The hits keep coming!
Lynn Kalber
Dr. Baruch Kahana
Robbie Kleinberg
We’re guessing they meant lightning round.
The writer of this normally covers a different beat, so perhaps we can cut a break. Maybe the writer got waylaid by the reference to Matt formerly being on a Canadian NHL team. But we found Matt Tkachuk’s bio online in 10 seconds. He and his brother Brady —both NHL players — were born in Arizona and grew up in St. Louis, places where their father Keith, also a National Hockey League standout, played. The dad, by the way, was born in Massachusetts.
One more time: This says 21 million dollars dollars.
Dang. We keep doing the math and it keeps coming back to two centuries.
Sorry, tofu. It just didn’t work out. Listing “winging” was the last straw. Please empty your desk. Good luck.
This one hits close to home. Eliot advises that reports of his death were an exaggeration.
And we go to the video archives for Segment 68: Can’t get enough of bad TV. https://youtu.be/YkC6uxHeqmU?si=xOcY1-K2OI2wkLLc
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