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Phone Tap: Historic Battle of the Beans · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. And in today's
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  Speaker 1: prank call, a guy received a notice in the mail
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  Speaker 1: recently from the city saying they're going to be doing
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  Speaker 1: work on his block. And the letter had a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of random like symbols and numbers in it, like one, dash, three, five, six,
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  Speaker 1: pound pound nine. So he went to his wife and
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  Speaker 1: he said, do you know what the heck is happening
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  Speaker 1: on our street next week? She just shook her head
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  Speaker 1: and thought, you know what, Why don't I let my
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  Speaker 1: favorite radio show handle this? Yes, so she sent us
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  Speaker 1: the info and we took it from there. In your phone,
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  Speaker 1: tap right now.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, is this Warren Bone?
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  Speaker 2: Yes it is. Who's it?
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. This is Chip Baldridge with the City Historical
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  Speaker 1: Restoration Project.
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  Speaker 2: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, We're the folks behind those blue plaques and
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  Speaker 1: confusing statues of people riding squirrels. Okay, did you get
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  Speaker 1: our letter that we saund about the work we'll be
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  Speaker 1: doing in your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 2: I did great, but it was kind of confusing to
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  Speaker 2: be oh, perfectly honest with me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I can clear it up for you if
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  Speaker 1: there's any confusion.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So, after digging into some colonial maps and taking
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  Speaker 1: soil records, we've confirmed that your front yard is the
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  Speaker 1: original site of the Revolutionary War's long forgotten Battle of
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  Speaker 1: Baked Bean Hill. Wait. Pretty exciting, really, absolutely seventeen seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight two militia's one pot of beans. Everyone had gas,
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  Speaker 1: nobody won, but it mattered. So now your lawn is
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  Speaker 1: officially historic.
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  Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, you're kidding right.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm one hundred percent serious the Battle of Baked
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  Speaker 1: Bean Hill. I know most history books skip it, but hey,
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  Speaker 1: look at this. Now you're the proud steward of America's
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  Speaker 1: most gastro in Testine battle. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm confused. Is there is there money involved here?
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  Speaker 1: Money? What you're talking to the city? Warren? We don't
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  Speaker 1: have any money.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: That was good. No I needed that laugh, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm calling because actually, by law, the city
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  Speaker 1: will be craning in a full sized cannon onto your
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  Speaker 1: front yard next Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, you're not. You gotta be Kiden Gay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, that's where the battle happened on your front property,
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  Speaker 1: so we have to.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, you're not doing anything to
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  Speaker 2: our front lawn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's already been approved. No, so we have the cannon.
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  Speaker 1: It weighs about sixteen hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are not doing anything to our front lawn.
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  Speaker 2: You're not bringing cannons, and you're not battle I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Quick little correction. It's not multiple cannons. It's just one.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Martha Why, and she's actually been fully
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  Speaker 1: restored with authentic creaks and even historical bean splatter damage.
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  Speaker 2: What are you guys talking about? How is this okay?
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  Speaker 1: It was because there will be tour groups there coming
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  Speaker 1: up the summer of wanting to take pictures with it.
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  Speaker 2: No, that is not happening. It is absolutely not. These
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  Speaker 2: people are gonna have a problem if you come to
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  Speaker 2: my property. I'm telling you right now, Warren, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have an issue, Sir.
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  Speaker 1: I hear your frustration. I understand. It's night.
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  Speaker 2: Sin This is not happening on my property, sir, gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep in mind this is a heritage artillery placement.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Well. The city council voted during a pancake breakfast and
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  Speaker 1: it passed unanimously.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Sinny the losses got mine.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, it probably mostly passed because nobody was listening. It
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  Speaker 1: tends to be how the meetings go.
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  Speaker 2: Are you hearing it? Though?
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  Speaker 1: That's neither here nor there. I'm more focused on getting
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  Speaker 1: you into our history books.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is not happening.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, okay, well you're definitely not gonna want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about phase two of the project. Then the reenactment,
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  Speaker 1: chili cookoff?
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  Speaker 2: What you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: What thirty reenactors will be hired with four bean tents
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  Speaker 1: and one man on stilts dressed as Paul Revere.
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  Speaker 2: This cannot be a thing, and it's not happening on
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  Speaker 2: my property.
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  Speaker 1: Warren, Warren, listen to me, I won't. You're standing on
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  Speaker 1: sacred bean soil.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: American men fought and tooted for freedom right where you live.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of city celebrates a battle like this?
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  Speaker 1: The kind of city that remembers, the kind that's not
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  Speaker 1: afraid to cannon up in a cul de sac, the
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  Speaker 1: kind that prank calls people on the radio. Why that's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of city that you live in, sir, And
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  Speaker 1: you should be proud of that.
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  Speaker 2: You said, what about phone call?
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  Speaker 1: I said that this is a prank call because you're
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  Speaker 1: actually on Brook and Jeffrey in the morning and there's
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  Speaker 1: no cannons. Dude, you're being phone tapped.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: Nud Your wife, Alicia set you up. She said you
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  Speaker 1: were confused after getting a letter from the city and
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  Speaker 1: the mail and you didn't know what it meant. You
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  Speaker 1: were worried, just like all the soldiers did during the
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  Speaker 1: Battle of Baked Bean Hill. I didn't even get to
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  Speaker 1: tell you about the small rope perimeter and the animatronic
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  Speaker 1: squirrel that yells beans for liberty. He was only gonna
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  Speaker 1: say it, what's an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Wake up? Every morning? Was funk taps weekday mornings on
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  Speaker 2: the twenties Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning.