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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Arry Show is on the air. Oh yes, that

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means it's Friday. We're here together or another enjoyable, refreshing
edition of open line Friday. But first to get us
in the right mind.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Happy d happy day?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
When do war?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
When a war?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
When do.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Feels away?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
He loves.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
A happy day? Or happy d happy or happy day?
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the way he loved the happy day, happy day, a

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happy day? Winter those war, Oh whitty war, windy th
war of f three of a way a happy.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Day, happy oh, happy deal.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I see.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Happy oh happy.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
When Jesus war waity war, when j there's war.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Three yets away?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
He needs up.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
Have a.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh good gun.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
And with that we will open the phone lines. And
courtesy of the greatest executive producer of all time in
all the land, Chattakoni Nakanishi, your week in review. Let
me just go ahead and tell close of you whose

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great grandmother was from Czechoslovakia. And you've got a check name,
and that's about all the check you've got, and you
want to out check me if you send me an
email about what is and isn't a kai. I'm blocking
you because I find that very annoying. You better check
good point moment. You better check yourself because I know
you're out there and I know you're just trying, just dying.

(05:59):
I ain't ain't I being right? A Democrat Senator Chris
van Holland actually didn't fly to El Salvador and try
to rescue an MS thirteen gang member.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Kil Abrigo Garcia is an illegal alien MS thirteen gang
member and foreign terrorists who was deported back to his
home country.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
The Democrats are in love with all the wrong people,
and I'm here to tell you I hope that continues
because they'll never win another national election at this pace.
They are out of touch with the American people. Risked
burglary to the Southwest Side restaurant owner says that someone
stole raw meats right off the pit as it was
smoking overnight. Paul jacober Third is the owner and pitmaster

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of Jacob's Barbie.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
I'm not worried about it now because that pit is
stilled and it will pay.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
You have to bring up well. You would have to
come in like welded a loose to get in that hit.
I love that dude so much. You would have to
weld it a loose. Weld it a loose. See, that's
that's my kind of people. Well, what's for dinner?

Speaker 6 (06:58):
We're having hamburger hell for hammer or helper.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yay years ago, he said, I'm gonna make you something
from your childhood. What do you want? I said, hamburger helped.
He said, okay, I'll have to call your mom and
ask her how to make it. I said, I can
actually tell you this. What round round sheep pasta shells
and they got a little sauce in there, the same
way Kraft mac and Cheese does. And if you make
my grandmother's corn bread, you will make me very Happjust
noodles and beats.

Speaker 6 (07:20):
Have you ever thought about eating RACONI the second floor
side to sneak?

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Just very weird. School.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
You're just talking about where you went to school. Be careful,
you're gonna blow an old rings.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
With me, with me, with me, with me, with.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Me, with me.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
I am much jobcast Monday, since I had a break.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Sometime to tell my director of the abortion agency was fired.
Washington Post headline head of Planned Parenthood forced out after
eight months ironic, isn't it? How ironic? Before we get

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to the calls. I read every email, but I can't
respond to every email, obviously, But I responded to more
emails yesterday than I have in probably a year. And
the reason was the conversation was over cursive, and the
question was things we wish schools would teach so children

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would learn because we wish we had learned it, or
children today need to learn it. And I started getting
emails on the issue of cursive. And this is hard
for some people to understand, but sometimes I take an
opposite position or challenge a position A to make you
think about what you believe by reinforcing it. Because if

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you can't answer a question as to why you believe something,
then maybe you don't really believe it. But B to
help me understand it. So I went back and forth
with a number of people during the show, and I
talked about it on the air, and I agree, seems
like a good idea that kids learn cursive, But can
you tell me why what happens if they don't learn cursive?

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So a number of people said, historic documents, and nobody's
reading these documents. In historic documents, you can say you are,
but you're not. And that's just a bad argument because
it's not truthful. Secondly was Secondly was, so you can
sign your signature, And I said, you can have a

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signature without cursive and they said, no, you can't, and
I said, well, when my wife became secretary of state,
the signature of the Secretary of State hangs on the
wall of corporations. A lot of them, especially small businesses,
will put that on the wall there incorporation documents. People
to this day say I walked past your wife's signature
every day. And so I said to her, I don't

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want you to use your signature because then your signature
is floating out there to so many people. Someone could
could forge it, and that's altogether possible. And she said,
you're right. So she made a large printed version, but
it is a unique version the way she sort of

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seraffs and things like that, which, by the way, Rick
Perry had done years before. He has a private and
public signature. So that's not the case. You can have
your own unique signature. Third the days of the signature
are reducing dramatically day by day by day by day,
particularly because if you think most things that you sign

