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Episode #3962 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive November 2000 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another Radio Archive Hour from the Radio Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame Phil Henry Show and our website philhenryshow.com. From
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Speaker 1: November of 2000 comes the great Bobby Dooley, a character
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Speaker 1: that was invented literally as I was driving to work
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Speaker 1: one night and I heard a woman talking on another
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Speaker 1: talk station. And I thought, boy, I know who that
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Speaker 1: woman is. She sounds a little bit like this person
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Speaker 1: and that person and put it all together.
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Speaker 2: And what do you got? You got Bobby.
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Speaker 1: And here she is explaining as the president of the
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Speaker 1: Western Estates Homeowners Association. why she took down her Jewish
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Speaker 1: neighbor's blue and white Hanukkah lights and replaced them with
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Speaker 1: a concrete nativity scene.
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Speaker 2: Sure, Bobby. Sure.
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Speaker 3: Okay, from Western Estates, California, Bobby Dooley is on the
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Speaker 3: phone with us. You're having your annual Christmas decoration contest, right?
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Speaker 4: That is correct. It is something that we have had
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Speaker 4: every year for the last seven years, and we're very pleased. Phil,
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Speaker 4: that the last four years, the Magnolia phase, which is
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Speaker 4: the phase of the Western States development where myself and
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Speaker 4: my husband and my three sons live, the Magnolia phase,
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Speaker 4: has won the most spectacular phase award with our use
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Speaker 4: of light and our use of motion. The pageant of lights,
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Speaker 4: as we like to call it, is going to be
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Speaker 4: coming up. And we're just trying to organize everyone.
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Speaker 3: I know there are a lot of these Christmas lights.
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Speaker 3: contests that neighborhoods have. What makes yours different?
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Speaker 4: Phil, I think what makes ours different is that we
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Speaker 4: want a uniform, a very uniform and beautiful mosaic, if
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Speaker 4: you will, of lights and color and pageantry and the
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Speaker 4: beautiful motion, I think, of many of our decorations. We
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Speaker 4: did have our weekly homeowner meeting on Friday. You were
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Speaker 4: referring to Eve Mendelman's and she asked me what about
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Speaker 4: the white and blue lights that Jewish families sometimes use.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, now, Eve Mendelman and her husband, Don Mendelman,
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Speaker 2: live there?
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Speaker 4: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: I mean in the Magnolia phase.
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Speaker 4: Yes, that is correct.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: She wanted to put up blue and white lights, which
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Speaker 3: are traditional for Jewish families?
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Speaker 4: Yes. She and Don wanted to use them. They are
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Speaker 4: new to our development. Don and Eve moved in last summer.
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Speaker 4: So I said, no, Eve, we use only the traditional
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Speaker 4: Christmas lights, and I thought that that was the end
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Speaker 4: of that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because was there some dispute? This is not an anti-Semitic.
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Speaker 5: Thing, right?
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Speaker 4: No, we made that very clear to the newspaper when
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Speaker 4: they called. This is not about anti-Semitism. This is about
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Speaker 4: the uniform look of the traditional Christmas pageantry and the
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Speaker 4: Christmas lights.
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Speaker 2: All right, now, what happened? She and her husband put
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Speaker 2: them up?
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Speaker 4: Well, the next night, Steve, who is my husband, and Steve.
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Speaker 5: I'm right here, Phil.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, hi, Steve.
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Speaker 5: How you doing? We're good.
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Speaker 4: Steve's here, Phil. He said, I want to tell you something, honey.
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Speaker 4: And I said, oh, my God. You know, one of
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Speaker 4: the boys heard, and he said no, but he said
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Speaker 4: to me, and right now, I can feel my heart
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Speaker 4: remembering the moment. Hold on for a minute.
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Speaker 5: You didn't want to get your prodigy?
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Speaker 2: Okay, Steve, is she all right?
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Speaker 5: She's got a little asthma.
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Speaker 4: Oh, God. Phil, it's just that when I remember what happened,
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Speaker 4: I have a hard time breathing.
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Speaker 2: Well, what happened?
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Speaker 3: You asked the Mendelmans to take their blue and white
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Speaker 3: lights down.
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Speaker 5: Yes, hold on. Phil, please watch your tone of voice
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Speaker 5: over there.
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Speaker 2: Is she having a hard time breathing?
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Speaker 4: Yes, she is.
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Speaker 2: Get her the mist, then. Is it asthma?
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Speaker 5: It's asthma. Can I.
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Speaker 4: Just catch my breath?
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Speaker 6: Certainly.
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Speaker 2: Catch your breath, dear.
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Speaker 3: We're talking with Bobby Dooley from the Western Estates Homeowners Association.
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Speaker 3: And she's got a little bit of asthma. We're talking
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Speaker 3: about their annual Christmas decoration contest. The Western Estates Magnolia
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Speaker 3: Phase has won Most Spectacular Use of Lights in Motion Award.
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Speaker 4: So my lungs are beginning to clear.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Now, you have a Jewish family on your block who
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Speaker 3: insist on using white and blue lights.
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Speaker 4: Well, Steve said to me, didn't you talk to the
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Speaker 4: Jewish people? I said, yes. And he said, well, get
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Speaker 4: a load of this. And he pulled the cord on
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Speaker 4: the curtain. The curtain opened up. Because they live right
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Speaker 4: across the street from us.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: And it was absolutely hideous. They did not have up
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Speaker 4: the traditional Christmas decorations. They had violated the Christmas decoration code. Oh,
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Speaker 4: my God, Phil, I have to get my whole life.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: Steve, maybe she can't speak with us.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I can talk a little bit about
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Speaker 5: it if you want.
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Speaker 2: Okay, but Bobby, I think, has a lot of the
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Speaker 2: inside scoop on this, right?
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Speaker 5: But the point is, the Jews across the street.
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Speaker 2: And if you wouldn't mind not calling them Jews, okay?
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I mean, the Jewish people across the street.
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Speaker 5: I said, yeah, look at this. And I pulled the
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Speaker 5: curtain cord, and the whole thing came open like, you know,
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Speaker 5: like you're flying on a Friday night. And there it was.
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Speaker 5: It was the, you know.
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Speaker 2: It was the blue and white lights.
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Speaker 5: The blue and white lights, the Jewish family. I took
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Speaker 5: a look down the street, and they put up the
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Speaker 5: Jewish lights up and the blue-white light. So we went
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Speaker 5: down to the Mendelman's home, and if you can imagine us,
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Speaker 5: there are Bobby and I. Here's Bobby again.
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Speaker 2: Bobby, you all right there?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm all right.
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Speaker 3: All right, Steve was telling us you guys went over
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Speaker 3: to the Mendelman's house when you saw that they had
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Speaker 3: up the blue and white Jewish lights.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: And there's Steve and I, and I'm using my primatine
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Speaker 4: mist going over there because I cannot believe what I've seen.
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Speaker 4: I cannot believe... Now, keep in mind, Phil, four years running,
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Speaker 4: we in the Magnolia phase, we have won.
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Speaker 2: Most spectacular use of it.
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Speaker 4: Most spectacular use of lights, yes. And here is this
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Speaker 4: blue and white, and I'm breathing the primatine because I'm
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Speaker 4: so mortified that I couldn't deliver the mental bins to
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Speaker 4: the homeowners association. And I got to the house, and
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Speaker 4: I said, look, Eve, Jesus was a Jew. And she
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Speaker 4: tells me, yeah, right, right. But that she had the
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Speaker 4: right to put these lights up. And so here we go.
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Speaker 4: We need to instruct them in the Western states way
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Speaker 4: of doing things. So Saturday night, they were out of town.
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Speaker 2: Hold on.
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Speaker 3: You said to her, Eve, these are the wrong colored lights.
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Speaker 3: And she said she had a right to put them up.
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Speaker 4: She said she had a right to put them up.
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Speaker 4: And I said, no, you don't. And she said, yes,
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Speaker 4: she did. I said, no, no, you don't. And she said, uh-huh.
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Speaker 4: And I said, no, because the homeowners association rule is
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Speaker 4: very clear. During the Christmas season, the Judeo-Christian tradition is
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Speaker 4: weighted heavily in the Christian side. The Judeo-Christian side, the
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Speaker 4: rest of the year, but then you have to be
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Speaker 4: Christian during Christmas, because guess what? Christmas is spelled with
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Speaker 4: a C-H-R-I-S-T, and that's Christ. So I told her all
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Speaker 4: of that, and to make her feel better.
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Speaker 2: What was this whole Christ was a Jew thing?
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Speaker 4: I said, Christ was a Jew, so you can celebrate.
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Speaker 4: And she said, nuh-uh. And she kept her lights up.
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Speaker 4: And so that's why we did what we did on
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Speaker 4: Saturday night.
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Speaker 2: All right, now, you have to tell my audience what
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Speaker 2: you did on Saturday night, because.
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Speaker 4: Well, Phil, we want, we believe that it should be
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Speaker 4: a uniform Christmas demonstration. So Saturday night, they were out
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Speaker 4: of town.
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Speaker 2: And you went over to their home, right?
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Speaker 4: Yes, we did.
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Speaker 2: What did you do to their front lawn?
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Speaker 4: Well, I'd appreciate the tone of voice. I don't think
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Speaker 4: it's very.
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Speaker 2: Well, what did you do to their front lawn? Didn't
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Speaker 2: you do something?
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Speaker 4: Yes, but your tone of voice.
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Speaker 2: Well, just tell the people.
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Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 2: Well, what, is she having a hard time breathing now?
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Speaker 5: Well, you've got to watch what you're talking about.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 2: Because I don't... I'm not trying to make her angry, okay?
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Speaker 5: Well, you're challenging her.
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Speaker 2: I'm saying, did you guys go over there?
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Speaker 5: We did go over there, Phil, and we constructed a
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Speaker 5: manger up there.
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Speaker 4: Phil, am I right?
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 4: Oh, God, I've opened up the bronchial airways.
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Speaker 6: Ha!
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Hold on. You all right, honey? Ha.
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Speaker 7: Ha.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm all right.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 5: I'll tell you.
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Speaker 2: What happened, Steve?
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Speaker 5: What we did, we began, we constructed a beautiful nativity
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Speaker 5: scene with concrete footings. Rick Dubar did the steel, and
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Speaker 5: John Walsh did the electrical.
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Speaker 2: Steel and electrical. So you're digging footings on their front lawn.
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Speaker 5: Hold on.
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Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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Speaker 2: I just want to.
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Speaker 3: You poured concrete footings.
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Speaker 2: Rick Dubar did the steel, and Wallace did the electrical, right?
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Speaker 5: We built a gorgeous concrete steel nativity scene in the
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Speaker 5: front yard. It was absolutely gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: And a concrete and steel nativity scene.
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Speaker 5: It was beautiful. I've been proud to have it on
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Speaker 5: my own front lawn, and I'm thinking about doing it.
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Speaker 2: But this was on someone else's front lawn, right?
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 5: Well, they called the police... And the whole thing is
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Speaker 5: that they ordered us to take it down and restore
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Speaker 5: their yard to its original luster.
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Speaker 4: Phil, I'm better now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bobby.
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Speaker 4: They told us to take it down. And I said
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Speaker 4: to the police officer, I said, look, this is a
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Speaker 4: nativity scene. And this is what Christmas is about. And
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Speaker 4: they won't help us celebrate.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, I think where you guys have got
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Speaker 2: it wrong, if I may.
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Speaker 5: You're going to tell us where you got it wrong?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just hold on for a minute. Where I think
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Speaker 3: you guys have it wrong is, first of all, this
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Speaker 3: is a Jewish family. They don't celebrate Christmas. They have
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Speaker 3: blue and white.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 3: Frankly, I think putting up blue and white lights is
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Speaker 3: too much of a concession at Christmas. I think Jewish
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Speaker 3: families don't have to put up any kind of lights.
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Speaker 3: They don't have to put their menorah in the window,
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Speaker 3: and they don't have to have a Hanukkah bush, okay?
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Speaker 3: None of those things, I think, are a traditional way
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Speaker 3: of celebrating Hanukkah.
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Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
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Speaker 4: Phil, they are a part of Western Estates, and we
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Speaker 4: won four years in a row. You know something? We
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Speaker 4: worked very hard for our Most Spectacular Use of Lights Award.
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Speaker 2: Well, you've got a Jewish family living on the block, man.
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Speaker 2: They don't put up lights.
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Speaker 5: Lighting is a real bad thing. They don't put them up.
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Speaker 3: And what are you doing putting a concrete and steel
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Speaker 3: nativity scene, digging footings, running in electrical, and do I
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Speaker 3: understand that you also ran in gas?
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Speaker 5: We ran in a gas line, yeah.
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Speaker 6: For what?
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Speaker 5: Because it's for a fire pit.
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Speaker 2: For a fire pit.
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Speaker 3: So you can go over there, put your feet up,
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Speaker 3: and look at the nativity scene on their property?
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Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm saying. They don't want to do anything.
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Speaker 4: They didn't want to be a part of it, Phil,
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Speaker 4: and we wanted them to be a part of it.
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Speaker 4: I still think that Eve and Don can be a
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Speaker 4: part of a wonderful Christian Christmas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, 1-800-449-8686. Talking to Bobby and Steve Dooley. Now,
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Speaker 3: these two guys are part of a homeowners association. They
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Speaker 3: put up all the lights, and they do the do.
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Speaker 3: Not everybody on the street's putting up the lights. The
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Speaker 3: one family across the street from the Jewish family put
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Speaker 3: up blue and white lights, and not only do they
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Speaker 3: want them to take the blue and white lights down,
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Speaker 3: those people refused, so they poured a concrete nativity scene
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Speaker 3: in their front yard when they were out of town,
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Speaker 3: which is against the law. They're lucky that all the
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Speaker 3: cops asked them to do was take it down. How
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Speaker 3: do you take down concrete footings and steel-reinforced cement with
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Speaker 3: a jackhammer?
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Speaker 2: All right, 1-800-449-8686, Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 6: Phil Henry's show at 1-800-449-8686 with Bobby and Steve Dooley.
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Speaker 2: On the line.
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Speaker 3: And they are with the Western Estates Homeowners Association in
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Speaker 3: the West Valley in Southern California. They have every year
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Speaker 3: all of the homes there decorate for the Christmas holidays.
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Speaker 2: They have a Christmas decoration competition.
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Speaker 3: Not unlike many neighborhoods, there is one Jewish family that
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Speaker 3: lives across the street from the Dooley's that put up
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Speaker 3: blue and white lights, which they, I guess, you guys
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Speaker 3: say are against your homeowner's code or something?
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Speaker 4: Phil, we are just trying to share the Christmas cheer.
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Speaker 4: We're doing the Christian thing by spreading the Christmas love
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Speaker 4: to a lot of Jewish people who hate Christmas and
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Speaker 4: might be lost. We should have been, you know, we
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Speaker 4: should have been mean because the Jews killed Jesus, but
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Speaker 4: we're being nice.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because they killed you.
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Speaker 3: Okay, get off of that kick for a minute, all right?
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Speaker 3: And just talk to me straight.
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Speaker 5: What are you yelling at me for?
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Speaker 2: What am I yelling at you for? I'm asking you
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Speaker 2: a question. Why can't they have the blue and white lights?
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Speaker 4: Because that is not part of the home orange. That's
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Speaker 4: not part of our homeowners association, Christmas light decoration extravaganza code. Now,
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Speaker 4: we have one most spectacular use of lights in the
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Speaker 4: Magnolia phase. We have one most spectacular use of moving
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Speaker 4: lights in the Magnolia phase. Magnolia's won four years in
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Speaker 4: a row.
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Speaker 2: I'm very happy for the Magnolia phase.
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Speaker 3: You went onto somebody's property and you built a concrete
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Speaker 3: steel with gas and electric manger on their front lawn.
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Speaker 4: And your point is?
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Speaker 2: It's against the law, as the police told you.
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Speaker 4: You know something, Phil? I really believe that we have
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Speaker 4: a right to have the neighborhood that we want. And
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Speaker 4: when you live in a gated community... And you spend
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Speaker 4: the amount of money that, do you know how much
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Speaker 4: our homeowners' fees are?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 4: $ 800 a month.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot of money, especially as many homes that
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Speaker 2: you got there.
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Speaker 4: Well, we feel it's worth it to keep our neighborhood
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Speaker 4: looking as, yes, on Christmas, as Christian as possible.
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Speaker 3: Well, then maybe you shouldn't have any Jewish folks moving in.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that's what you need to do.
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Speaker 5: St.
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Speaker 2: Louis on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 6: Hello.
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Speaker 8: Hi.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 7: First of all, I would like to say what they
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Speaker 7: are doing is discriminatory, and it's grounds for a lawsuit.
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Speaker 7: Number one, it's also grounds for jail because you destroyed
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Speaker 7: these people's property, and you also have no right to
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Speaker 7: discriminate against these people celebrating their religion. As far as
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Speaker 7: you're angry about them, you should be nice to them
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Speaker 7: because instead of hating them, first of all, Jesus was
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Speaker 7: a Jew.
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Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 7: The Jews are God's chosen people. They have a right.
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Speaker 7: Just like you pay your money, they pay their money, too.
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Speaker 4: Well, we felt that the blue and white light was
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Speaker 4: wrong for the motif that we picked out for the
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Speaker 4: Magnolia phase. Our theme this year is explosion of color.
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Speaker 4: And we wanted to have a beautiful explosion of color.
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Speaker 4: And I opened up my curtain.
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Speaker 7: Blue and white are colors. They are the colors for Hanukkah.
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Speaker 7: That's their religion. And by putting a nativity.
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Speaker 4: Theme, that's sacrilegious.
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Speaker 7: That is sacrilegious. These are Jewish people, and they have
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Speaker 7: Hanukkah during the same time we have Christmas. And you
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Speaker 7: cannot deny them that.
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Speaker 4: I'm really having a hard time breathing. Blue and white
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Speaker 4: would ruin the mosaic that we wanted to establish today.
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Speaker 7: First of all, you have no right to force your
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Speaker 7: mosaic on anybody. Those people pay taxes and they pay.
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Speaker 4: Their own rent.
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Speaker 7: And they have a right to have on their property
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Speaker 7: what they want to.
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Speaker 2: Are you breathing all right?
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Speaker 4: Hold on.
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Speaker 7: It's ridiculous what they did.
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Speaker 5: What they did is wrong. My wife's having a hard
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Speaker 5: time breathing. Please be nicer to her.
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Speaker 7: What you did, nobody should have to be nice to
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Speaker 7: you guys because what you did was wrong. You didn't
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Speaker 7: think about being nice when you went and destroyed these
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Speaker 7: people's property and violated their right to free expression. You
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Speaker 7: didn't think about being nice to them then. Were you
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Speaker 7: having a hard time breathing then? I feel for you.
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Speaker 7: But you reap what you sow. Maybe this is the
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Speaker 7: punishment you're getting for what you did.
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Speaker 9: They have a right to blue and white lights.
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Speaker 7: The Jews tried.
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Speaker 4: To ruin Christmas by killing Jesus, and they're doing it again.
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Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You have no right. And
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Speaker 3: you know, you really need to get some primatine mist.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear you talking.
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 2: I said get some primatine mist.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 2: Because you sound horrible.
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Speaker 6: What do I sound like?
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Speaker 7: Hello? You sound ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: You sound like an idiot.
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Speaker 6: An idiot?
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Speaker 7: Yes, you do sound like an idiot. You need some help.
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Speaker 4: I am trying to get the people to put the
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Speaker 4: rent on my truck.
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Speaker 5: That's their home.
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Speaker 7: They can do whatever they want to. They don't have
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Speaker 7: to follow anybody's code and standards. They pay their $ 800
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Speaker 7: a month just like everybody else.
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Speaker 5: Are they going to.
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Speaker 7: Follow my standards? When you guys start paying their rent
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Speaker 7: and start paying their homeowners fees, then you can decide
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Speaker 7: what they can do with their home. Until then, mind
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Speaker 7: your own business. Let me ask you a question. Okay. Okay,
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Speaker 7: ask me a question.
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Speaker 4: Are you black?
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Speaker 7: Yes, I am. Well, there you go.
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Speaker 4: So you're sticking up for Jews.
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Speaker 7: What? Excuse me? I'm saying because.
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Speaker 4: You're black, you're sticking up for them because you're Jews.
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Speaker 2: Okay, look.
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Speaker 7: I'm sticking up for them because they are Americans.
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Speaker 2: They're American people on the right.
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Speaker 7: In America, we have something called freedom of choice, which
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Speaker 7: is protected by the United States Constitution.
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Speaker 2: I have to ask you, Ms.
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Speaker 3: Dooley, get some primatine mist, okay, and start breathing right.
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Speaker 7: It wouldn't make a difference what color I was. I
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Speaker 7: still feel that what you guys did was wrong. I
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Speaker 7: don't care what color they were.
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Speaker 4: Oh, God, thank God I can breathe again. You know,
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Speaker 4: I just, God bless you is all I can say,
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Speaker 4: and God bless all of the people.
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Speaker 7: Well, God bless you, too, but you can't go around
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Speaker 7: violating other people's rights simply because it's something that you
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Speaker 7: want to do.
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Speaker 4: Well, that's true, that's true, but I felt like doing it.
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Speaker 7: No, but how, wait a minute, how would you feel
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Speaker 7: if they went and ripped your colored light down and
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Speaker 7: put up blue and white lights because they didn't like
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Speaker 7: your colored light?
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Speaker 4: They can't do that because the homeowners association agrees.
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Speaker 7: And you can't do what you did either.
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Speaker 4: The homeowners association agrees.
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Speaker 2: All right, she can't breathe again.
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Speaker 7: You should be in line with a lawsuit if they
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Speaker 7: agree to what you did.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 5: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: We're speaking with Bobbi Dooley and her husband, Steve Dooley,
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Speaker 3: about the homeowners association that they are members of putting
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Speaker 3: up their traditional Christmas decorations and not allowing a Jewish
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Speaker 3: family to put up blue and white lights because that
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Speaker 3: goes against their traditional Christmas decorations. They also went over
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Speaker 3: to the people's home and put a concrete and steel
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Speaker 3: manger scene in while they were on vacation. This is
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Speaker 3: the Phil Henry Show. We'll be back with more calls.
