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in describing Kalina Harris. The news site The Bulwark is reporting that, and that Trump staffers directed Hinchcliff to take the sea word out, but that they somehow missed all the anti Hispanic material, or, as they have outclaimed, Hinchcliffe ad libbed all that, even though the video clearly shows him reading his material off the same teleprompter everybody else at the garden used on Sunday, Day three of Trump's self immolation among Hispanic voters, who make up twelve percent

of the electorate one week before the election, and no sign that it, like every previous racist Trump controversy, is actually abating still the lead story at the New York Times, and at one point the New York Times had six front page stories about it, still the front page story at the Washington Post and on the Fox News talk shows, and at the Wall Street Journal and at the ultra

conservative Washington Examiner. And when the Trump campaign's defense is well at least he didn't call her a rhymes with bunt like he planned, they have actually stepped neck high in it, especially since the pro Trump pack run by Elon Musk posted tweets based on the C word literally that say, the sea word, even the fig leaf, usually accepted by the both Sidesest media looking for a way, some way, anyway to avoid slamming Trump, has opened up

a whole new line of stories itself. The disingenuous statement from the conveniently reappearing Latina spokesperson disavowing the jokes only served to spin off a series of further reports on all the other remarks Hingecliff and the others made Sunday at Madison Square Garden, from the line about African Americans and watermelons and the line calling the Vice President's staff pimp handlers to everything that that man Stephen Miller said,

and the story is still expanding. Joe Rogan and Robert F. Kennedy Junior have been sucked under. David Corn of Mother Jones notes that Kennedy is so tied to Puerto Rico. He was once arrested there alongside Al Sharpton and the actor Edward James, almost protesting naval bombing exercises, and he gave one of his children. One of his children we know about the middle name, Viekees. Kennedy spoke after Hinchcliffe

did at Madison Square Garden. He said nothing about the Puerto Rico garbage shot, and when Corn got hold of Kennedy, Kennedy said he was unaware of it. He would have said something had he known. When pressed to take the opportunity to say something about it now, he said, I think it was unfortunate, and he promptly hung up the

phone on Corn. Kennedy's sad five words remain the closest thing to regret that anybody actually known to be involved with the Trump campaign has uttered, And that too has become a story as all the news outlets who have hesitated all these years to just ask Trump's enablers what they think of his latest hate or his latest threat or his latest lie? Are all doing so about this? Musk no comment, no comment. Eric doesn't know where he is, all right, Junior did retweet the video of all that stuff.

Tulsey Gabbard doesn't know where she is. Lara, no comment, Milania, that's not in her contract. Tucker Carlson, not even a maniacal laugh. It fell to JV to say something, and of course JD. Vance said something stupid, saying he hadn't seen the joke. Maybe it's a stupid racist joke, but he doesn't know, and he hasn't seen it, and he's not going to comment on it. As he continued to comment on it, but quotes, we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States

of America. I'm just I'm so over it. And one wonders if he would feel that way about a rally with jokes about men who wear eyeliner or who have sham marriages, just to pick two topics to comedy standards at random, comedy standards that I haven't seen and can't comment on. If Vance is really over it, he may be the only one now the entire Hinecliff Latino's Puerto Rico story has mainlines back to Joe Rogan. Thanks to the independent journalist Jacqueline Sweet, we have this.

Trump on October twenty seven. The first poll that shows what the Madison Square Garden event did to those few remaining Trump Ispanic voters and his support in general, will of course extend the story into a fourth day, or fifth day, or sixth day. It is likely to still be front of mind on election day. All in all, what could be the final God help Me vibe shift

before election Day is clearly in Harris's favor. The Tofts University Cooperative election study closing last Friday has her ahead by four fifty one to forty seven among likely voters in their model, by six fifty two forty six among those who say they have voted or definitely will vote Nate Silver again of use when he's just crunching batting

averages or Google searches. Reports that there was more searching for Trump after the garden disaster than at any other time online since the guy showed up on Trump's golf course, and for hours, Tony Hinchcliff got more Google searches than Taylor Swift. Guessing here, little of what popped up helped

either of them. There is so much of God help me vibe shift towards Harris that even The New York Times has noticed quoting officials within the Harris campaign and people with whom they have shared candid assessments, believe she remains in a solid position in the northern Blue Wall states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, saying internal polling shows her slightly ahead in all three, though by as little as a half a percentage point. They think she remains

competitive across the four Sun Belt battleground states. Arizona and North Carolina appear to be the toughest swing states from Miss Harris, these Democrats said, and they feel better about Georgia and Nevada. This jibes with what I've heard of those candid assessments, with a caveat that my quote unquote sore are pretty peripheral and also more importantly, could easily completely overlap with some of the ones talking to the Times. As to the Trump campaign, Well, clearly they still have

an out of controlled dumpster fire going. Ah right, what is it you keep in dumpsters again? I guess they just trashed their own momentum into the dust bin of history. Or as they say, and by day I mean Tony Hinchcliffe and his pal Donald Trump, garbage in, garbage out.

