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Gilmore Girls Gazette: Parenthood: To Bakersfield by the way of the Grand Canyon? (Season 3 E12 “Road Trip”) · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all in again.
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  Speaker 2: You you'll more Girls Gazette with Amy Sugarman and Danielle Romo,
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  Speaker 2: an iHeart Radio podcast.
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  Speaker 3: We are back for another episode again.
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  Speaker 1: My girls gets that.
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  Speaker 4: Parent had addition, do you like that? Really good?
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  Speaker 3: Parent?
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  Speaker 4: I liked it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Parent addition, Yes, your voice is lovely. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it is. It is not.
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  Speaker 3: You don't understand how many times my child tells me
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  Speaker 3: to stop saying.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, that's not good.
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  Speaker 3: You're speaking no more such a lovely no more mama.
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  Speaker 1: No more, mama, politely.
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  Speaker 4: Well you can sing here. We think you sound great.
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  Speaker 4: Politely what Oh my god, wait before we start, please
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  Speaker 4: just say what you just said.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So we jump on the zoom and I go,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: She goes, oh my god, oh my god, like that.
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  Speaker 3: And then I looked deeper, like closer to my phone
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  Speaker 3: and it said, Laura Graham is following you.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up, Laura Graham. We'd love you whoever you are.
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  Speaker 4: You are fantastic and Laura Graham, but she thought it
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  Speaker 4: was it was Lauren Graham.
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  Speaker 3: I got really really excited. I'm still excited for the
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  Speaker 3: follow Laura.
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  Speaker 4: Did you know I was today years old, today years old.
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  Speaker 4: When I learned that Erica Christensen and Sam Jaeger Yeager
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  Speaker 4: are last name Graham on parenthood, I had no idea
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  Speaker 4: you'd never known their last name. Yeah, Juel and Julia Graham.
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  Speaker 4: I did not remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 4: Noopy did not know that.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if he.
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  Speaker 3: Did that based off of Lauren. Are there any holts?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? Are there any holts?
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  Speaker 1: Like? Is there any writer or director in May?
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  Speaker 4: I do not know? All great questions. Okay, this is
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  Speaker 4: great eisode. As an overview, this is really fun. I
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  Speaker 4: was super excited they were going to Bakersfield road trip.
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  Speaker 4: But I have a few flags on the play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's many flags. I'll synopsize first and then we'll chat.
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  Speaker 3: But seeking his mother's approval, Zeke demands the entire family
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  Speaker 3: caravan on a road trip, where they encounter many roadblocks
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  Speaker 3: along the way. While spending time on the road, Adam
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  Speaker 3: connects with Hattie, Sarah confronts an embarrassing issue with Drew,
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  Speaker 3: and Julia learns to appreciate Crosby's odd personality. Meanwhile, Christina
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  Speaker 3: struggles to enforce a harsh punishment she gave to Max
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  Speaker 3: for acting.
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  Speaker 4: Now, so a lot of talk about, a lot to
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  Speaker 4: talk about. But my first thing is I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what Bakersfield these people were going to. But there are
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  Speaker 4: no hills like that in Bakersfield. There are no hills.
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  Speaker 4: Bakersfield is the flattest flat in California. And these people
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  Speaker 4: were going to the Grand Canyon. Like I was like,
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  Speaker 4: where are they going? It's not Bakersfield.
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  Speaker 3: So question for you, how long does it take to
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  Speaker 3: get from the Bay to.
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  Speaker 4: Bakeley to Bakersfield on the five? Would be say four
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  Speaker 4: four and a half hours.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense because this road trip felt long.
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  Speaker 3: But from La where I live, it's only a two
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  Speaker 3: hour drive.
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  Speaker 4: Right, but there in Berkeley, but still right they stop, Look,
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  Speaker 4: it was realistic that they stopped for lunch, but they
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  Speaker 4: just start not going to bakers They're literally going to
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  Speaker 4: Bakersfield by way of the Grand Canyon. Like it's so right,
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  Speaker 4: or like literally just going it's not. It's just very
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  Speaker 4: strange and they're like in hills and looking at beautiful
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  Speaker 4: views like that's not at all for the road from
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  Speaker 4: Berkeley to Bakersfield is the five. It's flat, there's nothing
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  Speaker 4: to look at there's nowhere to stop. Harris Ranch would
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  Speaker 4: be it. They are clearly going from La through Topanga Cave.
