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Episode Transcript

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Hello, killing Nash. Hey,it's tomorrow's show. Today and tomorrow,
thank god, will almost be theweekend. We'll be shi t so happy
it's Thursday, the twenty fifth ofJuly, and so we can talk about
some of the things we can tellby tomorrow. Also, we were talking
earlier this morning about the Olympics openingceremonies Friday night, but the game start

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today, and you're saying, whatwas the channel that's got a lot of
those on there? Well, USANetwork seems to be the one that has
a lot. In English. There'sa bunch of Telemundo. Okay, even
further Olympic coverage on Telemundo. Iassume that's in Spanish. Probably just enjoyable.
It's just as enjoyable for me towatch it in Spanish because I don't
understand soccer anyway, So okay,I could watch it on Telemundo. Telemundo.

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You know, maybe one of thethings. We'll probably talk about this
in our other show a little bit, because we do the political show as
well. If you haven't heard thatrash thoughts on the iHeartRadio app. But
this is one of those just kindof general things, even though it's a
political matter. Donald Trump going tobe at the Bojangles Coliseum tonight. They're

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shutting down basically, Charlotte will beshut down from four till eight thirty.
Wow, all traffic coming in andout of the airport and all of that
all for this rally. I'm interested. Is anybody going? I mean,
it's not very far from here toCharlotte. I mean you can get here.

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You can get to Charlotte faster,and you can some parts of Greenville.
I mean, I live up inthe northeast, and you know,
and I love my friends who workat the at the airport here Cae,
but they talk about how much quickerit is for me. Where I live.
It's about a thirty five minute driveto get the Columbia airport. From

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where I live. It's about anhour and five to get to the Charlotte
airport, right, So it's onlya thirty minute different. And then I
get as So normally when I flyor fly out of Columbia, you gotta
fly to Charlotte and then you geton another boat. Yeah, you gotta
wait Charlotte for two hours. Yeah. At home. Yeah, And for

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whatever reason, when I was itseemed like when I was flying a lot
twenty five, thirty years ago.I don't think it's still true. It
might be it would save money forsome reason to catch a connecting flight,
Like I didn't understand that, Likeif I was flying out of Newark,
New Jersey, it would say,fly from Newark to Atlanta than Atlanta to

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Charleston, and that would save methree hundred dollars as opposed to flying from
Newark direct into Charleston. Interesting,which never made it like there's definitely more
fuel being used, like why wouldthis be a discount. But I also
don't understand why soda is cheaper thanwater. Don't you have to add something
to the water. Why is thewater? I think it's because anymore,

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it costs more to get all thebad stuff out of the water. Oh
maybe that's it as well. Youget the new chunky water. It's got
pieces of plastic. Get it aboutthe size of a nickel. Oh,
my goodness, water. I dowant to try that you were talking about
briefly on the show today, Thefluffy cokeer, the fluffy coke, that's
what they call it. It's aTikTok thing. Again. All the good

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ideas seemingly born on TikTok, isthat what we're saying. But you take
some fluff, marshmallow fluff, andyou the glass. You rim the glass
top the bottom with it, soit's not like a rimming of it,
I guess. You line the glasson the inside, the whole inside of
the glass, you line it withthe fluff, and then you throw some.

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It's been recommended by those in theknow that you use a larger cube
of ice instead of the crushed ice. You put that in there, and
then you pour the coke in themiddle, and then you get the two
flavors melting in the one and acool, refreshing summertime drink. Does sound
good. And I've never had fluffbecause I'm not a marshmallow fan. We'll

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give that a shot, possibly,if we're looking for the material. When
we were kids that have little tinymarshmallows in it, was that lucky,
like a lucky charm. I neverI never magically DELI I hated those because
I had the marshmallows in it.Oh my god, child, I don't
even like spores. You know,well, either way, just don't something

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about the consistency of marshmallow. Myfavorite part of cereal. Other than when
I used to eat. I wentthrough a phase when I used to eat
the grape nuts once. For somereason, I don't know why I got
onto that I loved grape nuts.I used to love frosted flakes. I
love frosted did they okay, anythingthat was frosted. But then, but

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and I think my earlier years ofcereal development, the what was the count
count Count Dracula. Was that hiscereal Count Chalcula, Count cho Count Chocula.
I loved. I love the wasit the flintstones that had There was
ones that was like the different colorbels, pebbles that love those, Captain Crunch

