#300: How To Take Back The Power You Know You Have w/ AJ Gonzalez
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Law Smith
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Hello Are we ready to rock yeah live we got you Bill O'Reilly alright what's going on my shit Oh your soundboard is messed up
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oh yeah just do the as well
Law Smith
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wouldn't be an episode without messing up right and go sweat equity podcast and streaming show number one comedy business podcast in the world pragmatic entrepreneurial advice real
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volume is down
Law Smith
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here to my right you're reading some people call me cooler we just won a global award that small medium enterprise business advisor
Law Smith
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This is Episode 300 Monday boulder baby Inception program AJ Gonzales we got Sam Tripoli we're gonna call the phone as our favorite cast case. You do the podcast with us on Apple podcast iTunes give us that five star reviews on Spotify follows Eric This is gonna be our sponsor ExpressVPN expressvpn.com forward slash three months free off again your computer in the sky Don't be distracted by
Law Smith
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basketball find out somebody new cleaning business phone line don't have a Google Voice number don't have your personal line. Go to your cell phone you go Hello Who do is try grasshopper comm forward slash $75 shop is scalable business app on your phone like
Law Smith
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Warby Parker Warby Parker trial.com, forward slash sweat get you five free pairs to try and get home. Like you need. You're wearing some prescription sunglasses
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I'm buying now.
Law Smith
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are like Randy Newman. looking right now.
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Randy Newman definitely has sight.
Law Smith
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They chose the opposite Stevie Wonder except for the glasses. Warby Parker. trial.com. forward slash like white balls my free trial on it. Oh, prescription glasses. Oh, Piggly Wiggly hooked up. If you hear me. Let's get the 300th episode of sweat equity.
Law Smith
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About my sweater. Oh,
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there we go.
Law Smith
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Yeah. Feeling good. AJ let him hear your voice.
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How you doing today?
Law Smith
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DJ garbage in the building. Oh, okay.
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Speaker 2
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If you know, I y n y. What? I y k y k if you know you know. There you go. You're having
Law Smith
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a stroke. Trying to spell something. We're in a giggly mood. This 300 episode. Congrats. Cheers here.
Law Smith
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Hey, Swansea, white claw, Ruby. Grapefruit over there. You silly bastard. That's the grossest that's the grossest sounding drink. I can think oh, it's great. That sounds made up. It's like
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I'm a it's great.
Law Smith
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I love grapefruit. Yeah, but what the point having grapefruit is supposed to be good for you. But people just they I think they go through it. They don't really really enjoy it. I think people fake like they like it.
4:22
Nobody likes the taste of grapefruit sugar on top. It's perfect.
Law Smith
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Yeah, with sugar you like sugar purpose of doing something healthy?
4:29
No, I just like grapefruit could get up and
Law Smith
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that might come on.
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I just like grapefruit because I like it.
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Yeah, but you put sugar on it. And that's what you like when
Law Smith
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you get so nervous. I don't know. Mike like a little boy. I just like grapefruit because I like
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I don't always put sugar on my grapefruit. Okay, good. Yeah,
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blend on that thing. No sweat is horrible. No. Why?
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It's like sweet low.
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Why is that horrible? bad for you. How do you know I don't know exactly what
Law Smith
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I heard. Welcome to hot sugar. Talk about Peter host I when
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Speaker 3
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there's no research that says it's bad for Goodwin, I know I'm gonna take that one to the bank.
Law Smith
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And we're on facebook live right now. So this will probably get us and it looks like podcast episode 3002 good. Yeah, a little typo. Did I
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30,000 eggs on
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top of his game today?
Law Smith
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Yeah. We're Well, it wouldn't be our podcast if there wasn't a lot of error. So that's how we roll. Who cares?
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Come at me faith sounds better. 3002
Law Smith
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Look, we've had a lot of guests on the show. Want to give one a go roll down a list. Anybody that hasn't listened to everything. This show as much as we Eric and I think it we we drive it forward. It is more about the guests and learning from their failures, their success, whatever their stories are, right. I think that's where we enjoy this podcast. You came in what episode? I
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Speaker 3
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don't know. 67 something like that.
Law Smith
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Yeah. And you came in talk. Why
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Speaker 3
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am I even celebrating? This is my 300th episode. Yes, I business as usual. This sure Sherman care.
