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07 24 2025 Hail, Locusts, and Darkness · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, it is Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.
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  Speaker 2: We're moving from the Exodus or God delivering us people
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  Speaker 2: from Egyptian captivity from Egypt, straight through to the left
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  Speaker 2: and of Promise, And of course that means we have
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  Speaker 2: our hope, our hope as God delivers us from our
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  Speaker 2: captivity to whatever it is, any besetting sin, so that
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  Speaker 2: one day we will experience the land of promise, thank God.
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  Speaker 2: And so before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those who are
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  Speaker 2: coming in for the very first time. Type of one
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. If this is your first time, if
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  Speaker 2: this is your first time, and if somebody invited you
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  Speaker 2: here and it's your first time, type of three in
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  Speaker 2: the chat. If somebody invited you here and this is
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  Speaker 2: your first time, type of three in the chat. And
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  Speaker 2: I just want to give a great big thank God
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  Speaker 2: to those who have been inviting people here. You've been sharing,
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  Speaker 2: and you've been calling your friends on the telephone, texting them.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully you're not spamming them. We don't condone that don't
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  Speaker 2: spam anybody. But if you are inviting people who are
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  Speaker 2: accustomed to you, asking them to enjoy things that you enjoy,
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  Speaker 2: then praise God for you. And I'm so glad that
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  Speaker 2: you are all here. I want you to go to
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com pick up the Your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Life Application Guide that will help us apply these
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  Speaker 2: things to our everyday lives. And that's the way we
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Please teach us to love you, teach us
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  Speaker 2: to live under your protection. In Jesus's name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: amen and Amen again hal locusts and darkness. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to begin by brushing up on some ancient Hebrew.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really normally go into that kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: because I believe that God has given us understanding in
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  Speaker 2: the languages that we are currently speaking, our own native tongue.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something telling here, something telling here, the hel
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to talk about in just a second,
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  Speaker 2: from bah rad or bahraid. I have to get that
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  Speaker 2: pronunciation right, but that's the term that is used. That's
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  Speaker 2: for hale that we are saying in English. But this
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  Speaker 2: is not like the hailstorms that I saw growing up
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  Speaker 2: in New York City. Not that it's a rare and
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  Speaker 2: violent hailstorm, likely mixed with fire or lightning. This is
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about, not a bunch of ice stones.
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  Speaker 2: And even though that would be destructive enough if it's intense,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the fact, okay. And so we see in
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter nine, verses eighteen through thirty five that God
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  Speaker 2: was firing hail from heaven and the gods, the false
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  Speaker 2: gods that are judged are nut sky Goddess shoe, god
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  Speaker 2: of the air, tiff Nut goddess of moisture, and Seth,
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  Speaker 2: the god of storms and chaos. This plague struck down
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  Speaker 2: crops and livestock in the field and was the first
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  Speaker 2: to kill people. Unfortunately, they were under judgment directly. It
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  Speaker 2: was the judgment on Egypt's climate gods, showing the Creator
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  Speaker 2: controls creation. Did somebody get that? And then now the
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  Speaker 2: plague of locusts coming in from Exodus chapter ten, verses
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  Speaker 2: one through twenty. This is taking shots at Neper, the
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  Speaker 2: god of grain. Erm Utet goddess of harvest isis protector
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  Speaker 2: of crops. This plague consumed what little remained after the hail.
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  Speaker 2: The economic backbone of Egypt was shattered, a direct strike
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  Speaker 2: against the God's false gods of fertility and sustenance. Remember
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  Speaker 2: when the people of Egypt were cooperating with God, and
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  Speaker 2: Joseph was being used as an instrument under the pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: of that time, who learned to rea respect of the
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  Speaker 2: God of heaven. Because of the favor that God had
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  Speaker 2: given through his servant Joseph, they were protected from all
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  Speaker 2: of these years seven years of famine. They were protected
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  Speaker 2: because they were they were in cooperation with God. So
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that God had a thing about destroying the
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  Speaker 2: Egyptian people. That had nothing to do with it. It
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  Speaker 2: had everything to do with people under that pharaoh not
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  Speaker 2: choosing to surrender their will. And when we get to
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  Speaker 2: pass Over, we'll see that there are some people who decided, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want to serve God. I'm not really interested in
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  Speaker 2: being his enemy. And they were protected as well. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then comes the plague of darkness from Exodus chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: verses twenty one through twenty nine. And this one took
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  Speaker 2: shots at Ra, the sun god, chief deity of Egypt, Horus,
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  Speaker 2: the sky god, and son of Ra, and then Pharaoh himself,
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  Speaker 2: considered to be the embodiment of raw. Remember, light and
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  Speaker 2: darkness cannot agree. And so when the light of righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: the sun of righteousness, whom Christ is according to the
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  Speaker 2: Bible book of Malachi and the one who said let
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  Speaker 2: there be light, is manifest even in the Holy City.
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  Speaker 2: In Revelation chapter twenty one and verse twenty three, we
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  Speaker 2: see this, and Jesus is the light of the world.
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  Speaker 2: When we see that God is ultimate light and in
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  Speaker 2: him is no darkness at all, and then there are
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  Speaker 2: false gods who are claimed to be in control of
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  Speaker 2: the light. Then God has to go deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: So this plague humiliated God's highest god, ra the sun
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  Speaker 2: central to their theology and calendar. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: God was very clear when his people were shown how
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  Speaker 2: to connect with him, how to worship, and even as
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  Speaker 2: he had them to build them a build him a
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary that he might dwell among them. When God's people
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  Speaker 2: turned their backs on the sanctuary, meaning they turned their
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  Speaker 2: faces to the rising sun, God had to deal with
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  Speaker 2: them because he was making a distinction between him and
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  Speaker 2: the false gods, and they were to turn their backs
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  Speaker 2: to the rising sun and worship toward the Shakhana or
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  Speaker 2: the very presence, the palpable presence of God in the
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  Speaker 2: most holy place, hovering between the cherubim above the mercy seat,
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  Speaker 2: you see. And so now God is dealing with that.
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  Speaker 2: The sun was central to their theology and calendar vanished
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  Speaker 2: at God's command. It wasn't any eclipse. It was a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual and physical judgment, That's what it was. So let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and get a couple of lessons as we
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  Speaker 2: continue here. Just a couple of lessons, A couple of
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  Speaker 2: lessons lesson number one here. Part of me lesson number
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  Speaker 2: one here is coming in from Exodus chapter nine and
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty that true faith acts before the storm and
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  Speaker 2: not after. True faith acts before the storm and not after.
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  Speaker 2: Don't wait for things to get worse. That doesn't even
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  Speaker 2: make sense. When God warns us, then all we need
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  Speaker 2: to do is move quickly, Move quickly in obedience and humility.
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  Speaker 2: Because when he is bidding us to do a thing,
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  Speaker 2: you may have heard this before. His biddings are enabling.
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  Speaker 2: So if he's warning us, he's showing us the pathway
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  Speaker 2: to success. Number two, Confession without surrender is still rebellion
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  Speaker 2: from Exodus chapter nine and verse twenty seven. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the Pharaoh was in the river on the bank. In
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  Speaker 2: the river, okay, ask your God to stop in the
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  Speaker 2: river on the bank. Okay. No, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: follow him in the river on the bank. Ask your
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  Speaker 2: God to stop. Yeah, Confession without surrender is still rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: So so for me, when I confess sin, I should
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  Speaker 2: be following it with surrender to God. I don't just
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  Speaker 2: say the words, but I yield my heart. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: pride blinds even the most powerful people. In Exodus chapter
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  Speaker 2: ten and verse seven. This is what we see. This
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  Speaker 2: is what we see, and we have the privilege now
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  Speaker 2: to listen. That's our action. Listen. When God uses others
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  Speaker 2: to confront our pride, that's because He loves us. Take
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  Speaker 2: their words because they are coming in from God. Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: before it costs you everything. I'm so thankful that God
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  Speaker 2: is able to get through to our mind. Now just surrender.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,