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Speaker 2: No? They I got out on their bond and then

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Speaker 2: I'd never seen anything like this, Michael. I've never felt

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Speaker 2: So they ended up. I settled for three years probation

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Speaker 2: And we were framed and that's it. Michael. They put

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Speaker 2: I want to shake your hand. I'll see you to Michael.

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Speaker 1: it's the lightning round. The question is what is an

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Speaker 1: item placed on a plate for the sole purpose of

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Speaker 1: being filler? It's not really even nobody even eats it.

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Speaker 1: They just put it there to make it look Edward

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Speaker 1: offered a very wrong answer by saying, some types of potatoes.

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Speaker 1: Great breakfast in the deli in my building. But the

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Speaker 1: plate is half potatoes. The plate is heavy. No, And

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Speaker 1: since we're on the subject, I'm gonna make this quick

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Speaker 1: because I do like arguing right now. But there's no

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Speaker 1: reason for you to ever eat tater tots. Tatero tots

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Speaker 1: are stupid. And most people don't even make good tater

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Speaker 1: tots because a good tater tots should be crunchy. Anything

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Speaker 1: fried should be crunchy. Just go ahead and know that

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Speaker 1: right now. We don't have to keep going over this.

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Speaker 1: It should not be soggy. Is people these little grease

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Speaker 1: balls that they put and what is it? Shredded potato?

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Speaker 1: Who wants shredded potatoes? That's just dumb. I really don't

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Speaker 1: understand it. Same thing with hash browns. Who oh no, no,

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Speaker 1: he's good. I like tater tots. Well, I might like

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Speaker 1: tater tots, but why would I go so far down

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Speaker 1: my checkdowns if French fries didn't open. I turned my

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Speaker 1: head and look on the post pattern. Oh mashed potatoes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: mashed potatoes aren't open. Oh boom uh there's potatoes all gritting.

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Speaker 1: Why on earth would I ever like? That's throwing the

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Speaker 1: ball to your right tackle who's not been declared eligible?

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Speaker 1: Why why are you eating tater tots? Good grief, it's

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Speaker 1: not even like, oh, well, it's poor people food and

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Speaker 1: we're poor. No, you have this, You could have fried

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Speaker 1: french fries. There is no reason to ever eat potato

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Speaker 1: potater ttes, No reason at all because that means you

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Speaker 1: had to overlook all the other ways to prepare a potato. First,

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Speaker 1: Are you eating so many potatoes that you're like, I

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Speaker 1: just had too many French fries and too much mashed potatoes?

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Speaker 1: What else can I do with all these potatoes? Because

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Speaker 1: I'm in Ireland and I've got all right, Willie, you're up?

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Speaker 1: What's the filler?

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Speaker 6: Kikamau uh tikama?

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Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We'll have a drink.

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Speaker 1: Let me ponder on that. I don't want to pass

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Speaker 1: judgment yet, because I think that might be that can be,

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Speaker 1: if not an essential part of the meal, it can

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Speaker 1: be part of of the portfolio. Andrew, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: I would say white rice, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Get him off, No block that number. White rice. You

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Speaker 1: didn't grow up in Southeast Texas or southwest Louisia. White rice,

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 6: I don't care for white rice on my plate cause

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Speaker 6: it's a It's a tasteless feller for me. Now I

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Speaker 6: will replace it with fast potatoes like beef tips and rice.

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Speaker 6: I ate beef tips and mashed potatoes.

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Speaker 2: Oh my no, go to ed.

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Speaker 1: I can't. Just my mind is my head is hurting ed.

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Speaker 1: You're up, Hey, Michael, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna put Paul on a game real quick.

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Speaker 1: You're telling a quick story about the January sixth deal.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, we'll come back. We'll do that tomorrow, Ruth

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Speaker 1: of Lee. Go ahead. The edible orchid, the edible orchid.

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Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.

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Speaker 1: My grandpa's name was.

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Speaker 5: Ruth's that right.

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Speaker 1: She lived to be one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Oh I want you.

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Speaker 5: I want you so bad.

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Speaker 1: After she Diedsons, Ruth of Lee, You're not gonna believe this.

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Speaker 1: But after she died, I brought the program in to

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Speaker 1: my studio and I had placed it behind my seat.

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Speaker 1: I had a little whatever they call those bureau or

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Speaker 1: something behind my seat, and I had just laid it

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Speaker 1: down there because I wasn't ready to throw it away yet.

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Speaker 1: I wonder. And the next day I come in and

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Speaker 1: on my computer is laid out that same program that

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Speaker 1: I'd left there, And Ramon has googly eyes. You know

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Speaker 1: what google eyes are?

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Speaker 2: They are?

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Speaker 1: These are these things you can put on anybody's face

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Speaker 1: and make googly eyes. Of right, that he did that

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Speaker 1: on my grandmother's picture the day after her funeral, Ruth Lye,

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Speaker 1: I'm shocked, me too, if his mother knew that, Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness, all right, well yours was edible orchids?

