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Episode #3941 The New Phil Hendrie Show · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Because we have, you know, our way of introing Don.
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Speaker 1: Don Berman from Channel 18 News. Don, how are you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Phil, I'm doing great. Thank you very much. And welcome, everybody,
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Speaker 2: to my world. This is the newsroom. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: you were going to use the news intro music.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it might be a nice way of
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Speaker 1: introducing you. Don Berman, 35 years as a news anchor
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Speaker 1: here in the city of Los Angeles. And right now,
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Speaker 1: let me just ask you what happened. You walked off
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Speaker 1: the set On Friday?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I walked off the set on Friday. A couple people.
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Speaker 2: There was an article about it in the L.A. Times.
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Speaker 2: They said that I had some kind of a conniption
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Speaker 2: or I was having an emotional moment or I got
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Speaker 2: angry and I threw the news copy. They made it
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Speaker 2: sound as if I was a prima donna.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but weren't you.
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Speaker 2: Who's that?
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Speaker 1: Bud, hold on for a minute.
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Speaker 2: Was that Bud Dittman?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Let me tell the story. Bud? Sorry, sir. So,
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Speaker 2: what did you hear, bud?
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Speaker 1: Don, why don't we just keep this with you?
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. What did you hear?
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Speaker 3: I mean, I heard that you took some news copy
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Speaker 3: and you threw it at Goldie. You threw it at
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Speaker 3: Goldie Showers.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: All right, look, let's start all over again. Why did
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Speaker 1: you do that, bud? We don't need to talk about that.
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 4: Margaret, you went, we don't need to talk about that.
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Speaker 4: When your voice cracks, I know all bets are off. Don,
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Speaker 4: hold on for a minute. Let's just everybody calm down. And, Bud,
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Speaker 4: come on, don't let Don tell the story, okay?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I proved some news copy. It hit Goldie Showers
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Speaker 2: in the face. I did not mean it to hit
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Speaker 2: him in the face. I meant it to hit the background.
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Speaker 2: It's just an artificial green screen background. And it said,
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Speaker 2: Goldie turned to say goodnight, and I hit him flush
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Speaker 2: in the face. I apologized to him in his dressing room.
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Speaker 2: I apologized to him out the door, into the parking lot.
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Speaker 2: I apologized to him, and I was still apologizing to
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Speaker 2: him as his car pulled away in the parking lot.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean the dressing room?
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Speaker 1: Hey, bud, if you don't shut up, I'm kicking you
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Speaker 1: out of here.
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Speaker 2: What did he say?
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Speaker 1: He didn't say anything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard him. Did you say, what about the
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Speaker 2: dressing room?
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're the one that brought it up. Bud,
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Speaker 1: get out of here.
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Speaker 3: Oh, man, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: What did he say? He said, oh, my God.
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Speaker 1: He was mad. I'm sure he was making a joke.
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Speaker 3: I'm only kidding. I'm just saying, you said you were
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Speaker 3: apologizing to him in the dressing room, and I think
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Speaker 3: it was, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to get fired? Is that what you...
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Speaker 1: You were looking to get fired, aren't you? I thought
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Speaker 1: this was a.
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Speaker 2: Did I hear that kid did the blowjob sound effect? Wow. Henry,
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Speaker 2: you're really looking for a lawsuit, aren't you?
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not. No, I'm not.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Bud.
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Speaker 1: I know it's a comedy show. That doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: you're the comedian.
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Speaker 2: You understand? I thought you fired him.
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Speaker 1: He's standing in the doorway. Do you want me to
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Speaker 1: fire you?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Apologize to Mr.
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Speaker 2: Berman.
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Speaker 1: Apologize to Mr. Berman right now.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 3: Berman, I want to say I'm very sorry. I was
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Speaker 3: trying to be a smartass because I thought Mr. Henry
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Speaker 3: wanted comedy, and I know that I'm not the Comonidian,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 2: You're not the Comonidian. No, you're not, bud. This is
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Speaker 2: very serious. This is my career. Do you understand? My career... Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I didn't know.
