Grackleton Community Centre

In this episode, Tog and Parker are joined by a new “host on trial,” Maureen Faucet-Clooder, recording from the Grackleton Community Centre lobby and uncomfortably close to the loud Corncake Bake-Off tie-bell.

Sponsored by the Litigious Lawyer Society, the hosts attempt to discuss the theme of “okra” while navigating Parker’s traumatic childhood memories, Parker’s attempt to steal a bowl of butter mints, and the news that a local radio host has gone missing in the haunted mines.

Transcript

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You're listening to "Grack Public Access" here on 101.7 FM,

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the "Grack" in Grackleton.

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I'm Tog Chesterfield, and I'm here with two co-hosts today.

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We have Parker Spoon.

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Hi, Parker.

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Hello.

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And as the wonderful voice of yesterday used to say,

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his name was Ed McMahon, and he used to say "Heyo."

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So I'll give you a "Heyo."

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"Heyo."

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"Heyo," I like that a lot.

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And we also have our new host that

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was brought to the show because--

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well, Jen told us-- because of the sponsors.

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And that was it.

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That was the end of the details.

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Is Maureen Faucet-Clooder?

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Hi, Maureen.

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Hi there, guys.

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Well, I would like to be the first one of--

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you know that thing, how in the Wizard of Oz,

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they had the people who welcomed everybody,

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and they did dances for Dorothy.

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And one of them were they--

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so I got you a lollipop.

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Because they had the lollipop killed.

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So I'm going to be--

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I'm the lollipop man in this episode.

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Thank you.

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I love that, Parker.

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I'm confused.

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Are you the lollipop, or are you giving me a lollipop?

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No, no, no.

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You're giving me your presence as a lollipop.

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Oh, it's a real lollipop.

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Oh, thank you.

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Yes, it is.

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It's a wonderful, swirly--

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this was a--

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I had to--

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I scraped up some loose change for this.

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This was-- it was more than a dollar.

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It was several dollars.

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Wow, I can't believe you went all out over a dollar

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on me, Maureen Faucet-Clooder.

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Well, thank you very much, Parker.

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I'm glad to be here.

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I'm glad I hope the listeners don't mind that I've

infiltrated,

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I guess, the show of yours.

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I was going to call it a little show,

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but it's not a little show.

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I mean, a lot of people in Gragleton listen to it.

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So--

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Yeah, oh, good.

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So do you know this for people who listen--

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people actually listen to what we have to say about that?

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Oh, absolutely.

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I'm all over the town talking to people all the time,

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and they talk about it.

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They talk about both of you.

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Oh, actually, I should say--

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I should tell people where we are.

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I haven't even told people where we are yet.

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Yes, please.

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Oh, sorry, Todd.

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Oh, no, no, it's no problem.

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We've got a new guest.

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Well, no, a new host, rather.

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It feels like a guest, but she's not a guest.

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Let's say host on trial.

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Host on trial.

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That's a good thing.

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I don't really know why--

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because of the sponsors means.

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And no offense, Maureen, but this is a very--

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Todd and I have what they call movie magic when we do this.

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Oh, I can see the magic right here happen in Beforma.

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I'm just happy to be here no matter why.

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So-- sorry, Todd.

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You were just about to say where we are, I guess.

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Yeah, so we're at the Gragleton Community Center.

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And we have a sponsor today.

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And the sponsor, I haven't written down right here,

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is the Litigious Lawyer Society.

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That's right, the Litigious--

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Sue, the diaper's right off you.

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And our theme for today is "Ocra."

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"Ocra."

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"Ocra."

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Now, let's unpack these one by one as we often do.

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First of all, I would like to not say anything that could,

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in any way, be litigious to anybody.

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So I guess that from a sponsorship perspective,

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that's a wonderful thing because we--

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I personally love everybody.

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So that's one.

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And "Ocra," I'm going to just say it out loud.

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It might be the one thing that I don't love.

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Really?

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That's interesting.

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You like so many foods, Parker.

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So why don't you love "Ocra?"

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Because one time, I never had "Ocra,"

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but somebody once told me it was slimy.

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And that always freaked me out because when I was a

youngster,

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I used to imagine-- you ever see that movie

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where it's called "Ghostbusters?"

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Yeah, I've seen that one.

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Yeah.

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So there's a character in there and his name's Slimy.

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And he would go and whatever the Ghostbusters would be,

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they'd be sitting around at home drinking coffee

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or eating cereal or whatever.

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And Slimy would be-- I guess he lived next door to them or

something.

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But he would always come in and he would always have this

grand entrance

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and he would eat their cereal without asking.

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And he was a rascal and I never liked him.

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And so I don't want--

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Yeah, well, you know what, "Ocra," that--

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Slimy makes sense to me because I've always heard

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and I've actually tasted "Ocra," they're right.

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It kind of-- it reminds me of mucus and that's what people

usually say.

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But yeah, it's like eating a whole bowl of snot.

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Snot isn't exact.

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Do you know why we're here in the lobby and not someplace

better in the community center?

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I mean, they've put us right by the bell that they ring for

the corn cake bake-off

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when it has a tie, they keep-- they ring it for every tie.

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It's a wonderful-- I'm not to be the contrarian here, but I

am--

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I love wonderful traditions and beautiful things like

bells.

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And whenever they ring the bell-- and I know it's because

they ring it to honor the ties in the bake-off--

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Yeah.

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But whenever I ring the bell, I imagine that perhaps

somebody found like a really good fitting pair of shoes.

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Or something nice like that.

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And in my mind, I'm just imagining somebody because, you

know, a lot of shoes that don't fit right,

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they can give you blisters on your heel and that's the worst.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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So--

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Oh, it's an awful feeling.

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Yeah.

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I'm okay with the bell.

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Yeah, well, I'm okay with it, but I thought you two that--

because you're doing a show and you've got your cassette

tapes.

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I mean, that's weird, but you got your cassette tapes right

here on the table.

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I mean, we're within like three feet of this-- the giant--

the bell.

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I mean, this is not a good place to do a radio show.

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I'm going to let Tog answer that because I have nothing to do.

