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Speaker 1: I am at Joe Grande fifty two And you know, Mark,

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Speaker 1: it's before we start the show. I just want to say,

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Speaker 1: how as it's the holiday time, we've done so many

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Speaker 1: great things. I not know, not only we, the cannabis

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Speaker 1: did seven thousand backpacks and Big Mike had advanced nutrients

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Speaker 1: and his whole team. They just really did a phenomenal

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Speaker 1: And Mark, I just want to point out to the

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Speaker 1: and doing things, that right there just really touched my heart.

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Speaker 1: Seeing what Big Mike did and how he gave us

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Speaker 1: um that they really did a great job and promoting this.

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Speaker 1: Of course the G four Live people going out there,

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Speaker 1: what do you got for us? All Right? So I

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Speaker 1: the glitz and the glamour. And you come from a

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00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 1: low income community, so you look for opportunity. As it

429
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: was either wrapped, shoot a ball, or do that, and

430
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: we chose that, is what he said. So they began

431
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 1: building their old own brand using word of mouth, and

432
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: their packaging started in Manhattan, but it carried across the city,

433
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: people saying, you know, these are the guys, and you

434
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: got to be consistent, and they were consistent with how

435
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: they spread everything out. Sounds like they were very calculated.

436
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 1: Although they were young, they were making the moves that

437
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: they saw were working for the other guys. And Castillo

438
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: served two stints in state prison on cannabis convictions. Convictions,

439
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: the first one in two thousand and three, when at

440
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: age thirteen, he got sentenced to three years to life.

441
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: The sentence was three years to life under the old

442
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 1: Rockefeller drug laws cannabis. He was put in the state's

443
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: shock and that's s h o c K boot camp

444
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: program for youth offenders and released on lifetime parole, which

445
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 1: was just a lifetime parole, lifetime parole which was discontinued

446
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: in two thousand four after the drug laws were amended.

447
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: So that was in two thousand three. First goes in

448
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: then two thousand thirteen convicted of cannabis possession and served

449
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: just under four years. He was paroled on two thousand

450
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: seventeen and he remains on parole until March. Ah. It's

451
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: just it really gets to me when having been a

452
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: criminal defense attorney now for twenty six years and knowing

453
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 1: guys who have gotten three years, five years, two years

454
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: for domestic violence or other crimes that are just way

455
00:25:55,800 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 1: out of the league of just this cannabis ship and

456
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: this guy going through that. His partner, Golato, was also

457
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: sent up state in two thousand three as a youthful

458
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: offender for cannabis. How many youthful offenders lives have been

459
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 1: ruined because all they did was use fucking cannabis. And

460
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: there he says, guards wants beat him for not walking

461
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: fast enough. He said he's done seven stints in rikers

462
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: for varying lengths with the most recent a decade ago,

463
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: all for cannabis. It's just sad when you say that,

464
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: and I think about how many lives have been affected

465
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: that way and just ruined for just over this plant

466
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: and just some bullshit no automatic quip like you know,

467
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: and I'm four. Don't get me wrong. You have the guns,

468
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: you have some coke on you, you have other things.

469
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm not gonna sit there and be like, oh,

470
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have had a gun. No, you have a gun,

471
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 1: you have fucking coke, some pill whatever, but just cannabis alone.

472
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: Come on. Well, and these guys they're not They are

473
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: not gang affiliated. And he said, if you're like me

474
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: and not getting affiliated, Colado says, it's tough on you

475
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,600
Speaker 1: when you get inside. Yeah, he's been whipped, smacked, beat

476
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: by other inmates, by correction officers. He's seen a lot,

477
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 1: from slashings to miss conduct. He says, there were a

478
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: lot of people unjustly locked up for things that I

479
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: feel they could have gotten treatment, for real treatment. And

480
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: you know that that's not just to say for cannabis,

481
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: but other drug offenders, non violent drug offenders who are

482
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: addicted to all sorts of different things, and a lot

483
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: of them, because it all starts with car accident and

484
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: pills and then the doctors cut him off, and so

