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Speaker 1: one Never told you a production of iHeartRadio, and welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of Monday Mini. This is going to

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Speaker 1: be a bit of a shorter one, I think, but

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Speaker 1: we just wanted to do it a check in on

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Speaker 1: our team, and plus we got a lot going on

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Speaker 1: the time, but it is true, and we are going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that in a second. Also, as this

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Speaker 1: comes out, it is a March no. As we record,

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Speaker 1: it's March tenth, which is Mario Day, So Happy Mario Day.

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Speaker 1: We didn't really do anything for International Women's Day except

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Speaker 1: that the episode we published was perfect for International Women's Day,

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Speaker 1: but happy belated that as well. And today March thirteenth

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Speaker 1: is my and many people's Quarantine University. If that's something

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Speaker 1: you celebrate here I am. I'm with you, he is, y'all. Yes,

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Speaker 1: So we just wanted to run down kind of a

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Speaker 1: gotten a couple of questions about it. We have gotten

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Speaker 1: some kind of new editions or shifting in the team.

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Speaker 1: We are planning to do a not in person, but

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Speaker 1: they do. But I did send out this email and

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, can you give us a brief

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm being sarcastic, but it is something I check

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Speaker 1: which is our calendar, and so we try to figure

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Speaker 1: You may have heard on past episodes, just a recent

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