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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder.

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Speaker 2: That's Orgie Heartstark.

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Speaker 1: That's nope, that's kill Gareff. And that's the other introduction.

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Speaker 1: And this is the miniso, and this is you're the

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Speaker 1: one that doesn't understand. This is the miniso from your

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Speaker 1: letters to our gods ears and God then the God's

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Speaker 1: ears for the filter. We're your filter.

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Speaker 2: God is waiting to hear what we have to tell him.

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Speaker 1: But we're waiting to hear what you have to tell us.

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Speaker 1: It's complicated.

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Speaker 3: Do you understand why you have to pay us twenty

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Speaker 3: nine ninety nine?

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Speaker 1: You go? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Oh good, because this is a this is a nice kickoff.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: The subject line of this email is Grandma's spilling family.

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Speaker 2: Secrets Hawk goss Hi.

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Speaker 1: Y'all.

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Speaker 3: My parents and I live in the ruralld town of

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Speaker 3: bar Massachusetts, on a fifty acre plot of land that

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Speaker 3: was bought about eighty years ago by my great grandmother's

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Speaker 3: older brother. When he died, he gave the land to

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Speaker 3: my great grandmother and she split it up between her

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Speaker 3: three children. They split it up to their children, one

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Speaker 3: of them being my father.

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Speaker 1: Capitalized I was gonna. I was like, who is it

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer, like, that's just.

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Speaker 3: Going to miss some fucking who's gonna end another then

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Speaker 3: my father the plot of Land Steeler himself. Okay, since

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Speaker 3: I was a baby, I've always had my grandmother and

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Speaker 3: grandfather living next door to me, and family and cousins

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Speaker 3: and second cousins always around.

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Speaker 2: It's very fun.

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Speaker 3: I would often walk next door and spend time with

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Speaker 3: my grandma during the day.

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Speaker 2: What a dream.

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Speaker 3: We would have a few cups of tea and talk

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Speaker 3: about just everything from her childhood, political views, the birds,

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Speaker 3: the drama of our small town parenthesy is less than

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Speaker 3: five thousand people, and anything you could think of. One day,

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Speaker 3: I brought up our family history. Before my grandpa passed

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Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen. He was huge on genealogy and creating

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Speaker 3: our family tree.

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Speaker 1: One of the.

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Speaker 3: Facts that he was most proud of was tracing his

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Speaker 3: side of the family's history back to the Mayflower and

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Speaker 3: becoming a member of the Mayflower Society. Love that shit,

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Speaker 3: they do, the blue Bloods love it. He made so

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Speaker 3: many binders of our family tree and put together chart

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Speaker 3: after chart of different families and connected it to ours.

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Speaker 2: On this fateful day, Grandma.

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Speaker 3: Had my grandpa's binders out and was moving them around,

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Speaker 3: and me, being a murder you know, asked her if

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Speaker 3: we had any family secrets or murderers in those books,

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Speaker 3: and she instantly said, oh, yes, no one ever told

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Speaker 3: you about how we're related to Bathsheba Ruggles. Spooner, me,

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Speaker 3: having no idea who she was talking about, was instantly interested.

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Speaker 2: Does that sound familiar at all?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you covered her.

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Speaker 3: We then proceed to find her father in grandpa's genealogy binder,

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Speaker 3: General Timothy Ruggles, the Loyalist and the Revolutionary War and

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Speaker 3: one of the most hated generals in the area. Remember

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Speaker 3: that he was like a British royalist. Yes, he lived

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Speaker 3: only a town away from bar in Hardwick, mass. From

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Speaker 3: that point we found Bathsheba and grandma told me her story.

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Speaker 3: You covered it in an MFM five thirty nine. It

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Speaker 3: keeps getting ruined.

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Speaker 1: Oh with the sixteen year old fuck boy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, ah, yes.

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Speaker 3: Bathsheba was the first woman to be executed in America

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Speaker 3: following the murder of her husband Joshua Spooner. This was yeah,

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Speaker 3: neck beard, yeah, neck weird, Yeah, yeah, neck beards stuff.

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Speaker 3: Basheba was five months pregnant and by her sixteen year

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Speaker 3: old lover Ezra Ross at the time of her death.

