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Greetings, co Chairman. I understand
you're taking testimonials from fans and the TLF

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Solar System about their experiences the last
ten years or so with this, as

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you say, this fucking cast.
So I thought i'd add my thoughts to

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the testimonials I've already heard. I've
actually done a bit of research here for

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mine, got back to the exact
dates, so I can sort of cover

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it from against end. Really,
I didn't actually listen to the cast in

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the very beginning back in twenty fourteen. I didn't know about it, unfortunately

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until twenty and seventeen. Gone back
through my records, and the very first

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time I listened to TLF was March
the third, twenty seventeen. At the

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time, I was working shifts,
so I do earlies or lates, and

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sometimes in middle shift as well.
They were all missing from that time.

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So an early shift was being office
for seven you finished at like half one

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two o'clock. Late shift is for
sort of like eleven o'clock, finished at

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seven. Nothing too difficult. I
got asked once to cover somebody on a

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late shift, but I was going
to go in after the middle shift's lunch

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break, so i'd have to go
untill like two o'clock in the afternoon.

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And I got this phone call just
as I'm leaving the gym at half past

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six in the morning back in twenty
seventeen, and I suddenly thought, well,

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I'm trying to get myself healthy.
You know, something's never changed.

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I still am all these years later. So I'm going to go for a

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walk when I get back. I'll
just go literally, get a jacket on,

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get some water in a bag,
and just go for a four or

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five hour walk before I start work. So this is, you know,

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March time. Daylight's a little bit
better. It started to come out of

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winter and stuff here where I live, so it's like, okay. So

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I put some podcasts on my iPod
and I've been looking for once from an

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era where I was a fan,
and basically I found one. I don't

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even didn't realize it was TLF util. I listened to it, but it

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was one about Slambered nineteen ninety eight. So that was my first episode of

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the cast, and I put it
on my iPod. I literally went for

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a walk. I've got the screenshot
here of the route I took that day.

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I left at seven oh six am
and I got home back to my

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apartment where I used to live at
twelve twenty nine, just enough time to

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basically get showered and go to work
for two o'clock. So I was basically

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out walking for nearly five and a
half hours, which was a good little

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stroll according to this seventeen point sixty
five miles. So I put this on

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and I'm listening to this Samburary ninetyeight. Of course, I've never heard Tea

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Left at this point, so I'm
thinking to myself, Okay, this is

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interesting. It in like a recap
of the times, and they're going over

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the timeframes and what's happening in the
news and for all the sheets and stuff,

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and I'm thinking, great, this
is exactly what I want because I

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do a lot of these long walks
even now in twenty twenty four. So

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it's good to have these podcasts that
just you know, can help you pass

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the time of day. You know, you can listen to six hours you're

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still walking, and it's great.
So I'm thinking, okay, this is

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six hour odd podcast about Slammering ninety
eight, right up my street, and

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about an hour into it, I'm
suddenly thinking, okay, they're doing impressions,

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and there's one in there I hadn't
hear obviously Sumer Sam ninety two year

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but there's one there a bulldog doing
the stand man. I'm fucked, and

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I'm just laughing. I'm walking along
this trail hanging out to the sort of

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southwest corner of the island where I
live here in Jersey, and I'm laughing

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my head off and I'm just like, Okay, this is a bit different,

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but I love it. And there
was a line in there which I

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still remember this day, which I
think was a wise crack from the Boss

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where it says, oh, it's
a beef stew heart or something of that,

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and I just like, ah,
yeah. So the thin it was

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when we laughed was I listened to
this episode all the way from when I

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started my walk. It's all the
way I got home, and the episode

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was so long it still wasn't finished. That's when I got home. I

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thought, this podcast is where it's
at, and I said that was March

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twenty seventeen, and I basically started
listening to the new episode as they came

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out, but also started working my
way through the back catalog and just kind

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of going back through old episodes I
would listen to. I was a fan

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originally back in the early nineties.
Obviously, like a lot of people disappeared

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for the sort of midnighties lull and
then sort of started to come back once

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to see you know, ws WWF
war started heating up. So we started

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with my brother and I started watching
in the summer of ninety seven. So

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all the ninety seven stuff you guys
were doing that year was was phenomenal for

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us because you know, that's right, a past sort of you know,

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memory of the beers when it was
great, you know yours sa it used

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to be better, It used to
be better back then. And yeah,

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I've been a fan ever since,
as you know from my letters to your

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yourselves, you know, I've well, I moved to Finland and now divorced,

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came back from there, had the
cast with me the entire time I

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lived there, because it was just
you know, sorting to keep me saying

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when you're trying to get to the
g at five in the morning and it's

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pitch black and it's minus ten and
all that sort of stuff. But I

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still listen pretty much every day.
I now walk to work four and a

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half miles four times a week apart
from Wednesdays, I walk every day and

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most mornings it's usually episode of the
cast on there. If it's not the

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newest episodes, it's the boat going
back for the back catalog. I actually

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went back and started again from episode
one sometime I think last year. I

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think in the summer of last year. I'm currently up to Summerstam ninety seven,

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so again right back into the same
sort of area where I started back

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in twenty seventeen. But yeah,
podcasts is absolutely fantastic for me. I've

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recently gone and lost myself something something
in the region of two hundred and twenty

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five pounds I believe it is.
I can't remember the exact figure, but

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in ketograms is one hundred and five. So I've been doing like these long

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walks to work and on the coast
here I've done the sort of cliff pathwalks

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such a five six hours hours at
a time. You just need anpisode of

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two left, that's all you need. You can go for a walk.

