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Hope you enjoy. 
We are talking about today Ted 

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Danson and Whoopi Goldberg. 
I need to say I have to say 

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Brittany, if you're listening, 
this is for you. 

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My friend Brittany listens to 
every episode. 

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She's so sweet and she has 
requested this couple many times

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to me. 
She even sent me a text with 

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like her ideas on it. 
And then she has brought it up a

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couple times. 
So I felt bad that we had never 

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done it. 
And now we finally are. 

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So I know it's your episode, 
Kate, but I want to dedicate it 

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to Britain. 
Well, I've also been requesting 

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this couple I remember. 
Oh, you. 

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Have when I was in a host, I'd 
be like, oh dude, Whoopi and 

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Ted, even though I didn't really
know much we. 

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Were like. 
No, I knew that they dated well,

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you guys just never did and 
since I run the YouTube account 

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I had them in the intro even 
though we've never covered them.

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Or they. 
Weren't even. 

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They were always in the intro 
and now that I'm finally a host,

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I'm covering them. 
But Kate? 

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What 3 words would you use to 
describe this couple today? 

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Yes. 
So the three words I'd use 

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describe are messy, breathe, and
then controversial. 

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Oh God. 
OK. 

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I think I know. 
I know a little bit about why 

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they're controversial, but I'm, 
I don't, I have never really 

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looked into them that much, so 
I'm excited. 

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Even if you did look into them, 
which this was a problem, I 

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found, it's so hard to find 
information about them online. 

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Like impossible. 
I know you guys have said 

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before, like in the Dolce and 
Gabbana episode, that like the 

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80s and 90s are really hard time
to research for. 

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Like it's the dark ages. 
Oh, it's so hard and it's so 

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true. 
It's so accurate. 

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I've never hit this roadblock 
before, but it it's hard. 

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Yeah, it's kind of a problem. 
I feel like. 

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I don't know who's going to do 
this, but like the National 

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Archive or something, I don't 
know. 

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We need to get if people have 
kept their magazines from the 

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80s and 90s, like we need to get
them scanned, you know, we need 

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get some. 
Digitized because. 

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Really. 
Because I feel like there is 

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stuff from like the. 60s there, 
there is, yeah. 

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Like there's stuff from the 80s 
and 90s, but yeah, nobody's 

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turned it into an archive except
for maybe like some bigger 

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publications, but they don't 
have all, like even People 

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magazine. 
You either need a subscription 

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to some kind of service or they 
only have select years or 

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something. 
And People do have magazines 

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online and like eBay and you 
have to pay for and you could do

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that. 
And I tried and I'll talk, but 

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it's. 
Not like every single but. 

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Yeah, but you need like every 
and there's some some magazines 

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that went out of print and now 
you cannot find anything about 

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them. 
Yeah. 

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And. 
The reason why the other decades

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earlier in the 20th century are 
easier are because it's far 

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enough away that enough people 
have written books about that 

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time period. 
There's actually like a lot 

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that's out there, but for some 
reason there's just, it's like 

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we're too close to it for the 
80s and 90s. 

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But I feel like while all these 
people are still alive for the 

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most part, we need to have 
people coming out and like 

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talking to primary sources and 
documenting this information 

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down for history's sake. 
Yeah, like. 

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Exactly, Ted. 
Danson, he had a biography 

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written about him, but it's out 
of print and impossible to get 

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your hands on. 
Like, I don't think you can find

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it anywhere. 
So the only other option would 

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be to like, read his memoir, but
he doesn't have a memoir, so 

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that made it really hard. 
So it's impossible the way. 

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You worded that to read his 
memoir, but he doesn't. 

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Have one. 
You could read his memoir. 

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If he had one but you're. 
Saying like memoirs are kind of 

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biased, so. 
Yeah, but it's giving some 

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information about their life. 
It's a source. 

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Whoopi, on the other hand, she 
does have a memoir, multiple of 

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them, in fact. 
And she has many biographies, 

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but when I read them, I found 
that they weren't really that 

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helpful for researching the 
relationship as much as Teds and

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memoirs of biographies are. 
Which is to say, like, not 

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helpful at all because in her 
books, Whoopi completely glosses

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over her time with Ted or 
doesn't mention it at all and 

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soon goes with the biographies 
about her. 

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They'll mention Ted offhandedly,
or if they do dwell on it, it'll

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be like a paragraph or like a 
page, and it doesn't really 

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provide that much information, 
so. 

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Weird. 
Basically all that to say that 

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when you listen to this episode,
you'll just hear me say over and

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over again that I don't know 
blank or blank or anything about

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their relationship in this 
regard or whatever. 

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And just know that this is the 
reason why that it's just so 

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hard to research for them 
because of this weird black hole

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that surrounds the 80s in the 
90s online. 

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Yeah. 
So it's, forgive me, that's not 

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going to be the most 
comprehensive episode. 

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I'm sure there's probably 
information I could find in some

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magazine or newspaper that's in 
somebody's garage just rotting 

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away at the bottom of A at the 
bottom of a box or something, 

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but I don't have that 
information. 

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But Kate, we. 
Trust we. 

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Trust and know that you turned 
over every leaf that you 

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possibly could and have. 
Searched. 

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For and why for information. 
So this is probably gonna be the

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most comprehensive take on the 
couple that is out there on the 

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Internet. 
So they're interested in it. 

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Couple yeah, they'll mention 
this a bit later, but the amount

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of eBay sellers I reached out to
Oh. 

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My God. 
The magazines they had on Whoopi

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and Ted, so so we I was on a 
time crunch so I couldn't get 

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them to send it to me 'cause it 
wouldn't come in time. 

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So it's like I'll pay you X 
amount of money, I'll pay you 

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however much you want if you 
just scan it or take a picture 

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and send it to me, Take a 
picture of the article, send it 

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to me, anything. 
And only one of them got back to

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me and agreed to do it. 
Only one. 

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Did you pay them? 
Yes, I did pay that first. 

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Come on. 
That's dedication. 

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It was $5, which isn't that 
much. 

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I needed. 
The information. 

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They're still going to make 
money off selling the print 

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version. 
Exactly. 

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And they can just put the 
magazine back up for sale and 

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sell the physical version. 
Yeah, I didn't know why no one 

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else is hopping on this 
opportunity, but nobody wants to

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make money on eBay, I guess. 
Anyway I. 

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Appreciate your dedication. 
Yes. 

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All right, I will have to stop 
the episode right there. 

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