I want to say, hey, hey, hey, hey. Why, hello and welcome. I did move. I did the move. I finally moved. I'm officially moved. And I love it, it's weird, you know, I was in that apartment for 14 years, a little bit of nature inside the house, got a little ant infestation. I got tiny, teeny, tiny little ants. And I would just see one here, one there.

No big deal. You know, first I'm like, just put in a Hey, buddy, get over here. You go outside. Then it was a noticed that when he would get up to pee, there would be a single ant walking around the not my rim but his rim, the other rim.

And he would only see one tiny ant there.

How can that be. Anyway, you know, we didn't think much of it, get rid of it. No big deal living in the woods, kind of. But then I went to check on Mary's food bowl and it was moving. The food in the bowl. It just looked like it was moving, I thought I was tripping, maybe having some kind of acid flashback. No, it was ants, thousands and thousands of ants.

And then like that goes from the food bowl.

The food bowl is just covered and then a trail and, you know, so, yeah, I, I had to murder them. Let me correct that. Rory had to murder them. He really there was a complete genocide of teeny tiny ants in my home.

Do all go ants go to heaven? I hope so. I really do. I had rats in my last apartment where I was there for 14 years, it wasn't for what it was like a year of rats, it was the year of the rat. And it's funny because I was telling Roger I knew they would, but you lived in a nice apartment building, rats don't care.

Was that a good impression of your rats? But what what what, what? It was perfect.

I think that's a Howard Stern drop. What, what, what?

I lived in a crappy, scary building in New York when I was starting out. And so they don't care if it's a five story walkup with a shared bathroom on the floor, you know, per floor with a padlock or if it's a valet building, you know, if you're moving on up, they don't care.

Rats do their rat thing. But anyway, yeah. So there were rats in that other building.

You could hear them in the wall. You could hear like this. Can you hear this? That's what I heard through the walls, and then at night you could actually hear them squeaking squeak. You know, I like all animals and I feel bad for rats, they have a bad rap, but, you know, my neighbor across the hall went to get food in the middle of the night and there was a rat just sitting on her kitchen counter eating a cantaloupe.

They're brazen. And, you know, this is so superficial. But there's something about like that.

They have like hip's. And that their tail doesn't have hair on, it's like skin that's off putting, but, you know, I feel bad because the animals that we don't like, they're like not traditionally cute in our minds.

That's their crime.

You know, if it was a squirrel, I'd be like, what are you doing in here? But now the a swarm of ants, or it was a rat, they put poison in, like in between the walls, like rat poison in my old apartment, and then I would just smell when they were dead and and the maintenance guy would come up and, like, give them a proper burial. No, put them in a bag and leave.

The mice in New York, though. They were more like mice, I mean, I don't know if they're rats or mice, but they were little and they were cute. There were so malleable, like, I think their bones are like more like cartilage. So they they could crawl right under a door. But after a while, I got really use of those.

I got used to those little mice and it didn't bother me. I felt a little Cinderella, you know, they were like Cinderella. Cinderella.

What who am I today? Rud's. I don't know. God, that apartment in New York, we. We had one spoon. Yeah, we had one spoon, one knife and one fork, and then we had some friends that kind of turned into heroin junkies and I was on the road one weekend in.

A couple of them stayed in my room, which was just a loft bed and a cardboard wardrobe box for a dresser, but they burned a hole through our one spoon.

What are you going to do? So my new house is great, but the garage door keeps breaking, it just builds, just suddenly not work and I can't get my car out of the garage and I need to be able to get my car out of the garage.

So I contacted the builder whose name is Frank, and I texted him.

I was like, you know, Frank, the garage door is broken again. I need a working garage door.

You know, I've tried all the, like, tricks and everything you showed me is still not working.

And then when he wrote back, he just wrote, I hear you.

And I was like, what, what I hear you, you know, and then I look, you know, I had typed in Frenk at the top of my text messages to to find him and then and then texted him. And I had accidentally written to Al Franken.

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Let's listen to all of them.

There's just four of them and we can see if we like any of them. Hi, Sarah.

Frank Beecher here. And I'm responding to your call out for some intro music for the voice mail section of your podcast. I've put a little something together for you, so feel free to use it as you wish. And I'd love to get your feedback good or bad. So here it is, all the best. Oh, check my voice mail. Did you check my boy? Oh, I like that, I like that a lot. Frank Beecher, OK.

