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Friday October 16 2026 | Here comes Halloween… and Thanksgiving · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis and Mike Gallagher. This is M & M Extra.
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  Speaker 2: M & M Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but
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  Speaker 3: It's holiday day. Can't sing that anymore. That song has
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  Speaker 2: Mark and I have decided that Fridays are theme day.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do a theme podcast Friday. Am I
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  Speaker 2: saying that out of order? Theme podcast?
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  Speaker 3: A theme day. A theme day. Yes, a theme day.
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  Speaker 2: So we thought, why don't we– you and I are
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  Speaker 2: both in this odd place where we're both excited about–
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  Speaker 2: We're excited about Halloween. Yep. We're excited about Thanksgiving. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: We're excited about Christmas. Yes. So why don't we take today,
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  Speaker 2: on this Friday in the middle of October, and talk
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  Speaker 2: about holidays. Talk about Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, our family memories.
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  Speaker 2: Because you and I talked about this yesterday. Isn't it
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  Speaker 2: weird how we're both like strangely excited about all the
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  Speaker 2: holidays this year?
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  Speaker 3: It's not that we are usually slow and lethargic to
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  Speaker 3: awaken to. It varies for me. Usually by the time,
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  Speaker 3: usually the coming and going of Halloween gets me kind of,
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  Speaker 3: gets my pump primed. It's like, okay. Here comes Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, all right, we slog through that. But for
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  Speaker 3: some reason here in the middle of October, I'm right
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  Speaker 3: there in step with you. We're vibing that I'm ready
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  Speaker 3: for all three of them. And they're going to come
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  Speaker 3: so fast. I was writing a little promo that'll run
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  Speaker 3: the sort of the little blurb that accompanies each episode.
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  Speaker 3: And I wanted to say that in the coming fill-in-the-blank days—
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  Speaker 3: All three of these will unfold. I thought maybe 100, whatever. Mike,
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  Speaker 3: it's 77. 77 days from now, it's New Year's Eve,
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  Speaker 3: and we're done. The entire trifecta is... And 77 days
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  Speaker 3: ago was like the beginning of August. I mean, so
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  Speaker 3: this is how fast time goes. And so I am ready.
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  Speaker 3: You are ready. So let us begin with the world
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  Speaker 3: of Halloween, Mike. How did Halloween play out for a
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  Speaker 3: young Mike Gallagher?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I loved it as much as any other kid.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think obviously it was all about the candy.
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  Speaker 2: My mom did her best to teach me that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just about getting, you know. We made a big
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  Speaker 2: deal about making sure we had a good spread. We
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  Speaker 2: had the good candy in our household.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't hand out little kernels of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: corn or something. You can't do something stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, some people– apples. Who put– and then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. You know?
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  Speaker 3: Apples. Who the hell gives out an apple? I've been
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  Speaker 3: trick-or-treating for a flippin' apple. That's not why I'm here, Mama.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon me. I'm not here for fruits and vegetables. I
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  Speaker 2: want the good stuff. I want Reese's. I mean, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, can I give a quick tip of
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  Speaker 2: the hat, talking about candy selections, to something they do
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  Speaker 2: at Disney called Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween. Yes. Now, it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to get tickets. There are certain nights all through October.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I think September as well, but all through Halloween, where
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  Speaker 2: they turn the whole park into Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what they do, Mark, besides the cool shows they do,
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  Speaker 2: they do a stage show every year that is a
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  Speaker 2: tribute to Hocus Pocus. That funny, great, dark— it' s pretty dark— movie
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  Speaker 2: with Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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  Speaker 2: They played the Sanderson sisters there. And of course it
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  Speaker 2: was musical because they, you know, bet saying, I've got
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  Speaker 2: a spell, put a spell on you. And now you're mine.
