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Speaker 1: one never told you protection by her radio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome to another happy hour where it's a wine.

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Speaker 2: Except I don't have wine. Do you have wine any.

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Speaker 1: I wish if you had told me it was a wine,

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Speaker 1: I would have got.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, my bad, I did not plan this correctly.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's all right, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Well it is a happy hour. And you know, we

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Speaker 2: love to sip on things as we are talking about

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Speaker 2: our woes or thoughts or whatever has been on our minds,

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Speaker 2: or sometimes sex in the city. But today, like I said,

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Speaker 2: it's a jin wine. And if you are partaking of anything,

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Speaker 2: do so responsibly. Be good to yourself and to your

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Speaker 2: body and to those around you. Annie, are you partaking

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Speaker 2: of anything? No, just war water, swarm water. Sometimes it's

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Speaker 2: got to be like that. It's got to be like that.

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Speaker 2: You are partaking of taking care of yourself.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I am drinking on a diet doctor Pepper, not a sponsor.

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Speaker 2: But it is that cream soda one that I like. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know Annie hates it. And he made a face.

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Speaker 1: She made a face that was visceral.

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Speaker 2: It was it was a lot of like a lot

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Speaker 2: not a sponsor. I doubt they would want to sponsor us.

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Speaker 1: Tried to sponsor once on Savor and we had to

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Speaker 1: be like, well, yeah, sure, are you open to one

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Speaker 2: I guess the new way they're transitioning it, it would work.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be funny.

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Speaker 2: You know, they don't like it on our segments. They

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Speaker 2: don't want us to be funny. We can't have personality.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about, Annie?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? These women no way funny.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure maybe they have thoughts to this, But

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Speaker 2: You thought when you thought some people held to certain standards,

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Speaker 2: for the betterment of all of Georgia, society, humanity, however

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Speaker 2: I feel like they really betrayed us. Well, he sound

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Speaker 2: Are you surviving? Well?

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Speaker 2: I'm proud of you.

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Speaker 2: So Susie, if you're listening to this episode, which you

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