The New Comcast TV Bundle, a Commencement Butchering & the End of Red Lobster

ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the newly announced Comcast streaming bundle combining Peacock, Apple TV & Netflix AND The hilarity of the Thomas Jefferson University Commencement announcer butchering graduates’ names…PLUS - Red Lobster is closing down restaurants across the country - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
This is just hitting ridiculous now KFIAE six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio
app. Last week, you mightremember we were telling you about this bundle

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which was coming in summer between DisneyHulu and Warner Brothers also known as Max.
Disney Hulu Warner Brothers seem like strangebedfellows, seemed antithetical to the whole
streaming movement where you had choice,You could choose just the streaming platform you

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wanted. You didn't have to payfor all the channels that you didn't want,
and it was about having that choice. Well that was last week.
That was Disney Hulu and Warner Brothers. Check out what's happening this week.
Comcast is now offering subscribers Peacock,Netflix, and Apple TV bundle. That

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makes no sense. Why don't theyjust put them all together and call them
Cable, Just put it all,just push it offgether like a smash burger.
Why don't you have Comcasts and aDisney bundle of Peacock, Netflix,
Apple TV, Max Hulu and DisneyPlus. How about that? Just push

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it all together. What's the point. I don't I don't get the I
don't, I don't. I don'tget it anymore because to that point,
Peacock and Netflix have nothing in common. I guess if Netflix can siphon off
some discount subscriptions, then why not. Here here is the real issue.
These platforms are struggling individually because oflack of either lack of content or you're

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charging too much for the content thatyou have, but they're not making any
money, most of them. Partof Disney Plus is a loure. I
think it was five ninety nine whenit started. I get all this,
this great library, and the competitiveadvantage that Disney had was they had literal
decades of content going back to thenineteen forties and Steamboat Willie. And then

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you realize, okay, they didnot have enough subscribers to justify all that,
so they had to jack up theprice. That wasn't good enough.
How about let's cut down on passwordsharing. Well that's not good enough,
so they raised the price U lockdownpasswords, no sharing. That wasn't enough.
Well, why don't we bundle withHulu? Remember that? Then they

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bundled with Hulu. That's not enough, Well, why don't we bring in
Max. That's probably not gonna beenough either. Max is sixteen ninety nine.
I don't know what Disney is nowbecause they got it for the year
for one hundred and thirty nine ninenine, So that's maybe, like,
I don't know, twelve ninety ninea month, So I think that's what
that's about what it is. I'mmonthly, and it kind of evens out
to that day, okay, Andthen you have Hulu, which is like

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six ninety nine a month, andthere's almost nothing for me to watch on
Hulu, just nothing but see Hulu. Now, from my understanding, Hulu
kind of like Prime or one ofthe networks. Hulu has a lot of
other things that it started to coopt into its app. So like crunchy

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Roll, which I have as aseparate app, is now available through Hulu.
Oh, I have crunchy Roll throughPrime. I have crunchy Roll through
Prime. Let me just since youdigress, I am loving crunchy Roll because
I'm finding all of my old animeshows like Robotech, yes, obviously,
speed Racer, Star Blazers, allthese great cartoons, anime cartoons from the

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late nineteen seventies, early eighties.I'm hooked. It's like it's seven ninety
nine. But I'll pay for thatmore so than Hulu will have Starblazers.
Yeah, that's really good. Yes, all of the episodes. It's deep.
Now that you're on there, I'mgonna see mobile gun all that.
Yeah, Mobile suit Gundam. Imean, look, there are so many
good titles on crushy roll. Butno that that's a huge digression because I

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would go deep on cuntry roll.I'm thinking that this is literally all of
these platforms, kind of like therewas this radio outlet. I think it
was called DASH. I don't thinkDash is around anymore. I've heard of
it, dash Rod. I thinkit was created when it's like, you
know, we don't want to beradio anymore. We want to do our
own no commercials, no commercial wewant to do this whole thing. And

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then they went off on their own. Then it was like, oh,
so that's why they have commercials,that's why oh so oh and then and
then they found out, oh sowe so if we charged for this,
which originally was free, if wecharged this, people aren't gonna want it.
So the same serious and so it'slike one of those things. Is

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like, well, you're gonna eventuallyfind out why radio wins all these independent
you know, streamers are finding outwhy cable worked pretty much because you could
pick and choose. Same with podcasts. There's so many commonalities here. When
podcasts started, it was like,great, I got all this content.
I can listen to forty minutes ofpodcasts, no commercials, no ads.

