Speaker 1: Look closely into the daily goings on of any town
Speaker 1: or city, and soon enough you'll come across something a
Speaker 1: little unsavory or unsettling. A strange paradox when you consider
Speaker 1: that such places are often held up as examples of
Speaker 1: our superior sense of civility, we need not be so
Speaker 1: hard in ourselves, however, considering the number of different people
Speaker 1: and ideas all crammed in together in these places, it's
Speaker 1: a wander they function at all. That said, when things
Speaker 1: happen there that aren't to our liking, we have only
Speaker 1: ourselves to blame, and it is only through ourselves alone
Speaker 1: that we can rectify such unwanted situations. The same cannot
Speaker 1: be said for the town of Castle Rock, the principal
Speaker 1: location and title of the recent Huluu TV series based
Speaker 1: on the works of Stephen King. Without wanting to give
Speaker 1: anything away, the show essentially details the life of a
Speaker 1: seemingly quaint and quiet town in which darkness, in one
Speaker 1: form or another appears especially drawn to it. I was
Speaker 1: reminded of this show when researching this week's story, though
Speaker 1: I would never suggest an entire town, or in this case,
Speaker 1: a whole region, was preternaturally susceptible to unfortunate things. If
Speaker 1: I were to believe that such things were possible. However,
Speaker 1: this place would certainly provide a compelling case study. The
Speaker 1: Uba Sutter area, of which Yuba City is the principal city,
Speaker 1: begins ten miles to the north of Sacramento and stretches
Speaker 1: northwestwards toward the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
Speaker 1: In the early eighteenth century, much of the land, which
Speaker 1: would eventually encompass most of Uba County, including the Yuba
Speaker 1: City area, was sold to a highly controversial individual named
Speaker 1: John Sutter. Around a hundred and fifty years later, the
Speaker 1: county's name would become synonymous with one of the United
Speaker 1: States's most enduring and tragic mysteries. You're listening to Unexplained,
Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClean smith. In the early nineteenth century,
Speaker 1: Johann Sutter had been wanted for fraud in his home
Speaker 1: country of Switzerland before deciding to change his name to
Speaker 1: John and take his chances in the fledgling United States.
Speaker 1: Leaving behind a wife and five children. He arrived in
Speaker 1: New York in eighteen thirty four and spent the next
Speaker 1: five years exhaustively touring the continent to get the measure
Speaker 1: of it. After managing to ingratiate himself with a number
Speaker 1: of prominent Euro American dignitaries, he eventually settled in what
Speaker 1: was then Alta, California, in the summer of eighteen thirty nine.
Speaker 1: At the time, Alta California was a relatively undeveloped province
Speaker 1: of Mexico, having so far managed to resist the clutches
Speaker 1: of the ever expanding United States. Realizing the area's potential,
Speaker 1: Sutter succeeded in convincing the local governor to sell him
Speaker 1: almost fifty thousand acres of land along the Sacramento River.
Speaker 1: The following year, he established a trading colony there, which
Speaker 1: he named New Helvetia. Rarely as such a story of
Speaker 1: land purchase complete without some form of Native American displacement
Speaker 1: or indeed slaughter, and Sutters was no different. Local tribes
Speaker 1: that were unwilling to recognize these self appointed owners of
Speaker 1: the lands that they lived on were dispensed with, swiftly,
Speaker 1: being either forcibly moved or exterminated entirely. Any tribes adopted
Speaker 1: to cooperate with the euro American or Mexican settlers would
Speaker 1: invariably be put to work as little more than slaves.
Speaker 1: The exact number of Native Americans that were killed in
Speaker 1: the establishing of New Helvetia is unknown. It is thought, however,
Speaker 1: that Suttter kept as many as six to eight hundred
Speaker 1: of them as slaves, often locking them up in squalid
Speaker 1: pens and placing their food in troughs, forcing them to
Speaker 1: eat like farm animals. It is also speculated that he
Speaker 1: raped Native American girls as young as twelve years old.
Speaker 1: In eighteen forty y eight, gold was discovered on Sutter's land. However,
Speaker 1: any hope he had of profiting from it was swiftly
Speaker 1: dashed when his efforts to keep it secret failed miserably.
