The Opener: April 9, 2024

Here's the opening segment for Tuesday April 9th, 2024, featuring a little discussion on the big weather and celestial event, but really what would you do if you won the powerball?

Episode Transcript

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Four nine two four, Happy Tuesday, more metroplex and world. And unlike
a lot of broadcasters that I sawon TV yesterday when I took in a
lot of the local news, wehave not wade out of as adjectives.
We're here to talk about it withwords. We can do that. We're

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not going to be speechless from whatwe saw yesterday in the skies. Once
in a lifetime event, friends,and it was great. Even Tim who
called in yesterday, let's saying hewas non plussed by it, even tweeted
me and said, pretty plussed,bro, pretty Plus, I'm Kevin Turner.

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It's Dandy. Bayliss's wrong, gotDanny today? We had Danny,
Dude. We had Dandy, whichI knew this J J. Jackson,
I missed so much work. Yes, an interview with a big, important,
notable person. You're not just someslappy eight am eight ten. Are

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you saying that we normally interview slappylike Tim? No? No, no,
we don't. Well, it's justlike one for us to have someone
on. It's very respectable. Yeah. I think a lot of people just
think we're a bunch of deal weeds. We just get stand up comics that
no one's ever heard of Dusty SleighTomorrow San Antonio man was a slappy No.

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I don't think so, no,no, and no one thinks for
dill Weeds we're cool as heck.I think so too. I think so.
I look at us, I sortof got I saw a well Don
van Nada Junior, Jesus Don vanNada Junior. Only that's all you can

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do. You don't want to getDan Vaughan Nada because that's a different guy.
It's Don van Nada. He's writingthe Jerry Jones book. He's calling
it at eight ten. Oh,so many questions how to even do that
story? And maybe he's not doingthe whole thing. We'll find out.
It's called the Star. That's thename of the book. J Jones Star.

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He was. He's such a goodwriter. Yeah. And as far
as people that do this kind ofthing, that guy, dude does so
much legwork and research. It's incredible. Had him on before in the past,
and dude, he's great. Heis so good and so smart and

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yeah, I know what you're talkingabout. He's and he likes to have
a good time too, Like he'snot just button down and super serious.
Really, Yeah, he's cool.He's a cool, cool interview. He's
the one who wrote the big JohnnyWalker blue piece on Jerry from well,
he usually is the guy behind likekind of the expose. The big stuff
was one that kind of broke thenews about the uh, the Dalrymple video

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stuff, secret recordings of cheerleaders andwhatnot. And then I just saw a
pig. I don't know, Idon't know how recent. It's hard to
tell when you look at Jerry,but of them sitting on the bus and
talking, you know, it's justI don't know if it's credit to Jerry
or what I mean. This isa could could be someone who you consider

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your arch nemesis. You know,you're the writer keeps long forming the trouble
I get into. Yet you're gonnawrite my biography. I think it's that
I'm gonna sit down with you fordozens of hours if need be. I
think it's almost like the the therelationship that police have with criminals, because

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it's kind of in the game.As long as you don't touch civilians,
then you're okay. And Jerry knowsthat his behavior and the stuff that he's
doing has a chance to get tobecome public knowledge. And if the purporter
does a better job at exposing thatstuff than Jerry does it covering up,

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covering it up, then Jerry's justkind of like just kind of tips his
hat, all right, you gotme. That's amazing. I bet that's
that's how they how Jerry views it. I bet it is man like I
just surely respect for you, respectthe game. Yeah. Well, also,
I think the first step to nothaving any any enemies is not caring

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at all what people say or thinkabout you. I mean, that's Jerry's
not getting pulled off sides by anything. I ever. I remember why I
worked at the at the fan onetime, maybe twice he did freak out
and call in, and that onlyhappened. Like if you say something that's

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really about them not trying, whichis so false. They do try.
They just make a lot of dumbdecisions sometimes, but they do try,
maybe to a fault. They trysometimes when it would be time to maybe
pull back and rebuild or whatever,although I don't believe in rebuilding the NFL.
So but that's like the one thingor a joke about his age.

