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Speaker 1: All right, it's time for another episode of Battleground. Something

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Speaker 1: really cool that's happening this weekend over at Zany's and

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Speaker 1: it's a tribute to Ralphie May. And right now in studio,

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Speaker 1: the Smash Brothers are hanging out friends of Ralphie May.

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Speaker 2: How you guys doing, man, We're doing great. We're good.

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Speaker 2: It's good to be back in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: So glad to have you guys in Nashville. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this, this, this tribute to Ralphie. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: was completely shocked when I saw it. I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: it was one of those jokes because you see everybody

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Speaker 1: happening and then after finally seeing it, you know, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's really cool that you guys are coming together

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Speaker 1: for Ralphie tonight.

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about the tribute tonight. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We well, and uh, we did one in Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: and then you know, Ralphie lived here, so we wanted

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Speaker 3: to do something here. When they asked us to do it,

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Speaker 3: we said heck yeah, and we flew out here and

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Speaker 3: we're excited to do it. We have some really good

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Speaker 3: Ralphie's stories. We lived with Ralphie on that tour bus.

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Speaker 3: Probably longer than anyone, Like six years we toured with

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Speaker 3: ralph So, uh yeah, we've hit the whole Lower forty

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Speaker 3: eight Canada. I mean, shit, we've seen Ralphie naked.

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Speaker 2: So you know we're brother if you honest, pretty much, yes,

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Speaker 2: that's it.

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Speaker 3: But no, and you know, with Ralphie passing away at

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Speaker 3: such a young age of forty five years old back

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Speaker 3: in October, it was just caught everyone off guard. Ralphie

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Speaker 3: was such a kind, good, gentle soul. You know, not

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Speaker 3: a lot of guys are like that. And Ralphie was

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Speaker 3: very caring, very giving and genuine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I got that from Ralphie the handful

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Speaker 1: of times that I've met him. He's literally the guy

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Speaker 1: that would give you the shirt off his back and

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Speaker 1: keep going and not saying ththing else about it.

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Speaker 3: And I have questions never and he would help us.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we could go on and on and tell

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Speaker 3: you stories about how he's helped us. But by far

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Speaker 3: the most giving person. And in our life we're forty

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Speaker 2: He was the best.

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Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about some stories about Ralphie. What's

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Speaker 1: some good ones? And I know you said, you guys

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Speaker 1: live with him on the tour bus. Did anybody break

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Speaker 1: rule number two in the toilet?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Right, Ralphie, Ralphie, ralf And he would clear out

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Speaker 3: You're not. Yeah. One time he was like the first

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Speaker 3: time we started touring with him, this is like you know,

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Speaker 3: twenty ten or nine or something like that, and he

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Speaker 3: was like, all right, baby, listen to this is my bus,

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Speaker 3: this is your bus. This is all of our fucking bus.

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Speaker 3: So here's the rule. No one ship's on here but me,

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Speaker 3: titty babies. So if you shag a titty babies need

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Speaker 3: to ship, you let.

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Speaker 2: The driver know.

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna go to a truck stop right away

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Speaker 3: and you boys can do your thing. He's up, but

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Speaker 3: in that buzz, didn't he justa And we pulled over

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Speaker 3: let it clear out. And I remember he's like get.

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Speaker 3: He was yelling, He's all, are y'all pulling over? We're all, yeah,

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Speaker 3: We're not at a truck stop. We're just literally on

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Speaker 2: Cry in North Dakota because man, we couldn't deal with it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and and and he didn't even know we dumped it.

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Speaker 3: But the whole septic system was ruined. I remember we

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Speaker 3: the through the system, remember, and we flushed it. But

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Speaker 3: but Ralphie tell him about uh Well, Raphie would always

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Speaker 2: And Ralphie's be like, hey, man, hey, hey, corn dog man,

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, yeah, man, shit, you're paying my mortgage

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Speaker 2: And he reaches into his bag and pulls out.

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Speaker 3: A quarter pound of marijuana that he had us carry

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Speaker 3: and a nine milimeter and a nine milimeter gun, and I.

