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Hey, guys, I have this
chessboard ahead in front of me here because

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I'm gonna be talking about chess.
Is a game, a game about chess,

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but it's more about life, every
aspect of life, business, and

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I want to explain to you.
So let me start off with the chess

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board itself and the chess game.
You chess probably as will know. You

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always set up the board right to
the right, so the white box,

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queen, king, bishops, horses, castles, and points. Now,

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the queen is always on its own
color. A white queen is on the

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white box. Black queen is on
the black box. The king is right

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next to it. These two guys
sit on both sides of it. Their

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bishops. Then there's horses, there's
rooks, which are castles. Now,

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a queen could move in any which
direction, forward and back, sideways,

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all different ways. The king could
only move one spot at a time.

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The bishop goes on its own color, and diagonally on the angle the horse

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goes. It's the only piece that
could jump over pieces, so it could

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go one, two, three,
it lands outside. So I'm not going

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to get two in depth with the
game itself. But the object of the

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game is this team is going to
come down and checkmate this team the king.

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Now, checkmate his means that if
there was a bishop here, that

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bishop could kill the king. That's
a check. So the object of the

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game is to check mate someone that
he's dead. He can't get out of

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the way, there's nothing that could
block him, so a check would be

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checkmate. Game over the king is
that. Now there's a lot of books

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on this game, and you can
take the books read them. There's a

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lot of people who know how to
play this game. Really not a game.

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They invented this game hundreds and hundreds
of years ago, and they use

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this because there's a lot of strategy
involved. When someone makes a move.

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Let's say I moved the pawn two
steps up. He could move one,

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or he could move to So he
moves there right away. The other side

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is thinking two and three moves ahead. Here's what it that thing? He's

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going to try and kill my king. So I'm going to analyze his every

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move, why he made that move, What is he trying to set up

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that would kill my king? Now
that strategy. You have to think two

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and three moves ahead in this game
all the time, and you have to

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think what is your opponent thinking why
did he move this piece, Why did

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he do this? Why did he
do that? So you have to get

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into that person's head and try to
figure out what he's thinking. This is

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why his game goes to colleges and
universities across the world because this teaches you

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strategy. When you could understand this
game and you start thinking two or three

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moves ahead, well, if you're
thinking four moves ahead and you're a chess

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genius, Now, how does it
relate to your personal life, business and

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everything that's involved. When you go
into business, things happen. Conversations go

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on and people talk about what they're
gonna do, what they're going to charge

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you, or percentage they're going to
give you all of these things. Now,

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I'll give you an example. There's
a company. This company now is

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looking at there in New York.
They're looking at land in Montana. So

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some of the employees or people who
work with them are saying, why are

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they looking at land in Montana.
They're trying to figure out what the guy

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is thinking. State is he thinking
about moving this company to Montana? That

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would hurt their business or help their
business? So they want to think,

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what is he thinking. This game
teaches you that strategies what are people thinking

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when people say something to you and
talk to you. It involves this game

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because words always mean something. When
somebody says something, the tone of their

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voice, things that they say,
it means something to you. So right

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away you want to get into this
guy's head. Is he mad? Is

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he said? Or a husband and
a wife they communicate a lot of times

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they can't communicate, but this game
helps them communicate. It makes them understand

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what the other person is thinking,
what makes them happy or sad or mad.

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Because you the words that you're paying
attention to, you're thinking about them.

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Maybe their expression said something to you. So now you're analyzing this person,

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whether it's your husband or your wife
or your kids, what school they're

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going to go to, how they're
thinking, what they're thinking about. Maybe

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you shouldn't put them in certain colleges
or certain schools. This is the most

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unbelievable game. I don't know if
they made it that way. I know

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it's a game of strategy, and
I know college is in universities took this

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over a long time ago. Now
in the Mafia, I used this game.

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I got to notice game and understand
the game, and when I was

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talking to people in other families or
sit down a meeting, I always strategize

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what is he thinking when he comes
to this meeting, what is he like?

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How could I satisfy him and satisfy
myself at the same time. So

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this game gave me the ability to
look at someone and analyze what he's thinking.

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Now, in the mafia, this
is extremely important because when you talk

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about killing the king, they might
be thinking about killing you. So strategizing

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on their thinking, what they're thinking
about why they think these things is extremely

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important. And I think just has
helped me in life, whether it was

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in the mafia and in business,
in relationships with women, my wife,

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my children, what people say to
me is very important. Their words are

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important. Podcast Alano once said,
when you take a going out and you

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pointed at someone and pull the trigger, you can't stop that bullet. It

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goes to its target and does damage. You can't stop the bullet once you

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pull the trigger. Words have the
same effect. When someone says something to

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you, you can't grab that word
back in mid air. You can't stop

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it. Like the bullet goes right
to the person and it may do damage,

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not damage where they will die,
but psychological damage. When you learn

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this game, you learn to sit
back and watch your moves, the game

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of chess of life. You watch
your words, what you're saying. It's

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going to mean something to someone.
It's going to mean something in the relationship

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that you have. It's a tremendous
game, and it's a game of strategy,

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thinking, analyzing, watching your moves. Someone makes a move, you

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don't just make a move boom right
away. You analyze what they're thinking.

