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Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be complained about by my co-host John

Syracuse. I'm Dan Benjamin today is December 30th 2011 it almost gone, it's almost over. This is episode number 48. We want to say

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How are you, John Serquisa? I'm doing fine, Dan Benjamin.

It's a weird long pause there,

like you were waiting for your cue.

I was blowing my nose. Oh nice. Yeah, TMI. I also had to retrieve the box of tissues.

Well. Priorities are. of tissues. Well, priorities are in line I guess. All the things that happen when the

microphone is on mute. That's right. You're ready for another schmorgasboard

show today? I am. I don't know why it's like the end of the year these shows are like less focused and it's just a bunch of little things. I don't know. Maybe there's no one everyone's on vacation for the holidays and nothing's going on, I guess.

It's been a slow news week.

That's for sure.

Although we don't always talk about news.

I don't know, maybe for the new year we'll get back on track.

Okay. I have some idea of stewing for future main topics, but a lot of them, I think of the topic I'm like, oh yeah, a lot of people have asked about this, we should talk about this, and I say, well, was it really, you know, Apple related?

Is there any Apple angle at all?

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