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Speaker 2: on that Sunday show called There's No Business Like, and

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Speaker 2: up this weekend. One of the stories that is hot

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Speaker 2: right now is that it looks like we're going to

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Speaker 2: have an alternative to Bad Bunny at the super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: You may have heard Mark Roner talking about the story

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Speaker 2: in the past that Bad Bunny is the halftime entertainment

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Speaker 2: at the Super Bowl. And Mark made very clear, you know,

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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny is not an American. Bad Bunny is you know,

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Speaker 2: he's not from here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's not. He's not from America. He's from Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 2: And so you know, we I don't know why they

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Speaker 2: don't have an American there like Coldplay, the Rolling Stones

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Speaker 2: or Era, right, why don't they have a good American

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Speaker 2: bands there for you too? They didn't. Instead they opted

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Speaker 2: for Bad Bunny, that's sarcasm. Of course, Puerto Rico is

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Speaker 2: an American territory. He is American. Tommy Lauren, the the

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Speaker 2: I don't know what you want to call her, news

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Speaker 2: host on one of those far right places like okay,

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Speaker 2: that perfect, perfect she was she was like, oh, he's

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Speaker 2: and do exactly what NICKI just didn't say.

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Speaker 3: It's Puerto Rico, that's an American territory. Yeah. Uh. Still

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Speaker 2: So a bunch of people in the Maga Wings are

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Speaker 2: very upset that Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Then Bad Bunny went on Saturday Night Live last week

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Speaker 2: and he said something in Spanish and said, if you

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Speaker 2: don't know, if you don't know what that means, you

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Speaker 2: have four months to learn whatever. Right, So he's kind

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Speaker 2: of he's kind of he's kind of trolling a little bit,

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Speaker 2: and then people are like, how dare he?

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Speaker 3: He shouldn't have done that.

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Speaker 2: It's like he's like, you elected the troller in chief

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Speaker 2: and now you're getting upset. Don't just don't okay, just

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Speaker 2: spare me. But the issue with bad Bunny is, well,

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Speaker 2: first of all his songs are in Spanish, which is

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Speaker 2: just really pissed people off. But he said he's not

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Speaker 2: gonna do us tour dates because he he doesn't like

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Speaker 2: that Ice is threatening to show up but his concerts.

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Speaker 2: So what does this administration do? They say, all right,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna send Ice to the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Cool? Who's buying their tickets?

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Speaker 2: Are we don't have to buy We're not spending taxpayer

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Speaker 2: dollars to get Ice agents inside the super Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Are we?

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Speaker 2: Those tickets are expensive. We're not doing that, are we?

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Speaker 2: Because somehow, I don't think that there are a number

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Speaker 2: of undocumented people who suddenly have an extra eight thousand

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Speaker 3: I just don't think that's gonna happen. But it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: It's all about optics. So now there's an alternative.

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Speaker 2: For those of you that say, Bad Bunny's not an American,

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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny doesn't deserve to be at the halftime show.

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Speaker 3: Bad Bunny, the number one downloaded.

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Speaker 2: Artist in the world, bigger than Taylor Swift, doesn't deserve

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Speaker 2: to be at your halftime show. For those of you

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Speaker 2: that say, I'm gonna I'm gonna boycott the NFL again,

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Speaker 2: just like I did the last time. I'm definitely boycotting more.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be the most boycottist ever I've been.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you don't have to.

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Speaker 2: There will be an alternative, Turning Point USA, that's the

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Speaker 2: group that was founded by the late conservative activist Charlie

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Speaker 2: Kirk announcing they are going to host counter programming to

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl halftime show, and they they haven't. They

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Speaker 3: So they're not gonna.

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Speaker 2: They and other conservative critics said that Bad Bunny should

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Speaker 2: not headline because of his criticist of the president and

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Speaker 2: The counterprogramming essay, according to The Washington Post, a fresh

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Speaker 2: reminder of the increasing politicization, which is a word I

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Speaker 2: front of my mouth. Turning Point USA writing the show

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Speaker 2: will celebrate faith, family, and freedom. They did not name

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Speaker 2: any performers who will participate or nor did they detail

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Speaker 2: they want, any problems finding somebody to perform for them,

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Speaker 2: they won't. In fact, Lee Greenwood is already volunteered to

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Speaker 2: said that that Bad Bunny needs to be he shouldn't

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Speaker 2: be there, he shouldn't be the halftime show. Lee Greenwood

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Speaker 2: should do it. What is the fixation with Lee Greenwood?

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Speaker 2: The dude had one jingoistic song in the eighties name

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Speaker 2: Let's play a game. Will someone please name another Lee

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Speaker 2: Greenwood song?

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Speaker 3: Go, it's a short game. Thank you. I've never heard

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Speaker 3: of Lee Greenwood. Uh, oh no, don't do it. Don't

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Speaker 2: It is the most overplayed song ever and I people

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Speaker 2: are always like, if you don't like that song, you're

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Speaker 2: not an American. Bull Lonely, I'm allowed to be an

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Speaker 2: American and say that song is too jinguistic.

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Speaker 3: And it's just not a great song anyway.

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Speaker 2: Lee Greenwood is eighty two, and according to TMZ, he's

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Speaker 2: such a hot ticket. He's set to rock halftime for

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys on Monday Night Football coming up on November three.

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Speaker 3: I wonder what he'll sing, hmm.

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Speaker 2: With bad Money already locked in for the halftime spotlight,

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Speaker 2: lisays maybe the NFL can still tap him to fire

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Speaker 2: up the crowd pregame. Well, there is a chance that

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Speaker 2: he gets asked to perform for the Turning Point USA

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Speaker 2: super Bowl. It could happen. That would be not.

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Speaker 3: Great.

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Speaker 2: I just can't, man, I just can't. One very hot

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Speaker 2: song a couple of years back was Kendrick Lamar and

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Speaker 2: his distrack.

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Speaker 1: They not like Us, They not like us, They not

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Speaker 1: like us. Very catch They not like us, they not

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Speaker 1: like us, they not like that.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't take long to learn. So Drake was very

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Speaker 2: upset about this. It was a dis track about Drake.

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Speaker 2: Drake got mad and Drake sued Universal Music and he

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Speaker 2: was like you this this defamation. He put out a

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Speaker 2: song that said bad things about me, and I don't

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Speaker 2: like it. So Universal Music Group alleged the song excuse me.

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Speaker 2: He claimed the song falsely implied, oh hang on, backup, Yes,

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Speaker 2: he implied that the label enabled or covered up misconduct

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Speaker 2: and damaged his reputation. The court said that the lyrics

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Speaker 2: are protected artistic expression and opinion.

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Speaker 3: They are not provable factual statements, and so uh, they

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Speaker 3: not like us, They not like us.

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Speaker 2: They're not like us.

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Speaker 3: They not like us.

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Speaker 4: They're not like us.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he does bang, they're not like such a

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Speaker 2: Did you see his super Bowl performance?

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Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamars so good? Why didn't they have an American

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Speaker 3: do it that year?

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Speaker 2: Understand Kendrick LaMarsh he's American?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know, isn't he from like Inglewood

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Speaker 3: or something? Have you seen his birth certificate? He was

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Speaker 2: Was okay, Well that's they say that about Obama too,

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Speaker 2: that he was born in Hawaii.

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Speaker 3: But I haven't seen the birth certificate. I haven't seen.

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Speaker 2: It was a certificate of live birth, but I didn't

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Speaker 2: see a birth certificate.

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Speaker 3: Still questions to answered.

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Speaker 2: And we haven't seen Kendrick Lamar's per certificate either, so

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Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Also, fun fact, Drake is not.

