. That's okay, now, that's technically true. That's
technically true. But I actively didn'tpick up any of the rules. I
was really disappointed you didn't come overand just really buy in for a minute,
because I think you would have lovedit. It's the monopoly of billiards.
Yeah, it's like a risk.I set it up. Christina goes,
yeah, I've seen I've seen youdo this before. I was like,

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yes, absolutely so, I thinkyou've played it before. You just
don't remember. Oh it's amazing.It's so fun and so frustrating. I
love hearing about how Kevin did hispart in the Industrial Revolution. Yeah,
of central West Texas, irregular Rosiethe Riveter, that's where Teksoma. He
can do it. Rosy the Riveter. You don't understand that. Nuh huh,

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what's the reference. Well, it'snot like I was around for Rosie
the Riveter either me, either believeit or not. But we just kind
of well, y'all know more abouthistory than me. I think that's that's
fair. I think what she representedwomen during World War Two, As you
know, the men went off towar, the women had to bust their
ass here on the home front.And you've seen the old posters. Uh,

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when we the US put out itspropaganda as well with the fist.
Yeah, she's got the making amuscle and she's wearing the cool red bandanna
with her hair back and a denimshirt. It's like Flow from Progressive.
We can do it. Looks likeFlow, Well, we can do it.
Yeah. See on a group triviateam, Kevin the Riveter. I
can help, but Kevin the Riveter, I would need you guys to carry

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the history history. And I wouldn'tbe great with movies. I think I
wouldn't be good with movies pre nineteenninety. I feel that we got you.
I got you there. Yeah,that's what you think's got everything.
We're very good general. I was. I went to a brewery the other
day and just was having a Frenchdip and a beer just for dinner.
And they were in the midst oftrivia night, right. Yeah. The

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first question I heard, I couldn'tbelieve it because I'm like Danny would get
this in one second, and Ididn't know. And it was who replaced
Ozzy Osbourne as the lead singer ofBlack Sabbath in nineteen I don't know,
seventy nine or something, seventy nine. I don't know. That's a list

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of pretty long. Yeah, inseventy nine, it might have been that
would have been for Born Again.I think think that might have been Ian
Gillen. Okay, so it wasn'tsomething nine. The answer was Ronnie James
Dio. Okay, it was eitheror Gillan. Yeah, I didn't.
I couldn't remember the timeline on whoreplaced him. The question in and the
first thing I thought was I needdingu with me. Lost. No,

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the trivia master said the right year. I didn't. Okay, you would
have got it. Yeah, whatare we gonna do trivia night with our
Jeopardy This is the greatest. Thisis like I'm entering a scramble at Stephen's
Park. I don't know. Andguess what, my best friend Bryce and
d Schambau just showed up and he'sgonna be on the team. Yeah,
we need to go clean up.We have a Jeopardy tournament champion's friend that

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wants to be on our trivia team. Yes, in the gift card.
The last time we had him onafter he got eliminated from Jeopardy, he
didn't seem like he was in avery good mood. Well, he just
got beat. Well, that madeit was his low point. It may
play into him blocking your number,Kevin. No, No, he's been.

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He's been texting me. No,I could prove it often. I
just to delete all my text forspace. But I can prove it.
I can't because he needed to getin touch with the Rangers about something.
What not gonna it's his private information. We had a gift was sent to

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us by listen. Is he gonnago to a game and throw out the
first trivia question? Actually? Yes, about black Sabbath throw the first ceremonial
trivia question of the night? MM just delivered to us. I so
hand it to Danny. Read this. I guess it's like some type of
plaque. Yeah, what do theycall this, Mikey the silicon? What

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is it? I had it aplacard. No, it's a little clear
late text either. But oh,look who's trying to get on the team?
Science Transfer trivia science work the floorand it looks it's like an award.
I guess it says the number onemorning morning show on k E g

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l's ninety seven to won the Freakand iHeartMedia Company is presented to the Downbeat
all right, great, we'll suckthat news junkie. The number one morning
morning show, Morning morning show.We always do need an asterisk on all
of our awards. Absolutely, Isthat a misprint or is that what they're
going for? Do we call ourselves? I've never heard that before. Actually

