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Come Knock Down My Door From Alex Emanuel And Philip Cruise · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Arrow dot net. It's more than just one podcast. It
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  Speaker 1: is a collection of podcasts, twenty different podcasts. Because that's
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  Speaker 1: oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Hi Phil, what's happening
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  Speaker 1: with you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just chilling today, trying to stay calm.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're two weeks from open, so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just checking things off the list.
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  Speaker 1: Ara, Well, man, I'll tell you what. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: until everybody is able to experience this, because it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like you're saying, guys, it's okay to look at what's
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  Speaker 1: been going on and can we just chuckle a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: Can we just let go just a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's where the unity is or the piece really
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  Speaker 1: is not the pieces, but the piece is is that
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  Speaker 1: we're depending on you guys, Alex and Philip, we really
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  Speaker 1: are to give us that level of oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I can breathe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Alex, just thing is is that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like me, he stood there with his mouth open looking
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  Speaker 3: at his TV seeing something that just shouldn't be on
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  Speaker 3: the TV. Right and it rang, it ran, you know,
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  Speaker 3: literally absurd and and and the way to treat absurdity
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  Speaker 3: is with you know, humor is how he got chose
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  Speaker 3: to approach it.
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  Speaker 2: And the play is very funny, and we're working really
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  Speaker 2: hard to make it even funnier by bit by bit,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Er Well, I'll tell you what. There's a huge side
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  Speaker 1: of me. My wife and I were talking about this going.
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  Speaker 1: I hope to god they put this on the road
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  Speaker 1: like so many of them come to Charlotte, who are
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  Speaker 1: Bloomenthal Performing Arts Center? Because I would love to see
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  Speaker 1: it live. I would love to see something that really
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  Speaker 1: opens up the conversation and then afterwards everybody sits around
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  Speaker 1: has a talk. Don't don't just go home, go have
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  Speaker 1: a conversation, right?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: What I yeah, what I've found is is that amazingly
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  Speaker 2: everybody has something to say about January sixth. Everybody has
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  Speaker 2: an opinion, and everybody has a really strong opinion about it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean as far as as far as moving and
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  Speaker 2: taking it somewhere. I mean, this is the semi quincentennial,
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  Speaker 2: right like, this is the time to make your American
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  Speaker 2: statements about you know, hold a mirror up to our
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  Speaker 2: society and say whether or not this is working or not.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Hey, hey, sorry am I late?
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  Speaker 6: I thought it was ten thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Never good, Alex, never late.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, happy birthday, Alex. It's Alex's birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, nice to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice meeting you, guys, and thank you for bringing this
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  Speaker 1: subject up, because I mean, here we are though that
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  Speaker 1: we're in a situation, especially with with the with uh,
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  Speaker 1: the things that happened in January sixth, is that is
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  Speaker 1: that we're we don't know what to do. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the people we just sit back and go. Like my
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  Speaker 1: mom used to say, there are certain things we don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about son, And it's like that's exactly how too
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  Speaker 1: many people reacted.
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  Speaker 5: M Yeah, I mean, we have to talk about these things.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's and I mean we brush them under the
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  Speaker 6: under the rugger or pushed them aside. And the news.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that that is there. That is their plan,
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  Speaker 6: the whole flooding the zone thing where it continually pounding
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  Speaker 6: us with stuff like no one's talking about the Epstein.
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  Speaker 5: Files anymore, right, you know, and January sixth was the the.
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  Speaker 6: Worst in the history of our country. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know you talk about how nobody's talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files, Well, nobody's talking about perseverance being up
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  Speaker 1: there on Mars. That kind of pisces me off. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know what's going on, whatever happens to these
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  Speaker 1: stories that fall off the front page, And that's what
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  Speaker 1: you guys are doing. You're kind of like bringing us
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  Speaker 1: back to that front page.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting we as far as you know. You
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  Speaker 2: know how they say history repeats itself. It doesn't repeat itself,
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  Speaker 2: but it rhymes, right. And this situation that's going on
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  Speaker 2: with Donald Trump and what he's doing with the January
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  Speaker 2: sixth rioters insurrectionists who were all pardoned on mass and
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  Speaker 2: now he's turning around and he's saying that Enriqui Tario
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  Speaker 2: and the Oathkeepers leader. I can't remember his name, Stuart Rhodes.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're looking to erase their charges. And this
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  Speaker 2: is rhyming. Like you know, Stalin in the Great Purges
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  Speaker 2: of nineteen thirty six were erasing Trotsky from the pictures
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  Speaker 2: and using Trotsky like the Biden crime family, using Trotsky
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  Speaker 2: as a tool to dismantle and get rid of all
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  Speaker 2: the Bolsheviks who changed the system in Russia at the time.
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  Speaker 2: He got rid of everybody but like a secretary and
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  Speaker 2: one of his toadies. Everybody else from the Bolsheviks were
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  Speaker 2: either dead from cholera, executed, or in a gulag. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not just Stalin, it's also Hitler. Hitler had an
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  Speaker 2: auto coupe in nineteen twenty three the beer Hall pusched
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  Speaker 2: in Munich, where fifteen Nazis were killed by Bavarian soldiers
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  Speaker 2: and Hitler went to jail, had a five year prison
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  Speaker 2: sentence that he served six months of because when he
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  Speaker 2: was on trial he got to talk directly to the
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  Speaker 2: German people and he convinced them that he'd done nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And then he became the Chancellor, the Furer, and then
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  Speaker 2: he tried to take over the world. And you want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about history rhyming. You look to the beer
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  Speaker 2: hall pushed and then look to what's going on with
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  Speaker 2: January sixth. Right now, it cannot be forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: Least, do not move. There's more with Alex Emmanuel and
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  Speaker 1: Philip Cruz coming up next. Come knocked down. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to change you. This is going to create conversation.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with Alex and Philip. One thing that
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  Speaker 1: you bring up and I maybe this is just my
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  Speaker 1: age just screaming through here, but you know, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I wanted the world that leq Wea Lindsay did for
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  Speaker 1: poland somebody that would come from from the down to earth.
