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Hot Air Balloons and Death Talk from April 23rd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: We were talking about hot air ballooning because we got
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  Speaker 1: an email of interest from a friend of the program
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  Speaker 1: who owns a hot air balloon company. Yes, was offering
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  Speaker 1: us a ride.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody who was it in the chat room or something
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  Speaker 2: said I've done you should really do it. It's very
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  Speaker 2: peaceful and wonderful. No, doctor Mike, Oh was doctor Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there was a claim made by the hot
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  Speaker 1: air balloon person that.
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  Speaker 2: It's the safest, safest form of air trap.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought I would make sure that a little
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  Speaker 1: bit all right, hot air ballooning is considered. Oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, x ninety six dot com slash live. It's
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  Speaker 1: a picture of me and Joe and Jonesy at the
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  Speaker 1: Hot Air Balloon Festival in the Ogden Valley and Jonesy's
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  Speaker 1: almost twenty one now, so that's how you can tell
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  Speaker 1: how old that picture is. But that's as close as
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to Wow, hot air.
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  Speaker 2: How long after that did you guys get married?
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  Speaker 1: What very there?
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  Speaker 3: I say, Look, you do have closed that aren't black,
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  Speaker 3: and your hair is.
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  Speaker 2: A lot longer.
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  Speaker 1: I was twenty one years ago.
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  Speaker 2: What does it just get shorter as yeah goes by.
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  Speaker 1: At any rate, Hot air ballooning is considered a safe activity,
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  Speaker 1: with fatalities being relatively rare. In the US, there's an
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  Speaker 1: average of two to three fatalities per year, with seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five total accidents and only seventy fatalities
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  Speaker 1: reported between nineteen sixty four and twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: WOW.
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  Speaker 1: While accidents are rare, they often lead to serious injuries,
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  Speaker 1: with over eighty percent of reported crashes resulting in at
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  Speaker 1: least one fatality or serious injuries. So if you do crash,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't it ain't good. Most accidents occur during landing,
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  Speaker 1: which makes sense, often due to high winds or collisions
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  Speaker 1: with power lines or hard landings. About sixty percent of
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  Speaker 1: accidents involve commercial operations. Ejection from the basket is the
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  Speaker 1: leading cause of death. They don't strap you into the basket.
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  Speaker 1: There's no no, there's no seatbelts, no. In the While
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  Speaker 1: serious risk of fatality is generally low, it makes it
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  Speaker 1: safer than many other transport activities. However, it is considered
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  Speaker 1: riskier than commercial air tours by airplane or helicopter.
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  Speaker 2: Do they have a beverage service? Well, I think sometime.
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes they do, like a champagne and hot
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  Speaker 1: air balloon thing. I think that's like a that's like
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  Speaker 1: a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a restroom on board?
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  Speaker 1: No, for sure, just over over the side.
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  Speaker 4: Side probably, yeah, just just hang over the side, uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: So, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Well leave it to the guy in the chat room
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  Speaker 4: to find stuff like this. According to twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 4: data report, I'll me find this here. They're at least
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  Speaker 4: there were less than thirty hot air balloon deaths between
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and eight and twenty twenty two. Being killed
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  Speaker 4: by a shark, a lightning strike, or even falling into
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  Speaker 4: the Grand Canyon, which shockingly leads to about twelve deaths
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  Speaker 4: per year, are all more likely.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very safe.
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  Speaker 2: So the odds are you're not. The odds are generally
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  Speaker 2: what happens with these The balloon companies like this too.
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  Speaker 2: They got it, got it down to a science. They
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  Speaker 2: go up straight and then they come down kind of
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  Speaker 2: in the same area. They don't they don't travel a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But you know how, if I never do it, then
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  Speaker 1: I'll never die that way. That's true, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, China, If you never sleep, you'll never die
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  Speaker 2: in your sleep.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. Too.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I can. I can mark Shark off my list. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and in Grand Canyon off my list. Now, lightning strike,
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  Speaker 1: I can't prevent that one happening. That one is a possibility.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you can be you can be fairly prudent with
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  Speaker 2: protecting yourself from lightning.
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  Speaker 1: But it's but it's not something I can completely. I
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  Speaker 1: can't avoid situations completely where that might be.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever there's lightning in the area, you run under a tree.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows. Everybody knows that I got to get under
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  Speaker 2: a tree. You got to make yourself as what as
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  Speaker 2: low as small as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, because the things that are standing, that are tall.
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  Speaker 2: That's where it will hit. It'll hit that first.
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  Speaker 1: Most of these things. If I just stay in bed,
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  Speaker 1: I can avoid.
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  Speaker 2: But again, don't go to sleep, because what can happen
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  Speaker 2: with sleep? Well, you can die in your sleep.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what about steak?
