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Hey, my name is CT.

When I'm not busy being arrow, the podcaster, I live in the real world.

I mean, everybody has to have a job, right?

Mine just happens to be CS, customer service.

You know, solutions, relationships, while keeping your team motivated and pumped up to keep

that constant connection with each and every person who has chosen to stop into your location.

I mean, seriously, why are they coming back?

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Episode number 214, Money Order Hell.

Ice is in town.

And my long ass hair is down.

This is CTCS.

Yes.

Hey, welcome back to the podcast studio.

We're two days away from going back into the grocery store, but today's a huge day inside

the studio.

I'm doing the NBC's The Voice Junket, which is nine different interviews.

And then we're going to toss in one more extra interview in there or a conversation, as

I always call them, with Kevin Fetterline and my goal with Kevin Fetterline.

We all know who he is.

If not, you can go ahead and Google it.

But my goal with him was to put 100% my attention and my focus on him, the writer, the performer,

the DJ, the creative mind, and more importantly, the father that he is.

And so that was such an amazing experience to be able to go into an area that didn't

have to rely on where he's already been.

It was always about building forward is what it was.

But I mean, being in here with this junket is amazing.

And that's what I try to talk about when I do CTCS is the fact that there's

so many things that we all do, even the guests.

We all have a life before we get to that destination.

What is your life?

That's the story I want to know.

Transition walk, day number one out of four is one of the cold, hard facts about being

a podcaster at the level that I play.

And then going in to do CS is that no, seriously, it is a culture shock that you spend time

with somebody who at 16 years old, spend a lot of time on the tour bus with Ozzy Osborne.

And then you spend time with Holly Gleason, who spent the past 25 years with somebody like

Kenny Chesney.

And you talk to these actors from Britbox who's got these top shows around the world, and

you walk outside into this forest and you see that your gutters are full of leaves.

It's cold outside.

The sun is bright, but the fact of the matter is is that everything that you just did

inside that studio doesn't mean shit to anybody that's going to be in that grocery store.

And that's the reason why I take a transition walk and I try to invite you to do the same

thing because we all go through transitions.

We're not all podcasters, we're not all rock stars, we're not all authors, you know, we're

Johnny who just happens to live on the street and he's got gutters that are full of leaves

as well.

So you know, I don't know what God is up to, just do it.

Go walk the path, go be with real people, find solutions.

So he missed out on the 200th anniversary, the 200th episode anniversary because you had

to go riding your motorcycle.

You told me I could do it when I got back.

Are you back yet?

You know, you know, I'm, I'm getting yelled at.

Yeah.

I feel like this two weeks of all of the standard trials and tribulations in Jim's world and

now everybody's mad at me because I didn't text them, I didn't see how you are fast.

I was like, man, I'm an old man.

Leave me alone.

Yeah.

I'm a DHD.

I don't know how you ride a motorcycle and you've got ADHD because I would be going squirrel.

Well, see, there's a, my favorite meme in the whole world is a picture.

It's like it was taken over the shoulder of a guy riding a motorcycle down the nice,

you know, windy, beautiful road and, and the caption underneath says, no one said you

had to be sitting still to meditate.

That's right.

That's so true.

But, but, you know, but Nidra does say that with, with, uh, you know, Nidra is part

of yoga.

You say a very last thing.

It says that you do not have to be in a sitting position to do meditation.

You can be doing it like I'll do it here at the, you know, I'm right there.

Number six.

Right.

And you go into that meditative state and all of a sudden, physically, I'm there, but

mentally, I'm gone.

I'm gone.

Let's see.

Okay.

So riding the motorcycle needs to be a mindful exercise and when I'm riding at a speed,

that takes about 75% of my brain power.

There you go.

So then I got 25% left to meditate and that's just right because I've had any more

left over.

Yeah.

If you would doctor it up with a beer, yeah, that task manager's all in there.

You wouldn't be good.

Definitely a sign of the times when my very good friend's here at the store for the

past year has been Flavio and today's his final day.

And it's like, okay, so, so what, what do you mean today's your final day?

I mean, you've been so strong, you, you're a former employee of the month and you bust

serious ass.

What do you mean today is your final day?

And he goes on to explain.

He says, I'm going home to Guatemala.

I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

In all of our time together, we have never talked about this once.

And because I don't assume, I don't assume that people are from other countries.

I just assume that we're all just one people, you know, one love, one people.

