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Speaker 2: No, it's just the instrumental No, no, no, no, no no, Nikki,

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Speaker 2: the one that we've got here for Zach Bryan.

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Speaker 1: Does it say m effort?

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Speaker 3: I've removed the Okay.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for doing this. That's good producing.

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Speaker 3: I try.

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Speaker 1: You may have just saved Sam's job.

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Speaker 3: Oh I think I saved my job too by removing it.

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Speaker 2: That's I mean, basically, it's a two for one job

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Speaker 2: saving kind of thing by not having an effort.

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Speaker 4: I did leave in the word cocky, but I made

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Speaker 4: sure the fine. I know, but I accidentally removed the

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Speaker 2: I stop it. Stop it, always pushing the envelope? Aren't

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Speaker 2: you trying?

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Speaker 1: Always going down there? I'm Chris Merrill.

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Speaker 2: If I am six for You can listen anytime on

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Speaker 2: demand of the iHeart Radio app. Grammy Award winning singer

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Speaker 2: Country singer Zach Bryan is taking a swipe at raids

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Speaker 2: by US immigration and customers of Enforcement with a teaser

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Speaker 2: of his new song that inserts himself into the political

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Speaker 2: debate that has divided the nation.

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Speaker 1: That from ABC. All right, so I gotta hear this.

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Speaker 1: I haven't.

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Speaker 2: All I did was just see that there was a song,

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Speaker 2: and so I haven't I haven't sampled this. Nikki said,

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Speaker 2: And I said no.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: She said, well I removed the swear words. I said,

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Speaker 1: I hope.

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Speaker 3: So you're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Didn't we come deader in jail from that of tambos

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Speaker 6: from giving a sale?

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Speaker 1: I got some bed.

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Speaker 3: We'll commission you.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like a love song.

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Speaker 6: My friends who all the generation, they're all I got

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Speaker 6: the generational story of dropping the plight. I heard the

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Speaker 6: cops came cocu paint they and I was gonna come

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Speaker 6: to us down here door trying to build a house

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Speaker 6: all scarting.

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Speaker 2: All that is brooding. I'm gonna call that brooding. I'm

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Speaker 3: The boss.

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Speaker 6: Stop bumping the rock, start rolling the middle. Things rising

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Speaker 6: in it won't stop showing us.

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Speaker 3: Some bad news.

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Speaker 1: Can say a real wife?

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Speaker 2: Is he gonna get Dixie chicked? Anybody hard to say.

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Speaker 2: I'd never heard of this guy before today. No, Zach

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Speaker 2: Brand's a pretty big name.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like country music to me.

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Speaker 2: Though country music is kind of anything you wanted to

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Speaker 2: like that, you see, you could do country US.

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Speaker 1: You can just work on more of your Southern American accent.

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Speaker 4: I don't think so rom wow like going palm like

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Speaker 2: You could do it, yeah, Keith uh So. Anyway, this

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Speaker 2: dude h has divided opinion on social media. Right leaning

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Speaker 2: We got some lyrics here, and Ice is gonna come

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Speaker 2: bust down your door. Try to build a house. No

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Speaker 2: Kids are all scared and all alone.

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Speaker 2: Brian is the US Navy veteran. He's from Oklahoma. He's

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Speaker 2: not doing fine, not doing okay. He began recording posting

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Speaker 2: videos of himself playing this original songs on YouTube twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: It's going to become one of country music's hottest draws.

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Speaker 2: That according to ABC OH, CNN Wire, and ABC seven,

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Speaker 2: the Chicks here. Navigating progressive politics has long been a

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Speaker 2: I mean they got pulled from a bunch of country stations,

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Speaker 2: But remember though, Nikki, that in two thousand and three,

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Speaker 2: But this felt this felt more Mark, how would you

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Speaker 2: it was a real rally around the flag moment. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Shushed with you and all that. It was an opportunity

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Speaker 1: But ultimately he was really, I'm gonna go finish when

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Speaker 2: And by the way, the comedians that were critical of

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Speaker 2: Now. People like Mark Marin were like, what, you don't

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's fine, you should use satire to chastise

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Speaker 2: I thought was really interesting.

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Speaker 1: So that is next.

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Speaker 2: And also we're gonna need some prayers for one of

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Speaker 2: America's sweethearts who right now status is unknown.

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Speaker 1: That is next.

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Speaker 2: about it. How about a Nobel surprise. What a weird

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Speaker 1: That is next. I'm Chris Merrill. I AM six forty.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Chris Merril, Pleasure, Pleasure, Pleasure, hanging out with you.