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  Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, Like went through the
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  Speaker 4: canyon and felled there. That's not anything Baker's fieldy.
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  Speaker 3: You know I know this about you. You are a
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  Speaker 3: car road trip kind of goal.
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  Speaker 4: Love it, love it, love my car. So I just
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  Speaker 4: like hate it. I here's what I like. A four
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  Speaker 4: hour drive is great. When I start to have to
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  Speaker 4: do a seven to eight hour drive and start to
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  Speaker 4: be like long, But I don't mind driving. I like driving.
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  Speaker 4: Like two hours is like nothing to me. Like I'll
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  Speaker 4: go two hours. I'll drive an hour to get a
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  Speaker 4: burrito and drive back. It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I hate I hate driving. I hate it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you hate being a passenger?
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  Speaker 1: I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: I hate it being as I get I get really nauseous.
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  Speaker 1: Car.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you drive?
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  Speaker 1: I just because I don't like driving.
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  Speaker 4: Oh see, I don't like being the passenger. I I
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  Speaker 4: rarely am a passenger. The other day my mom had
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  Speaker 4: to drive because I was falling asleep. I was just
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  Speaker 4: so tired. But otherwise I never a passenger. That was
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  Speaker 4: the first time I've been a passenger in probably years
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  Speaker 4: and years.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, well, I this this episode started with a bang.
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  Speaker 3: Like literally, when I first saw it happening, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: they're not having sex, but he thinks they're having sex.
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  Speaker 1: Like I didn't actually, Oh no, they were, No, I.
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  Speaker 3: Know they were, but I thought maybe, like this whole episode,
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  Speaker 3: Drew was going to think that his that they were
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  Speaker 3: having sex, but then find out later like they were.
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  Speaker 4: That whole storyline is so funny, especially when Amber tells
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  Speaker 4: sarahs Lauren Graham that he saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, she was great. May Whitman was great
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  Speaker 1: when she Drew.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that Drew told Amber and didn't keep it to himself, right, But.
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  Speaker 3: I love that Amber was like to her mom like,
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  Speaker 3: look I'm enlightened. And even I find this gross. I
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  Speaker 3: thought that was.
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  Speaker 4: The whole storyline was really good and it was funny,
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  Speaker 4: and it was well done throughout. I have to say,
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  Speaker 4: every storyline was actually pretty great.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god.
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  Speaker 4: And then on that same thing when clearly Jason ritter
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  Speaker 4: Mark is like saying dirty stuff to Lauren Graham on
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  Speaker 4: the phone, and oh god, what do you think of
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  Speaker 4: Max's punishment? I'm taking a pivot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I had somebody very wise tell me when
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  Speaker 3: you go to like punish your kid in the sense
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  Speaker 3: of like, oh, you're not I'm taking this away or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: it's to take away items and not memories. So like
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  Speaker 3: somebody told sure, they're like sure, when you when you
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  Speaker 3: go to punish a kid for uh, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: this sense or in this case Max calling Christina bitch.
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  Speaker 1: You take away the.
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  Speaker 3: TV, you take a the phone, you take away the
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  Speaker 3: favorite toy, you take away this, but you don't take
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  Speaker 3: away the family trip or you don't take away there your.
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  Speaker 4: Kids supposed to go to a concert with their friends.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know it's it's like way
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  Speaker 3: easier said than done.
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  Speaker 1: But I heard like like, you.
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  Speaker 4: Can't have a kid do something terrible and then go,
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  Speaker 4: I know at Coachella, Like you can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know it's way easier so than done,
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  Speaker 3: but I did. I did appreciate, like when somebody told
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  Speaker 3: me that was like that makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think it depends on what it is.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't yet it does, because you can't have a
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  Speaker 4: teenager be like, you know I stole the car. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to take a memory away, So please
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  Speaker 4: go to outside lands, do you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 4: you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You can take away the car right right, right, right, but.
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  Speaker 4: You can't just let them be like oh now you
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  Speaker 4: don't totally. I think good good effort. I think that
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  Speaker 4: maybe works for young children, right that you don't say
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  Speaker 4: to the young child, oh, now you don't get to
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  Speaker 4: go to the birthday party. You just say no, you
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  Speaker 4: don't get your you know, screen time or whatever. Right.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, look, ah, I haven't obviously encountered this
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  Speaker 3: yet because my son doesn't know that the B word.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, that is tough.
