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Welcome to a very special and first time bonus track of Fit to Be Real and a little extra.

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We just launched Carmella's episode number seven of all of the stories of meeting our

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mom and guess what, believe it or not, there were more that we could not include.

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So here they are.

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Get excited.

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This first one was something that Carly had asked and it's, if you go to Carmella's

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dance studio, the shoes that she wore for this experience are hanging in Springfield,

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Pennsylvania.

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It'll make more sense when you listen to it.

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But here it is.

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And we're not going to ask you to tell this story, but I am just going to name drop a

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little bit one more time.

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She was John Travolta's rehearsal partner for Saturday Night Fever.

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So she was not the dancer in the movie, but she rehearsed with John Travolta.

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I helped him learn disco because I was taking private disco lessons and the teacher said,

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will you stay and be this guy's partner? I said, sure.

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In Walk John Travolta.

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I saw I did it for about five or six times while he learned disco.

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Yeah, but then he asked you to do something.

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To be a backup dancer in his Caribbean tour that summer.

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So why did she say no?

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I didn't.

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I auditioned.

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Oh.

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I auditioned.

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The director, he told the director to look for me.

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I went to the dance, the dance audition.

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They kept four guys, all John Travolta's height, six feet tall, and four girls who were all

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five, 10 and me.

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She's five, three.

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And I'm five, three, but I had five inch lifts on my character shoes at the time.

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And between that and my fro, I was as tall as the girls and I had a big fro.

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So they got down to five girls and four men.

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And they said, Carmella, take your shoes off.

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And I was like, no, please, please, no.

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I'll dance in these shoes.

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I've danced the whole audition.

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And they told me, and so I got cut because I was too short.

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And didn't Bob Fawcett save the same thing?

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No.

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Yes.

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Bob Fawcett cut me.

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I was down to the final 10 for some show that Bob Fawcett was doing.

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And then he looked all 10 dancers who walked past us and he would look you up and down

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and up and down.

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And I was by far the shortest one in the line and he loves long legs.

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So I got cut.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Story time.

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Well, that's the story you weren't going to tell, right?

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Yeah.

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Go, go, go, go.

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The story I said we're not going to tell.

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I'm just going to.

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That's good.

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So it's interesting that you say that and I'm glad that you did because if you are continuously

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listening to us, then you heard us talk about those cattle calls and how there's so much

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that gets deep rooted into being looked up and down and then looked at and said, no.

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So hopefully things shift and change and people maybe get a little bit thicker skin or whatever

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it is, but it's always been like that.

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Women, excuse me, I just went to a show recently and I can't remember what show it was, but

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the ensemble dancers were all different body types.

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They weren't all the same tall, skinny looking people.

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They were all different kinds of shapes and sizes.

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And I noticed that.

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2023.

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We are getting better.

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That's awesome.

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Yep.

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I think it's thanks to Lizzo and J.Lo.

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I mean, I'm not all a million other.

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Yeah, a million.

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Those are the ones that came to my head.

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It's because of them, I feel like that things are turning.

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Well, guess what?

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Debbie Allen was the one who brought shortness in and acceptability and acceptable higher

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because she's five three.

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And until Debbie Allen came, it all had to be five eight.

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And then she came and it was like, what?

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Short?

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Are you kidding me?

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I was too late for me.

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Clearly she was very passionate about her height.

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But yeah, that's a true story.

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She's been I've heard that John Travolta story since I was little, many times.

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And she tells it almost the same, sometimes different every time.

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Well, it was real.

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It was real.

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So is this next story, believe it or not, unfortunately.

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Yes, it's very easy to be like, oh, my gosh, there's no way.

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This is real.

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You own a business.

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We're raised children, but it is real.

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And I think it's just a testament to her convictions and her passion, passion for eggs.

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For eggs and anything she truly believes is real.

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All right, so we are going to cut this off.

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It could go on forever.

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Cut this off with one of the ever famous Carmella stories, which there are many, there are many.

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You could actually write a memoir.

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You should in all your free time.

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But we're going to leave you with this one that just gives a little bit more because

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we haven't given you enough insight on how things are around here.

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And it's the egg story.

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It's the egg story.

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A lot of people know this one, but for those of you that don't just buckle up.

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So it was Easter.

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And you had bought a couple dozen.

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Two dozen eggs.

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And we die eggs.

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That was a tradition.

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You hard boil eggs and you die the eggs and then you give one out to every single person

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in the family.

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People would go home with like four and five died eggs.

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You'd have to eat them.

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So we did.

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I remember doing it.

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I remember dying the eggs and you took a carton out.

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We died them end of story.

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So then what?

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Well, I got confused.

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So then you put them back in the refrigerator and they're done and they look horrible.

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They look really bad.

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Brown and try to be tied up.

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Every color.

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And then you went to make breakfast the next day or whatever day it was, you went to make

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breakfast and crack some eggs and they were hard boiled.

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And you got angry, angry about this.

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And you were like, I'm so confused.

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Why?

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Why would Choprite sell me hard boiled eggs?

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Why would that?

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Why would they?

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I didn't see a sign for that.

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And you took yourself to the store.

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These were white eggs.

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These were undied eggs.

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So they were hard boiled and I bought them hard boiled.

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And so I brought it back to the lady and I said, I bought a dozen of hard boiled eggs.

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And she's like, well, that's kind of impossible.

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I said, look at these eggs.

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She said, you must have boiled them.

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I said, I did not.

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The boiled eggs are the ones that we died.

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The ones that I boiled are the ones that.

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So she sold me it.

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So she took them back and I got a dozen of eggs and I brought them home.

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And then on Easter, the gifted eggs that you give got cracked.

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And they were not actually hard boiled eggs.

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We boiled the wrong dozen.

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No, we died the wrong dozen.

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I mean, we died the wrong dozen.

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And we gave out actual eggs.

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And the store, gosh, they actually took those eggs, took them back.

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And you were so convincing that you were like, Shop Right, you sold me hard boiled eggs.

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How could you do that?

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Damn you.

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Who does that?

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Who does that?

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And guess what?

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I got strange looks for the rest of strush.

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Every time I walked into Shop Right, it was, there's the lady that brought back the hard

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boiled.

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That was when we were little.

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It's happened again in a lot of different ways.

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I remember in the past year or so, you trying and desperately trying to return genes to

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Coles and then discovering you actually got them at Macy's.

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So this is a trend.

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She did that with a microwave.

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She tried to take it back to Coles and it was from, yeah, probably Macy's or something

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somewhere else.

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But it was the point of the story is she's very convincing.

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And when she wants something done, she will get it done.

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Whether it's real or not.

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Whether it's true.

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Whether it makes sense.

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No, but I believe it.

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Oh, okay.

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All right.

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And if Carmella believes it, it must be real.

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Welcome to our childhood, everyone.

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But yeah, that egg story happened.

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There's a genes story that goes with Coles and Macy's.

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It's very similar.

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Yeah, there's a losing your skirt story.

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I mean, there's so many.

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We could go on for days, honestly.

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She should get her own podcast.

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Well, those were our bonus tracks, our bonus stories.

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There's many where that came from.

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We hope you have enjoyed this and laughed along with us.

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Yes.

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And remember, you're always fit to be real or at least what Carmella believes to be real.

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And you're always allowed to be as extra as Carmella.