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nobody verifies it. Nobody looks at what you've done next
to the original they have on file. So when you
sign for most things, you can put whatever you want.
Obviously you've done this at the convenience store where you're
in a hurry and the guy says, oh, you have
to sign it and the credit card machine and you

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know you just make a circle or whatever else, because
you'd be crazy to give them your signature. Why are
you giving them your signature? Well, when you say that's
not my signature, when you protest that document, I didn't
charge this three twenty four for a diet coke. That's
not me, and they go, yeah it is. Here's your signature.
If you sign something other than your usual signature, you

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say it's not my signature, it's someone else, and they
say it is your signature. Okay, prove it. They don't
have your signature on file. So let's say it was
a huge account, about one hundred thousand dollars worth of
airline tickets, and they come and get your They say,
all right, we need to compare it again. So now

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you have a discovery process, whereupon you produce documents as
to your usual signature on official documents. Where would you
go to get that because you wouldn't just go, well,
here's my signature. You could do a whole different signature.
So now there has to be a place where an
official repository of your signature, which doesn't exist. We could
take examples of where you've signed things and assume that

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those are consistent, But what if you change them. I
made a decision when I was about ten to change
my signature. I made another decision when I was in college.
I made another decision after law school because at each level,
my pretentious little self thought, oh, well this will be
more cool, and you've done the same. So what is
your official signature? If you sign something for me today

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and tomorrow, I say you have to pay it because
you signed it, and you go, that's not my signature.
How do I prove that it is? The whole act
of forcing you to sign something is like signing one
of those boilerplate you know things that you don't read
that says, you know, if you die on this plane,
then you die, and we don't care. We're not going
to give you a pinion, and we can kick you

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in the throad. And just the act of having signed
it by the way a non compete half the time
is about as enforceable as that. Okay, So I don't
buy that you have to write cursive to be able
to have a signature. So you keep going down the list.
And I had some of the most engaging conversations with

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some of the most charming people, at least in the
written form. A lot of teachers, a lot of old
a lot of moms, a lot of moms told me,
and speech therapists and people who work with children with
dyslexia and dysgraphia, and which is more than you'd think.
A lot of people get diagnosed, and they said that
it helps them, Okay. And then there were people who

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talked about enjoying writing incursive, and there were people who
talked about family documents, the family Bible, old letters. And
while I may have made a number of people angry,
I think we've made a lot of progress with a
number of people in that we don't have to have

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a functional reason to preserve cursive. It doesn't have to
be that we have to keep cursive or otherwise, you know,
change the constitution on us. It can and should rightfully
be that we should cherish our heritage, we should preserve

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our past. That these things are important in and of themselves.
And that's why the Civil War reenactor is not to
be ridiculed, but to be admired. Languages go dead by
a lack of use. Well, how come we don't you

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know when I do things like our grandparents did? Why
don't we But because we don't? Because when you don't
do what you did do for long enough, it's what
you won't do in the future.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
There is a value in and of itself to preserving something,
even if you can't know why you do it. That's
why that Vellina Polka lady keeps the polka traditions alive.
That's why you still keep an old dance hall. That's
why you hold on to a language. That's why you
you learn Latin. Well, what you're going to use that for?
Not a damn thing other than keeping it alive. And

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that's a beautiful, wonderful, noble reason.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
You are listening to Michael Berry's show.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
It is open Friday, Open line Friday, and I want
you to call in on whatever is on your mind,
whatever thought you had this week that we didn't get to.
Your week has flown or blown, so that we can
enjoy or feel good about our own lives. I don't
want to spend the show on cursive because I spent
the entirety of yesterday on the matter. I just wanted

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to follow up on that issue because it was top
of mind. So I don't want to use that to
chum the waters for a bunch of cursive calls. I think,
I think we have belabored that point and we can
put that one to bed seven one three nine, nine, nine,
one thousand. You can always email me through our website,
Michael Berryshow dot com before we get to your It

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is interesting and it should have a talismanic effect to
any corporation to see what companies have shot themselves in
the foot overgoing woke, which wasn't necessary. You don't need
to go woke. ESPN's go woke, go broke business model

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is digging that network deeper and deeper into mediocrity and
closer and closer to failure for what was once the
premier sports network and a financial juggernaut. They can't get
out of their own way. Viewership is way down. They've
hired and then had to fire a number of woke

(17:44):
folks like Jamel Hill who show up as a black
woman with an attitude, playing some sort of minstrel show
of nonsense, trying to claim everyone is racist and talk
only about that instead of the sports when your primary
audience is white males who want to get away from
all that, And it's just over and over and here

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we go. We got another one. Former ESPN broadcaster Ashley
Brewer Kaminsky revealed on x that her boss at the
sports network reprimanded her for posting a picture with a
Republican congressman and a UFC fighter. She's at ESPN. Oh
the humanity, not a picture with another human with different

