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Speaker 3: What I said.

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Speaker 1: Just because it's the same every time doesn't mean it's effortless.

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Haunting.

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Speaker 1: I'm your ghost host with the most Theresa, and I'm

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Speaker 1: joined in studio by my familiar Merlin and our useless

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Speaker 1: producer liability really Len, Today, we've got quite an unsettling

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Speaker 1: story for you from our friend Darren. Oh, it's just

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Speaker 1: the male the interruptions today, it's like people forget we're

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Speaker 3: I don't know what I believe. I'm not a religious

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Speaker 3: The only way that I could explain it is that

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Speaker 3: it's like the first love thermodynamics, energy is neither created

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Speaker 3: My name is Darren. I'm a touring musician in a

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Speaker 3: We ended up talking a little bit, just you know,

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you sick little freaks can't keep your fingers

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Speaker 1: Oh though, whatever, Darren will prove this point for me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, did anything good come in the

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Speaker 1: mail today, Len, I'm expecting a pr kid from Miss

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Speaker 2: Amazy junk gunk junk. Oh, something from the Dandies.

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Speaker 1: Why does he get all the ad He doesn't do anything? Wow?

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Speaker 1: I deserve a lot, we're back. You didn't throw to ads. Seriously, Len,

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Speaker 1: Well that's our show. But before we go, Damien's story

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Speaker 1: I give you a hard time. And while this nomination

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Speaker 1: feels mostly like a cosmic slight at me. I think

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Speaker 1: you do a really good job. I'm glad you're on

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Speaker 2: By there, you're kind of a bitch when Dorry.

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