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On the Bechdel Cast, the questions ask

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if movies have women and them

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are all their discussions just boyfriends and

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husbands or do they have individualism?

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It's the patriarchy, Zefph and Beast

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start changing it with the Bechdel Cast.

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Hello Bechdel Cast listeners.

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There we are.

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Caitlin and it's me

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Jamie and it's our end

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of year bray ever

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heard of it? I have not

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to brag. We have released I want to

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say, forty nine brand

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new episodes this year, possibly

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fifty. So we are

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given a couple weeks off every year

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and we usually like to save one for last

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you know why, so we can hang out

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and watch the Muppet Christmas Carol this

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week, which is what we would normally do.

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It's what we're gonna do, that's right. So this

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is not a full episode. This is just

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a quick little us popping

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in to tell you we're not doing a episode.

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But what we are doing

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is plugging the tour that we have

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coming up in February. If you haven't

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heard, oh yeah, we got a big year, big year

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ahead. So in early February

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we are going on tour. We're

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going to some cities in California

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and Texas. Jamie tell

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them more about it.

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I sure will. So, yeah,

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we're going on tour at the beginning of February. We are

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hitting San Francisco at

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SF Sketch Fest on February first. We're

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heading to Sacramento Lady Bird

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Ever Heard of It on February

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second, and one of those shows has already sold

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out, So if you didn't

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get tickets and you're in Sacramento, jump

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for those other tickets now. February

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third, we'll be in Dallas, Texas.

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February fifth, we will be in Austin,

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Texas, and then we're

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gonna swing on back down to California.

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And on February tenth, we will be at

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Wicked West in San Diego. But here's

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the twist. We mysteriously

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didn't cover I think the largest grossing

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movie of the year, which also happens to be the

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largest grossing movie ever directed

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by a woman. And so it's just

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interesting, and it is because we were saving

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it for a tour so we could wear cute outfits. It's

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the Barbie Tour. Yes, so

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we will be covering Barbie. We're

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gonna be, you know, putting together a big live show

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as if you've been to our live shows before, you

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get the Bechdel Cast experience, you get the discussion.

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But we also play games, we wear outfits,

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we do meet and greets afterwards, we

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have tour exclusive merchant posters.

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It's really really fun, and we're coming

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to most of these cities. All of these cities

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except for San Francisco we've never toured

2:41

to before, so we're very very excited. And

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yeah, except in Sacramento, where we're also covering

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the Wolf of Wall Street for the second show. Right,

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we're doing two shows. Everything else is

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Barbie.

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Yes, so yeah, so Barbie.

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And until quite recently,

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we weren't sure what we were going to do

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in San Francisco. We were kind of waiting to see if

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there would be a guest confirmed, but it's

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official. We're also covering Barbie in San Francisco.

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So if you already bought a ticket to that

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show and you're like, what movie are they covering, it's

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Barbie. It's Barbie.

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Congratulations.

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And then the show that's not yet sold

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out in Sacramento is the

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Wolf of Wall Street show, So come

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on to that, come to all the other

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shows, go on tour with us. It'll

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be a blast, and we have an exciting

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year for touring coming up. Suffice

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it to say, you might be catching us over

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sea gas

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in the spray in the spring. Yeah,

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I mean perhaps if you kind

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of live in or near the

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UK. Huh huh

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huh, we're.

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Gonna possibly be there and like in more

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than one location. So just think about that.

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Just think about it.

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And in the meantime, if you live

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in California or Texas, get

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excited. We're very, very excited.

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Especially. I think Austin has a special place in

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my heart, not just because I love doing shows there,

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but because we had a show

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sold out there for April twenty twenty

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and we are finally making good

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on it. So we would love to pack out

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these shows. We're so I know that

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our listener base correctly complaints that we go

4:19

to the same five cities all the time, but we're only

4:21

going to one of those same five cities on

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this tour. Yeah, so please

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come out. We would love to meet you. We love

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doing the meet and greets, and we'll

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see you Barbie's there. Come in your Barbie finest.

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Truly, and hey, if you want

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to get tickets to those shows, here's how

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you do it. You go to link tree

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slash Bechdel Cast, all

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the tickets are there, and

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we're so excited to see you there.

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We're very, very pumped. And just

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because it's the end of the year, we do

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this on the Matreon all the time,

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Patreon dot com slash Bechtel Cast. Five dollars

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a month gets you to bonus episodes a both

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that access to almost two hundred back

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episodes. But we

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we're just we're very we're very

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grateful to you, to our listeners. We wanted to

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end the year reflectively.

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We had a great year.

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We had a really fun year. We got to tour a little bit,

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We got to have a lot of amazing returning

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guests, a lot of new guests, cover

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a lot of I think today this year

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we got through I think a lot of

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popularly requested movies more than we

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usually do. We didn't force our will this

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year, and I think that's beautiful.

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Yeah, good for us, and yeah.

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Maybe next year we'll be tyrants. Either

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way, we're just grateful

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to have you here, and thanks as always

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for being a listener and for I

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mean for gently educating

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us as you have for years, seven

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years. We didn't we never really

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like celebrate our anniversary.

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Yeah, we always forget babe, we never

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celebrate our anniversary anymore. Well,

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it's like right after Trump got elected.

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This the first time, depending on when you're sneak

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to this, unfortunately, but seven

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years, seven years of bliss.

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It's so true, and

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we're nearing also, I think five.

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I'm not sure how many main feed episodes.

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It's wild that we don't

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have a handle on this.

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We're too busy creating content, it's

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true.

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But I do know that we as far as

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the number of movies we've covered, both on the main

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feed and the Patreon aka

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Matreon, it's nearly five

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hundred. Wow, can you believe it?

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And there's only five hundred and twelve movies,

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So we're gonna have to figure out what to do now.

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We're we're incredibly grateful that

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you've been with us for all these years. Hands

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too many more And spoiler

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alert, we're about to record the first episode

6:46

of the year and hit stars a

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green celebrity.

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Wow, who could it be? Is

6:54

it the Grinch? Is it wow? Camora

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from Guardians of the Galaxy. No, we just

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covered that.

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It's Shrek,

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the only one we haven't covered for

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now.

7:06

For now, but also wait posts and Boots

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movies, they're a thing. It's

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true. I would like to plug something

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really quick before we wrap up, which

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is my intro

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to screenwriting class. Yes,

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I have a section starting on January

7:21

sixth, which is like such a normal

7:24

day in history. Nothing I don't think ever happened

7:26

on that day, and.

7:30

We canceled a recording that day. I remember

7:32

because we're like should

7:34

we not today? I don't regret

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it. It was the right thing to do.

7:37

It was the right thing to do. But

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yes, I have a few spots left in that

7:42

section at the time of us recording

7:45

this. So if you're interested

7:47

in taking one of my screenwriting classes, I've

7:49

got this intro section that has a

7:51

few spots, So head to

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Caitlin Durante dot com slash

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classes for

7:59

like the registration and more details

8:01

on that. But it's like Saturdays for

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eight weeks.

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And then for me get

8:07

a copy of Raw Dog if you haven't already,

8:10

treat yourself. And I

8:12

have a new weekly series starting in March

8:14

that I'm not gonna tell you any more podcast,

8:17

but a thrilling year of content

8:19

creations ahead.

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Wow, look at us.

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I have a wonderful

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New Year. Everyone celebrates safely,

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and we will. We

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will Shrek you in twenty twenty

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four.

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Oh my goodness. Okay,

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bye Shrek You.

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Then bye