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Episode #3951 The New Phil Hendrie Show Radio Archive July 2000 · The World of Phil Hendrie

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another Radio Archive Hour here from the Radio
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, Phil Henry Show and philhenryshow.com.
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  Speaker 2: R.C.
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  Speaker 1: Collins, one of the godlike characters we had on the show, 16, 17,
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  Speaker 1: 18 years old, this punk. He had a, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of a kidney problem. He had a testicular cancer,
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  Speaker 1: but he wound up in a military academy after going
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  Speaker 1: goth and irritating the.
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  Speaker 3: Hell out of everybody. R.C.
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  Speaker 1: Wanted to kick everybody's ass. And then finally he got
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  Speaker 1: it together, wanted to go to Iraq. and then came
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  Speaker 1: out of all of that and went to work with
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  Speaker 1: his dad up in San Francisco in some kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of a car parts business.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: But here is R.C.
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  Speaker 1: Collins in his glory as he talks about the 10-year
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. He calls himself handy-capable,
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  Speaker 1: and that means he can get discounts on movie tickets,
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  Speaker 1: operate commercial vehicles, and smoke cigarettes.
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  Speaker 4: Joining us is a 16-year-old Chatsworth High student, R.C. Collins,
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  Speaker 4: who suffers from a disability. And he is joining us
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  Speaker 4: from his home in Chatsworth this afternoon to talk about
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  Speaker 4: about the American with Disabilities Act and what that's meant
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  Speaker 4: to millions of Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And, R.C., you are handicapped?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Phil, it's interesting that you put it that way
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  Speaker 2: because my mom says that I'm not handicapped, I'm handicapable.
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  Speaker 2: And we really feel that that's the best way to
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  Speaker 2: describe the millions and millions of Americans... who are handicapable,
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  Speaker 2: not handicapped.
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  Speaker 3: All right, handicapable, but still, you are disabled, correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are disabled, but a lot of us are
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  Speaker 2: disabled in different ways. You need to understand, Phil, that
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  Speaker 2: there are millions of Americans that are in wheelchairs. Others
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  Speaker 2: are disabled because they're sight-impaired, hearing-impaired, speech-impaired, etc., There's a
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  Speaker 2: potpourri of disabled people. But we're really here today, Phil,
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate and to thank President Bush for 10 years
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  Speaker 2: of helping Americans with disabilities through this particular act.
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  Speaker 4: What are the things that this act has enabled people
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  Speaker 4: who are handy capable, if you will, or handy capped
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  Speaker 4: to do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are so many things that have been opened
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  Speaker 2: up to us We get half off at movie theaters,
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  Speaker 2: so that enables us to have access to really good
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  Speaker 2: movies as well as handy, capable access seating. At a
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  Speaker 2: lot of amusement parks, we get to go to the
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  Speaker 2: front of the line, and you can, you know, park
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  Speaker 2: when you get there where you want to. If you
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  Speaker 2: go to a mall when it's really hot, and you're
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  Speaker 2: driving around for 30 minutes looking for a place to park,
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  Speaker 2: and right up near the door you see six or
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  Speaker 2: seven or even eight empty spaces that are reserved for
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  Speaker 2: handicapped people, you can thank George Bush for that and
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  Speaker 2: the Americans with Disabilities Act. It allows me to take
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  Speaker 2: my time, mosey over to the mall when I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it, look around for something to wear before I
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  Speaker 2: go over there, Let's drive very slowly because I know
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  Speaker 2: no matter what, Phil, I'll have a place to park
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  Speaker 2: while you're driving around for 45 minutes in 110-degree heat.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, and it does get hot out there, and
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  Speaker 4: I have seen lots and lots of people parking in
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  Speaker 4: handicapped spots because they need that parking. and obviously that's
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  Speaker 4: a big, big no-no. In fact, you see a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people doing that. What are your rights when you
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  Speaker 4: come up to a handicapped parking space and there's someone
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  Speaker 4: parked there?
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  Speaker 2: The American with Disabilities Act enables me to go into
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  Speaker 2: the car and disengage the emergency brake if I'm capable
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  Speaker 2: of doing that and rolling the car out of the
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  Speaker 2: place that it's in.