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Speaker 1: All right, go, bud.
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Speaker 2: Split.
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Speaker 1: What do you want me to go? Just go and
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Speaker 1: file some of that news copy. Okay, Don, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad the kid apologized, but all of a
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Speaker 2: sudden I got emotional. I sound like someone's old bitch.
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Speaker 2: What are you laughing at?
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Speaker 1: I wasn't laughing at anything, and you made me laugh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me tell you something, Phil. This is deadly serious.
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Speaker 1: All right, Don, this is General Shaw. Listen, so this guy,
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Speaker 1: there's a new anchor over there. Is this the problem?
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Speaker 2: They hired a new anchor for the 4 and 5.
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Speaker 2: We do a news break at 4, and then we
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Speaker 2: do the preliminary news report at 5, and then comes
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Speaker 2: our main newscast at 6 and 7. I anchor that.
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Speaker 2: But bringing in this new guy and having him doing
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Speaker 2: 4 to 5 is almost like having a guy just
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Speaker 2: come right in and stand next to you, breathing the
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Speaker 2: same air. You know what I'm saying, Phil? It's like
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Speaker 2: you're in a closet or an elevator, and the guy
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Speaker 2: comes right up to you and goes, Hi. What's so funny?
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Speaker 1: The way you put it. What are you saying, Don?
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Speaker 5: You feel like the man is invading your space.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And I said to L. Ron Martin,
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Speaker 2: I said, why don't you put this guy late at night?
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Speaker 2: Put him on the 11 and the 12. We have
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Speaker 2: an 11 o'clock report and a 12 o'clock report. Because
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Speaker 2: I do the 10.
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Speaker 1: You are not a 24-hour news station, right?
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Speaker 2: We're close to it. We do news and we do
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Speaker 2: tourism videos from YouTube. And, you know, we've got some.
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Speaker 1: Tourism videos from YouTube?
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Speaker 2: That's right, Phil. And they're all hosted by people that
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Speaker 2: are employed by... But we pull them off of YouTube.
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Speaker 2: But they're people employed by Channel 19. But L. Ron
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Speaker 2: Martin sticks them on YouTube to see if they can
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Speaker 2: get monetized over there, too. Okay.
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Speaker 1: And these are all people that work for Channel 19? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to make it sound like, you know,
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Speaker 2: we're crawling around on the floor looking for cigarette butts
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Speaker 2: and pennies. Fuck me. Excuse my language. I'm really.
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Speaker 1: Where's... Bud's gone. Come on back, bud. God damn it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Tell Mr. Berman to watch the language.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Berman?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
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Speaker 1: It's... Yeah, it's... My sister? Give me the phone, will ya? Don,
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Speaker 1: are you there?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm right here. What happened?
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Speaker 1: You can't use the F me if you don't mind.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, Phil. I... Yeah. Anyway, so where were we?
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Speaker 1: All right, let me just ask some questions here. So
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, there's a new anchor.
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Speaker 2: He's on.
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Speaker 1: What's his name, by the way?
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Speaker 2: Brad Leprechaun. And he was at KOCO in... Busted Whistle, Arkansas.
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Speaker 2: I forget where he was.
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Speaker 1: His name is Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: That's right. He claims it's Dutch.
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Speaker 1: You know what a leprechaun is, don't you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what a leprechaun is. Isn't that a
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Speaker 2: midget from Ireland or something like that?
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Speaker 1: It's a mythic figure. And the guy's name is... Okay, fine.
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Speaker 2: He says his name is Dutch. Everybody was saying, what
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Speaker 2: about the leprechaun? And he gave this dumb, bug-eyed stare
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Speaker 2: like he didn't know what anybody was talking about.
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Speaker 1: Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: Brad Leprechaun. And here's the best part. L. Ron Martin
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Speaker 2: wanted me to cut the promo, you know, tonight at
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Speaker 2: 4 and 5, Brad Leprechaun. So L.
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Speaker 1: Ron Martin wanted you to cut the promo introducing this guy?
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Speaker 2: Yes. And I got to tell you, Phil, first of all,
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Speaker 2: you're right. But the name Leprechaun, I thought it was
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Speaker 2: a joke. I found that it's serious. Like I said,
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Speaker 2: he worked at... He was a big news anchor in
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Speaker 2: Texas somewhere. Then he comes out here, and he's like... Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm Brad Leprechaun. He's a big, tall, blonde guy. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Well, all right, Don.
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Speaker 1: So it seems, did you have a four and a five?
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Speaker 2: No, we had, we had Golden Showers did the Golden
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Speaker 2: Shower Report. Then we had Whiff Nelson with the sports.
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Speaker 1: Oh, he's still with you.
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Speaker 2: No, this is another guy named Whiff. The other guy
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Speaker 2: we fired. But that's what we did there in that
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Speaker 2: four and five o'clock hour. Now they've got Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: And I'm really, you know, what's going on with them anyway?
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Speaker 2: I tried to meet with L. Ron Martin. He says,
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't have time for you right now, Don.
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Speaker 1: What are you afraid? You're going to get fired?
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Speaker 2: No, I don't think I'm going to get fired. I
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Speaker 2: just don't like the idea of some guy walking into
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Speaker 2: my newsroom and walking right up to me and going,
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Speaker 2: do you mind if I stand here? And he just
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Speaker 2: knows the nose of me, and there's like a mile
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Speaker 2: of space.
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Speaker 1: So you feel like this guy is crowding your space physically?
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Speaker 2: God, Phil, you just went physically? Phil, are you okay?
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Speaker 2: Because I've seen you... Yes, sir. Yeah, Mr. Berman.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Bud Dickman.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, Bud, I got it already. Where's Phil?
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Speaker 1: I'm right here.
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Speaker 2: Why'd you put him on?
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Speaker 1: Because we want to get you under control with the
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Speaker 1: whole making fun of people's voices and stuff. You're in
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Speaker 1: a career moment.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean making fun of people's voices?
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Speaker 1: I just said that I sounded like this physically.
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Speaker 2: Oh, big wow. I made up.
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Speaker 1: All right, look, Brad Leprechaun, the guy's a big wind
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Speaker 1: news anchor from Texas. He's been hired by Channel 19.
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Speaker 1: You don't feel your job's threatened?
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Speaker 2: No, I don't think my job's threatened, but I can't
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Speaker 2: get Elrond Martin, you know, I can't get five minutes
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Speaker 2: with Elrond Martin. And I want to get Elrond Martin
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Speaker 2: on the case, and I want to make sure that
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Speaker 2: Elrond Martin is, you know, is protecting my interests. Because
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Speaker 2: this Brad Leprechaun... You know, I heard him talk. He's okay.
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Speaker 2: He's not great. But apparently he's a good-looking stud. All
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Speaker 2: the women love him. So L. Ron Martin's got this
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Speaker 2: guy sitting there on the 4 and the 5 o'clock desk,
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Speaker 2: this stud, that I don't know. I guess if he
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Speaker 2: stands up, you'll see it popping out of his pants
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Speaker 2: or something.
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Speaker 1: He's not standing up, is he?
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Speaker 2: No, he's not standing up. What do you think, Phil?
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Speaker 2: All right, okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so this is a female appeal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to have on Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: Oh, fuck.
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Speaker 1: Hey, you've got to watch the language, Don.
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Speaker 2: Do I have to stick around? No, you don't. You
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Speaker 2: can leave. All right.
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Speaker 1: Phil, thank you very much. Why are you having Brad
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Speaker 1: Leprechaun on? We were asked to have, you know, Baylor
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Speaker 1: on Martin. You could be on with him.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Let me just hang on here and
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Speaker 2: see what he says. Okay.
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Speaker 1: We have on line three, Bud... Line three. Line three?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Is he ready, bud?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he is.
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Speaker 1: Here is, this is Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Leprechaun, how are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm real good. Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Is that Chris Norton?
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Speaker 1: Chris, is that you?
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Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with what anybody's saying.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, that sounds, is this Chris Norton?
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Speaker 2: No, it is not Chris Norton.
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Speaker 1: Well, you sound exactly like a guy we know, Chris Norton.
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Speaker 2: No, sir, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Get Elron, not Elron, get... Yeah, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Berman. Don? Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 1: Here is, we've got, is this the guy you met?
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Speaker 1: Say hi to Don Berman.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say hi to Mr. Berman. Hi, Mr. Berman,
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Speaker 2: this is Brad Leprechaun, and we met this afternoon. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I remember, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I got to tell you something. We know
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Speaker 1: who this guy is. This is Chris Norton, one of
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Speaker 1: our callers on the show.
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: This sounds just like him.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Henry, I don't know what you're getting at or
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Speaker 2: what you're playing at. My name is Brad Leprechaun, okay?
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Speaker 2: I come from Tulalula, Texas. I was on the air
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Speaker 2: at KOCOK At Corpus Christi. Okay.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean K-O-C-O-K?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's five call letters. They're experimenting with five call
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Speaker 2: letters in some of the stations.
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Speaker 1: K-O-C-O-K.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess why, because that spells cock.
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Speaker 1: All right, everybody clean it up right now. I mean it.
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Speaker 1: All right, so we think we know who this guy is, Don.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and you think you know who he is, so
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Speaker 2: why not tell L. Ron Martin?
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Speaker 1: I think we're going to.
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Speaker 2: All right, I bet you'll find me, sir. You can
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Speaker 2: do whatever you want to do. I've never met you
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Speaker 2: before in my life. Okay, my name is Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: I was raised by Doris and Gene Leprechaun. My father
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Speaker 2: was a mechanical engineer. My mother was actually a ballet dancer.
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Speaker 2: She taught dance. And then later on, she was a mom.
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Speaker 2: She was a mom. And I went to Corpus Christi CC.
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Speaker 2: I transferred out of the University of Texas. And I
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Speaker 2: got my broadcasting degree there in 2012. Wow.
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Speaker 1: And what do you have, a master's?
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Speaker 2: No, just a B.A. B.A.? I know. Same thing. They say,
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Speaker 2: now here comes Brad Leprechaun. We're going to give you
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Speaker 2: your B.A. And I'm like, yeah? It's almost like you
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Speaker 2: want to pull your pants down at that moment, you know?
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Speaker 2: This is Don Berman, Brad. This is what I'm talking about, Phil.
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Speaker 2: This is the kind of mentality this guy has. What
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Speaker 2: are you talking about? When a guy says, hey, and
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Speaker 2: now we present to Brad Leprechaun a B.A., yeah. All
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Speaker 2: I want to do is just turn, stick my ass out,
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Speaker 2: and just pull a pant down and go, yeah, the PA.
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Speaker 2: That's very juvenile. And as humor goes, it's not even
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Speaker 2: all that funny.
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Speaker 1: Guys, everybody just calm down here for a moment because
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Speaker 1: I want to get my... You sound exactly like Chris
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Speaker 1: Norton of Redondo Beach, California, an adult filmmaker, a guy
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Speaker 1: that used to be a pharmaceutical salesman, a bucket salesman.
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Speaker 1: A guy that's also done a variety of different jobs.
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Speaker 1: He's the cousin of Jeff Dowder of Temple City, California,
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Speaker 1: and the Dowder family. You don't know any of these people.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't know any of these people you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: And I would have to tell you right now, Mr. Henry,
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Speaker 2: I came on your program. I was told by El
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Speaker 2: Ramon that I could come on your program, and I
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Speaker 2: would be able to do a promo and everything like that,
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Speaker 2: a promotional announcement for Brad Leprechaun at the 4 and
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Speaker 2: the 5 on Channel 19 News. Listen, I did the
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Speaker 2: promo for you, Brad. Okay? Who are you? I'm goddamn... Oh, man.
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Speaker 1: It's Don Berman.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Berman.
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Speaker 2: Don Berman, that's who I am. The guy that's on
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Speaker 2: the 5 and 6. I'm sorry, Mr. Berman. I'm taken
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Speaker 2: aback by these people. I was told it was going
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Speaker 2: to come on, and it was going to be a
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Speaker 2: friendly interview. Who's that?
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Speaker 1: He says he's got L.
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Speaker 2: Ron Martin.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead, put him on.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Martin? Hey.
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Speaker 1: Sir, we have with us.
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Speaker 2: Hey, this is Mr. Martin. This is Brad Leprechaun. These
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Speaker 2: people are saying my name is Chris Norton.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, if you don't mind, sir.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Martin, this chap that I'm interviewing right now, we think
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Speaker 1: we know.
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Speaker 2: Okay, you think you know him. How you doing? I'm good,
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Speaker 2: old man. So we think you know him.
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Speaker 1: We know him as a different guy. We know him
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Speaker 1: as Chris Norton.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you're right, you're right, you're wrong,
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Speaker 2: you're wrong, but this guy that I hired, this guy
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Speaker 2: you talk to now... This guy is Brad Leprechaun. He's
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Speaker 2: from Corpus Christi, Texas. We hired him. He's going to
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Speaker 2: be our new junior anchor. And, Don, we're not trying
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Speaker 2: to push you out of anything. I'm just saying, someday
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Speaker 2: when Don retires, we have our main anchor, Brad Leprechaun. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and you can see, Brad's good-looking. The women all in
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Speaker 2: the control, the women all in the newsroom, God almighty,
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Speaker 2: they were all over him like white on rice.
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Speaker 5: You sound just like Chris Norton. He has the same personality.
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Speaker 5: You've got the same vocal intonations. You sound like you
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Speaker 5: look the same because you guys are big and tall and.
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Speaker 1: Blonde, right?
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Speaker 2: How tall are you?
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Speaker 1: You even say the word six cis. That's exactly how
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Speaker 1: Chris talks.
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Speaker 2: Are you hearing this, Elrod? I'm hearing what you're saying, okay?
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Speaker 2: I know the guy as Brad. If you're trying to
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Speaker 2: tell me something, I don't know. I got a contract
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Speaker 2: with a guy named Brad Leprechaun. Okay, Brad? That's right, right? Sir,
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Speaker 2: that's exactly right. I got a contract with a guy
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Speaker 2: named Brad. Check it out. Is it Vlad or Brad?
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Speaker 1: What do you mean, Vlad?
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Speaker 2: Vlad, no. It's Brad Leprechaun. If it was Vlad, then
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Speaker 2: I'd have the wrong guy, okay?
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Speaker 1: All right, I mean, this is the kookiest thing I've
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Speaker 1: ever heard of. We'd like to come to the station
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Speaker 1: if you wouldn't mind, come to my studio if you
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Speaker 1: wouldn't mind, Brad, so we can interview in person.
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Speaker 2: Well, so you can look at me and go, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you're not really Brad Leprechaun. You're this other guy. I
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Speaker 2: don't know who this guy is. I would not recommend
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Speaker 2: you do that, okay? I want to improve all interviews
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Speaker 2: what you do, okay? L. Ron, okay, hold on for
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Speaker 2: a minute, will you, Don? God damn it. So you
15:13
Speaker 2: hear what I'm saying, Brad? Yes, sir, I do. Okay.
15:15
Speaker 2: Because we want to make sure that we stay, you know,
15:17
Speaker 2: that we keep you good and healthy and strong and
15:20
Speaker 2: that you're not walking in after you're getting your, you know,
15:23
Speaker 2: about five or six broads crawl all over you. Yeah,
15:25
Speaker 2: I know. I understand. I've been down that road, you know. L. Ron,
15:28
Speaker 2: can you shut up for a minute, Don? Hey, L.
