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[SPEAKER_03]: Michael Mera, Radio Entertainment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had to get that game, and now he won't be here quiet with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We will start the show.

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[SPEAKER_06]: T-M-O-S, classic.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Friday, Flashback.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Ladies and gentlemen, we normally have the Wins de Mailbag, but because of special moments like this, we're switching things up.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm so, so excited to have this guest on the show today.

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's such a special day to have him on in 1995.

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[SPEAKER_06]: He became the voice of the late show with David Letterman,

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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it marked a change in the show because he was also, in my opinion, an added cast member to an already phenomenal program.

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[SPEAKER_06]: We welcome Allen Calter to the Michael Marisho.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Allen, thanks so much for taking the time to join us today.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Michael, a pleasure to be on the air with you, appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: We've all heard how Dave's feeling my question to you, how are you feeling?

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[SPEAKER_06]: It's got to be an emotional time for all of you over there.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It is so mixed, Mike.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, every time where we do the show and I look forward to doing it each and every day, even now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There's that love that's pouring out of everybody and the hugs pouring out of everybody.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And my eyes are as fearful as everybody else is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a sad time.

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[SPEAKER_06]: When you joined the show, uh, the first question I would have for you, uh, was it part of the plan going in when you got the gig that you were going to be involved in so many of those fabulous bits.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you know that was it, uh, no, that was not the plan at all.

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[SPEAKER_03]: My plan.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I've been a fan of the show for years and, uh, and Bill Wendell was being out through that time and he announced the show at the beginning.

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[SPEAKER_03]: When he came back, they put a microphone out on stage at the end of the show.

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[SPEAKER_03]: one I came on I expected to be the same thing but I wanted to see the show because I was a fan and I asked if I could have a spot on stage just even though the side of the stage is wanted to see it and he said that's what I'm planning on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The first thing I came in totally dressed to the health with my phone and one pocket, my beeper and the other pocket then good watch on and just before the first commercial he said well ladies gentlemen we'll be back

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[SPEAKER_03]: with our Olympic high diver diving into the Nike Pool on 53rd Street.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Alan, do you swim?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I was originally just to be over to the pool and before I knew what I was floating on my back, looking up at a camera on the top of the head, so this is what it's going to be like announcing for day later.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you, you know, I started there.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I will tell you, I knowing we were going to have you on.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I was looking at some of the old clips.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I had forgotten how many times I replayed the Lynn Shaney bit, which I still think.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm all in a monologue's fat phenomenal guess.

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[SPEAKER_06]: That to me,

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[SPEAKER_06]: i i i've never laughed harder at a letterman bit when you did that uh... it always seemed that through the acting and you're fine actor the way you do this stuff that you were having a blast a while you were doing was stuff you you because you committed to it i'd tell you that before the ladies was the greatest of fun that i've had on any show being able to looking to a camera when the lights are low and paul shafers playing the music

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[SPEAKER_03]: and saying, I know you've had trouble with your guy, but you can do it like the big red, and I'll show you how to really do this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Those who are fun, and then going home afterwards, getting slapped around the house.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And the Alan Calters Celebrity interview, Robin, I were talking, we were talking to Chris Mawley, but obsessing on the late show all week for the last week.

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[SPEAKER_06]: The Alan Calter interview was that born out of the two taping segments on Thursday, is that how that came about, that fabulous bit where you would have the failed interview with the celebrity that had already been on, how did that come up?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what started that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It was a fun idea of the very first time and it worked out a great deal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: There is a funny story that goes along with it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I have my whether it be George Clooney or Parrot's Hilton or whoever it was sitting next to me after Dave finishes the interview and I get really upset with Dave and I started calling him names.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to do this to you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: and you're such a guy you've been sucking up to these people and you know they're my guests and I've been planning this for months.

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[SPEAKER_03]: How could you do that ladies and gentlemen?

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[SPEAKER_03]: My guest for the evening is Lenny Stewart.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And they would say I would say I didn't mean to do that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I say you didn't mean to do and then tie right on him.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the very first time we did it, we rehearsed it and everybody was laughing on stage.

