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Speaker 1: so true here that you know, people reacting to certain

426
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Speaker 1: things that may or may not be true, it doesn't

427
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: really matter whether they're true or not. And if the

428
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: facts don't back these things up, because the tinker Bell

429
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,120
Speaker 1: effect takes over, and it's the tinker If you don't

430
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: know what the tinker Bell effect, which is a version,

431
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 1: it's it's another way of saying, the man, you know,

432
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,600
Speaker 1: the when the legend becomes the fact, print the legend.

433
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: The tiger Bell effect is similar. If enough people believe

434
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: hard enough that fairies exist, they do you see what

435
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 1: I So it's it's it's that mindset that a lot

436
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: of people have, so I and it's with everything, whether

437
00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 1: it's a sports issue, a political issue, all this stuff.

438
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 1: Even if you present facts that would go against that,

439
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: that would just reinforce people's beliefs on whatever issue you're

440
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,320
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah, I think there's a lost art to

441
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: this though, because like you as a talk show host

442
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: are a little bit different in your dynamic because you

443
00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: are talking for two three four hours and four hours

444
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: a night, five days a week, three hours on the weekend.

445
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, right, But see, I think what

446
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: gets lost for a lot of people is not necessarily

447
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: like how you're saying it, but it's what you're saying.

448
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: And I think that gets it's so polarizing now not

449
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,560
Speaker 1: what people are actually like the language, but how they're

450
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,919
Speaker 1: saying it. I think that's overcoming people and they're losing

451
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: the translation that message and people aren't doing that well.

452
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,320
Speaker 1: Like That's the thing that I'm having the hardest time about,

453
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,119
Speaker 1: is like you need to look at the meaning behind

454
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: this and listen to them as opposed to taking what

455
00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: they say and then having an immediate rebuttal like in

456
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Speaker 1: the chamber right of the shoot back, Like I think

457
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: that's I mean, that's the that's the purpose of social

458
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,199
Speaker 1: media now right, Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. It is

459
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: like instant gratification, instant response, like look at me and

460
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: the mob with pitchforks and cyber torches that are running

461
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 1: around looking for somebody to be offended by and to attack,

462
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: to attack and to destroy, to pillage, you must pillage. Uh.

463
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 1: One final final note. UH. I mean, we have a

464
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Speaker 1: lot of cops that listen to this show and uh

465
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: and have listened to me for years, and I I'm

466
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: not apologizing, but I do not share the views that

467
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: Cooper Loop said. This week, I've gotten several emails from

468
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,080
Speaker 1: people that worked in law enforcement their entire lives that

469
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: were very upset by what Coop had said. Coop pretty

470
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: much implied that cops are dumb and corrupt and anybody

471
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: can get a job as a cop um and people

472
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: were hurt by this, and UM, that's not my position.

473
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Speaker 1: I I know people that work in law enforcement. I've

474
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Speaker 1: my obviously, my wife's not a police officer, but she's

475
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 1: not sworn, but she works at the police station. I

476
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: know from her experience and from what I've read online

477
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: because I looked it up to see what if he

478
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: was what he was saying was true, because it's not

479
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: what my experience has been. And uh, in in every

480
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: big city. I looked up every major police force. Uh

481
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 1: it's bullshit. So I wouldn't worry about that unfortunately. I mean,

482
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: I guess the one thing you can be concerned about.

483
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that believe that those talking points,

484
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: that that these things are true about the police force. Um.

485
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing too, is it's not a

486
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: national people like I gotta get her of all police. Well,

487
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: police is local. I mean other than the FBI, right,

488
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: which is the national hobby obviously the national operation. But

489
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: the police departments are local. That's where police work has done.

490
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,920
Speaker 1: It's not on the national level. It's community police work.

491
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you made that kind of a statement,

492
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Speaker 1: you could make that statement that, well you don't have

493
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 1: to be that smarter. Anybody could join the U. S.

