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Let's hear it for our number one medicine man super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

I only did the boost so I could do the hiss because the hiss is just topic appropriate.

And hiss doesn't make sense, you know, without the boo.

Yeah, it's just what we can't people.

You need the boo followed by the hiss.

If ever one were to hiss first, I would immediately not take them seriously.

It's not like you're booing your own hiss.

Exactly.

Right.

Yeah, it's all about decor.

I'm here when it comes to nagging people in public.

Yeah, you're you're no I'm Ben and today our boo's and our hisses are appropriate because

we're talking about something that's a little bit etymology.

It's a little bit marketing.

It is 100% ridiculous.

No, we are exploring snake oil.

Yeah, snake oil like as a concept, as an actual thing that that legitimately existed.

Like let's think of the you know, I think maybe a lot of people's first experience with the idea

of a traveling snake oil salesman was probably in the the wizard of Oz in the original wizard of

Oz with the guy, whatever his name was, you know, who in the black and white version ends up being

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