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Speaker 2: that last hour. The big news is the superintendent of LAUSD, ALBERTA.

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Speaker 2: Carvallo paid leave. I mean, the FBI rated his home,

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Speaker 2: and you know that's never a good thing, but there

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Speaker 2: appear that it's linked to this this bot that they worked,

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Speaker 2: and this kind of cute bot that they were using. Again,

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Speaker 2: to be something that would lift LAUSD and it was

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was just not successful. And the company

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Speaker 2: So she's pleaded not guilt, but that at minimum creates

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Speaker 2: react immediately if you're the school board. So the school

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Speaker 2: board putting him on paid leave is doing just that.

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Speaker 2: They're not firing him, they're not suspending him without pay.

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Speaker 2: That was wild. I'm so used to bad news that

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Speaker 2: Record breaking day temperature was in southern California. Really warm nineties.

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Speaker 2: Mark Thompson's sitting in for John Cobelt. I've been talking

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Speaker 5: Mark Thompson. By the way, first off, you saying my name,

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Speaker 2: Thanksving for me that's so cool to have you here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think the government, you know, pretty much

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Speaker 2: Michael and our just last sight, we're talking to MIKEL

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's really the from a community standpoint,

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Speaker 2: the last few years. Well, I so enjoyed our conversation.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to link to it on my social media,

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Speaker 2: to get a lot out of your piece and variety

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Speaker 2: as Paramount Skydance grabs Warner Brothers and Netflix bows out

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Speaker 2: Champagne off of Melrose there at Paramount and Gut Punch

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Speaker 2: in Burbank at Warner Brothers. I love talking to Michael Schnyder.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it again.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I follow you on social media. Mark Tonto,

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Speaker 5: that's good.

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Speaker 2: Well, there you go. That's another one. You know, you've

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Speaker 2: all right, appreciate your time. Yep, Michael Schnader from Variety.

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Speaker 4: six forty.

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Speaker 2: Tim Conway Junior Day.

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Speaker 6: Hey, thank you man. I appreciate that. Buddy, the blazer

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Speaker 6: of the night. Thank you very Yeah you are. You

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Speaker 6: are sounding so comfy at night.

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Speaker 2: I love it. Thank you, buddy. I appreciate that. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you're right.

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Speaker 6: Love is when you have a guy on from Variety

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Speaker 6: and you both agree that CNN is right down the middle.

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Speaker 2: Of the road. What would you call what would you

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Speaker 2: call it?

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Speaker 6: Oh, come on, buddy, I don't want to get into

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Speaker 6: it with you, but I well, you're the one who

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Speaker 6: started when I didn't start.

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Speaker 3: A you and that douce bag.

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Speaker 2: From now it's on. Now it's on, man.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, CNN is right down the middle. You gotta

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Speaker 6: be kidding.

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Speaker 2: Well what I actually said, if you want to really

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Speaker 2: get to what it when you say I said, they

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Speaker 2: like to think of themselves as right down the hall.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'll take that shit. No, I'm serious, that's

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Speaker 2: what I said.

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Speaker 6: I heard him on last night on the news talking

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Speaker 6: about CNN is down the middle and that, you know,

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Speaker 6: because in politic with CNN you can go Trump Hitler,

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Speaker 6: Trump Hitler, Trump Saittler, Trump Hitler, and then some guy.

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Speaker 3: Goes, I don't think he's that. I don't think he's

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Speaker 3: exactly like Hitler. You go, oh, right wing guy, right guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. I don't know, but you know,

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Speaker 2: but look, I don't know. I didn't see the Hitler thing.

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Speaker 6: But when people when people refer to him as Hitler,

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Speaker 6: that's got to drive people who have had or are

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Speaker 6: Jewish crazy.

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Speaker 2: Did I mean, did you're seeing references to the fact

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Speaker 2: that he's Hitler on CNN.

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Speaker 3: Well, okay, let's okay.

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Speaker 6: Well at the point, I could probably find a dozen

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Speaker 6: references on CNN to somebody who made the reference that

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Speaker 6: they're ss or Hitler. But okay, that aside, millions of

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Speaker 6: people are calling Trump Hitler. But that's got to be

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Speaker 6: that's got to drive Jewish people crazy because it reduces

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Speaker 6: the actual.

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Speaker 3: Horror that Hitler.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they're brought onto the Jewish people absolutely right, you know,

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Speaker 6: because if kids hear that, if kids say that, you know,

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Speaker 6: kids here, okay, Trump is Hitler, Trump is Hitler, then

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Speaker 6: the kids are like, well, why are they the Jews.

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Speaker 3: All crazy about this? Then, you know, if he's you

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Speaker 3: know it doesn' yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 2: I think I think you know it je I mean,

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Speaker 2: I don't. This is kind of a generic conversation. It's

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Speaker 2: not really and I don't know this specific situation or conversation.

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Speaker 2: But I understand what you're saying, because there is talk

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Speaker 2: of kind of an authoritarian flex on the part of

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Speaker 2: Trump and stuff, and so I get what you're saying.

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Speaker 6: Look, I get being critical of the guy, but the

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Speaker 6: Trump stuff is where over the line, because where do

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Speaker 6: you how do you limbo under that? You know, if

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Speaker 6: Trump went Okay, let's say this. Let's say Trump went

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Speaker 6: to San Francisco and was killing a thousand liberals a day.

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Speaker 6: Then you go, oh, man, that guy's Hitler, Like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 6: but you called him Hitler before he killed a thousand

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Speaker 6: liberals a day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's still Hitler.

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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, don't. I don't know how I would.

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Speaker 6: I'd say, you're It makes me crazy that when anyone

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Speaker 6: describes anybody else on planet or that there Hitler.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no one on this show did. I didn't say it.

