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Episode #3977 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive March 2001 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 2: It's Phil Hendry here with another Radio Archive Hour for you.
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Speaker 2: On this, the third day of November, it's Election Day.
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Speaker 2: I hope you went out and voted, and now you
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Speaker 2: can settle back and check out some of our great
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Speaker 2: Radio Archive material. This is an hour featuring one of
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Speaker 2: my favorite guests, and I know you share this opinion.
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Speaker 2: A lot of you guys share this opinion. Lloyd Bonafide,
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Speaker 2: a Korean War veteran who has a heating and plumbing
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Speaker 2: business in Alhambra, and he just finds something to bitch
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Speaker 2: about no matter what. This is from March of 2001.
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Speaker 2: And Lloyd was on the show. He was talking about
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Speaker 2: his friend who got married over the summer. And Lloyd
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Speaker 2: gave his friend a drill as a gift. And the
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Speaker 2: friend's wife, however, tragically died a month later. According to
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Speaker 2: the etiquette books that Lloyd's written, or excuse me, that
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Speaker 2: Lloyd has read, maybe he ought to write one, you
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Speaker 2: have to return gifts if you don't stay together with
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Speaker 2: your wife or your husband for six months.
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Speaker 1: So Lloyd wants his drill back. Let's listen. Lloyd, hold on.
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Speaker 1: I'm just introducing the show, okay? Yes, sir. Okay. And
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Speaker 1: we're talking with Lloyd. He has called us from Alhambra.
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Speaker 3: You're listening to The Phil Henry Show at 1-800-449-8686. And
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Speaker 3: we've raised $ 112, 137 from my friend's place with the sale
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Speaker 3: of the number one rated Phil Henry Show Best of
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Speaker 3: 2000 CD.
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Speaker 1: Lloyd, Helen and Gil Daniels were married over the summer.
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Speaker 1: Is that correct?
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Speaker 4: That is correct. Gail met Helen over at one of
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Speaker 4: our mixers at the senior center. And they were married.
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Speaker 4: And may God have mercy on her soul, she passed
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Speaker 4: on within a month of that.
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Speaker 3: She died one month after they were married.
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Speaker 4: Yes, she did. And what we did, and I haven't
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Speaker 4: heard anybody else say anything.
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Speaker 1: These are two friends of yours?
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Speaker 4: We knew both of them independently of each other. And
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Speaker 4: we're happy to say that we introduced, them to each other.
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Speaker 4: I was so sorry to hear that Helen had an aneurysm,
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Speaker 4: and she died.
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Speaker 1: Within one month of being married?
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Speaker 4: Within one month, yes. We had given them a wedding gift,
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Speaker 4: and this is kind of an unusual gift, but he loved,
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Speaker 4: Gil liked using these things. It's a Makita cordless drill.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 4: And it had 20 drill bits. It was a good
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Speaker 4: Good thing he's kind of a handyman.
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Speaker 3: Sure, he likes to.
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Speaker 1: Kind of do things around the house.
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Speaker 4: He likes to do it as a workshop. But she
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Speaker 4: has passed on, and this has been about five months
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Speaker 4: since she died. And I'm a little bit at a loss.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what to do right now because I
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Speaker 4: know he's been through a very serious loss, but the
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Speaker 4: spring is coming up, and I want to put shelves
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Speaker 4: up in the den. Because I've got my presidential coins
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Speaker 4: at Gladys. I have the Precious Moment figurines.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what those are. These are just things
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Speaker 1: that you guys collect?
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Speaker 4: Yes. That's correct. I have a little.
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Speaker 1: Well, what are you at a loss over? Because when
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Speaker 1: you called.
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Speaker 4: Well, what I'm at a loss over is that a
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Speaker 4: standard procedure is, and you could ask around, etiquette dictates
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Speaker 4: that if a couple doesn't stay together for six months
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Speaker 4: after being married, they are to return... All the wedding presents.
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Speaker 1: Well, is that one of those wedding things?
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Speaker 4: Well, my wife, Gladys, informed me of this. Of course,
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Speaker 4: I don't stay up on these things, but it's something
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Speaker 4: that women are interested in, and my wife told me this.