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political views, different political views than I have. Take it down.
Take it down now, it's so upsetting. Brewer Kaminski's quote,
Never forget when I got chewed out by my boss
for posting a pick of a Republican congressman and UFC
fighter on my Instagram story at the McGregor fight. Then

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former colleague and Hattie Sage Steele also chimed in. You
remember her, She was the black anchor who was pushed
out because she dared to have conservative values and expressed them.
They still posted, and remember when we got chewed out
for breaking COVID rules by standing too close to each
other and posting a pick. Now, they were anchors together

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on Sports Center during COVID, sitting next to each other
every day. No masks, We're ESPN. Who needs sports when
we can shove nutty left wing politics down your throat?
That's what you came here for. Right where's Colin Kaepernick?
I know he's like forty now and sucked when he

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was actually in the league, But somehow somebody has got
to sign this guy. Let's talk about that all day.
My goodness, forget the bandwagon. All aboard the insanity trend,
the insane train. Folks.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
Welcome to Wolf Center. Welcome back to the studio. At halftime,
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Speaker 1 (20:05):
Nike just blew it.

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Speaker 1 (20:14):
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Speaker 7 (20:25):
Thank you, Dicky V.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
That stick never gets old. When we come back, it's
second half action. It's the hymns versus the shims. Tight
at eight at half time second half, action comes your way.

Speaker 7 (20:37):
And man, are we really doing this?

Speaker 5 (20:39):
This is terrible.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Harn it.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Steve on the Michael Berry Show, you are caller number one.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Good morning, Michael. I want to give kudos to sky Mike.
He is awesome. The other day he said, if if
you're hazardous, you need to take this route. And I
have never heard another traffic guy do that. I've heard
him do it before. And if you're a truck driver,

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that means that means a lot to you. Just want
to give him a high five.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know what's interesting, I hadn't even thought of that.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
I don't think I've ever thought of that.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
That is, you're you're hauling hazardous material, you have to
go certain routes. Yes, there's parts of town you can't
go into and whatnot. You know, that's pretty awesome.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
It is awesome. I'll tell you. I want this to
come off the right way. But when you're building a
radio station, and let's say you're building as k t
r H is a news talk station, you want to
you have ramon, you have uh, you have your news programs,

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you have your talk programs, and then you have what
are called your service elements, and that's your traffic, your weather,
your financial news, and these sorts of things. If you
drive around the country and it sounds like you do,
you will hear that sometimes the service element provider is

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an intern who's clearly reading off a piece of paper.
But when you have and you hear this on our
weather folks on KTRH in the mornings, when you have
folks that are they are delivering their service element as
if it is the Kennedy Center where they're receiving a

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lifetime award. I honestly, Sky Mike is the best I
have heard do what he does that I've ever heard
in the country. He is that good and so much
of what he does, for instance, so many things Russia
used to say, I make this look easy, and it's true.

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You don't know. You don't if you don't know the business,
if you've never been in that situation, you don't understand
why what he just did was so important and so
rare to be able to do it. You know, if
Nadia Koma each sticks the landing coming off the high bar,
Yeah it looks neat, but you can't you know.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
It takes.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
It takes Mary lurettin to go. Let me tell you
what she just did. Sky Mike is fantastic at what
he does, and part of that is he brings a
mindset into doing it of excellence. This isn't When I
got into radio, they would say they would use a
word shift. I said, don't ever use the word shift

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with me. I don't do a shift. I'm not Lucille
Ball on the chocolate factory line. You're putting in eight
hours and then I'm done. You know somebody has to
stand here. People are fungible. It's not a shift. You
don't say to Rush Limbaugh. You know we need you
to shift today from eleven to two. No, this should

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be like the greatest concert you've ever seen in your life.
You're talking about it thirty years later, and you should
have that mindset every single day you should arrive, you
know the old Martin Luther King Junior. If you can't
be a pine on the top of the hill, be
a scrub on the side of the hill. But be
the best little scrub on the side of the hill,
Be a bush. If you can't be a tree. Sky

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Mike's attitude is I don't get to talk as long
as i'd like to because look, we all want to talk.
Believe me, we all want to talk longer. I have
a job to do and that is to provide people's traffic.
And that's not just to read off what goes. And
I mean that what you see there is somebody who
is committed to excellent. Thank you for pointing that out.
And that's your call to point out somebody in the kitchen,

(24:58):
somebody in the back, some secretary of somebody in your office.
It doesn't get credit. Give them some credit today for
what they do.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
I like that's own way too much.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Jim Mudd posited an interesting statement to the group, and
our show is not meant for the heir, but I'll
share it. He said, The British accent is the auditory
version of cursive writing, and I would argue to take
that to the next level, the English accent of received pronunciation,

