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We are opening this week's gargle with sad news, which is the death of Dolly Parton.

I know it's a science and technology podcast, but if those boobs weren't science, I don't know what counts.

Also, in

light of current working conditions, if you are a union negotiator, you could do worse than an anchoring tactic that begins with nine to five.

Remember the good old days when working nine to five felt like exploitation? Yes.

Oh, what a treat.

Yeah, I feel very sad about it because not only was she a musical genius and apparently an extremely nice person on every front, when my niece was born in Peckham Rye seven years ago, she got a free book from Dolly Parton.

Yes.

Isn't that amazing? In London, an Australian kid born in London and Dolly Parton was like, you might like reading.

Well, I saw, I think it was Courtney Love who described her as the greatest American.

And you're like, yeah.

Like

all the ideals of what you want, if you put them together in a perfect American, Dolly is it.

And she's just timeless.

And she cuts across the political divide and cultural wars and just lands in the intersection of pure Americanism.

And you can't ever, you know, like from one big blonde, big blue, I can't even say it, big blue blonde icon to another.

The only article I didn't appreciate was I saw something, it might have been the New York Times.

He said she was perhaps best known for her outsized bosom and gaudy outfits.

And I'm like, no, no.

No, babe, you don't get to override that with a skill.

Also, she knew what she was doing.

You're never going to have the joke over Dolly, should I say? You know, it's that they once said to others, rumors that you've had your ribs removed because your waist is so tiny.

And she went, oh, no, no. It's just that nothing grows in the shade.

I was like, you're not going to get the joke over Dolly.

Dolly's going to have the joke.

We are opening this week's gargle with sad news, which is the death of Dolly Parton.

I know it's a science and technology podcast, but if those boobs weren't science, I don't know what counts.

Also, in

light of current working conditions, if you are a union negotiator, you could do worse than an anchoring tactic that begins with nine to five.

Remember the good old days when working nine to five felt like exploitation? Yes.

Oh, what a treat.

Yeah, I feel very sad about it because not only was she a musical genius and apparently an extremely nice person on every front, when my niece was born in Peckham Rye seven years ago, she got a free book from Dolly Parton.

Yes.

Isn't that amazing? In London, an Australian kid born in London and Dolly Parton was like, you might like reading.

Well, I saw, I think it was Courtney Love who described her as the greatest American.

And you're like, yeah.

Like

all the ideals of what you want, if you put them together in a perfect American, Dolly is it.

And she's just timeless.

And she cuts across the political divide and cultural wars and just lands in the intersection of pure Americanism.

And you can't ever, you know, like from one big blonde, big blue, I can't even say it, big blue blonde icon to another.

The only article I didn't appreciate was I saw something, it might have been the New York Times.

He said she was perhaps best known for her outsized bosom and gaudy outfits.

And I'm like, no, no.

No, babe, you don't get to override that with a skill.

Also, she knew what she was doing.

You're never going to have the joke over Dolly, should I say? You know, it's that they once said to others, rumors that you've had your ribs removed because your waist is so tiny.

And she went, oh, no, no. It's just that nothing grows in the shade.

I was like, you're not going to get the joke over Dolly.

Dolly's going to have the joke.