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  Speaker 2: They do a whole stage show right in front of
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  Speaker 2: Cinderella castle. And yes, Disney fanatics, it's Cinderella castle, not
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  Speaker 2: Cinderella's castle. I know how to pronounce it. They do
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  Speaker 2: a big stage show of hocus pocus so that, but
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  Speaker 2: they not only that, but it's like at night, it's
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  Speaker 2: like after four or five or six in the evening,
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  Speaker 2: you get special admission to the park at magic, only
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  Speaker 2: magic kingdom. But they have trick-or-treat candy stations all over
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  Speaker 2: the park. They give you a bag. Mark, when I
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  Speaker 2: tell you that the people that hand out the candy
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  Speaker 2: give you the honkinest, hugest handfuls of candy. So here's
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  Speaker 2: all these 66-year-old men like me lining up like a
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  Speaker 2: kid again on trick-or-treat to get candy. And it's the
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  Speaker 2: good stuff. It's Skittles. Big bags of Skittles. It's Reese's.
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  Speaker 2: It's the big stuff. And I don't know, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Mars Candy that they partner with. But
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  Speaker 2: whoever the big candy manufacturer is, they must give them,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding you, millions of dollars worth of candy
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  Speaker 2: every year for this thing. They have these giant vats
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  Speaker 2: of candy and the lines, wrapper, and they have stations
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  Speaker 2: all throughout the theme park. And, of course, I can't
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  Speaker 2: eat any of it anymore. I'm not going to eat
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  Speaker 2: all that sugar. I was going to say, is this
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  Speaker 2: just a principal thing for you? Do you come out
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  Speaker 2: and distribute it to local children there at the condo?
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  Speaker 2: I give it to all. I give it to the
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  Speaker 2: people here at the office. I give it to Tracy,
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  Speaker 2: the bag. She's got a granddaughter. She's got a little
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  Speaker 2: kid in her. And I will say that I miss
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  Speaker 2: that about– since I've lived in a high-rise now for
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  Speaker 2: the last– decade or more, I don't get any trick-or-treaters.
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  Speaker 3: I've not had active trick-or-treating at a home of mine
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  Speaker 3: in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Really? You don't get it at the house? Well, of course,
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  Speaker 2: at the compound, they can't get past the guards. We're
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  Speaker 2: relating to the common man because Mike is in this
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  Speaker 2: palatial condo and I've got three acres. Yeah, you've got
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  Speaker 2: guards engaged.
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  Speaker 3: We get trick-or-treaters, but they're exhausted from walking to the
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  Speaker 3: front door.
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  Speaker 2: They can't go down the driveway. They collapse when they
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  Speaker 2: finally get to the house.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 3: This was a terrible idea.
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  Speaker 2: 1% is bragging about our no trick-or-treaters. Yeah, this was
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  Speaker 2: a great idea. On paper, this looked good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been to the Davis compound. That ain't exactly
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  Speaker 2: a double-wide. By the way, can I say something quick
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  Speaker 2: about houses and homes and the value of something? I
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  Speaker 2: got a thank-you card for a wedding gift I gave
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  Speaker 2: to a young couple. This is so cool that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to share this and you're going to love this.
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  Speaker 2: And I've probably done it to your house too. You
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  Speaker 2: can do this now. Do you know if you know
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  Speaker 2: somebody's address, you pop it in the old internets and
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get the square footage. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: get the price tag. Zillow, you bet. You go to
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  Speaker 2: Zillow and it'll get, so this young couple sent me
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  Speaker 2: a thank you card. Now they're doing real, they're doing
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. And one of them is a performer. I'll
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  Speaker 2: just put it to that. I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 2: who it is. but one of them is in show business. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's paying good because I found out, I looked up
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  Speaker 2: their address.
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  Speaker 3: I have totally done this. You run across somebody, if
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  Speaker 3: there's somebody who you have any curiosity about, or you don't,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe you just get their address, and for some
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  Speaker 3: reason you think, huh, wonder what kind of house they
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  Speaker 3: live in.
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  Speaker 2: You do that too? Totally. Well, that's so smarmy of
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  Speaker 2: both of us. How creepy are we that we're like
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  Speaker 2: stalking the person's house? And I thought, they're in a house,
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  Speaker 2: 1.4 million. I mean, they're a young couple, and they're
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  Speaker 2: doing well in life. Good for them. Good for them.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why I don't want anybody to ever know
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  Speaker 2: my address. That's why I use a post office box.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly right. All right. So you and I, being part
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  Speaker 2: of the common man, we've never seen trick-or-treaters in the
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  Speaker 2: last 30 years. But I love that experience. It's like
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  Speaker 2: you get to see all these cute kids, and they trick-or-treat,
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  Speaker 2: and you get to see what they've got out there
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  Speaker 2: and everything else. It's a neat tradition, but there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, Mark, let's face it, let's stipulate, that
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  Speaker 2: absolutely are repulsed by it. They think it's satanic. They
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  Speaker 2: think it's got dark, evil overtones.
