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Pete's Panic Attack, Tree vs. Golf Cart And Some Marathon Factoids. 
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Episode Transcript

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Let's do this fast in your shapeThumps. I wake up every morning Boston's
only classic rock morning show. Ilook at myself at the mirror and I
go Bam, Dreamer abm awake,dreaming Namas Leak with Pete McKenzie. I'm
still violent before every show a Fordand he'll dirty and unsatisfied and Kenny Yu,
yeah's get crazy. In other words, I'm crazy one seven. I

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want you to go hard fast,Tabby, you're too it. Here's to
the future you c X. Iwould want it to be very low key.
I would want it to be justcome in shorts, in a tank
top and flip flops, Pretend toput some sand down, Pretend we're at
the beach. That's our fame isbeach barbecue. Would you like to come?
Yeah, if we're going to havethat theme, beach barbecue theme on

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a Monday, that'll sounds like it. A lot of people are celebrating the
day off today for this Monday,April fifteenth, the morning. My name
is Kenny ata hamsom too. Hadsome guy here? What about this handsome
guy here, handsome guy, thishandsome guy, Pete mackenzie, what's happening?
Hell? Could get us all handsomeand nnoc if you mask the tub,

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it's your fault, but your saw. I'm the most handsome guy in
the area. A lot of handsomeguys in here today, I guess yes,
according to that bagel shop owner,what say you, Heather Ford,
Hey guys, this is my girlfriend. We don't tell anybody about that.
She's my girlfriend at this moment.But when she leave, I got another
one and me and here will havea big love story. Big a love
as store, big love us story. By the way, you notice that

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they were like and for me atleast, I usually drive in with a
gazillion pickups, and I know youdrive a pickup peep, But to me
this morning, it was just meand a bunch of cars and SUVs.
There were a smattering of pickup trucks, smidge, but there was just there
weren't a lot of cars in general. But I felt good. I was
like, Wow, they gave constructionworkers the day off. Yeah there was

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no construction. Yeah, I thoughtit was a pretty easy drive in.
But I did know this something Ididn't expect to see. On the fifteenth
of April. I know Kenny andI saw the same thing. It was
they were west bounds, so Iassumed they were they were buses, you
know, the shuttle buses had started. Yeah, the lights blazing, and
then when they get on top ofus. It's what Kenny. It was

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a parade of at least fifteen totwenty plow trucks. Trucks as if they
were being shuttled out to the storagefacility in Weston to be put away for
the year, right, or maybeto make room for something. It could
be right, because they needed thespace for the buses. I don't think
I've ever seenwhere a lot of yeah, it was a ton of them.

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Guys had shipped up for work todayjust to go put the plow trucks away
for the season. You know whatI miss about working here as opposed to
Leo and Birmingham when I worked whenwe worked there, I would drive through
BC and like go you know,back roads all the way into work.
And when I got to the marathonroute at that time in the morning,
when we're driving in, the soldierswith their rucksacks are all marching slash running

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towards the starting line because they startat the finish line in the middle of
the night, go all the wayto the starting line, and then when
the race starts, they head backagain. They do it twice. Ye,
And I there was just something Iremember thinking every year I looked forward
to and this year, you know, when we're working here, I don't
get any of that. No,I don't see that, see any marathon
prep. Well you guys, didyou saw buses and snow ploid? We

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saw plows buses. I thought theywere going to be by. And then
all the kids are out of schoolthis week, right, Yeah, that's
right, school vacation way, that'snot gonna they can use all the buses
to transport the runners. So thiswas like a Sunday morning broadcast. Really
is it? It's like a vacationday for most Yeah. I think around.
I'm having a feeling it's going tobe quiet. Quiet on the talkbacks,
quiet on the text lines. Mhmmm, quiet all around. By

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the way, Uh, when yougo to I think this is surprising.
Maybe it just speaks to the factthat I know nothing about the pulse of
the area. But when you goto Boston twenty five and you look at
their menu, and you're just becauseI look every day at all these websites,
but I look at them on myphone. So I don't know about
you, but I don't see themenu as much as I just see a
scroll of the story, the headlines. Yeah, And I go through and

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I and I go through all thesites. But when I pulled it up
on my laptop, it says weather, local, national, video, Politics,
there's an investigative area of sports,and then it says Karen Reid murder
trial. What they has on themenu button. She's got her own menu
link. I just how I haven'teven clicked on it yet because I'm afraid

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there's a lot of interest in it. I guess I know, but it's
like it's such a board. Areyou on board? Well, you're the
news person. I'm not a newsperson. I stopped being a newsperson. We
started working for iHeart. I thenbecame the person who's supposed to do hip
happy headlines. I have no interestin clicking on that story. Just seeing
pictures of her, Well, andthat's all it is. When you I

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just clicked on it, when youclick on her, I'm sorry, can't.
I just can't look it up andscroll. But it's just every story
is a picture of Yeah. Soit's like they know guys like you are
just clicking on these stories to findout. I don't even know what the
victim looks like. Oh, they'vebeen showing the officer. Yeah sometimes I

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know, but not all. Yeah, I don't have TV. I've seen
him, I know you, Ijust haven't. Well, you don't get
pictures of him like you get picturesof her. That's what I mean.
This whole section isn't filled with anythingbut pictures of her sitting at her table.
I don't know. I mean,and I know it's marathon Monday,
it's Patriots Day, and those arebig things going on, but that's the
only I couldn't. I can't evenbelieve you couldn't get past on the I

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really I can't. Now I'm gonnahave to go to all the different websites
to see see if they have asection. You know, you know BZ
doesn't, do they even I don'teven think I've seen a Karen Reid story
on BZ. Local News loves agood trial, don't they. I can't
wait till this becomes something. Thisis gonna be a movie, right,
they've already picked out Who's yeah zlex weather becoming mostly sunny and warm highs

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in the Blake Lively. That's myvote, Blake Lively to play Karen Reid.
Yeah yeah, maybe, I meanshe's so blonde to me, Blake
Lively. Well, Kenny's like,yes, I like Blake Lively. High's
in the mid topper sixties. Samefor tomorrow, but maybe a bit cooler.
Forty eight degrees in Boston. I'mheather Ford on a one hundred point
seven double z LX, Boston's onlyclassic rock morning show, five forty three,

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forty eight degrees warming up today.Finally, man still had that wind
lingering around all weekend to just keepthe chill in the air. I know
I'm telling you what, I'm reallystretching out this shorts thing, but I
think I'm going to be in theclear now for the next couple of days
at least, with mid sixties expected, so we'll take it right. It's
Kenny Young, Pete McKenzie, heatherFord. It's going to be a nice