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right morning twice? Well, thething is for a lot of people,
morning doesn't start until ten yep,like my life used to. And uh
yeah, so we are the morningmorning show. That is funny. We're
the number one morning show on keg L's ninety seven on the Freak.
There's subtle jokes in here. Yes, what did the licensed plate maker guy

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in prison refit the thing to doacrylics and make this for us? I
don't know where it came from.I know I can't from a listener.
Got name? Well, yeah,yeah, go first name. I'll just
get out his Twitter account that's noton the envelope that Maddie actually is not.
I do know his name, butthere you know, you're working with

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award winners today, but he isa we just keep piling him up,
Maddie, stack him up, let'sthrow him in the award stack. Let's
quiet. His Twitter name is ahnot his handle his name is Danny's Banana,
but it's at day one. Glenn. I love that guy. That
guy's awesome, and that's gonna bea weird Twitter handle in a couple of

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years. His last tweet said,dear hotel employees, I do not need
you to call my room and checkif everything is okay in my room.
I'll call you something wrong that istrue. I'll just let you know.
If there is blood on my sheets, you don't have to call it as
me. It makes me wonder whathappened here before I stayed. I don't

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know, That's just me. Heis one of the many supporters of Dusty
Slay being on the show at eightten. For those that don't know,
Dusty Slave is a comedian who's verypopular. He actually did a podcast in
Nate Bergazzi, who is maybe thefastest or the biggest rising comedian of the
last three four years. I wouldsay like he got huge to playing like

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Dicky's Arena and stuff when he mighthave been at the Majestic two years ago.
Like he got huge and he dida podcast with them, or did
a podcast with them. I don'tknow if he still does. He lived
in a trailer park I heard astory where he was talking about in Tennessee
or he grew up, if youlived in a trailer park, they had

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very specific tornado warnings or the news. Like on the news, they'd be
like, and if you live ina trailer park, just go lay down
in a ditch like everyone else.They'd be like, go to a neighbor's
house, you know, or doI take cover? If you have a
seller. Oh, if you ofa trailer park, just go lay down
in that ditch over there full ofwater it's been raining, because that's safer
than being in a trailer Tornado hits. I don't know. One's a funny

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part I'm saying. I'm just paraphrasingthe bit I went a little happened a
little hang on me too throat.Okay, boy, this is not high
energy. Look. I walked intothe hallway and there was a music morning

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show playing Open Arms by Journey,So suck it. I don't think any
of our stations are doing well though, so go ahead, okay, we
need to compare ourselves to them.Maybe what I'm saying is I did do
a little bit of a dive onDusty Sleigh last night on YouTube because I
wasn't really familiar with with him.I think i'd recognize, you know,

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what he looked like, but Ihadn't listened to any of his bits.
Pretty funny, dude. How aboutthat voice. Yeah, he's got a
unique thing to him. It's almostlike he's a I wonder how much of
that is really him and how muchof it is his uh kind of creating
a character. It's almost like he'swearing a week. I think he's Sam

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Anderson at the Quacker City Nighthawks.Sam's much more handsome than Oh. Absolutely
no, Sam's banging all the time. Well, actually, I don't know
what his current is back in theright person all the time. Yeah,
there you go. I don't knowthe situation either. But he did a
ten minute bit breaking down the lyricsof It's five o'clock somewhere and pointing out

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all of the problems with it.Really good, man, really really good.
I love when comedian comedians take songlyrics literally and break them down.
Well, he says it's four thirty, but then he says it's it's half
past three, but then he saysit's five o'clock somewhere. It's like that
math does not work. It's nottime because you change time zones. Just

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it's always at the top of thehour. It was really good. Have
you watched it on the you?I can't wait for eight, eight,
ten and nine ten. Yeah,nice to slay. Somebody said the assembly
line I work on, they adjustedour break so we could go see it.
Yeah, yeah, that's a that'syou get a little the quick break

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the ten minutes and I think thisis our chicken plant guy he called in
once right, chicken plant had evacuationfire drill so employees could see it.
Okay, smart, that's how youdo it. Knock out your fire drill
and ruin that peaceful moment with agudy alarm going off. That sounds like
I heard of cats being crushed bya press. That's that's pretty that's pretty

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good. But the thing that's goingto really endanger the factory and the assembly
line culture is the phone. Itcomes really in tune with factory culture.
For the five days he spent mopping, he's not mopping or push or were
you tell us what you literally did? Were you hard to remember from the