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which was the royal English, not the cockney, not the
street English. But when you hear the two spoken together,
and if you listen to my fair Lady Pygmaelion originally,
you'll see the difference between the poor English, the poor

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English accent, and the what's called received pronunciation or a
very highbrow, and that's Henry Higgins. The dropping of the
original H is one hint that you are an impoverished person.
And of course the point of George Bernardshaw's peace was
that Henry Higgins could teach you to pass off as being,

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if not royal, in this case, she was misperceived to be,
but at least elegant and rich, based purely on how
you form and use words. And if you don't think
that's true in America today, you are missing the boat.
You need not speak in an elevated manner, but you

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must not speak in a certain manner. Freakonomics has a
chapter called a Rose by any other Name, and Stephen
Levitt begins a chapter by quoting the Shakespeare poem and
then gets into quote black names. I say quote because
they're not necessarily black names. There what are perceived for

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poor black names. The problem is black becomes shorthand for
a subculture of blacks, and that's what upsets blacks, including
that subculture, who happen to be part of it, but
everyone else is bothered by it. The use of apostrophes
and what are believed to be old African names, the

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shemiquas and the Toma tweequas and the quinavions and all that,
and the belief that this is taking it back to
the roots, this is Africa. That concept is both erroneous.
That concept is both erroneous and ends up having the effect,
as it turns out, of setting people back. Studies are

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done of when people apply for jobs, all these different people,
all these different ways that your name can have an
effect on your success level, and what he we talked
about correlative and causative earlier this week, but he what

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he finally said was it's not that those kinds of
names are what is keeping blacks with that name back.
It's not the name itself. It is all the factors
that caused a child to be named as such and
their upbringing. Turns out, when you study those names with

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the apostrophes and all that those names are given by
young black single female girls who don't have a man
in the home, and they're fourteen fifteen years old. So
when you are born into that home, the likelihood that

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you're going to eat solid meals, have discipline, and still
go to school regularly and stay out of trouble is
very low, not because of your name, but because of
what happens if you follow the lineage on a line
on a linear trajectory, what happens to the child of

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a single mom, fifteen years old, black girl in the hood.
It's not good, and it's not good because of racism.
It's not good because of anything other than this is
a child incapable of raising another child, and there's no
social system available to step in and solve this. And

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the Democrat Party's agenda is the idea that we're going
to solve this problem with a big welfare state. You're
not going to solve this problem with a welfare state.
It doesn't mean you don't try to solve this problem
as a community, because it becomes a community problem. It's
a problem that's true transferred over to the community, and

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you're gonna feel it. You're going to feel it in
crime rates, you're going to feel it in incarceration rates.
You're going to feel it in a poor workforce. You know,
at some point, if you kick all the illegals out,
at some point, you're going to have to staff a
number of particularly entry level positions with your own citizenry.

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And this is not an argument not to kick the
illegals out. This is to say, we're going to have
a mass reckoning because you're going to start now seeing
the failures of the American family laid bear. You are
going to see those failures laid bare because you're going
to see people. You see it now. You go into
a hospital, you go into a government building, and you

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get some big fat woman that has no in this
woman that was working nine one one, and people would
call with an emergency, she hang up on them. That's
a broken childhood laid bare. That's that's exactly what that is.
And we're gonna see just more and more and more
of that. All right, it's time for me to go

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to the calls. But on that matter, how you learned?
This is sheridy Q Liquor.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
With today's birthday and anniversary area. I want to wish
a very happy birthday this morning to Penelope and Arrhythmia.
They are twins and this is day fifth birthday. Then
mama supposed to take them down to MacDonald get them
a happy MEAs that clock. Successfully. She turned eight today
and she getting her first ear rings, pierced it up

(31:41):
in her head and upsort. Being junior, his mama say
he turned at thirteen as far as she know, and
crazy in hell. Okay, as far as anniversary Goemonia and
Claran's been married for twenty some years. They say they
gonna go ahead and celebrate tonight down there at the club.
They forgot their certificate, but she remembered it was some

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time when it was hot, so it's probably about this time.
Ooh ooh. And you know what I had heard, Sharona
Quishi Kinelica. They said she had done eloped to it
with Devon Champlain and they were disappearing since last night.
But his Cadillac was spotted at the motel. I give
that one two weeks, honey. As soon as they both

(32:23):
sow up, they gonna realize that was ignorant, and they're
gonna have to get it a nudged it. And let's
stay on this day in history. Oh, five years ago today,
Chanelda Jenkins moved in upstairs with her five hundred pounds.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
But lord, my ceiling ain't never.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Been the same since me done got cracked it all
up in it. Nobody had even saw that woman, but
every time she take a bath, I get nervous. Well,
all right there and half a half a day, and
tell you, mama, asked her how she dured

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Zero,