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[SPEAKER_03]: This is great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I love I'm looking forward to it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't tell a guess what I'm going to say, and I get it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: She's a paper that says, change this word to a blank hole.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It changed this word to you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I can't say that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the writer who gave it to me said, Dave wrote it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: And they went on, and you guys did them, I mean, a good chunk of them, identically every time, which to me made it funny, why watch some of them in sequence last night, and it was a, it was a, it was a big fun.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Rob, I know you wanted to get a question in for Alan.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Alan, first of all, congratulations on a great run.

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[SPEAKER_05]: The thing that I think is so fun about you is that you've taken being an announcer, which is an audio,

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[SPEAKER_05]: art and your visuals are so great just an example on Monday night in the monologue Dave said well today's the day we tell Alan and the one cut to you and just your shrug and you're looking at the camera like oh my god it's all ending you do it more in one look at the camera then most people could do if they gave a five minute scene when they right a joke around you like that do they prepare you for it are you prepared to oh no actually actually with that let me just

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[SPEAKER_03]: The camera came around and was three feet away from me, facing, and I knew I knew I knew I knew Dave was doing his monologue, so I had no idea, and I pulled Frank, Frank, to be those who was one of our stage managers over to me by the sleeve, and I said, why the camera in my face?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And he said, you'll find out in a minute, and then Dave gave me the lie, and then you react to the lie.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Most of the time, they don't tell me something like that's going to happen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the reactions are better that way, and I can react anyway I want.

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[SPEAKER_03]: most of the skits that we do they don't tell me is going to happen like that until probably an hour and a half before the show and I get a call yeah so that's the beauty of that's the beauty and the fun that I have you know it's just it's just tremendous every day is like being a playground when you're three years old and being built you can play in the modern do whatever you want mommy's not because of a puncture later

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[SPEAKER_06]: I've just got you out.

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[SPEAKER_06]: We've got you for just a few more minutes and I want to make sure I get my questions in here I want to say will you sit in here in your in your opinion will we see Dave on TV again?

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[SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people said they don't think so.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think we'll see Dave on TV?

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, honestly, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm hoping for reunions.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm hoping for as much work we've made and as much fun more fun with Dave That then we've had so far, but I know he's well and he's happy and he's gonna miss this even though his life from now on is gonna be a pleasure And I'm hoping he wants to get back once in a while and I'm a part of

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[SPEAKER_03]: you think he knows after all this how big a deal some of us think this is and how emotional we will all be when the curtain comes down do you think he's aware of that i think he's a word from the uh... from his gifts i think i know he's a word from us and most importantly of all i know he's aware of it from our audiences we are four six you want people that audience every day they are giving him so much love day after day as they always have but even more now

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[SPEAKER_06]: uh... do you know uh... it what your plans are people should know all in your your twenty four years old too too young to step to start a you know to stop a career out are you going to be retiring as well are you going to be moving on to uh... to other things what i'm going to leave this show and everything else is going to be a surprise to me there are offers but everything's gonna be a surprise i would like to be i would like to be just a frequent guest of the like a very show uh...

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[SPEAKER_06]: If you're taking notes on how to be an interview, ladies and gentlemen, this is a pro we're talking to here.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Always smooth the interview or no matter how small.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You don't have to share this if you know, but I just wondered about it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know what you're going to say to the big guy at the very end when you do say goodbye?

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[SPEAKER_06]: If you thought about it, you don't have to share it, but have you thought about what you're going to say to him?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know I know the two things that I feel one's gratitude so it's going to be a thank you the others.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I love you because I do And I'm blessed with what he gave me for these last 20 years and the 13 years before that that I was a big fan And I hope to be a fan of his for a long time to come even though he's off here You get to I introduce the show and then you watch the show.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Do you have a favorite show or a favorite guest?