Let's hear the next one. Hi, Sarah. I wasn't sure exactly how to submit this, so I guess this is the only way I can figure out how for the voicemail's thing that you mentioned on your last episode.

Today's. I can send the MP three, I just didn't know where to send it. And then I like posted on Twitter, which is chorusing.

OK, I like that one because it's like I want to hear your voice mails.

All right. What's the other one? There's four, right.

So what's the third? This is the third one.

No, it's time for some voice mails. Let's hear what you got for Sarah Silverman.

Oh, too much. Not too much, I like that he said too much, that was so good. That person should be on American Idol.

Which I'm going to watch tonight, I watch Bachelor and Idol on Tuesday nights because I'm busy Monday nights resting and prepping for this, and then I celebrate. By watching. All right, what's the fourth one? Hi, Sarah, this is Jonas from Sweden. I'm a trumpet player. I, I made a Stravinsky ish jingle for your voice mail today. Do you want me to send it anywhere? Turned out pretty cool. Anyway, I love your podcast.

Thank you very much.

Does he play Malafronte? That was assaulting and yet I like to. So those are the four bids for a voice mail. This is the voice mail section jingle. You know, I'm going to be honest. A real sausage party of submission's, I know it's only four, but I think. You know, anything over three makes it a party. Love to get some some ladies, some other, some others, but yeah, let's keep, you know, send some more.

But they're also good, you know, I'll just play all of them. Let's play that last one as an intro to the voicemail's.

Can we do that? Is that something you do on the fly?

All right. I'll brace myself for my.

All right, here we go, what do we got? Hi, Sarah. So I had a girls thing happen to me at the post office the other day.

I was going in and I held the door open for an older man that was coming in at the same time as me and said hi.

And I got my mail.

And on my way out, he stopped by me and said, hey, don't take this the wrong way, but it's nice to see a woman that doesn't look like a Holstein. Like like a really gross compliment and stands in the moment, I was just flustered and really creeped out and but just like processing what he just said to me and I like, laughed but had a gross look on my face and was like, OK, and just walked out and.

It's so hard in the moment to, like, have the wherewithal to, like, engage in a way you're like let them know like, hey, that was really creepy. That made me feel really gross. And I'm wondering if you've ever had that kind of thing happen to you and, like, actually engage with the person and have like a positive outcome, like have them understand that experience from the other side and how gross it makes you feel.

I love your show. Thanks. So many thoughts, I don't know what Holstein is, Holstein was like a Jewish beaver or something. I just said Beaver instead of vagina.

So I'm changing up, changing it up a little. Holstein what is the Holstein?

It's a cow. It's a cow. Mhm.

Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think it's a high quality beef cow. I could be wrong.

Oh oh. Oh thank you. Oh it's a high quality beef cow. So he was being nice to you. You should appreciate it.

I'm sure that's happened to me many, many times. You know, things that men mean as compliments that are just so such a bummer or offensive or even down to you're my favorite female comedian.

Go and to that. I do usually have a response when people say that, because I know they mean well, but I feel like the best way to expose the way I hear it is I say, oh, wow, thanks.

Who's your favorite black comedian? Nobody says that you're my favorite black comedian, you know what I mean is you're my favorite female comedian.

Like, it has to be qualified. It can't be in competition with all comedians. That wouldn't be fair to females. You know, it's just very odd, actually.

At Netflix, I saw had my special under a heading of that said like sassy female comedians.

So I actually saw Ted Serranos Sarandos.

Who is that? Who's this the head of of Netflix who is awesome.

I said I don't want to be listed under sassy comedian, sassy women comedians.

He goes, No, no, no, it's the algorithm. I go, would you like? And I'll let the algorithm say funny black comedians are like any other kind of thing. Like he goes like, you know what? It's the algorithm and has nothing to do. Nobody's making that choice. It's just like the algorithm I Google.

The algorithm is sexist and it's offensive.

And then the next time I saw him and he said that they changed it, I, I appreciated it.

Sometimes it's worth it to be a squeaky wheel.

Maybe almost always, I guess. But I understand taking the path of least resistance like you're leaving the post office.

This like gross guy compares you to a high priced meats.

