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Happy Hour #161: Allergy Season! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this Sanny and Samantha. I'm looking the stuff I
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  Speaker 1: never told you production if I heard you.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome to another happy hour where I'm gonna complain.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a wine and beach without the wine once again.
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  Speaker 2: This time I have satron tea with throat coat tea
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  Speaker 2: with citron. Actually, that has been my favorite thing as
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  Speaker 2: of late. Annie, are you sipping on anything? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: No, just I mean nothing interesting? Is my water? It's lemon.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you some citrone. I think you'd like it.
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  Speaker 2: It has no tea in the one I get because
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  Speaker 2: it's Korean. Also, that's a ginger version, like nice ginger
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  Speaker 2: honey version that my partner loves. I don't like it
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  Speaker 2: as much as it's not. I like the sweet versus
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  Speaker 2: like citrusy versus like spicy, although spicy is nice sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, I am complaining today because if you can't tell,
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  Speaker 2: my voice is just a little off and I'm making
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  Speaker 2: unpleasant noises into the mic for our fortunate producer as
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  Speaker 2: well as any listening and on me. But yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: is allergy season, y'all. And my allergies are not your
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  Speaker 2: typical allergies, I will say. My partner suffers horribly that
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  Speaker 2: he cannot breathe half the time, his eyes swell up.
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  Speaker 2: He's sneezing constantly, like it's bad. When it hits him,
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  Speaker 2: it hits him fast, and like everything in his face
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  Speaker 2: is swollen. His eyes are swollen. Like it is not cute.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's cute, but I'm just saying the sickness
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  Speaker 2: is not cute. But for me, I do this once
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  Speaker 2: twice to three times a year. Thing where if there's
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  Speaker 2: a sudden change in temperature, like quick changes, which Georgia
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  Speaker 2: is constant, like literally it was thirty two the other
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  Speaker 2: night and now it's seventy. Yeah, what in the world,
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  Speaker 2: And just recently purchased a car, which y'all, adult things
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  Speaker 2: are not fun. That's what I discovered. And we decided
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  Speaker 2: to wash it because I'm gonna take care of this
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  Speaker 2: one for real, for real. And immediately after washing it,
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  Speaker 2: it was covered in yellow like it's like the trees
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  Speaker 2: and the flowers have vomited and shown that they are
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  Speaker 2: displeased with our well everything, and rightly so so therefore
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna make us sick. And that's that's what where
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  Speaker 2: we're at. So yeah, it is ridiculous. Actually my friend
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  Speaker 2: who just moved back from the UK. She's been suffering
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  Speaker 2: with some stuff too. She was like, how long does
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  Speaker 2: this season last? And I was like forever, it doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't end, and she's like, no, no, for real,
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  Speaker 2: for real. It was like, okay, it lasts still September.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't believe me. She really thought I was like
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  Speaker 2: being you know, facetious and being like, you know, sarcastic,
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  Speaker 2: but no, it really really does. And actually I was
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  Speaker 2: looking it up and it says that from Windley dot com,
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  Speaker 2: w Y and d l Y the allergy season and
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  Speaker 2: Georgia starts in the spring. Because Georgia has mild winter
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  Speaker 2: seasonal allergies will come only begin in January. January, and
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  Speaker 2: this is a longer allergy season than most other states.
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  Speaker 2: Because Georgia has a longer allergy season, it can be
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  Speaker 2: in less than ideal place for allergy sufferers. So I
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  Speaker 2: should warn anyone who was thinking about coming to Georgia
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  Speaker 2: if you have bad seasonal allergies, don't come here.
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  Speaker 1: Be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: Like the medications. I don't know you would have thought
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  Speaker 2: by this point, as advanced as everything has been, that
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  Speaker 2: we would have a little more you know advancement for
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  Speaker 2: the advancing, ah just.
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  Speaker 1: Have more advancement or the advancing I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, am I wrong? Though?
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  Speaker 1: Am I?
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? So it says the com counts are
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  Speaker 2: the highest in like April, May and September. Once again, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it goes all the way into September. It talks about
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  Speaker 2: how you should have a plan, an allergy treatment plan.
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  Speaker 2: Rightly so and then all of these things. I will
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  Speaker 2: say for me, it's like postnatal like drainage. So my throat,
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  Speaker 2: I get coffee, and I get very hoarse and I cough,
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  Speaker 2: but like it's not awful awful. Like again, the way
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  Speaker 2: that my partner suffers. His mom gives him allergy meds
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  Speaker 2: as stocking stuffers, like at least three bottles you know
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  Speaker 2: what that comes in handy, So thank you, he needs this.
