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hey it's your boy Mike The Situation
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Santino welcome to statute of
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limitations it's the ultimate lineup
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it's Cooks this is not my fault that I
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stole this car it's conmen this is my
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chance I can be rich for life it's w to
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be King Pins we all made together
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$500,000 and queen pins it was basically
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a lounge of
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criminals these are stories of the
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nonviolent lucky punks and Robin hoods
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that Dodge the law I could have gone to
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prison not jail prison because here's
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the situation baby it's only a matter of
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time before the statute of limitations
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is up and technically you might walk
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away Scot free but don't take her from
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me guys I'm obviously no lawyer this is
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statute of
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limitations what's up everybody I'm Mike
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The Situation Santino welcome to the
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show where run-of-the-mill people get to
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tell all about crimes they committed
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back in the day and on this episode we
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see one man make an elaborate plan to
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just walk right out of a warehouse with
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a precious p pie of history and an
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animal lover who has seen enough and
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races to save an innocent animal's life
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by stuffing it in a u hole now it's time
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for a story of a man who moved from
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Italy to Chicago in search of a better
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life which sounds like a good idea but
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then he also goes and steals a famous R
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Stars
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guitar which sounds like a bad idea but
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instead of getting into a gym Jam he
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played the whole thing perfectly now
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he's here to tell the tale let's call
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him
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Frank my name
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is you can call me Frank and I committed
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the perfect crime and I got away with
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it statutes of limitations has passed 5
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years ago for me this story is so
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freaking
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crazy so early 2000 I left Italy because
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I was financially struggling and uh I
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needed to take action I need to do
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something so I decided for Chicago
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because my cousin was already there so
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at least I had one roof on my head
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immediately after a few years ended up
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working for a AC Plumbing Company and
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one day me and my colleagues have been
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recruited to go to a special Warehouse
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because they were having problem and
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remodeling the old place Place why is it
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special because it was an auction
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Warehouse it was full of artifact uh
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pricess pieces original documents posan
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it was insane the amount of uh expensive
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things that wasn't there and uh day by
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day I started to become friend with a
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guard supervisor and you know the guy
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like to chat and start to brag about the
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place brag about the old pieces he can
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out with this secret with this
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incredible piece that they have in there
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and uh I said uh so what's that and he
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said follow me so I follow the guy all
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of the sudden I found myself in front of
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a
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box he opened the box and inside there
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is the original guitar of a passed away
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super mega star of ragby Music one of my
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Idols I used to play when I was a kid
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and my dream was to be a rock star and
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all of the sudden I felt electricity
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through out my body holding the guitar
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was one of the most beautiful feeling I
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ever felt in my life it was great only
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thinking about that that guy made the
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history of music with that guitar and
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now it was into my hands it was like
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connecting with eternity connecting
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myself with him it was
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crazy so all the shift I've been
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thinking to that guitar I I come back
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home and still I couldn't even sleep I
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was thinking about it uh even because
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they were saying that the auction would
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have started maybe uh $300
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$400,000 so it was crazy crazy money he
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became an obsession and the only idea to
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possess the same object that he made the
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eory of music with it I couldn't help it
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I wanted the
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guitar so when I started to study a plan
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to to steal the guitar I at the
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beginning I was very scared because from
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outside I saw a lot of guards barbed
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wire on top of the fences and a lot of a
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uh control getting in basically
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impossible but at the same time a
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thought popped out in my mind they were
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remodeling the whole thing so even the
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camera system at night time was off
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because they were having problem with a
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part of the warehouse the other thing
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that I noticed is that the place was a
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total mess we weren't the only there and
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we were already 12 people uh nobody was
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supervising us nobody was supervising
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the other electric company working on
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their stuff that confusion convinced me
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to take my chances so I said well Frank
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nobody's looking at you nobody will
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notice at some point you have a walk go
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to check out the place so that's what I
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did I started to figure out where the
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aisles were where I could get hidden it
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was a Friday I worked as normal and at
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the end of the shift as I planned I
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thought nobody would notice if uh 11 of
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us will leave in one state toward the
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end of the shift I hidden myself behind
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the boxes and I went there probably for
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five or 6 hours something like that and
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I was going crazy I was wetting my ass
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off we were working on the AC and AC was
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not working yet and my legs
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were hurting all my body soared and uh
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it was it was very very
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tough at some points I hear the C
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cleaning company uh saying goodbye to
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each other the employees leaving and
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then all the electricity going down and
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being shutting
