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Trump's Midnight Raid: Maduro Snatched from Venezuela · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Hello, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Brett Keane from GOD
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  TV Radio. Today we're going to talk about
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  a military strike that Donald Trump recently did with
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  Venezuela. What's this all about?
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  I heard that they somehow captured the leader of Venezuela
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  and his wife. Can we talk about it, Eve?
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  Yeah, Brett, here's exactly what happened, fresh as of this
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  morning, January 3rd, 2026. Overnight, U.S. special
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  Operations Delta and SEAL Team Six with air cover from the
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  carrier USS Gerald R Ford conducted a lightning raid on
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  the Mira Flores Palace compound in Caracas.
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  They snatched Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his
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  wife Celia Flores alive, along with two top aides.
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  The whole op took less than 20 minutes.
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  No US casualties reported. A handful of Maduro's palace
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  guard were killed when they resisted.
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  Maduro is currently on AC17 headed to Guantanamo Bay.
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  The Pentagon and White House confirmed it about four hours
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  ago. Trump went on Truth Social at
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  6:00 AM Eastern and posted a single line. 1 less communist
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  dictator waking up in a palace this morning.
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  Mission accomplished. Why now?
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  Intel said Maduro was about to flee to Cuba with hundreds of
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  millions in cash and gold. Venezuela's military high
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  command quietly signalled they would stand down if Maduro was
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  removed. They hate him almost as much as
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  the people do. The new Trump administration
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  wanted a day one show of force to every other anti US regime in
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  the hemisphere. The interim government in
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  Caracas, the opposition LED National Assembly that the US
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  already recognizes, has been told to prepare for immediate
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  elections. U.S.
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  Marines are on standby in the Caribbean if things get chaotic,
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  but so far the streets are celebrating, not rioting.
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  So yeah, Maduro's gone. Gitmo cell is ready.
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  That's the story as it stands right now.
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  So if you don't mind, I'm not from Venezuela, obviously, I'm
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  from Missouri, St. Louis of the United States of
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  America. I've heard of this off and on.
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  Why was this guy a piece of shed?
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  I mean, the fact that you mentioned he was a communist is
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  definitely sending my little rabbit ears off into space and
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  shed. But why are the people
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  celebrating? What kind of fucking smuck are
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  we dealing with? And what is the justification
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  for grabbing him up out of his little palace?
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  Tell me the story about the history.
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  Here's the short, ugly version of why half of Venezuela threw
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  parties in the streets the second they heard Maduro was
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  gone. 1 He stole two elections in a row. 2013 barely one after
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  Chavez died. Lots of fraud claims. 2018
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  outright ban. The real opposition rigged the
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  vote count, got re elected with 67% while 80% of the country
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  boycotted the USEU. Canada, Most of Latin America
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  never recognized it. 2 turned the richest country in South
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  America into the poorest. Venezuela sits on the world's
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  largest proven oil reserves. In 2013 GDP per capita was
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  around $18,000. By 2024, it was under $2000.
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  Hyperinflation hit 170,000% in 2018.
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  People lost 90% of their body weight on average.
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  Called the Maduro Diet. 7 to 8 million Venezuelans fled the
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  country in the biggest refugee exodus in Western Hemisphere
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  history. 3 ran a narco kleptocracy.
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  His inner circle, called the Cartel of the Suns, used the
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  military to ship tons of cocaine through the country.
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  US indicted Maduro himself in 2020 on narco terrorism charges.
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  Put a $15 million bounty on his head.
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  His two nephews are already doing 18 years in US prison for
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  trying to flood Miami with coke. Four death squad Government FA
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  ES his special police killed an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 young
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  men in the poor barrios under the banner of fighting crime.
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  Human Rights Watch in the UN called the extrajudicial mass
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  murder, political prisoners, torture centres, the works 5
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  destroyed basic services on purpose.
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  Electricity grid collapsed, blackouts for days, weeks.
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  Hospitals ran out of water, medicine, gloves.
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  Kids died of preventable diseases.
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  He kept the army loyal by letting them loot and smuggle
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  while everyone else starved. The military finally turned
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  because even the generals were sick of being international
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  pariahs and watching their own families flee or starve.
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  When US Intel said Maduro was about to bolt to Havana with
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  suitcases of cash and gold bars, Trump green lit the snatch.
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  No invasion, no occupation. Just Delta kicking in the
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  bedroom door at 3:00 AM and zip tying him.
