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Now, without further ado, here's this week's free episode of Mike Linus.

Thank you. Linus. I've been watching two TV shows lately.

You watch TV?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

One of them you'll be glad to know, and some listeners will be glad to know, is The Sopranos.

I'm midway through season two, working at a glacial pace.

There you have it.

A bullying campaign gets the goods.

I told the fans to relentlessly bully will

until he finally watched the greatest TV show of all time. And it works. The arc of history is long,

but it bends towards justice. Well, it is quite good. And, you know, it's great to see Peter Bogdanovich

in action. But the thing is, you get a little tired of just seeing the same, like, shitty New Jersey

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