Law Smith
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Okay, waited, waited just take this. This accolade down a notch. But yeah, it's one of those things, this podcast a lot. I got a lot of shit in the last couple years. Because I got personal drama going on. It's like, why are you doing this? What is it do? Do you make a lot of money from it? And it's like, no, like it makes it's like doing stand up or anything you want to do? It makes money until it does like it just, it doesn't make money until
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it makes your heart money.
Law Smith
6:37
Well, yeah, we know it's in the right direction. We've we've we've had people that wanted to invest in the show with legit money that kind of validated us a few years ago, you know, there's no one really doing this. Kind of, you know, I think of LinkedIn content is very saccharine sweet, like the sugar the affer mentioned sugar conversation. But it's it's like so good. It's not real talk, though. It's not and that's not how people and and, and kind of an entrepreneurial way talk right about I was telling I was showing Eric all these motivational quotes that some guy was posting on LinkedIn that were misquoted was like a Confucius one and he put Shaq in there. Oh, he did on purpose. I don't think so. Okay, yeah, he'll, yeah. Oh, yeah. I've
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Speaker 3
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seen some stuff that's been attributed to Shaq. Great. Zack did not come up with that.
Law Smith
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Look. Yeah, it's like whoever raises their voice loses the fight or something like that. It's like I think Confucius said that not
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that guy.
Law Smith
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Shout out. Hey, shout out to Shaquille O'Neal just noses gloat. St. Patty's Day. You don't
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know. He's an Irishman.
Law Smith
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But I mean, we just had a lien account to droney. And other Irishman. And john Huck, on last few episodes, if you're listening, want to go back. And that was really cool in the sense that they were about positivity, moving them forward. I think we have to fake it till we make it in the positivity realm in our head a little bit. And it can it can kind of build inertia. Like I think you and I started a deficit in our brain, like, Come on. Let's go. Right.
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Speaker 3
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I think we both I think we I think the two of us we do a good job of faking it. And it's not even faking it. It's just like creating it out of something. That's not necessarily a positive situation. And I think we do a good job of that.
Law Smith
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Yeah, I look, I'm an aggressive optimist. If you want to do something, I will bug you about it. Yeah, brought it up. Because I want that for me to if I'm like, Zack, I want to do this. I actually want that accountability back. I don't realize it in the moment when I'm saying it. But it's that thing of like, Hey, here's how we did the goals list for you know, the beginning of the year. That thing of like, call me out. Let's do it. Right. Keep me in we'll we'll do it halfway through the year. We'll go through and see how far I am behind. Well, we have to keep up.
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Speaker 3
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Just recently, just a situation that will keep on download something that was like, you know, I felt like I was in it with you. Yeah, sort of thing.
Law Smith
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Yeah, we can't bring it up probably for statute of limitations might take a while. You got to let them know now. No. So we're gonna call our favorite guest. Oh, cuz he always brings the heat. Yeah. Let's do that. People talk what's? Yeah, we are calling Paul Sam Tripoli, Sam Tripoli median host of tinfoil hat podcast, the best conspiracy podcast out there. Oh, yeah, for
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Speaker 3
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sure. And we're just doing the old school. Hold it up to the microphone gimmick?
Law Smith
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Yeah, I just texted him beforehand. He's got two little baby girls. He might.
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Speaker 3
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I said Look, don't change the diaper right now. He's not gonna pick up because we're live and it's Episode 300. Yeah,
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I mean, just got two little girls on it.
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You're calling Oh, Buddy.
Law Smith
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Probably call that
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Yeah, yeah, probably not
Law Smith
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returning my calls.
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Totally call them. Hey, we
Law Smith
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one of my favorite episodes was he was in studio when he was doing the Tampa improv and we showed him the darkweb. Oh, that was fun. That was on. We were on his podcast, arguably, the biggest TV or media credit. Yeah, besides maybe two bears one case.
