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List - Wholesome Things With Dark Backstories For March 31st 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I have a list if you'd like one. People do
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  Speaker 1: love a list. Well, that's what I hear, a good list,
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  Speaker 1: A good list. It's radio from Hell with another list,
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  Speaker 1: because people love a good list. Act ninety six. This
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  Speaker 1: is a list of wholesome things that have a decidedly dark.
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  Speaker 2: Backstory a twisted past, like apps like the game candy
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  Speaker 2: Land that has a twisted that could be what could
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  Speaker 2: be wrong with candy Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: What what could be wrong with candy Land?
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  Speaker 2: Candy Land was invented during the polio epidemic okay by
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  Speaker 2: retired school teacher Eleanor Abbott, who was recovering from polio herself.
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  Speaker 2: She invented the game to keep affected children entertained during
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  Speaker 2: their hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Stays dark and twisty, so it's kind of a well.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's more wholesome. Actually, that doesn't make it
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  Speaker 3: more whole. She'sok a plat and then made something light
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  Speaker 3: out of it. Well, here's another one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Charles Entertainment Cheese. Now canonically he has a backstory, okay.
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  Speaker 2: He was an orphan who never knew when his birthday was,
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  Speaker 2: so he celebrates other people's birthdays to fill the terrible,
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  Speaker 2: painful void of his abandonment.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay.
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  Speaker 2: Also, also, the guy who invented the whole thing just
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  Speaker 2: bought the costume and he thought it was a mouse,
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  Speaker 2: but it was actually a rat. And then he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: Ricky Rat's pizza. We could do Ricky rats. No, you
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  Speaker 2: don't want a rat. That was Nolan bush Noll, who
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  Speaker 2: was from Utah. Where is the lore about chuck E
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  Speaker 2: Cheese down?
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  Speaker 1: This is in the people who keep the par official website.
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  Speaker 1: They have it in the lore. He was an orphan
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  Speaker 1: who didn't know his That's why everybody's birthdays at Chuckie
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  Speaker 1: Cheese anyway. Free school lunches in America, sure, okay, nice Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Started because the military complained that many eighteen year olds
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  Speaker 2: were too skinny during World War Two to.
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  Speaker 1: Serve in the military.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Free school lunches were added afterward to make eighteen year
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  Speaker 2: old men strong enough to be drafted into the next war.
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  Speaker 1: It's all a part of the war machine. Man, it's
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  Speaker 1: dark and twisted. Nintendo, sure, everybody loves Nintendo.
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  Speaker 2: Started out as a card company yeah in the late
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  Speaker 2: eighteen hundreds and probably would have gone defunct were it
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  Speaker 2: not for the yakuza.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Japanese mob money.
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  Speaker 2: Mob money helped of them sick and disgusting. Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Valentine. Yeah, Saint Valentine was a priest who was
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  Speaker 2: supposedly killed for marrying people so that men could get
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  Speaker 2: out of the war, and for this he was beheaded.
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  Speaker 1: We should remember that story every Valentine. Yeay, that is
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  Speaker 1: a much more interesting story. Uh do you remember the
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  Speaker 1: black and blue, white and gold dress debate? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, there was the picture of the dress and
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  Speaker 2: you know, no, it's it's this color.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's this color. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: The man who started that debate from twenty fifteen was
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  Speaker 2: charged with attempted murder after trying to strangle his wife.
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  Speaker 1: From the dress. I don't know an argumentsued from it? What? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So wait he back that one? What the guy who
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  Speaker 1: started the debate about it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Does it name him?
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to click on the link. What what is funny?
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  Speaker 1: Nick Lost? All right, okay, sorry, it's just it's tangential.
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  Speaker 1: We'll move on. Yeah. Square dancing in high school? You
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  Speaker 1: did that.
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  Speaker 2: We were taught square dancing in high school, wholesome, right.
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  Speaker 4: We all promenade with the street corner maid singing oh, Johnny, oh,
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  Speaker 4: Johnny Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Well.
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  Speaker 2: Henry Ford promoted square dancing in public schools in the twenties.
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  Speaker 1: He was a peach.
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  Speaker 2: He did it because he hated Jewish people and thought
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  Speaker 2: that they invented jazz. He wanted to get America back
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  Speaker 2: to traditional white and Christian music and dancing. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why there is square dancing in high school.
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  Speaker 1: Famous Nazi sympathizer as well. Yeah, very much so. Winnie
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  Speaker 1: the Pooh.
