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Insurance and televangelists · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: As Blazer and I were talking after the show, as
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  Speaker 1: he was preparing to make his way to dinner the
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  Speaker 1: the I was reminded of my first radio fight, which happened,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in my very beginning time. I shall not
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  Speaker 1: name the other person. They have long since left the
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  Speaker 1: market and hopefully forgotten unless you know you're into nightmares.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, it was right here at this radio station. Well,
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  Speaker 1: not in this building. It was back in the olden
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  Speaker 1: days at forty two East Gay Street, which was where
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  Speaker 1: the station was when I first started. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: can you believe that it was at nineteen nineteen, long
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  Speaker 1: time ago? And so what's that nineteen fifty four, wasn't
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  Speaker 1: it not that far back? Man? Ninety four? Something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, I was. I was in broadcast school.
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  Speaker 1: Mark and I were both in school at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And Cannon had just come back to Columbus, and so
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to him that night. He was doing
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  Speaker 1: the all night radio Rampage midnight show, and I called him.
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  Speaker 1: I said, hey, man, welcome back. I remember listening to
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  Speaker 1: you as a youngster. Good to hear you back, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, enjoy listening to you. It was a nice
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  Speaker 1: call just to you know, friendly little first first night
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  Speaker 1: back in Columbus day A couple of nights later, he
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  Speaker 1: starts talking about me on the air and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to talk to that kid again if maybe
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  Speaker 1: get him work here on the Cannon Show. So I
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  Speaker 1: called him again. I said, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: He said, I need somebody to screen calls, answer phones,
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  Speaker 1: produce the show. Can you do that? I'm like absolutely
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  Speaker 1: so that That was my first tour of duty at
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  Speaker 1: six ten double UTV in And there was somebody who
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  Speaker 1: worked for the company back then, as I said, long
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  Speaker 1: since forgotten and gone, and who knows what they're doing now.
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  Speaker 1: But they they just got noxious. They they you know,
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  Speaker 1: they were a nasty person to begin with. Quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: they just had a nasty disposition about them. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: this youngster, you know, trying to make my bones, as
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  Speaker 1: they say, and uh and this this this person just
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  Speaker 1: flew off the handle and hit me with a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of yelling and profanity one night. And I was I
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  Speaker 1: was young, and I didn't care. I wasn't scared nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and I gave it right back to him. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why, but as Mark and I were talking
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  Speaker 1: to Night and we were talking about the early days,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, and that popped into my head and I
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  Speaker 1: just I'm still here and they're not. And that's all
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  Speaker 1: there is to that. Thank I. I would say, ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: in the scheme of things, in the course of life,
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  Speaker 1: I would consider myself the winner in that situation. Okay, fair, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would also consider Columbus a winner in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: because did I mention They're gone forgotten? Now? So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's this, this, this almost semi serious story that I was
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  Speaker 1: reading today and you know, preparation to get on the
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  Speaker 1: air and talk to to use people end up. And
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  Speaker 1: I know I got a lot of insurance people who
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  Speaker 1: listen to the radio when I'm on, and I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: you guys, but I'm thinking there should be an insurance
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  Speaker 1: policy for this story right here. Publishers clearing House are
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  Speaker 1: exactly you old enough to remember the Publisher's Clearinghouse. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people think Ed McMahon was a spokesperson for
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  Speaker 1: Publishers clearing House. He was not. I know he wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: But I remember those commercials and stuff where a ban
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  Speaker 1: would show up with balloons and knock on the doors yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I remember that. You may already have won. So this
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  Speaker 1: guy wins Publishers. Ed McMahon was American Family. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: this guy wins Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes five thousand. Was it
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  Speaker 1: five thousand a week for life or something? It worked
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  Speaker 1: out to two hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of his life. He's set, you know,
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  Speaker 1: quarter million a year, sells everything, quits his job, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much retired, And in case you missed the headlines, Publishers
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  Speaker 1: Clearinghouse filed bankruptcy. Company I'm pretty sure went into receivership.
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  Speaker 1: It was purchased by a new company. The new company
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  Speaker 1: says that they will not honor any previous sweepstakes wins,
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  Speaker 1: that anything moving forward is their responsibility, but anything before
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  Speaker 1: they took over is not their responsibility. Well, this guy
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  Speaker 1: has been living on his two hundred and sixty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year, quit his job, hasn't worked in ten years,
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  Speaker 1: says he can't get a job now he's old, he's
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  Speaker 1: out of the market, he hasn't done anything, he has
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  Speaker 1: no practical, usable experience, and he apparently is out of luck.
