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Cops Thought Matt Holliday & Matt Carpenter Were Drug Smugglers! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  How long is the drive from Stillwater to Memphis it?
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  Is about 6 1/2. We carp was he said he made make
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  it in six but we we about ran out of gas once and then we got
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  pulled over once he. Didn't tell me that.
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  Yeah. So it was good though we we got
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  well. So we got pulled over and the
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  guy came around to my side and and Carp says officer did I do
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  something wrong? And he says yeah you were you
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  were going 72 and a 70. And I about spit out my water.
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  I was you know I didn't I never got pulled over for going two
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  over and I didn't know I I thought maybe he was kidding but
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  he was serious. So he he said, yeah, you're
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  going 72 and a 70 and it changes from 75 to 70 right back there,
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  you know, about a mile back. And I was like, wow, speed.
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  Trap. Wow.
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  Jeez. And he says He asked Carp, he
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  says, Would you, would you mind coming back and and sitting in
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  my my car and I was like, wow, it's getting weirder.
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  So TARP, Yeah, no problem. So he goes back and apparently
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  he he was the drug dog cop. And so he we had rental car,
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  South Carolina license plate and he saw bags in the back of our
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  our our Ford Explorer rent a car and had the.
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  I mean he didn't tell Carp this, but apparently he was he thought
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  we were. Well he did tell Carp.
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  He said, well, I pulled you guys over because I saw a couple of
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  guys in a South Carolina license plate with bags in the back of
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  their car. I thought you guys might be
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  smuggling stuff. So he had the the drug dog sniff
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  carp, which obviously we weren't.
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  We were not smuggling the drugs. So this time he let us off
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  without it, without a ticket. So we we had a little pit stop
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  there. We almost ran out of gas and we
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  ended up at A at a bait and tackle shop by a lake somewhere
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  in in the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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  So it was good. It was, you know, an eventful
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  little trip. And now we made it.
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  They don't. They don't.
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  Those guys don't know who you are.
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  No one said. Excuse me, Aren't you guys
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  baseball players or former baseball players?
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  No one knew. No, no, we were.
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  We were suspected drug smuggling.
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  That is great. This is awesome though.
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  And not not that part, but the. Six.
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  That part. It's the best part.
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  OK. But I mean for the experience,
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  it's a great story. So the the six hours, are you
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  guys talking the whole time? Are you listening to music?
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  Who's controlling the radio? What's the snacks like this is?
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  I wish you guys would have filmed this six hours.
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  Yeah, no, we watched the Tom Brady roast for a good bit.
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  So that took up about for, I mean, I don't know if y'all saw
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  that, but it it just kept going. I mean three hours, 2 1/2 hours,
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  3 hours of our drive. So we watched that we when we
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  stopped. Well when we were forced to stop
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  for gas we just it was a I think it was I can't remember the
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  first name of it was something bait and tackle.
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  We weren't even sure on the little map if they were going to
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  have gas, but we risked it and they had gas and then, you know,
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  they had more. I think they had more fish food
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  than they had people food. But they, they had a a grill on
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  the back. And so carp's like, I'm in the
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  burger. So he ordered a burger.
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  And so I'm like fine. And so we waited.
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  We ordered burgers and waited. That took a little longer than
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  we anticipated, but we had burgers there at the at the bait
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  and tackle shop and then you know, we just, yeah, we watched
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  the Tom Brady deal which chatted about, you know, anything and
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  everything and and it was a good time.
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  That's all. Let me ask you this because you
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  mentioned Carp's body position, which has to do with swing path
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  and things like that for people in the know.
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  You know who was just talking about that?
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  Goldie, when he was taking the extra BP he was working on body
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  position. Did he give you a call or send
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  you a video or anything saying hey, any ideas?
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  No I I I I know Goldie well but not not that well we've never
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  really talked hitting so I know that you know he's obviously
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  goes way back with Turner Ward and and so I no I haven't I
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  haven't ever really talked much with with Goldie about you know
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  hitting or or the swing so you looked a lot better yesterday I
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  tell you that I'm. Going to give you credit for it
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  anyway you. Know what?
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  We were just talking yesterday before the game and I thought
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  him a few things. Now you sound like ball game.
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  I was just kidding. What do you think of this ball
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  club man? Obviously yesterday was was
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  nice, but a lot of the rest of it is not so good, I think it's
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  fair to say. Yeah you know it's been really
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  kind of strange from the offensive side really to to you
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  know looking at the OP s s of of you know after Contreras went
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  out I saw a stat it was it was not good on on OPS left on the
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  rosters. So I'm a little surprised.
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  I'm not sure you know I don't I don't know why but the offense
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  obviously hasn't been great or hasn't even been good decent and
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  then you know the the pitching has been OK but yeah I mean it's
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  just been you know it's it's been it's been a struggle it's
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  been it's been not good and and you know the good news is is is
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  there is a lot of games left but you got to start you got to
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  start winning you got to start playing you got to get momentum
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  going you got to you know you got to you got to hit better and
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  so you know the the dudes in the middle of the order got to be
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  dudes and and you know the young players got to take steps
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  forward and and you know it's it's it's it's one of those
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  things where you know they they they haven't played good and and
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  that's what that's why you're there you're there to win you
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  know you're Saint Louis Cardinal you're expected to play well
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  expected to win you're expected to work and and to play the game
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  and play the game right and and so hopefully you know yesterday
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  is can get him going a little bit.
