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The Bird Show.

Imagine the panic that recourse through your veins.

As you're on the beach, having a great time, and then you realize that you've lost your

wedding ring, and not only is it your wedding ring, but it's originally your late

mother's ring, so there's an added level of sentimentality to it.

How does that happen?

How does it slip off like that? Oh, it happens all the time.

Does it? On yours also? No, not on mine, but I know it happens to people. If it's a little bit on

the loose side and you have like your sunscreen on or whatever and it just at some point, or if you take

it off to do something and then you forget and you like throw the towel or you like it falls out of your bag.

I mean, there's a million different ways that you could lose something valuable on the beach, which is why you just shouldn't take jewelry out there, period.

But so this dude is devastated, but there was a guy out there by the name of Stephen Andrews that had a metal detector.

So he, you know, obviously felt really bad for this dude. And so he's

out there trying to see if he can find it. And I wanted to play this just because I love him so much.

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