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Speaker 1: Sean mccalf's Eve of Destruction premieres tonight at eight o'clock

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Speaker 1: on ABC TV and ABC.

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Speaker 2: I View, and Sean is with us. Now, good morning,

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Speaker 2: We're welcome.

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Speaker 3: Please, So clearly, how are you have very nice of

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Speaker 3: you to have me on during Logi's week. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You should be very nice of you to join us

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Speaker 1: to talk about this show, which I said has been

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Speaker 1: twenty five years in the making. Tell us about how

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Speaker 1: Eve of Destruction works.

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Speaker 3: Well, many years ago, this is back where I did

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Speaker 3: a show for the ABC, the first time I did

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Speaker 3: a show for the ABC called The Macaloff Program. So

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Speaker 3: this is nineteen ninety eight, yeah, right, And we had

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Speaker 3: a guest on and it was Tim Rodgers, Tim Rodgers

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Speaker 3: from a Wonderful and we had a little skit. It

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Speaker 3: was a good guest and he liked He actually asked

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Speaker 3: to be on the show. He liked the show, and

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Speaker 3: he contacted us and you know, a gushing fan letter,

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Speaker 3: asked to be on the show. So we said yes,

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Speaker 3: of course, were you actually having somebody who had some

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Speaker 3: importance on? So he came on and as a joke,

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Speaker 3: we asked him that perennial question of well, you know,

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Speaker 3: if you if you could rescue anything from your house.

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Speaker 3: One eyes him and it's on fire, what would it

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Speaker 3: be And he said, oh, well my guitar. And I said, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: tell we've got a bit of a surprise for you.

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Speaker 3: We cut to a house actually on fire and tell him,

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Speaker 3: tell him that it's his house. And then he says, okay,

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Speaker 3: you got thirty seconds, so he has to run away. Basically,

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Speaker 3: so that was the That was the joke. And so

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Speaker 3: what was a two second, three second joke on a

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Speaker 3: show twenty five years ago? We managed to pad out

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Speaker 3: now to a complete half an hour. Oh nice. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so we don't We don't burn down everyone's house. It's

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Speaker 3: just a hypothetical situation. That's a variety of things. In fact,

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Speaker 3: we were going to call a show burning down the house,

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Speaker 3: but Australia spends most of its time bursting into flames. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: we thought that might be a bit tasteless, so we've

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Speaker 3: made it more general.

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Speaker 2: The even destruction. Yeah, yeah, the fire is volunteer. I

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Speaker 2: wouldn't enjoy that. You asked what to things they would save?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah we we we say loved ones, loved ones

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Speaker 3: are safe, and yeah, pets and everything photos photos are

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Speaker 3: up in the cloud, so you don't have to worry

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Speaker 3: about it. Just what just two items that are really

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Speaker 3: important to you, and people are treating it seriously, which

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Speaker 3: is quite nice. You know, they actually are being awful,

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Speaker 3: except for our guest tonight is Stephen Curry is one

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Speaker 3: of our two guests.

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Speaker 2: And he.

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Speaker 3: Brought along two items. In fact, he got us to

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Speaker 3: pick them up in a truck. They were so big

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Speaker 3: there's no way there's no way he could possibly rescue them.

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Speaker 3: We had to transport them from the massive and Rages

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Speaker 3: where he lives down to the city. But he's the

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Speaker 3: only one who's been stupid about. Everybody else has been

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Speaker 3: quite good.

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Speaker 2: A pizza ro's bigger.

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Speaker 3: It's bigger than a pizza bigger ways. It probably ways

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Speaker 3: about I reckon half a ton one of the items. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and the other item is that is equally stupid.

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Speaker 2: Quite very Stephen, did cross my mind?

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Speaker 1: Be careful what you wish for when you invited them

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Speaker 1: to bring their two items in. What two items would

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Speaker 1: you save if your house was about to be destroyed?

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Speaker 3: Well, mercifully, I don't have to address that on the

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Speaker 3: show because I'm sitting in the viewers chair. But I

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Speaker 3: have thought about it. I have thought about that. I

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Speaker 3: think I'd be paralyzed with the decision. I mean, I've

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Speaker 3: got a lot of a lot of lovely books, some

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Speaker 3: of which are autographed. They're usually comedy books, you know,

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Speaker 3: books on comedy, so you know Steve Martin's autograph is

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Speaker 3: on one of them, and John Clees and Michael Pale

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Speaker 3: and all of Manty Python Fellows and everything. So but

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Speaker 3: but if I had to pick two, I think i'd

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Speaker 3: be I'd be paralyzed. I'd be going, well, I let

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Speaker 3: it all burn. I can't choose tot. I just save myself.

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Speaker 3: I just saved myself. It's too hard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Sean coming up with with a really different

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Speaker 4: idea like this, and I think we can hear where

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Speaker 4: it came from the original the original seed was planted

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Speaker 4: all those years ago. But it keeps it interesting for

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Speaker 4: yourself as well as it it's not so much a

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Speaker 4: straightforward format.