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He did not like that, LikeI'm here, you say it to my
face. Well, yeah, you'reeighty one hotlines ringing. Oh crap.
But uh, dude, he doesnot care, and he doesn't I'm I
I've always have billions of millions ofdollars. That's some a little bit of

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thought, that whole thing about whenyou get older you don't care about what
people think. I think we allcare about what people think, and I
think Jerry cares about what people think. It's when you get older you learn
how to manage your reaction to whatpeople think. You are able to handle

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criticism better. Does that make sense? You don't react to the criticism with
defensiveness or whatever. But I mean, look, we all say that.
It's like I just don't care anymore. I don't really care. I do.
I think we all really care whatpeople think. But the thing is
is, how do you react whenwhat they think is negative? Nobody's talking

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about us though, Yeah, andpeople have been talking about Jerry for thirty
forty years whatever. It is alot since since the Cowboy purchase and his
bubble a lot before that. Andhe's a billionaire. You know that does
give you some fuel too, Yeah, exactly, like I've already won.

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Do I care what these pleabs aresaying, they're talking about me. Oh
that's good. More about if wealways say that, like, is he
okay with everyone? As long asthey're talking, doesn't matter if it's good
or bad. So's things has beencompletely just false about him. He doesn't
care and he probably has cut offlines if it's about the Cowboys versus about
him personally. But when we alltalk about him and his family personally,

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yeah, because a lot of it'sout there, including Upskirt Picks, Well
that's not his family kind of is. But how many owners? Does everyone
in this town know that all theirkids' names? I mean, maybe it's
common. I don't know, butI guess they don't necessarily show up on
TV in the draft room, youknow, or have high level positions with

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the team. I understand that.But their life is the perfect combination of
succession in the Righteous Gym Stones,Yeah, mesh it all together and playmaker
if you want. Yeah, itis. Every time I watched Ryge' Jimstones,

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now is it funny? But I'mjust like, oh my god,
I'm tying everything back to that familythe same way with succession. You enjoying
it, but it's like I'm stillthinking about the Cowboys while I'm watching it.
It might be part of the reasonI enjoyed both the show so much,
because it must be fun though,Like, if you're a how old
was it when he bought the team? Forty? He was eighty nine when

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he bought the team? Yeah,in his forties, Yeah, something about
thirty six or yeah, probably aboutmy lifetime ago, thirty six, I
see, so mine say he's eightyone now, right, so he was
eighty nine, he was forty six. Jeez. Weird as we get older,
you know, Like I don't know, like when the Rams hired Sean

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McVay, I remember like he wasthirty six or something, thirty something so
young it just didn't make sense.And forty six an insanely young, you
know, but it feels like itnow, you know, when he's younger
than us. I was just cubanonly about the mouse. I'm cuban sixty
something now and he bought him inninety nine, twenty five years ago.

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So yeah, he was forty one, forty forty one probably man, maybe
not even let's see man. Yeah, we're my glasses. Yeah, that's
a bad glasses on this morning.Uh oh no, if your eyes are
hurting. I'll tell you at seventhirty if you need to go to the

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doctor or not. Yeah. Uh, it's this article. Mark Evan went
broke, nearly went broke a twentyseven, became a millionaire five years later.
Blah blah blah. I don't know. Well. He put ROI Radio
on the Internet. I thought thatmeant return on investment. Not anymore,
that's what everyone else thought it meant. He sold micro solutions to comp Serve

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for six million in nineteen ninety hewas thirty two, and then broadcast dot
Com and the Big Dog by Yahoofor five point seven billion. Streaming.
He puts streaming on the internet,like we He didn't get enough credit for
that. And it was freaking NormShow, right, I have been norm
Show was the first thing that hestreamed on. Yeah, because the match

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games were on five seventy or whatever. Yeah. And that handful of people
that got in on the ground floorwith that company. Yeah. He had
a buddy that a guy that I'dkind of met through a really had a
few really good friends of mine.He was this other dude, and we'd
see each other all the time,out and out, out and about,

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and I kept asking him one time, It's like, so, what you
know, you're always hanging out andstaying up late and seeing bands and stuff.
What kind of job do you havethat that enables you to kind of
live this lifestyle? And he was, you know, a little demure about
it, I guess, but uhI finally got him to tell me.

