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Speaker 1: all in with Scott Patterson and I heart radio podcast. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's Scott. How are you? How is everybody doing? We've

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Speaker 1: got uh an exciting guest, Susan Ritan, formerly of L

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Speaker 1: great series. H Emmy Award nominated actress multiple times for

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Speaker 1: God's sake, I almost forgot Sally. Sally Struther is gonna

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Speaker 1: But Susan Routan is gonna be joining us any minute.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I'm here. Hello, Hi, nice meeting you. How

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Speaker 1: the episode. It's a it was a real kick in

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Speaker 1: the you know what's then the whole the whole um.

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Speaker 1: forgot how wonderful that show was. Right, Well, tell us

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