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  Speaker 1: What about steak?
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  Speaker 2: You choke to death on a piece of steak? I
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  Speaker 2: could I've seen that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So take small bites and too thoroughly. Don't
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  Speaker 1: don't get too excited about steak.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go to movies.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go to movies.
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  Speaker 2: I told you I told you that story I had.
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  Speaker 2: There was a woman sitting behind me at a movie
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  Speaker 2: theater in Pennsylvania had a heart attack or something and
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  Speaker 2: died right there in the chair, fell into the aisle.
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  Speaker 1: What was the movie?
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  Speaker 2: It was Harry and Tonto about old people.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, hot air balloon could accidentally land on you, Gena,
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  Speaker 4: that's true, So you could die by hot air balloon.
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  Speaker 1: So I can't. I can't completely remove it from the possibility. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: anything could land on me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah anything.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, I went hot air ballooning one time. The landing sucked.
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  Speaker 4: The wind kept us bumping down, up and down, multiple times,
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  Speaker 4: dragging us on the ground. I'll never do it again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Why was Bill watching Magic Mike?
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't Why I wasn't watching Magic Mike? What what?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what that means. Why
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen that's a movie? Right, Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: good movie. I've ever seen it.
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  Speaker 4: Sign off today. Anything can land on me, Anything can
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  Speaker 4: land on me. I can't prevent things from landing on you.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to take as many precautions as I can, but.
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  Speaker 2: Not that Well, somebody misheard which we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: doctor Mike, who went it's our friend. Doctor Mike said
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  Speaker 2: he's been up in a hot air balloon many times.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I think someone's just messing with you.
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  Speaker 5: Don't do that make me mad. Bill doesn't like to
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  Speaker 5: be messed with Magic Mike. Is the stripper movie that
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  Speaker 5: caused the Old Lady hearted?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: The movie I was watching was Harry and TNTA with
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  Speaker 2: Art Carney, and I forget who else Art Carney was.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe his cat was.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a story about a woman going to Magic
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  Speaker 1: Mike and die.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a text from Sue.
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  Speaker 4: I just know that after that laughable hot air balloon
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  Speaker 4: scene and Walking Dead, I'll never ride in a hot
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  Speaker 4: air balloon.
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  Speaker 3: That's also what made me stop watching the show.
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  Speaker 1: That's documented here. I told you that's when I gave
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  Speaker 1: up on Walking Dead. Was the hot air balloon episode.
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  Speaker 1: That was stupid, and my biggest problem with it is
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  Speaker 1: it looked cheap and terrible.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, they like it was like green Screen. Every
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  Speaker 4: year they kept cutting the special effects budget.
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  Speaker 1: They should not have They should not have done that.
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  Speaker 2: I gave up on it a little before that. I think,
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  Speaker 2: what is it still on?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's over, But The Darryl and Carroll Power Hour
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  Speaker 4: is still going. They're well, they're going to Spain now.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's the one with Maggie and Megan in
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  Speaker 4: New York Real, which is actually pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: What's it? What's it called?
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  Speaker 3: You can't remember it? Dead City? I want to say
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  Speaker 3: that was actually pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I should I should circle back and give it a try.
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  Speaker 3: No, oh okay, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there's other good shows.
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  Speaker 4: That you do have my permission to watch Battlestar, but
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  Speaker 4: you're doing that you have finished and or almost?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so did you do that then?
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  Speaker 1: And I told Joe we have to watch Rogue one
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  Speaker 1: when we're done.
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  Speaker 4: As kind of a why Daredevil yesterday was great?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: So good?
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  Speaker 2: Did you watch hell Mary with Joe yet?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet? No, I've seen it, but not with him.
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  Speaker 3: Has he finished the book?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you can go at any time now?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, telling me he doesn't have to fix dinner and
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  Speaker 2: then you can go to the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Why can I have both?
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  Speaker 4: Did you ask him about that's why he's doing the
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  Speaker 4: dishes just because you do the dishes wrong and you
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  Speaker 4: put your steak knives and or your cooking knives in
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  Speaker 4: the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 1: He won't tell me I'm doing something wrong. He won't,
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  Speaker 1: but I get a sense that that's probably what it is.
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  Speaker 2: M all right.
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  Speaker 1: So passive aggressive, that's passive aggressive. That's just passive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you know, you know, you're absolutely right. No, you're
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  Speaker 2: you're you're absolutely right. He's just passive.
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  Speaker 3: He's passive. Bills aggressive difference.
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  Speaker 2: It's the yin and yangers your life that's different. The
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  Speaker 2: men in your the man in your life exactly, the
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  Speaker 2: passive one in the aggression exactly