15:32
Speaker 1: Ron Martin, I'm going to hang up on you if
15:34
Speaker 1: you keep telling Don to shut up.
15:36
Speaker 2: Who am I talking to?
15:38
Speaker 1: Okay, so we hung up. Get Don back.
15:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, Don. Don Berman.
15:42
Speaker 1: Are you there, Don Berman?
15:43
Speaker 2: This is Brad Leprechaun.
15:45
Speaker 1: Okay, we're trying to get Don Berman. Are you there? Don?
15:49
Speaker 2: This is Brad Leprechaun.
15:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's Brad Leprechaun. Would you call Don back?
15:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, Don, are you there?
15:54
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, he's there.
15:55
Speaker 2: Hey, Don. I'm Brad Leprechaun.
16:00
Speaker 1: Don't say that anymore, okay?
16:01
Speaker 2: Don.
16:03
Speaker 1: Hey, Don. Don, it's Phil Henry. Bud, will you get
16:07
Speaker 1: that guy on the phone?
16:08
Speaker 2: Okay.
16:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can't hear you.
16:11
Speaker 2: Who? It's L.
16:12
Speaker 1: Ron Martin doing a Don.
16:13
Speaker 2: Get out of here.
16:14
Speaker 1: He's doing what? Doing a Don Berman impression.
16:17
Speaker 2: Get out of here.
16:18
Speaker 1: No, get out of here.
16:20
Speaker 2: Well, that's a crack up. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
16:27
Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> Yeah. Yeah. Get Don Berman,
16:31
Speaker 1: will you?
16:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, yeah, Don, hi. I don't know what just happened, Phil. L.
16:36
Speaker 1: Ron Martin was doing an impression of you, and we
16:38
Speaker 1: thought that, Bud thought he had him on the line,
16:40
Speaker 1: had you on the line.
16:42
Speaker 2: Oh, what an ass. I know I'm brand new to
16:46
Speaker 2: the station, Mr. Berman, but I think you ought to
16:48
Speaker 2: be really careful about calling Mr. L. Ron Martin an asshole.
16:52
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? Hey, let me tell you something, Brad.
16:55
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the lay of the land here, okay?
16:57
Speaker 2: You don't tell me anything. Okay? I had L. Ron Martin, Phil,
17:01
Speaker 2: come up to me in the studio today and put
17:03
Speaker 2: his figure almost touching the end of my nose and go,
17:07
Speaker 2: I want you to help this guy, Brad Leprechaun, help him,
17:11
Speaker 2: groom him to become one of the great anchors. Okay, Don?
17:14
Speaker 2: I mean it. I said, is your... And then his
17:17
Speaker 2: finger actually did brush.
17:18
Speaker 1: Brush the end of your nose?
17:20
Speaker 2: Goddamn. Brushed the end of your nose? Yes, it did.
17:23
Speaker 2: It brushed the end of my nose. And I said, L. Ron...
17:26
Speaker 2: You have just pissed me off. And so he went
17:28
Speaker 2: and he got a tissue and wiped my nose off.
17:32
Speaker 1: And that made it all right?
17:33
Speaker 2: Yes, it made it better.
17:35
Speaker 1: He went and got a tissue and wiped the end
17:37
Speaker 1: of your nose.
17:40
Speaker 2: Anyway, get him back to me, okay? Because I'm the
17:42
Speaker 2: interviewer you're doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm Brad Leprechaun. I'm
17:46
Speaker 2: on the 405. I'm sorry, I'm on the 405. What
17:49
Speaker 2: do you.
17:51
Speaker 1: Mean the 405?
17:52
Speaker 2: I mean I'm on the 405 on Channel 19 News.
17:55
Speaker 2: I'm Brad Leprechaun. Then I do a thing. Brad Leprechaun. Yeah,
18:00
Speaker 2: Brad Leprechaun. I'm Brad Leprechaun every day. And then a
18:07
Speaker 2: lot of the women come in from the set. And
18:10
Speaker 2: they stand around me and go, and I'm not gay. Brad.
