Open Phone Line Friday

Episode Transcript

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You ever felt like water was justnot edgy enough. You know, Yes,
this water can do a kickflip?Oh is that all right? Yeah,
that sounds weird. This water isalways talking back to its parents.
I like to hear that. Uhhuh yeah listening to punk rock. Dude,
I'll be honest with you, though, how often have you just not
gotten water? Because it's not justa fun thing to drink. It happens

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to me all the time, likeI have, like the last few months
have really like overcome that. ButI'm drinking two things at once, like
to drink water, to talk myselfin a hydrating with water, I always
have to be drinking something else,and I'll just like go back and forth.
I went through a period where Iwas putting a little bit of flavor
in my water, like the yeahthose little those meos, Yeah, yeah,

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did that for a little bit.I haven't been doing that for a
while now, but that, yeah, that that makes it a little more
exciting. By the way, I'mdrinking a doctor ze via cheers, nice
cheers, cheers to you out therein radio land. Mm hmm. And
now, as promised, my swigof regular uh what do you call that
water? Cooler water or is therea certain names Oh, mister Culligan man.

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Yeah, whatever that is, isthat Cullagan though, I'd have to
go check. Well, they justgot free advertising on our radio station,
so hopefully it is. Bottom lineis it's just marketing genius. I don't
think it's too deep. I justthink mister Manifesto set himself on fire in
New York today is like he's justtrying to draw lines to stuff that doesn't

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connect and then set himself on fire, which kind of I think underlines the
point that this guy was a littlebit out there, maybe a lot bit
out there. Actually I found asign I didn't say this. There's a
sign that he was carrying that sayssomething like Trump and Biden or Trump is
with Biden and they're going to fascistto us. What's that mean? I

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think he's missing some propositions. Yeah, is that a complete sentence? Like
I just look up fascist coup andlike the only thing that pops up is
a political conspiracy called the Business Plotthat happened in the US to try to

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overthrow FDR in nineteen thirty three.There's a long Wikipedia article about it.
But that's the only time, likethat's the first thing that pops up on
Google when you put those two wordsback to back together. Fascist coup,
fascist coup. You could, Idon't know, couldn't you say that that's
kind of what Mussolini did? Yeah? Maybe, And what that crazy guy

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in Germany did to Venezuela. Venezuela. There's one in Venezuela. I think
too, now that I'm scrolling down. Wow. Yeah, well that's a
sign. It doesn't seem to bepolitically motivated. I think he just set
himself on fire in a place thathe knew, he knew people were going
to see him, the world waswatching. Yeah. Yeah, So anyway,

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all right, well, well yeah, have you ever like, you
know John Tay Porter. Here,here's a pull from a thing that we
talked about earlier this week, PopQuiz Pop News Quiz. Matt Johntay Porter
is famous this week for what forgetting a lifetime ban from the NBA And

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why did he get a lifetime ban? Because he placed bets on NBA games
that involved himself and among other things, he was like going out of his
way to like let people know tobet his overs or his unders or whatever,
you know what I mean. AndI don't know. That's about as

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bad as it can get. Right. Well, Michael Porter Junior is his
older brother. He plays for theDenver Nuggets, has won a championship.
He might win another championship this year. Good player Johnte Porter banned from the
NBA. Not that great of aplayer. Well, his another one of

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his younger brothers is a college playerfor the Denver Pioneers right now, has
been sentenced today to six years inprison for a dui vehicular homicide and vehicular
assault after pleading guilty to crashing intoand killing a woman in twenty twenty three.