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  Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute, my favorite childhood books, Winnie the
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  Speaker 4: Pooh in the House at Pooh Corners.
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  Speaker 2: AA. Milne based the Winnie the Two stories on his son, Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: Robin right, oh, I know this story.
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  Speaker 2: When Christopher grew up, he resented the fame that it
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  Speaker 2: brought him. Bullied and feeling exploited, he distanced himself from
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  Speaker 2: both his father and the books.
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  Speaker 1: True story. That's it. Bob's Burgers, the cartoon cartoon Bob's Burgers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, wholesome, Well, in its way, it isn't super wholesome.
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  Speaker 1: But it has family values in its way. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it gets, you know, wholesome and tear jerkery. They
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  Speaker 1: love each other.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, until you realize the Burgers gave the cartoon
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  Speaker 3: characters cancer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the original pitch for Bob's Burgers was a burger
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  Speaker 2: restaurant run by a cannibal family. Oh, I heard that
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  Speaker 2: that was the original pick.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I heard that. That's great, a family of cannibal Imagine the.
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  Speaker 1: Musical numbers that they would do with that premise. Cornfil
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  Speaker 1: Kellogg's cornflakes. Well, Kellogg was a nut. He was a nut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he invented them to stop boys from masturbating.
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  Speaker 2: You thought that cornflakes would obviously, yes, I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: just signs.
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  Speaker 1: What m h.
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  Speaker 4: What's the name of the movie with the with the
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  Speaker 4: uh Wellville, Well, welcome to Wellvilleville.
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  Speaker 1: Does it explain the logic there?
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  Speaker 3: Whatsoever?
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  Speaker 1: You get into it?
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  Speaker 2: If you get into it, he explained it, it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what is the logic? Do either of you know?
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember. Yeah, you see the movie Road to Wellville's.
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  Speaker 3: Look, let's look up cornflake masturbation story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. The Kennedy's, of course, they have
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  Speaker 1: their dark parts. But here's one that you may not
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  Speaker 1: have known. JFK.
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  Speaker 2: Sister Rosemary Kennedy forced to undergo a lobotomy, damaged her
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  Speaker 2: brain so badly that she was disabled.
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  Speaker 1: For the rest of her life. Her own fire, they
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  Speaker 1: ordered it done. Yeah, Mel Blank. Yes, a guy who
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  Speaker 1: did the voice of all the Looney Tune.
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  Speaker 2: Characters Bugs Bunny was in a really bad car crash
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  Speaker 2: that put him in a coma for a while. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: he was unresponsive when doctors tried waking him up. One
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  Speaker 2: of the doctors started asking his characters if they were
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard this story before, actually, and that's how they
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  Speaker 4: brought him back.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how they brought him back.
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  Speaker 3: That's not really a backstory though, that's more of a
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  Speaker 3: fun a dark fact.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this one's really dark. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The cartoon movie The Land Before Time. Yes, yeah, she
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  Speaker 2: has the baby dinosaurs in it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the one with Slee Stax? No, that's Land
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  Speaker 4: of the Lost. Yeah, Land of the Lost. Oh no,
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  Speaker 4: I know what land? Yeah, I know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Land before Time.
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  Speaker 2: Judith Barci, who voiced Ducky the dinosaur in Land Before Time,
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  Speaker 2: was murdered by her own father at the age of ten.
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  Speaker 2: She never got to see her own film and the
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  Speaker 2: joy it brought so many children.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that one. That one is dark. That
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  Speaker 1: was very that's terrible. Teddy Bears.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, allow me to ruin Teddy Bears for you.
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  Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They were originally inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to
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  Speaker 2: shoot a tied up bear on a hunting trip. Well
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  Speaker 2: that sounds cute.
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  Speaker 4: That's how you do it. You know, they get the
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  Speaker 4: beer in time up and then you can shoot them.
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  Speaker 1: The bear was already injured and had to be put
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  Speaker 1: down anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Huh. Yeah, so it's easier to tie up a bear
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  Speaker 3: and then shoot it instead of just shooting it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes. And finally on the list, O. J. Simpson,
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  Speaker 1: beloved football player. Oh wait, well you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what. Yeah, there's a have you met my wife?
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  Speaker 2: So there you I hope I ruined some things for it.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, we've hoped you'd enjoyed another list with Radio from
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  Speaker 3: Hell on X ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: I feel twisted after that. There you go, Dark.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks for making Monday extra Monday is because of
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  Speaker 2: that list.