485
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: many stories like that, and these guys coming off all

486
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: of that, being in and out of prison while the

487
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: landscape around them was changing and everything was changing. As

488
00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: recently as two thousand eleven, the NYPD arrest we know

489
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: some of these numbers already. Fifty thousand, six four mostly

490
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: black and Hispanic people on cannabis charges since two thousand eleven,

491
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: by far the largest category that we've talked about that

492
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,920
Speaker 1: would fill Yankee Stadium. They stay here enough to fill

493
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Joe, what do you think about that? I mean,

494
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: it's it's just crazy to think it's you know, it

495
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: makes me think of a side note that I've been

496
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: watching this and I don't know if you've got a

497
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: chance to watch the Colin Kaepernick story not yet, So

498
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: I've been watching. I've watched it already. Now I'm watching

499
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: it a second time, ironically because my son wants to

500
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 1: watch it. And as I watched it even the second time,

501
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: more so, it just makes me see and it's his story,

502
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: his perspective on how things were and are, even as

503
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: an athlete, and how just athletes, young high school athletes

504
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: have been treated, meaning African American minority athletes when they

505
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: go places. You see the white kids horsing around, you

506
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: see the minorities horsing around. They go up to hey, boys,

507
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: stop it. And it's like, oh, because the white kids

508
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: are horsing around, you're going to the black kids and

509
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: tell them to all stop it. This ship doesn't stop.

510
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: And they should talk about the studies of like as

511
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: a long time ago, there were studies on look at

512
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: this baby, which one's bad, which one is good? And

513
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: they have like, you know, different complexions, and they always

514
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: point to the back to the darker ones as the

515
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: bad ones. Has been a societal fucking thing you for ever. Unfortunately,

516
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: well here's here's a good news, right with So two

517
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: thousand eleven to you know, two thousand, nineteen fifty thousand

518
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: now in NYPD made eight hundred and one cannabis arrests. Now,

519
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't say here, but I wonder what those figures

520
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 1: are who was arrested? Now through all of this, though,

521
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: these two guys, you know, we're going back to two

522
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: thousand five, two thousand six, they their business continued. You

523
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: know through everything that they went through. Their business continued

524
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: and after medical and then adult use became legal two

525
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen, two thousand and sixteen in California. As they

526
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: were watching what was happening, they started planning. So to

527
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: three years ago, these two guys started planning for what

528
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: was to come in New York. They sell edibles and

529
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: cannabis in shiny, brightly colored packaging and have a line

530
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: of T shirts and ball caps emblows into with their

531
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: slick logo which references Dickmon Street and Yankee pin stripes.

532
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: They looked at each other and said, this is what

533
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: we gotta do. This is going to change our lives.

534
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: This is going to change the community's life. Colado said,

535
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: and I quote, this is about people with the balls

536
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: to live the way they want and not giving a

537
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: fuck end quote. I love that guy. We we we

538
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: gotta get these two guys. I'm gonna reach out to

539
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: them and see where they end up. Because these guys

540
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 1: are I believe they're gonna be huge. And here this

541
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: is the last quote I'll leave it with. We were

542
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: cornered kids that were written off. Now we are Harvard

543
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: kids without a Harvard degree for real, and what's their

544
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: what's their brand name? Again? Help here, Help here. Two

545
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: guys in New York are selling cannabis and five bureaus yep, yep,

546
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: and they're and they're and that was in the legacy

547
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: market and now they're fixing to be illegal. And you know,

548
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: I can't wait to uh to see where they send

549
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: them an email and um, you know, let's see. We're

550
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: gonna follow up on that, you know. And as I said,

551
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: this was in my when cannabis goes bad pile. It

552
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: went bad through these guys for decades and it's turning around.

553
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: So I might have to do when cannabis goes good.

554
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: When these guys get well, it's cannabis Talk one on one.

555
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: When we run back after then it's cannabis Talk one

556
00:31:50,520 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: o one. It's cannabis talk. Take a hit, get lit,

557
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: and sit back and enjoy kind of a top one

558
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,800
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559
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Speaker 1: Check out the website Dime industries dot com or on

566
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: Instagram Dime dot industry. You know, they had a great

567
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: Christmas party that both of us weren't able to attend.

