November 1, 2025 • 29 mins
A quiet Thanksgiving gave way to a jarring delivery that raised a bigger question: what’s the line between personal freedom and public safety at our front doors? We walk through the moment a driver cut across our lawn, tossed a package, and left a thick marijuana smell seeping into our living room—then unpack why that matters in a home that must stay scent‑free for medical reasons. This isn’t pearl‑clutching about legality; it’s about responsibility, impaired driving, and the real health stakes for families managing respiratory sensitivities during peak cold and RSV season.
Michael draws on years in law enforcement to break down how on‑shift impairment slows reaction times and raises risks in neighborhoods where kids and pets move unpredictably. We connect that to a broader pattern: porch piracy, tossed parcels, and a culture of excuses that erodes basic courtesy. When companies rely on contractors, who sets the standard for safety? We look at what employers can do—clear policies against on‑shift intoxication, training for scent‑sensitive environments, better route support—and what customers can expect without being labeled “fussy” for wanting clean air and intact deliveries.
We also highlight the power of positive feedback and community norms. Most drivers are pros who deserve recognition for doing it right. Equal parts story and stance, this conversation calls for common sense on our doorsteps: respect the home, respect the health needs inside it, and keep the roads safe. If you’ve faced similar delivery issues or have ideas for raising the bar, we want to hear from you.
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SPEAKER_04 (00:01):
Howdy y'all watch another episode of State Smile
Unstoppable with Victoria, Cure,and Michael.
SPEAKER_02 (00:09):
Take three.
SPEAKER_04 (00:11):
Yes.
It is now take three.
Because I screwed the boot onthe first two.
Got a good 25 minutes into thesecond take and flubbed it.
SPEAKER_02 (00:26):
That's why we're live and we're unscripted.
SPEAKER_04 (00:30):
So we had a non-narcistic Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_02 (00:37):
Yes, that was great.
It was quiet.
It was the four of us.
We had a plethora of food inbetween doctors and emergency
rooms and surgeries and allthat, but still an amazing
reason to be thankful.
SPEAKER_04 (00:54):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (00:55):
We hope all of you guys had a happy Thanksgiving as
well.
Things here are being crazy,crazy busy.
Can we just talk for a minuteabout the delivery driver we had
today?
So I ordered some things off ofTimu, and it was delivered.
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And these are just like little,you know, trinket things and
whatever.
And we see him drive up becauseas all of you know, our entire
property has cameras and it'srecorded and yada yada.
So my husband sees this black,dark gray sedan, drive up, and
(01:41):
the individual proceeds to cometowards the door.
And go ahead, what happened?
SPEAKER_04 (01:50):
So I watch a lot of TikTok on the toilet, as my wife
knows.
You know, because men have tosit on the throne for I don't
know, 30, 45 minutes.
Well, at least till your legsfall asleep, right?
You you need some readingmaterial.
You gotta have something to do.
So TikTok's my go-to, right?
I see a lot of these porchpirates now.
I love the exploding packages.
(02:11):
I I love them.
You get what you deserve andmore, buddy.
But I don't want our packages tostay down any longer than they
have to, knowing that my wifehas ordered, you know, X amount
of packages that are on theirway.
I don't want them standing outthere too long.
So when I see the driver pullup, I start heading to the door.
I want to meet them at the door.
(02:32):
I don't want the opportunity forthat SOB, and there are a few
SOBs out there, to throw mypackage.
We've had some steal some of ourpackages to throw our packages
onto the porch, which happenedto be wet today because it was
raining.
Right.
We have a box.
Put the damn thing in the box,okay?
SPEAKER_03 (02:50):
It even has a sign on it.
SPEAKER_04 (02:51):
There's a sign.
I wrote a sign.
Put it in the box.
Thank you.
Right?
And then, of course, I'll thankthe driver and tell him to drive
safe.
SPEAKER_02 (02:58):
He always does that.
SPEAKER_04 (02:59):
And my wife was correct.
We did order a sound card, asoundbox.
What's it called?
Sound a soundboard for ourmicrophones here a while back.
And one of the drivers bypassedthe camera.
SPEAKER_03 (03:12):
On Amazon, not demo.
SPEAKER_04 (03:14):
Bypassed our cameras, took out the soundboard
out of the box, through the boxon the porch, took a picture of
the box, and then avoided ourcameras again.
Back then, we we didn't havecoverage on what corner of the
house.
Now we do.
Yeah, stole$150.
So I like to go out there andgreet the drivers.
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Hey, how are you?
Thank you.
And drive safe.
Right?
Today, the some bitch.
Some bitch.
It's like a view for T Justice,you say.
SPEAKER_03 (03:48):
Or Blake Sheldon.
SPEAKER_04 (03:50):
That some bitch.
Came down through the grass.
Got up to the porch.
Threw the package onto theporch.
I was already at the door.
I immediately opened the doorand yelled at him, stop.
Hey, stop, you, hey.
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He kept he kept running towardshis vehicle.
I said, Hey, you peckerhead.
I'm just upset now.
SPEAKER_03 (04:17):
He ran.
SPEAKER_04 (04:17):
You're ignoring me.
SPEAKER_03 (04:18):
Not to mention there was some smoke coming out.
SPEAKER_04 (04:21):
And and I immediately could smell
marijuana from just him visitingthat short of time.
Picked up the package.
It reeked.
SPEAKER_03 (04:31):
And there was a finger hole in the package where
it reeked with marijuana lookedinto as to see what was inside
of it.
SPEAKER_04 (04:38):
Okay.
I smoked marijuana when I wasprobably 16 years old.
I had four joints.
SPEAKER_03 (04:43):
Never done it.
SPEAKER_04 (04:43):
That's it.
SPEAKER_03 (04:44):
Never done it.
SPEAKER_04 (04:45):
Okay.
We're a non-smoking family.
We don't allow it in the house.
We don't allow smokers in thehouse, you know, to smoke.
We don't even like you smokearound our property because of
our daughter and my wife.
Okay, there's a lot of medicalissues with smoke.
But this package was reeking.
And now I have to bring thispackage inside our home.
SPEAKER_03 (05:06):
Well, the door was open, and the smell came in the
house with, and right when youcome into our front door is like
our living room.
So the couch, the recliner, thelove.
I mean, all of that is rightthere.
Not to mention the puffs ofsmoke coming out of him while he
was running.
SPEAKER_04 (05:21):
So the thumb bitch got in his car and hauled ass as
I'm still yelling at him, right?
All right.
So we have a couple issues here.
A lot of y'all are gonna focuson the fact that yeah, we're
just being sissies and wimps,not being able to tolerate a
little bit of marijuana smoke onour packages.
We shouldn't have to, buddy.
(05:42):
Okay, that's number one.
We shouldn't have to endurethis.
Okay, we don't we don't do it,so why should we have to suffer?
The fact that he is out drivingunder the influence of drugs.
Hey, wake up, folks.
