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2022 - Recession has been Declared in Ep47
14 Plays3 years ago
Salman soliloquizes on the Economy, Superhero Movies, and Applying for Visas.
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Salman's LASIK Adventure
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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Expat Brad Podcast.
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It's Salman Qureshi.
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I hope you all are doing really well because I am.
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I am seeing things in a whole new way.
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And it's because I've done LASIK surgery, people.
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This is the all-new Salman Qureshi who can see things better.
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So this podcast can only get better from here onwards because I'm probably going to read...
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the facts more correctly now.
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Like, you know, no more mess ups, no more, you know, no more misquoting things, no more misreading facts and stats and whatnot.
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Now you can get the absolute truth on my podcast because I could see, I could see so much better now.
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but I don't know why I had to say it in that voice.
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How are you guys doing?
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As you can tell, I am.
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I really am.
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In my last podcast, I talked about getting my LASIK surgery finally done.
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And a week in, seven days, I just came back from my doctors and we checked the eyes and she said, you're doing great.
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like I put in some effort for my end or something.
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I really was just putting eye drops and making sure water doesn't go straight into my eyes.
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It was a lot of effort to have to wash my face with carefully like that.
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It was starting to get annoying, to be honest, because I just like I realized how much I like splashing water, how much I took it for granted that I could just scoop water and splash it on my face, just like, you know, just bathe in it or walk out.
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Like I really freaked out.
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yesterday, I was on my balcony, and we've had some cloud seating done in Dubai, so there's like, even today, there's heavy clouds, there's been rain all over the country, and well, some places, some parts of the country, and we had a little drizzle around my area, and I was standing in the balcony, and a drop just fell on my eyelash, and I freaked out, because I was told strictly, no water in your eyes, right, and I just walked in, and my wife is like, what's wrong, and I was
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like oh my god my whole lasik it's gone to waste because there's a the drop of water might have gone in my eye um i was probably shrieking particularly in that tone if i if you ask my wife um but there you go it was uh it didn't go in and my doctor said it's uh looking good so yeah i am i am feeling like a new man because i am
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Now, all I have to do is go and get my knees checked
MRI Comparisons and Knee Concerns
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again.
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I did an MRI and it was an that was an eye opener.
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No pun intended or maybe pun intended.
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I don't know.
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And it was crazy because I've done one MRI before this on my right knee about a year and a half ago.
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Right.
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And it was at a different hospital, which I just realized had.
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the state of the art stuff, okay?
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Because when I walked in, they gave me music to listen to on these ear pods and the whole ceiling was like lit up with some clouds and like a blue cloudy kind of wallpaper kind of thing on there, which was really pleasant to look.
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If you've been to the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, then you know what I'm talking about.
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And so I had a pleasant time.
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for the 15, 20 minutes I was in there.
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Then I went to a different hospital for my MRI this time, and they weren't state-of-the-art.
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No.
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Safe to say, they weren't.
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It was a lot louder.
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They didn't give me music to listen to.
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They gave me these pods for the year.
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What do you call them?
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Clogs.
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to block out sound and it didn't it didn't do a good job those machines mri machines are super freaking loud i mean you would think when you develop a technology we could work on the sound stuff i mean i know everybody's talked about the microwave and whatnot and i'm just tired of it like someone's got to go hey listen listen we built some state-of-the-art tech how about that sound huh because the mri machine was loud and it has like different phases
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It's like a bad DJ beat.
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You know, it just first time it just goes.
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And then suddenly after a couple of minutes ago, and just you're just lying there going, I don't know what's going on.
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What is this machine doing to me?
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And so I did it.
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I got my results back for that, too.
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That's that's not so much of good news.
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From what I understood from the report, I have to go for a follow up with my orthopedic or the knee doctor.
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And and he's I don't think it'll be a happy thing because I was hoping it might not require surgery and it still might not.
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But it's starting to look like it's some serious stuff because there was like, you know, it's bad because the report had like five different things listed on it.
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I was looking like in three of them, I couldn't understand.
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Two of them just sounded very serious.
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I Googled some stuff and then I stopped Googling because I'm like, this is the worst thing I could do right now is Google some facts and think about how I'm going to just sort this out.
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Right.
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So I'm going to go find that out so I can see better, but I definitely cannot run better right now.
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But probably for the best man.
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I mean, you know, we're just going to have to do this.
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Give me a sec.
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I need now I need some water.
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Oh, by the way, this is a Dubai brand called Al Ain.
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Is it?
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Alain is a different city, so it's not a Dubai brand.
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It's a... I don't know.
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Why am I promoting these guys?
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They're not sponsoring me.
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They could.