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dry week to kick off golf seasonfor you local golfers like me. We
also got an email from a fivethirty club member John. We were talking
about the plow trucks that Kenny andI saw westbound from downtown. There were
ten to fifteen of them. Iwas a convoy. It was a convoy.
John says. The plow trucks areused to block roadway so that rogue,

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malicious vehicles cannot drive onto the marathon. It's brilliant. Oh. They
usually place them in strategic intersections orwhere the marathon route crosses major roads.
Hard to make that move. Uhhuh, genius move, thank you John.
Ye, that makes sense. AlthoughI've never noticed, I'm sure he's
right. Yeah, blocking major intersectionskeep crowd control. Basically, I don't

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think I have ever remember seeing aplow truck on Marathon Monday. I don't
either. I don't. Maybe,like you said, strategically placed so out
of site and we don't have toyou know, a little added security measure
right there. I like it.Listen, how's this for a little security,
A little pad your bank account typeof scenario. Sure, you got
the Powerball drawing tonight, sixty threemillion mega millions. There was no winner,

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Already that just climbed pretty quickly.But we're starting off something again today
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hundred point seven WCLX, Boston.Sorry, Kenny, you were out of
the studio and I feel you didn'tget a chance to see the things that
we were looking at. The Olympicsare coming up right in did you say,
France? Paris, France right,yes? And they're bed bugs yes.
And then we were all on thesebig city and then we were trying
to discuss, uh, was thatthe Olympics we bid for? Sort of?

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And then everybody threw a fit inFrance. It's like, that's fine,
we'll take it right like theater tenyears ago, that was the one
we were thinking of. So goodfor them. But anyway, Nike has
released what the uniform will be forwomen's track athletes, and I'm just going

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to show it to you. Lookslike a bathing suit. It does,
but look at the genital area.See how high up and thin that's it's
even high on the mannequin. Yeah, I believe thet So these are the
comments online from all of the trackathletes. One hurdler writes, Hey,
European Wax, would you like tosponsor Team USA steeple chaser Colleen Quigley.

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I mean, I still want tomake the team, but I mean she's
been working her whole life for this. Another sprinter April Fools was ten days
ago. One woman writes an athlete, this mannequin is standing still and everything's
still showing. Imagine mid flight likemid movie. And another former US champion
wrote, this is a costume bornout of forces that don't have anything to

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do with women's sports. I mean, I understand that the volleyball players,
like you know, they wear thelittle things up their shes. Yeah,
but and I feel like it coverstheir front parts enough. This one looks
like it's going like there's a straightline of cloth that goes straight up to
their navel and then goes up andaround their hips. Yeah, it looks
like an old school nineteen eighties bathingsuit, a lot of exposure. Yes,

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it looks like the high waisted Frenchcut down there. These are professional
athletes, and I know a lotof them to take a lot of time
to look pretty because they have tomarket themselves. And I get that,
but I don't know how many ofthem groom themselves in such a way where
they one can wear that outfit,and two it looks like if you're running

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fast enough, it's going to pinchin the middle and ride right up the
center. Run fast enough, lookslike you could walk or cross your legs
and it would bunch up. Yeah. Now they're going to have options.
Are they going to be able?They're allowed to wear the men's uniform.
Is I was about to ask whatis the men's look like? After all
this, I'll show you what themen's uniform looks like. They're allowed to
wear that one, which looks likea men's bathing shorts. Yeah, so

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what Yeah, that might change?I don't know if that might change.
I think they should. Women shouldhave the option to wear that. There
are a number of women that aregonna make yeah, cover them short.
I don't think they can cover themin shorts. I think they can wear
the men's uniform because you can't justwear whatever you want. Everything has to
it's a uniform, it has tomatch. There are some athletes who are

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like, yeah, I'll do it, you know whatever. I don't care.
But when I was in high school, that's when we made the transition
from shorts to bun huggers. Intract do you know what bun huggers are?
That's when girls start That's what wecalled uh when they first came out,
the shorts that look like underpants.So when I was in the beginning
of high school, we wore shortslike track shorts, and then towards the

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end of high school, uniforms startedto look like a tank time and bun
huggers. And I remember thinking Inever want to wear that. But now
you go to a high school trackmeet, they're all wearing bun huggers.
So and I don't even know whatthey call them anymore. I just it's
it's like less and less clothing.Oh yeah, it really is. It

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goes. It's just asking for likescreenshots that are going to end up all
over the internet. These people haveworked their whole lives being in the Olympics
and now they're just gis. Nowthey're just going to be like the vaginas.
It's just it's really horrible and I'mgonna give you one more horrible story.
Yeah right, this is not asexy story. Did you see that

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the world's oldest living conjoined twins havedied at the age of sixty two?
Did not? I'm going to showyou a picture. You'll remember boys mixed.
Okay, so that was them.Do you remember seeing them? I
remember seeing them all of the newswhen I was a kid. That's Laurie
and George. George they were born, but George transitioned later in life,

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and there they were connected at thehead and it almost looks like they shared
an eyeball. So sixty sixty twosixty two, that's all crazy land,
because I would think that the lifeexpectancy wouldn't have been that high for conjoined
twins West Reading, Pennsylvania, eitherwould I. And that was why it
became such a big story. Theywere born in September of sixty one,
and the nine years older than thesecond oldest pair of female born canjoin twins

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ever recorded. Wow, I justall I know is that they were They
share lots of blood vessels, orthey used to in their brains. All
I remember is them talking about howthey either had separate apartments or separate rooms
in their apartment. And one night, and you just get used to this
because this is how you've spent yourwhole life. They would spend the in
Lori's room, and then the nextnight they would spend in George's room.

