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TIL that a day before 9/11, George Carlin recorded a live show for a album that was titled ‘I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die" which was shelved due to the events of the next day. The title was later planned to be re-used for a special in 2004, but was again discarded due to Hurricane Katrina.

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