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Speaker 1: don't know if you listen to our show today. By

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Speaker 1: we had our guest, Paul Mercuri. Oh and and we

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Speaker 1: had so much fun with him. We wouldn't let him leave.

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Speaker 1: We stole his keys. So you're not going anywhere, all right,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for staying with us. This is a lot

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Speaker 1: different than the other show. You can use foul language.

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Speaker 1: No you can't know. I was told I'm not allowed

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Speaker 1: to do that Today's right. Well, no, no, we're not

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Speaker 1: using this podcast on the show, so I can say.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we take these podcasts and we we we edit

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Speaker 1: them up and we play them like when we're out

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Speaker 1: of town on the radio show, but we're not today.

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Speaker 1: I thought she had a dildo in her hand. What

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Speaker 1: was that? What was that? You just happen to see?

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Speaker 1: Who was that thing that NBC had? I think it

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Speaker 1: was like, if you haven't seen it, it's new to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you remember that on Thursday Nights or something they did.

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Speaker 1: They did the reruns in summer, Like, if you haven't

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Speaker 1: seen it, it's new to you. Welcome to our fifteen

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Speaker 1: minute morning show podcast. I don't Paul you have you

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Speaker 1: have a podcaster? You're doing right, Yeah, I do. It's

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Speaker 1: one on one interviews with I just have curiosity in

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Speaker 1: all sorts of areas, especially music because I'm not musically inclined,

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Speaker 1: so one on one just talk to people about the

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Speaker 1: process what they do. So we've had like Colbert, we

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Speaker 1: had Paul McCartney, Brian Cranston, we had The Midbusters host

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Speaker 1: which were really cool because we ended up getting into

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Speaker 1: a conversation about God, creationism and science and they and

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Speaker 1: they go to these skeptic meetings and conferences because they

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Speaker 1: are scientists, and so we got into this really cool conversation,

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Speaker 1: which is what I love about the long form, you know,

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Speaker 1: because you can really kind of go places that you

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Speaker 1: didn't think you'd go. And uh, Adam Savage at one

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Speaker 1: point goes, you're gonna tell me God is responsible for

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Speaker 1: a cylindrical aluminum tube going seven hundred miles an hour

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Speaker 1: what was he? Uh? Don't you get answers in these shows?

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Speaker 1: How exactly. So what's the name of your podcast. It's

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Speaker 1: the Paul me Curio Show. We did a lot of

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Speaker 1: research on the name and really try to figure out

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Speaker 1: the bed to the point, I'll tell you about Brian Cranston,

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Speaker 1: my star on the Hollywood Walk of Famous right next

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Speaker 1: to He doesn't tell that story, and he doesn't know

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know who I am, nor does he give

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Speaker 1: a flying crap. Yeah, but also Luther Vandross, who's now

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Speaker 1: moved on to the next live he now knows who

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Speaker 1: I am, but he didn't know who it was till

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Speaker 1: he died. You know what you should do? Send Christmas

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Speaker 1: cards to your Hollywood Walk We'll see. That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: If you're in radio, it's easier to get one because

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Speaker 1: there's so many people in TV and movies and things,

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Speaker 1: I mean still in on or to get one. Did you?

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Speaker 1: How is it when the whole experience to seven money.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable because you know, we all flew to l A,

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Speaker 1: we all had a big time. No, it's it's it's

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Speaker 1: an honor, believe me. And the people that run it.

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Speaker 1: Anna is her name, She runs the whole Star department whatever.

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Speaker 1: The great people it was a lot of fun and

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Speaker 1: Chris Martin gave him his star. How do they decide

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Speaker 1: all this? How do they decide your next to and

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Speaker 1: who's giving you your star? Yeah? I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: they couldn't say your name though, Oh yeah, the guy

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Speaker 1: announced it. Another guy? Another guy getting a star today

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Speaker 1: is Elvis Durham. Really okay, but wait, I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to talk about my star all day. This is about you.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about you. You brought up Brian Cranston, who

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Speaker 1: interview Paul McCartney talk about how I got him? How

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Speaker 1: you got I mean, don't you have a voicemail from

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Speaker 1: him or something like that. Yeah, So what happened was, uh,

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Speaker 1: He goes, now not come back, He goes, what's your name?

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Speaker 1: I go Paul mcre He goes, oh, Paul. He goes,

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Speaker 1: that's a good name. And uh and then he goes,

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Speaker 1: He goes, oh, I love stand up. I don't know

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Speaker 1: He looks amazing. I mean, he colors his hair, but

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Speaker 1: it's really easy, Like we could do it on the phone.

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Speaker 1: And I go, I go, look, you're really busy. I'll

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Speaker 1: with them. Here's the mind blow right here. He goes, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: he goes you and I'll do it. I know what

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Speaker 1: it because they're gonna just muck it up and make

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Speaker 1: He goes, let's exchange number hers Paul McCartney. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe this is like insane. So now again I'm

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Speaker 1: How do you find it? iTunes the Paul Mecurio show

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Speaker 1: to ourselves. Yeah, it was great, that's so cool. It was.

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