And he's going home to Guatemala, which, which, you know, right away, that scares the

shit out of me because, you know, the, you know, they've said that this past week that

they want to send some troops here, some National Guard troops to start doing this, this ice

thing in the city.

And of course, our governor's fighting it.

And next thing, you know, we're losing Flavio, it's like, what the hell is going on

here?

Wow.

Your first day back after a few days off.

And the next thing, you know, you totally are forgetting what people are giving you for

cash.

And his dude gives me $20 and 40 cents to pay for his black and mild.

And I actually get that it was a dollar because everybody usually just gives me a dollar

and 40 cents.

That's what they give me.

And then he goes, I give you 20 bucks.

I look at him and I go, I don't think you gave me 20 bucks.

And then at that point in time, you gear down.

And you go look at somebody else to count my tail.

And sure enough, you know, he did.

He gave me $20.

But the fact of the matter is, he's like, what the fuck is going on with me today?

I'm not even an hour into this shift.

And I don't remember getting 20 bucks from somebody.

And I'm going to blame it on that just personal experience that usually everybody gives me

a buck fucking 40s, what they do, not $20 and 40 cents.

And now another exciting addition of what would you do, a family of five people at the customer

service desk.

We paid our rent back on October 22nd, using one of your money orders.

And I don't think that it went through.

And we would like to have our money back so that we could pay the rent for the month

of December.

But do you have a receipt?

No, I have no receipt.

Do you know where you bought it from?

No, I do not know where I bought it from.

Okay.

But I do have a transaction number.

Oh boy.

Okay.

We don't usually do that.

But okay, so let's figure out what your four digits are to your credit card.

And let's see if we can look through the money orders that way to find out if it's been

cast or not.

But what would you do?

Absolutely no receipt.

We do not take a refund or we do not give refunds at all back when it comes to money orders.

And it's like, okay, we're in a situation here where we totally understand they've got

to get their rent paid.

But if it didn't go through in October and we're in the middle part of November, what happened?

What happened in these days?

What would you do?

I do a lot of footbacks.

Those are the products that people don't want and you've got to put it back on the shelf.

We don't expect them to put it back.

In fact, I've earned the honor of being called the put back king only because it's all

about image to me.

And if it looks very crowded up there at a self checkout and or at customer service, then

we look like shit.

And then nobody's going to sit there and buy our product because you're saying, that's

how they treat my food before they sell it.

But the only downfall about that is that you find yourself walking through this store

at least 80 million times a day.

But what do you want?

Do you want the image or do you want the fact that you're getting all these damn steps

in, which is anywhere between 20,000 and 25,000 per day?

I just bought this corkscrew remover inside this here box about five minutes ago and what

happened is is that I opened it up and it was empty.

Well, do you have your receipt?

Well, you know, I know I don't and I don't know what to do because I got some warm bottles

I need to open up.

Can I just go back and get one?

Well, no, because if you, you know, I have to make sure that you actually bought that

five minutes ago and our records will not come up until tomorrow.

So if you come back tomorrow, I'll make sure you get that wine bottle opener.

Well, I got to drink that stuff tonight, man, what am I supposed to do?

Well, there's nothing I can do.

That's the thing about it.

You see what we go through?

You see what we go through?

Listen, it's very clear.

It's very possible.

He just took it off the shelf, took the corkscrew remover out of the box and now he wants

about 18 bucks.

Our bathrooms are singles and that means that people can come in here and privately use

the john.

They can pretty much do that.

But every day, every day when we come in here, somebody has not flushed the toilet and

in the john right now, I wish I could find the guy that was in here and the reason why

it's not that it's been left a mess.

But what he left behind is so black that I just want to go to him and say, when was the

last time you've been to the doctor, it's so black guy.

I need to know when was the last time you went to the doctor because this is not normal

for it to be this black.

What I wanted to do tonight was record my conversation with Flavio, who was going

out the door with me.

And this, of course, was his last day with our company.

We're talking about an employee the month, some guy that, not just some guy, but a guy

that worked his ass over and over again, earning employee the month.

I mean, that's, that's pretty big time for somebody who was so new with the game when

he got that award, but he was blown away so many people because of his, his loyalty.

And so I wanted to record the conversation with Flavio and probably about maybe two sentences

in and it got so personal, so one-on-one, so Flavio and CT.

In other words, that, you know what, Flavio and I talked about a lot of things.

