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X Poll - Real Super Powers from January 7th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: The radio from how x Pole. Your participation is required.
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  Speaker 1: You call us eight seven seven six zero two nine
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  Speaker 1: six nine six. That's eight seven seven six o two
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  Speaker 1: nine six nine six. You can text us three three
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  Speaker 1: nine eighty six, but we we do prefer your calls,
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  Speaker 1: and we have a question. We'd like you to weigh
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  Speaker 1: in on the question. Now, you have two questions right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did because we were going through these, and
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  Speaker 2: we we liked both of these questions, So feel free
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  Speaker 2: to answer either or both of them.
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  Speaker 3: The first one is what is your superpower?
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  Speaker 1: Uh huh?
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  Speaker 2: And the second one is what do you enjoy doing
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  Speaker 2: that you don't get to do often?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? My answer would be the same for both of them. Fishing,
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  Speaker 1: going fishing, Yeah, you going fishing?
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  Speaker 4: You know what you talk about? Fishing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, going fishing.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like I hear you talking about going fish occasionally.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of my superpowers, and I'd like to be
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  Speaker 1: doing that right now.
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  Speaker 4: I maintained that I don't think that you'd know what
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  Speaker 4: to do if.
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  Speaker 1: You no, I do. It's been it's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: How long, I don't, I you know, I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: really don't remember the last time I took took my
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  Speaker 1: pole in my hand. But uh, but I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can remember now fly casting I was never very
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  Speaker 1: good at the beginning. But fishing with a worm, I.
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  Speaker 3: Just dropping a line that.
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  Speaker 2: See. We did the the fly fishing up in Glacier
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  Speaker 2: and we had like a boat with a guide. I
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  Speaker 2: like doing that, but like when you catch the fish,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want anything to do with that part of it.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have to have somebody guy here.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to touch it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't want to take the hook out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want any party.
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  Speaker 1: See. That's what I don't like about fishing. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: this is not.
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  Speaker 4: Just about to ask you about cleaning fish, all right and.
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  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six two night six. I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: fishing and then putting the fish back, letting them go, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: letting them go. I mean there are people who just
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  Speaker 1: like the the the act of it. They don't and
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  Speaker 1: but they'd like to let the fish go.
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  Speaker 4: If you, either of you know how to clean a fish,
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  Speaker 4: yeah I have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you take you take it. You take that knife
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  Speaker 1: and you start down there at the tail end on
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  Speaker 1: the belly, and you and you slid it up and
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  Speaker 1: then you you turn the gills inside out and you
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  Speaker 1: grab them, you pull out the guts.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and you're not done yet though, Well what else
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  Speaker 4: you got to use your thumb to scrape out on
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  Speaker 4: the spine? You got to scrape that stuff out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm not doing any of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's you know, you swish it around in
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  Speaker 1: the water, and usually I think it's not the expert
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  Speaker 1: as I would call you throw the guts back into
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  Speaker 1: the lake.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, eight seven seven six where you can text three
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  Speaker 2: three nineties that.
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  Speaker 4: Always said the fish'll eat the guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's what I understood.
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  Speaker 3: What is your superpower?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 3: And or what do you enjoy doing that you don't get.
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  Speaker 5: To do that?
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  Speaker 4: Off, here's a texture. My superpowers are procrastination and hyperboles
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  Speaker 4: and I can get a total strangers to tell me
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  Speaker 4: their the deepest secrets. Now, my wife has a superpower?
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: She always manages when she sends me to the store,
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  Speaker 4: she always manages to text me to say, oh, and
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  Speaker 4: I also need this, you know. She'll send me with
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  Speaker 4: a list. She'll text me with a oh and I
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  Speaker 4: also need this right as I'm walking out the store.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So now here's the question. Do you turn around
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  Speaker 3: and go back and get the thing? Or do you
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  Speaker 3: go Nope, I already checked out. I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: No, I would I go back?
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  Speaker 4: I would go back to Yeah. Maybe you got to
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  Speaker 4: stick with one question because I think it's confusing people.
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are texting in about
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  Speaker 2: the superpower, the superpower. So let's go with what is
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  Speaker 2: your superpower? Like Bill said, we don't mean like you
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  Speaker 2: can see.
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  Speaker 3: Through walls or fly or something. You mean like you
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  Speaker 3: know a real life superpower.
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  Speaker 5: That you have.
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  Speaker 4: For example, here's a texter. My superpower is that I
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  Speaker 4: am good luck Chuck. Every woman that I date and
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  Speaker 4: end up sleeping with, our relationship inevitably fails for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 4: and they end up marrying the next man they date.