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  Speaker 1: I think there should be insurance for this kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I think that should be part of your winnings.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just Pblisher's Clearinghouse or sweepstakes companies. Let
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  Speaker 1: us not forget it wasn't that long ago that the
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  Speaker 1: state of Illinois defaulted on lottery winnings. If you want
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  Speaker 1: the lottery in Illinois, you weren't getting paid. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why people continue to play the lottery because you
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  Speaker 1: weren't getting paid. So as we legislate everything these days,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, because I you know, I used
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  Speaker 1: to be this. We got enough laws. That was how
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  Speaker 1: I was. But the world keeps on a change in
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just wondering, would it be advisable practical that
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  Speaker 1: we have some kind of law for these companies that
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  Speaker 1: are giving away life changing money that part of the
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  Speaker 1: winnings have to be an insurance policy that they must
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  Speaker 1: carry so that if they go up, if they file
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  Speaker 1: bankruptcy or whatever, that you continue to get the payments
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  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to get. Save to be said for
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  Speaker 1: the state lotteries and the Mega Millions and the power
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  Speaker 1: ball and all that. If you're promised something, you legitimately
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  Speaker 1: win something that is supposed to like last the rest
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  Speaker 1: of your life, the remainder of your existence on this earth.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't you actually get it? I think that will be fair,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think it's asking too much that we
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  Speaker 1: look at that in a, you know, a legislative way
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  Speaker 1: where it actually becomes the law of the lad If
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have all these these various ways to
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  Speaker 1: take money out of your pocket and the name of
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  Speaker 1: funding the schools or whatever, and you are fortunate enough
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  Speaker 1: to win, you should get it. Or maybe that's just me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just curious what you guys thought. If you think
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  Speaker 1: I'm onto something here, if I'm just if I'm out
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  Speaker 1: of whack. Eight two, one, nine, eight eighty six is
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  Speaker 1: the number eight too one wtv IN or eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six to ten WTVN. Maybe maybe you want to
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  Speaker 1: tell me, no, it's just luck of the draw. You
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  Speaker 1: gambled when you won, and you gamble that you'll get
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  Speaker 1: your money. I can understand that point of view. Don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily agree with it, but I can understand that point
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  Speaker 1: of view. I mean, if you go to a casino
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  Speaker 1: and you win five thousand dollars and then they they
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  Speaker 1: pay you a non negotiable currency confederate bills or something. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they gave you the five thousand dollars, Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't spend it. Well, we didn't stipulate it would be
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  Speaker 1: in US currency. See what I mean? If you're going
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  Speaker 1: to win shipwreck Indian gold. Yeah, yeah, some of them
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  Speaker 1: coins they sell at two am on the TV newly minted.
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  Speaker 1: They're only printing a few, only only only seven trill
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be printed out seven trillion for you have
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful eagle sword COI. Oh my gosh, the coin
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  Speaker 1: guys and the night. Have you ever seen the knife guy? No,
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  Speaker 1: I've just seen. I haven't seen that. I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: a knife one like folks for eighty nine ninety pout,
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  Speaker 1: you can get four hundred and seventy seven different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of knives. Here, we get your billion knives. We got
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  Speaker 1: your bucket knives, we got your hunting knives, we got
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  Speaker 1: your stilettos right here. Look at this switchblade, all American switchblade.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna love everybody. Just send your money right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what's crazy? It sounds like an EVANGELI between them. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I saw one of them last week. I woke up.
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  Speaker 1: I had left the TV on and fell asleep. And
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  Speaker 1: this guy is an auctioneer. He's an evangelist, televangelist, auctioneer.
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  Speaker 1: Can I get the phones to ring? Right now? Right now?
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  Speaker 1: I want those phones to ring? Could I get six
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars six? Can I get six? Six hundred dollars six?
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  Speaker 1: Plant the seat six hundred dollars six? Listen to those
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  Speaker 1: phones ring six hundred. I'm like this, this really really
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  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm sure people donate that money, but wow, wow,
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  Speaker 1: he this he made televangelists look bad. I only listened
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  Speaker 1: to the old Jimmy Swaggered vhs. You like them, Jimmy Swaggers,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a rick humbard guy. Who's the guy with the
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  Speaker 1: comb over who used to heal people? Strangely, I love
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  Speaker 1: Benny he He was wonderful. He's a wonderful man. And
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  Speaker 1: Benny Heiny was away. I always said, a beautiful white
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  Speaker 1: so that he was waiting, he'd be like, put their
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  Speaker 1: hand on their head and people just collapse. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother was magging to Leroy Jenkins. She loved her
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  Speaker 1: some Leroy Jenkins. Yeah, we've we've seen a lot in
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  Speaker 1: my short time on Earth,