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He goes, well, I wasUh. I worked for Broadcast dot Com.
And when Mark sold the company afew years back, you know,
he we all got paid. Wegot paid with stock options and cash and
whatnot. And I go, whatdoes that mean? He goes, I
don't have to work ever? Likehe made millions? Really, yes,

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damn. And he was just someyou know, really smart tech dude that
like going and seeing bands and wasfriends with a lot of musicians and stuff.
But yeah, he was just thisreal quiet guy that always saw out
and about He's like, yeah,I'll never have to work again if I
don't want to try, Buddy JasonFarrontello, his part was yesterday. Sorry
I missed that birthday, j Jason, same thing, Ground four of Yeah,

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Broadcast dot Com. Yeah, gota big path, and I think
to work, but I think there'sthe lowest level. I don't I have
no idea what Jason made. Yeah. I mean Demeris worked there too,
you know. Yeah, And Idon't know. I've I've had whiskey with
Damaris and tried to try to getit out of it, try to get
a number out. No. Look, I didn't try that hard. I'm

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you know, I realized that's butI feel like, on some level,
if that happens, you kind ofdo want to tell people, right,
It's like friends. Yeah, Iwas thinking about that last night because,
you know, we especially in thelast couple of weeks when I've downloaded the
lotto app and have been playing that, he started having those you know,
how am I going to do it? How would I do it? Yeah?

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And I saw this video. Itwas one of those you know podcast
the Financial Dudes that streams the showon YouTube every day. What a novel
idea? And uh And some guycalled in and he had he was telling
him that he won twenty two milliondollars playing the lottery, and he said,

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the only people that know and he'smarried with kids. He goes,
my brother knows, and my wifeknows, my kids don't know, and
none of my friends know. Andthe guy's like, okay, the financial.
Dude's like, okay, I don'thave a problem with that. He
goes, are you still working?He said, yep, I still work.
He goes, have you upgraded youryour you know, possessions lifestyle?
He said, not at all.He goes, we had just paid off

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the house that we live in.I love this house. I don't want
to move. He goes, didyou did you go out? You bought
a new car? Right? Hegoes, no, we we paid cash
for two Toyotas and we love them, and that we don't see any need
to get any different cars. Andyeah, just the my most smartest,
reliable dude. That's probably the completeopposite of what I would do. But

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I don't know. I might,I might be cool with it. But
the fact that he didn't. He'she has no plans of telling his kids
until they are like in their thirties, because he got I don't want them
growing up just what do you callhim? He goes, I don't want
them to be waiters waiting around onme to die. Yeah. Yeah,

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Or they just kind of like nevernever commit to anything or follow their dreams
or passions because they know they've gotthis, this this mattress. They can
fall on a golden full of money, and I think that's so admirable.
And I think that's it. Now. The kids might be pissed later,
like Dad, what are new dollars? But maybe when they're old enough to
understand, they'll realize what why heis doing what he's doing. But I

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think that's a brilliant approach, thatis. And I wonder if we would
tell each other, like if youwon the damn power ball, the one
that happened on Saturday, and yourcash out was, you know, after
taxes six seven hundred million dollars,how would you conduct your life? Would
you tell me? And Kevo,Yeah, oh, I think about that

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a lot. I always thought myplan would be, well, I don't
know, and this is probably theopposite of sort of what you're saying in
the private, but it would beI would start a documentary like the second
I found out. I would justwith my phone. I would film myself
as much of my initial reaction asI could get. And then I think

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it'd be fun to go to mybrother's house, you know, and knock
on the door, you know,and tell him and get his initial you
know, go to the handful ofpeople my mom, I guess are the
people that I was gonna tell yuesfor the sake of the documentary. I
would probably tell you guys too,thereby violating exactly what you're saying. But
I don't know that I would wantto do or if I'm smart enough to

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do what that guy did. Thedocumentary is your plan, man, whatever
you want goes, so thank you. You want to include this. Well,
the financial advisor guy, you knowkind of asked him, aside from
the things that I mentioned, what'syour motivation for this? And he said,
you know, he was, well, when I won the money,
he goes, Obviously, I hiredan attorney and got some money people to

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help me understand what's the best wayto do this, handle the financial aspect
of it. But he said hestarted doing research on people that had won
lotteries in the past and said that, you know, the overriding theme was
that these people that won large sumsof money like this basically went through it
within ten years and were flat broke. Yeah, you see it happen in

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the NFL all the time, ormaybe you used to more than you do
now. But he said that,he goes, I didn't want to fall
in you know, I didn't wantto succumb to some of those pitfalls.
But well, you said he wontwenty two million. Twenty two million,
but that's that's pocketed. Yes,that is the you know, it was
probably like a fifty million dollar thingthen after whatever taxes and whatnot. But
he took the lump sum and heended up pocketing twenty two million, which

