Kojak, Columbo & Cannon. Stuck in The 70's, Ate Up with The 80's. Taste for Life.

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That was badass. Oh boy,that was a movie. A movie.
Yeah, he's dragging one guy andthen the damn thing is going to explode.
Is rolling to one side, he'srolling to the other. He's gotta
get it. He's gotta get itout the door. And by the way,
with forty pieces of shrapnel on oneside of his body. Man,
this is is crazy. If thiswas a movie, that it would be

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the part where you go, okay, okay, yeah, and oh,
by the way, February twenty fourth, nineteen sixty nine, that's the night
it happened. It was the nightof my birth. Oh well, something
good happened, something got one hero. Hey. I do want to say
that, well done, Tony.Then I also want to say, uh,

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Lee Trevino. He says baby alot. Oh, does he got me
back in the game? Baby Oh? Arthur said, yeah, what about
Telly Savalas? Yeah? What wasthe name of that show? Coach Jack?
How could you forget Coach? Iforget your name half the show?
That's true? That stupid lollipop baldhead, she's a hooker. What was

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the song that he did? TheTelly? Oh my gosh, how long
do you think that was on theair? Kojack? Well, I'll tell
you right now. Every bald personfor ten years American pop culture was called
Kojack. Who's who came in first? The Kojack looking wow? Kojack ran
for five years. The best thingSavalas ever did was the Dirty Does.

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And I was about to say thathe was Dirty Does. He's the crazy
one. You know what? Whathe's you a TV show, Susan that
we're talking about? Uh, Ican't imagine, mister hang. I watched
Matt Locke. The decade is theseventies. If you couldn't tell here,
we're gonna tell you some wala's sostupid, stupid like a fox that in

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Barretta What Barretta Brenna was great witha bird on his shoulder? Fred is
he gonna sing. Yeah right,you mean tell Us of Allas sings.
Oh yeah, yeah, I'll findso, I'll find one where he does
yeah, okay or not? No, dude, do we talk? Bretta
was great? Man, barretta comein his bird Fred his wife doesn't like

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the show's a greater So for crestedcockatoot this you're a lady. M hm
m h hh. Oh man.See they talk about Sinatra being listen to

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this. I gotta find the NormMcDonald kojak joke. So listen we were
up? Or why why is therenot a Telly Savalas channel? You know
there's like a seventies channel and eightieschannel. This is him doing the Beatles.
Oh my gosh, it's beautiful.Wow man, this is where the

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song should have been done. Oh, Susan, if you're listening, this
h me and puts me in themood to make sweet sweet love the range
he displays, Susan, I hopeyou have your afternoon clear, because you're
gonna have a little afternoon Dwight.Yeah, I'm gonna bestow upon you my

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okays for you. All right,here we go, norma norm McDonald kojack
joke. I believe this to beclean. Okay, what is the dumb
button fixed? We're gonna find outI've got a dumb button. Nor McDonald
listens to the show, right,correct. So uh so he's talking to
Seinfeld at a diner. Are youready, Coo Jack? You remember the

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lolly pop? Yeah? You hada lilly pop. Gone. I'm so
for the pilot. It was Crocker'sfirst day. You know, Kevin Dobbinson's
like Crocker. Sure, Crocker.So he was just gotta police academy.
Green. They kept saying how greenhe was, Kojack, I've been around
a long time. He knew everything. So he's, you know, has
this green kid and he doesn't knowanything. He wants to be working with

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him. So what was happening wasprostitutes were being murdered. Go down and
try to get some information from theprostitute's mother. So a little while later,
Crocker comes back. I talked toher her mother. She wasn't a
prosecute at all. She was agood, good girl. Yeah, so

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Kojak seen it all right, Sohe thanks this Wali Papy is Yeah,
she was a good girl. Mama'sapple pie the fourth of July. She
was a hook Sidefeld went through greenLet's see it? You know that was

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that was such a norm McDonald's setup Jo, she's a hooker. So
then he explains it, see sheyou know he was a long time see
CoA Jack was cancered in nineteen seventyeight Shaker because of failed ratings. H