Speaker 1: Within months, Sutter's land was overrun with swaves of prospectors
Speaker 1: feverishly clawing at the earth in search of the shiny metal.
Speaker 1: Such was the speed with which the gold rush unfolded,
Speaker 1: there was little that Sutter could do to stop them.
Speaker 1: Having brought more land in a bid to claim ownership
Speaker 1: of any gold found on it, Sutter soon found himself
Speaker 1: in major debt. With no other options, he was forced
Speaker 1: to sell off his land, transferring any deeds he had
Speaker 1: left into the name of his son. His land owning
Speaker 1: ambitions were finished. A carmic come up once. Perhaps if
Speaker 1: you believe in such things, perhaps too, if you believe
Speaker 1: in such things, I'd say the series of events that
Speaker 1: would befall the region in subsequent years were inevitable, given
Speaker 1: what many would consider to be such rotten beginnings. Part
Speaker 1: of the land that Sutter was forced to sell was
Speaker 1: located just forty miles north of New Helvetia and centered
Speaker 1: around the confluence of the Yuba and Feather Rivers. The
Speaker 1: land was sold in eighteen forty nine to a small
Speaker 1: consortium of men headed by Samuel Brannan, who quickly established
Speaker 1: Yuba City in the middle of it. Almost immediately, the
Speaker 1: fledgling city was overshadowed by Marysville, the town on the
Speaker 1: opposite bank of the Feather River, which newcomers found much
Speaker 1: easier to access, But soon it began to prosper, and
Speaker 1: over the next one hundred years the city grew steadily
Speaker 1: from a population of three hundred to seven and a
Speaker 1: half thousand. Then, in December nineteen fifty five, a series
Speaker 1: of devastating storms battered northern California. After days of relentless rain,
Speaker 1: just after midnight on December twenty fourth, a levee broke
Speaker 1: on the west bank of the Feather River, sending a
Speaker 1: wall of water twenty one feet high, cascading into the
Speaker 1: county and flooding ninety percent of Yuba City. Seventy four
Speaker 1: people were killed. Five years later, a Bowing fifty two
Speaker 1: bomber plane carrying two three point eight megaton thermonuclear bombs
Speaker 1: flying into the vicinity of Yuba County experienced a sudden
Speaker 1: and inexplicable loss of pressure in the fuselage. After ordering
Speaker 1: the rest of the crew to bail out, the heroic
Speaker 1: pilot managed to stay in the cockpit just enough to
Speaker 1: steer the plane away from Uba City before baling out himself.
Speaker 1: At only four thousand feet, the plane would eventually crash
Speaker 1: into a barley field just eleven miles to the west
Speaker 1: of the city. Miraculously, no radioactive material was released as
Speaker 1: a result. In late spring nineteen seventy one, a Uba
Speaker 1: County peach farmer noticed a large, freshly dug hole on
Speaker 1: his land that had no apparent purpose. When he found
Speaker 1: it filled in the next day, he became suspicious and
Speaker 1: called the police to investigate it. Digging away the fresh dirt,
Speaker 1: they found a man's body underneath, riddled with stab wounds.
Speaker 1: The man was just one of at least twenty five
Speaker 1: migrant farm workers from around the Yuba County area that
Speaker 1: serial killer and Uba City resident Juan Corona was avent
Speaker 1: convicted of murdering. Corona had been previously diagnosed with schizophrenia,
Speaker 1: which some believe was triggered by the trauma he suffered
Speaker 1: as a witness to the worst effects of the nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty five flood. Another five years later, a school bus
Speaker 1: carrying the Yuba City High School choir broke through a
Speaker 1: guardrail just outside the city of Martinez, plunging thirty feet
Speaker 1: to the ground. Twenty eight teenagers from the city and
Speaker 1: their chaperone were killed instantly in what was the worst
Speaker 1: school bus accident ever recorded in the United States at
Speaker 1: the time. And yet, incredibly, despite this litany of tragedy,
Speaker 1: the one for which the area would become most well
Speaker 1: known had yet to pass. The story, most often referred
Speaker 1: to as the Uba County five, is a bizarre and
Speaker 1: heartbreaking mister that remains to this day unexplained. Mum, have
Speaker 1: you seen my gaiter's T shirt? Cried Gary from the
Speaker 1: laundry room. I need it for the game tomorrow. Gary's mum,
Speaker 1: Ida appeared a moment later, holding the beige T shirt,
Speaker 1: complete with its gateway Gaiter's logo emblazoned across it. All
Speaker 1: washed and ready to go. Thanks, said Garry, taking it
Speaker 1: before running to place it with the rest of his
Speaker 1: kit that he'd laid out in preparation for the next day.
