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hour one of the Von Hessler Doctrine begins right now.

I am your lovable, hugable, mid-morning chat host, Eric von Hessler,

surrounded by the doctrinares, Tim Andrews, Autumn Fisher, Jared Yamamoto.

Did you survive the great Snapchat outage of 2019 last night?

Well, given the fact that I'm not on any social media, the answer is a yes.

My understanding is the Gmail went down for a little bit.

But you know what?

Who cares?

You know, it used to take, people freak out the Gmail.

How was it down?

An hour, two, three?

You know, a lengthy amount of time okay i can't access my

docks yeah you know here here's the deal you used to take a week and a half to write somebody a letter

and get it to them and they open it and then they would respond and we'd take another week and a half

for you to get their response to your letter i'm good how are you thanks for writing

you know i thought it almost as

an act of rebellion. I think that I'm going to start writing friends and loved ones letters again.

What a freak out. You just write a long letter to people and just send it to them. You get something

in your mail that isn't a bill or a flyer and you're like, oh, who's sending me

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