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  Speaker 3: What doesn't sound like good luck?
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  Speaker 1: What's good luck for the woman?
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  Speaker 4: There you go, let's see Travis the Pyman texts in uh,
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  Speaker 4: I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, which explains my plethora
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  Speaker 4: of superpowers. I have an internal Google Map, so I
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  Speaker 4: can return to any place I've ever been, even years later.
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  Speaker 4: My husband has that I have an internal clock to
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  Speaker 4: where I can be indoors with no windows for hours
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  Speaker 4: and still know what time it is within five minute.
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  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: My hyper focus on details means I have a brain
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  Speaker 4: full of facts where my family will not play any
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  Speaker 4: trivia based board games with me. My kryptonite no short
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  Speaker 4: term memory. I own ten single earbud sets because I've
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  Speaker 4: absent mindedly left the other bud somewhere in the house
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  Speaker 4: car or the yark.
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  Speaker 3: Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: Kate says, my superpower is planning road trips ten days,
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  Speaker 2: multiple states, national parks, activities.
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  Speaker 3: I am a pro.
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  Speaker 4: Texter, says. Fishing with Bill sounds like it might be
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  Speaker 4: the same as fishing with children.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of, I think bad Brad Wheeler wants to
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  Speaker 2: go fishing with me.
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  Speaker 1: I have another superpower. I have the unerring ability to
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  Speaker 1: lend people money who won't pay me back. They'll never
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  Speaker 1: pay me back.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see my superpower. I wish my superpower was to
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  Speaker 4: be able to eat anything I want without any consequence. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we can't do the wishing superpower that would get off.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they actually get There are people that can just
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  Speaker 3: eat whatever they want and it doesn't they get and
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  Speaker 3: they never get fat.
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  Speaker 4: Or yeah, I've been a nurse for fourteen years. My
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  Speaker 4: superpower is being able to get a patient comfortable no
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  Speaker 4: matter what post surgery. Wow, an old lady with a
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  Speaker 4: broken hip. I'm I'm really good at it.
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  Speaker 1: I want this person to be my nurse.
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  Speaker 4: You know what the secret is, Bill Nestling. Nestling, Uh,
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  Speaker 4: let's see. My superpower is that I can calm my dog,
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  Speaker 4: calm down any dog and make it cuddle with me
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  Speaker 4: by just existing.
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  Speaker 3: That's hard. Not all dogs can do that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, here we go. My superpower is making a decent
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  Speaker 4: meal with random ingredients.
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  Speaker 1: I love people who can do that.
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  Speaker 4: Mostly because I forget to shop and I need to
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  Speaker 4: figure things out.
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  Speaker 1: My wife can kind of do that.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Food Networks show Chopped.
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  Speaker 1: Look, my wife will look in the refrigerator and she'll say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: this needs to be used up, this needs to be
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  Speaker 1: this is going bad. I better use this, and she'll
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  Speaker 1: put it all together and make something out of that.
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  Speaker 4: Sue does that all the time. Sid says, my superpower
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  Speaker 4: is immediately losing the bread tie after opening the bread.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Bill, But my superpower is traveling to Denver in an
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  Speaker 4: instant whenever I want really it's signed John Carter another Denveren.
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  Speaker 4: My superpowers remembering birthdays. I think sometimes it makes.
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  Speaker 3: People think birthday, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Chris and Ogden. My superpower is pissing people off on
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  Speaker 4: the Internet. Doesn't matter what I say, somebody's gonna get mad. Well,
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  Speaker 4: you have to learn context, Chris. Don't be so stupid Chris,
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  Speaker 4: and don't beg post. That's the other thing. Let's see.
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  Speaker 4: My superpower is time management slash punctuality. I could estimate
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  Speaker 4: to almost a minute how long a task will take
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  Speaker 4: or what time I have to leave to get somewhere
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  Speaker 4: right on time.
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  Speaker 3: I know some people that I would like you to
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  Speaker 3: give that power to.
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  Speaker 4: Are they your children sharing my superpower? My superpower is
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  Speaker 4: whenever I playfully grab my wife's butt, I always grab
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  Speaker 4: the pocket with the cell phone. Let's see. My superpower
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  Speaker 4: is every time I pull into a crowded parking lot,
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  Speaker 4: someone pulls out near the front. Every time getting in
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  Speaker 4: front of Oh you.
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  Speaker 3: Get a good parking spot?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is just a time and text.
