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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Jurnays go. Hey, Hey, it's Thursday. Welcome to the Trav
Show travelers. I hope your Wednesday was good, but I'm
going to do my best to make sure your Thursday
is even better. Today's edition of The Trash Show brought
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got news or Nonsense? Got you crazy news story of
the day. Also You're not new story and feel good
story that will tug at your heart strengths. Plus I
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wan't fill you in with my thoughts in today's Trav Talk.
Coming up here in just a couple of minutes, we
are going to kick things off by celebrating the day.
We have a lot to do, so what do you say?
Let's get things going. Today is Thursday. It is December,
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the fourth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty five, and
it is indeed a day you were celebrating. It is
Cabernet Frank Day, Extraordinary Work Team Recognition Day, It's International
Cheatah Day, the cat, not the person. It's not cheater Day, cheatog,
National cookie Day, okay, National dice Date. It's also National
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suck Day, Santa's List Day. I guess today's last day. Kiddos,
the letter hasn't made it Today, You're getting nothing. I'm kidding.
Calm down, Mom. It's also Wear brown Shoesday, Wildlife Conservation Day,
and on this day in history. In fifteen sixty three,
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the Council of Trent holds its last session after eighteen years,
the last council for more than three hundred years. Okay.
Sixteen nineteen thirty eight, colonists from Berkeley Parish, England at
disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by
many the first Thanksgiving in the America's all right. Eighteen
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twenty nine, Briton outlaws Soutie in India, in a Hindu
practice where widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral. Pyre, well,
it's probably good they outlawed that. And in nineteen eighteen,
US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Versales Peace Conference
in Frosce. Also nineteen twenty seven, Duke Ellington opens at
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the Cotton Club in Harlem in New York City. There
you have it, multiple reasons why today December fourth is
indeed a day we're celebrating. It's now time for today's
official dad joke of the day. If you are not
a dad, do not try this at home. We are professionals.
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What rock group is made up of four men who
don't sing? Wait? What mount Rushmore, Ladies and gentlemen, we
need to talk you ever, suddenly look around your house
and think why do I own any of this? That
was me the last two days. I went in full
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on purge mode. I started pulling books off shelves, books
I knew I was never going to read. Then it
was the trinkets, you know, those goofy little gifts people
give you that make you laugh once and then somehow
follow you through three moves for no good reason. And
then the table. Ah, the table, the table given to
my wife and me twenty years ago, a table neither
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one of us has liked in fifteen years. Wet it
was a beloved heirloom, when really it was just the
world's most long term house gifts. Well, let's finally go.
As I was clearing all this stuff out, little phrase
came to mind, clear the clutter, keep the memories. And
that's when it hit me. Some people can't keep the memories,
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people who struggle with memory loss with Alzheimer's. For them,
a trinket's just an object, the story behind it, it
just disappears. And thinking about that made me appreciate something
we don't acknowledge enough. The ability to remember, to look
back and actually hold a moment in your mind. That's
a gift, and that is a fragile one. So yeah,
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I got rid of some stuff, But the memories they
stay because, like the old hymn says, they truly are
precious memories. This holiday season, I'm asking you to take
them in to think about those who are prisoners in
their own mind, who don't know their loved ones, who
oftentimes don't even know who's they are. They've lived full lives,
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they've had memories, They've had the memory of the child's
first step, the wedding day, the loss of a parent.
But each day they wake up in a new world,
confused by their lack of knowing. So today, today, please
sit down and just be thankful for the memories. That
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is today's trap. Talk win or wicked in the morning
and it's study hall time. Come on in, grab a seat,
don't sit next to your friend. You know, all y'all
will do is talk, and I am trying to educate
you on the things of this world. So focus. It's
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a new study found a link between SODA's and an
early death. There you have it, y'all, these things are
not good. Now. I'm not going to be one of
these people who say I never have a soda. I do,
but it's very rare and usually I treat it like
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a dessert. That's what you have to look at when
you open a can of so to look at it
as you're eating half a cake. If you change the
way you perceive it, you will change the way you
take it in so moderation the key to lie. There
you have it. Start with the sugary drinks every day class.
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It's missed well. Our one is almost finished, but don't
you fret. Coming up an hour number two, we take
our first look at news or nonsense, including a story
that will tug at your heart strings for an NFL
Superstar Wide receiver, I can't I get you, Just come back.