You know, I used to be a cop, Iused to arrest people for this.
I used to pull people over andtake them to jail, and I take
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their marijuana, whatever.
I write them a ticket.
They're out there doing thisevery day.
If somebody doesn't saysomething, then they're gonna
continue to do it.
Just like in domestic violence.
You see something, you saysomething.
So that's my issue.
This guy's out there drivingunder the influence of drugs,
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delivering our packages.
Maybe had he not been smokingweed while working, he wouldn't
have threw my package.
Maybe he would have read my oursign and put our package in the
box.
What do you think, Victoria?
SPEAKER_03 (06:35):
Well, I want to take it a step further because I've
had some people make commentsabout, well, the smell doesn't
stay on very long, blah, blah,blah.
Well, as a mom of a specialneeds miracle, number one, you
know, for those of you who haveor may not have followed Faith's
journey, she required atracheostomy for a good two and
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a half years after she was born.
And when you are having atracheostomy, you can't even
wear perfume, right?
This she's so smell sensitive.
You have to be so careful.
And they tell you, like, my hairwould always have to be put up.
You couldn't have your hair downin case it got inside the tray,
you know, tube.
You have to be careful of alland any and all smells.
(07:18):
Any nurses knew that theycouldn't even wear, you know,
perfume in the room with her.
There is a lot of protocol.
Well, you don't know if youapproach somebody's house, if
they have chronic asthma,bronchitis, leukemia.
You know, there's a plethora ofthings out there that they could
be, you know, dealing withinside of that home and you
don't know what it is.
(07:39):
And our daughter ispost-tracheostomy dependent.
So, yes, by the grace of God,she's been decamulated.
But seriously, though, you know,it's our choice whether or not
we allow smoking in or aroundour home.
And we have been diligent aboutmaking sure that no one smokes
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anywhere around so that we don'teven come in our home with it on
our person.
Like if you're standing outsidehaving a conversation with
someone and they're just havinga cigarette and they exhale and
it gets on you, it gets intoyour clothes, it gets into your
hair.
And we don't want to bring thatinside with faith.
So we've spent our life makingsure to be smoke and smell free
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for this very reason.
And, you know, if people want totake into consideration, and I
know that medical marijuana is,you know, offered and that some
people do utilize that.
And that is their right, that isabsolutely their right, but it's
also our right not to have thatin our home.
It's also our right where if wespend our hard-earned money not
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to have those packages come inwith that smell.
And he was insanely rude.
He ran off.
You could tell that he was, Imean, you could see the smoke
puffing off of his mouth when hewent running for the hills.
And then when I reached out toTimu, they were at first, they
were like, Well, we'll give youa nine dollar credit.
Well, the order was ruined, andthe order, I believe, was$30 in
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total.
And to me, it doesn't matter ifit's$30,$300,$3,000.
It's about you know principleand the safety of things.
If, you know, for instance, ifyou have a special needs child
and say they have a broviacline, when you go to change
something line, you have toglove up.
You have to have a sterileenvironment.
If you have a child that's tubedependent, you are doing a tube
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change, you have to make surethat you glove up, that your you
know, environment is sterile,that you check the water within
the balloon.
There's all sorts of protocolthat have to be done.
If you're doing the trachchange, you know, you have to
make sure you're it's the samething.
You need a sterile environment.
You want to make sure you gloveup, you want to make sure you
don't bring in any infection.
And see, for Faith, for her, ifshe got sick because of a lower
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immune system, that's ahospitalization.
So we are very careful with herfor that very reason.
And it just is it's just commoncourtesy when you go.
If you want to smoke pot and youwant to do it in your own home,
so be it.
That's fine.
But if you have a job and you'redriving, I bet the people who
have given negative commentsback wouldn't be so negative if,
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God forbid, they got hit bysomebody under the influence
when they were driving.
They wouldn't feel so negativeabout it because it does impair
you when you're driving.
It absolutely impairs you.
And if you get hit, God forbid,by someone who's under the
influence, I think you'd have atotally different situation.
Or if you had this same scenarioand say your child had a
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dependency for a breathing tubeor was on a ventilator, these
are things that happen that arein the home.
Or maybe, God forbid, you havesomeone in, you know, hospice,
but they're at the home.
You just, it's common courtesy,and people are so quick to be
negative about everything, butnot realistically, you know,
maybe she's right.
What if I was driving home fromgetting Christmas gifts and I
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had the kids in the car and thatdriver was impaired and hit me
and it cost the life of a lovedone?
You know, these aren'tfar-fetched.
You know, my husband just saidhe dealt with this on a daily
basis, and this is somethingthat needs to be talked about.
It's the holidays, it needs tobe addressed, and it shouldn't
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be stood for.
So many people are hardworkingpeople looking for good jobs,
looking a way to help supporttheir family.
And then you have someone whothinks it's okay to first of all
be under the influence and thendrive out of here like a bat out
of hell.
I mean, literally forget thepost-it speed limit, forget any
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kind of, you know, laws that maygovern the state for your
driving.
However, none of them werefollowed.
And I guess that is okay.
And we've had some peoplecomment about the fact that you
you were being tedious over thesmell and the smell doesn't stay
long.
I mean, if you're a non-smoker,go be around a smoker and be
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around it for five minutes, andit will be in your hair, your
clothes, everything.
The perfect example, and it'sit's not, it is a good example,
but it's not, is when you gothrough law enforcement
training, you have to be sprayedwith OC or pepper spray or gas
or whatever terminology eachdepartment uses.
They all use a different termfor it.
And then you are led, afteryou're sprayed, you are led to
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the hose to clean your eyes up.
But then they tell you to bringin a change of clothes because
it is in your hair, it is inyour clothes.
You have to wash those clothesseparately because the smell
will carry on to the othergarments and the smell stays in
there, and that's why they tellyou to bag it up and seal the
bag because the smell stays inthere, and if it's a smell
you're not accustomed to or youdon't want around, it's pretty
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potent.
SPEAKER_04 (12:51):
So my wife mentioned driving under the influence.
I was police officer with onedepartment for six and a half
years, and I believe in Augfour, while worked in an
accident on the highway, I washit by a DUI driver while I was
sitting in my in my unit waitingon the tow truck.
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A DUI driver hit me almostT-bone.
Now that guy was not even hurt,not a scratch on him.
Of course, he went to thehospital because they had to
draw blood on him, but he wasn'thurt.
Me, on the other hand, oh yeah,I was I was I was toe up.
(13:34):
Okay, my back hurts me all thetime.
Okay, I still have musclerelaxers that I take from time
to time.
SPEAKER_03 (13:41):
But you don't drive on them.
SPEAKER_04 (13:42):
I don't drive them.
I can't I can't physically dosome of the things that I used
to because of that DY accident.
Okay, who's to say this guy,this yahoo is out running around
delivering packages, he's in ahurry.
He's got, I don't know, 75 stopsto make.
