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Gina's West Valley Movie Issues and Adventures from May 14th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm fairly certain you didn't do this yesterday, But
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  Speaker 1: if I had been here, I would have insisted that
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  Speaker 1: the opening number be danger Zone because it's the fortieth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of Top Gun was yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Now, you remember I went to Florida when my Navy
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  Speaker 1: son Festus was there when they released the new Top
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  Speaker 1: Gun back in twenty twenty two. I flew all the
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  Speaker 1: way to Florida to go to a movie because.
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  Speaker 3: I love Top Gun. You do, and my kids in
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  Speaker 3: the Navy, so it all fits.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you love top Troup. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 1: So when I heard that they were doing this fortieth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary re release of the original Top Gun.
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  Speaker 2: Original, you didn't decide to do something predictable, did you.
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  Speaker 1: I was excited because what they announced was they were
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  Speaker 1: going to do a.
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  Speaker 3: Double feature and show back to back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the first one and then the new one that
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  Speaker 1: came out in twenty twenty two. So since I can't
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  Speaker 1: go to the movies with my son, daddy. Gary was
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  Speaker 1: also in the Navy. Oh yeah, and he uh, he
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  Speaker 1: was a conscientious objector, that's all. No, No, he was
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  Speaker 1: a he filed for conscientious objector status, but he was
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  Speaker 1: in the Navy for a time until he said this
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  Speaker 1: is dumb.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to do this anymore. But I said,
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  Speaker 3: will you go with me.
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  Speaker 1: To this this top and he's like, absolutely, I'll go
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  Speaker 1: with you. And I told Festus we were going and
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  Speaker 1: he's like, okay, I want you to take a picture
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  Speaker 1: of you guys there, and of course I will do that.
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  Speaker 1: So I told Daddy Gary, I bought tickets. I'll come
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  Speaker 1: pick you up.
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  Speaker 2: What could go wrong?
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  Speaker 3: What could go How do you know something went wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Because something did, I'm sure of it. You have not
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  Speaker 2: told the story yet. But but before we went to
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  Speaker 2: break and you you said it's a story and something
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  Speaker 2: went wrong.
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  Speaker 3: So I bought the tickets online.
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  Speaker 2: You went with Richard Gear, Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 1: There's a picture of me and Richard Gear at the
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  Speaker 1: at the movie last night X ninety six dot com
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  Speaker 1: slash Live.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So I bought the tickets online. I said, Daddy Gary,
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  Speaker 1: I'll come pick you up. But it's and part of
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  Speaker 1: the showing of this is that they they've reformatted it
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  Speaker 1: for imax. Okay, So I'm looking for the closest imax
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  Speaker 1: And the closest imax was in West Valley, which I
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  Speaker 1: have never been to that theater. I've been to Well, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's out that way.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently there are two theaters out that way. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So uh look, I got the tickets.
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  Speaker 3: I go pick him up.
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  Speaker 1: We head out to West Valley, get to the theater,
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  Speaker 1: go inside. I buy popcorn, He buys popcorn. We got
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  Speaker 1: a drink. We're walking up to the ticket counter. I
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  Speaker 1: show my phone.
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  Speaker 2: Did you make him buy your own popcorn?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: I bought his popcorn. This was all my treat.
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  Speaker 1: And I show my phone and the clerk said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: these are for the megaplex.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't This isn't the megaplex. This isn't the megaplex.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, well where's that?
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  Speaker 1: He said?
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  Speaker 3: At the Valley Fair Mall.
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  Speaker 1: And this is how often I'm in West Valley.
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  Speaker 3: The Valley fair Mall. I don't know wh what's the
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  Speaker 3: Valley Fair I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to get on and map myself to
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  Speaker 1: the Valley Fair Mall because I can't just drive there.
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  Speaker 3: But we've already bought the popcorn in the drink.
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  Speaker 2: Take it with you, So you take it with you.
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  Speaker 3: We go inside.
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  Speaker 1: We're already late, m because we had an extra twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: We weren't planning on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you've seen it before.
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  Speaker 3: We walk in, but the beginning some of the best part.
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  Speaker 3: You walk in and and the.
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  Speaker 2: Ta no, no, okay. Course.
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  Speaker 1: The ticket taker at the megaplex we had the popcorn
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  Speaker 1: and she said, oh, you can't bring that in here.
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  Speaker 3: Here, And I said, that's different. I said, look, I
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  Speaker 3: didn't bring it from home.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously it has like cinema on on the bag. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they don't care, and she said no, she said, they're
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  Speaker 1: a competitor. And I said, I bought the tickets. I
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  Speaker 1: went to the wrong theater. I bought the treats. You're
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  Speaker 1: really going to make me throw these away.
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  Speaker 3: And not bring them in.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, I can't let you bring She's like, you
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  Speaker 1: can talk to my manager. I'm like, okay, where's your man.
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  Speaker 3: We're already late. Yeah, where's your manager?
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  Speaker 2: What's Daddy Gary doing?
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  Speaker 3: This whole time I'm handling.
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  Speaker 2: It's a typical, typical time with Gina.