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The things were tuned in to the Traps Show here
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to get our number two rolling. Not with news or nonsense,
not with your Facebook find of the day, No, no,
those things are coming. But right now it is time
for today's trap track, news or nonsense. Now tis the
season of giving, and I have an individual here who
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could really use some help. That individual NFL superstar Odell
Beckham Junior. See he needs some money, y'all. Here's what
he said. You give somebody a five year, one hundred
million dollar contract, right, what is it? Really? It's five
years for sixty we're getting taxed. Do the math. That's
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twelve a year, and you have to spend, you save, invest, flaunt,
just being real. I'm gonna buy a car, I'm gonna
get my mama house. Everything costs money. So if you're
spending four million a year, that's really forty million over
five years, eight a year. And you start breaking down
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the numbers, it's like that's five year. That's a five
year spend of where you're getting eight million dollars? Can
you make that last forever? And you always hear the
people who ain't us and it ain't been in position
like oh that would last a lifetime. We aren't taught
about no financial literacy. We weren't taught this skill. So
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in summary, here, a five year, one hundred million dollar
contract isn't actually a lot of money once you start
spending it like it's going out of style. So it's
really hard to make that after tax, sixty million last lifetime, y'all. Now,
to keep in mind, this is the same cat who says,
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you know, he's went and got excuse me, diamond grills
and I don't mean for his car, diamond teeth, all
kinds of you know, fashion things. I just forgive me
if my sympathy and empathy is not on a high
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level for this. And I'm not sure where he's getting
his math here. That's really forty million over five years.
If you're spending four million a year, eight a year,
I don't know. Oh, I guess he corrected himself eight year.
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But yeah, now, could you imagine having the gall to say, look,
one hundred million dollars, you can't live on that? What now,
I'll give him this. These athletes they do need financial
education classes or some kind of advisor because they do
blow through it. But one hundred million or sixty million
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after taxes. I think I could get by on that
with a not news, I'm not trapped.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
In a remarkable moment of church history, leaders of the
Catholic and Orthodox churches have come together to officially denounce
Whem's Last Christmas. Pope Leo and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomule came
together in Istanbul to make the joint announcement condemning the
ubiquitous holiday diddy. Thousands of worshippers then participated in a
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joint liturgy lifting up the intentions of the Holy Father
and Patriarch that Last Christmas may be purged from the earth.
We cannot win this fight, Alon, said local man Yusef Demur.
For decades, the plague of Last Christmas has tormented millions
as the church stood fractured. Today marks a new beginning
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and array of hope against the powers of wham. At
publishing time, to Catholic and Orthodox churches had also issued
a joint decreed denouncing do they know it's Christmas? With
today's not news? This has been not trapped.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
News are nonsense. Canada is a new record holder, and
I go ahead and tell you it ain't a good
one or at least. I don't think so, but uh,
I guess they can be proud. Canada uthanized a record
sixteen thousand, four hundred and ninety nine patients in twenty
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twenty four. Uh and y'all their new record killing their
own people youthanizing, it's a sad reality. Canada beat out
the Netherlands, which killed nine, nine hundred and fifty eight
of its citizens in twenty twenty four, an increase of
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ten percent from twenty twenty three. Canada increased their twenty
twenty three total by a six point nine percent, seeing
sixteen thousand, four hundred and ninety nine euthanasia deaths, counting
for five point one percent of all deaths nationwide. Y'all
from the story here. Every single person who died under
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Canada's made program died by euthanasia. Twenty twenty three, there
were fewer than five instances of assisted suicide. There have
been a total of seventy six thousand, four hundred and
seventy five instances of euthanasia and assisted suicides since they
were made legal in twenty sixteen. Y'all. In twenty twenty three,
there were fewer than five instances of assisted suicide last year,
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we do sixteen thousand, four hundred and ninety nine. Among
the factors recorded by medical practitioners as part of a
person's application for euthanasia, in twenty twenty four, seventy five
point five percent of people cited loss of independence, a
significant increase from twenty twenty three. Among those whose natural
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death was not reasonably foreseeable, over half. We're concerned about
being a burden. Man. This is depressing story. And I'm
not Canadian or Dutch, but still, these are human beings.
How long until this practice makes its way to the
United States? Good Gracious told the number of people who
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died by euth in Asia under track to increased by
seventeen point twelve percent. I y'all, if you feel like
you are alone, if you feel like you are a burden,
if you feel like you've lost your independence, talked to someone.
There's other ways to work things out than euthanasia. Please
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talk to someone. This is a sad, sad story. It's
time for today's Facebook find Now listen. We've been talking
about decorative items and possible gifts as we approach Christmas,
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but none of those things do you any good. If
you can't go pick them up. So today I thought,
you know what we need to focus on. We need
to focus on vehicles. Ladies and gentlemen. Have I found
one for you? Don't forget Our Facebook find of the
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day can be found on the traft Show Facebook page
here and on the Traff Show website. Anyway, here we go.
What I have for you today again comes from Knoxville, Tennessee.
We are just camped out in Knoxville. This comes from
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Dami and Garland. Now let me just give you his description.
This is a two thousand and one Honda CRV export
utility four door, only one hundred and fifty eight thousand miles,
has an automatic transmission. Exterior color silver, interior color black.
