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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time to welcome our Congressman Josh
per Keene from Congressional District two here

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in Oklahoma, and you'll we've got
a lot of things going on recently.

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You've had some back and forth with
Secretary Maorcus about the border. Tell us

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how that went. He was interesting. He disagreed with Royal ortiz To a

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month ago on the border. When
when we had a hearing on the border,

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the border patrol chief told me specifically
that he disagreed with President by the

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decisions to shut down by executive order
that two hundred and fifty mile of wall

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that was fully appropriatesed by Congress.
Myorcus, I asked specifically last week and

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then hearing, do you disagree with
your own expert, and he said he

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did. What's interesting is Myorcus,
now secretary, was deputy secretary under under

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Barack Obama for Homeland Security. Obama
was pushing one hundred and fifty miles of

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border wall, and so I asked
him because his lead in a saying he

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uses a vein of reasonableness in terms
of what he's doing at the border.

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I went through a litany of questions
asking him, you know, they're they're

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you know, millions to be spent
on electric vehicle electric vehicle charging stations out

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of their budget. Is that reasonable
or is it just you know, further

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adherence to an ideology. And so
when we got to the point of question

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about reasonabless I was, I said
to him, is it not reasonable to

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listen to your own experts? Who's
over the nineteen thousand border patrol agents,

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who says he disagrees after his years
of experience there, he disgrees with this

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president, President Biden, that that
you know, the more or less that

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that he believes physical barriers work.
And there was a time when you started

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got n a president who believe physical
barriers work. So it's just real telling

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him that how radical, uh this
administration is is under my orcas leading homeland

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security when they've done about face on
physical barriers, other big things going on

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right now too. Of course he
is, Uh, we're looking at the

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debt ceiling and a lot of folks
don't even know what that means. They

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know when they're in debt, and
that usually means they're in the basement.

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Well, we're we as of January
got noticed, you know, soon after

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taking office that that X date was
ahead of us, where there was only

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yelling with Treasury Secretary and time is
going to pronounce that officially. But we're

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looking, you know sometime in the
summer of when that they they're going to

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say that we're out of funds and
based upon the spending of the past and

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the budgets of the past, I
was not a part of. And so

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what many of us, myself being
in the Film Caucus, are doing is

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we are advocating for no more clean
debt ceilings. I've been playing that I

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was not going to continue this this
just we raised the debt ceiling, we

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never addressed the structural problems. The
Freedom Caucus leaned out and introduced a budget

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proposal, a debt ceiling proposal that
said, with these things, we're willing

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to move forward. And so right
now the Republican Conference has brought many of

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those ideas of the Freedom Caucus into
the conversation. And so this week I'm

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optimistic that our conference is going to
embrace those things that were that we as

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a Freedom Caucus, those that are
physically conservative are pulling our conference. Our

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hundred two hundred and twenty two Republicans
further to the right to know that inflation

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every family has felt seven thousand dollars
more every Oklahoman spent in twenty twenty two

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over twenty one levels. That was
the cost of inflation for family on average,

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that you spent seven thousand dollars more
to buy the exact same businesses.

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We know that's the tip of the
iceberg of what's really underneath it, which

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is our structural depth, sits and
our overspending. And so I believe that

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our conference is listening to us,
and we are willing to start making a

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turn and stopping this ideology that both
parties I think it brought into that debt

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is wealth. So I'm optimistic.
Tom. Hey, you're going to be

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back in town here for some town
halls. Tell us a little bit about

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that. You've been on a pretty
good to hot streak there. Yeah,

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they've been good, They've been well
received. We are appealing to all of

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us as human beings made in the
likeness and image of God, that we

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can we can disagree, but let's
do it in a way that's reasonable and

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civil to one another. That I
want people to know that a number one

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is the way I behold you in
my subconscience is is out of love for

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the fact that you're a fellow human
being, and I can disagree with you,

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but that doesn't mean that I hate
you. And so I think if

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we'll set hate aside, knowing that
there are real people out there, a

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real enemies of America who hate us, and if we can have raucous discussions

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but be civil and reason together,
then we can solve these nation's problems.

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And so I'm grateful to Oklahoma's in
the mode that we set there because many

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members of Congress has stopped doing these
outside of Oklahoma. Many members of Congress

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have just stopped doing them across the
country because of the divisiveness. And so

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I don't want to do that.
I want us to. It's important to

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me to be informed by the citizens
of the Oklahoma and second Congressional District,

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be guided by the Constitution, personally
guided by the Bible, have strong principles,

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but be teachable, and that's what
those are about. Congressmen. There

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are a lot of people who are
very concerned about the threat of the Chinese

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and more ways than one, whether
it's military, and they've shown that they're

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not afraid to build up their military
power and flex their muscle, but also

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through spnish and maybe even just buying
their way into the United States. Now,

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you're not that far removed from just
being a regular Oklahoma You're you're kind

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of a new guy there. But
what about the folks who have been in

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the swamp for a while? Are
they blind to this? I think that

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in the Republican Conference, I think
most people have a healthy understanding of China

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as a long term threat. They're
embrace of communism, They're embrace of taking

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away private property rights. There religious
persecution of Christianity in their country, and

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it is antithetical to what we believes
as United States. Historically, I think

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most people understand that we are at
economic warfare right now with them, with

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Brazil, with Russia, with India, with China, with South Africa.

