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It's Wednesday, July 30, 2014 from Slate It's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca. So you know how

you have to mardi gras hits if you're not Catholic or if you weren't paying attention

to mardi gras at all, you'll see maybe an item on the news about a parade and you're

like, oh yeah, that was mardi gras. Oh yeah, Tuesday, it's Tuesday, a fat Tuesday. But if

you went to the streets of New Orleans, everything would be strewn with cups and beads and urine.

It was like a hurricane hit it. And in fact, many hurricanes had hit it. And there's the

entire population staggering bleary eyed into the light. And they'd all be like, oh, how

could you not know this just happened? This is the same thing that happens with the Bachelorette.

When it ends, I don't follow it at all. But when it ends the next day, everyone's just

wandering around saying, this was an occurrence. This changed me. I'm like, really tell me

what happened. So today I will report to you everything I learned about the Bachelorette,

which apparently is the most important thing that's ever happened in the world. The Bachelorette,

her name is Andy Dorfman. She quit her job to be on the show. So that's okay, right? What

did she work in a flower shop? Sagaras, Sagaras, that kind of thing. No, she was a district attorney

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