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<v Speaker 1>Kalaroga Shark media people are really wigged about this Australian

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<v Speaker 1>version of the Office. Calm down, everyone, Hi, I'm Johnny

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<v Speaker 1>Mack with your daily comedy news. They're acting like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe they made an Australian version of the Office.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you paying attention? There's a zillion versions. There's a

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<v Speaker 1>version on Hulu that I watched that's Hindi. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>half Hindi and half English and the dialogue goes back

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<v Speaker 1>and forth and sometimes I read the captions and it's

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<v Speaker 1>the Office. I get it. And I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>you know this. The Office, as great as it was,

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<v Speaker 1>was originally a British series starring Ricky Gervay's so let's

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<v Speaker 1>stop acting like we can't make a new one. Felicity

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<v Speaker 1>Ward stars in The Australian Office and has told fans

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<v Speaker 1>Ricky Gervaise personally approved her casting. Felicity said, Ricky Gervais

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<v Speaker 1>has approved a female lead. He's very excited about a

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<v Speaker 1>female lead. Just in case anyone is angry. Australian Office

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<v Speaker 1>will be on Prime Video on the Australia and UK

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<v Speaker 1>on October eighteenth. If you're in the US, You're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to get it unless you have one of those VPNs.

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<v Speaker 1>Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. She was asked

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<v Speaker 1>how she's feeling about the show's released on October eighteenth,

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<v Speaker 1>and said, pretty chill. Actually, English people and people love

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<v Speaker 1>the office. They're like, hey, what do you want to do?

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<v Speaker 1>That's fine. Felicity plays Hannah Howard, manager of the Sydney

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<v Speaker 1>based box company Finley Cratick. She says, I did zero

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<v Speaker 1>preparation because I read the script and I'm like, oh

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<v Speaker 1>my god, this is every annoying part of my personality.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been preparing for this my whole life, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if this showrunner, I don't know how much

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<v Speaker 1>she had seen me before, but it was like as

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<v Speaker 1>if she got the tapes and then edited out the

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<v Speaker 1>charm and the bits that people liked about me, and

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<v Speaker 1>then just wrote a character. So it's just there. It's

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<v Speaker 1>very strange playing a character where you're supposed to make

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<v Speaker 1>people cringe. Jeff Dunham has a new Christmas Carol inspired

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<v Speaker 1>comedy special coming out, This one also on Amazon Prime.

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<v Speaker 1>This one you can watch in the States. It'll be

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<v Speaker 1>out November nineteenth. It is titled Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up

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<v Speaker 1>Holiday Special. In Jeff Dunham's Screwed Up In Jeff Dunham's

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I'm leaving that in. I did you hear that?

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<v Speaker 1>All right? I misspoke and I said screwed up, and

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<v Speaker 1>then I was going to do the pick up, and

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<v Speaker 1>then I realized screwed up is funny. So I'm leaving

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<v Speaker 1>all that in, including the explanation. This is where I

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<v Speaker 1>start over. Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiering on

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<v Speaker 1>another bust. Leave it in. I'm giving you a little

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<v Speaker 1>behind the scenes here, all right. Take three, Jeff Dunhams

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<v Speaker 1>screwed him. You'd swear I'm doing a bit. Take four

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiers November nineteenth. In

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Dunham's scrooged Up Holiday Special, Jeff Dunham recreates the

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<v Speaker 1>beloved Charles Dickens Holiday story with his iconic characters. In

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<v Speaker 1>the classic roles, Guess who's Scrooge? That's right, Walter. But

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<v Speaker 1>when Jeff assigns Bubba j Peanut, Little Jeff and Ahmed

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<v Speaker 1>to their thespian parts, they don't quite agree and the

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<v Speaker 1>plan spins hilariously out of control during this stand up

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<v Speaker 1>comedy special. It's Jeff Dunham's thirteenth comedy special, his second

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<v Speaker 1>to twenty twenty four. Remember back on Valentine's Day he

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<v Speaker 1>did I'm with Cupid, No Me neither. This is his

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<v Speaker 1>third Christmas Team Special, following completely unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic

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<v Speaker 1>Holiday Special from twenty twenty Great Title and Jeff Dunham's

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<v Speaker 1>Very Special Christmas Special in two thousand and eight. Aperghetzi

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<v Speaker 1>and his wife Laura are helping build an indoor practice

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<v Speaker 1>facility for the Donaldson Christian Academy. They've donated a gift

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<v Speaker 1>of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars with an additional

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<v Speaker 1>matching gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to

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<v Speaker 1>help the DCA with the project. Nate is an alumni

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<v Speaker 1>of DCA, graduating with the class of ninety seven. The

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<v Speaker 1>DCA said, we're excited to announce the potential edition of

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<v Speaker 1>an indoor practice facility. Facility allows to better serve all

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<v Speaker 1>of our wildcats by creating a space that can be

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<v Speaker 1>used for multiple purposes during all our seasons. The indoor

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<v Speaker 1>space will feature competitive athletic facilities, state of the art

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<v Speaker 1>strength training, multipurpose space for band and early learning, and

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<v Speaker 1>new locker rooms and office spaces. Junior did some crowd

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<v Speaker 1>work and bonded with an audience member over catching her

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<v Speaker 1>boyfriend cheating on Facebook. He bonded by saying he was

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<v Speaker 1>caught on AOL instant Messenger. The Stanford Daily says Wood's

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<v Speaker 1>joke about AOL wasn't the only one that aged him,

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<v Speaker 1>but he maintained relevance to the college student audience by

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<v Speaker 1>highlighting the twisted nature of the textbook sale industry. Would

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<v Speaker 1>have joked about a process called book buy back. The

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<v Speaker 1>program allows students to sell used textbooks at the school

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<v Speaker 1>bookstore or a quote unquote sketchy online company for around

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<v Speaker 1>one tenth through the original price. Yeah, if you've got

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<v Speaker 1>any kids in college, the textbook game is insane. I

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<v Speaker 1>actually teach you college classes. I don't use a textbook.

