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Questions for Katie · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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Speaker 1: Questions for Katie Green. It's one more thing. I'm strong
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Speaker 1: and geddy, one more thing.
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Speaker 2: Why this is making me nervous?
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Speaker 1: They would make me nervous too. Before we get to
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Speaker 1: Katie Green the news Machine, Katie, Katie the news Lady.
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Speaker 1: I was getting some texts from a friend of mine
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Speaker 1: and we've been having this conversation ongoing for well, actually
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Speaker 1: for quite a while, but the last couple of days
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Speaker 1: it's been emphasized the whole like younger people, people in
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Speaker 1: their twenties in the workplace thing that a number of
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Speaker 1: people have observed, and I've had this experience myself, and
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Speaker 1: they are having the problem with the level of like
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Speaker 1: familiarity and lack of And it's hard to say this
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Speaker 1: without sounding like a dick, but just just like you
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Speaker 1: go into a workplace where you want to be what
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Speaker 1: the older people are, but you treat them like peers
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Speaker 1: in a very, very too familiar way that didn't exist
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Speaker 1: throughout my entire career. And I just had that experience
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Speaker 1: here and now they are having this person other person's
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Speaker 1: having it at their workplace just like way too much.
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Speaker 1: You know, Hey, Bud, how's it going? Hey, what's up? Dude?
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Speaker 1: What lack of respect. Yeah, and again it's hard to
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Speaker 1: say it without sounding like a dick. But when I
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Speaker 1: started in various jobs, I didn't talk to the older
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Speaker 1: people that had the jobs I wanted that way and
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Speaker 1: like suggesting ways they ought to do things differently and
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Speaker 1: just And I've had a couple of people mention that
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Speaker 1: sort of thing, And what we were discussing is where
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Speaker 1: that comes from? Joe and I regularly say, and I
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Speaker 1: never hear anybody else say this. They didn't raise themselves.
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Speaker 1: They didn't raise themselves. But culturally, why do young people
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Speaker 1: come into the workplace and feel like they can treat
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Speaker 1: their betters as to their beers?
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Speaker 3: Okay, I said, they're better while you do so much
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Speaker 3: industry and a British dick no less.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the right term would be, but.
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Speaker 3: Uh no, I get, I get exactly what you're saying.
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Speaker 3: I don't know, just off the top of my head.
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Speaker 3: I think it probably has to do with virtually all
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Speaker 3: of our experience was actual back in the day, and
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Speaker 3: every generation would layer a little new lacquer details on
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Speaker 3: the way people act in quotes, come up with variations
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Speaker 3: and change it a little bit. But now so much
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Speaker 3: of people's experience is virtual. They're not a product of
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Speaker 3: what they've experienced in the same way. I don't know
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Speaker 3: that helped.
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe if you're gonna go with multi causal, I
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Speaker 1: can throw out a whole bunch of multi causal I think.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's the some of the fruits of the
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Speaker 1: everybody gets a trophy generation, which has been going on
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Speaker 1: for quite a while now. But true, that's part of it.
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Speaker 1: The self esteem movement. We went way too far. Too
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Speaker 1: much self esteem, is what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: You got miserable failure.
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Speaker 1: You've got way too much self esteem for your age
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Speaker 1: and where you are.
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Speaker 3: All right, take it down a notch and what you've accomplished. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, more importantly that in the hold the parenting trend.
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Speaker 3: If I want to be my kid's friend, not their.
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Speaker 1: Parent, right, you have something Michael.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched a
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Speaker 4: manager reprimand a young reporter here at one time, and
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Speaker 4: you know, it was over something very minor, but he
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Speaker 4: had basically said, you know, you need to pick it up,
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Speaker 4: you need to you know, get with it. You're sitting around,
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Speaker 4: and the young reporter looked at him and said, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 4: but I've never been talked to that way. I don't
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Speaker 4: know if I can work here. And this person was
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Speaker 4: like twenty five years old.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so again getting to my monocausal stuff. No teacher
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Speaker 1: can talk to kids that way. So if your parents
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Speaker 1: aren't talking you that way, the teachers, the coaches, nobody
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Speaker 1: ever talks to you in any sort of way. That
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Speaker 1: kind of puts you in your place. And again it
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Speaker 1: makes me sound like a thing, But there is a place.
