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Speaker 1: back on April first, two thousand nine. It's all about

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Speaker 1: April Fools tech pranks, and my co host Chris Palette,

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Speaker 1: episodes of stuff you should now. Yeah, apparently we just

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Speaker 1: don't have the appeal of Josh and Chuck. So we

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Speaker 1: then we can leave in a huff. Except that this

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Speaker 1: two weeks you're going to find it funny. Yeah, seriously, Well, guys,

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that walk down memory lane. It's

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Speaker 1: always fun to listen to Chris on the show, and uh,

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Speaker 1: a sense of humor. It's what keeps us human. Do

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Speaker 1: you guys have any suggestions for future episodes of tech Stuff?

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