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off and I found myself in the darkness
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in the
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silence I took a deep bread I decided to
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leave my Cove and I went straight to
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that part of the warehouse where the box
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was and when I was walking in the middle
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of the darkness with the only help of
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the flashlight that I brought with me I
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only remember that it was two aisles to
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my left from where I was and look in the
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middle of the aisle on my left at the
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second shelf I thought that I was
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exactly in the right place but I open
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ined the first box nothing the second
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box was completely different
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stuff third box was
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empty I start to go in panic because I
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knew that I didn't have the time of the
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word and I was trying to talk myself out
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to leave the place at the same time the
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other part of me was convincing me to
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stay but was
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paralyzed if a dude from Italy loves
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rean music does that make him a
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pastafarian I know guys listen I'm
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Italian and I can make that joke anyway
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I couldn't help it just like our man
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Frank can't help stealing a famous
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guitar and even though he said Italians
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don't talk when it comes to these
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details on how he got away with it he's
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going to sing like a canary
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next welcome back guys the statute of
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limitations where a guy calling himself
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Frank is waiting to steal a famous ree
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Stars guitar in auction Warehouse
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luckily the whole thing ends on a high
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note here's
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how but I open the first box nothing the
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second box was completely different
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stuff third box was empty I start to go
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in panic because I knew that I didn't
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have all the time of the word but at the
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same time I kept going to look for and
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then finally I realized that I was
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looking in the wrong direction I moved
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some feet on my right and then I found
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the box that the guard supervisor showed
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me someday
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before I opened it and the guitar was
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there my heart was exploding I took a
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deep
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breath and then I grabbed the guitar
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very slowly I start to walk toward the
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exit to the parking lot that case in my
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hand was like gold and was like killing
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me at the same
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time and I was already feeling so G
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and uh that walk looked infinite I was
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walking and walking and walking faster
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and faster and faster and I had like the
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feeling The Sensation that that door was
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always too far away probably my mind
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that walked last hours and the moment I
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open the door with that case in my right
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hand I felt all the feelings of the
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world last thing you know it was me
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driving to W home in this very bad
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neighborhood of Chicago when I got home
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instinctively I said okay now I can
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finally Play This chords and uh try to
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feel like that Mega star but I felt so
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weird I felt so so off and believe it or
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not I put the guitar in front of me on
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the couch and I've been staring that
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guitar probably all night long for hours
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without not even touch it it was a mix
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of emotions
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uh I never played the guitar I never
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played
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it I wanted to scream to the word uh
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what I did at the same time I couldn't I
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didn't tell to anybody uh not even on my
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family not even my my best friends I
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couldn't feel safe the only one who knew
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about that it was me it's only been in
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my place for all the time in it to be
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there I know you guys are dying to know
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who I sold the guitar to but
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I can't tell you that I cannot you know
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I come from Italy and uh in my country
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we know how to do one thing very well
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keep your mouth
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shut then little by little I start to
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cope with the fact that I needed to come
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back to a normal life even because uh
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there was the risk to look even too much
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suspicious so I decided to go back to
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work I was looking around me like a mall
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but at the same time I was try to to
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look calm and and quiet of course and I
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had almost the the willing to steal
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something else but um maybe the the last
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reasoning part of my brain told me okay
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Frank that's it stop it you got the
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guitar and that's it and after some time
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when the when the moment was right I
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resigned I
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left now if you ask me if I would like
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to do that again no not even gross not
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even if you pay me the same amount of
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money I would do that again it was
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completely stupid it was it was totally
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crazy I could been still in jail today
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and
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uh that was something that I would
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regret for the rest of my life but
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fortunately I got the way with it that's
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my
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story are we on guys hey yo man don't
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worry bro like he said this is it's
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America guys home of the free including
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my Pisano Frank so we're in the clear
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you want to talk about a main
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event this is the tale of one man's
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mission to actually steal a race horse
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in Upstate New York that's the kind of
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thing that could have sent him up
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Upstate now he's here to bust out his
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story here's
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buster hi my name is Buster and I stole
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a
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horse so me and my buddies hadn't gone
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together all of us College friends for
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30 years we're all over the country you
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know we grew up in the same town but
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it's now our chance to get together and
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by one budd's kids going you know to
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college you know Upstate New York he's
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got his first apartment off campus so
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he's got to load furniture and and bring
