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Hey everybody, and welcome to the

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miniest Wednesday crush April

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Fools Reveal a dish. It's

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me. I'm by myself. Actually I'm with Ramsey,

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but it's just me in here talking to you

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to say happy April Fools Day. Um,

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Christopher Walkin did not join me everybody

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to record. I know most of you know this.

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Some of you are probably very disappointed right now,

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but we had to. We couldn't let this thing

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go on any longer. So we thought a

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fun way to do this would be to let you hear some of the

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outtakes. Uh. Here's how this went

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down, and um, we're all

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very excited about the result. By the

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way. Uh, it went over better than

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we could have ever expected. What we really wanted

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out of this was a lot of

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fun. We wanted people on the

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Facebook page debating the

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validity of this that

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happened. We wanted to fool some people

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that happened. Uh. We wanted

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people to not be fooled and to sniff it

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out that happened. Um,

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and we wanted people to say things

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like, you know what, I don't care if it's real

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or not. This is a lot of fun to listen to

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and it's fun to speculate and get

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online and debate with one another. Um.

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Heck, you guys even got on the movie Crushers and made

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a poll out of this on whether

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it was real or not, and that just allowed

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me to no end. So we had a lot, a lot of

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fun. Um. Yes, we did

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set this up weeks and weeks and weeks ago

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with the false plant of a huge guest. Yes,

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I did go to Los Angeles to the Hollywood studio,

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um, kind of largely for

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this so I could sit down with

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the great Kevin Pollock. Everybody, most

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of you figured out that it was Kevin.

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Um. I know there were some raws

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Marquan uh guesses in

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there as well. Both of those make a lot of

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sense. But Kevin is a pal and he

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agreed to do this. And I gotta say I

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have not had much more fun in my recording

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career than sitting down across

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from one of the great improvisers

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of our time and seeing him

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go into Christopher Walking mode in

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front of my very eyeballs. Uh.

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It was funny and creepy,

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Like he really goes there. Everybody, he

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he becomes Christopher Walking, And

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that is how you were able to improvise

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for an hour as someone else, like

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you have to go into autopilot

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basically on the voice to be able

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to be believable. And we decided the

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best way to do this was to play it straight, not make it

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too jokey, not go over the top with

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the walking nous of it. Um.

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He veered close to the edge a couple of times,

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and that was some of the giveaway, but that was also

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part of the fun, with the fake noses at the end

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and some of the things he said, like, you

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know, people actually listen to this podcast and

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not knowing what a podcast was or who David

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Spade was. And Kevin and I were texting

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all day yesterday when this was

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released and just having a good time, or

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on Monday rather having a good time with each other.

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Um, he listened to it while he was waiting on a plane

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and just like texting me and we

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were both referring to himself in the third person,

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like he kept saying this, and he kept saying

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that that's out into this he gets as Christopher

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Walkin becomes another person entirely. But

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uh man, we had so much fun and thank you

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for taking part. Um. We

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dropped it on April one. I mean, there's no way

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getting around the obviousness of that, but

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it was a lot of fun to do. UH,

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so, big, big, big thanks to Kevin

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Pollock everybody so talented and

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so generous and gracious. UM

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follow him on Twitter, it's always

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fun. And definitely check out Alchemy the US

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his really really wonderful improv

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show. And I noticed the Alchemy fans were

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some of the first people to sniff this out thanks

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to his use of the word per

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se, which he does on Alchemy This

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a lot. So that was a bit of a giveaway too, but it

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was all fun, had such a good

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time. I also want to give out huge, huge thanks

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to uh Nolan Ramsey for being

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a part of this over the last few weeks. And

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a big, big heaping thanks

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to our old bud in Kansas, Aaron

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Cooper, our photoshop master, who

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who created the Phase two

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plan, which is to drop an

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afternoon photoshop of me and Christopher

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walkin standing there turns

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out what was like an airport somewhere

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in Canada, and um,

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we kind of left most of the comments up because

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it's fun to see people debate back and forth. UH.

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If you got your comment deleted, by the way,

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it was for a couple of reasons. Um

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One, there was a gentleman who

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kind of just went down the list of

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people speculating and commenting

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on everyone's post saying it

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was Kevin Pollock by the way. So

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I deleted that guy because that's just no fun.

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It's fun to let people guess and think about

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it, not say figured it out.

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And then a bunch of dudes. I don't think any ladies,

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it's funny how that works. Found

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on literally like page twenty

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of Google images. This Twitter photo

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of this dude at the airport with Christopher

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walking was the only believable picture

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I could find of Christopher walking in the wild with

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a fan. And I think Coop did a really

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good job on the photoshop by the way. It wasn't perfect,

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but hey, he did the best he could in like thirty

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minutes. But dudes

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that posted oh I found it. I found

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it the original picture and posted

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that, and I took those down either, because that's

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no fun anyway, Get with it, guys, you

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gotta ruin it for everyone. Uh

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So that aside, it was a lot of fun for everybody.

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It was just a really, really fun day in the office for

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everyone to be following this stuff, so big

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thanks to them, and also big thanks to Christopher Walking.

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I doubt if this got back to you, um

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uh in any way, but if it did, I hope he gets

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a laugh out of it one day. Um. And I doubt

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even knows what a podcast is. That part is probably

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true. So what I thought we'd do was play you some

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of the outtakes right now. Um.

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I was able to maintain my composure for most

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of the show, but there were times where I just cut,

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could not help but crack up. Um.

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And I'm you know what, I'm also going to give myself a little pat

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on the back for what I think I did a pretty

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good job as a straight man, playing nervous

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and setting this whole thing up. So pats

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on the back all around. Uh. And here

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we go with a few of the outtakes from the session. When

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the scene starts, our pants are undone.

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Well that's true.

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Oh

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I'm not. I don't mean to say it all the way

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but she might have. Well

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I certainly don't remember him,

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but we are sorry.

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I knew I wasn't gonna make it all the way through. All

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right, let's pick it up.

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I have that same drill because

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it's the ultimate cowardice, right for

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a man of strinka woman. So you

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know, it's a little on the nose to me in

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terms of this is a bad guy. How do you know?

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Well, he hit a woman. You

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know that's I don't think you've ever done.

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That's painfully obvious. I've

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played social paths and psychopaths,

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so chances are my characters could have hidden

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you know, anybody a child

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of takes. But sorry,

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all right, I

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once punched a baby in the face. Okay,

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don't let me blow my des Okay,

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pick it up after a hit a child

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lunatic. I

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mean, look, sometimes a baby

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will look

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at you in a certain way and you kids

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gotta come and pick it up. Like

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Chris Penn's character, at one point, I

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thought, can he even walk right?

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He's trying. He's gonna have trouble walking home.

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This kid. He can't put one ft in front of the other.

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Yeah, he was. Oh. My

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other favorite part was the tractor hold

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on. Pick that up? But have

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you ever done it before? Or is this the only time

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I think this? Is it? Wow?

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That means a lot? Well,

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I hope so. Because I had

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a few lunch opportunities. You

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should totally say that pick it up celebrity

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voice is impersonating. All

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right, everyone, hope you enjoyed that. The Alt takes for

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fun and this is a really fun episode. I'm

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already cooking up something for next

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April, so um,

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just just look out for that. I'm not sure what I'm

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gonna do already. I went so big this year.

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I'm really gonna have to put a lot of thought into,

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uh how to how to top that one?

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But I've already got some ideas brewing. So um, hold

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onto your hats. So thanks for listening to everybody,

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and I hope you enjoyed it and just

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get on with the rest of your week already