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Speaker 3: After telling me, Grandma pulled out a signed copy of

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Speaker 3: a book she'd gotten about Bathsheba, called Murdered by his Wife,

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Speaker 3: written by Deborah Novis and Avas. The fact that I

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Speaker 3: can bond even more with my grandma over true crime

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Speaker 3: is an amazing thing.

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Speaker 2: She's such a strong.

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Speaker 3: Woman who married the love of her life at eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Grandpa was in the Air Force for over twenty years,

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Speaker 3: and she traveled and lived wherever he got stationed. She

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Speaker 3: also raised and cared for four boys, almost all on

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Speaker 3: her own at times because my grandpa would be off

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Speaker 3: around the world. She's truly an amazing woman, and I'm

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Speaker 3: so glad I still have her in my life. Oh lucky,

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Speaker 3: stay sexy and don't get murdered.

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Speaker 1: Julia, Julia, So it was her, what great grandma or

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Speaker 1: what was the connection?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was Bathsheba's father is in the grandpa's family, Okay,

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Speaker 3: and so essentially yeah that he that they were just related.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's very cool. You got to do your ancestry

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Speaker 1: chart stuff and talk to your grandparents, Yeah, got it.

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Speaker 2: You simply must.

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Speaker 1: Please for us if nothing else okay, my childhood business venture.

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Speaker 1: This one's funny. I have no idea where this story

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Speaker 1: would fit in in the list of hometown call outs,

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Speaker 1: but let's just file it under miscellaneous nice. When I

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Speaker 1: was a kid, on hot summer days, I would occasionally

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Speaker 1: host a little lemonade stand on the sidewalk. I had

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Speaker 1: no business calling it a lemonade stand since I was

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Speaker 1: usually selling grape kool aid, but whatever, so.

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Speaker 2: Just the words.

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Speaker 3: You can taste grape kool aid in your mouth like

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Speaker 3: I can't warm grape coolid. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'd usually rake in about a dollar fifty, which in

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Speaker 1: today's money is Wait, what you don't say a year?

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Speaker 1: Someone must tell you, which in today's money is four

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Speaker 1: dollars like she did the.

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Speaker 3: Math, which I appreciate, but didn't include.

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Speaker 1: Enough for a couple candy bars. One day, I came

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Speaker 1: up with a brilliant plan. I had an idea to

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Speaker 1: sell a commodity that had a seemingly endless supply and

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Speaker 1: required very little investment on my part. Smart I opened

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Speaker 1: my card table stand out by the sidewalk, and a

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Speaker 1: nice woman pulled up in front of me. How much

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Speaker 1: is a couple of lemonade? She asked, looking through her

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Speaker 1: purse for change. I'm selling grasshoppers, I replied.

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Speaker 3: What.

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Speaker 1: The Homan's face rapidly changed from a smile to a cringe,

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Speaker 1: and she spidered no, thank you and drove away. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I had a grasshopper. Stay on live Yep. Earlier in

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Speaker 1: the day, I had gone out into the tall grass

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Speaker 1: with my butterfly net and caught an abundance of grasshoppers,

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Speaker 1: putting each one carefully into my plastic critter cage that

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Speaker 1: housed my long dead hermit crab. Tiny grasshoppers were marked

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Speaker 1: ten cents. Regular costs, regular size cost a quarter, and

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Speaker 1: the big ass grasshoppers that were a bitch to catch,

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Speaker 1: cost a whopping fifty cents. Yeah, said so excited. I've

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Speaker 1: seen them maybe once a year. At this point, they're

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Speaker 1: all fucking dead, the big ones, any of them. Oh yeah, grasshoppers.

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Speaker 3: She turns and looks, and there's a bunch of birds

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Speaker 3: lining up to get with their quarter.

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Speaker 1: There's a little raccoon rubbing his little tiny hands together.

