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Speaker 1: News for Campfires, Alex, Hey there guys yet Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: sir guys, it's been a day of shaking in me

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Speaker 1: much of the public doesn't know what's going on, so

428
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Speaker 1: it never became a big thing to vote on. Well,

429
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,120
Speaker 1: they're starting, there's starting, there's there's cracks now because CNN

430
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: started covering it. Oh yeah, I heard Network News this

431
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: morning covering yeah, yeah, And it was like the lead

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Speaker 1: story on a couple of network newscasts, and there were

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Speaker 1: competators on CNN who were saying, look, you know, is

434
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: this is really a huge issue here, and so now

435
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: everyone's going to suddenly become aware of this. You can't

436
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: cover it up anymore. So the journals take on this,

437
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: and this is important. The moment of truth is this.

438
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: If Biden doesn't replace Title forty two with something else

439
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: that keeps the surge down, then he's caved. To the

440
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Speaker 1: open border crowd. He can go one way or another.

441
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: He can just let Title forty two expire and let

442
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Speaker 1: this mob come here and continue on the way he's

443
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: been doing without any chance of sending people away from

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Speaker 1: the border. Or he can come up with some kind

445
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: of replacement that tamps down on the numbers. Yeah, if

446
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: it's by well, I'm just saying, well the administration, right,

447
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: but Biden is a catch all term for the government.

448
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,360
Speaker 1: There is no actual Joe Biden in charge of all

449
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:12,400
Speaker 1: these decisions now. Right now, they're acting like they're ready

450
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Speaker 1: for this. This would be the Department of Homeland Security

451
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: in that Dopel Ajandro Mayarchas, And all they do is

452
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 1: keep repeating the same things. Well, our asylum system is broken,

453
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: our immigration system is broken. Do you fix He heard

454
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 1: this fifteen years ago with the call for amnesty from

455
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Speaker 1: John McCain and Bush and all those people. They all

456
00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: act like it's somebody else who has to fix it.

457
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 1: This Congress is supposed to fix it. Every Congress for

458
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,199
Speaker 1: the last twenty years was supposed to fix it, and

459
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: they refused to because they want it. In fact, I

460
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: heard the rationale today like for Republicans, same old thing.

461
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: Businesses are saying, Hey, we're short of labor, right, there's

462
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: eleven million unfilled jobs. We don't have enough workers in

463
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: this country. The birthrates are really low in this country.

464
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: We've got to have more workers or we're going out

465
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Speaker 1: of business. The economy is gonna spiral. So you got that.

466
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: And then the Democrats and are all in on this

467
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: global socialism, the idea that America is an illegal nation

468
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: and there shouldn't be borders anyway. So these two, these

469
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: two philosophies are merging together. And now you've had four

470
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Speaker 1: million people come over the border in two years. Do

471
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Speaker 1: you know how much four million is? Four million is

472
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: more than the population of states. Twenty three states have

473
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: less than four million as population twenty three states. So

474
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: this is like a whole new, decent sized state being

475
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Speaker 1: added to America, mostly being shipped to big cities, where

476
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,359
Speaker 1: Eric Adams in New York City is begging, screaming that

477
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: they can't take it anymore. No, they need a billion dollars.

478
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: Newsom says, we can't take it anymore. That running out, Yeah,

479
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: because he knows we've got a budget deficit coming and

480
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: he cannot afford to spend all this money on migrants

481
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: coming to California and getting services. They declared it a sanctuary.

482
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: You know I would tell him to eat poop. Sorry,

483
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: you declared your city, you declared your state sanctuary. So

484
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: there you go, give him sanctuary just like you wanted.

485
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: You were virtue signaling. You were trying to look self

486
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: righteous and holier than Now. There you go. There's your consequence,

487
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: your big phony. So when the perfect world, the Journal

488
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,639
Speaker 1: says the US needs to step up security measures on

489
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: the southern border, shift towards skills as the principal basis

490
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: for primitive admissions, and manage guest worker programs to meet

491
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: employers needs. Look at all these epiphanies. You know, you

492
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: got the Port of Supervisors and Karen Bass saying, oh,

493
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, we need to have a meeting about homelessness.

