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Welcome to the Nerdist Podcast, number 475. That's a nice number, divisible by five.

It is. I like that. I was suggesting the mic thing about numbers.

What'd you come up with?

Not much. I taught math today. You taught math today, huh?

I did. I accepted taught. I taught kids how to do percentages so they could learn markups and

stores. Oh wow, that's fantastic. Now they know when they're getting screwed. Yeah, which is most

of the time as it turns out. Yeah, down with America. I had to explain them what CDs work because

they were young. Oh no. That's the grave, Chris. Is that what's calling? Yeah, that's what's

calling too. Come back disc. Come back disc. Do you remember when you bought your first

compact display? It's like having 10 MP3s on a thing. Why would you only have 10 MP3s because

you didn't know the technology that I hate you. That's a bad subject teacher. My favorite

sentence is I don't care. They start to explain something. I don't care. I just cut them off.

And they look shocked and hurt. Are you? Wait, so are you really sweet and docile here,

but are you a bastard? Oh, yeah, I got to take on my radio at somewhere Chris.

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