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Speaker 1: There's a place for children, there's a place for people
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Speaker 1: lower on the wrung, there's a place. There's there's a structure,
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Speaker 1: there's a hierarchy in life. They're just it is.
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Speaker 3: And well, I sure as hell hope there is. Like
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Speaker 3: when I go in for a surgery, you know, I'm
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Speaker 3: hoping that person did well in.
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Speaker 1: Medical school, for instance, Yes, Katie.
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Speaker 5: Well no, I just think about a lot of the
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Speaker 5: younger people too, have kind of been growing up in
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Speaker 5: that anti law enforcement generation like they are. They don't
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Speaker 5: respect the cops. What's going to make you think they're
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Speaker 5: going to expect respect? You know, somebody who might have
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Speaker 5: worked at a company for five years more than them,
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Speaker 5: I don't know, I think that the lack of respect
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Speaker 5: for law enforcement kind of trickles down.
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Speaker 1: I don't actually know. It might just be all of
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Speaker 1: these things, but I have experienced and it's really off putting.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to try to explain to my kids to
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Speaker 1: have a different attitude when they go into a workplace
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Speaker 1: with the people above you with way more experience making
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Speaker 1: a lot more money than you. How about you watch
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Speaker 1: and observe as opposed to think your peers they got
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Speaker 1: something new you might want at some level. Anyw I've
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Speaker 1: come across enough people bringing this up to know what's
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Speaker 1: a thing. If you have any thoughts on it listening
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Speaker 1: to this, you could text us or email us. How
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Speaker 1: did people email us?
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Speaker 3: Mail bag at Armstrong in getty dot com.
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Speaker 4: All right, I learned a lot from veteran radio people.
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Speaker 4: I was thrilled. I wanted them to take me under my.
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Speaker 1: Way right, No, right, yeah, or veteran whatever industry you
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Speaker 1: go into, you're an new insurancemith salesman, the people that
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Speaker 1: have been there a long time making more money with
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Speaker 1: the nice car, Maybe uh pay those was a respect
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Speaker 1: and listen to what they got to say. So back
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Speaker 1: to the Katie Katie the News lady. We got a
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Speaker 1: text with a couple of questions that I don't think
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Speaker 1: we've ever asked you before. We'll just it this way.
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Speaker 1: Katie Green is a great addition to Armstrong and Getty,
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Speaker 1: A real pro. But I do have some questions. One,
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Speaker 1: how many pushups can she do?
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Speaker 3: What the hell you know?
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I know that I've done I think it was twenty
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Speaker 5: eight and thirty seconds.
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Speaker 1: How recent like two months ago? Okay, that's pretty rare.
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Speaker 2: I think that number's probably gone out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's fairly recently, that's okay. I've never I
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Speaker 1: don't like people tell me how like this always comes
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Speaker 1: up with.
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Speaker 2: Running thousand and six.
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Speaker 1: This always comes up with running with me and how
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Speaker 1: long to take you to run the ten k or whatever?
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Speaker 1: I used to run a ten k? And whatever? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: how long ago was that? When's the last time you
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Speaker 1: ran a ten k? And if you haven't done it
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Speaker 1: in fifteen years? I don't freaking care. All right, what
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Speaker 1: difference does it make? Do it now?
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Speaker 3: Nineteen seventy eight? By the way, as long as you asked,
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Speaker 3: literally the last time you ran a ten k? That
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Speaker 3: might have been seventy nine.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do one in the next year. That's what
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Speaker 1: I'm building up to. I'm gonna run a ten k
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Speaker 1: in the next year.
