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We want to share a little behind-the-scenes thing from our other jobs producing, wait don't tell me it's something called

the breakfast rule here to talk about this with us our host peter sagle who you all know and lorna

white who is our technical director hi this is very exciting to be on the air with lorna this rarely

no this never happened this happened, unless it's a

mistake. Oh, well, there you go. This isn't a mistake, but it could have been. It could turn into one.

Yeah. Could turn into a mistake. Very quickly. Lorna, I should say, is with us because when it comes

to avoiding mistakes that might get the show canceled, Mike thinks of Lorna as the last line of

defense. It's true. If you're comfortable with that description. I'm comfortable with being the mom

of the show. I'm not comfortable with it because I don't know what it means. What is, what is

Lorna defending us from? If there's ever anything that is on the line, and we're still uncertain about whether or not it's going to offend the audience,

Lorna is often one of the last, if not the last person to hear the show before it goes out.

So if her radar goes off, then we know we have to address it.

So in that way, she is the last line of defense.

So we have this rule, called the breakfast rule, which is how we decide whether or not something

is too gross to go in the air.

If you were eating breakfast while listening to whatever story, how grossed out would you be?

Recently, there was a question on the show that made the show, but there was a part,

I was editing this, and there was a part that happened at the end that I found to be the

funniest part, but it also felt like, I don't know if we can put this on the radio.

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