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From Troubled Marine to Motivational Speaker

• Demetrius (Meech Speaks) Thigpen • Episode 127

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 ðŸ¤”Can Mindset Truly Transform a Life?

Join us for an extraordinary conversation with Demetrius Thigpen, also known as Meech Speaks—a Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, acclaimed motivational speaker, and the host of the Talkin' Crazy Podcast.

Demetrius's journey is a powerful testament to resilience, change, and the influence of effective leadership. In this episode, he candidly shares his evolution from being labeled a "shitbag Marine" to becoming a top-tier performer. His story offers profound insights into how a mindset shift can completely redefine one’s life path.

We also take a trip down memory lane, recalling our past meeting in Southern California, and dive into the unique bonds within the Marine Corps and content creation communities.

Don’t miss this inspiring episode packed with valuable lessons on purpose, persistence, and personal transformation with Meech Speaks!

Guest Links:
-Talkin' Crazy Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talkin-crazy-podcast/id1456021838
-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meech.speaks/
-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demetrius-thigpen-84697922b/




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Mario P. Fields:

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Mario P. Fields:

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Mario P. Fields:

I got another guest on a show who's willing to remove their armor. Let's go behind the scenes. Let's have some discussions without sappy plates for you Marine sailors. All you guys out there wearing that combat armor, let's take it off. I got active duty staff. Sergeant Neat speaks, but his real name is Demetrius Thigpen. He is an inspirational speaker, motivational speaker. He's on the toughest duty in the Marine Corps Recruiting. That's why I chose the drill field and he's doing more what's?

Demetrius Thigpen:

up man. What's going on everybody? It's that ordinary podcaster with the extraordinary thoughts that tells you to stop being great and be extraordinary. I'm Demetrius Thickpin, also known as Meech Speaks. Good to be here, mario. Definitely really good to be here.

Mario P. Fields:

Yeah, man, what people don't realize and you reminded me the other day is we actually not directly, but met in Southern Cal about 2019, almost five years ago, when I was guest speaker for his ball, and that was cool man yeah, you know, you know what's so crazy is is how small the Marine Corps is and then just how small small, like the content creating space is in general.

Demetrius Thigpen:

You know, because once you never realize, because I remember seeing you and I remember sitting there and I was just like dang man, like I'm trying to figure out exactly where, where he, where I actually met him from, and I could not put it, I couldn't pinpoint it, and then I was like this 2019. It was at that ball. It was at that ball.

Mario P. Fields:

That ball was off the chain, that ball. But hey, before we get into today's discussion, y'all got to check out Meech Speaks Instagram, his TikTok, his podcast. It's on Apple. It's on all your listening streams your mama stream, your daddy stream. If you want to make up the audio stream, you can find the Talking Crazy podcast host and producer right in front of you. And more Can you tell listeners and viewers. Just a little bit about yourself before we get into this discussion, man.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Absolutely so. To really sum it up, you know I'm just a shitbag Marine that's transitioned to becoming a top tier performer. You know I started off. I had trouble in the military very early on, born and raised in Detroit, michigan, and I'm going to be honest with you, mario, the hardest part for me was never like PT. It was never the job, it was transitioning and coming from Detroit, michigan, into the military. That was where my friction points were always at, because it was just changing a mindset and as I gradually grew in the military, that's when I transitioned into being the person that I am today, like that top tier performer that everybody always says, and I ended up getting into content creating based off of that. So that was just a little bit about me.

Mario P. Fields:

Yeah, well see, you should have moved to Pontiac see nah god, no, oh, also, I'm a published author too.

Demetrius Thigpen:

I always leave that part out, like people always like. Why don't you tell people that you're an author and I'm like this? To be honest with you, I'd be forgetting that.

Mario P. Fields:

I am an author yeah, well again, if you would have moved to everybody I, I I'm from pontiac in arbor hills, michigan. So pontiac is about 45, 50 miles north of detroit, it, you know it's called the yak town and the d, but you see, if you would have moved to pontiac, you, you, it would, the transition would have been easy transition would have been a lot easier for me.

