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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI A M six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: For Christmas. There's the Epstein file.

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Speaker 3: O feel like there's a banger in there somewhere. I

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Speaker 3: just have to kind of work it. Let's work shop that.

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Speaker 2: I think, what do we? What do we?

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Speaker 3: We take that to the lab and we'll work on

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Speaker 3: that in the lab. Do they still say the lab anymore?

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Speaker 4: No, Christopher, they don't do that.

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Speaker 2: Eminem and doctor Dre always used to talk about going

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Speaker 2: to the lab I.

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Speaker 5: Don't think they were talking about the studio in that

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Speaker 5: in that instance, Well.

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Speaker 4: Okay, how about the jingle bells?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's work it in the lab. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 3: you want to do? You have jingle bells? Handy dashing

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Speaker 3: through d C with Epstein on my mind.

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Speaker 2: There's files out there.

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Speaker 3: I now, we'll bring someone down.

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Speaker 6: He's a Bill Clinton? Is it trys a Bill Gates?

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Speaker 6: Is there a prince who first in the fire? I

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Speaker 6: know that it is not going to mints my words.

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Speaker 2: For Epstein, words for Epstein.

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Speaker 3: He's a child lester, total predator, had his own island,

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Speaker 3: and some billionaires went tues say, let's play.

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Speaker 4: Not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.

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Speaker 4: I can't.

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Speaker 2: It's not exactly a banger. But again, we're gonna workshop that.

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Speaker 7: I think you should have gone like Epstein files Epstein files.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well we'll work on it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't find something around with Prince, and so then

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Speaker 3: I thought I'd do like that, you know, make mints

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Speaker 3: my emotions.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. It didn't work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm embarrassed.

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Speaker 2: Well, the new files came out. Why did we learn

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Speaker 2: a lot? Holy cow? I mean, we knew nothing more

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Speaker 2: than we did before.

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Speaker 8: From ABC News, A Department of Justice posted two more

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Speaker 8: batches of Epstein files on.

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Speaker 2: Its website today.

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Speaker 8: The latest release includes the grand jury testimony from April

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Speaker 8: two thousand and seven. In it, twenty one year old

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Speaker 8: woman describes how Jeffrey Epstein recruited her, at age sixteen,

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Speaker 8: and other underage girls for illicit massages at his Palm

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Speaker 3: Somehow that makes it sound grosser. Oh, he recruited them

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Speaker 3: for illicit massages. Somehow that makes it sound even creepier.

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Speaker 8: Her name is redacted from the files, sources tell ABC News.

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Speaker 8: Friday's release represents less than half of the Department's files

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Speaker 8: on Epstein and includes never before seen records from the investigation.

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Speaker 3: And wait a minute, how does it only include less

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Speaker 3: than half? Weren't we supposed to have all of the

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Speaker 3: Epstein files? Wasn't that what the law was that passed?

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Speaker 3: The law passed nearly unanimously. There was only like one

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Speaker 3: said yes. The president signed it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and thousands of photographs, many are heavily redacted, and

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Speaker 8: was released without context.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 8: President Trump had a long standing friendship with Epstein. White

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Speaker 8: House Chief of Staff Susie Wilde says, Trump's name appears

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Speaker 8: in the files, but not doing anything awful?

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Speaker 3: Uh, probably not the phrase I would have chosen. I

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Speaker 3: I went three for three. And if I were to say,

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Speaker 3: doing anything awful, that would not make me feel better,

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Speaker 3: That would make me feel like they were doing something.

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Speaker 2: Bad.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think that whatever it is they were

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Speaker 3: it's not like she's saying, oh, he wasn't doing anything.

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Speaker 3: She said he wasn't doing anything awful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Susie Wiles actually just made it a little bit

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Speaker 3: that I used to hang out with him.

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Speaker 2: We were a couple of young playboys cheating on our wives.

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Speaker 3: And I mean the evidence is there, but but there's

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Speaker 3: he's definitely someone who was ordering underage girls.

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Speaker 2: There's no evidence of that anywhere.

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Speaker 3: And so why does Susie Wyle say he wasn't doing

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Speaker 3: anything awful. That's not helping, that's not that's not being

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Speaker 3: a good hype man for for the president.

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Speaker 8: Trump says he and Epstein eventually I had a falling out.

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Speaker 4: I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Speaker 8: I threw him out of my club many years ago

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Speaker 8: because I thought he was a sick pervert.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he could stick to that. But then she says

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Speaker 3: he didn't do anything awful.

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Speaker 2: Weird.

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Speaker 8: ABC's Pierre Thomas spoke to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,

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Speaker 8: who also served as the president's criminal defense attorney.

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Speaker 9: Well, every document that mentions President Trump, every picture of him,

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Speaker 9: every video, every bit of information related to him in

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Speaker 9: these files be released today or at some point in

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Speaker 9: this process.