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I-- you know, this morning I showed up and I had my bowl-- my

wonderful bowl of shredded wheat.

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And then Tog told me we were doing a show and made me come here.

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Yeah.

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Well, they put us here.

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They-- I didn't really have a choice.

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They just said, here, drag your table over by the lobby and

just kind of extend the-- extend the check-in desk.

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And they told-- they pointed by the bell.

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So why don't I go ask and see if we can move someplace quieter?

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Okay.

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That might be better.

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Thank you.

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Maureen, you're right.

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Can you-- you need to just do the community-- community

part of the show?

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No.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, no.

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Parker, you can do it.

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Can we talk--

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No, Tog.

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Yeah, Tog.

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Oh, I'm going to go talk-- I'm going to go talk to the manager

and see if we can maybe move to one of the rooms instead of

being underneath the bell.

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I think Maureen's right on this one, Parker.

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Oh, okay.

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I should have done this before we started recording, but I

can--

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You do me a favor.

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Okay.

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When you're out there.

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Sometimes in the library administrative society

offices, I don't know what that is, but there might not even

be that.

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I just-- it's a room with a lot of books.

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Right.

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They sometimes have a bowl of pasta salad that has

pepperoni in it.

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Oh, oh, that sounds good.

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Yeah.

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Can you get me some of that, please?

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Sure.

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Yeah, I'll look for it.

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It's okay.

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I'll try to get you some.

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It sits out because it's just, you know, it's just--

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Well, I think your stomach's used to it.

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I mean, your stomach's been through so much just while

we've been recording here, so I think you'll be fine even if

it's gone off a little bit.

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Can you come back soon?

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Okay, yeah, I will.

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You'll be fine with Maureen here.

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Okay.

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So just do the community connections.

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Okay, I'll be back.

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Bye.

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Bye there, Todd.

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All right, so we got-- we got-- what, Packer?

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Packer, already?

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Yeah, you're gonna do fine.

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You're gonna do fine.

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We got this.

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We got the notes and the cassette tapes.

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It says community on the top of this piece of paper.

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That's, I guess, what we're supposed to do.

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Okay, so just before we do that, let me paint a quick

seascape. This is something you might not be familiar

with, where we paint a wonderful seascape of-- it's the

audience's very much favorite part of the show.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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Although--

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We're nowhere near the sea.

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I mean, I get that's the Graccleton thing or whatever.

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They like the ocean analogies or metaphors or whatever.

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Yeah.

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Okay, seascape.

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Yeah.

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On board.

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I'm gonna paint a quick seascape of the most vicious,

horrible email addresses that send me stuff.

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They have never insulted me directly over the seascape,

because in my mind, these people who send me these awful

messages, the other day, I opened up my email and somebody

had made a-- what appeared to be a claymation figure of me.

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And they put it into a microwave and they put the microwave

on high and then it melted.

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And then they spread the claymation figure of me onto a

piece of bread.

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And they-- you only saw the bottom part of their face,

because there were cowards and hiding their face.

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But then they ate the bread and then I was all over their face

and they had that thing where they have stubble, but it's

kind of-- it's not like good-looking stuff.

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It's like, you know, a movie star wouldn't have that kind of

stubble.

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Okay, so we're not dealing with a movie star eating a

claymation parker.

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Yeah, they licked their lips and it was disgusting.

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And I sat there--

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What does it look like?

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I mean, claymation in a microwave, you said.

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They melted it.

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I mean, that sounds fascinating.

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Can you say-- does-- I presume this is a video.

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They sent you a link to a video.

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Can you send me that link?

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I want to see.

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I don't want to continue the hurt basket enough.

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Right, right, right.

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There's so many different types of baskets and the bunny

basket has won up joy and the hurt basket is just-- well, you

know, moving on--

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Okay, so we're moving on to this community thing.

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It says community.

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"Grat Connect."

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"I have advice."

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[music]

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"Happy birthday."

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[music]

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"Where are you?"

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This first one here, do you want me to read it, Parker, or do

you read these things?

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No, I don't-- I'm not allowed to read this.

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That's my understanding of the situation.

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You're not allowed to read it.

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I don't want to read it if I'm not allowed if we get into

trouble or something like that.

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Where's Tog?

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Tog?

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Tog's still gone.

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Tog?

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So, all right, so I'm going to-- I'll look.

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I'll just read it and we'll let the chips fall where they may.

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Okay.

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"I have advice coming in from Lucinda Bratt."

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Oh, hi, Lucinda.

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"This advice says to avoid using sour cream in your corn

cake recipes."

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Sour cream is-- that's good in a corn-- this sounds like

Lucinda wants to screw over people

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going into the corn cake bakeoff.

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That's what it sounds like to me, Parker.

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First of all, you're breaking our number one rule of the

show.

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You're saying some comments that could be what I would

consider litigious.

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Litigious, yeah.

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Yeah.

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But that's our sponsor for today, so we should be okay, I

think.

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You know, if you want to bend to the sponsors already,

Marine, then that is okay.

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Well, I know what I'm supposed to do.

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Am I supposed to bend to them or am I supposed to like hold

them up?

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I don't even know.

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It just says that I'm here for this deal with the sponsors or

something like that.

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I don't know.

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You might as well make a deal with Willy Wonka.

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Remember at the end of the thing, he went back-- it's like

there was a deal and he

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said, "You, sir, I get out of here, you."

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And then he blasted the person off in a spaceship or

something and hit the moon, I think.

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Oh, well, I have to believe you because I've never seen that

movie.

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I've heard a lot about it, but I've never seen it.

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It was one of the most mean-spirited things I ever saw and I

never want to see it again.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Okay, so we got to be nice.

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Even if this advice is to screw other people over, we got to

be nice about the advice.

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Hi, Joanna.

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I think Joanna is over there.

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Oh, yeah.

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Joanna, that's one of Dawn's clients.

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That's one of Dawn's clients at the Business Insurance

Agency.

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Wonderful.

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Joanna is-- Hi, Joanna.

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Hey, Joanna.

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I'll tell Dawn I saw you.

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She wants to be on the air.

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Yeah.

