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Remembering a Dark Time Around the World · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Come here the music play.
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  Speaker 2: We have a birthday like this, Liiza, Liza, Liza.
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  Speaker 3: Liza, Liza, Eliza is eighty and it takes all the
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  Speaker 3: math skills. I have to figure out what somebody's age is,
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  Speaker 3: who's born in nineteen forty six. And that's the point
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  Speaker 3: where my ciphering and dealing with numbers should probably come
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  Speaker 3: to an end, especially in the pricing of the lunch
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  Speaker 3: with Mark and Mike, which I completely bumfuzzled yesterday. So
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  Speaker 3: let let's set that straight and then and do some history.
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  Speaker 1: Well take it and let's get a little let me
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  Speaker 1: get a little backstory for the audience today.
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  Speaker 2: We do not need any backstory. Yeah, there's need no
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  Speaker 2: reed for backstory.
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  Speaker 1: No, you need to know how this all played out, because.
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  Speaker 3: They don't need to know anything. There is such a
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  Speaker 3: thing as too much disclosure.
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing. Not with the M and M experience,
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  Speaker 1: and soon the M and M extra, which'll.
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  Speaker 2: Really get into the Lord there, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I hope there's tapes. Lord, I hope there's tapes. You know.
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  Speaker 1: So we had this great, great concept where a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people joined us for lunch for our Food for
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  Speaker 1: the Poor campaigns. A year was it a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: two years ago. I gues was one last year last year,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So now I'm in the middle of my
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  Speaker 1: Food for the Poor campaign. We thought, well, let's do
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  Speaker 1: it again. We had so much fun having lunch at
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  Speaker 1: an undisclosed location, wonderful restaurant. Mark's round table, He's the
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  Speaker 1: he's the night at the round table. I'm Mordred kind
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  Speaker 1: of scheming in the background, and we just had this wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful time. We said, well, let's do it again, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's March Food for the Poor. They're they're
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  Speaker 1: providing clean drinking water to the poorest of the poor
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  Speaker 1: all over the hemisphere. So yesterday morning I text, ladies,
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  Speaker 1: this is to the audience, not to you.
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  Speaker 2: Mark.
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  Speaker 1: I text mister Davis, and I say, hey, Mark, can
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  Speaker 1: we let's do the lunch appeal. Let's see if we
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  Speaker 1: can get some people lined up, because last year, I
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  Speaker 1: want to remember, I want to remind everybody, when were
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  Speaker 1: you and Ronda were pushing this and driving this. We
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  Speaker 1: filled up the table in like five minutes. Didn't we
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  Speaker 1: have to do two tables because we got so many Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's how good you guys are. So I
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  Speaker 1: trying to drive the train this time, which is never
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. So I say to Mark yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 1: I texted him, I want to just say about six
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  Speaker 1: fifty five am Central time, I said, And he's up
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  Speaker 1: getting ready for a show. I said, hey, Mark, let's
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  Speaker 1: do the table again for lunch for food for the poor,
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  Speaker 1: because I really need help. I'm behind this year. I
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  Speaker 1: got to get a boost here. That lunch is a
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  Speaker 1: great idea. And you said, absolutely, Mike, I'm all in.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. I said, great, twenty five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: per couple, right, and you said, yep, it's worth the price.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great price. Now that's the text. Twenty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a couple. You said, yep, you answered, yes,
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  Speaker 1: come we come onto the air yesterday. Now, I'm never
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  Speaker 1: wanting to embarrass you publicly. I mean, you're my partner,
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  Speaker 1: was so protected in her I always will go out
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  Speaker 1: of my way to have your back. I say, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: on the eminem experience, all right, twenty five hundred a couple.
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  Speaker 1: You say, oh no, no, no, it's twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: a person.
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  Speaker 3: It probably is wrong. It just hit me wrongly. It's like, wait,
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  Speaker 3: a minute. That just doesn't seem like what we did.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell you that what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Did she want to take a break out? She got
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  Speaker 1: a breakthw what'd she do? Go out in the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot for a smoke? What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Anybody but me? Man?
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  Speaker 3: This is all me because we so many numbers coming
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  Speaker 3: at us. How much did we charge people to do
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  Speaker 3: the in studio co hosting that season is underway? How
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  Speaker 3: much did we do last year? What we do before?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: What's my driver's license number? Like I said, numbers are
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  Speaker 3: not my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Well prob actually so it's it's like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred a couple, twelve fifty a person. But
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  Speaker 1: thanks to your blunder, we got one person. Now we
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  Speaker 1: got so far one person. We got to get seven
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  Speaker 1: seats filled or this thing is a failure. I think
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  Speaker 1: I got one person. Okay, speaking of okay, sit tight.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have anybody?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Have her take another look, because Aronda took a look
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  Speaker 3: and said, you might you might have more than that.
