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Jack, Jack...Are You OK? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Jack Jack, Are you okay? What was that? Pedro? It's
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  Speaker 1: one more thing. I'm strong and Getty one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: That was like a Eddie Murphy movie where he was
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  Speaker 2: playing four parts.
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  Speaker 1: Before I get to that story that I told my
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  Speaker 1: kids the other night, and I thought i'd tell on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. I was just remarking, I was watching one
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL games last weekend, and they kept showing
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator in the booth with like five other
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  Speaker 1: guys and six TV monitors and headsets on, and how
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  Speaker 1: they come up with the play through the computer algorithms
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  Speaker 1: and then get it to the off the coach and
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  Speaker 1: then he gets it to the quarterback and his head set. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and thinking about how when I was a kid, Terry
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  Speaker 1: Bradshaw won four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, calling
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  Speaker 1: plays in the huddle on his own completely like he's
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  Speaker 1: completely calling his own plays. Now, I realized that's forty
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  Speaker 1: five years ago. But man, it's just it's a completely
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  Speaker 1: different sport than that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with the you know, enormous audiences on TV
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  Speaker 2: and in person and exorbitant ticket prices and they're just
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  Speaker 2: raking in money. And I was also thinking that whole
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  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator. You're up there in the booth and you
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  Speaker 2: and like ten other people and stuff looking at computer
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  Speaker 2: monitors and wearing headsets and wearing khaki pants and hard
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  Speaker 2: shoes or whatever. Do you feel like you're part of
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  Speaker 2: a sports team or is it more or less the
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  Speaker 2: same feeling as if you worked at a I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: for an insurance company and you're crunching the latest numbers
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  Speaker 2: and you decided to do this. I just, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a sports teamy, just because the pace
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  Speaker 2: You've got seconds to make that decision, get it down
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  Speaker 2: to the field, and then you see the fruits of
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  Speaker 2: your latest decision immediately and adjust from there. It's super intense.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'm sure it's intense, but you're not on the
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  Speaker 1: sideline with the players. I don't know. I just think
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  Speaker 1: it would be a different thing than I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: And they all assume get super Bowl rings when they win.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. The secretaries in the front
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  Speaker 2: office get ranked.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, so the whole jack jack Are you all right?
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  Speaker 1: What was that? Pedro? So I'm reading Old Yeller. My
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  Speaker 1: son and I are reading it together, really good book.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I ever read it.
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  Speaker 2: So Old Yeller is a decent description for a middle
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  Speaker 2: aged talk show host. It occurs to me, no.
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  Speaker 1: Trouble liberals a couple of old Yellers. Anyway, in one
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  Speaker 1: chapter of Old Yeller, the main character there who ends
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  Speaker 1: up shooting Old Yeller gets stampeded by cattle. And I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned to my son that that happened to me one
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  Speaker 1: time before, and he was quite shocked by that. And
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  Speaker 1: I know I've told this story before, but not for many,
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  Speaker 1: many years. And it's got a legal immigration twist to it.
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  Speaker 1: I worked with a lot of not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: a handful of illegal immigrants when I worked in feed
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  Speaker 1: lots when I was in high school. Gladys, can you
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  Speaker 1: play that? Yeah, this is going back to my high school.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, it was still mostly local high school
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  Speaker 1: kids that worked these jobs with a handful of illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 1: From what I understand, since then, it's all immigrants, illegal
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  Speaker 1: or not, and it's not a job you could get
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  Speaker 1: as a high school kid. Anyway, I'm working there at
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  Speaker 1: the feed lot and it was one guy I worked with,
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  Speaker 1: the Pedro, super good dude, really hard worker. I loved
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  Speaker 1: working with him. Whenever I got teamed up with him,
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  Speaker 1: like if we were bailing a all day long. Man.
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  Speaker 1: He was tough as hell and could really sling hay
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  Speaker 1: bails around, never got tired. Good dude. I liked working
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  Speaker 1: with him, but he didn't speak English, and he was
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy to me. I just treat him like
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  Speaker 1: I treat him anywhere anybody else. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: like the head cowboy though, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: other people. They'd make him ride in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the truck, wouldn't matter if it was freezing, cold, raining
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  Speaker 1: outside whatever. He had to ride in the bed of
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  Speaker 1: the truck as we drove around.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Which not cool. But you know, I didn't think much
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  Speaker 1: of it. As a fourteen year old. I wasn't you know.
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  Speaker 1: I was just doing what I was told. But he
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  Speaker 1: was a good dude, and we worked together a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember one time one of the guys brought
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  Speaker 1: up to said at lunch, said, hey, Pedro, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think of the border patrol? He said, fuck the
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  Speaker 1: border patrol. Wow. And this story is taking a dark turn.
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  Speaker 1: I did, but super good dude. And one other guy
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  Speaker 1: who is a cowboys, like the best cowboy I ever
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  Speaker 1: saw riding horses and stuff like that and with a lasso.
