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Chris: Hello and welcome to Dailies
for Friday, October 2nd, 2026.
00:00:10.659 --> 00:00:14.169
I'm attempting to record an episode every
day for this, my 50th year on the planet.
00:00:14.529 --> 00:00:17.819
First of all, a bit of follow-up to
the National Truth and Reconciliation
00:00:17.819 --> 00:00:21.415
Day episode I did a couple days
ago, from my wife who was listening
00:00:21.475 --> 00:00:25.745
and sent me in a message from the
car, uh, voice text, obviously.
00:00:26.145 --> 00:00:28.305
Uh, "Follow up on National
Truth and Reconciliation Day.
00:00:28.305 --> 00:00:31.845
In many provinces here in Canada, they
have actually made it a statutory holiday.
00:00:32.245 --> 00:00:34.495
It's actually Saskatchewan that
has chosen not to make it a
00:00:34.495 --> 00:00:38.205
statutory holiday, so federally it's
des-designated as a federal holiday.
00:00:38.517 --> 00:00:41.497
I believe it's also any provincial
government workers that get it off.
00:00:41.527 --> 00:00:44.567
That's why our schools are closed,
however, because it costs businesses
00:00:44.567 --> 00:00:48.417
money to have a statutory holiday because
they have to pay workers for it, and our
00:00:48.417 --> 00:00:52.157
provincial government is pro-business
and don't really care about honoring
00:00:52.157 --> 00:00:55.317
the vulnerable people of our world or
even being compassionate towards them."
00:00:55.717 --> 00:00:58.657
So that's my opinion, her
opinion, on why they haven't
00:00:58.657 --> 00:00:59.877
made it a statutory holiday yet.
00:01:00.277 --> 00:01:03.437
So that's why businesses remain
open and business as normal goes on
00:01:03.447 --> 00:01:06.757
for most organizations, but schools
are closed and so everyone has to
00:01:06.757 --> 00:01:08.137
figure out what to do with childcare.
00:01:08.537 --> 00:01:08.987
So there you go.
00:01:08.987 --> 00:01:12.607
I appreciate the follow-up
and, uh, clarification,
00:01:12.687 --> 00:01:13.977
correction sort of, I guess.
00:01:14.267 --> 00:01:16.207
I don't know if I got it wrong,
I just didn't really know.
00:01:16.237 --> 00:01:20.877
But, uh, either way, I agree with
her assessment that, uh, because
00:01:20.887 --> 00:01:23.977
businesses would have to pay for it,
and it's also because the indigenous
00:01:23.977 --> 00:01:28.817
people here in, in Saskatchewan are
sort of tokenized when it's helpful,
00:01:28.817 --> 00:01:33.007
and when it's not and inconvenient,
then it's not really worth doing.
00:01:33.007 --> 00:01:37.027
And so that's why things like National
Day for Truth and Reconciliation is
00:01:37.027 --> 00:01:39.867
not something that the Saskatchewan
government, which leans pretty
00:01:39.867 --> 00:01:44.797
heavily conservative, decided
not to partake in that directly.
00:01:45.197 --> 00:01:48.407
I was searching for a topic for the
episode, and I'd even put it out
00:01:48.407 --> 00:01:50.887
onto social media to get some ideas
00:01:51.287 --> 00:01:54.297
Steven Gary said, "Try recording without
planning anything," which I appreciate the
00:01:54.297 --> 00:01:56.437
idea that I do a lot of planning for this.
00:01:56.837 --> 00:01:59.247
Dave Roberts says, "Skip it, and then your
next episode is what you did while you
00:01:59.247 --> 00:02:02.337
were skipping it," which would probably be
just waiting for my dog to finish barking
00:02:02.737 --> 00:02:06.137
Stephen had a follow-up suggestion of
doing what TV shows do when they run out
00:02:06.137 --> 00:02:09.377
of ideas, either a musical episode or
historical period piece episode, and I
00:02:09.377 --> 00:02:12.907
thought maybe a recap episode would be
appropriate at some point On YouTube you
00:02:12.907 --> 00:02:17.087
can see Neville's pouting here 'cause
he got thrown in the crate here in my
00:02:17.087 --> 00:02:21.108
office Brett said low energy video
games that aren't Fortnite, which, uh,
00:02:21.508 --> 00:02:24.708
I think I mentioned Pass the Dutchie or
Dutchie something, whatever it was called,
00:02:25.108 --> 00:02:26.048
which I've been playing a little bit.
