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Hey there and welcome to Short Stuff.

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles Lovic, Hook Brand, there's Jerry over there.

And we are right smack dab in the middle of entering graduation season.

And we're three doctors.

We are self-proclaimed, really.

We didn't even have an honorary degree.

Right, exactly.

Are there written in crayon in our own handwriting?

Yeah, so we talked about this in a recent episode about honorary degrees and this ended

up being encapsulating what's perfect about Short Stuff is we can explain everything you

need to know about honorary degrees in like 12 minutes.

We can explain it in one second.

Marketing.

Yeah, that's kind of true.

And it is a little more interesting than that.

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