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  Speaker 2: She's also a pharmacist, so she knows. But with all
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  Speaker 2: of that, it's not cute because I was just thinking
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  Speaker 2: about how you and I have talked about our voices
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  Speaker 2: are so important for our job, and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we've had like ads and things. I'm like, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be mad, and I sound like an eighty year old
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  Speaker 2: woman talking about their product. And I'm thinking like what
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  Speaker 2: do I do because we also have a time limit,
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  Speaker 2: and then they want us to predict who's doing what
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  Speaker 2: and everything was gonna be okay, and of course there
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  Speaker 2: are ways that we can, you know, work it out.
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  Speaker 2: I've got you, I got you, and people who are
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  Speaker 2: so amazing to advocate for each other. But just like,
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  Speaker 2: how like disruptive this is as a profession, Like when
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  Speaker 2: I was just doing social work, it would just be
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  Speaker 2: kind of be funny and I'd just be like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I can't talk right now, I'm sick whatnot. We don't
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  Speaker 2: really call out sick. That's not a thing. Like even
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  Speaker 2: when I'm like half feverish, I'm like, I have to
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  Speaker 2: finish watching this movie. And again we're privileged in that
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  Speaker 2: that we're at home and I'm still isolated and not
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  Speaker 2: having to get other people sick, but also in that
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  Speaker 2: level of like, but we have to get things done.
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  Speaker 2: There's no real substitute, and like we can't disrupt the
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  Speaker 2: flow necessarily just because we don't feel so great that day,
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  Speaker 2: and these stupid allergies doesn't go away unless we move.
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  Speaker 2: And now I'm sure we'll find another thing that I
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  Speaker 2: don't like, and I get sick.
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  Speaker 1: From that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have bad allergies?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? No, but they have gotten worse since I stopped running.
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  Speaker 1: I think because I was outside all the time and
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  Speaker 1: a lot, I really didn't have them. And now when
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  Speaker 1: I wake up, I sneeze a lot and my nose
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  Speaker 1: might run. And I've been told I have not verified this,
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  Speaker 1: but I've been told that's kind of a thing of
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  Speaker 1: like your body not being able to do that while
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  Speaker 1: you're sleeping. So it goes away for me pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But I am very familiar with people who have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of allergies. Laura and over on Saver has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of allergies. My older brother growing up, I had
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  Speaker 1: to have like specific sheets because of the allergies. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm very aware of how I annoy and how much
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  Speaker 1: it interferes with your life.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I mean, like I can't imagine going through I
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  Speaker 2: can't like my partner when I say, his face swells
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  Speaker 2: up when it's a bad day, and again that's a
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  Speaker 2: really bad day, but like the way his eyes my
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  Speaker 2: parents My mom was the same way. Her eyes were
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  Speaker 2: always bloodshot and she was constantly using eyedrops because they
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  Speaker 2: were so itchy and red, which causes other problems again,
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  Speaker 2: like for me it being a throat thing. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh this this is very inconvenient to the job in
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  Speaker 2: every way. I just find it fascinating that we live
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  Speaker 2: in an area that it's constant, Like people don't realize.
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  Speaker 2: I just watched a TikTok video where they were like,
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  Speaker 2: they're from the north and then they came down. They're
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  Speaker 2: like what the like literally the fact that they can
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  Speaker 2: just stand still and find patches of yellow, Like I
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  Speaker 2: think someone was really confused about why the yellow while
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  Speaker 2: the water or a puddle was yellow and like floating
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  Speaker 2: with the yellow said, They're like, what is this? What
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  Speaker 2: is this toxic stuff? And where everybody's like boo, that's
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  Speaker 2: called pollen. Welcome to Georgia. It literally covers everything, like
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  Speaker 2: we left something outside to let it dry, covered in yellow,
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  Speaker 2: covered and yellow. And this amount of pollen that is
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  Speaker 2: here is incredibly dense. It's like there's and there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: you can do about it until September and even then
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  Speaker 2: it's still maybe around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, So this is the happy hour is dedicated
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  Speaker 2: to my voice and why I sound so off, Like
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  Speaker 2: listening to the qwas, I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's worse.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for your patient Sanny, and to Christina
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  Speaker 2: who also has to deal with the fact that I'm
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  Speaker 2: sniffling and coughing and all these things on the side,
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  Speaker 2: So sorry, I love you. You're the best.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Christina is the best, and we wish you
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  Speaker 1: all the strength in this battle against the allergies. Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: Well listeners. If you have any thoughts about this, you
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  Speaker 1: our exact your producer, My anderg in Church or Joey.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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