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We've Gotten Desperate! · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: We've gotten desperate. It's One More Thing, Armstrong and Getty.
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  Speaker 1: Before I get to the desperation of the One More
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  Speaker 1: Thing podcast, I will tell a story I've told on
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  Speaker 1: the Armstrong and Getty radio show a couple of different times,
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  Speaker 1: but I think it fits in with the looming government shutdown,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't care about at all. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating story from one of Bob Woodward's books. Several years ago,
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  Speaker 1: when Obama was president, we were facing a government shutdown
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  Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi and John Bayner could not come to
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  Speaker 1: an agreement on some terms to avoid the government shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: And the person trying to put the deal together was
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  Speaker 1: ramam Manuel, who you may know was Obama's chief of staff,
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  Speaker 1: became the mayor of Chicago, and I think has a
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  Speaker 1: decent chance of becoming the Democratic nominee for president and
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  Speaker 1: the next president of the United States. Anyway, Rama Manuel
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  Speaker 1: is in the room when Nancy Pelosi and a Bayner
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  Speaker 1: are saying we're at an impasse. There's just no solving
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  Speaker 1: this problem. There's just no solving it. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to have a shutdown, and they decide they're gonna go home,
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  Speaker 1: and Ram Emmanuel says, hold on, hold on, before you
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  Speaker 1: go home. Just Nancy, right down the lowest number you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to take. And then he said to Baynard, right
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  Speaker 1: down the highest number you're willing to take, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know what the numbers wire, it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: but they were like Nancy's was like four and his
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  Speaker 1: was like six or whatever. And he said, how about it,
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  Speaker 1: and ram Emmanniel said, okay, how about if we do five?
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  Speaker 1: And they looked at each other and said, yeah, I'd
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  Speaker 1: go for five. I would too, And that's how they
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  Speaker 1: settled it, just pointing out that sometimes it's just that
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  Speaker 1: basic and moronic, and nobody hadn't occurred to anybody to
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  Speaker 1: do that. I guess I just thought that was fascinating.
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  Speaker 2: Right right. Well, that's why arbitration is a thing, because
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  Speaker 2: if you get the two parties just dealing with their
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  Speaker 2: s on their own, they'll never do something that calm
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  Speaker 2: and obvious because they got their dukes up and they're
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  Speaker 2: just somebody says, it's that's simple, and oh, oh, so
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  Speaker 2: you do have you do have a overlap?
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  Speaker 1: How are we split the overlap in half?
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  Speaker 2: And I'll go home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly anyway, so that's probably what will happen in
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  Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours. So to my opening where
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's come to this or we're down to this,
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  Speaker 1: or we've gotten this desperate. I have random pieces of
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  Speaker 1: trivia that I think are mildly to above interesting, including Katie.
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  Speaker 1: I just went to Grock chat GPT and what's the
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  Speaker 1: other one that I use? Gemini, Gemini, Claude, would I use?
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  Speaker 1: I use Claude and I just said, give me a
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  Speaker 1: piece of interesting trivia? Chat GPTs was somewhat interesting. Dolphins
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  Speaker 1: can rectognize themselves in mirrors. One of the very few
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  Speaker 1: beasts that can do this. They've done tests to show
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  Speaker 1: that this, but there's only like that and the chimpanzees
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  Speaker 1: are pretty much it that can recognize themselves in a mirror.
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  Speaker 2: Really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: For what is it, I don't I'm not sure it is.
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  Speaker 1: According to groc, an octopus has three hearts. I found
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  Speaker 1: that less than interesting. This is the one I actually
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  Speaker 1: liked from Claude. And then I've got a couple more.
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  Speaker 2: Cows have four stomachs.
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  Speaker 1: Ah yeah, well.
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  Speaker 2: Although they all have different like jobs. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a very famous thing at UC Davis. I
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  Speaker 1: live in Davis, California. They've got I think the cow
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  Speaker 1: used to be alive. I don't think it's alive anymore,
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  Speaker 1: but they had a living cow with a window in
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  Speaker 1: its side.
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  Speaker 2: Of Illinois, one of the great agricultural schools on Earth
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  Speaker 2: has had mirrored windowed cows for ages. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and then you can look at their stomachs
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  Speaker 1: and how the whole thing works. Here's your piece of
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  Speaker 1: trivia from.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the undergrads have Chindo's Michael Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Did you miss out on the Chindo trend?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: It was hot for like a week. You know how
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  Speaker 1: some people get their ear lobe stretched out? You did that, right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I did, like an idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Get your ear lobes stretched out, a variety of other
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  Speaker 1: things to like shock their parents or whatever you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. People getting a window, oh hole cut out
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  Speaker 1: in the bottom of their like below your lip, so
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  Speaker 1: you can see their teeth through there.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing those does. Now they're doing the nostrils nose does.
