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Speaker 2: That's why I think I relate to my fans because

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Speaker 2: I'm like them.

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Speaker 3: I'm blue collar, working class.

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Speaker 2: You know, you go in on my Facebook and you

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Speaker 2: see I actually answer my fans, I read, I interact

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Speaker 2: look what out these people. I'm back on a school bus.

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Speaker 1: I'm Lynn Hoffman, your host of the Comedy Saved Me podcast,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where I get to talk to comedians and

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Speaker 1: get the inside scoop on their inspiration, their creative process,

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Speaker 1: and their view on why comedy saves us day in

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Speaker 1: and day out. Comedy Saved Me takes you behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes with the geniuses of laughter and helps us better

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Speaker 1: understand just how powerful laughter is today. I am so

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Speaker 1: lucky to have Vic Dibteto, the comedian known as the

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Speaker 1: Donkey of comedy.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Vic is known for his great YouTube series And I

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Speaker 1: know you've seen this Bread and Milk. And also I

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Speaker 1: think everybody I know texted me the Bread and Milk

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Speaker 1: YouTube from my entire life. My phone was completely blown up. Also,

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Speaker 1: who wants coffee? And how long do I gotta wait? Vic?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Comedy Saved Me. I am so excited to

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Speaker 1: have you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I'm very excited to do this.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you here. How did comedy

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Speaker 1: become your lifeline?

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Speaker 2: Well, it started, you know, way back when I was

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Speaker 2: a kid in school. I was the class clown. You know,

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Speaker 2: I was quiet, funny. Remember the teacher turned to back.

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Speaker 2: I would, you know, make animal noises? I imitate the teachers.

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Speaker 2: Fast forward, there was a comedy club in Brooklyn called

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Speaker 2: Pip's Comedy Club, and they had an amateur night there

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Speaker 2: and my friend says, why didn't you give it a shot?

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Speaker 3: And this is nineteen eighty nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 2: The first time I won on stage, Andrew Dice Clay

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Speaker 2: was DMC that No, that's how long I'm doing this?

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Speaker 1: Wow? So you that's amazing. So technically he open for

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Speaker 2: And just recently he contacted my management he requested to

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Speaker 2: do a show with me, which I was here, this

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Speaker 2: started together at Pips. We weren't buddies, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I bet I would love to be in that audience

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Speaker 1: and see you guys. Hopefully you come through here. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, wow?

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Speaker 3: Where is here?

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Speaker 1: Here is in the ass end of the Berkshire Mountains

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Speaker 1: in Lichfield County, Okay.

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Speaker 3: In Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you come through.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I do the Chevalier Theater. Oh. I started many year.

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Speaker 2: I did Nick's Comedy stop in Boston on Warrenton Street

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Speaker 2: with Oh my god, Jay Moore and oh man.

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Speaker 3: A lot of good memories in Boston. Yeah good.

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Speaker 1: A lot of comedians came out of Boston. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Steve Sweeney and Stephen Right and Dennis Leary and I

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Speaker 3: On Bill Burr and yeah, it goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: Everybody. Where is the most unexpected place that you found comedy?

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Speaker 3: Most unexpected? God?

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Speaker 2: I would say, uh Man, Arizona. Why I didn't think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so let's give it a shot. You know.

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Speaker 2: I basically worked from New England to Florida and I'll

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Speaker 2: social media. And you have fans all over the country.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think you're in a Senian boise Idaho now.

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Speaker 3: I go to Florida. Everybody's from New York and New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: You've been well tested amongst all the audiences. Are there

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Speaker 1: how comedy came maybe to your rescue during perhaps a

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I drove a garbage truck before I did comedy.

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Speaker 2: And that gave an idea for a character in More

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Speaker 2: this is Kevin Jane. I couldn't believe it. Any six

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Speaker 2: I'm like, wow, I guess I'm not driving a school

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Speaker 3: No, no, no no.

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Speaker 2: But the manager of the company, he says, just go

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Speaker 3: He says, do what you gotta do. What are you

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Speaker 2: You know, like Chad's commentary said, the saddest thing in

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's an incredible story.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean when I drew up the garbage truck. See,

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Speaker 2: And I once drove my garbage truck to Danger Fields

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Speaker 3: No? And that's how.

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Speaker 2: I broke into I went on stage in my garbage uniform.

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Speaker 1: Wow, what an incredible story.

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Speaker 2: That's why I call myself the Donkey of comedy. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you do work. I say this almost every time

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Speaker 1: And I don't think I've ever had one disagree with

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Speaker 1: I think outside of maybe like carnivals or a circus.