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Speaker 2: I've never said it, and I also don't, and he

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Speaker 2: didn't say it. Our guests didn't say it. But what

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Speaker 2: he said was, we're talking about when Warner Brothers is

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Speaker 2: purchased by Paramount the merger, will they kind of remain

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Speaker 2: as they say that as sort of they think of

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Speaker 2: themselves as the way we put it as middle of

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Speaker 2: the road, or will they become Fox you know, four

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Speaker 2: point zero, like Fox News Channel. So that's really that question. Yeah, like, well,

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Speaker 2: what do you what do you how do you think

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Speaker 2: it's going to shakeout or do you have any thought

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Speaker 2: on that or not?

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Speaker 6: Really I try to Politics makes me crazy, so I

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Speaker 6: try it to get into a penny.

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Speaker 2: But that was the context of the entire conversation, right.

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Speaker 6: But I will say that CNN is you know, it's

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Speaker 6: always They've always been the leader in international breaking news.

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Speaker 6: You know, whenever there's a war going on in Venezuela

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Speaker 6: or Iraq, you know, they were always the one to

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Speaker 6: go to, you know, big news station when international news happened.

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Speaker 6: And I think the United States is going to bomb

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Speaker 6: a Ran this weekend, No, it sure does seem that way.

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Speaker 6: There's a more hardware there than they've told everybody to

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Speaker 6: get out, and they're flying F twenty two's over to Jordan,

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Speaker 6: and F twenty twos have to fly every day or

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Speaker 6: they start to break down.

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Speaker 2: What do you think the idea is there? I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but I.

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Speaker 6: Will say that, you know, you can't bring F twenty twos,

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Speaker 6: these raptors over to the Middle East without flying them

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Speaker 6: every day. The longer they sit on the runway, the

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Speaker 6: more they break down, and so they've got to fly

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Speaker 6: every day. So I think it's going to be this weekend. Well,

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Speaker 6: I'm the same way, tim Uh. I have to fly

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Speaker 6: every day. I've got to I've got to get this

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Speaker 6: thing out. This body has got to be out moving

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Speaker 6: every day otherwise, I body, You've got it. You must

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Speaker 6: have a beautiful day to day. You have a pool

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Speaker 6: at your house, I do it overlooks the valley.

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Speaker 2: I've worked very hard, tim But you know what I

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Speaker 2: noticed we used to.

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Speaker 3: I'm not getting down you before.

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Speaker 2: I wish I had a pool, but I will could

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Speaker 2: come over any time and use mine. In fact, you

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Speaker 2: know I've invite you all the time.

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Speaker 3: Can I?

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Speaker 6: I will tell you when we lived in Tarzana and

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Speaker 6: we had a pool, I secretly wrote down how many

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Speaker 6: days my wife and daughter used it in the year,

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Speaker 6: and it was eight.

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Speaker 2: It is true that your your vision of how much

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Speaker 2: you'll use the pool, you never use it is definitely

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Speaker 2: how many times?

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Speaker 3: How many long? How long you've been at your house?

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Speaker 2: What four years? Now?

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Speaker 3: How many times have you been in the pool?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know. A bunch of times but not

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Speaker 2: not but not a big enough bunch that you know

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Speaker 2: you justifies it? No, no, no, what we solar heated.

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Speaker 2: It's really expensive to hear a pool. Okay, But also

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Speaker 2: I remember I hated a pool for a party back

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Speaker 2: at my other place that's now you know that burned

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Speaker 2: in the in the fires. And I used to sit

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Speaker 2: there at night, and you know, when you're heating it

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Speaker 2: was it was for parties. You have to the way

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Speaker 2: you heat a pool, you got to heat over multiple days,

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Speaker 2: you know this, right, in order to get the water. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you have to get the water water. So you can't. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you can't just like heat it like on a on

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Speaker 2: a Tuesday and expected to be warm on a Friday.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, so it was heating, and I was heating

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Speaker 2: for this party on the weekend. And I remember as

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Speaker 2: it got cool at night, seeing the steam coming off

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Speaker 2: of that, I just thought, that's money. That's just evaporating

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Speaker 2: off of that tool water right now. Yeah, I only

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Speaker 2: could see the money. I just couldn't enjoy the pool.

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Speaker 2: Does the steam come up in money signs? That's what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying in my mind. It does, in my mind,

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Speaker 2: it really does.

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Speaker 6: Conway, Okay, wait one more quick second. Yeah, I will

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Speaker 6: say the pools have changed over the last couple of

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Speaker 6: years or a decade or so, and now everything's run

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Speaker 6: on an app. That's it's crazy, man, And and they

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Speaker 6: always break down, they brain you cannot the problem with

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Speaker 6: the it's not the app that's a problem.

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Speaker 2: It's that it needs to speak to your pool equipment

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Speaker 2: via your WiFi, and the Wi Fi antenna is out

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Speaker 2: there and it's exposed to the elements. Mind just broke

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Speaker 2: the other day.

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Speaker 3: What do you pay your pool guy a month?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Does he come weekly?

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Speaker 2: He comes weekly?

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Speaker 3: Is he splash and dash guys?

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Speaker 2: I think he does a good job. We have I

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Speaker 2: have some I have a couple of water features there

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Speaker 2: at the Mark Thompson's States. An interested at the pool.

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Speaker 2: I have him look at the water features. Maintenance involved.

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Speaker 2: I know Eric. We need to wrap up. Eric needs

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Speaker 2: to get out of here to it. Thanks. Fine, Please

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Speaker 2: come visit the Thompson State sometime, all of you invite

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Speaker 2: all right, co Belt's back on Monday. Thank you. Conway's

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Speaker 2: next Mark Thompson. KFI AM six forty live everywhere on

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