EP: 664 - Jackie's Afraid Of Mannequins + Odd Jobs & Hip Hop Beefs

On this episode of The Cruz Show Podcast we talk about Jackie's self defense plan, her fear of mannequins + random jobs the Cruz Show did before radio & Hip Hop beefs. Very interesting episode, that gives you a peek into The Cruz Show origin stories

Episode Transcript

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It was good, boy, jidwhat was good? Everybody? This is
what's good? This glove really andyou're checking out the Cruise Show podcast,
make sure to subscribe. Rate andsure Liz, go go go. All
right, welcome back to the CruiseShow podcast. Thank you so much for
journey. My name is jeffg producerof The Cruise Show most of the podcast.
Jackie's here cruises. Yeah, that'sjust here. Everybody's stomachs are full.

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McDonald's fries, McDonald's mcflury's. Whatkind of mcflurries were they? They
were pick cat banana split mcflurry.You know I know that. Yeah,
not yet, not yet. I'mabout to go in. By the way,
we were discussing this cold stale fries. Not a problem for me anyone
else, cold stale anything is nota problem for you, I hope,
said our Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember coffee said out. I'll

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eat twelve hour old meal. Idon't care this sitting out for eight hours.
I'll eat it, I'll finish it. I don't mind it. But
it's not my preference. I feellike for you, it's your preference.
Yeah, it's so much. It'sa little different Dan It bothers. Diana
right said, let me warm upyour food. I'm like, I don't.
I don't need it warmed up.I can just need it like that,
and she's like, no, I'mgonna warm it up, right.
I'm like, that's that's for yourego, not mine. My god.

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Yeah, you're interesting. The wayyou're wired pretty much is pretty interesting,
just really bad. By the timethis podcast is over, it'll be milk
anyways. Yeah, I need astraw. That's a milk flurry. Bro.
Uh, let's start with what wewere talking about before he jumped on
this, which is that guy thatunfortunately uh masturbated on a woman at the

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Dollar that was in Philadelphia, Phi. Yeah, meek Mill was offering a
reward two million, two million,two thousand, and he said, don't
approach him, just film them.That was his caveat, which I thought
was really interesting, but he endedup turning himself in And honestly, like,
just when you think you've heard theweirdest story, the weirdest story comes

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out the next week like this isI mean, dude, we keep topping
ourselves pause right, Like it's justit's it's to stop it. But it's
like, yeah, if if youthink someone's bad, some else is worse.
Yeah, and there's just a mattera time before they expose himself and
that dude, Yes, he's anidiot, and he's gross and he should
be put away and he's disgusting,yes, all of the above, right,

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but he also has clear clearly he'sgot some mental issues and he's got
some stuff to fix. He's obviouslya sick right. Yeah, but that's
right. I just don't like goingout alone as as a female. You
know what, Jackie, I usedto think it was funny, like how
you sleep with like a gun underyour pillow and like you, I don't
know, I do not have agun, have a knife on you and

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yeah, you sleep with a knifeand you're always were you don't want to
like even sleep in your own apartmentby yourself if Nico, your boyfriend is
out of town. But like Iget it, I totally get it,
because there's you know, there's uhsickness everywhere and you just got to be
careful. Yeah. So I literallyhave pepper spray, I have a window
breaker. I see, have tolive this way, we have to live
this way. Yeahpecially women. Womenhave to live in fear. I have

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a taser too. I have likethree. Always tell Diana, like,
okay, your taser, have somemace, you know, like something,
because you always with the kids arealways at stores or they're always out and
about, like you just you gottabe My kids are so friendly. They'll
talk to anybody and play with anybody. I'm like, yo, like you
just I don't know, you gotto protect yourself. And it's actually it's
funny because, like I like,there's also so many like precautions that women

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have to take. With the precautionsthat we take, like we can't,
Like, there's this thing that gelpepper spray is better because in the event
that somebody does attack me, likeif I spray and then the wind blows
back on me, then the pepperspray, like the spray one, right,
it's worse. It'll get back atme if the gel one is directed,
and then tasers aren't that effective becauseyou have to be close ranged with

