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Victoria, Kerry and Gilgal Gardens from June 18th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So where'd you go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Victoria came in, who just did our Mormon Housewives update.
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  Speaker 1: Yea with her with her charming husband, with her.
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  Speaker 2: Husband, Brian. She came in for the fortieth anniversary party.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Cafe Moles, and she came in late Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: and so I told her, if you need a place
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  Speaker 2: to stay, you can stay at my place. Now, my
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  Speaker 2: wife and I have are My wife and Victoria have
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  Speaker 2: struck up kind of a friendship, and so they've been
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  Speaker 2: talking a lot, and Sue said, you know, you just
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  Speaker 2: stay at our place. Stay at our place. So they
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  Speaker 2: come in late Friday night. Saturday morning, we get up
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  Speaker 2: and we go to brunch. No, we didn't go to
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  Speaker 2: brunch Saturday morning. They went to the Farmer's market and
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  Speaker 2: went hiking while I was doing my podcast, and then
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  Speaker 2: we went to the fortieth anniversary And in between that time,
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  Speaker 2: we had some time to hill before we got them
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  Speaker 2: on their plane on Sunday evening. So we went to
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  Speaker 2: brunch at Sunday's Best and that was nice.
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  Speaker 1: But we also is that the one down here on
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  Speaker 1: over there in the mail area, Yeah, where the hearth
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  Speaker 1: and Hill is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And then we took them to a place.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Remember these two grew up here, right, and they had
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  Speaker 2: never been. And I'll bet Nick has never been to
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  Speaker 2: Gilgal Gardens.
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  Speaker 1: They have never been. You've never been. No, it's right
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  Speaker 1: by our old studio.
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  Speaker 2: Now where else you going to see Joseph smith Sphinx.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I've seen it online. I know where it's at.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't physically watched.
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  Speaker 1: It's real. It's really pleasant there too. Yeah. Yeah, did
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  Speaker 1: you get a picture of mister brick pants. He's mine?
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  Speaker 2: You know. That's the only picture I took. I should
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  Speaker 2: have taken more.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we went to Oka on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: That was it.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't think that you had been to Gilgal Gardens,
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  Speaker 2: home of the strangest.
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  Speaker 1: The guy I hat his name. He was a He
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  Speaker 1: was a mason, a brick mason, a brick layer and mason.
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  Speaker 1: He and he was also just cuckoo for the Mormon Church,
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  Speaker 1: for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
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  Speaker 3: Because you have that photo posted on X ninety six
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  Speaker 3: Style Comforts Slash.
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  Speaker 2: Live, that's the Joseph smith Sphinx.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh did you ever say what the purpose was?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I can't remember. I can't remember what it is anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But he had reasons. But thank goodness.
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  Speaker 1: So when I first went to Gilgal, it was private
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  Speaker 1: and there was no way you could get in there
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  Speaker 1: except you had to, like at night. Client there there
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  Speaker 1: are some houses, uh, and you round it in the surrounded,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to go at night and climb over
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  Speaker 1: a fence. And the people who lived there didn't want
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  Speaker 1: you to be doing that. But so I went there
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  Speaker 1: at night and climbed over the fence and went and
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  Speaker 1: sought for the first time. But then Salt Lake City
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  Speaker 1: finally bought the whole area.
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  Speaker 2: And turned it into the park, home of the strangest
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  Speaker 2: sculptures that you will ever see. Sure, yeah, now the
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  Speaker 2: sphinx is It's got Joseph Smith's face on it, but
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  Speaker 2: the sphinx's body. The sphinx represents the guy child who
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  Speaker 2: made it his belief that the answer to life's great
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  Speaker 2: questions cannot be discovered with the intellect, but only through faith.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: The sphinx is an ancient symbol of riddles and mystery.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph Smith's face symbolizes his conviction that the LDS priesthood
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  Speaker 2: reveals to mankind the answers to life's mystery.
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  Speaker 3: It also represents Joseph Smith.
