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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: You Won’t Believe How Long It Would Take You to Watch All of General Hospital’s 16,000 Episodes · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: I want to take a moment to salute a truly
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  Speaker 2: remarkable achievement for a soap opera we all know by name.
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  Speaker 2: It's called General Hospital, which on the thirteenth aired its
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  Speaker 2: sixteen thousandth episode. That is an insane number.
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  Speaker 3: And the show has been airing without interruption since what
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  Speaker 3: nineteen sixty three, which makes it the longest running scripted
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  Speaker 3: show in the States still in production.
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  Speaker 1: But sixteen thousand episodes is actually really hard to process.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to wonder how long it would take to
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  Speaker 1: even watch every minute of it.
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  Speaker 2: Funny you should ask Dear Tanya factoring out commercial breaks.
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  Speaker 2: The show ran twenty two minute episodes until nineteen seventy six,
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  Speaker 2: then thirty three minute episodes till seventy eight when they
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  Speaker 2: became forty two minutes long, which they still run at
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  Speaker 2: to this day. So do the math.
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  Speaker 3: So how much time does that add up to?
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  Speaker 2: Six hundred two thousand minutes? I think of General Hi Hospital,
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  Speaker 2: and you started watching the pilot today and it didn't
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  Speaker 2: turn it off without commercial interruptions. It would just take
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  Speaker 2: shy fourteen months to watch every single one that you
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  Speaker 2: could do it congratulations to General Hospital that's direct from Hollywood.