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And each room was decorated to theliking of that person so that they could
lead. And they said, whenyou're in the other person's room, you
turn off. It's not your night. You're just hanging there there. You're
there for conversation if needed. Butyeah, they that's how they split.
Maybe that's why they live so long, because they were respectful of each other
in that hard space. Zlex weatherbecoming mostly sunny and warm. Highs in

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the mid upper sixties seem for tomorrowmay be a bit cooler forty eight degrees
in Boston. I'm Heather Ford onone hundred point SEVENBUZLX, Boston's only classic
rock morning show, one hundred pointseven w ZLX six twenty one. Now
on this Patriots Day, fifteenth AprilMarathon Day. Hey, remember, if
you're stretching out getting ready to runthat big twenty six point two race today,

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take us with you. We'll providethe perfect motivational soundtrack for you.
Download the free iHeartRadio app you canlisten along the race route there. All
right, we'll try to keep youproperly pumped up forty seven degrees. Yeah,
it's starting to break up out therenow, mid sixties expected by the
afternoon, but right around the startof the race it looks like upper fifties
and approaching sixties, so a littlebit of a cool start, but then

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they'll warm up this afternoon, sostay hydrated for all means and measures.
Meanwhile, as we start off anew work week, here, it's Kenny
Young, Pete McKenzie, heather Fordnew batch of Ticket to Rock Opportunities.
I'll wait you coming up at eightforty in our classic rock Clash. Another
legendary artists coming to the MGM musiccall Fenway. They've been getting some big

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names there first week in August,We've got cheap trick returning to town to
headline the MGM Music Hall. Sowhen your way in coming up at eight
forty here, it's the election heresix thirty forty seven on its way up
to the low sixties, it's KennyYoung, Pete McKenzie, heather Ford.
Well. As the Boston Bruins regularseason is winding down. Nice to see
them. I'll pull out that winagainst Pitt on Saturday. But this is

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kind of weird, Pete. Youbrought this up a little earlier off the
year here, so I'll bring itup on the here. Bruins back in
action tonight. The last two gamesof the season are back to back games.
They get the Capitals tonight and thenSenators at home tomorrow to wrap up
the regular season. Yeah, Iknow, it sounds like three games in
four days. Tough way to endthe season, right, but they will

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have some significant time off before theirfirst round game. They will, and
I think they're gonna have to waitaround to see who they're gonna play to,
although right now it kind of lookslike Tampa Bay might be them out
of the shoot, so we'll seewhat happens and the Celtics have to wait
around for their opponent. I don'tthink it can be the seventy six ers,
but wouldn't that be something if itwas? So Yeah, how that
whole play in thing works? Philly, Miami, Chicago, and Atlanta all

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have play in games this week.So yeah, the Celtics, who wrap
it up their season last night againstthe Wizards within ten point victory. Yeah,
like you say, they got towait around and find out I mean
then be back. You know,the Sixers made a little bit of a
run and push at the end ofthe season to get into a position to
be in the playoffs. But they'rein the play in so I don't know
if they would be a first roundopponent eventually or not. But I mean

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as the number one seed too,won't the Celtics get like a they'll get
the lower seat. Well, they'llget the eighth seed. But I don't
know how that playing plays out.You know, could the seventy six end
up being the eighth seed and thenthey have to take on the Celtics in
round one? That would be whatyou'd want for the Eastern Conference Final.
I just like you're saying, howdoes the play in play out? Right,

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that should be your line of themorning. The other thing I noticed
yesterday talking about the Celtics Peyton Pritchard. You know, everybody talks about Jalen
Brown and Tatum Orford, Derek White, Derek White, porzingis right. Peyton
Pritchard played in all eighty two gamesthis year for the Celtics. That's impressive.
Yeah, I mean that's how deepthat team is. They are deep.

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Yeah, deeper than last year forsure, Oh, no question.
They're poised for a good run.And of course Mike Gorman. Yeah,
he's his last regular season game asthe Celtics announcer was yesterday. He is
one of the nicest people I've evermet. It just seems like the genuine
article. I never got to meethim, buch A nice guy and hardible.
I mean, he's been doing thissince what eighty one eighty two,

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since he had brown hair. He'salways been I don't even remember who did
it before him, right, youknow what I mean, that's how long
he's been at this. I'll tellyou this. If it wasn't for Mike
Gorman, I never would have goton Comcast and sat on that NBA panel.
Oh yeah, with I was soout of place. You're never geniuses.
They're not geniuses. But thanks toMike Gorman, you know, for

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for pushing it and getting me onthere. That was fun. And I
did that a few times with themand that was very cool. But Gorman,
uh, well, it was MikeGorman Day yesterday, according to Mayor
wou Right, that's right, uhhuh. It's really special to be able
to come here and officially give theproclamation declaring it Mike Gorman Day citywide.
He's a legend here, the voicepart of our families and seeing so much

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history being made across so many decades. We are proud that he's an Emmy
winner, Hall of Famer, butmost of all that he is a Boston
Public School alum as well. Gotit, got it, got it.
That's his line. That's his line, and he will do round one of
the playoffs. That's it, andthat'll be it. Good good. So
that wasn't a final game yesterday,just regular season game, Kenny, and

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he'll be back for the hopefully sevengames. So if the Celtics win,
if they make it further, hewon't go on now because then it goes
to national Yeah. Sad, theyshould put them there anyway. No,
I always felt that way. Anychatter about who's going to be taking his
place, looking at Sean Grandy perhapsmaking the transition from radio to TV.

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Possibly it could be if he wantsto get back and he can do it.
There's no question about. He's doneit before from Minnesota, so he
could. But curious, I don'tknow. I haven't heard some big shoes
to fill for sure. Congrats Gorman, great career, buddy. That's a
rock morning show that, my friends, was the record that holds the distinction
of finally knocking Michael Jackson's Thriller outof the top spot on the Billboard charts

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in the year nineteen and eighty three, Quiet Ryan of all things. And
the irony about it is they didn'teven want to record that song come on,
Feel the Noise, which was aSlade cover. They didn't want to
do it, and the producers werelike, listen, fellas, I know
we're wrapping up your big debut albumhere, but we need another single.
We need a single. So it'slike the producers from the label that pushed
them into covering that song, andso that you know, aggressive vocal stylings

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was done out of anger. Wow, those big gang vocals, they didn't
even want to record the damn song. Let me tell you something that answer
to that Michael Jackson tribute question.If you don't know it, you wouldn't
guess it in a thousand you tryand guess that that right, No way,
no way. One. Yeah.Of all the great that's a good
one for the pocket Kenny, right, yeah, right, of all the
great albums that came out around nineteeneighty three. You know the police come

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to mind, right, But no, it was a little old quiet ride,
right. I love that it issix forty six now, okay to
young Pete McKenzie heather Ford. Sobig does big to Do's nine to ten?
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(21:22):
at Hopkinson at the starting line atnine ten. Yeah, the race starts
and you get qualified and end upwinning a thousand bucks and run the marathon.
Look at that. What a daythat would be. Yeah, listening
to the iHeartRadio app to WZLX soyou can enjoy all this great motivational music
as you're getting ready to run twentysix point two God, just thinking about
that, just saying running twenty sixpoint two miles. Oh my, aching

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back from a Planet Fitness. WCLXStudios, Horizon Now Now, thanks for
making us part of your morning headlineswith Heather great Store on one point seven.
WCLX bosses have always been easily distractedby everything that's outside the windows of
our studio, Squirrel, more sosince we moved here into Medford, because