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  Speaker 1: But but the manager is working their snack bar. There's
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  Speaker 1: a line there, so I have to wait. And I
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  Speaker 1: picked up a candy bar because I'm like, I will
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  Speaker 1: buy something here, so I'm not just not buying treats. Here.
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  Speaker 1: I picked up a candy bar and talked to the manager,
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  Speaker 1: and he was actually very nice. He's like, and I
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  Speaker 1: actually happens all the time. It's fine, you can take
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  Speaker 1: the popcorn in.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, so we're going in, and I told Festus, I'll
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  Speaker 1: take a picture of me and Daddy Gary in front
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  Speaker 1: of like the top gun poster, okay, and send it
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  Speaker 1: to you. But we're already late. So we walked past
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  Speaker 1: the post.
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  Speaker 2: You can you can't possibly do that after the movie?
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  Speaker 1: Well, so I said, yeah, well we're late, we'll do
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  Speaker 1: it after and we go in and watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: And I was super happy about all of that.
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  Speaker 2: If I if I'd been the manager, I would have said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can take the popcorn in, but here, let me
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  Speaker 2: dump it into one of our buckets. Oh maybe yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So we watched the movie. It's great. We come out
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  Speaker 3: to take the picture.
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  Speaker 2: Oh don't tell me.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the digital you know, print out, and the
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  Speaker 1: minute we leave the theater, it just has the megaplex
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  Speaker 1: logo and it says cleaning theater.
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  Speaker 2: So the theater.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's the picture I took with that, but then
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  Speaker 1: this and there it was really sweet. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of clearly old vets that were there doing the
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  Speaker 1: same thing we were. You know, they've got their navy hats.
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  Speaker 2: On, they've got their Cinemark popcorn buckets.
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  Speaker 1: And this one guy walked by and he's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I was going to do the same thing. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take a picture in front of the top gun
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  Speaker 1: sign and it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Now okay. A couple of questions. Okay, because they are
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  Speaker 2: notorious for showing commercials and trailers before these movies start,
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  Speaker 2: how much of the movie did you actually miss?
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  Speaker 1: So not hardly any of it. It was thought hardly
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  Speaker 1: any of it. And what I didn't realize though, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm anxious.
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  Speaker 3: To talk to Festus about this, like.
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  Speaker 1: The opening scene where the Tom Cruise is on aircraft
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  Speaker 1: carrier and.
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  Speaker 2: This is a Tom Cruise movie.
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  Speaker 1: And it says somewhere in the middle of the Indian
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  Speaker 1: Ocean is where this aircraft, which is exactly where Festus
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  Speaker 1: is now he's in the Indian Ocean.
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  Speaker 2: That okay, get to shore.
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  Speaker 3: And the other thing I.
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  Speaker 1: Got from it from the rewatching of Tapka, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen it, and I mean it's forty years old.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it more recently than forty years.
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  Speaker 1: But but this is kind of like a Grido shot.
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  Speaker 1: First thing revelation I had Carrie, so spoiler alert. So
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  Speaker 1: when when the when the plane crashes and Goose dies?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what I know, it's thanks a lot. I was
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  Speaker 2: going to see it for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: It's totally Iceman's fault. It is not Maverick's fault that
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  Speaker 3: that happened. Oh yeah, it's Iceman's fault.
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  Speaker 1: All this time, I've been blaming Maverick.
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  Speaker 2: I've only seen the movie once and I knew that
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  Speaker 2: it's totally Why did you blame Maverick? Why did you
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  Speaker 2: blame he blames himself. Well, yeah, that's my fault that
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  Speaker 2: you said, because that's the kind of guy Tom Cruise
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  Speaker 2: is exactly. He wants to take the war world. Yeah's
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  Speaker 2: to take the world's blame on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: So my takeaway is double check your tickets before you.
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  Speaker 2: And spend more time on the West Side.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I guess is the other lesson that you
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  Speaker 3: should take away from.
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  Speaker 2: This The Valley Firm. It's a big place, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I just I have not had Yeah, I'll be there Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the New squatters.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the other thing I was going to
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  Speaker 3: tell you. I drove right by that. It's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: Squatters. Yeah, they've had there's been a squatters there for
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  Speaker 2: some time. Yeah, but there's now now there's a bar.
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  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful, beautiful building there all right right of
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  Speaker 1: the valley Firm track southbound I fifteen stopped as far
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  Speaker 1: north as Hillfield Road, Stay off southbound I fifteen. That
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  Speaker 1: came to us a couple of minutes ago from a
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  Speaker 1: friend of the program. Thank you for sending that in.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see if I have anything else to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like crash eastbound Sr tool and bang itter left
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  Speaker 1: shoulder effect. Did there crash southbound I fifteen second south
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  Speaker 1: in London? Disabled vehicle southbound I fifteen twenty six south
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  Speaker 1: woods Cross and please let us know three three nine
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  Speaker 1: eight six.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let me just make a prediction here, Gina,
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  Speaker 2: before we go to break. The next time that you
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  Speaker 2: ask Daddy Gary if he wants to go out on
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  Speaker 2: a date sort of thing with you like this or
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  Speaker 2: special occasions, he's gonna say, no, I really don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't really want to. It's okay, No, that's okay. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just do something here at home,