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We know about good curry, but what about bad curry?

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Hope all is well with you as we are still battling.

It's sick week on the show.

And it'll probably be another week.

The way, normally we get sick.

And the same cadence kind of happens.

I think we're all the same way.

When you get sick, the same thing happens to most of that.

So this will probably spill into next week.

But by the end of next week, depending on how much garlic I consume, we should be good to go.

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