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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. The fall of the House

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Speaker 1: of Assad in Syria and now it's under new management.

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Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of Jiehattists, former perhaps who are

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Speaker 1: running this country, which is in a very strategic geo

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Speaker 1: political location. What's going to happen in Syria? What does

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Speaker 1: it mean for us? What does it mean for the

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Speaker 1: broader Mideast. We'll talk to our friend Bill Roggio about this.

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Speaker 1: He is a senior editor at Long War Journal. Bill,

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Speaker 1: first of all, we haven't really heard much about these

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Speaker 1: rebels or whatever we're calling them today, in a while.

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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, they take a Leppo

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Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, yeah, these guys just took the

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Speaker 1: second biggest city, second most important city in Syria. And

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Speaker 1: then they took Damascus just a few days after that

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Speaker 1: with it felt like barely a fight. Did anyone see

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Speaker 1: this coming? How'd this happen?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Buck, thanks for having me on. Yeah, this caught

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Speaker 2: everyone by surprise. There was a ceasefire between the brutal

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Speaker 2: happy that they're gone. And various so called rebel groups,

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Speaker 2: one of them is fully inundated with jahattest organizations, another

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Speaker 2: back by Turkey. They you know, we just had this law,

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Speaker 2: and lo and behold. On November twenty seventh, the group

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Speaker 2: hyatihirol Sham and the Syrian National Army, they coordinate in operation.

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Speaker 2: They go against Assad's forces and within ten days they

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Speaker 2: take Damascus. Assad flees to Russia. Why does this happen?

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Speaker 2: Why did no one see this coming? It's a great question, Buck,

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Speaker 2: and I don't have the answer. I think everybody was

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Speaker 2: looking at a lot of different problems Russia, Ukraine, and

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Speaker 2: then right in the region. You know, you have Israel

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Speaker 2: and Hezbolah, Israel and Gaza against Hamas and is Palestinian

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Speaker 2: the Red Sea, shutting down US shipping, international shipping, and

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Speaker 2: I think a lot of intelligence agencies got stretched. I

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Speaker 2: think the Turks saw an advantage here and they organized

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Speaker 2: this offensive. They have their motivations, one of them, for one,

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Speaker 2: anti Assad, and two the Kurdish groups that are control

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Speaker 2: of large areas of northern and eastern Syria are their

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Speaker 2: sworn enemies. So the Turks they saw an opportunity. They

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Speaker 2: mustered their forces and they struck, and the Assad again

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Speaker 2: collapsed like a house of card. Clearly Asad did nothing

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Speaker 2: to improve his security forces. And then I would also

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Speaker 2: argue that Iran has been distracted. It's been mired in

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Speaker 2: to Gaza in exchanging blows with Israel. So I think

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Speaker 2: you had Iran's focus taken away. Russia also deal you know,

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Speaker 2: in Ukraine. And you know, I think it's a masterful

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Speaker 2: stroke by the Turks, and by no means, you know,

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Speaker 2: I think we just exchanged one horrible regime for probably

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Speaker 2: several horrible regimes. I don't think anyone's going to take

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Speaker 1: This well, let's let's get into some of this. This guy,

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Speaker 1: Ahmed al Shara, who was formerly called Abu Muhammad al Jelani,

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Speaker 1: that was his U nom Daguerre right, he is the

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Speaker 1: head of Hayat Tarier al sham hts. He is for

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Speaker 1: now de facto in charge, at least that's how it's

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Speaker 1: being reported. They say that he was formerly affiliated with

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Speaker 1: al Qaeda. Uh that feels, you know, when they're using

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Speaker 1: the al Qaeda term here for somebody, it's really hard,

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Speaker 1: I think, as in America not to say what the

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Speaker 3: So but what are we supposed to think about this guy?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we should think nothing that other than once a tarist,

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Speaker 2: always a tarrist. I think a little background. I referred

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Speaker 2: to him as the albumhamal Jilani or Jilani is all

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Speaker 2: US invasion, joined the ranks of al Qaeda. If he

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Speaker 2: hand He's a Syrian and al Qaida had a significant

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Speaker 2: network there it still does. He detained by the US

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Speaker 2: as the University of Jihad in Iraq. Al Qaeda controlled

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Speaker 2: those camps. Those prison camps, they indoctrinated, they trained, they

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Speaker 2: al Qaeda's branch there, and once the Arab spring began,

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Speaker 2: he you know, became a major leader within the resistance

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Speaker 2: or I won't call them resistance with the jahadist fighting

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Speaker 2: the Issad regime. And he had a now he get this,

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Speaker 2: but he was, yeah, go ahead, No, you go ahead.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to jump in there, you said. He

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Speaker 2: He reported to none other than Abu Baker al Baghdaddy,

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Speaker 2: the Emir of the Islamic State. Abu Baker Our Baghdaddy

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Speaker 2: was the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, which became

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Speaker 2: known as the Islamic State in Iraq, and Bagdaddy wanted

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Speaker 2: to control the Jahad in both Iraq and Syria. Jilani

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Speaker 2: wanted to control the Jahad in Syria and leave Iraq

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Speaker 2: to Bagdaddy. He took his Jilani took and Bagdaddy took

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Speaker 2: the dispute to al Qaeda Amir, i'm in Ozawahiri, who's

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Speaker 2: ok Osama bin Laden? Jilani won, He gained control of

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Speaker 2: the Jahad and Syria created a group called Jabat al Nusra,

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Speaker 2: the Ilnuser front that was Al Kaita's official branch in Syria.

