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Episode #3964 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive Hour · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 2: Other than porn. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to today's featured radio archive. This is
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Speaker 1: a classic. It's from 2002, the month of July. And
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Speaker 1: probably all I need to say to introduce this bit
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Speaker 1: to most of you is zucchini.
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Speaker 2: You got it.
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Speaker 1: This is the classic Steve Bozell bit where he was
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Speaker 1: resentful of his next-door neighbor, Roy Hutchins, for going this
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Speaker 1: gigantic zucchini and showing it to his wife and daughter
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Speaker 1: because it was his thought that it was somehow... sexually harassing.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty strange. You're going to hear in the background,
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Speaker 1: and I've forgotten that this was a part of the bit,
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Speaker 1: you're going to hear dogs barking and howling. It is
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Speaker 1: a dog training center, nothing more than that. I was
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Speaker 1: concerned myself when I heard it. I thought, what is
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Speaker 1: going on with those dogs? It's a dog training center,
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Speaker 1: a place where dogs are trained to, you know, catch, fetch,
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Speaker 1: defend a variety of things. And they sound excited in
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Speaker 1: one instance, they sound frustrated in another instance. I just
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Speaker 1: want to alert you to that. So maybe I probably didn't.
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Speaker 2: Have to say anything. Now they're going to be listening
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Speaker 2: for it, Phil. Good job. Yeah, way to go, Phil.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, anyway, I think you're going to enjoy the bit. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: the dogs are fine. Steve Bozell is fine. You said
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Speaker 1: Steve Bozell. Steve Bozell, not Bozell. Steve Bozell is fine.
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Speaker 1: I'm not doing too good, but here he is. All right,
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Speaker 1: let me get on the phone here with Stephen Bozell,
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Speaker 1: who's at a dog training.
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Speaker 2: Where are you training your dog?
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Speaker 3: That's right. We're out here at Kramer's in Riverside, California.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: As I mentioned to Chris, I have a neighbor who grows,
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Speaker 3: my next-door neighbor, Roy Hutchins, grows zucchini to a ridiculous size,
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Speaker 3: and he insists on holding it over the fence and
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Speaker 3: asking me what I think. I've asked him to stop.
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Speaker 3: I've asked him to stop doing this in front of
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Speaker 3: my wife and kids. When I have guests over for
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Speaker 3: a barbecue, I'm never alone in the backyard, and he
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Speaker 3: always makes sure that there are other people there to
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Speaker 3: humiliate me further because I know that everyone knows what
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Speaker 3: he's doing, and I think you need to read between
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Speaker 3: the lines on this thing.
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Speaker 2: All right, your neighbor has a home garden, and he
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Speaker 2: is growing. Are you outside, sir?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
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Speaker 2: He's growing zucchini too large?
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Speaker 3: He's growing. In other words, what he does is he
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Speaker 3: grows zucchini to about a foot and a half and
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Speaker 3: about seven inches around in his agency. This one. Take
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Speaker 3: a look at this. He does it in front of
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Speaker 3: my wife. He does it in front of my children.
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Speaker 3: I have asked him to stop. He does not stop.
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Speaker 3: He looks at me as if I'm crazy.
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Speaker 2: So you feel he grows zucchini and the people at.
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Speaker 1: Home, because my wife has a garden, you guys should
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Speaker 1: know that zucchini and squash and some tomatoes will grow too.
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Speaker 2: They'll continue to grow until you harvest them. And he's
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Speaker 2: growing them oversized?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but my point is he's doing it on purpose.
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Speaker 3: And the other thing is that we noticed, and my
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Speaker 3: wife mentioned this to me, is he's planting iceberg lettuce
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Speaker 3: and green cabbage on either side of the zucchini. Now,
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Speaker 3: you have to read between the lines, and you have
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Speaker 3: to have a pretty sharp eye on this. But it's
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Speaker 3: obvious what he's trying to do. And I asked myself,
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Speaker 3: and the reason why I wanted to come on your program,
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Speaker 3: what is the purpose of a home garden when you
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Speaker 3: can go to any supermarket and fill two grocery bags
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Speaker 3: with produce and not break a ten, but he's growing
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Speaker 3: zucchini to a foot and a half with cabbage on
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Speaker 3: either side. Obviously, he's got a filthy mind, but when
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Speaker 3: he is holding it up and saying, what do you
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Speaker 3: think of this?
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Speaker 2: So that I know, and the dogs are okay, right?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, they're fine. We're just putting them to the
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Speaker 3: paces right now for the Oxnard Dog Show that's coming up.
