It's Friday, October 21st, 2016, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Indra Viscontas.

And I'm Kishore Hari.

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slash inquiring minds and use promo code inquiring minds. So how do you feel about cats?

What? I mean, are you a cat person or a dog person?

All right.

I'm going to reveal a pretty closely held secret about me here on air.

Luckily this doesn't go out anywhere, right?

So I aspire to be a dog person, but in reality I'm a cat person.

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