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Speaker 5: I am one of those I need to get that
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Speaker 5: zero point zero sticker for my car because I've never
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Speaker 5: run a ten k and will never run a ten k.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen that. That's hilarious. Zero point zero in
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Speaker 1: the same font.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's perfect, and it says I don't run.
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Speaker 3: If a bear chases me for ten kilometers, I will
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Speaker 3: do a ten k.
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Speaker 1: There you go, turn to the bear and say how
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Speaker 1: long are we going to do this? Because if it's
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Speaker 1: going to be more than six point one miles, I
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Speaker 1: might crap. I might well just lay down.
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Speaker 3: Right, Why would I want you to eat me when
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Speaker 3: I'm tired?
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Speaker 1: And you just get this, no advantage to either one
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Speaker 1: of us. Cut to the chips, cut the chase to
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Speaker 1: the catch. So you've done that many push ups fairly recently.
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Speaker 1: That's a good chunk of push ups right there.
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Speaker 3: I have not done a one since my back problem
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Speaker 3: started last summer, so I think I need to start
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Speaker 3: working my way back. I haven't even tried it.
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm three out of the last five days I
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Speaker 1: think so, I'm on a bit of a role here
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Speaker 1: eating and exercising. Have you ever been arrested? No, No,
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Speaker 1: there there's a hesitation.
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Speaker 2: No, there was a dumb situation when I was in.
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Speaker 5: Middle school that it resulted in me getting in a
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Speaker 5: lot of trouble momentarily before the truth came out.
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Speaker 1: But you weren't arrest No.
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Speaker 2: I have never been arrested.
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Speaker 1: So your hesitation wasn't should I say this out loud
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Speaker 1: on the air or not? Your hesitation was.
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Speaker 5: Because I went through the most of the everything other
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Speaker 5: than getting booked.
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Speaker 2: I went through the process up.
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Speaker 5: Some kid ripped the Mercedes emblem off of the vice
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Speaker 5: principal's car and stuck it in my backpack because I
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Speaker 5: had come from a Christian school and he was all
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Speaker 5: anti Jesus and God and all that.
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Speaker 2: Wow, And then told and then told the school.
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Speaker 5: And the best part was when the the assistant principal
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Speaker 5: came and got me from class and she pulls me
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Speaker 5: out and she says, you know, I think you have
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Speaker 5: something of mine and I'm like, oh no, She goes,
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Speaker 5: you might be wearing it around your neck because all
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Speaker 5: the kids were like wearing the big fake car emblems
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Speaker 5: around their chain. I remember that, yeah, yeah, And so
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Speaker 5: I pulled out the Catholic, you know, the Celtic cross
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Speaker 5: that my mom had got me, and I'm like, I'm
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Speaker 5: clueless at this point, she opens my backpack and damn it,
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Speaker 5: there was a Mercedes emblem in there.
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Speaker 1: Wow. So this kid went and said, Katie Green stole
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Speaker 1: the Mercedes emblem? Is it in her back said.
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Speaker 5: Said, he saw me take it, and he did it
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Speaker 5: to another girl that transferred to the school from the
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Speaker 5: same school with me. So we both got pulled into
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Speaker 5: the office and we're talking to the cops and.
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Speaker 3: Well, and how long did it take you to straighten
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Speaker 3: the sound? Flavor? Flavor?
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Speaker 1: How did you clear it? How did you clear yourself?
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Speaker 5: It took about I think I was in the office
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Speaker 5: for four and a half hours writing a statement and everything.
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Speaker 5: And then the whole time, I'm going, my dad's.
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Speaker 1: A judge, just call him.
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Speaker 5: We'll clear this up, you know, because he was a
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Speaker 5: judge at the time. And yeah, it took a lot,
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Speaker 5: it was traumatic. Well, for some reason, this reminds me
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Speaker 5: of one of my more embarrassing stories.