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  Speaker 3: Then don't do it. Don't project that on other people.
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  Speaker 3: And raise your kids religiously however you like. But it's
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  Speaker 3: always been a little tricky. I mean, are the roots
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  Speaker 3: of it a little occultish? They may well be. But
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  Speaker 3: that's not what it is. It's in the practice of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's dress up like Spider-Man and go get some peanut
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  Speaker 3: butter cups. That's what it is. And you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to do it. But I've always felt That if you're
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  Speaker 3: a mom and a dad and you're and you're beating
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  Speaker 3: your six year old to death with the concept that
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  Speaker 3: Halloween is evil and then he goes to school, what's
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  Speaker 3: he going to think about every single classmate he has?
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  Speaker 3: I'm surrounded by, you know, devil kids. That's just it's
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  Speaker 3: just a. That's just really unfortunate.
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  Speaker 2: But it's hard, though, because I want to be respectful
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  Speaker 2: of people who have really deep religious beliefs. You've got
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  Speaker 2: me in a little bit of a quandary with the
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  Speaker 2: prayer that you've inspired me to say every day on
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  Speaker 2: my show. I say a prayer. You started your show
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  Speaker 2: on KSKY during COVID. You start with a prayer. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know what? Prayer matters. We're 18 days
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  Speaker 2: away from this important midterm election season. It's in God's
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  Speaker 2: hands and in the voters' hands, and we better show
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  Speaker 2: up and we please, Lord, God, let us win and
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  Speaker 2: not let these really, really, frankly, in some cases, demonic
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  Speaker 2: Democrats win. And so prayer matters, and I love to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know I'm in a big controversy right now,
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  Speaker 2: and some people are mad at me, because when I
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  Speaker 2: first started praying, I ended the prayer, in your holy
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  Speaker 2: name we pray, amen.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I said.
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  Speaker 2: Well, people were offended by that because they said, but
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  Speaker 2: you're not saying the name of Jesus. And I thought, well, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So then I started adding, in your holy name we pray,
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  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
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  Speaker 3: Then you got angry Jews on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: I got angry Jews saying, Mike— And you don't.
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  Speaker 3: Want to mess with angry Jews.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, but all kidding aside, I want everybody
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  Speaker 2: to feel included. You know, I hope I'm not turning
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  Speaker 2: into DEI Debbie here, but I do want people not
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  Speaker 2: to be turned off by the prayer. But I will say,
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  Speaker 2: can you help me understand why there's a resistance to
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  Speaker 2: not including Jesus' actual name in your holy name we pray?
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  Speaker 3: Here's what I did, and I've made it until now
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  Speaker 3: that we've included everybody onto it. Now I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: catch all kinds of grief. I did the Judeo-Christian approach
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  Speaker 3: as well. When I sat down and started this, because
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  Speaker 3: I'm all about Jesus, I am an evangelical Christian. That
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  Speaker 3: is me. So when I did this, I thought for
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  Speaker 3: the X percent that may not be with me on that,
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  Speaker 3: but who are absolutely, I believe that the Jews are
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  Speaker 3: my faith ancestors, nothing but respect. Evangelical Christians care more
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  Speaker 3: about Israel than a lot of American Jews do by
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  Speaker 3: their voting patterns. More on that on another episode. So
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  Speaker 3: I did, I talked about God and wrapped it up
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  Speaker 3: in your holy name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And you don't say Jesus?
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  Speaker 3: I do not. But I'll tell you what, not in
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  Speaker 3: that moment, I'm going to be, I've decided I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be, I hope this word's not bad anymore, inclusive.
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  Speaker 3: And by that, I mean- Have you gotten flack for it?
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  Speaker 3: Not one moment of it.