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  How does your preparation as a hitter change when you're facing
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  a guy who's making his Major League debut on the mound?
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  Well, you, you know, I think you try to watch as much tape as you
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  can get from from the minor leagues.
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  You know you just kind of pay you know what's what's he do,
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  you know just give me some some kind of some kind of general
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  information. You know how hard you throw,
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  what's his out pitch, You know how many pitches do they use?
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  3 pitches. Is he just a two pitch pitcher
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  against, you know righties or lefties and you know and then
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  until you get in the box and and see it, you know there's there's
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  not a whole lot that you can get from from just watching video.
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  But you know you just try to try to try to have a game plan and
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  then you know it really in hitting they got to throw it
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  over the plate. It's more about you, you know,
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  you got you got to got to throw it over the plate.
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  You you look for where you want the ball and then if you get 2
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  strikes, you got to battle. And so sometimes, you know we
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  get so focused on the plan based on who's pitching that we lose.
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  We lose sight of what makes us good.
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  And as hitters and you know, for me it was I got to be ready for
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  a fastball out of the plate. And if he makes a mistake and
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  I'm going to, I'm going to hammer it and you know, if he
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  hangs me and breaking ball, I got to be ready to hit it.
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  And so those are those sometimes you know like I said there's so
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  much information now and there's so much scouting and there's so
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  much data on on he throws this pitch and this count and he
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  won't throw this pitch and that count.
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  You know if you get too much, too much going in your in your
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  brain sometimes you forget you know that it's, you know you got
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  to get it back to to simple. So that's that's usually how I
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  would handle it. So yesterday Ollie gets tossed
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  out for the first time of the season.
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  It was a good one. I mean, it was it was a real
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  good one. And he, he actually, after the
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  game said, yeah, that was by design, trying to get the team
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  fired up. Now Goldie kind of wiped that
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  aside when I asked him about it, but some of the other players
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  said that that does fire up the team.
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  Did you've been there when your manager's gotten tossed?
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  Does that fire up the team? Yeah I mean you know I I I think
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  it sends a message sometimes that hey you know let's get a
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  little energy you know let's let's I'm not going to you know
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  he's you know basically I'm not going to stand over here and and
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  and and and just lay down you know we need to we need to fight
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  and and sometimes it takes you know a little bit of emotion
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  like that and a little bit of you know I don't I don't think
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  you you you rely on that as as something you need to get you
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  going or motivated. But sometimes when the manager
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  goes out there and kicks some dirt and yells at people and
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  looks like scales got in on a little bit sometimes you know it
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  gets it gets the boys going a little bit So yeah I mean I I
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  don't you know it's it's sometimes it's it's a good thing
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  it's a good thing and and players you know they say you
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  know made that maybe the you know manager's got my back he's
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  got our back and but you know as a player it's all about
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  execution. You know what I mean It only
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  goes so far and you got to go out there and play well you got
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  to play you know you got to you got to play well enough to win
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  And that while that's you know fun and sometimes they'll get
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  you juices going a little bit you still have to go out there
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  and execute. Well, thank you for getting
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  Goldie on track. Thank you for getting Carp, and
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  thank you for the road trip story because it's the best
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  thing we've had on on the show in weeks, right.
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  We all agree. I.
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  Have a feeling that one might go national.
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  If we're not, we're not tweeting that out.
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  We will not. But Matt, that's a good story,
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  right? We can put that out, right?
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  We can. We can market that.
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  It's funny, right? I mean, I guess I just, you
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  know, I don't really. It's somehow it's going to
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  backfire and put you on a bad Charlie.
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  Somehow, Charlie, it's a good. Story.
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  Listen, come on, Charlie clicks. Marlow.
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  Have a little respect. I mean, it's a great story, man.
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  And and it's positive. It's funny you guys didn't do
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  anything wrong. Allegedly.
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  You guys, you try to find a better story.
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  You guys can tweet out, You know, maybe well, how much time
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  is left in the show. Oh, we got about 3 minutes.
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  I won't tweet it. I'll just put it on YouTube,
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  yeah. Oh, great.
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  Even better. But we've respected our
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  boundaries. Remember, we didn't put the
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  stuff about you with the fire you told us not to.
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  We're very respectful of boundaries.
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  At least I am. Personally, I can't speak for
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  cold Oh. He's the best.
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  He's the best. Charlie's the best.
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  He's the best. Maddie.
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  Glad you're back on the show, Charlie.
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  Thank Maddie. You're the best.
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  Maddie. Hey, thanks.
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  For coming. On man we'll touch.
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  Base next week, OK. See you, Big Dowell.
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  See ya.