Cow. No, no, no, he's saying you don't look like a cow and you want to say something or address it, you know what I get taking the path of least resistance, I even get just wanting him to.

You know, our our innate reaction as women is to protect their feelings, to not make waves and and, you know, we need to unlearn that.

But at the same time, in that moment, the husband grows. You know, it's fine.

You know, maybe maybe you could say maybe in that situation at this point in my life, I might say like, oh, that makes me feel gross or yuck. Oh, boy.

You know, it is that kind of thing where it's men think that you want to be compared to other women more favorably, that it's some kind of competition that unless you are better than other women, it's not a compliment or I don't know what it is.

It's it's so gross and so deep rooted.

You know, you're the best you're my favorite of all women in comics or your you know, one time I was asked to do a roast and the female Comedy Central executive, I go, I don't want to do it. She said, you'll be the only woman on the dais like it was a selling point. It was so sad anyway, of course, I'm digressing a million different ways, but I understand just in the moment wanting almost wanting approval, just not just the path of least resistance, but just wanting to he intended a positive moment.

And even though it wasn't from your side of it, you just keep it going. And, you know, this is so embarrassing in Beverly Hills.

There are there were for weeks and weeks all these crazy Trump people with signs up and down along the sides of the streets of Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. And I was driving through them, driving through.

And I rolled down the window and I was going to say something.

And you know what I found myself say, this is so embarrassing. I said, make America great again. I just I.

And they all cheered. And then as I drove, I said, I can't believe I just did that. That's how deep rooted might need to be liked by strangers is, which is, you know, all comedians and many more people, probably lots of other people. But that my knee jerk instinct went towards needing to be liked. I rolled down my window in totally different intentions. Thinking I would say something and, you know, and I boy, I found that coming out of my mouth, I couldn't believe it.

I mean, maybe there was some sort of dark, fucked up thing inside me that was just curious about it, you know, I don't know.

Or maybe it was just a knee jerk. Survival instinct, you know, they look scary, and so I was like.

Make America great again when I breathed into Exhale, something righteous and instead I just said what I knew these insane people wanted to hear, it was so surprising.

It was really weird. But on that notion of survival, you know, I. I talked about how I was always called a potty mouth in in press and stuff and how annoying it got as I got older.

And another big thing that. Looking back, helped me in my career. Was that I was considered one of the guys, I was one of the boys, lots of press would hail me as one of the boys. And I was one of the boys, but it was. I realize, you know, it was how I learned to survive in comedy when I started, which was even more deeply rooted in misogyny.

And no awareness of that at that point, so I just became one of the guys and it was how I learned to survive in comedy. It wasn't conscious. You know, it's like how we learn survival skills as children, we learn survival skills that help us survive childhood.

That if we're lucky, we we then know to unlearn as adults, because those, you know, playground survival skills no longer serve us.

At one of the boys thing, you know, it's interesting. Hi, Sarah, I heard a caller recently ask why essentially Jared Kushner could support Nazis if he's Jewish. And I think the explanation doesn't have to do with the fact that he's, quote unquote, Jewish, whatever that means, but that he is a domination ist. He believes, I think, that the best way to feel safe and conduct himself in the world is to dominate others and to dominate parties.

He sees as weak or maybe not weak, but threatening. So I think that's what ties him and a lot of other people in his circles to very unlikely, quote unquote, allies. A response to dominate rather than to cooperate. Oh, yeah, wow, that's that's really interesting to me, I'll be honest, I have absolutely nothing to add to this.

But but it sure is interesting. Domination, as I said, domination just. Yeah, yeah, right on. That's interesting. All right, what else we got? What do you think was in Ted Cruz's gigantic overnight bag?

Rory made that same point. He had a big. Rolling suitcase that he went there with and came home with, so that was his the fact that he claimed he was escorting his daughters to the Ritz Carlton, Cancun is just fucking garbage. That is not an overnight bag.

So full of shit. What a piece of shit, and then also that people were going AOC and Beto O'Rourke were just, you know, they only raised money for Texas to look good and make Ted Cruz look bad. First of all, Ted Cruz doesn't need any help looking bad. And second, even if that's true good, that's what I want our representatives to do.

They should be doing stuff that makes them look good to their constituents.

People say like activist, as if God is watching, you know, act as if Jesus is watching. I like to act as if my therapist is watching, you know.