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Oh.

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Yeah, no, I can say-- oh, she loves that.

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Look at the wave.

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Oh, yeah, she's got that nice wave.

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Yeah, hey.

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Yeah, I always try to mimic other people's waves to match

their waves.

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That actually is apparently a sociological thing that

you're supposed to do.

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You match somebody's wave, it makes them feel welcome.

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Oh, well, welcome everybody.

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Parker, Parker, Parker, show me your wave.

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Show me your wave.

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I'll try to match it.

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OK, if you can, don't look at my face while I do it because,

you know, obviously you can see why.

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Yeah, I can see your face.

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Your face looks fine, Parker.

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You look great.

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You look great.

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You got a-- I would say a face for TV, not a face for radio,

even though you're on radio.

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You got a face for TV, Parker.

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You know, you don't have to lie to me just because, you know,

I look like a dog vomit mushroom.

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Oh, you don't.

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See, Parker, Parker--

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That's in the rowing.

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Parker, you see, I never lie around the presence of a

cassette tape.

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I had to learn that in the '70s.

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So the cassette tapes are right here.

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We're being recorded and we're being sponsored by the

Litigious Society.

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So I don't lie in the presence of-- your face is good.

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Yeah.

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I mean, we'll agree to disagree.

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OK.

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I put my face, a picture of my face into one of those

artificial intelligence image recognition things.

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You ever see that where you can-- I don't know what it was.

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To be honest, there was a page and it looked like it was

-- maybe it was from like the:::

And there were a lot of animated gifts and balloons, but it

said artificial intelligence.

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And I up-knew the picture of my face.

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Yeah.

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And it said-- it just-- it said-- I don't know why it said

this, but it said, "You look like an order of Mugu Gaipan."

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And I didn't like that.

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I love Mugu Gaipan.

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It's one of my favorite dishes.

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But I didn't want to be Mugu Gaipan.

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No, that's very specific, too.

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Yeah.

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That's very specific.

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I don't really see that in you, Parker.

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Thank you.

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I don't see Mugu Gaipan in you.

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I just don't.

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I appreciate it.

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I also-- so, you know, this was-- the funny part was I was

doing all this while I was also ordering Chinese food.

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Wow.

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So I had two windows open at the same time.

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Well, you know what I did, Parker, once?

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Oh, it is great to multitask.

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That's what I have to do when I'm selling insurance.

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But let's just say-- I have to say I had this experience.

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You know when they do the related similar-- images that

look similar to this?

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I put my picture in just to see, like, what I look similar to.

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It wasn't Mugu Gaipan.

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It was Rod Stewart.

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Oh, my goodness sakes.

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Oh, my goodness.

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Yeah.

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Look at you.

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I like that.

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I thought that was pretty good.

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You look like him himself.

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What do they--

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I kind of do, don't I?

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Yeah, they used to call him-- what do they call him?

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The Dancing Baron or something?

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Yeah, I don't even know.

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I haven't even listened to any Rod Stewart's music.

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Oh, he was amazing.

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You know, but I saw the picture and I'm like, yeah, you're

right.

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Yeah, he could-- that man with one-- he-- they-- he would

walk out on stage.

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Yeah.

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Because I saw a video of this one time.

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And with one stare, you had to be careful because he would

look in your direction.

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Uh-huh.

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And wherever he looked, a row of people would faint.

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Really?

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It would be--

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Well, no one's fainted around me.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that's-- I don't even know now if I should believe

this related image or a similar image search thing.

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He would make patterns of the audience from his faint eyes

sometimes.

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Faint eyes.

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Yeah.

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And that would be OK because I think they had like some kind

of cushions there for one of the people.

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They liked to faint.

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It wasn't a mean thing.

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Oh, yeah.

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Now, fainting would be fun if it was the right person to, you

know, faint from.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I wouldn't want to faint around like if it was like

a-- I don't know, some sort of killer or murderer that

wanted to murder me.

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And then they had the faint eyes and then he fainted and then

he could get murdered dead.

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No, we're not talking about anything.

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Yeah, you could.

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No, but we're not--

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This is a practical-- this is a practical discussion right

now, Parker.

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So do you want to move on to the next community thing?

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Yeah, let's move on.

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OK, this is number two.

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It says number two next to it.

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It says, "It is the 32nd anniversary of the submarine in

Lake Corncrop getting stuck in the West Shore Lagoon."

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Oh, 32 years.

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Wow, I remember that.

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"There will be a celebratory volleyball tournament near

the lagoon this Saturday."

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Oh, that sounds fun.

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Yeah, that's wonderful.

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That sounds fun.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah.

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I went into the lagoon and I've had some wonderful

experiences there with-- they-- you know, Todd gave me a

talking to and said that the geese were not my friends.

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But--

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Oh, yeah, those geese are nobody's friends.

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No, they were wonderful to me.

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Those geese, they were-- wait, what?

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Sorry, they were wonderful to you, those geese at Lake

Corncrop?

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They had carried me away at one point.

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Oh, yeah, that's what they do.

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Yeah, but they took me into-- I don't know what it was.

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And I woke up.

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I woke up and it was one-- there was a goose with a bonnet

around her head and a rocking chair.

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Oh, like mother goose.

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You're talking about mother goose?

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No, this was not-- this was very different than that.

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Oh.

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But then I woke up again and I was in the hospital.

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Oh, yeah, that checks out.

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Several wakes in a row.

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Let's put it that way.

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Yeah, I mean, those geese, those geese, they have their way

with you.

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You have to be careful with them because they have the faint

eyes.

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They have the faint eyes, you faint, and then they have your

way with you.

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And I mean, it's uncomfortable to say the least.

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You want to move on to number three?

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Ooh, no, not a second here.

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What's going on?

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I'm going to get into whimsy here because whimsy is

something that the audience likes.

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There happens to be a bowl that I can see four feet away from

me.

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Oh.

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Now, it is on the desk of, we're going to pretend that Lisa's

a scoundrel, OK?

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OK.

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Yeah, I'm-- Lisa kind of is a scoundrel.

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No, don't you say that.

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I know we're not.