Speaker 1: Just then, the sound of a car horn could be
Speaker 1: heard coming from the turquoise Mercury Montego that had just
Speaker 1: pulled up outside the front of the house. They're here,
Speaker 1: said Gary excitedly as he grabbed his jacket and headed
Speaker 1: toward the door. Remember I've got a big game tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Don't let me sleep in, he said. Yes, I know,
Speaker 1: said Ida, before kissing her son good bye and seeing
Speaker 1: him out the door. It was February twenty fourth, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight, in the small district of Olivehurst, just to
Speaker 1: the south of Yuba City. Far off in the distance,
Speaker 1: the northern tip of the Sierra Nevada Mountains could be seen,
Speaker 1: its pine covered ranges still capped with snow. Down in
Speaker 1: the valley, However, it was barely jacket weather. As a
Speaker 1: pale sun was slowly beginning its final descent toward the horizon.
Speaker 1: Waiting for Garry outside in the montago was thirty year
Speaker 1: old driver and owner of the vehicle, Jack Madruga, accompanied
Speaker 1: by thirty two year old Ted Weer and the twenty
Speaker 1: four year old Jack Hewett. The others shouted for Garry
Speaker 1: to hurry up as he raced to the car and
Speaker 1: jumped into the front seat. Moments later, they pulled away
Speaker 1: as Ida waved them off from her front door. A
Speaker 1: few minutes later, they were parking up outside a small
Speaker 1: house on to Leda Street in Uba City to collect
Speaker 1: the fifth and final member of the group, twenty nine
Speaker 1: year old Bill Sterling. With Bill finally settled in the
Speaker 1: back seat, they were on their way once more. The
Speaker 1: five men were friends from around the Uba County area
Speaker 1: who had met at the Gateway's Project, a local organization
Speaker 1: that helped adults with intellectual disabilities to better navigate their lives.
Speaker 1: Driver Jack Madruga was perhaps the least affected by his disability.
Speaker 1: Although he had never been diagnosed with anything specific, his
Speaker 1: thought processes were considered to be slower than average. An
Speaker 1: Army veteran, Jack had served two years in Vietnam as
Speaker 1: a truck driver, and had recently started a job as
Speaker 1: a dishwasher at a local dried fruit company. Ted and
Speaker 1: Bill were perhaps the closest in the group, having known
Speaker 1: each other for almost eight years. Ted had been doing
Speaker 1: especially well recently, gaining employment through the Gateway Project repairing
Speaker 1: cables for a local gas and electricity company. Just like
Speaker 1: the others, Ted was not thought capable of fending for himself,
Speaker 1: so lived at home with his parents. In his case,
Speaker 1: this was due to what some considered to be a
Speaker 1: basic lack of common sense. One time, when Ted's parents
Speaker 1: house caught fire, Ted had been more concerned about getting
Speaker 1: a good night's sleep than the flames that had begun
Speaker 1: raging above his bed. His brother had to forcibly pull
Speaker 1: him out of the house to save him. When Ted
Speaker 1: tried to make friends with strangers, he could never understand
Speaker 1: why they seemed so intimidated by him, or why they
Speaker 1: wouldn't simply wave back when he waved at them. Bill
Speaker 1: Sterling had also done well to gain employment working as
Speaker 1: a dishwasher at the nearby Beal Air Force Base. Bill
Speaker 1: enjoyed the position, especially the sense of independence it had
Speaker 1: given him. However, he was instructed by his parents to
Speaker 1: quit the job not long after taking it, after they
Speaker 1: discovered that some of the air men there had been
Speaker 1: plying him with alcohol and stealing his wages. Bill had
Speaker 1: spent much of his youth in Napa State Psychiatric Hospital,
Speaker 1: being generally misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Of all of them, twenty
Speaker 1: four year old Jack, who could not read, write, or
Speaker 1: use a telephone, was generally thought to be the most
Speaker 1: severely affected by his disabilities. Having met Ted back when
Speaker 1: he was sixteen, Jack, who was so deeply shy, would
Speaker 1: come to rely heavily on him, and a pair had
Speaker 1: become firm friends as a result. And then there was Gary.
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Speaker 1: slash unexplained podcast. Unlike the other four who often went
Speaker 1: everywhere together and had known each other for an extended
Speaker 1: period of time, twenty five year old Gary Matthias was
Speaker 1: a fairly new addition to the group. Gary was also
Speaker 1: an Army veteran stationed for a few years in Germany.
Speaker 1: After suffering a psychiatric episode brought on by hallucinogenic drug youth,
Speaker 1: Gary was discharged and sent home. For the past two years, however,
Speaker 1: Gary had been well and successfully holding down a job
Speaker 1: at his stepfather, Robert Clock's gardening business. Garry had been
Speaker 1: introduced to the Gateway Project as a way of finding
Speaker 1: new friends and had bonded with the others over their
Speaker 1: mutual love of basketball. All of them played for the
Speaker 1: Gateway Gators, the Project's basketball team, and were looking forward
Speaker 1: to a big tournament they were due to play in
Speaker 1: the following morning, which promised an all expenses paid trip
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles for the winning team. That night, however,
Speaker 1: their excitement was for a different game. The friends were
Speaker 1: heading up to Chico, an hour's drive to the north,
Speaker 1: to watch their favorite team, University California Davis, take on
Speaker 1: Chico State. Despite their disabilities, such a trip wasn't unusual,
Speaker 1: since the boys regularly traveled together to watch them play
Speaker 1: at their home stadium in Davis or anywhere else that
Speaker 1: wasn't too far to drive before returning straight home that
Speaker 1: night shouldn't have been any After picking up Bill, the
Speaker 1: men made a quick stop at Mico's service station on
Speaker 1: Caloosa Avenue. The others stayed in the car as Bill
Speaker 1: ran inside to pick up his fifteen dollar allowance from
Speaker 1: his parents, who ran the place. Bill's mother, Juanita, who
Speaker 1: was concerned about the men making the trip the night
Speaker 1: before their tournament, tried again to dissuade her son from going.
Speaker 1: As Bill explained, however, to night was the last chance
Speaker 1: they'd get to watch their team this season, and there
Speaker 1: was no way they were going to pass that up.
Speaker 1: Realizing it was a lost cause, Juanita warned Bill not
Speaker 1: to be back too late before sending him on his way.
Speaker 1: Later that night, the men watched with delight as U. C.
Speaker 1: Davis picked up their seventeenth win of the season, beating
Speaker 1: Chico ninety eight to eighty six. Shortly after ten p m.
Speaker 1: The men left the Chico University Stadium and piled back
Speaker 1: into Jack's Montego. Soon after leaving the parking lot, one
Speaker 1: of the men suggested they make a quick stop to
Speaker 1: get some supplies for the return journey. Pulling up outside
Speaker 1: a convenience store moments later, they were disappointed to find
Speaker 1: the shop clerk closing the place up. After taking pity
Speaker 1: on them, however, she agreed to stay open just long
Speaker 1: enough for them to get what they needed. A short
Speaker 1: time later, the men were back in the car, loaded
Speaker 1: with some fruit pies and chocolate bath as Jack slowly
Speaker 1: eased onto the road before heading off into the night.
Speaker 1: Juanita Stirling hadn't taken her eyes off the clock since midnight.
Speaker 1: All things going to plan, her son should have been
Speaker 1: home by then by two am, she couldn't hold out
Speaker 1: any longer. It wasn't the first time that Bill hadn't
Speaker 1: come home on time or had even gone missing completely.
Speaker 1: Often he would go and stay with friends and just
Speaker 1: simply forget to call home. Each previous occasion, he had
Speaker 1: never been more than a quick phone call away. Trying
Speaker 1: not to panic, Juanita picked up the phone and dialed
Speaker 1: for Melbourne, Jack Madruga's mother with whom he lived in
Speaker 1: nearby Linda, but Jack was also yet to come home.
