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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to step

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Speaker 1: I'd never told your production to I Heart Radio, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. Before we start,

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Speaker 1: just a reminder, we are seeking one of you to

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Speaker 1: come sit with us virtually, that is, to watch an

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Speaker 1: episode of Sex in the City. As you know, we've

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Speaker 1: been doing a whole watch party. We've been doing a

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Speaker 1: whole viewing and getting all of the reactions from Annie,

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Speaker 1: which our delight um, and we would love to have

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Speaker 1: you on to do a reaction with us as well.

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Speaker 1: If you're interested, all you have to do is contact

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Speaker 1: us through email, social media however, and let us know. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to come on. So yeah, put your name in,

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Speaker 1: we'll do a little drawing and we'll let you know.

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Speaker 1: As always, if you're drinking, be responsible, do what you

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Speaker 1: need to, but be an adult about it. I guess

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Speaker 1: I know adulting sucks, but making sure you stay well

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Speaker 1: in your limits, whether it's too much caffeine, too much

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Speaker 1: of anything, you know, just be aware, do you, but

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Speaker 1: cautiously care with care. How about you? I love that?

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Speaker 1: Well that's for me. Honestly, I was like, way, they

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Speaker 1: need to pull it back. It's just just a little bit,

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Speaker 1: as you know. So that's kind of my theme, I think.

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Speaker 1: And of course we are not sponsored by what we

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Speaker 1: are talking about today as of today, so maybe some

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Speaker 1: things will change because we do, uh get some of

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Speaker 1: the surprise ads and then if you're listening way down

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Speaker 1: the road and then you're like, it is this you know?

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Speaker 1: Please know we didn't know at that point in time.

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Speaker 1: So at this point, though we are sponsored content, no

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Speaker 1: sponsorship was a part of this specific episode. Yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: called the dynamic sponsors, which means they change all of

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Speaker 1: our past episode ads. So yes, as of now, we're

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Speaker 1: not talking about this because of us sponsorship. But if

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Speaker 1: you listening in the future and if you are one

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Speaker 1: of those people who rests these things, and it will

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Speaker 1: be like, hey, this is like my connection call us.

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Speaker 1: Hey I love I know I am that old. This

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Speaker 1: is okay, let me do me. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: before we start, I need to ask you if you

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Speaker 1: were to go viral, what do you think you would

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Speaker 1: go viral for? Or have you? I don't think I

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Speaker 1: knew this if you did, Oh, I've never gone viral.

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Speaker 1: I think for me, the closest thing I've gotten is

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Speaker 1: when I get tin I was like, yes, I win,

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Speaker 1: Yes exactly. I think we're about in the same boat

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Speaker 1: in that manner. I think I possibly could go viral

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Speaker 1: for some cause play hilarity. Um, I think that. I

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Speaker 1: mean this is a different episode, but one time our boss,

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Speaker 1: at one of our previous bosses, because we've been bought

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Speaker 1: showed us that what does the Fox Say video? He

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Speaker 1: made us watch it, and then at the Andy said,

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Speaker 1: why can't we go viral like this? You can't anticipate

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Speaker 1: what goes viral? Right, Um? So I think it would

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Speaker 1: be a random cause play like Phenomena where I was

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Speaker 1: greaterer and somehow it just took off. Something like that.

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Speaker 1: We need just to happen. Can we make this happen?

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Speaker 1: I guess we need to TikTok for that, but we

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Speaker 1: haven't gone that far in our in our brand. Uh. Yes,

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Speaker 1: can influence so many things. And yeah, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: a drink uh that has swept the internet today October

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Speaker 1: a meme, which is from the clip HBO Max where

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Speaker 1: spargliato with prosecco. And I know I did not do

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Speaker 1: I was like, Annie, guess what we're gonna do. We're

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Speaker 1: making negroni spargliato with prosecco, which is how it's made

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Speaker 1: And if you want to know what it is is uh,

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Speaker 1: one and a half ounces of sweep remooth, one and

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Speaker 1: a half ounces of compari, one and a half ounces

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Speaker 1: of prosecco or any other sparkling wine, and bogliato. Apparently

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Speaker 1: in Italians translated to being a mistake or bungling, So

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Speaker 1: this was made out of a mistake because the negronis

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Speaker 1: Annie because of course she does not keep this stocked,

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Speaker 1: I could? I like it? At first? I my first

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Speaker 1: telling Samantha, I just got two vaccines. Some my arms

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Speaker 1: it to use ice. Put ice in first, the one

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Speaker 1: And also what's so funny is when that meme came out,

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Speaker 1: something where I fall in our palmsy like those are

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