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Speaker 4: I love and support my wife very deeply. I know
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Speaker 4: she wouldn't lie, but that is.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so what the standard operating procedure is, if a
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Speaker 3: couple gets married and they're not together for six months,
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Speaker 3: they're supposed to return the presents.
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Speaker 4: That is my understanding, yeah.
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Speaker 3: But this man's wife died. It's not like they got
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Speaker 3: a divorce. She died within a month of an aneurysm.
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 4: It doesn't make any difference. I asked around, and it
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Speaker 4: doesn't make any difference. If the couple doesn't stay together
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Speaker 4: within six months... of being married, that the wedding presents
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Speaker 4: revert back to the original purchaser. And that's why you
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Speaker 4: should always keep the receipt on a wedding present.
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Speaker 3: Well, doesn't it seem a little cynical that one is
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Speaker 3: keeping the receipt on a wedding present in case the
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Speaker 3: couple gets a divorce?
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Speaker 4: Not because they get a divorce, because Gil and Helen
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Speaker 4: loved each other very, very much. But she died, and
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Speaker 4: this was a brain aneurysm that happened at the doctor's office.
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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, she was over there for
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Speaker 4: a routine physical, and the poor woman literally collapsed. They
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Speaker 4: said it was a brain, a blood clot.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right. So the wife died, and would
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Speaker 1: you please give my condolences, by the way?
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Speaker 4: I certainly will.
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Speaker 1: Okay, but the point is that she died, and they
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Speaker 1: didn't get divorced.
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Speaker 4: Well, when do I get divorced? We need to get
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Speaker 4: the drill back.
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Speaker 1: So you want to get this drill back? You gave
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Speaker 1: this to him as a wedding present.
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Speaker 4: Phil, I gave it to him as a wedding present
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Speaker 4: if his wife stayed alive, if they stayed married. They're
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Speaker 4: no longer married, and standard operating procedure dictates that if
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Speaker 4: you are not still married six months after you get married,
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Speaker 4: why then you're not married? And you give the present back. Now,
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Speaker 4: that is a.
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Speaker 3: Does any of this seem a little cold-hearted to you?
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Speaker 4: No, sir. Not any more cold-hearted than a woman should
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Speaker 4: have an engagement ring that's worth the gross of too
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Speaker 4: much salary. All of these things... Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: You know, weddings and marriages have all of these interesting rules. Well, look,
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Speaker 3: hold the line for just a second, Lloyd, while I
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Speaker 3: give out our number, all right?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry?
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Speaker 1: Hold the line for a second while I give out
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Speaker 1: our number.
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Speaker 5: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 6: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 1: Lloyd, you are saying that Gil and Helen had got,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's dead.
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Speaker 4: She's dead. She died back in October. She died actually
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Speaker 4: the end of September.
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Speaker 1: And they were married less than a month?
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Speaker 4: No, they were married a little over a month.
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Speaker 1: And so because they weren't married for six months.
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Speaker 4: Because they're not married for six months, standard operating procedure
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Speaker 4: and etiquette dictates that you give the wedding presents back. Now,
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Speaker 4: I'm not Phil.
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Speaker 1: Don't you have your own drill?
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Speaker 3: You say you're going to be putting up some shelves.
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Speaker 4: I've got an old cord drill. But this is a
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Speaker 4: Makita cordless. And I don't think that I should have
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Speaker 4: to go out and buy a new drill when there's
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Speaker 4: a perfectly good Makita cordless with 20 drill bits sitting
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Speaker 4: at Gil Daniels' garage.
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Speaker 1: Have you asked him about this?
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Speaker 4: I have asked, I will ask him, but he should
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Speaker 4: know this.
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Speaker 1: Well, he just lost his wife, okay?
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Speaker 4: She died in September. And the etiquette, which is something
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Speaker 4: that everyone should know.
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Speaker 3: If you can talk to him about this and say, Gil,
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Speaker 3: I want my drill back, and it's been.
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Speaker 4: But I reminded him of this right after she died.
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Speaker 1: You're kidding.
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Speaker 4: Why do you say I'm kidding?
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Speaker 1: Right after she died, you brought up the thing.
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Speaker 4: When she died, yes, I did. Yes, I did, Mr. Henry.