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We're playing pretend.

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Oh, that's right.

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All right, we're playing pretend.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we're going to pretend that the-- so anyway, there's

a big bowl of those mints

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that are like green and pink and white, and they look like

puffballs.

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Oh, I love those things.

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Oh, they're amazing.

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They melt in your mouth.

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Oh, look, we said common ground.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, they're called butter mints, I think.

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And some of the--

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Butter mints, yeah, they're called butter mints, I think.

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Yeah, it's like, I'd like to-- I put them-- you could put

them in butter.

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That's what that means, I think.

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Oh, well, you could.

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I just put them right in my mouth.

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I take a great big handful and just jam them right in my mouth.

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I always put a little bowl of these things on my work desk for

clients that come in.

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I am going to, if it's OK with you, and even if it's not,

because I'm feeling naughty right now.

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Oh, boy, oh, that's fun.

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See, I like this.

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This is interesting.

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I'm going to show you my stealth moves.

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OK.

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I'm going to go over there.

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All right.

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I'm going to sneak around.

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This is my game plan, ladies and gentlemen.

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OK.

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All right.

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I'm going to talk right into the microphone.

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Oh, it's like a little ASMR thing.

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I like it.

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I'm going to sneak around Lisa May's desk.

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All right.

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And I'm going to steal the entire bowl of butyl mints, and I

am going to eat them all.

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Oh, wow.

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OK.

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My mouth.

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All right.

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No, I got you.

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I got you.

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Hold on.

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You can--

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OK, I got you.

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You do this story, and I'm going to be doing my stealth

moves, because I've been practicing

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the stealth moves.

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Sure, sure.

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Yeah, no, that's great.

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That's great.

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No, I got you.

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I'll do this other one right here.

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I'll do that.

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I'll do that.

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All right.

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OK.

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So Parker Parker's being all stealthy.

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Parker's going over there.

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I'm going to read the last one here.

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It's a misconnection.

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That's what it says on the piece of paper.

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It says, oh, so Carl Ballet sent in this misconnection.

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It says, I went on a hike in and around the haunted mines with

the Outer Graque hiking

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brigade.

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Oh, yeah, those guys.

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And we started off with Barty Bundle in the group.

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I'm Barty that hosts municipal water quality report redo,

radio show.

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But Barty wasn't there when we got back to the parking lot.

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We're looking for Barty.

::

If you're out there, give me a call.

::

Oh, wow.

::

Oh, that's not good at all.

::

Barty's missing.

::

You got Parker's over there doing kind of these sneaky

moves.

::

Parker's got to look on his face.

::

He's not going to like this news.

::

OK.

::

Parker's saying be quiet.

::

She caught me and I am right now in words of the immortal Bond

Jovi.

::

I am wanted, dead or alive.

::

She is very upset and she's looking with eyes of.

::

Remember how that man Ron Stewart had the eyes that make

people faint?

::

Yeah, yeah.

::

Faint eyes.

::

Yes.

::

Yeah.

::

These eyes are like eyes that make people turn into like,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

They make them die.

::

Oh, they make them.

::

Yeah.

::

You make them die.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Like where do you dead?

::

No, I got it.

::

I'm kind of like probably the eyes of the murder that I

talked about before.

::

Parker, you told me not to talk about this stuff and then you

brought it up.

::

Parker, guess what?

::

Barty Bundle's gone.

::

That's what I had to read when you weren't here.

::

Barty Bundle is missing from the haunted mines.

::

Wait, what?

::

What?

::

Not say I cannot.

::

No, no, I am not going to save him if that's what you're

asking because I can't.

::

Oh, no, I'm not asking that.

::

Oh.

::

I'm not asking that, Parker.

::

Don't take it up to us to go find him.

::

Look out for Barty, please.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

There's a haunted wonderful horrible mines with lots of--

::

Oh, I think horrible is more-- it was a wonderfully

horrible.

::

Yeah, yeah, because you're going to wonder at how horrible

they are.

::

I thought the reason I said it.

::

Yeah.

::

Have you ever been in there, Parker?

::

No.

::

Into the mines.

::

No, no, no.

::

Okay, I am-- you know what?

::

You brought up very bad.

::

The seascape in my eyes right now is one of a horrible stormy

sea.

::

And I'm going to-- I know you can do your stuff for a while,

but I'm going to punish

::

you and leave for five minutes and go into the-- where's the

pasta salad?

::

It's the punishment, the leaving part of it.

::

That's the punishment that I'm getting?

::

I'm just checking.

::

Okay.

::

Parker's gone.

::

I'm going to go to ads.

::

I know that there's ads in these things.

::

I'm going to go to roll ads.

::

I think it's from the litigious lawyer thing.

::

And then we'll be back.

::

So I don't know how this works, but we'll be back.

::

[MUSIC PLAYING]

::

Hello, this is Jen deHaan for this week's sponsor of Grack

Public Access, which is the Litigious

::

Lawyer Society of Grackleton, where we'll sue the diapers

right off you.

::

Fence too tall, we'll sue the diapers right off you.

::

Vehicle length too lengthy and parked too long in the front

part of your driveway, we'll

::

sue the diapers right off you.

::

Play-in law and order with the windows open at a high rate of

volume after 11 p.m. on

::

a weekday, we'll sue the diapers right off you.

::

So if you have a complaint that other lawyers might not take

seriously enough, bring it

::

to the Litigious Lawyer Society of Grackleton, where

they'll sue the diapers right off that

::

person that you have the complaint of.

::

Of?

::

That doesn't sound right.

::

Oh, it says page turnover.

::

Okay.

::

Oh, shit.

::

This summons for me.

::

Jen deHaan made mockery of our grammar on post-red ad in

episode six of Grack Public Access.

::

Seriously?

::

Motherfucker.

::

We're back on the show.

::

This is Maureen Fawcett-Cluthor.

::

Togchester Field is trying to find us a better place and we

got Parker Spoon here.

::

Parker Spoon.

::

Hey Parker, buddy.

::

You're back.

::

I'm doing a lot better.

::

I'm sorry.

::

But first of all, I have to apologize for what happened

before the commercial.