494
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: Military because all you need to be is eighteen years

495
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: of age. Yeah, and there was a point where I

496
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: believe that was true, but it's not true anymore. Even

497
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: the military is like they've trimmed it down. They want

498
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: they want people that can you figure out there's a

499
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 1: lot of nuance now because of the advancements in machines

500
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: to kill people that are better now. And you know,

501
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: you've got to have a brain. You can't be a

502
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: the village idiot and figure it out. Well. You know,

503
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: it's always fascinating to me because people can make statements

504
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: like that, but in reality, could they do it? Oh? Yeah, no, yeah,

505
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: that's that's true. That these This again goes back to

506
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: the stereotypes. I mean, there's stereotypes about people, their stereotypes

507
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: about jobs. Um, you know, I hear from people. Anybody

508
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: could do a talk show, and it's true. Anybody could talk.

509
00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: It has functioning uh mouth and brain. You could talk,

510
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: but could you do it good talk show? There's a

511
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 1: skill as certain skill to it, right, there's certain skill.

512
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: And just to prove that, listen to a bad talk

513
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: show host. And I'm not saying I'm good, but listen

514
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: to somebody who's bad, and listen to somebody is good,

515
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: and tell me that's not a different experience and not

516
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: something that you The bad talk shows you wouldn't want

517
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: to listen to, and the good one you want to

518
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: listen to because they are engaging in their thought provoking

519
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: and they get your mind going. It is theater or

520
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: the mind. And so you know, I I've always thought,

521
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: and I really blame my mom for this, that I've

522
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: always valued whatever you do to help the village out.

523
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: And it's you know, people get I've got an emails

524
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: some people, why do you care about the truck driver

525
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: driving through uh you know bf E, um, you know

526
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: Iowa or North Dakota or whatever. I'm like, well, because

527
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's an important job. He's whatever

528
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: that person is bringing is a value. It's either helping

529
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: a business stay open or helping people get products and um,

530
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, it's just it's to just

531
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: dismiss it, like which a lot of people do, these

532
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: lower wrong jobs, like it doesn't matter. I don't know.

533
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: I've never been like that. Maybe I should be like that,

534
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: Maybe I should. I've just never thought how I was

535
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: brought up, And I just think it's everyone's important, no

536
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: matter what you do. Some are obviously more important, but

537
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,959
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the other people aren't important. Well,

538
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: the reality is to whether you're the president of the

539
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: United States or whether you're a janitor here at Fox,

540
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: like you're providing a service you're doing. You're doing a

541
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: you're providing a service and a selfless act for somebody else. Now,

542
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: in some instances it can be self serving, but you're

543
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: still serving other people as well. So yeah, well, and

544
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 1: the other the other thing too, is I I just

545
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: just popped into my head, so I better spit it

546
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 1: out before it pops out of my head. But I'm

547
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna humble brag. I'm gonna pull a Pat O'Brien,

548
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna name drop. So in the context of what

549
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: I just said, I think everyone's important. Years ago, when

550
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: I was doing Dodger Talk, were in New York and

551
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: Vince Scully was a long time ago. Vin was traveling

552
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: with the team still, and I got to have dinner

553
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: with Vin Scully at Chase Stadium and the press dining room.

554
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: It was not just me and him, there were a

555
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: couple of people at the table, and Vin was telling

556
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: stories about growing up in New York as a kid.

557
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: And he told his story about when the sanitation people

558
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 1: went on strike in New York City and trash was

559
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: piling up in Manhattan right just fucking everywhere. It's smelling already,

560
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: It already smells when they pick up the trash of

561
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: New York. You can imagine what it must have smelled

562
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: like without the trash people and so people were freaking.

563
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: I said. It was around Christmas time, and what people

564
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: were doing they would get big boxes. I get. You

565
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: know those old TVs. What are massive boxes? You know,

566
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: the early days of television, those huge giant TVs, their

567
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: size of tanks. And so Vin told the story. He

568
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: said he remembers this when he was younger, that people

569
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,560
Speaker 1: would get these big they buy the TVs or whatever,

570
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: and then fill the TV boxes with trash and then

571
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,239
Speaker 1: wrap them and leave them out on the street. And

572
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: people would come and steal the boxes, thinking it's a

573
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: television and it was filled with like you know, trash

574
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: and ship and stuff. It's pretty funny, but that's just

575
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: that's an example of like trash man, who cares if

576
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: you pick up trash, you're nothing, You're in sanitation. Okay,

577
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: wait till they don't pick it up. And then see

578
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: see how valuable the trash man is. All of a sudden,

579
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: you know, absolutely all right, really I gotta get this

580
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: knife fight thing. So the knife fight. Now, I tried