Yes. Our leaders, our politicians should be acting to impress the people who elected them. They should be working to make us proud. That's what they're supposed to be doing. It's like saying he only works hard so people think he's doing a good job.

Yeah, that sounds just about right, man. Ted Cruz is that classic Republican.

Do as I say, not as I do. I mean, a couple of days before he went to Cancun, he was on the radio and he was like, you know, I talked to meteorologists and they said, you know, you got to stay home. There's going to be a big storm. Don't try to go anywhere. Just stay home and hug your kids. Do as I say, not as I do, like in what way is raising your daughters well, taking them to the Ritz Carlton Cancun because they're cold.

You know, it could have been a teachable moment.

Daddy, I'm cold. I want to go to the Ritz Carlton. Cancun. That's when you go, you know, I know we're lucky. We can we can afford whatever we need. But I'm a public servant and we need to lead by example. And I'm sorry, kids, if you are if I'm dragging you into that, but we're going to do what's right.

Or just send them to the airport, to their vacation. You don't have to go. Aren't they with your wife? Do you not let her fly alone? Is that the thing? I mean, it's just so pathetic.

Ted Cruz. Don't be a public servant, you don't like it. Be a shitty lawyer, be like a rich lawyer that, you know, defends big corporations and makes tons of money and finds loopholes that fuck people over, that's what you do.

Great.

That's your calling. You're Mr. Debate Club, you know, just be a fucking shitty, rich lawyer. I don't get these people that want to be public servants and are so fucking shitty at it. And all they do is run. They never serve, they're always just running and spinning.

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Hi Sarah. This is Lee's dad. I just found your podcast and I'm enjoying it very much. I'd also like to tell you that we're very proud of you and what you've done with your life and proud to be able to say, we knew you back when I was so sweet.

This is my friend from high school, Lee Lampard, who I'm still friendly with, who married her high school sweetheart, Garrett Gillespie, and there's still every time I see them, they're like still madly in love. They have two grown, you know, like high school kids.

And I remember her dad, he was a pilot. And, you know, one like someone's dad is a pilot. It's like, oh, my God, you know, it's such a big deal.

And her mom was so nice to me. They were just the nicest family. And I remember one night, a very rare night. I mean, I slept over her house, which was very rare because, you know, it was a chronic bedwetter.

And I slept over in the next day, I they let me, you know, use the shower. And the water pressure at the Lambert's house was so good. You know, I need to back up and just say the shower at my mom's I my room was in the attic and it was like a shower. It looked like it was like you bought it. It looked like it was the size of a phone booth and it was plastic and it was a shower.

I don't know. It must have hooked up to the well and everything.

But it was like always freezing cold and like three streams of water came out of it. And taking a shower was just like a freezing, awful experience.

But at the Lamb Bardes, it was so hot and there was so much water pressure in. I remember that shower and then I came out of the shower. And her whole family was like. Very nice and polite, but I could tell that underneath that they were annoyed with me and then Lee was like, you took a 40 minute shower and there's no hot water left.

And I felt so bad, but they were so nice and I always loved them. And I I do feel bad about that. And I apologize, Mr. Lampard, Mrs. Lambert and Lee. But I I'm going to be honest, I don't regret it. It was one of the great showers of my life.

Hey, Sarah, this is Tim. I'm wondering where you stand on this notion of being gracious and and speaking in in nice terms when someone like Rush Limbaugh dies. I you know, I'm not inclined that way myself, I feel very harsh things about him and I don't feel the need to sugarcoat it. But there's a lot of people calling foul on this attitude.

Yeah. I understand all the angles, you know. I don't have a hard feeling on I personally, I just I sat that one out because I didn't have anything nice to say, so I didn't say anything at all. I just didn't really feel a need to be negative. But I'm certainly not going to be positive as he was kind of the oji of alternative truth.

You know, he brought it into the mainstream.

This idea of of that truth is subjective, but I personally have no real desire to shit on the dead per and certainly not publicly, you know. But I get it. I mean, when my mother's mother died, my grandmother on my mother's side, I remember when I was told and I was just like, good.

And, you know, looking back, you know, I'm sure she had I know she had a very difficult life and she escaped the Holocaust.

And but she was very, very abusive to my mother and pretty much everyone around her. So, yeah, I just kind of felt nothing.

