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Sending Kids to College from August 7th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So this morning I woke up to a text from
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  Speaker 1: my husband that said, Mohammed got home from work. My son,
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  Speaker 1: not the prophet, Mohammad got home from work. He gets
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  Speaker 1: home from work long after I'm in bed. And he
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  Speaker 1: grabbed his hammock and a blanket and left to go
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  Speaker 1: hike Mount Timpanogus to watch the sunrise. This is the
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  Speaker 1: second time he's done this in the last little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Has way too much energy.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go to x n I six dot
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  Speaker 1: com slash life, there's I sent him a text this
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  Speaker 1: morning saying, show me the sunrise and this is what
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  Speaker 1: he sent me. And it's beautiful. But time time is
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  Speaker 1: ending for him to be home.
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  Speaker 2: You're throwing him out.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's he's lead, he's running out. He I asked him, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: when do you move out? And he said, ten days,
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  Speaker 1: nine hours, and thirty six minutes. I have a countdown
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  Speaker 1: clock on my.
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  Speaker 2: He can't wait to leave you.
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  Speaker 1: Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, I can't wait to get out of there. To
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  Speaker 2: get out, good for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I will be an empty nester officially.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Like in ten days, nine hours, and thirty two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: What's it like, Carrie? Wonderful? Sounds pretty good to me, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird, and everyone's like, are you okay? And my
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  Speaker 1: algorithm on social media knows I'm at this point in
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  Speaker 1: life because I keep getting sent all these you know
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to be an empty nester and how
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  Speaker 1: to deal with it posts and stuff. Yeah, so you'll
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  Speaker 1: have to ask me after how I'm feeling about it,
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  Speaker 1: because right now I'm like, yeah, it's this is what's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to happen. It's great, it's I'm happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: But getting a daughter to college and getting a son
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  Speaker 1: to college are very different things. So my daughter Jonesy,
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  Speaker 1: when she first moved out for like a month, six
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  Speaker 1: weeks before she moved, she looked up the dorm, looked
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  Speaker 1: up the schematics of the room with the the it's this,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, here's how big it is. There are
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  Speaker 1: three drawers there. The drawers are this big. She had
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  Speaker 1: a measurement out and there's some program where you can
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  Speaker 1: design your dorm room and figure out, okay, I can
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  Speaker 1: fit this many socks in this drawer. She had a
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  Speaker 1: spreadsheet with it all written out. She had a spreadsheet
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  Speaker 1: with all of the things she needed for her dorm
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  Speaker 1: that we needed to purchase and where to get them.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody really needs to get her some help.
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  Speaker 1: She was so planned Mohammed. I keep saying, we need
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  Speaker 1: to get stuff for your dorm. I know I'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: Like I haven't bought.
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  Speaker 2: Him one thing, Sure, I'll get it.
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  Speaker 1: I am just I'm planning on him, like moving out
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  Speaker 1: with you know, a toothbrush and he's resourceful. The hoodie
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  Speaker 1: and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: He'll he'll do like I.
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  Speaker 3: Did, sleep on the floor for a few mons'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, we we should probably so he and and
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  Speaker 1: some of his friends who he's gonna be living with,
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  Speaker 1: they did do go do a little shopping and I
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  Speaker 1: was excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: They bought Dorito's, didn't they Well.
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  Speaker 1: He came home and he's like, so we've decided that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna buy one big bottle of body wash
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  Speaker 1: and one big bottle of shampoo, and we're all just
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  Speaker 1: gonna use the same wash and shampoo.
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  Speaker 2: That way, we don't have a bun even there. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're even gonnare did he say? And we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: shower together to save water?
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  Speaker 1: I mean and and I mean I guess that makes
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  Speaker 1: but this is as much thought as has gone into
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  Speaker 1: We've decided we're just gonna get oh, and I I
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  Speaker 1: guess I just let it be. And if he if
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  Speaker 1: he's ready, he's ready. And if he's not, he's not.
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  Speaker 2: And if he I went, I when I I, when
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  Speaker 2: I left home, my mother didn't know I was gone
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  Speaker 2: for about a year because when I was, because when
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  Speaker 2: I was at home, I was never there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I was. I was hardly ever there.
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  Speaker 1: But I so I will, I will go move in day.
