Oct. 10, 2024

Did Tommy Chong suggest George Bush had a hit on him?

Show Notes
Transcript

We explore a variety of topics, including Nate Bargatze's new book 'Big Dumb Eyes,' upcoming Christmas special, and SNL ratings. Seth Meyers releases a trailer for his comedy special 'Dad Man Walking,' with jokes about parenting. There's a discussion on Tommy Chong's claims against President George W. Bush regarding his 2003 conviction. Jenna Fischer shares her breast cancer journey, declaring herself cancer-free. Other highlights include a World Animal Day event, HBO's 'It's Florida Man' series announcement, Jamie Foxx's new comedy special 'What Had Happened Was,' and Steph Tolev taping her special in Boston. The episode concludes with a lighthearted critique of Bill Burr's movie 'Old Dads.'

00:00 Introduction and Nate Bergatze's New Book
00:39 Nate's Christmas Special and SNL Ratings
01:29 Seth Meyers' New Comedy Special
02:27 Tommy Chong's Controversial Claims
04:01 Jenna Fisher's Cancer Journey
05:25 World Animal Day and HBO's New Series
07:23 Jamie Foxx's New Comedy Special
08:36 Steph Tolev's Upcoming Special

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Callaroga Shark Media tightly ho.

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I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news. Nate Berghatzy

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is working on a book. It is called Big Dumb Eyes.

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I think the book publicist thought I was insane when

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I reached out to them already. Big Dumb Eyes was

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announced by Nate on social media, who wrote, I'm so

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excited to tell you that I'm writing my first book.

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Big Dumb Eyes will be an easy read of a

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collection of personal stories, opinions, and confessions that the whole

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family can enjoy. It doesn't come out until May sixth

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of nixt year, which is why the publicists, I think

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thought I was insane. Got I got those requests in

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though I've previously told you. Nate is working on a

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Christmas special with CBS. Lauren Michael's behind that one. Nate

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says of the new special, I'm extremely excited to be

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creating this special as I've long been a fan of

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variety and we don't see enough of it. I want

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to make a great show for families to gather around

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and watch together, and I couldn't be in better hands

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and with this team. The ratings for Nate's SNL episode

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are in. Four point zero seven million people watched it,

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which is pretty good for eleven thirty at night when

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you compare that to say, Playoff Baseball. Yeah. Week over

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a week, it was down six hundred and twenty six

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thousand viewers from the premiere. You think Coldplay would bring

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in more people, right. It was also down eighty nine

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thousand viewers from Nate's appearance last October on the twenty eighth.

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That musical guest was Foo Fighters hmm. If you want

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to compare week to week last year, on October twenty first,

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Bad Bunny hosted, Nate outdrew the Bad Bunny episode by

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seven hundred and twenty one one thousand viewers. HBO released

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the trailer for Seth Meyer's new comedy special. It is

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called Dad Man Walking. I've got the trailer for you here.

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I've made a couple of minor edits to it because

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there's some visual jokes. But let's listen, and I want

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to point out notice the music bed. It's like stock

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Music Library version of the Who's Won't Get Fooled Again?

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Weird choice. It like keeps distracting me because I'm like, oh,

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it's fake who Anyway, let's listen.

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I could never hate my kids, you guys, I could

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never hate my kids with that. I hate when they

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wake up in the middle of the night bad news.

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It's gotten to the point that when I hear the

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door knob rattle, I actually think to myself, maybe it's

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just an intruder who will politely steal my valuables, and

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then I won't have to scratch his back for the

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next hour.

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Meyer's jokes that critics say it's the special my kids

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will be talking about in therapy twenty years from now.

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October twenty six for Seth Meyer's Dad Man Walking, Tommy

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Chong was on Bill Morris podcast. He suggested that President

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George W. Bush ordered a hit on mister Chong. Tommy

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Chong is now eighty six. He claimed that his criminal

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conviction in two thousand and three for selling drug paraphernalia online,

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specifically seventy five hundred bonds and water pipes, was orchestrated

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by George W. Bush. Chong served eight months at a

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federal prison in California after entering into a plea deal.

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The case was initiated by the US Attorney for Western Pennsylvania.

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Chung says it was orchestrated by Bush. He told Bill

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Mahr they had a hit on me. The Bush family.

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Bill Maher, no surprise, was curious about the claim. Chong said,

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Bush was invading a raq, so they needed some sort

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of hippie bs more than asked him if it was

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a wag the dog type play. That's a reference to

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a political strategy he used to create a diversion. You know, hey,

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don't worry about the war, worry about Tommy Chung. Yeah,

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all right, Chong said, yeah, So they attacked me and

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they sentenced me on nine to eleven. The judge Schwartz

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was his name. He had a reputation of doing whatever

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the Bush people wanted done, and so that's why he

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was giving my thing. They needed a face for their

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campaign because they were going after paraphernalia on the internet.

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Mar Ashchong if he harbored any bitterness towards Bush Or's family.

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Chong said no, Yeah, he said no, but admitted the

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experience was a life changer for me. Yeah. I would

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imagine newsweeks as they contacted the Bush media team for comment.

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No comment at the time of this recording. Interesting tag here.

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Chong said prison was devastating to my family, especially my wife.

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Wasn't tough on me. Actually, it was quite a nice experience.

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Jenni Fisher, you know her as Pam from the Office.

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She shared on Instagram her breast cancer diagnosis, announcing she's

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now cancer free. She released a series of slides in

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commemoration of Breast cancer Awareness Month. She said in October

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of twenty twenty three, doctors found something on her left

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breast after an inconclusive mammogram. That December, she learned she

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had stage one triple positive breast cancer, a particularly aggressive

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form of the disease, but one that is highly responsive

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to treatment. They caught the cancer early it had not

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spread to the rest of her body. In twenty twenty four,

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doctors removed the lump, but triple positive breast cancer still

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requires chemo and radiation therapy. Jenna says during the treatment

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her hair fell out and she began wearing wigs and

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hats with hair, which her family affectionately called wigats. After

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twelve rounds of weekly chemotherapy, three weeks of radiation, and

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some other treatments, Jenna says she's happy to say I'm

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feeling great. I'm making this announcements for a few reasons. One,

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I'm ready to ditch the wigs. Two to implore you

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to get your annual mammograms. Can also ask your doctor

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to calculate your breast cancer risk Assessment score and get

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additional screenings required. I'm serious. Caught your doctor right now.

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My tumor was so small it could not be felt

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on a physle exam. If I'd waited six months longer,

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things could be much worse. I'm happy to say I

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was recently rescreened and the treatments worked. I'm cancer free.

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I will continue to be treated monitored to help stay

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that way. Take it from Pam and her Pam PAMs.

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Michael Scott was right, get them check, ladies. Some high

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profile animal lovers, including Ricky Gervais, attended a World Animal

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Day event in aid of the animal welfare charity Mayhew.

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More than fifteen thousand pounds were raised on the night

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You Are a Raffle and auction of virtual gifts to

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support the dogs, cats and communities that Mayhew helps. HBO

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not the best timing to announce their new late night

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comedy series, It's Florida Man. Hope Everyone in Florida is

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safe Today. The series It's Florida Man debuts next Friday,

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October eighteenth, at eleven pm on HBO. It'll stream on Max.

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By the way, I was playing around on Max watching

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the Penguin. Have you seen the Penguin? The Penguin is

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very good, And I noticed in the top ten was

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have I Got news for you? The CNN thing that

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airs on Saturday Night. So maybe the Saturday night thing

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is a terrible idea, but the Max part of it

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seems to be doing well. You go, Roywood Junior. Anyway,

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it's Florida Man. We'll stream on Max at a layer

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on HBO proper at eleven BM Eastern and Pacific starting

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on the eighteenth. The irreverent late night comedy series brings

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of tone because I recorded this on Wednesday, so I

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hope you're not listening on Thursday going, Oh my god, John,

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HBO Press Team. My former co worker Jamie Fox recorded

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his new comedy special and will eventually air on Netflix.

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Gail King happened to be backstage to ask Jamie some questions. Well,

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it's amazing, Gail King asked Jamie Fox, I want to

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know how you feel after three nights. Jamie said it

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was an excruciating time opening those wounds every single day.

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The subject matter was the story of the mysterious ailment

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that left Jamie hospitalized back in twenty twenty three. The

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show was titled What had Happened Was? Jamie says the

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show's unusual because he didn't workshop the material. Fox says

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it was excruciating because the worries what gets you. You

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got a great show in the room, but we don't

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know what they may laugh at, what they might not

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laugh at. Usually, when you do a stand up, specially

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you gought for a year and you work every nook

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and granny and then you take it. You don't just

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show up in Atlanta and turn the camera on. It's

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a personal journey and I hope I never have to

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go through this again. My next jokes will start out

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knock Knock. I'll do an hour and a half of

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knock knock jokes. Glad he's doing well again. Having worked

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with Jamie in his camp for a few years, that

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they weren't able to prop him up to take a

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photo of him sitting poolside and looking cool and being like, yeah,

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everything's great. That screams to me that this was really serious,

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because I'm telling you, if they could have gotten one

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good picture, it would have hit the Internet, glad he's

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doing it all right. Steph Tolev is taping her special

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at the Paradise Rocket Club in Boston tonight. Vulture recognized

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Steph as one of Toronto's funniest exports in their annual

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Comedians You Should and Will Know not this year, but

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a previous year. You can also see Steph tolev and

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Bill Burr's movie Old Dad's in the movie wasn't good. Sorry,

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and that's your comedy needs today. John, you end it

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on a jerky note. You're more. I hate you. I know,

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I'm sorry I stumbled into that, but it wasn't good.

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See you tomorrow.