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Speaker 1: Diosa where Too I g friends turned podcast partners, breaking

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Speaker 1: Submit and Bullshits, Next Store and Las Bores. We've been

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Speaker 1: Next community. Welcome to Local Radio Season seven. Take us

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Speaker 1: to your network, La La Locomotives, Welcome to season seven.

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Speaker 1: Take us to your network, Take us to your network. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: this is our very first episode as Look at Our

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Speaker 1: And if you tuned into our last episode, the season

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