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Speaker 3: Before we get there, Katie, what does it take to
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Speaker 3: become a judge Because Jack knows this. I've been saying
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Speaker 3: for years I ought to be a judge. Do you
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Speaker 3: know why? Because I'm so judgmental? Yeah, I didn't want
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Speaker 3: to say it. I think I'd be really good at it.
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Speaker 3: So did your dad get elected or was he an
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Speaker 3: appointed judge.
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Speaker 2: Or he was he was appointed by Duke Majin.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, I'm governor of Yesteryear.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay.
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Speaker 3: Was he a TV judge?
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Speaker 1: A TV judge on TV?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 2: He could give Judge Judy a run for money.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I so want to be a TV judge anyway,
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Speaker 3: Jack has.
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Speaker 1: An embarrassing story, Gladys, I was in high school. I
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Speaker 1: did believe I was a sophomore in the band. And
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Speaker 1: this is embarrassing for odd reasons. So the trumpet section
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Speaker 1: had decided that during this rest a rest if you
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Speaker 1: don't know music is silence, or you'd stop playing. But
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Speaker 1: in this case, it was actually silence during the song.
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Speaker 1: During the rest, all the trumpet players were gonna, I
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Speaker 1: forget what the noise was, even pretend to burp or
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Speaker 1: something like that. So it's I get about about about
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Speaker 1: about about a bout about about but everybody was going
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Speaker 1: to do that, and then and and I didn't, but
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Speaker 1: all the other trumpet players did, and the band teacher
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Speaker 1: went batshit crazy like band teachers do over any.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, because they hate life.
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Speaker 1: Because they hate life, may hate the fact that they're
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Speaker 1: genius musicians usually, and now they're teaching a bunch of
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Speaker 1: teenagers who couldn't give a crap about music, and it
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Speaker 1: makes them so angry that they drink and yell at children.
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Speaker 1: This is when you exactly yes. He used to throw
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Speaker 1: his keys at people, this whole set of keys, or
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Speaker 1: the baton. He threw the baton at people, erasers, all
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Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. But anyway, he got so mad at
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Speaker 1: people burping during the rest, and he went one by
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Speaker 1: one who did it? Who did that? And then everybody's
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Speaker 1: just kind of sitting there and some people were smirking whatever,
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Speaker 1: And he went one by one and looked them in
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Speaker 1: the eye and put their finger right in their face.
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Speaker 1: Did you make that sound during the rest? And most
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Speaker 1: of them, most of them fessed up and said yes.
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Speaker 1: But it got to me and I said no because
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Speaker 1: I didn't so I had. I was like, it was
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Speaker 1: like a triple whammy of awful. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: band teacher believed me. The other kids were like, what
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Speaker 1: a puss because I didn't, And then I was I
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Speaker 1: was feeling horrible for I'm thinking I was lying and
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Speaker 1: that my peers thought I was weak for not joining
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Speaker 1: them in the completely meaningless hijinks. But that's kind of
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Speaker 1: person I was. I didn't join in the hijinks.
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Speaker 2: And here we are, all these years later, and it's
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Speaker 2: still affecting it.
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Speaker 1: It's still affecting me, not because it bothers me because
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I'd feel better if I had.
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Speaker 3: Well, you may have been a trumpeter, but you've certainly
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Speaker 3: earned the sad trombone.
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Speaker 1: Wah wah wah. That's exactly that's exactly right. I didn't
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Speaker 1: join in meaningless nobody gets hurt teenage hijinks because I
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Speaker 1: was too straight laced. Isn't that incredible? And you still
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Speaker 1: got yelled at for it? And I still got in
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Speaker 1: trouble for it because he didn't believe me. I could
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Speaker 1: tell he didn't believe me.
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Speaker 3: So are there any more questions for Katie? Yes, I'm
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Speaker 3: enjoying this.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever been arrested? Uh? What's the biggest celebrity
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Speaker 1: you've ever met?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 5: I interviewed the cast of Jackass, so on Knoxville and
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Speaker 5: all those guys, Okay, and Robin Williams.
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Speaker 1: That's a big one. That's a really big one.
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Speaker 5: He was really sweet at what point in his life
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Speaker 5: later Actually this was in twenty eleven.
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Speaker 1: So that's towards the end. Then.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he was at I was at a comedy show
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Speaker 5: and his daughter was performing and he was there to
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Speaker 5: watch his daughter.
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Speaker 1: Ah's a cool Bay Area guy.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, easier to run into Francisco the Purple onion.
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Speaker 1: Do you get anything out of meeting celebrities at this
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Speaker 1: point in your life? Not really, Yeah, I don't really
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Speaker 1: after you meet up there ahead. Everybody should get to
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Speaker 1: have the experience of meeting enough celebrities to realize it
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Speaker 1: ain't nothing. I mean, it's just it ain't nothing.
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Speaker 3: Used to fairly awkward.
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Speaker 5: Or like I mean, you guys know this be in
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Speaker 5: a position where some people might look at you as
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Speaker 5: one and you're just right.
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Speaker 1: No, yeah, exactly, not at all. Yeah, man, that's the
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Speaker 1: weird thing about celebrity. It's all in the other person's head.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't actually exist as a thing. It's you can't
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Speaker 1: measure it or anything.
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Speaker 3: Right, right, and while I actually ninety eight percent of
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Speaker 3: the time really enjoy meeting folks who say, hey, I
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Speaker 3: recognize you, I just want to say I like the show.
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Speaker 3: It's because people are very nice and they often end
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Speaker 3: up being really nice people who I enjoy chatting with
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Speaker 3: the greatest experience or experience rather to illustrate what Jack's
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Speaker 3: talking about is And this has happened many many times,
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Speaker 3: will meet like a super avid listener who has a
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Speaker 3: friend with them who doesn't listen, or has never heard
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Speaker 3: of us, or was from a different part of the
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Speaker 3: country or whatever, and you had one person about to
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Speaker 3: go to pieces and the other like, hey, how's it going. So,
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Speaker 3: as some people have observed, fame isn't something you have,
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Speaker 3: it's something they have.
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Speaker 2: That's a great way to put it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and don't still it's so anybody who aspires to fame,
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Speaker 3: don't trust me when I say this. If you aspire
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Speaker 3: to have a successful business, I consider our quote unquote
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Speaker 3: fame just to be like a and after effect of
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Speaker 3: having a successful business. But the idea that your self
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Speaker 3: image will rise and fall based on the number of
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Speaker 3: people who think you're cool or whatever. Now, you don't
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Speaker 3: don't get into that.
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Speaker 1: That always reminds me. I'll make this short. But Tim Bussfield,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that named Katie Green,
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Speaker 1: but he was. He was a big TV star for
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Speaker 1: a while. He was on thirty something, which was like
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Speaker 1: the hottest show in late eighties early nineties, big deal though,
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Speaker 1: like huge Emmy Award winning giant show. And he was
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Speaker 1: on that and became really famous and went off the
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Speaker 1: rails and then ended up in Sacramento where he was
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Speaker 1: from and running the local theater and super nice guy.
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Speaker 1: But we had him on the air of a number
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Speaker 1: of times and he was talking about that realization himself
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Speaker 1: because he thought he had changed into something else, and
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Speaker 1: it took the crash for him to realize it was
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Speaker 1: all fake, none of us real. I'm still the same guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: When it goes away, it goes away. It never really existed,
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Speaker 1: so goes away. It's kind of an interesting you're famous, Michael,
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Speaker 1: famous for the way you end this segment.
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Speaker 4: Yeah that's good.
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Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it awesome.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. It's kind of like going okay, okay,
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Speaker 2: that's neat