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Speaker 3: American, He's Canadian.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good job the Canadians that was. That was

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Speaker 2: one of those British territories that was not formed to

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Speaker 5: The only good Canadian is Pamela Anderson.

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Speaker 2: Pamela, Pamela, Pamela, Pamela, Pamela.

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Speaker 5: There are lots of just left out. William Shatner and

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Speaker 5: I find that so unaccepted.

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Speaker 3: Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds is not a good Canadian. But

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Speaker 3: Michael J. Fox is a There's lots of Mike Myers,

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Speaker 3: dan Ackroyd, Seth Rogen. Is he Canadian?

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Speaker 5: He is?

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that. That's fantastic. See look, you just

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Speaker 3: named a whole bunch of them. It's the matter with

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Speaker 3: you though. The cast of Letter Kenny so really good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel is making headlines again, and some clickbait sources

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Speaker 2: are really leaning into the headlines.

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Speaker 2: Kimmel's still making some headlines. It is interesting to see

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Speaker 2: the way that people craft some of these headlines from

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Speaker 2: the This is Money website dot co dot uk.

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Speaker 3: So you know it's legit.

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Speaker 2: It's it's written out in is this a Daily Mail publication?

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Speaker 3: They took it from the Daily Mail?

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Speaker 2: This is Money is part of the Daily Mail, it says, okay,

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Speaker 3: So the Daily Mail. If you're if You're unfamiliar is

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Speaker 2: Sojimmy Kimmel said that he would love to have the

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Speaker 2: President on his show amid his tumbling ratings. Headline made

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Speaker 2: to click bait, Jimmy Kimmel makes transparently desperate plead to

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Speaker 2: Trump to save his tanking show after audiences vanish.

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Speaker 3: All right, you what to hear what we said? Here

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Speaker 3: we go.

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Speaker 6: And I don't think any of those guys should be

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Speaker 6: required to speak the way I do, or the way

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Speaker 6: Stephen Colbert does or John Stewart does. And I think

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Speaker 6: that applies to people on television too, that they don't.

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Speaker 6: You don't have to do this, I choose to do it.

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Speaker 6: Since you came back, have you asked Trump ri Car

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Speaker 3: No, I haven't.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't necessarily be interested in Brendan Carr on the show.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like he knows that he wants

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Speaker 6: I don't know, all right, I'll ask him, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Why doesn't he want to have Brendan Carr, the chair

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Speaker 2: of the FCC, on his show. Now, if you're not

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Speaker 2: in the business, it's it may seem like, Oh, he's

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Speaker 2: not interested. He doesn't want the conflict this kind of thing. No,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't want Brendan Carr in a show because the

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Speaker 2: audience doesn't care about the chair of the FCC. If

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Speaker 2: you were to survey this country and say what is

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, well, easily less than ten percent would know,

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Speaker 2: but probably probably under five percent would know the name

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Speaker 2: Brendan Carr. Under five percent would know Brendan Carr. So

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Speaker 2: why would Jimmy Kimmel want Brendan Carr in a show?

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Speaker 2: Would Jimmy Kimmel want Donald Trump? Of course he would.

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Speaker 2: It'd be amazing for ratings.

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Speaker 3: He knows.

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Speaker 2: See, when people write there their clickbait stories about Jimmy

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Speaker 2: Kimmel being dead, they're doing it because they know that

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Speaker 2: You'll have plenty more chances. So till Ray also bought

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Speaker 2: four more brands from Mulsen Cors as well. How about

440
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 2: that Breckenridge Brewery? All right, Alpine Beer? Oh that Green Flash,

441
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 2: that's the San Diego brand Green Flash. Yeah, wow, okay, cool,

442
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 2: I hadn't heard it, till Ray excellent, excellent, All right, Well,

443
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 2: good for them anyway. It sounds like this craft beer

444
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: bubble is kind of bursting right now. So if you're

445
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 2: a craft beer fan, you know, find your favorites and

446
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 2: hope that they hang on.