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Speaker 2: I think we've got Norrie coming up here in about

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Speaker 2: He was not in Idaho, then Montana and Wyoming morons.

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Speaker 2: He's advancing technology, but he was completely off the grid

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Speaker 2: When you have like a week off, yes, do you

440
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Speaker 2: pay attention to the news or you just completely unplug

441
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Speaker 2: you never I'm a constant news junkie and I've got

442
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 2: the blood pressure to show for you. Yeah. Yeah, And

443
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,120
Speaker 2: that's what I was trying to figure out, Like when

444
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,479
Speaker 2: you prep for your your news reports, you don't come

445
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 2: in and go, oh, what's happening in the news today,

446
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 2: Like you already know what's happening in the news today. No,

447
00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 2: I spend all day before I get here. He's just

448
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 2: compulsively devouring all the news I possibly can.

449
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Speaker 1: Okay, you and I are you or I we do.

450
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Speaker 1: We approach it the same way.

451
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 2: You got to know what's going on and you've got

452
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Speaker 2: to be able to spot mistakes so you can fix

453
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Speaker 2: them one hundred doesn't it I mean, you work with

454
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,280
Speaker 2: people that don't have that kind of ethos, and doesn't

455
00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 2: it just drive you crazy. I'm not gonna say anything

456
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Speaker 2: on that front. Oh, but I do my best. I

457
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 2: have a partner, Yeah, and I love him to death.

458
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Speaker 2: I mean, I genuinely love this man. And the best

459
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Speaker 2: couple of hours of my day is the time that

460
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Speaker 2: he and I are on the air together.

461
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Speaker 1: My my day job.

462
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 2: And but every day is like doing a group project.

463
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,920
Speaker 2: And he's the one that does not pull their weight

464
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Speaker 2: on the group project. It just puts their name on

465
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Speaker 2: the paper before you turn it in, the kind of

466
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 2: Marlon Brando. Not loarn your lines, just show up and

467
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 2: hope somebody's got them taped to their back.

468
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Speaker 1: And I just want to strangle him. I want to

469
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Speaker 1: strangle him so bad.

470
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Speaker 2: And Sam, I know, as a as a a clinical therapist,

471
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Speaker 2: you would probably say that's.

472
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Speaker 1: The dynamic you two have. You're the ying and the yang.

473
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Speaker 2: You've got you know, you've got your your prepare guy,

474
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 2: and then you've got your winged guy and that's what

475
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 2: makes things special.

476
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Speaker 1: No, it's not drives me crazy?

477
00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 2: No, okay, So you know about the original Omen movie

478
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 2: from the seventies. Do you remember the sequel, the second

479
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 2: Omen movie where Damien's a teenager?

480
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Speaker 1: Oh? How could I forget?

481
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 2: Okay, So he's in a classroom and he's pissing the

482
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Speaker 2: teacher off, and the teacher keeps asking him questions, and

483
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Speaker 2: he gives the teacher right answers until the teacher, I believe,

484
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Speaker 2: nearly does or does suffer a heart attack or a struggle.

485
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Speaker 1: That's my well model.

486
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Speaker 2: I want to I want to be able to answer

487
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Speaker 2: anything and give somebody a heart attack a stroke.

488
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Speaker 1: I totally get it. Damien, Damien is my spirit animal.

489
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 2: And all right, maybe that's gonna be your new nickname, Damien. Well, okay,

490
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Speaker 2: just cool it on that Mark Damien Runner. By the way,

491
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Speaker 2: who came up with the name Damien in the first place?

492
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Speaker 2: And why did that become popular for a while?

493
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Speaker 4: It's not a popular name in the US anymore because

494
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Speaker 4: of that series.

495
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Speaker 3: No one's named Damien in the US.

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Speaker 1: You did it not have? Did it not have that

497
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Speaker 1: kind of connotation before?

498
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Speaker 5: That.

499
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Speaker 4: I don't think so, but it's a hugely popular name

500
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Speaker 4: in Australia, is it.

501
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone's called Damo, I know.

502
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Speaker 1: But they're all criminals, right.

503
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Speaker 3: I'd rather be a criminal than a Puritan.

504
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Speaker 1: Are those the only two choices?

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Speaker 5: Right?

506
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Speaker 2: I mean there's no I feel like there's gotta be

507
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Speaker 2: more levels better if there aren't that, I guess I'm

508
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Speaker 2: with you.

509
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Speaker 4: But you guys are Puritans. You were founded by a Puritans.

510
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Speaker 4: We were founded by convict. So you know, we having fun.