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Speaker 1: Like you guys like you are? You do it all right?

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: When I drove the school bus, I was booked at

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Speaker 2: five nights. So after the show, the other comics say,

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Speaker 2: I got to get in my car. Now, this is

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Speaker 3: And by Sunday I'm a zombie. And my wife's like,

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Speaker 1: What time do you get up in the morning for thirty? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Well, I still get up for thirty because now I

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Speaker 3: Yes? Or and if you twitch that's it.

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Speaker 2: You can't tell. He thinks it's time to eat and

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Speaker 2: I love cats. They just mental patience.

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Speaker 1: They certainly are. They do whatever they want and you're

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Speaker 1: If you could have dinner with one of your comedy idols,

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Speaker 3: Gederal alive?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, general alive yep.

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Speaker 2: George Colin, hands down the king. He was my I

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Speaker 2: my father would have loved you. Oh wow, you remind

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Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, stop stop it right dead. Ye oh,

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Speaker 3: my your father's a legend.

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Speaker 2: I mean because some of the the bits I do,

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Speaker 2: and I do like a TikTok.

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Speaker 3: Vic and I only do comedy I do. My videos

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Speaker 2: I have characters, and you know, now, unfortunately the game

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Speaker 2: has changed in comedy now. If you're an influencer and

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Speaker 2: then these guys go on stage and they got nothing.

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Speaker 2: But it's all about filling up the seats. It's crazy,

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Speaker 2: really comedy is you know, I grew up. I started

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Speaker 2: in the eighties. You know, you had to work up.

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Speaker 2: You had a MC, then you had to build up

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Speaker 3: Then you had to.

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Speaker 2: Finally beat the headliner. And the the eighties that was

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Speaker 2: that was like the that was the great time to

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Speaker 2: be a comic in the eighties. But you know, then

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Speaker 2: the social media came along and I was lucky. Bread

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Speaker 2: and Milk went viral. I saw I was getting fans,

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Speaker 2: and I kept at it and I'm I've been posting

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Speaker 2: videos every day since two thousand and nine.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Well see that? I mean, would that be sort

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Speaker 1: of your advice to give? I know we kind of

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Speaker 1: got sidetracked on the dinner with George Carlin, but would

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Speaker 2: Absolutely Cause the old days when you went on conson

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Speaker 2: and he called you to the couch.

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Speaker 3: That was it?

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Speaker 2: Well like a made men. Now you could do Kimmel

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Speaker 2: and fallon. It doesn't mean anything. It's all about, right,

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Speaker 2: So like the other time, Oh, another time I went

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Speaker 1: Where can people find that on YouTube?

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Speaker 2: Because on YouTube Calledto's Greatest set something like that.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 2: We need to laugh now more than ever, the way

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Speaker 2: this world is going. I don't do politics. I just

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Speaker 3: That's all.

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Speaker 3: Well, you got to do is type in vic D.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to put the and everything fills in

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Speaker 2: once you hit vic D, I'm like the first on

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to change my name. It's my name.

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Speaker 1: Well, if you can't laugh at yourself, then who can

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: You know what the old saying is laugh that truly

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, I get it all the time.

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Speaker 3: What I do now?

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Speaker 1: Well, people like to tell they get excited for you

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Speaker 3: I know what I mean. Well, but you're not like Sebastian.

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Speaker 2: I like to see good guys make it. There's different

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Speaker 1: You're a handsome guy.

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you got it all. You have it all.

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Speaker 2: It's you can't compare that to any standing ovation or

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Speaker 2: And that's why I think I relate to my fans

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: You go in on my Facebook and you see I

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Speaker 2: It comes back to you when you look without these people,

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Speaker 2: I'm back on a school bus.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I never take a day for granted. Seriously, I'm doing.

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Speaker 2: It's forty two years. It still hasn't gotten old. I

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Speaker 1: I love that. Vic di Bateto, you are an amazing person.

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Speaker 1: and you are that with like an exclamation point or

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Speaker 3: Well, don't kid yourself. I got my haters too.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, you know, but that's okay. Yeah, when you

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Speaker 2: but the haters are listening more than your regular fans

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Speaker 1: You're doing something right, Vic vict Boteto, thank you for

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Speaker 1: I know sent me. Whenever there's a storm, my friends

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Speaker 1: It's so funny.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully we don't know more storms.

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Speaker 2: It's it's March too, and I don't I'd rather not

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true, that's true.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys,