Ep. 111: Best of 2025 on God’s Country

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Speaker 1: What’s up, God’s Country listeners. Hey, hope y’all had a merry Christmas. Hope y’all had a great year, and I hope you enjoyed listening to our podcast. We thought, you know, as the end cap episode, that we would just throw a few of our favorite stories from this year’s podcast guests into a bundle and give it to you for a one last episode. Yeah, maybe you could wrap to this about your favorite episode.

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Speaker 2: Me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, twenty twenty six was a good year. I’m still glad to be here. We had a lot of good guests come tell their stories. I don’t even know what rhymes with stories glory does, but that’s cool. Glory to a god above he rules. Hope you enjoyed this last episode. We’ll catch you next year. Twenty six. Yo, your turn.

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Speaker 1: Cats bringing the back Back, Boots and Cats bringing to beat Back.

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Speaker 4: Quit thinking about it, just go to it off the dome. I can’t it takes a second.

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Speaker 1: I’m done, dude. She said it needed to be short one, two, three, four. So we’ve had a lot of fun doing this show. But now it’s time for twenty five to go, and we’re rolling up in twenty six, coming to y’all freight from the sticks at Tendnesseee Nashville.

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Speaker 4: Come on back to Cashville where the money rolls in. But I ain’t got none. I hope you come back for twenty six times I won? I won? What was that? Who’s a horn? He just played a horn? Thanks for playing a horn? I don’t know.

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Speaker 1: Man, Hey man, May Christmas, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 4: See you next year. Ye see next year. Talk to me about Buck on the Wall. Yeah, man, that was uh, yeah, I wrote that with our boy Jamo.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I love that guy, Jamison Rodgers, Jeb Gibson and Matt Traction Ba And uh, that was a retreat song. My grandfather had passed back in January, and uh it was and it was.

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Speaker 4: Right after you were on our show. Actually I’m sure it was. Yeah, it probably wasn’t much longer.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, so Jamison actually had that idea and he threw it out and and uh and.

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Speaker 4: I was all about it.

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Speaker 6: But you know what’s the cool thing about that song is that, uh, you know, it describes my actual like our deer camp back home, like our camp house and all that in the first verse, and then it talks about this buck on the Wall and.

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Speaker 4: It’s all very very true.

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Speaker 6: But I wrote that song prior to the next deer season, and uh, so like the rest of that song became.

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Speaker 4: True that year because I killed a deer.

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Speaker 6: And Jamison was with me, dude, which is so crazy, so sick man, it was like and it was funny they were they were down there and and uh we had a bunch of pictures of some deer and like deer we’d never seen. They were moving like crazy. And it was one of those mornings where it was like rain raining a lot at night, I think, and the moon was weird. And we were like, let’s go in at like eight thirty, you know, or so and let everything sort of chill out a little bit.

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Speaker 4: And dude, sure I had ten thirty.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, sometimes if you go in at five point thirty, ten thirty is getting.

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Speaker 4: Around, you know, depending on you know, if you drink it, you’re get hungry. It’s like, let’s get out of here. Yep, like ten thirty, ten thirty five.

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Speaker 6: This book came out, and uh, anyway, the fact that Jamison was was there with me, and and uh, you know, it’s like I wrote that the rest of that story into existence was really special. I took that deer into town to show my grandma and she talked about, you know, how proud.

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Speaker 4: Hed come pop would have loved to see it, and all that was. It was awesome, It was a great Yeah, he probably pushed that book up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it.

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Speaker 4: Was great that it was good. So that’s a special one. That’s a special, special part of the record for sure.

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Speaker 8: Next thing, you know, I walk upstairs. This was a this was two weeks ago. This is two weeks ago. I love it, all right. I walk upstairs and uh, my son had told me that he’d had to go to the bathroom. So I was like, all right, holler at me if you need me. You know, you’re big enough you can figure this four. So I’m like hey, pretty early. But I’m telling him, I’m like, hey, if you need me, call me. I’ll come in and help out. But if you don’t say anything, I’m gonna take it that you haven’t under control. So because I’m managing these other three, yeah, because I’ve got these these other ones that I’m I’m trying to wrangle in. My youngest is fairly easy at at bedtime, like you know, he he’ll almost put himself.