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Speaker 3: Well, right after the woman died, you went to the
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Speaker 3: man and said, you haven't been... What I said was basically, Gil,
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Speaker 3: I'm so very, very deeply sorry that Helen's dead. But
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Speaker 3: as you know, you haven't been married six months. So
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Speaker 3: I believe I'm entitled to get my drill back. And
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Speaker 3: I said it in the most tasteful way.
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Speaker 4: That I can.
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Speaker 1: What did he say?
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Speaker 4: He obviously was in shock over the death of his wife.
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Speaker 4: He sort of nodded his head, but I did my part. Now,
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Speaker 4: we have been living with this situation now for the
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Speaker 4: last several months, and I want to know when he'll
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Speaker 4: have the common decency to give me the drill back.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what?
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Speaker 3: The guy's wife is dead, and perhaps the shock of
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Speaker 3: this man's wife dying so soon after they got married
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Speaker 3: is so much that.
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Speaker 1: He has completely forgotten.
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Speaker 3: that the etiquette dictates you send a present back.
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 4: And that, in a lot of ways, is what's wrong
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Speaker 4: with our world, where people completely forget who they are,
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Speaker 4: and they forget where they are. And I am sorry
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Speaker 4: about Helen, but I've got to put these shelves up
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Speaker 4: come springtime, because when the summer months arrive, the wood
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Speaker 4: has begun to contract from all the rains. So it's
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Speaker 4: a bad time to do any home improvement.
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Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on for a minute. Do you know
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Speaker 3: what this guy's talking about? Because I don't know what
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Speaker 3: he's talking about, home improvement. Okay, so the guy, his wife,
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Speaker 3: he wants his drill back from this dude. It was
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Speaker 3: a wedding present to a man and his wife. The
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Speaker 3: wife died. Etiquette says that if a couple doesn't stay
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Speaker 3: together for six months after the marriage, all the wedding
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Speaker 3: presents get returned. He wants his Makita cordless drill returned
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Speaker 3: to him. I don't think it's got, personally, I don't
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Speaker 3: think it has anything to do with somebody dying. I
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Speaker 3: thought it was just if they get a divorce. What's
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Speaker 3: he saying? Oh, he's screaming at you? 1-800-449-8686, Phil Henry Show. No,
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Speaker 3: because I can tell you.
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Speaker 4: That Emily Post doesn't matter whether they're divorced or not.
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Speaker 4: Somebody dies, you get the gift back.
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Speaker 1: Hold on. Phil Henry Show, 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Lloyd, I don't know whether what you're telling me is
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Speaker 3: true or not. um you're saying that if even if
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Speaker 3: the person dies even if there's a death and.
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Speaker 4: I will tell you right now that we thought the
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Speaker 4: world of helen and i think gill's a terrific guy
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Speaker 4: but she had the why do i get punished because
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Speaker 4: she had an aneurysm I don't think it's fair, and
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Speaker 4: we should get our drill back because she's dead well
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Speaker 4: within the six-month timeline as dictated in standard operating procedure. Now,
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Speaker 4: I will tell you.
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Speaker 1: Hold on.
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Speaker 4: 1-800... Hold on.
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Speaker 1: We've got to take a phone call here, all right?
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Speaker 4: No, but I wanted to mention to you... Let me
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Speaker 4: take a.
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Speaker 3: Phone call and then get back to your... Jackie, you're
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Speaker 3: on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello?
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Speaker 6: Hello.
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Speaker 1: Yes, hi.
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Speaker 7: I'm just calling to say that I can't believe what
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Speaker 7: I'm hearing. Whether it's a rule or not, at some
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Speaker 7: point you've got to throw the strange little changing rules
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Speaker 7: out the window and go with your gut instincts and
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Speaker 7: common sense.
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Speaker 4: But standard procedure says if you don't stay married for
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Speaker 4: six months, it doesn't matter how you separate.
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Speaker 7: Well, standard procedure says you've got to be a virgin
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Speaker 7: to marry in white, but you don't always follow that either.
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Speaker 7: I mean, if these are people you cared about... If
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Speaker 7: these are people you cared about, I would think you
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Speaker 7: would be saying to him, maybe we could do some
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Speaker 7: projects together with this spa, because this must be a
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Speaker 7: horrible time for you.