I'm only happy when it rains. As in fitting irony, Kamala Harris takes the podium today at the Ellipse from which Trump escalated himself from nightmarish lame duck to active lethal threat to the Republic, amid the little seventh grader teases about Trump's secret with Mike Johnson. As our brethren in the Northwest warm their hands by the fires of the burning ballot drop boxes. As all that happens, thoughts naturally turn to the next Trump coup attempt, and there

will be one. For months, it has been evident that Trump World is being guaranteed a victory to gin them up for insurrection. Again, that Mike Johnson would enable that, and he would be wearing a military uniform by sunset, if they can find one in the boys department at Tjmax. But of all the things to fear, the most publicized

is the least realistic. Professors Lawrence Tribe, Neil Buchanan, and Michael Darf Michael Dorff of Cornell, by the Way, have written a somewhat labored piece for The Washington Post, the gist of which is, No, you don't need two hundred and seventy or more electoral College votes to become president.

And no, just because nobody gets two hundred and seventy or more electoral College votes that does not trigger a so called contingent election, in which the congressional delegation of each state gets one vote for president and the Republican always wins the end quoting them. The relevant language in the twelfth Amendment is admirably clear. The person having the greatest number of electoral votes shall be the president if such number be a majority of the whole number of

electors appointed. If that majority is not achieved, the House would properly decide the election. The Professor's right. There are only two situations in which that could happen, both highly unlikely. First, there could be a tie vote in the electoral College. Second, a third party candidate could take enough electoral votes from the top two to prevent anyone from winning a majority

of electors. One plausible scenario, they continue, involves Harris winning all of the swing states except North Carolina and Georgia, and thus besting Trump two hundred and eighty seven to two hundred and fifty one. Suppose that Trump then succeeds in preventing the appointment of any Pennsylvania electors, Harris should still win two hundred and sixty eight to two hundred and fifty one. This is where an accurate reading of

the twelfth Amendment comes in. It doesn't matter that Harris's two hundred and sixty eight votes would not be a majority of the full five hundred and thirty eight electoral college votes. The amendment says the victor must receive a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, not that could have been appointed. In this example, she would win by virtue of having received a majority of the five

hundred and nineteen votes cast after Pennsylvania's were discarded. The professors note that there are still nightmare scenarios spinning off of this one that they have just banished, not hold up Pennsylvania's electors, but flip them to Trump, or hold up Pennsylvania's electors and Arizona's Wisconsins so that there are no votes for any of those three states, and Trump has a majority of all the rest. And congratulations, you've stolen the election. I note, though, that you've also touched

off civil war, having overlooked one critical detail. The party of the president elect from whom the election was just stolen would still be running the government and law enforcement and running what's the name of that place in Virginia the Pentagon. Also of interest here, it is not enough to threaten supposedly impartial journalists with retribution if they criticized Trump or fail to bury critical stories about him, or both sides them into meaninglessness. You must also reward them

when they do these things. And so we have the story of a constantly self humiliating stenographer at CNN who, during the Biden Trump debate, encapsulated everything that is wrong with news in twenty first century America. So who got the big profile in the big newspaper yesterday claiming this is that person's moment. Why that same constantly self humiliating stenographer. Who else that's next? This is countdown? This is countdown with Keith Olberman still ahead on this edition of countdown.

So why if Rudy Giuliani has any sense that Trump ruined his if Trump's lies literally just caused a court order that Rudy turn over his apartment in New York to the election workers he slandered in Georgia, And if the man Juliani has long blame for keeping him from becoming president, Joe Biden is not even on the ballot next Tuesday. Why why was Rudy Giuliani at Sunday's Nazi

Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Well, first of all, Rudy now lives in a hallway at Penn Station underneath Madison Square Garden, so he only had to get up the one flight of stairs. But I have long argued here that though it looks like Rudy was sane and went crazy, actually, based on my first had experience with him, he was always crazy. He simply used to have and has since lost the ability to pretend he is sane. I experienced this first nearly thirty years ago at a

baseball event. They had me mc on the steps of Say Hall of New York, where Rudy acted like a malfunctioning robot. But the other day the World Series story