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love Captain Crunch and Lucky Charms.Those were like my four go to.
And then the best part was notactually the cereal. It was the milk
that was left over and it wasso sugary and you would drink that and
it was like like a milkshake,a milkshake. It was so good.
The other ones that I love werethe sugar pops. Okay, yeah,

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I love the commercials for sugar pops. Yeah, sugar Pops was like Captain
Crunch. Once you pour the milkcoat it, you gotta eat it because
once it gets soggy there. Nastywas sugar pops more kind of like honey
flavored or something, because I'm nota huge honey guy, so maybe that's
why I was not that big underthe sugar anything with sugar owner that was
all about it. But you're right, the milk was the best part.
And then you get do they Iguess they probably still sell these things,

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those little boxes, but they wouldsell them like wrapped, so there'd be
like eight boxes that would be differentfor variety, the variety pack that was.
And then sometimes i'd be crazy cafmy mom and dad weren't home.
I'd like take two boxes and mixthem together, and let's see what the
variety pack you get at the school, and you whip out your pocket knife
and you'd cut it because it hadthe little perforated edges. Okay, you

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cut it and you follow it backso the little the liner and it would
hold the milk that you pour milkin it. You straight out of the
box. Oh my gosh, dude, you were totally next level. That
is That is man. If Ihad been friends with you when I could,
Yeah, you couldn't never get itright with your fingers, so you
had to use your pocket knife.But that was back in the day when
you could carry a pocket knife toschool. Nobody freaked out you whip out

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a pocket knife in the school.Today, they're gonna be leveling off on
You'll have four damn canine dogs chewingyour ass off. I never had.
I never saw a cop in ourschool either, like not even I guess
maybe that once in a while they'dcome and visit and talk to a class
or something, but the idea.I remember one of the schools, probably
around eighty two, got metal detectorsand we and we were like that school

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is so flipping nuts. But theyweren't for guns. They were for knives.
Like when I was a kid inthe eighties and knives were a big
thing. But nobody got shot.We all got sliced. They weren't even
really stabbing. They were more sliceslicing. They were big into the slicing.
It was more like, it's strangethat it took so long to catch
on and you have to really kindof hold back and put in the middle

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of the textress because that's like likea West Side Story kind of thing with
a swigblade. I never owned aswitchsbloint. All I had was my boy
scout pocket knife. Now, whatkind of honor is there if you're a
boy scout and you use your boyscout pocket knife to slice or stab somebody?
But what was your It's going toget you kicked out of the troop.
What's the phrasing? And you're alwaysprepared, be prepared, be prepared,

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be prepared a moto. I wasprepared for that jerk right there.
He tried to assault me, andhe found out what being prepared was when
he lost his neck. A boyscout was arrested today going run in the
oratory anyway, it's another student withthe boy scout pocking. I said,
I was ready. So what doyou do, Jonathan? If you move

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in? Because and we've all livedin apartments. It's thankfully for me,
it's been many decades since I've livedin an apartment. But that was a
regular part of my twenties and evenpart of my early thirties. I had
to live in apartments and you don'tknow much about anything when you're moving in,

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Like they show you the apartment,you want it? Sure? I
took one in Long Island. Ihadn't even seen it. I just talked
to somebody on a phone. Right, I said, how far is it
to where I'm going? Because Iworked on Route one twelve and for Long
Island that was where wbl I was. And they said from there to there
it's three and a half miles.I said, that seems to be about

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the closest one. Yeah, I'lltake it. She was like, do
you need to come in and seeit. I was like, no,
I'll be moving in on Saturday.Just meet me there with a key.
And so I'm I had never beenthere, and so I had to find
it out like a man York city, and I moved in. But you
don't know who your neighbors are,probably for like the first three or four

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days, until all of a suddenyou longer. Yeah, but then you
start hearing things, and you don'tknow if you've got a problem next door
to you or above you or belowyou, until you've got a problem.
This this couple moved into an apartmentand they said, apartment's great, except
there's several neighbors I guess that arevery loud. When me see if I

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could find the actual email here,because I don't know what to tell you.
I mean, if it's loud enoughthat it's a always ordinance complaint.
Obviously you can call the police.Let's see, we moved into a new
apartment. It's beautiful, everything's goinggreat. But we keep hearing Now,
okay, we keep hearing loud noisesand we don't really know what they are,