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Speaker 4: Let me explain. If I could say something, Phil.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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Speaker 4: Helen had a drinking problem, and it was obvious to
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Speaker 4: all of us that she was on her way to
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Speaker 4: some kind of a catastrophe. That's why we only bought
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Speaker 4: the drill and didn't invest in something a little more expensive.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 7: Oh, my God is right.
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 3: So, in other words, she looked like she was going
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Speaker 3: to be dead anyway, so you bought a cheap drill?
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Speaker 4: A Makita 20 standard. That's a cordless Makita drill. That's
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Speaker 4: a wonderful gift.
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Speaker 7: Did you give it as a gift, though?
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Speaker 4: With the understanding that within six months, if her liver
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Speaker 4: gave out or some of the things we thought would
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Speaker 4: be wrong with her... You see, don't be part of
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Speaker 4: the problem, ma'am. Be a part of the solution. I
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Speaker 4: need the drill back. Mine broke. I'm putting up shelves.
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Speaker 4: My wife's precious moments figurines are all in the garage.
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Speaker 7: But what about your precious friends? Don't you care about
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Speaker 7: the loss that he's been through and that maybe he
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Speaker 7: could use you as a friend rather than someone that
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Speaker 7: there's a rule out there somewhere that says that technically
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Speaker 7: he should give it back? He probably needs a friend
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Speaker 7: to come and do a project.
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Speaker 4: With him because he's hurting. He needs a friend? Guess
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Speaker 4: what I need? I need a drill. You'll see the
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Speaker 4: street goes both ways.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Look, Jackie, thank you very much.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: What I'm getting is you thought she would die.
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Speaker 4: It was no secret that at the senior center she
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Speaker 4: had a drinking problem.
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Speaker 1: And so, therefore, you thought she'd die.
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Speaker 4: We felt that it was a possibility.
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Speaker 3: And you went out and bought a cheap wedding gift
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Speaker 3: in case you were going to get it back.
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Speaker 4: We went out and got a cheap wedding gift because
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Speaker 4: we didn't. My wife's precious moments and my presidential coins
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Speaker 4: are lying flat in boxes right now. They need to
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Speaker 4: be displayed.
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Speaker 3: It's just the whole thing here about you and your freaking,
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Speaker 3: she was going to die, so let's go buy a
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Speaker 3: cheap gift. Victoria on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 1: Hello.
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Speaker 6: Hi.
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Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 8: First thing, Emily Post, nowhere in Emily Post, and I've
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Speaker 8: read it a number of times, Does it say that
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Speaker 8: you have to give the gift back?
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Speaker 4: When I was in the Navy, I read Emily Post,
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Speaker 4: and I can tell you, and young people should wear knickers.
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Speaker 4: The drill was wrapped in wedding paper. If you wrap
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Speaker 4: a gift in wedding paper, the rule applies. No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 8: When you give a gift to someone, according to Emily Post, you...
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Speaker 8: According to Emily Post, when you give a gift, you
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Speaker 8: give a gift. That is not something that you're banking
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Speaker 8: on somebody dropping dead so that you can get it back.
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Speaker 8: If she had divorced him, then you have cause for complaint. However,
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Speaker 8: in this case... Sir, I've been listening to you. I
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Speaker 8: hope that you would give me the same consideration. Emily
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Speaker 8: Post also talked about something like that.
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Speaker 9: Okay?
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Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 8: Now, if you wanted the drill, you should have bought
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Speaker 8: the drill for yourself and then bought them something cheaper.
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 8: The gift that you gave was a very nice gift, actually.
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Speaker 4: What's that?
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Speaker 8: But if you're thinking the gift that you gave was
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Speaker 8: very nice. However, if you are buying it because you're
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Speaker 8: thinking that you're going to get it back, then that's
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Speaker 8: not really a gift.
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Speaker 4: I don't understand. Say that again. If you're... Okay. Start
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Speaker 4: from the beginning.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean, start from the beginning? The lady
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Speaker 3: just did a very nice, she described.
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Speaker 4: Look, I'm a United States Navy veteran, Mr. Henry. Please
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Speaker 4: don't get me angry. Don't get me angry.
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Speaker 8: Well, I don't understand what that has anything to.
