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The Bert Show.

On a very special Bert Show.

Fish Daddy is in here.

So we could properly say goodbye to our three fair fish.

It's so hard Tuesday goodbye to yesterday.

Fish Daddy, you bring us here today.

I don't know why you gave yourself that nature.

I know why.

I kind of like it.

So go ahead and tell those Bork Show listeners who may not be in the know how you became fish daddy well when a fish mommy and a fish daddy well right now i wish i had the memory of a goldfish to forget the

tragedies that have occurred over the last few weeks um we uh we found ourselves as uh loving parents of some fair fish from where we went to the Georgia State Fair.

And Amber actually had one of the craziest physical performances that I've ever seen in my entire life,

making a ping pong ball into this tiny little fish bowl and won us three fish.

And we were so excited and we brought them to the studio

and we had our class pets and everyone was very excited about it. But over the course of the last

few weeks, we've lost them slowly but surely one by one. And last Friday was the final day and fish

number three, kick the bucket. So we are here today so fish daddy could do a eulogy. So this is going

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