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Speaker 2: Finally they've opened up one of these in my neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Gross the crunch, Okay, fifty cents. I had kids running

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Speaker 1: from every house with sweaty change in their hands looking

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Speaker 1: to buy a pet grasshopper. I can only imagine their parents'

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Speaker 1: discomfort as each child attempted to bring a big bug

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Speaker 1: into the house. Most of them were told to keep

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Speaker 1: the grasshoppers outside. I made six dollars tell yeah, the

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Speaker 1: clothing of sixteen dollars in today's money. It was the

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Speaker 1: most successful stand I ever had through all of my childhood.

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Speaker 1: So smart. Unfortunately, my activism got the best of me

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Speaker 1: as I began to feel sad for all the grasshoppers

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Speaker 1: that had lost their freedom that day. Yeah, I snuck

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Speaker 1: around to the little boxes and buckets in yards that

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Speaker 1: contained the pets and released all that I found. This

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Speaker 1: caused a bunch of kids to cry when they saw

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Speaker 1: their grasshoppers had escaped. To recap, I captured grasshoppers, sold

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Speaker 1: them to children, released them, kept the money, and comforted

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Speaker 1: my customers as they mourned their losses. Questionable business practices

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Speaker 1: at best. Fortunately, my shady business dealings eventually ended and

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Speaker 1: I did not grow up to be a con artist. Nice,

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Speaker 1: stay sexy, and don't become a grasshopper dealer If you

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Speaker 1: can't handle the pressure, Kim.

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Speaker 3: Kim, that's super genius and the after the fact kind

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Speaker 3: of regret of what have I done, but then keeping

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Speaker 3: them mind.

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Speaker 1: Out but not enough to like so good. Yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: done them knock on every door and offer their money.

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Speaker 2: Bag climbing into this squirrel's house. I need those.

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Speaker 1: Oh good.

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Speaker 3: The subjectline of this email is Grandpa's Switcheroo funeral story,

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Speaker 3: and then in parentheses it says, lighthearted. Okay, hi MFM gals,

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Speaker 3: you made the call for grandparents switcher root stories after Jesus.

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Speaker 2: We're just saying.

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Speaker 1: Grandparents stories, are they? Okay, let's hear it.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's freaky Friday.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you made the call for grandparents switch your roost

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Speaker 3: stories after last week's You're dead to us cake debacle?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're dead? Oh okay, yeah switch yeah.

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Speaker 3: And this Sylvester family tale immediately came to mind. My grandpa,

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Speaker 3: Armando Internacional passed in twenty eleven, and as far as

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Speaker 3: Grandpa's go, he was the best of the best, kind

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Speaker 3: and charming with a playful sense of humor. He was

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Speaker 3: our patriarch who loved a joke and pull pranks on

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Speaker 3: his kids and grandchildren.

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Speaker 2: Growing up.

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Speaker 3: He would often jokingly ask me Hey, do you have

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Speaker 2: A canmore?

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Speaker 1: That is such a good like scam an old guy,

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Speaker 1: I say, hey, hey, you have five bucks?

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Speaker 3: Love that men old, knowing full well, I was six

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Speaker 3: years old and broke as hell. It was silly, but

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Speaker 3: his frugality often became a benchmark of family stories. When

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Speaker 3: he passed away at the age of eighty, my family

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Speaker 3: was understandably devastated. In the days leading up to Arman's funeral,

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Speaker 3: we gathered at his home to sort through his belongings,

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Speaker 3: plan arrangements, and make sense of our collective grief. Emotions

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Speaker 3: ran heavy up until the morning of the funeral, when

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Speaker 3: my uncle, Bruce Armand's youngest son, frantically yelled from the

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Speaker 3: back room of the house, hey, has anyone seen my suit?

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Speaker 3: Bruce had flown in for the occasion and left his

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Speaker 3: freshly pressed suit hanging in the closet of his childhood bedroom.

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Speaker 3: Now said suit was missing. As I stood up to

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Speaker 3: help my uncle look for his funeral best I glanced

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Speaker 3: over at my dad, Gary, who looked like he'd just

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Speaker 3: seen a ghost. Oh no, oh no, my dad was okay,

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Speaker 3: oh no, my dad whispered under his breath. Turns out

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Speaker 3: in the haze of planning his own father's funeral. My

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Speaker 3: dad saw a new suit hanging in the closet, assumed

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Speaker 3: it belonged to Armand, and dropped it off at the

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Speaker 3: funeral home before viewing. That's right, Grandpa was buried in

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Speaker 3: a brand new suit, and his son now had nothing

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Speaker 3: to wear. Once we realized what happened, every single one

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Speaker 3: of us in that house succumbed to full blown laughter.

