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Speaker 1: While we're on the subject of great shows, Chasta one

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Speaker 1: of my all time favorites, and we haven't talked to

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Speaker 1: him in a while.

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Speaker 2: Is Craig Shoemaker. Craig, how you doing?

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Speaker 3: I'm great? Tell them who sang at my wedding? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Hold it, they actually sang at your wedding? Ac DC.

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Speaker 3: You knew that Brian A CDC.

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Speaker 2: Brian Johnson.

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Speaker 1: And when they said, when Brian Johnson? Now, how did

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Speaker 1: you meet Brian Johnson? For the listeners that don't know

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Speaker 1: the story.

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Speaker 3: He was in the audience in Florida and everybody seemed

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Speaker 3: to know him, and I didn't know who it was.

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Speaker 3: He had the little hat on and everything. I said,

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Speaker 3: how come are you? I said, how come everybody knows you?

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Speaker 3: Are you the mailman?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: My god?

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Speaker 3: And I kept guessing what he did that everybody knew him,

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Speaker 3: and and then we became great friends. This is back

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Speaker 3: way back in the nineties, and it was the late eighties.

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Speaker 3: That's how long we've known each other. And he he

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Speaker 3: got up and sang with the wedding band at my wedding,

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Speaker 3: you put your right and your left foot out.

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Speaker 1: The party got it?

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Speaker 2: And how did that go over?

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Speaker 3: Oh? My grandmother loved it. She goes, you look like

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Speaker 3: you party. Let's do a blunt, a blunt. My grandmother

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Speaker 3: hit on My grandmother hit on him. I'll give you

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Speaker 3: a shotgun.

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Speaker 1: They give you a shotgun. Hey, no, I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: uh brought Now. When was that wedding in the eighties?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, that wedding that was in the nineties

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Speaker 3: and ninety Yeah. Yeah, he got up, He got up

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Speaker 3: with the wedding band. The wedding band was like, who

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Speaker 3: is this guy? They didn't know what was he in?

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Speaker 2: The wedding band didn't know him? Why?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well so as soon as soon as he started singing,

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Speaker 3: and he even wore the little hat with a suit.

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Speaker 1: Oh that that's that's outstanding. That's outstanding. So hey, Craig,

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Speaker 1: real quick, I want to get a plug in because

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Speaker 1: you're coming to town and you're performing at Tommy T's

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Speaker 1: in Pleasanton. You're there for two for two nights, for

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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a while, come on out, and I

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Speaker 3: have a whole new life. I'm divorced now. By the way,

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Speaker 3: all the shows are benefit shows and all proceeds go

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Speaker 3: to my ex wife. Okay, know, folks, your cover charge

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Speaker 3: goes to Boatox and pilates class A good cause. Come

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Speaker 3: on out. I have to cut it short. She got

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Speaker 3: half my jokes in the divorce. I got left with

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Speaker 3: the setup.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I have so now.

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Speaker 3: A priest and a rabbi walking to a bar. Now

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Speaker 3: you want the rest, You're gonna have to call her.

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Speaker 3: I'll give your number.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this though, because I met

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Speaker 1: your wife when you had down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she was an awesome What what happened with your marriage?

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Speaker 3: You don't let me getting hit menopause? She hit menopause.

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Speaker 3: You know, menopause means put men on pause.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, so.

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Speaker 3: She put me on pause. She's got this book on

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Speaker 3: her nightstand at the time, Vagina a love story. And

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Speaker 3: I got her a book called Penis. Remember me. It's

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Speaker 3: a collection of short stories. Dive into the hardcover.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, So that must have been a surprise to

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Speaker 1: you that she was reading the Vagina love story book.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was. It was all a surprise. And

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Speaker 3: she was with this wellness grifter and they had had

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Speaker 3: to get her sovereign freedom, this whole feminist thing. I'm

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Speaker 3: going out of my mind and I'm single now. This

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Speaker 3: is not the age to be single. Trust me, I'm

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Speaker 3: not having a good time. I have one friend who's single,

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Speaker 3: that's why I go out with. And he's like in

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Speaker 3: his fifties. He's dumpy and he's never been married. He's

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Speaker 3: always bragging. I was with a twenty four year old.

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Speaker 3: What a body shoes? All of them really really think

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Speaker 3: she's bragging her friends about you right now she's where

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Speaker 3: her friends going. Guess what, girls, I met this guy.

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Speaker 3: He stepped hair on his head. Now it's on his back.

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Speaker 3: Friends are going no way. Does he have a twin?

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Speaker 2: He have a twin. So so let me ask you

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Speaker 2: so so dating is tough?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I swear to God. All these categories

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Speaker 3: on the dating app sapio, sexual, pants, I want to

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Speaker 3: hit you with a pan, and that's a by curious

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Speaker 3: buy bisexual. You know what I am by myself, that's

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Speaker 3: what my category. And apparently, apparently I took this one

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Speaker 3: woman out. It's an expensive restaurant. She orders stuffed vegetables,

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Speaker 3: crab cakes, a lobster, a pasta, and two desserts. I said,

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Speaker 3: what do you what are you doing? I said, you're

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Speaker 3: not eating the berry shoes. Those are for breakfast tomorrow

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Speaker 3: and the lobsters for lunch. I guess I have a

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Speaker 3: new category. I'm called by dinner dinner. He's bumming a

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Speaker 3: dinner off me. She's a hobo sexual. That's the category there.