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't only because there are thousands of them, and I know we all feel the same way.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you could have asked me that question in 1995 or six, and I wouldn't have had some favor of guests, but now that you just want to talk to the other, as not bland, you can bring up in the him and I could tell you that I loved or liked or whatever that person, but so many favorites.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I miss Robin Williams, I miss him, I miss having him on the air, and the funny man that he was.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm talking about that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Alan Colter the voice of the late show going off the year this week at emotional time for everybody Oscar and you want to get one in before we shall go quick question um i know when when when sets change or when movies are wrapping up uh people usually try to scroll away something from the sets of a souvenir for themselves is there anything you have your eye on

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[SPEAKER_03]: But in my lips, we will see what we will see.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm behalf of everybody on our show, Alan, and so many people out there.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You're a part of it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You're a part of what I think is television history and really so generous at this particular time to join us on the show, I wish you nothing but the best.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you from all of us and all of the viewers that listen to me for what you guys did tremendous tremendous time for all of us and it will always be appreciated Good luck.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's Alan Paul for all of us to you.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you very much.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you guys.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You take care.

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[SPEAKER_06]: For all of us Letterman fans, that was a moment.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you, Alan Carter.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Let the show begin.

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[SPEAKER_06]: T.M.O.S.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Classic.

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[SPEAKER_07]: To start the bonus show, it has been requested that I tell the parable, the fable of the Pond hockey incident.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I think it's more of a parable because it teaches a lesson, does it not?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Do what to hate your sister?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, there's that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: How about this?

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[SPEAKER_05]: We've never done this.

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[SPEAKER_05]: After we tell the parable, let's all say what we learned from it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, well, then we'd be open and I have that, but that would be the end of the show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, this is within the show.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, within the end of the show.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I believe I am nine or ten years old.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And back in the day, back when before global warming took hold around the world, there were very, very cold winters in Connecticut.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And the ponds every single year would freeze over.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And we would love, love, love, there's nothing we enjoyed more.

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[SPEAKER_07]: then skating on the ponds each and every day.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, with our hands behind our back and tassels in our hair.

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[SPEAKER_07]: The hardest part was getting me organ out to the pond.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And we would go out in the morning at like nine o'clock eight o'clock nine o'clock in the morning.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I would skate until sundown.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I would skate all day.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I would maybe come in for lunch.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And by the way, in my day, in my neighborhood.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I know a lot of people that will relate to this.

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[SPEAKER_07]: called their children to to lunch and supper.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's the way we say, Mike, come to the say, that was what we didn't.

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[SPEAKER_07]: They just lean out the window and bellow.

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[SPEAKER_07]: There was no worry of the child being abducted or any of this.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It would just be, they just lean out the window and call you and you would be called for dinner.

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[SPEAKER_05]: When you talk about the pond, was it an actual geographical pond or was it the kind of thing where you would leave the hose on and flood the backyard in the freeze?

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[SPEAKER_07]: Next door to my house was a brook a stream that ran and by the way, there's a song called The Hills of my Connecticut Connecticut is filled with hills, and so there were lots of rolling hills and ponds and streams and In my particular neighborhood, you had one big pond up the hill Wood pond it was called Wood pond road and then that would feed the brook down into a tiny little pond in back of the Kelly's house

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[SPEAKER_07]: And it would feed the pond in back of the Kelly's house, and then that would go over a little damn that they had and I'm going to hook that would feed the last pond that was down right behind our house.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So there were technically within

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[SPEAKER_07]: less than a half a mile there were three ponds that you could skate on but the one that we were skating on that day was right behind Kelly's it was the closest to my house I could walk down the hill and get on the get on the the ice and I could skate all day long and it was not as big a pond as the other one so it's just a couple of us that had a makeshift goal set up and we were slapping the puck around and I would I could do it for hours it was it was by the way it was why many people in my neighborhood were

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[SPEAKER_05]: What the f*** are you playing?

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[SPEAKER_05]: It's the hills of my Connecticut.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You found it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I've never heard it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Turn it up.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's take it from the beginning.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Here I go from the top.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Turn it up.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You got to send it to him.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And the land is peaceful and lovely She might feel like you were always born It's where I want to live and die

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[SPEAKER_05]: This version is by the Yankee Nutmigres.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, the Yankee Nutmigre.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Forany group.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, they released super-forany.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, forany.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And everybody.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Let me get close to that song for a second.

