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Dueling Lists - Richest Rockstars vs. Things Smart People Don't Pay For March 14th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Now you Gena, you had a list of rich rock stars.
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  Speaker 2: World's wealthiest rock stars? And how much there work?
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  Speaker 1: Is that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do you want to do well? You had
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  Speaker 2: a list.
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  Speaker 1: Too, Yeah. I wasn't that good though, but I just well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead. Okay, it's Radio from Hell with another list,
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  Speaker 1: because people love a good list ninety six. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: I just I'm wondering, you know, It's like, okay, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so who's another rich rockstar? Who's who's another rich Okay,
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  Speaker 1: well let's see where it goes. All right, but go
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  Speaker 1: the expectations are high, No, they're not. That's when i'm
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  Speaker 1: they're not at all something. Let's give it a try.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give it a try. Oh no, I'm I listen.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think you're right, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we should. I think we should jump
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  Speaker 1: into this with both feet. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, you've already set my expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Go well, or we can just sit here in silence
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Roger waters is number twenty.
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  Speaker 1: How much is Roger waters worth?
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  Speaker 2: Okay you okay, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You want to do, go ahead, Okay, go ahead, what's next? No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing I don't have anything, I said, I said
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  Speaker 1: my list was no, and I said no, it wasn't. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear it. Maybe it is good.
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  Speaker 2: How about dueling lists.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it is good.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see which one is better.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it is all right.
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  Speaker 2: Roger waters net worth is three hundred and ten million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The band's nineteen seventy nine film The Wall sold over
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  Speaker 2: twenty three million copies and is still selling today. You're
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  Speaker 2: still making money on it on this day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. This list contrasts perfectly with that. Okay, it's eleven
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  Speaker 1: things that smart people never waste their money on, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, I'll bet you Roger Waters never pays late fees.
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  Speaker 2: He pays everything on time.
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  Speaker 1: Never pays late fees. Intelligent fee will never ever pay
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  Speaker 1: late fees. They pay things on time. Oh is that
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  Speaker 1: what it means?
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  Speaker 3: Or do they talk to the person in charge? Do
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  Speaker 3: they speak to the manager and they say not paying late?
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  Speaker 1: It could be that too.
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  Speaker 2: Number nineteen Dave Grohl worth three hundred and thirty million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Not known how much he's going to have to pay
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  Speaker 2: in child supports for his out of wedlock daughter.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you Dave Grohl never he's an intelligent guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's never he's never bought a brand new car, always
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  Speaker 1: by used.
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  Speaker 2: Number fourteen is a tie, okay, one will one will
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  Speaker 2: not surprise you. The other probably you won't care for
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  Speaker 2: Number fourteen. Ringo Star three hundred and fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Also at three hundred and fifty million dollars, Phil Collins.
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  Speaker 1: Now those are these are smart. These are things that
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  Speaker 1: smart people never waste their money on. All right, And
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  Speaker 1: I and I can just guess that Ringos and Phil
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  Speaker 1: Collins both smart people. They never pay for repair services
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  Speaker 1: that they can do themselves. Ringo Star, I know, works
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  Speaker 1: on his own car, and Phil Collins is a whiz
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  Speaker 1: with plumbing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not seeing a lot of rich people doing their
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  Speaker 3: own repairs. I just I can't picture that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is this is smart people smart that's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily rich, but smart smart.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I was wrong. It's a three way tie for
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  Speaker 2: fourteenth place. Also at number fourteen to three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty million dollars. Mike and Nashville will be thrilled to
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  Speaker 2: hear that Dave Matthews is worth three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just Mike buying his vinyl alone.
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  Speaker 1: And Dave Matthews knows how to rewire a house.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I bet he seems handy.
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  Speaker 1: Does he seem handy?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I know he can't fix his toilet that's right on
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  Speaker 1: his bus.
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  Speaker 3: Well you you have. That was a three parter, so
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  Speaker 3: oh you may do another one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. The Edge worth four hundred million dollars, tied with unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: Gene Simmons, also worth four hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of smart guys never ever waste their money
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  Speaker 1: on credit card interest.
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  Speaker 3: Did you read the Gene Simmons is allowing you, yes,
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  Speaker 3: to be his roadie if you pay him what was it.
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  Speaker 1: Like, twenty thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 3: It was a crazy amount of money you paid Gene
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  Speaker 3: and he'll let you carry his stuff for it.
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  Speaker 1: Someone will do that, and someone will do of course.