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Hey, you know.
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Hey, Alain water.
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It comes in a nice plastic bottle.
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No different from any other water bottle that I know of at the same price.
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But it's the one I have right now with me.
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And if you are going to kill the environment with plastic bottles, why not this one, right?
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Yeah.
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I might have lost the sponsorship opportunity there.
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I got to work on that stuff a little bit.
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Anyway, what are we talking about today?
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I've just been going on about my own personal self and it's self-indulgent, I know.
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But I hope you guys can learn from me by going, if you're younger than me, then it's time to start taking care of your health because, hey, you don't want to end up like me having to go to a hospital to a doctor or
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10 different doctors for checking 10 different things.
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Okay.
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So, so just be careful.
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It's a big thing in my culture to not just ever care and check.
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So just go and do it.
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Okay.
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Um, and also, uh, yeah, yeah.
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And if you are my age and you're healthy, well, screw you, man.
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Like, uh, good, good on you for doing it.
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Something on my left knee MRI report, I can't remember the one thing it said, but I read up, I Googled it, and it said it normally happens to people when they put on weight.
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And so, yeah, they fat shamed me.
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The report fat shamed me, man.
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I think that's kind of unfair, don't you think?
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Maybe they should be nicer with their words about I'm already in pain with my knee.
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I don't know.
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Just thinking maybe they could do better.
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All right.
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Whatever.
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Whatever.
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Words don't hurt me.
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My knee does.
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You know, I'm getting all this stuff checked and I'm spending a little bit of money on myself, like just sorting
Economic Woes and Recession Humor
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myself out.
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But I am worried about this whole recession stuff, right?
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Everybody keeps talking about two things.
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Inflation, recession, inflation, recession.
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Like we are just obsessed with the fact that everything is more expensive and that the world's going to come to an end because that's what we think what every recession does.
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Didn't we have like one two years ago or something?
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I can't even keep up with these up and downs and –
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Sometimes I feel like there's too much information easily available.
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If I wasn't smart and I hadn't studied, I hadn't done my master's and I didn't read the newspaper and stuff or I didn't have so much news on hand so easily, then maybe I wouldn't know a recession is happening or whatever.
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I just live happily instead of in dread.
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Right.
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That's the problem.
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We've been talking about this stupid recession coming for ages now, for the whole year, maybe, maybe since last year.
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I can't I don't know.
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Right.
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And I just feel like maybe we should just declare it.
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Let's just stop talking about it and just get over it by declaring it's a recession instead of going, well, you know, this sign.
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points to this and, you know, because of these GDP and economic circumstances and stats and I don't know, right?
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Whatever they're saying, I think it's time we just go shut up.
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It's a recession, everybody.
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Do what you got to do.
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Do whatever you do in a recession because that exactly is it.
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The more we keep talking about it, about the scary thing approaching, it's like a monster.
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It keeps getting bigger in my head and I start worrying about it more.
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probably act out more because of fear as opposed to just facing the thing and going, all right, the monster is here.
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It's through the door.
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It's a zombie.
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Pick up your gun.
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Let's hope we can shoot it in the head, right?
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Otherwise, you're just standing there going, I don't know which monster is coming through.
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Is it a vampire?
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Is it Frankenstein?
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Is it
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Is it another zombie?
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Right.
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So if I'm prepared, if I know what it is.
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So here it is, people.
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Officially, I don't care what any government is saying.
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I don't care what any expert is saying.
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It's a recession.
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All right.
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A comedian has called it.
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We are now officially I'm declaring recession from now.
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And so we can get over it.
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real quicker as well right so if we if we don't declare it the longer we take to declare it the longer it'll take us to sort it out and say okay now we're out of the recession um so if i call it now then hopefully by next year at some point we'll be over it if we delay this and we keep talking about it and the recession doesn't happen till like january 2023 then we're gonna have to go through the whole of next year
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waiting for this recession to get over right so think about what i just said uh jump onto the bandwagon just spread the word tell everyone we're not talking about this anymore we've declared salman qorashi has told me that's what you tell your friends and family salman christian when they ask who's that you just go just you don't need to know that all right just just make if you're confident enough they'll believe you okay just like how i am being confident right now
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And we declare, and Salman has said, we are in a recession right now, so there we go, done.
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Let's start acting like that and start working towards solving it.
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And the next year, you all will thank me because, I don't know, I guess not being in a recession is going to be more profitable for you unless you're Goldman Sachs.
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Then it doesn't matter.
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How do those guys do it, right?
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It doesn't matter what is going on in the world.
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Goldman Sachs is like, hey, we made another $10 billion.
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No.
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It's amazing.
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That's just crazy to me.
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They are either the smartest people in the world, which I don't believe.
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I just don't believe that.
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I don't believe any company actually hires only the smartest people.
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Because human beings will find a way.
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You can have the best recruitment systems.
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Human beings will find a way to start hiring people they like.
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And they're friends with or no or some shit along the way of that.
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And then, you know, all of it just gets sucked into the system and you don't end up with the smartest people.
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All right.
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So there's only two explanations.
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Either they actually managed to do it, which I don't believe it, or there's some kind of vampires.
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All right.
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I almost said vampires.
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Vampires.
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That's what it is.
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Those guys, Goldman Sachs.
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are the real Illuminati.
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They know everything's... I don't even understand the stock market.
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You know when people go, oh, yeah, just short the stock or whatever.
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And they go, but I'm like, hey, if the thing's going down and the price is going down, how did you make a profit?
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I don't know.
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But Goldman Sachs,
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manages to do that.
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So there's something up, people.
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If you ever have to walk in there, I would say carry some garlic.
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Yeah, carry some garlic with you and maybe a wooden stake.
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Just in case, you'll thank me later.
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Unless you're making money with them, then don't kill them, right?
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Just makes sense.
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Just recession.
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What are you supposed to do when a recession hits anyway?
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Are you like so smart people tell me you just start putting money away.
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But don't you aren't you supposed to do that regardless?
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Like.
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You're supposed to save money anyway, right?
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Like put aside some, if you can.
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I don't know what that feeling's like.
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Someday, I hope, I hope someday I'll have that feeling of like, oh, I've got some leftover cash.
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Oh my God.
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Wow.
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Maybe I can put it into a savings account.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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What's happening?
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This is crazy.
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Whoa.
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Oh, now I'm earning interest on it?
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This is mind-blowing.
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Should have started this at the age of 18.
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Yeah, so what are you supposed to do?
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People tell me crazy stuff like that.
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People tell me, oh, it's a recession.
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Stop hiring.
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I'm not hiring people.
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I'm...
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Was I about to start a business?
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I'm not supposed to start that business.
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What do you do?
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Cut costs, right?
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How do you cut costs, man?
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Everything's expensive.
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That's the worst tip when we talk about finances and stuff and people look at you and go, cut your costs, bring your costs down.
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I'm like, what?
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I have a kid.
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All right.
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I have a four year, almost a four year old kid and a wife and and essentials.
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I spend my money on essentials.
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What do you want me to give the kid away for a while?
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Just go.
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Hey, listen, I'm cutting costs.
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I know you're only just about four years old.
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Just do your own thing for a couple of years.
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Come back when, you know, inflation has gone away and I can afford you again.
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I'm loaning you out.
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What do you do?
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Tell your family that, hey, everybody, we're going to stick to two meals from now on.
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It's just, hey, the whole cost is
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cutting angle that people talk about.
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I know some people splurge and stuff, man.
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But in this world, with everything that's going on, with all this bad news, wars and stuff, and I know it's just an overload of the news.
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I'm sure the world actually is a better place except it's heating up and about to blow up or whatever.
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You just need
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There are times when you want to overspend on a gelato, when you want to go out and pay an exorbitant amount for popcorn that costs two derms to make, you know, or water that's black in color because of a few beans.
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You just want to pay.
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20 times what it's worth because you just want to feel good all right that's what it is you just want to feel good about your life and advertisement has made you believe these are the things that will make you feel better
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And for a second, I do feel better because the marketing works for a while.
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It's only when I feel bloated and I feel sick and I look at my account later and look at my finances at the end of the month that I go, oh no, what did I do?
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Right?
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But in that moment, you need those moments.
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That's right.
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That's my pitch.
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That's how I could be working on your product.
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If you're a brand manager or someone looking after products, marketing, whatever, you just heard a really good pitch.
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I can be very convincing.
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So if you want to bring your brand over to my podcast, just saying, just put it out there.
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Meanwhile, my fans will appreciate me getting more money.
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Right, fans?
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I don't know why I said that.
Superhero Movie Overload
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They had these movies, right?
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Comic-Con just happened, and it's great.
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I love superhero movies.
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I grew up on it, but I really feel like it's overloaded.
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I can't keep up.
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So I'm going to ask you guys out there to give me some tips on what you will watch next.
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I know a lot of people are already saying Black Panther 2.
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Because the trailer for that looked really, really awesome.
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But yeah, let me know what upcoming movies are on your radar.
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Because I can't keep up with this anymore.
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I can't.
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Marvel Universe is just too... I've got my own universe.