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that person. Yeah, So that'salso why we get peppers. Can you
get the ones that cops have thatshoot out? I don't think so those
like I don't think that's I wantone of the ones like they had and
hangover where it shot fat Jesus inthe in the face Andre talking about to
projectile, Right, you can probablyprobably buy it somewhere that was like that

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place over here in Burbank. What'sthe sergeants supply. Oh, they got
to have one. They gotta havestuff like that, right. I mean
if we were able to buy gunsthat way, like so easily, I
think we could buy that too.Yeah, you probably have to get a
security guard permit or something like that. I used to have one back in
the day really when I was securityguard at Friendly Hills bro like the overnight
shift there was during that overnight.So so what do security guards do overnight?

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Watch TV? Yeah? Yeah,you just let people in. I
would just check like if they're athing, went scanned to come in.
Get scared like late night shifts,like like I got scared just being anywhere
late at night. Like, soI can only imagine as a security guard
that's like terrifying because they can probablysee stuff. And the security guards really
don't have like, uh anything likeI don't have guns or anything like that.

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Right, No, I never hadthat. I had I had I
had mace and stuff, and thenI had we had handcuffs and then we
had a taser too though, ButI worked there. And then I also
worked security at a place where theymake dog food and that in Bell and
that place was wild too, likeit's stunk so bad? Did it stink?

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Yeah? And then I worked atthe golf course as security. That
was the best one because I actuallygot the funk people up there at the
golf course. At the golf courseoff the six or five in a month.
Now it's a school there. Reallyused to be like by we're the
sixty and six o five where peoplealways drunk. Yeah, just that and
then you knowing arrows. It wasa miniature golf though, Okay, not
not an actual golf course. Itwas miniature golf Okay, I'm taking golfing

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stuff. No, not not thatthat one. It was off the sixty.
Yeah, but that one was greatactual people, you know, crews.
How teenagers can be Yeah that agolf course, are hitting golf balls
on the freeway. They're trying toyou know, they're drinking there. So
that one was fun because I gotto actually, you know, rough some
people up. That's right. Ithink you and I have that in comment
Uh people up? No, notlike We've had some pretty interesting jobs going

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up. You have was a chefat fourteen like Garcia, like you,
You've had like a thousand jobs,so Vie man, I've been working dog
since like twelve growing up. Okay, so I worked. I had no
business being working an office job.And I had an office job when I
was like fifteen, through some program, through like a summer program that my

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mom was able to like you know, tap into, and we got jobs
and like so I was doing andto this day, I still had no
clue what I was doing there,but I was doing something and I got
paid for it, which was great. I also worked at a laundry mat
where I like cleaned and like buffedthe floor when I was like thirteen fourteen,
like under the table. I'm documented, but I wasn't like working age,

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I guess or whatever. What else. I worked as a stock boy
at a women's clothing store at theLimited. Oh nice, at the Limited?
Did that limited? Yeah, HickoryFarms. I worked there for a
few summers. Yeah, yeah,all day slanging sausage. Yeah, and
I'm There's been so many other things. I worked at a bank that was

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that was fun. That's kind ofcrazy, Yeah, just being around all
that money's wild, man, that'scrazy taking out carts of you know,
hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollarscash and big fat checks. It's it's
always you were very self employed anentrepreneur. All those you ever see,
like the letters that Macy's like,uh, like they'll say like women or

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whatever. I used to make thosewhat Yeah, I used to like like
I don't know how many has howit's how it's made episode. Yeah,
they're just made lines. Yeah,they're like foam and I have to cut

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them and then hang them and dostuff like that. Yeah. And it
was weird because they had a placein there and Jackie would freak out probably
like but it was like a placewhere they would dress the mannequins. So
it was just like a football fieldof like dark, it's dark in there,
and then mannikins fun. But itwas weird. My one of my

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biggest fears is mannequins. Really,like, I absolutely hate mannequins. I
hate mannequins, I hate clowns.I hate like no, I just I
can't if you walked into your apartmentand didn't know it right, and like
you're walking to your bedroom and there'sa mannequin. There are you out?
Are you punching? In? Areyou punching? Some people get so scared
they it's violence immediately. I've donethat before too. Like it's like I

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remember my brother used to scare mewhen I was younger, and one time
I punched him and I was justlike, well, that's your fault,
Like it is, it is thefault of the person scaring. But mannequins,
I can't do that. Like II remember having very like lucid dreams
when I was a kid about mannequins. That was very scary. What store
used to have there? I thinkit was Mervin's or was it J.