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  Speaker 3: I can only imagine like how that feels being on
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  Speaker 3: the other side of that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, parenting is hard, right, So I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean the only flag that I have on this is
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  Speaker 3: like Max literally was like, well, you told me we
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  Speaker 3: weren't gonna it's gonna be just like last time where
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  Speaker 3: you told me that I couldn't go to the.
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  Speaker 1: Movie and we still want to movie.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Christina, he just kind of saved again.
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  Speaker 4: It's like almost that the punishment worked because then he
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  Speaker 4: cleaned his room, made the dinner for some of all.
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  Speaker 4: The giant bowl of carrots was so legit and then
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  Speaker 4: she decides to go. So I sort of thought I
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  Speaker 4: liked how it kind of turned out neted.
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  Speaker 3: Out again, easier so than done, But like I think,
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  Speaker 3: you just when you do it, you got to stick
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  Speaker 3: to it, all right, you're not going on the trip.
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  Speaker 4: I would never be able to do that, like never.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I can such a piece of work when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to that, and we'd be like, it's okay,
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  Speaker 3: we can go, but yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: What did you think about Zeek being like mad that
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  Speaker 4: Adam didn't put his foot down. That was kind of
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  Speaker 4: like and then Adam's like, yeah, put my foot down,
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  Speaker 4: Like what yeah?
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  Speaker 3: But I think Adam also kind of shoved him and
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  Speaker 3: like shoved it back at him when he was like,
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  Speaker 3: you told me I need to set boundaries with my kids,
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  Speaker 3: Well I am, so I thought I was like, good job, Adam.
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  Speaker 4: The fact that the chair actually got stolen was so hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: It was so funny.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, though, they've turned a four hour road
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  Speaker 4: trip into like a two day affair. To the lunch
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  Speaker 4: and then they got to get to the motel, like
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  Speaker 4: Grandma's house is like eight minutes from them, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like they really made it seemed like Bakersfield was so
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  Speaker 4: far right they should have just made it Phoenix or something.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, But anyway, what.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think of Hattie and Adam's little heart to heart?
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  Speaker 4: Eventually it was cute. I also understood she was sort
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  Speaker 4: of just doing her thing in the car, right, she
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  Speaker 4: kind of overreacted. But I liked the whole I liked
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  Speaker 4: it all. I liked it all. I liked them in
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  Speaker 4: that little gift shop and the whole thing. Yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 3: And I think a lot of you know, parents who
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  Speaker 3: had kids go to high school or college, like get that.
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  Speaker 3: Get that, like, oh, one day or soon, you're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna I'm not gonna see you every day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and our dynamic is going to change and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be really hard for me and YadA YadA.
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  Speaker 1: So I like that they acknowledged that.
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  Speaker 4: Is she now a senior. She's a senior. Now, she's
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  Speaker 4: a senior now. Yeah, yeah, no, All the storylines are great.
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  Speaker 4: I love that Crosby and Jabbar went in the car
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  Speaker 4: with Sidney, Julia and Joel and they're all like joking around.
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  Speaker 4: The whole thing was funny. That was great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did think the meat of this episode was
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  Speaker 3: definitely between Zeke and his mom, which is interesting because
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  Speaker 3: she's a new character, right, But you learn a lot
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  Speaker 3: about Zeke in this situation that his mom was a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, you know, more tough on him, didn't necessarily
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  Speaker 3: say I love you every day. I didn't really shower
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  Speaker 3: him with warm and fuzzies, you know, like you can
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  Speaker 3: tell she was she was a you know, a harder
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  Speaker 3: mom and didn't wasn't really that emotional.
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  Speaker 4: I think that was Bunny McDougall. Oh, okay, do you
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  Speaker 4: know Bunny McDougall.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, but I'm like, okay, the fact that you.
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  Speaker 4: Just oky did that? Do you watch Sex and the City.
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  Speaker 4: Can somebody check and see if that same woman that
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  Speaker 4: played Zeke's mom is Bunny McDougall, Trey Charlotte's mother in law,
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  Speaker 4: the very challenging mother in law for Charlotte.
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  Speaker 1: Do I have a being braverman?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's her character's name, I am correct, Francis Jr.
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  Speaker 1: And Higgins.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So on Sex and the City, Bunny McDougall is
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  Speaker 4: like super famous, like a character like Charlotte really has
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  Speaker 4: a tough time with her because it's just very complicated.
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  Speaker 4: Go watch Sex in the City and listen to Kristen's podcast.
