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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey it's John. It's Thursday afternoon. This
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is a Jimmy Kimmel bonus. I think we'll start to
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ramp down from the constant Jimmy Kimmel bonus episodes as
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the news settles in. But I do like to gauge
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the temperature of what I call the civilians. These are
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the people in normal life who aren't listening to daily
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comedy news. They're not comedy snobs, and they were still
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talking about Jimmy Kimmel today, So I figured let me
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do one more in here. Then I think we'll get
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back to a normal schedule, although on Sunday I have
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Julie Seaboss. He produced the new Mark Marin documentary, so
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I'm gonna drop that into the feed on Sunday. We'll
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get to that. Jimmy Kimmel's Show on Tuesday Night six
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point twenty six million total viewers, despite not airing on
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twenty three percent of US television households because of the
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whole you Know Next Star Sinclair thing during the twenty
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twenty four to twenty twenty five season that was September
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to May. Jimmy Kimmel's average viewership was one point four
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to two million. Again. The other night got six point
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twenty six million. I don't have final Wednesday Night numbers yet,
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but as of ten am Wednesday morning, the Wednesday Night monologue,
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so that's night two. The Wednesday night monologue had three
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and a half million views. The Tuesday night monologue, his
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first night back, was closing in on twenty million views
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on YouTube. On Wednesday night, Jimmy Kimmel and his monologue said,
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moments after we taped our show last night, the Mad
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Red Hatter or I can't believe they gave me my
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job back. I can't believe we gave you your job back.
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Good joke Kimmel. Again, he says, I think we're going
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to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do.
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Last time I went after them, they gave me sixteen
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million dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. Only Donald
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Trump would try to prove he wasn't threatening ABC by
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threatening ABC. Another good joke, Kimmel one more time. This
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was his big closer. Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his
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bad ratings, and he does know bad ratings. He has
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some of the worst ratings any president has ever had
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so on behalf of us all. Welcome to the crappy
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ratings club. Mister President, I'm doing a quick Google search
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here of the words Kimmel Trump. I don't think the
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President has addressed the situation today. On Thursday, JD. Van
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suggested that the SEC chairman he was just kidding. It
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was just a joke. Uh huh, right, sure, Jan. A
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reporter asked about free speech implications. Vice President JD. Vance
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said what people will say is didn't the FCC commissioner
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put out a tweet that said something bad? Well, compare
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the FCC commissioner making a joke on social media. What
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is the government action that the Trump administration has engaged
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in the kick Jimmy Kimmel or anybody else off the air? Zero?
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What government pressure have we bought to bear to tell
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people that they're not allowed to speak to their mind? Zero?
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Hang on there a second. Now, I'll let the lawyers
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parse the language on what social media is or not.
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Commissioner car was on Benny Johnson's podcast is a podcast
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social media? Or is a podcast a podcast? Like right now,
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I think I'm doing a podcast and I'm not on
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social media right now. But I'm not a lawyer anyway.
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Whatever Benny Johnson's thing is. Commissioner car said, frankly, when
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we see stuff like this, I mean, we can do
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this the easy way or the hard way. These companies
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can find ways to change conduct, to take action frankly
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on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for
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the FCC ahead. Now, going back to Vice President Vance's comments, well,
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compare the FCC commissioner making a joke on social media.
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What is the government action that the Trump administration has
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engaged in to kick Jimmy Kimmel or anybody else off
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the air? Zero hold on a second, their Vice President
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Vance President Trump on social media and President Trump's social
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media actually is social media. The President's account wrote, the
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White House was told by ABC that his show was canceled.
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There again, I'll let the lawyer's parse the sentence. The
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sentence before is, I can't believe ABC, fake news gave
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Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told
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by ABC that his show was canceled. I believe, personally,
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perhaps possibly maybe that the pronoun his is referring to
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Jimmy Kimmel. It's possible that the President was referring to
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Henry Winkler at some point Happy Days was canceled. It's
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possible that's what he meant. But as I'm reading it,
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my non legal interpretation, personal opinion, what do I know,
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dummy in the basement, I think he's referring to Jimmy Kimmel. There,
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the Vice President said, what is the government action that
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the Trump administration has engaged in to kick Jimmy Kimmel
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or anybody else off the air? Zero? What government pressure
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if we brought to bair to tell people that they're
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not allowed to speak their mind. Zero. We believe in
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free speech, and the Trump administration we're fighting it every
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day to protect it. Now compare that to the Biden administration. Now,
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Deadline got into an interesting business standpoint. Kimmel is back,
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but how long can next Door and Sinclair keep him sidelined.