I certainly don't begrudge anyone who felt a kind of relief or even outward joy, just as I don't begrudge anyone who doesn't feel like that's karmically sound.

You know, they're so obnoxious because there are times on social media that, like some news will break or some something that will come out and I'll be like, oh, what am I going to say about this?

And then I, you know, have this realization like, oh, thank God, I don't have to say anything, you know, like who the fuck do I think I am that my first instinct is like, I need to weigh in.

Yeah, I wasn't particularly broken up about it. Sure. But, you know, he certainly has not been kind to people who have died or struggled if he was not a fan of them.

But, you know, I'm not a tit for tat kind of gal. Really.

Yeah. I mean, I think I think the last time I remember people being that excited about me dying was Osama bin Laden.

I remember when Osama bin Laden died. Oh, my God.

I actually it's kind of funny because I was using a Twitter app called like Twitter later.

And you could you could schedule your tweets, like ahead of time.

So I had written some dumb tweet and I scheduled it. And then it was like eight p.m. I was at a club to do comedy.

You see Ben Franklin in at 8:00 p.m. then in L.A., the news broke out. We've captured Osama bin Laden and killed him.

And, you know, Obama is going to dump them in the middle of the ocean or something.

And the Twitter was abuzz with the story, of course. And then at eight 05, I tweeted.

Why do my dog's duties come out called? And you know, just a reminder, I scheduled that that was a tweet I felt was worthy of scheduling.

This is another insult, Osama bin Laden fun fact. I read that before he before 9/11, the most hated entity on the Internet was Jar Jar Binks.

Is that true? Yeah. And then Osama bin Laden anyway. But bin Laden was trending this weekend. I saw that.

Well, he was trending, right. Bin Laden was trending this weekend because he would always make his videos in front of like a stockpile of guns and weapons and ammunition.

And like for some weird reason, Don Junior recorded himself talking about getting kids back to school or something involving, like children in school. And he shot it in front of like a stockpile of guns hanging up behind him. It's so bizarre. And if you look there's like he is like a font that says Don Junior, like a little bug in the corner of the screen, says Don Junior in a big gold font.

He thinks having a font in gold means something.

What an idiot. Hey, Sarah, I'd like to get your advice. I've heard you talk over the years about being Harry A. a hirsute female. Yeah. So on this topic, a relative of mine has a little girl and she's cute as a button.

But this button has a unibrow.

So the little girl is now about to start school. And I'm so worried for her because this unibrow will be immortalized in class pictures, not to mention all the taunting she's bound to endure and offer something that could be fixed in 20 seconds with an ice cube, tweezers and just a few quick clocks.

I'm not talking manicured brows, you know, no threading or taking her to get waxed or anything elaborate. She is just a little girl.

I'm just talking breaking through. So I'm wondering, should I speak up for this kid or keep my mouth shut?

What would you do if you were me or if this was your kid? Thanks, Sarah. I have mixed feelings about this. Look, I grew up in New Hampshire. There were not swarthy people there.

And I was this tiny, tiny, scrawny kid with just very thick, almost fur covering my arms and my legs and my upper lip and my eyebrows were one.

I was teased. I remember playing soccer and it was coed, and all the boys pinned me down one day and rubbed my arm hair in like fast circles until it was all knots.

My mom had to cut cut them out.

I get it. You love her and you want to prevent any. Pain she might endure. You know, I couldn't wait to shave my legs, I probably shaved them when I was like 12 without permission. I get it. But I think what's most important is do not put your hang ups on this kid, these this is your bag of shit. These are your fears, not hers.

She might be fine with her eyebrows. She might like the way she looks. She might love the person she is. And that's the best case scenario. Don't plant in her head that this is something to be ashamed of. That's your shit.

And by the way, she's going to cherish those school pictures.

I mean. Because they're going to be hilarious, we cherish those. I had a unibrow all the way through past being on Saturday Night Live, my SNL picture is one brow.

It wasn't until I moved to L.A. My roommate at the time goes, why don't we make these into two?

You know, like you could have one over each. And I went to her waxing lady. I mean, I've talked about this in comedy, but it's completely true.

And the lady called me in and I was following her into her office and she turned around. She said, what are we doing today? Just the mustache.

