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Hey and welcome to the short stuff. Here's Jops, here's Chuck, there's Jerry, Dave's not here, but we're thinking of him. So it's short stuff. Let's go.

Can I start this with an anecdote?

Yeah.

So in the mid-1990s, a young scrappy young student at Ohio University

named Emily Cineboken. Scrappy young student at Ohio University

named Emily Cineboken

did her senior telecommunications film project

on what was called at the time. I don't know what they call it at the time actually.

It had a lot of names over the years but the Athens lunatic asylum or the Athens hospital for the insane.

Oh wow. Right there in Athens, Ohio where my wife went to

college and she said I tried to do a a spooky sort of ghosty thing and it didn't

turn out so great but that was her senior project.

That's awesome I'd love to see that.

Yeah I would do actually.

Oh you haven't?

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