Demetrius Thigpen:

I tell you that's exactly what the problem was. It wasn't. It never was one of those moments where it was like, oh, I just can't do the military or oh, like the PTs. I'm just honestly just trying to like process, like how am I supposed to let a lot of this slide? You know, like you know when, like somebody chewing your ass, I ain't grew up in a situation where people just casually, just saying whatever they want to say to me and I'm just letting it go and I'm sitting back and I'm just like dang man, like how am I going to be able to just do this? And I had. And that's why I always say thank God for good leadership. You know what I mean. Thank God for good leadership because I had good leaders.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Pull me off to the side and I'll never forget it, saren Konziella. He pulls me off to the side and he says I'll never forget it. It's Saren Konziella. He pulls me off to the side and he says you are going to blow the biggest chance that you have ever had in your life. And the sad part about this is that you probably have the most potential out of everybody here and that set with me, that really set with me, because I was just like dang man, I mean I don't know how to not blow it. You know what I mean, like when people tell you like, hey, you know you're going to blow a chance, well, I don't know what I'm doing to not blow it, you know. So it really. He really made me look at myself and like get my shit together.

Mario P. Fields:

He was like look man, look, it's a four by 100 relay dog and you the slowest one on the team. I thought I was running fast man, let's watch tape, tape. Yeah, you slow as hell, but um, but so let's get. I've been following you, man, for a minute and I love what you're doing. You know, like you and I talked about before the show, when I started in 2018, I was like by myself yeah, I didn't really have no one. You know, no one had youtube channel, everyone's looking at me. Hey, sorry, maybe, what the hell you're doing, but it's, it's cooled down six years later. That just you know watching the bleachers and love your content. I love how authentic you are, but what I haven't seen, what I haven't seen D right, demetrius. What I have not seen is anyone interview you on. How did it all begin? So let's remove the armor man. How the hell did you get into content creation and podcasting?

Demetrius Thigpen:

into content creation and podcasting. To be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as like a content creator or ever wanted to get into podcasting. I'll say that when I was a kid, I wanted to be on the radio. You remember Coco and Foolish on the radio. You know what I'm talking about. I grew up listening to them and I used to always sit back and say like, dang, that would be cool, but it was never like a dream. I grew up listening to them and I used to always sit back and say like, hey, that would be cool, but it was never like a dream. You know, I grew up listening to the Steve Harvey morning show still listen to the Harvey morning show, and but it was never really a dream of mine, but I was always a fan of it. But to really answer the question, like, how did I end up in content creating and podcasting?

Demetrius Thigpen:

I started off trying to be a motivational speaker. I'm a martial arts instructor trainer. I've been a martial arts instructor trainer since 2014. So now it's about 10 years and I've kicked high ends, and one day, to really peel it all back, one day, I'm walking down to the shop. Now, mind you, though please be advised. I was a sergeant when I started creating content. I was a line sergeant Okay. Now a lot of people don't understand. I used to be in them trenches, okay. I used to be ensuring there was good order and discipline.

Mario P. Fields:

Yeah, you was hustling, bro. It was two hours of sleep a night.

Demetrius Thigpen:

You know, I've always been, like you know, top tier performer. So I get a call from the company. They say, hey, thick Pin, sergeant Major, I want to see you. I'm like this okay, you want to go to battalion. They say, no, she at the company. I said, okay, what I do? I'm thinking that a Marine done said that I did something because once again, good order and discipline, mario, has to be established. So I'm heading up there and she says hey, thickpen, you're going to be speaking at this Lance Corpus seminar. I'm like what you want me to say to them, sergeant Major, good job, you know. So she say no, I want you to be the guest speaker. So I'm like, all right, whatever. So I go go to the Lance Corpus seminar. Mind you, still a line sergeant, still a line NCO Got a little chip on his shoulder. You know they shaking my hands.

