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There we go, Baby News ready
to eight forty whas Dwhite witting, Dave

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Jennings off today, Tony Vinetti off
today. But my buddy Rick is here.

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Rick, say hi to me,
Go, Hey, how's it going

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everybody. We're gonna have some fun
today. I got a mint. Look,

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I'm winning lazy today because well,
today is National Tequila Day, so

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I thought, you know what,
I'm just gonna sit in the studio,

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sip on some Number one tequila and
just play some of my favorite interviews from

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over the years, even going back
to when I first started on WHS.

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We're gonna hear from Johnny Rotten aka
John Lyden, I'm gonna hear from Dion

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Branch and Pat Day. Wow,
what a genuine guy Pat Day is and

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what a great testimony he has.
We're gonna hear from him at nine thirty.

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But right now I want to go
back. Imagine, imagine Lou Graham

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leaving Foreigner and taking the place of
Lou Graham. That happened with Johnny Edwards

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from Louisville's own buster Brown Bend,
and boy, I love that band as

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well. Let's go ahead and roll
it now. This is Johnny Edwards back

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in the studio years ago. All
right, this is ready to wait forty

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WHS Dwight witting Happy National Tequila Day
as I hang out with Rick, Dave,

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Jenny's off, Tony Vedeni's off.
So I thought, you know what,

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I'm just gonna go in and sit
back and sip some tequila and play

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some of my favorite interviews from the
past. Some'm even going all the way

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back to the first year when I
started WHS. But right now, Rick,

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it's time now for joke of the
day. You ready for it.

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I've got the music right here.
I need the immunity music bad on this

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one. I'm bad. Here we
go, all right, here we go.

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Hey, hey, Rick, Hey, joy general. Last week,

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the man who invented throw lodgages actually
died. Oh is it right? Yeah,

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that's horrible. There was no call
into the funeral. I'm sorry.

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Man. Southern covered Hot tubs,
Baby, you're gonna love your Southern comfort

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hot tubs. Susan and I were
in ours just about every night. We

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love to end the way that night
a couple of number one to Kila's getting

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our Southern covered hot tub, and
it's the perfect way to reconnect with the

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ones that you love. Here's what
you don't want to do. Buy a

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hot tub from one of these traveling
you know, fly by night joints.

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When they come into town and they
sell you a hot tub and then they

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leave town. What's gonna happen if
you have issues with your hot tub?

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I'll tell you what a whole lot
of hurt. Why not buy local and

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get fantastic prizes? Right now?
Southern Comfort hot Tubs has their hot tubs

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mark down as low as fifty percent
off. That's right this weekend next week,

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as low as fifty percent off hot
tubs. Say you can't afford a

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hot tub, please think again,
loved ones. How about this hot tubs

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as low as sixty five dollars a
month. Susan and I we used twelve

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months, same as cash, and
it made paying ours off within a year.

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A bereeze, You're gonna love your
Southern Cover hot tub or your swim

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spa deeper than the swim spots.
They're deeper than above ground pools and you

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can swim in it, swim in
at all year round and one end serves

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as just a hot tub. Southern
Covered hot Tub seventy five. Oh what

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pressing highway. You're gonna love them. Stick around, Courtney dunnahoe, and

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that's gonna tell us what our news
is doing. And then at the bomb

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of the hour, we're gonna hear
it from Pat Day, such a genuine

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great guy and such a great testimony. Wait till you hear this. It's

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all on the way. News Radio
eight forty whas sorry about that taking anything

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to work here? Hold on,
that's okay, live without a net baby,

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Hey, News Radio eight forty wha. S right, there's my buddy,

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Rick. I'm Dwight Witting, Dave
Jennings off, Tony Vananti off.

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But Courtney Dunnaho, you're here,
right, I'm here? Wow, you

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not get off? What happened?
That didn't sound that? Rick? Can

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you isolate that audio and say,
please, hey listen. I don't know

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how yes yours today? Because well, I know how to do one thing.

