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Speaker 1: Well, here we are with another pre recorded not live Minnesota. Goodbye,

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Speaker 1: and if you're listening, then I'm going to assume that

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Speaker 1: you mayb came to our live podcast on Saturday. It

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Speaker 1: was really very cool. It is so fun to see

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Speaker 2: it's hard to say sometimes what they think. But it

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Speaker 2: is also hard to argue against data sometimes, so if

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Speaker 2: they're only looking at ratings, which I in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I just see not only people who listened

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Speaker 1: They were enthusiastic. They watched the entire thing, and they

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Speaker 3: They were at your appreciation, like a really good audience too,

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Speaker 3: like how anything we said it would be like a

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Speaker 1: And you know, it was so great one. Nita was

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Speaker 1: before that I know of, and you know, recording a

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Speaker 1: And I was a little worried whe Nita would be nervous.

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Speaker 1: She fucking killed it. She was great, So thank you.

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Speaker 1: Je Nita. Your friend Tony or he's basically.

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Speaker 4: Our friend, Tony friend.

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Speaker 1: He got up on stage and he started doing his thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Most lovable person ever. And Secretary Bree sent an email

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Speaker 1: He's one of those people who's got this magical quality

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Speaker 1: She helped set up chairs and I know they'll never

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys will have to cross off getting me

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Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm ready, it's National Parks membership. I wrote

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Speaker 1: it's from Michelle. She says, I am a silent listener

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Speaker 1: I also listened to another morning show, but I must

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Speaker 1: The other morning show that I listened to just makes

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Speaker 1: another game show you see on TV. But your games

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Speaker 1: failed to make me laugh. I just wanted to give

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Speaker 1: noticing anyway. Two questions for you all feel free to

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Speaker 1: The biggest lesson I learned this year was to reach

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Speaker 1: out for help if you need it. Twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: Dave Jenny Bailey in fun Happy Holidays from Michelle. PS

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Speaker 1: if you have any leftover adult toys from your live show.

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Speaker 2: Jenny, Yeah, basically, you know, we had all these sex

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Speaker 4: She's a listener of the show and she reviews them.

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Speaker 2: So we brought them all in and we played a

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Speaker 4: Asked you guys.

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Speaker 4: Keep girl boss doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: for the Minnesota. Goodbye for today. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again for coming to the podcast. If you did,

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