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You Suck! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: You suck. It's one more thing. Strong and Getty.
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  Speaker 2: One more thing.
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  Speaker 3: Right to the point.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to do listener comments, audio listener comments. And
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  Speaker 1: I just, I don't know if you've heard this story, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: I've told it so many times you probably have. My
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  Speaker 1: first full-time radio job, Gladys, I'm 19 years old. My
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  Speaker 1: first full-time radio job, like, God, in the first couple
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  Speaker 1: of days, I'm sitting there. take a phone call. I'm doing,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing evenings as a disc jockey playing George Michael
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  Speaker 1: songs and whatever. And, uh, I take a phone call
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  Speaker 1: and somebody says, you suck and hangs up. And because
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  Speaker 1: I was, because I was new to the world of
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  Speaker 1: everything that comes with being a, you know, a public figure,
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  Speaker 1: I was just devastated by this. I mean, I can
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  Speaker 1: still remember, I can picture the room. I sat there and,
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  Speaker 1: Just quietly looking out the window. There was a window
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  Speaker 1: there looking out over a field. And I just thought, God,
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  Speaker 1: I suck. This was my whole plan. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I went to school for. This is what I was
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  Speaker 1: going to do for a living. And I suck. What
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  Speaker 1: am I going to possibly do now? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: was just so... Just like... You know, it's like the
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  Speaker 1: doctor came in and said, well, you'll be dead in
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  Speaker 1: a week or something.
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  Speaker 3: You had to take a minute to just collect yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Which is so funny, given where I am now with
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  Speaker 3: the level of criticism we get on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 3: where I get on a regular basis, you know, no
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  Speaker 3: wonder your life left you or I'm glad you got
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  Speaker 3: cancer or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I would think that that's probably the reaction from most
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  Speaker 1: people starting their career in the public eye.
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  Speaker 3: That first just anonymous shot where you're like, whoa, what
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  Speaker 3: did I do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying hard over here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I took that so personally.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know. And it's so funny. It reminds me of,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Churchill. Churchill and Lincoln and Mark
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  Speaker 3: Twain get credited with everything. But him talking about you
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  Speaker 3: look at a picture of yourself as a child and
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  Speaker 3: you have nothing in common with that. person other than
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  Speaker 3: that you're the same person and I look back at
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  Speaker 3: myself at you know similar stage of my career when
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  Speaker 3: I probably got a you suck call and I don't
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  Speaker 3: remember it vividly like you did but it seems so
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  Speaker 3: odd to me to be so devastated given the perspective
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  Speaker 3: I have now yeah it's like as we often used
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  Speaker 3: to joke more oh my god we've failed to please
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  Speaker 3: all of the people all of the time again I.
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  Speaker 1: Not to mention trolls who are just there to, you know.
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  Speaker 3: All they want to do is hurt because they are
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  Speaker 3: worthless and should probably hurl themselves into the abyss.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think I did suck. But that's neither
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  Speaker 1: here nor there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, even if you did, everybody sucks sometimes. Everybody screws
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  Speaker 3: something up. It doesn't go the way you intended to.
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  Speaker 3: You stumble, you fumble, you bumble, you rumble. Who knows
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  Speaker 3: what happened? You keep fighting, kid. Get back on that horse.
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  Speaker 1: Strap on your helmet.
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  Speaker 5: Grab the ball in your hand, and presumably you're not
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  Speaker 5: playing horse-bound helmet soccer.
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  Speaker 1: Horseback.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, you've got to pick up the paintbrush.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway. So here's why we're talking about this. So we
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  Speaker 1: decided to open it up to you all, particularly on
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  Speaker 1: how you would describe the Armstrong and Getty Show. We've
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  Speaker 1: struggled with this for many, many years. And it comes
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  Speaker 1: up a lot like we're going to do a billboard.
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  Speaker 1: We need a quick description on the billboard of what
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  Speaker 1: the show is. We're going to do a 20 second
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  Speaker 1: TV commercial. How do you want to describe the show?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know. It's not like most things
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  Speaker 1: on the air. Sometimes it's super serious and political. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it's as juvenile as anything could possibly be.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: One of our early promos, I think, was what was it?
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  Speaker 3: Social commentary, serious social commentary and animal noises.
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  Speaker 1: Something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Something like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so we threw this out to you, the listeners,
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  Speaker 1: and we got some of these recordings. We just started
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  Speaker 1: this today, so I haven't heard any of these. Go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and roll through some of them, Michael.
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  Speaker 4: What I love.
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  Speaker 7: About Armstrong and Getty, it's different. It's creative. It's funny.
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  Speaker 7: It's informative.
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  Speaker 3: It's fresh.
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  Speaker 7: And conservative. And what I love most is when Jack...
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  Speaker 7: gets very passionate about something, and he starts talking fast,
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  Speaker 7: and he gets a cartoon voice. And what I hate
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  Speaker 7: is when you guys go on vacation.
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  Speaker 1: I like when Jack loses his shit. That's really entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: It starts screaming like a cartoon. That's good times.
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  Speaker 1: Roll on.
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  Speaker 2: You could describe the Armstrong and Getty show as sometimes
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  Speaker 2: incredibly smart and sometimes incredibly stupid. And knowing how Joe
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  Speaker 2: loves a good portmanteau, we'll call it Smarpid.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I love, and listen, I'm not proud
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  Speaker 3: of much. I have so much to be ashamed of.
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  Speaker 3: But I am proud of the fact that we, in
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  Speaker 3: the world of talk radio, we have way more women listening.
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  Speaker 3: than most talk radio shows, particularly by two dudes. We've
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  Speaker 3: got tons of guys listening to, but, um, I just,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more fun. It's, it's better. It's cooler. I,
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  Speaker 3: I just, I'm, I'm kind of proud of the fact
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  Speaker 3: that women enjoy the show.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's not because we're so numb, threatening and
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  Speaker 1: low T.
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  Speaker 3: We're like the gay buddy. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. And every girl wants a gay best friend.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's funny is, is early in our career.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of, uh, you know, looking back finally in our careers, um,
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  Speaker 3: the conventional wisdom was that women were, would never accept
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  Speaker 3: any sort of randy talk or suggestive humor or, you know,
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  Speaker 3: quote-unquote locker room stuff. And we quickly realized that's not
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  Speaker 3: true at all. You can't be hateful or misogynist or,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite things that has happened, you know,
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  Speaker 1: luckily in our career. Back when we were still in
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  Speaker 1: music radio, we were up for a job at the
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  Speaker 1: number one music station in town at the time. And
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  Speaker 1: the morning show there and we did an hour or
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  Speaker 1: try out. I remember what it was, but I use
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  Speaker 1: the term chicks, something about chicks, parking cars or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. And the program director said, we we can't
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  Speaker 1: nobody want no women don't want to hear be called chicks.
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  Speaker 1: Then we get hired over here to talk radio, talking
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  Speaker 1: the same way that we want and trounce that radio
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  Speaker 1: station with women. Women 25 to 54, we absolutely trounced
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  Speaker 1: him saying all the things we say. So screw you.
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  Speaker 1: And I know his name and I want to say it,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not going to. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I barely even remember it.
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  Speaker 1: I remember him. Your ability to hold a judge. Nice call, Carmi.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Way to spout cliches as if they're insights. Dumbass.
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  Speaker 3: That would be the smoopid thing right there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the stomach for another one?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Armstrong and Getty, the sweet comic relief to disguise the
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  Speaker 8: depression and anxiety brought on by the breaking news of
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  Speaker 8: modern America.
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  Speaker 1: All right. While he's vacuuming.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Go on.
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  Speaker 3: He's next to an industrial air conditioning unit.
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  Speaker 4: Right. I've been listening to Armstrong and Getty for 20
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  Speaker 4: years now, 21 years. Yes, 21 years, and I still
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  Speaker 4: don't know how to describe the show. I know how
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  Speaker 4: to describe Jack and Joe, but I do not know
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  Speaker 4: how to describe the show. Keep f * * *
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  Speaker 4: ing that chicken.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to picture where people are standing while they're
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  Speaker 3: recording these.
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  Speaker 1: Like you guys just said, that guy was in the
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  Speaker 1: air conditioner. That guy was clearly in the office bathroom.