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  Speaker 1: Really cool dude. He was also from Mexico. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: chasing this. I heard it all these like a couple
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  Speaker 1: hundred cattle into this pen in this alley they call it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a long, thin pet. As you're heading up somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: they started to turn around and come back. His cattle
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  Speaker 1: off and do they have a herd mentality? Cattle? And
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they started to turn around and run
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  Speaker 1: back toward and they were gonna get out. So I
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  Speaker 1: had to run and close the gate before they got out,
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  Speaker 1: because then we're gonna have a mess and we have
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  Speaker 1: to bring in the cowboys and round them all up
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  Speaker 1: and get them a cycle. So I'm running as fast
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  Speaker 1: as I can to try to get the gate shut
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  Speaker 1: before they're running back towards this gate. I get to
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  Speaker 1: the gate just in time to slam it shut, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't quite get it slam shut, and they hit
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  Speaker 1: the gate, oh the cattle, and it knocked me over backwards,
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  Speaker 1: and then it was just nothing but dust and hoofs
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  Speaker 1: and noise. I'm rolled up in a ball on the
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  Speaker 1: ground and there's just hooves founding all around me as
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  Speaker 1: they all ran past me, and uh and dust everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: And luckily I didn't get stepped on, or I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how I didn't get stepped on. I could have
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  Speaker 1: been killed pretty easily. I was mostly hurt. I had
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  Speaker 1: the wind knocked out of me from the gate, hitting
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  Speaker 1: me so hard in the chest, and I went over background,
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  Speaker 1: so I was having trouble getting my breath. So I
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  Speaker 1: was more worried about that than the cattle stepping on
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  Speaker 1: me at that moment. Plus I'm a kid and I'm stupid.
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  Speaker 1: But Pedro comes running over Jackjack, Are you all right? Jack?
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  Speaker 1: Are you okay? This guy that I didn't think could
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  Speaker 1: speak a word of English. The bosses was always just
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  Speaker 1: like shrugged his shoulders, didn't understand what they were saying.
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  Speaker 1: At least that much spoke perfectly. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay, Pedro, you can talk. What's the deal? Am
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  Speaker 1: I dreaming? Yeah? Exactly? It was so odd.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's just pretending he didn't speak English.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was obviously pretending he didn't speak English,
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  Speaker 1: so he just didn't have.
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  Speaker 2: To deal with the Well, not only that, if your
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  Speaker 2: bosses assume that, then they'll say things around him. Then
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  Speaker 2: he would like to know. Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably true, HIPPERI gives you a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of info. Yeah yeah, and he'll picked me up and
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  Speaker 1: dust me off and then went back to the uh
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  Speaker 1: no no englis for the rest of the time I
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  Speaker 1: worked with him.
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  Speaker 3: My mom's first husband was Chinese, so she speaks She
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  Speaker 3: used to speak fluent Mandarin, but she still sometimes can
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  Speaker 3: pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: Every now and then.
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  Speaker 3: And when she the amount of times where she caught
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  Speaker 3: people talking shit oh wow, especially at restaurants, because she,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they'd sit down and she'd be looking at
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  Speaker 3: the menu and then she would bust out like they'd
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  Speaker 3: you know, they'd say something, and then they'd come back
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  Speaker 3: to the table for her to order, and she'd order
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  Speaker 3: and just pristine Mandarin, and they'd look at her.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh, whoops, that's awesome that you got a story
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  Speaker 1: like that from a Mexican restaurant, don't you You figured
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  Speaker 1: out something they were saying to you. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When I was in high school, working at a nice
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  Speaker 2: Mexican restaurant is like, sit down, you bring your date
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  Speaker 2: there type Mexican restaurant, and the chefs were all Mexican
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  Speaker 2: and they would you know, frequently we the bussers, and
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  Speaker 2: we'd bring food out and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: We'd have to ask.
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  Speaker 2: Them to do things or say hey, this, we need
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  Speaker 2: more of this or whatever, and sometimes we were a
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  Speaker 2: pain in their ass and they would respond with a
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  Speaker 2: variety of cheerfully said shre thing, pandejo that sort of thing,
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  Speaker 2: or you got a capron And capron can just mean dude,
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  Speaker 2: but it also means like bastard or like depending on
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  Speaker 2: the context, that can be like an anti gay thing
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  Speaker 2: or what have you. But so they would just casually
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  Speaker 2: call us dix and gay fellas and whatever with a
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  Speaker 2: cheerful look on their face. And it never occurred to us, well,
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  Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? You can't like look that
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  Speaker 2: up in nineteen eighty two.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, but they would say it with the intonation
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  Speaker 1: of like they were saying yes, sir, or some sure thing, buddy, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, sure thing, penis a nice job, you ballius,
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  Speaker 1: wonder sure thing you dick? Yeah, but good, No, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that was the wrong turn of voice. Yeah, give me
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  Speaker 1: two minutes, you dick. Wouldn't that be fun if you
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  Speaker 1: say thanks? Would't that be fun if you could do
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  Speaker 1: that with your bosses. Yes, they don't speak to the new lingers.
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  Speaker 1: You say, sure thing, ass had. I'll get all right
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  Speaker 1: on that. Just one clarification. We were nobody's boss, right,
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  Speaker 1: we were the lowest.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the same place where you would eat the
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  Speaker 1: leftovers off people's plates?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, in front of them while they were sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, leftovers and I'd sit down. Hey give
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  Speaker 2: me that.
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  Speaker 1: No, they happened regularly. Sure, some.
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  Speaker 2: Petit woman would order a big old breed. Oh she'd
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  Speaker 2: need a third of It'd cut off like an inch
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  Speaker 2: and then finish the.
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  Speaker 1: Rest of it, which I think is awesome. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a tip.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It was great, like a tip.
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  Speaker 2: Young, poor and well fed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.