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the studio is just basically all windows. So icee. All the airplanes,
I know their patterns. We watcheda hawk the other day. Any bird
that flies past, I follow itlike I'm as dumb as dumb can be.
But this morning I am just followingthis blimp. And every day this
thing is out. It's the DicksSporting Good limp, and I'm not on

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this new Dick store at the proofThey're going hot on the air right.
So it started out where it lookedlike it was maybe taking off from the
airport, because it was coming likekind of past us. And now it's
just kind of set itself up bythe finish line, or at least a
view near the finish line. AndI'm assuming that's because all the runners are
hopping on school buses for the firsttime in their lives in the last ten

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or fifteen years, and they're takingschool buses to the starting line, right,
I mean that does that start aroundseven in the morning or six thirty
or six, So, so,uh, it's just stationed there. I
can't it's right over the right sideof Pete's head. And if Pete's not
looking at me, his peripheral visionprobably makes him think I'm staring right at
him because I can't stop looking atthe point. And that's okay, I

(23:14):
don't mind you looking at it.I know you're looking at me. It's
still there. I love when ablimp is a fixture in the sky.
It just tells you you're in amajor city. It's creepy though things are
happening. It moves so slow butfast. They creep me out. Glimps
have always creeped me out. Iwill tell you. It is one of
the most joyful rides you'll ever take. If you get to ride in one,
you've ever been in one, Yeah, Oh, it's great. It's

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amazing. When you're up. Whenyou're up, they just turn the engines
off. You're just floating. Andthen when you have to come down,
they reb the engines up and theyforce it down. Yeah. God,
it's a while. It's a wildride. So marathons today, in case
you didn't know a boy, allthe talk and the fact that you live
here and it's the only thing weall can talk about for days and weeks

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leading up to it, and therunners they're ready, Yeah, they're ready
to go. The Boston Marathon.It's like no else. It's kind of
like the spirit where I feel likefamily. I think I've got the nerves,
the excitement. I also know thati've historically tried to run for time,
and this time I just want totake it all in. Just the
fact that I get to run withher daughter's name. It's the opportunity of
a lifetime. I hate cold,I hate rain, I hate snow,

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so for me, it's perfect.I am a runner that likes he Yeah,
it's going to be very nice todayfor people watching. I don't know
how nice it is for the peoplerunning. But she seemed to like it.
She was into it. I'm goingto give you a feel good story.
I know that it's a Monday,but it's Patriots Day, so why
not give you a feel good story. The headline on Boston twenty five is

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blow this whistle. Medford fifth gradersequipped seventy postal workers in Medford with safety
whistles. This is awesome. Thesetwo elementary school students distributed her names Savannah
McLaughlin and Adam Costello. They're in. They go to the Brooks School here
in Medford, and they came upwith this idea after hearing about a postal

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carrier attacked on Halloween in the citystealing those master keys. Yes, and
it's been happening a lot, andso they're in like this after school group
that like works with citizenship and socialresponsibility, and they decided to go the
whistle path instead of a you know, guns and tasering and mace path.

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And they're adorable. You ever feelbig dropped flowers? Whistle nail carriers are
very important and enter to be treatedperforming the highest degree of perspect wows adorable.
I'm very proud, and I justhope we can help more post offices
around Medford or the state too,she goes on to say, and then

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Adam goes, we know we willnever see them get hurt ever. Again,
That's the most adorable thing I've everheard. She's so well spoken too.
So after she addressed and made aspeech to the postal workers, they
caught up with her on the sidewalk. I heard it's happened around Massachusetts,
like all over Massachusetts, so andit's really sad. I'm very proud,

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and I hope we like all leastget into more post like help your post
offices like fro I heard, orlike just like the state too. We
really appreciate them. I will Iwill vote for Governor McLaughlin when she she
appreciates her letter carriers love her.Zelex Weather mostly sonny or becomes It's mostly

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sunny now and warm highs in themid upper sixties SeeMe for tomorrow, but
maybe a bit cooler forty eight degreesIn Boston. I'm Heather Ford on one
hundred point seven The money Man,Any Money one hundred points MWZLX, Boston's
only classic rock morning show. Talkabout tickets. This is your final day
to earn your passage to New OrleansJazz Fest. Yes, it's a flyaway

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opportunity of a lifetime music fans.Today's the last day. You haven't until
midnight, I believe to open upfree iHeartRadio apps, start listening to WZLX,
and you'll follow the prompts to winyour way to New Orleans for the
second weekend of the much heralded Jazzand Heritage Festival down there eight days in
total, two four day weekends,and it is just packed with talent this

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year. I mean I was justlooking at it. The main stage where
you're gonna win your Grand Marshall VIPpasses for Airfair, five nights hotel.
The main stage. The second weekendhas The Stones headlining one night, Foo
Fighters, Neil Young. Just tothrow a few names out there. But
I also saw George Thorogod's name popup on this. They have like four
other stages besides the main stage.This is a big deal and like I

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said, it's spread out over twoweekends to four day weekends. So whin
your trip today, This is thelast day to get into the running for
this and over Cinco de Mayo,I believe, right the first weekend of
the festival, or maybe it's thefirst weekend in May. Well, I
know it's not too often you get, you know, weekend getaways that go
for five days. Yeah, that'spretty sweet. That's why we were thinking,

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Well five days in the big easymight be taking a toll on your
physically, might need five days whenyou get back, right, But this
way, you've got a day beforehand. And it's like I said, it's
a four day weekend festival, soyou get a next day recovery on the
back end. I would say,making a great trip right there, full
details and a bonus chance to geton this running today. As I said,

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you have until midnight. W zxdot Com reading from the Book of
Zeppelin one hundred point seven w ZLX, Boston's only classic rock morning show.
Seven forty one, forty seven onits way up to the low sixties.
Today going to be a corker,going to be a beautiful one. Good
race day weather and unless you're runningand you like it a little warmer than

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you Spectator day, fantastic. Yeah, you were just showing me pictures of
marathon a start start line last yearand it was foggy and drizzly and gray
and miserable out as the runners were. This one's a beauty bling But yeah,
a little bit, there's that blimp, Heather, You're right, I
can't look away from the Dick's BlindCity and we have a world class marathon

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ording goods be a blimp. Iknow it's just hovering around the finish line
there in the back bay. Butanytime I look over now, I'm just
like my lock in on it,squirrel, squirrel. Well, I think
it's only fitting that we do thisright now? Then, So what's going
on with Boston's only classic rock morningshows? On one point seven w z