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Speaker 2: So it's quite a pedigree. You know, how are you

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Speaker 2: a what you know, a former jihadis when you reported

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Speaker 2: to Abu Baker al Baghdadi, the first emir in paliff

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Speaker 2: of the Islamic stage.

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Speaker 1: See, this is what I want to ask, is is

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Speaker 1: this guy Jilani? I mean was he was he ordering

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Speaker 1: you know, suicide bombings, captives to be you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: mutilated and executed. I mean all the horrible stuff that

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Speaker 1: we know Jihatis in Syria were doing some people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, by no means was he as public and as

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Speaker 2: brutal as Bagdadi's crew in Iraq and Syria. But he

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Speaker 2: did order suicide bombings, he did order the of the

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Speaker 2: he is someone who is not to be trusted. You know, look, Buck,

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Speaker 2: I don't think you know the former leader of the

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Speaker 2: kk If you have the leader of the KKK, if

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Speaker 2: somehow you could be a jihadis that orders suicide attacks

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Speaker 2: this is a guy we could work.

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Speaker 1: It's just amazing to me that we're at this point

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Speaker 1: for me. What the heck happens to Syria?

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Speaker 3: Now? What does this look like?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think what you're going to see that Jilawni

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Speaker 2: Idlib's the that's going to be the strong point of

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Speaker 2: for the Hyatt to hero shamp the Syrian National Army

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Speaker 2: very likely it cooperates with hyatihiro Sham, that's right, And

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Speaker 2: it's taking the fight to the Kurds, which really are

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Speaker 2: the PKK or the Kurdistan Workers Party by the way,

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Speaker 2: which the US supports in this fight. But when I

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Speaker 2: there's just no good guys here to support, this is

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Speaker 2: the real problem. It's just a series of bad to worse.

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Speaker 2: The PKK is a designated tourist organization for killing over

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand people in Turkey. That's why the Turks have

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Speaker 2: a dog in this fight, and they back jihadis to

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Speaker 2: fight Marxist terrorists. So that the Syrian National Army, they're

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Speaker 2: taking the fight to the to the PKK, what we

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Speaker 2: call the Syrian Democratic.

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Speaker 1: Are they up in the like bottled up in the

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Speaker 1: is operating still Okay, yes.

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Speaker 2: They're operating out of the north and the northeast. That's

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Speaker 2: I can and then you have a couple of other

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Speaker 2: independent rebel groups in the South. Some of them that

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Speaker 2: do work coordinate with Hyati hero Sham. So I think

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see these fiefdoms or the Balkanization of Syria,

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Speaker 2: and so.

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Speaker 1: It's a failed I mean, it's becomes a failed state, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of like Libya post Kadafi then,

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Speaker 1: which just turned into Militiaville.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Syria was already a failed state. You already had

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Speaker 2: this Balkanization. You're just replacing a sad with Hyatai, hirol

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Speaker 2: Sham and Jiulani, so they get an expanded Hyatti Ero

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Speaker 2: Sham was confined to this northeastern quarter corridor or corner

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Speaker 2: So if you think the Turks are the good guys

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Speaker 2: in this one for going after the PKK again, it's

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Speaker 2: hard to pick a winner in Syria. We shouldn't even try.

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Speaker 1: Where are the nine hundred Americans that, as I understand it,

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Speaker 1: are still in Syria US soldiers and talking about here,

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Speaker 1: we're still in Syria and what is their mission set?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 2: They are primarily along the border of Iraq and in

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Speaker 2: in the tanif these are actually Orab militias that we

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Speaker 2: coordinate with, and then they're working with the PKK or

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Speaker 2: the SDF, the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria, so

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Speaker 2: they're at a smattering of bases in that area, they

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Speaker 2: primarily primarily rely on the SDF for their ground security.

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Speaker 2: I'm very concerned. I have been. The Iraqi militias have

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Speaker 2: been attacking them. What happens when these Turkish back, if

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Speaker 2: are they going to give them wide birth? You know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, and I don't want to find out.

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Speaker 2: We've had American soldiers killed, a couple killed, and several

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Speaker 2: wounded in a variety of attacks from from the Iraqi militias. Well,

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Speaker 2: But it's a problem that does need to be dealt with.

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Speaker 3: What do you say yeah, I hope.

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Speaker 2: So I'd like to see him take the shackles off

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me Buck, Always a pleasure.