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  Speaker 1: We may have more than one. He said, we got
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  Speaker 1: one person. We got one guy.
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  Speaker 3: I think anyway, whatever we have left. Here's what here's
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  Speaker 3: whether it's seven or whether it's three.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think there's more?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't we made clear that I'm not to be trusted
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  Speaker 3: on this SA people donating at that level so robs
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  Speaker 3: other people?
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  Speaker 1: Well then well maybe Tracy. And this is again a
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  Speaker 1: Mike Gallagher train wreck. When you guys are driving, is
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  Speaker 1: there's a fine? We sold it out in five minutes
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  Speaker 1: here and here I am should be no. Please, well
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  Speaker 1: we need seven people, and instantly mark, just before I
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  Speaker 1: do the appeal, I've got a great partner on the
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  Speaker 1: show that I want to send you. Think Factor is
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  Speaker 1: made to help you think better. Great problem.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I could gobble think Factor like Eminem's and it
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  Speaker 3: won't give me math skills. So to be clear, and
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  Speaker 3: then let's get Then I got some history. I gotta
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  Speaker 3: go plow through with you. Twelve to fifty A person
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  Speaker 3: called Mike's phone number one one hundred and sixty five,
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  Speaker 3: y five Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Or crazy Mike standing by right now. Come on Mike
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  Speaker 1: online dot comlinet.
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  Speaker 3: You person twenty five couple and you'll be at a
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  Speaker 3: table DFW restaurant date yet to be determined.
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  Speaker 2: And we can't wait to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't have the time of our life save six years.
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  Speaker 2: A long time.
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  Speaker 1: It is, it is well short, it could be.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of depends, doesn't it. It was six years
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  Speaker 3: ago today that I returned from vacation to to wrestle
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  Speaker 3: my own show back from fill in host Paul Gleiser,
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  Speaker 3: because the world.
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  Speaker 2: Had ground to a halt.
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  Speaker 3: On the previous night, March eleventh of twenty twenty, Lisa
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  Speaker 3: and I were out at dinner and our wine guy,
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  Speaker 3: our waiter guy, came by and said, I think Tom.
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  Speaker 3: I think Tom Hanks has COVID. I said, okay, thanks
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  Speaker 3: for that. Then he it was all kind of weird.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of strange. And then he came to
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  Speaker 3: me and said, the NBA is canceled. The NBA is
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  Speaker 3: canceled at what tonight's slate of games? No, the entire season.
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  Speaker 3: It was the moment, It was the day where all
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  Speaker 3: of this that now seems like such a bad movie.
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  Speaker 3: It was six years ago today, give or take for
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  Speaker 3: other people, but for me, in my world, it was
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  Speaker 3: coming back. I'm just trying to remember, surely we were
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  Speaker 3: doing this. Were we doing the full blown sixteen minutes
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  Speaker 3: of this, of course we were. So what's your memory
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  Speaker 3: of how this went? As you and I absorbed the
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  Speaker 3: COVID launch day together.
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely try to block it out. I'm not kidding you.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a dark, awful time that I try
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  Speaker 1: to forget that it even happened. And I mean that sincerely,
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  Speaker 1: in fact me even I know what you mean about
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  Speaker 1: bringing it up, and it's certainly noteworthy, but I dread
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  Speaker 1: even talking about it. I am. It was such a
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  Speaker 1: a depressing thing. We didn't know we were being we
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  Speaker 1: were and now we look back at it, we know
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  Speaker 1: we were lied to. Uh, we know that we were
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  Speaker 1: gas lit, and boy, they do gaslighting like nothing else.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Lisa Murkowski's gas lighting. I think, frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: think Thune and Corner are a little bit are a
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  Speaker 1: little guilty of that right now. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to that with you in just a moment. But
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  Speaker 1: it's it's almost like when you have a like a
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  Speaker 1: bad relationship or a bad breakup, you just try to
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  Speaker 1: put it out of your mind. You just and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not mental block. Is the mental block is real?
