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Speaker 1: Are you gonna make me show my Blockbuster card too?

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Speaker 1: It's one more.

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Speaker 2: Thing I'm strong, and one more thing I like when

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Speaker 2: you use your valley guy voice. I know, an old

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Speaker 2: surfer dude. Yeah, he's got to be pushing eighty, still

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Speaker 2: has blonde hair, still wears at shaggy la. I've seen

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Speaker 2: pictures of when he was young. He was like your

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Speaker 2: classic beach boys on the beach surfer guy, you know,

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Speaker 2: when California was actually cool and everybody wanted to live here.

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Speaker 2: And he says he talks like that, and he says

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Speaker 2: for sure all the time. He actually does well.

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Speaker 1: And we have a mutual friend who answers that description too.

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Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite guys on Earth.

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Speaker 2: I'd never known anybody who actually said for sure other

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Speaker 2: than you know, oh yeah, for sure, for sure. And

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Speaker 2: he's like eighty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a word to you. Bro. Yeah, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 1: So let's play the audio first and then we can

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Speaker 1: comment on it. This is Jim Acosta, who normally is

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Speaker 1: a vomit worthy presence on the American scene. A boil,

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Speaker 1: really on the fan oil American medium boil.

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Speaker 2: This is not a good podcast. Put an explicit warning

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Speaker 2: on this or it's for medical profession I'm aardsmith.

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Speaker 3: That was the only description.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you had, Yeah the option you act like your yeah,

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Speaker 2: g act like you're you got one narrow choice, and

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Speaker 2: that is boils on heimis you know what.

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Speaker 1: Folks, Folks, people just don't appreciate greatness until after it's gone.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, six play as sixty four, Michael.

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Speaker 4: I mean, one interesting development that has emerged here in

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Speaker 4: Nevada is they're running into a problem with some of

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Speaker 4: the mail in ballots that have come in so far.

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Speaker 4: Some of the signatures have been an issue, and election

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Speaker 4: workers are now reaching out to some of those folks

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Speaker 4: out there who have signature issues. Your signatures need to

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Speaker 4: match those that are on file with the state. And

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Speaker 4: an interesting anecdote here, one of the problems that they're

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Speaker 4: running into is that a lot of young voters don't

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Speaker 4: know how to sign their names, and so when they've

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Speaker 4: signed their names onto some of these ballots, they are

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Speaker 4: not jiving with what state officials have on file, and

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Speaker 4: so what they're doing at this point is sort of

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Speaker 4: the state of Nevada and saying, hey, wait a minute,

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Speaker 4: there's a problem with your ballot. You need to check

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Speaker 4: in with the state and make sure that your signature

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Speaker 1: So, as a guy who's been a curmudgeon since the

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Speaker 1: age of sixteen, you know, I hate to miss a

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Speaker 1: chance to kick the young But a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: The idea that your signature is your password is so outdated.

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Speaker 1: Number one, as a young person, you haven't developed a

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Speaker 1: signature that's consistent if you're eighteen nineteen.

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Speaker 2: I was speaking of being a curmudgeon. I came up

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Speaker 2: with one, practiced it after high school. I went back

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Speaker 2: and forth a couple of times. Finally settled on one

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Speaker 2: when I was about seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Right, I did too. Actually, I practice signing autographs, which

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Speaker 1: is a weird thing to do. But I would say,

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Speaker 1: particularly although mine evolved.

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Speaker 2: In your mind, in your mind at the time, what

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Speaker 2: were you signing autographs for? Oh, gosh, for music art?

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Speaker 1: Maybe? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You're just famous, just kind of generally famous.

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Speaker 1: It's just really really multifaceted fame, you know.

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Speaker 3: Just a red carpet walk kind of a thing.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. The Senator from the great State of California,

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Speaker 1: you know, him from such silver screen classics as this

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Speaker 1: and that, four time Grammy winner and Major League Picture

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Speaker 2: And uh and a great purveyor of descriptive euphemisms for

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Speaker 2: things like boils on asses.

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Speaker 1: Oh see yeah, yeah yeah see Katie. Yeah, he kicks me,

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Speaker 1: but we see your game anyway. I just I argue

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Speaker 1: that a lot of young people haven't developed what is

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Speaker 1: quote unquote a permanent signature. And I will tell you

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Speaker 1: this because it happened to me the other day. We

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Speaker 1: had to sign some forms my beloved bride and I

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Speaker 1: and I sign my name so frequently these days it's

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Speaker 1: all online. It's all docu signed or type in your name,

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Speaker 1: this will be your online signature, and imply and you

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Speaker 1: have agreed, blah blah blah. I just mine's gotten kind

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Speaker 1: is an antiquated notion. It's of a bygone era.

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Speaker 2: I got rejected at a bank a couple of years

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Speaker 2: to do it, I had to sign my name and

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Speaker 2: I had apparently signed it differently my signatures didn't match,

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Speaker 2: and they wouldn't show me the old one, so I

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Speaker 2: didn't remember, and like I apparently had changed over the

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Speaker 2: last fifteen years or something, became a real hassle. That's dumb,

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Speaker 2: Like you just said, really, yeah, I'm not doing anything.

