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Speaker 1: Marriage is the proper remedy. It is the most natural

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Speaker 1: words of Benjamin Franklin. Welcome to the show. My name

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Speaker 1: is Ben Oh Benny frank No relation. No, Well, you

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Speaker 1: know you're sort of spiritual successors. That's very weird. I

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Speaker 1: in American politics. That's true. But you're also, like Ben Franklin, um,

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Speaker 1: so much. No, I sincerely appreciate that. Uh. They do

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Speaker 1: in some places call me the the less cool super

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Speaker 1: I treat it as the significant compliment that it is,

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Speaker 1: but you're like one click below the bar. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: took just one click. Man's uh reach must exceed his

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Speaker 1: grasp else, what's a heaven for? Did Ben Franklin say that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: That was Robert Browning, the poet, Robert Browning, Yes, yes, Browning. Well, um,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing about Ben Franklin. We know him as

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Speaker 1: He was a man of many interests and throughout his

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Speaker 1: of his friends. See. One of the things, one of

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Speaker 1: See and it is in regards to our tooth fairy episode.

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Speaker 1: Christine writes, my kids had the worst tooth fairy ever.

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