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[SPEAKER_07]: But here we go.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I put it on there.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Here we go.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It's been destroyed.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Shall I send it to you anyway?

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, go ahead.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it fills up my head again.

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[SPEAKER_07]: The point is that that's what we did during the winter.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And on this particular day, I had had a lunch, and then I had had...

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[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, kind of an early supper because my parents were going somewhere and my sister who was seven years older than I am was babysitting me and my sister would have been 15 16 at the time.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, uh, you know, and I because I'm You know, she's seven year age difference and that makes me what when she's 15.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, he's nine years nine or 10.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Nine or ten.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So she's babysitting me and I have a lunch.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I think right before my parents Or a late lunch and I went back down to a skate and I'm skating and having so much fun And it's so cold and I'm all bundled up But it doesn't matter cuz I got my hockey gloves on and I got my hockey skates on and I'm really really excited And I think my hockey skates were my dads use skates that I used for years and years and years and it was just and if you'd seen these skates It looks like something out of you know, Hans Brinkery

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's commonplace when you're a kid.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You just use what your old brother had or what your pot's had, probably wearing like eight pairs of socks.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So they've got eight pairs of socks out and it's just, but it's fun fun.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So much fun.

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[SPEAKER_07]: that I forgot, and that nature was was brewing in my large intestine.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't realize that as the hours rolled away, that suddenly it just hit me like a ton of bricks, especially after a winter time lunch.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I, yes, of probably it was Saturday, so it was probably like chili or spaghetti sauce or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, no, that's a totally different

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[SPEAKER_07]: the pond was cold, we were cold, and suddenly immediately with no waiting with no hesitation, I felt what I like to refer to as the pain.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And the pain was instantaneous, and I said, I better get up the hill, jacks Brett.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I better get up that hill, and I go up the hill, and I leave my skates on.

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[SPEAKER_07]: There's no time to even deal with the skates.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Right, there's a lot of lacing and I don't want to take the time and we have a runner on what are yield New England hardwood floors.

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[SPEAKER_07]: These were not hardwood floors because people wanted fancy hardwood floors.

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[SPEAKER_07]: These were hardwood floors because they were the floors that the pilgrims.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Mike, Mike, Mike, how's it going?

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's going to get up there and for whatever reason, God knows what she was up to, but the door, the side door to my little cape that I lived in was locked.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I banged on the door because I wanted to get it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Kathy, my sister, comes to the door.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I said, Kathy, let me in, please, I've got to use the bathroom.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And she says, not with those skates on.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I said, you don't understand.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I'll walk over the carpet.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I'll be gentle.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Please not with the skates on.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I said, I have an emergency.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I have it not with the skates on.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I said, so I'm pleading with her.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And this argument, I realized,

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[SPEAKER_07]: And every, if I bet passes, yeah, if I had just perhaps sat down on the bench on the little walkway from the garage into our house in our, and am I painting that New England picture of you are and tiny little walk.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Although I will jump to your defense because if you are that far into what we call in my household the urgency, yeah, sometimes sifting to a sitting position.

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[SPEAKER_07]: You might actually accelerate the process.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's funny you bring that up because finally I realize she is not she's not going to yell I said, but it's cold actually that you can come in and sit on the chair right over here and she points right inside I would walk through the dining room right then through the kitchen and there's the the bathroom We had one on the main floor one on the upstairs only we have one of the basement We had one bathroom in the basement.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, that was very very cold, but later in life That's where I went for a private time

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I don't mean bad private time.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, that's where if you really had to drop a boost.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's where you would go not to infringe on anybody else's uh, I understand.

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[SPEAKER_07]: As a courtesy.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So she, uh, she's standing there like a goddamn prison guard standing over me.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I sit down and I'm like, my parents yield colonial chairs.

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[SPEAKER_07]: These, you know, these chairs that you, if you and I sat on them right now, Rob, they collapse and I beg you.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Doesn't it?