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Speaker 4: Do with anything. As a veteran of the Korean War, 1950, 1952,
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Speaker 4: if you get up into a veteran's face, it's bad.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Is this a threat?
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Speaker 4: Don't get me angry. You wouldn't like me very much
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Speaker 4: when I get angry.
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Speaker 8: Well, sir, nobody's really your proponent right now, I can
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Speaker 8: tell you that.
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Speaker 4: I did buy the drill for myself. I was banking
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Speaker 4: on her. The reason why I bought the drill is I.
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Speaker 8: Now, you just said it right there. You are banking
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Speaker 8: on this woman to have.
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Speaker 9: Something happen to her.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. What a sick.
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Speaker 4: Oh, so all of a sudden someone planning for the
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Speaker 4: future is a bad thing.
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Speaker 5: You're not planning for the future.
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Speaker 8: You're planning for someone's demise. How sick is that?
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Speaker 4: All I was trying to do was hedge my bets.
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Speaker 4: But what you.
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Speaker 8: Did was, if you give a gift to someone, it's
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Speaker 8: a gift. Just like Jackie said before.
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Speaker 4: She spoke very well about this. If it's a gift.
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Speaker 8: It is something that you are not expecting back. If
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Speaker 8: you were expecting it back, you should have given him
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Speaker 8: a $ 20 bill and a card and said, see you later,
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Speaker 8: have a drink with it.
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Speaker 4: Well, wait a second. Now, isn't that rude? What's wrong
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Speaker 4: with me getting, look, I took a look. We went
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Speaker 4: over to Gil and Helen's before they got married. I
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Speaker 4: took a good long look at her. We were in
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Speaker 4: the kitchen, and I said to my wife, what do
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Speaker 4: you think? She said, let's go for the drill because
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Speaker 4: we need that.
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Speaker 3: You and your wife are taking a look at this
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Speaker 3: poor woman and saying she's not going to live out
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Speaker 3: the six-month period, so we'll get the gift back.
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Speaker 4: If we were going to get the gift back, why
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Speaker 4: not make it something we'd use?
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Speaker 8: Okay, one word.
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Speaker 6: Tacky.
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Speaker 4: Tacky. What's tacky about that? Well, one word. Planning ahead.
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Speaker 1: That ain't even one word, is it?
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Speaker 8: That's two words.
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Speaker 6: Huh?
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Speaker 8: That's two words.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I can't hear you.
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Speaker 3: Planning ahead is two words. All right, look, Victoria, thank
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Speaker 3: you for your call. I'm glad that you had the.
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Speaker 4: Well, that was a lot of gobbledygook.
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Speaker 1: She was quoting Emily Post. I don't know what you
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Speaker 1: want from her.
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Speaker 4: Mr. Henry, I'm a United States veteran, served in the
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Speaker 4: United States Navy 1950-1952. I'm a Korean War veteran. I
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Speaker 4: put my life on the line for this country that
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Speaker 4: I love dearly. And I will not be spoken to
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Speaker 4: by you... or any of these blue-haired women who seem
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Speaker 4: to think they know all about the Makita standard cordless
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Speaker 4: 20-drill bit drill. Now, the only thing they know about drilling, well,
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Speaker 4: there's a few jokes from the Navy I could repeat, but, sir,
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Speaker 4: I won't do that. Well, let me tell you something.
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Speaker 4: The last time one of them did any drilling, they
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Speaker 4: had ankles right behind their ears.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you said you weren't going to say anything because
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Speaker 1: you're a gentleman.
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Speaker 6: I am.
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Speaker 1: Well, you just did. Here is Lucille on the Phil
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Speaker 1: Henry Show.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 6: Hello.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 6: This is Lucille. Am I on?
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 6: I'll tell you one thing. Hello. I am a 25-year
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Speaker 6: veteran of the Navy. I've never come across a narrow-minded selfie.
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Speaker 4: Hello.
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Speaker 8: Hello.
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Speaker 4: I can't hear.
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Speaker 1: Can you hear her?
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Speaker 4: No. Speak up, please.
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Speaker 6: I am a 25-year Navy veteran, and I have never
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Speaker 6: come across a still-mannered person in all my life.
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Speaker 4: Well, the difference between you and me is I'm a
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Speaker 4: Navy veteran.