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  Speaker 2: Not one.
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  Speaker 3: Because listen, anybody who listens to me for three minutes
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  Speaker 3: knows that Jesus has wrapped around every step I take
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  Speaker 3: and every word I breathe. So if I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: be a little Judeo-Christian about the prayer, then everybody tends
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  Speaker 3: to be okay with it, or.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't been so far. I want you to get
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  Speaker 2: crap for it, too. I want you to get the
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  Speaker 2: ire of these deeply faithful people who are mad at
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  Speaker 2: me because I don't say the actual name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I am so glad. But no, it's an interesting dynamic,
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  Speaker 2: and it gives us reason to be thankful. Speaking of
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  Speaker 2: thankfulness and why we love doing this together, Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: Okay. If we're excited about Halloween, let's ramp it up here.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go up on the excitement chart to Thanksgiving. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: But can I– I just– I got to do something.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: There's, there's a character that I want to introduce.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It is mildly presumptuous. Mike mildly presumptuous. Mike makes his
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  Speaker 3: appearances sometimes at the end of podcast episodes, as he did,
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  Speaker 3: I think yesterday, mildly presumptuous. Mike looks at the clock
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  Speaker 3: and we're all looking at the clock and presumes that
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  Speaker 3: we are done when I like have a couple of
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  Speaker 3: more things left, you know, to share.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to step on that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like there's always tomorrow. So, you know, I kind
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  Speaker 3: of I kind of got up and move on. But
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  Speaker 3: I got I got and maybe this is the danger
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  Speaker 3: of us. We're sitting here looking at this holiday episode.
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  Speaker 3: We might need to do a Halloween, a Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 3: a Christmas. We'll we'll shoehorn it real quick today. But
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  Speaker 3: there may be another full Thanksgiving coming and a full
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  Speaker 3: Christmas to be sure. But there were two things that
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  Speaker 3: I really wanted to do Halloween-wise. I'll make them real
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  Speaker 3: quick before we move on to Thanksgiving, if that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it is. I'm not presumptuous. I just figured,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, hell. Well, time to go to Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not asking anybody. Doggone it. I'm taking this thing
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  Speaker 3: to Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Get the turkey.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. We're done with Halloween. Screw you. Well, excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Go do your Halloween stories. Take your time.
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  Speaker 3: The one is something that will probably... Heal up some
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  Speaker 3: people for my highfalutin the way Halloween is at my
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  Speaker 3: house now. I had something genuinely shocking happen in a
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  Speaker 3: far more humble home 30 years ago. I'll share that
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  Speaker 3: in a minute. But first, trick-or-treating, giving and receiving. When
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  Speaker 3: you were out trick-or-treating, first of all, give me a
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  Speaker 3: couple of costumes you remember going as.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did all the Batman. I remember being Batman
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  Speaker 2: one year.
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  Speaker 3: I was Fred Flintstone at one point, Superman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did Superman. Were they from Sears?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, did you just go get them off the
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  Speaker 3: rack and put them on with those stupid rubber bands?
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  Speaker 3: Or did mom or dad or anybody ever make you
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  Speaker 3: a big fullfalutin? I mean, I've been so scoreboarded by people. Well,
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  Speaker 3: my mom got out the sewing machine in July, and
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: it was like a Broadway show. It was like, golly, Moses,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: I was abused as a child. I wore a $ 12
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Fred Flintstone. I got creative a little bit older. I
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: remember when I was like 10, 11, 12, I used
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: to like, I'd be the werewolf or I'd be, I'd
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: get like a blood on my face. I'd be a
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: bloody zombie.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: So I, I just ran that, ran the gamut. I mean,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: now I will not mention publicly how, when I was
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: a little, little kid, I used to run around the
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: house with an umbrella pretending to be Mary Poppins. Now,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: that I won't mention because that would embarrass me. That
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: would be embarrassing.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: This is our son, Mike.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Just a spoonful of sugar.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Helps the medicine go down.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: And I would put skits on for my mom and
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: dad and my aunts and uncles and stuff. Yeah, yeah.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: It's a showmanship gift that you put to good use.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: To this day, second thing about now, I'm probably nine
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: or ten doing trick or treating in a minute. We'll
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: get to the age at which trick or treating should stop.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: That was a talk show topic. But when you're eight, nine,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I bet you did this because you go around to
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: the house, you know, your own neighborhood. You kind of
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: know your own neighborhood. But it was like an adventure
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: because it was dark. You could go wherever you wanted.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: pretty tightly packed suburb in the Prince George's County, Maryland
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: for me. Where were you when you were 7, 8, 9, 10?
