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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode. I tell you what, Hello everyone, what.

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Speaker 1: I'm just taking my leisure little drive down the highway

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Speaker 1: this morning, driving down my little street there, pull off

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Speaker 1: on the four ninety four, zipping down. Everything's just fine

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Speaker 1: and dandy. And then this car's acting weird next to me.

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Speaker 1: Was coming right up like you're gonna pass me, and

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Speaker 1: then pacing me like from behind my left back quarter panel,

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Speaker 1: hanging there for a minute, and then pulls up next

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Speaker 1: and starts making all these wild hand gestures to me.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going, the hell, it's four o'clock in the morning. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what did I do? And just crazy business with the

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Speaker 1: hands and everything else. And I'm going, okay, I guess

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Speaker 1: this is the day. You know, like, were you ready?

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Speaker 2: Were you ready to throw down?

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Speaker 1: If you had Well, I was in a big truck.

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Speaker 1: I mean I could. Yeah, I was getting ready to

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Speaker 1: put them. You know. It's like, okay, there's a all

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Speaker 1: of those concrete barrier things to the left, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, right next to the shoulder. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, all right, on a little little touch with

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Speaker 1: this bad boy and that little that little pissant vehicle

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Speaker 1: is gonna go for a ride and now look car

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Speaker 1: and it's Dubs. I'm usually half hour in front of Dubs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I I I went to the last alarm this morning.

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Speaker 1: My dog was not sleeping well last night, so which

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Speaker 1: means he was. He gets in bed with us, and

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Speaker 1: I forgot to take his collar off. A lot of

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Speaker 1: time to take his collar off because he shakes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but he shakes jingles. That wakes me up all the

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Speaker 1: time and all night long. I'm like, oh, yeah, she

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Speaker 1: tad collar off and the first started following sleep again.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, So I come rolling in here about the

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Speaker 1: same time Dubs, and I mean, I thought we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get after it there for a minute, and then it's like, hey, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's my guy. She's I almost just lady to waste

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Speaker 1: my friend. Well, I saw you. I was like, I

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Speaker 1: think that's this truck, and then I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's him, and I go or this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: really awkward. I was moving along fairly, so he had

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Speaker 1: to do a little catching up to get me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He oh, I know he was trying in I mean,

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Speaker 1: and I could hear his vehicle like, I mean just

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Speaker 1: really you know, expending itself of all of its juices

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Speaker 1: and then I look over. I'm like, Okay, thank god

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't do what I was thinking of doing.

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Speaker 2: What were you thinking of doing?

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Speaker 1: I was really thinking of sending him into the other

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Speaker 1: oncoming lane, popping them, popping him over the guard rail.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just like, who's this idiot at four in

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Speaker 1: the morning, Because you do run across every now and

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Speaker 1: then you get somebody out here you don't want any

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Speaker 1: I'm the only one on the road. Well this time,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a few more cars on the road,

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Speaker 1: but when I come in generally before that even there's

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Speaker 1: nobody out there. Really, dude, Well, I mean when I

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Speaker 1: say nobody, it's very very light. You don't see enough

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Speaker 1: people to be driving side by side next to anybody.

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Speaker 1: You know, you pass a semi here and there. I

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Speaker 1: remember COVID. It was just weird. Oh, just especially when

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Speaker 1: people took it real serious at the beginning. And I

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Speaker 1: mean it was a lockdown, and you know we had

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Speaker 1: the pass to drive and well remember that, Yes I

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Speaker 1: still have it, because yeah, weird. So I'm driving, you know,

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Speaker 1: i'd be driving in then. I remember a few mornings,

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Speaker 1: literally a few mornings, probably a handful nobody. I didn't

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Speaker 1: see anybody. I didn't pass anybody. It sounds unreal, it

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Speaker 1: was true, but seventeen eighteen minute ride to work or so, yeah, nobody. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I remember thinking, can I make it to work without

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Speaker 1: seeing any I mean, I didn't see anybody.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because coming in on Highway fifty five, I

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Speaker 2: feel like I see a decent amount of cars on

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Speaker 2: the way because.

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Speaker 1: Well, the country people. If I would have drove that way,

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Speaker 1: you still see people during COVID.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they think, right, come on, well you see

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Speaker 2: you have a lot of blue collar workers, a lot

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Speaker 2: of people that are in essential what are deemed essential jobs,

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Speaker 2: things like construction, stuff like that. I think, And so

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Speaker 2: the roads are decently busy coming in that way.