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  Speaker 3: I just made that word up, But they're they're gauging
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  Speaker 3: their sides of their nose so you can see into
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  Speaker 3: their noses.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's oh seriously, uh huh, oh.
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  Speaker 1: My god, I hope neither one of my kids does that.
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  Speaker 2: Come on in China?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, come on in.
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  Speaker 2: Or a volcano eruption or ai or something. It's over.
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  Speaker 1: Can't you just wear a T shirt that says I'm
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  Speaker 1: mad at my parents or or uh whenever an interval.
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  Speaker 2: With conforming with the norms of society as it currently.
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  Speaker 1: Exists, instead of doing something like that. Here's what it
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  Speaker 1: is gross. I do not want to stare into your
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  Speaker 1: skull like that. Get away from me. Just hand me
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  Speaker 1: my coffee, let me go, because I assume you're a barista.
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  Speaker 1: This piece of trivia from Claude. Cleopatra lived closer in
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  Speaker 1: time to the moon landing than to the construction of
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  Speaker 1: the Great Pyramid of Giza. That's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard that sort of comparison before. Yeah, the ancient
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  Speaker 2: world was so much more ancient than I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people understand.
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  Speaker 3: That.
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  Speaker 2: Was one of the greatest parts of the British Museum
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  Speaker 2: in London was their collection of just mind bogglingly old
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  Speaker 2: and antiquities and just to think of people writing and
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  Speaker 2: recording what they wanted to do and their thoughts and
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  Speaker 2: their complaints and all thousands and thousands of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and as it turns out, they were usually pretty mundane.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, Three more little pieces of trivia. Four are you?
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  Speaker 1: The word muscle comes from the Latin musculus, meaning little mouse,
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  Speaker 1: because flexed biceps resemble mice. I don't think they do, No,
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  Speaker 1: they don't.
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  Speaker 2: That's a stupid origin of a word.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job Latin Latinos, Who do I blame for this?
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  Speaker 1: LATINX is the term a blue whale's tongue alone can
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  Speaker 1: weigh as much as an elephant, about three tons. Just
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  Speaker 1: a blue whaless tongue waste three tons? And then finally
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 2: Is whale tongue meet a delicacy anywhere among the Menuit
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  Speaker 2: people perhaps, or maybe it is you.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever seen those videos when they get washed
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  Speaker 3: up on the beach and they have to blow them up?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure videos.
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  Speaker 1: You get a big chunk of whale goo on you.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally this one. Ancient Romans used to brush
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  Speaker 1: their teeth with their urine. Okay, me too, actually does
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  Speaker 1: actually doesn't save their urine. It just says urine, So
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's up somebody's could be somewhat. Steve's here exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Steve, I've run a little dry. Yeah, here's a
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  Speaker 2: take this cup brush out.
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  Speaker 1: Ancient Romans used to brush their teeth with urine, yes,
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  Speaker 1: because the ammonia whitened them effectively. They wanted white teeth,
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  Speaker 1: just like we do today. They just didn't have the
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  Speaker 1: modern crush strips. So glad we found a way around
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  Speaker 1: that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the urine, it's a money saver.
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  Speaker 1: To Michael, huh, you know who is not concerned with
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  Speaker 1: having white teeth. I just came across this the other
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  Speaker 1: day because I think he's got a new album out,
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  Speaker 1: the British Van Morrison, who is Irish from the British Isles. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Van Morrison is not concerned with how white his teeth are.
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  Speaker 1: If you see a recent picture of him, it's like
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  Speaker 1: he's got little baked beans there.
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  Speaker 2: How old is the great songmeister?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty Old got an album out. Boy is interested in
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  Speaker 1: the people, the people that he's not as old as
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  Speaker 1: I thought. His teeth his teeth look like.
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  Speaker 3: Teeth one hundred and six and yeah, oh yeah, that's bad.
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  Speaker 1: Who he's giving up? He just doesn't brush anymore. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he has decided I am not going to worry about
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  Speaker 1: a white White teeth.
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  Speaker 2: Are so gross.
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  Speaker 1: Well join us. Next time.
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  Speaker 2: We will discuss obscure scrabble words.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Uses a que