494
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: And now, oh, how about we have a skills based

495
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: entry requirements for immigration. The Trump pushed that, but it

496
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: didn't go anywhere. He made a big speed each one

497
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Speaker 1: day about how we're going to have a merit based

498
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: immigration system. No, no, because because woke people aren't into merit. No,

499
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Speaker 1: most of the people that do want to come here

500
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of skills, you know, and I

501
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: understand why because a lot of pope woke people have

502
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: their position. It's not based on merit, but based on

503
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: any number of other qualities, or you know, they got

504
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: their educations studying all kinds of diversity and inclusion courses,

505
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: so you know, they don't own merit. They don't even

506
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: know what that means. They've never had to deal with

507
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: merit in their lives, so of course they're not going

508
00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: to insist on it for immigration purposes. Yeah, we got

509
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Speaker 1: more coming up, John and Ken caf I am six

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Speaker 1: forty live everywhere the iHeart Radio Act. Santa Monica is

511
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: not safe, says a big billboard crime depravity. We'll talk

512
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: about it after the news at five o'clock. It's got

513
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Speaker 1: people talking in Santa Monica, so stay tuned for that

514
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: next hour or two. Our Hack of the Year twenty

515
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: twenty two is coming to a close. It's time time

516
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: to throw somebody in the dumpster. Who was the worst

517
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: hack of the year, led him rot through the holidays exactly,

518
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: Daniel Guss. The GUS report did clear something up we

519
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: talked about earlier this hour. I mentioned Jose Weezar got

520
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: suspended from the City Council after he got charged in

521
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: a bribery scandal. Yeah, they stopped his pay and they

522
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: allegedly were allowed to because it was in connection with

523
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: his job as a city council member, Whereas Margaret Lee

524
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Thomas's accusations or his indictment was when he was on

525
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: the Board of Supervisors. But he's saying, I'm on the

526
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: City council. Now that's not directly connected to this job.

527
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: You see the difference that was, And as you said,

528
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: the City Council just caved and folded up. Yeah. All right, Well,

529
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: there's an interesting and strange warning coming from a doctor

530
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: out of the United Kingdom. I think we should pass

531
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: it on to all listeners. He's saying that it's very

532
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 1: dangerous to masturbate with Christmas ornaments. Well, and that never

533
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: occurred to me. Doctor Sarah Welsh, a gynecologist, told need

534
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: to Know Online, need to Know. She was listening need

535
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: to Know, need to Know Online, to need to Know.

536
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: I needed to know this. Apparently every year a percentage

537
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: of people are hospitalized, particularly around Christmas time, because they

538
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: are inserting things into their body. There is an X

539
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: ray of somebody who put a candy cane up Directum, Oh,

540
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: is that where it is? Well, because I saw the photo,

541
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 1: but the headline says don't masturbate with Christmas ornaments. So

542
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, well, we're at

543
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: the candy cane. What was the entry point for the

544
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: candy cane? It was the Yeah I've described as another region.

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00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: I guess it's um. But you're saying and went went

546
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: through the rear entry. It looks like it there and

547
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: I guess it hooked around you see the picture. Yeah, no,

548
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it. But that well, I mean that's

549
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: technically not self pleasuring, though, well maybe it is. I'm

550
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: afraid it is. There are people that have put live

551
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: animals up there. Um. Yes, I've heard about that. It's

552
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: like one of the older you know that urban legends

553
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: in history. I know, but somebody must have done it. Yes,

554
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: somebody's done it that didn't come out of I mean,

555
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: why did I take my chances with a candy cane

556
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: over an ornament? You No, easily Christmas bulbs break? Yeah, right,

557
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: and then there's a hook on the end, right, you

558
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: gotta it's gotta have a hook to hang it on

559
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: the tree. Anything with sugar in it, such as Christmas