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  Speaker 3: Because what we okay, okay, uh, I remembered nine to
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  Speaker 3: eleven with razor sharp precision. Me too, So okay, that's different.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't try to block that out.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say, I'll tell you what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, honestly, it's well, I'm because I
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  Speaker 3: was gonna say it didn't happen to me. It just
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  Speaker 3: about did happen to you because you were in the
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  Speaker 3: Empire State Building. But it was what is It was
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  Speaker 3: a huge Nash story. And I guess ultimately other than
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  Speaker 3: that day, especially with you in New York. And this
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  Speaker 3: is kind of the way nine to eleven went on
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  Speaker 3: because unlike World War Two. Do you ever remember a
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  Speaker 3: parent of yours talking about were your parents old enough
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  Speaker 3: to have been kids in World War two?
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  Speaker 2: Or not?
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  Speaker 1: Quite? My parents served in World War two? Old my
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  Speaker 1: parents both served in World War two? Old?
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  Speaker 2: Were your parents well old.
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  Speaker 1: Enough to serve in World War two? That's where they met?
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  Speaker 1: They they met, they met. You know, my dad was
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  Speaker 1: a dad. My dad died at sixty one in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy one, so yeah, he'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be you know, he's born in nineteen ten.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: D Yeah, boy, pardon me for not knowing this. What's
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  Speaker 3: your sibling story? You're an older kid, you have. I
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  Speaker 3: had an older sister who passed away a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I understand, okay, well, my parents were born in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: thirty one nineteen thirty four, so they were little kids.
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  Speaker 3: But remember the huge sacrifices of World War Two. Where
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  Speaker 3: I'm going here is, of course it was a literal
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  Speaker 3: in our lives. It was a literal. I was going
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  Speaker 3: to say life changing, but ultimately not so much. What
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  Speaker 3: our what the World War two generation had to do
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  Speaker 3: is stop driving cars, stop eating candy bars, stop buying
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  Speaker 3: this because nothing was longer there it post nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 3: What they told us to do was buy a refrigerator.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't, go and buy a refrigerator, the terrorists
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  Speaker 3: when kid to keep up your normal, normal life. So
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  Speaker 3: I think the degree to which your life remains normal,
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  Speaker 3: even under a horrible news story like nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 3: it means you're going to remember it more. Everything turned
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  Speaker 3: to abnormal as COVID dropped into our labs. Everything became
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  Speaker 3: like a horrible post apocalyptic movie. I remember the day
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  Speaker 3: before Mike Lisa because it was starting to brew, and
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  Speaker 3: Lisa said, weirdest thing. I went looking for hand sanitizer
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  Speaker 3: and I couldn't find any. I said, silly little girl,
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  Speaker 3: I'll get you. I'll get you some hand sanitizer. And
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  Speaker 3: then I've just probably March tenth or eleventh. I went
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  Speaker 3: to like six places. They're out of hand. You toilet
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  Speaker 3: paparilet paper. Oh. I went to a home depot at
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  Speaker 3: five o'clock in the morning. I got a big case
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  Speaker 3: of toilet paper for Rhonda. She got a big case
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  Speaker 3: of paper towels for me. Were and that was so
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  Speaker 3: otherworldly and weird.
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  Speaker 1: But the difference is, but when you look at nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven mark you put the two together, here's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: We weren't our own worst enemy. In nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: we knew who the enemy was. With COVID, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure we'll ever know. We suspect that we were our
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  Speaker 1: own worst enemy. We have these figures, the faucies and
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  Speaker 1: the people that were not trustworthy, the people who who
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  Speaker 1: completely got everything wrong. And to this day when I
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  Speaker 1: and it's none of my business, I know it's none
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  Speaker 1: of my business, but I will when I see somebody
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  Speaker 1: with a mask in public, I think, were you broken
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  Speaker 1: by COVID? Or maybe you have a compromise. You may
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  Speaker 1: have a condition. But if you don't, but let's stipulate,
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  Speaker 1: Let's say the person doesn't. How do you explaining somebody
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  Speaker 1: wearing a mask in twenty twenty six America if they
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  Speaker 1: don't have some compromised condition. Listen, I'm thinking about a
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  Speaker 1: mask myself. I'm going to go head up to the
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  Speaker 1: lake this weekend to see Peggy and Joey. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: now every time lately I've been outside with trees, I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting these horrible allergy seizures.
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  Speaker 2: I like these.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm thinking about I want to go out on
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  Speaker 1: the boat with Peg and Joey. I mean, I want
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  Speaker 1: to have fun. I'm thinking about wearing a mask. Is
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  Speaker 1: that stupid? I mean, I'm going to look like a
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  Speaker 1: COVID crazy person. I got to make sure I have
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  Speaker 1: the bug open eyes. And I'm scared, and I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, it's just it's something that I really
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  Speaker 1: mean it. I block it out. I try not just
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  Speaker 1: think about it, though. I try not to think about
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  Speaker 1: what it did to us and our confidence. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have confidence now in the medical community. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: confidence in science.