18:16
Speaker 2: And then the women go, leprechaun. Brad Leprechaun. And you're
18:20
Speaker 2: trying to tell me, when do you do that? I
18:22
Speaker 2: do it at the end of the F4. You do
18:25
Speaker 2: that at the end of a newscast? Yeah, what the?
18:29
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, Phil.
18:31
Speaker 1: Well, you got to go talk to L. Ron Martin,
18:32
Speaker 1: I guess. So you sing this song with the women
18:35
Speaker 1: from the set.
18:36
Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, I do. And then at the very end,
18:38
Speaker 2: I go, Brad Leprechaun, every day. And then all the
18:42
Speaker 2: women come in, and they gather around me and go,
18:44
Speaker 2: and I'm not gay. Brad. And then the women go, Leprechaun.
18:48
Speaker 1: All right, Brad, it's been a real pleasure talking to you.
18:52
Speaker 1: We think we know who you are. We think you're
18:54
Speaker 1: Chris Norton.
18:55
Speaker 5: Mr.
18:56
Speaker 2: Henry, I'm not Chris Norton, okay?
18:58
Speaker 1: Get Chris Norton on the phone, will you? Can you
19:00
Speaker 1: stay with us for a couple of minutes?
19:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, if you want. Hey, Chris? Yeah.
19:07
Speaker 1: Listen to this guy. We've got a guy on the
19:08
Speaker 1: line named Brad Leprechaun.
19:10
Speaker 2: Yeah. Are you, let me ask you, are you Chris Norton? Yeah,
19:15
Speaker 2: I'm Chris Norton. Well, my name is Brad Leprechaun, so
19:18
Speaker 2: I don't know. Have you ever been to Texas? I've
19:21
Speaker 2: been to Texas a couple times. Well, did you ever
19:23
Speaker 2: see me on TV? I don't know who you are, man. Well,
19:27
Speaker 2: it sounds to me like you've seen me on TV
19:29
Speaker 2: and you do oppression on me. I don't know who
19:31
Speaker 2: this dude is, Mr. Henry. I can tell you that
19:33
Speaker 2: right now.
19:33
Speaker 1: It sounds to me like there's two guys with identical voices,
19:37
Speaker 1: and they're two different guys. I don't know.
19:40
Speaker 2: Mr.
19:40
Speaker 1: Leprechaun, thank you. We'll talk to you later.
19:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's trying to make me look like... Chris? Yeah?
19:47
Speaker 1: That guy is the new anchor. at the 4 and
19:51
Speaker 1: the 5 on Channel 19.
19:52
Speaker 2: And this dude's name is what?
19:55
Speaker 1: His name is Brad Leprechaun.
19:58
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, have you seen this dude?
19:59
Speaker 1: No, but they say he's tall and blonde and the
20:02
Speaker 1: chicks love him.
20:04
Speaker 2: Hey, what are you talking about, man?
20:05
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's what this... And Don Berman was here.
20:09
Speaker 1: He's all pissed off because he says the guy's very pushy.
20:12
Speaker 2: And L.
20:12
Speaker 1: Ron Martin is promoting this guy. He's going to be
20:15
Speaker 1: the 4 and 5 o'clock anchor newsman at Channel 19,
20:19
Speaker 1: just ahead of Don.
20:20
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, good luck to him. But
20:25
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe it's just a weird coincidence or
20:27
Speaker 2: something like that, you know. But that dude's a news anchor.
20:31
Speaker 2: I mean, that just shows you how unfair life is.
20:34
Speaker 2: I could be a news anchor. If that dude's a
20:35
Speaker 2: news anchor, why am I not one?
20:40
Speaker 1: Say that again?
20:40
Speaker 2: Why am I not one?
20:42
Speaker 1: You're not one because you didn't go for it. This
20:43
Speaker 1: guy did. This Brad, what's his name? Leprechaun.