447
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 3: I hope they do.

448
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 2: So I it's one of those neat things. It's a

449
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 2: kitchy Americana thing in my mind, and I love that.

450
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,199
Speaker 2: I love it. So I'd like to see a lot

451
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 2: of these hang on for a lot longer.

452
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:52,160
Speaker 3: Okay, it happens. It happens to the best of us.

453
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 2: We get up in the morning, we look in the mirror,

454
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 2: we run our fingers through what's left of our hair.

455
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 2: We give ourselves a little wink maybe, uh maybe finger pistols.

456
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 3: Hey, who's that good looking guy staring back at me? Hey,

457
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 3: you think you're cool? We all do.

458
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 2: But do you actually check the six boxes that science

459
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 2: says you need to be cool? Find out if you

460
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 2: deserve finger guns and if you make that cut? That

461
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Speaker 2: is next time, Chris Merrill.

462
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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

463
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 2: George Norri from Coast to Coast. He comes your way,

464
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 2: coming up here in just over ten minutes. George, what

465
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Speaker 2: do we have to expect tonight, My friend.

466
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Speaker 7: Chris, Who've got a great show tonight. By the way,

467
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 7: you're very kind, Thank you for the compliments. We're going

468
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 7: to talk about biblical prophecy and later on take a

469
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 7: little walk on the paranormal side on coast to coast.

470
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait.

471
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: And biblical prophecy is maybe one of the most fascinating topics.

472
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Speaker 3: Am.

473
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 2: I am always enthralled when I hear it. I'm looking

474
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 2: forward to that. George, thank you, it is thank you.

475
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 3: Must listen, must listen, r ad io. I'll be doing it.

476
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 3: I hope that you will as well. Fascinating. Okay, so

477
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 3: what do we have left here? Guys? We had something

478
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 3: else we're gonna wrap up. Oh oh oh yeah, how

479
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 3: cool are you? That's right.

480
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 2: You get up in the morning, you look in the

481
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 2: mirror and you think, hey, hey, don't lie. We've all

482
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 2: had our Fonzie moment. Now, maybe you were like nine

483
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 2: and combing your hair back and trying to slick it

484
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 2: back as you thought it looked cool. Maybe you were

485
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 2: a little bit older and you just needed a little

486
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,360
Speaker 2: bit of a a little pep talk. We all do it.

487
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 2: Oh hey, come to find out you're not cool?

488
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 7: No.

489
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 2: Uh. In fact, what we have found, according to scientists,

490
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 2: is that the harder you try to.

491
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 3: Be cool, the less cool you are.

492
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 2: Okay, So cool is context dependent, right, What plays in

493
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 2: one crowd can flop in another. So Suppose that you

494
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: are an intellectual and you're you're at a mixer and

495
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: you've got fun stories about your latest project and how

496
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 2: you worked under a Nobel Prize winner. Oh that's fun,

497
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,880
Speaker 2: that's neat, what a good story. He's got a great storytelling.

498
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,439
Speaker 2: Now imagine that you're that same person and you get arrested,

499
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 2: and then you get dropped into San Quentin and you

500
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 2: start you go out to the yard and you start

501
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 2: trying to tell that story out there.

502
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 3: You can get your ass kicked. That's not cool.

503
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: So it is context dependent, but there are a few

504
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 2: traits that are consistent when it comes to being cool.

505
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 3: So if you want to be cool here, they are

506
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 3: be yourself. Check. This is the hardest thing in the world.

507
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 2: And this is one of the things I got advice

508
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 2: in my in my career, and they said, we want

509
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 2: you to just be your authentic self. And I realized

510
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: at that time I didn't know who that was. And honestly,

511
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 2: I'm still working on every day I work on it

512
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 2: because I said, wait a minute, They said, yeah, they said,

513
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 2: don't try to be funny all the time. I said,

514
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: but I am somebody who's always trying to be funny.