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Speaker 6: Well, so is my husband of 25 years, and he's
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Speaker 6: never put up with that type of... Your attitude is terrible.
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Speaker 4: What branch of the service was your husband in?
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Speaker 1: She just said her husband....
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Speaker 6: And I never heard such ill-mannered, selfish, arrogant man and
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Speaker 6: a wife.
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Speaker 4: Are you single?
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Speaker 6: We don't have any friends.
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Speaker 4: What's wrong with you? Hold your horses. Hold your horses.
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Speaker 4: I gave him the drill in the off chance she
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Speaker 4: would die. I didn't want her to. I didn't want
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Speaker 4: her to. I hope that she'd live a long time.
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Speaker 4: I told Gil before he married her. I don't know
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Speaker 4: how many more miles she's got on her.
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Speaker 1: Oh, God, you're talking about a man.
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Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness, how arrogant.
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Speaker 4: She looked to me like she, huh?
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Speaker 6: She's terrible. What? You are a terrible person. God's going
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Speaker 6: to punish you.
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Speaker 4: What's that?
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Speaker 6: God's going to punish you for being an arrogant old girl.
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Speaker 6: What did I think he was?
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Speaker 4: Asshole?
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Speaker 3: Grouch.
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Speaker 4: Oh, so you called me an asshole, didn't you?
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Speaker 6: No, I called you a grouch.
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Speaker 4: I just heard you call me an a-hole.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 4: Yes, you did. You are a grouch.
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Speaker 6: You are absolutely a grouch.
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Speaker 1: Okay, she didn't say that.
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Speaker 4: No, my mind is not as always, huh?
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Speaker 6: Because you're looking at people as death or a.
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Speaker 4: Let me tell you something. I don't get that drill back,
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Speaker 4: and I'm going to know the reason why. Because God's
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Speaker 4: going to.
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Speaker 6: Slap you with it.
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Speaker 4: I was in the Navy.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: So what? I was in the Navy.
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Speaker 6: I'm a 72-year-old widow, and I think you're an arrogant.
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Speaker 4: Well, you didn't do anything to deserve that. You just lived,
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Speaker 4: and the guy that you married died.
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Speaker 6: Yes, but he died a beautiful death.
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Speaker 4: God won't punish me. I have the Precious Moments figurines
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Speaker 4: and the presidential.
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Speaker 6: That doesn't have anything to do with us materialistic.
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Speaker 4: Have you ever seen the Precious Moments figurines? You can
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Speaker 4: get them in Nostalgia magazine from the Franklin Mint.
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Speaker 6: Well, that doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: You're a very selfish person. You're jealous because you don't
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Speaker 4: have any.
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Speaker 1: Okay, look, are we proving a point here?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that she doesn't have the Precious Moments figurines.
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Speaker 1: 1-800-449-8686, Phil Henry Sheldon.
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Speaker 7: This is crap and you know it.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm not going to argue with you off the
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Speaker 1: air about it, okay?
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Speaker 4: You respect me for the veteran of the United States Army,
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Speaker 4: the United States Navy that I am.
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Speaker 3: This has got nothing to do with you returning. Look,
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Speaker 3: you gave a wedding gift to two people. The wife
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Speaker 3: dies within a month of an aneurysm after their wedding.
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Speaker 3: And you're going through Emily Post and finding that if
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Speaker 3: a couple doesn't stay together for the first six months
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Speaker 3: after their marriage, all the wedding gifts.
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Speaker 1: get returned.
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Speaker 4: Yes, you better G.D. believe it, mister, and I have
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Speaker 4: got a lot cleaner mouth, or I use stronger language,
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Speaker 4: but Gil can't use the drill, so I don't understand
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Speaker 4: why he doesn't give it back. We can't use it
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Speaker 4: because he has one withered hand from World War II.
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Speaker 4: He's got severe arthritis in the other. His wife is dead,
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Speaker 4: so all of her Italian figurines have been put into storage.
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Speaker 4: All he does is sit and watch television. What's he
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Speaker 4: going to do with it?
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Speaker 3: Good God almighty, this poor man, World War II veteran...
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Speaker 3: And he sits, and he's lonely, and he watches television, okay?
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Speaker 4: Well, his wife's dead, so all he does is sit
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Speaker 4: and eat the food that Meals on Wheels brings him.