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but they're definitely coming from the neighbors. What do we do about this?
I don't want to. I don'tI'll use the word upset the neighbors,
but we want the noises to stop. Well, now that's weird.
I don't even know what you're talkinglike, you don't know what you're talking
about because you don't know what thesenoises are. Are they making something in
the apartment? Are they It's notlike a run of the saw sharpening shop

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or something. I mean, whatkind of noise we're talking about? You
one of my neighbors used to sharpensaws. He was in You didn't just
pull that one out of your hat. You actually have dealt with that.
Well, it was in the neighborhood, not in the apartment. The apartment
thing we get back to. Butthis guy used to sharpen saws. That
was his part time job. Iguess older years, I would imagine very
loud. You see a pickup truck, come behine, they drop out of

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them out there in this garage,and he'd be short. Yeah, yeah,
is very loud, and uh thatkind of got on my nerves.
But you know, when you livein an apartment complex, you know,
most of them, the ones thatI lived in, wasn't like in a
high rise building like Kelly and Ilived in one of those. But the
the you got one or two levelsof most of these apartment buildings. Sure

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you're better off get in the townhousethat way. Whoever's above you is you,
you know, because you get stuckunder somebody who made a lot of
noise. Okay, I at twoo'clock in the morning after they stumble home
drunk. They got some crazy girlup there. Yeah, that's awkward.
Oh, of course I'd always wantedto be on the bottom floor because it's
easy and easy out there. Haveto climb the steps. You know,

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you move in, you move outtogether, but you have to if you
want the bottom floor. Where thetrade off is somebody's gonna be above you
and they're gonna be making noise.Possibly I lived in one of those two
level deals and I was the topfloor. This was the Long Island place,
and that's the scene of the mostembarrassing, one of the most embarrassing
moments of my life. Oh thegirl who lived I don't think she lived

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right below me, but she livedsomewhere near me, and I somehow became
And when I say girl, that'sthe wrong way of describing her. She
was definitely older than me, soI was probably mid to late twenties when
I moved there, like twenty seven, twenty eight ish. She was,
I'm going to guess, in herforties. And somehow I don't remember if

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she actually somehow introduced this girl tome, like wanted me to be I
remember her talking about a female friend. I don't remember how it all came
to pass, but I ended updating the young lady that she had recommended,
weill say, and then I didn'tsee her for several weeks. Now
I'm dating. And again, forany of you who are listening to this

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podcast now and saying, well,Kelly's the born again Christian, yes,
not in my twenties, so whateveryou hear me talking about anything previous to
the age of thirty six, No, I was a very worldly person back
then, so the relationship with theyoung lady had progressed to the point where
we both had discussed or no.No, I think I felt like there

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was a possibility that this weekend thingswere going to go all the way.
OK, That's how I felt.This was a Seinfeld episode. Basically what
I lived was a Seinfeld episode.I stopped at whatever the grocery store was,
the Harris Teeter or whatever it wasat the time. I'm the way
home from work on a Friday.I think it was maybe even a Thursday.

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I might have been thinking ahead forFriday night, That's probably what it
was. And as I'm just aboutto pick up the protection, a young
personal, a young mother and herchild who's probably twelve years old, no
younger than that, nine says areyou killing Nash from WBLI, And I'm

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like holding a box of Trojans orwhatever, and I'm like trying to put
them back. Oh, hey,how are you all doing? Yeah?
What's going on there? So thenI've never before or after even seen this.
I get up there price check areyou flipping kidding me? And she's

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like announcing it into the microphone.Somebody's gotta check the Trojans got a price
check box of twelve or whatever itis. I'm like, oh my gosh,
this is unbelievable. Great. SoI get home and I open the
box and I start, you know, strategically placing them on the top sock

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drawer next to the bed. I'mplanning ahead so that when the magic moment
comes, I'll be ready. Well, as i'm doing it, I looked,
I know, this is probably nineteenninety four. I look down at
the thing and it says on thethe like the tinfoil or whatever, it's
the protect you know, before it'sopen, it says expires, like it
was not even close. It waslike nineteen ninety two. I'm like,

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my god, I just paid whateverit was. At that time, it
seemed like an astronomical amount of money, probably like six dollars or something.
And I'm like, I'm not gonnalet them get away with this. I'm
not done. So then the nextday that's right. So the next day
I've got to go to work.It's a Friday. I'm carrying out my
you know, I've got like severaltop away things because I'm trying to eat