I had forgotten popped back into my head. I think this was at Shay Stadium in two thousand and I can't remember if it was after the Mets won the National League pennant or it was after the Yankees won the World Series, but in either event, we were doing the postgame show on Fox from a little roped off area inside one of the locker rooms, and for several segments I could see Rudy hovering at the fringes, waiting

to be asked to join us on a national broadcast. Oh, here's the most important person in the room, baseball fans, a mayor. Remember this is pre nine to eleven. Finally, during a commercial break, seconds before we came back into the studio that we had created for ourselves in the Mets or Yankees' locker room, and Aid leaned in and whispered something to Rudy, and Rudy promptly jumped over the rope over the velvet rope. I didn't know he could

do that. And the aid produced a chair from somewhere and put it next to me, and Rudy, uninvited, sat down next to me and grabbed one of the handheld mics on the floor and said to me, Hi, I'm Mayor Juiani, And I said, I know we've met. We did a whole event together, and he sat there through the entire segment while we interviewed a Mets player and totally ignored him. We ignored him in large part because of what I'd been through with him five or six

years earlier. See here's the point. Rudy was desperate, is desperate, will always be desperate. Trump ruined his life, So what Trump's giving him time on stage? I fully expect after Giuliani finally shuffles off, there will be a camera crew at his grave side someday and his arm will shoot out of the ground like at the end of the movie we Carry, only instead of trying to grab another victim, it will be holding a microphone pointing back towards the grave.

So Rudy keep talking. The real Ruddy Giuliani story coming up in things I promised not to tell Happy World series. First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute two day's worst persons in the world Lebron's worst. Well, since we're on the subject Trump, this is from nearly two weeks ago, and I'm sorry

I didn't bring it up sooner. But as you know all too well, the big pile of Trump's spit gets so high that it falls over on a weekly basis, proving that gravity exists. This just got lost in the pile. This was at one of his you know, Chautauqua tent shows.

This one was in Greenville, North Carolina, in which he explained that the members of the Border Patrol Agent's Union told him he was the best president ever, sir, better than George Washington, and better, sir than Abraham Surleencoln, sir, because the border agent supposedly told him, sir that you're better, sir on the border, sir than Lincoln was. Sir. There are what five six things Lincoln did that no other American president, maybe no other world leader has ever done.

I mean, I think it's fair to say that maintaining the border of the United States of America successfully at all costs was one of those things that nobody else has ever done. I believe that was the original issue in that whole Civil War thing, unless that was just because woke. Honestly, I think this way more often than I say it. On top of everything else going on in that vast, unexplored lethal jungle between his ears, there are moments when I think that Trump gets up there

half the time, stoned out of his gord. Runner up worser Caroline Kitchener, a writer for the Washington Post. Nothing against Caroline Kitchener, she just went into the most detail. Jake Tapper said this to other people at the Post

said this to other journalists, said this to. The argument she and the others have made was that when readers responded to The Washington Post's irresponsibility and disgrace by censoring its own pro forma endorsement of Harris, when they responded by canceling their own subscriptions, Caroline Kitchener wrote, when you cancel, you are hurting us, not our owner. I admit we should be boycotting Amazon and the Washington Post. Maybe that'll sentence Jeff Bezos to a fate worse than life with

Lauren Sanchez. But MS Kitchener's message don't blame us, we're only employees, is wrong at its core. I mean, first of all, it sounds like we're just following orders. But more practically, lots of people quit the La Times when they did this. Lots of people have quit the Washington Post when they did this, and the people who stayed there are covering up for Jeff Bezos, who clearly did this. This British exile they brought in to run the paper

into the ground. Lewis, he's lying about this. Clearly. You have to stand for something sometime. I understand quitting your job is an extreme measure, especially in a time in which your industry is evaporating. Note I will never criticize people for not quitting their jobs if their circumstances don't provide them with a safety net. But don't criticize the customers because they no longer trust the company you work for. It's certainly more your fault than it is the customer's fault.

