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List - Celeb Phobias from July 6th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's Radio from Hell with another list because people love
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  Speaker 1: a good list x ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone has something that makes him a little uncomfortable, and
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  Speaker 2: celebrities are no exception. While some fears are common, others
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  Speaker 2: are so unusual they've become fascinating stories in their own right.
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  Speaker 2: Here are ten stars who have opened up about their phobias. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this first one, I think you both are aware of.
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  Speaker 3: It's Billy Bob.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Billy Bob.
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  Speaker 2: Thornton has one of the most oddly specific phobias in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: and it centers on antique furniture.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, Oh, that's right. He has a fear of anti
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  Speaker 5: furnature doesn't make any sense at.
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  Speaker 2: All, particularly ornate French and English pieces from the eighteenth
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  Speaker 2: and nineteenth centuries. Rather than admiring their craftsmanship, he's described
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  Speaker 2: feeling deeply unsettled around large, heavy items like elaborately carved chairs,
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  Speaker 2: to the point where he struggles to eat or even
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  Speaker 2: breathe comfortably in their presence. In a two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: four interview, Thornton put it place ainly setting.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't like old stuff. I'm creeped out. Next
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  Speaker 4: is Megan Fox.
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  Speaker 2: Megan Fox's most unexpected fear has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: heights of the supernatural, but something far more ordinary, dry paper.
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  Speaker 2: The actress admitted that handling it makes her deeply uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 2: driving a reaction that feels almost physical, explaining to Jimmy
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  Speaker 2: Fallon when she was on his show, some people don't
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  Speaker 2: like nails across the chalkboard.
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  Speaker 4: It gives them goosebumps.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like dry paper, scripts, newspapers, anything that's not laminated.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm reading, I have a cup of water and
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  Speaker 2: I dip my fingers in it before I hold the paper.
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  Speaker 5: She says, Oh, you know what, I have a sort
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  Speaker 5: of a phobia or a touching a certain thing.
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  Speaker 1: Those frosted drinking.
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  Speaker 4: Glasses, they're kind of weird.
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  Speaker 5: They give me the creeps. I can't stand them.
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  Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman has spoken openly about her lifelong discomfort.
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  Speaker 4: With tom cruise and well butterflies.
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  Speaker 2: Even admitting she's far more comfortable around other creatures many
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  Speaker 2: people would consider scarier. The origin of the fear goes
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  Speaker 2: back to her childhood in Australia, and she recalled large
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  Speaker 2: butterflies and moths often resting near the entrance of her house.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I would come home from school and the biggest
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  Speaker 2: butterfly or moth you've ever seen would just be sitting
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  Speaker 2: on our front gate. I'd climb over the fence, crawl
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  Speaker 2: around the side of the house, anything to avoid.
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  Speaker 4: Going through the front gate.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't like the feel of butterfly's bodies.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Two people who are have a phobia moths. They just
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  Speaker 5: can't stand them.
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  Speaker 4: She said.
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  Speaker 2: I could be covered in cockroaches, but butterflies and that
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  Speaker 2: would not.
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  Speaker 5: Bother Let's let's see if we can test that out.
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  Speaker 4: Martan Freeman, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, he's milbow bag and swidish.
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  Speaker 2: Surprisingly specific phobia tied to one of the most fashionable
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  Speaker 2: foods in modern diets. It's linked to his intense fear
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  Speaker 2: of choking. The discomfort, he explains, comes from when he
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  Speaker 2: imagines cutting into a fruit and seeing a seed inside,
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  Speaker 2: like an avocado. Every time I cut through an avocado
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  Speaker 2: and see the stone, I envision it being lodged in
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  Speaker 2: my whim pipe and it makes me cringe. Well, you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to bite into an avocado and eat a
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  Speaker 2: big but anything with a big seed.
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  Speaker 4: In the middle, that's weird, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew McConaughey is admitted to an unusually specific anxiety.
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  Speaker 4: Washing, showering, that and revolving doors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I also do not care for revolving doors.
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  Speaker 2: He says, I get anxious just being near them. Apparently
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  Speaker 2: this is a very specific phobia has a name of
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  Speaker 2: fear of being trapped or locked in an enclosed environment.