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  Speaker 4: I'm mad at that text. Let's see, Like Bill, I
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  Speaker 4: have the same answer for both questions, which is making
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  Speaker 4: adults who do childish passive aggressive things to me vanish
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  Speaker 4: from my life. My superpower is folding a fitted sheet
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  Speaker 4: to do. Yeah, let's see back to the something that
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  Speaker 4: you wish you could do more often, Robin says, please
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  Speaker 4: accept my text. Something I wish I could do more
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  Speaker 4: often is visit my grandparents while I still can. My
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  Speaker 4: superpowers that I win things all the time on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: But even though I've called in at least once a
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  Speaker 4: month for a Boner candidate, I never win a Boner
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  Speaker 4: T shirt.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a game super power.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, this is Katie's husband, and she can attest
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  Speaker 4: to this. My superpower is always getting the best parking spots,
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  Speaker 4: whether I'm driving or not.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Katie says, yes, well where.
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  Speaker 4: Were you when I was out to dinner the other night.
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  Speaker 4: It has come to the point where my friends call
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  Speaker 4: me the parking god and we'll all praise the parking God.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe we should just always take Katie with us
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  Speaker 1: when we want to go out to dinner.
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  Speaker 4: Suppose let's see, my superpower, like lots of moms slash wives,
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  Speaker 4: is finding things my family can't even when I have
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  Speaker 4: given an explicit explanation.
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  Speaker 2: The go get this, it's in the car on the
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  Speaker 2: passenger side with me.
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  Speaker 1: It's the refrigerator. We're out of mayonnaise. I have looked
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  Speaker 1: through this refrigerator. I cannot find any mayonnaise. Bill, it's
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  Speaker 1: right here in the refrigerator.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, let's see. My superpower is recognizing people very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: It happens often. Once I was driving on a busy
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  Speaker 4: city boulevard and recognized an old friend walking. I made
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  Speaker 4: a careful U turn. We had a great time. My
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  Speaker 4: daughter's superpowers remembering all extended family and friends connections.
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  Speaker 1: She remembers a lot of details by that. That especially
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  Speaker 1: Utah families that can be very difficult.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, we do have a call. Oh what yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I know. Kill Roy is here?
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  Speaker 1: Kill Roy?
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  Speaker 5: Morning Lords?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Now did you just did you just get right
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  Speaker 1: through it?
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  Speaker 2: Rang?
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  Speaker 1: And Katie picked it up. It sure did?
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  Speaker 5: Its working great?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes huh does?
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  Speaker 1: And okay, all right, what's your You got a superpower
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  Speaker 1: for us? I sure do?
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  Speaker 5: All right, Hey, guys, I've been working on this superpower
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  Speaker 5: for like fifteen years. I've been developing it. And while
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  Speaker 5: I'm driving down the street, my mind has the power
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  Speaker 5: to turn street lights on and off. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: how I do it. I can't control it quite yet,
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  Speaker 5: but I drive past the streetlight just occasionally I'll turn
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  Speaker 5: it off with my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Your magic.
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  Speaker 1: You know I don't believe you in at all. No,
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  Speaker 1: I do, Bill, all right, okay, I'll take your word
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  Speaker 1: for it. Thanks Kill need.
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  Speaker 4: Proof, all right, Kill receipts, we need prove. Thank you
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  Speaker 4: video video proof. Let's see my superpower. I can drive
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  Speaker 4: your car for a block and be able to tell
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  Speaker 4: you everything that is wrong with it. Now do you
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  Speaker 4: mean mechanically, I think pably or just design, design or aesthetics?
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  Speaker 1: You know I think they probably mean mechanically.
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  Speaker 4: You know your radio, you know it turn signal is
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. Uh, my superpower is being a good witch,
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  Speaker 4: always willing to help others. Let's see my superpowers that
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  Speaker 4: if I think about going to Salt Lake City, I'm
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  Speaker 4: immediately there. Unfortunately, it only works when I'm in Denver.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, reverse, den your your arch enemy. Let's
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  Speaker 4: see my superpower is I can taste any coconut ingredient
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  Speaker 4: in anything that contains coconut.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've known people like with cinnamon, even if there's
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  Speaker 1: just a hint of cinnamon, they can tell.
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  Speaker 4: Grounds keeper Bob says, I can do a push up
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  Speaker 4: with my tongue again again.
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  Speaker 1: Reip. Know people who can like take a bite of something.
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  Speaker 1: You go to a restaurant and they take a bite
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  Speaker 1: of something and they go, you know, I know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's in this. I could make this. They can taste every.
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  Speaker 3: Bit of it, every ingredient.
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  Speaker 4: Oh and let's close out with this. My superpower is
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  Speaker 4: I am the female version of good Luck Chuck. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: I should meet the earlier texture