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Where were we talking? Dayton, Ohio.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Dayton, Ohio.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: So kind of suburban America, kind of just kind of
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: a normal thing. Yeah, yeah. Trick-or-treating was great. I'd get candy,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: but I also kind of enjoyed checking out people's houses.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Speaking of checking out people's houses, I was like, oh,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: what kind of stuff they got in there? You know,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: what kind of, you know, what do they bring?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, look into the living room?
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just kind of see, and a lot of
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: times the people, and this will pivot us into when
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: you're at the receiving end of trick-or-treating, because we did
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: both once live in homes that received trick-or-treaters.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: And I always.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Appreciated when like the mom or dad would open the
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: door and they'd have some little costume on and welcoming us.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: So when it was time to be a grownup and
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: you were welcoming neighborhood trick-or-treaters to your home, I never
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: did a big full on haunt. There are people who
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: put like $ 50, 000 worth of smoke machines in the front
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: yard and life-size Frankenstein's. Did you ever try to make
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: things a little festive at your house for the visiting kiddos?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: No, but in Florida, in the Tampa Bay area, there's
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: a neighborhood right by my home, and they go all out.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: They've got the lighting and the characters. I love that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I love that. It's a cool— and they do it at Christmastime, too,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: with all the Christmas lights. We've got those as well.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I will rescue you from Halloween and get us to
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: the springboard to Thanksgiving. Well, no.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: With the story.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: With the story.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: It is 1996 ish. Yeah. And and we are welcoming
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: kids to that. And I love it. I love it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. I phrased it in
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: the following way. I don't believe that kids coming to
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: your house for trick or treat should have either stubble
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: or breasts unless they're phony. In other words, let's not
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: have 17-year-old trick-or-treaters, okay? I mean, just please, come on.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I think when you're like 8 or 9 or 10.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: What was the last.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Year you did it?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I think I was probably 12. What was the.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Last year you did it? 11, 12, probably.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Teenage trick-or-treaters, just how about no? If you're taking your
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: little brothers and sisters, that's great. Send them up. But
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: let's not have high school trick-or-treaters. So at this particular
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: fateful Halloween, not only did we have trick-or-treaters who are
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: as tall as I am, we had pretty good candy.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: We had the Hershey's, the full-size things, the Reese's. Speaking
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: of which, Mr. Cinderella's Castle, Cinderella. Cinderella Castle. Why do
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: you and why does everybody say Reese's? It's Reese's, isn't it?
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Of course. It's Reese's Cups. Reese's Cups.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I understand special dispensation. So we've got the Reese's, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: we've got all the good stuff. And we're noticing, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: it's a busy night. I mean, bam, bam, bam. Ding, dong, boom, boom. Ding, dong,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: trick or treat. Ding, dong, trick or treat. And some
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: of the older trick or treaters, noticing the quality of
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: our candy, were starting to come around a second, third,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: and fourth time. And it's like, oh, geez. And I finally–
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: at one point, I kind of had to– this proved
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: a bad move on my part. I said, guys, can
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: we maybe let some other guys come for the first
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: time before you guys come for your third and fourth?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: And they slinked away, slunk away, whatever the past tense
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: of slink is. And I figured, okay, whatever, whatever. And
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: then Halloween kind of dies down. And the neighborhood grows quiet.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: And the house grows quiet.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I know what's coming.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I've told the story before.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Do you remember it? No, I've never heard the story.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: But I'm going to guess what happened. You got egg,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: didn't you? Oh, please.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I dream of being egged. I wish to God we'd
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: have been egged. No, but you're headed down the right path. No,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: we had a more ambitious style of hoodlum in our
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: neighborhood because we're sitting there. The evening is growing a
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: little bit quiet. We're looking back and thinking, hey, that
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: was a pretty good Halloween. And then the ear shattering
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: sound of a plate glass window. Oh, no. Being blasted
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: to smithereens with an incoming pumpkin.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: They threw the pumpkin through the window.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: We paid the price for thwarting the hoodlums. So there