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I tried to explain, because oneof John's favorite movies is Princess Bride.
He thinks it's hilarious and I've neverseen that Colombo. That's good. Colombo
plays the grandfather. Tolly swallows Colombo. Oh, Peter, Peter fuck Peter
Falk. Excuse me, he's gotthe googly eye. Excuse me? Did
you say? I tried to explainto him that he was this famous detective

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on TV and he's a short,goofy, googly eye guy in a rain
jack raincoat, a raincoat. Hewas like what I was like, Yes,
Colombo's on the watch list of thewitness Like what TV network said,
Yes, let's build an entire showaround that. Excuse me, lumball thing,

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Just just one more thing, didyou say that you were in this
studio? That makes sense? Howthey not made a sequel to Princess Bride?
I'm kind of glad they haven't,right, because it's such a perfect
film. So we were started tosay we were talking about shows because we
like watching the old shows, orat least I do, and my wife
is forced to watch his clothes,his music and his TV shows all stuck

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in the nineteen eighties and seventies.It's funny because Tony I never understood that.
Tony said, you know, Iread this article and it said sometimes
if you experience something traumatic in youryouth, it'll freeze you there, it'll
freeze you in that time. AndI was fifteen. I was like,
how old were you in you'diculed himselfat fifteen, and I went and we

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all just paused and went, thereyou go. It goes. So I
was searching for shows to watch meand we watched I like to watch the
old Ones and Jake and the FatMan, oh Man, remember that?
Yes, So what do you thinkwould be liking to say, Hey,
good news, your agent finally gotyour show. You did? Yeah,

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playing the Fat Man. Even theFat Man had a dog, like a
fat, wrinkling fat. The thingis starred in that show. The thing
is probably if you went back andlooked at that show. I bet you
the fat Guy, the Fat Man, that is because I looked it up.
Okay, okay, because we weretalking. We were talking off air
the other day about how because Istarted rewatching the Sopranos and I thought Tony

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Sprano was this big fat guy.He's really not and like a Caddy shack.
I saw Rodney Dangerfield as being anoverweight guy. No, he looks
like me. I can't. Idon't know. What do you think he's
kind of fat? Right? Yeah? That's yeah, yeah, I don't
recognize any of these names. Iguess Joe Penny was Jake. I never

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watched. I never watched one episodeof that was William Conrad. The Fat
Man was Ironside, a lawyer.He was in a wheelchair a chair.
That was Raymond Burr. Yeah,was Raymond Burr in a wheelchair? No,
okay, he just played one.Okay, I just want to make
sure. I didn't know. Theseare all TV shows, and some overre
just can't believe they cast him.He wasn't actually in a wheelchair. No,

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oh, he couldn't do that today. No wait, they cast it
a uh an actor that was ina wheelchair. He got two demanding and
then they stole his wheelchair and hecame crawling back to him. Won the
job back the opinions, but notnecessarily, thank god, it's June team.
But then nobody's working, so nobody'slistening. And they said, no,

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you've been replaced by Raymond Burr.That's a true story. Yeah,
he's on TV Land. No,it is true story. What other No
women so true TV? So youwatch matt Lock, No, we run
through Mattlock. We watched Diagnosis Murder. Who was in that murder? Dick
van Ni Van Dyke Diagnosis Murder Murder. She wrote, Yeah, she wrote,

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it's awesome an occasional Colombo about theRockford Files. But yeah, we
have, but it's not in ourkey right now. But I've watched.
I usually watch that by myself.For some reason, those stations like Cable
ratings, it's like the highest ratedTV shows, but they don't advertise that,
like they don't say, look thehighest rated TV shows on cable.
It's not CNN or Fox News.It's it's me TV or whatever the hell

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they call it. I would liketo watch more Columbo's cause I love even
though it's and here's the thing onColumbo it's the same bad guy ninety percent
of the time. And it's SeawanCassidy's dad. Really, what was the
guy's name, Cassidy, Sean Castiy'sfather. I don't know. I just
Frank Cassidy, thank you. Ijust thought he was a hardy boy.
Wouldn't he a hardy boy? Who? Sewan Cassidy, Yeah, he was.