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Speaker 2: I'm not trying to commit a crime. I just don't

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Speaker 2: remember how I signed my name fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: But in the days of I unlocked my computer with

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Speaker 1: my fingerprint, and there's face recognition and then iris scans

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Speaker 1: and and the rest of it. You're going to test

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Speaker 1: my ability to write my name the same way I

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Speaker 1: always write it. I just seems silly. I don't know etiquated.

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Speaker 2: Do you put an eye over any it's you gotta

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Speaker 2: you don't have an eye in your name? Or no,

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Speaker 2: how do you spell Katie? I don't even know how

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Speaker 2: you spell Katie K A T I E. Okay. Do

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Speaker 2: you put a heart over the eye.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not twelve.

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Speaker 2: No, some people do.

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Speaker 3: Some women do when when I was younger and I

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Speaker 3: thought it was cute, Yeah, but no, I'm I'm an adult.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's what's sweet about little girls. I love it. I please.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah. At the end, the little swirl all of it.

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Speaker 2: I thought that this story was going to be about

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Speaker 2: how they don't teach cursive in school anymore.

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Speaker 1: No, which we've learned. Neuroscientists say there's something amazing about

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Speaker 1: writing a cursive that it connects the artistic part of

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Speaker 1: of your brain in a way that virtually nothing else does.

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Speaker 1: I find that fascinating. I don't think there's any need

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Speaker 1: for cursive writing in the modern world anymore. I just

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Speaker 1: found that, in a neurological way, really intriguing.

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Speaker 2: Neither one of my kids learned cursive in school, and

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Speaker 2: I haven't worried about it at all.

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Speaker 3: I could see the connect between not learning cursive and

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Speaker 3: not knowing how to sign your name though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah in hand, yeah, well yeah, you'd have to come

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Speaker 2: up with a signature kind of out of nowhere. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If you never learned cursive, right, you know what, that's.

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Speaker 1: My signature, I can still do it pretty well.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: Hang on a second, I got to write best wishes.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming to my movie Slash Ball Game Slash Inauguration.

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Speaker 2: Weather's here. Wish you were beautiful? Yes, Katie, No.

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Speaker 4: I was.

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Speaker 3: I mean for some reason. I guess when I heard this,

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Speaker 3: it kind of blew my mind because I'm thinking, by

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Speaker 3: the time you're voting age, you don't have a signature.

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Speaker 2: In the modern world, you might not all be. Anything

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Speaker 2: you would ever sign is probably docu sign like Joe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 3: That's just so strange to me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I can't wrap my head around it.

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Speaker 2: And you ain't right.

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Speaker 1: What's hilarious is I got my Social Security card when

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Speaker 1: I was a child. I can't even remember how old

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Speaker 1: I was, but and they have you signed the front

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Speaker 1: as a little child, right, I'm still going to be

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Speaker 1: signing my name like that at age fifty.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. Yeah, my soci Security card has my

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Speaker 2: ridiculous signature that I had at that age.

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Speaker 1: Letters. Yeah, that wasn't that young. The d's look like these.

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Speaker 2: No, what was the point of that.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, Nevada and other other states are having problems

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Speaker 1: with trying to figure out this Joe Getty doesn't look

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Speaker 1: anything like the Joe Getty when he registered to vote

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Speaker 1: twenty eight years ago or whatever, And it's silly. Let's

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Speaker 1: move on.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever seen Trump signature? I hate to be

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Speaker 2: all about Trump on this day after election? Do have

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Speaker 2: you seen trump signature?

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Speaker 1: We have squiggle.

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Speaker 2: He signed a letter for my son when he was

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Speaker 2: getting medical care, and that we keep in a safe

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Speaker 2: place because I think he'll appreciate it some day that

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Speaker 2: he's got a signed letter from the President. I know

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Speaker 2: you're going through a thing today, Henry, good luck with that.

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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah. And he signed it. But his

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Speaker 2: signature is really wacky. It's like a how many times

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Speaker 2: has Donald Trump signed his name through the years of

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Speaker 2: all the legal stuff and being a celebrity, Holy goal.

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Speaker 2: You would have to come up with a weird signature, right, And.

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Speaker 1: Your signature can be anything you want it to be. Too,

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Speaker 1: need not resemble the letters in your name at all.

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Speaker 1: If you just replicate it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll come up with some prints like symbols, become

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Speaker 2: my signature, some umlats and squiggles.

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Speaker 1: And a beaver whatever you want. Draw a pair of pants,

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Speaker 1: pants right of panted beaver decency to cover up his genitals. Ah,

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Speaker 1: what was I going to say? I had one more

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Speaker 1: thought on this. It's just a signature, a squiggle. Nope,

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Speaker 1: what's gone.

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Speaker 3: Have anything to do with boils.

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Speaker 1: Now and now you now.

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Speaker 2: We gotta get out at two kt with a heart

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Speaker 2: over it.

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Speaker 3: I just signed my name in an X and in

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Speaker 3: kran Well.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's it.