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: was that. I'll bet those were Democrats.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I guarantee they were young Democrats. I guarantee they were 1996.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: They were young.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Teenage Democrat. That's on the ballot. 18 days. Don't let
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: that happen. Well, of course, here I am, on the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: one hand, kind of agreeing with you about the older trick-or-treaters.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: But again, a week ago, I'm the dumbass 66-year-old standing
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: outside Cinderella Castle with my trick-or-treat bag.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: But that's not trick-or-treat. You're not going to somebody's house
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: in your neighborhood and going trick-or-treat. No, it's fine. And P.S.,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I went back to some of the same stations more
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: than once. So I'm in no position. I'm in no
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: position to condemn. All right. Two minutes on Thanksgiving, two
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: minutes on Christmas. You got a deal.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: First of all, especially this time around, I had a
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: joke with one of my kids. He said, Dad, you
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: know how many times you've cheated death? And the joke
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: is that I'm a hypochondriac and that every time I
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: get some kind of health thing, I think I'm dying.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And I never am. But when I got this news
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: about the blockage, which was largely true, based on your experience.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: And I went and got a scan and figured out
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I had some blockage. And I, I thought, you know, God,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: please don't take me now with a heart attack. I'm sick.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I'm loving life. I'm loving my, my job. I, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: this podcast is a big part of that. And I'm not,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to blow smoke up here. You know what?
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I mean it. I love this so much every day.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: And I feel, and I got into a new home recently.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I moved and I love the new place and I'm getting, anyway,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I've got so much to be thankful for. Healthy kids,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a healthy granddaughter, friends who I love, people I adore,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a job that I get to do that is the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: envy of what many people would want to do for
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: a living. And so for some reason this year, I
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: am in a profoundly grateful place and I'm excited to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: celebrate Thanksgiving in New York. As many people would roll
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: their eyes, I'm going to watch that Macy's Day Thanksgiving
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: parade again. I'm going to go to a nice restaurant
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: with some dear people in my life. And I'm going
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: to really celebrate my thankfulness. And I'm not trying to
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: be schmaltzy, Mark, but isn't that really what that's supposed
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: to be all about?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: It's precisely it. It's about the people in your life,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: the things in your life. And I know that gather
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: 100 people this Thanksgiving and pick any of the 100.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: And there will always be people doing better and people
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: doing worse. But there is always something you can look to,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: something you can do. And if you don't have 43
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: people in your life who love you, Find a church.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Find a place. Find some volunteer stuff to do. Reach out.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: Be around people. There will be no shortage of opportunities
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: to take the gifts that you have, the heart that
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: you have, the spirit that you have, and share it
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: with others 100%, 100%. Now, to the nuts and bolts
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: of Thanksgiving. Was it always turkey for you? Is it turkey?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Or can you branch out and do some ham or
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: something else?
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: That's heresy. That's sacrilege.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Ah, you're going to hit me.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: That's sacrilege. What did you do? You didn't do turkey? No,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: we did.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: It was always turkey. Now, here's what's odd. Okay, do
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: me a favor. Siblings for you. Count them up. One.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: So when you're seven, your older sister, right?
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: So at one point, when you're, let's say, six, seven
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: years old, however old she would be, there would be
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: four of you around the Thanksgiving table for a brief
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: segment of time, right?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Correct. Correct. Sure.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm an only child. So is my mom and
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: dad and me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: And it was fine. And it's funny.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I've lived around so many other people. And you have
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: 14 brothers and 27 siblings and 15 cousins. And I
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: love that. And both my mom and my dad had
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of siblings. So I got cousins out the yin-yang.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: So I've done a lot of family Christmas, family Thanksgivings
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: and stuff with a lot of people. But mom would
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: make turkey, and it would be kind of small, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: she'd make dressing and just did great. My mom was
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a consummate cook. It was great. We thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: loved it, and it was always, always turkey. Now, these days,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: in the 24 years that I've been married to Lisa, we,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: a few years ago, said, why don't we introduce some
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: ham to the proceedings? We had a bunch of people over.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha! What? Ham?