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph mister Child. Named the garden Gilgal, after the
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  Speaker 1: biblical location where Joshua ordered the Israelites to place twelve
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  Speaker 1: stones as a memorial named Gilgao is sometimes translated to
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  Speaker 1: mean circle of standing stones. And let's see what else
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  Speaker 1: is there? Yeah, he was a bishop in like tenth ward.
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  Speaker 1: He did all of this in what years?
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  Speaker 2: Ye?
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  Speaker 3: What was he? When was helive?
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  Speaker 2: He died in sixty three, oh, eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot later than I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen eighty eight to nineteen sixty three. Yeah, so he
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  Speaker 1: did this stuff. Twelve original scriptures, over seventy stones engraved
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  Speaker 1: with scriptures, poems, and texts. Gilgal Sculpture Garden the only
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  Speaker 1: designated visionary art environment in the state of Utah. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was. He was a little obsessed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's one called Nebeker's Dream, which is essentially a statue
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  Speaker 2: of body parts.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I actually haven't seen that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's called Daniel two Nebeconezar's Dream. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 2: represented by the different pieces of the giant would rule
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  Speaker 2: the earth until the Kingdom of God was established.
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  Speaker 3: A rule forever sure, why not.
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  Speaker 2: Child believed God's kingdom has was begun with the founding
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  Speaker 2: of the LDS Church.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to see what mister they just call him
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  Speaker 1: mister brick pants.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's what.
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  Speaker 1: I can't find what he's supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: Be his His statue is called the Monument to the Trade.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so to the masonry trade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and let's see. Let me find that the Monument
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  Speaker 2: to the Trade.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: But it's mister brick pants. I think that's what Trent Harris.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Trent Harris named him. Yeah. In this self portress,
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  Speaker 2: Child conveys his great love for the masonry trade and
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  Speaker 2: for his religion. The figure of Child that's him holds
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  Speaker 2: a Bible under his right arm and blueprints under his left.
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  Speaker 2: The building behind him is an LDS is the LDS
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  Speaker 2: tenth Ward on eighth East and four hundred South, where
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  Speaker 2: he served as bishop for nineteen years. The monument is
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  Speaker 2: an example of workmanship for which he was known. The
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  Speaker 2: flagstones in the walls were cut by hand and meticulously laid.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's it's him standing there with pants made
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  Speaker 2: of stacks of bricks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, mister brick pants.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they it says here. They were troublesome to make.
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  Speaker 2: The bricks were dissembled, numbered and fired. The firing made
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  Speaker 2: the numbers unreadable. The pants had to be rebuilt like
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  Speaker 2: a puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: If you've never been there, you really should go. And
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's I think it's it's free. You just
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  Speaker 1: can walk in there. It's seven forty nine east on
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  Speaker 1: fifth South.
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  Speaker 3: It's right next to my gym, so maybe l Oh
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  Speaker 3: is your Jim across the street?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you could easily walk right over there.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to. I try to get them to
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  Speaker 3: do advertising and they didn't, so I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say their name.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, why do you see if you can
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  Speaker 1: get the Gilgal Gardens to sure?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, what did Victoria think?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 3: We should have kept her on the line so she
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  Speaker 3: could have.
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  Speaker 2: Her and her husband basically had the same response to
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  Speaker 2: every sculpture that we saw. What the hell.
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  Speaker 1: You know? That? It's it is odd that so many
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  Speaker 1: people don't know about it, and it's it's also odd
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  Speaker 1: that people don't know and because when I found out
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  Speaker 1: that Brigham Young is buried in the avenues and just one,
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  Speaker 1: just a lone grave there, and and I was stunned
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  Speaker 1: when I found he's not in the Salt Lake Cemetery's not.
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  Speaker 1: He's just there's this one grave in the avenue. They yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's weird.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of that stuff around. But yeah, go
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  Speaker 2: go see Gilgal Gardens. Sure you go work out done
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  Speaker 2: across the street and up a little bit to see
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  Speaker 2: the entrance there, and.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't realize there was there was still a gym there.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be twenty four hour Fitness.
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  Speaker 3: Well the there's another one there now, okay, yeah, all
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  Speaker 3: right
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean where else are you going to
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  Speaker 2: see it, Joseph smith Sphinx except for there, all right,