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Speaker 1: If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week

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Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere, back at

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Speaker 1: it yet again, a Saturday Saturday extravaganza, eight days a week,

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Speaker 1: now we had Rob Parker on Friday, and we think

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Speaker 1: Rob the world Travels of Rob Parker, Clobe Trekker, just

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Speaker 1: baseball conversation. There's very few people that you can talk

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Speaker 1: But I did make my return to this, to this

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Speaker 1: a it's a team. I think I am. I am

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Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta. I was out of commission for

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Speaker 1: and we were expecting the worst, thinking they were they

425
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Speaker 1: were going to have to put her to sleep. And

426
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 1: the doctor called us back in about twenty minutes and

427
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: said she barely avoided needing to go under. She could

428
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Speaker 1: be saved, but there's always a butt. It was gonna

429
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: cost a shipload of of money. And so what I did,

430
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,160
Speaker 1: I dusted off my wallet and we we emptied out

431
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Speaker 1: our wallet. There my wallet, her wallet, my wife's, and

432
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: we had belly go under an emergency doggie surgery and

433
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 1: it was so bad. They had to put a drain

434
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Speaker 1: in her to drain the damaged goo that was inside

435
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Speaker 1: of her, and a bunch of stitches, and she has

436
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Speaker 1: a cone, you know, the doggy cone that you've gotten

437
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Speaker 1: on that so and when she came back, she was

438
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Speaker 1: as drugged up as Jed who fled and uh. But

439
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 1: she has made a dramatic comeback, and I'm happy to

440
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Speaker 1: report that she's back to being the same loving pooch

441
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Speaker 1: that she had been before. And so, as Paul Harvey

442
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,199
Speaker 1: would say, you uh, you now are about to know

443
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 1: the rest of the story. So the reason I didn't

444
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Speaker 1: say anything on the air was because I didn't want

445
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Speaker 1: to give the curse of the ben Bino di Bella,

446
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Speaker 1: So I kept my mouth shut until she was out

447
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: of the w and she did come home a zombie dog,

448
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: not walking, not eating, not drinking, and those are generally

449
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Speaker 1: signs that you're about to die. When an animal does

450
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: not human or animal does not eat or drink, you're

451
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Speaker 1: you're not long for the world. Both my mom and

452
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Speaker 1: dad before they passed, they stopped eating and and uh

453
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Speaker 1: and drinking. So but fortunately Bella pulled through and is

454
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: on the comeback trail now annoying me and barking, barking

455
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: quite a bit, which is unfortunately she does not normally bark.

456
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Speaker 1: She does not normally do this. That's something that she

457
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:39,680
Speaker 1: normally normally, she's not a barker. How long was the procedure.

458
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Speaker 1: I don't know how long she was under the knife,

459
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Speaker 1: but it was on a Friday, and she was in

460
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: there pretty much all all day. She had the operation.

461
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 1: Then they let her out with a bunch of drugs,

462
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: like drugged her and let her out, and we had

463
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on her and put her in

464
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Speaker 1: a dog crate carrier around where we went and all

465
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Speaker 1: that stuff was the miss crying. We were all pretty

466
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: pretty much. I mean, she was, yeah, because she had

467
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Speaker 1: seen she went out to see the dog. You go

468
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: out to get the dog, dog, went out to go

469
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Speaker 1: to the bathroom, You come back, and it's like whoa.

470
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: And another thing we had this call it Regina from

471
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Speaker 1: Minnesota on that Friday show a few minutes before this

472
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 1: happened to Bella, and she was telling a story about

473
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Speaker 1: how she was in her backyard in Minnesota screaming profanity

474
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: at coyotes who were trying to mess with her dog.