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Then podcasts realized, m we gotspots. Yeah, we can't make any
real money unless we have sponsors.And then they started with the spots.
Let's say it at the beginning,yep, you know, it was just
the beating. It wasn't really intrusive. Then you realize, wait a minute,
the podcast host was starting reading adsduring the podcast, and then you

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had the actual ads which were insertedin the podcast. It was a complete
break from the content. And thenthey put it on the end as well,
and then you're like, well notjust listen. Then they started charging.
Yes, Comcast is offering subscribers Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV is a
bundle. I'll I'll check it out, if only because why not combine those

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as opposed to paying for them individuallyand separately. But how much is this
now? I don't know if theydid not disclose the price of that.
There's a reason they didn't disclose itbecause it's like twenty eight ninety nine.
You're like, bait, that's thecost of all those as. That's jedi
my check. Because you know aNetflix is like twenty two to ninety nine,
Peacock maybe seven ninety nine, AppleTV is nine ninety nine. It

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has to be under thirty dollars tomathematically even get my attention, because all
three of them separately are more thanthirty dollars when you're talking about the ad
free versions. But if they talkabout thirty five forty Gtfoh yeah, I
think mo where in this moment wherein an unprecedented time, fashion recycles,

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we might recycle back to what youand to all were both saying, oh,
that's why you have commercials. We'regoing back to cable and satellite because
it's like, oh, that's why. But we just had the freedom to
choose, and then everyone just Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, whoever, just
keeps jacking up their price because they'relike, oh, we need more money

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because this is expensive. The onlything which has really changed is the delivery
system. Instead of paying for directTV or Comcast or the traditional cable provider
and using that cord, putting itin the wall. We're streaming it via
the Internet, but it's basically thesame model at this point. We're just

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getting it through a different delivery system. And I blame Mark Ronner as you
should. It's great to see thatpeople are finally finding out that content costs
money. Well, no, Idon't begrudge people charging for content. Well,
you're talking about the podcasts and howthose are slowly having to be monetized,
and even if they don't have sponsors, you'll get them begging you to

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go to their Patreon page or something. You got to pay people to do
stuff. Now, the problem withthe cable is that we're paying too much
and we're getting a bunch of stuffthat we didn't use, and we're just
racing right past the solution to that, starting back at the point zero again
where we're gonna have to pay forbundles that include stuff we don't want.
But the difference is, let mego back to podcasts before we go to

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this break. Podcasts, you're not, in all instances paying for the content
creator. A lot of times you'repaying for the platform in which it's on.
And I don't want to call anybodyname, but I'm saying they the
platform will insert commercials having nothing todo with the podcast creator. There's no

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free rides, mo gas as agrass. It's Later with mo Kelly.
You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon demand from KFI AM six forty.
Did you know that silly Roadhouse moviestarring Jake Jillenhall. Well, they're going

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to do it again. There's asequel moving forward at Amazon MGM Studios.
Jake Jillenhall is set to return.And I have nothing against Jake Chillenhall.
I think it's a fabulous actor.I have everything against a movie being called
Roadhouse and it not being true tothe original in any way. That's why

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I said they should have named it. I don't know, Pitt stop outhouseuses
right on the little on the nosebut perfect. You know that thing on
the side of the road would havebeen sufficient cow pie Hi. You know
circle k in the in the Evergladesor something that would have been fine,

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but they decided to call it Roadhouse. So I have Patrick Swayze esque expectations
as to how the movie should bedone with respect to the nineteen eighty nine
movie, and if you're going tomove this story forward, they could have
had some genuine knobs to the original, and it really didn't have any of
them. It took out key characters. It was just the villain was horrible.