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: You are not going to want to hear what we've
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: done the last couple of three. So turkey and ham.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: If you say tofurkey, if you say tofu, I'm out.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Hell no.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Hell no.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: However, we've had some somewhat more– the kiddos are either
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: here or sometimes they're splayed out across the country and
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: have other things and other families and other this and
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: other that. We have on maybe two of the last
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: four Thanksgivings– Italian Thanksgiving lasagna, cannolis. Who are you?
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: And we have loved it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: We have absolutely loved it.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know you anymore. I don't know you. I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: don't know you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I knew this would go over.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: This is repulsive. Italian on Thanksgiving. Why? What made you
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: think of Italian for Thanksgiving?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: That was Lisa's idea, and I loved it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Just London.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Now, it's funny you say, because this year, this year,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I think after having been far afield for a couple
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: of years, we won 100%. And Christmas never changes. That
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: is always turkey. Might be some ham there as well,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: if that's okay. But that's always very traditional.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: See, I think you can do other things at Christmas,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: but you can't mess up. Interesting. You can't screw up Thanksgiving.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I could do Italian at Christmas. I could do ham.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I could do everything. Not Thanksgiving. You got to do turkey.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You have to. Oh, my gosh. I am mortified. I
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: don't know you. I don't recognize you anymore. And I
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: love Lisa. What's wrong with her? Please don't quote me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Please don't go home and tell her that I said
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: that because I don't want to have the wrath. I
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: love her so much, but my goodness. Well, what a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: strange thing to do. Now I almost want to know,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: am I alone or is there anybody else out there
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: who has enabled themselves to.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Take a little bit of a, of an adventure into
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: other cuisines on Thanksgiving. Speaking of Thanksgiving traditions, so I
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: get here back to my native Texas in 1994. Right.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: And I never thought about this because growing up, what
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: in the world is Thanksgiving about?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Football.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: And two teams, two teams always play on Thanksgiving.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: And the Detroit Lions. Somebody's in Detroit, somebody's in Dallas.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: So for the very first time in my life, I'm
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: sitting here doing a talk show and I'm thinking- what
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: are you people doing? This is the most disruptive thing
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: in the world. How, how there's something, there was something
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: just weird that struck me because I guess 60 or
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: whatever Texas stadium used to hold 60, 70,000. Uh, what, what,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: what did you, how do you eat? How do you
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: do this? How do you have anybody over? I love
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: football as much as the next person, but isn't this
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: the most incredible, disruptive, disconnective thing you could possibly do
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: to Thanksgiving to shoehorn actually going to a football game.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: I would, I, I, They could have vilified me. They
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: could have absolutely filleted me.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Crucified you, yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: They said, Mark, here's what we do. We've had season
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: tickets for X number of years. We do Thanksgiving breakfast.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: You know, God only knows what you're going to think
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: about that. And then we go to the game. Because
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: it's always the late game, so I guess you can't
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: really eat afterward unless it's like 9 o'clock after you
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: get out of the stadium. But they found a way
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: to do it, and I came to understand why. how
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: it was possible to have those things coexist.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Well, we were season ticket holders in the brand new
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Cowboy Stadium. Denise and I splurged, and we got four seats.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: When Jerry World opened? When Jerry World opened, we were
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: some of the first season ticket holders, and we would
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: go on Thanksgiving Day. We had seat mates, people who
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: sat right behind us, Pam and Ginny. This lovely, these
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: two ladies that were so adorable. And they were from,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I think they're from Terrell, Texas. But they too were
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Cowboys fanatics. They adored Matthew. Matthew adored them. We all
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: loved them. And we would actually do Thanksgiving dinner in
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the parking lot. We would tailgate. And I remember some chilly,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: chilly Thursday afternoons.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: That's tremendous.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: And we had so much fun. And it was, I
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: remember the cardboard, you know, the card tables we had up.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: But we would do it. We would bring the turkey
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: and all the fixings and the trimmings at Cowboys and
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Jerry World. By the way, quick note about Jerry Jones.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Did you see the tour he gave Steve Doocy this
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: week on Fox News of his house? Sure did. Oh,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: my Lord. That's some wealth right there. And that's in where?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Have you seen the Bravo Eugenia? Have you seen the yacht? Oh,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: my gosh.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Is that his yacht? Yes. Oh, no.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, that house. I mean, what is that?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Is that not Oak Lawn or Turtle Creek?
