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Plays The Boy Scouts and more · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I posted a picture today about a peacock, and somebody
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  Speaker 1: just suggested it become the new state bird. Well, because
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  Speaker 1: we were talking during the Blazer Show about that this effort,
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  Speaker 1: this bypart, is an effort in the legislature to have
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  Speaker 1: an official state fish. So I guess the state bird
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  Speaker 1: the only thing I can see because I've had several
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  Speaker 1: messages today about peacocks and people having them as pets,
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  Speaker 1: and they are becoming invasive in some areas in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Ohio. How do they get along with the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian geese?
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  Speaker 2: Those Canadian geese are pretty mean.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying now. If the peacock and the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian geese are not friends, and they could perhaps get
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian geese to sell their nest and move to
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  Speaker 1: another neighborhood, I don't think they be that bad.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think they'll do that though.
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  Speaker 3: Why geese don't move? Let's Canadian geese go wherever they want.
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  Speaker 1: They might if the peacocks make them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. The look at them.
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  Speaker 3: They're from Canada. They're already invading. They invaded the United States.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not They're not welcome here, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: tell them that. I just I don't like those things.
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  Speaker 1: They're so mean. They are they are so mean, they
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  Speaker 1: will chase you at the park, in a parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: They just I don't know what makes them so aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: They're colonizers, they're birds, for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 1: What makes them so blasted aggressive that they think they
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  Speaker 1: can get away with that?
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  Speaker 2: No, Canadians do have that reputation.
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  Speaker 1: No they don't, No, they don't. Oh, Canadians are very mellow.
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  Speaker 1: What a speaking of? I was googling here trying to
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  Speaker 1: find Oh, hang on a second, your mom just posted
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  Speaker 1: a picture on Facebook. Oh you look so cute. My
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  Speaker 1: mom did. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is it in Florida?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It says you were maybe eight or seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight or nine years old. Moms are wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That was down in Cape Canaveral
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  Speaker 2: in Florida. Dad had to go down there for training
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  Speaker 2: of some sort.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe you went down there see if you
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  Speaker 1: could hit your ride home. No, no, back to the
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  Speaker 1: Mothership at least.
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  Speaker 2: No they did.
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  Speaker 3: The NASA didn't have the technology then to send us
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  Speaker 3: all the way back.
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  Speaker 1: But let me see here. I got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: messages I wanted to go over Sheila, saying that didn't
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  Speaker 1: know you were a theater guy. You should get back
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  Speaker 1: into it. I wish I could, but I don't have
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  Speaker 1: the time. I just I seriously do not. There's no
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  Speaker 1: possible way that I could accommodate it. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be able to rehearse, and then, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: do the shows for three weeks or so, that's weekends
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  Speaker 1: that you've got to There's just too many other things
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  Speaker 1: going on in life for me to do it. It
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  Speaker 1: was fun. I enjoyed it a great deal, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know that was then. This is now. Now is busy.
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  Speaker 1: I miss it. I do that. That's standing on stage
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  Speaker 1: and creating a person, taking written words off of a
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  Speaker 1: page and actually making them a person. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But that was then. Do you ever been a theater guy?
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  Speaker 1: You ever do what he plays? No?
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  Speaker 2: But I like going to him, But no, I could
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  Speaker 2: never do that. I can never do that.
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  Speaker 1: You could.
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  Speaker 3: I can't talk in front of five people in a room,
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  Speaker 3: let alone like act or whatever memorized lines that.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way the stuff that we did, we did
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  Speaker 1: one that nobody had ever heard. It was an original.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot remember the playwrights named David something or other. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there was an old old film Drums Drums. Was it
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  Speaker 1: Drums along the Mohawks? I think it was sure something
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  Speaker 1: along those lines of Western and Uh. This guy wrote
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  Speaker 1: one called Bums Below the Mohawk, which was it was
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  Speaker 1: a took place in the Houston Street subway station in
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  Speaker 1: New York and h that was a fun show even
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  Speaker 1: though nobody had ever heard of it because it was
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  Speaker 1: an original piece. I love that I played a bomb
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  Speaker 1: and he was kind of a drinka his p hogy
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  Speaker 1: and hogy was uh, you know, just uh. He was
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  Speaker 1: very casual about living in a subway station. And there
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  Speaker 1: was a line the guy who was playing the uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Louis Depama of the subway station, his name's Jack Baby.