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Speaker 1: You think that your friend holding this oversized zucchini over
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Speaker 1: the fence is somehow emasculates you?
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Speaker 3: I think you need to have a pretty sharp eye
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Speaker 3: to see these things, Mr. Henry, but this is a
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Speaker 3: way that some neighbors have of bullying, of humiliating, and
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Speaker 3: of otherwise having fun at other people's expense.
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Speaker 2: But by saying, hey, have you seen this zucchini that
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Speaker 2: I grew in my home garden? It's a foot long.
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Speaker 2: You're saying this is emasculating.
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Speaker 3: I think everybody knows what he's trying to do and
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Speaker 3: what he's trying to say.
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Speaker 2: Which is a compliment on your, or a commentary, a
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Speaker 2: negative commentary on your manhood.
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Speaker 3: That is correct, sir. The fact that he grows cabbage
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Speaker 3: on either side of the zucchini so that it can
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Speaker 3: look like a man's area also.
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Speaker 1: Now, people, a lot of people grow this as a hobby.
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Speaker 1: You say, well, you could go to any supermarket and
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Speaker 1: buy it, wire their home garden. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: do it as a hobby.
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Speaker 3: All right, but that answers that question. But why do
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Speaker 3: they grow them as large as they do? Why would
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Speaker 3: you grow a zucchini to be two feet in length
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Speaker 3: and nine inches around? This is where, if you read
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Speaker 3: between the lines, and not everybody picks up on the clues,
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Speaker 3: but this is an effort on the part of people
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Speaker 3: who grow these vegetables to strip confidence away from men
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Speaker 3: that they don't like. And most of these vegetable gardens
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Speaker 3: are grown by wives. Many of them are. I guess
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Speaker 3: this is their way of saying they're dissatisfied. So they
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Speaker 3: drop hints. And where do these women spend most of
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Speaker 3: their time at night? They're out there weeding.
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Speaker 2: All right. Our number is 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Also, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Renner, if I could interrupt.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead. Do I have to remind you that there
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Speaker 3: are children that are witnessing this pornography? My children, his children,
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Speaker 3: my wife, his wife. All right, so.
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Speaker 1: When he hangs that large zucchini over the fence and says,
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Speaker 1: have you seen what I've grown in my garden, you
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Speaker 1: take that as a pornographic comment and it is.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think it's degrading to the children as well.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir. All right, 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: Stephen Bozell and I, we're going to get to the
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Speaker 1: lawsuit that you are contemplating with your attorney. And if
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Speaker 1: you hear dogs barking in the background, you're in a
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Speaker 1: dog training class, right, in Riverside?
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Speaker 3: That's correct. We're out of Kramers in Riverside.
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Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: You are contemplating a lawsuit. Now tell me what happened
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Speaker 1: on June 16th, all right?
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Speaker 3: At that time, Mr. Hutchins called my wife, who was
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Speaker 3: in the backyard, and said to my wife, April, he said, April,
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Speaker 3: take a look at this. I observed my wife standing
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Speaker 3: at the fence with Mr. Hutchins, She was running her
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Speaker 3: hands over the zucchini, which was a foot and a
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Speaker 3: half in length, approximately seven inches in circumference. I heard
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Speaker 3: her say, oh, God, I wish I could get mine
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Speaker 3: to grow that big, and all these other suggestive comments. Now,
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Speaker 3: she doesn't have a garden. She asked me, and I
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Speaker 3: told her no. So there's no reason why she would
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Speaker 3: stick it in and break it off that way.
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Speaker 2: You suspect your wife of having said this on purpose.
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Speaker 3: I suspect my wife of having said this as a
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Speaker 3: joke with Mr. Hutchins to humiliate me, right.
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Speaker 2: As a comment on your manhood, look at this big
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Speaker 2: zucchini that he grew.
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Speaker 3: I believe that, yes, sir. That's what I confronted Mr. Hutchins.
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Speaker 1: Now, the 911 operator, I don't have the recording, but
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Speaker 1: the 911 operator said that there was police, that police
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Speaker 1: were rolled to your home, right?
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Speaker 3: I shouted some obscenities. He shouted some obscenities. I told
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Speaker 3: him to stay away from my wife because he's trying
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Speaker 3: to send messages to her. Then 911 was called. The
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Speaker 3: police came. No charges were filed, but I'm contemplating a lawsuit.
