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Speaker 1: guest is a favorite of mine and of course was

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Speaker 1: a favorite of our bills. He's going to tell you

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Speaker 1: a story when he was in the hospital. What are did?

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Speaker 1: Let's bring on Daniel Brinkley. Daniel, Well, welcome by friend.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you in June and Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas at our event. But my god, you were at

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Speaker 1: the funeral today. Whitley was telling me, yeah, and you

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Speaker 1: know Whitley's you know what you appreciate about Whitley. George

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Speaker 1: is what a great writer he is. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: I mean he he gave a speech that was It

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Speaker 1: you would want it to me. I'm always I loved art,

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Speaker 1: and Art was funny, but I understood Art's personality, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was standing there today and Whitley was good. But

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Speaker 1: I have to be funny because about three weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: And this had to been going on. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: through the same things. Like he's trying to get Heather

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Speaker 1: and he was jelling her he'd come Baylor out and

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Speaker 1: this was always Art up to something. And then one

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Speaker 1: come on, he said. He says, then O, let's go

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Speaker 1: forty two back around one. Dirtie, you're the guy that

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Speaker 1: It would have been okay because it was Art having

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Speaker 1: the when it came out. You know from the Daniel

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Speaker 1: Another one of us gets to go home. And every

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Speaker 1: Art now knows all those answers. He does. And when

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Speaker 1: a little more pressure on you, George, but the kind

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Speaker 1: think that's even greater. We're doing that to our friend. Okay,

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Speaker 1: everybody celebrate that artists free, that he's not in that

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