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X I had a panic attack onSaturday. I'm sure you guys have done
your tax returns right already gotten itback. Yeah, okay, So the
deadline is the seventeenth. Here inthe state of Massachusetts because of our holiday
on Monday fifteenth today, just forstate taxes, though federal still the fifteenth,
seventeenth, even for federal That's whatmy tax guy said. I didn't

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google it. Google it real quickand make sure I'm giving the right information,
because I have other information I'd liketo give that I know is right.
But if I don't give that correctinformation, then they won't believe the
rest of it. So is thecredibility is in question? Is our deadline
the seventeenth for federal in the stateof Massachusetts. I'm just getting the Massachusetts

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right now, all right, Sowhy you're looking that up? And you
can interrupt anytime, Heather that youfind it. We had mailed ours on
the twenty second of March. We'regetting a few thousand dollars back from the
federal government. So this weekend onsad and oh, I also owed the
state, so I mailed them bothon the same day, March twenty second,
right immediately the cat the check wascashed. Okay for the state seventeen

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Oh yeah, it is the seventeenth, okay, So thank god. I
want to make sure I'm giving thecorrect information. That's what it's saying,
though, and I'm looking it uponline, so I don't even know that's
what my tax guy said. Sothen to believe your tax guy. Yeah,
yeah, but I always if Idon't see it myself, like I
just heard it from the tax guy, you know, so you saw it
for while. Okay, So Icome across on Saturday. Guys the tax

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return for the federal government in myin my bill drawer. Yeah, and
it doesn't say copy on it.It's and our signatures are on it.
Oh, it's the original. SoI said to my wife, let me
send what did we send the federalgovernment? Didn't you already get a return?
Though? No? Oh, Ihaven't got my return. I've been
going to the mail box every day. I know it takes like six weeks

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or something like that. And thatwas March twenty seconds, so it hasn't
even been a month. Just adirect deposit. But yes, we couldn't
do it because we did it electWe filed with oh you're taxing my tax
guy, and he ran out ofthings to file with electronically. He only
had five. He used them up. He said, yeah, yeah,
I couldn't get it in the mail. And I'm fine, with that,
It's okay, it's cool. Soyou know, I'm like, we didn't

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even mail, it's send. What'sgoing on here? What did we send
to the federal government? It wasyeah, I mean I have the receipt
that we sent to Kansas City.You know, I have the received from
the post office in my hand trackingnumber. And what did what did I
send him? A mad magazine?I don't know what I sent them?
What did you send them? Idon't know A stack of your old bills?

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Did you send your real one?Then? This weekend? So while
we're looking at, you know,these documents in a panic, then I
noticed my wife's Social Security number isincorrect on the federal tax it was one
digit off. She noticed that.I didn't notice. It's a good thing
you did send this text. Guy, shouldn't shouldn't he be like a little

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more akin to the I P noone basic information? Was it? So?
Kenny semi retired, right, hesaid, he's blind. He still
has a handful of people that he'syou know, working with, So you
know that's the reason he couldn't doit electronically because he could only do five
of them with his package that hebought anywhere he didn't know that at the
time, so then we had todo it manually and all that. So,

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my god. So anyway, we'remaking the correction on the Social Security
number. I don't know what thegovernment opened in the envelope. It could
have been the state return copy.I don't for all I know, I
don't know what it was. Idon't know what it was. All I
know is the State of Massachusetts cashthat check within three days. Okay,
got theirs. So they got theirs. Now, the other thing he told

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me was believe him or not youcan say is if you're getting a refund,
you can be late. It doesn'thave to be postmarked on the seventeenth.
They don't want you, they don'twant to pay you. But if
you, oh, it needs tobe postmarked on the same going to jail.
So now I got to wait anothersix weeks for my few thousand bucks.

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Sweating anymore? So, did youmake copies of everything before you sent
this second version? I'm well,I haven't done it yet because I'm he's
going to make the correction on theSocial Security So I got to stop by
his house tomorrow or all that takingcare of donald copies of everything I know
you're really pressing. Well, I'mgetting paid though, I know, so
it's no big deal. Yeah,but I won't see that until the end
of May. Problem as long asyou're postmarked before the seventeenth or by the

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seventeenth, right if you postmarked.If you oh, you got to be
postmarked by the seventeenth. If youyou're getting paid by the government, they
don't care when you send it.I know what they did. I mean,
I think we got money back bythe end of February. It was.
It was when it's directed. Itwas super quick. The middle of
March. I get bummed about that. He's gonna have to he's gonna have
to make that correction next year.I'm done with him. Yeah, I

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was gonna say you, I mightrecommend our guy down in Franklin, because
I'm telling you what. He's buttonedup and he files electronically and it's done
and you get We literally sit inhis office for thirty minutes and we get
sent home with our copies and we'reall set. It's just I've been with
this guy a long time, decades, Kenny decades. Yeah, I want
to stick with him. They're gettingthe socials wrong. I know, that's

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a tough one. Man. Well, if you need a little extra help
in the financial department, we're hereto help. Perfect timing for tax season
two thousand dollars. Bride returns today, my friends, just over an hour
away. Yeah, it's almost eighto'clock. Look at that. I had
nine to ten. Your first keywordthat could start earning you one thousand bucks
every hour on the tenths from Zlafrom a Planet Fitness, WCLX Studios,

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Horizon. Now, thanks for makingthat part of your morning. People are
idiots. Great story on one hundredpoint seven WCLX, Boston. I mean,
only no one really cares about thisbut me. But I would like
you to know that I did finishmy very first it's ten months in my
very first adult piano book. Iwent from start to finish one hundred and

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twenty pages through. I've made it. I'm pasted the basics, and I've
moved on to a book that mykids had when they were in elementary school.
So well, yeah, kind ofYeah for Bobby, definitely, elementary
school is twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, so I've stuck with it. Congratulations,
I'm sticking with it. I stilldon't want to play anything for you

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guys in the sense. Well,reason is, I'm doing things that are
complicated for my brain and my fingersright now, for you know, my
skill level, but it doesn't soundcomplicated, like if you just hear me
play, you're like, wow,that stinks. So maybe after when I
get one year's June tenth, maybeif I can figure out something that doesn't
sound like I'm an elementary school pianoplayer that hasn't practiced even though I practice

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every day for like twenty minutes aday. I say, the fact that
you're putting in the time and theeffort, it should make you proud.
Oh yeah, not proud, butdefinitely. You don't have to be a
concert pianist at this point, butno, but I definitely want to be
able to play and sing. That'smy goal is to be able to like
pick us, any song I wantto pick, sit at the piano and
play it and sing it at thesame time. So for us, for