560
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: confectionery should stay away from the vagina, as this disrupts

561
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: the delicate ecosystem. Okay, I can get thrush infections, an

562
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: infected thrush. People that put turkey basters in there? What's

563
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: wrong with people? I've never gotten any of that. I

564
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: don't know. How bored do you have to be? They

565
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: think it's funny. You start, you put kitchen utensils in there,

566
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: Christmas ornaments. Last fall, Michigan got six kidney beans lodged

567
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: in his urethra wearing a bizarre attempted sexual gratification known

568
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: in the medical community is sounding and has a name,

569
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: huh sounding. Why sounding? I don't know that, That's just

570
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: what they call it. A man in India shoved a

571
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: deoder in canister up is. Are there any interviews with

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00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: these people rear end and uh? I want I want

573
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: to hear from I'm not aware of any interviews. But

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00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: if I find anybody that wants to come on the show, like,

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00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: what made you think of that? Think of what? That's

576
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: what I'd ask them. Oh doing that? Well, yeah, you're

577
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: looking at it. I read it in a book laying

578
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: on the sofa. You look at it? I saw it online.

579
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: It's a challenge. You're looking at the Christmas tree and

580
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: you're saying, hmmm, I bet you would feel good if I. Well,

581
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: we're missing the vegan, but this story would have been

582
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: for her. Apparently a number of people in Australia are

583
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: suffering from hallucinations after eating baby spinach. I love baby spinach,

584
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: by the way. Apparently one particular farman. What is it?

585
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: It's just small spinach leaves. There's just smaller You really

586
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: like that? Well? I do, because spinach is normally huge,

587
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: Like if you buy it at the grocery store, it's

588
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: you know, in the produce section. It's like big leaves

589
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: of spinach. Baby spinach are just easier to get in

590
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: your mouth. This stuff really tastes good to you, you

591
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: know what's acceptable. I love cook spinach, but baby spinach

592
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: yah can taste like eating grass. Everything tastes bitter to me.

593
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: Do you like spinach artichoke dip? I do very much? Yeah,

594
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,319
Speaker 1: me too. You guys are weird. That's because it's full

595
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: of creamy mayonnaise and stuff. Really, you guys are weirdos John,

596
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: you wouldn't need spinach CHARTI choke dip that's not I

597
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: don't even do you like creamy things. I'll just eat

598
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: the cream. I don't want artichokes or spinach in it.

599
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: You hardly notice it. All kind of s blends together.

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00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: They're warning people because here's the funny part of this story.

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00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: Some people are seeking out the spinach because they want

602
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: the hallucinations, just like getting magic mushrooms. But doctors are saying,

603
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, no, it's not pleasant. Here are

604
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: the symptoms. Delirium, confusion, hallucinations, dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat, flush face,

605
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: blurred vision, dry mouth. I don't think you want to

606
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: seek that out. Cool. But when people see the headline hallucinations,

607
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: Oh man, I want that stuff. That's legal spinach. Do

608
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: they smoke it or no? No, I think they just

609
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: eat it, just eat it. Yeah, probably have to eat

610
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: it raw because if you cook it it might I

611
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: don't know. It says it became contaminated by some sort

612
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: of toxic weed such as nightshade or jimpsum weed or

613
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: mandrake root. That's what they're thinking. Well, those are funky

614
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: thing all right. Coming up next, Santa Monica is not safe.

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Speaker 1: That's what a big billboard says, we'll talk to one

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00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: of the people behind it, John Alley, who's a business

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00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: owner there and has been on our show many times before.

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00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 1: This is the latest campaign from a number of business

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Speaker 1: owners in Santa Monica to fight back at the unsafe

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Speaker 1: city of Santa Monica. Santa Monica government is as stubborn

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Speaker 1: as any group you'll ever find. They don't care how

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00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: decayed and rotted the town becomes fascinating, So John ken

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Speaker 1: kf I Am six forty live everywhere the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: and Mark Rudder Live in the twenty four our Cafeine

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