00:02:26.428 --> 00:02:30.528
Uh, and then, uh, Mini Motorways
actually on iOS, uh, in particular,
00:02:30.528 --> 00:02:32.208
and then on Mac too I have done.
00:02:32.208 --> 00:02:33.018
I did a little bit of aâ¦
00:02:33.038 --> 00:02:35.408
I'd actually did a live stream
of playing Mini Motorways one day
00:02:35.638 --> 00:02:38.768
just, and got a bunch of views on
my gaming channel for some reason.
00:02:38.768 --> 00:02:40.608
I guess maybe that one's
more popular than I thought.
00:02:40.970 --> 00:02:42.840
VoidandCozy said, "I think we need
to have a serious conversation
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about coffee and coffee machines."
00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:45.550
I agree.
00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:48.630
I am, uh, nervous to do that because
all I know it'll be expensive.
00:02:49.030 --> 00:02:51.150
Over on Threads, uh, @ @durga.kub
00:02:51.160 --> 00:02:52.450
replied with swords.
00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.310
So talking about swords,
which I don't know much about.
00:02:55.380 --> 00:02:58.200
That could be maybe something I could have
my brother-in-law Chris on to talk about.
00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:00.990
Uh, I could talk about my favorite
jackets and where I wore it.
00:03:01.180 --> 00:03:04.500
I'm too-- It's too soon to talk
about jackets in Saskatchewan.
00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:07.620
I-- S- Winter is coming, uh,
and I don't wanna talk about
00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:08.510
it any more than I have to.
00:03:08.910 --> 00:03:13.440
And on Bluesky, at Stella replied with
how to s- find a subject for a podcast,
00:03:13.530 --> 00:03:18.515
which is kinda what I'm doing, showing my
work, crowdsourcing But then I, uh, came
00:03:18.515 --> 00:03:23.095
across this article that I'll link to, uh,
from the actual Buttondown's blog, the app
00:03:23.095 --> 00:03:26.265
that I use for my newsletter, my weekly
newsletter, buttondown.com/lemondcast,
00:03:26.655 --> 00:03:27.105
Buttondown.com/lemoncasting.
00:03:28.924 --> 00:03:31.174
the title of it is "What We
Lost When We Lost Comments,"
00:03:31.194 --> 00:03:33.474
and it's by Matthew Gay, Gay?
00:03:33.814 --> 00:03:35.074
I'm not sure how to
pronounce his last name.
00:03:35.074 --> 00:03:37.474
But, uh, anyways, he just sort
of walks through the history
00:03:37.474 --> 00:03:38.574
of comments on the internet.
00:03:38.844 --> 00:03:42.584
Not so much YouTube comments,
but blogs and websites and how it
00:03:42.584 --> 00:03:45.164
was really popular, and then they
obviously got really toxic, and then
00:03:45.164 --> 00:03:48.124
they took them away, and they're kind
of making a comeback on websites.
00:03:48.144 --> 00:03:53.505
And I just wanted to, I guess, thumbs up,
like, whatever, share that idea that, I
00:03:53.505 --> 00:03:55.745
think comments are awesome as far asâ¦
00:03:55.785 --> 00:03:58.895
And I always look forward to comments
I get, whether it's on, on all the
00:03:58.905 --> 00:04:03.495
things I, I do, whether it's YouTube,
my blog, even posting on social media.
00:04:03.575 --> 00:04:07.225
Uh, I really value and appreciate
someone taking the time to respond, even
00:04:07.225 --> 00:04:11.169
if sometimes it escapes containment,
as they say, and, people who are
00:04:11.169 --> 00:04:14.582
outside of my sphere, c- reply and
don't always take into account or
00:04:14.582 --> 00:04:16.232
understand the context behind something.
00:04:16.632 --> 00:04:19.962
I still think it's kind of interesting
when an idea or a thought or a blog
00:04:19.962 --> 00:04:24.472
post or a podcast episode resonates
and goes further than I ever
00:04:24.472 --> 00:04:28.282
intended it to, and seeing how that
bounces off other people's brains.
00:04:28.682 --> 00:04:31.732
And so a bit like what I said in the
podcast, uh, International Podcast
00:04:31.732 --> 00:04:35.342
Day episode, podcasters or bloggers,
if they have comments enabled,
00:04:35.372 --> 00:04:36.872
I think always appreciate that.