581
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: with the kid here, I tried to recreate a YouTube video. Yeah,

582
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: Mark Roeber, who I like the stuff that he puts out,

583
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: the science videos he puts out on on YouTube. I

584
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen his work or not, but

585
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: he had this really cool trick involving watermelons. So it

586
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: looked ridiculously simple. I said, listen, I'm you know, I'm

587
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: street educated. You know I'm not book smart. I'm street smart,

588
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: but I can figure this out. So the way it

589
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: works is you buy a couple of watermelons. You chopped

590
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: one watermelon. They gotta be matching. They gotta be like

591
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 1: the same shape watermelon, you know, same size, basically like

592
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: twin watermelon, twinsies. So you chopped the first watermelon and

593
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: a half and then you gut it the other watermelon.

594
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: You peel off the melon skin like the green stuff

595
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: and get down just the juicy red part, the good

596
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: part of the melon. And then you at that point

597
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: you polish the melon with like a sponge from the kitchen,

598
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: of course, a new sponge, cheap smot so you kind

599
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: of polish it to smooth it out. So then the

600
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: next step is you take the melon you cut that

601
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: you just cut right, the one that cut in half,

602
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: and you if you've gutted that. The final step is

603
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: you put the shell of the second melon, the one

604
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: that was cut in half and gutted, and you put

605
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: it over the melon that you you peeled apart and

606
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: skin and and and made it look all smooth. And

607
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: so then when you show up, it makes it seem

608
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: like you're he man. It gives the illusion of your

609
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: like some kind of superhero. And you can pull the

610
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: melon apart, and then you have this amazing watermelon that's

611
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: smooth and wonderful, and you're just so strong. You pulled

612
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: the watermelon skin a part. What could possibly go wrong? Unfortunately,

613
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: my job in this little equation guest on was to

614
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: um to gut. I was the guy that cut the

615
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: watermelon and a half and gutted the watermelon. I almost

616
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 1: chopped off my left thumb. Hand to god, I am not.

617
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my thumb right now. There is a

618
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: massive gash in the middle of my left thumb that

619
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: has still not healed. This was a last weekend and

620
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: it was a gusher. It was a gusher, and you

621
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: know how, you you cut yourself and right away. It

622
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: doesn't normally start bleeding right away, but you know it's coming, right,

623
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: You're the anticipation of the blood dripping down, and so

624
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: I had that and then it started just going for

625
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: it and I should have gotten stitches. My wife was

626
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: so freaked out, she's she actually called the hospital and

627
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: and we talked to a nurse because because of the

628
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: the apocalyps. We talked to the nurse and described what happened,

629
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: and they actually advised us to go get checked out.

630
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: But I didn't do that. I just I held it.

631
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: I held down pressure until it stopped bleeding. And then

632
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: I've been putting new skin on that and bandages and

633
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: so far it's it's not it doesn't look all green

634
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: and puffy and infected or red and infected. So I'm

635
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: I think I dodged having to go to the walk

636
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: in clinic or the hospital or any of that stuff.

637
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: But I it's pretty gnarly. It's another it's another battle wound.

638
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: I got big scars all over my hands from doing radio.

639
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: You got scars all love your body from doing radio.

640
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: You got a gallbladder that was you gotta busted mound

641
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: from from burning a pizza. Uh, that's correct, So why

642
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: would you do the YouTube video with that and not

643
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: not prep the like the ten pounds steak I got you. Yeah, well,

644
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: because I told you the steak, which I still have

645
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: and looks wonderful. I'm waiting for it to warm up.

646
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: It's not I want. I want to eat that steak

647
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: on like a hundred degree day, have a nice barbecue,

648
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:24,439
Speaker 1: and just enjoy the hell out of it. It's gonna

649
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: be cool this weekends supposed to be cool in in

650
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: l A where we we all hang out here, so

651
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: it's not supposed to warm up. Maybe next week, maybe

652
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: next week? Is this? Oh, I guess this is June

653
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: gloom they call it in l A. I hope so

654
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: I'd be. I'd be down for some rain right now. Unfortunately,

655
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: I'm good with rain in California, especially in New York

656
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: right now, New York d C. In California, I could

657
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 1: really use some rain. Make it rain, not the Floyd

658
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: maywhere make it? Want to make it rain? Is uh,

659
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: squash some of the fires around this country, I understand.