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  Speaker 3: With the echo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy that a lot of people have been listening
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  Speaker 1: for a long time, and we've been doing this a
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  Speaker 1: long time. I ran into somebody at the high school
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  Speaker 1: football game the other night. He's like a grown-ass man.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a couple of little kids. He looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's about 40. I've been listening to you since I
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  Speaker 1: was in high school. Yeah, my dad used to have
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  Speaker 1: it on in the car, and I was.
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  Speaker 8: Like, oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: You're like middle-aged.
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  Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
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  Speaker 1: It's better than being unemployed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Roll on. Or on a slab. Yeah, could be dead. Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 6: I listen to 12 plus hours a week. I wish
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  Speaker 6: you would listen to each other more and not step
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  Speaker 6: on each other, like interrupt each other. And stop interrupting
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  Speaker 6: Katie when she's trying to do her news.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I don't come to where you're working and knock
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  Speaker 3: the you-know-what out of your mouth.
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  Speaker 8: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: A classic.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't resist.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have any more of these, Michael?
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  Speaker 9: I know you guys are going to hate this feature,
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  Speaker 9: but here goes. The show is a collection of silly, serious,
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  Speaker 9: and irreverent musings of the day by two very experienced
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  Speaker 9: disc jockeys. Just kidding. One, an intelligent, pompous, dismissive ass,
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  Speaker 9: and the other, well, Jack is hard to describe.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: That's pretty accurate. Where's the lie?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah. The, uh, Uh, yeah. Okay. The, the
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  Speaker 3: truth is 90% of the time, the pompous ass part
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  Speaker 3: is just me being silly. I'm actually not very pompous.
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  Speaker 3: I'm confident, but I am not pompous.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I speak of the pompous of love.
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  Speaker 1: Slicing it between pompous and confident.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good one. Yeah, absolutely. Sure. No, that's mostly
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  Speaker 3: put on. I, I, I love listening. I love hearing
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  Speaker 3: different opinions. It's, it's probably my greatest pleasure in life, uh,
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  Speaker 3: next to a coitus and golf. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And where do you rank those?
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  Speaker 3: Certainly.
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  Speaker 1: Put those in order.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. What golf course are we talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: See, there's no golf course that would rank.
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  Speaker 3: To an individual act of lovemaking? Yeah, no, sorry. Really?
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I take testosterone treatment. I'm still ranking
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  Speaker 1: that above. I can't think of anything that rank, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in golf to you is frustrating and painful, right?
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  Speaker 3: Mostly or was when you gave up. Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: using golf. I'm trying to think of anything else. No,
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  Speaker 3: I'd choose dental work over golf. But yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 3: think of anything I'd put above, you know, that. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: I find that very sad. I don't really. I just
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  Speaker 3: thought I was going to say that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one, though. That was good. I find
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  Speaker 1: that sad. That puts a guy in a defensive position
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  Speaker 1: like he's doing something wrong with his life. It's so insulting. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is. That's really good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, pity is the worst. Oh, that's sad, Jack. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Augusta National, for instance, I got the invite to play there.
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  Speaker 3: At my current age and everything, please, no brainer. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm young and I've got a date with a 22-year-old
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  Speaker 3: Air Sweden stewardess or something like that. I'm mom torn.
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  Speaker 1: This is a weird scenario you're painting.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you questioned my judgment. How dare you?
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  Speaker 1: I am learning a lot right now.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll be taking more of those comments, I suppose,
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  Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what the show is for our.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to use them like for promos, which is
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  Speaker 3: essentially a commercial, right? Yeah. Is that the idea? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we're hoping to get like a good idea
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  Speaker 1: of description of the show for our promo that we
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  Speaker 1: have to do for our YouTube stuff and everything. Because
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for anybody who hasn't heard of the show.
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  Speaker 1: A line or two that describes what the heck this
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  Speaker 1: is has never been easy for us to come up with.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no. No, I've failed for decades to come up
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  Speaker 3: with that. I've given up, frankly. I was going to
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  Speaker 3: get on the app and say, I haven't listened to
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  Speaker 3: the show for many years. But for the first six months,
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  Speaker 3: it was okay. Beautiful. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.