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Yeah. That one's bigger. But
Law Smith
10:28
yeah, I'm technically in the beginning of an episode of WTF with Marc Marin, because he used to work for an air purifier company. And wait, Ed Helms was in there sneezing because of his cats. So I had nothing to do. I sent him an air purifier. I have nothing to do with comedy. except him with comedy doors. He was listening every day in traffic. I'm famous now. No,
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I am. He
Law Smith
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was me. And I told him in the email, you don't have to give me a shout out or anything because I didn't want those worlds to collide at all. And he did not. And he did. He did. I would like to thank Lawrence Smith for sending me because that was my email signature. It's like, Can I for sending me this? You know, rabid air minus a to air purifier and I was like, Yeah, yeah, guys, you're talking to a fucking here. All right. Also, I do stand up. Hey, guys. Did you know i? You know, I heard you killed a deal on social media on my phone. So pretty much here. Okay. on the desktop. You do?
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I just said on his phone.
Law Smith
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Yeah. Okay. I didn't say off tablets either. You know, it's honestly
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that kind of, is it? That's a step.
Law Smith
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It's like been a cumbersome pain in the ass. But you always
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Speaker 2
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have your phone. It's actually not a bad idea to go to the desktop from the cell phone. Hey,
Law Smith
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yep, so that step. So here's the deal. here's, here's what I've realized. I was definitely and I knew this before trying to do this kind of little hypothesis. It was the thing of like, I was definitely just imbibing a lot of shit, my news feed from all these social media things, and not even enjoying it like not, I'm not getting a lot of value out of it, right. But I realized with a lot of the digital marketing work I do, it's a little tough to completely pull back from it. Because people were every now and again, like, once a week, something important. Someone would be trying to get ahold of me like, Hey, can you can I hire you to just give me a consulting hour for this? Or, you know, can you help me with this kind of thing? And I don't like leaving those things on red. I'm trying to get 00 out emails now. I'm organized.
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Speaker 3
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Yeah, you're not gonna be able to keep it up. Logistically? No, but you don't need to you what I did. Yeah. What's your point? What? Yeah, what?
Law Smith
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Are those dating apps too? because that gives you that dopamine rush, right. I love them. Right. But, but 3.9 miles away.
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That distance?
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distance, that healthy distance?
Law Smith
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Yeah. You're stocking girls as the crow flies within four by Yeah. Nice. No, but look, but you get that like on the dating app. It's the same thing. It's giving you that dopamine or serotonin, I forget which one is which. But it's psychologically engineered, like a slot machine? Almost, you know? Oh, it's not like, and I was like, Man, this is just a fucking waste of time. After a while. Right? Yeah. You don't think so? Yeah, you're What? This is an audio podcast as well. So yeah,
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I agree. So
Law Smith
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when you move your head up and down? He's about to say something, I think Yeah, I agree. I agree. You don't have any Do you have any I love dating app stores? Do you have any? Um, yeah. 3.9 It was really like 5.6 I didn't get
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Speaker 3
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the mileage wise. Yeah. and want to know we want to know Yeah, we want to know the exact is now I turned around after 3.9 what kind of gas mileage were you getting? Yeah.
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Speaker 2
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Why didn't have my my electric car. Okay, charge. So I was using gas right. And I was like, you know,
Law Smith
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I'll go hit that snooze button on the soundboard. Sure. Yeah, it's the show's hit an all time low. Eric, thanks for having me. What's your favorite? We need to get you drunk or like the last episode you've been on go back in the archives. Anybody wants to go back and listen?
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I'm funny regardless.
Law Smith
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You're a little bit more opinionated Yeah,
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the only mine that matters is mine.
Law Smith
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So there we are.
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Speaker 2
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Now I want to hear that means whatever I think goes I mean whatever the hell I want it to exactly
Law Smith
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keep moving go why your master salesman you close right. Proceed you want to make it happen. You're gonna you bring it we bring you in like Eric. Eric gein Yay, is prime lovely hoser
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I'm more of a Mariotto of the Mary. Oh, really? Go ahead. Yeah,
Law Smith
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was considered
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the greatest of all time.
Law Smith
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Oh, how do you get to be a good sales closer I look I'm Not a sales Hunter. I'm what to call a sales farmer. I do long term business development relationships. Call that because I'm sweetie. I'm the sweet pie. Sweetie. I just I don't have that Wolf of Wall Street sell me this pin. Yeah. thing like I can't I don't either. It's it's all about trust. I don't think anybody absolutely has that. But I do think you can talk yourself into that. No, it's all about believing in your bullshit. And making sure the other person trusts you. You are in the trust business. Yes. That's how I've kind of wanted some people just want to talk to you. I'll talk to you. But when it's time to go, I gotta go. What does that mean? I haven't closed
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after the close. curtains.