660
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: I want to do a few Florida man stories. How

661
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,840
Speaker 1: did how do? Was the reception last week from Florida

662
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: man and woman? We we made sure we weren't sexist.

663
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: All we had man and a woman involved. So yeah,

664
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: I didn't get much blowback or positive reaction, and there'sn't

665
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 1: a lot of reactions. I guess that's I guess they

666
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: don't they don't really care. That's good, all right anyway,

667
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: So these are actual stories from people in the Sunshine State.

668
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: You know, you know how this works? All right? Well,

669
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: good news of Florida man has admitted to swindling the

670
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: Milk casino out of twelve thousand five Now, how the

671
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: hell did this work? This is great though. So this

672
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: guy from Florida, he was able and now, by the way,

673
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: the Milk Casino is in Bend, Oregon. Not he's from Florida,

674
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: but this happened in Oregon. But he's a Florida man,

675
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: so it counts. So he he swindled them out of

676
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: twelve thousand five dollars by claiming to represent the village people.

677
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: So he calls up the casino. Um, he actually know

678
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: he sent This is back. This goes back to August

679
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: of this This guy, he was in his sixties, sends

680
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: this Indian tribe of flyer offering them the opportunity to

681
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: book the village people for a show at the Mill Casino.

682
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: In ben Oregon, and the people that run the casino

683
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: are like, well, that sounds great. We can get the

684
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: Village people to come in here. That's everyone knows the

685
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: Village People that Old Bend and uh so, of course,

686
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: he wrote out a contract and he emailed the casino

687
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,320
Speaker 1: a contract with agreement. The casino signed and returned it

688
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: to the guy with a check for twelve thousand, five

689
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. The guy cashed the check two days later

690
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: and no Village People um. In January, the casino discovered

691
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,240
Speaker 1: that the Village People were scheduled to appear in Florida

692
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: the same day they were booked to play in North Bend.

693
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah, so he got arrested for that.

694
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: Apparently this guy has been he's a shyster. This guy

695
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: has been doing this of stuff, uh for years. He

696
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: he pulled off a similar scheme. He contracted with two

697
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: other people to have the Temptations, the Supremes and Jimmy

698
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: Walker performed at their venue. Man, well you know you

699
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: do to be fair. This story is so much better

700
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: than some of the scumbag parents that are out there,

701
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: because I know that their parents. There's been stories with

702
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: parents that would say that their kids have some terminal disease.

703
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, and they're just on their deathbed

704
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: and it's like set up a go fund Me account

705
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: and then just pocket all that cash and you're never

706
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: heard from again. Yeah. Well, remember the there was a

707
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: young couple that made a video of a homeless guy

708
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: and started like a go fund me for the homeless guy.

709
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: Except he knew nothing about the go fund me and

710
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: he's just like taking the money. Yes, yeah, yeah, but

711
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: that's good though. With the bands, that's that's pretty fucking good. Yeah,

712
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty well all right, here's a Florida

713
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: woman's story. Excited about this? Alright, So a naked Florida

714
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,720
Speaker 1: woman standing in the streets, surrounded by household items, please

715
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: show up, cherry tops. The cops show up. She then says,

716
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm naked, arrest me, and then proceeds to hit one

717
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: of the deputies in the waist with a windshield. Squeegee. Snow,

718
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: oh my god, that the villages there in Florida. Minute.

719
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: So you've had back to back weeks where you've done

720
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: a Florida woman's story and they've both been naked. Yeah,

721
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: let me tell these women I'm a woman, hear me, roar.

722
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: I hope she's a little bit younger than the one

723
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: from last week. And yet again, Eddie not, you gotta

724
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 1: tell you. You know, we're all beautiful in God's eyes,

725
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: but some of us are more beautiful than others. Not

726
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: particularly great there. She was charged with battery of a

727
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 1: law enforcement officer, battery on a person over the age

728
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: of sixty five, simple assault on a person over the

729
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,319
Speaker 1: age of sixty five, and indecent exposure. Urse. If you're

730
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: good looking, it's not indecent exposure, not at all. But

731
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: could you imagine apprehending that woman? No? Yeah, how did

732
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: they're calling a female cop? Is that how that went?

