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Speaker 1: I'm actually a genius. Okayop, this is OKAYOP. I'm Samuel

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Speaker 1: Daughter and I'm John Fry and we tell the funniest

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Speaker 1: stories on the Internet. And John I used to So

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Speaker 1: I used to study engineering at UCLA, and one of

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Speaker 1: the main ways you would prepare for the test is

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Speaker 2: Do you have it? Did you ever have a test bank? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: The test bank. You know about test banks.

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Speaker 1: So basically it was a either you had it for

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Speaker 1: that club that came before would give their old tests

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Speaker 1: to the test bank, and to study, you would go

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Speaker 1: look through all these old tests.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Often for our ancient, ridiculously old professors, they were like,

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Speaker 1: I gave up teaching a long time ago, so they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't really teach the class. But two they would reuse

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Speaker 1: all of their questions for like decades, let's go. And

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Speaker 1: so often you would go and get you know, get

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Speaker 1: But what really sucked is if you didn't have the

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Speaker 1: to that that dilemma of.

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Speaker 3: One very quick quip, I passed my online driver's permit

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Speaker 3: test entirely through Yahoo answers.

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Speaker 2: So shout out Yaho answers.

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Speaker 1: Shout out Yahoo answers, Thank you for taking it before.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the test before us.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Professor accuses me of cheating, but I prove him wrong.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually a genius. When I was in college, I

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Speaker 2: So many days he would give oute. That's suit.

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Speaker 1: So I love how you just asked the students how

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Speaker 1: All of our tests for that class were multiple choice

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Speaker 2: All of them. Wow, we'll be right back after the break.

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Speaker 3: So Sam and I recently converted this podcast to anchor,

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Speaker 3: and it was so easy. I mean, Sam, I wish

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Speaker 1: So John, I actually called up the Church of Scientology

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Speaker 2: How can I convert you?

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Speaker 1: How can I help you? Hello? I saw one of

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Speaker 1: But honestly, she didn't seem too thrilled with my line

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Speaker 2: Man, Oh, great, great job.

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Speaker 3: I'm a college dropout, so I appreciate cheating and stuff

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Speaker 1: Oh he just studied, well, like that's you know, he's

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Speaker 1: just he just he just used the resources at his

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Speaker 2: I feel like you know what I mean, Like.

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Speaker 1: Well, wasn't cheating because the professor said he could, they

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Speaker 2: He could.

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Speaker 3: They just that is true, but they memorized lots of

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Speaker 3: questions that right, Well you're so you're.

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Speaker 1: Like, study from this test, but don't memorize any answers.

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Speaker 1: memorized everything, but you know what you should memorize.

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