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Speaker 1: Garden and Gun, before refrigeration was everywhere importing ice from

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Speaker 1: it was this sort of humble, braggy way of showing

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Speaker 1: the incredible facts we've got about wealth and or Sigourney

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Speaker 1: Weaver today. Welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson,

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Speaker 1: and as always I'm joined by my good friend Manesha

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Speaker 1: Ticketer and sitting behind that soundproof glass with one hand

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Speaker 1: sign is our friend and producer Tristan McNeil. And of

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Speaker 1: course we've got our PTG all star Gabe Bluesier on

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Speaker 1: the line as well. Hey Gabe, Hey, well thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me back. All right, So last week, Mango and

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Speaker 1: Mango looked exactly like Sigourney Weaver. So we were crushed

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Speaker 1: exact same idea, right Mango. Yeah, it was eerie how

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Speaker 1: you why don't you kick us off? Gabe? Okay, sure, yeah, Um,

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