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Speaker 1: All right, tell us about the lawsuit that you're contemplating
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Speaker 1: because if you're threatening to sue your next-door neighbor because
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Speaker 1: he's taunting you by growing oversized zucchini, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what in civil law gives precedent for this.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm told by my attorney... That we can file
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Speaker 3: a lawsuit for harassment against Mr. Roy Hutchins. That we
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Speaker 3: can also contemplate a lawsuit against Miracle-Gro and a spokesperson
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Speaker 3: for Miracle-Gro, James Whitmore, who stands there on television with
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Speaker 3: a hose talking about Miracle-Gro and making everything bigger while
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Speaker 3: he's holding a hose about waist high. And I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying that.
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Speaker 2: Well, you can't say that that's suggestive.
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Speaker 3: No, but I'm saying that all of that put together...
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Speaker 3: is meant to, in some way, demean me. Mr. Hutchins
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Speaker 3: is a neighbor who thinks it's funny to bully other
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Speaker 3: people around. And if there's anything that we learned, and
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Speaker 3: I guess this is the biggest point that I want
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Speaker 3: to make, Mr. Henry, if we learned anything from 9-11,
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Speaker 3: it's to watch your neighbors. Don't turn a blind eye
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Speaker 3: to their activity.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 3: Muhammad Atta, who was one of the people that flew
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Speaker 3: one of the planes into the World Trade Center, he
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Speaker 3: lived next door to someone, and nobody did a damn thing.
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Speaker 2: Well, how do you keep people from growing these vegetables
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Speaker 2: too big?
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Speaker 1: I mean, if someone grows a vegetable, or is it
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Speaker 1: just the fact that he was hanging the thing over
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Speaker 1: the fence?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think there can be some kind of legislation
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Speaker 3: that can be enacted that tells people to harvest at
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Speaker 3: the proper time in the name of common decency. The
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Speaker 3: police use infrared to spot marijuana groves using infrared light,
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Speaker 3: and we can use the same technology to spot overgrown
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Speaker 3: zucchini or squash or someone... to try and stop the
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Speaker 3: pain that so many of us feel. We do have
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Speaker 3: the technology. I think we do have the resources. I
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Speaker 3: think people are sick of it. I know I'm sick
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 2: You can't tell me that this is a widespread problem,
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Speaker 2: do you?
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Speaker 3: Do you think? Well, but neighborhood bullying is a widespread problem,
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Speaker 3: and these neighbors who think that they're lording it over
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Speaker 3: everybody else, I got a new spa. I got a
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Speaker 3: new pool. i got a new cadillac take a look
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Speaker 3: at how big i'm growing a zucchini and he has
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Speaker 3: my wife over there and it's all very suggestive and
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Speaker 3: it is meant.
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Speaker 1: To specifically what sir is it meant to say look
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Speaker 1: at how big this zucchini is and you're really small
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 3: That that is, if you read between the lines, if
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Speaker 3: you scratch beneath the surface of any bully, you'll find
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Speaker 3: a guy who is trying to tell you that you're
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Speaker 3: not a man. That is absolutely correct. So my lawsuit
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Speaker 3: simply will be designed to make sure that individuals who
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Speaker 3: have home gardens have a common decency to harvest squash
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Speaker 3: or zucchini at a time before it turns into some
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Speaker 3: John Holmes-looking thing. And it leaves me looking stupid in
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Speaker 3: front of my wife and kids.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if we have any people who are
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Speaker 1: home gardeners out there. My wife is a home gardener,
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Speaker 1: and she grows all kinds of things. She has tomatoes.
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Speaker 2: Does she grow zucchini?
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Speaker 1: My wife does grow zucchini, and zucchini can get away
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Speaker 1: from you. It can get big before you know it.
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Speaker 3: Well, everybody knows that the only reason people grow zucchini
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Speaker 3: and squash to these large sizes is to show off.
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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people grow big zucchinis and big swash,
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Speaker 1: giant things to enter into, like blue fairs, you know,
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Speaker 1: and that kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: Well, they say that, but it's really to show off
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Speaker 3: and to say, so how do you feel now? And
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Speaker 3: especially if your wife is growing these things and she
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Speaker 3: comes in and says to you, look at this. I
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Speaker 3: think the message is very clear to me or any man.
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Speaker 3: She says, look at this. And I'm supposed to say, okay,
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Speaker 3: in other words, I'm not big enough or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Well, she's not using the thing as a sex aid.
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Speaker 3: No, sir, I'm not saying that she is. I'm saying
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Speaker 3: it's simply her trying to stick it in and break
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Speaker 3: it off.