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C. Penny don't when I wasa kid. Mervins is, We're sears.
Murvyns is like a department store backin the day. They had a
husky section. So that's where Iwould go. That's where my mom would
take. Mannequins are freaking crazy.One of them in the valley here in
San Fernando there was a mannequin butit had like different parts so it was
like a brown arm, a whitehead, like a weird body. It

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was like a different color arms.It was I get it, Like they
had to like put it together todisplay the clothes. But diversity, Yeah,
I'm like, yeah, the diversityMadequan is crazy. Yeah, but
no, I hate those jobs buildcharacter, man, Yeah they do,
you know. Yeah, man,they build character just because it's like you
gotta do ship you don't want todo. That's what I tell my kids

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all the time. It's like whenyou're forced to do something you don't want
to do, then you're grown up. Is it bad that I've never had
a job that required me to dosomething that I don't want to do.
That's bad, I think, butI get it. All we did was
stuff he didn't want to do.Yeah, like in a department store.
I never worked in the food industry. I never did anything else. You

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never had to get a job likeat like Burger King or Carl's Junior for
the summer or nothing, right,nothing like that. All I ever did
was try and get into the business. Yeah. Yeah, which is great.
I mean that's you know, andyou got a family as well,
like your parents. But I alsoplaced a lot of sports too, which
is why I didn't work at avery young age. Yeah, there was
no sports. There was no timefor sports. It was get a job,

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I remember trying to get a jobwhen I was like eight, seven
or eight, and I was callingthe pet stores to see if they needed
help because I just heard my parentslike talk about like money struggles my whole
life. So I at like eight, I just wanted to contribute and I
wanted to get to work already,So I guess I would stop hearing them
talk like that. It's trauma.It's trauma. Yeah, it is sad,

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but I remember and not do something, bring something to this family.
Yeah, my dad is like,are you old enough to work yet?
Like I would hear that my wholelife, you know what I mean?
And like I know he was kidding, but yo, he was dead ass
dude, because at his age,I was already working, you know what
I mean. So like that's that'swhat we were going off of. But
yeah, I was calling pet shopsand they were just like, no,
you have to be at least sixteen. We're sorry, you know, And
I'm like, yeah, okay,I just hang up. That's funny you

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say that because my youngest is fifteenand a half. So I was like,
you can go get your work permitwhen school comes back, and he's
like, I'm gonna get it.I'm gonna get it. Yeah, they
realize that they're not going to havelike a personal life anymore. Yeah,
that's okay. I mean it justdepends. Like they've had a great child.
He's got a lot of Yeah,he's got a lot of basketball,
so like it would be like aone or two day a week thing.
But he needs that experience. Theyneed that, you know, Hey,

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they need that. I don't wanthim to. I mean, yeah,
you do have to do shit.You don't want to. That's life for
the rest of your life. Yeah, Jack, Yeah, yeah, Jack,
you really do you know what Imean? Like it sucks, but
like that is a part of life. You just don't want to work anymore.
I feel you to marry rich.She mumbled that to herself the other

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day. I heard her Mary.She was looking through it, like,
yeah, yeah, I'm giving upa twenty five because I feel like I
aged like five years in the pasttwo in radio? In radio radio?
Does that do it? Read?For twenty years? Dog? You think
they how do you think they feel? Let me tell you something. Definitely
tired. Tired, But like,okay, here's the thing, Like I

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started working at a late age,but I also had like several jobs at
the same time, so it's likeI was juggling like five jobs at like
eighteen. So true, very true. That's I mean, I guess in
a way, that's your that's yourstruggle, that's you know. Yeah,
I don't know, Hey, isit bad that I always tell him,
Like Cameron, my seven year old, always tell him, you know,

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I always like throw little things athim. I'm always like, son,
you gotta struggle to succeed, likeI always throw. And Diana kind of
looks at me like he's a littletoo young for that kind of conversation.
But I don't think so now.Inst No, my seven year old,
I'm like, listen, there's nothere's no success without struggles, son,
So you gotta struggle. I alwaystell him that is that bad? No,
not necessarily, but I just thinkthat, like, I mean,

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you're working for him to not struggle, right, this is true, But
and I don't want to artial struggle, but I just want him to to
like learn that it's not all sweet, right, Yeah, but I think
there could be like other ways thathe could learn that. I don't know.
That is me because that's the waythat my parents, like my Dad
was like, you know, Ijust want you to be better off than
we were, you know, butstill also went through I still went through

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some ship. You know. I'llsay, like, son, Dad is
eating out of a trash can,Like you can eat that. Oh see,
I don't know, is that isthat bad? I just think without
any kind of struggle, you growup in a bubble where you you're kind
of detached from reality. Yeah,and that can. But I also don't
want to introduce, like to beharmful imitation struggle either, just to just
for them to feel struggling. Youdon't have a hyster I don't want to

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do that. But I do wantto remind him that it wasn't easy for
Dad, So like this is whyit's so good for you, because it
wasn't easy for Dad. And justknow that it could. It's going to
be tough for you too, becauseit's tough out here in this on this
planet that we live on, especiallyin this country. I think as a
gen Z person, I just wentthrough different struggles. Yeah, different,

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Well, yeah, I read aboutthat all the time. You have a
ton more options, So I'm gonnawork one job and climb the ladder.
Is not a gen z thing likeyou guys don't fuck with that like at
all. Yeah, it just Ilike, for you, I'd rather work
five jobs that I like than workone that I don't that I hate.
So like that's kind of the way. That's kind of the way it is

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now, Like the choices are somuch out there for you guys that it's
different. But you know what Itell my kids is the sustainability of that
is the question. Like, yeah, you could sell a few shirts on
deepop and make you know, onehundred bucks in two weeks, which is
cool, I do it, youknow, but that should be a side
hustle, not your main hustle,because you're only gonna have so much stuff
to sell and unless you buy morestuff, which is counter productive, you

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know what I mean. So it'slike it's just about like trying to navigate
because it is hard. It's definitelyhard. But there are companies out there
that are dying to have some onethat would be willing to work there five
years because the turnover is so fuckingcrazy crazy. I see it, like
with my wife's job, Like it'sinsane and it just turnover turnover, turnover,
turnover, and then there's no consistencythere for them, you know.
You know what I think it istoo, is just that us, like

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gen Z people, we just welike we don't see the benefit of working
for somebody else's company, like whylike and like I I do admit that
I get that, like yeah,and like that's what my parents did and
that's what my brother's doing, youknow. But like for me, it
was always like, Okay, wellI'm gonna put this time and time and

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effort into myself and this money intomyself so that way, at the end
of the day, I'm getting mymoney. I think. I think we're
cutting out the middle man. Yeah, but there's a missed opportunity. I
think in that way, I feellike if if you do work for an
established company, you have the opportunityto acquire knowledge and and see how they
built up. And I think theonly thing we also, like says gen

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Z people like try and struggle withis like the benefits too. We don't
know how to like like four ohone K and healthcare and all that.
It's like foreign to us. Itreally is right right and PTO and time
all and so like when like mymom, like my mom literally helped me
like set up my four one Kand I was like, I have no
idea what I'm doing, gen Z. If they don't get the time off,

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they quit. Yeah, they're out. They're like, okay, cool,
But that's crazy. Part of thething is too, Jackie. I
mean, you guys are a lotsmarter, you know, Like you guys
have realized what we didn't realize,which is, you know, we got
this, we could do it onour own, you know, Like,
but that's hilarious. Yeah, it'scrazy. Like I think you guys have
the most opportunity than than any anygeneration ever. Just I mean just because

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of technology. And honestly, Ilove seeing people, you know, build
things. You know, I thinkas a parent only you know, this
is the sustainability is the worry partfor parents, you know. But honestly,
I give props like you are sointuitive and and just so smart on
how you can get something done andand and then make money off of it

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on top of that. It's justamazing, you know. Yeah. Now,
well gen Z has done brilliantly ismake a way for themselves by themselves,
like Jack was saying, And they'vedone that especially through the digital the
you know, through the digital ageand with all this technology. I mean,
you can make a billion dollars offof this one phone. Yeah,
you feel me. And they've wefigured it out now, you know what

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I mean. And it's uh andand and gen Z has really done some
magical ship with what they have,Yeah, for sure. And it's you
know, it's going to create acrazy future for you. Man, it's
awesome, dude. I just talkreal quick about Kendrick and all his uh
his mentions and scenes in his videoand how much other businesses are profiting off

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that. Man. I love it, right, Tam, sales are going
up, right? What else?What's that ghetto rodeo? You got a
rodeo? And then the the jacketsthat he was wearing, All of those
jackets are selling out. And thescarf too, I read yep, that's
crazy man. I found the scarfonline. It was the twelve hundred bucks
I think it was. It wastwelve that's wild. But yeah, I

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mean props to him because I meanit's just the layers upon layers of not
like us and what it's done.It's it's produced a concert, it's financially
benefiting people here in La. It'sbecome a cultural moment. It's half ended
the career of a rapper, youknow what I mean. Yeah, it's
like it's just it's just wild,man, And like Kendrick, no one
could do it like that. Andyou know, everyone kind of gets on

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artists sometimes when they're not around,like you know, a cruise. I
know, you would kill for aRihanna album, right yeah. And you
know and Kendrick, you know,after his last album, you know,
he was quiet, you know,I know he moved to New York,
did some stuff, blah blah blah. But like, I think it was
all worth the wait, because man, when someone nudged him and poked a
bear, that fool was here.I mean, yeah, we saw we

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all dog in real time, youfeel me? And listen other rat battles.
You got to think, right,we saw some amazing rat battles in
our lifetime, right or at leastwe've heard of them, or you know
we've we've read about them or whatever, but they've they No rap battle has
done with this rat battle has donefor so many it's kind of crazy.

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Like I mean, you guys obviouslyknow like I think, okay, not
like age you guys are me,but like shut up, Like the baby
the tupacin Biggie Beef, Like wasit? That was it? Like,
I don't know how that was becauseI was a different time and a scary
time. Yeah right, scary timebecause like yo, like the streets were

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hot, yeah right, and itwas man and we saw what happened.
Yeah, the result of that wascrazy. Yeah, it's just crazy to
like now experience a rap beef that, like I know, and it's just
like, oh, what the heck? Like my three year year old niece
is singing O V HO. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, my seven
year old. They love not likeus. They love the instrumental. I
found the instrumental on YouTube. Theylove the clean version, not playing the

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dirty version for him, but theylove it. They also love the instrumental
Chronic two thousand and one album.I just throw on the instrumental album and
they're just they love it. That'sso freaking good. It's amazing. Real
quick, before we get out,let's talk about some of the interviews we
have. Marcia Ambrosius was amazing.Felipe Sparza's one of his best appearances,

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dude, honestly, like his energywas so good this time around. We
have stuff from Bob Common in PeteRock was just incredibly amazing and the bars
let you thank you for jumping onthere. What else do we have?
I mean, I feel like there'sso many good interviews out right now for
us. Eva Longoria's on there,is Eg's on there, New Lama's coming

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next week. So you could checkall this stuff out at Real nine two
three LA dot com Force Slash CruiseShow Yeah, Ice cub As. Also
you could go to the Real ninetytwo to three Mustards up there. Oh
yeah, go to the Real ninetyninety two to three LA YouTube page as
well. So check all that goodstuff out man, always good content and
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