I don't, I don't know.
Okay, and he said, I'm gonna I'mjust gonna smoke it up while I'm
driving.
SPEAKER_03 (14:03):
And his response time well behind the vehicle is
much slower.
You know, what if there's achild in the in the neighborhood
that he's going to deliver apackage at?
What a you know, a child runsout or a dog runs out, right?
Right, your response time ismuch slower than that of a
cognitively non-impaired driver.
SPEAKER_04 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah.
So well, that's our two cents onthat.
And if y'all got qualms withthem, hey, my email is Solomon4
at a contagious spawn.com.
SPEAKER_03 (14:35):
You want to, you know, the number four, the
number four, not the spelling ofthat's right.
SPEAKER_04 (14:40):
Solomon the number four at a contagious spawn.com.
I'll gladly listen to you andwe'll put it on the next episode
of a contagious small.
SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
I mean, we're just trying to look out for our kids,
each other's kids.
I mean, you know, there's justso many people out there who
want to get a good job or justget a job to help.
And when you see this, it's justpeople don't drug test anymore
to, you know, is it and a lot ofpeople don't realize this is
that like you know, a dominoesor pizza hut, when they put the
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sign on their car, they're nolonger driving their personal
vehicle, it's a commercialvehicle because they're
advertising the company to whichthey're driving for.
And so, I mean, it's just it'sjust common courtesy, it's
common sense.
It's like I I always have eithervideos or music in the
background or the news in thebackground while I'm trying to
write stuff because it justkeeps me occupied.
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But, you know, for instance,some somebody stole a bag of dog
food and it was in Dunwoody,Georgia.
And the guy had the nerve tosay, Well, she left it out, and
they end up finding that therewas pot and everything else in
his work van.
He was in his work van when hestole it, and they said, Well,
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you know, sorry, but you'rebeing taken in.
And he went nuts.
He said, Well, she left it out,and it's not my fault because I
needed dog food, so I shouldn'tbe charged.
And the thing is, is that howcan people say that that's not
wrong, you know?
I mean, the guy says, Well, sheleft the dog food out, and I
(16:17):
needed dog food, so I took it,and I shouldn't be charged with
theft.
But the thing is, is that whenthis driver came smelling of,
and it's not just the fact thathe was smelling of marijuana, it
was the fact that he was rude.
What if he broke everything inthe bag?
What if, you know, that causedus to have to go to the
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emergency room?
He's not gonna pay thedeductible, he's not gonna pay
the copay, he's not gonna, youknow, sit there and hold our
kids' hand while we get close toanother holiday.
I mean, it was it was a fewyears ago, we almost lost her at
this time of year, and you know,she was in full organ failure.
And it's just common courtesy,treat other people the way you
want to be treated, because it'slike, how hard is it?
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So many people today want tojump skill it and just berate
you.
Like when I went to anotherlocation of a bank the other
day, one that I normally wouldnever go into, the assistant
branch manager was so nice.
And I said, you know what?
I don't know who I can talk toto thank them for your
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professionalism.
And she's like, What?
And she goes, Oh my god, we getso much negative reviews.
And I said, That's crazy.
So I actually made sure to comeback when the branch manager
would be there, and I asked totalk with her and shut the door,
and I told her I was like, Thiswoman went above and beyond to
assist me.
And I wanted to thank you, and Iwant to call corporate and thank
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them because you don't have totake five minutes to be negative
when you could be three minutesto be positive.
I mean, so many people want tobe so negative and take their
bad day out on everybody else.
Why can't we just be nice andsay something nice about people
sometimes?
I mean, that makes no sense.
Like the branch manager wasdumbfounded.
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She was like, What?
And I was like, I just wanted tothank you.
She was phenomenal.
Like she didn't know me, Ididn't know her.
It's first time I ever met her,and she went above and beyond.
And I think she should beaccommodated for that.
Like she should be recognizedfor that.
Same thing when, you know, I goto like to the grocery store and
they have they've hired specialneeds kiddos.
I will wait in line and I don'tcare how long it takes for them.
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And they'll apologize.
I'm sorry it's taking so long.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm good.
How are you doing?
Tell me about your day.
How is your holiday?
Whatever.
I'll carry a conversation withyou.
You know, you want to walk outwith me or you know,
congratulations, you're doingawesome.
You're doing amazing.
You're out here, you have a job,you're trying to do something
with your life.
Major kudos to you.
I mean, seriously.
And then I'll go tell themanager what a great job you've
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done and and how helpful you'vebeen.
I mean, it takes no time at all.
So why can't we do more of thatinstead of just, and I know
people are going, excuse me,weren't you the one who's just
biting off somebody's head aboutthe marijuana delivery?
Yes, because you put my familyat risk.
There's a difference, there's abig difference.
If he had just thrown it on theon the porch and it broke, I
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would have reached out to Timoand said, Hey, this is what
happened.
I wouldn't have made such a bigissue about it.
But the fact that he the wholething just absolutely reeked and
he tried to get into thepackage.
And then when my husband, whodoes, you know, come out and
thank every single driver.
I mean, he in the summer heoffers them all water and he
carries on conversations withthem, then it makes no sense.
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I mean, treat people the way youwant to be treated.
That's it.
I'm done with it.
SPEAKER_04 (19:39):
Yeah.
So I want to jump back to thedog food.
Okay.
If you don't mind.
Sure.
So the mentality was she leftthe dog food out on the porch.
My dog needed food, therefore, Itook it.
(19:59):
Right?
So it's not his fault, sotherefore, he shouldn't be
punished or judged because hisdog needs to eat.
Right?
Have we not heard the sameideology or mentality before
from these people who callthemselves maps?
SPEAKER_03 (20:22):
Minor attracted persons.
SPEAKER_04 (20:24):
Because that small child is wearing provocative
clothing, in their opinion.
It's their fault.
They're asking me to sodomizethem, to rape them, to molest
them.
It's not my fault as a 30, 40,50-year-old white male.
(20:44):
Right?
It's their fault.
SPEAKER_03 (20:46):
No accountability for their actions.
None.
SPEAKER_04 (20:49):
I can't believe that.
It's just we've my wife did anepisode way back with a Yahoo
that was he was incarcerated,right?
SPEAKER_03 (21:01):
He was incarcerated for killing the person that
sexually assaulted him, the manthat sexually assaulted him and
his brother.
SPEAKER_04 (21:08):
Okay.
Yes.
And this is the same one that hecame back on.
SPEAKER_03 (21:12):
He's been on a couple of times.
He actually walked off the showonce and hasn't come back since
because he said he didn'tidentify as a pedophile.
He identified as a map.
After his incarceration, he didrealize that he was into it and
that he wanted to be called amap.
And I said, You've lost any andall respect for me the minute
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you hurt a child.
Like that's an innocent child.
You don't get to make thatdecision.
And then he went on about thechemical castration, and he
doesn't believe it's okaybecause he should have the right
to bear arms and have kids.