::

I was, you know, sometimes when I don't have Tog Gear and,

you know, I'm in a place of

::

lots of hostile enemies around who are trying to get me from

my stealth skills.

::

You know, you ever see that movie, The Impossible

Missions, where there's a wonderful film.

::

Oh, is that the Tom Cruise?

::

Yeah, Tom Cruise.

::

What a talent.

::

Oh, definitely a talent.

::

He's a--

::

Definitely a talent.

::

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

::

Jumping around and doing all these silly things.

::

It's amazing.

::

And so, but anyway, yeah, that's what I'm like right now.

::

They're after me because, you know, they have to do

counterintelligence because I've already

::

stolen their mince and I'm not going to give them back.

::

But that--

::

Oh, you're very stealthy.

::

I found the pasta salad because Tog was--

::

Oh, my goodness.

::

Oh.

::

Tog was nowhere in sight.

::

So--

::

Oh.

::

But the pasta salad was.

::

Yes, I have that very big bowl with plastic wrap over top.

::

Oh, good.

::

It's good because the bugs really like to get into that.

::

That's where the flies-- there's a lot of flies in here.

::

I actually heard that there's infestation in the roof

rafters of this place, so the community

::

center.

::

Why?

::

Yeah, there's an infestation of something.

::

I don't even know what.

::

But it causes, you know, the flies get into whatever it is

that is dead up there.

::

So there's dead things in the ceiling.

::

And there's a lot of flies around.

::

So you don't want to eat anything in here that hasn't been

covered, including those

::

mince that you got.

::

Like, those aren't covered either.

::

And by the way, everybody's hands go into that.

::

That's pretty disgusting.

::

I've already had, you know, because I've been keeping

count of my little timekeeper here.

::

You ever see those little things where they keep them,

where people-- you can count how

::

many people walk into a concert because you don't want too

many people to be there?

::

I like those.

::

Yeah, I have one for when I eat food because I like to count

how many bites I eat.

::

Oh, every single bite will click, huh?

::

Yeah, oh, absolutely.

::

Yeah, so right now it's 38.

::

So I've had 38 of these mince.

::

Oh, good for you, buddy.

::

And then you could push the switch to see the switch over

here.

::

You move the switch over this way.

::

And you can see, I've so far had 108 bites of pasta salad.

::

OK.

::

So we're going to see what happens in my belly when you mix

the two together because this

::

is what the audience wants.

::

Oh, they want to know what's happening in your belly.

::

That's like an established part of this show?

::

I don't know the name.

::

This is-- so Todd--

::

OK.

::

--and then he drives me here and then talks about stuff and

then I'll say stuff.

::

Sometimes I'll paint a seascape.

::

That's how it works.

::

OK.

::

Well, that sounds good.

::

I'm glad you know how it works because I certainly don't

know how it works.

::

What are we supposed to do after we came back from an ad break?

::

I know you have the ad breaks because I'm supposed to be here

about the sponsors.

::

But so what do we do after the ad?

::

Do you know?

::

I have a note here.

::

It says do reviews, but I don't know when that's supposed to

be.

::

I don't like to say reviews because when you review stuff,

you have to sometimes say things

::

that aren't nice and that's not good.

::

We can do reviews.

::

Why don't you review something you like?

::

Oh, OK.

::

Yeah, just Parker reviews.

::

Let's call this Parker reviews something Parker likes.

::

I'm going to say this is kind of a thing.

::

Remember Jen deHaan?

::

Oh, yeah.

::

I know Jen's the one that told me to come here and do this

because of the sponsors.

::

One of my best friends.

::

And what they'll do is we'll say put in a new bumper here and

so again, do a whole review

::

of that.

::

OK.

::

So they'll put in a bumper of whatever I said.

::

I said Parker likes to review Parker.

::

Parker reviews something Parker likes.

::

I think that's what I said.

::

OK.

::

So do bumper of that.

::

Go ahead, Bestie.

::

Go on.

::

Parker reviews something that Parker likes.

::

Oh, you're Bestie's with Jen?

::

That's a wonderful person.

::

Yeah.

::

I mean, that's a hard sell.

::

I mean, that's a hard thing to do to be a Bestie of Jen.

::

No.

::

Jen doesn't do that stuff lightly.

::

Jen is a wonderful.

::

We had a falling out at first now with we had a falling in.

::

It actually surprises me that Jen would even have a friend.

::

I mean, Jen doesn't seem like.

::

I didn't think Jen had people.

::

No.

::

Jen is, you know, yeah, once you're used to the

disparagement and the, you know, the

::

the Bakery.

::

The Cussing, the incessant Cussing.

::

Yeah.

::

And, you know, at some point, because what my mom used to say

is if you have to completely

::

break somebody down to to their true self, which is in very,

very ugly, horrible, duckling.

::

Are you talking about yourself right now or Jen?

::

Because I'm very confused.

::

You're talking about yourself.

::

You're talking about yourself.

::

Parker.

::

The ugly is.

::

Parker, I already said I can't lie in front of a cassette

tape and you're you have a face

::

for TV, buddy.

::

You do.

::

You're good.

::

You're good.

::

I know.

::

I've never seen one of those cartoons where all the ducks

are beautiful and then one of

::

the ducks literally looks like a, you know, a fork or

something.

::

He's a fork.

::

Yeah.

::

You know, you're good.

::

All right.

::

So Parker, what's something you like?

::

Can you do a review on something you like?

::

Absolutely.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

Yeah.

::

I love this.

::

I love egg rolls.

::

You know.

::

I love the fullness of an egg roll.

::

So there's, there's, there's, I call it, you know, how the

earth has different parts

::ecause they guess back in the:

whatever, they cut the earth in half

::

and so they can look at everything.

::

And they found out that the earth has all these different

layers in it.

::

And just like the earth is like an egg roll.

::

So they, uh, the outside of the egg roll is, especially if

you get it fresh, is a wonderful

::

bubbly oil that shields the crispy layer of egg, egg roll.

::

And then there is the part that's inside that is the not

crispy part, but it's still a little

::

doughy.

::

And that's the part you want to see until the end because

it's delicious.

::

And then inside is like the magma because if you eat that,

your mouth will turn to fire.

::

Oh, you do.

::

Yeah.

::

That's like, yeah, the center of the earth.

::

Uh, I, I don't think they cut the whole earth open though.

::

We're sponsored by the litigious people this week.

::

So I think we have to be accurate.

::

I'm trying to think back to the, because they made you

memorize these dates.

::I think it was like:::

So can we say Jen fix that if that's factually incorrect?

::

Yeah.

::

I mean, Jen, my bestie, she's gonna, she, she trusts.

::

That check.

::

It never happened.

::

I guess this is Maureen reviews something, uh, bumper.

::

I'm going to review something I don't like Parker.

::

I'm going to have to do that, but just to balance because we

need balance in this show.

::

So I'm going to review the garbage cans in the town square

and the lent posts in the

::

town square in the center of Gackleton.

::

You know that they're just too decorative, but you know

what?

::

I'm going to, I'm going to review something that makes,

that makes me think of this.

::

You know the clam bacon take that's down there by the town

square.

::

Wonderful. Yeah.

::

Yeah. It's great.

::

It's great. They do that clam bread.

::

Have you had the clam bread from the clam bacon take? Right.

::

They used to call me Mr. Clam bread and did they really?

::

Yeah. Oh yeah.

::

Yeah. What I used to do and I don't mean to steal your thunder

here.

::

Oh no, that's fine.

::

I would, uh, when, when it used to rain, um, you know,

::

I guess it rains now still, but I never know.

::

Yeah. Because I, you know, I'm usually inside until talk

takes me here.

::

Um, I, uh, I used to go out and I used to get the clam, the clam

bread and then like

::

Fred Astaire, I would decorate the decorative, uh, poles

that you dislike.

::

I would swing around on them and.

::

Oh yeah. Oh, you're one of those.

::

Yeah. I know. I know your type.

::

Everybody would be clapping and, uh, and, uh, people would

be forming and then I would

::

take the decorative trash can lids and I would play them

like drums and.

::

Would you really?

::

The water would be splashing in the air and people would be

cheering.

::

It would be, it was a whole, it was what a scene. It was a

wonderful scene.

::

You know what, Parker?

::

I think I'm starting to get a very good picture of what kind

of, uh, gentleman you are.

::

I just threw these, uh, exploratory, uh, exploratory

vignettes I would call them.

::

I think about you. I'm a, I'm a people person. I have to be

because I'm in insurance, you know,

::

like when you do small business insurance, you have to be a

people person. I, you know,

::

and I, I think I've pegged to you. I mean, you know that I know

your mom, Mrs. Boone.

::

Yeah. We, we don't.

::

Yeah. Yeah.

::

Okay. Okay. That's fine. That's fine Parker.

::

Anyways, the clam bacon take, they actually, you know

what, they have excess coverage and

::

that's because they had such a clean claims experience,

uh, when, when I set them up,

::

actually quite against the garbage can lamp post, uh, how

decorative they are.

::

So I wanted to end it on a positive note and the positive note

is the clam bacon take go on

::

Tuesday nights. That's my recommendation. So this is

being Maureen reviews something.

::

Uh, do you, do you do end bumpers in the show? Parker?

::

I, I, I have no idea.

::

Oh, okay. Well, Jen, do an end bumper for this one.

::

I don't know if you do it, but do one.

::

Maureen reviews something.

::

End bumper.

::

I don't know if that's going to be demanding. Jen might come

after me after this,

::

but that's okay. I can handle her.

::

I, I, I'm, I'm not going to take up any more of the show, but I

have a little

::

breaking news for you.

::

Oh, good. Okay.

::

Why, what's up?

::

I'm going to go up to the attic and, um, because, uh, the

attic is, it's, it's very accessible.

::

Cause I saw when I was in the library, they had one of those

wonderful drop ladders that you

::

saw in the movie, um, Home Alone, which is,

::

Oh yeah. I love those things. So it's a great,

::

so I'm going to go up there and, um, it's already very

infested. And, uh, so I, I,

::

if a little more infestation will not, um, I, I'm, I have a

buck in a case I get sick.

::

So I'm going to go up there.

::

This is really interesting to me that you're going to go up

there and use it for the reasons

::

that I think you're going to do, which we aren't going to

say, but even though they are going to

::

cut this out, they are going to cut this out. Okay. Yeah.

::

They're going to cut this out. Uh, but also I think I get what

you're dropping and that you're

::

about to drop a lot. No, no. I like you. No, no. I'm going to

get sick the other way.

::

Not going to go. I like you Parker. You're my kind of guy.

You're my kind of guy Parker.

::

You're my kind of guy. You are my kind of guy right now.

::

Fine talk after this and, uh, okay. Well, I got your back.

I'm going to,

::

I'm going to say do an ad or something in here while you go and

drop a load.

::

No, no, I'm not going to do that. Don't you be so hurtful.

::

I'm not being hurtful. I'm optimistic. I might have to get

mouth sick is what I'm saying.

::

Mouth sick. Okay. We'll use that terminology, whatever

you want to say.

::

Mouth sick. Gotcha. Okay. I'm going to. Okay. Bye. Bye.

::

All right. So we're back. Uh, we're back. We're all back.

So, uh, this is a one oh one point

::

seven FM. The GRAC. We are at the community center. I feel so

much like a host right now,

::

Parker, even though I'm just a temporary maybe host while

the sponsor things going on. How

::

are you feeling there, buddy? You're back. You may or may

not have seen the, uh, well, the,

::

that looks to, well, might look to the untrained eye to be a

horrible wound on my arm.

::

Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, well, it would be also to a

trained eye. It would also be a wound

::

because it's a wound. I got it. It is a wound. Yeah. I can see

that. Yeah. Um, because I went up

::

there to get mouth sick, uh, in my pocket and, um, just to be

clear, that does mean that you're

::

throwing up. That's Pew. No, you're not leading. Jen, you

can, uh, you can put the bleep over that word.

::

Um, right. So butt sick would be diarrhea. No, no, no. Tug.