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it to his new apartment so he he figured
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hey we'll just meet there there's a
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track near his college we'll just you
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know have a good time gamble drink and
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after he drops his kid off at College
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we'll just hang out there for the
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weekend drink and you know go to the
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races and
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stuff I get out from La acting like a
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big shot being in the business and
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everything I want to prove I'm going to
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throw some money around and gamble big
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and I've actually gambled on horses
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before usually with moderate success
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which is better than most people so you
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know he comes up to the school and drops
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his kid off and he's got his U-Haul and
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I you know get my rent CR we all meet up
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at the hotel which is about about 2
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miles from the
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track so we get to the track and we're
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bedding and I'm kind of helping my
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buddies out and stuff and we're doing
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okay it's just a blast we're getting
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together and we're drinking and I'm
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getting a little sloppy with my beding
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big and you know I just wanted to focus
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on the last few races I had you know
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most of my money tied up in the last
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race so I kind of wanted to see that
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without the distraction and stuff I walk
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down kind of the Ender my day right next
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to kind of where they cross the finish
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line
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so I kind of work my way down right to
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the railing I'm kind of leaning as close
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as you can get to the track I was there
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right across through the Finish Line
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just where they pass and I wanted to be
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there just the excitement down there is
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fantastic so I'm leaning and I'm
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watching the horses come in and I've got
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bets spread all across and I'm really
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excited and you know I did well I you
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know I placed one of my horses at the
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end of a race they're trying to bring
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all the horses in they got to walk them
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and cool them down because they're all
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worked up and stuff they don't want to
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they got to get their heart rate down as
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I'm there there one of the horses was
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struggling at the end and I'm kind of
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watching the horse because it you know
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had a distinctive kind of looking horse
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different color man and everything and
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I'm watching this
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trainer and he's yanking the horse
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around he's got you know one of the
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little riding crap whips and just
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beating on it and just you know I'd
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never seen that just all of a sudden you
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get your blood starts to go like here's
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an innocent animal and just drinking so
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you're you know getting really riled up
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and you know my I'm like hey hey and the
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guy looks at me like whatever and I'm
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like come on don't do that to it's an
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animal and the guy's like you know
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flipping me off I'm like I don't know if
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I want to beat up the guy or I can't
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beat him up I mean run out of track or
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anything I'm like what you know I can I
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do anything I'm like shouting at it come
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on just leave the horse alone he just
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Yanks it Yanks it until they're getting
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off the track and I just I was just
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furious I just didn't know what to
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do I had no idea how but I was going to
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save that horse whoa easy there fella
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horse's way like 1,000 lb
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and they kick I got a cousin Tina like
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that and you couldn't pay me to mess
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with her so how exactly do you steal a
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racehorse and get away with
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it my mind is blown right now guys we're
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headed into the backstretch for the
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answer on statute of limitations
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next welcome back to statute of
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limitations our boy Buster is ready to
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save the day after seeing a racehorse
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take a beating by a trainer so he's
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whipped up a plan to actually steal the
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horse and bring it to greener pastures
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check this
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out there's people just kind of cleaning
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up at this time and there's a woman
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directing people you know she's kind of
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the manager with the staff and she
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obviously come some position there I
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didn't I don't know what it was but she
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was kind of a manager of stuff and I'm
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hey where they take the horses where are
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they and she's like well we don't keep
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the horses here they keep them you know
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a couple miles away be like I want to
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buy that horse there nobody should treat
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a horse that poorly I was able to look
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it up on the internet and see where it
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was and it was actually really close to
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our hotel where you're staying and it
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kind of all right G gave me you know an
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idea of you know I could do something
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and basically I wanted to steal the
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horse but you know we went from there we
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back to the hotel right after that my
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buddies are G they're giving me a hard
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time they're calling me The Horse
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Whisperer because I'm so passionate
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about the horse and they're like oh
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horse whisper we got the horse whisper
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over here then it just becomes whisper
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so they call me whisper and that's
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getting my blood up and you know this is
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it we've always did all those crazy
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stuff we used to do come on we did stuff
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in college we did stuff let's do
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something like something memorable you
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know here we are together and and the
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other guys are just into playing cards
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they're you know we're older now they're
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too lazy to get out they're just happy
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to have sports on in the background
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drink and play cards but I'm like I'm
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going to get you know I'm going to
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rescue that horse I'm going to steal it
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I'm going to do something I got to do
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something and that's where I kind of
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started hatching the plan I just started
