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Speaker 1: So today we're going to be going over some updates.

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Speaker 1: And because if we're doing that, we wanted to put

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Speaker 1: we record this, which brings me to my question, have

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Speaker 1: you gotten have you been fooled by any pranks today? Samantha,

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Speaker 1: I haven't, but as you know, I don't go anywhere

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Speaker 1: sexual assaults and violence. Um, not much. We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna start with entertainment and the Grammys, Yes,

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Speaker 1: because there were some records set at the sixty three

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Speaker 1: She also broke another record with seventy nine nominations, making

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Speaker 1: It's from Anita. I hope I'm pronouncing your name correctly,

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