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How YOU doin: where are we landing on pick-up lines in this day and age?

B1IntermediateJune 24, 202627 min

Chuck Byrn and Yumi Nagashima. From the Okanagan Comedy Festival, Chuck Byrn explains how contactless delivery has changed his life, and Yumi Nagashima asks her 99-year-old grandfather for the secret to a long life.

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All your favorite CBC podcasts are now available on YouTube. The best in award-winning true crime investigations, hilarious comedies, vibrant pop culture conversations, and even more audio series are all available on CBC Podcast's YouTube channel. You'll also find exclusive video first episodes, YouTube shorts, and behind-the-scenes content from our hosts and producers that

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you can't find anywhere else. So if YouTube is your go-to source for podcasts, just search CBC Podcasts and hit subscribe and you'll never miss the latest update. This is a CBC Podcast. Hello and welcome to Laugh Out Loud in the summer. I'm your host Ali Hassan.

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It's our first episode of our summer season where we bring you repeats of some great comedy sets that we veered over the past few years. Today we've got some comedy recorded live a few years back at the Okanagan Comedy Festival. And this first performer is a writer, actor and comic who's been headlining nationally

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