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thinking to myself I could put the horse
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in the uth hul I could definitely get
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over there it's super close to Hotel I
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just got to get the keys for my buddy
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who's hammered so I shouldn't have that
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hard time and get my other friend to
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help me so we get the keys you know
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we're able to get down to where this
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Barn is so I kind of pull up it's you
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know a dirt road and I can see dust so
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I'm kind of looking through and I don't
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want to get too close I'm not sure how
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close you can pull U-Haul to a barn and
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I can tell you know nobody's really
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paying attention there's a lot there's
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activity but not crazy
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but we park and I get out and walk and
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you see guys kind of walking horses
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around like this this ring that they
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kind of keep near these I guess the
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barns or whatever Stables I'm kind of
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wandering through the barn and kind of
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looking and I just think you act like
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you know what you're doing they'll just
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kind of leave you alone so I'm kind of
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looking for horses and some are really
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getting riled up just me walking through
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and I spot the horse that has that M
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that I recognize and I'm kind of looking
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around and nobody's paying attention to
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me and you're nervous hey the animals
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are gigantic and I've never actually let
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a horse or done anything like that I'm
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you dying for that but you know beer
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bravery I'm able to get in there think
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it's going to stomp on me I'm able to
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lead the horse out it's looking kind of
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what the other guys are doing just start
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walking kind of confidently and I just
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keep on walking until I'm at the U-Haul
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I don't now the problem is I got to get
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the horse in the U-Haul I don't know how
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I'm going to do it it's kind of a
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problem my buddy's just drunk and
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laughing at me he doesn't even want to
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help he's just lying on the ground laugh
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me trying to jump jump and horse no idea
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I mean they're
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huge and he goes in the U-Haul and for
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some reason the horse fils in him
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because he has food in his hand and just
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goes to him so we get it in the U-Haul
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close it and I just Loosely tied it so I
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don't want to go that fast because I'm
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thinking I'm going to kill the horse
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that I'm actually trying to save so I'm
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going really slow slow I'm on this
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country road it doesn't have brights I'm
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thinking I'm going to crash every 5
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seconds I'm drunk and my budd's just
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laugh laughing the whole time you know
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and we see this sign that says Friendly
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Farms and it's like a sign you know you
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know oh my gosh this is where we belong
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we're driving for a while let's just
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drop the horse off here at Friendly
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Farms this is where the horse is you can
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see it kind of a barn or in the
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background but you know there's a big
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fence that keeps the horses in you don't
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want to get too close you know we just
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want to I just want to get the horse out
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and my bu's also getting a little
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nervous I can sense like we've been gone
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a little bit so we just pull up to where
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You' you know pull in the gate and we
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get the horse out amazingly it got out
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easy much easier than getting it in and
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we lead it up to the gate and horse just
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kind of trots off without me doing
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anything I closed the gate and I you
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hope for the look back from the horse
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you know that moment didn't really
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happen but I I felt amazing it was my
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moment you know my rescue moment and we
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hop back in to our U-Haul drive back of
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course we get back to our car game they
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didn't even know we were gone because
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we're still drunk and playing cards and
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we just started playing and I'm feeling
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amazed I could care less if I lost all
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my money it just was this great magical
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moment hanging out with your buddies you
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know a great story it was a perfect guys
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weekend that's the way it was supposed
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to
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be so we begin to wonder like what did
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happened when they got up in the morning
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at Friendly Farms and they had an extra
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horse did they not notice or nobody
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seemed to inquire like hey there was a
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horse stolen they just seemed to get
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away with it you know we're just pretty
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happy with Friendly Farms right
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now 4 years later my daughter's going to
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school and Upstate New York and I kind
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of convinced my wife like hey I just
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want to drive by Friendly Farms and in
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my Disney moment we drive up and I'm
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kind of hanging out and there's that
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horse with a distinctive main you know I
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knew that was a horse and four years
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later that horse is still there so now
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that the statue of limitations has run
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its course I got away with stealing a
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horse and that's the story of the great
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Whisperer I was would definitely never
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steal a horse again got two greyhounds
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now but I'm going to have to wait a
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couple years before I tell you that
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story and that is how you steal a horse
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and get away with it not that we condone
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that sort of thing Buster you're my hero
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and that's our show guys I'm Mike The
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Situation sorentino everyone's favorite
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felon it's a joke anyway remember
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despite what you've heard here crime
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doesn't pay see you next time on statute
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of
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limitations this program is for
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entertainment purposes only and it is
00:22:37
not legal advice the statute of
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limitations are complicated and depend
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on many factors if you need advice you
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should seek legal counsel from a
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competent attorney in your
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jurisdiction
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