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Speaker 1: Chuck Bryant, which makes this stuff. You should know the

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Speaker 1: Lightning Quick edition. Is this Lightning Quick? Yes? Because of

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Speaker 1: the lightning. Oh yeah, we have a like tornadoes and

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Speaker 1: Okay Corral as the storm rolls in. But well we'd

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Speaker 1: the steward Let's get here, you know. That's the point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there and hold him, he's fine. The French Foreign Legion,

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Speaker 1: chuck um. They are a fighting force, a military fighting

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Speaker 1: force that one young man by the name of Jean

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