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Speaker 1: husband to return. All right, So Andrew, want one more

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Speaker 1: you just went across those sorts of lame jokes all

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Speaker 1: the time I ran across. Uh. Well, my we talked

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Speaker 1: led me to a group of people in a small

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Speaker 1: promoting procrastination. They're all sort of creative, smart people that

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Speaker 1: And they're all the inveterate procrastinators who are both like

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Speaker 1: He built the labyrinth one summer when he was supposed

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Speaker 1: we did that night. So that Lichtenburgie in society. If

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Speaker 1: you're looking for a group to join, boy, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I would I recommend that highly. We've been talking with

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Speaker 1: Andrew Santella. The book is soon an overdue history of

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Speaker 1: procrastination from Leonardo and Darwin to you and me. Thanks

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