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Hey Alex, how you doing today?

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Hey, what's up, Kelly?

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Well, I have another dead end. So now what

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is a dead end on dirt nap city?

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These are things that aren't people that

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don't aren't around anymore. So they're

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Traditions, technology businesses, sayings,

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right, any of the above. buildings. Buildings.

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What did we talk about? Fotomat? So

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building? Yes.

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And Alex told me something that blew my

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mind. And this is one of many things. So go listen

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buildings still exist. A lot of them do. And now

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they're like coffee shops.

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Yeah, kiosks, you can't go inside.

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Well, unless you work there,

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they won't let you inside.

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Yeah, yeah, you can't really walk up. And

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because I mean, there's not a lot of room in those

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But if you see a like a snow cone, or a cotton

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candy, or a coffee or ice cream kiosk in the

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might have been a Photoshop photo. It might have

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been a photo mat, a 1.9

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G, photo mat spelt with an F. I never

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cleared that up last week. But photo enough,

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you know, that actually makes more sense.

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And pH, honestly.

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I think it was spelled with an F. Yeah,

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yeah. Yeah,

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I think you're right. I think you're right.

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Well, this week, I have something that's another

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from other dead ends. It was sort of like a dead

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end that had a little cut through. And then there

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And then this ended up as a dead end, too. So do

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you remember back in the day, I think we talked

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right?

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Love wrote love my records and the love

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letter?

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Yeah, it had a sound to it. And then of

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course, today, everything is streaming. But there

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right?

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I did both sizes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was

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a five and a half.

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I think it's a three and a half and a five.

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Yeah, yeah. The first ones were the big

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ones, the verbatims. That

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I believe that the funny thing about the

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five inch floppy is? Well, the funny thing about

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it wasn't actually floppy, it was encased in

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plastic. Whereas the the five inch verbatim disks,

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them, right, they were in paper. The

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other funny part about floppy disks is even

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though they haven't been around and nobody who was

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still are the icon for when you want to save

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something. It's a picture. Right? Right. That's

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right. That's right. It's it's one. It's

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like the picture of an old telephone, you know, as

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between records and streaming in between floppy

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disks, and cloud storage, we had these things

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knows, probably knows that CD stands for compact

3:16

disc. And but do you know what the ROM part of CD

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Read Only Memory? Yeah,

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yeah, because you could only unlike a

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floppy disk, which you could write to, you could

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factory in the replication center. And it was

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interesting, it was a little piece of 1.2

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these little things called pits in it and those

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pits were actually written and read by a laser.

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actually a groove of record has little bumps that

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that the needle moves, they were almost like that

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would read them and write them. Now. It was a

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huge, huge, huge improvement over records in that.

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it's a lot harder to get them scratched. They also

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had a little bit less noise, like a sound to noise

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took over four records in the music industry was

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they could hold a lot more music. Now you remember

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time of 22 minutes per side. And you know what a

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CD was?

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Was it like an hour and a half 74

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minutes. So yes, yeah. Now an hour and 15

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an hour and 14 minutes so I mean more than double

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it over. You can also switch between songs very

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easily. You could put it on shuffle, man remember

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shuffle you

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I remember the shuffle. I insist on shuffle.

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In fact, even today, when I'm listening to

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order these songs need to be in. I want to play

5:19

them. I love randomness in life. I love the idea

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these eight songs. Right,

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right. Any any one of these 74 minutes of

5:31

music. And and what was what was kind of more

5:40

a five disc changer, or there were even some I

5:40

think that had like a 10. Disc magazine. Did you

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Well, not only that, but later in probably

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much, probably at the end of CDs, didn't have

5:57

disc changer. And that's where I stored all my CDs

5:57

in the hundreds it

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is run it on shuffle all the time, horse

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course. So you could have you could have big band

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rush. I mean, what

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was what my guarantee, I guarantee all three

6:12

of those things are in the I think they're still

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any any either one of those things anymore, the

6:18

CDs or the shuffler. But my wife doesn't throw

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I'm sure I still have 100 This shuffler

6:26

somewhere around.

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I think the 100 is shuffler is probably 15

6:29

feet away from me right now.

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You should break that thing out over the

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holidays and and just put it on shuffle. And just

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Sure, sure. Or I could just not do that and

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just do a stream these things, you know?