And there are a lot of things that should not be known to other people because Flavio

and I had heart to heart conversations about a lot of things.

And so, but yeah, it was tough.

It was very tough to walk out the door with Flavio tonight knowing that I'm not going

to see him again.

But let me tell you what is, find a words word to me before he got in the car and left.

He says, you know, I'm going to come back and visit you.

He says, I can't do anything in life without coming back to visit you.

He says, you, you, you always start great conversations.

Yeah.

I'll take that.

I'll take that as a positive.

Huha.

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Transition walk day number two out of four.

Fresh out of the podcast studio.

Oh, God.

Man, when you're putting together all of these conversations, these interviews, what you

probably don't know is that before I even jump into an interview or a conversation,

that's already been a show prepped a week, week and a half earlier.

So to sit down with those scripts, sure, you get familiar with them.

But the thing is though, is that you're not really 100% into the game until you get into

that conversation.

And you're relying on that person you were a week, week and a half ago in order to give

you the right information.

And it just scares a crap out of you is what it does because what if the information is

wrong?

The same is true when it comes to CTCS.

What if the information that they've given me to correct a situation to enable us to

reach a solution is wrong?

And then, you know, you're putting a situation that kind of just raises the bar of anxiety

for your shame, guilt and all that kind of crap you put up.

And the thing is though, is that in a radio station studio or a podcast studio, I can hide

when you're in CS, you can't hide.

When you're in retail, you can't hide.

It's right there.

And those people who need that solution, they're not going to have any problems putting you

in your place.

And now you've got to keep your cool.

I'm still not over a conversation I had with Charlie last night.

Charlie is a gentleman definitely got to be late 70s, early 80s, a jazz musician.

He even speaks the lingo.

He's got kind of a scat in his voice.

And the way he walks around and with his bow tie on that he's gotten is really super fancy

hat.

And he comes in.

They're always dressed up.

Always dressed up.

Looks good.

Very sharp.

In fact, so many people tell him that.

But Charlie looked at me last night at the register.

And he goes, he goes, CT, I don't know how I'm going to pay for this.

And I said, what do you mean?

He says, man, they didn't give him my full money on my snap.

On my EBT.

He says, I don't know how I'm going to pay for this.

He says, so we're going to play a game.

And that game is we're going to go until I have no more.

And I looked at him and I, and you know, this was my first date dealing with this since

the snap program and the cutbacks because of the so called shutdown.

And you know, you don't know what to believe.

And then Charlie just kept looking at me saying, I'm not going to be able to afford this.

And sure enough, you know, after about 10 or 15 minutes of wheeling and dealing and moving

things around, we got it done.

We got it done.

Charlie was able to afford it, but he doesn't know if he has to go buy anything today.

And will we be both be in the same boat again?

So, but it was the first time that I've had to deal with this with this snap program

and the cutbacks.

A co-worker who looks at himself as being a very religious man to the point of being

a preacher.

I've made a point to come up to me and make a judge would call to another employee.

And he says, you know, he says, I've read about them from, from somebody saying that they're

breaking the rules of Jesus, they're breaking the rules of Jesus.

That's right.

And I said, so why would you say they're breaking the rules of Jesus?

He says, you know, man, maybe they sit there and they brag around about how they are, you

know, 100% all about God.

They follow the word and follow the word, but then I found out about their personal

life.

That's nothing really real about them.

So that's not the word that I've had preaching.

And so his comment to me was he says, how do you feel about that person if he's not living

the word of God?

I said, let me tell you something, I've, I've sinned so much in my life, I don't care if

somebody else sins.

And now if you're saying that you're living the word of God, then I'm, so be it, I'm

not going to be the one that's going to judge you.

But I think you're wrong about that because man, you got to be living the word of God.

Jesus is all the time.

And you got to be doing it.

You can't be bragging about being a man of Jesus if you don't live that lifestyle.

Oh, welcome to South.

I just showed my ass self one of the newbies on the register I'd never done a check before.

She says, I need you to do the check up here at C.S. I said, here's what's going to

happen.

We're going back to your register and you're going to do it.

I'm just going to say I'll kill you along.

Yeah.

I wonder if she knew.

And what?

No, she had no idea.

Oh, no clue.

What's the life?

Because she's a free heart.

She's actually my turn out to be one of our better ones.

Wow.

She probably didn't.

Yeah, but the kids and kids really fucking don't know what a check is.

Yeah.

What the hell is this?

