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Christmas memories · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had chestnuts roasted on an open fire? No?
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had chestnuts? I don't have you ever
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  Speaker 1: seen chestnuts?
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  Speaker 2: Is this leading up to a joke?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not a joke, it's a question. It's just
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  Speaker 1: one of those standard crit chestnuts roasting on an open five.
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  Speaker 1: But I've never I don't think I've ever encountered a
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  Speaker 1: chestnut before.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't think so. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember off the top of my head when I've
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  Speaker 2: eaten one.
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  Speaker 1: I know I've never run into twelve pipers piping, but
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  Speaker 1: well maybe it's a dude operate. But aside from that,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that chestnuts have ever come across my path.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: They don't sound enticing.
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  Speaker 1: Well I don't know they maybe I wouldn't know. Way
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  Speaker 1: do you get the chestnuts? Can you buy them anywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Can you run down to like Kroger and can get
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  Speaker 1: a bag of chestnuts?
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  Speaker 2: Actually? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Can you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You probably can't.
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  Speaker 2: A whole roasted and peeled chestnuts five point two ounces
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  Speaker 2: three ninety.
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  Speaker 1: Nine they really have? Are they can? Or are they like?
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  Speaker 1: Actually they're in a bag, They're in a bag. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've never known anyone to have chestnuts. Now I'm very
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  Speaker 1: curious as to what they because that song's been in
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  Speaker 1: my head today because it is that time of year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's here. It says chestnuts have a unique mild sweet,
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  Speaker 2: mildly sweet, earthy and nutty flavor with a starchy, creamy texture.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder, after you roast them on an open fire,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? Do you do you crack them
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  Speaker 1: open and eat the inset or does the whole thing edible?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a see? I'm just I don't know. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's been in my head. The song's been
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  Speaker 1: in my head. I can't get it out. And now
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  Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with knowing everything I can know about chestnut.
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  Speaker 2: That says they're very healthy, low fat, low collery nut,
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  Speaker 2: packed in fiber and antioxidants.
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm, maybe I had to get some chestnuts and roast
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  Speaker 1: them on an open fire.
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  Speaker 2: Oh here's a here's a trivia question. Chestnuts are both
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  Speaker 2: a fruit and a.
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  Speaker 1: True legiume nut. Oh really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, if you say, I might actually try,
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  Speaker 1: just because I'm blatantly curious now about the chestnuts. So
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  Speaker 1: it is, you know, it's the night before, the night
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  Speaker 1: before Christmas, and all through the house, and so I've
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  Speaker 1: tried to be Christmasy this week in spite of some
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  Speaker 1: of the people around me sometimes and took the grandkids
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  Speaker 1: down to Columbus Commons on Sunday for the they've got
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  Speaker 1: that what they call the wander lights, not wonder but
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  Speaker 1: wander lights. I took them down there, and the lights
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  Speaker 1: themselves were pretty. It was Sunday evening. The weather was
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  Speaker 1: mild enough that I mean I got cold toward the
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  Speaker 1: end there. I was just wearing a T shirt and
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  Speaker 1: a cardigan. And it was the two year old, actually
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  Speaker 1: the two year old child who we got about. We
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  Speaker 1: got about eighty percent of the way through it, and
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  Speaker 1: the two year old child throws her arms, literally throws
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  Speaker 1: her arms in the air and said, it's cold. I done.
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  Speaker 1: So she just finished time it was time for But
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  Speaker 1: the lights were beautiful. I'll give them that. However, it's
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday evening. It's the last Sunday evening before Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus is trying to have this homy. You know, look
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  Speaker 1: at our downtown lights. The rest of downtown, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: a stagnant, non observant, non celebratory mess, no other no.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when downtown Columbus used to light up for the holidays,
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  Speaker 1: it was sad seeing nothingness all over. But then they've
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  Speaker 1: got the little hot chocolate bars there at Columbus Commons.
