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My name's Craig.

It appears as if the other half of this podcast has vanished

so a hearty go birds to all of you

I'm here in Philadelphia by myself no co-host he's vanished

just celebrating the Eagles victory if. If I had another half here, you know, I would, I would chant. I would go, E-A-G-L-E-S. Eagles. You summoned. I wasn't sure what the, I wasn't sure what negative zone you'd been banished to.

A genie trapped me in a lamp until somebody did the Eagles chant,

but they didn't know that they were leaving their lamp in Philadelphia.

You've been in and out of the lamp all day, haven't you?

Yeah.

That's how it works.

If I say it again, do you go back in?

Uh-oh. So thank you for picking up what I was putting down about my joke about the vanishing half.

Well, you were moving around a little bit so I could tell.

I was trying, I was, yeah, I was trying to signal.

Yes, I was trying to signal to you that it was not a technical difficulty.

It was an intentional, creative decision that I was making.

Oh, yeah. As part of our

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