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is a ton of I wonder wherelike the tipping point is, Like,
that's I mean, that is aton of money. I think more than
enough for the rest of your life. I could blow through that in a
month. But that's what like whenyou applied to the NFL or an athlete.
Yeah, and if your career earningis I don't I don't even know
what the what the career earning isright now if you have four six year

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careers like solid make pension whatever,but you're I mean ten million more,
I guess you know it depends.But that's yeah, and yes, to
us, that feels like infinite money. But man, if you try to
keep up with your super max guyson your team at all and put on

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the show for a few years,I can see that not lasting ten years
and nothing else coming and no plansfor anything else to come in. Yeah,
something's probab maybe some careless gambling.I think if you have your situation
squared away, you know, you'vegot a house that you like, you
like the neighborhood you live in.What's wrong with my car? Nothing.

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That's where these guys screw up isthey upgrade things that are not essential,
are not even really that important.Yeah, but you're a you're a that
is a mature adult saying that.And on some I guess I am too.
But if you're twenty two twenty three, you start going and then it
goes Plus you have all your friendsthat you now have given dumb jobs too.

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And yeah, and plus it's funas hell to take all your friends
to Vegas, you know, orto Beza or whatever, of course,
and yeah, I would probably dothat too. Man, you torture a
lot faster, you think even tenmillion dollars. Well, that's the thing
he said. That was another commonthread, and the people that had won

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large sums of money was the knockson the door, you know, the
family, the phone calls, thesad stories, you know, the I
need Oh yeah, well let's gottalee. Mortgage is coming up and a
wife just lost her job and theytell you a real uncle, Bill's got
diabetes and then yeah, and it'slike, that is sad. I do

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love this person. They're not lyingto me. Yep, but that ain't
your responsibility off just a little bit. Well, here's a funny thing,
feeding the cats, isn't it.I mean, if I gave someone five
hundred dollars, that's five hundred dollarsthey did not have yesterday. So there
feeding the stray cat. You know, dynamic there, that's true. One

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thing that this guy said that wonthe money that I thought was fascinating is
he's got a great cover because hiswife's father had passed away right around the
time that they won the money,and he left his entire inheritance to her.
Now, granted, it wasn't likea million dollars enough to if they

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smoke screen enough. When he boughthis mom a new roof out of pocket
because of what some insurance problem thatshe had, She's like, where are
you getting all this money from?Well, you know, we got the
inheritance from Sheila's dad. He's like, oh, and the financial advisors like,
you've already spent that money. Alike five times, haven't you?
And he goes, oh, yeah, for sure, but it's you know,

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they nobody knows how much we gotand they know it wasn't because it
was a visible lifestyle that her dadlived. You can kind of gauge what
somebody's worth and how much money theygot that they can use as a cover.
But he's like, really sensible,dude, And I wish that I
could find the link, because man, if you anybody that comes into money
that hasn't grown up with it orhad it in a long time, it's

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a it's a really good watch.Imagine if that like just take that power
ball whatever you pocket three hundred milliondollars. There is I guess the scenario
where you wouldn't have to tell onesoul, right, and you wouldn't have
to tell your spouse. Yeah,I suppose if it's another account. Well,
if you got divorced, you probablywould very separate account. That might

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be why you don't tell her.Caribbean Island, says Zurich, Switzerland.
Honey, you're always going to theCayman. Yeah, why do you like
the Caymans? I love Scuba?Well, if you tell her what it
what if she's like she's like,not that impressed by you. But now
that you have this money, whatif she's a real conniving bitch, you
wouldn't want her, you know,the day after what you want her to

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know? If you won, youand your husband was a real conniving bit,
you wouldn't want him to know.Is it better if I fraend it
that way? That sounds to melike throwing good money after bad is then
you're killed in a murder for hireplot. That's actually very possible too.

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Yeah, people, yeah, thathas to be the billionaire lottery murder for
higher story. Right, Oh mygod, a real one has to be
probably easily found. I don't wantmy name out there because and then what
all wins to dollars? You're like, hell, just the idiot, common
criminal that thinks if you've got alot of money, then you just have

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stacks of cash lying around your houseand bunk key on the head, and
you can find out where anybody livesjust if you know their name. But
everyone's personality is different. I mean, I personally think I could be fine
playing golf on an island, butI wonder if we didn't have this,
I think I would be fine andjust quit, never do it again.