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  Speaker 3: We don't Just talking to you, you were just talking
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  Speaker 3: about if people mistrust all, there are people not getting
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  Speaker 3: the flu shot, there are people not doing measles because.
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  Speaker 1: COVID was a most job exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And so six years down and well, if I won't
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  Speaker 3: save speaking's word again until maybe next year, what.
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  Speaker 2: Should history books say about this?
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  Speaker 3: And we'll tell your grandkids when they say, what was
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  Speaker 3: that whole COVID thing about? It'll be a weird story
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  Speaker 3: to tell as as the year's unfold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it will. And it's it's it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a cautionary tale. First of all, we can never let
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  Speaker 1: them control us the way they controlled us the first time.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we've learned.
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  Speaker 1: I hope, well, well, and the election is going to
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  Speaker 1: have consequences because guess what if we don't win the
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  Speaker 1: midterms and we go down the path of Democrat rule,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go back to that again. You want
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  Speaker 1: more of that, You want them to mandate whether or
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  Speaker 1: not you can go on the beach or not. You
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  Speaker 1: make sure you elect Democrats because that's what you're gonna get.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I see these repulsive figures like Lisa Murkowski, who,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's been reminded a lot of reminders
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  Speaker 1: she was appointed by her daddy, her dad appointed her
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  Speaker 1: to that position, and then she and then she pushed
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  Speaker 1: forth rank.
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  Speaker 2: Choice vote choice voting. That's courage.
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  Speaker 1: So she's no, they don't even want her there. They
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  Speaker 1: don't even want her there. And she's the only person
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  Speaker 1: that is voting against all of the Trump's confirmations. She's
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  Speaker 1: an absolute diabolical woman. And look, I'm so disappointed right now.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, John Cornyn, maybe maybe with your interview,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, does it complete about Fay?
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  Speaker 3: He did a New York Post obviously indicates a change
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  Speaker 3: of mind, but was it real. There are people who
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  Speaker 3: believe it and people who don't. Ultimately, I don't get real.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I give people benefit of the doubt until they give
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  Speaker 3: me a reason not to which will give me fifty
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  Speaker 3: people on the text line saying how much do you need?
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  Speaker 1: How reasons do you need corn to give you? Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: some people.
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  Speaker 3: Get smarter, some people get wiser. Although I will tell
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  Speaker 3: you Ken Paxton's over there saying Hi, remember me with me,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have to wonder, which may be all the
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  Speaker 3: difference he needs. On May twenty six, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But ultimately, with John Thune still there. My favorite theory
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  Speaker 3: from people is that Thune gave Senator cornan cover to
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  Speaker 3: say the right thing, do the right thing, so that
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  Speaker 3: Thne can play bad cop and kill it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And I can close with some happy, happier news, at
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  Speaker 1: least than yesterday, when the phones are just dead as
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  Speaker 1: a doornail. We do have two more two more lunch gifts,
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  Speaker 1: so now we're up to three. So it's you, me
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  Speaker 1: and three other people. We'll have a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of quality time together. Look, look,
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  Speaker 1: here's the problem. Mister TV star over here, Mark Davis.
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  Speaker 1: He won't go out, he won't leave the house for
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  Speaker 1: three people. We got to get a table. We got
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  Speaker 1: to get a table. Phil We've got four more slots.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Eight hundred and sixty five five, Mike Tracy Stan
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  Speaker 1: it's only twelve fifty tax deductible donation. It's you're helping
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  Speaker 1: a Christian ministry. You're you're saving the lives, You're you're
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  Speaker 1: you're providing clean drinking water. Eight hundred sixty five five
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  Speaker 1: six four five three. We're all gonna sit here now
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  Speaker 1: and stare at the phones for the next twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, looking for talks about It's one million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Hollywood, mister TV. You're worried about your next will
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  Speaker 1: Kane Perris, I'm I got it. The vand's pulling up
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  Speaker 1: into the driveway as we speak. I get it, I
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  Speaker 1: get Mike is ready.
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  Speaker 3: He's ready to go today in ten call join us
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  Speaker 3: at lunch. You'll have a good time. Mike Gallagher today
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  Speaker 3: at ten on six sixty AMBN