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The Rest of the Top 100 Comedy Movies of All Time From December 3rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: We've been we've been clawing our way through Variety's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred Greatest Comedies of All Time list.
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  Speaker 2: All right, do you think we can finish it here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we can. We can wrap it up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, give us the list intro. Then it's Radio from Hell.
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  Speaker 3: People love a good list. At ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: You can check back through the Radio from Hell podcasts
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  Speaker 1: for our commentary on on the earlier parts of the list.
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  Speaker 3: We also posted the whole actual list.
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  Speaker 4: You can look at it from Variety.
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  Speaker 3: Variety.
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  Speaker 2: Now, as I recall, you're not happy with number one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys don't know what it is yet, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't Number twenty five mash Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It was a movie before it was a TV show
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  Speaker 3: with a couple people from the TV show in.
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  Speaker 1: It, but mostly differently Radar, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, only Gary Berghoff, I think from in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Laugh out loud funniness.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's I mean, it made me smile. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty some of it's pretty funny and some of it's
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  Speaker 4: really grim.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty four Bridesmaids hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very classic.
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  Speaker 3: I am fine with that positioning.
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  Speaker 4: I've always been just laugh out loud at vomiting.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa McCarthy is brilliant and all they are, all the women,
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  Speaker 1: and it are good. Number twenty three from nineteen thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: Trouble in Paradise.
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  Speaker 3: I have not seen this. This is Herbert Marshall and
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  Speaker 3: Miriam Hopkins.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Herbert Marshall, that's old.
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  Speaker 3: What are your nineteen thirty two?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty two Caddyshack, Yeah, it's got to be in there.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one The Bank Dick from nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: Four, Yes, the Bank Dick. W. C.
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  Speaker 3: Fields.
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  Speaker 4: At My favorite line of that movie is there's a
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  Speaker 4: woman in the bank with her little kid and they're
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  Speaker 4: looking at W. C. Fields, who's the guard, and she
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  Speaker 4: she says to her little boy, look at that nose.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't you like to have a nose like that?
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  Speaker 3: Full of Nichols, Clad of Nichols? Twenty super bad. I
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  Speaker 3: guess you could say this.
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  Speaker 1: Like sprung a bunch of different people into fame, Jonah
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  Speaker 1: Hill and Michael Sarah and that's that's where you get
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  Speaker 1: the classic mcloven stuff and all of that. Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: see nineteen It happened one night.
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert.
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  Speaker 4: Oh she's lovely too.
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  Speaker 3: Eighteen Spinal Tap.
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  Speaker 1: This would be higher on my list, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad it's in the top. Twenty seventeen The Heartbreak
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  Speaker 1: Kid Really.
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  Speaker 3: Charles Groden, Yeah, I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: I ever saw that. It's always been well for spoken.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Mike Nichols thing. Sixteen his girl Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's where that comes from.
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  Speaker 4: You. Oh what.
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  Speaker 3: Fifteen? I've never heard of this one?
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  Speaker 1: Playtime from nineteen sixty seven, Any idea? Who is actor
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  Speaker 1: director Jacques Toddy, known beloved for portraying Masuur Hello, a gauky, mute,
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  Speaker 1: pipe smoking, overcoat wearing middle aged French geek.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jacques Tati, there's a whole series of movies with
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  Speaker 4: that character.
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  Speaker 3: Nub fourteen Sideways.
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  Speaker 4: It's good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know again, I probably would have put that lower.
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  Speaker 4: Some of it's kind of depressing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I mean is it's like mash that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Paul Giamadi and uh and uh what's his name?
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Hayden Church number thirteen, Doctor Strangelove.
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  Speaker 5: That's all that's that should be before that should be
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  Speaker 5: hard popped in. Definitely, absolutely, Number twelve I love this movie.
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  Speaker 2: Tutsi, Tutsi is a good way. Tutsis a good Dustin Hoffmann.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Buster Keaton at number eleven with Sherlock Junior.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't seen any Buster keyps.
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  Speaker 4: Oh there, some of them are so incredibly good.
