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Speaker 1: You was listening to the Hammer and Nichel Show.

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Speaker 2: This has been a really fun segment we've been doing

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Speaker 2: all week. We get to bring in john Nette Cruise

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Speaker 2: from the WIBC newsroom.

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Speaker 1: You're a YouTube favorite, by the way. Whenever you come in.

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Speaker 2: The studio, it's like Beauty and the Beasts, right, And

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Speaker 2: I think it all stems from your appearance on our

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Speaker 2: show early in the summer where you did celebrity beer

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Speaker 2: bombs and some of the stories you told us about

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Speaker 2: young John Nett Cruise just being a firecracker.

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Speaker 3: I think that, Yeah, I was wild. I was.

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Speaker 4: I started partaking in alcohol when I was eleven. Jesus,

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Speaker 4: I had a very.

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Speaker 1: Really early I was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me tell you I was horrible. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: was in TJ. TJ was the spot. I was fourteen

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Speaker 3: years old with a fake ID. It was really bad.

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Speaker 2: And you were in Tijuana with it too, Like you're

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Speaker 2: running around in Mexico, Tijuana and then you just casually

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Speaker 2: drop a bomb on us yesterday. Oh, I used to

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Speaker 2: be a background dancer for Blackstreet.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, diggity, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Why did you tell us that before?

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Speaker 4: You know, I've had lots of past lives definitely for sure.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people don't know a lot about my past.

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Speaker 2: You're like the dose Eki's guy, but a chick. You're

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Speaker 2: the most interesting woman in the world, I swear. All right,

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Speaker 2: So let's get into the year in review from a

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Speaker 2: pop culture, entertainment and even celebrity death perspective.

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Speaker 1: Here.

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Speaker 2: I know you in the past have been on television,

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Speaker 2: You've been like an entertainment reporter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm gonna let you just drive this segment.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 1: Where are we gonna start?

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Speaker 4: All right, We're gonna start with the lovely Sean Diddy

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Speaker 4: Combs trial, because that took up. It started in May

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Speaker 4: and it took up all the way through July. It

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Speaker 4: took up a big chunk, I would say, of the

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Speaker 4: year with throughout like pre trial trial, the daily updates,

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Speaker 4: the crazy stories.

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Speaker 3: I mean. And here's another another little hidbit for you.

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Speaker 4: I also came from the music industry before I was

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Speaker 4: backup dancing, and so I know a lot about the

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Speaker 4: music industry, and I know a lot of the things

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Speaker 4: that had happened are very much so true.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a ditty party?

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Speaker 4: I have not been to a ditty party, but I

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Speaker 4: do know what producers are.

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Speaker 3: How should I say this that is PG rated or

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Speaker 3: G rated?

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Speaker 1: You could keep it radio plates.

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Speaker 2: This is the show that has.

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Speaker 4: What you heard throughout the trial and some of the stories.

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Speaker 4: That is just like a dime a dozen. That's what

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Speaker 4: they do. They want you to You're basically signing your

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Speaker 4: life away when you go into the music industry. I

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Speaker 4: had a contract and I did not sign it because

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Speaker 4: a lot of it was very immoral and I did

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Speaker 4: not want to partake in a lot of those activities.

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Speaker 1: The fourteen year old with a fake ideas that this

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Speaker 1: is where I draw the well at the time.

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Speaker 4: At the time, I was nineteen years old. So I finally,

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Speaker 4: you know, to me, I grew up. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 4: I'm past that's.

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Speaker 1: For you, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so I did not sign those crazy contracts.

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Speaker 2: But that wasn't just some sort of wild conspiracy theory

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Speaker 2: that those lube parties and all that kind of stuff

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, no, not a conspiracy at all. It's

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Speaker 4: a lot of that and it's a way for them

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Speaker 4: to control you. That's how they like to control people

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Speaker 4: in the music industry.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so that trial takes place, some would say, did

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Speaker 2: he get to slap on the wrist. He gets hit

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Speaker 2: with the prostitution charges taking prostitutes across state line, but

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Speaker 2: nothing from a sex offender or human trafficking standpoint.

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Speaker 3: Which to fifty months.

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Speaker 1: And that's it right, Okay, so we've got that. What

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Speaker 1: else do we have?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Next? Man?

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Speaker 4: This this hit the summer with the whole Astronomer ceo scandal,

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Speaker 4: the Kisscam, oh, the cold cold Play, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 4: the memes the best.

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Speaker 3: My favorite one was the cats.

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Speaker 4: There was cats each other, It was my favorite, I

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Speaker 1: A dog hugging each other at one point.

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Speaker 4: But I just felt like it literally took the world

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Speaker 4: by storm, like seeing all the comments, the memes.

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Speaker 3: It lived a four weeks, I felt like.