Law Smith
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You know what I mean? Now do you? Do you apply this in other parts of your life? I'm always curious how
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Speaker 2
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I feel I got a Tinder date. And you know, I close curtain you're grabbing that check. Right, aren't you? You know, those McDonald's? Things you get at the dentist's office, little free cheeseburger. I leave it on the dresser. I'm out. Okay.
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That's a good tip. Perfect.
Law Smith
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I didn't I was like, What? Oh, okay. You know, yeah, you don't remember. That's, that's a lot. That's a long. That's a long, long time ago. Yeah. But it says do you do you apply? Like, do you try to keep them talking? do you do? Do you ask a lot of questions. I try to keep
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Speaker 2
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it. There's a kiss factor. Keep it simple. If there was another s in there, I forgot it. But it's keep it simple, stupid. Exactly. Thank
Law Smith
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you. Yeah,
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Speaker 2
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I'm not stupid. So I wouldn't put that in there. Right. I'd say keep it simple. I don't do fashion. I don't do acronyms. Yeah, I don't do that.
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My name is AJ. My name is.
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That is a good point. I'm abbreviations. Also,
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I don't remember what the J stands for facts.
Law Smith
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Adolfo? Yeah. That's pretty close to me. How do you feel about that?
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Speaker 2
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I love it. I love it. Great name. I mean not you know, eight off it's been passed down generations.
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Yeah, obvious
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Speaker 2
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I mean, you know sorry one guy in the world had to ruin it. I'm gonna try to uplift it
Law Smith
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yeah Adolf ROVs family got to be hated that to paid off Roth in that the Kentucky guy don't know that's why I never heard Oh, eight off rough that's Yeah,
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yeah. Rohit your basketball knowledge
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is made of fake name. Eight off
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raw. That's pretty sick. Roth
Law Smith
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with a Roth Yeah, that's how I remember waves last name. Anyway, favorite episode you've done? I don't want to do a whole because it's kind of boring for a lot of people but I'll let you think about what you think about that. Okay. I would say this podcast has been the only consistent thing going on in my life in the last five years Really? Right. This is how the kids yeah even they know their hair my hair so it looks better now
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I does I love it.
Law Smith
18:07
I got my lesbian barber yet she gave me the undercut changed the whole I love
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Speaker 2
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the cut. I used to get those back in fourth grade right fifth grade.
Law Smith
18:18
Yeah, look cute. I was riding my skateboard. I was wearing Oshkosh but Gosh, I'm with the bank those are beautiful boy. Some of that love it actually is probably where my my sister's hand me down so a spree shirts at Audrey
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the spirit.
Law Smith
18:35
shitty kids that were used spring I didn't tell you I was basically I had all my sisters hand me downs as a boy.
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Oh no.
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unexplained
Law Smith
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some stuff. And they're like, it was not that bad. I look at old pictures.
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so grateful to get my hammy down shoes.
Law Smith
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For boy Yeah, yeah. Okay. Wow. Nice dirty, dirty white kids. Like kids that used to be white. Their mom throws them in the wash. Yeah, these are for the hammy down. Yeah, it's like the Murphy bed about your mom making a McDonald's hamburger at home. Yeah, it's good. It's just as good as I know. It's never know but I get like splatter paint white jeans like white Jesus flatter holes. No, my
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parents love you. Right?
Law Smith
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Yeah. But then like, I remember back in the day, like, it'd be like, you know, the the frilly socks so it's like socks for girls back in the day that had like a little tutu around the ankle.
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Yeah. Your parents love you. Right.
Law Smith
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I'd have to tuck it in. jazzercise? jazzercise. Socks.
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No,
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Speaker 3
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I don't even know if we would get to Episode 300 if I knew that, well, that's so odd.
Law Smith
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I think it's still funny. Funny for sure. I'm funny. And then I went to school always killing and then my hair smelled like cigar smoke because we had cigar smoke in the house, which I like pops, which Yeah, later Bear. Yeah, yeah, he'd read like a Gore Vidal history book every night and smoked a cigar inside.