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healthy, and I've got the thebox of now open Trojans on top of
the box. And I'm making myway to the car and the lady who
introduced me to the young lady,she's coming in and she's like, hey,
Kelly. And when I turned thebox falls and they're all over the

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ground and she goes them. Iwas just going to ask how things with
the show going. I guess they'regoing pretty well. Huh, going pretty
well, Kelly. And I'm like, oh, I'm thinking over these are
expired down on the ground like GeorgeCostanza. Yeah, it's not what you
think it's not. And I guessthat's why I needed the price check.

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They were so old, they weren'teven in the system anymore. Oh my
gosh. Oh and by the andyou know what, I didn't return them.
I remember that as well. Anothersegment of that story is I was
on the air from three to sevenback then, and I had a college
student who worked for me, andI had forgotten something in my car and

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I told her to go out andget it, not remembering that the box
of Trojans is not even put backtogether. It's just the condoms all over
the back seat of the vehicle.And she goes, oh, there she
comes back and she's like, man, you're living a wild life. And
I'm like, what are you talkingabout? Got condoms all over your car?
Like, Oh, it's not whatyou think. It's really different.

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Anyway, we got a little sidetrackedthere, so well, maybe we'll get
some advice for those people. Bythe way, Jonathan, the average sports
fan in America and the survey oftwo thousand sports fans, watches, whether
in live or in person or ontelevision, one hundred and twenty games a
year, which is an incredible amountof games. I can't imagine watching two

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weeks a year. That's two gamesa week. Do you think you watched
two full games a week? Dependingon the season, I could watch four
games in a week during college footballduring college football right now, how many
games a week are you watching?Well, if I go home and watch
soccer in Spanish, that'll be one. Yeah, you're not watching probably games
a week, and you're probably notwatching two baseball games. I can't remember

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the last time I watched the otherthan the college games in person, watched
the game from beginning to end.But anyway, with that being said,
apparently the average fan goes to fivelive events a year. They'll see on
average three wins two losses a year. When they go in person, they
spendughly nine hundred dollars a year tobuy collectibles, apparel, memorabilia, pay

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per view concessions, and tickets.So I'm again, I don't think most
fans are going to games in person, because if you start buying tickets to
games, if you're one of thoseones going to five games, you've spent
more than a thousand dollars already forthat. But it says seventy four percent
of sports fans say that one oftheir favorite memories of their entire lives is

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watching their game or watching their teamwin a big game live. Now,
it doesn't mean necessarily live like thatI was in the stadium, and it
might be that I was just sittingat home watching. You know, the
day South Carolina knocked off Alabama oneof their top what it is, It
just says one of their top memoriesin their lives. Oh my gosh,
seventy four percent of them, andthey called it one of a kind miracle

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sports wins through the I it wasn'teven one of my I don't even remember
who they were playing, and itwasn't my team. But when the kid,
uh, when Doug Flutey through thepass. I remember watching that live
and that was what nineteen eighty three, I think. But that's one that

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would that be one of the mostmemorable moments of your life. Not for
me, but if I imagine ifI was a Boston College fan, sure,
whole week. Yeah, he justthrew the ball eighty yards and we
caught it. Yeah, unbelievable.I'm sure we got one of Russia regulars
who can give you the call.So what was your favorite sports memory?
Do you have the one off thetop of your head, like gin Cook's
did something amazing that you just stillthink about. I mean the day,

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by the way, the game againstTennessee three years ago, that's one of
my favorite memories. That's a that'sa great memory, But I'm not sure
if it would even be in thetop ten sports memory memories. Oh,
sports memories. Well, you're gonnayou're gonna just trumpet with Christmas with my
parents and those types of things.All right, we'll stick it. We'll
stay just with sports memories. Okay, okay, all right, let's do

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that. Hey, what's going onin your So what's going on in the
apartment above you or next to you. How do you handle it? Yeah?
How do you? What do youdo? Just knock on the door
and say, can I ask youjust to just want to take a second.
But what the hell are you doing? Over? Maybe you start trying
to replicate that noise? Or isit I thought about? You know,
when I lived in an apartment building, it was only but it was two