515
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: And what I realized is that I'm often not my

516
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 2: authentic self. Even when I'm in company with people with

517
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 2: whom I am comfortable, I'm often not my authentic self.

518
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 3: I'm often putting on that facade. Right.

519
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 2: So authenticity and being true to yourself is what makes.

520
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 3: You look cool.

521
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: Confidence, but not arrogance, is the most important trait. If

522
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: you are confident and real. By the way, this is

523
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 2: not something you just flip the switch and do overnight.

524
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: It comes off as being cool. I was never the

525
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 2: cool kid in school. I was always I was never

526
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 2: like the outcast. But I was never on the at

527
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 2: the cool kids table, right, I was. Look, I'm in radio.

528
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 2: I did theater. I was not the cool I was

529
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 2: in band, right, I was on the football team. I

530
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,399
Speaker 2: was the equipment manager. Okay, that was me in high school.

531
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: All right, that's who you're talking to.

532
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 3: Now, be student.

533
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: I'm about as mid as anybody could get. And so

534
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 2: I'm working this gig, one time radio gig, and you know,

535
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,440
Speaker 2: I'm bombastic. I do the dumb things. And I had

536
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 2: a manager say to me one time. He says, hey,

537
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 2: I need you to get behind me on this initiative.

538
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, Yeah, sure, he says, a lot

539
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 2: of people look to you and they they're looking to

540
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: you to kind of tell them what to think and

541
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 2: how to you know, be a leader. And it struck

542
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 2: me as on they go, I don't think anybody looks

543
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 2: to me that way. They look at you as the leader.

544
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 2: And then what I realized is that by being authentically mid, right,

545
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: by just being mid, people kind of respected that. And

546
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 2: with that guy, he's mid as hell, but he just

547
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 2: it's just who he is, and that's kind of cool.

548
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 2: You remember the kids that were cool in high school? Hey,

549
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 2: you know, they took their picture and they always they

550
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 2: take My oldest son still he's thirty. Still doesn't drives

551
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: me crazy. Yeah, what he takes his picture, turns up

552
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: one side of his mouth. Hey, hey, don't do that.

553
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: That's not a smile. When you came out of the womb,

554
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: you weren't coming out looking like the Phonsie. Hey, no,

555
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 2: that wasn't the case.

556
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 3: And so.

557
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: Being comfortable in your own skin gives you the freedom

558
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: to be confident, but it doesn't give you an air

559
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 2: of arrogance.

560
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 3: It allows you to be authentic.

561
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 2: There are a few other things that you can learn, however,

562
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: for instance, social competence knowing how to read a room,

563
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 2: they say, is key to being cool. I have a

564
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: good friend of mine. I have this issue, and I

565
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: think it comes from from my father. I tend to

566
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: gravitate toward or maybe it's just that I don't press

567
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 2: them away. I tend to gravitate, gravitate toward people who

568
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 2: are socially awkward but have genuine good hearts. And you

569
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: would really call them like the nerdy kids in school

570
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: or the dorks in school, right, they were the dorky kids.

571
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 7: Uh.

572
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: I am so attracted to someone's purity of heart. Their

573
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: social awkwardness doesn't get in the way. And I this

574
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 2: dawned to me, I don't know, a decade ago or something,

575
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: as I was doing some evaluation of who I am

576
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 2: and how I got here, you know, therapy kind of crap,

577
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: and I realize that's my father. My father is incredibly

578
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 2: socially awkward, very uncomfortable in social situations, doesn't really know

579
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: what to say. He just he's he doesn't want to

580
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 2: say the wrong thing. But my father is an incredibly

581
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 2: generous individual. He's just a good person who wants to

582
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 2: leave a positive stamp on the world. Well, I didn't

583
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 2: realize it's gona end up crying as this show went on.

