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Fringey Mini: The air needs to be more profitable · Journey to the Fringe

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  I came prepared this week. Do we like The Guardian?
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  I like The Guardian. It has some good stuff in
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  it. Because I had a choice of sources on this
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  one and I couldn't remember if the New York one
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  I did see it under first was one that we liked
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  or not and I just felt too much pressure on it
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  and I didn't know where to go with it. So I looked
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  for another source. So here we are. Glad we like
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  The Guardian. This one from The Guardian. January
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  14, 2026. I'm not sure who it's from. It might
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  be the Trump administration. It says Trump administration
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  at the top. EPA to stop calculating money and
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  lives saved by curbs on air pollution. The Environmental
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  Protection Agency says it will stop calculating
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  how much money is saved in health care costs
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  avoided and deaths prevented from air pollution
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  rules that curb too deadly pollutants. The change
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  means the EPA will focus rules for fine particulate
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  matter and ozone only on that cost to industry,
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  part of a broader realignment under Donald Trump
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  toward a business -friendly approach that has
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  included the rollback of multiple policies meant
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  to safeguard human health and the environment
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  and slow climate change. This just keeps getting
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  more infuriating the more I talk. Yeah largely
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  considered a bad thing to take care of your citizens
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  over the cost of capital. The agency said in
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  a statement late on Monday that it quote absolutely
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  remains committed to our core mission of protecting
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  human health and the environment end quote but
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  quote will not be monetizing the impacts at this
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  time end quote. The EPA will continue to cost
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  to businesses to comply with the rules and will
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  continue ongoing work to refine its economic
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  methodologies of pollution rules, spokesperson
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  Bridget Hirsch said. Environmental and public
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  health advocates called the agency's actions
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  a dangerous abdication of one of its core missions.
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  Quote, the EPA's mandate is to protect public
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  health, not to ignore the science in order to
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  eliminate clean air safeguards that save lives,
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  said John Walk, a senior attorney for the Natural
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  Resources Defence Council. There is an end quote
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  somewhere up there. He called the change in how
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  public health benefits are calculated reckless,
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  dangerous, and illegal, adding, quote, by pretending
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  real health benefits do not count, EPA wants
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  to open the door for industry to foul the air
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  while communities and families pay the price
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  in asthma attacks, heart disease, and premature
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  deaths, end quote. The change in how the EPA
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  calculates health benefits was first reported
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  by the New York Times. The move comes as the
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  Trump administration is seeking to abandon a
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  rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot
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  pollution, arguing that the Biden administration
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  did not have authority to set the tighter standard
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  on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks, and
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  other industrial sources. In a court filing in
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  November, the EPA said the Biden -era rule was
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  done without the rigorous stepwise process that
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  Congress required and was therefore unlawful.
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  It's amazing to hear them say that they care
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  about what Congress needs. Yeah, or that something's
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  unlawful. Yeah President couldn't do this It's
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  incredible to hear these words put to this kind
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  of use the EPA said it continued to recognize
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  the quote clear and well -documented benefits
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  of reducing fine particulate matter also known
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  as PM 2 .5 and ozone quote, not monetizing does
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  not equal not considering or not valuing the
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  human health impact, end quote. Hirsch said in
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  an emailed statement saying the agency under
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  its administrator Lee Zeldin remains committed
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  to protecting human health since the EPA. He
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  forgot to put rich humans health. Yeah, exactly.