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<v Speaker 1>I use my own knowledge. I teach a radio class

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<v Speaker 1>in a podcasting class so I can write the notes

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<v Speaker 1>off the top of my head. Roy said, I know

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<v Speaker 1>a scam when I see one. How much new Calculus

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<v Speaker 1>came out in the past few months, Smile Politely dot

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<v Speaker 1>Com caught up with the ever so serious Ari Condobolu.

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<v Speaker 1>Smile asked Hari, what's it like being a smart comedian?

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<v Speaker 1>Harry said, what it means is you get described as

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<v Speaker 1>smart and brilliant and what did Time Out New York say,

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<v Speaker 1>deals in commonly reasoned polemics. But the word funny isn't

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<v Speaker 1>used nearly enough. The only thing I want to see

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<v Speaker 1>is funny. He's really funny, hysterical. I'm a comedian at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of the day. All the other things smart,

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<v Speaker 1>well spoken, thoughtful, and I'll throw in ever so serious.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd be part of it. Is your interview Persoda, dude,

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<v Speaker 1>I'd like that to be the garnish around the funny.

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<v Speaker 1>I do think, certainly there's a reason that I bring

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<v Speaker 1>an NPR audience. I use big words and reference things

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<v Speaker 1>that might not be in pop culture and maybe more

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<v Speaker 1>about world affairs and about historical things, while still attempting

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<v Speaker 1>to be relatable to any mainstream audience. I guess that's

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<v Speaker 1>what it means, or maybe I just wear glasses. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know. Smile asked him about his show Totally Biased

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<v Speaker 1>already said, first of all, it's a show. It's been

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<v Speaker 1>canceled since twenty thirteen. To the fact that it still

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<v Speaker 1>gets its flowers, it's really nice. I wish I got more.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like the fact that the clips aren't readily

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<v Speaker 1>available online. When FX bowl the clips after the show

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<v Speaker 1>got canceled, I felt that was a really bad decision.

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<v Speaker 1>They put the episodes up. The episodes aren't going to

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<v Speaker 1>be evergreen, but some of the clips will be. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just annoying watch things. It'd be like, yeah, we cover

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<v Speaker 1>this a decade ago, and that's the same angle we took,

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<v Speaker 1>and there's no record of it. I've seen things since

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<v Speaker 1>and it's like, Okay, that's literally almost verbatim. When I

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<v Speaker 1>said three years later the same joke. It taught me

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<v Speaker 1>that there were more people appreciated the point of view

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<v Speaker 1>that I had, that Camal had, that the voice of

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<v Speaker 1>the show had. It made me feel like maybe I

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't out on a limb the same way I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it was at the same time, and also taught me

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<v Speaker 1>that we were still on the cutting edge because the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff we were talking about in twenty twelve about trans

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<v Speaker 1>rights and police brutality and the angles we took then

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<v Speaker 1>became mainstream angles a few years later, all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>you even see late night shows covering those issues that

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<v Speaker 1>started with us. That a Pooh documentary I did comes

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<v Speaker 1>from totally biased. I was thinking of a pool uh

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<v Speaker 1>last week or the week before, and I was watching

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<v Speaker 1>the quote unquote serious finale of The Simpsons, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't think up Poo appeared in it at all, Like

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<v Speaker 1>not even in the background or in the audience. Maybe

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<v Speaker 1>I just missed him, or I said, that's the thing

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<v Speaker 1>that spurred me to write a piece about it. Things

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<v Speaker 1>that a community know where feel have been discussed for

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<v Speaker 1>years are new when you've been ignored by mainstream society.

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<v Speaker 1>So all of a sudden, all our old stuff becomes

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<v Speaker 1>new to everybody else. It helped me calibrate where we

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<v Speaker 1>were as a society and perform in real time. When

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<v Speaker 1>you're doing stand up, you're doing it in real time,

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<v Speaker 1>but you're also releasing things of the masses. It's every

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<v Speaker 1>few years in a special or set. It's totally biased.

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<v Speaker 1>Every night, we kind of got a sense of where

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<v Speaker 1>people were. People still bring up that spelling bee thing

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<v Speaker 1>I did, or the Apu thing, or how I covered

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<v Speaker 1>Columbus Day. Stuff that was forever go to me, and

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<v Speaker 1>somehow it's still relevant people. It also says that the

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<v Speaker 1>stuff we were doing was ahead of its time. And

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<v Speaker 1>Saturdays now we're doing five good news Christmas Stories. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I know it's October, believe me. I know, but I

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<v Speaker 1>also know Christmas moves the downloads. Yeah, all right, see

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<v Speaker 1>tomorrow