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assembly line? You were just movingthings? Yeah, just physically moving things
along. Yeah, it sounds tome like you were trying to do things
that made you appear to be busy. So no, we were clean.
Yeah, it it was busy work, there's no doubt about it. Was
it a job that before you beganand after you left, no one else
had that? Yeah, well,you know it was a take advantage of
the spring break kids. Not takeadvantage of them, but like it was,

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did you kidn't spring breaking might needsome money. It's like four or
five of us. Did you feelit's like you can kind of know what
a real job's like. Did youfeel like your position Did you feel like
your position was essential? No tothe functionality of this. No, not
at all. We were cleaning likeboxes and they're putting small airplane parts in,
like parts of all as I'm holdingin my hand, like d real

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bits and stuff like that. You'recleaning them because they come in these little
crates. It's not that interesting too. That's why I kind of wanted to
go away. But it was.I mean, you're there and you can't
go anywhere, and that's difficult ifyou're not used to it. You're used
to it, I'm sure it's justmy numbing and boom boom boom, move

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it on down the road. Butfor a sixteen year old who's not used
to standing on his feet all day, you know, or just not being
got used to, like, andyou're sitting there going, oh my god,
I've been doing this for twenty minutes, two and a half more hours
to go till first break, andthen you run to the vending machine and
just spend more than your made.Absolutely so, did you not have any

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type of job prior to that,Well, at that age you were when
you were sixteen. When you canlegally start working when you're fifteen, I
believe, yeah could when I wasa kid, I was twelve with the
golf course picking up range balls likethen golf cart. It's the best job
in the world. It's fun.And then you'd wash them with put it
on the washing machine, you know, which is weird. Okay, that

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washing machine could take a lot thebig golf ball washer. Yeah. Yeah,
what a great job because you cansmoke a spliff. Yeah he's twelve.
I was smoke a bowl in therange thing and just kind of listen
to tunes and it's sort of likelike a phone game, Like you just
kind of clean the whole driving rangewith this trailer head thing with yeah spinners

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on it, and then you seehow close I can get to the flag
stick and you're like, oh,I got that one. It's like a
ball that's two inches from the flagstick, No problem, because I got the
touch, I've got the power.It's a little bit like mowing. Yeah,
the satisfaction of mowing. You're pressurewashing, yes, because you really
are like, Okay, I getthis done. It sucks when you got
to get to their manually lift thebucket up. Is that almighty to lift

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the bucket up, take them,dump the bucket of balls, the big
baskets basket basket into the washing machine. But if you're super baked, you
can try to like I'm gonna getevery ball off the range I'm getting without
getting off of the tractor. Yeah, some of it's impossible. Sometimes there's
plugged balls, you know. Peoplehave like someone who starts at a job

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and you give them fake jobs,you know, and you mess with them
kind of like Kevin's spring breaks exactly, like hey, you gotta wash them
drill bitsy, wash the boxes thathold the drill bits. And when the
works, there's like, okay,looking at him, he's doing it.
We had a couple of those inthe driving range. The new people.
He would tell them they had togo, uh, they had to go

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out in the range while while there'speople out hitting balls, that go out
on the range and wash the flagsticks. So we had a football helmet and
they put a football helmet on andthey run out with a rag and like
a bottle of spray and spray theflagsticks wash with that wonderful moment that you
are, that wonderful motion that youhave of cleaning a pole. Yeah,

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exactly. But the football it's thefunniest thing. And they're trying to not
get blasted by golf ball. Goout there going to watch the flag six
Like who needs clean flags stick?Yeah, you basically sent him snipe hunting.
Yeah, exactly, exactly that samething. I love how all jobs
have yeah, especially like assembly jobs, like work jobs, they all have

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that bit. Yes, you know, like it's the air force, like
hey, go down and get it, grab me a two hundred yards a
flight line, you know, likethe flight line is the whole thing and
there doesn't exist. It's like whenI sent Grego Fernando to look for nic
fifty feet of ISDN line, Iwas thinking about that the other day.
Fifty feet whatever reason and in turnfrom ten plus years ago. Yeah,