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  Speaker 3: It does?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it does. I'm also enabled, according to the American
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  Speaker 2: with Disabilities Act, to crawl under the car and fool
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  Speaker 2: around with the linkage so that I can pull it
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  Speaker 2: out of gear if I have to. In fact, I
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  Speaker 2: did that with a Jaguar about two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, was this a car, in other words?
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  Speaker 4: What I'm saying is it was a car that was
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  Speaker 4: parked in a handicapped space?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 4: And as a handicapped or handy-capable person, you have the
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  Speaker 4: legal right to crawl under that car, disengage the linkage,
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  Speaker 4: and take it out of gear?
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  Speaker 2: Roll it out of there, that's right. I did that
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  Speaker 2: with a brand-new Jaguar at XJR. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you something. When the guy who owned the car
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  Speaker 2: came out of the mall, he'd like to have a conniption.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this guy was going to crap, because there
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  Speaker 2: was his car rolled out and sitting in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the parking lot. while my car had been placed
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  Speaker 2: very neatly in his slot. You can't do that, not
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  Speaker 2: if you're not disabled. It sounds radical.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it does sound radical, especially when you're talking with
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  Speaker 3: somebody's private property.
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  Speaker 2: Phil, I know it sounds radical, but the point being,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the handicapped and the disabled in
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  Speaker 2: this country, President Bush signed into law something that enables
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  Speaker 2: us to finally have some juice and some clout. Don't
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  Speaker 2: mess with me. It says, don't mess with me, I'm
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  Speaker 2: handy capable. Don't be parking in my parking space, and
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  Speaker 2: don't even think you're getting to the front of the line.
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  Speaker 2: One of the other aspects to this law, Phil, the
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  Speaker 2: fact that at 15 we can smoke and at 18
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  Speaker 2: we can drink.
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  Speaker 3: No, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: You're saying that the American with Disabilities Act enables underage
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  Speaker 4: people to smoke cigarettes at 15?
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  Speaker 3: At 15 and drink at 18.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because the American with Disabilities Act recognizes that many of
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  Speaker 2: us are going to die young. We won't make it
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  Speaker 2: to our 30th birthday. A lot of us have chronic
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  Speaker 2: illness and disease. What, you're going to tell me I
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  Speaker 2: can't have a drink? You know, Phil, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's anything in life sweeter than a good, I mean
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  Speaker 2: a really good cup of coffee and a cigarette. I
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  Speaker 2: can enjoy that now because I could be dead in
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  Speaker 2: a few years. You've got to enjoy it. Why can't I?
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  Speaker 3: Well, at the risk of sounding stupid, because it's not healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Not healthy. I have a handicap, hello. I'm going to die, hello.
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  Speaker 2: So don't tell me about healthy and what isn't healthy
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  Speaker 2: and these things. A cup of coffee and a cigarette
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  Speaker 2: or a highball and a cigarette. There is few things
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  Speaker 2: in life that taste better than to sit down with
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  Speaker 2: a nice highball, a CC and 7, and a nice
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  Speaker 2: flavorful Marlboro. Oh, baby. I can do that with the
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  Speaker 2: American with Disabilities Act.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to some of the things you're talking about,
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  Speaker 4: we're talking with R.C. Collins, who is a handicapped 16-year-old
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  Speaker 4: from Chatsworth High, about the American with Disabilities Act.
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  Speaker 3: Our number, by the way, 1-800-449-8686.
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  Speaker 2: R.C.
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  Speaker 4: 's talking about the Americans with Disabilities Act enables him
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  Speaker 4: to smoke at the age of 15 and drink at
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  Speaker 4: the age of 18 because he could die young.
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  Speaker 2: Also, to.
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  Speaker 4: If anybody parks in a handicapped parking space, crawl under
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  Speaker 4: that person's car, disengage the linkage and move the car,
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  Speaker 4: or disengage the emergency brake, as the case may be.
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  Speaker 4: You also mentioned that a good cup of coffee and
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  Speaker 4: a cigarette or a highball and a cigarette.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, Phil.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. I had a teacher tell
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  Speaker 2: me to put the cigarette out at school, and I
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  Speaker 2: showed the teacher my handicapped sign, the one that you
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  Speaker 2: hang in the window of your car. And he backed away.
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  Speaker 2: He was a guy by the name of Mr. Ackerman.