00:04:37.242 --> 00:04:40.462
Um, I'm lucky in that, uh, none of,
none of my stuff is big enough that
00:04:40.462 --> 00:04:43.862
I would be generating comments from
massive amounts of people, and so
00:04:44.252 --> 00:04:48.012
getting two to five, whatever comments
or replies to something that I put out
00:04:48.012 --> 00:04:49.612
into the world is pretty easy to manage.
00:04:49.622 --> 00:04:52.973
So I can understand for some blogs and
some sites where, you know, maybe you
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have an audience of thousands and you
get 50 comments on a thing, obviously
00:04:56.363 --> 00:04:57.423
it's hard to keep up with that.
00:04:57.423 --> 00:05:00.403
But I know especially on my YouTube
channel over the years, I've really
00:05:00.403 --> 00:05:03.233
appreciated when folks ask follow-up
questions to tutorials I've done
00:05:03.543 --> 00:05:06.893
or, uh, ask for specific versions
of, you know, a variation of what
00:05:06.893 --> 00:05:08.433
I've done or help with their thing.
00:05:08.753 --> 00:05:08.903
'Cause itâ¦
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Not only does it show that other people
are watching and viewing and, and are
00:05:12.943 --> 00:05:16.329
reading what you're putting out there,
but also it helps generate ideas for
00:05:16.329 --> 00:05:21.209
future episodes or videos or blog posts
to get comments and questions from folks
00:05:21.209 --> 00:05:22.969
who are reading and following along.
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So I'm very pro-comments
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So I just appreciated Buttondown's
approach to enabling comments.
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It's just on their archive pages, so
I don't, uh, and on paid accounts,
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and so I don't pay for myâ¦
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I'm not big enough on Buttondown
to have to pay for an account
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there yet, luckily, I guess.
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And so, um, there isn't
comments on my newsletter posts.
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But, I think it's cool that they are
enabling that and helping creators
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who write newsletters have comments
if they want on their archive pages.
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Speaking of comments, feel free to
reply to this post on social media,
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in the comments on YouTube where
you might be watching this, or you
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can email me at chris.enns@gmail.com
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If you have emailed and I haven't
gotten it, it's 'cause it got s-
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slapped, hit, whatever, collected
by spam, and I haven't seen it.
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So reply somewhere else
maybe, and just let me know.
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If you're not already subscribed,
visit daily.chrisanns.com/subscribe
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to the show, or just look for it
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Thanks for listening.
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Hope you'll be back tomorrow.
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Have a great day.
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Bye.
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Chris: Hello and welcome to Dailies
for Friday, October 2nd, 2026.
00:00:10.659 --> 00:00:14.169
I'm attempting to record an episode every
day for this, my 50th year on the planet.
00:00:14.529 --> 00:00:17.819
First of all, a bit of follow-up to
the National Truth and Reconciliation
00:00:17.819 --> 00:00:21.415
Day episode I did a couple days
ago, from my wife who was listening
00:00:21.475 --> 00:00:25.745
and sent me in a message from the
car, uh, voice text, obviously.
00:00:26.145 --> 00:00:28.305
Uh, "Follow up on National
Truth and Reconciliation Day.
00:00:28.305 --> 00:00:31.845
In many provinces here in Canada, they
have actually made it a statutory holiday.
00:00:32.245 --> 00:00:34.495
It's actually Saskatchewan that
has chosen not to make it a
00:00:34.495 --> 00:00:38.205
statutory holiday, so federally it's
des-designated as a federal holiday.
00:00:38.517 --> 00:00:41.497
I believe it's also any provincial
government workers that get it off.
00:00:41.527 --> 00:00:44.567
That's why our schools are closed,
however, because it costs businesses
00:00:44.567 --> 00:00:48.417
money to have a statutory holiday because
they have to pay workers for it, and our
00:00:48.417 --> 00:00:52.157
provincial government is pro-business
and don't really care about honoring
00:00:52.157 --> 00:00:55.317
the vulnerable people of our world or
even being compassionate towards them."
00:00:55.717 --> 00:00:58.657
So that's my opinion, her
opinion, on why they haven't
00:00:58.657 --> 00:00:59.877
made it a statutory holiday yet.
00:01:00.277 --> 00:01:03.437
So that's why businesses remain
open and business as normal goes on
00:01:03.447 --> 00:01:06.757
for most organizations, but schools
are closed and so everyone has to
00:01:06.757 --> 00:01:08.137
figure out what to do with childcare.
00:01:08.537 --> 00:01:08.987
So there you go.
00:01:08.987 --> 00:01:12.607
I appreciate the follow-up
and, uh, clarification,
00:01:12.687 --> 00:01:13.977
correction sort of, I guess.