475
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: And then, you know, thousands of miles away here it

476
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: happened to to my dog man. Good times. Bella looked

477
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: mangled though, or did she just look like she had

478
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: a chunk taken out of her? Uh? No, she was,

479
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: she was messed up, and there was there was thick

480
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: red blood flowing down from her her side, and it

481
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: was it was not a pretty picture. I was like,

482
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: I was like, I couldn't I was like, what the hell,

483
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: I just I'm doing the show. I mean, I couldn't

484
00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: believe it. I was like, what the hell happened? And um,

485
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 1: it took me a little while the process exactly what

486
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 1: I was seeing, because it didn't make you know, it

487
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: didn't make a lot of sense. Yeah, I've never had

488
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: I've heard people have their dogs attacked by a coyote,

489
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: but I've never you know, it never happened to me,

490
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: and I never thought, well, you know, just assuming it

491
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,719
Speaker 1: will not happen to you. And where I'm living, at

492
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: least for now, I'm moving in a couple of weeks.

493
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: But where I'm living is closer to the coyote country.

494
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: There's more coyotes around here, and we learned that less

495
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: in the hardaway unfortunately, flag someone down in the South

496
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: Pasadena though. That's and as you know, South Pasadena, little bougie, Yeah,

497
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: little bougie, not not a well you don't love you

498
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 1: love South Pasadena. You know Pasadena proper there's some real

499
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: crappy parts of Pasadena. Okay. I have a relative that

500
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: lives and just north of Pasadena and Alta Dina. Oh

501
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: my gosh, that is an absolute eyesore. That is a

502
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: and there's some beautiful houses and stuff, but there's so much.

503
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: I used to go to a gym in that area

504
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: and I right near John Muir High School and had

505
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: my car broken into. And there's crime. They talked to

506
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: the guy, the Jim is crime there all the time? Well,

507
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: Glendale's right there. And then of course you got south Pasadena.

508
00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: You go right to a Chavez Ravine. So yeah, just

509
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: down the road from Dodger Stadium. That's not far away,

510
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,399
Speaker 1: far away at all. Uh. So that's the tale of

511
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: the Doggy Blues. She's on the comeback trail Bella and

512
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: she's annoying me right now by barking. So she sounds

513
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: like a parrot. Yeah, it does not have a very

514
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: strong bark. It's it's like a clown horn that bark. Yeah. Anyway,

515
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: we have pop quiz. Will do some of that pop

516
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: quiz right now here we go and uh we begin

517
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: with this. A new survey finds support for a vaccine

518
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: mandate is highest in this eight Which state you think

519
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: it is? Oh? Um, it's not Ohio or Florida. Yeah,

520
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it is. Actually, I'm gonna sait it's Illinois. No, incorrect,

521
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: it's in Then it's in the northeast, Maine, Delaware, No,

522
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, Vermont. No, you're gonna go through all Massachusetts? Yes?

523
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: Really Massachusetts? Yeah? What the fuck? You have the most

524
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: support for the vaccine in Massachusetts. They love it. Wow,

525
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Are you for Are you for a vaccine

526
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: vaccine mandate? No? I don't think there should be a mandate.

527
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: I got the vaccine, but I don't think it should

528
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: be a mandate for it. I don't know. If you

529
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: want to do it, don't do it. I don't. It's

530
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: your business. I don't care. It doesn't affect me. A

531
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: new survey found the favorite flavor during summer is this?

532
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: What is it? Mint and chocolate chip? Favorite flavor? I

533
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, it's not ice cream flavors, this flavor. Yeah,

534
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, why would you constituents flavor? Then? Well,

535
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: anything can be flavors. Come on, what do you think?

536
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: Use your brain? Summer? What do you think? What do

537
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: you think summer? What do you think? I think summer?

538
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: Thinks beach and sun um and what else? Hot day? Yeah? Um, coconut.

539
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 1: Now the answer is lemonade. Lemonade is the answer? Interesting?

540
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: All right? What's next year? Seventy five of consumers say

541
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: they'll spend more money with retailers if they can do

542
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: this with them during the holiday season. What is it? Oh? Se,

543
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: that's a high number? Can do seven? Ever? Sent a

544
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: consumers say they'll actually spend more money at a retailer

545
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: if they can do this with them during the holiday

546
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: See easy this think about you use your head human relations.

547
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: I mean I would say, get discounted items during the

548
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: holiday season. Uh No, it's actually message with them. What's

549
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: up with that? I don't I don't want to message

550
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: with the people I shop at the stores I shop at.

