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Speaker 1: Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.

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Speaker 1: Let's call it like it is. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say what it is.

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Speaker 2: Yes, what it is.

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Speaker 1: That's what the team of researchers say, Fred, just say

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Speaker 1: what it is. All the other thing I was supposed

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Speaker 1: to do is get right to it, not this little

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Speaker 1: commentary here either. Yeah, we had radio class on Friday.

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Speaker 3: That was fun.

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Speaker 1: There, it was I loved it. That is Pope Francis

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Speaker 1: back in critical condition.

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Speaker 4: I'm so.

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Speaker 1: They were saying he was getting better. You know, well

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Speaker 1: he was in critical condition. He was reading newspaper, drinking coffee.

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Speaker 1: That didn't sound too bad. Now critical condition. He is responsive.

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Speaker 1: He did go to mass somehow. I'm not sure how

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Speaker 1: he did that. The eighty eight year old is battling

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Speaker 1: pneumonium and a complex long infection. The Vatican said that

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Speaker 1: he hadn't had any more respiratory crises since Saturday, but

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Speaker 1: was still receiving high flows of supplemental oxygen. They're also

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Speaker 1: saying that he is showing initial mild kidney failure as well,

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Speaker 1: but doctor said that it was under control. So they

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Speaker 1: were saying last week he might resign name another pope.

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Speaker 2: I know Jason's in the running. Yeah, uh huh.

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Speaker 5: It's like between me and like two other dudes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. The other guys are actual like

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Speaker 1: cardinals or something. Yeah, they're just gonna just take you

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Speaker 1: right to the top, right, yeah, acceleration, right right, right, exactly.

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Speaker 1: We're just gonna skip a lot of the middle stages.

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Speaker 1: It's not necessary.

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Speaker 3: I've been talking about.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where you start. Really what they need, honestly,

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Speaker 2: this is what the Catholic church.

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Speaker 1: As a Catholic, I can say, what we need is

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Speaker 1: a rebrand, and you would be the guy to do it.

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Speaker 5: Imagine the pink smoke that would come out when I

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Speaker 5: get yeah.

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Speaker 2: Imagine right, I'm falling from the air.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine when I say to you. When

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Speaker 1: I say to you, Stephen A. Smith, what comes to

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Speaker 1: mind for you? We got big Stephen A. Smith breaking

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Speaker 1: news this morning? But what yelling?

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Speaker 3: Ye yes, yep?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Sports a bad hairline?

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Speaker 2: Hot takes?

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Speaker 5: Can he do someone on Instagram live? Or is that

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Speaker 5: a different guy?

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Speaker 1: He is a top contender for the Democrat nomination for

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Speaker 1: president in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 2: All right, he is on the list. Stephen A. Smith.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is where we're at.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine?

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine the proliferation of the emericipation He just

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Speaker 1: says a bunch of POLYSYLLABC words, which I just did that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So he is on the list of people that are

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Speaker 1: in the running to be the Democratic nominee in a

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Speaker 1: couple of years. Biden, Treasury secretary, Pete Budajez. Was he

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Speaker 1: Treasury secretary or was he? I think it was Transportation

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Speaker 1: secretary anyway, Alexandria Hokazio Cortes, Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan,

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Speaker 1: have better odds than Stephen A. Smith to be the

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Speaker 3: I don't want my president to have a podcast. I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a smart guy. He's a smart but a

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Speaker 1: little abrasive, you know. I'm not sure if we are

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Speaker 1: gonna go to wall no, you know, can you imagine

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Speaker 1: can't imagine that he would have to chill the delivery

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Speaker 3: Everybody can do everything.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. That's my mom told me differently

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Speaker 1: growing up. You know, you can do anything, and Steven A.

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Speaker 1: Smith can be the president if he wants. To Disney

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Speaker 1: theme parks, the ticket prices in the US will jump

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Speaker 1: as demand rises under what's being called a controversial new

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Speaker 1: dynamic pricing plan. So the airlines do this, Uber does this.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's more expensive if there aren't as many cars,

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Speaker 1: there aren't as many seats lets on the plane. The move,

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Speaker 1: Walt Disney World in Orlando and Disneyland near la Is

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. So I don't know what would be

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Speaker 3: The prices are ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: It is so expensive to go to Disney. Yeah, it's wild.

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Speaker 3: It shouldn't cost that much to have fun, you know.

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Speaker 1: Well, I just don't know how people can afford it,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with I mean, two hundreds and hundreds

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Speaker 4: The two of you, Yeah, just the two of us,

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Speaker 4: and we stayed not on like the property, but we're

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Speaker 4: still in Was it called Willow Springs, Disney Springs something springs,

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Speaker 4: Disney Springs, Yes, which is like you take a shuttle

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Speaker 4: to the parks and it's still like close, but not

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Speaker 4: clearly on the property. I think, oh man, in total

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Speaker 4: the two adults, it was like three thousand dollars almost

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Speaker 2: Yes, with the flights and everything. That's crazy. That's insane.