I mean this is personal for me too. I once worked for Rupert Murdoch. It was hardly my fault. He's the devil. On the other hand, I signed up for it. They didn't force me to take the millions. If anything, As anything but a subservient employee, I probably took a few days off Rupert Murdoch's life. And I'm proud of that. I'm goddamn proud of that. And by the way, the reason I stopped working for him was when I tripped over a sports story that was about him selling the

LA Dodgers. I went to his office first for guidance. It was a business conflict. It was a conflict between his baseball business and his TV sports business. And if they had said to me kill the story, I would have. He owned the network, was his candy store, He owned the ball club. There was his other candy store. Now I might have quit after that, I don't know, But

they didn't say kill it. His PR person, his personal full time PR person, crafted a denial and said, as long as you run this along with your story, if you're reporting his solid go ahead. What's what we hired you to do. And then Rupert saw the story on the air and fired me for having followed his rules. The problem, mis Kitchener, is that Jeff Bezos has clearly

proven himself to be a weather vane. Last time, the interest of the Washington Post collided with his other business interests, his money that he was going to have to give his wife when they tried to blackmail him over Lauren Sanchez, and he defended the Post. He's not gonna make that mistake again, is he. If you think he's killing the endorsement is not the start of how he will compromise the newspaper next time, and eventually compromise you. You're being naive.

Turns out, Miss Kitchener is the beat reporter on the abortion news beat. You think if Trump comes to Jeff Bezos and says, I've got a three billion dollar interstellar space let's go to the planet Andromeda in this galaxy of skyron project for you, but I don't want any more coverage of the pro abortion protests, you think your job isn't going away. Ms Kitchener, devote your energies not to criticizing those readers who have left your platform, but

towards joining them. Bezos has destroyed your platform. Find a new one before your platform collapses beneath you. And incidentally, you have my sympathies. Caroline Kitchener's story came onto my radar because she wrote, quote, my mom just told me she canceled her subscription to the Washington Post. She reads every one of my stories. It was a heartbreaking call. I understand why she did it, but I asked her

to reconsider. Oh God, honestly, though, if mom thinks your employer sucks, listen to mom new paper, but not the Wall Street Journal. Because our winners, the Wall Street Journal and writer Isabella Siemenetti and CNN's David Shalien and CNN's Dana Bash. They have combined to bring us what might be the dumbest article I have ever read about TV news. Dumber even then, say the fifty dumbest articles I've read just about myself. The title CNN's Dana Bash, a trusted

political referee, is having a moment. She won kudos from Trump and landed a Major Harris interview, but says it has been a slow climb to the top. Was it Major Harris a quarterback somewhere or was he an anchor? Major Harris? I know that name from somewhere in what world? Though? Are kudos from Trump positive? I mean Trump wants his mobs to kill everybody at CNN? What does it, quto or if you prefer kudo from Trump about a CNN talking head mean, does it mean Trump wants them to

kill her? Last? It means he views her as favoring him, as breaking the rules for him, as benefiting him, as cheating for him. If Trump likes you, it means you have broken some law or moral code. Congratulations, Trump likes you, and for once in this case, he's right. Dana Bash

is not having a moment. She and Jake Tapper and CNN permanently stained themselves by participating in a presidential debate in which they let one candidate lie NonStop for ninety minutes, and, as she's quoted in the piece saying, she still thinks that was the right route to go, her reaction to Trump's lies as a journalist on her network, on her show were to say, we'll be right back after that's commerce hewn. Of course Trump likes her, She's a Trump enabler.

But this is a Murdoch paper, the Wall Street Journal. So here's this article about her that skips lightly by that and also by her next journalistic self immolation. Her response to Kamala Harris's town hall on CNN last week. The Vice President was still on stage when Dana Bash piped in from the anchor desk with how quote people she was talking to had said Harris had failed in her goal to seal the deal or finish the sale, or whatever cliche she used. We have no idea to

this day who those people were, no identification at all. Politicians, shoeshine men, Democrats, Republicans, Trump family members, people in the control room, passers by. There have been few journalists to fail to understand the essence of their job more spectacularly in consecutive gigantic showcases than Dana Bash. But because CNN and the Journal are trying to suck up to Trump right now, we get this crap just to sell the

thing further. The Wall Street Journal reporter interviewed as somebody to get a quote from CNN's political director, the equally inert, incompetent a moral David Shalien, who is still defending the CNN farcical town hall with Trump a year ago, who said, quote, this is just Dana's cycle. She has just owned it.