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Yeah, his uh, his bloodalcohol level was point one nine legal
limits point oh eight. It wasover double. I don't know. Cobon,
by the way, is twenty twoand now he's going to prison.
If you're the parents of this family, and the reason I bring this up
is like you talk about like conspiraciesor whatever. If you're Michael Porter Senior,

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who's the father of this family,and you got one son who's just
killing it in the NBA right nowand was one of title making millions of
dollars as an NBA player, Butit seems like subsequent sons are getting in
trouble on very public situations, andnow one is in prison. Can John

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Tay get legally in trouble for whathe was doing with the books or because
the sports betting is legal, it'snot a criminal charge. Well, just
what like he the conspiracy is withthe NBA and not with like the law.
Even though you would think that theywould sue him or come after him,
these sports books would for him manipulatingthe lines in his play, even

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though I think I read somewhere thatit was sketchy enough at the time that
they didn't pay it out. Aguy bet seventy thousand dollars on a Johntay
porter under seventy dollars he did notJohnte, but a different person did.
Oh I see, and he I'mguessing, told him, hey, bet

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the under on my points tonight.I'm not gonna I'm not gonna take a
shot, and I'm gonna be outof the game in the first quarter.
And then he was out in likethree minutes with what they called an eye
injury. But DraftKings apparently was justlike, I'm not We're not paying that
out. There was there was strangecircumstances so we're just going to give your
money back. You just have towonder how many were not quite that much

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money total, and how many workedout, you know, right and now?
And then after the second time ithappened, that was strange, they
did the investigation and found, oh, this guy was betting on stuff too,
including against his own team in hisown name. Yeah, according to
their thing, he bet against theRaptors when he was playing for them.

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Something tells me he's not a Rhodesscholar. No, I don't know.
Do you call that a win ora loss with your with your kids or
did all the good attention go tojust one of these kids and then the
rest of them? You know,they're all basketball players. So it was
Michael Porter senior, but man nowCobin Porter of twenty two year old jail
for six years. Wow, allright, I've been teasing that we're gonna

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get to it. Iran Israel.Israel sends a strike to Iran. It
seemed like a big deal at thetime. Last night, I remember seeing
it pop up on my social mediaaccount, and you know, I don't
know what you felt, but Ifelt a pit in my stomach. I
was like, okay, here wego gloves, you're off Iran said,
they strike us, We're going inthere. We're wiping them off the face

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of the map where it's going tobe a destruction, will be nothing left
of the Zionist state, as theirpresident said earlier this week. Well they
they that was all I was thinkingabout. Is okay, there's a strike
in Isfahan. There's a nuclear sitein Iran nearby there? Did they go
after the new clear site? Andare they saying bring it on? The

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United States and the rest of ourallies are going to save us? The
speculation that you know, national newsbecause Matt and listeners at home they need
the content, right they hear thisis happening. We all we don't have
any confirmation on much of anything exceptsemi professional journalism. Outlets in Iran are

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reporting that there was an explosion inIsfahan and that's all we know. Well,
it turns out when I woke upthis morning, despite going to bed
with a cold sweat, like,what's gonna happen now? Is Iran gonna
immediately come back? Is Israel gonnabe like right there? Is the United
States gonna get involved? Am Igonna wake up to like the beginning of
World War Three, it was theopposite. And I'll tell you why.

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Next stick around three sixteen. It'snews Radio eleven t in Kfab. Emery
Sunger on News Radio eleven ten Kfab. I'm gonna spend just a little bit
of time here on actually what happenedwith Israel in Iran. We know there
are a lot of protests in theUnited States about this. I'm not gonna

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talk about them anymore because it's thepoint is until something changes with the way
our government handles what's going on inIsrael. Because of these protests of these
people that think that they're you know, they this They read a book once
and they think they know how tosave the world. That's these people.
They have no concept of reality.They have no concept of understanding what legitimate

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defense is for a military action consideringwhat's going on. We can talk about
diplomats, the diplomatic part of thisanother time, but as far as the
strike that Israel sent to Iran,remember this was in retaliation for like the
three hundred something strikes that were sentfrom Iran to Israel over the weekend.

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Nothing really got through the Iron dome, if you will. We found out
after the fact Israel had a littlebit of help from Jordan and some of
the other people in the Middle East, and the United States was nearby.
It was never going to I don'tthink escalate. But they fended off that
attack right well. Apparently it wasan incredibly limited number of strikes attempted by

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Israel to Iran, and they wereimmediately like very close to making something happen
in a place that they immediately targeted, like very precise. The analysts are
saying this was a limited but preciseattack, and it was a message.

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It wasn't to do a ton ofdamage. It wasn't to blow something important
up. And the explosion, accordingto Iran, the explosion that was heard
in Isfahan was actually the defense mechanismslike going into protection mode and not necessarily
a strike making contact with the ground. Iran in and of itself isn't making

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much of a deal of it atall. They knew what happened, We
didn't hear much and it sounds likethere's no immediate or imminent return coming.
There are analysts that have background inIran or have backgrounds in what's going on
in the Middle East, and knowa lot more about this than I do.
But they are saying, here's thefork in the road now for Iran.

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This was a message sent from Israel. Certainly it was not done with
the idea that they're going to actuallytry to blow something up. They are
showing Iran, hey, we canbe incredibly precise and not have to shoot
off three hundred plus missiles in yourdirection to do some real damage. And
of course they have the flexing ofthe allies that they have behind them.

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But the fork in the road herefor Iran is one of two things.
I don't think there's a middle groundhere. The first option is to retaliate
and say, okay, fine,we told you if you were going to
put something in our airspace, weare going to come right back at you
and wipe you off the face ofthe earth. And that's what we're going
to do. That's one option.And then that scales out into war,

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full scale war. Other people likethe United States are gonna have to get
involved in some way. That thatwould be a pretty bad scenario. I
don't know anybody who's rooting for that, except for people who might hold stocks
in those war bonds or whatever.And then the other side is okay,
Iaran says, Okay, Israel,you have proved your points. You know

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we are not messing around. Weknow you are not messing around. We're
gonna put a cork in this ifyou will, and well, you deal
with what you're dealing with over there. But directly speaking, we are not
going to have this interaction again,at least for now. I don't know

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which of those is more likely tohappen. Obviously, you'd hope that they
would put a cork in it.Let the sleeping dogs lie call this say.
I don't think it's a truce byany means, but call it a
all right, all right. It'slike one of those things where, Matt,
have you ever gone to the barand you've seen you I talk,

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Ron's like the drunk guy at thebar. I'm gonna stick with that.
The drunk guy at the bar getsbumped to and from the back, right,
and it feels kind of aggressive,and he pushes back without really even
seeing what the guy is right,like the other guy that bumped into him.
He just turns around and pushes himback. And then the other guy
turns around and it's run our testand he's standing there just staring at him.

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Don't you mean meta world peace.Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot
about that. Or Arnold Schwarzenegger orChuck Liddell or insert guy who probably is
going to be bigger than this guywho's Chuck Laddell UFC champion. He was
like the first big star of UFC. Come on, man, all right,
now, I know the iceman.Hey, you know what, nothing

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wrong with asking questions. That's theonly way people learn the iceman. Chuck
Laddell. You've not heard of him. There we go. You haven't seen
this guy. You're you're you're comingafter me for not knowing you live under
a rock. No, here wego, though, here we go.
This is a perfect example. Youwant to come at me for not knowing
something. Luckily, Luckily, i'msuch a steel reserve, of of of

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confidence like the beer, that disgustingbeer, like a literal steel reserve.
It doesn't bother me. But otherpeople, if you keep coming after them
for not knowing stuff, they're gonnastop asking questions now. Then we're gonna
have a bunch of ignorant people whogot bullied into not knowing stuff. All
right, all right, all right, So here's the compromise. You can
ask all the questions you want,but understand that I am not the kind

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of person that's gonna coddle you,and I'm going to shame you for not
knowing somebody of the stature of ChuckLadell. Okay, well, then please
understand that I don't feel any shamefor not knowing Chuck Liddell. Well,
you're a strong individual, and that'swhy I give you all the crap in
the world. I wear jeorts.I don't feel shamed, have never been
one listening to my sound of myvoice. If this shameless existence, if

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you have no shame, by George, that's the message, the underlying message,
all right, But anyway to finishthat point, and that analogy guy
pushes back without knowing how big theother guy is, and then like they
go eye to I face to face, and then they look at each other
and they're like okay, uh.They just kind of nod. They're like,
okay, all right, that's fine, Yep, that's cool, and

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that's the end of it for now. And then they go on other sides
of the bar and do whatever theyhave to do for the rest of the
night. But that's nobody wins.If this continues to escalate. I tend
to think, and this is theeternal optimist in me, that this was
done in such a way that Irangot the point. Israel did it in
such a way that they feel likeIran would not be retaliatory against them,

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and maybe that'll be that as faras these two countries directly are concerned.
We'll have to wait and see.Open phone line Friday. The phone lines
are open. If you want totalk about anything on your mind, you
can. You can call us fourroh two five five eight to eleven ten.
Four roh two five five eight eleventen. We'll get to your calls,
your thoughts, and we'll have aFriday four coming up momentarily as well.

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So stick around for the fun.On news radio eleven ten KFA.
B em Very's songer on news Radioeleven ten KFAB. We're gonna do open
phone line Friday. That's what we'regonna do here for the rest of this
half hour, maybe leak into thenext hour. Who knows our phone number
is four oh two five five eighteleven ten. Four oh two five five

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eight to eleven ten, And wealways appreciate everybody for calling in. We
have Tim on the line Tim.First of all, thanks for being on
the show. What's on your mind? Hi? Thank you for taking my
call. I appreciate that very much. Hey, no problem, Tim,
What are you thinking about today?Well, I was just down at the
courthouse there downtown and on your wayinto the courthouse, they recently put up
two plaques oh and there about howit was a lynching that took place inteen

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nineteen, and I went ahead andread the plaque, and I have to
admit I was a little bit disturbedby what the content that the wording of,
you know, the whole thing.Basically it went on to say,
quote a group of white people andlaw enforcement, you know, da da
da da da did this horrible actto this black guy. And you know,
I'm not I mean, I totallyget it. I get what you

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know that we're not supposed to ignorehistory and all this. But my question
is how in the world is bestsupposed It was very graphic, I'll put
that into it was it was prettypretty inflammatory language and very graphic. And
my question is this, how inthe world is that supposed to help race
relations in this country in twenty twentyfour. How is that supposed to Is

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it going to help race relations oris it going to hurt race relations?
In my own opinion, I thinkit's terrible. I think it hurts race
relations. I think it also putsa target on law enforcements. Yeah,
okay, so Tim, Tim,let me just jump in real quick.
So, so like I'm hearing everythingthat you're saying on this Where was this
again? Can you remind me?Sorry? This? This is These two

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plaques were recently put in at thedowntown courthouse. Okay, all right,
right, Douglas County Courthouse. Okay, got it, all right. So
I you know, it's interesting becauseand you you mentioned it yourself. You
know a lot of people that havekind of I'm guessing you and I are
pretty similar political ideology. We're moreconservative than we are liberal. I would

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guess most of us are going toagree that it's important that we keep history
to the forefront, because if wedon't think about our history, we aren't
going to be sure about make likewe don't want to make the same mistakes
again. I think a lot ofpeople who are protesting this Israel thing are
forgetting history. They're forgetting what happenedto Jewish people not one hundred years ago

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in the Holocaust. Right. Thereare a lot of things like that.
Right, people I think on thepolitical right like us who want to make
sure history lives or are for themost part, it kind of disturbs us
the way that some things are omittedfrom our textbooks. There are some things
that aren't told in full for ourkids to learn about. It's either,

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you know, some people accuse itof being like whitewashed, where they don't
mention any of the things that maybewe get to tell it. You know,
history is told by those who wins, you know, the saying I
guess, And I can understand somebodycoming up with that idea and saying,
well, you didn't even mention this, this, this, and this.
If we're going to be incredibly transparentabout our scenario, I think I think