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It's a gas engine, gets nineteen miles to the gallon
in the city, twenty three miles per gallon highway. Only
two owners. I mean, so far, so good, right. I
know what you're saying, Trav. This is Facebook. Fine, what's up? Well?
Let me continue now. Damien says he trade for any
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car that runs and drives with a clean title, or
he'll take seven hundred and fifty dollars cash firm. Here's
another kicker. This thing ran and drove fine. Before the wreck.
Let me just tell you the photo is a picture
of this thing on its side, busted windshield, hood, demolished,
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fluids leaking out. But for only seven and fifty bucks,
how can you afford not to buy it? Well? Hour
two almost completed, but don't you fret. We still have
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in this hour more news or nonsense. Also our crazy
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news story of today, how to make swimming more difficult.
And we have a feel good story that's just fantastic.
So what do you say We dive right into our three.
It's time for a little news or nonsense. Now do
you remember earlier this year when ice arrested an Illinois
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policeman because he was an illegal alien. We talked about it. Well,
not only has the cop not been deported, but he's
been giving his old job back as a police officer
who carries a gun whose job it is to enforce
the loss that he broke. From the story and immigration
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judge granted to twenty five year old illegal immigrant at
twenty five hundred dollars immigration bond just two weeks after
he was picked up by ICE. Now he's back to
fully duty status with the department, which will give him
back pay for the time he served in ICE detention. Well,
that's good. I would hate for him to, you know,
do without right here at the holiday season. I don't
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even understand. Look, I don't care when we talk political things.
I see this all the time. I don't care which
side of the aisle you are on. We have to
be able to look at things logically. This guy is
in the country illegally, which means he can't legally possess
a gun. He can't go out and buy a gun legally,
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But yeah, he can work for a government agency and
be issued a gun. Again, he's broken the law to
be here, and he gets a job enforcing the laws.
At this point, nothing's real. We're just people are just
pretending and acting in every role. Apparently, you know, ICE
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can arrest him, Homeland Security can go on TV and
talk about him, but then one judge can say, I
don't worry about it, and then he's back on the force.
Our system is broken when you have judges who are
basically they're dictating policy. They're overruling presidential orders, presidential whatever.
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And I again doesn't matter who's in charge, Republican, Democrat, libertarian,
maybe one day independent. You should not be able to
have some circuit judge somewhere overrule the actions of a president.
That's why you have the Supreme Court. That's why things
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should actually go through the process of Congress and stuff
instead of executive orders. Look, I'm chasing a rabbit here.
Illegal back on the force, y'all. This is commitment. From
Austria comes the story of three rebel nuns who left
an elderly care home and broke into the historic abbey
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where they had lived their entire adult lives. While doing so,
they made headlines worldwide, a mass of captivated and supportive
following on social media of over one hundred thousand people,
who cheered them on as they attempted, against the will
of their spiritual superiors to return to the life they loved.
Sisters Rita age eighty two, Regina age eighty six, and
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Bernadette age eighty eight had spent a life of spiritual
discipline and seclusion in the Golden steam Castle Abbey near
Salzburg until the head of the religious order, under which
their nunnery was controlled determined they were no longer physically
and medically fit to live alone in the historic multi
story stone building, but watching the videos on social media
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shows the dynamic triover anything but helpless. September, supporters of
the sisters, which included a locksmith, helped them move back
into the Golden steam Castle. Former pupils have helped them
settle back into their old lives, including by bringing them food,
betting into other supplies. Supporters even installed of an expensive
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chair lift to the covenant's third floor living quarters that
was written weird, but they got the old chair elevator
of the stone. Cheerleaders also include legal counsel offering help
with ongoing litigation between them and the religious authorities headed
by Provost Marcus Grossel from the Rikersburg Abbey, who initially
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made the decision to move the sisters into a nursing home.
We had the right to stay here until the end
of our lives and that was broken. I've been obedient
all my life, but it was too much, Sister Bernadette said.
Sister Rita added, I was always homesick at the care home.