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Speaker 1: But I'll never forget that just ghost town. And it

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Speaker 1: was probably three times it was, it was less than

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Speaker 1: it was like a handful or less times where I

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Speaker 1: drove in and nobody on the highway because I was

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Speaker 1: making a point to look even like it in parking lots,

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Speaker 1: turning around something like nothing. It was early on it

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Speaker 1: was really really locked down. Ye. People were just I

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Speaker 1: mean they weren't really afraid of anything. They just weren't

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Speaker 1: nobody was going anywhere. Wells and driving home from worker,

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Speaker 1: I mean I would there were people on the roads

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Speaker 1: at you know, eleven in the morning at that time,

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Speaker 1: but just still like nothing. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember those first couple of weeks in March that

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Speaker 2: year when everything really shut down. I mean everybody, it's

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Speaker 2: just nobody knew what was going on. It was totally new,

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Speaker 2: and so a lot of people were just hunkered down.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget going to Fleet Farm and seeing the guy,

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Speaker 1: a great, big tall guy, and I was with my

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Speaker 1: neighbor and everyone's wearing masks, and this great, big tall

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Speaker 1: guy put the pool noodles first one I saw on

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Speaker 1: his head for six foot separation, except it was I

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Speaker 1: don't know they're six feet or four feet, but their

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Speaker 1: pool noodles, I don't know how long pool noodles are.

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Speaker 1: And he had a great big crown, and it was

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Speaker 1: just he was doing it to be a smart ass,

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Speaker 1: and some people were giving him crap, and I'm just like, dude,

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Speaker 1: that's good. He didn't want his picture taken. I wanted to,

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Speaker 1: you know, because I was going to be respectful, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't even want to take it from the back,

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Speaker 1: you know. But It's just like, I guess I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that, you know, I could listen and respectful

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Speaker 1: and probably just should have just gone for it. But

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Speaker 1: it was just funny. But I come to find I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people did that, but I just

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Speaker 1: he was the biggest guy in the store, really tall.

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Speaker 1: It just looked like an antenna.

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Speaker 2: I never saw that. No, I never saw anybody do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he did pool. He had a crown of pool noodles. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And my neighbor, who's another smart ass, We're looking at

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Speaker 1: each other like where were we on this one. It's like, well,

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Speaker 1: we don't have any pool noodles. It's like, yeah, well

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Speaker 1: maybe he went out and got so maybe he bottom

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Speaker 1: right there at Fleet the zip Tiz. Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 2: It's nice to look back on that time and be

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Speaker 2: able to laugh at the funny part.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I had two kids in in uh in

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Speaker 1: school right in the prime of their high school you know,

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Speaker 1: heading into high school years. Yeah, and it was just terrible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my brother, I'm trying to think of the the

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Speaker 2: exact timeline, I guess doesn't totally matter, but my brother,

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Speaker 2: one of them missed out on senior prom because of it.

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Speaker 2: Missed out on the whole beginning of the college experience

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Speaker 2: because of it.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little shocked the Right County didn't just go

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Speaker 1: for it, pedal down with everything.

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Speaker 2: I think the private schools did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, we're good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the public schools kind of have to go with

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Speaker 2: whatever the state declares. So but I'm pretty sure a

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Speaker 2: lot of the private schools kept truck. I know the

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Speaker 2: churches did. Like I prey our church, they'd have they

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Speaker 2: Well it's funny because our church had like the cameras

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Speaker 2: so that you could log on and do the online

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Speaker 2: experience off. They would shut them off, like yeah, they

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Speaker 2: would shut them it off for some parts, and then

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Speaker 2: they just I think the pews that you could see

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Speaker 2: on the camera were usually empty, but I know it

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Speaker 2: was full.

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Speaker 1: They checked some peers, moved them way to the back,

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Speaker 1: and then filmed them vacant. They put them the storage. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's our service today. We got the audio. But there's that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's nobody here.

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Speaker 2: Design suspiciously, the cameras would turn off during communion.

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Speaker 1: Big pack crowd difficulties like this eating hand in mouth,

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Speaker 1: those Catholics sticking the tongues out, dropping the cheese, it

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Speaker 1: down there. Yeah, the Jesus.

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Speaker 2: The most that they did I think is uh for

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Speaker 2: that during that time. They didn't offer wine, but everything

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Speaker 2: else during communion was fine.

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Speaker 1: Why why not?

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Speaker 2: Well, because like they didn't do the little Dixie cups,

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Speaker 2: they're like drinking out of the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, I no do the little Dixie cups. They didn't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I don't drink out of this the

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Speaker 1: blood of Christ. I know it's gonna wipe all that

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Speaker 1: stuff out. Well, I'm convinced to that it is what

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Speaker 1: you want it to be. You know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: you believe or you know, it's if you believe, that's

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Speaker 1: what it that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: True.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go back to those times, but

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Speaker 1: you know if we did, Yeah, they give me a

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Speaker 1: little sipy pools.

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Speaker 2: It's all fine.

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Speaker 1: Heck, yeah, it's all over now. Thank God, Hopefully I

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Speaker 1: never go back to that correct again. I appreciate you

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