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But boy, I don't know.You go a year of not doing whatever
this is that we do, youmight miss it. You might miss not
having a voice to comment on somethingwhich is over you is. And I
don't really look at the job thatway. But take it away from you
and see if you thought about thejob that way. Oh yeah, any
people might miss that. I've neverNo, I don't know. Maybe you've

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met you making music living a Imean, because we do live semi public
lives, not really at all,but sort of. I don't think I've
ever met anybody, maybe outside ofnorm that loves this job, in this
business more than you, Kevin.I think that you would be miserable if
you have the business well, okay, the art of it then, or
the whatever you want to call itit. I think you would be miserable

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if you couldn't do this in somecapacity on a semi regular basis. Start
a podcast. There it is solved. You're right nowadays you can do other
things to scratch the itch enough,but it is one of the rare jobs
that you even if you have abillion dollars in the bank, it's a
niche that you can't really quantify losingin your life. You know, like

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the ability to do this, andit's just not the ability to do it
well, but just the fact thatyou get to do it is very unique
and cool. And even a billionairedoes you know, if you don't have
it, it's an odd thing tobe like, all right, well,
what the hell? Like that wasreally something that was fun. I also
wonder that, Okay, approaching thisjob, if you knew that you had
five hundred million dollars in the bank, part of part of the allure of

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doing this, I think is thefact that, you know, maybe us
more so than others, feel likethe string could get cut at any time.
Yeah, And I wonder if there'ssome some element of juice oh yeah
to that, to that dynamic thatmakes it more like if you had what
I'm saying is, if you hadhalf a billion dollars in the bank,

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what's the risk you got a bignet under you no matter what you do.
Yeah, yeah, I think that'skind of make what makes life worth
being engaged in. But we allcan get toasted. Yeah in a week
if five hundred million dollars. Iabsolutely am not pulling audio from Fox four
at NBC five and their eclipse coverage. Yes, last night it's not happening.

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I'm good because I wouldn't have todo it. But now they're come
up with something and I did nineo'clock. Good. Get ready, Yeah,
I'm ready for that. If youare a powerball winner, are you
someone who does have twenty plus millionin your accounts, especially if you've never
told anyone, you know, ifyou keep it very secret, one let

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us know what that's like. Wewon't put your name out there. We
won't put your name there. We'llset up some golf your club, of
course, and we just want tolearn about your lifestyle and what you do,
maybe become friends. You'll become good. We don't want anything out of
this. I don't want any eventhe opportunity fellowship, friendship. Where are
your contemporaries? Although it is customaryif you invite Mikey and Kevin to your

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club that you provide them with,you know, a set of custom club
Yeah, new club driver, anice thing? Maybe three does? Three?
Does titleists? You need a driver? I don't even need a driver.
I didn't bring clothes, sir.Yeah, I need the belt and
shoe and a new shoe to takeyou to the grand opening, Travis Matthews,

(25:53):
North Park. I O, Smithew, you haven't even seen these clothes
with the black card. Here yougo. I am opening up a new
position for a multimillionaire in my life, and I'd like to welcome anyone listening
who fits that category to apply withinwhat an altruistic maneuver. You got a
Mike Michael Sarroy at iHeartMedia dot comand he'll get to that email eventually.

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I have enough poor friends, allright? You want to you need balance.
I want balance in my life,exactly right, and I need to
offset on my idiot poor friends withsomeone very wealthy. And I have that
position. I like that filled asapptwo and four or personal email. He's
authorized. So, Tim, ifyou're listening, imagine a billionaire best friend

(26:42):
who actually liked you and would andknows that you're not I mean, you
know, knows that you're not outto get them or whatever, but knows
you also appreciate. Yeah. Masters, When do we leave five o'clock today?
Okay? On the private jet?Just a friend. I want to

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go to the Masters. Eight years, so much has happened. It's Master's
week. Keo, dude, tomorrowOh, I got you a good primer
at Tuesday. That's not even amaster's primer Tuesday. It's something that happened
in the live tournament this weekend.Very funny. Play that for you at
seven. Well man, all right, good talk. Let's all continue Sexton

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today up, all right, Tuesday. Tuesdays are the worst day of the
week. Oh it's it sucks,but but we're gonna ramp it up for
you today. And we're gonna beginwith the most important thing in the world.
And you can't imagine it is aboutthe event that happened yesterday that's next
to ninety seven won the freak