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It is time to believe your warriors outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with
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Trey Trindholm and Raj Sharma. Today is Tuesday, May sixth,
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two thousand and twenty five. It's a rare day inside
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the treehouse. Raj, you and I got the memo to
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wear your black shirt. Trey, however, is the odd man
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out wearing red. Usually it's Trey. Usually you and I
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are on the same page and Raj is the odd
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man out. But today today it's you, Bud.
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I feel like whoever wears a black shirt has a
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sixty seven percent chance of being in the In the majority,
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that is true.
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We do love our black shirts here inside the treehouse.
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And speaking of love, love is in the air. I
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realize that Valentine's Day was a few months ago, but
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that doesn't mean you can't show your love and affection
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year round. And this is a damn good example of it,
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albeit a dangerous one. There is a man who is
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obsessed with firefighters, and when I mean obsessed, this is
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how obsessed he is. This man is so obsessed with
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firefighters that he set his own house on fire just
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to watch them. Work. He is what is it, raj.
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No, I just thought that was just that's a that's
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a bit excessive. That's more than obsessed. That's more than obsessed.
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Troubling.
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Oh you're gonna get to clap as wall At at
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the end of the show. Trade trust me, he is
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even obsessed. That's like utically insane.
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He is twenty six year old James Brown from the
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United Kingdom, and he admitted to starting a fire in
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his fuse box just so he could watch his idols
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in action. They showed up without the fire and they left,
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but that did not say she ate dear James. James
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wanted they needed more, so we started another fire in
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his house about an hour and a half later, just
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to get them to come on back, and they did.
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They showed up again and douse the fire and possibly James.
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By the way, this is not James his first meet
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cute with the local fire department. He has called them
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nearly eighty times over the past twelve months. This is
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the first time that we're aware of that he's set
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a fire in his own home to get them to
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show up for him. But because of that he has
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now pled guilty or repleted guilty, not sure which. James said
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he did it two counts of arson and he's currently
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seeking help for his obsession. I would like to go
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on record as saying I don't know if this is
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a romantic obsession.
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I don't know.
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I don't know if it's a sexual thing or not,
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or he just just really like seeing firefighters put out fires.
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I have no idea. I've given you every ounce of
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information I could dig up on James Brown, the firefighter
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lever from the United Kingdom, but it is it is
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a level of commitment that I can appreciate.
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If you set fire to your own house, I mean,
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if you own that house, is it still you still
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get charged with arson? Wouldn't it just be like I
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don't know, Yes.
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Yeah, because it's still dangerous. And it's the UK, So
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just because it's a house, it doesn't mean it's a
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free standing structure. Because in the UK, row homes are
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very are very common. So you set fire to yours,
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you share a wall with a neighbor or two, it's
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like setting fire to their house as well, or at
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least the threat of it. So it's very dangerous. It's
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also dangerous to the firefighters have to show up to
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put out the fire that you started. I did find
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it interesting though that the first one was allegedly started
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in the fuse box. The second one, though, there was
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some bedding on fire, so maybe maybe he was dropping
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hints there. Again, I don't know if it's a romantic thing,
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if it's a sexual thing, or he just just he's
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just really into firefighters. So yeah, eighty times over the
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past year that he has called them, first time that
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he has set fire to his own home to get
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them to show up to do the work, and apparently
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throughout the entire process they're fighting the fire, he's got
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his phone out, he's recording and everything. So it's just
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a real special moment for James and the firefighter.
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Yeah, maybe he's just one of those what's the technical
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like a pyromaniac, the people that are obsessed with the
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fire and then that kind of I guess that could
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transfer to firefighters.
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I guess so. Yeah, And that's what's so weird about
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this particular case is that he doesn't seem to have
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the traditional tenets of hi romania that we're all aware of.
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Like you just said, Roger, it's usually obsessed with the
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fire and the flame and all that, and here he's
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just the fire is just the tool to get his
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real obsession in front of him. And that's the firefighters themselves.
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That's so weird, weird, but it's it's the UK. I'm
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not surprised.
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Look every every country of you know, the UK is
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everyone's got their weirdos. There's there's no doubt about that. Yeah,
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but I give this guy credit. I mean, he could
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have set his neighbor's house on fire instead he did
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his own, so at least he's keeping it.
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Yeah, in his lane, he's being caution.