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_05]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's it.

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[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm sitting in this I'm sitting in the chair and I start to unlace my first boot.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, and as I I get two two strands done and I feel And unfortunately he at that point

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[SPEAKER_07]: There was no, there's nothing I could do.

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[SPEAKER_07]: There was nothing I could do.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I, you, you made me late already.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It was, it was very, it was very frustrating.

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[SPEAKER_07]: No.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And, uh, and, I mean, it's there.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm, listen, nine years old is old enough to where, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're not, it's not like a little baby anymore.

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[SPEAKER_07]: You're, no, you've made, you've made big potty mess.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, you had, uh, and I had snow pants on, uh, with,

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[SPEAKER_07]: This was like Chipotle from a hell.

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[SPEAKER_07]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_07]: This was just this was not there were more layers to this.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It was.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, the unwrapping had to be hideous.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It was horrible.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it was a horrible.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And sister respond.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no, you didn't.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm like, you made me.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And you showed her yeah, I will give her I will give her credit that Went when I didn't my pants in my in my parents dining room.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I think she I think she assisted me.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I think she assisted me

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[SPEAKER_07]: like like helping me get out of these these nasty soil.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, she became, she became, she became a sister.

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[SPEAKER_07]: A sister that was she became an older carrying sister after she tortured me into evacuating my bowels in the colonial dining room.

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[SPEAKER_05]: May I offer a counterpoint on that?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Because, you know, everyone has a different take on this story.

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[SPEAKER_05]: When you actually soiled yourself, I believe she's very bright lady we know this started thinking three or four steps ahead, and also started to think, how is a nine-year-old going to clean himself up, mom and dad are going to come home and say, what happened to Michael?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, and so unless it's taking care of, she was in charge, she's covering her ass.

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[SPEAKER_07]: my memory of it is this and it's you know so many many moons ago yeah fifty years ago but the fact is there's the fact that you said it again I remembered being very skillful in the clean-up process because there's nothing that horrified me more at that particular time there's no I didn't want any

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[SPEAKER_07]: at all what took and I remember delicately balancing everything and being able to get it off without any further mess but then hand the outside package which may have gone to the trash or may have gone to the laundry to my sister and because I still had one and a half skates you know one skates half on laced and the other skate laced she you know I know she took the skates off because I couldn't

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's true.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And let she's like, she's there.

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[SPEAKER_07]: No, what hold on.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's what she did.

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[SPEAKER_07]: She helped me take my skates off.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And then she told me to bring the the mess down to the basement where the washer and dryer were.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And that's that's where I brought my my stuff.

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's what.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And I don't remember what I thought you were naked from the waist down when you brought the stuff down.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Duck style.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I don't remember.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No pants.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll say this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have to burn those clothes in my face.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not going to come back from that.

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[SPEAKER_07]: We didn't have a lot of money.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And you know what?

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[SPEAKER_07]: That's we didn't end.

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[SPEAKER_07]: There's nothing that Todd can't take care of.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I was thinking, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_05]: This was this was a half century ago.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm thinking you went probably straight to the bleach.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't, I don't remember what the process was, but I know it was taking care of.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And then I complained, I complained, and I remember that he was the triumph for me.

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[SPEAKER_07]: The triumph for me was when my mom said to Kathy, you should have just let him go.

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[SPEAKER_07]: You should have just let him go, because I think my mom- Like, let you in.

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[SPEAKER_07]: It might have been my mom, the laundry was down there and my mom, if she discovered it.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's you went down there.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Let me see what's going on.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, Kathy, am I?

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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, my.

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[SPEAKER_07]: You should have just let him go.

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[SPEAKER_05]: I said, see, see, see, and they're home from the, that's the last thing they want coming home all the time.

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[SPEAKER_05]: You got them all moved up from a cocktail party.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_05]: And they come into those pants since that day.

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[SPEAKER_07]: And this is important to point out since that day.

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[SPEAKER_07]: I've never been able to move my ball as successful.