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Speaker 8: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 4: 1-800-449-8686.
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Speaker 3: Phil Henry Show. Okay, we have Bobby Dooley on the
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Speaker 3: line with her husband, Steve.
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Speaker 5: Is she all right, Steve? We got some private team
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Speaker 5: in her, Phil, and I think she's going to be
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Speaker 5: all right.
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Speaker 6: Bobby?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Phil, I'm awfully sorry. This has really been, all
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Speaker 4: I can tell you is this has been emotionally draining
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Speaker 4: for me. It has been emotionally draining for my husband
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Speaker 4: and my sons. We have been put through living hell.
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Speaker 4: And all we are trying to do is have a
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Speaker 4: beautiful Christmas decoration for the entire Magnolia phase. not just
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Speaker 4: two or three streets, but the entire phase, as well
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Speaker 4: as the Poplar phase, which has just opened up its three-, four-, five-,
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Speaker 4: and six-bedroom homes. I would just say that for all
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Speaker 4: of us here in the beautiful Magnolia phase of Western Estates,
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Speaker 4: if you're Jewish, try to understand that Christians are really,
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Speaker 4: you know, as my sons like to say, Christians are
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Speaker 4: where it's at. And so be a part of our celebration.
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Speaker 4: And don't be.
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Speaker 2: A blue loo. Okay, 1-800-449-8686. Riverside on the Phil Henry Show.
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Speaker 1: Hello?
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Speaker 2: Riverside, hello?
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Speaker 4: Hi.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, go ahead.
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Speaker 6: I just want to say that I'm an Anglo-Saxon Christian,
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Speaker 6: and I don't want to be in the same breath
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Speaker 6: as their description of a Christian.
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Speaker 4: I think that what they've done... Well, how have I
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Speaker 4: described a Christian?
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Speaker 5: Pardon?
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Speaker 4: How have I described Christians?
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Speaker 6: Your description, the way you're putting a... Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 6: I would just... What do you... I think that what
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Speaker 6: you've done by building that manger.
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Speaker 7: Is a hate crime.
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Speaker 6: And everybody's as much as putting a swastika on their garage.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think that that... What kind of decorations do
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Speaker 4: you have?
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Speaker 6: I have Christmas lights.
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Speaker 4: Okay, what can I do?
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Speaker 6: But I'm not going to shove my Christmas lights down
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Speaker 6: someone else's throat.
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Speaker 4: Are they multicolored or are they the icicle lights?
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Speaker 6: They're multicolored.
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Speaker 4: Okay, right there, you see, you blew it. We have
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Speaker 4: all icicle lights this year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but no, you're blowing it in that.
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Speaker 4: It's really nice.
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Speaker 6: But you can't force Christ. and Christmas down people's throats.
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Speaker 6: That's not what Jesus did.
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Speaker 4: Well, they're the ones that hate Christmas. I don't hate anybody.
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Speaker 4: I love everyone.
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Speaker 6: Not if you built a manger on their property.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know what? I'll tell you this.
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Speaker 5: It really makes their property look better. It does.
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Speaker 4: It makes their property look... I think we've increased the
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Speaker 4: value of their property by at least $ 30, 000. It's not
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Speaker 4: your right. It's the spirit of giving.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you guys ran in a gas line, electrical, telephone.
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Speaker 3: You've got digital satellite TV in that thing.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you something.
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Speaker 3: You build a manger on their front lawn with digital
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Speaker 3: satellite receiver.
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Speaker 4: That's correct. Just so when we were over there, we
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Speaker 4: could catch some games. What's so funny about that?
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Speaker 2: In the manger?
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 4: All right, ma'am.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your call. Here's Denver on the Phil
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Speaker 2: Henry Show.
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Speaker 5: Hello.
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Speaker 8: Hello.
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 8: I cannot believe I'm listening to this. This is unreal.
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Speaker 4: The manger costs probably about $ 6, 000 still.
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Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like it's more money than that.
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Speaker 8: You know, they're celebrating in their own way. You know,
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Speaker 8: I mean, I don't care what color lights it is.
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Speaker 8: I mean, if you go... There's white lights around all
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Speaker 8: the city and county buildings at the top of Dallas.
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Speaker 8: You go from Grand Island, Nebraska to California. I drive
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Speaker 8: a truck, and you see all-color lights everywhere. People are
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Speaker 8: celebrating in their own way. You ought to be happy
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Speaker 8: that they're celebrating.
