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Speaker 1: have I've seen you know, reporting done that alludes to

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Speaker 1: this phenomenon, but nothing quite nothing. Nobody's explained it, nobody's

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Speaker 1: researched it. What sends these spoiled white kids to glom

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Speaker 1: onto whatever the fattish uh cause of the month is,

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Speaker 1: and then go burn things down and blow them up?

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Speaker 1: What is what is that impulse? What? What is it?

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Speaker 1: They're acting? You know, some kind of hostility out? Is

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Speaker 1: it against their parents? And I think they organize on

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Speaker 1: social media And one of the leaders just picks a

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Speaker 1: place and they've decided this police training facility in Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: We can't let this go up. It's fascist, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna that's their word that that's the word they

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Speaker 1: use that for everything. Now everything's fascist, everything's batches, that's uh,

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Speaker 1: that's a training. Oh yeah. They got a group called

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Speaker 1: stop Coop City. It's three in the forest. Who's financed this,

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Speaker 1: Who's organized this. Yeah, these people are coming from all

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Speaker 1: over the country. Well, there's a lot of um left

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Speaker 1: wing uh, anarchist types were very wealthy and George sare Us,

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Speaker 1: his organization finances a lot of this crap is soare

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Speaker 1: Us now has a son, uh and the Sun is

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Speaker 1: big in financing. Oh no, left wing Ken dates. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's met at the Biden White House a number of

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Speaker 1: times because because George's i think in his early nineties,

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Speaker 1: so he's on his way out. So the Sun's now

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Speaker 1: taken the organization over. And what they do is they finance.

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Speaker 1: It's like seed money for all this destruction, and it's

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Speaker 1: destruction for the sake of destruction. All Right, we got

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Speaker 1: more coming up. John and Ken kf I AM six forty.

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Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: John and Ken on demand from kfimix. Now we're about

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Speaker 1: to finish up the live show, but of course you

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Speaker 1: can pick up the podcast right there four o'clock a

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Speaker 1: little but after it'll be posted up all three hours

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Speaker 1: for you to check out at KFI AM sixty dot

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Speaker 1: com or the iHeartRadio app. Well, I noticed this story

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, but we didn't get to it.

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Speaker 1: But today The New York Times has a take on it.

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Speaker 1: The headline is televised face slapping? What are we becoming?

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Speaker 1: If you're not aware? TBS turner broadcasting channel from Cable

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Speaker 1: TV has a show called Power Slap, and there's a

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Speaker 1: Power Slap League. Man, I missed this. I had no

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Speaker 1: idea this existed. It's run by Dana White from the UFC.

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Speaker 1: Oh is it yes? Spent off? Then? Huh that's great?

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Speaker 1: How low can you go? What what you want? From

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Speaker 1: the preseason at the New York Times? Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: people slapping each other for money and the public is

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Speaker 1: watching this? Oh? Power Slap road to the title what

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Speaker 1: is this on? Made its debut on TBS in January.

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Speaker 1: Let's been on two months already. They talked to a

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Speaker 1: woman that basically suffered a concussion in one of the episodes.

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Speaker 1: That happens every Sunday in the NFL. It's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: This is the three Stooges. She's to always slap each other. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: did there's three Stooges end up with any permanent injuries?

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Speaker 1: Did you ever hear their stories that they sometimes actually

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Speaker 1: did get very physically hurt by the stunts on that

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Speaker 1: show because they didn't do any Yeah, I was substituting

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Speaker 1: and like the two buy four is actually whacked him

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Speaker 1: in the skull and or the It's on Wednesday nights,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday nights. It's just a weekly series. Is something you covered,

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Speaker 1: Duke of Sports. No, but it's been a talk on

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Speaker 1: Twitter with a bunch of people over the last few

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Speaker 1: months just because of how ridiculous it is. Have you

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Speaker 1: watched it? No, I'm not really into combat sports. Really.

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Speaker 1: I think one hundred thousand people apparently watched one of

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Speaker 1: the episodes. It's well, I mean for Cable, I guess

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Speaker 1: that's not a bad number. Well, the woman it's profiled here,

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Speaker 1: Courtney Olsen, she's the one who got the concussion. It

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Speaker 1: says here she was wearing a mohawk. No, but a

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Speaker 1: lovely lady. Well, there's somebody to data. I've out of

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Speaker 1: a power slap competition. You're not exact worried about your face,

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Speaker 1: but her hair that's white material. Huh. Now wearing a

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Speaker 1: mohawk and h and entered the slap competition. Now she

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Speaker 1: struggled to swallow and suffer through headaches and the days

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Speaker 1: after being felled. Oh yeah, you're getting your your head

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Speaker 1: beat in. Prominent brain trauma experts said that hits to

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Speaker 1: the side of the head the only kinds allowed in

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Speaker 1: slap fighting, where the cheek areas targeted by far the

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Speaker 1: worst kinds of blows, and the aftermath of a strike,

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Speaker 1: the receiver's head swivels violently, the brain twists inside the skull,

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Speaker 1: and nerve connections across the brain can end up severed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this increases the risk of dementia, air or and CTE,

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Speaker 1: the degenerate brain disease that, of course, has affected many

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Speaker 1: boxers and NFL players. Here's a quote from Dana White

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Speaker 1: that Eric just mentioned. He's the president of UFC. Here's

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Speaker 1: his response to critics, morons in whole response, Yeah, morons

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Speaker 1: and slap They take three to five slaps per event.

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Speaker 1: Fighters in boxing take three hundred and four undred punches

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Speaker 1: per fight. If you don't like it, don't watch it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's ultimately the answer. I don't see this as a

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Speaker 1: big success, but everything now is about trying to find

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Speaker 1: a niche get a littlabvertising money. Yeah, it might succeed

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Speaker 1: on that level. Yeah, I mean, if all they need

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Speaker 1: is four hundred thousand people to watch. I mean that

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Speaker 1: there's plenty of drunk frat guys who will watch that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know it's don't forget a thing. Don't forget the

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Speaker 1: gambling aspect either. Oh, that's right. In twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: in Poland, a formal mixed marshal arts fighter named arter

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Speaker 1: Waalzac died after being struck in a slap fight John

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Speaker 1: poland And figures Schwartzenegger's a big fan. Oh, he's a promoter,

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Speaker 1: he is, Yeah, he's a celebrity backer. It says there

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Speaker 1: Und schwartz Nagger apparently just started in Europe and it's

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Speaker 1: making way over to the United States, and now it's

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Speaker 1: a cable television Why would why would there be any

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Speaker 1: more objections than you know, the the UFC or boxing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's all uh, yeah, it's not that. The

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Speaker 1: writer of this article is just saying, Oh, it looked

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Speaker 1: like we were kind of phasing out a lot of

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Speaker 1: that and now this show comes on. Oh. I just

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Speaker 1: can't believe America is like this. Why does America embrace

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Speaker 1: violence this way? It has been sanctioned by the Nevada

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Speaker 1: Athletic Commission. I wonder how much money you get for

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Speaker 1: taking slaps. You just they just don't understand human nature.

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Speaker 1: Human nature enjoys watching violence anticipates. Sure, that's behind the

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Speaker 1: popularity of carc crashes us. Yeah, big fans of anything violent.

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Speaker 1: Where where we're animals? Why why shouldn't we where anything go?

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Speaker 1: So why not have people kill each other? Can't all

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Speaker 1: be you know the Norwegians conways here? Heyna, you know

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Speaker 1: that that's true. I mean it took us generations and

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Speaker 1: generations and generations to become somewhat civil. We can't do

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Speaker 1: it overnight. No wet long yeah, exactly right. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got Steve Gregory coming on tonight. That guy's cool, um.

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Speaker 1: And then we have an attorney. That's why he's coming on, Gus, Well,

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Speaker 1: that's not the real reason he's coming on, but he

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Speaker 1: is kind of a cool guy, right, I mean people

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Speaker 1: like him around the halls. Jennifer Kennedy's coming onto the

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Speaker 1: attorney fighting Granada Hills Charter. You know, they're still not

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Speaker 1: letting these kids gonna graduate this year unless they're vaccinated. Oh,

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Speaker 1: come on, They're not going to let him graduate or

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Speaker 1: go to the prom unless they're vaccine which schools is

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Speaker 1: Granada Hills Charter? Oh Free? What kind of what a

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Speaker 1: bunch of fanatics? I thought? I thought this article was

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Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen. It's twenty twenty three. Why can't they

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Speaker 1: let go? I don't know. We'll find out though, at

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Speaker 1: five o'clock when the lawyer comes on. And then we

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Speaker 1: also have Torrance's Alpine Village. Was a really cool place,

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Speaker 1: more than fifty and it's closing for good Alpine Torrance's

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Speaker 1: Alpine Village. Can I bet you ben there right? No,

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Speaker 1: you've been there? Yeah. I had to work promotions events

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Speaker 1: when I was on the street team for iHeart Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for October Fest, yeah, or just any random ticket giveaway.

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Speaker 1: Are you sad it's closing? Sure? No, Yes, it was

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Speaker 1: a cool looking place. It's great Alpine village. And then

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Speaker 1: Coboy loves to hang onto traditions. He willing to give up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I really do have a traditionalist man. Old school. Target

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Speaker 1: is launching drive up returns. You can take whatever crap

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Speaker 1: you don't want anymore drive up and just throw it

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Speaker 1: at the guy. Wow. I got some ideas, all right then?

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Speaker 1: And I got a button missing from my shirt. You

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Speaker 1: can see that, you know, you know you were you

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Speaker 1: were shirts like my dad used to wear. I'll take

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Speaker 1: that as a compliment. Yeah, yeah, it's it's the same

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Speaker 1: style of shows. Do you mean you mean you're brave

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Speaker 1: dad that fought the Nazis and left Holden as a hero.

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Speaker 1: I'll take an I'll take a shirt compliment. You have

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Speaker 1: the same taste. That's right. This is my Don Martin shirt.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't Don Martin wear something like this? Yeah? Sure, white

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Speaker 1: blue with white with blue stripes. Right, take away, his

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Speaker 1: next Grocer's got John's Dead. Live in the twenty four

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Speaker 1: hour Campaign Newsroom,