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Okay, Chelsea, I have quite a few to choose from for articles.

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So did you put them into categories?

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I did not.

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I'm just going to read headlines and you get to pick what we're going to do.

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Okay.

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I'm not going to lie.

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I'm a little disappointed.

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Yeah, that's fair enough.

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And just so we are on the same page on this too, avian flu might be a big deal.

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It has officially jumped the species barrier, not just mammal to mammal, but

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from cow to human in Texas.

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Oh, I saw that.

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Yeah.

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And that's why I'm not wearing that in the headlines.

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No, because I think it's too big at this point.

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Okay, fair enough.

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But thank you for bringing it to Mariton.

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So I have one on client, a few on climate change, $500,000

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sand dune designed to protect coastal homes washes away in just three days.

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Where is that one?

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And I am not hitting this fast like I was anticipating.

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Scientists warn Australia to prepare for megadrout lasting more than 20 years.

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Oh, I have a few on plastics.

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There's an explosion of plastic waste.

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Big companies say we've got this and US court blocks EPA order to eliminate

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PFOS in plastic containers.

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And lastly, one that has to do with just nutrition.

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Vegetables are losing their nutrients.

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Can the decline be reversed?

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Let's do the dune one.

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Okay.

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This one I love.

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It's not exactly a great source.

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It's from the Daily Beast.

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Nonetheless, I just it's hilarious how some people are trying to pretend

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the world can just exist the way it is.

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So this comes from the Daily Beast posted on March 11th, 2024,

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written by Dan Ladin Hall.

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Again, title $500,000 sand dune designed to protect coastal homes washes

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away in just three days.

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This is the rich that are up to like all sorts of things.

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Yeah, to protect themselves.

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Yeah, and their coastal homes.

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Yeah.

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In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in

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Salisbury, Massachusetts invested $500,000 in sand dunes to defend

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against encroaching tides.

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After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand

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lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away, according to

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WCVB, which I don't know what that is.

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And I don't know.

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It's just listed there without mentioning what it is in the first

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paragraph of an article.

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Quote here, we got hit with three storms two in January, one now at the

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highest astronomical tides possible.

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And quote Rick Rogoli, who oversaw the dune project, told the station,

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Ron Gomett, whose tennis court was destroyed in previous storms along

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the beach, added that he now doesn't know how much his property is worth,

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or if he will stay in the area.

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What?

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He calls the situation on Salisbury Beach catastrophic.

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And a quote from him, I don't know what the solution is.

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End quote.

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The dune was adding that much value to his home.

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Well, I think it was stopping the value of the home from going down.

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Okay.

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Because I can show you the pictures of what like.

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I mean, for something that washed away in three days, it sure dropped

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value quickly.

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This is what beachfront property like now for these guys.

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Okay.

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Like it's literally at high tide, the water's going into their homes, it

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looks like.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that's not good for them.

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But I mean, the, the dune couldn't have added much base.

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Where do you put the dune?

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Well, yeah.

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And that's the hilarious thing.

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And like sand moves like incredibly easy.

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I'm going to finish this article off and we need to discuss it a little more

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because there's really not that much left.

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Okay.

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Beachfront homes in the area started being damaged by strong winds and high

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tides after a winter storm in December, 2022, removed previous protective

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dunes according to WBTS CD.

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Again, don't know what that is.

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It looks like NBC Boston.

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But I think this is just ocean levels have been rising.

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I think we covered in our first year we had a news article.

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Did we not?

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That NASA was talking about how the moon goes through phases of high

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tides and low tides.

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And I think we're coming up on the higher tides now again.

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It could be.

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I remember that because I didn't know what before and I actually forgot

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about it until right now.

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Yeah.

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We did talk.

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I don't know what year, but.

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Yeah.

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So that's way back in the day.

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I'm pretty sure.

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Yeah.

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I got to say just looking at that, I probably would be

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probably wouldn't buy that house, even if I could afford it.

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No.

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And who builds a tennis court like right on the beach?

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Rich.

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As he said, like the tide destroyed his tennis court, which in my mind

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implies it's like the closest part.

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Okay.

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And I have to ask, they don't address it in the article.

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Do we think that this was somehow the orcas doing?

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You know, I don't know.

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Are there East Coast orcas?

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I don't actually know.

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I was surprised when I heard there were Spanish, Iberian orcas.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's just a short jump across the ocean to the other side.

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So.

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But yeah, I for a long time that was kind of really associated with

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climate change is rising sea levels.

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And I, you don't hear it discussed as much as it used to be.

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That's probably because it's imminent.

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I think for a long time, it's not only imminent.

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It is scare tactic.

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Yeah.

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And it's not only imminent, like it is literally happening right.

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It's been happening over the last 15, 20 years.

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The entire state of Louisiana looks significantly different.

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That's scary.

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At this time than it used to.

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There are many states which no longer have certain insurance companies

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because they're just like climate change is happening.

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We're not going to ensure this because it's imminent.

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That's something's going to happen.

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It's not that there's a risk of it happening.

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Yeah.

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I mean.

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Which is what insurance is supposed to cover.

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There's, you know, we got to do this.

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And who was that one guy who kept selling books on climate change?

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Al Gore, right?

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Yeah.

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He did the inconvenient truth.

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So like there's a long time.

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I think it was being used for scare tactics.

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And now that we're actually seeing it happening,

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they're probably not talking about it for fear of it scaring everybody.

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Al Gore is still talking about it.

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He is actually still out there doing that.

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Oh, he is.

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Yeah.

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I thought he'd.

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He's just much older now.

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Like he's in his seventies.

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Okay.

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But yeah.

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That I mean, that's just me saying that.

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So that doesn't mean one way or the other.

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And this is just some fairly rich people.

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Brainstorming.

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Trying to be like, oh, get out of their house.

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Yeah.

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I mean, there's two ways that you can deal with the imminent issues that are

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posed to rich people.

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One of them is we covered fairly recently and that is digging that bunker.

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The other one is just pretend, oh, yeah, we can just put sand there.

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Yeah.

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Which I think is the much stupider version.

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Well, I mean, that must that would probably be a last ditch effort to get

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some value out of their home so they can get the hell out of there.

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Yeah.

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But I don't know that I would also build a bunker there.

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No, it would also get flooded.

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Good point.

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Basically, they're looking at properties that are going to be absolutely worthless.

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Yeah.

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And that I remember there being jokes just kind of from conservatives, like 15

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years ago about, oh, if you're worried about climate change, you can just move.

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Well, these people can't move anymore.

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Well, they can move.

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I'm sure they could do it, but nobody's going to buy their homes anymore.

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Yeah, you would just be abandoning them.

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Yeah.

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Well, but thankfully, whenever problems afflict the rich, the government does

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step in, so they should probably be fine.

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Thank the Lord.

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I was worried.

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I know that is what everybody was worried about.

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I know.

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We were we all were.

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I and I think I speak for everyone.

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And if anybody is looking for sand, I'm sure there is plenty just off the coast

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of the city that you can grab.

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Anyhow, you got 48 hours to go grab that.

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I do expect you back here for Friday.

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Bye. Bye.