Shelian Isabella Siminetti the Wall Street Journal and Dana Danna, if this is your cycle, Take a look carefully, the wheels fell off Bash two Days, Worst Persons her cycle in ther and through the number one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani a lot. When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong? Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis,

after nine to eleven? What is he now? After literally years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story? Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes, emissions at phony election hearings, the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean, even back then, I thought it was nuts that people actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the

two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was widely held to be just that in two thousand and six, in two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened, he was already on his way to spending millions of dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail

in the coffin in which he still lives. At a Democratic debate in two thousand and seven October thirtieth, before the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and

nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy Giuliani's career, and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden, many decades old, turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is why we got to where we got to in twenty and twenty. That was also the exact moment at which any hopes

Julianni had being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished. But it was clear to me as far back as September two thousand and one, that's sadly, what we saw at that time was a bad man having a few good days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to the attack on democracy was to himself attacked democracy, to propose that the November election to choose his successor to be Mayor of New York should be postponed, or that at least he should stay on for a few months as

co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always been more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man, just a slightly smarter one, a more debious one. The venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the a moral Rudy, the Rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out from time to time, and often inside the world of sports, which is where I met him. You will remember, Rudy

Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always went to the games for free, mind you, dugout seats for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife, the kids, the friends. When I still had friends in Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands of dollars every time he showed up. He always left via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He

billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy. But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that.

In nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was asked by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer, and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame to travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of New York City Hall to MC an event for what must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled in one place in one moment in time. Deputy Mayor approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind her

on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to introduce us, she realized he had begun to wander off. Ruddy, Ruddy, She bellowed, he wandered back, Rody, This is Keith Olberman from ESPN. He's going to be the MC. You will have to introduce him after you speak. The mayor seemed to be having trouble focusing on me or anything else. I thought of the old joke, just keep your eyes on the Olberman in the middle. He extended a hand, missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands, he grunted.

The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody, you have to introduce him. His name is Keith Olberman from ESPN. He's the MC. Juliani turned and looked at her like he'd never seen her before. He grunted again. Deputy Mayor writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it to me. He looked at me, then he looked back at her and he said, his name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. He's the MC. With annoyance. Writer said thank you, and Juliani smiled and wandered off again. And I half seriously thought,

did I just meet a body double? Is he a replicant? Is he a well built robot? This can't be the actual mayor. Well it was. I took my seat in the front row of the stage that had been built atop the City Hall steps as the crowd gathered, and it was a good one, maybe three or four hundred people. The President of the Hall of Fame spoke first. The mayor sat next to me. Juliani leaned in at one point and whispered, to me, your name is Keith Alderman from ESPN. You're the MC I talk, I introduce you.

I said something encouraging, and he smiled broadly, like a child who was about to get some candy. The President of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up introduced Juliani, who bounced up to the stage and thanked him and got his name wrong. He then launched into a speech, taking credit for the great weather and the terrific early season performance of the New York Yankees and the New York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants who had moved out of New York in nineteen

fifty seven. But if he had been mayor, then they wouldn't have moved out in New York, would have the four teams it deserves. And look at all these great players. Will let me now turn it over to a good friend of mine and a great baseball man. And he looked at me and he forgot everything. Silence, titters of laughter from the crowd, and finally he looked the other way. Behind him, where the Deputy mayor had her head in her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone that picked up

everything he said, said loudly, what's his name? Who is he? And now the of laughter in the crowd turned to a little bit louder laughter, and some of the Hall of Fame players seated behind me gave me pats of consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder screamed, Keith Olberman from ESPN,

the MC you repeated it to me. Juliani turned back to the crowd as if there had been no way they could have heard or seen any of this, and he said, so let me turn it over to a good friend of mine and a great baseball man, Keith Obolman, our NC from ESPM. I just sat there, more laughs, more consolations from the players behind me. I can still hear the laugh of the late Detroit Tigers great Al Kayline rising above the others. Al later came over to commiserate.

As I thought, should I get there and say thank you Mayor Dinkins, or better yet, thank you Mayor LaGuardia. I then concluded, no, I can't do that. I'm representing ESPN. I'm representing the Baseball Hall of Fame. As I thought that he said it again. So now I got up and I told the crowd sorry, I wasn't sure he meant me. So if you are saying to yourself, what on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schitz pouring down his face, I am saying to you he

has been this crazy for at least thirty years. You were just lucky enough to have not previously noticed. It is all true, or my name ain't Keith Obelman our NC from ESPM. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening to it five episodes a week again, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Follow me for the podcast promo videos too on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram and tick you once again. There is a Monday countdown.

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it's actually ten to one. Oh wait, there's another editorial employee. My announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine. Thanks for standing with me, Kenny. It's ten to two. Everything else,

of course, was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today, one week until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one three hundred and ninety third day since convicted felon dissociative fugue j Trump got away with his first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.

So if you can do your math, if it's seven days till the election, and this is day thirteen ninety three since the coup attempt, the election day is fourteen hundred days even since January sixth, all right, use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from doing it again. Always have a chets. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires until the next one. I'm Keith Oulderman. Good Morning, good afternoon,

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