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  Speaker 2: Number ten, So this means has more than Gene Simmons.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: John bon Jovi has four hundred and ten million dollars o'kay.
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  Speaker 1: And and he's smart. He never buys any He never
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  Speaker 1: buys flashy luxury brands like Watch It. He has a
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  Speaker 1: time X.
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  Speaker 3: I'll bet he never buys new genes. I'll bet he
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  Speaker 3: buys all of his jeans at a thrift store.
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  Speaker 2: Vintage carry its visas.
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  Speaker 1: It's vantage.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a thrift store, it's vantage.
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  Speaker 2: Number nine is Eric Clapton. He's worth four hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's Deutsche Mark's though, Oh is it intelligent? People never
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  Speaker 1: waste their money on subscription services because the average consumer
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  Speaker 1: spans around one thousand dollars a year on subscriptions alone,
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  Speaker 1: despite using only a fraction of the ones they pay for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like apps and TV subscription service.
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  Speaker 3: How do you manage to not do that? To use services?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe because everything's pretty much I mean hell technically cables.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what the subscriptions? I guess the point is only
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  Speaker 1: only get the ones that you will use.
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  Speaker 2: You're careful because.
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  Speaker 1: We've all I mean I've done that. I'll look on
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  Speaker 1: my monthly statement. Go wait a minute, what am I
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  Speaker 1: paying ten dollars a month for? Here?
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  Speaker 2: Three way tie for six place. You've got Mick Jagger
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  Speaker 2: and Keith Richards five hundred million.
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  Speaker 3: Now early on your list, we had the edge, but bono, well,
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  Speaker 3: we're not to the end of this, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And Bob Dylan also three way tie for six plays.
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  Speaker 2: They are all worth five hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And those three guys eat eat at home as much
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  Speaker 1: as possible. I'm sure don't waste a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: eating out.
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  Speaker 3: Make it a tho fla.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Sting. Sting worth more than Mick Jagger and Keith
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  Speaker 2: Richards and Bob Dylan. Wow, okay, fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: He's got two libraries, he's got the Police Andy Solo stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, And and Sting has never made an impulse
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  Speaker 1: purchase in his life.
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  Speaker 2: Impulse. He thinks things through every time.
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  Speaker 3: Impulse.
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  Speaker 2: Elton John six hundred and fifty million dollars, that's number four.
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  Speaker 1: And I know for a fact that Elton John does
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  Speaker 1: not waste money on the newest technology devices because he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Know how to work it.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't know how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's your bono. Okay, so again we're it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: surprising he's worth more than Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and
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  Speaker 2: Bob Dylan.
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  Speaker 3: And that's interesting, yeah, because I mean, if you look
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  Speaker 3: at like you two songwriting credits, it's bono the.
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  Speaker 2: Edge seven hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: He's made a lot of money endorsing products you know,
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  Speaker 1: like he's been in Louis Vauton ads. Yeah, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't do that for free. No, Yeah, the Edge.
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  Speaker 3: Does some nitcaple cap commercials and for what's it's never mind.
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  Speaker 1: And also Bono never pays anything for last minute travel.
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 1: Never, he says, just he says, take me there for free.
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  Speaker 2: Number two is Bruce Springsteen. He is worth seven hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, this is where this falls down, okay, because I
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  Speaker 1: know for a fact that Bruce Springsteen always pays for
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  Speaker 1: the extended warranty. He does on it whenever whatever he buys.
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  Speaker 3: You don't do that gets the undercoading, he.
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  Speaker 1: Gets the Yeah that's it. If you drop the phone
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  Speaker 1: and it breaks, if you buy the warranty, we'll fix it.
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  Speaker 4: I see that engine light in that panic, and you
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  Speaker 4: will not be surprised at all at the number one
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  Speaker 4: on the list, Sir Paul McCartney is worth one point
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  Speaker 4: two billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, all of that from writing a few little songs.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Who had just kind of noodled it out on the piano.
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  Speaker 2: I just so, Bill, I would like to thank you,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm being sincere because your addition made that list,
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  Speaker 2: beefed up a little, gave it a little, a little spice.
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  Speaker 1: It needed a little oomf, didn't it, Because otherwise it
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  Speaker 1: was just Okay, there's another That's what I was saying
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning. Okay, there's another rich guy, there's another.
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  Speaker 2: I give you a compliment, don't pile on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just take it, Okay, thanks, walk away.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing a smart person does takes the compliments and
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  Speaker 3: walks away.