20:07
Wow. Any drink?
Law Smith
20:08
What's his house? Let's drink pops. Huh? Do you have a drink or No, I mean, he's he's pretty ginger ale or swim laps and then maybe have a beer or two. Okay. And that's about it, but type of beer. Yeah, whatever's around.
20:23
Sure.
Law Smith
20:23
I'm the same way. He's not he's not picky. But now I look at it as dad. I'm like, yeah, having a front porch or whatever. Having your own office in your house. In the garden. It's gonna be Wait,
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whatever I want to say
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about that. I love front porches.
Law Smith
20:40
Yeah, well, let me let me throw down. You got a favorite? Are you looking through? I
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Speaker 3
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don't know, as I go through the episodes. Um, you know, it's more like who's my favorite guests?
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I because it's very easy. I'm here.
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Speaker 3
20:53
Hello. Thank you. No, of course. Well, I mean, surina phase on is definitely one of our favorites. She comes in calls that she didn't Texas bar. Right. Well, that's the case. But still she comes in very nice.
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Speaker 2
21:07
She'll never met us. No, no, I've seen her at the casino.
Law Smith
21:12
What? From afar? what she's doing a live hit or something now on air. And you're like, Hey, hey, you from the news? Yeah. No,
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I never said anything to her.
Law Smith
21:26
But I saw drop her names. I don't think it's gonna help but now it's okay. Yeah, probably. She's getting somewhere. So I'm good. Rob. cressy I love a guy
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Speaker 3
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as he's definitely a great a great guest to have on always makes me feel good. The future Tony Robbins. Yep. Yeah. And sounds like
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banana Hanks.
Law Smith
21:44
lyco our boy Rob cressy. He's got he's, you know, I I'll make fun of it a little bit. And I was I felt bad on our last episode targeting Elena. Because I felt like How are you? How do you deal with haters? shitting on, you know, being a life coach and stuff, right? She's like, what are you talking? Like, Oh, you don't think you don't know? People think that's corny. And then I was like, oh, maybe I'm projecting right as I'm asking those questions. No, I
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agreed with you. I didn't say anything. Well, I didn't want to
Law Smith
22:12
but her attitudes the right way. It's like fucking I don't care. Yeah, it's no radio noise right? If she's got the business, who cares? So AJ is our latest guest later how to drone a john hook was great. Steven fan Teddy is in there. You know he's done at least five episodes. Yeah. Oh, we are our business mentor Dean Akers.
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Yeah,
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he's a good one. Dean Akers is the place to be
Law Smith
22:38
Yeah, love it. No one's made that joke, Tom. Sure. Oh, Grant.
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Grant Tobler.
Law Smith
22:44
Yeah, just just 170 $1,000 you want to go back and gamble the correct way. Zags are
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gonna win it all.
Law Smith
22:52
He called you already got paid. He called it two months ago. That's why I call that the bat. I called that in November in New 2018 he's not the only one timber he's not the only one are Frenchmen for friend Louis Grenier? Yeah, I did like him in Yay. During Yeah, yeah, that's good call. I barely know how to read. So this is gonna be tough. Matt Yeah. Hayes. Who's telling us how to go in the Philippines and find workers it's not just your your programmers and stuff like that. Kate, Katie Ambrose who's helping with her mentor her with an app. idea for an app great idea. giggity giggity live.com I think rephase on Tim Jones, musician friend of mine. of the whiskey wolves of the West great band name by the way. Yeah.
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Speaker 3
23:48
I always like the musicians or comedians on they always have a good alternative look on things, you know,
Law Smith
23:56
well, the St. Joe's in the comedy world. Every comedian wants to be a musician and every musician eventually wants to do stand up. Because they thought it was every athlete wants to be an actor and every actor wants to be an athlete. Same thing.
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Speaker 2
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There's tie it all in. You know, and now, musicians are actors. Right?
Law Smith
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Rob and Obi Jamie Foxx Rob cressy. Bacon sports. Robbie, Rob cressy media.com Kimberly lackey and path coaching.com ro Patel who's on talking about being a badass restaurant consultant.
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Yeah.
