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Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hello, Khalila, Hi, Jonathan, let me try Stevie Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: Hi are you guys? Abr?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What does AVR mean?

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Speaker 2: Alex Bloomberg rules always be recording?

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Speaker 1: That's right. How are you guys?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 3: My update I guess is that since we last did

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Speaker 3: this is my roommate has left to go be with

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Speaker 3: It's like a weird moment where everything that brought people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Stevie, Yeah, I'll ask you the question that is

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Speaker 1: on the minds of all American minds of the world. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: these troubling times. How was your blind date?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, my blind date?

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Speaker 1: It was fun.

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Speaker 5: It was fun.

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Speaker 1: What did you guys do?

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Speaker 5: We we we just we actually just like hung out

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Speaker 5: and talked for like three hours. And the thing that

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Speaker 5: was so nice about it, honestly, yeah, because it was

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Speaker 5: the questions. It was like three hours where we like

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Speaker 5: it's nice to acknowledge that things aren't and word and

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Speaker 5: also something really nice about like this semblance of like normalcy, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, of which there's you know, so we're getting in,

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Speaker 1: we're getting all these emails, and there's been this one guy,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed, who's been setting us

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Speaker 1: like a poem a day, This guy named Kieran Lennon,

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Speaker 1: of his poems that I really liked, which was that

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Speaker 1: kind of speaks to what you're talking about in a

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Speaker 1: way where he says that, you know, today was more

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've you know, been spending a lot of time

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Speaker 1: I could teach him how to use a tricycle. He's

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Speaker 6: He's like talking, WHI shound, your mouth opening like this.

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Speaker 1: Is that good?

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Speaker 7: You're close to do it?

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Speaker 1: Like the way that he understands all of like everything

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Speaker 3: Everything makes me emotional lately, like it's like my emotions

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yesterday, I like I put there's this piece of

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Speaker 1: She's not just like an intro to a show, you

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Speaker 8: Hi, Junny, Hi, how's it going.

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Speaker 1: She's been working at a coronavirus clinic in Montreal, and

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Speaker 8: I take these short histories and then I swaped this

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Speaker 8: There's lots of testing, really started up already a couple

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Speaker 9: But what does it feel like, Yeah, it feel it

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Speaker 8: Oh my god, they're always really anxious. Yeah, either anxious

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Speaker 8: Well, part of me, I mean, part of me feels like,

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Speaker 1: Okay, I've got a life. Before she could blow me

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Speaker 1: I was just really impressed with her. You know, we

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Speaker 1: Jackie is one of the most selfless people I know.

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Speaker 1: But you know, of course I said none of that

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Speaker 1: to thank you on behalf of Canada.

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Speaker 10: Stop talking about that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're just embarrassed.

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Speaker 8: You're just now, are you?

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Speaker 11: So?

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Speaker 3: I also talked to someone I have a long standing

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Speaker 2: Hello, Kristens, it's Kaylee Holt speaking.

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Speaker 4: Hey, what's that? Oh pretty good? It's driving home in

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Speaker 3: You know he's still working. He is in Iowa. He

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Speaker 4: We are still open, which I feel I feel two

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Speaker 4: I want to work. It's it's gonna be tough to

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Speaker 4: don't tell me your my safety is your number one concern,

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Speaker 4: because if it was your number one concern, you'd close

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Speaker 4: us down, right, because all non essential stuff is supposed

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Speaker 4: The crazy thing is people are still out shopping for cars.

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Speaker 4: Lots of people are lots of people. Are most of the

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Speaker 2: And are you shaking hands those people?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like, yeah, media is just blowing this way

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Speaker 4: The past week is like, Okay, today's the day where

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Speaker 3: So I just got really kind of scared for him,

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Speaker 1: Does he have any pure l Yeah, he says he.

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Speaker 3: Has hand sanitizer at his desk and I'm like, are

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Speaker 1: So Stevie, who did you talk to? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: So I talked with a woman named Lexi.

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Speaker 12: Just to give you a quick head up, I'm just

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Speaker 12: having some like pretty heavy contractions that I really wanted

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Speaker 12: if my voice sounds weird, or if like I have

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Speaker 1: Wait wait, Lexy.

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Speaker 5: Lexi, she is like forty weeks pregnant right now. Her

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Speaker 5: due date is March twenty seventh, which is four days

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Speaker 5: from now. That's very yeah, very very pregnant. Like about

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Speaker 5: ten minutes into the call.

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Speaker 13: I work for this music management company. Sorry, I'm letting

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Speaker 13: a contraction.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Did did you feel like you were gonna have

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Speaker 1: to like guide her through the delivery of her of

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Speaker 1: her child over the phone?

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Speaker 5: I honestly like listening back to the tape is like painful.

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Speaker 5: I was like, you got this, Lexy, Like we can

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Speaker 1: What do you need?

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Speaker 13: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: Are okay?

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Speaker 5: You got this?

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Speaker 6: So it's fine.

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Speaker 12: I'm gonna hang on one second, are you are.

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Speaker 1: You sure.

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Speaker 6: Just our family, but like so many special needs families

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Speaker 11: Like, for example, we have a group of painted dogs.

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Speaker 2: There are three of them. What is a painted dog?

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Speaker 11: A painted dog is a African carnivore. They're also called

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Speaker 2: Man, I got to look up painted dogs after this.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, yeah, often like as an adult that

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Speaker 2: I'm going to send you guys a picture.

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Speaker 1: Oh, they really look like they're painted. They look like

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Speaker 5: It's like a hyena and a panda bear had a baby.

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Speaker 1: It's like a dog that's wearing like one of those

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Speaker 3: You know, this thing also came up while we were talking,

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Speaker 11: We're kind of in captivity right now. We really don't

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Speaker 3: It's like we're the zoo animals kind of where we're

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Speaker 1: We've been getting a lot of really lovely, thoughtful emails

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Speaker 1: We really enjoy reading them. Also, you may be thinking

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Speaker 5: Hello, Hi, Paul hid Uh, you know hanging in there.

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Speaker 10: I think that's sort of I'm like kind of not practicing.

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