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Speaker 1: All right, so the growing of these large zucchinis is
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Speaker 1: humiliating and emasculating. Anybody with a neighborhood garden out there
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Speaker 1: that grows their zucchini or squash too big is humiliating
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Speaker 1: and emasculating any men in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: You are contemplating a lawsuit against your neighbor, Mr.
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Speaker 1: Roy Hutchins, James Whitmore, the spokesperson for Miracle-Gro and Miracle-Gro.
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Speaker 3: That is correct, yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: And you call this some kind of harassment.
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Speaker 3: That is correct. As I said, Mr. Henry, if we
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Speaker 3: learn anything from 9-11, it's what neighbors can do.
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Speaker 1: All right, and just so people know, the dog barking
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Speaker 1: in the background, you're having a dog training class?
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 2: We're talking to Mr.
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Speaker 1: Stephen Bozell of Corona, California, who's suing a next-door neighbor
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Speaker 1: for growing and showing him large zucchini and cabbage. He
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Speaker 1: says the guy is growing it in a suggestive way,
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Speaker 1: which I've never heard of anything like it. He also
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Speaker 1: says that by virtue of the fact that the man's
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Speaker 1: growing oversized zucchini, It somehow is meant as a comment
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Speaker 1: on Mr.
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Speaker 2: Bozell's manhood, and he is suing. Phil Henry Show. The
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Speaker 2: Phil Henry Show is back.
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Speaker 1: At what point does neighborhood bullying include sexual innuendo, especially
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Speaker 1: when it means that a neighbor is growing large-sized zucchini
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Speaker 1: in a home garden as a commentary on your manhood?
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Speaker 2: Mr. Stephen Bozell is with us.
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Speaker 1: He is contemplating a lawsuit against a neighbor who grows
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Speaker 1: oversized zucchini, and you say shows it not only to
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Speaker 1: yourself but to your wife, to your daughter, as.
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Speaker 2: You think a commentary on your manhood. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: Sue on The Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Bozell, are you there?
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Speaker 3: I'm right here, yes, sir. Go ahead, Sue.
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Speaker 2: I'm right here.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Sue. I'm right here.
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Speaker 5: I think this guy has more of an issue with
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Speaker 5: zucchini than he's telling us about. I think it's probably
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Speaker 5: one of the vegetables that his mother did him in
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Speaker 5: with when he was a kid. I mean, is he
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Speaker 5: for real?
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Speaker 3: Are you for real? I'm for real. That you think
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Speaker 3: sexual molestation is a joke?
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Speaker 4: Pardon?
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Speaker 3: That you think sexual molestation is a joke?
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Speaker 5: No, I don't think it's a joke.
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Speaker 3: Well, you start off with some kind of.
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Speaker 6: I think the guy who's carrying on about this issue
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Speaker 6: is a jerk.
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Speaker 3: No, you think that people sexually harassing people is some
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Speaker 3: kind of a joke.
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Speaker 5: It's not sexually harassing. He's being a nice neighbor.
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Speaker 3: I know he's not being nice.
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Speaker 5: He showed me his zucchini.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 5: I had nothing like that to say about it.
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Speaker 3: Why do they grow them?
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Speaker 5: And he put tomatoes on either side of his zucchini.
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Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question? Why do they grow
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Speaker 3: them so big?
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Speaker 5: Why does he grow them so big?
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 4: I've seen lots of big zucchinis.
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Speaker 5: But this man... manhood is threatened by a zucchini.
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Speaker 3: You know what? Hey, you know something, ma'am? 9-11 taught
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Speaker 3: us that we're supposed to watch our neighbors for the
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Speaker 3: things they're doing, okay? And I suppose if you had
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Speaker 3: a next-door neighbor who showed a zucchini... Do you have
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Speaker 3: a daughter?
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Speaker 4: Of course.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean, of course?
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Speaker 5: I have a daughter.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you've got a daughter.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: All right, and you had a next-door neighbor showing her...
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Speaker 3: It's a big zucchini and saying, run your hands all
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Speaker 3: over it and everything.
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Speaker 2: Well, let me be clear. Is your neighbor saying to
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Speaker 2: your little girl, hey, run your hands over this zucchini?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, he is.
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, maybe it's, you know, it's a vegetable.
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Speaker 5: I think, you know what, maybe you're the perverted neighbor.
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Speaker 3: No, I haven't done anything, lady.
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Speaker 6: Maybe he's just trying to be a kind neighbor to you.
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Speaker 3: How's he being a nice neighbor to me when he's
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Speaker 3: coming over and showing me some big John Holmes zucchini?
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Speaker 6: He's proud.
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Speaker 5: He's proud of his zucchini.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I asked him to stop doing it in front
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Speaker 3: of my daughter, though.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's your problem.
