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X Poll - What Do You Treat Yourself To That You Couldn't When Younger for January 22nd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's easier just to say no. It's the radio from
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  Speaker 1: l x POLD and your participation is vital to this feature.
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  Speaker 1: We asked a question. Gina will pose the question here
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment, and then you respond by calling us.
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  Speaker 1: You see, we're pulling you on a question. And the
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  Speaker 1: question is what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you treat yourself to now that you couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: as a kid.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You know I thought about that, and I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: probably just about everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I brought up a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about pop tarts. When I was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: You know, pop tarts come in packages of two, and
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  Speaker 2: the Sainted Mary Claire would not let us kids have
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  Speaker 2: the two pop tarts in the package.
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  Speaker 3: You can only have the one.
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  Speaker 2: We can only have one. And we would say, but Mom,
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  Speaker 2: they're packaged two to a package. That tells me that's
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  Speaker 2: a serving of pop tarts is two. But she said, no,
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  Speaker 2: did I got too many kids and y'all need a
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  Speaker 2: pop tart, so you can only have so Now that
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  Speaker 2: I am a grown ass woman, I can have two
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  Speaker 2: pop tarts.
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  Speaker 1: And part of the reason you're a grown ass woman
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  Speaker 1: is that you eat too many pop tarts.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, my aunt surely used to you know,
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  Speaker 4: Pringle's potato chips. You could only have a few at
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  Speaker 4: a time. She wouldn't just give you the container. It
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  Speaker 4: was was rationed, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know you And now you're a grown ass man.
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  Speaker 1: Can I can have a whole container? I can watch
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  Speaker 1: TV whenever I want. Yes, I can watch TV whenever
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  Speaker 1: I want. Rat There used to be like certain hours
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  Speaker 1: you could watch TV. You can only watch TV for
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  Speaker 1: half an hour when you come home from school, and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, an hour after dinner. I can. I
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  Speaker 1: can watch as much damn TV as I want.
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  Speaker 3: I like this text.
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  Speaker 2: A shower poof and moisturizing soap. A bar of soap
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  Speaker 2: is all we had as kids. Get yourself, you go,
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  Speaker 2: get yourself a poof and some moisturizing so a poof.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Oh yeah, okay, oh this is a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Line one.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to line one. This is Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Mike, I Mike, Mike, what what what do you
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  Speaker 1: treat yourself to now that you were not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: have or you couldn't have when you were a kid.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now I treat myself to radio from Hell.
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  Speaker 6: In the morning.
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  Speaker 5: Were you not allowed to child.
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  Speaker 1: You were not allowed when you were a kid. Huh
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  Speaker 1: did they did your feeling?
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  Speaker 5: I mean you have the disclaimer at first discretion, is
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  Speaker 5: it ye? Yeah, mature audience is only Yeah. And my
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  Speaker 5: parents were thinking.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, we can't let them listen to this. They're gonna
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  Speaker 7: have the swayers and they're gonna talk about things.
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  Speaker 5: We don't want them to talk about. Yeah, And so
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  Speaker 5: I treat myself now because I'm a grown ass man.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, I would point out, I would point out though
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  Speaker 1: your parents were right, they were right true. All right,
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  Speaker 1: thanks Mike, Thank you for treating yourself.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Thanks Mike.
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  Speaker 4: I can scoop the salsa onto my chip rather than
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  Speaker 4: just dipping and getting the salsa juice on my chip
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  Speaker 4: like my dad made me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh he made he made made them just.
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  Speaker 3: Dip it just.
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  Speaker 4: Because then you it was you still had some left over,
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  Speaker 4: saving the good stuff for dad.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Liz ice cream for dinner?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you can do that, sure.
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  Speaker 1: Eric, Eric, Hi, what do you what do you treat
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  Speaker 1: yourself now?
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  Speaker 6: McDonald's breakfast?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah problem, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Remember my mother's objections to McDonald's breakfast. We're not having
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  Speaker 4: muffins for breakfast, pancakes.
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  Speaker 1: To Yeah, that's well, that's a good oneakfast they years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the McDonald's bagels, Yeah, oh yeah, the bagel. All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Eric, Thanks Eric.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, what do you allow yourself to have now
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  Speaker 1: or what can you have now that you weren't You
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have it when you were a kid.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see now, see a lot of these are obvious,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like alcohol, Yeah, of course, going to wend Over.
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  Speaker 3: But we're talking about you know.
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  Speaker 2: How about Sundays. I'm free to do whatever I want
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  Speaker 2: on Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to go to church if you don't
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  Speaker 4: want watching TV on Sundays.