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Speaker 4: Well, the colored lights are out this year, though. Everyone's
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Speaker 4: using the icicle white lights.
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Speaker 8: It doesn't matter what color they're using. I mean, they're celebrating.
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Speaker 4: What do you have on your home?
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Speaker 8: Um, I got white lights.
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Speaker 4: Okay, see? You have the icicle lights.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I do.
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Speaker 8: And I put them up last night before I went
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Speaker 8: to Grand Island, Nebraska to work. You know, you two
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Speaker 8: need to get a light. Go down there.
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Speaker 5: I'm delivering meat.
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Speaker 8: Down to south central L.A. Go down there and see
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Speaker 8: how people live, what they have to put up with.
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Speaker 8: And you're worrying about what color lights somebody has on
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Speaker 8: their house.
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Speaker 5: Well, you have to understand, we won the Spectacular Light
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Speaker 5: Award four years in a row.
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Speaker 6: Big deal.
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Speaker 5: Big deal.
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Speaker 8: Pat yourself on the back. Go down to South Central
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Speaker 8: LA and see people, how they're living, how people are
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Speaker 8: living it every day today, and you're worried about winning
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Speaker 8: an award?
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Speaker 4: Where did he say to go to?
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Speaker 5: He said go down to South Central.
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Speaker 4: Well, what's that?
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of black people down there.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my God. It doesn't matter what color.
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Speaker 8: There's all color people down there. Believe it or not,
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Speaker 8: that's the meat market where all your food comes from.
24:36
Speaker 8: But I doubt that you got the idea of where your.
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Speaker 5: Food comes from.
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Speaker 4: My food comes from Gelson's, thank you very much. It
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Speaker 4: doesn't come from the black part of town. But anyway.
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Speaker 2: He's talking about Central Market, okay?
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Speaker 5: You know the L.A.
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Speaker 2: Central Market?
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 2: The L.A.
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Speaker 3: Central Market is where a lot of the farmers drop
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Speaker 3: off all their stuff. Anyway, sir, look, Bobby, are you hearing.
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Speaker 2: What this guy.
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Speaker 4: He said he has the white icicle lights. I don't
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Speaker 4: know why he doesn't understand what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: Well, he does.
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Speaker 8: What's wrong with the white icicle lights?
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Speaker 4: Nothing. You have them, so you should be, you and
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Speaker 4: I are one.
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Speaker 8: No, we're not. I wouldn't want to put myself, I'd
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Speaker 8: rather be down in a homeless shelter in South Central L.A.
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Speaker 8: than sitting in your house.
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Speaker 4: Do you have anything moving? Do you have a Santa
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Speaker 4: Claus that moves?
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Speaker 8: I don't have, no, I don't have anything.
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Speaker 4: You should do that. You should put that up on
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Speaker 4: your roof, like a Santa Claus that goes, in fact, Steve,
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Speaker 4: what's the one we saw over at Home Depot?
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's really great. It goes, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
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Speaker 5: And it goes, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. You know?
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Speaker 4: Have you seen that?
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Speaker 8: I just cannot believe you.
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Speaker 4: And the elves.
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Speaker 5: You don't have.
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Speaker 8: A clue about life, period.
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Speaker 4: Oh, God, I can't breathe.
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Speaker 2: You have no clue.
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Speaker 5: I can't breathe. My wife can't breathe because you're yelling
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Speaker 5: at her.
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Speaker 2: He's not yelling at her.
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Speaker 8: Do you realize how people are out here working every day,
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Speaker 8: worried about What color lights they're putting up on their house.
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Speaker 5: What kind of award they give. Hey, you've got to
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Speaker 5: see this. I saw this at the store. It's a dancing,
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Speaker 5: waving baby Jesus. It gets up out of the manger
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Speaker 5: and goes, hi, hi, and then lays down. Then gets
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Speaker 5: up and goes, hi, hi.
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Speaker 2: Who cares?
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 2: Who cares?
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: That's what the man is saying. South Central L.A.
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Speaker 5: Where the meat comes from.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, where the meat comes from. All right, sir. Thank
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Speaker 2: you very much. Have a good evening. 1-800-449-8686. Here is
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Speaker 2: Schenectady on the Phil Hendry Show.
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Speaker 7: Hello. Hello.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, go ahead.
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Speaker 9: I'm connected to New York, and I'm just... As a Christian,
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Speaker 9: I'm appalled by such attitude. Jesus was Jewish, and she
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Speaker 9: forgot about that?
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Speaker 4: That's what I told my next-door neighbor, and she still
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Speaker 4: wouldn't put up the right colored light.