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Speaker 3: How's that my problem? You're antagonizing him. How's that my problem?
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Speaker 3: I just said don't do it in front of my daughter. See,
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Speaker 3: you don't have an answer for that. So what we're
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Speaker 3: saying here, Phil, is that this is the kind of
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Speaker 3: harassment that has been going on, I think, with all
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Speaker 3: the molestations that are going on among young people, with
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Speaker 3: all the things that are happening with... young girls being
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Speaker 3: threatened and everything.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're not a young girl, though. You're a grown man.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think it starts here with some guy goes
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Speaker 3: out and because he can't, you know, do anything dirty
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Speaker 3: to a kid, he'll grow this kind of vegetable as
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Speaker 3: a phallic innuendo. And I won't allow a garden on
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Speaker 3: my property. And the reason why is because I think
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Speaker 3: I'm a common, decent man trying to live a common,
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Speaker 3: decent life. And I won't have that filth.
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Speaker 2: All right, let me go to Bill here. Bill, you're
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Speaker 2: on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, go ahead.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not entirely sure if this is satire or not,
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Speaker 4: because this guy is just so hard to believe.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask, yeah, I've got to ask you, Mr. Bozell,
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Speaker 1: are you doing this as some kind of a joke
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Speaker 1: on the judicial system?
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Speaker 3: Mr. Henry, I can assure you and your caller, as
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Speaker 3: I just mentioned, there's been a rash of sexual molestation
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Speaker 3: in this country with children being abducted. Why would I
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Speaker 3: make a joke out of that?
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Speaker 6: Sir, you have.
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Speaker 4: The issue is not the size of this guy's zucchini.
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Speaker 4: If he's making these statements that you said to your daughter,
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Speaker 4: then that's a separate issue entirely. It would have nothing
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Speaker 4: to do with the actual size of the zucchini.
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Speaker 3: No, he's saying to my.
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Speaker 4: He's doing the company that makes the zucchini, and what's
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Speaker 4: his name? The spokesman, Whitmore? That's ridiculous. You're blowing this
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Speaker 4: out of proportion.
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Speaker 3: No, sir.
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Speaker 4: One thing has nothing to do with the other.
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Speaker 3: I'm saying to you... If a man says to a
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Speaker 3: daughter of yours, hey, have you ever seen such a
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Speaker 3: nice big zucchini, and she's running her hands all over it,
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Speaker 3: does that not give you pause?
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Speaker 4: That might give you pause, but it has nothing to
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Speaker 4: do with this man growing zucchini large. They grow tomatoes large.
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Speaker 4: They grow fruit large. They grow everything larger in order
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Speaker 4: to feed more people, probably. But it has nothing to
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Speaker 4: do with the size. If the guy's acting inappropriately, he's
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Speaker 4: acting inappropriately. It has nothing to do with the size
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Speaker 4: of the zucchini. I think you're just bringing that part
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Speaker 4: up because you're a very strange individual looking for some attention.
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Speaker 3: No, sir. Well, sir, I don't mind being insulted.
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Speaker 2: I don't think the gentleman's insulting you. I think he's saying,
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Speaker 2: is this man being inappropriate with your daughter?
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Speaker 3: He said to her, he said to my daughter, Cynthia,
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Speaker 3: come on over and see the big zucchini.
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Speaker 1: And you call that some kind of sexual harassment or
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Speaker 1: molestation of your daughter?
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Speaker 3: Well, he's hanging this big John Holmes-looking thing in front
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Speaker 3: of her.
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Speaker 4: It depends on the context and that would be for
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Speaker 4: court to determine if you want to.
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Speaker 3: Bring this uh.
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Speaker 4: lawsuit That's fine if you have a basis for it.
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Speaker 4: If not, it's a frivolous suit, and you're the reason
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Speaker 4: why society has become so screwed up in that all
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Speaker 4: we're doing is suing each other now. You're the reason
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Speaker 4: why attorney's fees should be awarded to the winner of
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Speaker 4: a lawsuit when a frivolous lawsuit is brought. That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: You're wasting the resources of the courts. and everyone's tax money.
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Speaker 4: Why can't you just take this up with your neighbor
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Speaker 4: and deal with it like people used to?
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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: I'm an attorney and I'm saying this.
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Speaker 3: Sir, I'm perfectly willing not to prosecute this on a
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Speaker 3: civil matter. I'm asking the local authorities and municipal authorities
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Speaker 3: if they can use some kind of infrared. What are you.
