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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Patty Steele is here the smartest woman I know.

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Speaker 1: Do we know where the term dildo came from.

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Speaker 2: The exception of the other women in this room, I.

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Speaker 1: Accuse you of being the smartest. I'm hoping you will

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Speaker 1: answer the question. Yes, we google, we can't find.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: But never mind, we'll get into something else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some guy named Joe Dildo.

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Speaker 1: Joseph weird thing thinking Donnie Dildo or Donny Derek.

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Speaker 2: Those names don't sound as Joe Dildo sounds okay, Donnie

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Speaker 2: Derek Donny sounds CD.

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Speaker 1: Patty and I have been really good friends since nineteen

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Speaker 1: eighty at the end of the dy Yes, and uh, Patty,

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Speaker 1: of course and I work together here on Z one

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Speaker 1: hundred for many years. And I always knew that Patty

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Speaker 1: had this love and passion for all things history.

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Speaker 2: Yes I do.

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Speaker 1: And now your podcast, Yes.

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Speaker 2: It's been doing great. Actually going to add and I

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Speaker 2: don't know if you know this, I should tell you

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Speaker 2: since it's your platform, what adding a third episode probably

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Speaker 2: next at the beginning of next month. Really yeah, yeah, well, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know there's a demand for eight minute history stories.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. It's awesome, But once you get her started,

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Speaker 5: To say back then they didn't have you didn't go

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Speaker 7: But as far as history goes, I know, I know

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Speaker 2: Oh, there's a million of them. I actually have a

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Speaker 1: Well, ice cream stores back then were places where people dated.

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Speaker 1: What a beautiful song Casey Musgraves and Rainbow. What a

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Speaker 1: you're in the mood for something fun and whatever. That's

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Speaker 1: you and we support you no matter where you are.

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Speaker 1: Patty Steele's podcast is called The Backstory with Patty Steele,

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Speaker 1: and I encourage you. Even if you've never really been

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Speaker 1: a history nut or slightly interested in history, she will

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Speaker 1: make you want to know more about things that have

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Speaker 1: happened before the moment you're in right now.

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Speaker 2: And that's history, thank you, that is history. It's once again,

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Speaker 2: here we go again. It's the humanity in people in

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Speaker 2: the past. They're not just dusty folks. It's not just

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Speaker 2: stuff in a history book. It's human beings that wanted

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Speaker 2: the same things and felt the same things you and

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Speaker 2: I feel. They just had a different set of circumstances

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Speaker 2: they operated in, and so it's sort of fascinating to

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Speaker 2: find out how they dealt with all of that and

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Speaker 2: reacted to that, you know.

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Speaker 1: So give it a listen. It's the backstory with Patty Steel.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, sometimes it's very racy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes it is, So that's time for another racy one. Huh.

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Speaker 1: I think it's something I think so you can get

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Speaker 1: ranchi with it. Sure, we love you, Patty Steel, thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming in, Yello.

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