Dec. 12, 2025

YouTube Episode 2-Ticketmaster hasn't Ticketmastered the public enough says Millionaire CEO of Ticketmaster

YouTube Episode 2-Ticketmaster hasn't Ticketmastered the public enough says Millionaire CEO of Ticketmaster

We have some unique stories this week. Starting off with the asshat CEO of LiveNation/Ticketmaster saying concerts are cheap, a guy wrecks a car and throws babies, murderer has murder tools delivered, and guy steals manhole covers...a lot of them. LINKS: Ticketmaster CEO says concert tickets are too cheap, actually | Mashable Florida man accused of hurling kids over fence after crash Suspicious DoorDash Order Leads To Hostage Situation Revelation Man arrested for stealing dozens of manhole covers | FOX 5 Atlanta

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It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh

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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Dan O'Malley along with

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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. Do you think concert ticket

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prices are too low?

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Hm?

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Yes, because I'm made of money.

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On what planet? Is that a question?

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The planet that the CEO of Live Nation lives on.

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Mhmm.

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You really want to step in it as a really anybody,

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if you really want to step in some controversies, step

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into some troubled waters, go on record as saying concert

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ticket prices are too low, especially if you're the CEO

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of the largest ticketing company in the world. Yeah, the

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CEO of Live Nation thinks concert tickets are actually underpriced.

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God blessed Jesus. Right now, I don't know who's the

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dumber CEO, the guy who was hugging his head of

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HR at the Coldplay concert or this guy.

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Yes, is Live Nation? Do they? I know?

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They promote and they put on concerts. Do they sell

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the tickets to Yes?

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Well, Live Nation owns Ticketmaster which does that?

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And doesn't iHeart have a piece of Live Nation?

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Not anymore they used to. Yeah, Instead, it's a small

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media company known as Liberty Media that owns a large

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stake of iHeartMedia and a large stake of Live Nation.

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But the two companies Live Nation and iHeart are no

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longer affiliated. They are separate entities. But Live Nation does

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own Ticketmaster, which is if you could do like the

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crosshairs thing on a company logo, Ticketmaster is one of

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those that it is pretty much a consensus everybody hates

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Ticketmaster as a company because ticket prices might be let's

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say thirty five bucks for a show, but you're going

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to pay seventy five eighty ninety dollars because of all

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the additional fees and other nonsense that gets stacked on

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top of it.

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I think that's why Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden back

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in the late nineties stopped using Ticketmaster and developed the

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new new website.

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Or you can go to them directly and buy their tickets.

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Yeah. The CEO of Live Nation, his name is Michael Rippino.

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He said during a conference last weekend. There's quote a

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lot of runway left when it comes to ticket prices,

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especially since tickets for sporting events are so much more,

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he said, and I quote music has been underappreciated in sports.

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I joke. It's like a badge of honor to spend

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seventy thousand dollars for a Knick's court side seat. They

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beat me up if we charge eight hundred for Beyonce,

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he continues. When you read about ticket prices going up,

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the average concert price is still seventy two dollars. Try

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going to a Laker game for that, and there's eighty

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of them. The concert is underpriced and has been for

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a long time. That is Live Nation CEO Michael Rippinos

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stepping in it up to his knees. Wow, do you

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think that's a fair comparison concerts to say an NBA

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game as far as ticket prices.

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Typically no, because Beyonce these days is playing at and

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T where there's you know, eighty five thousand seats or whatever,

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and most arenas are eighteen to twenty thousand probably so

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smaller market.

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But.

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Wow, there is.

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He is correct that there is a ticket price disparity

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when you compare a concert ticket versus a sporting event,

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because like an NBA game, do you have eighty two

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games in a season, right, whereas you you may only

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have one concert in that city in the calendar year.

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Right.

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So he's seeing it from a scarcity standpoint. So if

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that was the case, I would love to see how

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many tickets Live Nation slash ticket Master could sell for

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a Beyonce concert eight hundred dollars times eighty two. Let's

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see how many tickets you sell if you really think

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that the tickets, that the ticket prices should be closer

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in line with sporting events, because that's in essence what

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he's saying. He's not now he wouldn't. I hope he

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wouldn't actually do the math and say, okay, concert ticket

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prices eight hundred times eighty two, that's the new price.