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Sometimes sometimes when you go at certain
times that you don't see another person,

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so you're just having a walk on
this you know, steep path with the

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stairs going up and oping and you're
just you know, walking on into this

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podcast about twenty five year old wrestling
shows and just laughing yourself silly at these

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crazy anecdotes. So yeah, it's
perfect for me and what I need.

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I will say I did make a
little bit of a list in terms of

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my favorite bits in the cast,
just off the top of my head that

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I could remember, and there's a
lot of them. I'll try not to

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take this make this take too long, but I've basically written them down in

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note form, so I'm just goinging
to elaborate on my own notes here,

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so in no particular order. Elapsed
Vince one. Of course, there'll be

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one of these in here. I
can't be what episodes that these are from

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a lot of them, I can
try, but this one is a note

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from laps Vince being very pissed off
that Jr. Was at ringside quote smoking

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meat and having a smoker runn while
he was commentating. That always made me

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a lot of my head off.
The classic from World War three ninety five,

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I believe the Kevin Suvlan Kevin Sullivan
out there shoveling snow is always funny.

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This one a very early one,
actually, I think as a second

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or third episode, possibly the first
episode actually, when Jack was talking about

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General Ard Nunn and his dad kept
calling General General Eggnog. That made me

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laugh. That recently my personal favorite
ever throwaway gag, which I think I've

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mentioned to you gents when we last
spoke when I was on your on your

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episode for my hopper pick, which
was Spring Stampede ninety four, which is

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from on Cented ninety five. Jack
Jack's line of what kind of dressing does

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John Tener like? Ava Ranch?
Never not funny from Backlash two thousand Austin

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at the end going to the Wendy's
with Deborah asking quote, what in the

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hell's a frosty sun? And what's
a baked potato? Just again ridiculous from

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Hallary and ha mock Night. Yeah. I listened to this one not long

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ago and I was laughing on the
bus at this. Jack reading out the

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report from the Torch who said that
the Giant had bad ribs going into this

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match, but he didn't say,
well from what restaurant he got them?

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Classic? This next note just says, mister hitman, any appearance of laps

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Davy is fantastic. This one from
the Awa Journey I don't know which episode

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it's from, but Jack describing Jerry
Blackwell being fed virus shovel that's all my

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note says, which is pretty funny. Another Role School one Vader and his

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SnowCat. Again never not funny.
This one always made me laugh because obviously

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I was a fan back in the
nighties when he was Vader's manager. But

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the note just says Harley Race in
his armchair, which is again from some

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episode. This one. I listened
to this when I was in Finland a

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couple of Christmases ago on the plane
coming home. I believe it's from the

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nineteen eighty three AAA Christmas Pressure you
guys covered a few years ago. But

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the note just says Rod tront Guard
in the drive through, which I think

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is a reference to him going down
the drive through was a short cut,

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but at one mile an hour.
I don't know why, but there you

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go. This one. I remember
listening to you I think that same trip

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because it's all Christmas specials and I
was there. I was there in December,

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but it was from one of the
episodes featuring Texas, the Texas Charactory.

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You guys did a great series on
where Fritz was talking about trying to

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keep something quotes with the Christian crap
and Kevin pipes up, you know dad,

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we should have that. And there's
a bit where basically Fritz kicks Kevin

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and nuts, which is funny,
very funny. Another one which I've heard

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a few times recently, obviously covering
the ninety seven journey again whenever d A

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has a match, and obviously talking
about you know that at the time,

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disharmony. Shall we stay between these
you know, these bikers and these Puerto

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Rican guys and Jack Ore was a
the Dira's offenses opening with an alt right

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hand. What was funny. This
next one is when I remember listening to

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the first time I heard it again
on the bus going home and laughing quite

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hard. Which was the now classic
description of Whyland Mercy and his average day

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and his four hour walk to the
grocery store. Yeah, very very funny.

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Also this one here the Summer Slam
two thousand and five classic of Hogan

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knocking off Vince's headset, which was
fantastically done. I remember listening to that

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when I was walking my dog when
I first heard it, and and lictually

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out walking my dog on a main
road with cars going by just laughing myself

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stupid at that. I got to
pause it at one point because I was

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just like, I can't hear what's
being said because I'm just laughing so much.

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And the last one I have here
is I think from Invasion, the

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Invasion two thousand and one show,
which is something about a reference to the

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the law Firm of I think it's
Michael's Helmsley Warman, all the nash and

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then Sid calls the law firm the
basically complaining he's not obliged to work.

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Yeah, it's just just absurd,
but yes, in closing, I just

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wanted to say thank you very very
much providing all these countless hours of entertainment.

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It's actually quite good now that we
can sort of go back and sort

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of find some of these jokes,
because some of them are just in the

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most bizarre episodes, episodes that don't
even feature the characters that are in the

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jokes, so it makes it doubly
hard to remember what's what and where they

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are. So obviously that's very useful
as well. But I say thank you

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very much for the for entertaining me
for all these years, and congratuations on

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as soon as be ten years on
the air, and here's too many more

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cheers, guys,