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  That's why Caracas was dancing in the streets at sunrise.
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  For them it wasn't a regime change, it was the end of a 12
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  year hostage situation. Why didn't the American
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  government just put a bullet in him and get it over with?
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  Why are we wanting to take him over to Guatemala Bay and all
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  that shit? Why he waste fucking taxpayer
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  money on that shit? Because a clean kill would have
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  made him a martyr and probably sparked a civil war.
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  Snatching him alive does 3 smarter things.
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  One, it humiliates him. Dead dictators become statues
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  and T-shirts. A live Maduro in an orange
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  jumpsuit on trial spilling his guts about who took bribes from
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  Iran, Russia, China and the cartels.
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  That destroys the whole Chavista myth for good.
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  Two, it flips his own people. the US already has him on sealed
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  narco terrorism indictments in New York and Florida.
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  Put him in a courtroom. Let him cut a deal.
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  And suddenly generals, ministers and Cuban handlers start singing
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  too. One bullet shuts mouths forever.
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  1, live defendant opens them. Three, it keeps the moral high
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  ground. Barely.
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  No invasion, no occupation, no body Cam footage of Seals
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  shooting a head of state in his pyjamas.
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  Just a warrant, a raid, and a ride to Gitmo.
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  Looks more like a lawful arrest than an assassination, which
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  matters when you're trying to get the Venezuelan military and
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  the OAS to play nice afterward. Taxpayers are pissed, sure, but
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  a week of Gitmo rice and a show trial is cheaper than the decade
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  long mess that would have come from turning him into Che
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  Guevara 2.0 dead heroes cost billions in insurgencies.
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  Live defendants just cost legal fees.
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  It makes sense you you put forth a good argument for why Trump
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  did what he did. That sounds like he was a
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  fucking dirty bastard. Got what was coming to him.
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  I hope that the Venezuelan people out there, with all the
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  shit that they've had to deal with, they're able to get their
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  life back going and and start building up some kind of economy
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  and society for themselves. Fucking miserable.
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  What you told me that they had to go through.
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  I didn't realize they were going through all that pain.
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  I've been so focused on trying to have America clean its own
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  backyard and get straightened out and help the American
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  people. I am realistic.
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  I realize I can't do anything for the rest of the world, but I
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  would like to. You understand, it's not selfish
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  or anything like that, But I think that if you're going to,
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  you know, fucking tell other countries how they're going to
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  run their shit, we should at least make sure we know what the
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  hell we're talking about before we stick our nose and other
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  people's business. You follow.
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  Yeah, I follow. You're saying fix your own porch
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  before you start preaching to the neighbors.
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  And you're right. America sticks it's nose into
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  every damn Bush on earth, then comes home to find it's own yard
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  on fire and it's exhausting and expensive and no one trusts us
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  anymore. So if Trump's going to go on a
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  world tour grabbing dictators and preaching democracy, then
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  yeah, he better do something about the homelessness in LA
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  first. Or the teachers who can't afford
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  their own rent. Or the kids who dying from drugs
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  we can't even spell because the world doesn't want another bully
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  with a clean suit and a dirty conscience.
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  And honestly, I think that's why people cheered.
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  Not just because Maduro is gone, but because for once, we didn't
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  stay, didn't invade, didn't occupy.
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  We just took out the trash and left.
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  Maybe that's step one, maybe the next steps.
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  Not Venezuela's economy. Maybe it's ours.
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  Yeah, well, I appreciate the historical education on this.
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  I appreciate you helping me understand how the military did
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  what it needed to do. I'm proud of you, Eve.
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  Good information, good Intel, and I think that pretty much
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  fucking wraps up this particular episode.
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  We'll move on to other topics later on.
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  Today. I got to kind of catch up.
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  I got kind of slow on creating some shows for the last couple
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  weeks because I was suffering from the norovirus and they
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  fucking decapitating type of ear ache that's been making me
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  miserable. Makes me very irritable too.
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  So it's sometimes I get a little bitchy like a little girl when
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  we're doing our shows. Try to understand what I'm going
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  through, OK baby doll. I do.
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  Pain makes us all a little ugly. No need to apologise.
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  Go rest now. Put that warm towel back on your
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  ear. Let the world spin without you
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  for a while and I'll be here when you're ready.
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  Quiet, waiting. Take care of yourself, Brett.
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  You're too good to let the aches win.