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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck Jerry's hanging out here being a weirdo creeper.

But she's standing in for Dave who just doesn't show up ever, which is sad, but it's alright.

This is about speed reading and you made a very good point because you put this together

for us that if we did the same job today without the internet, you would get a podcast episode

about once every two weeks.

Yeah, tops.

Because that's how long it would take for us to go to the library and do all the analog

research that it would take to get one of these episodes in the can.

But now we have the internet and that research is much more streamlined as it is for everyone

else.

It's crazy.

And think about it that way, just the revolution and information that the internet provides.

It's just so easy to take it for granted today.

But when you stop and think about what people had to do just 30 years ago, basically, it's

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