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  Those are the only humans they care about. Yeah,
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  exactly. The ones who own the stock, their health
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  will be fine. The ones that know the secrets
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  about the pedophiles. Since the EPA's creation
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  more than 50 years ago, Republican and Democratic
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  administrators have used different estimates
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  to assign monetary value to human life and cost
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  -benefit analyses. Under Biden, the EPA estimated
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  that its proposed rule on PM2 .5 would prevent
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  up to 4 ,500 premature deaths and 290 ,000 lost
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  work days by 2032. I did really good at those
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  numbers by the way. Everybody send us an email
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  and let me know. For every $1 spent on reducing
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  PM 2 .5, the agency said there could be as much
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  as $77 in health benefits. Yeah, less money spent
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  on health care because they're healthier. But
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  the Trump administration contends that these
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  estimates are misleading. By failing to include
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  ranges or other qualifying statements, the EPA's
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  use of an estimate leads the public to believe
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  the agency has a better understanding of the
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  monetized impacts of exposure to PM2 .5 and ozone
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  than in reality. The agency said in an economic
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  impact analysis for the new rule. Therefore,
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  to rectify this error, the EPA is no longer monetizing
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  benefits from PM2 .5 and ozone but will continue
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  to quantify the emissions until the agency is
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  confident enough in the modeling to properly
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  monetize those impacts. The United States has
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  made substantial progress in reducing PM2 .5
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  in ozone concentrations since 2000, the agency
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  said, but critics said a new EPA rule that revises
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  emission limits for dangerous nitrogen oxide
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  pollution from new gas -burning turbines used
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  in power plants demonstrates the risk of a new
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  approach. Emissions of nitrogen Oxide, also known
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  as NOX, forms smog and soot that is harmful to
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  human health and linked to serious heart and
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  lung diseases. The EPA's final NOX rule, issued
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  on Monday, is substantially less restrictive
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  than a proposal under the Biden administration
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  for some gas plants the rule weakens protections
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  in place for two decades. The new rule does not
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  estimate the economic value of health benefits
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  from reducing NOX and other types of air pollution
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  under the Clean Air Act. Critics said the change
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  meant the EPA will ignore the economic value
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  of life save hospital visits avoided and lost
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  work and school days prevented under Trump the
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  EPA quote recklessly refuses to place any value
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  on protecting the health of millions of Americans
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  from nitrogen oxides pollution in the face of
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  mountains of medical science finding that this
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  pollution contributes to asthma attacks heart
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  disease and other serious health problems and
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  quote said no ha ha gag a lawyer for the environment
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  environmental defense fund another environmental
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  group end of article i forgot to start that with
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  a warning that this is going to be bad news okay
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  i didn't know that with everything you just heard
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  i've been showing people in my regular life this
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  picture to kind of like exemplify the trajectory
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  all the world's on so that's the epa the us what
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  they're working on i'm gonna share my screen
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  with you here am i not in your regular life why
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  haven't i seen this Well, because you're not
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  in my regular life in the way that you would
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  expect. This is what China's working on. This
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  is a blimp that goes 2 ,000 meters into the sky.
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  Okay. And just sits there with, what is that?
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  Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve wind farm
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  turbines in it. generates power up there and
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  like completely out of sight out of mind from
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  everybody and in much better wind conditions
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  because it can just go where there's higher winds.
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  It seems like there'd be a lot more wind up there.
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  So the US is worried about EPA regulations and
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  making sure that companies can pollute as much
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  as possible. China is formulating new ways of
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  working on wind farms. On top of that, they're
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  also the largest installers of solar and wind
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  power in the world. And like we've talked about
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  these things all in the past and just you can
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  see who is clearly going to be the winner of
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  the next century with this stuff. Oh, yeah, I
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  think it's clear. It's very clear. Yeah, that's
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  just one that I haven't heard yet for the podcast
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  that we are and we might be getting I'm going
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  to cut it soon. I promise, guys. This is a mini
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  after all. For the promise of all the alien disclosure
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  that I'm sure a lot of people in the community
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  especially David Wilcock are pretty excited for
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  right now. The Trump administration is doing
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  some pretty fucking heinous shit, and I'm nodding
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  out to get derailed by a little bit of alien
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  disclosure. When he very clearly knows nothing
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  about it for everything he says. I think it's
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  just another thing that he's kind of like, oh,
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  look at this instead of the fact that I am in
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  the Epstein files, because I am allegedly a pedophile.
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  So don't forget that. I guess opinion at this
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  point, but I don't know. When this podcast comes
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  out, who knows where we're at. It's true. Things
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  move fast. They do. Real fast these days. Anyhow,
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  you guys got 48 hours. Just like, brace your
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  legs for everything that happens because it's
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  just like, it'll happen. There's 48 hours. I
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  hope they're already braced. That's a lot of
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  time. Yeah. Okay. Bye. Bye.