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Speaker 1: That is crazy, and that might get more expensive. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Hooters is heading for bankruptcy. Guys, they're collaborating with creditors.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry just to spring.

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Speaker 2: That on you. Yeah, they're collaborating creditors.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 1: I just told you Steven A. Smith might be the president.

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Speaker 1: Zero reaction to that, and then I say I don't

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Speaker 1: want that. Nothing okay on that one. And then and

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Speaker 1: then when I say Hooters is filing bankruptcy, it's oh, yes.

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Speaker 3: That clocks that shuttle Sarah. Why do you red?

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Speaker 2: Things happen to good people at the restaurant.

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Speaker 1: Train chain is said to have teamed up with a

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Speaker 1: law firm and another company to suss out its debt

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Speaker 1: load and prep the filing, but sources to state the

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Speaker 1: plans are not final. The chain has struggled for years

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Speaker 1: of plummeting sales and issues paying its bills. From twenty

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Speaker 1: fell almost fifteen percent. So I mean it's not like imminent.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to imminently close down. I mean Red

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Speaker 1: Lobster was bankrupt too, and they were open the whole time.

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Speaker 4: My mom called me personally to tell me this news

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Speaker 4: first of all, which thought was very interesting. She's like,

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Speaker 4: I thought you'd be upset because I'm always at Hooters.

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Speaker 4: But my question is why do people stop going to Hooters?

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Speaker 4: I never stopped, so I want to know why.

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Speaker 3: People.

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Speaker 4: Da're doing your part, and I want to thank you,

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Speaker 4: thank you so much. I'm a patriot, but why why

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Speaker 4: are we stopping? Like?

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, who's not going anymore? What's

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Speaker 3: the reason? Right? You know what I think about them?

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Speaker 2: What do you say?

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Speaker 3: It's a scam.

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Speaker 5: It's a it's in.

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Speaker 3: A publicity stunt that all these restaurant chains are now

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Speaker 3: doing so that we can get riled up Black Paulina

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Speaker 3: and save them and go and eat there. We just

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Speaker 3: saw we what Red Li who else? Just bounce back?

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Speaker 1: It was what was it a few years ago? It

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Speaker 1: was like twinkies, Remember Twinkies? We can't make him anymore,

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Speaker 1: and then everyone just was a mad dash for twinkies.

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Speaker 1: And then at the very last minute, someone's like, ah,

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Speaker 1: another company, we'll buy twinkies and we'll start making I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they did it or not, but it

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Speaker 1: was like everybody was running around Choco taco Remember that

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Speaker 1: that one, the Choco taco.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gone. I never gone gone. You never

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Speaker 2: had a choco cho.

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Speaker 3: You guys made me try it one time.

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Speaker 4: We had our old interno get it for me on

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Speaker 4: like sixty third and like collect it.

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Speaker 2: Was a mad dash.

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Speaker 1: The dude had to drive all over town to find

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Speaker 1: the remaining supply of Choco tacos and did.

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Speaker 2: Here's some good news, though no one needs to be

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Speaker 2: triggered by this.

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Speaker 1: The US Postal Services honoring the late actress Betty White

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Speaker 1: with her own forever stamp. The stample feature a photo

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Speaker 1: of her wearing a purple polka dotted blouse with Forever

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Speaker 1: USA printed below her name. It'll be unveiled on March

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh at the La Zoo and Botanical Gardens, where

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Speaker 1: she was a trustee and volunteer. She passed away three

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Speaker 1: weeks before her one hundredth birthday in December of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. So get you a stamp. I find out

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Speaker 1: you can door dash stamps because I don't know where

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Speaker 1: to get them. I didn't know where to get them

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Speaker 1: on so I had to mail some stuff and I

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Speaker 1: was like, what I do, Guys, how do I get stamps?

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Speaker 2: And nobody knew.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we were in a frenzy, like nobody.

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Speaker 2: Knew how to get them.

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Speaker 5: I go to the postonice all the time and get stamps.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean if you can find a post of I mean

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Speaker 1: the post opficely would be a great place to go

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Speaker 1: to find a stamp if there's one nearby that you're

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Speaker 1: aware of.

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Speaker 2: Sho you never have them on you?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't why want to stamps around everything else?

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Speaker 5: They're in my little at home.

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Speaker 1: But I door dashed them and they came. I think

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Speaker 1: Walgreens sold them in. Can't you were wondering?

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Speaker 2: You neither?

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Speaker 1: Forever stamps. It's National Tortilla Chip Day. The Entertainment Report

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Speaker 1: is next after Rose will be Bloggs New waiting by

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Speaker 1: the phone?

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Speaker 2: Why did somebody get ghost? To All eight? In the

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Speaker 2: next thirty minutes on the frend show, Good morning,