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Introducing Radio 831: A Romance Podcast! Plus, a Grab-Bag Speed Round · Radio 831: A Romance Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Oh Hi, this is Erica and this is Claire, and
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  Speaker 1: we are back, but only very briefly, to tell you
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  Speaker 1: about something new that is hitting this feed in the
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  Speaker 1: next few weeks, and to tell you a few things
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  Speaker 1: we've really missed being able to share with you over
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  Speaker 1: the last years since we've popped up.
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  Speaker 2: Coming May seventh, this feed will be the new home
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  Speaker 2: of the Radio eight three one podcast, your weekly dose
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  Speaker 2: of all things romance. It's a production of iHeart Podcasts,
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  Speaker 2: hosted by Sin John Ombasker and Tyler McCall to brilliant, funny,
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  Speaker 2: knowledgeable people who we love having in our ears and
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  Speaker 2: in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: It is a half hour show that we like to
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  Speaker 1: think of as the sports center of smut. It's sort
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  Speaker 1: of the audio companion to our romantic fiction publishing company
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  Speaker 1: eight three one stories that you, hopefully by now maybe
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  Speaker 1: know about, and it delves into everything from why certain
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  Speaker 1: subgenres are having a moment Hello Cowboys, to what's happening
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  Speaker 1: the Jane Austen Verse.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so it's been almost a year since we stopped
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  Speaker 2: doing the podcast, and you know, we get the question occasionally,
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  Speaker 2: do you make having a podcast? And my knee jerk
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  Speaker 2: answer is always no. But then the truth is that
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  Speaker 2: I would say, like once a month, you and I
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  Speaker 2: do the thing where we're like, well, if we had
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  Speaker 2: a podcast, we could be talking about this. We do,
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  Speaker 2: we do?
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  Speaker 3: We do.
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  Speaker 2: But then when I went to search my slack and
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  Speaker 2: text messages to be like, what have we said that about,
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  Speaker 2: it was actually kind of it was harder to surface
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  Speaker 2: them than I thought it would be. And then I
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  Speaker 2: was like, maybe we actually don't miss it that much.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, hard to say, hard to say, what
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  Speaker 2: did you? I have a few things, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like you turned up more. I turned up a decent amount.
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  Speaker 2: The most moving one was tin Can, which is a
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  Speaker 2: landline OU yeah, yeah, it's a landline for kids that
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  Speaker 2: if you are in a parenting group chat especially I
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  Speaker 2: think in Brooklyn you have probably heard about by now.
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  Speaker 2: But it operates over the internet, but it is it
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  Speaker 2: really only has landline capabilities, no text messaging or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that. And Cam got one for the first night
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  Speaker 2: of Hanukkah and his first call was to you, and
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  Speaker 2: we both cried.
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  Speaker 4: It was really moving.
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  Speaker 1: It was the power also, the power of the telephone
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  Speaker 1: and how it forces children to actually engage in conversation
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  Speaker 1: and not just look at you and say what's that?
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  Speaker 4: What's that? You know? It just fored us.
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  Speaker 2: Both what a different experience it was than FaceTime. It
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  Speaker 2: was amazing and I continue to find it amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Well also moving.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, sausage races were a recurring segment on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, in the last I would say three or four months.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we're into baseball season again, sausage races have
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  Speaker 1: come up in two contexts that I would love to
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  Speaker 1: have been able to give an update about. One is
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  Speaker 1: that I learned that the Milwaukee Brewers who are the
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  Speaker 1: kings of the sausage race, really it's staffers who are
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  Speaker 1: sort of like randomly called up to participate.
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  Speaker 4: In the sausage races. And if you feared.
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  Speaker 1: That this was not a competitive endeavor, you are wrong,
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  Speaker 1: because the winner of the sausage race gets to go
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  Speaker 1: home early.
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  Speaker 4: Wow right right, wow right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think any staffer who participate should get to
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  Speaker 2: go home early, because it's a kind of humiliating thing
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  Speaker 2: to like, unless you are a clown, you know, a
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  Speaker 2: clown trade by trade, Like, it's a lot for the
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  Speaker 2: person in accounting to have to suit up and do.
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  Speaker 1: That listen, But I do like that it adds a
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  Speaker 1: level of seriousness. They're competing for a real incentiveentive, there's incentive.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing I learned is that in Japan, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know specifically like how often or like the
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  Speaker 1: frequency with Wish, it's ocurags, but at the Tokyo Dome
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  Speaker 1: there is a sushi race.
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  Speaker 2: So important, so important, and and correct, so important and correct.
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  Speaker 2: What else you got, Well, since you're talking about recurring
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  Speaker 2: segment updates, I do have an after Dark update, and
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  Speaker 2: it's timely because just this past weekend we as of recording,
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  Speaker 2: we attended and were exhibitors at book Con, which is
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  Speaker 2: Imagine comic combo for books, and it just returned from
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  Speaker 2: a hiatus in New York at the Javit Center. And
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  Speaker 2: when we were going for all the application process, there's
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  Speaker 2: panel submission opportunity, and one of the panel submission sections
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  Speaker 2: asks would you like your panel submission to be considered
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  Speaker 2: for after Dark? After Dark starts at seven pm, can
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  Speaker 2: be all ages or for ages eighteen up or twenty
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  Speaker 2: one up, so after Dark continues to really just just.