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Speaker 2: Go, what's the gun for.

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Speaker 3: He's all, okay, send of them dirty Talimans try to

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Speaker 3: he had us carry one hundred joints and we didn't know.

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Speaker 3: He just put him in the Q tip box. Well,

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Speaker 3: I checked his back. I'm not doing that again. He

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Speaker 2: You, guys.

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Speaker 3: There's one hundred joints inside the Q tip box. Those

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Speaker 3: and Q tips we unzipped. And he did it all

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Speaker 3: the time to us. And one time we were getting

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Speaker 3: checked in TSA and Ralphie's getting friskes. Then he's all,

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Speaker 3: I don't know why y'all wasting your time getting frisking me.

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Speaker 3: Corey and Chad got all the drugs. He's all looking

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Speaker 3: their bag. They got drugs on them right now.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And he's just laughing over there, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 3: because but he he loved it. He just left to

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Speaker 3: break It was our brother, you know, we known him

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Speaker 3: for fifteen years.

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Speaker 2: And nobody stopped you once ever ever.

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Speaker 3: Dude, Wow, I know. And if you're listening, you're play going,

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's crazy. Yeah, it's true too. This

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Speaker 2: That's the craziest thing in the world. Right. Yeah. He

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Speaker 3: But no problem. And he goes, I guess he goes.

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Speaker 3: He ain't looking for that. And Ralphie did that all

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Speaker 3: the time. He would smoke on planes. He would smoke

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Speaker 3: Right in first class, He's just puffing it up like

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: A tribute to Ralphie made Tonight and Tomorrow night at Zany's.

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Speaker 2: Tickets are twenty dollars. What can somebody tonight? I know

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Speaker 2: we're talking stories. Uh, well, surprise guests.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna host it. There's gonna be a surprise guests.

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Speaker 3: All the different comics from the festival should be popping in.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be the late night spot to go for

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Speaker 3: the comedy Festival. So if you're coming to see your

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Speaker 3: come on down to A Andies eleven thirty tonight, eleven

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Speaker 3: thirty tomorrow, and it's gonna be It's a party. This

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Speaker 3: isn't a sad event. This is gonna be a party.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Ralphie loved bullet bourbon and Budweiser,

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Speaker 3: and that's what we're gonna drink tonight. And we're gonna

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Speaker 3: have a good time. So if you want to have

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Speaker 3: a good time, then come out to these shows. I mean,

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Speaker 3: and it's four twenty today and Ralphie. I couldn't believe

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Speaker 3: Tribute to Ralphie in Nashville. It's the perfect storm of.

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Speaker 2: Passa who played the four twenty I don't know, I

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Speaker 3: When we got the email from them, we laughed, We're like, okay,

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Speaker 3: this is like it's meant to be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had another booking. I'm all canceled. We're going

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Speaker 2: to Nashville, baby, Yeah, we love Nashville.

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Speaker 1: My guest right now, the Smash Brothers, friends of Ralphie.

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Speaker 1: What is what was it like Todayut got the phone

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Speaker 2: Got with me? Oh man?

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Speaker 3: Well, when we first met him, you know, we met

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Speaker 3: him sleeping on the streets of Hollywood when we were

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Speaker 3: doing Last Comic Standing. We were auditioning and Ralphie was

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Speaker 3: Sleeping on the streets for three days before the audition,

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Speaker 3: Improv and Ralphie kind of was there and he was like, hey, y'all,

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Speaker 3: remember us leaving the line. We went and performed for

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Speaker 3: Ralphie and he had a little someone held our spot

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Speaker 3: in line and we had a meeting you remember too,

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Speaker 3: You guys, keep working on your set. I'm gonna take

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Speaker 3: you around the world. At about four or five years later,

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Speaker 2: And says, hey, baby, it's Ralphie. Where you at. We

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Speaker 2: three days. We're a millionaires. Like, we just got money

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Speaker 3: Ralfie's all, yep, you're gonna live with me. Now, You're

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Speaker 3: You feed that goddamn menagerie of animals and throw some

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Speaker 3: Now I'm divorced, thanks ralph Yeah, everyone's divorced. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: he took Ralphie. I mean the whole crew got divorced.