Speaker 1: It was a few hours later that Ted's mother, Image
Speaker 1: and Weier, who had slept through the earlier phone calls,
Speaker 1: woke up to find her son's bed empty, having not
Speaker 1: been slept in the night before. Calling Juanita immediately to
Speaker 1: find that both Bill and Jack were also still missing.
Speaker 1: Calling Jack Hewett's mother soon after, Imogen got the same response.
Speaker 1: Their last hope was that the boys had all gone
Speaker 1: to Gary Matthias's family home. Since the Weirs lived just
Speaker 1: down the street from them, Imogen's daughter in law volunteered
Speaker 1: to go and check if they were there. The look
Speaker 1: on her face when she returned was all Imogen needed
Speaker 1: to know. The men, would you to meet the rest
Speaker 1: of their Gateway Gator's team later that morning outside a
Speaker 1: store in Marysville. Knowing the five wouldn't have missed their
Speaker 1: tournament for the world, a few of the family members
Speaker 1: traveled to the store in hope that their sons and
Speaker 1: brothers might yet be there, but the men never appeared.
Speaker 1: By eight pm, having still heard nothing from them, Melbourne
Speaker 1: Madruga informed the the county Sheriff's office that her son
Speaker 1: and his four best friends were missing. That weekend, the
Speaker 1: various families spent the days in a complete haze, anxiously
Speaker 1: looking out for any mention of a car crash or
Speaker 1: sighting of the missing men, but nothing came. On Monday,
Speaker 1: having heard nothing from the police, Juanita took it on
Speaker 1: herself to drive to Chico, where she handed out pictures
Speaker 1: of the five friends to the various ticket sellers and
Speaker 1: security officers at the University basketball stadium. None, however, recognized
Speaker 1: the faces that had been sat in the venue for
Speaker 1: over two hours only a few nights before. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: the sheriff's office had released a statement to the local
Speaker 1: press giving a detailed description of the missing men and
Speaker 1: the vehicle they were traveling in urging anyone to come
Speaker 1: forward who might have important information as to their whereabouts.
Speaker 1: Having been given a brief description of the personalities he
Speaker 1: was looking for, and taking into account their intellectual disabilities,
Speaker 1: Yuba County under Sheriff Jack Beecham was stumped as to
Speaker 1: what might have happened to them. Certainly, no crashes with
Speaker 1: that type of vehicle had been reported, and judging by
Speaker 1: how the parents described it, there was no reason to
Speaker 1: suggest that the men had struck out on an impromptu
Speaker 1: road trip. The following day, Beecham received an unexpected call
Speaker 1: from Plumus National Forest Ranger Willard Burris. Buris had been
Speaker 1: making his way along a forest road when he came
Speaker 1: across an abandoned car. He hadn't thought anything about it
Speaker 1: at the time, but having seen a news report about
Speaker 1: the missing men later that day, he thought to call
Speaker 1: it in. Beecham was confused, however, Plumas Forest covered the
Speaker 1: northern tip of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and was located
Speaker 1: about seventy miles east of Chico, in the complete opposite
Speaker 1: direction to where the men were supposed to have been heading. Moreover,
Speaker 1: the point at which Boris claimed to have seen the
Speaker 1: car was four thousand feet high into them, but Buris
Speaker 1: was adamant the vehicle he had seen was a turquoise
Speaker 1: mercury Montego. The following day, Wednesday, March first, under Sheriff
Speaker 1: Beecham with a handful of deputies, made his way to
Speaker 1: the spot, detailed by forest Ranger Boris. An hour later,
Speaker 1: the officers found themselves leaving the mild flats of the
Speaker 1: Yuba Shutter area and heading up into the Sierra Nevarda
Speaker 1: Mountains toward the snow covered pines of Plumus National Forest.
Speaker 1: With the temperature deadily dropping the higher they climbed, They
Speaker 1: were soon approaching the snow line at an altitude of
Speaker 1: roughly four thousand feet. The road was known locally as
Speaker 1: the Oraville to Quincy Road, running from the foothill town
Speaker 1: of Oraville at the western edge of the mountains, snaking
Speaker 1: east via the town of Quincy all the way through
Speaker 1: to the other side. During the summer months, the roads
Speaker 1: would be jammed with daytrippers and holidaymakers heading out to
Speaker 1: one of the many cabins that dotted the surrounding area,
Speaker 1: with Bucks Lake, located in the middle of the forest
Speaker 1: about fifty miles from Oraville, being the biggest draw during
Speaker 1: the winter months. However, by the time you had reached
Speaker 1: the snow line, the road would quickly become impassable to
Speaker 1: all but the most hardy of vehicles. It was at
Speaker 1: this point, with the unpaved forest road becoming ever narrower
Speaker 1: and more rugged, that Beecham spotted the car that Willard
Speaker 1: had come across. Although by now it was carrying a
Speaker 1: light dusting of snow, Beecham could see clearly that it
Speaker 1: was indeed a turquoise nineteen sixty nine Mercury, Montego. Beacham
Speaker 1: wrapped his jacket a little tighter about himself as he
Speaker 1: made his way through the slush toward the vehicle. Brushing
Speaker 1: away the snow from the window, he looked inside. Empty
Speaker 1: food wrappers were strewn about on the back seat, along
Speaker 1: with a couple of basketball programs, but the vehicle was
Speaker 1: otherwise empty. Trying the door, he was surprised to find
Speaker 1: it unlocked, but the keys were gone. Pulling a panel
Speaker 1: from under the steering wheel, Beecham fiddled with the wires
Speaker 1: until the car's engine roared into life. The under sheriff
Speaker 1: watched as the needle on the dashboard moved up to
Speaker 1: reveal at least a quarter tank of gas left in it.
Speaker 1: Stepping out of the car, Beecham took in the scene
Speaker 1: around him, staring off into the trees that backed away
Speaker 1: from the road. The ground, covered in fresh snow from
Speaker 1: the night before, all was completely silent, and there was
Speaker 1: no sign of track marks anywhere leading down or off
Speaker 1: the road. Looking at the front wheels, he could see
Speaker 1: that they were a little stuck in the snow, but
Speaker 1: it was nothing that a quick push couldn't have dislodged.
Speaker 1: None of it seemed to make sense. Why on earth
Speaker 1: would the five friends have driven up into the mountains
Speaker 1: and then abandoned the car like this with absolutely no
Speaker 1: reason to unless, of course, it hadn't been them at
Speaker 1: all that had brought it there in the first place.
Speaker 1: Could it be? Beacham thought that it had been stolen
Speaker 1: and merely dumped there Where that might put the five
Speaker 1: missing men would be anyone's guess at this point. After
Speaker 1: calling it in, Beecham was promptly appointed to lead the
Speaker 1: search for the missing men. Forty personnel from huber, Plumas
Speaker 1: and Butte County, along with snowmobiles and a highway patrol
Speaker 1: helicopter were drafted in For the rest of the day.
Speaker 1: They searched every inch of the surrounding forest within a
Speaker 1: five mile radius of the abandoned car for any sign
Speaker 1: of the two Jacks Hewitt and Madruga, Bill Sterling, Ted Weier,
Speaker 1: and Gary Matthias, but no clue to their possible whereabouts
Speaker 1: was found. Beecham knew only too well that if the
Speaker 1: five men had driven into the mountains after all, only
Speaker 1: to abandon their vehicle, their survival depend on finding shelter
Speaker 1: very quickly. Failure to do so, stumbling blindly in the
Speaker 1: dark in subzero temperatures, dressed as they were for a
Speaker 1: mild evening, would most likely be fatal. What's more, it
Speaker 1: had now been almost a week since they had disappeared,
Speaker 1: and no one in the immediate area had seen them,
Speaker 1: nor were they found in any of the nearby cabins
Speaker 1: that they might have sought as a place of refuge.
Speaker 1: Later that day, under Sheriff, Beacham had the unenviable task
Speaker 1: of informing the families of just what they had discovered.
Speaker 1: It was hard to gauge which scenario offered them the
Speaker 1: most hope whether the vehicle had been stolen and the
Speaker 1: men possibly assaulted and left stranded elsewhere, or whether they themselves,
Speaker 1: for reasons unknown, had abandoned the car high up in
Speaker 1: a mountain, late at night in minus zero temperatures. What
Speaker 1: Beecham did know, however, was that neither scenario looked good.
Speaker 1: That was the end of part one of Unexplained, Season four,
Speaker 1: episode seven, called to the Forest. You can hear the
Speaker 1: second and final part next Friday, April twenty six. If
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