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Parker Stevenson was the other hardy boyI think it was more of a
Burger king guy. And Parker Stevensonwas married to Kirsty. Yes, and
she him and you know how thatworked? What worked out? Right?
She was kind of evil. WhatYeah, No, he was married and
she saw him. She says thisstory on the on TV. She goes,
he was married. I met himin a bar and I said,
I don't care he's married. I'mgetting him. Oh my god. She

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set his sights, She set hersights on him and ruined the damn family.
And she was in that Allen.She was in that movie with Gene
Simmons when he was the villain withthe Little of the Robots by Jack Cassidy.
We're all over placed and here heis Jack Cassie. He plays the
bad guy in everything in as soonas you see the guy, you know
he did oh he did it.He watched it anywhere did it? He's

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like Columbo's Moriarty and the thing aboutcorrect. I would watch more of him,
but a lot of them are likemade for TV movies. Yeah,
they're long. If you if yousuffer from attention deficit disorder, you're enjoying
the show today. Hey, justso you know, management says this show
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to do reeling in the years anyway? Yeah, I've got it all lined
up, so let's do it backafter this. News Radio eight forty W
Chance you'll get a mulligan if youmiss it, since Courtney's not here.
Okay, to earl Frederick, he'slistening, and via social media he says,
my eighty ehty, thanks the show. That last break was the Tension
Deficit. It was a pamphlet forif you have a tension deficit. Shows

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sounding great today? Yeah, yeah, something we never hear adderall dot com.
All right, so let's do itreally in the years. Alright,
I'm gonna play some top twenty hitsfor you guys. See if you can
narrow down the year. Let's startwith the Kinks. Come Dancing. Well,
we know it's the seventies, right, come Dancing? Really? I

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thought the I thought Kinks were eighties. They were sixties, seventies and eighties,
I did. I am this dayold knowing that this song is the
Kinks. Really, yeah, absolutelylisten to them. It doesn't sound like
the Kinks. You don't think so? No, I think it sounds just

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like them. All right, Okay, that one's not helping you guys out
too much. What about this littlelittle diddy too shy shy? This is
the eighties. I told you,dude to see eighties. Bro. Now
we're in the eighties early eighties.Hush, hush, hush, it's eighty

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two. I'm liking eighty two,possibly eighty three. So longer, yeah,
longer, ramp than I remember.Too long long, Okay, I'm
done with you, guys, thinkdone with you. I went to high
school. Too long long. Brazilianbandleader Sugio Mendez a song sung by Joe

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Pizzulo and Lisa Miller. Joe Pizzulois the vocalist. Also sawed furniture in
Nebraska, never going short Brooklyn Dodgers, trying to sound like uh, Mike
McDonald there, never heard this,I never heard this. No help.

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Next song, let's get to thechorus. You know this song? Here
you go? No what? Oh? Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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And then Joe Pizzulo's picture popped up. Joe Pizzulo all the best.
You got a good voice. Nowthis next song, I didn't even remember
this, but it was a topten hit for Hauling Oates. Family Man,
Yeah, leave me yes, becauseI'm a family man's right. This
is eighty two or eighty three,eighty two, eighty two, it's eighty

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two. I'll go with eighty two. Give me alone. Famine man.
This is the least of them oftheir popular music. I think was my
favorite show. Do they still likeeach other? I don't think so.
No, there's a documentary. Nowhat do you call where you can't talk?

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No way? Serious? That serious? Who wrote the songs? Both
of them are one of them?I think both of them. Of them?
And then John Soda is wild Oatslike to tell people all about it
too. Let's go on to EddieGrant, shall we eighty two elect it
could be think about I think aboutit. I'm saying think about it,

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Tony. Yeah, it's eighty two. It's eighty two, that's what it
was. Such a good year.This was when MTV was MTV man.
This song played every hour on top, right, Eddy Grant, I'm not
sure. No, I'm thinking rockon through elect and the number one song

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on this Jade Irene Kara, she'salso no longer with us. Was this
vision quest? You know what hermaiden name was? Dover, Irene Dover.
Oh No, this was splash dance, yes, flash dance, flash
dance. This is eighty flast dance. What splash dance was the porn?