And I was like, You A lose theright to bear arms when you
become a felon.
B, you also should not have akid if you're gonna molest them.
And you know, and he's like,Well, if I wanted to molest
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them, I could do it with otherthings other than my penis.
As that is true, at least thatwill no longer be an option.
You know, I don't believe youshould have children if you are
a convicted pedophile.
I I don't.
SPEAKER_04 (22:07):
Or a penis.
SPEAKER_03 (22:08):
And he stated that he also should not there
shouldn't be a sex registrybecause it's an invasive, it's
an invasion of their privacy.
Well, when you invade a child'sprivacy and invade a child's
innocent, to me, you have norights.
And the question I asked himthat I remember distinctly,
which made him storm off, was ifyou think you're untreated,
you're treated unfairly, excuseme, then please explain to me
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why you can't be in generalpopulation.
Why is it you have to be insolitaire and you can't be away,
you can't be in the general popwhile you're incarcerated.
SPEAKER_04 (22:41):
And I and I can attest to that because I took
care of a lot of older white menin jail that was convicted.
Sorry, not convicted, they wereaccused at the time of
molesting, sodomizing, rapingchildren.
(23:01):
Okay, and they were they theycould not be in general
population with the otherfathers, with the other inmates.
Because they would have jumpedthem, they had to be locked in.
The other inmates would havejumped them for four hours, and
it was either one or two tosell, but their charges were
exactly the same.
SPEAKER_03 (23:19):
But because the other inmates would have jumped
them.
You don't mess with a kid injail.
That's just, you know, you don'tdo that.
And that was his issues.
He was furious with me overthat.
But you you do not touchchildren.
That's not okay.
I want to go back to this for aminute.
We we posted reviews and I'vehad some people make some
comments, good and bad.
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Someone said if someone wants tosmoke either cigarettes or pot,
of course they can, but not whenit infringes on someone else's
right not to have to be aroundit.
Then someone writes back,actually, that isn't the way it
works.
If something is legal, then itdoesn't matter.
You don't have a right to neversmell it.
Although if he is working andthey don't allow that, then you
can complain.
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I agree it stinks, but it's thenew normal, just like cigarettes
were a hundred years ago and weneed to learn to deal.
SPEAKER_04 (24:07):
So, what company allows you to smoke on the job?
What company allows you to gethigh and smoke weed on the job?
SPEAKER_03 (24:13):
That's a very good question.
SPEAKER_04 (24:16):
Well, let's put it this way what legitimate company
or respectable business.
Anyway, if you're not part ofour academy, please get on
there.
Go to a contagious smile.com,click on the academy, and join
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up.
It is free, free, free.
Some of the classes are notfree, but the majority are.
Okay.
And if you do get into a classwhere, oh my god, you have to
pay four dollars and ninety-fivecents, okay, you're not gonna go
broke, people.
It helps run this globallyranked podcast and all the
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programs that we have to pay forup here.
So yeah.
Yes.
So get on there and join theacademy.
SPEAKER_03 (25:07):
I mean, and you know what?
If you've had issues like this,I mean, I've had people write in
to me and tell me that the samestuff happened with them at
Walmart, but Walmart did theright thing.
Yes, they are, and they do haveother organizations that you
know deliver for them, privatecompanies.
And I have also reached out andleft a message with the
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organization that was thedelivery team or drivers for
this delivery itself.
But I thought, you know, Timoshould Timu should know what
happened, and all of the stuffhad to be, you know, gotten rid
of.
I'm not gonna have that in myhome, I'm not gonna have this
smell.
And that's just it, you know.
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And the thing is, so many peopleso quickly, no matter what you
could put on there, it doesn'tmatter what you put on there.
Like if you put in there RonaldReagan was a fantastic
president, you're gonna have adispute.
And most of the people are gonnabe like, oh, he was the worst
president ever, or he was anactor who should never have been
a politician, or you know,people love to get in and stir
the pot, but nobody wants to getin and acknowledge the
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accomplishments of somebody andwhat they've done.
Like it's just so quick to belike pointing fingers, not
praising.
And that's what we need more ofin this world is praising.
I mean, it's just ridiculousthat it's this time of year, and
what we're doing is trying tobring attention because so many
families are so cautious that,like, when Faith had her trait,
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I couldn't take her shoppinginto a store.
I would have had to have stuffdelivered to the home, you know.
And here's the perfect example.
Her medical home healthcaresystem that would bring out her
medical supplies had to begoverned under very specific
rules for their employment.
Like, you know, they werealways, you know, clean cut and
they never had a fragrance on.
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They would bring stuff, youknow, over.
And I mean, I understandeverything is different and it's
the policy of the company, butit's the same, it it's just like
I couldn't take her to the storewhen she had a trike because any
kind of tiny thing could havecaused an occlusion, right?
She could have started coughingand then coughed up a mucus
plug.
Not that the smell itself would,but her coughing would have, and
it would have caused a mucusplug occlusion.
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And these are things that a lotof families, you know, have to
deal with, especially now thatthere's so many more people out
at the stores than normal.
And people who've never had togo through any like this will
never know.
And you know what?
Good for you and more power toyou.
But those of us that have livedour life in the medical family,
we know, you know, it's like ifsomebody coughs, you immediately
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turn your kid, or you know, youmake sure that they wear a mask
when you're at the doctor'soffice because what could be a
cold for one ends up ispneumonia for another or RSV,
and this is RSV season, and itwould be just a common cold to
some, but RSV to others, andit's just you know, we're this
is a topic we wanted to bringawareness to.
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And if we ruffled your feathers,then I apologize.
But it's just something that Ithink needs to be talked about,
and a lot of times people don'twant to bring it up.
SPEAKER_04 (28:16):
So we appreciate you, Victoria, and everything
you do, everything you dositting up here for 21 hours a
day.
SPEAKER_00 (28:24):
Oh Lording your butt off.
SPEAKER_04 (28:26):
Oh Lord, y'all be sure to to send uh Victoria a
thank you.
Okay, y'all can reach her atcontact us on the front of our
website, and be sure to checkout one of her 43 books.
A lot of them are on Amazon.com,Victoria Cure.
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Some of hers are awesome, someof them are I don't know, tear
jerkers, and some of them mayhit home, very, very close to
home.
Like a parent, a loved one.
SPEAKER_01 (29:02):
Did you say a parrot?
Like a parrot?
No.
Like a parrot?
SPEAKER_04 (29:05):
I know I thought funny.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (29:09):
A parrot.
SPEAKER_04 (29:10):
A parent.
SPEAKER_01 (29:11):
A parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:13):
A parent.
SPEAKER_01 (29:15):
A parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:17):
A parent.
SPEAKER_01 (29:18):
Like it's a parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:20):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (29:21):
Or a parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:21):
Like the guy downstairs is a parent.
He is a parent.
SPEAKER_03 (29:26):
But there's a difference between a parent and
a parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:28):
It's the same words.