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Speaker 2: And Ai was a big part of this too, because

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Speaker 2: I dabbled a little AI creation And I'm kicking myself

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Speaker 2: that I didn't strike while the iron was hot, because

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Speaker 2: the trend was take two people who shouldn't be together

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Speaker 2: and make them like hugging.

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Speaker 1: How did I not do Tony kats in a ladder Like?

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Speaker 2: How did I not make Ai Tony Kats in a

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Speaker 2: ladder like hugging at the Coldplay concert?

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Speaker 1: Because He's made it very clear he's not getting on

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Speaker 1: the ladder.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, what's so funny was if they didn't may have

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Speaker 4: that such a big reaction, nobody would have noticed anything

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Speaker 3: It was the whole fact of what they did.

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Speaker 2: But then the Coldplay front man was like, Hey, I

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Speaker 2: think they're having an affair affair, which is.

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Speaker 1: What you want to hear when you're having an affair. Yeah, right.

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Speaker 4: After that, So that happened in July, and then I'll

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Speaker 4: actually a couple of things happened July. That happened towards

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Speaker 4: the beginning of July, and then after that, Ozzy Osbourne

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Speaker 4: passed away July twenty second, so seventy six years.

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Speaker 2: I remember that as my friend Donald, who I have

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Speaker 2: known for a long time, played football against them when

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Speaker 2: I was a kid. Went to another school. He ended

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Speaker 2: up playing football at Purdue. Just an awesome dude. Black

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Speaker 2: guy sends me a text the next day. I'm just

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Speaker 2: checking on my whites.

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure how my whites are doing. Okay.

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Speaker 2: Losing Ozzy Osborn, It's kind of like when we lost Tupac.

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Speaker 2: So I just want to make sure my white's Thirday

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Speaker 2: week because that was the same week.

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Speaker 1: I believe we also lost Haul Cogan a few days

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Speaker 1: after that. Yeah, that was a pretty bad week in terms.

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Speaker 4: Of celebrity and also died July twenty fourth, and he

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Speaker 4: was seventy one.

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Speaker 1: Bad week for the whites.

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Speaker 2: Like my body was right, like he wanted to check

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Speaker 2: on us, make sure we were good.

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Speaker 1: But that was a rough week for.

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Speaker 4: The whites, all right, So that was three and four.

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Speaker 4: So number five for me would be in August. You know,

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Speaker 4: we had T and T get engaged. What he's like,

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Speaker 4: Come on, come on.

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Speaker 3: Taylor Swift and Travis.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, they were Tea and T. I thought we

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Speaker 1: were talking about dynamite.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: We blew somebody.

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Speaker 3: But I miss T and T. I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't really pay attention to them, although I do

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Speaker 4: know that was a really big, huge deal.

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Speaker 1: It was a huge pop culture story.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but the fact that you called him T and T,

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Speaker 2: you just lost all the cool street cred, Like I

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Speaker 2: don't even care that you were a fourteen year old

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Speaker 1: Like, don't ever call that T and T ever ever.

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Speaker 2: Again, we've mentioned Ozzie and Hawk Hogan, any other celebrity

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Speaker 2: passings that moved the needle.

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Speaker 1: This past year, I feel like.

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Speaker 4: Two.

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Speaker 2: I mean there was I mean, obviously Charlie Kirk's killing,

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Speaker 2: which was the biggest news story of the year. You

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Speaker 2: had Brian Wilson. Many would say of the Beach Boys, Uh,

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Speaker 2: one of the great songwriters of all time. Now, the

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Speaker 2: Beach Boys weren't writing meaningful songs per se, but they

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Speaker 2: inspired that whole California era, the Beach Boys. You had

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Speaker 2: George Foreman's passing. We talked about boxing earlier. How I

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Speaker 2: wish boxing were as good today as it used to

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Speaker 2: be back in the day. We're certainly legitimate. Folks of

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Speaker 2: my dad's era would say, George Foreman, bad man. And

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Speaker 2: then you got the folks from another generation will say,

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Speaker 2: that's the grill guy, the George Foreman grill.

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Speaker 1: You still have it, George.

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Speaker 3: That would be me. I would say, that's the grill guy.

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Speaker 1: George w mcgrill is awesome. You can do so much stuff.

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Speaker 1: You still use it.

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Speaker 2: I still do use it, especially during the winter time

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Speaker 2: when I don't want to actually go outside in this

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Speaker 2: weather to my actual grille.

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Speaker 1: I just put it up inside and make some hamburgers inside.

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic. Uh, have a great New Year's Eve tonight.

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Speaker 2: Take some time off.

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Speaker 1: You deserve it.

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Speaker 2: We've been one of the like the few ten people

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Speaker 2: in this building here the last.

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Speaker 1: Couple of days.

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Speaker 2: I think I see tumbleweeds, you know, blowing out in

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Speaker 2: the hallway. There's nobody here, but thank you for coming

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Speaker 2: in and making this show better. John at Cruz from

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Speaker 2: the WIBC news room. This is the Hammer and Nigel Show.