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  Speaker 3: Someone echoes here.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody says, I can eat on the couch or in
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  Speaker 2: my bed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Now, I don't like it anymore as much as
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  Speaker 1: I used to. But I used to love to drink milk.
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  Speaker 1: I loved milk. But my mother would not let us
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  Speaker 1: drink a lot of milk because we were not We
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  Speaker 1: didn't have enough money, you know. So milk is expensive.
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  Speaker 1: You get one glass and that's it. And a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times we had to drink the We would drink
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  Speaker 1: real milk, water down with powdered milk, which was terrible.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We're going back to the expol now. And
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  Speaker 1: the question is simple, what can you do now? Do
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  Speaker 1: you do now that you never could do when you
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  Speaker 1: were a kid.
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  Speaker 2: What do you treat yourself too that you couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: as he is.
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  Speaker 6: Now?
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  Speaker 4: James, we said things like drugs and alcohol, and of
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  Speaker 4: course you've called in with with marijuana.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct, James? James?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I guess James gave up.
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  Speaker 1: I see, I could do that when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Chris is here, Hi, Chris, Chris big Yeah, where are
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  Speaker 1: you calling from? Okay? And so what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Craft?
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  Speaker 7: So when I was a kid, we couldn't have belvida
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  Speaker 7: cheese in the house.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why my mom hated or whatever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: we always had to have the craft dry powdered cheese ship.
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  Speaker 5: I hate it.
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  Speaker 6: So now whenever I get a chance, it's selvida really well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, belved is delicious, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's not particularly good for you.
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  Speaker 2: That's why your mom did you have it?
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  Speaker 1: But uh, and and uh, my my wife used to
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  Speaker 1: be quite opposed to it. Her mother was a nutritionist
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  Speaker 1: and they never had it in the house. And but
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  Speaker 1: but now my wife will accede to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: for like a cheeseburger or something, it really is the best.
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  Speaker 1: It just melts quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you melt some velveda and some scrambled eggs
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  Speaker 4: with some spam.
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  Speaker 1: Well now that's all. That's what a little far. Thanks Chris.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Chris, good, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see, let's go to.
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  Speaker 1: Shelley. Hello, Shelley, Shelley Hello, Yeah, what's your what what's
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  Speaker 1: your treat? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I treat myself to being the mom that I wish
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  Speaker 5: I had.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's that's nice, I think stretch. Yeah is it?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, go ahead, I get to banter her with my kids,
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  Speaker 6: make a sense of joke, swear, drink coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 7: They're they're all eateen and older.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Oh, I say so, your mother would
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  Speaker 1: never do that sort of thing with you, would never
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  Speaker 1: be like a regular person.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, all all right. Religion and yeah, let them
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  Speaker 6: make their own choices.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah is here, Sarah, Sarah, Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it, Sarah? What do you treat yourself to?
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  Speaker 3: Watching and being a watch whatever I want whenever I want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. My nephews.
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  Speaker 5: You never got to watch anything.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my nephews were forbidden to watch the Simpsons when
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  Speaker 4: they were little.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's naughty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's it's they disrespectful to parents, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: and the parents are always choking the kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yea. There are parents that would let their kids watch
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  Speaker 2: SpongeBob SquarePants either.
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  Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, I think it's funny. Yeah, thank you, Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Sarah.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Michael.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Michael, Michael, what is yours?
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  Speaker 6: Hi? My favorite treat when I was a kid was
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  Speaker 6: a Slurpy and I could only have once in a while,
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  Speaker 6: And now I can have as many as I want.
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  Speaker 1: I want now now that you're in Now that you
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  Speaker 1: are an adult, do you still like you.
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  Speaker 3: Say, when was the last time you had one?
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  Speaker 6: Well? I always get one on seven eleven day?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: And I do still love slurpy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I still have them. You still have them? Everyone?
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  Speaker 3: Coke Slurpy is a good Yes, Coke Slurpy?
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  Speaker 1: All right, see you later.
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  Speaker 2: You made me want to coke slurpy Now, I hadn't
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  Speaker 2: thought about delicious.
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  Speaker 3: Milo is here?
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Michael? What's yours.
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  Speaker 6: Now?
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  Speaker 7: Was the kid I always had a one that as
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  Speaker 7: many talking with the one of the parents permitted, they
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  Speaker 7: didn't let me.
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  Speaker 6: But now other than it's all like.
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  Speaker 7: You should sit down there like thirteen.
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  Speaker 5: Coppers once getting by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, bag a cheap taco, get yourself a
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  Speaker 1: bag of cheap tacos and go about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah all right, oh yeah, download street tacos.