511
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like we're flipping.

512
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 3: Yes, true.

513
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 1: I feel like Australia is far more pure off it's

514
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: hard than we are now.

515
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,479
Speaker 4: We also had the jailers down there, and I think

516
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 4: they've taken over. Now who's the jailers?

517
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: Who are the jailers?

518
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 3: The people the jail you put you in prison?

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Speaker 1: Oh oh oh okay, jailer's.

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Speaker 7: There's the American accent? Really with you nailed that one.

521
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 2: Although Nikki, to be fair, you could also have a

522
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Speaker 2: Boston accent or give me a New York accent.

523
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Speaker 1: You still would you would still do the same thing.

524
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Speaker 3: Park the car in hard yard.

525
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Speaker 2: You're right, I love that. If it ends in er

526
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Speaker 2: it becomes an ah, but if it ends in an ah,

527
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Speaker 2: it becomes an eer.

528
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Speaker 3: We don't ever say the letter are a.

529
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Speaker 2: I worked for the British guy one time, and every

530
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Speaker 2: time we talked about this is back when Obama was president.

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Speaker 1: He kept saying Obama, Obama, Obama, and I thought, stop

532
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Speaker 1: calling him obomber, stop doing it.

533
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Speaker 3: Obama Obama.

534
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Speaker 1: Yeah, weirdo.

535
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Speaker 2: America has become one of the least welcoming countries for well,

536
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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be a tease if.

537
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Speaker 1: I nicky, nicky, nicky n.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, and it's.

539
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: Still in the learning curve here.

540
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just playing along.

541
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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I appreciate you followed your instincts.

542
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 3: Do I get a prize?

543
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: No, you don't.

544
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Speaker 2: And collected outdoors Yeah, I mean, uh no, we're trying

545
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Speaker 2: to set up a tease here, but.

546
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Speaker 1: No, I get it.

547
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: Look, I appreciate that you followed your instincts. They weren't

548
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 2: exactly on this.

549
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 3: Time, but you they were dead wrong immigrants.

550
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: It could have been lots of things. That's why it's

551
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Speaker 2: a fill in the blank teas. God bless you for that.

552
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 2: All right, NICKI with the giveaway In fact, how about this,

553
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 2: we're going to talk to a very special guest next,

554
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 2: who may or may not host a nationwide show called

555
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: Coast to Coast with George Norri.

556
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: I guess you'll have to wait and find out who

557
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: our guests might be next.

558
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 2: I'm Chris Merril k IF I am six forty, WeLive

559
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 2: everywhere in the iHeartRadio app radio legend host of Coast

560
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 2: to Coast George Norri joining us right now, k IF

561
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 2: I am six forty. George, good to hear from you,

562
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: my friend. What can we expect for you? Starting it

563
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: from you? Starting here at ten o'clock. We got a

564
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 2: great show tonight. We're going to talk about economic trends

565
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 2: and predictions. Then later on UFO Phenomena on Coast to Coast.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

567
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 2: It's what we come for, is why we stick around.

568
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: We come for the econ, we stay for the aliens. George.

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Speaker 2: That perfect, all right? George Norrie, Coast to Coast Radio Legend.

570
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Is he in the Hall of Fame?

571
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: Yet he's not? He's a lock for it. I think

572
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 1: you got to use him. Heck of a guy. Heck

573
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Speaker 1: of a guy.

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Speaker 2: All right, Nikki, you gave away the spoiler in this one.

575
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 2: America has become one of the world's least welcoming countries for.

576
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Speaker 3: Tourists.

577
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: Tourists very good.

578
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, the federal government shutdown, they say, is not just

579
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 2: a political standoff. It's a full blown tourism crisis. From

580
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 2: shuttered national parks to frozen passport services, travelers finding their

581
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: plans derailed, their money wasted, and their patients tested. In fact,

582
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Speaker 2: I did see. Yeah, Vegas is having some problems. Vegas

583
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 2: having some problems. What's the story for oh? La Times

584
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: had a story about six hundred million dollar casino coming

585
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: to California.

586
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna build casinos in California now, So what

587
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 4: is it going to mean for our next door neighbors

588
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:46,480
Speaker 4: in Vegas?

589
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: I love Las Vegas.

590
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: When was the last time you were there?

591
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Speaker 4: I went last year for two days because my best

592
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 4: friend flew out from Australia just to see.

593
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Speaker 1: You TUBEO days. Two days last year doesn't come?

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00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 3: Oh No, And I go often like the like I

595
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 3: went awake a few months before. I love Vegas.

