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Gina's Graduation Weekend from May 18th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted really.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, my friend Becky yesterday, who also had a
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: graduating senior, said, why didn't we all take Monday off
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: because it has been a whirlwind of graduation this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, and I actually just sent you another picture.
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  Speaker 3: Well I'm sure glad my kids are dumb.
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  Speaker 2: So, So Thursday was baccalaureate.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: Wow, which, uh what does that mean again? I don't recall.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a religious ceremony associated with graduation.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's like a prayer service. They did it at
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  Speaker 1: the cathedral.
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  Speaker 4: We did, I mean I went to public school and
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  Speaker 4: we didaureate.
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  Speaker 2: And the cathedral which they've they've done a lot of
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  Speaker 2: renovations there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just beautiful. Even if you're not Catholic. You should
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: go there and check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Is it's beautiful even if you're not Catholic.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's you know, it's it's beautiful for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: So that was Thursday, and we had dinner at Salton Olive,
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  Speaker 2: which I hadn't been there before. It was very very
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  Speaker 2: good food, walked over the cathedral head baccalaureate.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that night.
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  Speaker 2: Nice Friday, we had two graduation parties and another graduation.
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  Speaker 1: So my nephew Declan graduated.
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  Speaker 2: From eighth grade and they had a celebration for that
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  Speaker 2: and the graduation which I saw very important sports and
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  Speaker 2: amy there oh because they had a family member graduating.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of lots of Catholic and.
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  Speaker 2: As as Ed said when he was here, there's it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to know when to stand up and sit down
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  Speaker 2: and all.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just follow along exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And in the programs usually they will write please stand,
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  Speaker 2: please sit.
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  Speaker 1: They try to help people out that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not so I'm too tired to uh.
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  Speaker 2: So, eighth grade graduation and two parties on Friday Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Another two parties.
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  Speaker 2: And these are in people's houses that are catered, that
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  Speaker 2: have activities, and so you're you're competing with all these
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  Speaker 2: other students that are having graduation parties. So my susans now,
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  Speaker 2: just like, you know, you gotta do something different. Does
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  Speaker 2: everybody get a taco truck or you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: you gotta change it up a little bit. So my
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  Speaker 2: sister Carrie and I had the party together because we
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  Speaker 2: have two children.
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  Speaker 1: That have been.
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  Speaker 2: Have done everything together since before they were born. My
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  Speaker 2: sister and I had our baby shower together because we
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  Speaker 2: were both pregnant at the same time. These kids have
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  Speaker 2: done soccer together, they've they they got baptized together, every
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  Speaker 2: little thing. So we did their graduation party together. And
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  Speaker 2: my niece wanted a mechanical bull.
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  Speaker 5: At the party. It was requested.
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  Speaker 2: She said, can we can we rent a mechanical bull
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  Speaker 2: for the party?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Would you make people sign waivers?
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  Speaker 1: So I'll tell you all about it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sure, glad. I don't care about social social things.
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  Speaker 2: If you got x ninety six dot com slash live,
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  Speaker 2: you can see Mohammed and his cousin on the mechanical bull.
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  Speaker 2: And we were the only mechanical bull party out of
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  Speaker 2: all the graduation parties, really were the only one.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder how many mechanical bulls are available for well,
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  Speaker 4: I looked because I.
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  Speaker 2: Googled mechanical bull rentaled near me, and there are a
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  Speaker 2: few of them. This one's called Eddie's wild Ride, and
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  Speaker 2: apparently they have. Grandpa's grandpa decided to get a mechanical
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  Speaker 2: bull for his grandson because his grandson wanted to learn
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  Speaker 2: how to ride a mechanical bull. And well that's logical, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but you know they don't use it all the time,
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  Speaker 2: so may as well make some money with it when
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  Speaker 2: when the grandson isn't practicing. So they rented out. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: you do have to sign waivers for it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you go to mind, if you go to
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  Speaker 1: x n I six dot com.