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  Speaker 3: Man is the best, indeed you all right?
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  Speaker 1: Dawson is here, Hey everybody? All right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I get to touch the thermostat as much as I want,
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  Speaker 5: all right, don't get yelled at.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, keep that temperature wherever you want and leave all
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  Speaker 2: the lights on.
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  Speaker 1: How are your how are your energy bills? Dawson?
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think so don't care.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth it, all right, all right, thank you?
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Micahy good morning.
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  Speaker 7: So I get to do all things sports.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what do you mean with two band features?
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  Speaker 7: So we couldn't ever like watch sports, go to sports games,
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  Speaker 7: do any of that stuff. So if there's a football
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  Speaker 7: game on, I watch it. I get to coach my
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  Speaker 7: kids and all the sports they want to do. It's hilarious,
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  Speaker 7: Like we've totally slipped flopped. We went from music to sports.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so so what you're You're just because your parents
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  Speaker 1: were both band features, they just thought thought they just
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  Speaker 1: thought sports was what wrong or they they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: you to have anything to do with it.
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  Speaker 7: It was beneath them. It was like I was a
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  Speaker 7: six foot two, two hundred and forty pound ninth grader
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  Speaker 7: and I'm like, please, for the love of God, let
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  Speaker 7: me play something.
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  Speaker 3: Tuba March, play.
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  Speaker 7: All of it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a massive the Playernet excellent.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks Mikeah, thank you, Michaeh.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Ben. Hello, Ben, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what can you What can you do now that
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  Speaker 1: you weren't allowed.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up in a huge family and we always
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  Speaker 5: used to drive past barks, from past trails and everything,
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  Speaker 5: and I could actually stop and go for a walk
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  Speaker 5: or go for a hike and actually get out and
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  Speaker 5: take time.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why you couldn't do that before because
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  Speaker 1: mom and dad always had to be somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Probably, but seven kids and everything going on, there was
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  Speaker 5: always somebody that had to be somewhere. We could and
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  Speaker 5: we drive past these beautiful places and they'll be able
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  Speaker 5: to stop and get out and go and just here.
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  Speaker 5: I take the time now to just stop and and
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  Speaker 5: even if it's just for fifteen minutes, get out and
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  Speaker 5: go for a walk.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good, thank you, thank you?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Some texts Terrence, our gay son has text in X
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  Speaker 4: ninety six is eighties and nineties music. I was strictly
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  Speaker 4: forbidden from listening to anything but classical music and hymns.
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  Speaker 4: Oh so yes, I never know when you play these songs,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so it's new to you.
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  Speaker 1: Well good.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I treat myself to all the gas station treats when
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  Speaker 3: I go on to.
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  Speaker 2: Oh isn't that fun?
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  Speaker 3: Oh the jerky you eat.
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  Speaker 4: I used to have to wear dresses as a kid,
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  Speaker 4: and now as an adult, I will never have to
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  Speaker 4: wear a dress ever again.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's good, young man, All right, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sugar cereal.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big sugar cereal is a big one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, got line one. Curtis is here, Hi, Curtis. What
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  Speaker 1: do you get to do now that you couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: it as a kid?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: Skiing was too expensive, and I get to do that
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  Speaker 7: as much as I want.
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  Speaker 6: And cherries, chat them.
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  Speaker 5: The entire pound of cherries in a sitting Uh huh
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  Speaker 5: all summer long. Not a solid school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna give you. Kind of gives you
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  Speaker 1: the runs, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Yeah, I love them though. They're fantastic.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it is worth the sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't ski. I didn't ski until I was
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  Speaker 1: an adult because A it was expensive and B my
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  Speaker 1: my parents were just not athletic. They didn't do stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll spend all my money on snowboarding actually and cherries.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you're living the good life.
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  Speaker 1: Like to see you snowboard while eating cherries. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I would like to see you doing.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Thanks curt Thanks Curtis movie theater. Popcorn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we always had to sneak our snacks.
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  Speaker 3: My mom would make our clothing. So now I get
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  Speaker 3: to buy my clothing.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah says, I treat myself to watching TV without having
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  Speaker 2: someone come in and take over. I come from a
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  Speaker 2: family of eight children and I'm in the middle. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you never got to finish your show you wanted.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure travel. We never vacationed when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't realize it was a thing.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't either. We didn't go on family vacation.
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  Speaker 4: Headed to Kawhi and March Love said, I can buy
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  Speaker 4: a whole birthday cake with no birthday.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Tyson has been heard from