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Speaker 4: Assuming it's consistent.

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Speaker 2: With the law.

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Speaker 8: Yes see, there's always a qualifier, so there's no effort

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Speaker 8: to hold anything back because there's the name Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump.

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Speaker 8: Okay, But then Friday's release also includes some never before

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Speaker 8: seen images of Bill Clinton and Epstein together. The former

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Speaker 8: president has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you mean to tell me that Bill

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Speaker 3: Clinton might be a pervert too, Why is it that?

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Speaker 3: We go, oh, well, Bill Clinton's a pervert. Of course

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Speaker 3: he's in those files. He must have been doing something pervy.

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Speaker 3: And then you go, oh, President Trump was in those files. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but he wasn't doing anything pervy, nothing awful. Flip side.

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Speaker 3: Democrats are like, oh, President Trump was definitely ordering women

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Speaker 3: off of a menu, and you go, what about the Clinton,

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Speaker 3: They're like, he didn't know what was going on?

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Speaker 2: Come on, why does everybody blinders on?

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Speaker 8: The White House chief of Staff told Vanity Fair that

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Speaker 8: there is no incriminating information about Clinton in the files,

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Speaker 8: saying Trump was wrong about that. Clinton spokesperson releasing the

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Speaker 8: statement in part, saying this is about the White House

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Speaker 8: shielding themselves from what comes next or from what they'll

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Speaker 8: try and hide forever.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is feeling really.

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Speaker 8: Really gossipy, saying that Clinton cut Epstein off for his

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Speaker 8: crimes came to light. The DOJ says more documents are coming,

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Speaker 8: but for now.

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Speaker 3: Okay, when why didn't you put them out at the deadline?

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Speaker 8: Many of the answers people are looking for are still

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Speaker 8: not there. Aik Ajachi, ABC News New York.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's like the DJ didn't know that

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Speaker 3: they were gonna have to release these files.

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Speaker 2: Oh and then they thought, oh, well, we better start

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Speaker 2: redacting it.

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Speaker 3: We were told during a campaign more than a year

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Speaker 3: after the election that those files were coming out.

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Speaker 2: Pam Bondy said, they're on my desk. I just got

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Speaker 2: to get them together.

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Speaker 3: And then there was a law that was being debated

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Speaker 3: for a while, the government was shut down, and it

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Speaker 3: And still the DJ sat on their hands and thought, ah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: then the president signs it, and the DJ still didn't

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Speaker 3: And then the DJ said, oh, I guess we'll get

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Speaker 3: at this a little bit. What an absolute debacle, What

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Speaker 3: an absolute joke. Sixteen photos. This has turned up again

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Speaker 3: to me, this is not evidence of any wrongdoing by

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Speaker 3: the president what I'm about to tell you, but it

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Speaker 3: is absolute evidence of political malpractice. Sixteen photos were quietly

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Speaker 3: removed from the DOJ's Epstein Files website, including one image

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Speaker 3: that indirectly showed Donald Trump. So, oh, we're not taking anything,

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Speaker 3: we're not redacting anything because there's the president's name, and

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Speaker 3: oh what about that thing that you just took off

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Speaker 3: your website, And they go, that wasn't because of him,

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Speaker 3: that that was because of somebody else that was in there.

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Speaker 3: Those photos were pulled because there were concerns about potential victims,

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Speaker 3: not about politics. So DOJ says, not only do they

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Speaker 2: Very good, good.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Think back to when you were in high school

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Speaker 3: and your teacher assigned you.

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Speaker 2: A book report. Those were the worst.

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Speaker 3: You had to read the whole book, and then you

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Speaker 3: Roxanne Roberts is their name. She says, the worst is

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Speaker 3: buying gifts. Not to be all ba humb but a

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Speaker 3: lot of people find Christmas shopping expensive, stressful and way

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Speaker 3: The second best, the second best thing about Christmas, there's

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Speaker 3: the trees. Do you get real or small? To get

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Speaker 3: bigger or excuse me, realer, fag big or small? Whitter

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Speaker 3: colored lights, airloom or decorator design, ornaments, twinkle lights, it's

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Speaker 2: Was book It. Did you have book it? Growing up?

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Speaker 2: Book it was the best?

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Speaker 3: So book it went like this, Caleb followed me on this,

442
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Speaker 3: and tell me this isn't the greatest idea from both

443
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Speaker 3: a marketing standpoint and a betterment of the world standpoint.

444
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Speaker 3: Pizza Hutt would reward you for reading books and you

445
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Speaker 3: got free personal pizzas, and teachers would set different standards,

446
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Speaker 3: but it was usually like, if you read seven books

447
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Speaker 3: in a month, you got a free personal pan pizza.

448
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Speaker 3: And they didn't have to be I mean, we used

449
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Speaker 3: to call them chapter books, right because it had chapters. And

450
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Speaker 3: when you're a little kid, you've got chapter books and

451
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Speaker 3: non chapter books, right, so short stories versus actual stories

452
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Speaker 3: that have some composition to it. But I remember, the

453
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Speaker 3: older you got, it might be seven books a month.

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Speaker 2: It might be ten.

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Speaker 3: When you're younger, they want you to read some of

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Speaker 3: those you know, those you know, the children's stories and

457
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Speaker 3: things like that. Whatever it was. God, we wanted those

458
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Speaker 3: pizzas and it worked. I'm telling you. If not pizzas

459
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Speaker 3: how many kids wouldn't read anything?

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Speaker 2: Is there an age limit?

461
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Speaker 3: Because I'm hungry and it's funny you mentioned that I

462
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Speaker 3: look this up and book it is now back and

463
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Speaker 3: it will also cater to adults.

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Speaker 2: They're like, anybody can be a part of it. Serious, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they'll go check it out. They'll do like, anybody can

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Speaker 2: be a part of it.

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Speaker 4: Now, Oh my god, I read all the time. Where

468
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Speaker 4: do I get my free pizza? Got the hut? Just yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: bing it?

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Speaker 3: Just bing it and see bing it and we'll come

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Speaker 3: back and we'll figure out the instructions on how anybody

472
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Speaker 3: can do it, because I'm telling you I looked this

473
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Speaker 3: up and it was like, yeah, you can still do that?

474
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Speaker 2: Why not?

475
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll get the being results here in just

476
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Speaker 3: a few moments. I can get hooked up with pizzas man.

477
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Speaker 3: That was why I read half the time. Otherwise it

478
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Speaker 3: was like I just want to play TV or I

479
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Speaker 3: want to watch TV and play with my friends.

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Speaker 2: It's all I wanted.

481
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Speaker 3: All Right, it is the end of the year, and

482
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Speaker 3: what does that mean. It means you're probably getting fired.

483
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Speaker 3: But for fun, that's next, Chris Meryl.

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

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Speaker 3: We asked the question what is the best part about

486
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Speaker 3: the holidays what is the worst? They got me going

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Speaker 3: on some tangents, talking about some stories growing up, including

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Speaker 3: my family, my aunt and uncle, my cousin. They were

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Speaker 3: Jehovah's witnesses, but we still invited them to all of

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Speaker 3: the big Christmas gatherings and things like that.

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Speaker 2: But then it was kind of weird at times, you know, mostly.

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Speaker 3: Because it was like, Hey, we're here for Christmas, but

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Speaker 3: don't talk about it because we don't want to upset them.

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Speaker 2: Oh hey, I want to get those other one first. Hey, Chris,

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Speaker 2: I grew up with friends there in Highland Park that

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Speaker 2: were Jehovah.

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Speaker 10: Witness and they couldn't do Halloween, couldn't do this, couldn't

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Speaker 10: do that, of course, But you know what, when the

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Speaker 10: big one hits, they are going to survive it.

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Speaker 2: You know why, they'll be standing in your doorway.

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Speaker 3: All right, A good holiday, stop it. That's not funny.

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Speaker 3: I didn't preview that call. I didn't know what was coming.

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Speaker 3: I only got me by surprise. That's pretty good, all right.

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Speaker 3: What is the best part about the holidays? What is

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Speaker 3: the worst part about the holidays.

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Speaker 12: Hey there.

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Speaker 11: So when it comes to the favorite things of Christmas,

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Speaker 11: it all depends on your age and the time of

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Speaker 11: you know, season in your life. I think when you're

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Speaker 11: a child, it's all about the magic. When you're a teenager,

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Speaker 11: it's less magic, more about how much you can get

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Speaker 11: out of your parents. When you're in your young adulthood

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Speaker 11: and you can't afford gifts, it kind of sucks. And

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Speaker 11: then when you're a parent, it becomes so much fun

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Speaker 11: to live through your kids eyes and make it magical.

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Speaker 11: And then once you become an empty nester, it's just

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Speaker 11: about being with your friends and the cheer and being

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Speaker 11: around family.

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Speaker 2: Wow, this is really complete. I feel like.

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Speaker 3: I feel like she just give a modern twist of

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Speaker 3: the all the World's at stage speech from as you

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Speaker 3: like It. That's pretty good. Thank you for that breakdown.

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Speaker 3: I really like that. What is the number? Let me see?

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Speaker 3: The Washington Post gave like a list of the best

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Speaker 3: and the worst. The worst thing they said for the

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Speaker 3: holidays was buying gifts. Most of they didn't you didn't

527
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Speaker 3: enjoy it. Christmas markets, Santa con visiting Santa Snaks, light shows,

528
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Speaker 3: they say, themed bars, wrapping gifts is miserable, receiving gifts,

529
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Speaker 3: greeting cards, office, birthday party, ugly sweaters, and then it

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Speaker 3: starts to get more and more fun. They said, Top

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Speaker 3: five best parts about Christmas? Number five classic Christmas movies?

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Speaker 3: What does that mean? See that changes because I'm an

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Speaker 3: old man. So is a classic Christmas movie like Miracle

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Speaker 3: on thirty fourth Street? Or is the classic Christmas movie?

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Speaker 2: Elf? Kayla?

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Speaker 4: Definitely Elf?

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Speaker 2: See that's not a classic.

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Speaker 5: It's definitely classic. It's it's been twenty two years as

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Speaker 5: it came out.

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Speaker 4: That's a classic, two thousand and three. It's classic.

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Speaker 3: You know what, There's gonna come a time where there's

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Speaker 3: gonna be a film that will come out and it

543
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Speaker 3: will be popular, and then you're gonna look back on it.

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Speaker 3: People are gonna be like, oh, do you remember that

545
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 3: old movie? And you're gonna be like old movie and yeah,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna say, oh, it came out like twenty two

547
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Speaker 3: years ago, and you're gonna.

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Speaker 2: Say, I was twenty five twenty two years ago.

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Speaker 10: I was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then you were not twenty five when Elf came out?

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Speaker 4: You lie, all right, fine, close enough?

553
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Speaker 3: Or a kid when it came out, right, I was

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Speaker 3: about twelve that was the perfect time for that to

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Speaker 3: come out.

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Speaker 2: For you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, great movie.

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Speaker 3: For me, I was like, eh, what, I was dating

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Speaker 3: an old lady. She had three used kids, so I

560
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Speaker 3: watched it because you know, they wanted to see it.

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Speaker 4: Do you still watch it every year? Do you get pitched? Okay?

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Speaker 4: All right? What about a Christmas Story?

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Speaker 2: I used to be on you know what.

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Speaker 3: I finally watched a Christmas Story. Now, that's one that

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Speaker 3: came out when I was a kid, and I never

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Speaker 3: really watched it. It used to be played on a loop,

567
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Speaker 3: and I didn't watch it until one year. I finally said,

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Speaker 3: I got to watch this movie.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Speaker 4: Did you really that's the most boring movie.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise I had seen like bits and pieces here and there,

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Speaker 3: But I mean, I really I did enjoy it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I get it once I finally sat down and watched it.

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Speaker 3: Another one that they list is Muppet Christmas Carol.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, but Kermit in them?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Man, I love Muppet Christmas Caroll. But I wouldn't call that.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't call that a classic Christmas movie. Is Mariah

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Speaker 3: Carey's All I Want for Christmas? Is you a classic

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Speaker 3: Christmas song or is that just a banging Christmas song?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think that's just the time. You know, it's

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Speaker 5: Christmas season. Mariah Carey has blessed us with All I

583
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Speaker 5: Want for Christmas, But she didn't feel about that song. Right,

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Speaker 5: that's a remake. I think I think that's a remix song.

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Speaker 5: She just put our beautiful vocals on.

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Speaker 2: A right, they said number four.

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Speaker 3: They said that for best parts about Christmas, Hallmark Christmas

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Speaker 3: movies you can put that on the bottom of the list.

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Speaker 3: For me, pretty much garbage, although they do make the

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Speaker 3: claim homemark Christmas movies are the TV equivalent of a

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Speaker 3: Golden Retriever, super cute and dumb as a rock.

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Speaker 2: Neighborhood likes. They say.

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Speaker 3: The third best thing about Christmas, I mentioned this already.

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Speaker 3: Number two is trees. Number one best part about Christmas,

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Speaker 3: according to the Washington Post, is.

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Speaker 2: Cookies. I mean, I'm not gonna argue with that. Oh

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Speaker 2: you are. I just got to look from killer me.

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Speaker 5: No, No, I would never argue with against cookies.

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Speaker 4: I love He's the number one.

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Speaker 2: Cookies are number one, number one.

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Speaker 3: It is hard to believe that we are a week

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Speaker 3: removed from finding out about the horrible murder of Robin

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Speaker 3: Michelle Singer Reiner.

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Speaker 2: You realize that it was almost exactly one week ago.

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Speaker 3: I think it was what six thirty last week that

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Speaker 3: we got the news that that murderer going on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it happened during our showiness. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy.

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Speaker 2: Authorities are pretty sure now.

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Speaker 3: Obviously we didn't know this a week ago, but they're

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Speaker 3: pretty sure now that they was their son.

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Speaker 2: They did it. And the more we learn, the more

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Speaker 2: you might wonder if a conviction is a slam dunk.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not. What the lawyers are going to say is

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Speaker 2: next is there's no business.

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Speaker 10: Like show business.

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