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Standard Issue for all women. Hello and welcome to episode 278 of The Standard Issue Podcast.

I'm McKinnonin and I have done no ghosting this weekend, neither for Halloween,

nor in my pottery class. No ghosting. No ghost, are you proud of me?

I am. We did discuss it beforehand, I had words with you and there was to be no ghosting.

We weren't on the pottery wheel though, so who knows if I get to go on that, it might be hard to

resist. I don't know what a reviewer talking about. He's watched community, haven't you, Jen?

No. In the pottery class there's a big sign that says no ghosting.

Oh, I see.

What did you make anyway, Mick? I made a little milk joke. Looks kind of like a fat penguin,

which I'm not mad at. I feel guilty for giving up smoking because you could have had a really

easy win there and just made an ashtray, which is what everybody knows. Yeah, because you know,

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