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Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Paul Mission Control Deckant.

Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

Interesting way to get into this. Have you guys ever been driving somewhere and you see an exit on the interstate and you think,

what if I just went here instead?

Especially if it has a fun name, you know, like weed, California, or you know, Cairo, Georgia.

Yeah, I almost get off at Beaver Ruin every time I pass that exit.

That sounds like a euphemism for something. I can't imagine what.

But yeah, yeah, I'm always partial to little known, like I love tourist traps and I'm always partial to, you know,

something that advertises itself not as the first best of a thing, but like the second or fourth best.

It's like the fourth biggest frying pan in the East Coast. Then I'm like, I'm in. I'll go.

I appreciate the modesty. I'm much more inclined to believe that than the best because there can only be one best.

So it seems like, you know, New York's best cup of coffee or whatever is like in every little diner.

But third best, I'd be more inclined to believe there's some stats backing that up.

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