SPEAKER_03 (29:30):
Oh lord.
Thank you guys for listening.
This is gonna be anothersquabble quabble about the
pronunciation of words, which iswhat we do.
SPEAKER_04 (29:42):
All right.
I'm hungry, y'all.
This is Michael signing it offwith Victoria.
The sexy victoria.
SPEAKER_01 (29:48):
Oh my god.
Whatever.
SPEAKER_04 (29:51):
Say that later tonight.
SPEAKER_01 (29:53):
Seriously?
Howdy y'all watch another episode of State Smile
Unstoppable with Victoria, Cure,and Michael.
SPEAKER_02 (00:09):
Take three.
SPEAKER_04 (00:11):
Yes.
It is now take three.
Because I screwed the boot onthe first two.
Got a good 25 minutes into thesecond take and flubbed it.
SPEAKER_02 (00:26):
That's why we're live and we're unscripted.
SPEAKER_04 (00:30):
So we had a non-narcistic Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_02 (00:37):
Yes, that was great.
It was quiet.
It was the four of us.
We had a plethora of food inbetween doctors and emergency
rooms and surgeries and allthat, but still an amazing
reason to be thankful.
SPEAKER_04 (00:54):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (00:55):
We hope all of you guys had a happy Thanksgiving as
well.
Things here are being crazy,crazy busy.
Can we just talk for a minuteabout the delivery driver we had
today?
So I ordered some things off ofTimu, and it was delivered.
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And these are just like little,you know, trinket things and
whatever.
And we see him drive up becauseas all of you know, our entire
property has cameras and it'srecorded and yada yada.
So my husband sees this black,dark gray sedan, drive up, and
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the individual proceeds to cometowards the door.
And go ahead, what happened?
SPEAKER_04 (01:50):
So I watch a lot of TikTok on the toilet, as my wife
knows.
You know, because men have tosit on the throne for I don't
know, 30, 45 minutes.
Well, at least till your legsfall asleep, right?
You you need some readingmaterial.
You gotta have something to do.
So TikTok's my go-to, right?
I see a lot of these porchpirates now.
I love the exploding packages.
(02:11):
I I love them.
You get what you deserve andmore, buddy.
But I don't want our packages tostay down any longer than they
have to, knowing that my wifehas ordered, you know, X amount
of packages that are on theirway.
I don't want them standing outthere too long.
So when I see the driver pullup, I start heading to the door.
I want to meet them at the door.
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I don't want the opportunity forthat SOB, and there are a few
SOBs out there, to throw mypackage.
We've had some steal some of ourpackages to throw our packages
onto the porch, which happenedto be wet today because it was
raining.
Right.
We have a box.
Put the damn thing in the box,okay?
SPEAKER_03 (02:50):
It even has a sign on it.
SPEAKER_04 (02:51):
There's a sign.
I wrote a sign.
Put it in the box.
Thank you.
Right?
And then, of course, I'll thankthe driver and tell him to drive
safe.
SPEAKER_02 (02:58):
He always does that.
SPEAKER_04 (02:59):
And my wife was correct.
We did order a sound card, asoundbox.
What's it called?
Sound a soundboard for ourmicrophones here a while back.
And one of the drivers bypassedthe camera.
SPEAKER_03 (03:12):
On Amazon, not demo.
SPEAKER_04 (03:14):
Bypassed our cameras, took out the soundboard
out of the box, through the boxon the porch, took a picture of
the box, and then avoided ourcameras again.
Back then, we we didn't havecoverage on what corner of the
house.
Now we do.
Yeah, stole$150.
So I like to go out there andgreet the drivers.
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Hey, how are you?
Thank you.
And drive safe.
Right?
Today, the some bitch.
Some bitch.
It's like a view for T Justice,you say.
SPEAKER_03 (03:48):
Or Blake Sheldon.
SPEAKER_04 (03:50):
That some bitch.
Came down through the grass.
Got up to the porch.
Threw the package onto theporch.
I was already at the door.
I immediately opened the doorand yelled at him, stop.
Hey, stop, you, hey.
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He kept he kept running towardshis vehicle.
I said, Hey, you peckerhead.
I'm just upset now.
SPEAKER_03 (04:17):
He ran.
SPEAKER_04 (04:17):
You're ignoring me.
SPEAKER_03 (04:18):
Not to mention there was some smoke coming out.
SPEAKER_04 (04:21):
And and I immediately could smell
marijuana from just him visitingthat short of time.
Picked up the package.
It reeked.
SPEAKER_03 (04:31):
And there was a finger hole in the package where
it reeked with marijuana lookedinto as to see what was inside
of it.
SPEAKER_04 (04:38):
Okay.
I smoked marijuana when I wasprobably 16 years old.
I had four joints.
SPEAKER_03 (04:43):
Never done it.
SPEAKER_04 (04:43):
That's it.
SPEAKER_03 (04:44):
Never done it.
SPEAKER_04 (04:45):
Okay.
We're a non-smoking family.
We don't allow it in the house.
We don't allow smokers in thehouse, you know, to smoke.
We don't even like you smokearound our property because of
our daughter and my wife.
Okay, there's a lot of medicalissues with smoke.
But this package was reeking.
And now I have to bring thispackage inside our home.
SPEAKER_03 (05:06):
Well, the door was open, and the smell came in the
house with, and right when youcome into our front door is like
our living room.
So the couch, the recliner, thelove.
I mean, all of that is rightthere.
Not to mention the puffs ofsmoke coming out of him while he
was running.
SPEAKER_04 (05:21):
So the thumb bitch got in his car and hauled ass as
I'm still yelling at him, right?
All right.
So we have a couple issues here.
A lot of y'all are gonna focuson the fact that yeah, we're
just being sissies and wimps,not being able to tolerate a
little bit of marijuana smoke onour packages.
We shouldn't have to, buddy.
(05:42):
Okay, that's number one.
We shouldn't have to endurethis.
Okay, we don't we don't do it,so why should we have to suffer?
The fact that he is out drivingunder the influence of drugs.
Hey, wake up, folks.
You know, I used to be a cop, Iused to arrest people for this.
I used to pull people over andtake them to jail, and I take
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their marijuana, whatever.
I write them a ticket.
They're out there doing thisevery day.
If somebody doesn't saysomething, then they're gonna
continue to do it.
Just like in domestic violence.
You see something, you saysomething.
So that's my issue.
This guy's out there drivingunder the influence of drugs,
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delivering our packages.
Maybe had he not been smokingweed while working, he wouldn't
have threw my package.
Maybe he would have read my oursign and put our package in the
box.
What do you think, Victoria?
SPEAKER_03 (06:35):
Well, I want to take it a step further because I've
had some people make commentsabout, well, the smell doesn't
stay on very long, blah, blah,blah.
Well, as a mom of a specialneeds miracle, number one, you
know, for those of you who haveor may not have followed Faith's
journey, she required atracheostomy for a good two and
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a half years after she was born.
