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Morning TV banter is scripted, not spontaneous

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Those cheerful, coffee-fueled transitions between tragic news and the weather are not organic friendship. Producers specifically mandate a rigid thirty-second quota of lighthearted chuckling, forcing exhausted colleagues who secretly hate each other to awkwardly fake smiles while discussing local dog shows.

Morning TV banter is scripted, not spontaneous
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