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Speaker 3: Despite the heaviness of the moment, the idea that our

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Speaker 3: ever frugal grandfather pulled a fast one felt so fitty.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I didn't even think about that. Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: It was his last prank, and one will never forget.

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Speaker 3: Stay sexy and don't bury Grandpa in someone else's suit.

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Speaker 2: Rachel Sylvester.

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Speaker 1: I love that was his final prank. Yes, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe that.

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Speaker 2: It's so good.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for everything. Shout out to my sister, Amy Fellow,

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Speaker 3: Listen, girls, Lauren Amy, Lauren Amy, we understand stuff comes

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Speaker 3: I'll say what my mom used to say with me

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Speaker 3: Lara, Lara, stop fighting with your sister, you lunatic. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, my last one. The subject line is Irish

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Speaker 3: here and there, obviously for about two years now. So

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Speaker 1: That's such a good way to like say it, categorizing

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Speaker 2: I don't know what pets are dead or alive.

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Speaker 1: Shockingly, me, me still kicking. I cannot believe it.

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Speaker 1: She does not She doesn't have long for this world.

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Speaker 3: Well, and I think that it's the fury that's keeping

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Speaker 2: That's the way to go.

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Speaker 3: I do have to say, and I don't want to

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Speaker 2: It's Frank's immortal Frank is I said.

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Speaker 3: The Vet called me and was just like saying, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'll start getting worried. But that's still here.

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Speaker 1: That's so cute. So me, me and Frank holding on.

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Speaker 3: We have to put them in a room because they

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Speaker 3: Stop it like cock fighting kind of No, just see

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Speaker 3: Why are we even because we can't handle our feelings?

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Speaker 2: Pets gambling either way, loved you all.

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Speaker 3: I'm writing in because I just listened to the Minnesota

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Speaker 3: My grandmother, moved here from Ireland in her mid teens.

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Speaker 3: She had many stories to share, and yet one my

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Speaker 3: partied it up in a remote cabin with a one

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Speaker 3: He's saying the direct the adminstitch Gerald.

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Speaker 3: The reck of the seventies side down? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yes,

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Speaker 3: and then it says yes, a true Canadian classic. One day,

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Speaker 1: Blaze it grandparent threesome.

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Speaker 3: do you call it trasure? I must not be caught

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Speaker 3: here it is Grandma hanging out with a young Gordon

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Speaker 1: Such a good photo. He is so cute. Look at

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Speaker 3: I will say, Grandma is having the time of her

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Speaker 1: I nabbed one of the hourly sought after middle of

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Speaker 1: Not anymore for Sadie. As a just for last comic,

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Speaker 1: one for my girlfriend Hillary, which granted us access to

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Speaker 1: a bunch of shows for free and access to the

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Speaker 1: after parties.

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Speaker 3: Maybe.

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Speaker 1: At these after parties, I had the pleasure of chatting

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Speaker 1: with some of my favorite comedians. Everyone was lovely and

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Speaker 1: getting to meet some of my comedy heroes was huge

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Speaker 1: for me, but the nagging imposter syndrome I felt made

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Speaker 1: things a little bittersweet. As a local comic with only

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Speaker 1: a couple of years of experience under her belt, I

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Speaker 1: didn't have much to offer when it came to networking,

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Speaker 1: so these interactions made me feel like I was taking

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Speaker 1: up too much of important people's time. But then I

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Speaker 1: met Alan Comming. What I'd been chatting with my friend

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Speaker 1: Andrina outside one of the party venues. She was rolling

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Speaker 1: a cigarette when a festival volunteer approached us with an

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Speaker 1: over the top level of urgency. He asked, are you

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Speaker 1: rolling cigarettes? Alan? Alan Cumming would really like a world cigarette?

