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It is time to leave your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharman on Wednesday, December eleventh, twenty
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twenty four. I am smiling for two reasons today, the guys.
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One is today marks my twenty sixth anniversary of working
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in this god forsaken industry we know is radio in
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a broader sense, it's media, it's broadcasting, entertaining, whatever you
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want to call it. But I am. I am twenty
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six years deep, which is not as long as some
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but longer than others. So I guess can be true
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in other aspects of my life, but in this case
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the job. So that's one reason i'm That's one reason
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I'm smiling today. Yay me twenty six years of insanity.
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Congratulations exactly like should we get you a cake or
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a frownie face a movie? But yeah, yeah, twenty six years,
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twenty six years ago, on this day, I did my
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I got I started on my first radio job. My
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first radio job December eleventh, nineteen ninety eight.
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Wow.
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Just months after graduating Arlington Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas,
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I started I was a freshman at University of Texas
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at Arlington, and I got a job working at at
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the time ninety two to five KZBS, the classic rock station.
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At that time. Owen Jim were on the morning show,
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John Dylan was on the afternoon show. The midday guy
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was the music director. His name was also John brain
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farting I was at. Anyway, My first job was as
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a promotions assistant in the promotions department, and the first
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gig was an autograph signing appearance on a Friday night.
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Because it was Friday, December eleven, nineteen ninety eight, in Addison,
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Texas on Beltline. What was the name of the bar,
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I'm brain farting. It was that neighborhood bar in western Addison,
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kind of near the ihop. It used to be a Humperding.
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It was Humberings at the time. It might have been
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a humper Dings at the time. Anyway, it was a
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WWE wrestler lady that was there doing autographs. That was
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my first radio event.
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Yeah me.
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The other reason I'm kind of smiling is for the
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rest of us because, in the seemingly unrelated matter, we
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all inside the treehouse suffer from some form of mental
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health issues. Raj has an anxiety disorder. I have anxiety.
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Trey probably has some anxiety drizzled into his depression along
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with the occasional suicidal thoughts. So aren't we just a
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bastion of fun in here? But the reality is we
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are because one of the things we all have in
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common is we all kind of lean in to our
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pain with humor. And I know it's the holiday season.
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There's lots of reasons for people to have mental health
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issues and stresses, and that includes parents. So if you
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are experiencing the holiday stresses, you have friends. Because the
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question to start today is are you experiencing the mother
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load of holiday stress? We have some tips for you, okay,
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on how to deal with it to make the mother
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load of holiday stress easier. Because balancing work, deadlines, the
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needs of children, holiday stresses, it can be a lot
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to handle. When it comes to gifts, people often don't
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see the mental aspect, according to one expert, because some
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people have anxiety about gift giving, saying I want to
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show them I appreciate them, you don't want to just
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give them junk. Then there's the shipping deadlines, making sure
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that it's in your budget, blah blah blah blah blah,
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holiday stress. And like this person, many parents are up
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against the mother load of stress way before the holiday
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season adds extra demands. So what should parents do when
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even more is piled on for the holidays. Experts say
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parents can try to make the season more manageable by
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rethinking expectations, asking for help, handling family drama strategically, and
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giving themselves something to look forward to in January. I
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have a simple solution for the mother load of holiday stress.
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If you're a parent, I think it would be beneficial
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to introduce your children to the gift of disappointment this
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holiday season. It's a gift that keeps on giving. They'll
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learn for it, they'll learn from it for years down
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the line. They may say they want this certain thing,
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and they sometimes need to learn that I'll always get
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that certain thing that they want. And I think that's
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a beautiful gift to give your children and yourself. So
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there you have it. That's my recommendation on how to
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deal with the mother load of holiday stress this year,
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especially if you're a parent, give your children the gift
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of disappointment this year.
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Well, you don't give anybody anything. So I think that's
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how you avoid it.
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You've cracked my code. See this strategy works on adults,
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not just children.
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Yeah, yeah, there's no stress if you don't have to give,
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if you know that you're not going to give anybody anything,
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and we know we're not going to get anything, so
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and then.
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We all can just enjoy each other's company and it
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is what it is. And I don't have to worry
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about finding you a gift, and you don't have to
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worry about pretending to have liked it.
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We get the gift of Dan. That's right, the best
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thing my family ever did. And I understand if you
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have kids younger than probably ten years old, you can't
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do this, so, but older than ten you really can
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do this, which is typically most people are just getting
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people getting your friends and family stuff that they don't need. Instead,
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take all that money that you would spend on useless crap,
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put it together and give it to a family, Yeah,
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a needy family that actually that wouldn't have a Christmas otherwise,
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so they can get, you know, young kids, gifts and
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food and everything else is by far and away. When
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my family started doing that, it took all the pressure
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away from Christmas.
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And love it all right.
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That's better than what I thought you were gonna say.
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I was really getting excited thinking you were gonna give
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us all cash. But yeah, needy families, that's probably better.
