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goes wrong. Hi everyone, it's Meganichok Rabardi,

and I know you tapped on this podcast right now

because you're expecting to hear the jackpot today.

We usually have our drops of Jack Beatty's special podcast

on Fridays, but I have to tell you,

this week we have been having a devil of a time

with our communications line to Jack.

You see, he's up in New Hampshire,

and right now they've got more than a foot

of a foot and a half of snow,

and so, I don't know, we figured that maybe

some of the creatures are chewing their way through Jack's internet wires

as they burrow through the snow.

We can't figure it out.

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