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Speaker 4: He's not doing anything. I said, why don't you come
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Speaker 4: on outside and have a beer or something? He said, oh,
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Speaker 4: go straight to the living Hades. So I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: Oh, well, you know what?
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Speaker 3: Being a friend to him is a nice start, but you, man,
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Speaker 3: talking about this guy sitting there missing his wife.
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Speaker 1: Scott, you're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 4: Hello?
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Speaker 9: Yes, can you hear me?
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Speaker 1: Oh, you know, your car phone up. Hold on. Are
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Speaker 1: you there?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I am.
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Speaker 9: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead. It's a lot better.
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Speaker 3: Go on.
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 9: I got a question for this man. Can you hear
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Speaker 9: me okay this time?
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Speaker 1: I can hear you. Can you hear him, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Bonifay?
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Speaker 1: Are you there?
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Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 9: Okay, why did you go to the wedding in the
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Speaker 9: first place if you expected this lady to die?
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Speaker 4: We went to the wedding to celebrate the betrothal of
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Speaker 4: two people that we enjoyed very, very much. There's nothing
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Speaker 4: unusual about that.
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Speaker 9: No, but you thought that she was going to die
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Speaker 9: because you bought the drill for yourself.
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Speaker 4: We thought that she might have an opportunity of dying, yes.
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Speaker 4: You know what? What? People need to understand how these
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Speaker 4: things work. You don't go out and spend money. I'm
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Speaker 4: a United States Navy veteran.
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Speaker 9: Sir, sir, I'm a United States officer. In the Navy.
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Speaker 4: You're in the Navy right now?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 4: What are you guys doing, sitting around and playing rubber
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Speaker 4: ducky in the bathtub?
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Speaker 9: Are you putting down the United States.
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Speaker 4: Navy that you've served for so many years? Let me
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Speaker 4: tell you this. The peacetime boys and the wartime boys
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Speaker 4: think there's a little bit of a difference there.
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Speaker 3: Oh, can we stop, all right? Talking about whether or
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Speaker 3: not you guys are.
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Speaker 1: What was the point of your call here, Scott?
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Speaker 9: I just couldn't believe that this man would actually call
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Speaker 9: in and he expected.
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Speaker 4: Do you know that you're supposed to give a wedding
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Speaker 4: gift back in the first six months if your wife
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Speaker 4: and you are no longer married?
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Speaker 9: Did you know that you're not supposed to interrupt somebody
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Speaker 9: because that's not very etiquette either?
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Speaker 1: Very good point. Very good point, Scott.
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Speaker 9: If you can interrupt me, then I guess he doesn't
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Speaker 9: have to give the drill back to you, does he now?
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Speaker 4: I have a United States Navy. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: We got that.
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Speaker 9: I don't care if you're a United States Marine. That
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Speaker 9: doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: I'm not a United States Marine. I'm the guy that
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Speaker 4: gives them a ride in the boat.
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Speaker 9: The issue here is a drill in what the rule is.
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Speaker 9: It doesn't matter if you're in the Navy. It doesn't
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Speaker 9: matter if you're a Christian. It just does not matter.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. I don't have much truck with Christians.
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Speaker 9: Well, I can tell you're not, okay?
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't have much truck with them.
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Speaker 9: But we're not here to judge people, so we're not
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Speaker 9: going to talk about that.
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Speaker 4: Phony balonies, if you ask me.
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Speaker 1: All right, just move on to the whole drill thing.
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Speaker 4: You do much drilling, Scott? Yeah, I don't want to
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Speaker 4: answer that one, do you?
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Speaker 9: No, I will answer that question. I do a heck
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Speaker 9: of a lot of drilling. Yes, I do.
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Boys or girls?
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Speaker 3: Okay, if you don't want to grow up and be
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Speaker 3: an adult, I'm hanging up on you.
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Speaker 4: Huh?
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Speaker 9: Sir, how old are you?
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Speaker 4: Sir, I am 69 years of age. I entered the
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Speaker 4: United States Navy. I was 18 years old. And I
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Speaker 4: proudly served this country. And now this son of a bitch.
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Speaker 9: I think you're still at the maturity of that 18-year-old, sir.