Law Smith
24:31
Brian Donovan, my buddy who owns own and done event as a partner over there and he has automated his law firm with a lot of digital tools to the point where I would be asking him for information. Think of Zapier think of IFTTT. He's a head of all that so he's automated is Zapier. Bubba the love sponge technically. Kind of counts. Yeah, played some audio of him. shitting on us,
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right. We're going back
Law Smith
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we went on a show The shock jock, DJ, Keith dogman
25:05
my shower door,
Law Smith
25:05
aka my shower door. This is why we're combo Yes, I'm stuttering comedian Nick off my comedy brother as you tour with. He opens for later the Cable Guy is back on the road. I'm so happy for him. We got on on a human from bubble lunch. Oh, they try to put us in a love triangle. That was interesting,
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right? How'd that go?
Law Smith
25:31
Not great. Um, Joshua Kennedy, who we had a little we had a little bit of a series with where we were going through what he was doing with imagine marketing. over last summer. He's out of business now. No, he's, I'm joking on his own married don't know what Yeah. Really? Oh, you didn't know that? No. I'm acting like he didn't tell me that. It didn't fail. He just was done. Oh, it was like I'm done with it. Oh, so he did quit. No, I just made that up. I didn't actually I don't think he quit. I think he got it to a point where he's just like, Oh, hold it. I guess. It's not me that way. Cool. Go for him. Good job, buddy. Vadim Davidoff Who?
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Who were lots of podcast together. Yeah. True, real philosophy. only guy
Law Smith
26:17
that moved from probably probably the only guy that moved from St. Petersburg, Russia to St. Petersburg, Florida. That's my claim for him. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Interesting. It'll make you feel like an ugly American. When you hear his story where he's like, yeah, my whole family over here. We lived in a place in St. Petersburg,
26:35
South St. Pete to buy the word.
26:38
Better that react Yeah, to go to a CVS in South St. Pete. Right.
Law Smith
26:41
If you don't know what that's about, watch the movie Spring Breakers. It's all the bad parts in Spring Breakers. And so, you know, he was talking about his family living in like a one one bedroom motel over there, and how it was better than where he just came from? Right. Say Pete Rush's nice. Okay, well, I
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see it on Wikipedia. And sure. Yeah, they
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got three good pictures.
Law Smith
27:08
Right. Yeah, China looks great, too. Yeah. Yeah, no. No coal looks cool. Actor friend of oculus Morgan Simpson came on talk about his podcast, his book, Patrick Keane, talking about being a corporate comedian these days without being corny. David Albright, who is a buddy of mine, that's a what would you call it? corporate level consultant that comes in, he'll audit your stuff with his own program, and he'll find you money. And he talked to manufacturers and go give me give me give me these numbers. He get like 10 numbers from them. He got okay. And he had he made a program and he made his own app where he could figure out you can get this grant you get this tax break. Okay, pretty interesting. Nice. Sam Tripoli who's gonna go through the whole list on I'm gonna I'm gonna cut all 300 enthralling I'm gonna cut it off because this is getting I was gonna go through I love it. I love it. It's perfect. What's gonna go through it like alpa Chino in any given Sunday? What do you what do you list off? No, just I just like doing that. That impassioned halftime speech?
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Oh, you're doing the halftime speech.
28:23
Oh, okay. Get that But yeah,
Law Smith
28:25
I wasn't doing great. I wanted.
28:29
That's a Oliver Stone.
Law Smith
28:31
It's the six inches in front of your face. Yeah. That's all I got, guys. Jamie Foxx and approval. Like I won't go through the whole list, though. You
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know what I wrote a couple down there do
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like when they just list.
Law Smith
28:45
What I will say is we're catching people before they're breaking out like Robbie slowly. We're a good luck charm. While he's writing fluffy shorts roll next.
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I'm next.
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Yeah, catch him up prior.
Law Smith
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Jeremy ball, Matt Fernandez, ej, those kind of guys. Hey, look, I've had clients on that rip me off that came on this show. So I'm gonna take them to court like Erica D'Angelo and Sean Henson saying wow, I'll take it Yeah.
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What are you playing that
Law Smith
29:21
it's gonna happen do the little
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things on the court?
