Why People Reject Free Opportunities — A Wake-Up Call for the Timid

Hey, this is Earnest Mann, and in this episode, I’m tackling something that honestly baffles me — people turning down real opportunities, even when it involves free money. Yeah, you heard that right. I offered someone cash just to check out the show, and they acted like I was offering them homework.

The Conditioned Fear of Taking a Chance

There’s a strange phenomenon out there — folks have been conditioned to avoid risk so deeply that they’ll walk away from a chance to win money. I break down a real interaction where I offered someone the chance to be on the show and win actual cash, and they responded like I asked them to rob a bank. This mindset? It’s tragic. We've created a society so timid that even free value raises suspicion.

From Corporate Criminals to Fearful Citizens

I pull no punches when I talk about how society is shaped — we’ve got political criminals, corporate thieves, and so-called leaders robbing us blind. Meanwhile, regular folks? They’ve been so mentally neutered that they’re scared to take even the smallest risk. You’ve got billionaires like Bezos laughing while most people steal hubcaps off a half-million-dollar car, too afraid to take the whole damn thing.

No One Owes You Anything — But Kindness Is Rare

This episode ends with a hard truth I’ve lived by: no one owes you a damn thing, but if someone offers you even a small kindness — take it. Then turn around and show them appreciation. That’s how we build something better. But this refusal to act, to speak up, to take initiative — it’s killing potential before it even starts.

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What if I told you that I would give you

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something absolutely wonderful and you

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examined it and saw that it was

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absolutely wonderful? My only demand was

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that you agree to my terms to receive

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it. Would you eagerly ask me what those

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terms were? Or would you be extremely

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cavalier and dismissive and simply walk

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away? Hello, my name is Ernest. Thank

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you for being here.

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You would be absolutely amazed at the

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things that I encounter with the public.

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Let me give you this latest example.

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I offered a potential contestant, an

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opportunity

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to win some cash from the show.

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And all I simply said was, "Hey, how you

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doing? Do you uh listen to podcast at

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all? Is that uh you know, is that

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something you do?" And he um he said,

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"Well, sometimes." And so forth. And I'm

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like, "Okay." I said, 'Well, what about

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a show where you have an opportunity to,

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you know, win some cash?

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And he thought about it in Hampton Hall.

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And he's like, I don't know.

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I thought to myself, you don't know. And

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uh I said, so um you um wouldn't be

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interested in doing anything at all,

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even checking it out to get some money.

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I I am I hearing you right? And um yeah,

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I don't I don't like to mess around. Is

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it on YouTube? I don't know. Now, I'm

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fully understanding people are, you

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know, skeptical and and all that, but

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let me tell you something. Let me tell

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you something.

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If my ass was a greeter

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at a Walmart or what do they call now?

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Um, inventory uh, some fancy stupid

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[ __ ] name. Inventory uh, control

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specialist, you know, wannabe security

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guards or some [ __ ] I don't know. But

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yeah, you know, if I was in my, I don't

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know, early mid-50s and that's the

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biggest uh, thing I got going on in my

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life. You can bet your sweet ass I would

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be trying to do anything at any

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opportunity

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concerning money. You say the word

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[ __ ] money, my ears instantly perk

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up. I want to hear what this is all

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about.

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But what I'm telling you what my

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experience has been and and I I'm not at

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all I'm not this is not a stretch of the

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imagination.

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It's it's real because I deal with it

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all the time.

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It's to the point

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where you could almost even if you

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wanted to hand people money.

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I I I don't get it. I'm shocked and

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amazed. I would be again in my youth or

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what have you. Like [ __ ] dude. Yeah.

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Boom. Money. They're I don't know.

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Scared to death.

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So I I I don't get it. Um, even that

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even that aspect of the world

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is that crazy.

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And I'm going to tell you why it's

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crazy. It if you just just hold on a

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moment

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because

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apparently it's perfectly okay

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for all of our leaders, quote unquote,

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you know, all those bastards that are

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too big to fail. I mean, we're talking

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about theft on a on an an unimaginable

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level.

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And that's just the ones in the White

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House and all their cronies and

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senators, congressmen, lobbyists, all

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these criminals. That's just them. So,

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uh, yeah. Um,

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so it's it's sort of like the peeons

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have been conditioned to the point that

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if they're really brazen enough,

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um, you know, they're real go-getters

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in the thievery department.

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Um, there's a half million dollar car

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sitting somewhere and they summon the

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courage to steal the hubcaps.

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[Music]

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[Laughter]

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not taking the car.

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But yeah, because it's a mindset

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and I instantly know I instantly

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recognized

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I instantly recognized a person who is

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probably more than likely unless somehow

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life they're still waiting. This is like

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the you know the play from the book

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waiting for [ __ ] Gudau.

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They are waiting for life to come to

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them and hand them that lottery ticket

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or whatever the case may be. And that

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unfortunately is the vast majority of

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people

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and

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uh many others

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are not doing that. they're actively

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engaged in in one capacity or another.

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Um they they already understand that at

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least they got that part correct that

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you know life isn't going to it's not

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going to come to them and here you are

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and here's your financial security and

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here's this and here's that. It doesn't

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[ __ ] work that way.

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So, at least as far as all the

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criminals, the corporate criminals,

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the political criminals, all of them,

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because they're all the same. At least

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they understand that if you want

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something,

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you're going to have to take it. You're

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going to have to show and I'm not I'm

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not talking necessarily about the

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initiative of business that a lot of

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that also a lot of that is is [ __ ]

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It's not that I'm talking about fire in

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the belly. I'm talking about someone who

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sees opportunities apparently that

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others don't.

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So, and when this happens, like this uh

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gentleman who apparently um yeah, he he

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he uh believes he's going to get rich

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from being a I don't know, a door

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security guard um from Walmart. Um, it

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does I'm saying people of this ilk,

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you can you could do everything in the

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world,

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but you'll find with each and every one

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of them mostly that I have encountered

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and I talk to a hell of a lot of people

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because human nature fascinates me.

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It really does. And I there's so many

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people

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like this that I have encountered. I I I

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they're countless.

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And so that is, you know, this is in the

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show in this episode.

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This is the equivalent of that of me,

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you know, going up to because I am

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talking to potentially millions upon

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millions of, you know, people that I

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don't know.

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And [ __ ] you can offer them a borrower

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gold. You can do and they simply won't

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say anything, you know, won't raise up

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up their hand. Say, "Hey, hey, over I'm

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I'm I'm over here. Hey, you still giving

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away that money? Still you do it. I'm

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[ __ ] here. Where? Here I am. Hello."

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And that's sad

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that and this is just one aspect of

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where things are. That's just

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unbelievably inconceivably

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sad.

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This is like I I don't know. There are

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so many analogies that you could draw

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from this. I don't know. You could be

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people in a [ __ ] a burning theater or

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smoke

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and they're too afraid to ask

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where the exit is.

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So I I I don't know I I don't know how

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other than incrementally that people

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especially for their own of their life

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of living

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have become so god damn timid.

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They won't do anything

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for themselves.

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It's it's beyond comprehension to me.

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Because in my life,

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all my life, the one thing that I

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learned

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was that no one owes you anything. But

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if anyone, and I mean anyone,

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offers you the slightest kindness in

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this world,

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not only if you're going to take it

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advantage of it, not only when you do

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that, but you make damn sure

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you do something for them. You make damn

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sure you show that you appreciated it.

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Well, okay. Maybe not that big, but it

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does hold a lot of stuff.

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Now,

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where everybody else is on on this, I

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don't know,

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but I just wanted to share with you all

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of these things that people constantly

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talk to me about

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that as though they were, you know, the

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most important things in life and most

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of them are not. This is the equivalent

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of the guy or guys or whatever that they

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steal the hood caps off the half a

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million dollar car and just [ __ ]

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leave the car sitting.

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You guys are missing the point. the the

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people

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out there, the true criminals, at least

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they're the ones at least that if I'm

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not talking about the moral or ethical

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aspect of this, I'm talking about

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covering your ass.

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And you better believe

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in that department they what they want

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to do is on that's on super high their

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priority because in that case it's a

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flipped scenario

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where the only thing they care about is

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themselves

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maybe a little bit about their family

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but again that's just for their ego.

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So when you look at the people with just

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inconceivable wealth

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and do nothing but laugh and grin and

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because you know [ __ ] guys like Grazos

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and whatnot. Um

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and and but they they laugh at the vast

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majority of people because for one thing

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they they have no balls.

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a neutered

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society, a neutered unthreatening

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and a [ __ ] moan and complain

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I'm not going to get my services cuz the

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government shut down

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and I don't know instead of I don't know

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lynching people and hanging their their

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ass up or shutting down the government

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that's not what you get paid for

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you get paid for keeping the government

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going.

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Until next time, this is Earnest and

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it's all I've got for today.