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  Speaker 1: They were closed. They only operate those on saturd Fridays
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  Speaker 1: and Saturdays. But again, if you're trying to be all
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  Speaker 1: wholesome and stuff, Sunday evening that's when Barney and Goober
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  Speaker 1: tried to rebuild the bandstand. That's you know, that's when
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  Speaker 1: people do stuff. And it just made me, It made
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  Speaker 1: me a little sad that you couldn't even get some
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  Speaker 1: hot chocket for the kids while you were down there.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing going on. There was no choir. There
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  Speaker 1: was a three piece attempt walking around, a guy on trombone,
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  Speaker 1: a guy on trumpet, a guy on tuba, and they
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  Speaker 1: were playing some Christmas music, just slowly walking around the place,
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  Speaker 1: wearing a traditional marching band jacket. And they were appreciated,
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  Speaker 1: but they were really the only atmosphere to the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I said Merry Christmas to someone here at the building today.
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  Speaker 1: She works at another company, and she was passing me
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  Speaker 1: in the hallway as I was coming in she was
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  Speaker 1: going out, and I said, have a nice weekend, Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: And she stopped and she looked at me for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: as if no one has said those two words to
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  Speaker 1: her all season, and she said, thank you, Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice to exchange the Merry Christmas greeting. It
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  Speaker 1: really was. And I feel christmasy. I do. However, I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, I just don't feel like the world around
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  Speaker 1: me is helping out any There's my neighborhood used to
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  Speaker 1: light up, not nearly the number of houses lit up
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  Speaker 1: this year as there have been in years before. And
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  Speaker 1: as I say, downtown, just outside of Columbus comments nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing at all. Maybe you've observed the same thing, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you're holding onto your Christmas spirits. Maybe even have
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  Speaker 1: some chestnuts on an open fire. Eight two one nine
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  Speaker 1: eight six is my number. John, you were on six
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  Speaker 1: ten double EU TV at high.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, chuck, Yeah, comment on the chest nuts. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: know they grow around here and it's almost like a
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  Speaker 4: spiky ball in like a green shell. When you bust
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  Speaker 4: it open, you must get like like a nut. It
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  Speaker 4: almost looks like a buckeye. Well, here's the funny story
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  Speaker 4: on that was back in the day. I didn't really
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  Speaker 4: know how to prepare them. But you need to poke
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  Speaker 4: a hole in it. If you don't, it'll explode.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I've tried them over the open fire. When when I
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  Speaker 4: learned that trick with the way I found out it
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  Speaker 4: was years and years and years ago. It took a
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  Speaker 4: whole pan of them and I threw them onto a
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  Speaker 4: cookie sheet and put them in the oven at like
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  Speaker 4: three hundred degrees. Well, about an hour later, they started
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  Speaker 4: to explode and it sounded like a bunch of un
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  Speaker 4: shots going off, and everything's popping around like popcorn. Me
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  Speaker 4: and my girlfriend Tom, we're kind of laughing like crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But we open up the door and pull out the
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  Speaker 4: pan and they're just exploding and blowing all over the place. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: they're like losing like what the heck? It made a
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  Speaker 4: heck of the masses and blowing nuts everywhere. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: chestnuts are great. They got kind of a sweet flavor
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  Speaker 4: to them. I know, people like you know, especially now
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  Speaker 4: an amage country, that make like a chestnut butter. Its
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  Speaker 4: kind of like a peanut butter and all that. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can find them all around to high. But they
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  Speaker 4: look like a spiky green ball and you got to
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  Speaker 4: peel out that shell and it almost looks somewhat like
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  Speaker 4: a hazel nut or a buckeye.
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  Speaker 1: You're scaring me now, because I don't need the chestnuts shrapnel.
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  Speaker 1: That's that. That's a bad thing right there. Wounded by
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  Speaker 1: a chestnut over an open fire celebrating Christmas is not
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  Speaker 1: a good headline for me.
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  Speaker 4: Just make sure you poke a hole in it, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, John, I appreciate it, thanks very much. I see
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  Speaker 1: for every pretty picture painted by a song, something exit exploding,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't want that. I'm just saying, five golden rings.
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  Speaker 1: I take the five golden rings. Don't want the calling
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  Speaker 1: birds or the French ends. Don't even know what a
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  Speaker 1: turtle dove is? Is that like a regular dove? Or
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  Speaker 1: is it? Does it have a shell? Is that it
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  Speaker 1: dove with a shell on it? Wondering what makes it
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  Speaker 1: a turtle dove.