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Speaker 4: Talking about, infrared? The issue is not the size of
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Speaker 4: the zucchini. If the man is making inferences... to your daughter,
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Speaker 4: then that's another issue. That is possibly an actionable thing
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Speaker 4: that the police should get in on. But if it's
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Speaker 4: just the size of the zucchini, that's nothing.
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Speaker 2: That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: What, are you going to go after the cucumber and
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Speaker 4: the pickle people next? You're a very strange man.
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Speaker 3: Sir, I'm a father of two children. I'm a tax-paying
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Speaker 3: business owner. I think it starts with a lot of things.
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Speaker 3: It could be zucchini, and next thing... This guy Hutchins,
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Speaker 3: who's growing avocados and peaches, and he starts showing my
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Speaker 3: daughter how the zucchini and the peach pit fit together
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Speaker 3: or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: But you didn't hear what this man said. If he's
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Speaker 2: doing something inappropriate, then you talk specifically about that. What
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Speaker 2: did he say? Come on over and look at the zucchini?
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Speaker 3: Both of you gentlemen know what I'm talking about. Read
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Speaker 3: between the lines. read between the lines.
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Speaker 4: I still cannot take you seriously. I believe that you are,
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Speaker 4: that you're perpetrating a joke on the radio to make.
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Speaker 2: Fun of everybody out there.
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Speaker 4: I cannot believe that you are serious about this. It's
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Speaker 4: not possible that you are serious about this.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, and I think that you know what
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Speaker 3: I'm saying, that some things are phallic innuendo. Now, would
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Speaker 3: you not call that harassment?
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Speaker 2: Just saying to a kid, do you want to see
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Speaker 2: the zucchini I'm growing in my garden, is not necessarily
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Speaker 2: phallic innuendo, as you put it.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay. So all of a sudden you're a genius.
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Speaker 3: This other gentleman is an attorney, and I'll certainly go
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Speaker 3: with what he is saying, but I think it's upsetting
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Speaker 3: the thought of a garden owner... It's all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden hanging out zucchinis and everything. That's all I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to say.
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Speaker 4: What if, let's put it in this context. You show dogs.
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Speaker 4: If you're showing poodles and somebody shows up with a Doberman,
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Speaker 4: is that emasculating your dogs? I mean, that's the expense
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Speaker 4: you're getting to.
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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
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Speaker 4: You're just blowing this way out of proportion.
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Speaker 6: I really.
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Speaker 4: Are you a father, sir?
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Speaker 3: Are you a father?
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Speaker 4: I can't take it seriously.
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Speaker 3: Are you a father, sir? Are you a father?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I am a father.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, the next time some guy starts growing
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Speaker 3: some John Holmes-looking zucchini next door to you, and your
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Speaker 3: wife and your daughter see this.
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Speaker 2: John Holmes-looking zucchini.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope that he offers some up for us
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Speaker 4: so we can cook it up and have a nice meal.
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Speaker 2: All right, Bill, thanks.
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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. I will tell you what is emasculating
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Speaker 3: as a wiener dog....
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Speaker 2: All right, hold on. 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: People growing oversized zucchini in gardens. Is it emasculating? Is
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Speaker 1: it a sexual phallic innuendo? This man thinks so. He's
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Speaker 1: suing his neighbor.
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Speaker 2: And now more on the Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 3: When you go into a supermarket, you do not see
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Speaker 3: them putting out oversized zucchinis in a supermarket. The only
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Speaker 3: place you're going to see that... is is is on
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Speaker 3: these home gardens and a lot of these people who
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Speaker 3: have these home gardens these gardens where they're growing their
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Speaker 3: own vegetables in the backyard have sexual hang-ups have some
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Speaker 3: kinds of sexual perversions and are trying some kind of
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Speaker 3: as i say sexual innuendo which i think is wrong
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Speaker 3: the garden that mr hutchins has and i took this
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Speaker 3: up with my attorney is purposefully aimed if you can
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Speaker 3: believe this at an empty garage now i have to
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Speaker 3: ask myself is he sending a message to To me.
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Speaker 2: Is he... What are you saying?
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Speaker 1: Are you saying that the zucchini he's growing is aimed
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Speaker 1: at an empty garage and so therefore that is some
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Speaker 1: symbol of relations, sexual relations?
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Speaker 3: Yes, well, I'm saying my attorney said that that is
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Speaker 3: a possibility. All meant and designed to harass my family.
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Speaker 2: Let me go to Jane on the Phil Henry Show. Jane,
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Speaker 2: go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I was just listening to this and I'm thinking
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Speaker 5: if you're having such a problem with the 911 effect
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Speaker 5: that that it had on us. True, it did have
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Speaker 5: an effect on us.