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  Speaker 3: That's making me sick just to watch it.
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  Speaker 1: You can you can see me writing mechanical Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: all right. Uh. The kids loved it. They had a ball.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't you proud of me for getting on there and
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  Speaker 1: doing it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't. I really am so glad.
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  Speaker 4: I don't feel any any need to compete socially with anybody.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not competing socially. The hardest part about.
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  Speaker 2: The mechanical bullet getting on it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think, Yeah, how do you do? Is
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  Speaker 3: there like a stool?
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  Speaker 2: And I am grateful for my mom took this video
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  Speaker 2: and I am grateful that she did not uh send
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: me the part of the film where I was trying
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  Speaker 2: to wrestle myself phone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'd like to see you try and get off well.
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  Speaker 2: And so they asked me, do you want to be
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  Speaker 2: thrown off or do you want me to stop it?
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  Speaker 1: I said, please stop it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be because it can go. It
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  Speaker 3: can go? What much harsh?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they were, they were going, I was.
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  Speaker 5: Going to ask if this, if you went any higher
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  Speaker 5: up on the setting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, so I'm higher than some other people did, but
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  Speaker 2: I am not. I am not on the highest setting
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  Speaker 2: of it. But I was pretty proud of myself.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't fall off. I stayed on eight seconds, just
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  Speaker 1: like the pros.
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  Speaker 5: Just like the Yeah, exactly, just like the pros.
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  Speaker 6: You're going to retire this radio thing and become a
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  Speaker 6: become a professional bull riders bull rider.
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  Speaker 2: We also had this pizza truck. They're called Dang Brothers.
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  Speaker 3: Pizza Dang d A n G.
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  Speaker 2: And they have a fire truck that is I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a picture of that.
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  Speaker 1: They have a fire truck that's converted into a pizza oven.
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  Speaker 2: So they pull up in this fire truck and they
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  Speaker 2: bake pizzas in a wood like.
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  Speaker 1: They have stacks of wood.
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  Speaker 2: They have a wood burning pizza stove in the fire truck,
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  Speaker 2: which seems weird that you're making fires in.
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  Speaker 1: A pizza truck a fire truck, but it was delicious.
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  Speaker 2: But before the party, my sister called me and she said,
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  Speaker 2: we have a problem. I said, what's the problem, and
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  Speaker 2: she said, your son posted on snapchat the party details.
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  Speaker 1: And she was worried that, you know, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: In the neighborhood, everybody in the neighborhood is going to
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  Speaker 4: come for pizza the address.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it was. It was well.
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  Speaker 2: Attended, but I mean, I mean people didn't just no,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't strangers, it was, but.
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  Speaker 1: It rained.
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  Speaker 2: We were outside, and you know, we have beautiful weather
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  Speaker 2: the whole time, you know, for weeks and weeks, and
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  Speaker 2: then the one day you want to have a mechanical
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  Speaker 2: bull graduation party, it rains.
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  Speaker 1: But it was. It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was clear for part of it. But I am exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: I have not slept much the last few days. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's been It's been super fun. And then after
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  Speaker 2: this party, all the kids went to boondocks. They rent
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  Speaker 2: out boon Docks and close it down for the night,
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  Speaker 2: and they stay all night at boondocks.
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  Speaker 3: Really, yes, they stay all night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they were asking for chaperones for that, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I can't think of anything I would like to do
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  Speaker 2: less than chaperone. Yeah, A bunch of high school graduates
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  Speaker 2: all night at boondocks so.
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  Speaker 1: I hats off to whoever the parents are that did that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, when I was a kid graduating from high school,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want it.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't have wanted to do any of.
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  Speaker 1: That mechanical bull, none of that.
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  Speaker 3: None of that.
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  Speaker 4: I would not I would not have wanted to have
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: anything to do with any of that. If somebody had said,
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  Speaker 4: here's what we could do for your graduation, which they didn't.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they gave they gave me a polaroid camera
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  Speaker 4: and said, I'm glad you graduated.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, you know you want to do this?