584
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: But here I am sorry. I feel like I'm giving

585
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: a eulogy. Uh, he's in bed. God Dad goes to

586
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: bed at seven thirty East Coast, so Dad's been in

587
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 2: bed since four thirty our time. So it's not like

588
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: he's hearing this. Don't worry about it. It's not like

589
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: I have to have that awkward hug with him later.

590
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: He is a genuinely good person, but he's very socially awkward,

591
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 2: and I realized that I tend to be attracted to

592
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,479
Speaker 2: socially awkward people who are who have really good hearts. Now,

593
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: if you're socially awkward and you're a jerk, I don't

594
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 2: want anything to do with you.

595
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 3: And generally, if you're a really.

596
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: Good person and you're not socially awkward, you've got so

597
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 2: many friends you're not spending time with me.

598
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 3: So I guess maybe that's why I end up with

599
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 3: these people.

600
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: But I love these these kind of misfits. I'm just

601
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 2: a fan of it. You can learn social competence, though,

602
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: you can learn how to read a room. I've got

603
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: this friend who is socially awkward, but he's got a

604
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 2: really good heart. The problem is he tends to think

605
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: that being annoying is endearing. He's like, I'm going to

606
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 2: try to annoy you people, then they'll think it's fun.

607
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 3: No, it's not. And I know what he's doing.

608
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 2: He's putting up as he's putting on a character so

609
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: that if people reject him, he can say, well, they

610
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: didn't really reject me. They rejected this persona that I've

611
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 2: put out there, rather than trying to be his own

612
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 2: authentic self and being confident in that. The hard part

613
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 2: is you get rejected and uh, physical attractiveness does help,

614
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 2: and then finally humor rounds out the list. So if

615
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 2: you can hone some of your humor skills, that helps too.

616
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 2: The hardest thing for me right now continues to me,

617
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: and I'll probably fight this the rest of my life.

618
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 2: Maybe you're in the same boat. Is that I put

619
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 2: myself out there and I try to be real. I

620
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 2: try to be authentic, and hell I cry about how

621
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: much I love my dad on the radio. What I

622
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 2: hate is when people are trolls. It crushes me and

623
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 2: so it scares me and makes me want to be authentic,

624
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 2: even less and it's really hard. So hopefully you're not

625
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 2: running into that. Hopefully you're that good person with a

626
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 2: genuine heart. And when someone is putting themselves out there,

627
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: even if it's a little bit awkward, you'll still embrace

628
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 2: that person.

629
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 3: I hope you do. I hope you do because that

630
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 3: that's cool. Man. You know who else is cool? Tony?

631
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 3: Tony's about as cool as they get. Tony. Thanks for

632
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 3: being here to night. Man. You're just you're just one

633
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: of my favorite people. You're just a good dude. Thank you, man.

634
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 3: But no, not cool. You know you've made it uncomfortable. Yeah, No,

635
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: Tony's a good dude.

636
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 2: Everybody loves Tony. Everybody loves Tony. Everybody loves Mark. Not

637
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: so true, A little less true on that truck. Well,

638
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 2: I love Mark. I'll take it. He is a he

639
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 2: is a He is a nut and a half and

640
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 2: I love him for it. And Nikky is You're gonna

641
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 2: get us all fired one day. I swear to god

642
00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: she is. But it is fun for the ride. I'll

643
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 2: tell you that.

644
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 3: She's a hell of a lot of fun to have

645
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 3: on the ship. That's what they always say about the ride.

646
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: Thanks for working hard, and you did a really great job.

647
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 2: People didn't see what you did behind the scenes, and

648
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 2: you were fantastic, So thank you for that. All right,

649
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 2: looking forward to catch up with you guys again tomorrow.

650
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 2: I'm back again tomorrow night. And then remember every Sunday

651
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Speaker 2: at four o'clock, I'm Chris Merril kfi AM six forty

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Speaker 2: live everywhere in the iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: App, kf I AM six forty on demand