733
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: They never mail do it? I really? Yeah? I don't

734
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: know if you remember your body came on, I guess yeah,

735
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: you've you've seen some of the stuff that's happening in

736
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 1: Baltimore and some of the other cities like St. Louis

737
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 1: and and whatnot with the female is getting arrested and

738
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: you know, the males taking taking charge. So yeah, but

739
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: could you imagine that though she's naked or you get

740
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: threatening of like being coughed on or piste on or

741
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:45,240
Speaker 1: anything like that. Yeah, that's yeah, alright, you won't always

742
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: say what do you want me to say? Fox Sports

743
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation.

744
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,359
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745
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: com and within the I Heart Radio app search f

746
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: s R to listen live. Al Right, so how about

747
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: this one? A white Florida man, This guy actually actually

748
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: in Florida Keys. You ever been to the Florida Keys. No,

749
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: for the south of Ghne is Miami. Yes, say, I've

750
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: been in Miami, but I'd love to go to the

751
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: Florida Keys. It looks amazing. It looks just like Paradise

752
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett singing about it back in the day. Um,

753
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: I gotta get there at some point, the Florida Keys. Anyway,

754
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: that's a flight for you, though. Are you prepared to

755
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: take a five hour six I can do that. I've

756
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: flown to Hawaii and back. Then. You know, you get

757
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: flying from the East coast to the West coast, sometimes

758
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: it takes five, you know, five like Boston or whatever.

759
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: If you're going against the jet stream, it's five hours

760
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: or going from Hawaii. Are going to Hawaii takes longer

761
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: than coming back to Hawaiian anyway, all right. So, uh,

762
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: a white Florida keys man who police say was driving

763
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: here Mercedes well three three times over the legal limit

764
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: and drinking alcohol while driving, invoked the name of George

765
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: Floyd in a desperate effort to avoid being arrested about that.

766
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: So he's uh boozing it up there, he's drinking the

767
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 1: fireball whiskey and he's doing his thing and uh and

768
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: then they pulled him over. He guys twenty three years old.

769
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: And uh he made a reference about not being able

770
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: to breathe as they tried to handcuff him, and then

771
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: he brought up George Floyd there and uh so three

772
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: times the limit is point to four because Florida is

773
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: the same as California point zero eight. Um. But that's

774
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: that's actually that's progressive and ingenious because don't forget, like

775
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: we've had criminal we've had felons here in the state

776
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 1: of California that have been released because they've had fear

777
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: of the coronavirus. Like we have felons walking the streets

778
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: of California now because of the coronavirus. They've been released

779
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: from prison. Well, we have a mayor in Los Angeles

780
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: that said, you can't walk on the beach with the

781
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: sand because of the coronavirus. Now he's at there, he's

782
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: out there making out with protesters. So I mean, what

783
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: are we doing right I mean, where are we at

784
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: right now? It's crazy, It's pretty totally hypocritical, the fact

785
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: that he was that inebriated at at point to four

786
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: and three years old. By the way, it sounds like

787
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: a rich, stuck up piece of ship. He sounds like

788
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 1: because he also said, I'm gonna hi, I know my

789
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: my rights, my amendments, and I'm gonna hire the greatest lawyer.

790
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: Good luck with that. Mom and dadd'll right do that. Yeah, well,

791
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,760
Speaker 1: of course mom and dad, we'll do that. And anyway,

792
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,479
Speaker 1: so another another story along those lines. Guests on because

793
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: it is the Florida Man portion of the podcast where

794
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: you're dancing and downing pleasure. Uh these these Florida Man

795
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: stories are just absolutely wonderful. Uh So, a Florida man

796
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: busted busted for punching a police dog while cops were

797
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: trying to stop him from starting a riot. Twenty nine

798
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: year old guy Black Guy hurled items at the windows

799
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: of two police stations in St. Petersburg, Florida that seems

800
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 1: like a good idea when no one would join him

801
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 1: in the riot. I can't imagine you're trying to start

802
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: a riot and everyone's ignoring you. How up setting was that?

803
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: You're like, come on to burn the police station down?

804
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: What's wrong with your people? Come on? You know you're

805
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: you're bad people. Don't you want to burn the police

806
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 1: station down like they did in Minnesota? Um anyway, So

807
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: when the officers tried to arrest this guy, he ran

808
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: across the street and fought with him. At one point

809
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: during the scuffle he punched a police dog and then

810
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: he punched his handler. And apparently there's like a bunch

811
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: of police that need to bring him down. He faced.