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I hope he wouldn't go that far. But what he's

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saying is they're going to raise prices.

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You know, and they're going to lose out to streaming services.

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That's what's happening. So now you can get these concerts,

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you can get your sporting events, whatever it is you

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need through streaming. You can just watch it from your home,

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and that's I think what most people are starting to do,

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especially when you have you know, when you're in a

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city where your team sucks, I don't think you're going

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to go to the game as often as you would

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have back in the day, Like, I remember going to

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Cowboys games when I was a kid, and you know,

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my parents immigrant, you know, working class people, just it

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wasn't that expensive.

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Yeah, and most of the streaming services you're talking about

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are illegal, yes, I mean.

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I mean.

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Yeah, he wasn't trying to hide that apparent. No, I

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thought it was clear.

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Yeah, I'll just watch it there, I have them in

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my history.

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But yeah, at the end of at the end of

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the day, what what the Live Nation CEO is saying

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is there is room to raise prices here and I

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think people are going to pay it not and and

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it's just a matter of how much they can, how

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far they can take it before it becomes uh not

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a good idea.

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I don't he's wrong in what he said, but I

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don't I think he's right about that that they can

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raise prices and people will still pay it.

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I mean, you look at the.

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How concerts sell out and at the just stupid prices

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from I mean Kendrick Lamar tickets back. Yeah, and he

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played at and T and they were I think average

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was like seven hundred dollars. I mean, if the artist

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is big enough, people will pay whatever. I mean, Taylor

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Swift is obviously the ultimate example of that one.

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Yeah, And what was interesting also about the Taylor Swift

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situation was with that eras tour was ticket prices. And

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we're talking in essence. The additional layer of this is

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the secondary market because so many of the ticket companies,

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the smaller ticket company, the ticket purchasing companies, will be

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the ones using bots and things to buy tickets when

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they immediately when they go on sale, and then they're

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selling them on the secondary market at an amazing markup.

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And that's where he is right that people will pay

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for that. Like you said, try with the Kinder Klamar tickets, Uh,

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there are ways around it. Like with the Taylor Swift thing,

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tickets at some of her shows in America were so expensive.

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People were doing concert tourism the way they do medical

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tourism that Raj speaks so fondly of. It was cheaper

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to buy a ticket to go see Taylor Swift in Europe.

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The ticket, the AirPair, the ticket, the airfare, and the

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accommodations were cheaper than the ticket in America. So yeah,

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some people going to Europe. You had some people going

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to South America to go see the show because it

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was cheaper than it was in the States.

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There was a you don't remember when the ticketmaster had

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that glitch with the Taylor Swift tickets.

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Were the shut down the website.

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Yeah it craft.

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Yeah.

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So there was a guy in Chicago who was buying

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like every year, him and his buddies do like a

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guy thing. He's the older guy and he was buying tickets.

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I can't remember if it was like Lennard Skinner or

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somebody he was, or the Eagles, I can't remember who was.

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But he was trying to buy tickets for him and

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eight of his buddies to go watch this with seventy

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five eighty bucks pop. And he hit the purchase button.

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The glitch happened and it all turned into Taylor Swift

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tickets at that price and they.

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Were front row.

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Oh.

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He gave two to his daughters and then sold the

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rest of them for ten thousand apiece.

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Had a boy.

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See it's amazing. I'll congratulate an individual on being enterprising,

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but I don't want the CEO of Live Nation doing it.

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I mean, I'm not buying. I'm not spending that amount

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of money on a concert no matter who's selling it.

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But if an individual can get that bag, go for it.

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But as the head of a company who controls the

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vast majority of the concerts in the country, that bothers

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me a little bit.

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I'm not that big of a fan of anybody that

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I would pay that much money to see.

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And I'm a huge music guy.

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I love live events, I love going the whole the

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whole thing that comes with it, like hanging out with

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your friends, going out doing the whole thing. But I'm

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not a fan of anybody enough to pay eight hundred

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dollars for a ticket.

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You'd have to resurrect prints for me to do that.

