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To Break or Not To Break? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: To laugh or not to laugh, That is the question.
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  Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty. Does anybody remember laughter?
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  Speaker 1: So it's getting some attention in some circles for people
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  Speaker 1: who watch Saturday Night Live Saturday Night this last weekend,
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  Speaker 1: that there was so much of the cast of breaking
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  Speaker 1: up and laughing during sketches. I mean, more than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen ever combined in forty years watching the show
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  Speaker 1: in one episode. And well, an interesting thing about that, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: you're not old enough to have lived through the Carol
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  Speaker 1: Burnett Show, which was a big popular sitcom, like the
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  Speaker 1: number one show in America back in the seventies, but legendary.
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  Speaker 1: These various clips were Harvey Corman and Tim Conway would
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  Speaker 1: break each other up and laugh it. As a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it, and a lot of people enjoyed it,
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  Speaker 1: and there's still popular YouTube clips. But it would seem
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  Speaker 1: that there's a lit to how much of that you
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  Speaker 1: can take based on Saturday Night Live. And we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play you some examples. There's some famous Saturday Night Live clips.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jimmy Fallon used to break up a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he just for some reason, some people can't
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  Speaker 1: hold it together as well as other people. And I've
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  Speaker 1: watched those clips over and over again and cried laughing.
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  Speaker 1: It was so funny him breaking up. But it's just
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  Speaker 1: like it's a good flavor. It can't be the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing or something. Ryan Gosling, the host, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: he can't make it through thirty seconds of any sketch
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  Speaker 1: without starting to laugh. That's an interesting personality thing, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think it is. I don't think it's like
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  Speaker 3: a question of discipline.
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  Speaker 1: No oh no, no, no, no, no no, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so either. But it's pretty interesting that you're just
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  Speaker 1: so giggly even though you've got the script, You've rehearsed
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  Speaker 1: it over and over again, you know what's coming, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't keep from busting.
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  Speaker 3: Up, right, Yeah, and well.
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  Speaker 1: I should have maybe started with this. I'm a Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Night Live freak. I've been so into it since the
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  Speaker 1: first year. I've watched documentaries about it, I watched the
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  Speaker 1: podcasts where the old cast members talk about various sketches.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just I'm super into Saturday Night Live. And
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  Speaker 1: Lorne Michaels hates it when people break up, like that's
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  Speaker 1: his rule. Number one, do not break up during a sketch.
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  Speaker 1: We wrote these sketches in a certain way to be funny,
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  Speaker 1: in a certain way, they'll be funniest if you don't
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  Speaker 1: break up, do it the way you're supposed to. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he he hates it. So I haven't seen this Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Gosling thing. Is the laughter? Does it seem.
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  Speaker 3: Forced or is it genuine?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's definitely genuine, really, and most of it makes
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  Speaker 1: me laugh because it's funny stuff happening. And then he
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  Speaker 1: can't come from like but there, So the one that's
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  Speaker 1: getting so much attention. And I read the article on
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  Speaker 1: the Hollywood Reporter. Heidi Gardner, who's one of the regular
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  Speaker 1: cast members completely lost it during the Beavis and butt
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  Speaker 1: heead thing and which you're gonna hear a clip of
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  Speaker 1: here in just a little bit. And it's really visual.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how well this is going to come across.
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  Speaker 1: Very funny sketch, it's just it was. It was a
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  Speaker 1: news program. It's like one of those town halls, political
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  Speaker 1: town halls like you'd see on CNN or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and the host is talking to Keenan Thompson about AI
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Well, Ryan Gosling is over her shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: looking exactly like Beavis from Beavis and butt Heead. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like the hair, the outfit, the everything like that. And
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  Speaker 1: he's just sitting there very intently listening and everything like that.
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  Speaker 1: And then and when Keenan Thompson points out, sorry, just
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  Speaker 1: the person behind you looks just like Beavis, and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Gosling's looking around like, who's he talking? But when the
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  Speaker 1: butt Heead character comes out, who's really got makeup on?
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  Speaker 1: Hondey Gardner turns around and sees him for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: and then she can't talk for like a minute. And
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  Speaker 1: at some point the whole thing falls apart and it
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  Speaker 1: just doesn't work anymore. But uh, and I've got some
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  Speaker 1: of her quotes about that from a Hollywood reporter I
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  Speaker 1: could hit you with. But let's listen to the clip first.
