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This week's guest is Carol.

She survived a skydiving accident.

Let's talk about it.

Yeah. crazy sometimes when she has a few glasses of wine it it starts to percolate

but i like all my like my closest friends in tronto were ones that i grew up with

that were cape retinas so like all my social time was with Cape Bretners. I think that's why I kept it. I used to. I used to have. I kept it. I used to, like, it's so thick. I love, what my favorite part is that on podcasts, accents like that really stand out. Gosh. It's a great way. know in a great way. It's just like it adds this, this extra layer of like, dude, who doesn't love accents? That's great. They're great. And what's funny is that... Even, um, Mark Henneck, you can pick up this slight Cape Breton accent every once in a while. It was just, I don't know, so, so charming.

I love it.

Like a little slur.

Yeah.

Like he's drunk.

I'm just kidding.

Like he's just a little drunk.

Oh, God.

I used to always have, every summer, I'd have a friend of mine from Glace Bay stay with me when I was in a hockey camp with him, where we'd be in hockey camp together.

And he'd always stay with me when he came down.

And in this camp, like when I was coming up, there was a lot of good hockey players coming to Cape Breton.

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