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Yeah, I thought you were going to say Jesus, And

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even then, I'm gonna be a little skeptical.

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He's really a one act play.

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There's another reboot. I've seen this.

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He just turns water into wine and disappears like I'm out.

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Willem de Vaux, Jim CAVISO, they did it better, all right.

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So the Live Nation CEO stuck his foot and I'm

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curious to see how that shakes out for the rest

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of our adventure. Here today inside the Treehouse on our

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YouTube exclusive show, let's play a quick game of if

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you laugh, You're Dead. All right, So here we go, Raj.

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This headline is especially for you because I want to

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see your reaction as I read this headline. A man

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was accused of crashing his car and hurling kids over

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a fence.

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Were they in the car?

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I don't know, or those two separate events that he did.

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He croutched this car and there were kids watching, so

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he just threw him over a fence.

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I don't know. I couldn't get past the headline because

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I was dead as soon as I saw the headliner, Like,

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I'm out on this one. I don't know what it is.

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I don't know if it's the verbiage or what A

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man was accused of crashing his car and hurling kids

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over a fence.

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All you can.

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See is like when Uncle Phil would tosh jazzy jazz

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at the front door of the bel Air minch. But

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in this case, it just be one after another.

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What are you doing?

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I'm hurtling kids over this.

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Fence with a car just smoking behind him? Yeah, and

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I don't.

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Yeah, I know nothing about the story. All I know

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is what I've told you in the headline.

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All right, So that's how my brain works, as like

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there's just kids standing around like playing.

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Out in the street, which why gen Z would do that.

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They're scared of the outside. Uh.

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And he crashed his car and he's so angry just

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hees kids just starts throwing them over a fence.

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Yeah, it's like, I mean, crashes his car, throws kids

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and he's like the aristocrats.

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Well, good job, very nice, no surprise. This was a

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This is a man in Florida was Larry. He was

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spotted speeding last Saturday afternoon. When a deputy tried to

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stop him. He spun his car in a full circle

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around the squad car and sped off a little fast

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in the furious maneuver the police. Tampa drift, Yeah, little

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Tampa drift. The police opted not to pursue him for

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safety reasons, but maybe they should have because later on

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Larry crashed with three kids inside and then escaped with

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them by hurling by hurling them over a six foot fence.

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So my question is how strong is Larry.

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And how small were these kids? I mean, I kind

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of feel like once Larry gets out of prison, he

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has a future in the strongman competitions.

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I think somebody's not getting a best Dad mug.

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Ever, Well, let's think about it, because in the World

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Strongman competitions, those boulders are solid. They don't wiggle. Children

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wiggle when you try to throw them over six foot fence.

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Yeah, but well, if they're concussed from an accident, maybe not.

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That that is true. Maybe they were unconscious, they.

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Were gonna They're gonna be concussed either way, from the

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accident or the landing.

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I'xed up in the twenty twenty six World Strongman Competition

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Floria Bjornson will hurl unconscious children toddler throwing a Yeah.

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I'm just shocked at Florida. There's a place in Florida

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that has a no chase policy.

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I'm also surprising, Yeah, that that seems like a Florida

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standard thing. They just chase everybody, Like, are you a

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jay walker? They're gonna chase you down on a car probably,

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uh So. Anyway, Larry later crashed with three kids inside,

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and then escaped with the kids by hurling them over

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a six foot fence and then jumping over it himself

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in a true testament of endurance and strength. He was

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caught soon after that, probably because he was so tired

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from throwing children over his six foot fence and then

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hoppying it himself. All three kids were taken to the hospital,

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checked out, and released late. Larry was later booked on

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three counts of child neglect, and officials say more charges

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could be filed.

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You think the kids outran him, That's when you're getting old.

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They didn't catch any of the kids. They caught Larry.

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Kids made it home.

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on the story. Don't know who the kids were, don't

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know if any of them were his, if all of

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them were his. Since there's no mention immediately in the

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story about kidnapping charges, I guess they were there either

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on their own volition they were his or Candy in

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the van man maybe he's the babysitter.

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I don't know.

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You have solid candy game getting the man.

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He was doing to make a wish.