How do I do it?

And you are just going to happen.

We're going to enter that age where they don't even know what a penny is.

Not that the penny has got.

Yeah.

But what people are going to give them a coin.

What are they going to do?

And somebody writes them a check in cursive with a fucking.

Oh.

Or something.

No one.

Yeah.

They're fucking heads going to explode.

They're not going to be able to read it.

What is this?

Olympics.

I'm a good night.

Yeah.

Enjoy your pancakes.

Yeah.

You can keep it.

You can keep it.

Okay.

We'll get you on theft next week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Lots of big talk this weekend.

The big talk has nothing to do with college football.

Has nothing to do with pro football.

It's all about the mega million, which is at $970 million.

And so people are going to win a billion dollars and you have a lot of unprofessional people

trying to play the game.

They think it's two dollars.

That's actually $5 a ticket.

And then they want to stand there and argue with you and say, come on, please don't do

this to me.

And of course, the other thing that everybody's talking about is how the penny is no more.

And they, I guess they just read the article on CNN or one of the national reads just yesterday

when they put it up there.

And so it's finally sinking in on them that there are no opinions seriously.

We have gone from taking cash, writing checks, then we moved into the ATM world and then

we went into the cash apps and we went into, you know, like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

And now there are no more cleanly.

So it's happening so f and clickable.

OCT up in customer service is being a real rat ass tonight because somebody didn't have

an ID to purchase alcohol.

They said, I've got it on my smartphone and I said, man, I can't do that.

I said, that has nothing to do with the store that I work for.

It has everything to do with the state that you live in.

I said, that is one of the things that we are instructed over and over and over again,

not to do.

And you're asking me to do something after the state of North Carolina has said, you

can't do that.

You can't do that.

Hey, by the way, you can't do that.

And then you come along and then you say, well, they do it at the other stores.

I hate to say this, but go to that store then.

I recently celebrated my fifth year anniversary with the store five years of being at a grocery

store retail, which to many people, they're like, do you're still a punk ass kid when you

talk like that?

What's five years?

Well, let me put this way.

I'm sure we've all gone through it somewhere within your years in retail.

I broke my zipper in my pants somehow, some way the teeth gave out and boom right there

in front of the world.

There I am, showing off my skibbies.

Oh, yeah, CT's got underwear on.

Thank fucking God I got underwear on.

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Ice is in town and who are Simmons and Stanley?

And are they related to somebody famous?

Transition walk, day number three out of four.

I think one of the things that I've always loved about this part of the country is that

the holidays are a season.

It's not one day on the calendar.

It's not two or three that are spread out about a month apart.

But man, we take it seriously from wearing wild ass clothes to prepping for the food months

in advance to just getting together.

Why?

Well, what do they call it?

A friend's giving?

Why is that brand new to me?

A friend's giving.

That seems to be the big thing this year.

The grocery store is, the grocery store chain is actually getting involved and at

this year.

They've laid out this entire plan on where we can dress up.

Can you believe that?

Not wearing the typical corporate clothes, oh, how boring.

But as we get closer and closer to Thanksgiving, we're going to be wearing Thanksgiving clothing.

On Sundays and even Saturdays, we can wear our college football teams and our pro teams.

And then as we get closer to Christmas, man, you can go all out crazy with the Christmas.

And it's like, what?

Why haven't we been able to do this for the past five years?

That's what happens when you've got changes up on top.

And the regional manager says, screw this crap, man, we're going to have fun or let's

go home.

I'll see you and see us.

It doesn't matter who you are or how old you are, we're always going to be kids.

You can be an 80 year old man, you're still going to be a kid.

I mean, I walk into the store today and this gentleman, his name is Anthony and he comes

up to me and he says, you're not going to believe what I just did.

And I said, what's happening now because you look like you get a lot of stress going

on in your face?

He says, I am stressed out.

Thanks for noticing.

And I thought, oh, shit, what did I just say?

And he goes, I just busted my girl having sex with another guy.

I'm going, what the fuck?

I mean, seriously, dude, you're like 65, 70 years old.

I mean, really?

And he goes, yes, he just kept telling me, I'm not feeling well, I'm not feeling well,

but I felt something inside my heart.

And I just thought, what the hell?

I'm just going to drive over to her house.

And here was some dude who was walking into her house.

And then I have a key.

So I just kind of walked in and God dang, dude.

And I just looked at him.