What would you call it if it was

::

both things? Your mouth sick and your butt sick. I looked

for talk during the break. I went all

::

around. I did a full loop of this place and I know this place a

lot. I actually did the insurance for

::

their sheds out back. I had to go around all of this place in

addition to the sheds just to

::

write their policy. I did a full loop. I did not find talk

anywhere. I don't know where they went.

::

Well, I, there's a little bit of blood involved with my arm.

You see it? It's a, oh, yeah. Okay.

::

Now it's okay. Okay. Yeah, I see what you're, I see what

you're dealing with. Yeah. There's that,

::

there's one little flap that'll just, uh, if I, if I kind of

fold it back, if you fold it back in,

::

like, you know how they say that the coast of South America

goes into the coast of Africa,

::

because they used to be connected? Oh, it's like a puzzle

piece. Yeah. That's like that.

::

Kind of like you're dealing with like a puzzle piece. In the

other flap here. They can, yeah,

::

but also you wash that off with soap and water. Correct. I

mean, that's, that's just right to get

::

infected. That is that is stingy. I'm not doing that. Oh,

you should do that. You should do that

::

before you do anything else. I mean, that looks deep enough

that you need to take care of that.

::

I will talk to you and I'll tell you my little harrowing

story. I'm up there and I finished

::

getting mouth sick in the bucket. Okay. And that's puking

audience. That means puking. And there

::

were indeed erasers in there. Many of them. I don't know why

I did not feel them as I was chewing.

::

And suddenly I see a pair of yellow eyes. And, and I, I see it

approaching, approaching,

::

and next thing you know, something's locked the hold of my

arm. And, yeah. And so something,

::

something bit you. So this is a legit bite. Well, then I ran,

I came back here and that was me.

::

If you heard me screaming down the, if you heard somebody

screaming down the hallway.

::

Yeah, I did. Earlier. I don't know if you remember, but that

was me who did that. Oh,

::

that was, I thought that was a bunch of kids just having fun.

That was you screaming after

::

getting bit. Pretty sure that it was either a vampire or a

werewolf up there. No, buddy,

::

buddy. That's the raccoons up there. There's a whole

family up there. Got their little beady eyes.

::

I saw me. They did have, I saw cute paws before I was bit, but

from what I can tell from my,

::

from my research, many werewolves can also have, because

you know, that werewolves are poppies

::

sometimes and they could have. Yeah, that's where they

start. That's where they start.

::

I'm not going to cause any conspiracies here because

that's not this type of show. Yellow

::

eyes. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I would, I would

probably, I would probably go get a rabies

::

shot because of the raccoon situation. Oh, I get, I have to

go. My, my, my mom makes me get

::

one, one, one every six months to be safe. Say hi to your mom

for me. I mean, you still go home

::

every night, right? Yeah, sometimes for your vitamins.

Well, I, I, I sometimes, if, if Todd

::

makes me, I go, but I'm trying to knock on us often now. So I,

I, yeah, I, but, well, I'm glad

::

Todd is taking care of you as well. I know how much your mom is

worried about you being taken care

::

of. Four or five times a week. I'll go probably. Oh yeah. I

mean, that's normal. That's totally

::

normal. All right. So what are we supposed to do after we get

back again? We're back again on the

::

show. We're recording here on the cassette tapes. A lot of

times I run away screaming,

::

because something horrible happens. But so far as other

than my wound, that has not happened.

::

No, you're doing really good. Let me just look at the papers

here.

::

The papers say that we're supposed to do the history of the

carnival. Oh,

::

what do I know about that? History of Grack. The carnival of

the Grack happens every year in

::

Grackleton in the town center. The carnival started, I

think maybe in:::

they'll maybe fix some little fact checker or something

like that. Fact checker. Yep. That's

::

right. From Rufus. Rufus de Grack was the one that started

the whole Grackleton carnival.

::

Wanted to put it around funnel cake creation, because

Rufus, of course, was the best funnel

::

cake baker at the time and did all the creative toppings.

Parker, that's all I know. Have you

::

heard anything else about the carnival of the Grack? The

history? Yeah, no. The whole time,

::

the second you said funnel cake, that's the only thing I

thought of. Yeah, I know. As soon as I

::

said funnel cake, that was all I could, I just was just like,

oh yeah, the funnel cakes, right?

::

Even the horrible throbbing pain in my arm went away.

Really? Yeah. You hear them scaring up there,

::

the children of the night in the ceiling? Well, I think I

hear the raccoons up there.

::

I mean, they're chattering. Now they have a connection to

me and I'll never be able,

::

you know, what I was just with the tissues are here. Yeah,

move them over.

::

Pretty soon, I will go through the process where I will.

Yeah. I will leave what appears to be

::

my mortal coil behind. But then I will awaken in my mortal

coil, but I will no longer be a human.

::

I will be a werewolf. So if that happens, you may have to do

the unthinkable.

::

And, you know, I put a silver stake, get the silver stake.

Okay, well, you know what? I

::

don't think you really need to worry about that, Parker,

because I think rabies is probably going

::

to be your chief concern here. You just definitely need to

talk to your mom. I have it right here.

::

She put it in my paper so I can give it to you. Oh, nice. Okay.

That's my history. All right. Well,

::

should I leave this for Tog? It seems like Tog does a lot of

the caring activities.

::

Yeah, Tog has a copy as well. Oh, so this is my personal copy

here. Just so you have it too.

::

I try to give it to as many people as possible. Lisa at the

desk has it as well. Oh, wow. So the

::

thing on the back is your daily vitamin regimen. Yeah,

that's the vitamins. That's the vitamins.

::

Oh, we take a lot of the same ones. Wonderful. Yeah, they do.

Oh, nice. Love them. You know,

::

I should run by my list with your mom. No, no, thank you. I

don't want to do that. Nope, we can.

::

I mean, she's got a good regimen here for you. Three blue

ones, huh? So moving on. So funnel cakes,

::

they used to be, this is many years ago, they used to try to,

they used to be in the shape of funnels.

