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Speaker 1: welcome to a holiday edition of Between the Horns, as

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Speaker 1: always presented about your Southern California Toyota dealers. I'm JV. Long,

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Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood, DeMarco far I'm tanning. This is nice. This

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Speaker 1: is nice weather compared. Yes, I like this weather. Week

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Speaker 1: sixteen three to go. Could be near eighty degrees for

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Speaker 1: Christmas Sunday here in Los Angeles will not be a

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Speaker 1: white Christmas. Eighty degree Christmas Day. I love La, don't

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Speaker 1: I mean, we can manufacture that movie. Careful what you

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Speaker 1: say about the weather around this guy after what he

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Speaker 1: endured on Monday night. Oh my god, was it cold

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Speaker 1: up there? We utilize brought worse and cheese curse. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it was cold down there. It really was. That was

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Speaker 1: that was one of those opportunities to really be tough

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Speaker 1: to a Christmas Day game. Against Russell Wilson and the

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. But first, just a life check in Erica.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you in person. Yeah, sca a week

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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah. I had a little peanut allergy scare,

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Speaker 1: Finish shopping for the ladies in your life? I think so? Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Santa came down the chimney last night, so there's presence

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Speaker 1: under the tree. Everybody's happy. So yeah, another good year

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Speaker 1: for Santah. Well done. Yeah, even with a Monday night

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you. Okay, yeah, for a couple of

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Speaker 1: years I got that. What are we wearing on Sunday? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: that was the secret to the win over the Raiders

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Speaker 1: now that I reflect on it, also too, I was

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Speaker 1: thinking JB, like, you know, we're gonna I have a

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Speaker 1: good feeling about Christmas. It's it's a Christmas Day game.

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Speaker 1: Our defense is playing really great. I think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: for your radio calls right, you should try to insert

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Speaker 1: some sort of like boom shaka laca or like something

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Speaker 1: best at it, but like what about a ho ho

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Speaker 1: I've been working on a Christmas sketch video that I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to have a feeling. Yeah, it's in. You might

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Speaker 1: make a little cameo in your good voice, very small,

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Speaker 1: he says, jock straps in my video. Nice jock straps.

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Speaker 1: There are more important cameos. I've seen a screening of it, DeMarco.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're all wearing Ram's garb today, but do

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Speaker 1: was not thinking of you last night. Tom Izzo, Michigan

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Speaker 1: DeMarco any lasting takeaways from what you saw on the

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Speaker 1: um doing everything they can to keep the game close.

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Speaker 1: What game got away from the Rams this year? Defensively?

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Speaker 1: year Erica, you were watching from Afar on Monday night. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when it matters moment, Camps had an edge to him.

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Speaker 1: Holidays everyone from DeMarco Farr and Erica Tampose. I'm JB. Long.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us here on the Toyota Patio

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