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  Speaker 2: He backed way off, I can tell you that. So
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  Speaker 2: we salute President Bush for 10 years of the Americans
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  Speaker 2: with Disabilities Act. The other great thing is I'm allowed
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  Speaker 2: to operate a vehicle at the age of 15, and
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  Speaker 2: that includes commercial vehicles, buses, trucks, a lot of tractor equipment.
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  Speaker 2: And an addendum to the law has added diesel trains
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  Speaker 2: to the list of vehicles that the handicapable.
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  Speaker 3: Now, wait, wait, wait, hold on for just a second.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're allowed to operate commercial vehicles as well as trains?
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  Speaker 2: Because of our disability, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're going to die?
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  Speaker 2: Because we're going to die. So that is what I like.
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  Speaker 4: Can I ask you, I haven't asked you, what is
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  Speaker 4: your disability? What is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Phil, I have renal kidney failure.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you have renal... Can you walk?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can walk around. I go in for dialysis
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  Speaker 2: three times a week. But.
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  Speaker 3: But, I mean, you can walk around. You're not exactly
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  Speaker 3: slowed up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. I have to... I have a
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  Speaker 2: handicap sign that I can hang in my window, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not really handicapped. That's the part about being handicapped
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  Speaker 2: that's cool. Because technically, I can move around, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not really handicapped.
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  Speaker 3: But with renal kidney failure, you can put the sign
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  Speaker 3: in your car.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. So that's kind of the cool part about it.
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  Speaker 2: I can get out of my car, and if somebody
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  Speaker 2: wanted to give me a lip about parking in a
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  Speaker 2: handicapped space, I do have the wherewithal to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kick some ass.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'd rather not get into that, but you're
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  Speaker 4: telling me that you do have it.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I have the wherewithal to tell them to
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  Speaker 2: move it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, R.C. Collins is on the line with us here
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  Speaker 3: at 1-800-449-8686.
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  Speaker 4: He is handicapable, as he calls it, saluting 10 years
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  Speaker 4: of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Because he's handicapped, he
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  Speaker 4: can smoke at the age of 15 and drink at
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  Speaker 4: the age of 18. He can also operate most commercial vehicles,
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  Speaker 4: including trucks and buses, and now with an addendum, a
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  Speaker 4: diesel train. And he can also get half off at
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  Speaker 4: movie theaters and move to the front of.
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  Speaker 3: The line at amusement parks.
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  Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686.
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  Speaker 3: As we talk with R.C. about the American with Disabilities Act,
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  Speaker 3: this is The Phil Henry Show.
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  Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686.
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  Speaker 3: Phil Henry Show. On the line with me is R.C. Collins, a.
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  Speaker 4: Junior at Chatsworth High, and he is talking with us
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  Speaker 4: about the 10-year anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act.
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  Speaker 3: RCU have renal kidney failure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that means I've got to go get dialysis three
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  Speaker 2: times a week.
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  Speaker 3: And you are handicapped.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm handicapped. I'm all messed up because of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that I don't have a, what do you call it,
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  Speaker 2: a prognosis that's very long that I could die. That's
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  Speaker 2: why people, when they see the handicapable people like me,
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  Speaker 2: they should just back off because we could die, and
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  Speaker 2: we should have things better because of the fact that
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  Speaker 2: things are messed up for us.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let me go to Seattle on the Phil
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  Speaker 4: Henry Show. A few calls for you, R.C.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Seattle.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, hi. You're on the Phil Henry Show.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: How are you doing, Phil?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I just want to say to you and the
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  Speaker 7: rest of the listeners that It's really too bad that
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  Speaker 7: RC has got the attitude that he has, but it's
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  Speaker 7: probably going to mature.
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  Speaker 2: As he gets a little older. Why is it too bad?
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  Speaker 7: Well, because what you do is you create an attitude
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  Speaker 7: of antagonism towards the rest of the people who are
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  Speaker 7: willing to reach out and help us who are handicapped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if he parks in a handicapped zone, I
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  Speaker 2: should be allowed to take his parking brake off at least.
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  Speaker 7: Well, no, that's not.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think?
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  Speaker 7: You don't... Nobody in this world gets ahead by matching
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  Speaker 7: bad for bad.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what happened to you? Are you disabled? Oh, you bet.
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  Speaker 2: You're handicapable?
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm handicapped.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a.