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and what do we have them lookingfor? Like left handed adapt or left
handed headphones or yeah, I don'tknow whatever. And we set him in
a cat's office to ask him.Yeah, I remember that, I need
to find the d in line.Mike says he needs it, but they
were all I need fifty feet ofit. Then we had a Rich Phillips,
the assistant p D. They wereall in on it. Hi,

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She's like, well, I don'tknow where it is, but he needs
that. Yeah, no, Iknow, I'm trying to find it.
And of course everybody's recording. Yeah, yeah, every office there was recorder
rolling of the urgency of the guywho's in on the bit to come in
and help with the set up.Yeah, well he needs that, he's
got to have it. He needsa panic Grego Fernando. Yeah, that

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was so weird. That was along time ago. Damn we had knowles
or at the Stuart's food store.Was the real job. I think might
have been doing like a student andI do like a you bring your family,
Maybe I can make a wish tosimply this person says he works in
trash collection was not able to stopand be the eclipse. Uh what I

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mean? Trash primarily outdoors. Theysuspend. Did trash pick up on Monday?
In my neighborhood. They didn't evenpick it up until yesterday. This
guy says, just open the streamgolf talk again, Jesus, that doesn't
even count. Can we have alittle context, sir? Yeah, and
wait till seven o'clock at nine o'clockif you want a hardcore golf talk today.
Yeah, it's Master's Week, It'sMaster's Wednesday. It's the super Bowl

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of Golf. Yes, right,yes, Every time I opened the stream
and listened to your podcast. Guy, you're always talking about windows. Let
me tell you, not that interesting, but thanks for listening. And yeah
I wasn't. We're talking about oldjobs. So you know Stuart's food Store

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still still opening only ar are youserious? The mom and pop grocery store
is still around. Yes, andthe owner the time, Harold Stewart,
has passed. But he had HaroldStewart. Yeah, okay, their whole
website. We appreciate you. HaroldStewart a slab of meat. Can you

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see his hand in there? Becausehe had lobster cloth. Oh he does.
He's missing fingers on his left handfrom working in the meat market.
Oh my god. Absolutely, helost fingers on the butcher shop. Yep,
oh my god. His son wasmy college roommate. What that doesn't
happen that often anymore? Well,yeah, this guy, you know,

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think about it in the fifties.I mean, dude, when I was
a kid, my granddad and allof his friends were missing at least one
digit. And it was all thesame reason. Oh, it was for
a result of a combine accident whenhe was working when he was thirteen,
working the combine in some damn thecotton field out and the rolling planes,

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and all of him and his buddiesare drinking nickel coffee at the diner with
their pinkies because they basically don't havehands thanks combine. Missing finger at the
combine. That's why Tim White rana four to four hand fell a couple
of rounds handcrafted, mister finger boy, that is true. Remember that all

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old people just were missing digits.Yeah, people used to be so tough.
I had a neighborhood and nub forsure, kidding so cool. And
I don't know if surgery probably wasn'tas good back then either that you think
about it. You know, urgencyattaching, you know, I mean,
not always having someone on guard.I think the turning point in America's workforce,

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like everybody was tough until that onejob was created for Kevin. And
that's when the country turns soft.That is the moment America turns off.
The five Days of Kevin. LittleKevin strut out on the floor and the
head's whipped of these hard men,all with seven to eight fingers waving at
Kevin with their nub There, littleboy, wait, we got a job

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for you. They put the kidsmoving on one corner at the like in
the middle of the line. Itwas really bad. Box from Chah to
cha, Yes, sir, I'mgonna do a great job. And then
ten minutes later he's complaining. That'sthe thing that I was tired playing Nintendo

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those summary jobs. I think Ihad one similar to that. My buddy's
dad owned an oil field supply companyand they hired me and seriously, they
give you something to do, andI was done with it and started at
nine. I'm done by nine pointfifteen, and then it's just up to
you to look busy yes, forthe next seven hours and forty five minutes.

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Yeah, I ain't a lot ofthat going on, for sure.
So many trips to the bathroom,hiding, just sitting, taking out the
trash, taking out the trash again. There's like maybe one cigarette butt that's
been added to it since the lasttime I took it out your trash bag,
and then trying to get a full. Yeah, but he stayed busy
for eight hours. But I knewI needed that three dollars and thirty five

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cents an hour, so one time. Don't age yourself. Country guys,
we built this country.