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Speaker 2: Huh, that's right, you hate that.

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Speaker 6: Eighty two?

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Speaker 1: Can I ask that you just tried to never let

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Speaker 1: more than a month go without calling, even if you

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Speaker 1: don't have anything to say, Just call up and say

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Speaker 1: you said to call and check in, and I'll drive

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Speaker 1: the conversation. I'll just ask you questions of dog can

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Speaker 1: bark in the background. I might ask you what you

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Speaker 1: had for breakfast, or I just it would make me

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Speaker 1: happy if you just call, Uh, don't let them more

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Speaker 1: than a month go by? Will you do that for me?

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Speaker 2: But well, that makes me happy that you would say that.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, it's the truth.

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Speaker 2: I do it.

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Speaker 1: Ramon's good, all right, Ramon put sweet Lady eighty two

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Speaker 1: on there so we'll remember that's Ruth of Lee.

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Speaker 2: Willie.

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Speaker 1: You're up, go ahead, Hi.

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Speaker 5: Good morning. I Sometimes I've spent a while since I've

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Speaker 5: really eaten at a nice place. But sometime they fill

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Speaker 5: up your plate with these slippered carrots. They sliver them

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Speaker 5: and put them on the plate for color. I think

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Speaker 5: sometimes they're not. They don't look good, they look dry,

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Speaker 5: just look like what they are Have you ever seen

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Speaker 5: that on a plate?

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Speaker 1: I have, and I'm pondering why they're there, because I

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Speaker 1: like we do pot roast a lot. My wife makes

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Speaker 1: a very good pot roast. It was my grandmother's pot

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Speaker 1: roast recipe, and she puts it in the She said.

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Speaker 1: Every time I say that, she says, would you stop

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Speaker 1: saying that? Because American women are going to say, what

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Speaker 1: recipe is it? She says, it's not a recipe. I

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Speaker 1: just put all the things you like in the proportions

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Speaker 1: you like in the crock pot until it's done. Stop

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Speaker 1: saying it's a recipe. But whatever, we eat pot roast

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Speaker 1: a lot, and I always tell my wife that she didn't.

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Speaker 1: Now she just loads it up with potato with carrots,

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Speaker 1: but I always tell her more carrots because I love, love,

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Speaker 1: love carrots. In fact, at one point I was eating

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Speaker 1: so many carrots that my skin was turning orange and

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Speaker 1: my doctor told me, I'm not kidding. My doctor told me.

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Speaker 1: I called him and I said, hey, this is kind

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Speaker 1: of weird. And he said, that's uh carotene or whatever,

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Speaker 1: and he said, that's too many carrots. I said, how

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Speaker 1: can it be too many carrots? My entire life all

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Speaker 1: you've ever heard was, you know, eat more carrots. Carrots

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Speaker 1: are good for you. Rabbits don't have glasses, Eat more carrots.

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Speaker 1: And he said that's too much, and so I went

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Speaker 1: and looked it up. Do you know that's true? Roon, roon?

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Speaker 1: You listened to me. You can have liver failure from

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Speaker 1: too many carrots. Can you believe I was eating too

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Speaker 1: many carrots? Cornbread our dear friend in Chapel Hill of Cornbread,

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Speaker 1: and Donnie Roberts Fame says Zor, you're right. As I'm

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Speaker 1: driving down to Magnolia yesterday, I'm listening to you talk

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Speaker 1: about the Korean hot dogs and what do you know?

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Speaker 1: And there's a picture of a sign that says Mochi

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Speaker 1: mochi and chilling Mochi mochi and chilling Korean corn dogs.

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Speaker 1: Did somebody wake up one day and say, like kind

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Speaker 1: of like card, we're just gonna put Korean on everything.

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Speaker 1: Was anybody thinking, you know, we don't have enough Korean stuff?

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Speaker 1: We need more Korean stuff? Roy writes the best hushpuppies

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Speaker 1: are from shrimp and stuff in Galveston. I like to

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Speaker 1: dip mine in syrup. No, absolutely not. We do not

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Speaker 1: mix sweet and savory on this show. What else is

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Speaker 1: on Walton and Johnson. There's probably Glenn Back. Somebody else

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Speaker 1: is on the radio that is perfectly fine with you

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Speaker 1: dipping sweet and savory in the same but not on

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Speaker 1: this program. Okay, we don't do that. You've got sweet

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Speaker 1: over on this side and you got savory over on

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Speaker 1: this side. You do not mix the two. You don't

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Speaker 1: do it. There's no point in it. It's not right.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like kosher, you know, they don't want

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Speaker 1: the milk product, or they don't dig on swine, like

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Speaker 1: there's things, you know, we need kind of some Christian

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Speaker 1: you and I'll do that, Ramon, We'll set up our

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Speaker 1: own kind of Christian kosher system. You don't do these things,

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Speaker 1: and if people do, you know, excommunicate them. I went

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Speaker 1: to my independence as a grown man.

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Speaker 2: Why