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  Speaker 7: I had a motorcycle accident in 96.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm blind and crippled.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, rough. So, you know, I've... So you couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get under a car and find the linkage because you
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  Speaker 2: have a sight problem.
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  Speaker 3: All right. We got that, okay? The guy's saying it's basically.
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  Speaker 1: The basic problem for RC is that he's got an
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  Speaker 1: attitude that is very dangerous.
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  Speaker 7: To the rest of the people who.
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  Speaker 2: If you're blind, how'd you dial the phone? Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Boy, you know, it's interesting what you learn as time
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  Speaker 7: goes on, and you'll find that out.
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  Speaker 2: As you get older. Do you memorize where the numbers is?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, it's easy enough.
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  Speaker 7: It's pretty easy.
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  Speaker 2: Do they have Braille phones?
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  Speaker 7: I don't need them.
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  Speaker 2: You don't?
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  Speaker 7: All the numbers are always in the same place.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, if you think about it, you could probably
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  Speaker 3: dial a phone in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I haven't had much occasion. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, sir. Sorry to hear about your mishap, but.
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  Speaker 6: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think you ought to be allowed to go
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  Speaker 2: out and have a cocktail?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm 52, so I've had enough of those.
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  Speaker 2: Because of being messed up like we are.
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  Speaker 7: I think that if you have a few more cocktails,
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  Speaker 7: you might get a little more messed up. So I
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  Speaker 7: think you better lay off.
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  Speaker 3: Of the cocktails.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Zach, thank you very much, sir, for your call. 1-800,
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  Speaker 4: that's word to the wise, okay?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. I'm 16 years old. I could be dead
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  Speaker 2: at any minute. I'm having a highball.
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  Speaker 3: You're having a highball because.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't want to leave this world without knowing
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  Speaker 2: what it feels like to cop the buzz or otherwise
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  Speaker 2: feel good about stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Here is Tampa on a Phil Henry show.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Tampa?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, my name is Dick Greaves.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing fine. I'm... I've been in a wheelchair for
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  Speaker 6: 13 years. I don't... I'm a double amputee above the knee.
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  Speaker 2: What happened? Um....
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  Speaker 3: War wounds.
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  Speaker 6: But what I wanted to say is.
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  Speaker 8: War wounds?
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  Speaker 6: What I wanted to say is, uh... You're gonna set
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  Speaker 6: the handicapped people back further than the Disabilities Act. Um.
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  Speaker 2: Handy, capable people can get into... We can get into
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  Speaker 2: Jumbo's clown room for free on Wednesday nights.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, I go to recreation parks and I ride roller coasters.
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  Speaker 6: We don't go to the head of the line. We
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  Speaker 6: go to the exit.
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  Speaker 2: You could if you wanted to.
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  Speaker 6: We go to the exit. We don't go to the
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  Speaker 6: head of the line.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's what I'm talking about. We get on first.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you... Isn't that bitchin'? It's a pretty good way. No, look,
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  Speaker 6: because I don't feel sorry for myself.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's cool.
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  Speaker 6: I don't feel sorry for myself.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Let me ask you, R.C., you say you get into
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  Speaker 4: Jumbo's Clown Room for free on Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 2: That's a topless bar in the valley.
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  Speaker 3: And what do they got?
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  Speaker 2: They got Handy Capable Night. How about it, pal?
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  Speaker 6: What the hell is handicapable? I never heard the term.
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  Speaker 2: My mom says that's what I am. I'm handicapable.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm handicapped.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, if you were handicapable, why, you could get
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  Speaker 2: a couple of plastic legs and go out and play basketball,
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  Speaker 2: like the guy on that TV commercial do.
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  Speaker 6: Look, I work. I work 12 hours every day. I
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  Speaker 6: think that's handicapable enough.
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  Speaker 2: You play football? Any touch football or anything? Oh, how?
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  Speaker 6: I don't have any legs, guy.
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  Speaker 2: Get a couple of those plastic ones. You can tie
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  Speaker 2: them on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Listen, you know, you.
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  Speaker 2: They got springs in them like shock absorbers.
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  Speaker 6: You don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: No, I went over to the VA. I seen two
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  Speaker 2: new plastic legs a guy got on with spring zim
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  Speaker 2: and everything. He's out playing one-on-one. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 2: he's taking it to the hole. No.
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  Speaker 3: Taking it to the hole with a couple of plastic legs.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 6: You are. Son, let me tell you something. Let me
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  Speaker 6: give you a little bit of advice.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't be depressed.
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  Speaker 6: Don't be depressed?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: That's the last thing I have. Well, I got 13 grandchildren.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: And I got a wonderful life, and I'm glad I'm alive.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: And I'm not sitting around waiting to die.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Do you go dancing?
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: How can he go dancing with two legs that are missing?
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: I tell you what, I do go dancing.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: You can roll a chair around on the floor.
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: I don't dance, but I sure as hell enjoy watching it.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you shake your groove, Fang. All right.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: That's what the American with Disabilities Act means, sir, for
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: you to be able to go out there on the
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: floor and roll around on it. Yeah.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Thank you for your call. What are you trying to
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: do now? Calling me up?
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: What?
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Calling me up with the Americans with Disabilities Act. There's
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: nothing like a cigarette and a highball, and you can
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: have it when you're 15 and 18.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: This is the stuff you're trying to tell me.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, Phil, that George Bush opened the
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: door for a lot of us with this American with
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: the disabilities of the act. And that's what we.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: The American with the disability of the act.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I don't even know what language you're speaking here. And
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: the fact that you tell me you have renal kidney failure,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: which means you can walk around and pretend like you're handicapped.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not really, because I'm... But you've got.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Either you are or you aren't.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I got the placard.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: All right, 1-800-449-8686. San Diego on the Phil Henry Show.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, something's wrong with that guy. He's lying. That
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: guy's lying.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Hello? Yeah. Yeah, I don't believe that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: I drove the bus for 10 years, and I'm telling you,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: we pick up disability people all the time, and I've
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: never dealt with anybody like you. That's a lie.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: You're lying. What's a lie? What am I lying about?
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense what you're saying.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, bullcrap.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Hey, let me tell you something. If you can get
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: up under a car and disable it, you're not disabled.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: You're a mechanic. That doesn't make sense.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I got that blind guy said he could do it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, how can you just crawl up under somebody's car.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: And disable it? Because I got renal kidney failure, I
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: can still get down on the ground and crawl under there.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: There are no guys that are in wheelchairs that throw
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: themselves onto the ground and crawl under the car.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, throw themselves onto the ground?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They fall out of the chair and they crawl under
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the car, disengage the linkage, then crawl back up into
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: the chair.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: No, if a guy can do that, he's not disabled.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: If there's a disabled guy underneath the car disabling the
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: linkage and the car starts rolling back while he's still
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: under it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: What?
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: He's going to get rolled over.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: The guy's already handicapped. Oh, no, no. It doesn't matter.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: You're missing the point. I pick up guys all the
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: time with the wheelchair lift, you know, and that's a
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: beautiful thing.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real beautiful thing.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: You're going to want to ride the lift, and.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: You're not even handicapped?
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I ain't saying I'm going to ride the lift, although
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you have to, by law, let me ride the lift,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: even though I can walk.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't get it either. 1-800-449-8686, Phil Henry Show.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: 1-800-449-8686.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Phil Henry here, R.C. Collins is a senior, a junior R.C.?
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: I'm a junior. At Chatsworth High?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: At Chatsworth High, yeah.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: Okay, and you are talking about the American with Disabilities Act,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: which is a law that was signed by President Bush
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: to enable handicapped.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Phil, let me help you with this.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: It was a law signed by President Bush to enable...
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: and handicapable handicapped people. That's why I say I'm handicapable.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Not because I think I'm better than anybody, but probably because, yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: in a way I am better than a lot of people,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: because I'm able to deal with my handicap, and I'm handicapable.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And what the American with Disabilities Act does is it
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: allows me to have the fun that I would have
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: had were I going to live.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Are you expecting to die?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I am.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: You're expecting to die?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I've got renal kidney failure, yes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Do you need a transplant?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I have to have a transplant, yeah. And since I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: going to die, I think I should be allowed to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: have a drink.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but since you're going to die, you want to
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: have all these unhealthy things.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, give me a break. What, I don't want to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: mess my lungs up? I don't have a kidney.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: All right, again, it's a difficult thing to fathom, being
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: 15 and being allowed to smoke and drink and get
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: into a strip bar when you're underage.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: San Antonio on the Phil Hendry Show.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Hello, sir.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: Good evening to you and your guest.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, good evening.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: First of all, I have a disorder, but I need
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: you to promise me not to interrupt me while I
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: tell you this because that's part of my disorder.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Are you handicapable? Are you handicapable?