551
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: That's bizarre, right, so bizarre, so bizarre. All right. This

552
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: has been voted as the biggest waste of money. What

553
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: is it in your life? This will be the biggest

554
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: waste of money? Would you No? No, it's something that

555
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: people do who are in law by Oh, I have

556
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: a wedding, Yeah, big wedding, big wedding, biggest waste of

557
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: money that one can have. Oh my gosh, that's why

558
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: listen I am, I'm not in. I did not have

559
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: a big medding wedding. I looped. I went to Hawaii

560
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: on a deserted beach in Kawaii and right near the

561
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: between the mile three and mile four marker when you

562
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: leave the airport in Poipoo, and that was it. I

563
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: I got married. There was no one around, no big,

564
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: no big to do, and so I'm ahead of the

565
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: game on that. One reminds me of a tragic story.

566
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: A few days ago, I went to go visit a

567
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: buddy of mine and see it a long time good friend,

568
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: and um I was meeting his fiance for the first time.

569
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: So I said, Hey, I'm gonna come over. Let's do dinner.

570
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: We'll make some some dinner and then we'll just chop

571
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: it up, talk and drink. And so I bought over,

572
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: brought over some steaks. We're cooking up some tuna too. Ben.

573
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: It was my first time in like a long time

574
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: cooking on a barbecue. Girl and my buddies flame on

575
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: that barbecue turned into a massive fire. I had steaks

576
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: on this girl for like four minutes. They were as

577
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: black as you like them. I could not believe. No,

578
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: that's so embarrassed. I'm gonna I'm disinvited from the wedding.

579
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: It was really an embarrassing moment. I thought about you

580
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: when I was doing that. No, you're not. Are you

581
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: divorced or you you've never been married. If you're gonna

582
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: get married at some point, you're gonna have a big wedding,

583
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: or you're gonna have a big, gallow wedding. There we're

584
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 1: gonna find a wife. Yeah, how's that going. No, your

585
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: wife hasn't introduced me to und of her friends. She's

586
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: tried that in the past, she hasn't. Yeah, she is

587
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: the part of you. Probably you don't go these holiday parties.

588
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: You get up late, and you get to them late,

589
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: and all the people leave by the time you get there,

590
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: and you get cold food and you complain. What's the

591
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: idea that you don't go to the club early, You

592
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: go to the club late, so then you pick up

593
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: all the stragglers. Yeah, how's that working out? I used

594
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: to work out really well? Yeah, not anymore, alreight. A

595
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: recent survey reveals the average person does this about sixteen

596
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: times a day. What is it touches their face. Noah,

597
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: they curse asshole sixteen times a day, they swear, and

598
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: we can't do that, not for the time we're on

599
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: the radio. Otherwise we can curse. That's what happens of

600
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: Americans admit they will never or that they never learned

601
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: how to do this. Not that they will never, but

602
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: they have never learned how to do this. Uh ty,

603
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: their shoes not swim. Swim. If you're not around a

604
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: lake or a river or the beach, which seems like

605
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: most people are within driving distance and one of those things,

606
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: then what's the point. That's true? But yeah, the dog

607
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: is barking. By the way, with the dog is barking,

608
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,879
Speaker 1: gas gun, it better to be barking than six ft under.

609
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: That is true. That is true. It is although the

610
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: dog is not barked at any point up until recently.

611
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: Now the dog is all of a sudden, very very upset,

612
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: the worst possible time, the worst possible time. Anyway, I

613
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: think that's Are we good on this? Guess? I think

614
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: we're good on this. We're good, Yeah, alright, anyway, listen,

615
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your Saturday. The Sunday Mail

616
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: by I Hope Gascon. You have your your has mat

617
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: suit on because you are You are not very popular

618
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: with the Mallard militia. Very people upset that you're back.

619
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: A lot of my inbox with comments about you, be

620
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: smirching you, and upset with me for allowing you back.

621
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: So that's the tone of the email. But well, we'll

622
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: go through it. We'll work our way through it on

623
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Speaker 1: the Sunday podcast. Have a great rest your Saturday. We

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00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: will catch you there. Okay, okay,