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floors, but it was only fourfour apartments. It was a main in
and a main out. But oneof the neighbors about once every two weeks
would fry fish and off. Ohno, oh, you liked the small
ve I desperately wanted her to inviteme over. See. I haven't brought
fish to work. I don't evenknow how many years now, but Andy

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used to complain tremendously when I wouldreheat it. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, the whole f in placesof fish. Who's breaking fish? Yeah?
But this girl, and I say, girl, She was an older
woman, not older kind of likeyour scenario. I think I was like
twenty something, twenty three, andI never saw it was one of those

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things, one of those buildings wherethis I never saw my neighbors. Wow,
but I knew that I'd hear themcoming and go, and i'd hear
the doors closed. It was alwaysthe back door at the front door.
Nobody It was one of those thingswhere you parked in the back and the
front went out to the streets,and nobody ever used the front entrance.
Yeah, of course, but Idid. I met her one time in
an awkward moment. So I don'tknow. For whatever reason, it was

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really hot in the apartment one dayfor some reason, so I'm I opened
up, I got up, I'mgetting ready to go somewhere into what I'm
doing. I'm getting on my clothestogether, and I've got the front door
open, and I'm in the den. I don't know why I always kept
my ironing board in the den.Oh. I think there was a close
enough outlet there instead of trying tolean behind the bed and plug it anyway.

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So I'm standing there one afternoon.That's why I was getting ready to
go out on an appearance at theBrown Derby or something. So I'm standing
there one afternoon and I'm ironing ashirt and I'm standing there in the den.
I got the door open, I'mironing a shirt. I'm wearing a
T shirt at the time thankfully hadsomething on. That's all. Oh,

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no pants, no pants. Oh. So I'm standing ironing and I'm in
a really big hurry, because Kellywould tell you generally, I'm about ten
minutes later about ironing pants. I'mprobably ironing my pants. And I look
over at the door and there's thewoman. It's the first time i'd ever,
like, actually met her. Isit like a glass door they can

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see in the the door. Isthe door is Oh, I'm letting the
coogol area. Oh my gosh.So she's standing there shocked. She didn't
look shocked. She's just standing therekind of amused by it. All.
Yeah, And I'm like, oh, hi, I'm sorry. Wow,
I'm sorry. And she said,ain't no problem, and she went on

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up the steps. I should haveinvited myself over for fish after Yeah,
I love to smell your fish.Oh my god. Moment. Gosh,
well I thought about that years.Those are the things we miss out on
an apartment company. In close proximitywith other people. Hey, what's going

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on in close proximity with it?Maybe it's not in close proximity in the
public complex. Maybe it's the guydown the street. He's about a block
away. He's sharpening saw blades downthere. I don't know what's going on.
Are you watching the USA play whoever? I think it's Are we playing
France? Maybe in rugby seven?You know, it's that time of the
year you get have people setting upthe projectors again. I set it up
to a football season. You gota game going on next door. Everybody

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got invited. This up to you. I mean, one of my favorite
sports memories of all time, nineteeneighty. Do you believe in miracles?
Yeah? I remember going to schoolwanting to learn how to play hockey.
Then what a great movie? Yeah, well, what a great moment and
great moment. There's a movie Ishould watch now. I mentioned The Young
Woman in the Sea. I thoughtabout another one the other day I saw
recently called The Boys in the Boat. Okay, that's a true story.

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That's a good movie. Just seethe boys in the boat get taken out
by the whale yesterday. No,it's a crazy I'm trying to remember where
they were. I think they're upso like maybe in like the Cape Cod
area or something. I don't rememberwhere it was, but there's somebody filmed
it. There's these the way theydescribed it pissed off whales because there's so
many boats around them. Oh gotcha. That one of the whales comes out

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of the water and throws himself onthe back of a boat and flips the
whole boat knocks the two guys tento twenty feet into the water easily.
It was. It's an insane videofrom If it's gonna be captured on a
video, I would have loved abit in that boat. Well then you
see like the guy who's filming it, like his kid is just kind of
standing on the back of the boatwatching it, and the guy's like,

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oh, let's go, let's go. Then start firing up the motors.
We've gotta get out of here.It's good, okay, all right.
So you gotta be talking about Olympicsthis morning, getting ready for that to
kick off this weekend. What's goingon in your neighborhood, what's happening we
should be talking about you? Letus know you reach out to us on
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