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Speaker 1: my name is Bowen Yang, And for the next twenty

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Speaker 2: When we're sparring. Is that what we're doing. Every podcast

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Speaker 2: is how about this? This is what I'm presenting to you.

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Speaker 2: What was happening in nineteen seventy five, in nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: A romantic and they met over their shared love of coffee. Well,

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Speaker 1: So so Aaron Pike and Oxana Masters met over their

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Speaker 2: I think it's joyful and unproblematic that they love coffee

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Speaker 1: Well you did, and a lot of people listen to this.

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Speaker 1: We just want to say you're Chambier and you'll always

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