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Maybe if I just like this bet on fire and
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roll around it a naked to save.
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Me, That's what I'm thinking. Like it was a fuse box,
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that was the betting. The next thing is just going
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to be James.
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Really, it's just him outside the firehouse going, what's up?
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I need money? Y'all have to come out here with
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your hose. I got bad news for you, James. I
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don't know if they're going to be running code on
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that and just let him just go. It's better for
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everyone if he just flames out here. He's been he's
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been a real drain on the emergency services numbers.
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I just don't know how you ask for that request, like, hey,
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can you hose me down?
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I don't even think you need to ask, because what
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you do is you just have a little sign next
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to you, little heart eyes.
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Yeah, very odd obsession.
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I am. I am impressed to the level at which
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he is willing to go.
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Yeah.
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See, people don't give crazy people credit. Sometimes their level
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of commitment is is stellar.
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And and honestly, that's that's part of what is so
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terrifying about it is because it's a reflection on us
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and our lack of commitment.
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That's exactly right.
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I'm Dan, He's Trey. That's Raj. Today is Tuesday, May sixth,
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twenty twenty five. We had some other stuff planned here,
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but Raj, you were just telling us in the break
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that you had an issue with a delivery driver recently,
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not not really delivering the goods.
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Yeah. I was supposed to receive a package today and
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instead of making any effort, the FedEx guy got out
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of his car, took a picture of the front door,
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and then just left. There was no attempt to make
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the delivery. It was just a laziness. And so I
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get an alert from and I'm sitting here and I
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get an alert on my phone. It's like we tried
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to deliver the package. I'm like, nope, you absolutely did not.
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So they're like, you can go to the facility and
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pick it up, or we can just deliver it tomorrow
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by five. How do I know you're going to deliver
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it tomorrow because you didn't do it today, And that's
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your job, your FedEx. You're supposed to make an attempt.
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And they just took a picture of the front door
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and left.
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Was there a signature required.
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No, it says no signature requires, but I could sign
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for it if I wanted to, so they could have
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just left it at the front desk.
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I don't understand that level of lazy, because they did
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like nine tenths of the job. They went to they
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went to your place with I'm assuming with the package.
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But they went to your place the address, took a
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photo of it, which is supposed to be proof that
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they did that. The only thing left was to just
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leave the package. Correct, they did everything back in that, Like,
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why would you go nine tenths of the way to
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just not do the last part because if you don't,
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that makes I someone helped me, Someone makes sense of that.
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Please, it doesn't make any sense. And I'm I'm and
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i'm here so and you have my phone number that's
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on the shipping receipt as well, so why not call
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and be like, hey, I'm here at your front door,
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I have your package? Can I you can? Can you
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come out?
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I understand certain aspects of lazy, like there's certain things
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that you do, don't want to do whatever, and there's
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things and links you might go to to get out
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of having to do them. But I don't understand doing
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nine out of ten steps of the thing and then
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just leaving out the final thing when you're already there,
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like me would one. If you're a delivery person and
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you don't want to make the delivery, then somehow I
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don't actually know how you do that. If you're a
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lazy delivery driver, do you just you know what, you
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drive off a cliff. Maybe that's how you do it.
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You you take a photo of a of a of
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a ravine and you say you've fallen in it and
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you need the rest of the day off. I don't
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understand going through almost every step and then just not
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leaving the package.
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Well number one, it sounds like it would have required uh,
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actual conversation with someone, which that seems to be the
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first step problem in a lot of things is that
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if they can't leave a text or send a message
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and actually requires phone call, people don't want to do it.
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So weird.
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Yeah, yeah, So that's what I'm saying is that if
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you're gonna be lazy, start at step one. Just immediately
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go not doing it. Yeah, I'm not delivering this package today.
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But it's like it's like with Amazon, Amazon, there is
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no if they can't get hold of you via text.
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There is no There is no conversation really you're gonna
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have with a driver. And as far as they're concerned,
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if you don't have instructions on someplace for there to
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where they can leave it, they've done their job. They're
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getting paid the same amount regardless.
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Yeah, but I've also had Amazon do the same thing
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when they sent me a text and I didn't get
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it till for whatever reason later, They'll just leave it
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at the door and take a picture and send you
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that picture and go, hey, it's here. Just stuf why
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I left it at the front door?
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Was it?
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What?
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Was it?
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Signature required?