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Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, it did. Tremendous. Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 5: But should we start watching all of this? And if
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Speaker 5: growing a zucchini that's a large zucchini is having such
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Speaker 5: a profound effect on you, why don't you just buy
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Speaker 5: it from your neighbor, cook it, and eat it?
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, I'm not going to bring that into my home.
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Speaker 3: As I said to you, It is sexual innuendo.
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Speaker 5: You're already bringing it into your home. You're making so
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Speaker 5: much of it until now you've got your wife and
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Speaker 5: your little daughter involved in it.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if you have children, but I think
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Speaker 3: as a father to stand there.
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Speaker 5: Of course I have children. I have children, and I
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Speaker 5: teach children. But the thing is, if that zucchini is
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Speaker 5: having such an effect on you and you're telling your
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Speaker 5: wife is bringing it to your attention and all this,
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Speaker 5: I would just buy the whole lot of zucchini that.
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Speaker 3: He's grown and I'd tell her, let's cook this up
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Speaker 3: and we'll eat it. If there's something that the Elizabeth
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Speaker 3: Smart case or any of these cases, these child abduction
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Speaker 3: cases has taught us, you stand there and you see
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Speaker 3: your little girl. My little girl is five years old
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Speaker 3: and I love her. I worship the ground she walks on.
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Speaker 3: And here's this guy showing her.
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Speaker 6: Do you know what you're doing to your little girl
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Speaker 6: when you try to insinuate that a zucchini is doing
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Speaker 6: something that can cause some harm to her other.
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Speaker 5: Than fill her little tummy? Do you know what you're
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Speaker 5: doing to your daughter?
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, would you not be afraid for the safety of
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Speaker 3: your children if you saw your neighbor's garden? The man
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Speaker 3: has purposefully grown an overgrown zucchini with cabbage on either
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Speaker 3: side aimed toward an empty garage. You have to read.
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Speaker 4: Between the lines.
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Speaker 5: You know what? I would be just as sick as
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Speaker 5: you are sounding to me right now if I had
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Speaker 5: the same mind that you had about a garden. I
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Speaker 5: don't care if it was pointing to an empty garage
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Speaker 5: or the mall.
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, are you a home gardener?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not.
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Speaker 5: I don't grow vegetables, but I do love them.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I love vegetables too. I go to the supermarket,
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Speaker 3: but I've never been to a supermarket where they got
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Speaker 3: some big John Holmes zucchini.
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Speaker 5: Well, I was just in a little town not too
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Speaker 5: far from Columbus here where they had giant grown watermelons
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Speaker 5: and they had giant cantaloupes. What if I got offended
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Speaker 5: because the cantaloupes were very, very big?
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Speaker 3: I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: Well, she's saying what if they were larger than a
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Speaker 2: woman's breasts, okay?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Larger than a woman's breasts
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Speaker 5: and just rounded, perfectly rounded. What if I walked up
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Speaker 5: and said, okay, that's it. Throw all of these out.
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Speaker 5: I'd be sick as you are.
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, I would say you take that up with your
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Speaker 3: pastor or who your minister is. Okay?
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Speaker 5: It's good that you would say that. That is just
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Speaker 5: good that you would say that. You need to talk
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Speaker 5: to your pastor.
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Speaker 3: Why is it? that at one end of the zucchini
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Speaker 3: there's cauliflower? Why is it that on either side there's cabbage?
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Speaker 3: Why is it that it's pointed at an empty garage?
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Speaker 5: Because that's where he planted his garden.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think you're a woman.
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Speaker 5: Hey, I'll tell you what to do. To calm all
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Speaker 5: of this down.
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Speaker 3: And to give you a peace of mind.
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Speaker 5: Why don't you plant a garden and plant the very
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Speaker 5: same things that he did and show your little girl
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Speaker 5: that they don't all grow.
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Speaker 2: The same size? Yeah, and harvest the zucchini and say, look,
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Speaker 2: zucchini's this big.
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Speaker 1: I know what you're saying, Steve. You go to the supermarket,
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Speaker 1: most zucchini is normal size. My wife grows zucchini, okay?
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Speaker 3: Does she grow it the Big John Holmes size?
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Speaker 2: Well, you keep saying the Big John Holmes size, okay?
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Speaker 3: I tried. I can't grow Big Zucchini, number one.
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Speaker 2: Well, you don't have to. You don't have to grow
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Speaker 2: Big Zucchini.