Law Smith
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Oh, yeah, I got the collections agencies have already guessed names law. All right. Hey, you're gonna have to the next move is you have to take them to court. Give me money. And I go great, because they bail me. They took money out of my kids. They took food off my kids table money now. I wanted to bring up the email that Shawn sent me after. After ripping me off me on money. A lot now, your life. Can you vamp for a minute? Well, it's not slander because this is how
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Speaker 3
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you know Do we need to you? Who actually, you know, have anybody representing you for this situation? Oh, yeah,
Law Smith
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yeah.
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Does it somebody we can come?
Law Smith
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No, it makes our business attorney told me to do when it happened. He goes, you should post that email.
30:12
Oh, fantastic. He said that and I'll
Law Smith
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say and he said, I'm just saying the power business attorney said it.
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Speaker 3
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Yeah, there's a lot of those out there that we say their power business attorneys, which is Doa said you should post it and make it up
Law Smith
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and I pushed out and that I regret the most So yeah, that's fine. Okay. Yeah, you're
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gonna run away.
Law Smith
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We're not gonna keep going. Oh, I think you're gonna like, Eric, you were gonna have to read it.
30:38
Cuz you're dyslexic?
Law Smith
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Because I don't know how to read it over to you. On Okay, slack it Is that good? Yeah.
30:47
Hold on a second. Yeah.
Law Smith
30:49
So this is in response to an email that's, you know, when you have your own business, and then you invoice for professional services. It's one of those things where it could be a he said, she said thing, but I was very clear. These emails sucked, right, by the way, when people are delinquent, not paying up, and you're you've already done the services. And so it was one of those things where I sent an email saying, hey, you have one of three options. Why do you send
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them an email? Why don't you
Law Smith
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request? No, because I know that's already the invoice has already been sent. They're not paying it. They're delinquent. Okay, then you have to send an email that saying your contact book, something he wanted, he just rip away all the stuff you've worked on? Yeah.
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I'm sitting right now. Okay, repo. repo
Law Smith
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repo. So I don't think I meant to read this on air. And I've kind of forgotten all right, well, you didn't know we're gonna have something fun. If I would have
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Speaker 3
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known that I could have done the people I got ripped off by too. Oh, here we go.
Law Smith
31:47
We can do that as a whole. All right. Well,
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Speaker 3
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thank you for the options you provided with such choices. I was unable to make your
Law Smith
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spot. So I sent an email that saying you have three options. You can pay right now. And I'll act like this never happened. You can you can get in touch with me. You can let me know what's going on to me, we can figure stuff out. And then like, option sees like, where you can do nothing, not pay. And then I'll just send it to collections or something like that.
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Alright, and he actually responded
Law Smith
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to the collections company to they take ivig that's that's in the contract. It's there if any additional charges are met, which now the penalties are pretty big.
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Are we really saying who this is from and all that? Go ahead? I'll
Law Smith
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have to go ahead.
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This is your life. Dude.
Law Smith
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He was on the program.
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Okay, well, whatever. I'll just read the emails online.
Law Smith
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You just listened to the last five minutes you can find out
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Speaker 3
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Yeah, last thank you for the options you've provided with choices. I was unable what time What time is this? It was sent at 347 in the morning so that's when most business gets done whatever with such choices, I was unable to make your timeline the options were so overwhelming and choice and I had to call
Law Smith
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this guy and sent this email I thought you said if I don't do anything No no,
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I got it now. Okay, yeah, go ahead. And I had to
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Speaker 3
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I had to process the decision on which to choose after looking them over I've decided none of them will work for me but I have a few options for you. Option one and this is in quotes keep pushing me with this bullshit action I will take legal action not just for the money I paid you but for the losses incurred by your incompetent work that was done I will go to the credit card company and dispute every payment I have made to this point for services not rendered that's fraud. All right. And then the second
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Speaker 2
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saying it like he would be saying at 347 in the morning right like what he's completely exactly
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Yeah, all right. Choice twos are Snow White.
Law Smith
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Let's go
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walk away now and I want expose
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347
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Speaker 3
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the response to option to walk away now and I won't expose the fraud you are action. You gracefully go away. No bad words about the shit show you have a piece of PC PPC management you have done for us to anyone. I won't expect to expose the ad word log showing how little my account was actually updated. Okay, yep. And response to option three quote unquote, Go fuck yourself. You pull out one of the strap ons, your wife left you in the divorce and then deeply plunge it in your ass over and over. record this option and play it on your next podcast so you can actually share something of worth on the podcast. That's very well written sentence that's just my own.
