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Speaker 1: You know, I was thinking my Tim's Diner fact was

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Speaker 1: I feel like we should give the trophy to Christopher

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Speaker 1: hasiotis he he did a ton of work in helping

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Speaker 1: We should buy him a gift certificate to Pizza Hat.

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Speaker 1: and you can get those tickets at Philly pod fest

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Speaker 1: dot com. But we'll be back with a full length

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