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  Speaker 1: I am a working man. I'm gonna lead the people.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was hoping for, that we had somebody
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  Speaker 1: like that that we could call a hero.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean it's definitely not true. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: crazy because you know, I mean, things happened so.
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  Speaker 2: Fast right now.
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  Speaker 6: As I said before, you know, the media is just
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  Speaker 6: like no one has a chance.
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  Speaker 5: You know, back in the back in the seventies, you know,
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  Speaker 5: people read the read the fucking paper. They let you know,
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  Speaker 5: my dad used to do it, would do a weekly
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  Speaker 5: cartoon strip about what was going.
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  Speaker 6: On in the news.
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  Speaker 5: Now we're all fucking inundated with this stuff every single day.
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  Speaker 5: And and I mean Trump is not only trying to
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  Speaker 5: erase January sixties now, he's.
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  Speaker 6: Like, he keeps pushing.
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  Speaker 5: He wants to erase his his his uh impeachment, you know,
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  Speaker 5: impeach mask now and and and.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I mean, look look at he talked about today.
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  Speaker 5: He's talked about like, you know, killing boats.
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  Speaker 6: He's gonna kill the boats. I didn't know boats could die.
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  Speaker 4: But but it's, uh, it's it's it's really all that.
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  Speaker 4: And and what we're trying to do is just a
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  Speaker 4: little piece of something of some sort of you know, commentary,
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  Speaker 4: some sort of you know, and what what better way
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  Speaker 4: to deal with this stuff? I mean, look, I think
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  Speaker 4: the most effective stuff we've had obviously it's got under.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's skins skin.
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  Speaker 5: Besides, every fucking uh, every every news organization has got
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  Speaker 5: under his skin.
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  Speaker 6: But the late night comedians he got the one's being canceled.
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  Speaker 5: So satire and humor is is a great way to
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  Speaker 5: let what happens sink in and really make us think
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  Speaker 5: about it. I mean, I'm not gonna write something.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to write a funny play about the
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  Speaker 6: Epstein Files.
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  Speaker 5: But this was just like this was like it was
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  Speaker 5: like a three Stooges fricking thing where the people like
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  Speaker 5: poking each other's eyes out right, a hair dye dripping,
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  Speaker 5: and you know it, it's just like insanity, a fake.
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  Speaker 6: Hangman's thing, a guy with horns.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it was like it was ripe for righte
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  Speaker 5: for satire.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: This is every bit the reason why I'm a daily writer,
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  Speaker 1: because I want to document it, not for me, but
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  Speaker 1: for the generations that'll follow long after I'm gone. And
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  Speaker 1: I need people like yourself to be able to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to write down real history. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: spell that dude's name in my journal the way people do.
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  Speaker 1: I do it upside down and backwards. Whoever reason, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to read my journals, or they're gonna sit there
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  Speaker 1: and say, what the hell is this guy even talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Who is this bob? That's all we need to know.
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  Speaker 1: That's his name. It ain't gonna go there.
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  Speaker 6: Name is never mentioned in our play.
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  Speaker 1: Never, never, not even never in my journal never, never, never, never.
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  Speaker 5: The only time his name is mentioned is when some
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  Speaker 5: when when uh, Phil's character says to Trump something else.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, it's all it's all like you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, we use you know, because yeah, anyway you get it.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about this?
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  Speaker 1: Because ten minutes with you, guys is not enough. I
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  Speaker 1: want people to tap into what you're bringing.
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  Speaker 6: Ford.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take I'll take that Arrow the website to find
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  Speaker 2: out absolutely everything is our dot show slash knock down
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  Speaker 2: my door, Our Dot show slash knocked down my door,
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  Speaker 2: no caps, no spaces. I just want to quickly mention
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  Speaker 2: the cast who are working so hard to put this
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  Speaker 2: show on for you. They are fantastic. They are Chris
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  Speaker 2: Coleman at Chance, Jared Ritter, Tammy Kobylette, Callie Faybak, Vince Lamberti,
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  Speaker 2: Alex Emanuel, Mike Jankovitz, and myself, Phil Cruz and our
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  Speaker 2: magical production stage manager Melanoy Elizabeth. Thanks Arrow for that.
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  Speaker 1: I love you guys.
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  Speaker 6: And they were Kelly so hard did you say Kelly?
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  Speaker 2: I did say Callie? Absolutely CALLI favea.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a great it's a great cast, Arrow. It's
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be a really fun production that no one
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  Speaker 6: is gonna want to miss. I mean, really, it's this
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  Speaker 6: is what this is what independent in downtown theater and
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  Speaker 6: off Broadway theater needs.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think Broadway needs it too. We don't
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  Speaker 5: need the revivals. I'm sorry of Doug day attitude, Chad,
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  Speaker 5: you know so, so we really hope that people people
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  Speaker 5: come and people and people laugh and people remember word him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you guys be brilliant today, and your people call
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  Speaker 1: my people so we can have forty five minutes to now,
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  Speaker 1: because ten minutes is just not enough time with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to will Oh, I'll be reaching out.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, you guys be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, man, thanks a lot, Bye bye