Mario P. Fields:

I'm critiquing the handshakes and yeah, I was out of control. Man, you analyzing the handshake, what are you?

Demetrius Thigpen:

looking at eye contact and number. Yeah, you gonna shake my hand. Shake my hand like you got some sense, you know. Like you shaking my hand, like, uh, I'm like nah, man, like, shake my hand, you know, and look me in the eyes, look me on light duty, you know, yeah, I kick a tie-in. At the very end they say, all right, thickpin, you're good, go ahead and kick this tie-in. So I kick a tie-in and as I'm doing the tie-in, you ever heard the story about the dollar? If I crumble it, if I step on it, the value never changes. What if I rip it up? The value never changes.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Well, I did that tie-in and after I was done, everybody comes up to me and say like you know, that was real good and I've never really been good at essentially taking compliments. I've never really been good, I've been good at handling criticism, but I'm not really good at handling compliments. And after a while it becomes very overwhelming when people are saying like hey, good job, good job, good job, and I'm just like okay, but then this Marine, she pulls me off to the side and she's like Sergeant Thigpen and she just starts crying like crying Mario. I'm talking about like really, and I'm looking. I'm like the heck is you crying about? And she's like what you said up there when you talked about that dollar. That dollar was me. You know, I feel like I've lost my value, you know, because at the time she was on light duty, she was pregnant, you know. So she felt like you know how we treat like duty Marines in the military, and she felt like, because she was not an asset to the organization, that her value had decreased. And she was crying and I had to reassure her. I said I was like, ma'am, like you know, your value ain't decreased, just like what I talked about, you know.

Demetrius Thigpen:

So I ended up leaving and as I was leaving, something in the back of my mind was like, dang, you might have a talent in this and I'm like speaking, I might be a professional speaker. So I did the best that I could. I started Googling people. I was like Eric Thomas, inky Johnson. I started looking at these people, literally. A week later I get another call and it's San Marcos College and they say, hey, we want you to come out and speak. But the problem is is that we need E8ss and we need E-9s because it's one of those like successful. How do you say like a successful conference, you know. So everybody there's got bachelors, they got doctorates, so a sergeant there shouldn't be there.

Mario P. Fields:

And I remember calling the guy and I said look, drinking water that was specially shipped in. You know what I mean.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Yes, yes.

Mario P. Fields:

Executive ice cubes.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And they had all the high schools there. They had Vista, they had El Camino, they had Oceanside, they had a couple of other high schools within the area. So the place is packed and, once again, everybody that's on this platform are very successful. Gentlemen, doctors, lawyers, business owners nothing less than a master's degree is on this stage. Let me rephrase that Nothing less besides me, who dropped out of college a long time ago and I remember calling my aunt, telling her like I don't think I'm supposed to be up here, like I don't think I'm supposed to be up here, and she said just because they're educated, don't mean that they're better than you, right, okay, you supposed to be up there for a reason. So the guy goes up, I go last and, mind you, when I go last, I'm going last. And I get up there and, mario, when I tell you I start speaking, I start speaking and I can see my words dancing in the crowd, like people just picking them up, like you could see when the message hit each person. And as I get done, I get a standing ovation. People come up to me once again they telling me how good I'm doing. Teachers coming up to me. They like that's probably the best thing that I've ever heard and I leave.

Demetrius Thigpen:

I immediately leave. I don't say bye, I don't do anything. I said I'll follow up with everybody because I'm getting overwhelmed again. I'm getting really, really overwhelmed and I just leave. And this time I get to the car and I smoke a cigarette and I'm like and I just start crying myself, like I just started crying and for the first time, and I didn't realize it. But the reason why I kept getting overwhelmed is because that was the first time I actually ever really felt alive in the military. It's one of those moments when it's like you find your purpose. And when you finally find your purpose, it's that moment where you finally can come to life. And I'm talking about I've been deployed, I done blasted Marines, I've been blasted, I've led McMap, I've run deployed, I done blasted Marines, I've been blasted, I've led McMap, I've run MAI courses. I've done all of these things. But I never truly felt alive, like I just felt like I was just doing a job and for the first time I felt alive.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And I was like oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Mario P. Fields:

No, you're good, no, no good. Keep going, Cause this is good man.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Oh yeah, you know, and I was like I remember sitting there saying to myself like this is your purpose, like this is what you're supposed to be doing, and the moment that I found that I was like OK, so well, how can I do it again?