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Except it was his. You know what I've always wanted

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to do her old kids over fences and John Cena

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and the Rock showed up and said We're going to

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make this happen.

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Go get them, Larry, You sure, no, Actually go get them.

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There's kids.

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Get them.

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They're not paying attention, they're looking at their phones.

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Yeah, you see one of the kids. Just what's going

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through your head? It was like we were in the car,

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everything was fine. Now I'm flying over a fence.

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It really is an important lesson for children to learn.

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You need to keep your head on a swivel. You

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can't just constantly keep your face buried in a phone.

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Sometimes you need to watch out for an adult that

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may pull you out of a car and throw you

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over a fence.

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All you. Here's one kid's like dad's drinking again.

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And it was that day Timmy decided he did not

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want to be Superman.

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He created a new superhero, ground Man.

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Very flat. All right, let's uh, let's let's let's continue

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on this path down the path of stupid criminals. Newsflash,

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it is not a good idea to door dash your

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murder supplies. Seems like something you wouldn't have to tell somebody,

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But here we are. H Uh. This story takes us

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to Sweetwater, Texas. On Monday morning, a door dash driver

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alerted police after making a very strange delivery to a

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motel in Sweetwater, Texas. Same day delivery services are supposed

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being you know, convenient for food, last minute items like

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toilet paper or something not necessarily murder supplies. Police say

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a forty two year old man named Neil Cooper placed

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an order on door Dash for kidnapping slash murder tools.

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The list of items has not been completely released, but

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rumor has it the delivery included trash bags, zip ties, bleach,

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a hatchet, and more. And there is more to this story.

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When police showed up at the motel thanks to the

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tip from the door Dash driver who was delivering the

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murder supplies, they actually found and rescued a hostage. So

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good job, Wow, good job Popo, and good job door

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Dash to empathize these items should not be all in

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one thing at this sketchy motel.

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I mean, I always thought, you know, it was just

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pure laziness to get Taco Bell DoorDash, but you can't

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even go buy your own fucking murder supplies.

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It really is like there really is a generation of lazy,

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Like you can't even murder with effort anymore.

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Do you leave a five star thanks for the delivery?

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Yeah, it's probably probably a good thing. Like if I'm

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the door Dash guy and I'm on the phone with

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nine one one. Okay, look here's the deal. There's some

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suspicious items in this delivery I'm making. I just drop

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it off at this CD motel in Sweetwater, Texas. Do

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me as solid whatever you do, don't bust him until

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I get my five star rating.

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I'm went away from platinum. Just give me, just give

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me this. I like how the murderer was trying to

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reduce his carbon footprint. I was like, you know what,

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I'll just have it delivered. I'm not I'm not getting

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the get in the diesel.

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Here's here's another scary thing or just weird coincidence. The

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items that were in his door dash delivery that were

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alleged murder supplies, right, trash bags, zip ties, bleach, a hatchet,

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and more of those four things. My wife has three

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of those in her car at all times because she's

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a wedding planner. So I try to remind people when

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someone says, hey, do you have been to have any

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zip ties, like, oh, yeah, we got a ton of

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the car. I have to remind them we're not murderers.

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My wife's just a wedding planner. But when you have

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those items in your car at all times, it really

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is kind of a fifty to fifty either serial killer

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or wedding planner, the hatchet that definitely leans more cerial.

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Oh yes, exactly.

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It does.

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For the gotta have you have to have one just

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in case for the bridezillas.

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How often does she remind you that she keeps that

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in her car?

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Constant? The way she does it. The way she does

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it is she's like, hey, will you go downstairs and

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get some zipdies?

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Oh god, your role playing is weird?

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I do and not to be outdone is this gentleman?

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A man in Georgia was caught stealing ninety one manhole

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covers in one month. This happened in This happened in Georgia.

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He was caught sealing manhold covers, and not just two

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or three, at least ninety one this month alone. His

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name is Kaylan Wattley, and in his mugshot he's wearing

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a T shirt that says free Hugs be perfect. As

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he gets booked into jail wearing that shirt.

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That's when you find out his cellmate his name is Hugs.

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That's when he's gonna wish he had a manhole cover.

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Ninety one at least.

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You better hope the ninety second guys is bored for

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