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Speaker 2
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Yeah, no, if I do Oh, by myself read it. Right. Yeah. If I'm doing a blog on myself at 347 in the morning, that's when writing this email or text.
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Speaker 3
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If you choose this on here, I will consider paying you this probably won't happen but this option will get you the clue. The clue Claybrook get you the closet to me, I'm assuming you meant closest. Yeah, to me thinking of throwing more of my money away on a complete waste of your quote unquote services. Please think over these options and let me know I will be at the BMA mixer tomorrow. If you'd like to discuss these, then I do. See these options are more than fair and I look forward to your choice any cat
Law Smith
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meal ever and then on his couch on the edge just like yeah, and then put a complaint on me. He ripped me off and then put a formal complaint about me into the networking group. Yeah, DNI. Yep. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2
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do the same thing. Health insurance. You guys need it get at me.
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Anyway. Same thing with the dicking. Over No, no, never that.
Law Smith
35:40
No. And by the way, I don't take I don't take anybody over. Eric knows this. I'm a psycho about cataloguing everything. Yes, reason, right? Because what happens in digital, a lot of the times people think they can bully you like that. It's scary. So what did you do? Well,
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I have perfect logs and everything I did, what do you
Law Smith
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know, and I have the slack. I have slack transcripts.
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should have said that at 3:47pm. Not 347. good tip. And I know
Law Smith
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he didn't want that because the mutual friends of ours. Apparently he went to them later that day, and was like, should I like was like, I shouldn't have said that. Do you guys know how to undo email? Right. So yeah, I don't think I think that was in like, we talked about this a lot lately. Sounds like he's not making stuff not making decisions emotionally. And making them rationally right.
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I don't think is they were inhibited. His
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vision. Yeah. his emotions were not
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for sure. Well, they they were actually, how do you know?
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What do you think they are more extreme? Well, yeah, I
Law Smith
36:49
mean, when you're, I've been there. You know, you know, the comedian. Me wasn't, I might have some punches in the air. None of that I took personally, other than not. Right. So right, you're like, Okay, that's pretty cool. Maybe I mean, serials kind of funny. Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe you sent this in a professional way. But you know, this is this is, this is why I like this podcast, because this is no one talks about. And that's what I kind of want to leave this episode on is, we want to have this kind of angle of talking about real shit that actually goes down. Yes. Did you find this text the next morning? Yeah. Was it up at 340?
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That's what I was about to be like, what do you do now?
Law Smith
37:29
Let's, where are you at? Let's get I sent an email. You have to do it when you have to when when people owe you money in this professional service, put it in writing. I have to I have to Yeah, it takes an hour to send these emails because you have to you have to write good jokes. Go back to like, references of the contract, because that's why you do an agreement. Right? And so right, he responded, yeah, this guy got a buck this guy. I like this guy. You got ripped off by plumbing? No,
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I don't want to get ripped off. I just want to meet him. I even like to judge him.
Law Smith
38:08
Here's how much better I front of me. Here's how much better I am. And I'm not because I'm saying it this way. But Eric needed like an AC person. I go call the guys that ripped us off. Yeah. And they were about to rip him off.
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Yeah. Yeah, remember that? Big time?
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Speaker 3
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Yeah. And I was like, Okay, what the hell and then they're like, Oh, actually, this
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Speaker 2
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thing was was too much we can so they ripped you off and they were gonna rip you off again. rip him off
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on paying and then rip
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and was looking for the interview with the AC to try to rip you off.
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Speaker 3
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Price it was for a different situation. It wasn't for my houses at a building. Oh,
Law Smith
38:46
you need a new motor. You know, I got you. I
38:49
got ya. oxygen tanks, Lada.
Law Smith
38:53
Yeah. Okay. That we can't talk about and that Oh. Oh, we done i think i think the longer we go, it's not going to get right. Let's see. I thought I did driving over here and I had a weird thing. I was like,
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I don't want either not I know. I did. I know you did. I'm
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telling you. All right.
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About my sweater.
