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🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | With Barbinheimer and both Taylor Swift and Beyoncée on tour, it was a lot of cultural news to keep up on this year. |
0:08.3 | Hollywood actors have gone on strike. |
0:10.5 | The Prince's memoir's spare is out. |
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0:55.4 | If you're a long time public radio listener, and let's face it, if you're listening to |
1:00.0 | this you just might be, you've likely heard author David Sedaris speak about his time |
1:06.2 | as a Macy's Christmas elf. |
1:11.6 | The woman at Macy's asked, would you be interested in full-time elf or evening and weekend elf? |
1:17.0 | I said full-time elf. |
1:19.0 | I am a 33-year-old man applying for a job as an elf. |
1:23.8 | Sedaris first read his Santo Land diaries on NPR's Morning Edition in 1992 |
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