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no, this is way after usexists. It's going to take a while.
You said this one year, youknow what it's in my It's in
my sex because writing it down becauseI'm I'll hold you to it. Next
well, no, I mean that'smy let's see one year. I gotta
hear you, God, where isit. I want to hear you do
the drums too, do you?I do it's going to I want to

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hear you play the intro to BohemianRhapsody on the piano. I bet she
plays the drum June tenth. Ibet you. I played with very little
emotion, which is probably what ismost stunning, to be like a robot.
Kind of like a robot. Ihate to tell you the marathon is
today. We know that here inthis room because that stupid blimp keeps flying
over and over and over the finishlinemp. It's scary and creepy. It's

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so slow but fast, and it'sjust floating and how does it do that?
Watching, just watching, so itwas over. I actually don't see
it at this very second, butit was over the finish line for forever
because that's where everybody was hopping ontheir buses to get to the starting line.
But it starts. Do the wheelchairsgo at nine? I think,
yeah, so maybe it's done.It's circling and now it's going to take

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the hour. Blimp. I thinkI seen this take the hour blimp ride
all the way to the starting line, and then it's like creepily follow all
of the runners back to I haveno idea how it's going to do it.
I love having a blimp around.The only thing missing is it should
be a Good Year blim. That'swhen you really made it as a city.
That's a good and not a hoodblamp or a Dick's blimp. You
need the Good Year blimp. Thisis the advertisement though, for Dick's forty

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Goods, not the life Snoopy too. That's right, So can you finds
the US. I've got cuts ofrunners, but I've also got a cut
of a seventy year old woman namedJeanie Pastel and her daughter who are running
this together. First of all,wow at seventy. Second of all,
this isn't her first time she's she'sdone this before. I did it the

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year I was turning fifty, andthat was twenty years ago, and my
kids made fun of me and said, mom, mom, you should run
it when you're seventy. I lookup to her in so many ways,
and when I was sixteen and shewas running for the first time, I
didn't understand the effort that it tookto run America. I'm still strong.
I can still do things, andthat's great. It's a gift from God

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to be able to keep going.She sounds like she's very young, so
good for her. But it's alot of miles, just a lot to
do. So anyway, it's anexciting day. It's one of my favorite
days of the year, to behonest. It's just joyful and runners and
lots of I mean, the costumes, as long as they're not covering your
face, they still happen. There'sa lot of Tutuo's that are still out

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there on the course. If Isay the name Hannah Gutierra's reed, did
you know who I'm talking about?Either of you? But what about if
I say she's the armorer for theRust movie that I follow. Oh okay,
so she's been found guilty. Nowshe's in on they convicted her on
manslaughter charges. But here's the thingwe all know from just watching TV,

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right that when you're in prison andyou make a phone call, what do
you know about that phone call?It's recorded, it's recorded, and it
probably says to them this phone callis being recorded. Right, So while
on the phone recorded phone call,she called the jurors in her case idiots
and a holes and complain that theyonly took two hours to deliberate. And

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then the prosecutor's got a hold ofthat. She hasn't been sentenced yet.
They're going to use all that inher sentencing now they can. Yes,
it's been recorded. You're in afederal prison, yeah, or a state
prison. I don't even know what'sgoing In the beginning that this woman was
the it's the armorers, like she'sthe last line of defense and something like

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this. I said this since thebeginning, and everyone wanted to, like
convict Alec Baldwin say, well,he's the one that pulled the trigger.
Yes, but this armorer's sole jobis to make sure that he's not pulling
a loaded gun. Exactly, yeah, exactly, yeah. Yeah. So
she's now now they're going to takethe prosecutors is going to try to use
that in the sentencing phase. I'mjust thinking, you know, it's recorded.

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I mean, we all we've allon while watching a date line or
something. I know, Pete,you don't watch it, Kenny and I
do that. You hear prison callswhere they're like, you know, talking
to someone and you're like, whyare you safe? All right? You
live it to yourself, tell yourcellmate something or lie to them. I
don't know. Z Lex weather becomingmost I'm assuming she's gonna get a worse
it's gonna go pretty hard on becomingmostly sunny and warm. Highs in the

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mid dubber sixties save for tomorrow,but a bit cooler forty eight degrees in
Boston. I'm heather Ford on onehundred point seven w z X. It's
Kinny Young, Pete McKenzie, heatherFord and nice little uh. Let's see
three point six million dollar payout forScotti Scheffler yesterday as the Masters wrapped up
down in Augusta. You see whathe's made this season, a tradition unlike

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any other so far this season.I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess here
because and this is only in golfwinnings, right, not as endorsements and
endorsements. This is just perse money. Let's go twenty one million, Well,
not that much, it's thirteen nothingto say that. No, one
point three million is what the caddygets. Kenny gets ten percent. Oh

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nice, that's good living. Yeah. By the way, Scotty Scheffler's had
the same he's twenty seven years old. He said, the same coach since
he was seven years old. That'ssomething I believe. He's How cool is
that he's only twenty seven to twotime Masters champion twenty seven years old.
That's credible. How much does thecoach get paid then? If the cat
is is he paying the coach afee a year like a salary salaried position.

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You think he's the only Yeah?Is he the only person he's coaching
now at this point? That's whathe That's what they were saying. I
mean, they kept showing him andthey said, that's his swing coach seven
years old. I'm just wondering ifthat coach coaches other people, Scotty,
if that's his only one at thispoint, I'd want him. Yeah.
I mean you think about the scoreboard. You got eleven under for Scotty Scheffler.

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There's plenty of room for a lotof players to be under par when
the winner is eleven under. Yeah, only eight players were under par.
I know. Yeah, it's amazingcrazy how good he is with the conditions
the way they were, and youknow they had a battle the rain and
the wind and then you know,the wind again over the weekend. But
you know, this sidebar, sidestory that they were talking about all weekend

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long was the fact that Scheffler's wifeis expecting. Yeah, and he had
come out and said that should shebe ready to go and give birth,
he was going to walk off thecourse no matter where he was in the
standings. Well, that's because hefelt like, I'm twenty seven years old,
I've won a green jacket already,I can only have one first child.
Yeah, right, yeah, interestingcomments afterwards in the press conference for

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the victor. I feel like playingprofessional golf is an endlessly not satisfying career.
For instance, in my head,all I can think about right now
is getting home. I'm not thinkingabout the tournament. I'm not thinking about
the green jacket. I'm trying toanswer your questions. I'm trying to get
home. I wish I could soakthis in a little bit more. Maybe

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I will tonight when I get home. But at the end of the day,
I think that's what the human heartdoes. You always want more,
and I think you got to fightthose things and focus on what's good.
Like I said, winn Is,this golf tournament does not change my identity
of my identity is secure, andI cannot cannot emphasize that enough. I
get that, but you know,you're talking to people that you know.
You know, you made thirteen milliondollars in a few months, you know,

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playing a game. Now, Iknow you work at it, your
at your craft. You spend hoursupon hours and multiple swings and it's you
study the game. I get it. But it's got to be satisfying.
It has to be when he hasa moment to soak it all that.
Yeah, sure, I'm sure.Incidentally, so we said he earned three
point six million. You know whatthe last place finisher in this year's Masters,

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which was tiger Woods, tiger Woodssixteen over. You know what he
took home for a page a littlehigher, very close though. Fifty thirty
nine thousand, six hundred dollars tigerWoods payday. Yeah, that's pretty nice.
Yeah, it's still more than thehigh amateur Neil Shipley, who looked
like a surfer dude that they broughtinto my butler cabin at the end yesterday.

