The Jersey Shore kids are regular guys and gals who hit it big just by being themselves and during this our Great Recession, that makes them the perfect folk heroes in an otherwise bleak day and age for ordinary people.

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Four guys with long hair from New Jersey blaring to me.

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There appears to be now a pattern -- Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts -- this is the problem, this is the -- so why do you guys feel like you have to go?

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