20:49
Speaker 2: Wow, man, I don't get it, man. Okay.
20:52
Speaker 1: We'll dig into it.
20:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know. Oh, man.
20:56
Speaker 1: You talk about, I think the thing's a gag. What
20:59
Speaker 1: do you mean?
21:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you talking about, Mr. Gregg?
21:02
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, tell me.
21:03
Speaker 5: I think they know each other, or it's Chris doing
21:07
Speaker 5: the same voice.
21:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I called Chris's number.
21:10
Speaker 1: He could be at home on a different line. All right,
21:13
Speaker 1: so how is it the guy got a job at
21:15
Speaker 1: Channel 19?
21:16
Speaker 2: I don't know.
21:16
Speaker 1: That's the other part.
21:17
Speaker 2: That's the mystery.
21:18
Speaker 5: But Chris probably has some talents that we're not aware of.
21:22
Speaker 1: Like being a good newsman? Look at Phil, if he
21:25
Speaker 1: got the job at 19, and what about the dummied
21:27
Speaker 1: up resume, K-O-C-O-K, Corpus Christi, Texas? I don't know. It
21:33
Speaker 1: could have been something he manufactured. I don't know, quite frankly, Phil,
21:38
Speaker 1: I don't know how bright this L. Ron Martin is.
21:40
Speaker 1: You've heard Don.
21:42
Speaker 5: I'm telling you, it's not just, it's not some creepy
21:44
Speaker 5: coincidence that two guys with exactly the same sound and
21:48
Speaker 5: look the same.
21:51
Speaker 1: All right, we'll continue to pursue this tomorrow night. What
21:54
Speaker 1: I want you to do, bud, is get Elron. I
21:56
Speaker 1: want to interview Elron Martin again. I want this. I
21:59
Speaker 1: want to, if these guys have come into the studio,
22:00
Speaker 1: both of them at the same time.
22:02
Speaker 3: You want me to call up Chris Norton?
22:03
Speaker 1: Call up Chris Norton and this Brad Leprechaun and tell
22:07
Speaker 1: them I'd like them in studio or we'll go.
22:09
Speaker 2: No.
22:09
Speaker 1: I got to see him in the same room at
22:10
Speaker 1: the same time. Are you listening to you? Listen to
22:12
Speaker 1: what you're saying.
22:14
Speaker 5: You think that, Margaret, listen, I love you, and I
22:17
Speaker 5: think you're a very intelligent woman.
22:19
Speaker 1: But are you kidding me?
22:21
Speaker 5: Well, then what is the likelihood of Phil, knowing a
22:26
Speaker 5: man named Chris Norton, as weird as he is, living
22:28
Speaker 5: in the South Bay, and all of a sudden he
22:29
Speaker 5: has a news anchor that sounds exactly like him? Did
22:33
Speaker 5: you ever see that movie? Oh, forget about the movies. Well,
22:37
Speaker 5: you're not saying anything.
22:38
Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
22:39
Speaker 1: I don't know what to think. I don't know what
22:41
Speaker 1: to think.
22:41
Speaker 2: I really don't.
22:42
Speaker 1: Both guys sound the same. Yeah, let's get him in
22:44
Speaker 1: the studio.
22:45
Speaker 2: Call him up tomorrow.
22:46
Speaker 3: Call up Brad Leprechaun.
22:47
Speaker 2: See if he's free.
22:48
Speaker 3: And get Chris Norton.
22:50
Speaker 1: I mean, whatever time they can... We'll just pre-record the interview.
22:54
Speaker 2: You know? Yeah, it's Brad.
22:56
Speaker 1: It's Brad Leprechaun.
22:58
Speaker 2: Holy shit. Yeah, Brad. Yep, sir. You hung up on
23:03
Speaker 2: me before I... I could log out. I'm Brad Leprechaun.
23:07
Speaker 2: That's what I say. And I'm not gay. Brad Leprechaun.
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Speaker 2: Oh, wait a minute.
23:26
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