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When I say the villain. Inthe original, you had Brad Wesley.
That was the villain. This movieis about the henchmen of the villain
played by Connor McGregor, and hewas just a guy who fought. There
was no backstory there was. Thecharacters are two dimensional and it's very difficult
to care about eighty of them.How about road Apple, Yeah, that

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would be good. Call it pinecone or something like that. You'd have
that term in California road Apple.Yes, we do you understand? Yes?
Do you want me to go intoan explanation, Go ahead and do
that so you can get kicked offhere, Go ahead, never mind,
that's my thoughts. Please proceed,please, But they're going to do a
sequel to Roadhouse and the only thingmore ridiculous than that. And I mean

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this very sincerely, and I saythis doing good and well, we won't
be getting any interviews with the principlesin these movies. When we start talking
about this, there are not one, not two, not three, but
four upcoming Jurassic Park Slash Jurassic Worldsequels four Jurassic Park, The Last World,

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Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park three,Jurassic World, Jurassic World, Fallow
Kingdom, Jurassic World, Dominion.Those are the ones that we all know
and kind of like or hate.They've collectively grossed over six billion dollars worldwide.
This is just about money, it'snot about art. Keep it in

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that context. Jurassic World Chaos TheoryChaos Theory going back to Jeff Goldbloom's character
in the original Chaos Theory. That'san animated series coming out this year,
and it follows Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, which was in twenty twenty and twenty
twenty two, which had spanned fiveseasons. To find the new blar six

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many years older, now the targetof an enemy who's using dinosaurs to hunt
them. That sounds original. There'sJurassic Park Survival, which is going to
be a first person action video game, action adventure video game and acts as
the direct sequel to the original JurassicPark set just twenty four hours after the

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events of the first film. Survivalfollows engine scientist doctor Maya Joshi, who
finds herself stranded on Island Nublar afterfailing to evacuate with her colleagues. There
is Jurassic World four and there's noword on the plot, but it's another
Jurassic World movie. We know thatScarlett Johanson is being tapped to produce and

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star in the film. Other actorswho are in talks or Jonathan Bailey and
Manuel Garcia Ruffo. And that willbe the seventh actual movie in the series.
Don't know about its chronology. Andthere's Drastic World Evolution three. I

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guess that's a part of the bookseries. I guess, yeah, I'm
not sure. And there's unofficial JurassicPark video game which is coming out.
All these things just Jurassic Park movies, books, video games. And I
get the monetization. I get it. If you have a multi billion dollar
franchise, you don't walk away fromit. But they're not doing it the

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way Star Wars did it. It'snot like they have the collectibles, it's
not like they have these answllory propertiesthat people seem to be clamoring for.
It's not like they're telling I guessthey're going inside the universe, but it
doesn't seem like they're breaking any newground. You have dinosaurs, they shouldn't
be making the dinosaurs get out,the dinosaurs eat people, rinse, and

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repeat. There's nothing really different atall. They don't really learn the lesson,
do they. Well, here's thething, how does engine manage to
stay in business? How many timescan you let dinosaurs get loose, they
eat people, and you stay inbusiness? How will you not suit into
oblivion? I don't know. It'skind of like Tesla, isn't that You
wonder what their business model is?This? The question here is how do

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you make dinosaurs tedious? This iswhat they've done. I don't know about
tedious. I think they made themistake that many of these movies make the
people get in the way of thestars of the story, Like a Godzilla
movie. I don't give a damnabout the people. Give me Godzilla.
You want a guy in a rubbersuit stomping on model building. But it's

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not complicated. It's the people thatare ted It's the people and all the
things that them doing what they shouldnot be doing. You know, you
shouldn't be walking around, like,look at the size of these tracks.
These must be a raptor tracks.By this time, everyone in the world
knows in this world that dinosaurs arerunning around. Don't try to play with

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raptors. Let's go back to thevery first movie. What did Jeff Goldblum's
character say to John Hammond. It'slike you did it and you didn't even
think to ask yourself the question whetheryou should. And just because you can
doesn't mean you should. And that'sapplicle ap, applicable to all these movies,
like just because you can't, well, no one's asking for this,
you shouldn't. Well, like youimplied, it's not urt, it's an

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ip and so you ring every lastcent you can out of it. That's
the American way. Sounds good tome. You're listening to Later with Moe
Kelly on demand from KFI AM sixforty can if I am six four years

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later with mo Kelly. We're liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And just
let you know your chance to wina pair of tickets to Monster Jam World
Finals twenty three. It's gonna becoming up at the top of the hour.
I'll be speaking with driver Harmando Castro, He's driver of Monster truck El
Toro Loco. He is lo Coalfrom Whittier, so we'll get a chance

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to talk to him. In fact, he's been on the show before.
We'll talk to him. We'll giveaway a pair of tickets and you don't
want to miss it. Monster JamWorld Finals twenty three is at Sofi Stadium
this Saturday. It's gonna be oneof the biggest events not only this weekend
but in the sport and you we'llhave thousands of people coming from around the
world. Those tickets coming up atthe top of the hour. Something else