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This is flash flash dance, flashdance where she pulls the thing and the
waterfalls on her, but she wantedto be a legitimate dancer to keep her
down. Okay, I'm thinking eight. I'm sorry, I'm on eighty three,
are you yes? Okay? Ilike eighty two, but I've screwed
it up. So where's going tothree? Okay? I I think it's

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eighty three. Let me get thedinghy s topic. It's eighty two.
It probably is eighty three, allright, I think it's nineteen eighty three?
Are we as that? Final answer? Final answer? Is Dwight going
to be vindicated? This song IreneCara Flash Dance was number one June the
nineteenth, nineteen eighty three. Iknew it. Tony called his shot and

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it worse. It was the splashdance. It was. It was the
last one that was That was aidlast dance. Right. Splash dance is
the porn, but the water splasheson her, that's white splash dance.
And there was boobies in that movie. I was like fourteen see him and
Johnny Eddie Grant is alive and touring. Oh awesome. I must have been

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thinking about John Wayne. I'm sorry, say what John Wayne's is the dead
one? Then? John Wayne?Yeah? I was thinking of John Wayne
as Eddie Grant is still a lot? How do you get John Wayne and
Eddie Grant? I don't know similarsinging styles? Who is John Wayne?
Is the actor? Singer? JohnWayne is not a singer? Did he
sing what are we doing here?It was his first one in the second

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electric Avenue? That's top. Itwas John Wayne coming stop all right?
Beckav oh wait, Dave Williams,what about uh? Dennis Weaver and mcclown.
Weight Losteners of Louisville nine oh sixseventy one oh five. The office
is closed today for Juneteenth, butgive him a call tomorrow or leave a
message today. Nine oh six seventyone oh five is the phone number Weight
Loss and Red Light Therapy. Askfor the Vinetti special. It's forty nine

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bucks. Nine oh six seventy oneoh five. It's Reverend L. Wilson's
birthday. Today would have been eightyone five two would have been eighty five.
Just the game we play, Hey, who sings the song? We
do? John Wayne's no week?Me and John Wayne. You're ruining it
forever? Show me stop, tellme you're ruining it for everyone that's listening.

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Just the game we play. Isthis your closing move? See,
I'll look at it or put myhand on you. At this tone,
I'll go just show me and tellme. Oh yeah, this leaves with
you, just to shut you up. Oh my god, I'll sleep with

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you if you just stop. Herewe go, Here we go, baby,
hmm. Just game we play?Is a good eraror for music.
The only sucks is when you hearthis on the podcast, all right,
can't put music on our podcast.By the way, if you're listening later
in the day, there's Radio Aforty w A j S. Welcome to

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your hop day, your Wednesday.I'm Dwight Wedding. That's Tony Venetti and
that right there is Dave James.Before we talk to James, Saint James.
Let's go ahead and go to socialmedia real quick. We were talking
about James Conrad. That's when DonnieJohnson chimes in. It says William Conrad.
It's actually from Louisville. Oh,he did Jake and the Fat Man.

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He also starting cannon, remember thecannon in the early seventies. What's
cannon? Cannon? He was adetective gun. Uh so the Fat Man
on Jake and the Fat Man fromLouisville from Louisville. We need a fat
Man's Louisville sign on the building.Yes, yes, well, there's no

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way the mayor is working today.It's June teenth. We don't want Cannon's
Louisville. It's gonna be on Canon'sWayne. Oh there you go. All
right, let's look him in Agood dear friend of mine, and pound
for pound, if you ask me, one of the best frontman rockers there
is James Saint James. Hey,James, how you doing, man?
Oh? All up, fantastic,amigo. Let's do some good for the