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Speaker 3: That's how good the tours were. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we

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Speaker 2: Man. And then when Ralphie did calls.

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Speaker 3: We we we went to the Schomburg improv in Chicago,

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Speaker 3: and I remember Ralphie took us from coast to coast and.

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Speaker 2: Now, uh here we are.

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Speaker 3: You know, years later we've done every state probably seven, eight,

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Speaker 3: nine times because of Ralphie.

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Speaker 2: So Ralphie was a swell, swell guy, just a.

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Speaker 3: Good dude and ball breaking and the most peer pressure

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Speaker 3: in person we've ever met in our lives. You don't

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Speaker 3: have to smoke weed, but he's gonna you're gonna end

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Speaker 3: up smoking weed hanging out. Yeah, I don't smoke. He

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Speaker 3: got me so loaded up. I think I'm still high

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Speaker 3: and I was like, sweet.

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Speaker 2: Brother, got downtendem from it. Yeah, it was horrible. He's

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Speaker 2: been all fucked up. It's all messed up.

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Speaker 3: Matter of fact, we're sending some hate mail to you,

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Speaker 3: Ralfie and Clarksville, Arkansas.

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Speaker 1: That's right, right, No, my guess the Smash Brothers are

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Speaker 1: hanging out and doing a tribute to Ralphie.

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Speaker 2: Made tonight Tomorrow night at Zany's. What is uh?

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Speaker 1: I guess the worst place you performed with Ralphie?

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Speaker 3: and he's all, hey, Corey, make me one of them

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Speaker 3: You guys need to leave the state Like are you serious.

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Speaker 3: He's all yeah, it's not good. And they escorted us

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Speaker 2: So if you go to TMZ.

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Speaker 3: You can you can YouTube this video of Ralphie talking

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Speaker 2: He still got loud. Yeah, yeah, he was just he

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Speaker 3: We kept saying that we're gonna have us back, have

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Speaker 3: We'll come baby, We'll redo that show for you guys,

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Speaker 2: But we did it right the first time. We didn't

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Speaker 1: The Smash Brothers they got a tribute to Ralphie Maye

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Speaker 1: tonight Tomorrow night at Zany's. Twenty dollars. Show starts at

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Speaker 1: eleven to thirty. Yeah, twenty dollars. You can't beat that

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Speaker 3: And you're gonna see a show for ninety minutes to

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Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of huge famous comedians here

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were on his special showtime special with Dice.

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Speaker 3: to see Dice. Brad Paisley was last night. I mean

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Speaker 1: Once again, my guest, the Smash Brothers are hanging out

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's get a good one. Just tell him, tell

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Speaker 3: Not only that, it was right outside Ralphie's bathroom. So

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Speaker 3: your wiener out. This is your house, this is weener environment.

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Speaker 2: Chad, get up out of here. Your brother's little nervous.

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Speaker 2: Get your wiener out. Everyone gets your waiter out.

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Speaker 3: And he's like, Corey, what are you being so nervous

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Speaker 3: for I've done sen your wainer? I go, you haven't

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Speaker 3: seen my winners. I know I've seen your brother's wainer,

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Speaker 3: and you're twins, so I've seen your wiener too. He's

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Speaker 3: now everyone from now on, take off your clothes and have.

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Speaker 2: Your wiener out.

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Speaker 3: The driver all the side his pants and froze his

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Speaker 3: pants like through the curtain.

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Speaker 2: Now the driver has no pants on. Ralphie has no

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Speaker 2: pants on him. I'm naked.

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Speaker 3: I go, I just took off my clothes like I'm

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Speaker 3: walking out and go you happy? He goes all right, y'all,

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Speaker 3: got your wieners out. He's all right, it's a good Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Now let's smoke some reepers for Jesus.

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Speaker 2: And that's how he was.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, my guess right now. The Smash Brothers

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Speaker 1: have done a tribute tonight for Ralphie May at Zanies

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Speaker 1: tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are twenty dollars and uh, guys,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much, thanks, thank you for having us