568
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: I heard yes said that I mean and when I

569
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: say sad, it's work. Two guys that like to show

570
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: up and gay and shake hands and kid babies, And

571
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: you know I mean funny because always tell people who

572
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: are like, oh, I haven't heard Mark on ball Ill

573
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: go do? Mark always wants to be on don't get

574
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: it twisted, Market, always wants to be other show. He's

575
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: just working if he's not on the show. Craig, on

576
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: the other hand, he'll he'll miss the show because it's

577
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: puppy is licking the floor. He has to stop him.

578
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: He'll do what the contract says. No, he doesn't even

579
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: do that. He doesn't. He's beyond doing what the contract says.

580
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: That's been breached a long time ago. That being said,

581
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,719
Speaker 1: even your breach is still missed. Though My point as

582
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: you miss it, we miss it. And there's just been

583
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: so many Christmas parties and with the COVID ramping up,

584
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: it's like get it in when you can. Because are

585
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: you doing anything special for the holiday? For Christmas or

586
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: New Year's? No, we're just we're not traveling anywhere a

587
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,479
Speaker 1: lot of times we'll go stay somewhere, but we're not

588
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: doing that where we were spending Christmas at my sister

589
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: or my my sister in law's house. Probably the same

590
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: thing for New Year's. Will probably go there for a

591
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: few hour, probably be home before New Year's. I I

592
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: don't have any big plans. What about you? Um Christmas,

593
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: we're actually going to the songs you know Dr Kyle's

594
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: song an attorney Kevin Sard who you who you do

595
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: work with as well. And it's just funny that we're

596
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: so tight with them because I literally spent Thanksgiving with them,

597
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: and not only that, it's been like the last I

598
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: don't know seven eight years of a Thanksgiving our Christmas

599
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: that I've spent there with them and doing the White

600
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: Elephant and first taking cannabis products over there as the

601
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: White Elephant gift goes with them, and so we're doing that.

602
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: That being said, though, it has been requested that everyone

603
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: go to CBS and do a COVID tests before you go,

604
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: which I find to be great. So we're doing. We

605
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: did that, um for Christmas, then UM New Year's. We

606
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: just got invited to go to Big Bear with two

607
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: the couples and their kids. All of our kids around

608
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: the same age, so the one family has a big

609
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,479
Speaker 1: cabin and Big Bear, which when my wife just told

610
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: me that, when I was like, that sounds like a

611
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: good one, A good intimate crowd that we've known for years,

612
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: all before kids. My actually, my wife went to physical

613
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: therapy school at USC with these ladies and I know

614
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: them very well through that, and we've been you know,

615
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: hanging out for years. So I believe we're gonna go there,

616
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: which is gonna be nice. And the cool part about

617
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: one of the ladies husband's he's a big wig at HBO,

618
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: so I always love hearing his stories. He always like

619
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: you and he's look one of these guys that I'm

620
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: the finance guys for it, right, So he lays out

621
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: all the money for this and that, and but he

622
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: deals with like the huge big movies, so he knows

623
00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: that he's always on location, always abroad in the different countries.

624
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: Since COVID hit, he hasn't been so much. But he's

625
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: just a major big wig and he made his way up.

626
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: Believe he started at Sony and now and now he

627
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: went to the show when I first met him and

628
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: after he was at Sony. But hearing his stories at

629
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: my point of just hanging out with guys like that,

630
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: you know that when you hang out with guys really

631
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 1: cool jobs rather than just us being the guy talk

632
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: to like I love talking to him, like, dude, what

633
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: movies you're working on? What stories? And this after this

634
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: and that after that and this writer and they had

635
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: to do this and that's just fun. So that's gonna

636
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: be my New Year's I believe in big there WI

637
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: should be a good time in the snow with family

638
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: and friends having a good time. And that's what it's about, folks.

639
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: So that being said, we hope you guys have a

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