There was a lot of verbiage tossed around about the dangers of deep-water drilling, that no one had any experience with this kind of thing, yada, yada, yada.

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All right, now here comes the disclaimer where I give you a lot of yada-yada about how much I do like the city of Boston itself, the community, the Commons, heck, the whole Commonwealth, and have never in my life spent a bad hour there.

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Mr. RONNIE SILVESTRE(ph) (Bartender): And I talk to people and they still, to this day they come in and they tell me how their father used to take them across the street to the bar and they can't believe the place is still here, and yada, yada, yada.

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