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  Speaker 3: You want to No, No, I don't. What do you
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  Speaker 3: want to do?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'd like to get a bottle of wine and
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  Speaker 4: hang out with my girlfriend, which is what I did,
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  Speaker 4: a bottle of wine, and yeah, for high school graduation.
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  Speaker 6: Because we've got one of my nephews is graduating this weekend,
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  Speaker 6: and there was some debate as to whether there was
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  Speaker 6: going to be a party or something, and so Sue
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  Speaker 6: asked me, did your mom do anything for you for graduation?
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  Speaker 5: She bought me a sweater vest.
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  Speaker 3: See, there you go.
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  Speaker 5: That was it, hoping that I would wear it to church.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that was the That was the ploy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a Catholic thing because when I graduated from
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  Speaker 2: Catholic school, this was back in the eighties, we had
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  Speaker 2: a party with the parents and it was a drinking
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  Speaker 2: party for the parents with the parents, like like they
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  Speaker 2: had a beer bong there that kids were doing with
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  Speaker 2: their parents, which you.
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  Speaker 3: Drink ale our good liquor?
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  Speaker 2: Are you a big mulchair, which to me now is crazy,
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  Speaker 2: Like we had alcohol at this party, but we had
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  Speaker 2: it behind a table, and we had people manning the
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  Speaker 2: table to make sure adults were getting the drink and
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  Speaker 2: the kids weren't getting it. I can't fathom like hosting
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  Speaker 2: a party like I attended a graduation where it was
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  Speaker 2: encouraged and what.
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  Speaker 4: I used to I used to drink with one of
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  Speaker 4: my high school girlfriend's mothers. Like I'd go to her house,
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  Speaker 4: my girlfriend's house, and her mother would say, oh, Billy,
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  Speaker 4: it's nice to see you. Would you like some scotch?
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  Speaker 4: And I'd sit down and drink scotch with her mother.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 2: Kid's a lot more good to learn how to handle
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  Speaker 2: a bottle of liquor instead of an algebra problem.
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  Speaker 4: Kerry and I are graduated high school graduation. This is
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  Speaker 4: we got the kind of graduation, uh, presence and party
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  Speaker 4: that that the poor people get. I got a camera.
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  Speaker 4: They gave me a camera. Wow, I got a sweater
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  Speaker 4: a little better than a sweater basket. Yeah, I was,
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  Speaker 4: and they kept telling me, we've got you a really
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  Speaker 4: nice graduation. I thought it was a car, and I thought,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, did they maybe they got me a car?
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  Speaker 1: No, did you ever know anybody they got a car graduation?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there were there were rich kids in my school.
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  Speaker 4: You know. They either got the car and graduation or
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: when they got back for their from their mission.
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  Speaker 6: Now see, my my friend Brandon was promised a car
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  Speaker 6: when he got back from his mission. Go on the mission.
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  Speaker 6: We'll get your car when you get back. Well, while
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: he was gone, the Derry went bankrupt. Sorry he didn't.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't get a car. No Camaro for you.
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  Speaker 6: He immediately became an atheist. It was the damnedest thing
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  Speaker 6: I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody says, did Gina pay for Catholic school? Are you
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: asking if I got a voucher?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: I did not get a voucher. I paid. Not only
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  Speaker 1: did I pay.
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  Speaker 2: For Catholic school, I could have gotten a discount. The
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  Speaker 2: Catholic discount, and I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: The Catholic Why didn't you.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think that's for people that have a harder
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  Speaker 2: time affording it, and I didn't, So I paid full
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  Speaker 2: I paid full Catholic price. And when I went to
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  Speaker 2: Catholic school, I worked at a part of my tuition
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  Speaker 2: and Mary Claire worked at the school.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we did that.
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  Speaker 5: So the Catholic markup, yeah,