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You see that guy interviewed. He'strue, but he's also brilliant.
He's like got a master's degree,he's got certain degrees. Went to Ohio
State, got a degree, wentto James Madison, got another degree.
He's something else. And how aboutthe storyline that he got to play with
Tiger Woods on Sunday at his firstever Master's tournament. This ship was cool,
pretty cool. Yeah. The othergolf news over the weekend other than

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everybody's going to be playing this weekaround here. I mean the weather,
it's going to be dry, it'sgoing to be in the fifty sixth.
You can get a tea time.It's school yet, you know, yeah,
true, Well the league starts,so you have those built into you
know. So. The other onewas on Saturday in Pennsylvania. There's a
country club. These two guys arein a golf cart cruising down the golf

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course, minding their own business,when one of them dies. What's oh
yeah, what's no kidding. JonianTownship Police, fire and ems were called
to Melrose Country Club just after threeo'clock this afternoon for a report of a
tree that had fallen on a golfcart. According to police, they arrived
to find the passenger of the golfcart dead, with the large upwarded tree

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that had fallen on top of thecart was ripped off and two sets of
clubs were still on the cart.Police say the tree had fallen on the
golf cart while the pair was drivingon the course. According to police,
the driver suffered minor injuries. Sothe hope is that this person died doing
what they love. But what ifhe hated golf? Yeah, what if
he didn't like it at all thefirst day? And I want to hear
her say golf cart, over andover and over again, golf cart,

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golf cart, golf cart, golfgolf cart, golf cart. Yeah,
yeah, I mean the chances ofthis, I mean, she'd say that
coming. She says in the storythat they were driving down the car because
the car it's right across the cartpath when it came down on this right.
So was it the tree falling atthe exact moment that they were passing
under it? Yeah? Well itis. Well the golf cart's got a
roof on it, number one,and you're not looking up, you're looking

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you're bs and you know you're maybeyou'd hear it go you no fall out
on the ground, talk above freaking, That's not how I want to die.
Just the heads up. Oh well, I love the game and I
wouldn't mind dying on the golf coursegolf cart. No, maybe maybe just
unless it all ends. You hita putt, it goes, or you

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get a hole in one and you'reso happy, everybody's celebrating in high fiving.
They turn around and you're gone.So a good way if you love
golf that much. Well, lastlytoo, it's just miraculous that the driver
wasn't also killed because this was abig tree. I saw the video picture.
I mean you wrap your hands aroundit, maybe you know. And
when you're sitting in a cart,it's close quarters. So how does the

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passenger probably got thrown out and thedriver didn't or did he jump out?
The tree probably fell on the passengerside like it was, it was leaning
and it was his side, andthe and the guy driving probably got thrown
out, crazy, pushed out bysomething with the impact. Crazy. Oh
I got a transition out of thatsomehow. Let's do it. Let's brighten
your spirits with some cheap trick ticketsat eight forty in the Classic Rock Clash,

(47:58):
Hey we forgot all about that tree. Hundred point seven o u z
LX you got at Boston's only ClassicRock Morning show. Just wait, wait,
wait for it. Okay, thereit is eight forty right in the
nose, fifty degrees on its wayup to the little sixties. It's Kenny
Young, it's Pete McKenzie, it'sHeather Ford, and it's this guy down
in Bridgewater. What's up, Johnnyboy? What's going on? John?

(48:19):
And Bridgewater? How are you feeling? You're you're working today? I take
it you're not gonna go watch therace. No, we just finished up
a little early moving some equipment fromjob, your job, and we got
the rest of the day off.Baby, look at that, so you'll
be able to catch that eleven tenfirst pitch at Fenway then beautiful. Uh
yeah, The Guardians are kick offa series. John, all right,

(48:40):
you know the class, you knowhow it works. You ready to rumble,
Let's do it. Let's go.I'm gonna make you. You're gonna
beat my grand beach Ken trash BridgeSupreme into classic rock clash and John am
I gonna ask you to turn yourradio volume down there and just listen through
your phone. It'll sound a lotbetter. All right, all right,

(49:06):
beautiful, yeah, Just it's theonly time I'm going to tell you to
turn the z lex volume down.Okay, Oh that's up. It sounds
like, yeah, I'm gonna turnthat down. All right, there we
go, ready, all right,all right, here we go, all
right. The album Hysteria released bywhich band? Hysteria? That was Death
Weapons? Yes, Ray Davies,the lead singer of which British rock band,

(49:30):
say that one again. I'm sorry, Ray Davies. It's a brother
team was the lead singer of whichBritish rock band. Oh, I don't
know. He starts with the oh, okay the song. Yes, the
song remains the same. Was afilm about which rock band? It's like

(49:52):
that was like three nights at MadisonSquare Garden. The song remains the same.
Your friends said it? Yes,all right, I think I heard
one of your friends jumping. Allright. This is like a double by

(50:13):
the way, so this is likea two part question, but it'll count
for two questions. Nikky six playedbass guitar plays. I guess for which
band? Motley Crue. Yeah,the follow up, if you wanted it
was spell Motley Cruet. No,you don't need to worry. I just
want to see if you get thispart right. Go ahead, m O

(50:37):
T L E Y. Yes,nice job with the spelling be today,
Johnny boy, listen, we're gonnaput you on hold get some information.
But you can circle August second onyour concert calendar. You go on a
cheap trick. Awesome, nicely done, Johnny. And look at that,

(50:57):
and he's got the rest of theday off too. Sounds like maybe it's
almost time for the bloody Mary PowerHour show. One under points mwz LX
eight forty five. You know,earlier this morning, I was saying,
how quiet riots come on? Feelinoisewas a cover by Slade? Did you
know that I love rock and roll? Jon Jets' big breakthrough hit was a
cover by a British band called TheArrows. Yeah, apparently when Joan was

(51:20):
on one of her first tours throughthe UK upon I think she was still
with the Runaways at the time.In the mid seventies was a band called
the Arrows and they had a minorhit with that. It didn't do nearly
as well as Jon Jet's you know, signature tune. Her version of course
in what was it eighty one?Teddy? I'm just saying, but over
the last five years, I'll betsomebody learned that in the classic rock clash.