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Speaker 1: Can we have one? I tried my best. You now,

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Speaker 1: being my typical dumbass self, I tried to joke. Actually,

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Speaker 1: she told me I could have the rest of these.

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Speaker 1: He didn't laugh. He had no time for my bs. Yes, obviously,

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Speaker 1: of course we assured him Alan Cumming could smoke with

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Speaker 1: us for the rest. Do we need to tell everyone

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Speaker 1: who Alan Cumming is really now?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you don't know, Alan Cumming is

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Speaker 3: a uh I think he's originally Irish, but I actually.

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Speaker 1: Don't says it right here? Wait, hold on Scottish Scottish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you watch Traders, he's the host of Traders, Like

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Speaker 1: that's the host of Traders. He's huge.

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Speaker 3: But he's also the director of the anniversary party, the.

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Speaker 1: One you were in. Okay, so you personally are friends

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Speaker 1: with him, but I have met him and he's amazing.

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Speaker 1: For the rest of the night into the am. We

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Speaker 1: hung out on a curb in Montreal, chatting with Alan

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Speaker 1: Cummings as if we were old friends. He talked about

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Speaker 1: his partner and we talked about ours. He shared some

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Speaker 1: hilarious anecdotes about the Broadway production of the children's book

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Speaker 1: he and his husband had written about their two dogs,

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Speaker 1: The Adventures of Honey and Leon.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: He also dropped some hot celebrity dating gossip that I

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Speaker 1: locked away in the vault out of respect, and he says,

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Speaker 1: I can be trusted with your secret celebrities. Eventually, my

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Speaker 1: girlfriend joined us, and upon hearing that she was a lawyer,

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Speaker 1: Alan shared some stories from his time on The Good

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Speaker 1: Wife Nice. The hilight of my night, and possibly of

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Speaker 1: the entire festival, was making Alan coming laugh. When I

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Speaker 1: told him I was a comedian, he said, in his

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Speaker 1: charming Scottish accent, I'm not going to pretend. Oh, and

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Speaker 1: you're a good one. I bet with that. The impostor

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Speaker 1: syndrome of that operated. Shortly after I received my compliment,

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Speaker 1: I decided it would be best to wrap up the

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Speaker 1: interaction before I ruined it somehow smart, I turned to

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Speaker 1: my girlfriend and said, well, it's getting pretty late, should

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Speaker 1: we think about heading home? And to this, Alan responded,

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Speaker 1: what I thought we were having a nice party on

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Speaker 1: the sidewalk. Okay, Alan, I said, we can hang out

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Speaker 1: a bit longer, stay sexy and don't question your achievements.

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Speaker 1: But if you do, hopefully they'll be a famous Scottish

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Speaker 1: bisexual somewhere nearby to set you straight. Cheers Sadie.

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Speaker 2: Sadie, what a great He's like.

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Speaker 1: Your fairy comedian godmother. And I have a photo of

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Speaker 1: the girlfriend Sadie and Alan coming.

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Speaker 3: No what oh, look at him, look at him and

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Speaker 3: look at them.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's teeth are amazing.

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Speaker 3: First of all, I feel like Alan coming. I love

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Speaker 3: that he gets to have this time because he really

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Speaker 3: is kind of taking over in this way.

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Speaker 2: He's already been doing it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a pro, he's good at everything.

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 3: And now he's just like, yeah, I'm just going to

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Speaker 3: go be a bad bitch in the streets. I love it,

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Speaker 3: love him amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yay, so good.

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Speaker 1: We're still accepting celebrity paying out skuys good or bad?

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Speaker 2: Did you get booked at just for laughs? Who did

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Speaker 2: you meet when you were there?

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Speaker 1: Let us know we probably hate them, but thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening and thanks for being here. Uh and stay secony,

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Speaker 1: don't get murdered. Goodbye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie?

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Speaker 2: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 1: Our managing producer is Molly Smith.

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Speaker 2: Our consulting producer is Kate Shellenbach.

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Speaker 1: Our creative lead is Alison Agusti.

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Speaker 3: Our associate producer is Tessa Hughes, and our editor is

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Speaker 3: Aristotle Acevedo.

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Speaker 1: This episode was mixed by Leona Squillacci.

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