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I've heard a lot of interesting things about this. One
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broadcast executive told Deadline it depends how crazy it gets.
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It depends who fights the legal battle and whether ABC
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wants to go after them. The affiliates in some way,
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shape or form, how aggressive they want to get, ABC
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will turn the other cheek for a while until they
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don't want to turn the other cheek anymore. A broadcast
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executive talked about a typical agreement. No, Normally, the local
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station has rights to preempt up to a certain amount
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of times, unless it's at a national emergency. If the
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stations exceed that number, they lose rights to air that show,
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and the network can shift the show and its affiliated
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station elsewhere in a given market. So, as I understand
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this listening to podcasts such as The Town, that number
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might be around fifteen. That you can just preempt Jimmy
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Kimmel's show fifteen times because reasons, and then after that
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ABC could say you don't want to air Kimmel, Okay, we're
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giving it to the other channel, and then ABC can
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cut whatever deal they want with the other channel. There
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are exceptions, as I understand this, again a little outside
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my expertise here, maybe completely wrong, but as I understand it,
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say there was a terrible earthquake and you were doing
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earthquake coverage and therefore you didn't want to air Jimmy
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Kimmel because the news superseded the Jimmy Kimmel show. That's
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something you could do. There is a public interest cause,
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so you could say, Jimmy Kimmel's not in the public interest,
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so that possibly, perhaps maybe could get view an out.
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But I heard a counter argument that said, you've been
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airing Jimmy Kimmel twenty three years. Apparently it is in
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the public interest. So again we'll let the lawyers fight
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that one out. One of the questions, could ABC tell
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these stations, all right, no Monday night football for you,
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no SEC football this weekend? Sucks to be you. I
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believe that's the same argument in reverse of what is
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the agreement between the affiliate and the station that they
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would have the rights. You can't just take the stuff away.
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But again I'm not expert in this, but as a
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media executive, I do find it fascinating. Roseanne Barr not
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happy that Jimmy Kimmel is back. You may recall ABC
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removed Roseanne Barr from the air a few years back.
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She says, it just shows how they think I got
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my whole life ruin, no forgiveness, all of my work stolen,
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and called a racist for time and eternity for racially
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misgendering someone. It's a double standard, you may recall. In
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May twenty eighteen, Roseanne Barr published a social media post
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about former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett. I'm going to
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read you of the words from the post. They are horrible.
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I don't come to offend. I'm gonna quote them verbatim.
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In the May twenty eighteen post, bar wrote the Jarrett
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was equivalent to quote Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the
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Apes had a baby. Roseanne bar deleted and apologized for
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the comment. ABC canceled the Roseanne reboot. Looking back at
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those days, Roseanne Barr claimed that Jimmy Kimmel called me
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a racist, even though I said repeatedly, which they repeatedly censored,
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that it was a mistake. I thought the woman was
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a white woman from Iran. And with everybody canceling Disney
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Plus because they were mad, this seems the perfect time
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to raise prices. Yeah, Disney Plus with ads going up
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two dollars a seat for just eleven ninety nine a month.
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You can get Disney Plus with ads. If you want
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no ads, it's going up three dollars to eighteen ninety
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nine starting October twenty First Way to Read the Room,
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and there were reports that some self described pro democracy
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organication sent a letter to Bob Iger on behalf of
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two shareholders demanding details about ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel.
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The letter on behalf of the Disney shareholders requested the
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production of internal Disney documents and communications related to the
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decision to take Kimmel off the air for a week.
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Having been at big companies over the years, boy, I
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hope nobody wrote an email, and I hope nobody text.
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I hoped everybody picked up the phone. There. The groups
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contend to Kimmel's suspension as a potential violation of Disney's
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obligations to shareholders. The group claims that Disney stock suffered
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significant declines. Shares of Disney dropped three point three percent
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from September eighteen to the twenty third. However, closed up
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one point zero five percent on Wednesday. Earlier today, at noon,
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I dropped a different bonus episode with John Marcos SIRESI.
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I hope you check that one out. This will be
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it for today, barring scary thing happening that I'm not expecting,
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and then we'll try and get back into a normal
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mode with a normal episode on Friday morning and Saturday
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morning and Sunday morning, and then Sunday afternoon, we'll do
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the bonus with Julie Siebaugh, who produced the Marin documentary.
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I really appreciate you guys listening. This is a lot
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of fun to do, and I'll see you tomorrow