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Speaker 1: It's Foodie Friday with Neil Sabaidra, and it's that season,

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Speaker 1: the fish sandwich season.

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Speaker 2: And a little bit of history before I throw in there.

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Speaker 1: Our religious whenever we talk about our religion in the

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Speaker 1: Western world, it's the Judeo Christian religion. Those are the concepts,

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Speaker 1: which means it starts with the Jewish. The Old Testament,

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Speaker 1: of course is Jewish, and then the New Testament so

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Speaker 1: is Judeo Christian. So here is a little bit of

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Speaker 1: handle history for you, and that is originally Lent was

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Speaker 1: a Jewish holiday. Now it was also known as a

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Speaker 1: verb past tense and then turned into something else.

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Speaker 3: I have lent, Yes, yes, I see you are a theologian, indeed, sir.

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Speaker 2: I am. So let's talk about fish sandwiches.

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Speaker 1: Everybody eats fish on Fridays, and yet that's gone.

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Speaker 2: I think the Pope said.

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Speaker 1: No more fish, which is the Pope that I hated

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Speaker 1: fish and said we're done with fish.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, So the Lenten season leading up to the

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Speaker 3: Resurrection Sunday or Easter has been a big deal in

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Speaker 3: mostly the Catholic faith for that part of Christianity for

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Speaker 3: some time. I even remember the old Dick Cabasa song

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Speaker 3: La La la la la.

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Speaker 4: Fish on Fridays.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember that song that he that Yes I do.

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Speaker 4: He's a comical genius.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: But what ends up happening around this time is all

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Speaker 3: of the all of the fast food joints start putting

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Speaker 3: and some restaurants start putting out their sandwiches and fish

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Speaker 3: sandwiches now McDonald's this year round. But that you know,

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Speaker 3: that ends up they end up selling quite a bit

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Speaker 3: during the Lenten season. But Arby's, Arby's has a fantastic

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Speaker 3: one for a limited time that has come out. And

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Speaker 3: it is during this forty day period that they start

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Speaker 3: putting this out. It started on February eighteenth, and we'll

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Speaker 3: go through April fifth, which I think is Easter this year.

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Speaker 3: And so and then Wendy's, Well.

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Speaker 2: Hang on a minute with Arby's.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that predicated on Jesus Is saying we got the fish?

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Speaker 4: No? No, no, no?

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Speaker 2: Did I get that long? Again?

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Speaker 3: Your theology is a little off, just a tiny tiny

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Speaker 3: bit off. But Arby's is usually known for the meats.

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Speaker 3: Is they've got the meats, this is now they've got

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Speaker 3: the fish. Wendy's Wendy's has a great one that people

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Speaker 3: get excited about every year. I always forget about these things,

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Speaker 3: but they Wendy's has a crispy Panko, which is the

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Speaker 3: bread cut the Asian breadcrumbs there on their fish sandwich.

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Speaker 3: And it's made a return nationwide on February seventeenth as well.

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Speaker 3: And so you're going to see these popping up all

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Speaker 3: over the place again. And uh, they're really tasty, actually,

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Speaker 3: like a fish sand I forgot.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time I had a fish

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Speaker 1: sandwich at a fast food place, but you have.

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Speaker 2: I'm salivating now. I would recommend I'm going for it.

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Speaker 2: I'm going for it today.

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Speaker 4: Give it a try.

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Speaker 3: I know how Catholic you are, and that you should

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Speaker 3: make sure that you aren't offending.

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Speaker 4: The holy flesh, yes or something.

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Speaker 2: No Pap spears for me.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what that means.

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Speaker 1: That means you are offending the Pap.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, ladies, down with the jewry expectations.

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Speaker 2: Ye please ignore that last one. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Lunar New Year, yes, is all about lunar lunatic see

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Speaker 1: where that comes from? And Chinese Asian folks and Asian food, which.

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Speaker 2: I love food is Oriental? Wait a second, are people

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Speaker 2: oriental or.

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Speaker 4: Rugs are Asians or Oriental people are Asian? God?

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Speaker 2: And I always get the too confused. Okay, moving on

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Speaker 2: Lunar food.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So across East and South East Asia you have

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Speaker 3: the celebration of the Lunar New Year, and we have

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Speaker 3: a large Asian community here in the south Land and

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Speaker 3: with that a lot of people refer to it as

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Speaker 3: Chinese New Year, but it's really Lunar New Year because

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Speaker 3: more than the Chinese folks enjoy this time of year. Now,

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Speaker 3: this is a season of renewal and newness and you know, reflection, prosperity,

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Speaker 3: all of those things. So you have elders being honored,

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Speaker 3: and you have dances, whether they're the Lion or the

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Speaker 4: This year is the year of the Horse.

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Speaker 3: But throughout Southern California we're very, very blessed to have

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Speaker 3: a bunch of events and great food tied to those

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Speaker 3: as well. A Hambra obviously is a great place to

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Speaker 3: celebrate the New year, and they have their festival. I

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Speaker 3: think the only time I remember it being canceled was

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Speaker 3: during COVID, I think. But it's on February twenty eighth,

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Speaker 3: and they have the Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival returns

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Speaker 3: to Main Street there and it's just a beautiful experience,

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Speaker 3: very culturally rich Asian American community there.

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Speaker 2: And let's talk a little bit about food.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got the Black Bean, you know those

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Speaker 1: little cakes, which is very lunary in terms of New

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Speaker 1: Year's and there's all which I'm by the I'm not

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Speaker 1: a big fan of, but there are specific foods.

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Speaker 2: Oh and that.

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Speaker 4: Ties into all these places.

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Speaker 3: Benny Boy Brewing there in Lincoln Heights. You have Big

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Speaker 3: Way Hot Pot, a bunch of places throughout, Bistro Nas

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Speaker 3: in Temple City, Coconut and Company in San Gabriel Valley. There,

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Speaker 3: there is a Crustacean in Beverly Hills. As a matter

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Speaker 3: of fact, Crustacean is a phenomenal restaurant. It has been

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Speaker 3: around for thirty years and it's going to be shuddering soon.

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Speaker 3: So this will be their last Lunar New Year celebration

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Speaker 3: and to go in there it just and their food

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Speaker 3: is just spectacular. Fashion Island is doing a lunar New

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Speaker 3: Year celebration. All these not only have music and stuff,

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Speaker 3: but food is going to be central to the entire

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Speaker 3: nation island of all.

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Speaker 1: This sounds that actually sounds very very good. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: we do have time a couple of minutes. The produce story,

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Speaker 1: the US produce to buy to cut down on grocery spending,

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Speaker 1: which everybody.

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Speaker 2: Is interested now. So here's the thing with produce.

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Speaker 3: We often buy it with great intent and intentions to

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Speaker 3: you know, make a bunch of stuff, eat fresh all

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Speaker 3: those things. But if not stored properly, and if you're

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Speaker 3: not looking for certain things, then they will and then

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Speaker 3: you toss them out.

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Speaker 4: It's a whole thing.

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Speaker 3: The best produce to buy if you want to cut

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Speaker 3: down a cost are the obviously the less expensive items,

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Speaker 3: but ones that last long and they've broken them down

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Speaker 3: with proper storage. You know, there's certain ingredients that just

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Speaker 3: stay fresh longer. Celery is one of them. And I

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Speaker 3: know people go, well, celery, it's you know, it's like

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Speaker 3: water with hair in it. But you know, for a

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Speaker 3: snack with a little bit of peanut butter on, it's great.

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Speaker 3: But also it is part of the you know, it's

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Speaker 3: part of the mere pois which we use for.

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Speaker 4: Stews and soups.

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Speaker 3: That means celery, carrots, onions that come together, and you

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Speaker 3: can keep celery crisp for longer. You wrap the whole

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Speaker 3: can refrigerate sliced clean stocks airtight glass container. They last

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Speaker 3: a long time. Bananas also another one that lasts a

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Speaker 3: long time. They can spoil, but you want to keep

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Speaker 3: them away from other vegetables that give off the ethylene,

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Speaker 3: which is what makes them.

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Speaker 1: How do you keep bananas for a long time? I

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Speaker 1: mean they go south in a matter of hours.

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Speaker 3: One way to do it is the part that gives

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Speaker 3: off the most ethylene is the tops where the bunch

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Speaker 3: comes together. You can wrap that in celufane in plastic

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Speaker 3: them ripening and getting the sugar, potatoes dry, dark spaces, carrots, abbage,

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Speaker 3: These are all things. Onions that last for a long time,

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Speaker 3: it's a big deal here. If we're not eating bananas

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Speaker 3: as much as we used to. And they go black

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Speaker 3: banana bread. They go straight into banana bread. And if

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Speaker 3: you can't make banana bread right away, you peel them.

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Speaker 3: You get a fork or a potato masher, you mash

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Speaker 3: zip the air out of them, and you throw them

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Speaker 3: in the freezer. Mark when you put them in there,

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Speaker 3: and you could thaw them out and make banana bread

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Speaker 3: or you know, all kinds of things later.

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Speaker 2: M Okay, fashion Island, because I live fairly near there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about you. It's not about it.

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Speaker 1: No, of course, I'm just thinking. No, I'm just just thinking.

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Speaker 1: Of course it's about me.

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Speaker 2: What excuse me, Neil? Do they call the show the

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Speaker 2: Neil Savadra Show.

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Speaker 3: They do not refer to you affectionately as Alexa, because

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Speaker 3: you only listen when you hear your own name.

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Speaker 2: That's a very good point.

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Speaker 4: Me me, me, me.

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Speaker 1: Me me, Okay, you know what, it's Neil.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, we're okay. I'll tell you what, Neil. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what.

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Speaker 1: We've We've done a very good job this morning offending

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Speaker 1: each other.

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Speaker 2: So let's stop right now. Oh, by the way, have

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Speaker 2: I told you how fat Neil is