And when you are having atracheostomy, you can't even
wear perfume, right?
This she's so smell sensitive.
You have to be so careful.
And they tell you, like, my hairwould always have to be put up.
You couldn't have your hair downin case it got inside the tray,
you know, tube.
You have to be careful of alland any and all smells.
(07:18):
Any nurses knew that theycouldn't even wear, you know,
perfume in the room with her.
There is a lot of protocol.
Well, you don't know if youapproach somebody's house, if
they have chronic asthma,bronchitis, leukemia.
You know, there's a plethora ofthings out there that they could
be, you know, dealing withinside of that home and you
don't know what it is.
(07:39):
And our daughter ispost-tracheostomy dependent.
So, yes, by the grace of God,she's been decamulated.
But seriously, though, you know,it's our choice whether or not
we allow smoking in or aroundour home.
And we have been diligent aboutmaking sure that no one smokes
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anywhere around so that we don'teven come in our home with it on
our person.
Like if you're standing outsidehaving a conversation with
someone and they're just havinga cigarette and they exhale and
it gets on you, it gets intoyour clothes, it gets into your
hair.
And we don't want to bring thatinside with faith.
So we've spent our life makingsure to be smoke and smell free
(08:23):
for this very reason.
And, you know, if people want totake into consideration, and I
know that medical marijuana is,you know, offered and that some
people do utilize that.
And that is their right, that isabsolutely their right, but it's
also our right not to have thatin our home.
It's also our right where if wespend our hard-earned money not
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to have those packages come inwith that smell.
And he was insanely rude.
He ran off.
You could tell that he was, Imean, you could see the smoke
puffing off of his mouth when hewent running for the hills.
And then when I reached out toTimu, they were at first, they
were like, Well, we'll give youa nine dollar credit.
Well, the order was ruined, andthe order, I believe, was$30 in
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total.
And to me, it doesn't matter ifit's$30,$300,$3,000.
It's about you know principleand the safety of things.
If, you know, for instance, ifyou have a special needs child
and say they have a broviacline, when you go to change
something line, you have toglove up.
You have to have a sterileenvironment.
If you have a child that's tubedependent, you are doing a tube
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change, you have to make surethat you glove up, that your you
know, environment is sterile,that you check the water within
the balloon.
There's all sorts of protocolthat have to be done.
If you're doing the trachchange, you know, you have to
make sure you're it's the samething.
You need a sterile environment.
You want to make sure you gloveup, you want to make sure you
don't bring in any infection.
And see, for Faith, for her, ifshe got sick because of a lower
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immune system, that's ahospitalization.
So we are very careful with herfor that very reason.
And it just is it's just commoncourtesy when you go.
If you want to smoke pot and youwant to do it in your own home,
so be it.
That's fine.
But if you have a job and you'redriving, I bet the people who
have given negative commentsback wouldn't be so negative if,
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God forbid, they got hit bysomebody under the influence
when they were driving.
They wouldn't feel so negativeabout it because it does impair
you when you're driving.
It absolutely impairs you.
And if you get hit, God forbid,by someone who's under the
influence, I think you'd have atotally different situation.
Or if you had this same scenarioand say your child had a
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dependency for a breathing tubeor was on a ventilator, these
are things that happen that arein the home.
Or maybe, God forbid, you havesomeone in, you know, hospice,
but they're at the home.
You just, it's common courtesy,and people are so quick to be
negative about everything, butnot realistically, you know,
maybe she's right.
What if I was driving home fromgetting Christmas gifts and I
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had the kids in the car and thatdriver was impaired and hit me
and it cost the life of a lovedone?
You know, these aren'tfar-fetched.
You know, my husband just saidhe dealt with this on a daily
basis, and this is somethingthat needs to be talked about.
It's the holidays, it needs tobe addressed, and it shouldn't
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be stood for.
So many people are hardworkingpeople looking for good jobs,
looking a way to help supporttheir family.
And then you have someone whothinks it's okay to first of all
be under the influence and thendrive out of here like a bat out
of hell.
I mean, literally forget thepost-it speed limit, forget any
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kind of, you know, laws that maygovern the state for your
driving.
However, none of them werefollowed.
And I guess that is okay.
And we've had some peoplecomment about the fact that you
you were being tedious over thesmell and the smell doesn't stay
long.
I mean, if you're a non-smoker,go be around a smoker and be
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around it for five minutes, andit will be in your hair, your
clothes, everything.
The perfect example, and it'sit's not, it is a good example,
but it's not, is when you gothrough law enforcement
training, you have to be sprayedwith OC or pepper spray or gas
or whatever terminology eachdepartment uses.
They all use a different termfor it.
And then you are led, afteryou're sprayed, you are led to
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the hose to clean your eyes up.
But then they tell you to bringin a change of clothes because
it is in your hair, it is inyour clothes.
You have to wash those clothesseparately because the smell
will carry on to the othergarments and the smell stays in
there, and that's why they tellyou to bag it up and seal the
bag because the smell stays inthere, and if it's a smell
you're not accustomed to or youdon't want around, it's pretty
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potent.
SPEAKER_04 (12:51):
So my wife mentioned driving under the influence.
I was police officer with onedepartment for six and a half
years, and I believe in Augfour, while worked in an
accident on the highway, I washit by a DUI driver while I was
sitting in my in my unit waitingon the tow truck.
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A DUI driver hit me almostT-bone.
Now that guy was not even hurt,not a scratch on him.
Of course, he went to thehospital because they had to
draw blood on him, but he wasn'thurt.
Me, on the other hand, oh yeah,I was I was I was toe up.
(13:34):
Okay, my back hurts me all thetime.
Okay, I still have musclerelaxers that I take from time
to time.
SPEAKER_03 (13:41):
But you don't drive on them.
SPEAKER_04 (13:42):
I don't drive them.
I can't I can't physically dosome of the things that I used
to because of that DY accident.
Okay, who's to say this guy,this yahoo is out running around
delivering packages, he's in ahurry.
He's got, I don't know, 75 stopsto make.
I don't, I don't know.
Okay, and he said, I'm gonna I'mjust gonna smoke it up while I'm
driving.
SPEAKER_03 (14:03):
And his response time well behind the vehicle is
much slower.
You know, what if there's achild in the in the neighborhood
that he's going to deliver apackage at?
What a you know, a child runsout or a dog runs out, right?
Right, your response time ismuch slower than that of a
cognitively non-impaired driver.
SPEAKER_04 (14:21):
Yeah, yeah.
So well, that's our two cents onthat.
And if y'all got qualms withthem, hey, my email is Solomon4
at a contagious spawn.com.
SPEAKER_03 (14:35):
You want to, you know, the number four, the
number four, not the spelling ofthat's right.
SPEAKER_04 (14:40):
Solomon the number four at a contagious spawn.com.
I'll gladly listen to you andwe'll put it on the next episode
of a contagious small.
SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
I mean, we're just trying to look out for our kids,
each other's kids.
I mean, you know, there's justso many people out there who
want to get a good job or justget a job to help.
And when you see this, it's justpeople don't drug test anymore
to, you know, is it and a lot ofpeople don't realize this is
that like you know, a dominoesor pizza hut, when they put the
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sign on their car, they're nolonger driving their personal
vehicle, it's a commercialvehicle because they're
advertising the company to whichthey're driving for.
And so, I mean, it's just it'sjust common courtesy, it's
common sense.
It's like I I always have eithervideos or music in the
background or the news in thebackground while I'm trying to
write stuff because it justkeeps me occupied.
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But, you know, for instance,some somebody stole a bag of dog
food and it was in Dunwoody,Georgia.
And the guy had the nerve tosay, Well, she left it out, and
they end up finding that therewas pot and everything else in
his work van.
He was in his work van when hestole it, and they said, Well,
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you know, sorry, but you'rebeing taken in.
And he went nuts.
He said, Well, she left it out,and it's not my fault because I
needed dog food, so I shouldn'tbe charged.
And the thing is, is that howcan people say that that's not
wrong, you know?
I mean, the guy says, Well, sheleft the dog food out, and I
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needed dog food, so I took it,and I shouldn't be charged with
theft.
But the thing is, is that whenthis driver came smelling of,
and it's not just the fact thathe was smelling of marijuana, it
was the fact that he was rude.
What if he broke everything inthe bag?
What if, you know, that causedus to have to go to the
(16:40):
emergency room?
He's not gonna pay thedeductible, he's not gonna pay
the copay, he's not gonna, youknow, sit there and hold our
kids' hand while we get close toanother holiday.
I mean, it was it was a fewyears ago, we almost lost her at
this time of year, and you know,she was in full organ failure.
And it's just common courtesy,treat other people the way you
want to be treated, because it'slike, how hard is it?
(17:02):
So many people today want tojump skill it and just berate
you.
Like when I went to anotherlocation of a bank the other
day, one that I normally wouldnever go into, the assistant
branch manager was so nice.
And I said, you know what?
I don't know who I can talk toto thank them for your
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professionalism.
And she's like, What?
And she goes, Oh my god, we getso much negative reviews.
And I said, That's crazy.
So I actually made sure to comeback when the branch manager
would be there, and I asked totalk with her and shut the door,
and I told her I was like, Thiswoman went above and beyond to
assist me.
And I wanted to thank you, and Iwant to call corporate and thank
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them because you don't have totake five minutes to be negative
when you could be three minutesto be positive.
I mean, so many people want tobe so negative and take their
bad day out on everybody else.
Why can't we just be nice andsay something nice about people
sometimes?
I mean, that makes no sense.
Like the branch manager wasdumbfounded.
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She was like, What?
And I was like, I just wanted tothank you.
She was phenomenal.
Like she didn't know me, Ididn't know her.
It's first time I ever met her,and she went above and beyond.
And I think she should beaccommodated for that.
Like she should be recognizedfor that.
Same thing when, you know, I goto like to the grocery store and
they have they've hired specialneeds kiddos.
I will wait in line and I don'tcare how long it takes for them.
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And they'll apologize.
I'm sorry it's taking so long.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm good.
How are you doing?
Tell me about your day.
How is your holiday?
Whatever.
I'll carry a conversation withyou.
You know, you want to walk outwith me or you know,
congratulations, you're doingawesome.
You're doing amazing.
You're out here, you have a job,you're trying to do something
with your life.
Major kudos to you.
I mean, seriously.
And then I'll go tell themanager what a great job you've
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done and and how helpful you'vebeen.
I mean, it takes no time at all.
So why can't we do more of thatinstead of just, and I know
people are going, excuse me,weren't you the one who's just
biting off somebody's head aboutthe marijuana delivery?
Yes, because you put my familyat risk.
There's a difference, there's abig difference.
If he had just thrown it on theon the porch and it broke, I
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would have reached out to Timoand said, Hey, this is what
happened.
I wouldn't have made such a bigissue about it.
But the fact that he the wholething just absolutely reeked and
he tried to get into thepackage.
And then when my husband, whodoes, you know, come out and
thank every single driver.
I mean, he in the summer heoffers them all water and he
carries on conversations withthem, then it makes no sense.
(19:35):
I mean, treat people the way youwant to be treated.
That's it.
I'm done with it.
SPEAKER_04 (19:39):
Yeah.
So I want to jump back to thedog food.
Okay.
If you don't mind.
Sure.
So the mentality was she leftthe dog food out on the porch.
My dog needed food, therefore, Itook it.
(19:59):
Right?
So it's not his fault, sotherefore, he shouldn't be
punished or judged because hisdog needs to eat.
Right?
Have we not heard the sameideology or mentality before
from these people who callthemselves maps?
SPEAKER_03 (20:22):
Minor attracted persons.
SPEAKER_04 (20:24):
Because that small child is wearing provocative
clothing, in their opinion.
It's their fault.
They're asking me to sodomizethem, to rape them, to molest
them.
It's not my fault as a 30, 40,50-year-old white male.
(20:44):
Right?
It's their fault.
SPEAKER_03 (20:46):
No accountability for their actions.
None.
SPEAKER_04 (20:49):
I can't believe that.
It's just we've my wife did anepisode way back with a Yahoo
that was he was incarcerated,right?
SPEAKER_03 (21:01):
He was incarcerated for killing the person that
sexually assaulted him, the manthat sexually assaulted him and
his brother.
SPEAKER_04 (21:08):
Okay.
Yes.
And this is the same one that hecame back on.
SPEAKER_03 (21:12):
He's been on a couple of times.
He actually walked off the showonce and hasn't come back since
because he said he didn'tidentify as a pedophile.
He identified as a map.
After his incarceration, he didrealize that he was into it and
that he wanted to be called amap.
And I said, You've lost any andall respect for me the minute
(21:34):
you hurt a child.
Like that's an innocent child.
You don't get to make thatdecision.
And then he went on about thechemical castration, and he
doesn't believe it's okaybecause he should have the right
to bear arms and have kids.
And I was like, You A lose theright to bear arms when you
become a felon.
B, you also should not have akid if you're gonna molest them.
And you know, and he's like,Well, if I wanted to molest
(21:56):
them, I could do it with otherthings other than my penis.
As that is true, at least thatwill no longer be an option.
You know, I don't believe youshould have children if you are
a convicted pedophile.
I I don't.
SPEAKER_04 (22:07):
Or a penis.
SPEAKER_03 (22:08):
And he stated that he also should not there
shouldn't be a sex registrybecause it's an invasive, it's
an invasion of their privacy.
Well, when you invade a child'sprivacy and invade a child's
innocent, to me, you have norights.