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that came across today which is reallyhilarious to me at least. We were
talking talking about the different commencements andI was giving my memories of commencement and
you always would have a teacher aprofessor who was tasked with reading off names.
But it's usually a teacher or professor, someone who has some degree of

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familiarity with the students, could bea counselor someone connected to the university or
school. Well, what happens whenyou have someone who's connected to the school
and obviously can't pronounce basic names.Customarily you will have this person who's reading

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the names. They'll have two nameson the sheet. They'll have the actual
name to Wallace Sharp, and thennext to it they will have a sounder
a pronunciation key to help sound outthe name. This person was only reading

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the phonetics and still couldn't get basicnames right. I crap, you not
listen to this. Never have somany names been so butchered, even easy
ones like Victoria Elizabeth Bruce, VictoriaLee, zupe Brus Butcherd beyond recognition.

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Be it Megan me genlu I Adreyor Allison ALISONA call Bishop and how can
you mangle Mollie Malena zup bath CopThe announcer at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia
was reading off phonetically spelled names oncars, still got it wrong. How

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hard is it to pronounce Thomas?For the record, Thomas, can you
state your full name for us?Thomas Michael Cannavery Junior Thomas was the first
College of Nursing grad to actually correctthe mispronounnunciation. Tom moved me Thomas Thomas,

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an inn of our school, ThomasJefferson University. Thomas says, at
first, it felt like a slapin the face. Tom moved me.
Then she never even said my lastname at all. But now that the
video has gone viral, I justcannot stop with thinking of laughing about it.
I'll never forget that day for aslong as I live. Neither will
Sarah Virginia Brennan Sayer Uvoon Jeane juBe nuns stop. On her Instagram,

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Sarah posted a new degree a name. Thanks, I guess the announcer apologized,
So did Thomas Jefferson University, sayingeach graduate deserves to have their name
honored correctly, but for now,Thomas is aka Tom Moomy. That's my

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new nickname. My friends have gaveme. And when Thomas congratulated his new
friend sire, he addressed her andsigned off with their new names. Tim
moved me. Jenny murs seeing aNew York Thomas. How at what point
do you realize maybe I'm pronouncing them. Just read the other names, because

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not just a phanetic, it hasthe actual name. I think Steph Fush
can maybe relate to this. Iunderstand if you mess up a name,
but after you mess up five orsix, it's you, dog, it's
you. You are the problem.Like, for example, where is Blackey

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at no Blocke here today? Yes, sir, my name is Blake.
Are you out of your goddamn mind? Blake? What do you want to
go to war? Blocke? Becausewe could go to war. I'm for

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real, I'm thrill, so youbetter check yourself. D Nice? Is
there a D Nice? If oneof y'all says some silly ass name,
this whole class is gonna feel mywrath? Now, D Nice? Do

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you mean Denise? You say yourname right right now? Denise, say
right Denise correctly? D Nice?That's better? Thank you? Now?
Hey, he Arro? Where areyou? Where is a A ron right

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now? No? A n huh? Well you better be sick dead or
mute a Aron here? Oh man? Why didn't you ask me the first
time I said A huh? Youknow, I'm just asking you. I
said it like four times, sowhy didn't you say it the first time?
I said? A ron Us ispronounced error? It's later, y

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do it? You're listening to Laterwith Moe Kelly on demand from KFI A
M six forty. Bad news,bad news, Red Lobster going out of
business, file bankruptcy. They're goingto be closing down a lot of them

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in southern California. They're closing theBrentwood location Lakewood. That's the one I
would go to on Carson, Irvine, Victorville and so many other places.
Yeah, I would. I wouldgo to the one on Carson Street in
Lakewood. Yeah. Red Lobster wasone of those places. I'm talking about

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them like someone died. Was.Red Lobster was one of those places where
I would go every now and then, but not often. And when I
did go, it was only forthe cheddar biscuits. That was it.
That was the only thing I went. That was the only thing I went
there for. Light potatoes. Ithink it tasted shirt flaps. Here we

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go, y'all. Three True bontrasfor a limited time. Unpopular opinion.
I can't stand ad Lobster. Ithink everything they make was trash. Are
you serious? Yeah? Trash?You're wrong. I'm sorry. I can't
get down with it. I don'tcare how delicious the great Shirley Singer singater
makes a sound light those potatoes.Come on, you gotta admit this isgan

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what what? What? What?Three Lobster and True contree for a limited
time. As fast as she's singingis as fast as it would come up.
I didn't go there often, butwhen my mother loves some red lobster,
it's weird. She loves those comfortfood places like Red Lobster olive Garden.