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  Speaker 2: The version extends beyond revolving doors, even into driving scenarios,
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  Speaker 2: where he's expressed discomfort in tunnels due to what he
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  Speaker 2: calls a blind spot effect, the moment when visibility disappears
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  Speaker 2: and the road ahead can't be seen clearly.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's if there's a revolving door, I will
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  Speaker 5: look because usually to the side there'll be a regular door,
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  Speaker 5: and I will always choose the ring.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're fun.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care for them.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it's like a ride?
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  Speaker 2: Christina Rishi has an unusual but very specific aversion to houseplants.
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  Speaker 4: She says they're dirty.
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  Speaker 2: If I have to touch one, I'm repulsed, and the
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  Speaker 2: plants indoor just freak me out. She also described a
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  Speaker 2: broader discomfort with just their presence at times, characterizing certain
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  Speaker 2: houseplants as malicious.
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  Speaker 4: She couldn't go to your house, Katie.
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  Speaker 1: You're out to get it. They're out to get her.
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  Speaker 4: Scarlett Johansson has a fear of birds.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I know people who do not care for birds.
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  Speaker 3: My wife doesn't like birds.
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  Speaker 4: She said.
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  Speaker 2: It's something about the wings and the beaks and the flapping.
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrified of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're they're little dinosaurs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they are a little dinasas.
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  Speaker 2: And she also said that appears to run in her family,
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  Speaker 2: mentioning that her uncle shares the same phobia. Kylie Jenner
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  Speaker 2: has a fear of dust in cups. Okay dirty, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so you're supposed to store your glasses in your house
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  Speaker 2: upside down so dust doesn't collect in the cups.
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  Speaker 1: Told her that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Tyra Banks has a fear of dolphins. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how often you encounter a dolphin. The supermodel said her
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  Speaker 2: anxiety began when she was around eight years old, after
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  Speaker 2: recurring nightmares in which she found herself in a swimming
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  Speaker 2: pole surrounded by dolphins and that left her in a panic.
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  Speaker 2: H Finally, this Rita Aura has admitted to having a
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  Speaker 2: fear of toilets. I always feel when I go to
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  Speaker 2: the toilet that something's going to come out of the
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  Speaker 2: bottom like a snake. I have this thing where I
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  Speaker 2: think the tunnel must start somewhere, and I think, what
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  Speaker 2: if something comes up the other way?
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  Speaker 4: This has always been it happens on occasion, she says.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I always make sure I turn the light.
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  Speaker 4: On before it go.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's gonna well, because you then you can look
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  Speaker 2: before you we'll sit down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to look for you.
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  Speaker 5: But when you sit down, then you can't keep looking.
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  Speaker 5: When they get you, you have to pee fast. Oh
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  Speaker 5: that's when they get you. And it happens all the time,
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  Speaker 5: all the time, dozens of cases all around the world.
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  Speaker 4: She has a fear of toilets.
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  Speaker 3: I'm worried that.
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  Speaker 4: That there's a bucket involved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you don't want to hang out with Rita Aura,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even if that's not the case.
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  Speaker 4: So there you go. That's your list.
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  Speaker 3: And of course guy in the chat room finds a
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  Speaker 3: gift of a snake coming out of a toilet.
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  Speaker 1: It happens, It happens.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: We've hoped you'd enjoyed.
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  Speaker 4: Another list with Radio from Hell on X ninety.
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  Speaker 3: Six, Corey in the chat room said, a wooden popsicle sticks.
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  Speaker 1: That's like a texture thing.
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  Speaker 4: A texture that's like the frosted glass.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, because it makes me gives me chills
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  Speaker 5: just thinking of touching one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Oh and now guys found a gift of how a
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  Speaker 3: rat would get up into the toy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh great, now I'm going to think about that.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, it's happened. And they're giant rats to water rats,
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  Speaker 5: they're very was a dog.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're flexible.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to ruin my peeing in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the night in the dark, that this is what.
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  Speaker 4: This is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know you, I know it's so fun for
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  Speaker 1: you to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, because you don't turn on the light because then
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  Speaker 2: you wake up and then it's hard to go back
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  Speaker 2: to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then you need one of those.
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  Speaker 4: Bidets that has the light inside.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I want a Japanese toilet desperately.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, they have to have light inside it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not real bright. What's wrong? I thought your husband
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  Speaker 1: loved you. He's been denying you the exactly.
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  Speaker 4: It's I'm told it's coming.
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  Speaker 5: So
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  Speaker 1: Any day now, honey,