And the question I asked himthat I remember distinctly,
which made him storm off, was ifyou think you're untreated,
you're treated unfairly, excuseme, then please explain to me
(22:31):
why you can't be in generalpopulation.
Why is it you have to be insolitaire and you can't be away,
you can't be in the general popwhile you're incarcerated.
SPEAKER_04 (22:41):
And I and I can attest to that because I took
care of a lot of older white menin jail that was convicted.
Sorry, not convicted, they wereaccused at the time of
molesting, sodomizing, rapingchildren.
(23:01):
Okay, and they were they theycould not be in general
population with the otherfathers, with the other inmates.
Because they would have jumpedthem, they had to be locked in.
The other inmates would havejumped them for four hours, and
it was either one or two tosell, but their charges were
exactly the same.
SPEAKER_03 (23:19):
But because the other inmates would have jumped
them.
You don't mess with a kid injail.
That's just, you know, you don'tdo that.
And that was his issues.
He was furious with me overthat.
But you you do not touchchildren.
That's not okay.
I want to go back to this for aminute.
We we posted reviews and I'vehad some people make some
comments, good and bad.
(23:40):
Someone said if someone wants tosmoke either cigarettes or pot,
of course they can, but not whenit infringes on someone else's
right not to have to be aroundit.
Then someone writes back,actually, that isn't the way it
works.
If something is legal, then itdoesn't matter.
You don't have a right to neversmell it.
Although if he is working andthey don't allow that, then you
can complain.
(24:01):
I agree it stinks, but it's thenew normal, just like cigarettes
were a hundred years ago and weneed to learn to deal.
SPEAKER_04 (24:07):
So, what company allows you to smoke on the job?
What company allows you to gethigh and smoke weed on the job?
SPEAKER_03 (24:13):
That's a very good question.
SPEAKER_04 (24:16):
Well, let's put it this way what legitimate company
or respectable business.
Anyway, if you're not part ofour academy, please get on
there.
Go to a contagious smile.com,click on the academy, and join
(24:36):
up.
It is free, free, free.
Some of the classes are notfree, but the majority are.
Okay.
And if you do get into a classwhere, oh my god, you have to
pay four dollars and ninety-fivecents, okay, you're not gonna go
broke, people.
It helps run this globallyranked podcast and all the
(24:59):
programs that we have to pay forup here.
So yeah.
Yes.
So get on there and join theacademy.
SPEAKER_03 (25:07):
I mean, and you know what?
If you've had issues like this,I mean, I've had people write in
to me and tell me that the samestuff happened with them at
Walmart, but Walmart did theright thing.
Yes, they are, and they do haveother organizations that you
know deliver for them, privatecompanies.
And I have also reached out andleft a message with the
(25:29):
organization that was thedelivery team or drivers for
this delivery itself.
But I thought, you know, Timoshould Timu should know what
happened, and all of the stuffhad to be, you know, gotten rid
of.
I'm not gonna have that in myhome, I'm not gonna have this
smell.
And that's just it, you know.
(25:49):
And the thing is, so many peopleso quickly, no matter what you
could put on there, it doesn'tmatter what you put on there.
Like if you put in there RonaldReagan was a fantastic
president, you're gonna have adispute.
And most of the people are gonnabe like, oh, he was the worst
president ever, or he was anactor who should never have been
a politician, or you know,people love to get in and stir
the pot, but nobody wants to getin and acknowledge the
(26:12):
accomplishments of somebody andwhat they've done.
Like it's just so quick to belike pointing fingers, not
praising.
And that's what we need more ofin this world is praising.
I mean, it's just ridiculousthat it's this time of year, and
what we're doing is trying tobring attention because so many
families are so cautious that,like, when Faith had her trait,
(26:35):
I couldn't take her shoppinginto a store.
I would have had to have stuffdelivered to the home, you know.
And here's the perfect example.
Her medical home healthcaresystem that would bring out her
medical supplies had to begoverned under very specific
rules for their employment.
Like, you know, they werealways, you know, clean cut and
they never had a fragrance on.
(26:55):
They would bring stuff, youknow, over.
And I mean, I understandeverything is different and it's
the policy of the company, butit's the same, it it's just like
I couldn't take her to the storewhen she had a trike because any
kind of tiny thing could havecaused an occlusion, right?
She could have started coughingand then coughed up a mucus
plug.
Not that the smell itself would,but her coughing would have, and
it would have caused a mucusplug occlusion.
(27:17):
And these are things that a lotof families, you know, have to
deal with, especially now thatthere's so many more people out
at the stores than normal.
And people who've never had togo through any like this will
never know.
And you know what?
Good for you and more power toyou.
But those of us that have livedour life in the medical family,
we know, you know, it's like ifsomebody coughs, you immediately
(27:41):
turn your kid, or you know, youmake sure that they wear a mask
when you're at the doctor'soffice because what could be a
cold for one ends up ispneumonia for another or RSV,
and this is RSV season, and itwould be just a common cold to
some, but RSV to others, andit's just you know, we're this
is a topic we wanted to bringawareness to.
(28:02):
And if we ruffled your feathers,then I apologize.
But it's just something that Ithink needs to be talked about,
and a lot of times people don'twant to bring it up.
SPEAKER_04 (28:16):
So we appreciate you, Victoria, and everything
you do, everything you dositting up here for 21 hours a
day.
SPEAKER_00 (28:24):
Oh Lording your butt off.
SPEAKER_04 (28:26):
Oh Lord, y'all be sure to to send uh Victoria a
thank you.
Okay, y'all can reach her atcontact us on the front of our
website, and be sure to checkout one of her 43 books.
A lot of them are on Amazon.com,Victoria Cure.
(28:47):
Some of hers are awesome, someof them are I don't know, tear
jerkers, and some of them mayhit home, very, very close to
home.
Like a parent, a loved one.
SPEAKER_01 (29:02):
Did you say a parrot?
Like a parrot?
No.
Like a parrot?
SPEAKER_04 (29:05):
I know I thought funny.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (29:09):
A parrot.
SPEAKER_04 (29:10):
A parent.
SPEAKER_01 (29:11):
A parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:13):
A parent.
SPEAKER_01 (29:15):
A parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:17):
A parent.
SPEAKER_01 (29:18):
Like it's a parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:20):
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (29:21):
Or a parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:21):
Like the guy downstairs is a parent.
He is a parent.
SPEAKER_03 (29:26):
But there's a difference between a parent and
a parent.
SPEAKER_04 (29:28):
It's the same words.
SPEAKER_03 (29:30):
Oh lord.
Thank you guys for listening.
This is gonna be anothersquabble quabble about the
pronunciation of words, which iswhat we do.
SPEAKER_04 (29:42):
All right.
I'm hungry, y'all.
This is Michael signing it offwith Victoria.
The sexy victoria.
SPEAKER_01 (29:48):
Oh my god.
Whatever.
SPEAKER_04 (29:51):
Say that later tonight.
SPEAKER_01 (29:53):
Seriously?
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