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Do you remember when red lobster usedto be like a toy the date
place like it was it was itwas Red Lobster and those were to the
date to date night spots. Mark, I, yes, true story out
here. Yeah you were BALLI yeah, it was understood. If you're gonna
take a woman out to a nicerestaurant air quotes nice restaurant, you would

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go to Red Lobster. Wow.I don't think I've been to one.
Maybe maybe once like twenty five thirtyyears ago in Indiana or something, but
certainly not anytime within the last timeyou might find one in the strip Ball.
Now, look, red Lobster usedto be the truth, the lobster,
the buttersauce, and those cheddar biscuits. Yes, yes, yes,

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yes, Now you know you gotto go someplace else, you know,
especially they chop up the food atyour table. What's that one? Benna
Benny Hannah. A lot of peopledon't, but Bennie Hannah was was also
one of those ones, but it'sthe last one that's out there. Yeah,
Benny, Hannah was never all thatspecial for me with them cheddar biscuits.

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So she got tail camp light,use potatoes, saucers and everybody concave
contail tramp light potatoes just in caseyou didn't know the menu by now,
shrimp light potato, light up potato. Is she saying tail shrimp tea,
wait for potatoes, three lobster andshrimp bonuntrees for a limit play the game

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tail shrimp, tail camp light thosepotatoes sox is she saying waiters thanks?
Saying waiters contail camp suck. Nowaitress. I think it's wedges. That's
what she's saying in a weird way, Light up potato, shampamp three lobster

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and shrimpboucherie for a limited time.Who's gonna eat three lobsters? Who the
frick is gonna eat three lobsters?I could eat three shrimp, but three
lobsters some greedy day. That's crawfish. I can see people eating three crawfish,
not three lobsters. I've seen somehungry, hungry ladies at those tables
just because they could. I wasgonna say some people clean, clean them

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out for really. Maybe that's whythey're going out of business. Yeah,
well that that's what I read.So when you take your date to Red
Lobster, do you wear your bestjorts, eat with the sport? I
mean his point, that's what it'sbecome. But to your most point back

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then, yeah, that was whereit was fine. You were wearing your
oak tree, you were wearing yourgo round, you were dressed up your
finest terry cloth. Yeah it's notterry all right. The sweaters with the
leather patches, what's wrong with them? Leather with with the cowprint? Had

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those Red Lobster When you didn't havemoney but wanted to feel as if you
were having a fine dining experience,Red Lobster satisfied that. Especially if you're
trying to air quotes impress a younglady. What if your best acid washed
jeans were in the laundry and youhad nothing to wear, No, you

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could always find more ass to wash. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there
was no shortage. I was justgonna say, I think the only one
left now currently for teens cheesecake factory. Yeah, for teas, Yeah,
even young young twenty years you know, twenty money Friday. BJ's that's where

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the young people go. Yeah,for dates, for dates, for dates,
because Firstsday, first Thursday, tryingto press first day, all out
going, all out cheesecake factory.So does cheesecake factory guarantee that you score.
No, No, I'm here totell you no. You know what,
because do you remember that list wherethe lady put out the list.
If you take me to cheesecake fasthere, I'm going home trifling, Yeah,

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trout mouth. Yeah, almost cussed, almost almost, but that was
the expectation. And you know,if you kick a woman to the movies
now his first day, Oh no, that's frowned up. No, no,
no, no, don't don't doit like Travis Bickle and taxi driver.
Take her to a nice movie.It's a nice doesn't matter you like,

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that's it. That's it. Yeah, you're not gonna get anything.
You will be on her phone inthe middle of the movie, like,
I can't believe he hasked me hadthe movie? He texts like this mother
father had a dirty nerve. Andwe didn't even go let Red Lobster to
the movie. Gave me popcorn,not even Red Lobster with Chada biscuits.
I can't believe where am I chanderbiscuits? How good can those things be?

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They're pretty damn good. Lad Potatoes, I'm tasted, wather still O,
potato ship let, potato letto,three labster trumbuntaries for a limited time

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