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I'm Frank. And I'm Rhonda. And did you know what Houdie

neighbors from? Howdy neighbor, happy harvest. May your 40 acres soon be fields of clover.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. You're a musical question. You, I know you said 40 acres. Yeah.

So I don't know.

Tell me.

Oh, God.

The audience is going to be like, whatever.

It's Judy Garland from Summerstock, a movie called Summerstock.

Oh, I've heard of Summerstock.

She's writing and

track. I'm not familiar with the songs. So when you said 40 acres, I thought I might have to do

something with like black people. Well, that's interesting. I mean, that's an interesting

thing because it's true. May your 40 acres soon be fields of clover.

I wonder if, because 40 acres and a mule.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

With the promise.

I was like, I don't know.

I was trying to think of like an older black musical and then I just gave up.

I wonder if that's an interesting thing,

if that was a standard of farms

or if it was a sort of,

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