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1-800-Death by Lightning · 1-800-1800

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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was thinking about it a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really moving.
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  I also think it gave me pause just because we've actually
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  talked about the
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  SPEAKER_00: assassination of Garfield by Guido on this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about other assassinations, and I think there's a way...
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it's the form of the podcast or just our sense of humor,
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  SPEAKER_00: but,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  SPEAKER_00: we have this tendency that actually is spoken of in the show of,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  SPEAKER_00: reducing something complex to a piece of trivia.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was feeling a lot of,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  SPEAKER_00: guilt for having ever,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  SPEAKER_00: not made fun of Garfield's assassination,
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  SPEAKER_00: but just,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  SPEAKER_00: made light of it and,
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  SPEAKER_00: like,
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  SPEAKER_00: been like,
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  SPEAKER_00: oh,
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  SPEAKER_00: my God,
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  SPEAKER_00: yeah,
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  SPEAKER_00: they took his brain out and he had something wrong with his foreskin.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was in Oneida.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it's really tragic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And...
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  I don't know where I was going with it but I'm sorry to anyone
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  I've offended I
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  guess on the podcast to the descendants of Garfield yeah I
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  think I also think on
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  that note like there's something about the like I really liked
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  the way that these
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  SPEAKER_01: characters were played because it did kind of
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, it was funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, it wasn't like,
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  reprimanding you for reducing it to a piece of history of
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  trivia or like being like
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  this is such a crazy story i think the thing we've joked about
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  actually on the show
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  SPEAKER_01: is that like he was which was excruciating to watch on our show which was
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  excruciating to watch on death by lightning is the fact that he
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  didn't need to die
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  like it was unnecessary and it if the doctor had paid attention
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  to like modern
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  medical advances that were already happening at the time it
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  wasn't like it came
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  later then he would have survived and it wouldn't you know who
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  knows what it would
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  SPEAKER_01: have happened