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  Speaker 1: He's passed away, now, Jack was. He loved to tell
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  Speaker 1: you he was an equity actor. He held a Union card.
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  Speaker 1: He was an equity actor. He had a nice little
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  Speaker 1: bit part in the Jesse Owen story. And he was
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  Speaker 1: the the voice for many years for a Harding hospital.
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  Speaker 1: If you're old enough to remember those old commercials that
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  Speaker 1: ran on the radio where the guy did a monolig
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  Speaker 1: say hey, look, Jeane, you know sometimes people have problems
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  Speaker 1: real raspy type voice. Well, Jack and as part of
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  Speaker 1: his props in his cage, had some Playboy magazines and
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  Speaker 1: I am asked if I had seen somebody. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I saw him down the street watching TV through the
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  Speaker 1: store window. I think it was Leave It to Beaver.
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  Speaker 1: Jack is supposed to throw a line at that point,
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  Speaker 1: and he missed the queue. He wasn't on stage, so
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  Speaker 1: I walked into his little, uh, his little cage there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going, yeah, that beaver, that beaver, I love that beaver.
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  Speaker 1: And then I picked up the Playboy, dropped the centerfold
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  Speaker 1: with and hello missus, cleaver Hey. And when the audience
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  Speaker 1: laughed at that, Jack heard laughter where it should not
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  Speaker 1: have been and realized he was supposed to be on stage. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it came out and we got back in. But that
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  Speaker 1: was it was just a fun show. It was. It
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  Speaker 1: was loose, but it was it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: I've always respected the people who do the the plays.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure acting on a set is just as diff
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  Speaker 3: but man, the people and plays who you're out there
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  Speaker 3: in front of people and they go back and do
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  Speaker 3: costume changes and then like it's a two or three
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  Speaker 3: hour show depending on what they're doing and all the
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  Speaker 3: dialogue that the main characters have to remember.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: We did one called The Robert Bridegroom where Joy Schmidt,
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  Speaker 1: who was one of my favorite ladies ever. She has
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  Speaker 1: also passed away now, but she played Salome, this this vixen,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a saw Salome and there's a song in
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  Speaker 1: the show where she's she's grabbed by the townspeople, put
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  Speaker 1: in a burlap sack and thrown down a well. There's
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  Speaker 1: a trap door in the stage for the well well.
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  Speaker 1: There was an obviously we prop change. Joy went behind
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  Speaker 1: the assembled group went down into the trap door. We
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  Speaker 1: then took the burlap bag that looked like Joy was
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  Speaker 1: in it and tossed it around on stage and then
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  Speaker 1: threw it over and down the well. And little Seth
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  Speaker 1: and Sarah, who were in the audience, their parents were
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  Speaker 1: in the show. They thought anti Joy really got thrown
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  Speaker 1: down that hole and they threw a fit man and
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  Speaker 1: they you know, it was a little theater off Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: They were maybe twenty feet from the stage, but they
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  Speaker 1: thought Joy went down that well, and they that's the beauty.
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  Speaker 1: That is the beauty of being on stage. You can
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  Speaker 1: you can literally get into you're you're they're in you
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  Speaker 1: and you're in them. It's a very interactive thing, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's if you if you're young, especially and you've
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  Speaker 1: got plenty of time, and you've never considered getting up
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  Speaker 1: on stage, I would look go look up some auditions,
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  Speaker 1: even a chorus part, just for the experience, because it is, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty awesome stuff. Nothing like live live performance. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Your your girl Ella still does a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: on stage. Yeah, and I have yet to make it
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  Speaker 1: out to see I want to see her work.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she's pretty funny just talking her, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure she does great.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, she's got a very good sense of humor,
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  Speaker 1: a good personality. Johnny Hill performs. He's a musician, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know. I Mark hasn't in a while,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, Mark's a drummer. He doesn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: it very much.
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  Speaker 2: I do know that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Elliott does anything except sleep and come
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  Speaker 1: to work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's a he has to get out pretty early. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to.
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  Speaker 1: Do, but there's you know, everybody's got their little side
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  Speaker 1: interest and and that was that was one of mine.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm sitting here thinking about all those wonderful
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  Speaker 1: moments and times and laughter. And I got in trouble
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  Speaker 1: once for hanging a cabbage patch kid backstage because we
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  Speaker 1: had this one little girl in the cast that was
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  Speaker 1: just so obnoxious and nobody liked her.