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Speaker 9: You didn't grow up too much in the Navy.
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Speaker 4: Did you?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: This son of a bitch, Gil Daniels, that drill-typing mother.
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Speaker 1: All right, look, Scott, thank you so much for your call.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. What do you want me to do here?
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Speaker 1: What are you asking?
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Speaker 4: I am making a public appeal to Gil Daniels. Give
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Speaker 4: my drill back. Give it back and don't be the
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Speaker 4: SOB that you and I both know you really are.
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Speaker 4: Because I've played this guy in poker, and I've shared
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Speaker 4: more than a couple of belts of Johnny Walker Red
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Speaker 4: with him, and he's a miserable piece of garbage. I
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Speaker 4: love him, and I love him dearly.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know who he is. I hope that
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Speaker 1: he is listening to this.
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Speaker 4: Give my drill back or I'll see him on the
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Speaker 4: other side of the River Styx.
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Speaker 1: That's a death threat. That's a death threat.
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Speaker 4: No, it's just that we'll both die someday, and I'll
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Speaker 4: see him over there.
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Speaker 1: Just, oh, man. Pat, you're on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 7: Hello.
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Speaker 1: Pat?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Pat.
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Speaker 3: Go ahead, ma'am.
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Speaker 5: I'm just amazed that this man is the most hateful,
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Speaker 5: nasty man I've ever met in my life, or had
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Speaker 5: the opportunity to listen to.
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Speaker 4: Emily Post etiquette dictates. I don't know how many times
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Speaker 4: you want me to say it. Do you have.
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Speaker 1: Any compassion for a man whose wife has died?
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Speaker 5: None whatsoever for this gentleman.
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Speaker 3: Do you have any compassion for a man whose wife
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Speaker 3: is in the ground, Lloyd?
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: I work with geriatrics, and I wouldn't care for this
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Speaker 5: man for anything in the world.
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Speaker 4: He's asking me. He's not asking you.
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Speaker 5: And he must have been in the service as a
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Speaker 5: swabby because an officer would be a gentleman.
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Speaker 1: You must have been some kind of a swabby in
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Speaker 1: the Navy. What was your rank?
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Speaker 4: I was a chief petty officer. I worked for a living.
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Speaker 1: Well, whatever that is.
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Speaker 4: That's his sergeant.
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Speaker 5: Well, sir, apparently you lost your mind when you were
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Speaker 5: that chief petty officer.
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Speaker 4: What exactly am I doing wrong here? Tell me what
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Speaker 4: you've done.
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Speaker 5: Well, sir, you're just a very nasty individual. You just
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Speaker 5: have a gross personality. You're very selfish. You're very hateful.
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Speaker 4: Other than that?
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Speaker 5: Other than that, you probably.
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Speaker 4: Seriously, are you single?
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Speaker 1: Am I single?
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Speaker 4: No, sir.
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Speaker 5: And my husband works for Walter Reed Army Hospital. And
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Speaker 5: he is a gentleman, and he would never do this
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Speaker 5: to anyone.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you, I'm going over there to bust
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Speaker 4: down his garage door. I'm getting it, man.
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Speaker 1: What's he doing now?
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Speaker 4: And the other thing, Gil.
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Speaker 5: Sir, let's just not have a heart attack when.
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Speaker 3: You do that.
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Speaker 5: Maybe that's what you deserve.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you go ahead and laugh, because Gil Daniels
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Speaker 4: could use a little peace. Hello?
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Speaker 1: Where are you going?
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Speaker 4: I'm going over to... Where are you going?
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Speaker 1: Where are you going, man?
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Speaker 4: I'm going over to Gil's house.
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Speaker 1: You're going to Gil's house.
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Speaker 9: That's right.
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Speaker 4: All right, this is his garage door right here.
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Speaker 1: Don't do it, man.
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Speaker 4: All right, I got it right here.
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Speaker 1: Hey, man, I'm going to call the cops.
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Speaker 6: Huh?
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Speaker 3: I'm calling the cops if you're busting his garage door down.
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Speaker 6: Hell, you will.
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Speaker 1: Mike, call the cops and see.
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Speaker 4: God damn it!
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Speaker 1: Watch your language. What are you doing, man?
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Speaker 4: I'm running.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 4: His dog got out.
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