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Speaker 4: To bed, so you say, the youngest. There’s a baby.

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Speaker 8: Though, well not the not the new one, my my two year old. So the youngest boy, he walks in his room. He’s like, hey, points at his crib. I’m like, all right, this is easy.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 8: He got this sleepsack. Throw him in there. Meanwhile, my other boy is still in the bathroom.

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Speaker 4: Ah’s be appropriate, buying time for yeah.

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Speaker 8: Next thing, you know, I walk into my daughter’s room. She wants a book, so I start reading a book to her and she wants another book. In the back of my head, I’m thinking, man, I haven’t heard from I haven’t heard from my oldest guy.

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Speaker 4: Okay, here you.

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Speaker 8: The next thing, you know, get done with the books. I walk into my oldest boy’s room. He’s still in the bathroom. Open the door.

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Speaker 4: Next thing you know, it’s all over the wall. It’s all over the walls. How is it on the walls?

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Speaker 8: I’m guessing what happened time? I think, Oh, man, I think he tried to clean himself up, didn’t go great stumble, so it’s on his hands, stools out of the room, so he can’t get to the sink. So I think it was just first thing, it’s like maybe I should just wipe this all over these white walls.

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Speaker 4: I’ll show you the video. I got video evidence of this. Oh and I literally walk in. That’s amazing. I walk in and I’m just like, you know, it’s this is one of those moments where you can’t help but just like laugh. Yeah, and I’m just like, I’m like, buddy, what’s going on?

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Speaker 7: Bad?

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Speaker 4: And you know it’s the because he’s just like, I don’t know what are you talking? I did my thing? What’s up? You’re good now, I’m good by good to bed? What’s you You’ve been going forty five minutes? You took care the rest of that. I figured it out.

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Speaker 3: He’s like, that’s what I’ve been doing. What you’ve been doing, dude. Let’s talk about your wife for a second, and how and how much? Like because because I read something that you said, and you said, Caroline Hounty is all about how I met my wife and what a significant impact that chance meeting had on my life.

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Speaker 4: That one night after showing Raleigh.

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Speaker 3: I woke up still hurting from the night before, still feeling I didn’t have much to live for. I’ve given up on any thought that I could ever be happy. And then all changed when the little bird walked in my life. Yeah, Like it’s like legit, man, Like you were at a point where you were so down you didn’t think anything of breen Belt, Yeah until you’ve met her.

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Speaker 5: Well, it was like post pandemic. And I had a really bad breakup. And I mean me and that girl broken up like sixteen times before.

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Speaker 4: It was one of those.

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Speaker 5: It was just this codependent just like you know, toxic relationship and just a lot of just substance abuse that happened in it. And then when I was hurting, you know, I really became dependent on a lot of these substances, and I just kind of got to a place where I was like, if I’m going to go out, I’m gonna go out doing what I like doing, which is drinking and playing music. But you know, I just I got to the point like I couldn’t. Like the morning before I met my wife, I was in Charlotte and I had a doctor come in because I was coming off of everything, and the doctor had to come in and check me out. Wow, and like I could hardly sing, you know, I just felt terrible.

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Speaker 4: I mean, in those situations, are you honest with the doctor, Like this is what I’m doing, or I just feel bad.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I had a doctor on speed dial too at that point, like because i’d call him because I would do, you know, whatever I was doing, and then I’d get paranoid, and then i’d call him be like, man, I got this weird thing going on. He’d be like, meet me here and we’ll talk, you know. Or I’d be like, man, I’m you know, I’m really coming down off a lot of stuff. You know, I gotta I’m freaking out, Like you think I should check in somewhere. And he’s like, well, don’t quit everything all at once.

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Speaker 4: I’m like, got you, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 5: I took that call like in the middle of a rite with Dan Auerback and my buddy Andy Gabbard.

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Speaker 4: I was excuse me.

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Speaker 5: I started at his doctor that i’d met and he was a fan, so he just gave me his personal number. It’s a horrible idea for him because I just call him be like, man, I got this weird thing I’m doing going real fast. So uh, he said, don’t quit everything. What But anyway, cut to Charlotte. You know, I’m self medicating after the show and it’s like four in the morning. I’m going through like stories I’ve been tagged in on Instagram and I see this girl had tagged me in the story and I was like, well, hello, hello, And I sent her to fire emojis in response to the story.