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  Speaker 2: But if human beings created the AI, can't we just
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  Speaker 2: program it to not do that? Well it de bits?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, are you serious? What I think that's
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  Speaker 2: a valid question.
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  Speaker 1: No, Now, they're a gentleman behind you that looks like
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  Speaker 1: butt Heead Professor.
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  Speaker 2: Just because our audience members aren't as informed on the
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  Speaker 2: issue as you doesn't make them butt.
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  Speaker 1: Heads butt head from the cartoon he Beavis his friend.
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  Speaker 2: I'd really like to move on and discuss AI. So
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  Speaker 2: would you like him to move? Yes, thank you. The
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  Speaker 2: man with the gray shirt and exposed gums, sir, kindly
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  Speaker 2: move seats. She's talking to you. Oh, I'm sorry. I
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  Speaker 2: am so sorry. I'm confused.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just here.
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  Speaker 2: To learn about AI, so you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then they set to get him out of the
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  Speaker 1: line of view of the AI experts, so he's not
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  Speaker 1: they're not distracting. They the person who looks like Beavis,
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  Speaker 1: whose name is like Ralph, and the guy because they
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  Speaker 1: don't they don't even know what they're talking about. I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard of this cartoon. They but they sit him
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  Speaker 1: next to each other and they're sitting the same way,
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  Speaker 1: and then they're laughing at things.
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  Speaker 3: So I have I have two comments. Number One, it's
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  Speaker 3: not her fault that Keenan Thompson is the funniest human
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  Speaker 3: being ever and everything he says is hilarious. Secondly, the
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  Speaker 3: answer is the audience that they loved it. They're laughing
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  Speaker 3: so hard they were crying.
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  Speaker 2: Stop.
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  Speaker 3: There's the end of discussion and let's all have fun. People,
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  Speaker 3: come on, I don't need more fun.
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  Speaker 1: From the sound of it, it also kind of sounds
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  Speaker 1: like they might have set her up for that, like
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  Speaker 1: they hid from her what that cast member was gonna
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  Speaker 1: look like, just for the shock value. Yeah, So what
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering is because they do dress rehearsal right
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  Speaker 1: before they do the show, which I can't imagine what
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  Speaker 1: a long, grueling night that is. They do a full
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  Speaker 1: dress rehearsal and then do the show. But they didn't
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  Speaker 1: put the prosthetics on, and he had these prosthetics on
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  Speaker 1: his face that made him look like, yeah, butt head
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  Speaker 1: is an odd looking human, and so she hadn't seen
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  Speaker 1: him before. And then she turns around asking to move
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  Speaker 1: in that and then when she couldn't talk for like
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  Speaker 1: a minute. But so that was like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a third of the way through the show, and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Gosling broke up every sketch well by the time he
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  Speaker 1: gets toward the end of the show, and like the
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  Speaker 1: sketches toward the end is like, all right, okay, can
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  Speaker 1: you just I mean I actually was and Henry, I
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  Speaker 1: was watching with my son Henry. He said that ruins
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  Speaker 1: it when they laugh, and because we watched a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of them, And I mean there must just be
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  Speaker 1: a limit to it, because like famously, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: those Carol Burnett clips are the most famous Carol Burnett
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  Speaker 1: clips of all time of a very popular comedy show
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  Speaker 1: when they would break each other up. Maybe it's just
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  Speaker 1: a limit. Maybe that's it. Oh sure, yeah, yeah, odd
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  Speaker 1: that Ryan Gosling cannot get through a line without laughing.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's like people who cry a lot versus
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  Speaker 3: people who cry a little. It's just it's part of
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  Speaker 3: your your makeup. Which reminds me of my favorite conundrum, Katie.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever hit this, hit you with this.
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  Speaker 3: I may have if I have, forgive me, I'm getting old.
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  Speaker 3: Have I ever done the I told you the one
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  Speaker 3: about punching yourself in the face?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So if I punch myself in the face so
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  Speaker 3: hard it makes me cry, does that make me a
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  Speaker 3: tough guy or a pussy.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've never thought of that way.
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  Speaker 1: That's like Einstein level right there. You gotta get Oppenheimer
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  Speaker 1: on that one. It's got quantum mechanics in it or something.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you a mental case.
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  Speaker 3: But if you want to see a fun SNL skip skit.
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  Speaker 2: Disneyland Jimmy fallon Disneyland where everybody's at the table and
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  Speaker 2: they're discussing their trip to Disneyland and everybody cracks up.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fun one to watch, it is well, I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's it.