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: I am very handicapped, and I'll explain to you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: As to the why. Handicapable, I mean.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: Um, there are good days and there are bad days.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Can you get under a car and get the linkage apart?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: All right, just let her finish what she's going to say.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: Okay, to you, dear child, let me explain something to you.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: I am a 35-year-old person, and I am a 35-year-old
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: person by the grace of God, which at this particular moment,
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: you don't seem to display any of that at all.
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: It seems to me that you're just bitter and scared...
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: And you don't know how to act, so you act
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: out by being rude and obnoxious.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to die on account of we're handicapable,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: so I ought to be allowed to get into Jumbo's
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: clone room.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: Let me explain something to you. I am a survivor
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: three times. of ovarian cancer. I have done the radiation.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: I have lost my hair. I have lost weight. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: have gained weight. I have lost jobs. I have lost family.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: I have been completely abandoned. I am the survivor also.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Is you in a wheelchair?
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: I have also survived being an incest victim by a
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: pedophile grandfather growing up, being raped four times, being abused
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: by a husband.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: I've also experienced.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: What is pedophile, Mr. Henry?
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: I have also experienced a I have a spine that's disintegrating,
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: crumbling into dust.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Well, you need a drink.
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: I also have.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: And you ought to get that call.
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: I don't want that call. It's more important to me
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: to touch you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Touch me? You mean like that pedophile touched you?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, come on.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, touch me? I'm 16. You could
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: go to jail. Let me ask you. You know, I
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: got something that's going to help you out.
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: I have a spine that's disintegrating.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Do you ever go to Jumbo's Clubroom on Wednesday nights?
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: And my bones are twisting because of a disease called scoliosis.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: I also, as a result of my traumatic life, am
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: suffering from several mental disorders that are controlled by medication.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Well, we got that already. The first thing you need
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to do is shut up and listen. And really listen.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: And hear what people are telling you. Stop being bitter.
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: You should get on a plane.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: With your mom. Come to San Antonio.
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Come to San Antonio to the best damn medical center
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: in the nation and get.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Your problem fixed.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Forget about Jumbo's Clown Room.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: They don't have Jumbo's Clown Room in San Antonio.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: No, we've got the wild zebra.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: We've got all that here.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: I'll tell you something. It ain't no thing. I go
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: all the time with my best friend.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I get jugs in my face every Wednesday night. I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: understand you need to experience.
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: The pleasures of the world.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Of the flesh.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: But there's something more important you need to experience, and
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: it's called your life. If you get your problem fixed,
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: you might actually have one.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I need to have some... I'll tell you, I need
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: to experience some jug slap in my forehead. That's what
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I need to experience.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Will you shut up and let the lady finish?
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: A good education and a good surgeon.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: A what?
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: You need a good education, you need a good surgeon,
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: and you need to find your higher power, because when
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: all is said and done.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: My higher power? I don't have my higher.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Powers, because when you die in this world... You're going
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: to be accountable. I don't care how handicapable you are.
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: When you die, you stand before the Lord, mister. He's
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: going to count you in on everything you've done.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I already talked to God. He says I'm clean. I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: don't care how handicapable you are. God says I'm as
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: clean as a baby's rear end. I'm in. No, you're not.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: He told me.
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: I don't know who told you that, but you're wrong.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: God did.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry. You need to find your higher power, because
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: I think if you found your higher power and had
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: a conversation with him, you wouldn't be so damn bitter
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: about everything.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I hope your spine stops disintegrating. I hope that... Will you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Quit being a smartass? Ma'am, we're sorry about your problems.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I said I hope it stops disintegrating.
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: I don't have a problem anymore.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: You know, I have a good therapist.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: I take medication.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: When I meet up with God, we'll have a pitcher
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: of margaritas at $ 100 and ones. That's what we're going
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to have.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you came on here to talk about the American
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: with Disabilities Act, and now you're smart-mouthing with when you
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: meet up with God, you're going to have a pitcher
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: of margaritas and $ 100.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Worth of ones.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: You got it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: You know, you're a sad, pathetic little man, and you
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: need to shut up and leave the rest of us disabled.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I got renal kidney failure. I'm going to die.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: Do not. Do not lump yourself in with us, because
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: we're a proud people, and we worked our ass off
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: for everything we've got.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: What are we, all of a sudden Cherokee Indians? What
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: do you mean we're a proud people?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: All right, ma'am, thank you very much for your call.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: 1-800-4498.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Can't you let people finish a point?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Have you got any women around 19 years of age
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: holding on?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll shut up for her.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Santa Cruz, hello.