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Speaker 3: Well, how come he gets to?
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Speaker 2: Well, maybe he's using Miracle-Gro.
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Speaker 6: Jesus.
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Speaker 5: John just needs to get, John needs to find something
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Speaker 5: else to do besides watch that man's garden. That's the problem.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you for your call. And to, who's
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Speaker 2: your attorney again?
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Speaker 3: Dolores Blazingame of Riverside, California.
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Speaker 2: All right, here is Tom. Go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you actually have an attorney that took this case?
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Speaker 3: Ma'am, sir, I'm sorry. Dolores Blazingame is my attorney in Riverside, California.
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Speaker 4: Did she actually think that you have a chance, any.
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Speaker 3: Chance at all? What she said to me was that
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Speaker 3: there is specific laws against neighbors harassing you. There is
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Speaker 3: specific law against neighbors harassing you, yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: And you call that harassment, the size of a zucchini.
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Speaker 4: You know what it sounds like to me? It sounds
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Speaker 4: like you are just insecure because you have a small penis.
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Speaker 3: Is that your problem? Let me ask you a question.
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Speaker 3: You got a penis the size of a large zucchini? No.
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Speaker 3: What man does, no. But this guy is trying to
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Speaker 3: make an issue out of that.
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Speaker 4: Listen, pal, we're all, you know, the American average is
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Speaker 4: six and a half inches. We're all somewhere in the middle.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine. So what's this guy hanging some zucchini,
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Speaker 3: growing it with two cabbages on either side?
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Speaker 4: Well, he's just growing a zucchini.
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Speaker 6: But you're so insecure, pal, because you have such a
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Speaker 6: small penis that you're taking this as some insult on
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Speaker 6: your manhood.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's what it is, right?
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Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Let me ask you a question. If somebody called you,
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Speaker 3: you know, a bad word like the F word, wouldn't
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Speaker 3: you want to beat him up? If somebody said that
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Speaker 3: you weren't a man, wouldn't you want to beat him up? Well,
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Speaker 3: what do you mean? It depends on what they said. Well,
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Speaker 3: if he said you were gay. Or you liked other
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Speaker 3: boys or some stuff like that? I wouldn't beat him up.
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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, no, I'm not gay.
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Speaker 3: I mean, so, you know, just the fact that some
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Speaker 3: guy has a big zucchini.
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Speaker 1: Some guys are not going to get violent over another
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Speaker 1: guy's comment on their manhood, all right?
27:41
Speaker 2: You had nine. You called the police.
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Speaker 3: I did not call the police.
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Speaker 1: Well, somebody was frightened enough to call the police over
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Speaker 1: to this guy's house. You got up in this guy's face.
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Speaker 1: You say that this guy showing your daughter a large
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Speaker 1: zucchini was sexual harassment.
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Speaker 2: And you haven't said anything yet. as to how that
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Speaker 2: might be the case.
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Speaker 3: He says, look at this. And it's a big John
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Speaker 3: Holmes-looking thing. Big John.
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Speaker 4: Let me go again with the John Holmes thing. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you know, here you go. You're comparing it to.
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Speaker 5: Porn stars that, you know, I mean, you're insecure.
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Speaker 4: That's your problem. You're small, buddy, and you don't want
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Speaker 4: to admit it.
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Speaker 3: Well, okay, fine, whatever you say. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you for your call.
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Speaker 3: Wouldn't you be insulted, Mr. Henry, if you were a
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Speaker 3: man and your neighbor brought over a peapod with two
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Speaker 3: cherry tomatoes attached to the side and said, here you go, Steve,
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Speaker 3: I thought this would make you feel better?
28:29
Speaker 2: If my name was Steve... What is going on with
28:31
Speaker 2: those dogs?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, but one of them just licked on
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Speaker 3: my leg.
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Speaker 2: That's great. I think your dog is bugged that you're
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Speaker 2: on this show. 1-800-449-8686. Is that it? Yeah, that's it, man.
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Speaker 2: You got your story out.
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Speaker 3: Well, I do have a hotline number if anybody wants
28:47
Speaker 3: to call and donate to a defense fund. Oh, ha, ha.
28:53
Speaker 2: Go ahead, give your number.
28:54
Speaker 3: 213 to the Steve O'Zell Fund where we would like
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Speaker 3: people to donate money for my legal expenses. I'm prosecuting
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Speaker 3: a neighbor who is intent on harassing me by making
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Speaker 3: me feel less of a man by purposefully growing.
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Speaker 2: John Holmes looking zucchini.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Well, I guess that's it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks a lot.
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