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Speaker 2: can I have your phone number?

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Speaker 1: No? Why do you need my phone number for.

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Speaker 2: Me to eat at this restaurant? Because if I give

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Speaker 2: it to you, I'm gonna get all these damn texts

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Speaker 2: because you're selling it to people I know you are.

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Speaker 2: Drives me nuts. Anyway, I got one of these texts

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Speaker 1: Thing it's probably reached critical mass went now, and there's

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Speaker 1: so many freaking companies and Russian mobsters who have my

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Speaker 1: to everybody. I to post it on my roof, so

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Speaker 2: I got this one yesterday. Though usually it's pretty obviously

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Speaker 2: If I had to choose my friend all over again,

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Speaker 2: I'd still choose you every single time from a random

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Speaker 2: of my very Well, it's a phone number. I could

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Speaker 2: and then I just get endless.

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Speaker 1: Katie, Katie too soon. He's still bouncing back from the

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Speaker 1: affair with the Ukrainian. That's right, yeah, scammer that relationship ending.

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Speaker 2: You think I should have pursued this?

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Speaker 3: Hell yeah, every time I get one to sell all

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Speaker 3: you have the wrong number. Sorry, oh I do. I'm

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Speaker 3: so sorry to have bothered you. And then I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 3: I know what this is. You didn't bother me. It's

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Speaker 3: like to do for fun? And oh, I just I

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Speaker 2: Well, have you ever seen feel Von stuff on that

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, help out.

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Speaker 2: I'm here at the hospital. Thanks for getting a hold

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And they'll keep going until you use the word.

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Speaker 2: Scammer and then they stop. Yeah. Oh it's so fun. Wow. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I'll text this person back and then tomorrow we'll check

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Speaker 2: choose you every single time. How should I respond to

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Speaker 3: I feel the same way about you.

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Speaker 2: So I was going to go, if you betray those

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Speaker 1: I like you? Oh, I like that even better. See,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I send red receipts, so if I open it,

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Speaker 3: And then you don't send the red receipt what it.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, So your your inner misanthrope is in conflict

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Speaker 1: I think it's fun to figure it out. That's weird.

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Speaker 2: Well, congratulations on getting a hold of a human being.

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Speaker 2: If customer service makes a comeback, I'll be so happy.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it might cost you. It's like, you know, I,

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Speaker 1: It's humans at every step and they want you to

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Speaker 1: be happy. I'd love to see that penetrate, you know,

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Speaker 1: I would like that for you peasants.

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Speaker 1: What I want to.

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Speaker 2: And that happens over and over and over again. Drives

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Speaker 2: That sort of thing Quobaz or whatever you said that

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Speaker 3: It's a music streaming service that's considered better than Spotify

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to send this to my son, who,

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Speaker 1: In fact, the Silicon Valley elites forcing tech down our

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Speaker 1: So welcome to the lovely new economy where humans actually matter.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, try it out, be cool, be a human.

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Speaker 2: I don't particularly like humans, but uh, since the all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's just horrible. I like some humans. Just

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Speaker 2: There's like five unplanet Earth the rest of y'all can

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Speaker 1: Do they annoy you or.

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Speaker 1: Scerely friendly or like clearly friendly for a purpose?

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Speaker 2: but sure ain't close yet. I mean, you'd think customer

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Speaker 2: Whatever question you have, I'm sorry. Did you say accounts? No,

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Speaker 1: And you speak more distinctly than the average human being, right,

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Speaker 1: what about your average marble.

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Speaker 2: Mouthed half with boom Hower calls in needs to do

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Speaker 2: Little interest rates.

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Speaker 1: I like In and Out for their customer service. I

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Speaker 2: High school kids standing out in the parking lot in

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Speaker 1: I like it.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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