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Yeah, yeah, but but there's something about

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that mechanical noise when it would change the

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rotational tray that would move them from disk to

6:57

disk. You remember that noise? There's that little

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mechanical noise. And I also remember the

7:04

idea of wondering how random it actually is, like,

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row. What are those odds? It turns out that

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randomness doesn't mean that you're gonna get one

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truly means that sometimes you can get a run of

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three or four. Yeah,

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yeah, it's like if you flip a coin 50

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times, it's not going to be 25 and 25. That's

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funny story about the randomness is I had a

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roommate in, in college and after college, and we

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Johnny Cash CD in there, it was mine. And it

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would, I would sometimes go over and there was the

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then there was the ability to shuffle just on one

7:57

disk. And when he wasn't looking, you know, be on

8:05

some, you know, some to Live Crew, we'd hear some

8:05

Tears for Fears. And then Johnny Cash would come

8:15

Johnny Cash songs in a row. And my roommate

8:15

thought that the disc shuffler was haunted. Yes,

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there and pushing that button that changed it from

8:25

only play this disc, but it was still shuffling

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disc. But that was always kind of fun. The compact

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disc was released in 1982. And it was code

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originally designed to just do sound, you know,

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all that kind of thing. And then it became the CD

8:51

megabytes of storage as opposed to 1.4 on a on a

8:51

floppy disk. I mean, think about that. That is

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go to a lot of sporting events as you've

9:02

established earlier. And one of my favorite

9:10

game. They gave away the giveaway a CD ROM of the

9:10

baseball encyclopedia, which is this normally this

9:26

player that's ever played the game. And I remember

9:26

they just gave this away. And I just thought this

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to every fan that came in. Yeah. Oh, it

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wasn't like a big prize. It was it was a it was a

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like one of those fans that you get to fan

9:40

yourself. Yeah, it was. Usually it's

9:45

a t shirt or bobblehead or something. But I

9:45

loved that because I frequently would buy those

9:53

to date. And this was just something I could slip

9:53

into my computer and look up any player that ever

10:02

Did you ever put it in your 100 disc

10:02

changer to see what would happen?

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This was a, it was a? No, it was just a

10:05

legit CD ROM. Right? Yeah,

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it wouldn't, it wouldn't just automatically

10:12

start spewing out baseball stats during the,

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well then if you liked that giveaway, I gotta ask

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you, do you remember? Do you remember the time and

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you'll probably remember this free CDs that would

10:30

come in the mail from AOL. Yes, you've got mail?

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mean, there must just be so much landfill of CDs

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of AOL. But I think those have actually become

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an original one?

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Yeah, especially the original ones. And they

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would give you a certain number of hours for free.

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you were you would pay by the hour. So you could

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get like 250 hours of free internet surfing, which

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then.

11:12

Right? But everything loaded so slowly that

11:12

you might see three three pictures and there was

11:21

pictures. And so that would

11:22

take forever once I got through crest.

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toothpaste.com I was I was out of ideas.

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So So speaking of like, lots and lots of

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these in the landfill. Do you know the most

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Is this a muse? Is this music? It's an it's

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an easy one. Is it the Dark Side of the Moon?

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No most purchased most purchase most people

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like that. I'm

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just saying that because that's one of the

11:52

biggest selling albums. And just it's been on the

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think think of the Think of the 80s and

11:58

when when CDs were really popular thriller? Yes,

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purchase CD of all time. And because of that, I am

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going to close out this dead end episode of dirt

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tell me if you think I wrote this or a I wrote it.

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So you ready? This is called Ode to the CD ROM in

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symphony, a data kiss. CD ROM. A relic of the 90s

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bold whispers of knowledge stories untold. Once a

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digitized dreams, software suites encyclopedias

12:49

grand games that pixeled worlds in your hand modem

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byte by byte rare, cracking the case ritual of

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your anticipations hum hunger for more spur spin

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painted in the sky. Music on loop pixelated

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delight. Dancing fingers bathed in cathode ray

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replaced by giants with silicon stride. But

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nostalgia whispers a melody suite of simpler times

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the past were they to waltz and memories amassed

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CD ROM a chapter forever enshrined in the digital

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hope you wrote that but I don't think you did.

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Thanks, Bard. Yeah, it was it was it was

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Bard parts of the Google equivalent of chat. GBT.

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Yeah, nicely done. They used pixeled as a

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verb and pixelated.

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Yeah, yeah. pixelated delight.

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My favorite step was raise a disk.

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Now raise a disk. Well, that's the CD and

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CD ROM. If you ever owned a CD or a CD ROM, feel

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Alex?

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Not and then the little at symbol. And then

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dirt nap. city.com.

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You got it. Well, thanks everybody. This

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has been another dead end episode of dirt nap

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every other week. Go back and check out our photo

14:41

mat episode which was would have been two weeks

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one. All right. Bye.