812
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: He's now facing three felony charges. So there's another Florida

813
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: man story for you. You know, when when in doubt,

814
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: attack a canine like that's what I want to do

815
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: when I grow up. Yeah, I think you sent me

816
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: this story the other day about the Florida the sheriff

817
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: in Florida who was encouraging residents who have guns to

818
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: shoot looters who break into their homes. Yes, you see that.

819
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: People freaking out by that. But isn't that the whole

820
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: old point if you have a gun for self defense,

821
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: isn't that if somebody breaks into your home, isn't that

822
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: kind of how that's supposed to work. Isn't that a

823
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: risk that you take If you break into someone's home,

824
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 1: they could be armed and kill you. Yeah. Absolutely, It's

825
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: it's either your your house or your place of business

826
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: where you're conducting business at. Like it would be different

827
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: if like, let's say you own a shop and you

828
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: weren't in there, but you saw people breaking in or looding, like,

829
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: you couldn't open fire on them. But if you were

830
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: inside and then they broke in and they came in,

831
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: like the assumption would be that you're there is an

832
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: imminent threat and your life is in danger. Isn't that

833
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: different in every state? Though? It's it goes state by state, right, Yeah, yeah,

834
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: I know California we have. If someone breaks in to

835
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: where you're at and you feel like your life is

836
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: an intimate, intimate danger, you can you can respond with fire,

837
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: But if that individual turns around and it's no longer

838
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: a threat, you still can't fire. Okay, So here's uh,

839
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:01,400
Speaker 1: all right, here's another naked Florida man story. A naked

840
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: North Fort Myers resident was tackled by a naked man.

841
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: Now this guy wasn't and the resident wasn't he So

842
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: the north Fort Myers resident was tackled by a naked

843
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: man who had leapt off his roof Monday evening. And

844
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: it got even more crazy after that. Uh, the deputies

845
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: were called. This happened about seven o'clock. The residents said, um,

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Speaker 1: the residents. You know, I'm lying in bed and my

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Speaker 1: wife heard what sounded like thunder. So the guy went

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Speaker 1: out and saw that this person was running around on

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Speaker 1: his roof. He allegedly jumped off and onto the victim,

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Speaker 1: hitting him in the shoulder and knocking him down. And

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Speaker 1: then what happened next. The guy ran into the house

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Speaker 1: and pulled a large screen TV off at stand and

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Speaker 1: dumped the contents of a vacuum on the floor. He

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Speaker 1: then headed towards the couple's son's bedroom, where several guns

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Speaker 1: were stored. So the man's wife fired three warning shots

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Speaker 1: with the revolt was gets even better. Uh. The rest

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Speaker 1: report says that the guy fell into the floor and

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Speaker 1: then began pleasuring himself. He got up off the floor,

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Speaker 1: ran into the sun's bedroom and began rubbing clothes on

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Speaker 1: his face. The resident then got a shotgun and held

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Speaker 1: the guy until the police arrived. So that kind of

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Speaker 1: relates to what we were talking about the previous story, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, was it only rubbing clothes on his face

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Speaker 1: or was he actually like jerking off? Well no, no,

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Speaker 1: they said he was. He was masturbating. He was doing

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Speaker 1: some some gun masturbation right there. Yeah. Yeah, what I

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Speaker 1: want to rush? I want to go rob a house,

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Speaker 1: go assault somebody, and then go jerk off. How about that?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Like? Is that like the modern day Gordia

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Speaker 1: Hall hat trick? All right? Last Florida man, So we

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Speaker 1: were gonna put this baby to bed. So Florida man

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Speaker 1: suspect hid fifty four antidepressant pills in his wrecked them

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Speaker 1: wrecked them Florida man says syringes found in the wreckt

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Speaker 1: him or he claimed that, he claimed. I guess that

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Speaker 1: they're not his. He does not know how they got there,

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Speaker 1: He does not know how they got there. How wonderful

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Speaker 1: is that? How fucking great is that? That's like something

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Speaker 1: from fucking Hollywood? Right man? Florida? There you go the

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Speaker 1: Sunshine State. Then you never change, stay the same forever.

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