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Trying to see the blood in the
water when it comes to our overspending,

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which is causing people to no longer
perceive us as they wrongest economic power.

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That's the only reason we had the
world's reserve currency is because of perception of

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having the strongest economy, which happened
after World War Two, and so they're

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sniffing that out they're wanting to turn
the bricks grouped into a block of a

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new European Union be able to trade
fossil fuels absent the US dollar, the

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petrol dollar. So we are an
economic war. I think they they're laughing

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at us and our adherence to the
Church of Nature, this religious extremist,

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pol fish like activity, where we
are going after fossil fuels because of this

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administration's stating when he ran for president, Biden made no bones about it.

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He said, I'm going to go
after the fossil fuel industry, and I

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think tried in Russia with the coal
fire plants and all the things that they're

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doing. Something there knows that even
you know, the possibility of adhering to

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what the Paris Climate Accord is saying, they're laughing at us and our idiocy

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of following suit and trying to destroy
ourselves from within. And so we have

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got to get strong on. We
got to return to energy dominance. We've

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got to have another dot com type
boom in the United States. We have

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to cut spending, and we have
to grow our economy, and our fossil

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fuel industry is a way to do
that. We have five hundred years supply

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of old and gas in this nation, and we need to quit fighting with

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our hands tied behind our back.
There's an old old proverb that says,

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if there's no enemy on the inside, the enemy on the outside can't do

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any harm. China wants to take
us without firing a shot. China wants

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to see us destroy ourselves by our
debt and our debt loading. That's why

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I keep saying that, you know, economic strength is national security. For

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us, economic security is national security. So we've got to get our physical

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house in order, and with the
Lord's help, with us being the country

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that stands for truth and justice and
righteousness, going back to our history,

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that's what makes us strong and being
one nation is blessed by the Lord.

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And if we'll adhere to that and
and get our house in order, we

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can face any nation. It's the
destruction from within, tom that worries me.

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We're talking with the Congress from Josh
perking uh where I ask you several

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questions, What do you want to
let people know here in Oklahoma today that

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there's no problem that we face as
a nation that if will return to the

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principles that made us great, that
we can't solve. I talk a lot

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about the problems. Just describing the
problems, that's not enough to you know,

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to stop there. You've got to
have solutions. And I do believe

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the solution is a great awakening.
It's a heart can change in America.

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It's a it's a it's becoming mothers
and fathers that are raising children in the

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home again and stopped looking to government
to be the solution for every problem.

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It's becoming work brittle as a society. It's I don't want to overstate,

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I do want to overstate this that
we if will become constitutional, if we'll

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return to the strict constructionist and our
empowered decision making back through the states and

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the people in according to the Tenth
Amendment and the eighteen numerated powers of Article

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one, Section eight, and we
will become biblically virtuous again as a society.

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I love what Reagan told Johnny Carson
when Johnny Carson said what we're going

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to do, and Ronald Reagan famously
responded and said, you know, there's

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so much people look to government,
and government is often the problem, not

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the solution. And that's our problem. Is we set our money, then

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God, we trust, but we've
turned to government all too often. It's

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government that is over regular, it's
government that's overspending. It's government that is

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stifling innovation too many times in our
nation. And if folks want to get

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ahold of you, how can they
do that? They can go to Burken

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dot house dot gov. They can
also call our DC office two two two

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five two seven zero one and Tom, you want to fact check me on

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that phone number? But I think
that's right. I'm still learning that number.

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And thanks sure. Other Bergam dot
house dot com that can also get

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a hold of us, you know
with our district staff Claremore Office or you

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know, we have a veteran support
and support on casework in any issue that's

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it's federal and nature, passports,
immigration, legal immigration, um. Also

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we have field report that are being
produced by by our field reps. I'm

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greatly excited about the number of people
that are on our team that are out

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there beating the bushes asking people to
questions, where do you see where do

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you need need need the government to
to be modified in terms of how they're

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stifling innovation now making it hard to
create a new job. We've got that

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activity out there. We want people
keep us informed. And if you see

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a field rep, tell them,
and I read it on a plane.

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If you see a caseworker, if
you call our office, I read those

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phone call updates when I'm flying back
and forth to stay. They had to

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speed to what Oklahoma's believe as a
solution. And don't forget to see the

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congressman when it comes to your town
with the town hall meeting. Congressman,

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thank you for being thank you for
being with us today. God bless you.

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Thanks dan Hey, great job.
We got you all in and you

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gave us plenty to work with.
Appreciate it. Anytime you're in the neighborhood,

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we'll probably see either in Dewey or
the Eggs and Issues or an Oola

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gay here before too long