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that i have to care about that you know is quite expensive to maintain so hello if you can bring some of those superheroes into my life and solve some of my problems maybe i'll pay a little bit more attention all right just saying just saying okay cool i did watch on netflix because i'm lazy like that at home um
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watch the gray man uh ryan what's his name i keep confusing him ryan not ryan reynolds who's the other guy let's look that up i i'm i'm sick you know what i'm sick of is being forgetful so i'm gonna look it up i have google in front of me why not right like this is um not ryan rain ryan gosling
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the notebook guy and now he's a spy and he's cool and it's a thriller except there's nothing new in it it's the same old story nothing fab about it but uh chris evans character is actually really funny um to watch really interesting he's got that tash that and white trousers you gotta watch it all right
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um excuse me um ryan gossling's pretty good too i think this was a pitch for him to do uh try to pitch himself as the next james bond i i really think that i'm i'm on to you ryan um the movie's all right it's you know it's nothing it's better than some of the other craps that come on netflix uh it's not a great movie uh like some people are saying it's popcorn and sometimes you need that kind of popcorn
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So watch it.
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It's definitely, it doesn't feel like a...
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It does not feel like a waste of time.
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And I guess that's the bar I'm at right now because even though there's so much entertainment out there, a lot of it is crap.
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I have subscriptions to, I don't know, 10 streaming services.
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I can't even keep up, man.
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It's only at the end of the month when it hits me.
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I'm like, why am I subscribed to all this?
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And I'm like, it's because I'm watching one show on this one, another show on that one.
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My wife's watching this one.
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My sister's watching on that one.
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It just adds up, man.
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It just adds up.
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There was one good thing about the gray man I liked was the Danush character.
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Was that the name of the guy?
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Yeah, Danush.
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I think the real actor's name is Avik... Again, I forget.
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Avik something.
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Avik San.
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And his character was pretty cool too.
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Kind of like a gray area where he was...
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bad at the beginning but then did a nice thing and he's like a tamil uh assassin i thought that was pretty cool that they added something like that into the film a real non-expected thing where he was cool and not some head bobbing indian idiot right so i i thought that was very cool of the film that's one of the reasons i would recommend it um
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Yeah, just good performance and shit.
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So, man, just watch it.
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If you ain't got nothing else to do, watch it.
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It's not so good.
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They're already talking about sequels and stuff.
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And I'm like, hmm, I don't know.
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It's definitely his pitch.
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What I am looking forward to is Nope from Jordan Peele because, hey, why would you not be excited about that?
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The last two movies he's directed have been great.
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Actually, I thought the first one was better.
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Us was, in my opinion, all right.
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I know people still loved it and stuff, but not as great as Get Out.
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And let's see if Nope is a hat trick or is he going to go the path of what was that Sixth Sense dude, M. Night.
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Shalom.
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um and i'm brown and i can't pronounce his name that's that's how hard it is uh you know he had that really bad patch but he did some horrible films and he every so often he just does something and you're like this is terrible and it's another film he's like this is great and then you watch it and he says this is really bad uh it's probably like is he following the economy or something he's like hey it's a great time ah recession great time and so on so forth i don't know uh i think that's what he's doing um good news
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And I'm going to end it on a narcissistic, self-indulgent
Visa Renewal Struggles
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place.
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I just got my U.S. visa renewed.
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And man, it just reminds me about how unfair life is.
00:21:15
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Wait, wait, wait.
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First of all, I'm happy about getting it.
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And I'm really grateful because I love going to the States.
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I'm planning to tour there and take some shows, especially with Rushi Rafiq, my man, my comedy duo friend, buddy.
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But it also is the process of having to go through Visa.
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I think I spent almost $100.
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That's $30 on just printouts of documents they might ask me for.
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And then I stood out in the sun in the summer heat for two hours to get in.
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And the whole process took about three hours.
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And I was thinking, man, if they for any reason decide this time we're not going to give it to you, I would have been devastated.
00:21:58
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But that's the process you have to go through as a brown person to get.
00:22:03
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And I think there's something unfair about that.
00:22:04
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I'm going to do a whole separate podcast on that in my upcoming podcast about –
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how this thing is broken and needs to be fixed.
00:22:13
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Right?
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And we'll do that.
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But why am I talking about my next podcast?
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Guys, remember, we're in a recession.
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So take care.
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Spread the word.
00:22:22
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And let's get this over with.
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Not just the recession, but the podcast.
00:22:26
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Thank you for listening, guys.
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This is wonderful.
00:22:28
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I got to run now and take care of other things.
00:22:30
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You take care of yourself and I'll see you at the next podcast.
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Until then, bye.
00:22:37
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Or as a dog would say, woof.
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you