(51:45):
See see we try to learn yousomething right, either that or Carter
Allen's rock and Roll Diary that too. It's a multiple volume experience, and
that has transferred over to Instagram.You know. Every weekday Carter posts these
videos from his his own personal Vinylvault. Uh and he gives you a
little factoids like that. He getsyeah, he gets to. For sure

(52:08):
you can check out his video rockand roll diary. So Chuck gets into
the game. He uses these shortcircuit Johnny five cameras in the afternoon to
post excerpts from his afternoon show.And of course we here in the morning.
We're always uploading the content at wZX on our Instagram page at Kenny
Young z LX, Pete Underscore McKenzie. It's a multi media experience. Cut

(52:31):
you can interact with the show here, especially if you like dogs. Lots
of dogs. I have a lotof dogs online and do it's right.
Remember have you seen a video littleGirl who wants to bet the Bear?
Oh no, yes, I'll haveto show you listen. If that's not
enough incentive to follow at w ZXon the install you know, every Wednesday

(52:52):
we kick off a ticket to rockoperation just runs Wednesday through Friday this week
when you're way to the garden tocatch all the black But as I said,
you got to wait till Wednesday.But give us a follow now and
then, well then you'll be readyfor it. One hundred point seven WZLX
clapped and thrown it down nine totwenty. Boston's only classic rock morning show,
fifty Degrees and the one hundred andtwenty eighth running of the Boston Marathon

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is officially underway, has been nowfor the last what eighteen minutes something like
that. The men's wheelchair division alreadythe leader looks like he's already a natick.
My goodness, so good luck toall the contestants, competitorstors in the
one and twenty eighth Boston Marathon.Yeah, and maybe he's on his way

(53:36):
to win the top prize for thewheelchair division, which is forty thousand dollars
for both men and women. He'sa town ahead of I'm sorry. The
women's wheelchair is in frame of himright now, and the men and women
runners one hundred and fifty thousand dollarsapiece, And I didn't know this.
If they break the record, thecourse record, they get another fifty thousand
dollars. Oh, what's the courserecord? The course record for men is

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like two hours and three minutes andfor women it's two hours and nineteen minutes.
That might happen something like that,and it was a good Is it
a good day to break a record? I don't know, I just I
did. They just showed the topthree men or maybe the I don't know
if they were the top three,but it didn't look like any of them
had times close to that. Butit did show the women and they seem
to it look like they were withina minute or two. In case you're

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wondering, there are six major marathonsthat runners consider the majors. Boston,
New York, London yes, Chicago, yes, Berlin, and number six
I don't know, Tokyo. Tokyo. Yeah, there's a guy that's in
the Boston Marathon today that's run themall, and I mean he may say

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this in every city that he runsas of the most. He does make
a good point about why this isthe best. We love it. Yeah,
it's Boston. There's just something specialabout it being, you know,
the oldest race like it is,and it's so hard to get here.
You can't just register and come anddo it. You have to work hard
in You look around and you knowat the start line, everybody around you
worked hard to get there too,And so it's just something special and we

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all and not us. But peopleget a day off for it. I
know it happens most people, likein the area, they don't know what's
happening unless they're running it. Andit used to be on TV, but
like that, it wasn't as biga deal. I remember when we moved
to everybody's like, it's marathon Monday. I'm like, okay, cool,
I'm glad, like you're interested inthis. But because normal people were here,

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it's like it's an event, it'sa day. Well, it's the
beginning of a vacation week, PatriotsDay, it's evacuation day, it's marathon
Monday. You know, these othercities with the major marathons, they need
to create a holiday like we did, Yeah, around their marathons, and
you get the day off too.It's just a celebration here. It's not
necessarily a celebration anywhere else unless you'rea runner. Yeah, so everybody takes

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part here, I mean to thatguy's point. Yeah, the first Boston
Marathon officially was eighteen ninety seven.But did you know this since then?
Anytime you look at the metal orthe official BAA logo, there's a unicorn.
That's the official mascot. I didnot know of the Boston Marathon.
All right, is it prominent?Right? Do you have to look for
the unicorn or is it? Seeit right there in the bottom of the

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screen. It's right down the logo. It's the symbol. It's it's been
associated with the let's see the Yes, the Boston Athletic Association unicorn here has
been synonymous with the unicorn. AndI've always wondered why, like, how
did that come to be? Andso the BAA President and CEO, Jack

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Fleming, says, yeah, that'sour most common question we ever get as
to why the heck there's a unicornon the logo. I it's the most
common question we ever get. Whydo we know the answer? Why are
we sitting here? Answer? I'mglad you asked. I did a little
digging, he said. The mostcommon belief that has gone on for one
hundred and twenty eight years is thatthe unicorn was on the family crest of

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one of the founding members of theBAA. That makes sense, he says.
It hasn't been proven in writing,but that's what we've been going with.
Due to the rich heritage of therace, and to the rich heritage
of the Scots, the English andthe Irish here in Boston, it's a
pretty good likelihood that one of thosefounders had the unicorn on their official crest.
So that's what they've been going with. If I were to pick and

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have a fried chicken on my familycrest, I have our family crest up
in our house. It's a youhave one. It's this big. Yeah.
John's dad used to keep a smallversion of it in his office that
it brought because his father came overfrom England, Yeah, and settled in
Canada and then you know, toCanada the US, so it's only two
generations ago. So we have this. It's a eight by ten or something
small and nine by seven. SoI had it blown up and then I

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had it professionally framed. So whenyou walk to our back door, when
you walk in, you're greeted witha giant Ford family crest. Wow.
That's it's got Latin on it andeverything. A big lion, huh.
A big smiley face. No,it's like and it says something very religious
like in Christ there's light or butit's in Latin, so I don't know
right off the bat, but yeah, cool, I love it. Yeah.

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This fleming guy goes on to saythe unicorn being the mythological mystical figure
it is, is that it's meantto be pursued, but in that pursuit
you never quite catch it. Soit inspires you to because the hard those
unicorns hanging out with Sasquatch and theLochness Monster at the same time. I
would think my family crest would beif I was running a marathon, a

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giant bag of ice and a bottleof ibuprofen. But that's just me.
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