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it's I think it kind of hasto be all or nothing either. We
want our history to be commemorated insome ways so we don't make the same
mistakes again, like whatever that plaquetalks about. And I'm sure it's graphic,
and I'm sure that's the point ofit is to remind people how graphic
and terrible that scenario was. AndI know that you think it's a terrible
thing. But but at at thesame time I can understand what you're thinking

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is that it directly implies race intothe act. Now, the reason I
think this is a little different,tim because generally I would agree with you
that you know, mentioning race ina situation like this is generally going to
be negative. Most of the peopleof color that I talk to that are
tired of racism say, the onlyreason we have racism is could we keep
talking about it? Right? AndI I and I one undred percent understand

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that perspective. At the same time, I also can understand if something that
horrific happened in the community, thatin a place like the courthouse, a
place that is going to command respect, a place that the government is in
charge of and that we we gointo with our you know, our our
best behavior in mind when you goto a place like the courthouse, to

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be reminded that the government now isaware of some of the transgressions of the
past, and that this will neverstand again in our community. I think,
even though it might make people likeyou and I may be a little
uncomfortable about the way they told thatstory, I think at the end of
the day, the moral of thatis to remind people that might have been
questioning whether or not the government hastheir best interest in mind. They now

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feel like, you know, ifthey're willing to commemorate this and say that
this was such a horrific thing thathappened in our community and it will never
stand again in a place like Omaha, I think that it actually is a
positive for our community at large.So if I may be able to just
leave it at this one last point, sure, I would hope that one

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day. And I'm kind of quotingfrom the Martin Luther King Junior in dream
speech, I have a dream speechthat people will be you know, people
will be judged by the content oftheir character and not the color of their
skin. I think we're going inthe wrong direction here on this whole race
thing. I think that race relationsin this country are kind of at an

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all time low. Frankly, andmaybe not you know, all getting pretty
bad, yeah, Tim, Tim, I think it's bad because of social
media, and there's a lot ofloud people on social media. There's no
way it's worse than it was inthe sixties, like, like as recently
as the nineteen sixties, when westill had segregated schools, and we had
states that didn't allow kids to drinkout of the same color. You know
what I mean like that? Yeah, I mean I agree with you there,

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I mean I don't. I don'tmean to say it's at an all
time low. That was a mistake, but it's it's not exactly improving.
And I did my question stands.I just don't understand how this that plaque
is going to help sures you know, well, Tim, Tim, and
I might not be the right personto ask, right, because I as
well, I'm a I'm a whiteguy from the Midwest. Right, I

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didn't live in the era. Ofcourse, No, I probably no one
who's still alive is going to beable to remember anything like that happening around
here. Good point, But that'sa good point. But at the same
time, I think it's important thatI would ask my aff American friends,
you know what that would do forthem, because I'll be honest with you,

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Tim, I wouldn't even have noticedthe plaque. I wouldn't And if
I would have stopped to read theplaque, I don't think I would have
had a lot of feelings about itone way or the other, because it
doesn't really apply to me at all, and so I would I would probably
talk to my friends of color andif that was something that was a positive
or maybe they don't notice it either, Like I don't know, but I

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don't want to speak for what itcould do or what kind of positive messaging
that might subliminally do for minorities inour community because I'm not one. So
I did the best I could tohelp you out with the way I feel
about it, Tim, But ifyou, if you want to know,
like maybe the other side of thecoin, on a more authentic perspective,
I would talk to somebody who isAfrican American and see what their thoughts on

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that being commemorated are and see ifthey even were aware of that happening or
if they even noticed the plaque inthe first place. Right on, All
right, buddy, appreciate you callingin. Thanks for listening to us today.
Bye bye. All right, ifyou want to call us about anything
that's on your mind, four ohtwo five five eight eleven ten four oh
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