I am so happy and thankful to be back well, yeah, yeah,
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I'm sure. Look, I don't know how nunnery works. That
I know that may be shocking to some of you,
but it seems like instead of putting them away in
this care center, we could have at least tried to
help them be able to stay in their home. I mean,
it's their home for their entire lives. And look, obviously,
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like we talked about in the story, obviously they're able
to make things work. Somehow. They broke out of the
nursing home and broke back into the castle and managed
to have food and everything. So leave them be, That's
what I say. What do you think? Let me know
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the traps show at yahoo dot com. Crazy It's time
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for the crazy news story of the day. In September,
forty nine year old New Yorker Michael Moreau jumped off
the southern tip of Manhattan and didn't emerge until he'd
swum up the East River, through the Harlem and down
the Hudson to complete the famed and formidable twenty eight
and a half mile Hey what a feat he swam
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twenty eight and a half miles. Oh why is he
in the crazy news story? Well, because he did it
all in handcuffs and under ten hours. What Yep. His
felony flavored feet earned him two Guinness World records, one
for completing the longest open water swim and handcuffs, and
one before becoming the first and fastest swimmer to circumnavigate
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the city's water's way water ways in shackles. I know
you're asking why, Yeah, me too. Uh that's what Capri
no way, I pronounced that last name. Now, she's a
marathon swimmer and member of Bureau's support crew. She conquered
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the same twenty bridges swim around Manhattan, albeit with the
luxury of her limbs. Uh, she said after I swim,
I'm he's a kite. I guess, well, I guess normal people,
non swimmers could relate to the high as after a
great workout, or well, this is a family show. I'm
not going to say so. Moreau's motivation it was part
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nautical nature, part unfinished business, and part desire to probe
the outer edges of merman mastery. He said, According to
my parents, I could swim before I could walk. I
pretty much told them before I could even speak that
my desire was to be in the water. That's what
I was made to do and where I was made
to thrive. Now, I don't know why there's a distance
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swimming with handcuffs in the Guinness World Record. I would
assume that it originated with an escape convict prisoner, and
I guess this dude had to practice. But there you go,
twenty eight and a half mile swim. That's nothing. Cut
me up then, and that's something right now, it's crazy
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news or nonsense. The official word is that the economy
is great, and America is back and the good times
are here. Right, it's the roar in twenties all over again.
Well except for this, we love debt. Adobe expects by
Now Pay Later sales this holiday season to reach a
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record twenty point two billion dollars, up ten point nine
percent from last year. That's right, by Now pay Later,
don't worry about it. On Cyber Monday alone, Adobe Analytics
says US shoppers that made more than one billion dollars
in by Now pay Later purchased es just on Monday.
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We went in debt a billion dollars. And when I
say we, I'm not talking about the government putting us
in debt. I'm talking about ourselves. A billion, holy cow
more and more Americans are relying on payment installment plans,
which often include financing fees, in order to afford well,
let's just be honest, pretty much everything now, particularly young shoppers.
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Twenty five percent of buy now, Pay later users are
now relying on it to finance groceries. Now, maybe maybe
it's my generations, the last generation, but I can remember
like when not everyone had a credit card. Not many
people had a credit card, and if you had one,
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it was considered like in case of emergency, break glass
and use the credit card. Right now, it's it's basically
our I'm speaking from me here, like I'm never paying cash.
But here's the thing. Let me give you. I'm not
Dave Ramsey, You're not tuned into the Dave Ramsey Show.
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But I'd use my credit card, you know, getting gasped
every every purchase. Basically the thing is pay your payment
every month, right, don't go in. I'll have money by
the time this comes round, and surely surely don't pay
the minimal. That's how they get you. You never get
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caught up, you guys. The same glove of pay later
schemes was popular in nineteen twenties. Oh so it is
the roaring twenties. The greatest product that the one that
made all the others possible was credit by now pay
later was kind of magic. That is from a book
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nineteen twenty nine, History repeats how about a little good news?
Me Ed Bombas an eighty eight year old veteran in Brighton,
Michigan who got on wind of first radar now wind
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up Samuel Winderfer, who's a kindness influencer on TikTok so.
Ed continues to work despite his dedicated service to the
nation and a career in the automotive industry at General Motors.
He lost his pension following the company's bankruptcy in two
thousand and nine and subsequently depleted his life savings while
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caring for his wife. So here he is eighty eight
years old, still having to work, He said, I retired
from General Motors in ninety nine. In twenty twelve, they
went bankrupt and they took my pension away from me.
The thing that hurt me the most was when my
wife was really sick, and when they took the pension,
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they also took the health care coverage and all but
ten thousand dollars of my life insurance. Ed's wife John
passed away seven years ago and Ed went back to
work to make ends meet. Now, while there are many
reasons to criticize TikTok and influencers, one of the cool
things is how they allow stories of small town heroes
like Ed to be heard by the world. And his
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story was heard and todate. Ed has had one million,
one hundred eighty one thousand, two hundred and seventy nine
dollars raised for him. Good job in her Webb's good job. Well,
ladies and gentlemen. That's gonna all but do it for
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the old travin Nator. Thanks so much for tuning in
to the Trap Show. Don't forget. You can get in
touch with me the Trap Show at yahoo dot com
or message me on the Trap Show Facebook page. I
guess that's going to do it for us today. The
next time we talk it will be Friday. Anybody mad
at that? Nope, not me. Let's finish up the show
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of what he say. Guys, thank you so much for
tuning in to The Trap Show.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
You we go