596
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: So I was there in August and I'm not gonna

597
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: say that it was dead, but I've never seen it slower.

598
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 2: There were people there, There were still obviously, you know,

599
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 2: the like the waddling Midwesterners who can't seem to get

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Speaker 2: out of the way, Like, look, if you're just gonna

601
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 2: waddle through the casino floor, just move to the side.

602
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: This isn't Costco. But they're still there waddling. And look,

603
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Speaker 2: I'm a fat Midwesterner, so I can say that. I

604
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 2: probably can't say that, but I do. It really was disappointing.

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00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 2: In fact, I think the longest I saw any traffic

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Speaker 2: on the Strip backed up at a light, I'm gonna

607
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 2: say maybe.

608
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: Six or seven cars deep.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I've been there in Vegas at night when

610
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: the strip is like it takes forever, forever to get

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Speaker 2: down the Strip. I mean, Nikki, you go from you

612
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Speaker 2: ever go from downtown to to the Strip or the

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Speaker 2: Strip to downtown.

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Speaker 1: It's easier to walk usually. Now it's not. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you.

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Speaker 2: It's it's like what mile and a half two miles

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00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 2: depending on where you are on the strip, right, I'm

618
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 2: with you on that.

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Speaker 1: But it was not like that in August. I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: It was like you could have ridden an e bike

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Speaker 1: right down the strip and you would have been fine.

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Speaker 1: It was not great. Do you feel like they priced

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Speaker 1: out the average human. Yes, yes, I do. I feel

624
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: like that is like a big problem right now.

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Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent believe that that is the biggest

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Speaker 2: thing going on with Vegas. You're at a time where

627
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Speaker 2: people are concerned, and again I was there in August.

628
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: We're still talking about what's gonna happen with the economy.

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Speaker 2: I think there's still some apprehension about the economy. You've

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Speaker 2: got some people I was just reading, what is a

631
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: A third of the country, depending on where you live,

632
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Speaker 2: is already in a recession. We're not, but you know

633
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 2: some places might be already whatever. So everybody's economic situations

634
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: are different. And I think for some people are going

635
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 2: it's like Game of Thrones, like winter is coming. We've

636
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 2: got to make sure we've got supplies, we got to

637
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 2: make sure we've got resources. So they're starting to save

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00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,959
Speaker 2: some of their discretionary spending and they're not going anywhere.

639
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 2: But Vegas definitely is priced themselves out. They did it

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Speaker 2: to themselves.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like, how about if we just

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Speaker 1: had more resort fees.

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00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 2: How about if we throw in more tourism taxes on

644
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 2: top of the resort fees, on top of the already

645
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 2: exorbitant prices. And so I mean I was at where

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Speaker 2: did I say? It was one of the MGM places?

647
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 2: I forgot Anyway, I gotta tell you there was never

648
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Speaker 2: a wait for the elevator.

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Speaker 1: There was never. I mean it was. It was kind

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00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: of sad, it was pathetic.

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00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: But now they're saying that because we've got the government

652
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 2: shut down, you've got you seventy and Yellowstone and Grand Canyon.

653
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: They're still open, but they're unstaffed.

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Speaker 2: In other words, they basically said, if you want to

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Speaker 2: go see the hole in the ground, or you want

656
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 2: to go see the guys, or it's over there.

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00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: Also try not to throw your trash around. But what

658
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: do we love to do. We love to throw our

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00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: trash around. We are disgusting people.

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Speaker 2: Tour operators saying that there's a thirty to five fifty

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Speaker 2: cancelation rate right now in the gateway towns into those communities.

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Speaker 1: Not great friends.

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Speaker 2: The longer the shutdown, last longest is going to go on,

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Speaker 2: And as we continue to present ourselves as being generally

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Speaker 2: furner unfriendly, that's not gonna help out either, I believe. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I'm back again tomorrow so we'll expound upon

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Speaker 2: those things. George Norri is coming up next with Coast

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Speaker 2: to Coast. Sam, you know I love working with you. Mark.

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Speaker 2: You're like you're like the big brother I never wanted,

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Speaker 2: and I just love you for that. You're You're just fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Don't get me all emotional. I'm fairly emotional today. I

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Speaker 2: know you're, I know you're I'll give you a big hug.

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Speaker 2: And then Nicki. What can I say about Niki?

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Speaker 3: Not much.

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Speaker 1: I loved.

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Speaker 2: I could say a lot about Nicki. But as we've

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Speaker 2: already discussed, HR is listening. Very good, love HR, very good.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk to you tomorrow. It's Chris Merril

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