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  Speaker 1: Number ten Groundhog Day, Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Number nine Young Frankenstein. That should be higher on the list.
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  Speaker 3: That should be higher on the list. Number eight Fargo totally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's there's a lot of funny stuff. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about that, true. Could you gotta have that truck?
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  Speaker 1: Number seven Duck Soup, it's the Marks Brothers. Number eight
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  Speaker 1: Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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  Speaker 2: Should be top five?
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  Speaker 4: I think yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have Waiting for Govan at number five. Spinal
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  Speaker 1: tap is better than Waiting for.
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  Speaker 4: Go I don't know really, no, I think Waiting for Governments.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Number four, uh, Charlie Chaplin, the Great Dictator.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, that's the famous scene where he's Hitler He's.
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  Speaker 3: Got the world. Yeah, the balloon and he's Number three Annie.
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  Speaker 5: Hall, Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't have put it that.
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  Speaker 3: Number two. Some like it hot. It's very funny.
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  Speaker 4: Is my kid, my youngest child is crazy for that movie.
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  Speaker 2: It's good.
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  Speaker 4: Loves that movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny and number one. Any guesses of something we
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  Speaker 1: haven't mentioned yet?
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  Speaker 4: Is it an older classic or a No, it's I
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  Speaker 4: mean it's fairly.
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  Speaker 3: It's not black and white?
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  Speaker 4: Is it animal House?
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  Speaker 2: Animal House has not been.
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  Speaker 3: On that No, it hasn't. Yeah, and it's not.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I wouldn't put Animal House number one,
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  Speaker 4: but it should be on the list somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Number one. The Naked Gun from nineteen eighty eight. Really
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  Speaker 3: that is not the funniest movie of all times.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 5: I would I would prefer if I'm watching that, I
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  Speaker 5: would prefer to watch the TV series that it was
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  Speaker 5: based on, Police Squad. Yeah, because it boy minute per
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  Speaker 5: joke it had them.
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  Speaker 4: Was playing on the list.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was lower.
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  Speaker 3: That I find that. I mean, it's not yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: might be in my top one hundred. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's funny, it's really funny.
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  Speaker 5: It's funny. I wouldn't have put it at number one. No, huh,
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  Speaker 5: who's the female star?
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  Speaker 4: I want to yeah, pres yeah, No, it shouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: number one.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said, the TV series Police Squad was I mean,
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  Speaker 5: Frank Dreben jokes per second was just hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe that's what they're going Maybe that's.
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  Speaker 5: Especially when they got the into the laboratory, the perverted
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  Speaker 5: lab guy and the guy who was so tall you
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  Speaker 5: couldn't see his the top half of his body.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking yourself into this carry now.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about the TV series, not the movie.
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  Speaker 2: The TV series is what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 5: This is Oh, by the way, you've got something in
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  Speaker 5: your teeth and he reaches up and then like half
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  Speaker 5: a banana comes out, he falls on the table.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there it is.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little sad about that list.
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  Speaker 5: We hope you to enjoyed another list with Radio from
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  Speaker 5: Hell on X ninety six.
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  Speaker 3: What what it has done?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure this is partially designed for it. There
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  Speaker 1: are some old movies in there that I have never seen.
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  Speaker 3: Then I should probably give give.
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  Speaker 4: They are like bringing up Baby is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not one that you would grab and say, oh,
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  Speaker 5: let's yeah. Is U a chef on that list?
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  Speaker 4: No? No, it's not, Thank goodness. Although and I don't
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  Speaker 4: think what's their dead guy one weekend of Bernie not
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  Speaker 4: on the American Pine?
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  Speaker 2: What is you know? What is missing? And it's embarrassing
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  Speaker 2: to say hot shot.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's do you know what it's. It's naked gun,
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  Speaker 3: it's adjacent.
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  Speaker 2: It's a parody of first Blood, it's you know. And
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  Speaker 2: I found it a very amusing. All right, well there's
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  Speaker 2: your list.
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  Speaker 3: There's your list.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah,