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(\"Bob\")"],"prevCode":"279-050","nextCode":"279-052","transcript":[{"start":1.09,"end":1.33,"text":"Yeah."},{"start":2.63,"end":5.32,"text":"I did wonder if they only came here to make a fish special."},{"start":5.54,"end":6.74,"text":"How'd you do it?"},{"start":6.82,"end":13.18,"text":"Well, yeah, she doesn't like to walk in, you know, by herself."},{"start":13.32,"end":22.59,"text":"The way the boys always do it, when I told them, they'd bump their mouths and not be able to do it that way."},{"start":22.65,"end":27.27,"text":"That way they'd be crazy enough to go up on the bridge and do it by herself."},{"start":29.58,"end":31.74,"text":"I think she's walking with him."},{"start":31.76,"end":36.72,"text":"It's on call, you know, if he, or whatever, a little local fellow, because it's good, she's walking with him."},{"start":36.74,"end":42.37,"text":"I think it's really long time."},{"start":42.38,"end":52.57,"text":"It disappeared when I walked with my sister and my friends, but we've got to have a word for ourselves."},{"start":52.63,"end":53.41,"text":"Who was the advanced man?"},{"start":53.57,"end":54.31,"text":"Is it Mark Good?"},{"start":54.33,"end":56.19,"text":"He doesn't know much about this or anything."},{"start":58.91,"end":60.49,"text":"Well, that's where I get it out of control."},{"start":60.53,"end":71.88,"text":"I can see the point of her coming in by herself."},{"start":71.96,"end":73.24,"text":"No, no, it's not good."},{"start":73.28,"end":74.28,"text":"She's coming together."},{"start":74.52,"end":75.78,"text":"Coming together."},{"start":75.86,"end":80.9,"text":"They should always do it that way."},{"start":80.94,"end":82.48,"text":"We're along where we are together."},{"start":82.5,"end":84.6,"text":"Don't go ahead and set it up this way, Bob."},{"start":84.88,"end":86.92,"text":"It won't work."},{"start":100.88,"end":101.34,"text":"Come on."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon and H. 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