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The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flipive and Chromebook are better together.

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Hey everybody, Lhasla Montgomery, still no intro music, and from the response as I got from the

inquiry I made last episode into how all y'all's thought about it. It's looking like there will be no

melodic tones forthcoming, at least in the near term. This is the second podcast in a

row where the scheduled topic was preempted by a sudden inspiration from one of you, my listeners, to do something else.

That happened last time with William Mezny and now again with this silky smooth topic.

You remember 40 episodes ago I did this 10-part series where I discussed the history of tea from Shanong to the Qing Dynasty.

Well, today's subject, the history of silk is a story that I instructed my loyal

interns to condense down to a single episode.

You know me, if I could find some way to drag this one out eight or ten episodes, I'm more than

happy to do so.

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