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I don't know if I got it wrong,
I just didn't really know.
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But, uh, either way, I agree with
her assessment that, uh, because
00:01:20.887 --> 00:01:23.977
businesses would have to pay for it,
and it's also because the indigenous
00:01:23.977 --> 00:01:28.817
people here in, in Saskatchewan are
sort of tokenized when it's helpful,
00:01:28.817 --> 00:01:33.007
and when it's not and inconvenient,
then it's not really worth doing.
00:01:33.007 --> 00:01:37.027
And so that's why things like National
Day for Truth and Reconciliation is
00:01:37.027 --> 00:01:39.867
not something that the Saskatchewan
government, which leans pretty
00:01:39.867 --> 00:01:44.797
heavily conservative, decided
not to partake in that directly.
00:01:45.197 --> 00:01:48.407
I was searching for a topic for the
episode, and I'd even put it out
00:01:48.407 --> 00:01:50.887
onto social media to get some ideas
00:01:51.287 --> 00:01:54.297
Steven Gary said, "Try recording without
planning anything," which I appreciate the
00:01:54.297 --> 00:01:56.437
idea that I do a lot of planning for this.
00:01:56.837 --> 00:01:59.247
Dave Roberts says, "Skip it, and then your
next episode is what you did while you
00:01:59.247 --> 00:02:02.337
were skipping it," which would probably be
just waiting for my dog to finish barking
00:02:02.737 --> 00:02:06.137
Stephen had a follow-up suggestion of
doing what TV shows do when they run out
00:02:06.137 --> 00:02:09.377
of ideas, either a musical episode or
historical period piece episode, and I
00:02:09.377 --> 00:02:12.907
thought maybe a recap episode would be
appropriate at some point On YouTube you
00:02:12.907 --> 00:02:17.087
can see Neville's pouting here 'cause
he got thrown in the crate here in my
00:02:17.087 --> 00:02:21.108
office Brett said low energy video
games that aren't Fortnite, which, uh,
00:02:21.508 --> 00:02:24.708
I think I mentioned Pass the Dutchie or
Dutchie something, whatever it was called,
00:02:25.108 --> 00:02:26.048
which I've been playing a little bit.
00:02:26.428 --> 00:02:30.528
Uh, and then, uh, Mini Motorways
actually on iOS, uh, in particular,
00:02:30.528 --> 00:02:32.208
and then on Mac too I have done.
00:02:32.208 --> 00:02:33.018
I did a little bit of aâ¦
00:02:33.038 --> 00:02:35.408
I'd actually did a live stream
of playing Mini Motorways one day
00:02:35.638 --> 00:02:38.768
just, and got a bunch of views on
my gaming channel for some reason.
00:02:38.768 --> 00:02:40.608
I guess maybe that one's
more popular than I thought.
00:02:40.970 --> 00:02:42.840
VoidandCozy said, "I think we need
to have a serious conversation
00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:44.260
about coffee and coffee machines."
00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:45.550
I agree.
00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:48.630
I am, uh, nervous to do that because
all I know it'll be expensive.
00:02:49.030 --> 00:02:51.150
Over on Threads, uh, @ @durga.kub
00:02:51.160 --> 00:02:52.450
replied with swords.
00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.310
So talking about swords,
which I don't know much about.
00:02:55.380 --> 00:02:58.200
That could be maybe something I could have
my brother-in-law Chris on to talk about.
00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:00.990
Uh, I could talk about my favorite
jackets and where I wore it.
00:03:01.180 --> 00:03:04.500
I'm too-- It's too soon to talk
about jackets in Saskatchewan.
00:03:04.500 --> 00:03:07.620
I-- S- Winter is coming, uh,
and I don't wanna talk about
00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:08.510
it any more than I have to.
00:03:08.910 --> 00:03:13.440
And on Bluesky, at Stella replied with
how to s- find a subject for a podcast,
00:03:13.530 --> 00:03:18.515
which is kinda what I'm doing, showing my
work, crowdsourcing But then I, uh, came
00:03:18.515 --> 00:03:23.095
across this article that I'll link to, uh,
from the actual Buttondown's blog, the app
00:03:23.095 --> 00:03:26.265
that I use for my newsletter, my weekly
newsletter, buttondown.com/lemondcast,
00:03:26.655 --> 00:03:27.105
Buttondown.com/lemoncasting.
00:03:28.924 --> 00:03:31.174
the title of it is "What We
Lost When We Lost Comments,"
00:03:31.194 --> 00:03:33.474
and it's by Matthew Gay, Gay?
00:03:33.814 --> 00:03:35.074
I'm not sure how to
pronounce his last name.
00:03:35.074 --> 00:03:37.474
But, uh, anyways, he just sort
of walks through the history
00:03:37.474 --> 00:03:38.574
of comments on the internet.
00:03:38.844 --> 00:03:42.584
Not so much YouTube comments,
but blogs and websites and how it
00:03:42.584 --> 00:03:45.164
was really popular, and then they
obviously got really toxic, and then
00:03:45.164 --> 00:03:48.124
they took them away, and they're kind
of making a comeback on websites.
00:03:48.144 --> 00:03:53.505
And I just wanted to, I guess, thumbs up,
like, whatever, share that idea that, I
00:03:53.505 --> 00:03:55.745
think comments are awesome as far asâ¦
00:03:55.785 --> 00:03:58.895
And I always look forward to comments
I get, whether it's on, on all the
00:03:58.905 --> 00:04:03.495
things I, I do, whether it's YouTube,
my blog, even posting on social media.
00:04:03.575 --> 00:04:07.225
Uh, I really value and appreciate
someone taking the time to respond, even
00:04:07.225 --> 00:04:11.169
if sometimes it escapes containment,
as they say, and, people who are
00:04:11.169 --> 00:04:14.582
outside of my sphere, c- reply and
don't always take into account or
00:04:14.582 --> 00:04:16.232
understand the context behind something.
00:04:16.632 --> 00:04:19.962
I still think it's kind of interesting
when an idea or a thought or a blog
00:04:19.962 --> 00:04:24.472
post or a podcast episode resonates
and goes further than I ever
00:04:24.472 --> 00:04:28.282
intended it to, and seeing how that
bounces off other people's brains.
00:04:28.682 --> 00:04:31.732
And so a bit like what I said in the
podcast, uh, International Podcast
00:04:31.732 --> 00:04:35.342
Day episode, podcasters or bloggers,
if they have comments enabled,
00:04:35.372 --> 00:04:36.872
I think always appreciate that.
00:04:37.242 --> 00:04:40.462
Um, I'm lucky in that, uh, none of,
none of my stuff is big enough that
00:04:40.462 --> 00:04:43.862
I would be generating comments from
massive amounts of people, and so
00:04:44.252 --> 00:04:48.012
getting two to five, whatever comments
or replies to something that I put out
00:04:48.012 --> 00:04:49.612
into the world is pretty easy to manage.
00:04:49.622 --> 00:04:52.973
So I can understand for some blogs and
some sites where, you know, maybe you
00:04:52.973 --> 00:04:56.363
have an audience of thousands and you
get 50 comments on a thing, obviously
00:04:56.363 --> 00:04:57.423
it's hard to keep up with that.
00:04:57.423 --> 00:05:00.403
But I know especially on my YouTube
channel over the years, I've really
00:05:00.403 --> 00:05:03.233
appreciated when folks ask follow-up
questions to tutorials I've done
00:05:03.543 --> 00:05:06.893
or, uh, ask for specific versions
of, you know, a variation of what
00:05:06.893 --> 00:05:08.433
I've done or help with their thing.
00:05:08.753 --> 00:05:08.903
'Cause itâ¦
00:05:09.103 --> 00:05:12.943
Not only does it show that other people
are watching and viewing and, and are
00:05:12.943 --> 00:05:16.329
reading what you're putting out there,
but also it helps generate ideas for
00:05:16.329 --> 00:05:21.209
future episodes or videos or blog posts
to get comments and questions from folks
00:05:21.209 --> 00:05:22.969
who are reading and following along.
00:05:22.969 --> 00:05:25.029
So I'm very pro-comments
00:05:25.265 --> 00:05:27.835
So I just appreciated Buttondown's
approach to enabling comments.
00:05:27.895 --> 00:05:31.275
It's just on their archive pages, so
I don't, uh, and on paid accounts,
00:05:31.275 --> 00:05:32.335
and so I don't pay for myâ¦
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I'm not big enough on Buttondown
to have to pay for an account
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there yet, luckily, I guess.
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And so, um, there isn't
comments on my newsletter posts.
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But, I think it's cool that they are
enabling that and helping creators
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who write newsletters have comments
if they want on their archive pages.
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Speaking of comments, feel free to
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Hope you'll be back tomorrow.
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Have a great day.
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