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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works.com.

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry over there.

This is Stuff You Should Know, The Podcast About Ping Pong.

I'm excited about this one.

I'm glad.

I love ping pong.

Are you any good? I don't think we've ever played, have we?

I think we have.

It's crazy.

There was at one time we were at that ping pong bar and we just stared at each other for an hour.

But we never played.

I remember that as being air hockey.

I remember the staring.

Yeah dude, I love ping pong.

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