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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, So now one of my all time favorite stories.

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Speaker 1: And I haven't talked to you in a while, and

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Speaker 1: maybe there's a listener that hasn't heard the story when

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Speaker 1: you were on the Magic Johnson Show because.

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Speaker 2: You used to please do tell me the story again.

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Speaker 1: You were on the Magic Johnson Show when he had

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Speaker 1: a talk show, and they they thought this talk show

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Speaker 1: is going to go up against Carson at this point, right.

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Speaker 3: And oh, yeah, no, that was no, it was it

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Speaker 3: was Leno Leno. I'm not that I'm not that old, okay.

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Speaker 1: So they thought this was going to go up against

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Speaker 3: So I don't think that was gonna happen. He couldn't

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Speaker 3: pronounce the movies they were starring in. Remember he goes

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Speaker 3: from Michael Clark Duncan was an Armageddon. Magic was reading

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Speaker 3: Good don I'm oh Greg, how do you say that word? Oh, Greg,

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Speaker 3: the end of the world. It's the end of my career.

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Speaker 2: It was, that's the end of myial.

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Speaker 3: And I'm still playing comedy though. So I'm so I

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Speaker 3: love Tommy T's. I've been going there for so long.

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Speaker 3: It was in San Ramon back in those days. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and I just I love the audiences up there. I

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Speaker 3: hope we pack it out this weekend. It has come.

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Speaker 3: I have so much new material. It's it's just killing

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Speaker 3: it everywhere. And I haven't been there a few years.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know you've got the new material, but

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Speaker 1: I this is the greatest story ever. So you actually

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Speaker 1: got fired during the show, which is unheard of.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, Well the opening episode was Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Speaker 3: and Magic Johnson. Right now, these are two of my idols. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you should hear the kid Hollywood kiss up conversation

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Speaker 3: was just like Arnold reason I had you as a

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Speaker 3: of money for a lot of the needing people. Folks,

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Speaker 3: don't he gave it up for the needy people. Go yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: and nor Magic, you're the one that went on. You

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Speaker 3: give Old the benefit you give the news. You got

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Speaker 3: some magic Johnson Dinah, you know who the cal ya

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Speaker 3: nd you wonder what special Olympics up those needy kids.

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Speaker 3: I'm sitting there thinking, how am I gonna blend in?

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Speaker 3: I lean over. I don't give a buck. The homeless

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Speaker 3: guy he never changed for ten Oh.

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Speaker 4: Chrag, oh crag, you are bad. Every time I told joke, Oh, Craig,

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Speaker 4: you are bad. I got fired in the middle of

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Speaker 4: a show on day three. I got pulled off the couch.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, you know what, I'm gonna have to go

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Speaker 1: and look for day number three on YouTube and look

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Speaker 1: for Craig shoe.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they ripped it down. They they put they put

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Speaker 3: the they put the interns on that. Once I went on,

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Speaker 3: Howard stirred and told the story. Oh that was the

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Speaker 3: end of that. That is you can't find me anywhere.

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Speaker 3: There's there's a shot of me and me and the

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Speaker 3: next guest was in Houston. That was that was fun. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: she's and they brought a vacuum at because she likes vacuuming.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, favers trying everything. I ended up in

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Speaker 3: like I was supposed to be the co host. They

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Speaker 3: ended up in like the fifth segment, the cooking segment.

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Speaker 3: He would take flour and he'd throw flour. I mean,

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Speaker 3: now you're okay, Craig.

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Speaker 2: You're Oh, Craig, you're bad.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Greg, you are bad.

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Speaker 1: I love you. You're playing Tommy T's this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Craig.

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Speaker 2: Always a treat having you on the show.

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Speaker 1: And come back to the Bay Area more often.

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Speaker 2: Man, I'm telling you.

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Speaker 3: I have rooster t feathers coming up sometime. I don't

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Speaker 3: make me look Craigshoemaker dot com right or official Craig

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Speaker 3: Official Craig Shoemaker on Instagram. Follow me, tell me you

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Speaker 3: heard me, and it was worth getting up to do

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Speaker 3: this show right.

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Speaker 1: And also, if you want to go on a date

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Speaker 1: with Craig and have him buy you a week's worth

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Speaker 1: of food, response him on his website or.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, better yet, a date with the Lovemaster.

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Speaker 5: Baby. Oh that's a great, lady. Oh, I'll love you

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Speaker 5: so good. Your neighbor will have a smoke, baby. Oh

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Speaker 5: oh yeah, I am long. I am longer than a

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Speaker 5: CBS receipt.

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Speaker 3: Baby.

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Speaker 2: All right, Craig, good luck did you say?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, yes.

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Speaker 2: Good, yes, I did. Good luck of Tommy Te's man.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for going there.

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Speaker 3: You'll say this weekend, baby, God,