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Jimmy Failla, WOR weeknight host Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So there I was, like so many people, watching the
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  Speaker 1: wedding of the rock-revved, all-American, conservative voice of reason from
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  Speaker 1: Franklin Square, Long Island, Sean Hannity, and his lovely bride, Aimsley,
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  Speaker 1: all dressed in white tux and tail, everybody. And who
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  Speaker 1: do I see off to the side like a real goober?
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  Speaker 1: Dressed in white, busting at the seams. Our own Jimmy Failure,
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  Speaker 1: who was the ring boy for the ceremony.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the only way you could get into this ceremony?
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  Speaker 2: Good for you. You stop it. I was actually out
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  Speaker 2: in Napa telling jokes Saturday night. I took my mom
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  Speaker 2: with me to California because she's 75 and she's never
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  Speaker 2: had fentanyl. So, you know, you got this bucket list.
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  Speaker 2: You got to check the items. It's like you got
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  Speaker 2: it now or never. You know what I mean? So
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  Speaker 2: I missed the royal wedding. I was not there. And
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  Speaker 2: just so you understand, Fox does not have me at
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  Speaker 2: any event that has an open bar. If you notice
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  Speaker 2: at the White House Correspondents Dinner, my show is on
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  Speaker 2: the red carpet and not inside the ballroom.
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  Speaker 3: You got into the ballroom after the shooting happened, right?
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  Speaker 3: You hid out in there. Did you eat? Did you
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  Speaker 3: get some drinks while you were hiding?
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  Speaker 2: No, you're going to laugh. I was in the ballroom
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  Speaker 2: as it.
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  Speaker 1: Happened, okay?
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  Speaker 2: It's so crazy. So I was walking up to the
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  Speaker 2: front thinking I was going to be cool and fist
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  Speaker 2: bump the president. Like, oh, look at Jimmy, you know?
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  Speaker 2: And literally halfway to the front of the room, everything
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  Speaker 2: went down. So I'm under a table with Kennedy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Eating rolls, chugging wine. And then the shooting happened.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: No, we were, we are, but it was just crazy. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we made it out.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever get to eat by the way, during
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  Speaker 3: that whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yes. Because what happened was, is this funny story
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  Speaker 2: because I was the guy hosting the TV show for
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  Speaker 2: three hours. They're obviously, when breaking news like that happens,
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  Speaker 2: they throw me out of the way. They're not going
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  Speaker 2: to have Jimmy making balloon animals in a rhinestone jacket
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  Speaker 2: while the SWAT teams in the Secret Service. So you're
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  Speaker 2: going to laugh. This might be the fattest thing I've
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  Speaker 2: ever done. In real time, as I see the chaos
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  Speaker 2: unfolding in the ballroom, I'm not even making this up.
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  Speaker 2: I room serviced to 339, and it got there before
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  Speaker 2: everything shut down. I hit a turkey club. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: even kidding. I wish I was lying. We had this app.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a valet parking app where if you text
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  Speaker 2: your code, it just brings you stuff. I ordered a
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  Speaker 2: turkey club and fries and got to my room and
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  Speaker 2: ate it and watched my own TV show. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Fallon, but I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: on it. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Now, speaking of eating. You have this thing going on
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  Speaker 1: with our producer, Natalie. Nothing on the hush-hush down low,
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  Speaker 1: but she tends to text you pictures of loaves of
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  Speaker 1: Italian bread, and I don't know. Do you get off
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  Speaker 1: on that, Jimmy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no. Oh, innocent.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Jimmy?
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  Speaker 2: No, but Natalie has sent me so many of these
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  Speaker 2: six-inch loaves, I feel like Anthony Weiner's back on Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Sailing in. Well, I'm going to see Jimmy tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm excited. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow night. Sold out crowd. What can people expect that
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  Speaker 3: are going to be there tomorrow night?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you're going to see me. I always
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  Speaker 2: say my natural habitat. This is where I started. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when you first start to instead of comedy, you're doing
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  Speaker 2: open open mics like opium dens on the Lower East Side.
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  Speaker 2: And then you actually do play Italian restaurants because they'll
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  Speaker 2: have like a comedy night. Families come down.
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  Speaker 1: They like to laugh.
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  Speaker 2: So you're seeing, like, for real, this is like a
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  Speaker 2: 2001 Jimmy Fallon, but I'm not going to have the
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  Speaker 2: bleach blonde hair this time. I'm going to reign it
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit for TV. Disappointing. Rhinestone jacket, I hope, though.
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  Speaker 2: You never know. You never know. But I'm psyched for
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  Speaker 2: the gig because I love doing comedy in Jersey specifically
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  Speaker 2: because Jersey never lost the edge. You know, there's something
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  Speaker 2: about waiting two hours to cross a bridge that charges
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  Speaker 2: you $ 30. That, you know, kind of keeps your priorities
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  Speaker 2: in order. That's right. Jersey crowds are the best crowds.
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  Speaker 2: So you will watch, like, the most aggressive version of
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  Speaker 2: my set there is. And I like that. It's, like,
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  Speaker 2: exciting for me.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we talked earlier, Jimmy. Hopefully you were listening and
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  Speaker 1: you weren't in a drug-induced psychosis sleep. But we were
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  Speaker 1: talking of how New Jersey drivers are rated the second
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  Speaker 1: worst in the nation. You've been all over the nation touring,
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  Speaker 1: doing your stand-up. North Dakota first. New Jersey's second. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you've crisscrossed the Garden State to Turnpike, Garden State Parkway.
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  Speaker 1: How do you weigh in on this, Jimmy?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a thing, okay? In North Dakota, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to understand, they're driving horses. So I don't think that counts.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: We've got motorized vehicles back here on the East Coast,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's a totally different experience. Pound for
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  Speaker 2: pound is the thing. I think Jersey are the most
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  Speaker 2: aggressive drivers in America, okay, because it really is the
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  Speaker 2: only state where you signal after you've already made it
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  Speaker 2: into the next lane. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: What is that signal again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't signal to let them know you're coming over.
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  Speaker 2: You signal to let them know you made it, you know?
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  Speaker 2: That's the funniest thing in the world. I'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that a little, but I consider Jersey the most aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: but in my experience, I'm not kidding. I think Florida
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  Speaker 2: and California are the worst because there's no consistency. Like
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  Speaker 2: in California, the far right lane is often the fastest
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  Speaker 2: lane because there's a guy in the left lane who
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  Speaker 2: can't speak English or read the road signs that Gavin
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  Speaker 2: Newsom gave a trucker's license to, and everybody's just trying
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  Speaker 2: to stay the hell out of there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just shocked that there's something called a far right
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  Speaker 3: lane in California. That was a surprise to me. Hey, listen,
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow night you're appearing and you're doing some standup, Kuchina Kalandra.
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  Speaker 3: I look at Donald Trump when he's on this tour.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, he's doing seven shows in six nights.
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  Speaker 3: That's what comics do. Seven shows in six nights. And
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  Speaker 3: he goes on for 90 minutes. When you see him,
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  Speaker 3: do you think to yourself, he'd be a great standup?
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  Speaker 2: I think he'd be a good emcee. An emcee is
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  Speaker 2: the guy who comes on and just picks on the
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  Speaker 2: crowd for 10 minutes before the comic comes out. Because
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  Speaker 2: those are all of his best moments. It's like he's
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  Speaker 2: a crowd work comedian, you know, and that's what you'd
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  Speaker 2: like him to do because he juice up the room.
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  Speaker 2: He comes on, he calls somebody fake news, checks out
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  Speaker 2: this guy's butt. I was so happy to get Nicki
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  Speaker 2: Minaj on stage because Trump is killing me. Because all
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  Speaker 2: I want to do is tell jokes about James Tallarico
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  Speaker 2: being in the closet. But every time they throw Trump
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  Speaker 2: a microphone, he checks out another guy's ass. I can't
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  Speaker 2: do the Tallarico stuff if you're going to keep doing
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  Speaker 2: this to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, anyway, Jimmy, don't fail me now, failure. You go
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  Speaker 1: to sleep with Jimmy in any which way you choose.
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  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday from 9 to 12 here on WOR710,
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  Speaker 1: the most listened-to talk station in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania. And then you wake up with Larry and
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  Speaker 1: me in the morning. What a one-two combination there, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a one-two. You know, the people who
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  Speaker 2: go to bed with me, okay? Just to be clear, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is not one of those, like, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: do a lively show, but Curtis always promotes my show
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  Speaker 2: like it's the Bill Cosby bartending school. I'm knocking these
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  Speaker 2: people out.
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  Speaker 3: Have a great time tomorrow night. I'm sure it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be wonderful. Can't wait to hear about it. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: a lot, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 2: Red picks for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Love you.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. That's right.