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I know how to turn on the
microphone button and that's it. Because

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they they gave class on how to
work these studios. Okay, and a

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couple of times in my life I
slept through class. That was one of

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them. So I literally know how
to hit the red button. I won't

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even get behind the board. I
just get behind my regular mic when I'm

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in here. So I don't know
how we're going to do really in the

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years. If we do really in
the years, and I'm hoping the red

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button or whatever it doesn't accidentally launch
rockets, I can just see that all

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happening. I will say this,
Courtney, donaho. There's some other interesting

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colored buttons in here. I'm seeing
a pretty blue one. There's a yellow

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onet. Okay, well, you
know you're a little cat. Don't touch,

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don't don't go, don't go for
the glittering stuff. Just don't press

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anything. Just keep talking. Well, maybe I guess I could probably sing

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the songs and you and Rick could
play it. Rick's been through it.

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Hey, Rick, is he there? You gotta do we gotta do it

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really in the years, guys.
Okay, Okay, Well, well you're

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gonna you're gonna be the one hosting
it, can you? So I picked

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the songs, right, you picked
the year? You picked the songs.

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Okay, wait, and I will
Dwight and I will figure it out.

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Yeah, how about is that cool
with you? Rick? Yeah? I

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could do an hour to prep for
it. You got an hour to prep

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for Okay, But happy listen,
I'm gonna beat you to it. Happy

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National Tequila Day. I saw that
exciting. It's a number and number one

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day. Right, Oh my gosh, I've never loved you more. No,

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you know what it is. It's
a wonderful day. How about this

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exactly? Yeah? No, I
love my number one tequila. So happy

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sitting in your Southern Comfort hotels.
Put your shady rais on. Damn right.

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Just about every single night, just
about every single night. I got

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to get you a bottle of Number
one and some shady rays. Yeah,

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not a hot tub too. I
you know, I need something in the

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backyard. I just actually did some
work on my backyard. I decided to

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change around some of my flowers.
I did some nice new plantings and things.

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It looks really pretty back there.
It looks super cozy. I hung

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these lights and everything. Oh I
want the backyard light. Yeah. Your

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backyard lights are key, the little
ones. Yeah that's what I'm talking about,

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the one that you kind of line
the yard with and some people string

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them over their head and all this
crap. It looks so good. I

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have that now hanging over and so
my cousin. My cousin came over to

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visit and he was. He was
like, Oh, your backyard looks so

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good. It looks so cozy.
So yeah, I'm pretty excited about some

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of the changes. The neighbors directly
behind is to the left. They have

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so many lights on in their trees
and stuff. When they turn them on

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a night, it looks like a
used car lot or something. Oh no,

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no, it looks like the circus
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all go up in the air and
rectangles. But no, there's a limit

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between something really good and something really
not so well. And this might explain

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a lot. Too much of a
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The grandmother on my mother's side,
Ava Yoder, she had a saying,

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and this might explain a little bit
about me. She always told me,

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if one's good, two is better. M yeah, one good to

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better, but like ten, maybe
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of like Coco Chanel. You don't
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if you think you should put on, just take that accessory off. So

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yeah, take that take that seate
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Frank. I feel like all my
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take it's where every one of my
neighbors is like Frank, Joe or Phil

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them. Yeah, no, my
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They've been so so helpful to me
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I mean, it's unreal the amount
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I was actually laughing with a couple
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just kept dropping off so much food
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things. But the problem is I
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all the cookies because they were like, no, you can't have it.

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My father has diabetes, can't You
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you can't put it on like the
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like, well I brought you that
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giving them away? So, oh
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too many cookie platters. I could
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that. But anyway, let me
give you the markets because they are at

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the open. We talked about ups
yesterday. They had a horribly rough day.

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They saw their worst stock to climb
in twenty five years. Yesterday they

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said their package delivery volume wasn't enough
to offset higher labor costs. You know,

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they have a new Teamsters deal.
It's all front loaded, a lot

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of money they said right now they
have to give away, but it should

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peter out a little bit toward the
toward future years. But it weighed on

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the overall markets yesterday and this morning, we are seeing stocks falling once again,

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and it's really led by the tech
heavy Nasdaq, which is down one

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point four percent. We have shares
Tesla lower, Google parent Alphabet falling.

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Both reported underwhelming earnings data. So
we do see the S and P five

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hundred down nine tens of a percent, the Dow falling one hundred and forty

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points at the open. So it's
looking like a tough day for everybody.

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With the news radio eight forty wha
s Bloomberg Money Report, I'm Courtney Donaho

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and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, one of

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the four beasts saying come and see
and usow and the hold a white horse.

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Now news Radio eight forty whas sound
wide. That's rig rolling on through

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your Wednesday, Hey listen. So
I'm just basically going back and playing some

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of my old favorite interviews today and
I talk openly about everything on this show

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in my life, everything's including sometimes
my faith. I'm a Christian. I

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know I got plenty of faults,
but I'm a Christian nonetheless, and thank

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God for grace. Well, last
week when I was down with the flu,

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somehow I got put on my heart
to reach out via text and thank

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others that have been a positive influence
in my life when it comes to Jesus

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Christ, Greg, get your Brad
McMahon. Lots of influences. Well,

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one of those influences in a big
way is my friend Pat Day. Huge

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influence. I don't know if you've
ever met the man or seen him speak,

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but wow, it doesn't get any
more genuine than that. So I

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thought, you know what, I'm
going to replay the first time that Pat

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Day ever came in my studio.
This is way early in my career,

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and I dug this up. I'm
going to play it now. I know

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I'm going to enjoy it, and
I hope you do too. Here's Pat

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Day Day. How are you,
my friend? I'm doing excellent? Thank

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you? How are you doing to
see that I'm doing great? Listen?

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So my wife and I we go
to Cabo every single year and we're down

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there for Sammy Hagar's birthday party and
we get up early before anyone else does.

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But it's a party place Cabo,
and said, we're having our coffee.

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One morning. I look across and
I said, hey, honey,

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that looks like Pat Day. And
she said, well, that's because it's

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Pat Day. And I walked over
and you invited me us down and we

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sat down. We had coffee with
you, Inkabo, saying Lucas. Since

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then, we've crossed path about three
times since October, and I said,

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man, I've always wanted to just
a guest. And I reached out and

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I said, gotta get him,
and you came on. So I thank

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you for coming on. Well,
I thank you, And it was a

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pleasure to meet you in Cabo.
We were there actually celebrating my wife's birthday.

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Yeah you guys, you were in
Cobbo with a ton of family or

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something, right, Yeah, yeah, Well you got such an interesting story.

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That's one of the reasons I wanted
John. But let's let's go back

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to the very beginning. You've won
the Kentucky Derby, You've got so many

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records out there in the horse racing
industry. I mean, you're locked.

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You're etched in stone in the horse
racing history books. But going back to

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the beginning, you didn't even know
anything about horse racing. As a matter

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of fact, you wanted to be
a world champion bull rider. So how

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do you make that transition from being
a world champion bull rider to jockey?

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And why would you even want to
be a bull rider? That seems even

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more dangerous. Well, I guess
I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie.

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But it was, you know,
rodeo was a summertime pastime for people growing

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up and kids in my neighborhood up
in Colorado. The nearest racetrack was in

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Denver, and I think we went
to Denver two or three times, you

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know, during my childhood, and
never went to the races. So,

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you know, I believe, Dwight, I believe my steps were being divine

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directed. I'll be very honest with
you, you know, I obviously I

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got involved with rodeo's had a desire
to be a professional bull rider. I

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had a very limited amount of ability
and subsequently success as a bull rider,

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but it had done a couple of
things to further my career as a jockey.

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Number one, it helped me.
It taught me how to fall oh

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really, oh yeah? And I
believe that that ability played me well in

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my racing career. It helped me
to avoid serious injury throughout my racing career.

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But more importantly, it got me
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horse racing and given my small stature, small size, inability to ride bulls,

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they suggested or recommended that I should
be a jockey. Guy gave me

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his name and number, said,
if you have an interest, give me

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a call. I did. He
got me a job on a thurbrid farm

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in California in January of seventy three. And the rest, as they say,

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is history. Yep, I heard, is that the same range?

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And maybe if I'm off on a
let me know. But I heard that

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you get to a ranch and they
said, look, to be a successful

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jockey, you got to be here
for two years. You've got to learn

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the whole thing. You say,
yeah, yeah, I'm in, and

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after a month you walk away from
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Yep? Riverside throwbread farm. So
how do you go from walking away from

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it to becoming a jockey. Well
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divinely directed, because when I left
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pursuing a career as a jockey.
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what can I do to further my
career as a bull rider? And I

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went to Las Vegas, Nevada,
with the intention of getting a job doing

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something for the winter months, and
when springtime rolled around, I was going

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to try to get a job with
a stock contractor that would give me the

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opportunity to practice through the week and
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Couldn't find a job. Somebody said
they've got a little racetrack on the

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outskirts of Las Vegas here called Las
Vegas Down. They was trying to get

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it started. A couple of people
out there using it for a winter training

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track. Going and apply for a
job, and I did. A fellow

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named Steve Talbot befriended me. He
had three horses. He said, you

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can exercise my horses. I'll give
you two dollars ahead, And so for

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two months I got on his three
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Then he departed Las Vegas and went
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scales. Who is He's the one
that oversees all of the activities in the

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jockeys room and make sure everybody's carrying
the right weights. He was the clerk

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of scales on the racing circuit in
southern Arizona, and so I followed him

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down there. He said, I'll
introduce you to people, have you to

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continue with your pursuit as a jockey. Still wasn't sure that's what I wanted

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to do. I stopped in Wickenberg, Arizona. Had a cowboy friend of

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mine living there, and so I
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finally said I better go join Steve. I did. Went to Southern Arizona.

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I got hooked up with Steve,
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circuit. They were just running on
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circuit moved to Prescott Downs for the
summer. I went to Prescott got introduced

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to a fellow named Carl Pugh.
He was a professional cowboy team roper turned

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horse trainer. Him and I hit
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of friends. He started letting me
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I believe he was giving me fifty
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of horses. Wow. But I
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the horses and around and by the
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I said Carl, I want to
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let you ride a few my horses. Subsequently, on July twenty ninth,

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nineteen seventy three, seven months after
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my first race. By January the
following year, I was the leading rider

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at Turf Paradise in Phoenix, Arizona. Testimony to the fact that God had

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endowed me with tremendous talent and ability. I was an absolute natural. Didn't

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know what I was doing, but
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That's incredible. And what drew you
to wanting to become a jockey?

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What was the lure for you?
What did you want actually to start off

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with? It was just a job, okay, But I loved horses.

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I loved being around the horses.
And then of course when I went to

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Arizona on the fair circuit, even
though it was bottom level racing, to

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be around the thrill, you know, when they jumped away from the gate

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and the race, and I mean
I started getting very enthused. And we

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went to Prescott and Carl I started
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the afternoons as well as getting on
them in the mornings and watching the races

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and just around that. It just, man, I want to ride.

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It was a thrill of participating,
but to win, I mean, obviously

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that was a home run. So
okay, So let's fast forward now,

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and you're on top of the game. You're on top of the racing world,

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and me outside looking in and I'm
seeing Pat Day. He's winning all

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these races. You have the fame, you have the fortune, You've got

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a beautiful wife, Sheila, who
got the house. I'm thinking, this

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guy has it all. He's got
everything anybody once, but things are kind

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of dark for Pat Day. And
take me back to that night in Miami.

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What happened and what broke you well, what happened to just lay the

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groundwork for that I had. You
know, through the course of my early

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part of my career, I'm having
success and I'm winning races. I've got

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a beautiful wife. As you said
things obviously looked like they should be okay,

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like I should be happy, content, overflowing happy. You know,

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I was successful by the world standards, but I'd gotten involved with drugs and

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alcohol. I was a stone alcoholic
drug addict, if you would, and

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testimony to the talent that I've been
blessed with. I was continuing to win

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races. In nineteen eighty two,
I won the national writing title, and

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I thought, you know, the
missing piece to the puzzle, I thought

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was that level of success. I
thought, man, you know, if

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I could be the leading writer in
North America, if I could get my

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name up in some national acclaim,
I'll never have another bad day. So

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I wrote hard, won the national
riding title, went on a two week

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bender. When I came out of
that, the fleeting feeling of succeeding had

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gone, It dissipated. It was
tremendous accomplishment, but I discovered that it

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didn't fill that void in my heart, and that sent me searching. I

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remember screaming into heaven, you know, walking outside, looking up into the

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sky and saying, what am I
here for? Wow? And I wasn't

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getting any answers. As the Lord
would have it. In nineteen eighty three.

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I was the leading writer again,
tremendous accomplishment, but I knew that

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it wasn't going to fill the void
in my heart. January twenty seventh,

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my wife, Sheila, and I
are vacationing in Colorado with my family,

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and she drove me into Denver.
I got on a plane flew to Miami,

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Florida, where I was scheduled riding
a race at highly a park the

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next day. I got into Miami
late in the evening, checked into a

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hotel near the airport, got my
room, turned the TV set on,

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which is a habit just for noise
company started getting ready for bed. The

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program on that particular channel happened to
be a Jimmy Schwiger televised crusade. Now,

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when I'm already forbid, the last
person I wanted to listen to was

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some television evangelist. I didn't think
that he had the answers to my deliver

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I thought that Christianity or religion was
for women and children and whims. It

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wasn't for a successful man like me. And I was looking for answers.

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And so when I'm all ready for
bed, I ran through the dial through

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the channels on that TV set.
It was one of the old before the

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days of remote control. Yep,
yep, yep, got all the way

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around the dial back to Jimmy Swigert, Nothing got my attention. I went

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to bed soon as my head hit
the pillow. I went sound asleep,

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and slept so soundly that when I
awoke, I thought I'd been sleeping for

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six or eight hours. But I
awoke to the distinct feeling that I wasn't

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by myself. I set up right
in bed. I looked around the room.

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I couldn't see anything, but I
could feel the presence, and I

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believe that at that moment the Lord
prompted me to walk over and turn but

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I walked over it turned it on. As the picture materialized on the screen,

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I realized, I've not been sleeping
very long. Jimmy Schwiger is still

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on TV. Just completed delivering these
message of salvation through belief in the Lord

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Jesus Christ, and he was extending
the invitation to the viewing audience, to

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any and all that would care to
receive Christ as our savior. And at

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that moment, Dwight, it was
like the scales were removed from my eyes.

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I recognized, realized the presence there
with me was the spirit of the

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Living God, and this was my
ultra call. And I fell on my

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knees and wept and cried, invited
a Christian in my life, never to

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be the same again. Wow.
Okay, Pat Days joining us when we

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come back. I want to talk
to you about winning the Kentucky Derby and

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there's a story to that that I
think is incredible and can you stick around

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with me? Absolutely? All right, more with Pat More with Pat Day

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when we continue on news radio eight
forty WJ. Unfortunately that's all we get

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with Pat Day because I couldn't find
the second segment to that. But man,

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if you ever get a chance to
see the guy speak, what a

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genuine guy. And hey, let
me tell you about my Shady Rays.

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As a matter of fact, you're gonna

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