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That's why we launched The Big Take.

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to give you some space to think.

I'm Wes Kosova.

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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh.

There's Chuck.

Jerry's out there, fiddling around somewhere in the ethernet of the internet and whatever.

And this is short stuff.

Let me just stop talking.

Let's go.

Yeah, this is something we've done before and we will do again because as everyone knows,

we like phrase origins.

I especially love phrase origins.

And I think we're doing three today.

The second one which can be summed up in like a single sentence probably.

But we're going to start with a grain of salt.

Take it with a grain of salt, buddy.

I will take it with the grain of salt because I've just ingested some poison.

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