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  Speaker 2: How old was she, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Eight maybe, and I hung her cabbage patch doll? I couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I was mean. I was no.
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  Speaker 3: Kids that they know that they're what they're doing by
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  Speaker 3: that age.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but she was a little diva already. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: You're a little child in a community theater production. Stop
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  Speaker 1: being like that. But she just she was. She was
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  Speaker 1: a pain in everybody's doll.
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  Speaker 2: I walked through the hall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she really, she was a pain in everybody's
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, I got in a little hot water
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  Speaker 1: for doing that, but it was fun anyway. So anyway
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about chocolate chip cookies. I got some some
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  Speaker 1: grief from a couple of people in my chocolate chip
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  Speaker 1: cookie stands. I do like the chips, ahoy. I do
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  Speaker 1: like the crunchy ones. I do not like the soft ones.
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  Speaker 1: I do not like the really sweet stuff that people
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  Speaker 1: consider to be kind of a higher end cookie. I
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  Speaker 1: think they are perfect. But it is National Chocolate Chip
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  Speaker 1: Cookie Day, and I'm sorry that I did not know that,
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  Speaker 1: because honestly, I would have made chocolate chip cookies for
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  Speaker 1: today and brought them in and you and I could
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  Speaker 1: have sit here and crunched on the air for three
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  Speaker 1: or four hours and enjoy. And I dropped the ball
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  Speaker 1: on that, and I apologize.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think that that's something you should apologize for.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like Girl Scout cookie?
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  Speaker 1: Here's the deal. Everything with me is a deal. I
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  Speaker 1: like Girl Scout cookies, but I don't like the price
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  Speaker 1: of Girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 2: They're pretty expensive.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be honest with you. I found store
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  Speaker 1: cookies that look and taste just like them. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be surprised if they don't come out of the same
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  Speaker 1: factory for a lot less.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're going to a good cause.
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  Speaker 1: I yeah, Well, I've got my experiences with that too.
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  Speaker 1: The Scouting thing, I've had a couple of things over
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  Speaker 1: the years that I've not been pleased about, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's not a selling point for me. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to see a return of the Boy Scouts, and we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about that at home quite a bit. I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have time for anything else, but if I
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  Speaker 1: can find an eagle Scout out there that wants to
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  Speaker 1: be a Scout master or whatever, maybe I can spearhead
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  Speaker 1: the pr into this thing and get a couple of
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  Speaker 1: the schools around here on my beloved west Side to
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  Speaker 1: reinstitute a Scouting program, because honestly, I think it's missing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's When I was a youngster, we had
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  Speaker 1: the Boy Scouts. There were before the Boy Scouts. You
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  Speaker 1: had cub Scouts for the younger kids. There were girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 1: There were also Brownies for if you were younger. There
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  Speaker 1: were also the campfire Girls. My older sisters were all
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  Speaker 1: camp fire girls. We had all of these organizations that
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  Speaker 1: were teaching and fraternal and and it taught those socialization skills.
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  Speaker 1: It taught natural stuff and camping in the woods and
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  Speaker 1: how to fend for yourself and care for yourself and
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  Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. We don't have any of that.
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  Speaker 1: And then we wonder, why, you know, we got a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of idiots walking around at twenty five years old. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're not being taught anything anymore. The schools don't teach them,
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  Speaker 1: the organizations don't exist anymore. The boy Scouts become the
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  Speaker 1: everybody's Scouts. The girl Scouts are only there basically when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to selling cookies. I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: still have brownies anymore, or Cub Scouts anymore, or campfire
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  Speaker 1: Girls anymore. I don't even know if those things exist anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But our kids grew into better adults when we had
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  Speaker 1: those things. So yeah, that's been on my mind a
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  Speaker 1: lot lately the last couple of months. I guess, with
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  Speaker 1: the approach of the new school year and everything, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, having the grandsons, I'm like, I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: there's any possible way I could I could spearhead putting
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  Speaker 1: Scouts through respeck in some of these schools. Then don't
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  Speaker 1: let me say that too loud, because somebody will say, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: all you need is another ten hours a week to
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  Speaker 1: dedicate to it. That's yeah, I got that.