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Speaker 3: It is and it's I had a good fortune of

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Speaker 3: having a long running show on the ABC called mad

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Speaker 3: as Hell, and that was a satirical news show and

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Speaker 3: I got to interview fake people. But I noticed it

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Speaker 3: towards the end of the end of the ten years,

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Speaker 3: I was just sort of sitting there enjoying the person

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Speaker 3: and enjoying it. I thought, oh, actually that if I

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Speaker 3: don't have to do any prep. You know, they can

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Speaker 3: suggest what they want to bring along and I'm going

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Speaker 3: to sit there and enjoy them. If I could pretend

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Speaker 3: that that's an actual show and fool people into funding

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Speaker 3: as and putting it on air, That's not a bad

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Speaker 3: way to spend the year.

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Speaker 1: But that's what makes a good interview when you feel

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Speaker 1: like you're, you know, watching two people have a good

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Speaker 1: chat per se.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you know what this is like.

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Speaker 3: You would do this every day that you're every second

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Speaker 3: you're in the studio because someone comes in, you're going

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Speaker 3: to read them. So you go, okay, well they like

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Speaker 3: to do this. I could feel I want to say that,

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Speaker 3: so you're dance partner for them. You just kind of

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Speaker 3: move and help show them off in a good light.

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Speaker 3: And I'm enjoying that. I'm enjoying that process of for

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Speaker 3: the first time of my career, actually being generous to

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Speaker 3: somebody else on stage.

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Speaker 1: I'm stuck on the what I'm thinking about what I

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Speaker 1: would say if it was me, And I'm thinking I'd

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Speaker 1: probably save my GHD hair straight now, which would be

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Speaker 1: ironic because it's probably the thing that started the funk.

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Speaker 2: Leaving it on at four o'clock in the morning. Sean,

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Speaker 2: But anyway, that sensible.

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Speaker 3: You know, you'd take it out of the house. You

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Speaker 3: would stop the house being destroyed. That'ssible.

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Speaker 2: How would we all? But is she sprayed that giant

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Speaker 2: can of hairspray around. That's an accelerate. That was the eighties.

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Speaker 2: And I apologized.

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Speaker 4: And all of us who are nearby, Hey, Sean, we're

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Speaker 4: getting exposed more, especially through Instagram. I'm finding more to

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Speaker 4: classic interviewers parties and David Frost's and even the talk

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Speaker 4: show guys like Carson and that because we've seeing their

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Speaker 4: old interviews online. Are there any that you can not

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Speaker 4: avoid if you see it and you go, I just

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Speaker 4: want to hear the how good they were the interview?

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Speaker 3: Like in preparation for the for the series, I did

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Speaker 3: watch a lot of the odd stuff Dick Cavotts and

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Speaker 3: par Concern and you know all those all the greats,

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Speaker 3: and you are right. They're every all the best bits everywhere.

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Speaker 3: And really the thing that I learned I was thinking,

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Speaker 3: I believe it or not. I was actually thinking, do

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Speaker 3: I unbutton my jacket as I sit down or do

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Speaker 3: I leave it done up? And I was watching them

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Speaker 3: and I realized that Parkinson's got the best style. He

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Speaker 3: has it done up when they come in, and then

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Speaker 3: when he's when he's just when he's bums just about

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Speaker 3: to hit the seat, that's when it does. Okay, well,

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Speaker 3: that's good. Dick Cavott seems to have it done up

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Speaker 3: for the entirety of the interview. That's interesting. Maybe he's

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Speaker 3: a he's a bit thinner, Carson, Carson, I think has

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Speaker 3: it done up. So I've been unable to decide what

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Speaker 3: to do. It's been it's been the bug bear, the

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Speaker 3: major concern I have with this series.

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Speaker 1: I think my favorite interview ever was a Dick Caviot

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Speaker 1: interview with Janis Joplin where he talks to her about

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Speaker 1: going home for a school reunion and she said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they ran me out of school, they ran me out

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Speaker 1: of town, and I'm going home, wild woman.

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Speaker 3: Dick was awesome, Pig was great. I mean, I remember

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Speaker 3: he interviewed Norman Mailer. Okay, he is a pretty tough

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Speaker 3: guy apparently, and I watched the interview and it's a

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Speaker 3: great interview. They're all very prickly with each other. Later on,

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Speaker 3: later on I realized Dick havevit says, oh yeah, Norman

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Speaker 3: Maaylor actually punched me in the faith immediately before I

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Speaker 3: had to go on stage. So can you Wow, I

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Speaker 3: haven't had that difficulty. It's just a fun That's the

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Speaker 3: only thing that's foxing me. You know what.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine Stephen Curry punching anyone.

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Speaker 1: And as we say, you've hooked me through. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see what it is that Stephen Curry's had

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Speaker 1: to have delivered to the studio so even destruction.

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Speaker 3: It is on tonight at eight o'clock. Yeah, and his choices,

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Speaker 3: both of them are stupid.

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Speaker 1: Sean.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to see it. Thanks for joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks