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So hello, hellos here thinking you the quiet way hopefully
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to the Yuvik Exchange. Last time I went there to
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catch the bus to work.
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I took the.
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Route that I would normally take when I forgot how
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the noisy that Roses Road is.
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In the morning. Today's supposed to be a nice control
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zone zone two rank, so that zone three.
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Mm HM.
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In eleven minutes thirty two per kilometer. Mind I, I walk
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the hall up my street.
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As I was setting up my equipment. My heart's racing
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at the moment. Imast get excited when I speak to
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you guys. Let me just pause the recording until my
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breathing calms.
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Down a man, Otherwise I'm gosping to speak. Seven minutes
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into my run and I'm on the Lambrick Park.
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The lower zone, heading towards Felt and Rob.
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Then I'll be on the back doubles.
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It's exagging my way across Gordon Head towards in the
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University of Victoria. It's been a pretty eventful week altogether.
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I've had to cover more shifts than I was expecting.
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For Rob hopefully touch Wood he's tomorrow. Tomorrow is Thursday.
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I have done five days straight, mind you. The money
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will come in handy.
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I'm just coming past.
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I think what they are is ginkko trees, ginko billmoba trees.
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Not certain about that.
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But there are no leaves on the trees, so I
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can't really tell. But the other day on Monday, when
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I was coming home, I saw a Chinese lady picking
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these fruits off the ground. Let me take a photograph
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of the ginko tree. See if that's well. In fact,
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they are gink fruits.
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Yep.
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Anyway, so I asked her. I said, excuse me, what
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are those fruits that you're picking? And she gave me
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the classic old Chinese lady version of I don't speak English.
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I said, what do they called her? She disrupted her shoulders.
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She doesn't really know what to say to me that.
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I guess she knows them as ginkos. But uh, the
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fruit were fascinating. They looked interesting. They looked like little apricots.
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But uh.
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I took three of ground and walked home with them,
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and I ate them and they were very, very a stringent.
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They were soft, so I knew they were ripe. But
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they had a very large stone in the middle, which
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I didn't eat. Obviously, it was just after this exotic flavor.
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But after a.
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Few seconds, my tongue started to burn on the edges and.
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Still I feel it anyway.
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So I looked up gincoboloba fruit and it did warn
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me that the seeds were toxic. They have to be
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prepared in a certain way.
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But this Chinese lady wasn't able to explain that to me.
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I guess that's why she didn't really wanna get involved
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in misleading me. But uh so too. But uh the
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fruit was kind of interesting. And I looked up on
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the internet this business about the ginko and it did
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say that the jews from the ginko fruit it's a
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stringent and can cause skin rashes. It's probably scorched my
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tongue alright. So now I'm on the namehood backstreets heading
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towards La vall Haven. Here every Golden Head road comfortably
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in zone too. So that was the Monday, the Monday Shock.
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Tuesday was quite hectic.
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A lot of turkey went out the other day Turkey
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dinner for fifty, which involved the famous.
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Chafing dishes.
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As large stainless your hotel pants with a lid and
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the little candles under kneath.
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Start. Must just stopped to say hello to a cat.
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Hello cat. So about avenue.
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I take a left, coming off Yola, heading towards Gordon's
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Head Row.
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The Bove zone. Take heed, take heed, young man, listen
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to Slantha.
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So I had my porridge, I had my black coffee,
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and I remember to put the recycling out. Being Wednesday,
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we get our recycling every two weeks, but now that
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the fireplace is in action, I tend to burn most
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of the cardboard and paper that we accumulate, so all
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that goes out now is plastic.
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And the occasional can and what else glass. That's right.
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My son likes to cook for us everyek Thursday.
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We have buttered chicken, which.
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Involves a jar of VH.
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Buttered chicken.
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Faucet. This is only three just getting the uphill section
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out of the way from from the next main road
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from Gordonhead Road. It's mostly hello, it's mostly downhill.
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To be pleasant. I like doing it this way. When
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I do my Golden Head loop, I come this.
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Way and get the uphill section nine first, and then
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I have a nice downhill run to the water's edge. Today,
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instead of turning left at the top, I'll be turning right, heading.
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Towards edge load.
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Kevin put out the word the other day, so I
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have to remember to record a short submission for the
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Extra Mile podcast.
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Probably do that on the.
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Way home, cause this episode I will try once again
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to upload from the bus. I having fact termed a
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cellular data on so if I wanted to go live,
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I could, but I don't really like doing that for
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some reason. It's like answering the phone. You knows, you
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never really know how it's gonna turn out. There. Let
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me pause as I get away from the noise again.
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So even this route is quite noisy.
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I apologize for that, but at least I have a
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good windsock today as I hang a left on McCoy Road,
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all right.
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Back to the calm and the quiet of the back Doubles.
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I think I will call this short episode the back Doubles.
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Oh December, it's well and truly underway. My older brother's
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birthday is coming up. I think it actually might be
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tomorrow above zone zone three.
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As I'm walking off a little bit.
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Twenty two minutes in, it's fifty.
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Four per kilometer? Is my case? Quite chilling?
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Today?
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I'm not worry bloods.
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So I should be taking advantage of this freedom to
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use my phone as I take a photograph of the
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the uh Vlock's rugby field.
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I think it.
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Belongs to the University of Victoria. As I approach my destination,
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I will run this last part continuously, firstly because I'm
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running out of recording space, because within the next five
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minutes I'll be sitting on the bench waiting for.
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The bus M.
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Eight fifty nine, and I'm halfway to my goal. So
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that would be two hundred calories so far burnt. Being
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about three kilometers, I have another, let's say half a
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kilometer to go. That ad bus wasn't in the service,
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but the next one is.
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Up. He's not gonna stop.
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They used to stop for pedestrians if they could see
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them running for the bus. But I was a little
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bit too far away.
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Maybe I was for thirty nine. I'm going to cross here.
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How about lights give us a break?
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Here we go. Lots of students around here.
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It's this University of Victoria campus after all, lots of faculties,
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lots of residencies.
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I think forty nine is my pace.
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I was figuring on eight thirty being my paceman, what
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with one thing and another.
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My past drops, however I love, so.
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As I walk it off a little bit, I get
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to cut across the parking lot now, so away.
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From the Ring Road. Gabriola Road.
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Is being crossed as I speak. I know the next
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twenty six will be at about half an hour, so
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I have between now and then to upload my data
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to Speaker. It looks as if I've been attached to
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a different app, different platform for sharing my content to YouTube,
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as a company called Headliner that.
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Shares the spreaker feed from signed up numbers to YouTube.
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So if I post now, it's a speaker to automatically
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get shared to YouTuber. And I used to do that,
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but they warned us that that service would be discontinued.
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In December.
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So I got on board with Headliner, and uh, as
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they say, the rest is history. This episode of the
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Back of Doubles will appear sometime this morning on YouTube
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without me doing anything major.
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So most of the vehicles.
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Now that you're hear will be diesel engine and electric
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and hybrid buses. I had more than one option of
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buses to take today, but I'll take the twenty sixth.
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It'll get me into work just around eight thirty, which
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is when I want to be there. There is a
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bus that's not in service, but if if he's letting
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people on, I'll take advantage of that and sit in
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the bus. What we see, if the driver has the
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doors open and the doors shut, he's.
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On his brake.
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Alright, So I will take a seat and wait for
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the scheduled departure of the bus. So this is the
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running Jackal sitting in the bus shelter at the Usick Exchange.
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You could probably hear the acoustic difference.
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I have a little roof over my head and a
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couple of plexiglass panels on either side of me.
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All right, So once again the running Jackal
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On Wednesday saying bye bye to you with about a
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twenty minutes show today, Bye bye,