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Speaker 4: And she’s like next, you know, you’re made. Yep.

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Speaker 5: She’s like, man, that’s cool, but you didn’t even play the song I like. And I was like, what song is that? She’s like this old cowboy. I’m like, well, that’s a Marshall Talker man song. But I’ll play it for you if you come to Raleigh. She’s like, well, I’m heading that way anyway, because her family is from around now. And she came and uh invited her backstage and she came on the bus and I was just I was too nervous and too you know, just messed up physically and mentally to say much.

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Speaker 4: Just let her go.

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Speaker 5: And she was like messing with the radio on the bus and just like playing Linda Ronstaff and just did a whole performance, you know, a white claw field like interpretive dancing. You fell, uh yeah, felling lover right away, telling these big old ear rings and like a yellow dress. She’s a look lot, big bird. And I was like you’re a little bird, that’s all. And yeah that’s how that started.

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Speaker 4: So what am I looking at? Good kid gun? Like like like.

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Speaker 3: I’m just saying like it’s a better shoot a suppressed weapon with a kids starting out seventy you know and seven.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they can hunt with it. There’s not a lot of recoll Yeah, be amazing.

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Speaker 4: So what am I looking at? Price wise? But I was just like, hey, man, build me a above. Everything in my life right now is like seven. Where I used to just buy threes and fix them up to like fours or fives on the one to ten scale of quality. Now I’m buying like seven stuff.

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Speaker 2: Smart, especially with a gun, you know, a AR three hundred black with the optic you could build for twenty five hundred bucks.

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Speaker 4: With a good optic. You know what I mean. You’re a little bit more than I thought probably gonna be twelve is going to be minimums seven? Of course you’re sponsored by Vortex, yeah, and then it’s in Leopold and then it’s different.

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Speaker 3: Just do you have any do you have any uh, do you have any like sketchy stories about somebody like clearing rooms in your house or having to like wake up and go into security mode.

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Speaker 2: I had one weird scenario that we were getting dinged on, ditched for whatever reason. When we moved to Ashland City. Basically people would run up hit the door.

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Speaker 4: We say people. Was it kids or people? I still don’t know.

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Speaker 2: I never seen. We didn’t have a ring doorbell. It’s the time we were broke. It was just a regular doorbell. And so we do have a ring door by now. But uh yeah, So somebody hit it one night. It was the first time it happened, and you know me, I’m like, it’s freaking midnight, dude, And so I jump out of bed and grab my three hundred black and I run out the front door and I didn’t see anybody.

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Speaker 4: And then I realized that my wife.

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Speaker 2: Is dying laughing inside because I’m outside with just my boxes on it with a three hundred blackout shine in the front yard.

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Speaker 4: Those kids are like, we never going back to that.

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Speaker 2: Very dramatic, but yeah, that’s probably the only thing that’s really happened out there. We live so far out in the country, I don’t think, yeah, yeah, nothing really happens.

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Speaker 9: We had many kiss on I’m gonna keep this very light here. There’s many kiss so you don’t band kiss, oh kiss, cover bam, but there are many do dudes. Dwarfs is that you can say dwarfs. Dwarf is a medical term. You can’t say the other word. Dwarf is medical. Yeah, dwarf is yeah. So anyway, we bring them on to do some songs on the cruise and I’m excited about it. Well let’s just say it’s out of my hands. But they are banned from the next cruise and and I’m being dead serious, you had to kick. I didn’t do nothing. We’re playing this this cruise. And I said the number one, I go number one. Many Kiss come back, you know, many Kiss come back. And they said, we have banned many Kiss from the cruise ship. And I said, it’s my cruise. I want many Kiss. Tammy, we’ve banned many Kiss because of X y Z. I said, I don’t give a ship bring them back.

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Speaker 4: I want to rock and roll.

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Speaker 9: An I had to get on the phone with the CEO of six man. I said, I want many Kiss. They said, Tammy, legally, we cannot have them.

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Speaker 7: Back legally, being dead serious, damn, so it hurts.

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Speaker 4: I think. I said, you know what I said, Let’s let them let them. Let everybody cool, cool down on this cruise.