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  Speaker 1: But my guess is that's the only time I will
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  Speaker 1: see his dorm I don't. I probably don't. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna want to see it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you want to see it after that
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  Speaker 2: at all.
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  Speaker 3: I give him fair warning that you're coming now.
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  Speaker 2: The dormitory residents, the people who they call him RAS
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  Speaker 2: Resident assistance, they have standards and they will there must
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  Speaker 2: be some amount. No they do if things if they
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  Speaker 2: get if things get too grimy, Hey you better pick
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  Speaker 2: this up. Yeah, yeah, they will. They will not let
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  Speaker 2: that go.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I want to see it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, hilly buttered noodles for a few months, sleep
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  Speaker 3: on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's part of growing, right.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's all, he's you'll always have spending money.
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  Speaker 1: He's fine, he's been working hard all summer and saving money.
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  Speaker 1: But he so he works where he gets tips and
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  Speaker 1: he gets cash.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he in his room right now, there's like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of cash on his Windowsill take it. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, when you're in the door, you take it.
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  Speaker 1: I know you don't think your friends would steal from you,
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  Speaker 1: and it might not be your friends, but if there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cash in your room, it will walk off.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact. Why don't you tell me
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  Speaker 2: where it is and I'll come and take it, just
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  Speaker 2: to teach him a life. Go to the bank, where'd
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  Speaker 2: my money go? Bill stole it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I was a waitress and I got
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  Speaker 1: paid in tips, I remember going to the my my
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  Speaker 1: her payment was fifty five dollars, and I remember going
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  Speaker 1: to the bank with fistfuls of one dollar bills to
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  Speaker 1: make my car payment.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever gotten a tip for anything ever. No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever worked.
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  Speaker 1: People give you dimes, Well.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the same. I haven't. I don't think I've
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  Speaker 2: ever worked a job like that where you where you
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  Speaker 2: got to know that's fun? Yeah, because I know, because
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  Speaker 2: I didn't serve anything or yeah, no I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do end up with just a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: like loose small bill dash.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm amazed. I never was a waiter.
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  Speaker 1: I am a you're an actor. I have all actors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I would have been a really I would
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  Speaker 2: have been a good, really good waiter, but I just
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  Speaker 2: never did it.
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  Speaker 1: But just so you guys know, I've I've said for years,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as my kids are all up and out,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to do the show anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So how many days? Okay, well then what do we
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  Speaker 2: what do we? What are we messing around for?
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  Speaker 3: Why don't we just yeah, we've got easily that many
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  Speaker 3: days in vacation.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I still I still want to I still
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  Speaker 1: want it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, walnut wood paneling, strange orange carpet, buttered noodles.
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  Speaker 1: You're just thinking of moving out.
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  Speaker 2: The first time I moved, I lived the first place
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  Speaker 2: I lived, well, I lived in an apartment over the
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  Speaker 2: top of a of a corners grocery store, Boyle's Market,
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  Speaker 2: and we my friend and Scott and I lived in
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  Speaker 2: an apartment over the top of it. Like our window.
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  Speaker 2: I it was on twenty eighth Street. On our window
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  Speaker 2: looked out over the flat roof of the of the
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  Speaker 2: market and then to the street. And oh, we had
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  Speaker 2: this really mean cat. So we'd put always put him
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  Speaker 2: out on the roof, yeah, because he would he'd attacked
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  Speaker 2: people for some reason. But then I moved into a
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  Speaker 2: place when I got married, and it was a little
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  Speaker 2: like mother in law house, a little tiny house behind
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  Speaker 2: the main house. And it was pretty ramshackle as a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact. And I liked this, and my wife
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  Speaker 2: could not stand it. There was a small tree growing
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  Speaker 2: up between the board and in the shower. Yeah, there
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  Speaker 2: was a little tree, you know. And she went for
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  Speaker 2: the water. Yeah, she said, we got to cut that
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  Speaker 2: and cut that off, and I said, no, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, it was just this little green shoot
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  Speaker 2: of a treege Yeah, was coming up through the floor
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  Speaker 2: of the shower.
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  Speaker 3: So next time you see Bill out and about tip, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: give me a tip for these services.
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  Speaker 2: I require twenty percent of whatever you have in your wallet,
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  Speaker 2: all right,