::

And that's why they call them funnel cakes. Because then

what you could do is you could put

::

the icing, you could put the funnel in your mouth, and then

you could like put the, you can,

::

you could drink the, it was the icing from the funnel. See, I

love that. And I would say that my

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primary reason to eat the funnel cake is for the icing. You

know, there's this little bakery,

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sort of an outer crack. It was like out of a basement of a

house. I insured the bakery,

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but not the house. Insurance, Lisa, did the policy for the

house. I did the policy for the

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bakery in the basement, which is just a very, we had to work

together. This place had icing shots.

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It was like a little two ounce cup that you could buy just of

icing to be eating on its own,

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without any other vehicle for the icing. That is my kind of

dessert I discovered.

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Yeah, that sounds, that sounds absolutely like heaven to

me.

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Does it really? The wonderful, because especially if it's

the cream cheese icing that they put on.

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Oh, wow. Yeah, that's the best one. What are you gonna do

with that?

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What are you gonna do? Yeah, I know. The cream cheese icing

is absolutely the best icing,

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but I haven't, Parker, you know what? I haven't met a lot of

individuals that are with me on the

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only eating icing thing without a vehicle. Most people are

like, you know what? I need the

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base of a cupcake. I need some kind of, you know, cake. You

don't need any cake at all. You can

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just go have the icing. Back when I used to go out for

Halloween, when I used to live with mother,

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you know, we didn't have a lot of money growing up, so she

would whip up some cream cheese icing

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and then put food dye in it. So it was green. And then you ever

see one of those, I guess they use them

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for, they used to plug the holes up in the wall with this

putty knife or something.

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Yeah, like a spackle or something like that. Yeah, like a

spangle or whatever. Spackle. Spackle.

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Yeah. Spackle. That's a good word. Yeah. Spackle. Yeah. My

face, she would take the icing then and

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just put thick lobs all over my face. Then I would go out with

my friends on the trick-or-treat

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group, but I would always run off in the woods and hide in the

clearing and just eat the icing off

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my face. Oh, I mean, going, you have to, I think, when, if

you're eating icing on its own without a

::

vehicle, you have to eat it solo. I think that's something

that to be done in private only.

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Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like a private activity when you

need some private time. You know what I'm

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saying? But all you're doing is eating icing. You're not

doing something else, something fun.

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No, thank you. You're just eating icing. No, I don't like

it. I mean, you could do something fun

::

while you're eating icing. No, no, no, no, no. This show is

not, the show is going wonderfully,

::

and then it took a horrible, awful turn. So let's turn the

wheel back in the other direction and get

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us back onto this wonderful highway of glitter and that

wonderful. Speaking of which, Parker, when

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did you move out of your house with your mother? Oh, well,

thank you. You said when I was living with,

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with mom when I was with mother. Yeah, I went. When did you

move out? Parker, how old were you?

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Well, we're not going to go into details here. But I was, I

was this many years old. Parker is

::

flashing his hands, both of his hands a few times right now.

It was just for the listening audience.

::

So just because the audience does not have to know because

he never tell the audience,

::

the audience right now, I am eternally young. And I'm going

to be eternally young.

::

Hey, here I'm got the tissues again. I think I understand

why there's issues sitting on the table.

::

Yeah, I will always be the same age as I am now. Yeah. Oh, my.

You know what? Parker. Oh, hi. Hi,

::

everybody. Sorry. Hi, Parker. How are you? Oh, you're

crying, Parker. Yeah. But the marina doesn't

::

know what to do. So no, I don't. I'm sorry. I got the tissues

out. Oh, thank you. Yeah, he

::

needs sometimes needs those. All right. So did you did you

did you do the show? I know I've

::

been gone for a while. It was a world of wonder and fancy and

absolute abject horror. Right. Yeah,

::

there were mints and then there was Lisa and there was

stealth and there was rumors of pepperoni

::

and there was a thing on your arm. Yeah, well, it's

terrible. Yeah. And then I think you might

::

know about that. So we'll talk about that later. No, I don't

know. And then there was

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werewolves and and vampires and what? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And

talk of talk of conspiracy. That

::

sounds all sounds very noisy. And unfortunately, I

discovered that we couldn't move to another room.

::

So this is this is what we have for the rest of the show. We've

done I think we've done most of the

::

show talk. Did you do the weather? Now we didn't do the

weather. All right. So I'll just Parker,

::

I'm just going to do the weather. Okay, it's you know, the

heart beats. I feel that but not in my

::

heart. It's happening with my arm. Yeah, you should you

should probably wash that. But first,

::

let's let's do the weather. Okay. The weather is brought to

you by the litigious lawyer society of

::

Gragilton will sue the diaper right off. Yeah, well, even

sue it right off. Yeah, if you get the

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weather wrong, we're watching. Well, you should be

listening. You can't watch it. Get ready for the

::

weather. The weather in Gragilton this evening is going to

be breezy. You just learned all about

::

the weather. That's the weather brought to you by the

litigious lawyer society of Gragilton.

::

That diaper, it's coming off whether you like it or not. If

we sue you. And that's if you do

::

something like get the weather wrong. All right, we're

back. That was the weather. I think I think

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we've covered everything in the show. Parker, do you think

we've covered everything in the show?

::

You've done the show before. Sorry, Maureen. I feel like

I'm on a cloud right now. And it's not a

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nice cloud. It's a very angry cloud. So I'm I would like to,

if possible, just lay down for a

::

little while and close my eyes. And maybe you can put me in

the car or something. I'll do that.

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I'm going to carry you out. Parker, listener, Parker is

slumped over in his chair. And we should

::

probably get him out of there. So this is being a grack

public access. I haven't been here for most

::

of the show. So I just only hope that everything was covered

and that you enjoyed it. And we'll be

::

back soon with another episode. So this is being from the

community center. I guess maybe everybody

::

talked about okra or not. And we're we're done for now. Bye,

everybody.

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You've been listening to Grack Public Access, a Stereo

Forest production.

::

This episode was created, directed, edited and produced

by Jen deHaan, Maureen Faucet-Clooder

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and Tog Chesterfield. We're improvised by Jen deHaan.

Parker Spoon was improvised by Adam.

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