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm calling the RC.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Are you 19, ma'am?
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Yes, I am.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: Well, you want to know what?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: RC, don't even start cheering me yet, because you're saying
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: that you are going to die someday?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: So am I. So is every other person listening to
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: this radio. I don't know any immortal people yet, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: the fact that you're saying I deserve all this stuff
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: because I'm going to die someday... Baby, you know what?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: I hope the two of us die on the same day,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: and you're laying underneath me when we do it. Because
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I can.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Will you be quiet and let her talk?
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: I seriously cannot believe you even just said that to me.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: What is that supposed to mean?
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I just meant like a multi-orgasmic... Yeah.
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: RC, you want to know something? I'm a virgin and
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: I will stay that way until I get a ring
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: on my finger. And how dare you say something like
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: that to me on national radio?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Tell you what, I'll give you a ring.
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't even want it from you.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: What's your phone number?
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: Because you are so rude.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: What do you mean, what's the phone number?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: She wanted a ring.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: No, I said I did not want it from you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: You are so rude and I cannot believe, like, I'm
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: furious at how rude you are to every single person
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: that's truly handicapped.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Ah, they're all calling up feeling sorry for themselves. No,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: I'm apologizing on behalf of you for all the people
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: that are sitting there upset like I am.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a question? What? Have you filled
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: out yet?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Have I what?
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Filled out yet.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: No, let her answer the question, Mr. Hendry. I think
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: it's a fair question. Have you filled out yet?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: What do you think this is, Perry Mason?
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: You want to know what I think you should do, R.C.?
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: I think you should seriously take that handicap thing and
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: shove it up where the sun don't shine because that's
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: where you deserve it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Well, that hurts. No, that hurts. You wanted to hurt me,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: you did.
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: Because you say that I deserve to.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You reached out and you hurt me. No, no, no.
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: I deserve to smoke and drink, okay? You want to
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: know what? I did all that stuff at your same age, illegally,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: and I did not enjoy. And the fact that you
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: want to drink, first of all, with kidney failure, just.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got a whole life to look forward to.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I'm going to die. No, hi.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: I'm stuck in Trafford right now for an accident, blocking
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: a whole entire freeway. For all I know, there's people
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: that are dead in this accident.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Easy for you to say. Easy for you to say.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I go to the doctor four times a week for dialysis.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Tells me that maybe I've got six months to a year. Okay,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: go ahead, lay it on me. Okay, you don't think
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: it's a reality? No, no, no, it's okay. Go ahead,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: scream at me. Tell me what an ingrate I am. No, no, no, R.C.,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: you don't think that.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: That's not going to happen to me. Arcee?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: You know, for a minute there, I was beginning to
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: feel sorry for you until that crack.
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: No. No, you don't think I know how scary death is?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't think you know how scary
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: it is for me.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: You don't think so. Do you love your father?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen my father in six months.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: But do you love him? Do you love your mother?
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Do you love your family?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: Well, my father's dying.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I need your love. Okay, I'm just...
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting out there right now.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Honestly, as a person.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. I'm being honest. I need your love.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: You want to know.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: There's something about you. I love you. There's something about you.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I just know we connect. I'm taking a shot here.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be in Santa Cruz in a couple
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: of weeks. What do you think?
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: Seeing that you are probably too young for me and
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: your immaturity just... surpasses anyone I've ever met in my life.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I'm 16 going on 35. I've got scars, baby, that
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you don't even know about. I'm more man than anything
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: you got up there. And I'm hung.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, that's it. That's it. I thought the guy was
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: going to be serious with you. I apologize, ma'am.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: That's okay, because I understand where he's coming from.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: What are you, hanging up on me?
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: 16-year-old punk that thinks he's... All right, and your car
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: phone is going, so thank you for your call.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And then she cut out, and that was it. That
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: was it. Ain't no disability in my crotch area.