I said, no, I. Like I thought, because I bleached my mustache, that it was invisible, but apparently it was just a bright yellow mustache. And she did wax my mustache that day, and I remember walking out and feeling like I could feel the wind on it, but yeah, when I did the Sarah Silverman program, I had shaved my arms up until then, a bunch.

And I grew it out full for the Sarah Silverman program because I was really excited at the thought of young girls seeing me with hairy arms and look at me starring on my own show. And I also liked when I would meet young girls with hairy arms. I would put my hairy arms up and be like soul sister. Look, if she brings it up and it's she has a problem with it, she doesn't like it or she she's being teased, then then do it, wax it, whatever, pluck it.

But if she doesn't bring it up. Let her be happy with herself exactly how she is, and by the way, you should, too.

I think I told you guys my one summer in high school. My dad goes, if you want to get electrolysis, I'll pay for it.

And I was like, why would I do that?

So, yeah, I mean, your hang ups do not have to be her hang ups.

Hey, Sarah. And this is me calling from Norway. We get some. I was just your national caller.

I just discovered your podcast and I really like it. And I've always enjoyed you very much. And now in like the pre-election phase, one Norwegian journalist or professor, I don't know, someone in the media said that America is not unique in having problems, but it is unique in not acknowledging it's how we and it just stuck with me because.

Like you keep saying, America is the greatest country in the world and like no one else says that it's just so embarrassing and say that and. It's probably cool over there, but, I mean, is it like. The greatest. And I think by realizing its problems, you would have much better chance of fixing your problems. And I was just wondering if you had any thoughts about that. I hope to hear your reply. Thank you, have a great.

I have a great life. Yeah, boy, I agree, it's so embarrassing, I agree completely in that the USA No.

One mentality is just it's embarrassing. It's it's it paralyzes us. Certainly doesn't make us look good. You know, I don't think the rest of the world just takes our word for it. And I feel it comes more from people who have ironically maybe not traveled so much, maybe not even beyond their state or town could be wrong.

I'm not incredibly worldly.

I've been to almost all the states in our country from through. I travel a lot within the country, but I'm not super worldly.

But I, I will tell you that what turns me off about America, number one, is that need is so riddled in insecurity and in it's obvious, you know, having just life itself be competitive is like pathetic.

And it's not patriotism, patriotism is loving your country. Nationalism is we're number one, you know, it's nationalism. We're number one, if you are more than than others, are less then and you need that for some reason.

Ironically, it comes off as very weak, I think, to any people of intelligence so desperate to appear strong. It's a tell to me.

It signals the weakness.

These these nationalists are so, so terrified of revealing even to themselves their biggest fear. So they claim greatness, not just greatness, but greatest ness. Strength by declaration instead of strength, by action or by vulnerability or by care. The greatest country shouldn't have people dying because they can't afford health care.

The number one country shouldn't have people drowning in student debt or unable to afford food because billionaires are not held accountable to pay a living wage or to even pay taxes like the rest of us, this country cannot be great, truly great, in my opinion, at least without care, basic care, you can have all the money in the world.

But that does not mean shit if you don't care about your fellow countrymen. Countrymen does that. Jewish countrymen like roaringly, says Forbes.

The Forbes list of the richest people, you know, they list the richest people with no concern about what these wealthiest people did to get there.

The thousands of workers they fuck over and don't pay a living wage to or or health care to the totally unethical but technically legal corners.

They cut the Walton family, the Walton family that owns Wal-Mart, they pay such an unlivable wage that they actually instruct their employees on how to get welfare, meaning we, the taxpayers, are paying the employees of the richest family in the country.

That's America right now. You know the difference between loving America as I do. And you say no one is like the difference between the the desire for progress and change versus we're perfect and will never change, which is crazy because change is how you stay, number one.

If you don't change with the times you die, take it from my good friend Blockbuster Video, or you can just look them up on their MySpace page or better yet, leave them a message on their answering machine.

It's really fun. Outgoing message.

It goes, nobody's home. Nobody's home. But that inability to be vulnerable and look at yourself and want to improve it leaves no space for progress, for improvement. And if you're smart, you realize that all declaring we're number one makes us is a fucking steaming pile of number two. Mike drop. Well, that's the end of the show and dad, I'm rounding down. I'm easing into the end, so it's not too abrupt for you, but that's it.

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