I said, this is really what I said, honestly, guys are considered the scum of the planet.

We are looked upon as being the cheaters, the liars, the stealers, the beggars, and yet,

and yet, I know in my own personal life and in his life now, it was the girl.

Ice is presently in town ice and the group of people that like to go around and

knocking down people's doors and taking them out of the private lives that they've got.

I realize, listen, listen, I don't want to know what the rules are because I know what

the rules are, but the way that they do it, it does, it doesn't matter what size you're

on, it does get underneath your skin.

And to see the videos and to see the families, to see the tears, to see the moments, and

it's happening to your own damn town.

But everybody who is in this store, who is Hispanic, they're fucking nervous.

And I would be too.

And so the best thing you can do right now is you counsel them.

You let them, you let them be heard, just be with them and be one on one and be a family

because you don't know where they're going to go.

I know that where they are right now is probably about six miles from this store here.

I'm definitely not the manager of the store, but I'll tell you what, nothing pisses me

off more.

And this is one of my pet peeves, the CT's pet peeve of a week.

Burbing glaze, salmon, boneless and skinless, two portions here.

It's from the frozen section.

It says, warm as can be because what happens is it looks like that what they did is they

decided halfway through their shopping experience.

Oh, what the fuck?

I guess I don't need this.

Instead of taking it back to the freezer where they found it, they decided they were going

to put it in with a laundry detergent.

Oh, that goes great with salmon, doesn't it?

This time of year is always so special because the churchgoers, the church people, they like

to help out their church.

What are the churches doing right now?

Well, with this thing where they didn't get the snap payments or the EBT, churches

are raising the bar and they're doing whatever they can with their congregations to get

more food and then they'll take it over to the food banks and stuff.

But man, let's say with the church people, those big old-ass smiles, man.

And they know what they're doing.

They know that it is a very good thing.

It is giving, it's sharing, it's caring for your community and to hear their stories as

to why they're doing it is just so amazing.

We're trying to figure out how many cigarettes that you do a day and I, you got three of them

over here.

Yeah, so I said six to seven out of a pack or do you do a full pack a day?

Do you think all these, like, six or seven of the cigarettes?

Oh, I blew it.

I thought.

I said six.

You think all of them are six?

Six cigarettes.

Yeah.

A day.

Over the pack.

So you do do a full pack.

I mean, how long would you go through that?

How many days?

Wow.

Oh, my God.

Wow.

Thank you for the lunch, too.

No.

I get it.

I get it.

I get it.

Yeah.

Bill's up to a pack a day.

I'm not up.

So that's what I've been smelling for.

Wow.

That was 45 and I was 80.

Wow.

Wow.

You ever feel guilty?

Yeah.

When people like you bring it up.

No.

They don't.

No.

But we all have vices.

Yeah.

And that's mine.

And I don't feel guilty.

It's just something that I did.

I did it to the goal.

Yeah.

And then that first pack, I was like, fuck, I need another one.

Yeah.

See, that's what I was with the bean water.

I was trying to, you know, because if we were just trying to fit in, it's our veers.

Yeah.

And then, you know, it just got away.

And then so now, I just, I don't even go anywhere near.

Well, that's good.

But Nick contains a little bit.

A little bit.

Ooh.

A little bit.

Wait.

For you, this is a teenager.

Oh, she's really going to put the guilt trip on you now.

Oh, she's really going to hit you.

Right.

Yeah.

And not everybody, but there are a few that understand what my love for music is all

about and what I have done in radio for all these years.

And what I continue to do with podcasting.

And I do, and I feel so blessed that when people come up and they start asking questions

about bands, new bands, you know, how did you react to this old time band blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah.

And so, and but when, when they find something new, they like to share it with me.

And the reason why is they go, did you talk to them?

Did you talk to them?

Yes.

Like, you know, we can put it in the universe, but I'm not going to go chase anybody.

But tonight, we were talking about two different bands.

And I've been bragging a lot about this duo that is really, I think, is going to really

set the standard and create a whole new future of music.

And that is Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons.

Yeah.

It's the kids of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley.

But I have been following these two guys for the past year now.

And I have been frickin' blown away by him.

And you need to look at it, Simmons and Stanley.

And their new album, Drop Sound on December 5th.

So by the time you get this, it's probably out, but my God in heaven.

If you want to hear some absolutely phenomenal music, you need to check that out.

And another one that a guy just told me about, Miles Music Kid.

We're talking about a little eight-year-old kid that is blowing everybody away with his

musical skills.

And see, this is the crap that really, I swear to God, this is a side of radio that we

never really got.

You know, a bunch of jocks sitting around in a control room.

We talk about music that way, but I'm talking with real people here.

This is like a record store where you go, dude, come on over here, man.

You're going to hear this 45.

Hey, man, did you get this cassette of this brand new band?

All right, so that's our homework.

You need to go listen to Simmons and Evan's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's son.

And you need to listen to Miles Music Kid.

This is your walk.

Day number four at a four.

We are smack dab in the middle of an Indian summer inside this forest in beautiful South

Charlotte.

Can I say that politically correct wise?

Can I say that it's an Indian summer?

Because that's what's always been known as, that when temperatures drop below freezing,

and then in the days that follow, it's like today, it's going to be like 70 something

way up in the mid-70s.

I mean, that's called an Indian summer, well, in this day of being politically correct,

am I being politically correct?

Oh, God.

And if I say something like this at CS, up there at that big old desk when somebody is seeking

a solution, and I said, what a beautiful Indian summer.

Would they take it offensively?

Would they think that I'm attacking something?

Well, in fact, I'm not.

It's just the generation I came from.

They all see you and see us.

I guess I'm feeling somewhat like a rebel today.

My hair is in the middle of my back.

And very rarely.

I think only one other time in my five years here have I ever worn it down, where it's

not put in a ponytail or worn back.

I don't know.

Just for some stinkin' ass reason today, I was standing in the mirror and I said, fuck it.

I'm going to wear it long.

I'm tired of it being pulled back because it hurts like shit is what it does when you

get your hair pulled back.

And then to get the ear pieces on for your radios and stuff like that, I say, ah, ow.

So I'm being a rebel today, a man with attitude.

How long do you think that's going to last?

This is the part of the day where I pretty much come across as the jerk and we have an

employee here whose ankles are hurting and he says, I really want to go home.

Well, right away, I'm given flashbacks of my father who was a sergeant in World War

II.

My dad didn't give one rat's ass about whatever kind of body pain you were in.

When the job had to be done, the job had to be done.

You made a commitment, now show up and make it happen.

And that's the way that I've always lived and that's the way I do radios, I do podcasting.

And gets in the way of your day, I don't give a damn about what your pain is.

But they got, you know, they kind of went into it and said, ah, just go home.

And I was like, Jesus, you're not teaching him anything, you're not teaching him for

surveillance.

We've just received word that there are bugs inside the laundry detergent.

And she said that she was over here by the arm and hammered and by the, the tide.

And she says there's a bunch of little bugs crawling all over everything.

So we're on the aisle right now, looking, I'm not seeing any bugs.

I mean, what are the real chances of that?

But then again, guys, I'm not shocked at this.

I mean, here's the reason why I'm not shocked because the area where the detergent is, that's

where people will stuff the food that they finished eating.

In other words, they don't pay for the food.

They'll walk throughout the store, get down here to aisle number seven.

And then by this time they're done with it.

So they'll put the chicken bones and they'll put everything, you know, the Chinese food

and stuff like that that they didn't finish on these shelves.

So to see bugs over here in this area does not shock me at all.

The beautiful people in the bakery are putting together their secret Santa's list.

Oh, my God.

It's been my favorite thing to do for the past three years with a secret Santa because,

you know, you pick out a name, you kind of find out more information about them.

You find out what their likes and dislikes are.

And what I mean by likes is stuff outside the store.

What do they like?

And so a lot of them, you know, they like, they like to, you know,

kind of get into the spirits and they found out what I liked.

And it was because I liked it right.

And so the amazing amount of writing instruments that I got last year to this

freaking day, I'm still using brand new writing instruments because we just sit here

and spoil the fuck out of ourselves.

Oh, baby, oh, baby.

You got the wolf daddy.

That's it for another edition of CTS.

Hello again.

I'm Casey Kason from American Top 40.

And now I can get the 40 biggest hits in the USA on the radio.

Now that CTS is over, I guess it's over.

Hey, man, I do me a favor.

Start your own podcast and the reason why is because that's where conversations begin.

Quit, quit thinking that we're all competing against each other.

When really we're doing the same damn crap.

Okay, form your own podcast and let's share some conversations about what's really

going on behind that curtain.

We want to see your wizard.

We'll see you next week.

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