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  Speaker 4: But so this is many years later, So this was
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  Speaker 4: like I think that was maybe this might be ten
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  Speaker 4: years late. When was this when what's the date of
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  Speaker 4: this episode?
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  Speaker 1: When was this the twenty twelve?
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  Speaker 4: Right, so this is like ten years after she was
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  Speaker 4: Bundy mcdogal. Anyway, she's quite recognizable. The actress playing Zeke's
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  Speaker 4: mother was good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but then you know, we see Zeke's like basically
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  Speaker 3: tell his mom. One thing that I did differently with
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  Speaker 3: my kids than I had growing up was I tell them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, no matter what happens that day, that I
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  Speaker 3: love them.
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  Speaker 1: It's like no.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and they kind of the kids kind of acknowledge
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  Speaker 4: it at the diner because Camille kind of says, look,
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  Speaker 4: he's nervous his mom blah blah blah, right, and they
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  Speaker 4: sort of say, like, look at us, you did a
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  Speaker 4: great job. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And also when Camille said the story about how he
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  Speaker 3: wanted to be an actor and told his mom and
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  Speaker 3: the mom was like, well, what's so special about you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and look at him on that boat doing that commercial.
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  Speaker 1: I do think like.
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  Speaker 3: The old that older generation wasn't really that big on
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  Speaker 3: I love yous, or I'm proud of you, or I'm
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  Speaker 3: you know, uh, that.
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  Speaker 1: Type of stuff they were.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I think it's a case by case
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  Speaker 4: because like my grandparents told me that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah the time.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just case by case. Some people are
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  Speaker 4: more closed off.
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  Speaker 3: It reminded me a lot not to bring everything back
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  Speaker 3: to Housewives, but if you watch Beverly Hills when Sutton
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  Speaker 3: needs like brings the girls to meet her mother, and
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  Speaker 3: her mother's is like traditional Southern hard ass, like tough
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  Speaker 3: as males type of girl, and you know, she confronted
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  Speaker 3: her about that, like, I'm all I wanted you to
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  Speaker 3: do is to tell me that you love me and
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: that I never got that very special episode of the
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't know they.
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  Speaker 4: Did that kind of stuff. You know. What I think
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  Speaker 4: is that Craig T. Nilson does not get enough credit
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  Speaker 4: for how awesome he is in Parents Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And same with come One.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, why am I blanking on her name?
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  Speaker 3: Bonnie Badelia.
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  Speaker 1: She's incredible. She says so much without saying anything.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Like I think that they don't get as much. I look,
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: Paranoid is so interesting because it's just a complete ensemble.
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  Speaker 4: There is no star, there's no one star. It's definitely
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: like all these people carry this show.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. I definitely agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: Like even on Paradise, right, Sterling Brown is the star,
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  Speaker 4: Sterling Ki, Sterling k Brown k without the k if
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  Speaker 4: the gothrowna, He's the star with all these other people.
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  Speaker 4: But this there is no true lead. They're all equal.
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  Speaker 3: It's like every episode has a different lead. Today it's Zeke. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Zeke is the lead of this episode.
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  Speaker 4: I also was super happy with the go to Baker's
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  Speaker 4: Field because it really was different. It took us out,
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  Speaker 4: it was super different. They're all in the scenes together.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, well done. Whoever thought of this idea? Great one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to give it almost a ten on nine
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  Speaker 4: point seven.
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: And you know what I have to say too, is
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we're in season three, almost knowne in
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  Speaker 3: season three and like things great, really redundant right now,
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  Speaker 3: and they have not.
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  Speaker 4: You are you so accurate with that? Very fresh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're right, we're not. We're not getting redundant, we're not
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  Speaker 4: getting trophy. Very fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Agree, it's a new a new obstacle each time.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great show. It really is like there's so
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: many shows to watch, so it's like, but this is
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: a great rewatch. I have to say, like, if you're
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: just looking for a show, this is it.
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  Speaker 1: This is it, this is great.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Honestly, I will say it, probably for the six thousandth time,
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  Speaker 3: thank you guys for voting for us to rewatch this.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: I really I love this show.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I would have rewatched it if not
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  Speaker 4: for the voting, and I'm glad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 3: My radio I'm going to give it a nine to
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  Speaker 3: seven five.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, we're both given it high marks.
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  Speaker 3: Well, next episode is called just Smile Don't know What.
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