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Speaker 9: Hey, you know what? Guess what? Jesus is more interested...
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Speaker 9: Your attitude about Christians is more stinky and more than
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Speaker 9: any color of light.
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Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Yeah, because God.
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Speaker 9: Hey, listen. God came to all people... And, you know,
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Speaker 9: you should read the book, What Would Jesus Do? Do
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Speaker 9: you know we.
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Speaker 4: Built a manger with a satellite dish?
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Speaker 7: Well, you know what?
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Speaker 9: Jesus is not in the manger anymore.
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Speaker 4: He's in heaven.
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Speaker 9: So you're really worried about things that are just so silly.
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Speaker 9: You know what?
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Speaker 5: Check this out. We put up an angel that flies
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Speaker 5: from the roof to the manger, and there's sparks flying
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Speaker 5: from the wings and cool pyrotechnics.
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Speaker 4: And stuff like that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think you need to go to some
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Speaker 9: psychiatric ward. We're supposed to go to a psychiatric ward.
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Speaker 9: That has nothing to do with Christians. You know, you're
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Speaker 9: being more of a.
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Speaker 4: Excuse me, but we have What Would Jesus Do bumper
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Speaker 4: stickers on our cars.
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Speaker 9: Well, I bet you have.
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Speaker 4: We have the Jesus fish. Do you have a Jesus fish?
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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 9: I have Jesus in my heart. And my attitude is,
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Speaker 9: you know, I'm really.
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Speaker 5: Appalled by you.
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Speaker 2: Look it, man.
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Speaker 3: Who cares about the ass end of the angel having
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Speaker 3: sparks flying off of it?
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Speaker 5: You know, you're not very Christian.
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Speaker 4: You know what? You really are so unchristian. You're really unchristian.
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Speaker 4: Are you born again?
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Speaker 9: I'm very born again.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so.
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Speaker 9: I've been having Jesus in my heart for 39 years.
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Speaker 4: I don't think so because you laugh.
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Speaker 9: Oh, you're of the devil.
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Speaker 4: Oh, really, am I?
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Speaker 9: Any kind of person that's more worried about Christmas and
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Speaker 9: not worried about the Savior himself.
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Speaker 4: That's the birth of the Savior. No, you're worshiping. It's idolatry.
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Speaker 4: It's idolatry.
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Speaker 5: And then the angel comes down from the rooftop and
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Speaker 5: the sparks come off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got that about the sparking angel, man.
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Speaker 4: Do you know that Christ is the first five letters
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Speaker 4: of Christmas? Yes, I do.
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Speaker 9: And guess what else? And I don't have my house
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Speaker 9: gaudy or anything. I worship Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 4: And guess what else? I'm born again twice.
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Speaker 9: Do you need to have an asthma thing now because
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Speaker 9: you don't get everything your way?
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Speaker 4: No. Yes, I happen to have a hard time.
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Speaker 9: I'm sorry you have a hard time breathing.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
28:47
Speaker 9: But your attitude towards your Jewish friends, there's no way
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Speaker 9: they're ever going to become a Christian.
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Speaker 4: I will tell you this much. I'll tell you this much.
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Speaker 4: I'm born again twice. And that's two times more than you.
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Speaker 9: Oh, yeah, because Jesus wasn't sufficient the first time to
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Speaker 9: save you? What a shame.
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Speaker 4: Don't make fun of me. Jesus wasn't making fun of
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Speaker 4: my breathing.
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Speaker 9: I'm not making fun of you. I mean, Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 9: when you accept Christ in your heart, he doesn't jump
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Speaker 9: out of your heart and get born again twice. It's sufficient.
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Speaker 5: You know, all.
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Speaker 2: Good Lord. Where's her mist?
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Speaker 4: Jesus wouldn't laugh at me. I'm not laughing at you.
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Speaker 4: I'm laughing at the situation.
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Speaker 9: You're so judgmental towards your neighbor that you're giving a
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Speaker 9: bad name for Christianity. But I'm not going to continue
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Speaker 9: this conversation because I don't have to answer full according
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Speaker 9: to his folly, as my Bible says.
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Speaker 7: Good night, lady.
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Speaker 9: And you keep up the good work. Bye.
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Speaker 4: Hello?
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Speaker 5: Steve?
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Speaker 8: Hello?
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Speaker 6: Steve?
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Speaker 9: This is Kathy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Phil.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kathy, I just want to find out, is Bobby
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Speaker 2: going to be back?
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Speaker 5: No, she passed out.
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Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, Kathy.
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