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Dan along with Trey and Raj and if the weather
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outside is frightful, don't go running. I'm a firm believer
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in holiday classics. I love nostalgia. I love revisiting things
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that make me feel good. And this time of year,
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there's a video that I love that brings out the
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warm and fuzzies and the holiday spirit in me. And
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I know it does with Trey as well, because he
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sent it to me and reminded me of it. So
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bless you Trey for doing that today. If so, I'm
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going to repeat myself. If the weather outside is frightful,
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don't go running in it, which is something this young
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lady learned many years ago. In the aftermath of a
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blizzard in a large city, a live shot was being
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done by the weather by the Metro Weather team.
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And.
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The live shot reporter saw a couple of runners running
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out in the snow decided I'm going to talk to
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them on live TV and see, Hey, what is it
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that you're doing out here in the snow so early
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in the morning, the sun is not even out and
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this couple is out getting their jog in.
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What are you doing?
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And you're saying it was really good out It's the
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perfect texture for running, very low impact on its dry snows,
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your feet don't get wet.
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What have you seen while you've been out running? It's
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been a lot of fun.
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There's a lot of other runners and more skiers than runners,
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for sure. I think they've got a little bit of
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the advantage with the whole stride and glide thing, But it's.
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Yeah, the when people if you're outside running and someone
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on skis passes you, that should be a pretty big
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hint to go inside. This couple is fascinating though, because
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they've got their runners gear on, so like when you
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first see them in the live shot, they're very reflective,
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which is also ironic because ain't nobody out there driving
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in that crap because it's snow and its ice and
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it's terrible. All the smart people are at home. But
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you know who I feel really good for besides us
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in witnessing what's about to happen to these young runners
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in the snow is the reporter. Because the reporter, you know,
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she doesn't want to be out there. She got out
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maybe she was on the news director's poopy list, so
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she got the call to go out into the snow
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and do the live shots in the cold, and so
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she decided to talk to these runners. And she got
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an early Christmas gift that year and one that it
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has been shared many times over the years to.
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Us, I'll spare Roje. This couple is as white as
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you think they are.
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Yeah, I was going to ask if you wanted to
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say it super super Anglo and kind of pompous sounding,
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and to be honest, this runner couple, I think we
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all can agree runners can be a little upity, which
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you'll see is ironic here shortly in this video where
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the runners are talking about how great it is to
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be running in the snow.
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What are you doing running? And you're saying it was
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really good.
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Out it's the perfect texture for running, very low impact
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on its dry snows. You if you don't get wet.
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What have you seen while you've been out running? It's
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been a lot of fun.
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for sure. I think they've got a little bit of
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the advantage with the whole stride and glide thing.
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But it's too nice to not be out here. All right,
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we'll go ahead and keep on the run.
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That sorry to have kept you, but I appreciate you
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guys talking with us. All right, thanks, We've seen a
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lot to go out here, like he said, running sledding,
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just enjoying it.
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That can happen. Unfortunately, it looks like okay.
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Okay, you can you can't even see that that's an
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ice patch and she's not paying attention.
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I know you can see it through a uh screen,
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through a camera lens, through other screens, multiple screens, and
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you can still see that ice patch that she couldn't
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see in front of her own damn face.
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I can't even blame that on black eyes, even the
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ice was white.
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White on white crime. It really isn't. Because I'm going
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to go back and from the beginning, not just the
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tone of the lady's face who slips on the ice
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and falls on her ass hard, by the way hard,
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but listen to the arrogance and see the arrogance on
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her face about how I'm outside running and I'm better
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than you. That's sort of the inner monologue that she
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has in her head that I'm imagining.
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But let's take from the top, what are you doing running?
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And you're saying it was really good out.
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It's the perfect texture for running, very low impact on extress,
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knows your feet don't get wet.
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What have you seen while you've been out running? It's
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been a lot of fun.
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for sure. I think they've got a little bit of
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the advantage with the whole stride and glide thing.
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But it's too nice to not be out here.
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All right, well, go ahead and keep on the run.
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That's sorry to have kept you, but I appreciate you
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guys talking with us.
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All right, thanks.
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We've seen a lot of people out here, like you said,
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running sledding.
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I'm just enjoying it. One thing that can happen.
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Unfortunately, Chelsea's okay, okay, yes, okay.
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Yeah, see Chelse. He gives a thumbs up, and then
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she's immediately like walking over towards the sidewalk and she
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you know, she ain't okay, yeah, because not just her ass,
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not just her back, not just her head that's bruised,
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but also a severe, severe bruise to the ego, which
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she needed.
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Yes, it's fantastic, Thank you for making my day.
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I live to please Roger. As my therapist says, it's
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a gift and a curse. But let's enjoy it one
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more time. The young runners. And only the only thing
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that would have made this clip better is if when
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he tries to help her up, had he slipped also,
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that's the only thing missing from this. But it's still
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it's still a beautiful moment in the snow.