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  Speaker 4: Be around, not to turn this into a full segment.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the difference is between over eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and over twenty one. In a book con panel, would
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  Speaker 1: you say, maybe, just did you get an alcohol sponsor?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, it's the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: tracks for me, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Deeply relate to your having trouble not turning all of
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  Speaker 2: these into a full podcast episode. Okay, two really quick
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  Speaker 2: ones that I would cut, but like, just you've heard
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  Speaker 2: us talk about the twelve foot skeletons at Halloween before,
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  Speaker 2: so this really also does count as like a recurring segment. Update.
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  Speaker 2: We got an official pitch, an official pr pitch from
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  Speaker 2: Home Depot this year about their Halloween collection. That was
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  Speaker 2: a tough moment as retired podcasters not to be able
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  Speaker 2: to discuss it.
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  Speaker 1: This is when you understand why Michael Jordan came out
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  Speaker 1: of retirement. You know, it made perfect sense at that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Another is that I had an MRI recently, well not
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  Speaker 2: even recently enough that I can remember why I had it,
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  Speaker 2: but I got like seven text messages and emails warning
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  Speaker 2: me that I could not wear cat I nail polish
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  Speaker 2: in an MRI, and I was like, friends, I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know what cat I nail polish is. We don't
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  Speaker 2: need to worry about it, like it's fine. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that's one, and then I have one on the others,
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  Speaker 2: I have one last one. I have one last I'm
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  Speaker 2: wondering if it's the same one as mine, and if not,
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  Speaker 2: then then we may have to do another.
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  Speaker 1: After yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, mine. It's probably not mine?
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  Speaker 4: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Butter busts a topic of conversation known to the known
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  Speaker 1: to regular listeners. The country artists Haley Witters who I
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  Speaker 1: Just Love released an album that features as its album
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  Speaker 1: art her as a butter bust and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this is someone that one understands art and two who
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I would like a butter buzz made
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  Speaker 1: of me, and I have the excuse.
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  Speaker 2: I would like to meet the creative director or maybe
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  Speaker 2: this was her idea.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know. That's incredible, incredible. It
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  Speaker 4: is so hard, It is so hard.
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  Speaker 2: In this day and age to do image making that
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  Speaker 2: feels original and that is really special, truly special.
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  Speaker 4: What's your last one?
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  Speaker 2: It's not, it feels somehow related, and it's Penzies Spices,
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  Speaker 2: which I feel like you're more familiar with Penzy Spices
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  Speaker 2: as a company.
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  Speaker 1: Than I am my mother in laws, I would say
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  Speaker 1: a pretty committed user. Okay, yeah, which is different I
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  Speaker 1: think than like even just a consumer of them, but like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's she's a real Penzi's loyalist.
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  Speaker 4: So it's just one of It's a spice company.
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  Speaker 2: Much like I don't like how you said it's just
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  Speaker 2: before you said it, You're right right, it is a
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  Speaker 2: spice company. Like many beloved businesses that we have discussed
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  Speaker 2: on the podcast in the past. It looks like its
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  Speaker 2: website was maybe made with geocites or wics no shape wix,
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  Speaker 2: so I know is still active. They have a section
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  Speaker 2: on their website called about Republicans, And I can't read
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  Speaker 2: you the whole thing because it's doctor Browner's level of
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  Speaker 2: detail of yeah, but I'll just read you the first
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  Speaker 2: sentence and then i'll read you a little section from it.
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  Speaker 2: So the first sentence of about Republicans is, as we've
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  Speaker 2: now said on our first ever about us page on
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  Speaker 2: our website, there's something unique about humankind's relationship with spices
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  Speaker 2: that time and again have caused spices to be a
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  Speaker 2: driving force for change, and then goes on to discuss
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  Speaker 2: it's feeling of let's call it a feeling of opposition
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  Speaker 2: and disconnect to the slow decline of what it calls
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  Speaker 2: the slow decline of the Republican Party. And this was
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  Speaker 2: my favorite section that I slack to you. If, on
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  Speaker 2: the other hand, you still want the best spices and
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  Speaker 2: don't need us to respect what you now vote for
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  Speaker 2: to be our customer, hoorai. We are happy to have
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  Speaker 2: you here, but know that we will on a regular
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  Speaker 2: basis try to wake you up from the stream that
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  Speaker 2: has you believing that there is anything conservative left at
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  Speaker 2: all to what the Republican Party has become. We can
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  Speaker 2: and will work without Republicans to solve the pro we face,
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  Speaker 2: but it sure would be nice to get back to
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  Speaker 2: a time where Republicans were equal defenders of quality, the environment,
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  Speaker 2: and democracy.
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  Speaker 4: We look forward to that day.
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  Speaker 2: And then it is signed, thanks for reading, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being here, Bill, incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Stuff, speaking of spice, speaking of Clap clap, clap for
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  Speaker 3: that segue home back May seven, where this feed will
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  Speaker 3: be the new home of the Radio eight through One podcast,
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  Speaker 3: your weekly dose of all things romance.
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  Speaker 2: That's right with two of the most brilliant romance readers
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  Speaker 2: that we know.
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  Speaker 4: We are so excited for you to get.
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  Speaker 2: To know them.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't already, we hope you stick around.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, listen to the radio eight three to one podcast
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  Speaker 2: starting May seventh on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or
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  Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. And if you're looking for
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  Speaker 2: more love, check out eight three one stories dot com.
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  Speaker 4: That's the show.