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I actually do not know the name. where Jerry lives.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, it's a big, famous, big, expensive
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: mansions and everything. But what a time. Anyway, great memories.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: You know what we just did here? Because I'm looking.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: You know me. I look up at the clock. This
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: gives us an opportunity to do a whole theme Friday
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: on Christmas. We're just going to do Christmas. We ran
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: out of time. And I want to remind you.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: We don't want to give Christmas. Listen, after what we've
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: already done. I'm not going to say it. If people
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: think we were short shrifting Jesus earlier, we do not
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: want to telescope down our treatment of Christmas. That would
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: be a bad look for us.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Let's please not do a Reader's Digest version of Christ's birth.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: And then there was Christmas. We're out of here. Thanks.
• 30:22
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• 30:26
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• 30:27
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• 30:30
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• 30:33
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  Speaker 2: They give free ultrasounds to young women. When a woman
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  Speaker 2: sees her baby and hears the baby's heartbeat, it doubles
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  Speaker 2: the chance that she's going to pick life. $ 28 a
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  Speaker 2: month will help save a baby a month. For less
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  Speaker 2: than a dollar a day, it's worth every penny. We're
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  Speaker 2: proud that this audience banded together and donated $ 15, 000 to
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  Speaker 2: provide an ultrasound, an entire machine to save babies for
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  Speaker 2: years to come. So, Mark, whether our audience wants to
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  Speaker 2: save a baby or hundreds, you're just a call or
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  Speaker 2: a click away.
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  Speaker 3: It's the easiest thing in the world. And that phone
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  Speaker 3: number is 833-850-BABY, 833-850-BABY. Or go to preborn.com slash MMXtra.
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  Speaker 3: That is preborn.com slash MMXtra. We thank them. for partnering
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  Speaker 3: with us. We thank everybody listening and watching who will
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  Speaker 3: contribute to them. And Mike, I thank you for the
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  Speaker 3: great idea of the holiday preview. I somehow knew when
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  Speaker 3: we began that we were not going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to get all three holidays in.
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  Speaker 2: We can't. There's too much. We can't get eight pounds
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  Speaker 2: of sugar in a 10-pound bag. No, you cannot. Or
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  Speaker 2: vice versa. By the way, and while we're thanking everybody,
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  Speaker 2: can I just give a big shout-out to Eric Hansen
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  Speaker 2: and Yasmin Holloway, these two folks. The best. They are
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  Speaker 2: always there for us, never in a bad mood. They
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  Speaker 2: always are there playing the clips, doing the video, doing
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  Speaker 2: the audio. Yasmin and Eric, and you talk about the
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  Speaker 2: time you hang out. And I'm grateful to you because
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  Speaker 2: I know the way the timing works. You spend an
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  Speaker 2: hour after your show waiting to do the podcast. You
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  Speaker 2: don't seem to mind. And I'm grateful for that. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit different with my schedule. But to Yasmin
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  Speaker 2: and Eric, you guys are so, so important to us.
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  Speaker 2: And we thank you because we couldn't do this podcast
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  Speaker 2: without them. It's it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a team, and we love it, and we just
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  Speaker 3: love the exercise. We appreciate it. And everybody watching and listening,
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  Speaker 3: have a fantastic weekend. More excitement. Man, the days tick down.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Speaking of the days ticking down, we're getting down to,
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  Speaker 3: what will it be, 16, 15, 14 days before the midterm.
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  Speaker 3: So plenty to cover next week. Everybody have a very,
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  Speaker 3: very blessed and wonderful weekend from both of us, the M's,
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  Speaker 3: Mike and Mark here on M & M Extra. We
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  Speaker 3: so much love you, and I hope we have a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic weekend. We'll see you on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: See you, everybody.