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Speaker 9: Cool down, cool down. We won’t have many kiss Okay, let everything settle.

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Speaker 4: Can you tell us what X y Z was?

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Speaker 9: You know a lot of public things that should have been private.

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Speaker 1: Like like on a cruise boat, on a cruise, a lot of places.

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Speaker 9: You know, on the upper deck just you know what, helicopter and just help, well, worse than that?

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Speaker 4: How does it get did they were they do doing? How does it get worse than helicopters?

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Speaker 9: No, my man, they were getting blow jobs on the upper deck. I mean do I gotta keep present. I gotta spell it out for.

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Speaker 4: You, Rosie.

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Speaker 9: They were given receiving and sticking right on the upper deck in front of everybody walking by, taking pictures of ship.

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Speaker 4: Both so they got banned.

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Speaker 9: And I said, hey, many kiss Go to your rooms and do that. Yeah, for sure, got plenty of room in there. If I’m walking by and I see that, I love that. I’d be like, hell, yeah, that’s cool.

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Speaker 4: I roll all. You wanted them back and party every day.

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Speaker 9: That’s what I expect to see on my cruise. But a couple of people, and I literally mean a couple, I think two people went and bitched about it.

00:15:41
Speaker 4: Well, you showing me Munich.

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Speaker 9: So what, lady, you’re on a Tammy cruise. What do you expect the tail of tubbies? Okay, I expect many kiss to be doing.

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Speaker 4: That’s what I that’s right.

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Speaker 9: So for the course, a couple of people got up at arms, so I said, let it settle down. Let me talk to the dwarfs. Let me say, hey, man, don’t go to your rooms, go to my room.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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Speaker 5: You know.

00:16:08
Speaker 4: So they got bathroom to go to the bathroom anywhere.

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Speaker 9: And they were really apologetic. We’re really good friends. They were apologetic. They said, Tammy, we didn’t we thought we were just having fun. Listen, I get it. You know you ain’t got you ain’t got you ain’t gotta tell me, you know, I said, But the cruise people are pissed because they it’s illegal, all this, all this ship whatever. I said, let it settle down. If we have another cruise, I’m gonna try everything. I’m gonna cry everything, I’m gonna try everything in my power to get them back on me.

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Speaker 4: I can tell you deserve it. I can tell you got good heart, you mean it. Thank you. I’ll tell you a weird story.

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Speaker 10: I think I think the Statute of Limitations is okay on this for sure the only time. Like I’m I’ve never stolen anything in my life and I never will. Like it’s just not part of my My dad just hated thieves and like it was just not something you could ever do. But I heard this song my Name is Jonas on the radio one day and it stopped me in my tracks. I was like, what the hell is this? I have to hear this again. And I found out it was on the Weezer Blue album. And I went to a large store. I won’t say its name, it’s just say it’s very well known and still very.

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Speaker 4: Much in business.

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Speaker 10: I walked into that I said, Dad, I need to go get some I gotta go get a notebook, like a paper notebook.

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Speaker 4: I’m out of paper.

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Speaker 10: Need to take me to this place so I can get some paper and pencils. Walked right into that place, stole that damn stole that CD, walked right out and put it in that notebook.

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Speaker 4: I walked right out of there with it. Wow, hold cold blooded, I was. I was ready to go to jail.

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Speaker 10: He had to have it, had to have it. I was remember walking out that door. That slid open.

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Speaker 4: I was just waiting for that buzzer to me what you need to do.

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Speaker 10: I’m ready, I’m ready for it.

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Speaker 4: I’m willing to take it. Man. I walked right out. Nothing went off, and you know what I bet over? So I’ve stolen. Did you take the.

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Speaker 3: City out of the cassette? Like, did you open the I mean the plastic? You do open the plastic? They get that little like bar code off some shady ship. Get that out of there.

00:18:35
Speaker 4: It’s shady.

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Speaker 10: But I was like, that’s how much that song profoundly affecting.

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Speaker 4: I was willing to go to jail.

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Speaker 10: Get my ass beat by my dad repeatedly like he would have. It would have been bad, but it had been bad, but worth it. That’s how much that song.

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Speaker 4: That’s a great story.