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neighborhood. Man. Uh. Alot of people in the service industry.
Uh, they struggle mentally because thehours suck. People suck. And there's
an event going on this Sunday,this targeting specifically everybody. I want everybody
attend because it's a mental health issue, particularly against suicide. But talk about

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the event Sunday and what started.It's like the third year, right,
Uh, well, this will bethe fourth year. We actually started six
years ago but took the COVID break, So it's the fourth slash sixth annual.
Oh wow, this will be thefourth the fourth time we're doing it.
Yeah, so Athony Bourdain. Uh, you know, all of a
sudden, the food world big fansof and that was a shock when you

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know his deal went down. It'sone of those grasses greener kind of deals
like Don Jee was talking about,where you see someone's life it's amazing and
it blows your mind when you knoweverything's not okay. So and that's the
that's the underlying sentiment. You know, the whole concept is to talk about
it and and that it's okay tohave problems and don't keep it to yourself.

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It boils up and causes problem.So it's taste for life. It
was celebrating legacy and his life andbringing awareness to those issues that are so
hush hush and under the rug andcause people a big problems. Yeah,
he's He's a perfect example of thosewhere no one had a clue, right,
and then Robin Williams was another one, right where no one had a

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clue and all of a sudden,you're just like there wasn't even a hint
like there we had called masking.Yeah, masking, you know that's part
of that's part of the issue.Uh yeah. And by the way,
before we go any further, nineeighty eight, nine eight eight, So
I remember that. But we're talking. We're talking to James, Saint James.
We're talking about a taste for life. It goes down this Sunday.
Uh talk about some of the specials. It's not just it's basically this is

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a service industry appreciation thing, butit's also a reminder that you know,
people, people can get down andgo ahead and open up about it.
I open up about my depression andmental issues on the show all the time,
but go ahead and talk about what'sgoing to go down there and some
of the foods and drinks. Yeah, it's well, it's grown over the

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years. You know, we wereexcited the first couple of times to claim
that we had over twenty chefs.This year we have over forty of your
best, finest local culinarians get togetherand to make you know, this is
stuff you're not going to get atthe regular restaurants on the regular menu,
you know, rocking little specials andyou get to walk around and you know,
have a bite of everything. It'slike the world's finest buffet for only

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fifty dollars. Imagine going to abuffet were forty chefs, forty chefs,
you know, fill up the pansand there's a yeah, we blocked off
the whole street there on sprat andgolf down at at the restaurant, you
know, tables, tents everywhere andjust at elbows and the rest of it,
and you get to just taste everyevery good thing there is. We

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have cash bar that's best three toseven. Then of course there's the after
party which we'll do bands playing,they have karaoke, we have solid auction
chef Chris, Chris Williams, mybrother uh from four pegs go have some
some uh specials for the day's whippedup just for that event. And you

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know that's that that if I cansegue myself ties into kind of the concept
of you know, in the pressuresthat we put on ourselves in the in
the food world to make every itemso perfect, make the guests experience perfect.
It's pressure, pressure, pressure,uh, and you know it builds
up. You gotta you gotta talkabout it. Just like physical health.
No one goes through their whole lifeand never ask to go to the doctor

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and never has physical problems. Samewith mental health, right, but it's
so stigmatized that people don't like totalk about it. You don't want to
show you problems, you know.The main thing from my perspective is it's
got to be okay to talk aboutit. And no one should ever feel
like they can't because they don't thinktheir problems big enough for somebody who's got
it worse. No, you know, get it out of this. Talk

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about it and if it tastes forlife me, it's a celebration, you
know, Bordain, you know,I was traveling all wonderful things. So
it's it's a it's will on bea sad heavy event because it's about loving
life, living and staying. Let'sbe alive as long as we can.
It's a taste for life. Ifyou're in the service industry or even you
just want to show up and havea damn good time. We're talking about

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forty chefs all in one place,the best best buffet you're ever gonna partake
in. Hey, James, James, keep rocking, and thanks for doing
good for the neighborhood with all theseother folks. Okay, sure, absolutely,
thank you guys for everything you doas well. Have a wonderful day
you life all right? Uh,we are live on Friday nine to noon

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