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  Speaker 2: It's a small, slim dove, often known for its soft
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  Speaker 2: cooing calls.
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  Speaker 1: All doves do that? That's it? All doves do that?
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  Speaker 2: Do they?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Dove eat bird.
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  Speaker 1: Turtle.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the name comes from the Latin word imitating
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  Speaker 2: its distinctive call, not.
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  Speaker 1: From turtle, probably because you're eating with turt or sauce. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: That's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Eight six. Let's get Frank on six ten TV and
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  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Frank, how are you merry Christmas? Chuck? You remember Lazarus
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  Speaker 3: when they used to totally deck that place out for perhaps
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  Speaker 3: so lightly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was just telling the Queen as we were
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  Speaker 1: down downtown for this thing this past weekend. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know what would be great is if one of
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  Speaker 1: the tall buildings down here would reinstitute that old light
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree that last. That was how you knew the
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  Speaker 1: season began when you could see downtown from your house
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  Speaker 1: and you could see that the Christmas tree made out
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  Speaker 1: of lights on top of Lazarus.
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  Speaker 3: You could see that Christmas tree from everywhere. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: I got I got an idea for you to celebrate Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: Go pick yourself out something really nice from on target
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  Speaker 3: l E.
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  Speaker 4: P d Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll go up there. They'll they'll hand over anything
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  Speaker 1: they don't mind. I'll say give me this as a present.
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  Speaker 1: Eric will jump right at the opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe maybe get Paul Paul Model ten.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right before I get him one, it would be
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  Speaker 1: going on my deal. I appreciate it, right, thanks very much. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that, Derek, because I go up there
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  Speaker 1: and pick up something ridiculous. Eddie knows that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't let me do two eight six A two
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  Speaker 1: one WTV. Just just try and as I said, trying
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  Speaker 1: to feel Christmasy coming up by the way at the
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  Speaker 1: toward the end of the show, tonight, I have a
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  Speaker 1: little Christmas present for you. I hope you will enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you yet what it is,
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  Speaker 1: but if you've been a if you've been a long
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  Speaker 1: time listener, hopefully I'll leave you with a smile tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You got all whatever Christmas shopping you gotta do, and
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  Speaker 1: all is all your stuff, all your ducks in a roll,
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  Speaker 1: everything finished through, organized, ready to roll.
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  Speaker 2: I got finished right before I came into.
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  Speaker 1: Good See, you're a better man than me, so because
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  Speaker 1: I still stephaneds wrapped. I got two things wrapped. They
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  Speaker 1: belong to you and Blazer and and both of them.
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  Speaker 1: I left it in the other car before I came to it,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't even get him here.
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  Speaker 2: I bought something that's big. I don't want to say
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  Speaker 2: on the air case somebody, but I bought something that
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  Speaker 2: needs rap. But I can't wrap anything. It's a deficient
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  Speaker 2: part of my brain and not do it whatsoever. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: when I give this person gifts, I'm like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't, So I just put it in a pack here.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot wrap anything to save my life. Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it shaped in a rectangle or square fashion that's
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  Speaker 1: easy enough to wrap?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I just stink it rapping.
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  Speaker 2: I'm horrible. I'm one of the worst on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: See, we have this this thing at the house too,
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  Speaker 1: and I am of one. But I think everyone should
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  Speaker 1: have their own wrapping paper under the tree. So like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all of this pattern belongs to you. All
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  Speaker 1: of this pattern belongs to you, all of it Like that,
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  Speaker 1: The Queen thinks it's better to wrap them all in
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  Speaker 1: different stuff and make everybody guess. They have to look
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  Speaker 1: for their stuff, look for their name on something, as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to knowing that the yeah, the red paper with
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  Speaker 1: the white flowers, that's yours, you know. So she thinks
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  Speaker 1: everybody should guess, and and we disagree on that, but
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  Speaker 1: of course she'll get away she always does.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, who's gonna win this one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not even gonna try. I Am not even
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  Speaker 1: going to try, because uh no, it's really not happy wife,
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  Speaker 1: happy life, Merry Christmas. That's how it goes. That's all
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  Speaker 1: I can ask for is a little a little holiday joy,
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  Speaker 1: if you will,