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You analyze the situation. You analyze
what move you're going to make to try

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and win this game. To make
a rush move so you don't make these

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rushes rush decisions in your life.
You analyze, listen to the words,

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listen to the conversations, and play
this game. It's the game of chess,

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but it's the game of life.
Relationships. Business use this game.

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That's why they teach this in colleges
and universities. They want to make these

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kids think, use their brain.
Once you play this game enough, you'll

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understand the benefits of strategy thinking.
All of that stuff Now, I always

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wondered growing up. I learned that
as a kid. My older brother in

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law showed me the game. I
played it for a while. I played

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it when I was in prison,
and it helped me strategize everything in my

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life. I think I owe it
to this game. It's not a game.

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A game is monopoly, check is
you could do a lot of things.

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When I had trouble, went John
Gotti in prison and I said this

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many times, and I think a
lot of people know the story. The

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FBI knows the story. He was
looking at, dumped the case in my

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lap. I would do the time
for him to go free. The problem

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is I saw what he was doing, almost like a chess game. Peter

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Moss, who wrote my book The
Underbuss, wrote a story and said something

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once. He said, John Gotti
was playing Checkers while Sammy was playing chess.

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There's no match. Checkers is a
game. This is not a game.

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What I was playing was not a
game. It was strategy moves,

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seeing what he was doing, exactly
what he was doing, why he was

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going to do it. Not only
did I see it, I started to

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analyze he was going to come to
kill me. I was the king.

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So now I was analyzing this game. I saw his moves that were allowed

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and clear. So my game now
became how do I kill him? How

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do I check made him? When
he finally told me that I would be

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going to prison, I would take
the weight all this crap. I don't

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really want to get too deep into
it, but I said, is that

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what you want to do? I
already knew he wanted to do that.

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He said yes. I said,
okay, let's do it. On my

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way out, I said, checkmate. My checkmate was adios, motherfucker.

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I'm switching sides and I'm going with
the government. You stay here and you'll

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see what that word checkmate means.
So I was playing chess while John was

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playing checkers. I think Peter Moss
was right. He got checkmated. And

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I owe it to this game to
analyze things, analyze if I think this

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could save a lot of marriages.
People understand one another better, and hopefully

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it could save marriages. Maybe it'll
break them up sooner, maybe you'll see

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you won't make that mistake and be
married. You could analyze what a person

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is way before you say I do, and understand what's going to happen.

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So it's not going to sound like
a marriage counselor. But I'm talking about

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this game. It's a great,
great game. It's a mind game.

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It's not a game, it's developing
your mind. Tune an extreme on analyzing

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so many things. I have an
eighth grade education. I didn't go to

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college universities, but I did play
chess. I did play chess, and

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I played chess with a lot of
guys who graduated a lot of big colleges

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and universities. And one time I
wanted to play my wife's uncle. It

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was a banking executive and at a
holiday we went there and I saw a

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chessboard and I said, oh,
you played chess. Oh yeah, So

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I said, maybe we could play
again. It was a joke. I

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was going to play Uncle Joe on
a chess board. Sky's brilliant, all

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kinds of colleges, all kinds of
degrees. He's the head banking executive.

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So I said I'd probably lose,
but I let's just play it, just

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kidding around. I beat him two
games. He wanted to commit suicide.

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I think he was embarrassed. They
will all stop laughing while I was laughing,

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especially when I said checkmate. So
it is a great game. If

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you ever want to play it,
play it. Somebody got in touch with

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me just recently, it said,
Sammy, I know you played chess.

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I could develop a chess game that's
on computers or whatever and have the different

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families and you as the dawn and
the other side of the two families of

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fighting. I said, I never, I never thought of that. It

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sounds very very interesting. I don't
know, but I would love to talk

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to you about it. And I'm
actually thinking about it because when you play

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this game, you get stuck on
this game playing and if they said,

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well, I'm tired, I don't
even want to play anymore, but you're

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going to realize that this how many
benefits this game gives you. This is

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a degree. I wish that in
colleges and universities. They said, he

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graduated with honors English math history and
he has two three years of a degree

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of playing chess. Now, if
they ever did that, that's the guy

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I want to hire. I want
this guy to work for me, and

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I know he's going to be great. So that's my chess story, and

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it's a story of life. And
all you guys who do play chess out

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there, and women who play chess
out there, I know you're gonna love

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this because you know it. You
know exactly what I'm talking about, and

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so at this point, I think
I'm going to give my normal kodbye.

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It's a lot of you Spanish speaking
people Adios. Motherfucker's