Mario P. Fields:

You know, and you know we talked about it earlier, but the thing is is that trying to be a speaker is like trying to be a rapper, and that's what I was going to ask. You is here you are. You know the thing about it is. I'm glad you brought this up. You know I'm retired Sergeant Major. People know that. Some people don't, who cares? But a lot of folks know it. A Sergeant Major calls for you. Oh snap, you're in trouble. You know, sergeant Major. Sergeant Major.

Mario P. Fields:

You know, it's not always you're in trouble and here it is as a false belief, and I love how you know. The sergeant major saw talent in you and the sergeant major, just like the sergeant, they saw things that you can't see. You know it's called professional blind spots. People can see talent when you can't see it and they saw it.

Mario P. Fields:

And then to have the courage to go to these events, especially the one where there's no connection between you and the audience, if you will you know, you know, everyone's sitting there again, drinking water that costs $1.2 trillion and our ladies and gentlemen, our keynote speaker that's going to close us out is, you know, Demetrius Thigpen. Who is this guy? Yeah, you know he got the GED, what? No, but? But you see what I'm saying. But now let's go to the next part of this discussion. From my basic understanding now you have this motivation, you have this inspiration, you found your purpose, you're feeling good about yourself, you feel good. The emotions, the emotions of life. Have you had anyone reject your offer to come on the show?

Demetrius Thigpen:

now see, and and that's the problem is that when you trying to make it into becoming a speaker, it's one of those things where it's like everybody's like, yeah, yeah, we'd love to have a motivational speaker, but they real picky and choosy. I'm free, I'm a martial arts instructor, trainer, I done spoke and nobody wants to hire me. They don't want to book me for a show, they don't want me to speak at their ceremonies, and I'm just like, what do I do? And then they said, well, if you're having trouble getting on show I mean getting gigs then get on shows. And I'm like all right, we'll find it. I'll get on a couple of podcasts. I'm pretty sure people will be lining up for me Absolutely not. I'm getting my messages read, left on read. I'm getting my emails. They declining. And I'm going to tell you right now, these podcasters at the time were just real, real, like, oh well, you got to have this. And what does my audience? And I'm like, all right, you know what? Fine, then If I can't get on it, then I'll make my own. And that's exactly what I did.

Demetrius Thigpen:

I made my first podcast, which was called Motivation for the Wandering Soul, and when I know real chicken noodle soupish. I thought it'd be a good name. It was not, so then we changed it to Extraordinary Thoughts for the Ordinary Mind and I ran with Extraordinary Thoughts for the Ordinary Mind for about like two years, as the name you know. And what I didn't know is is that it wasn't necessarily speaking like motivational speaking Don't get me wrong. I've done that but it was podcasting.

Demetrius Thigpen:

That really was where I was supposed to be going, and I've being able to be a podcaster. I've really just been able to reach so many people that I never thought. And the crazy part is that people will come up to me. I'm like yo, I listened to your show or I follow you on Instagram and I love your content. And, to be honest with you, to your very first question how did I get into it? I got into it because I tried to be a motivational speaker and it turned out that podcasting was something that I was actually really good at and I never intended to be a podcaster, let alone a content creator. I just wanted to be on stage.

Mario P. Fields:

And now you are, and the virtual stage is powerful. It's a stage. And Instagram 14 you I mean Instagram 14000 plus, I mean and that's just the followers that your content has gone all over the place. I mean you've inspired. I mean, look at us, if you weren't a podcaster, we wouldn't have connected like this.

Mario P. Fields:

And so, as fellow podcasters, and so I want to make you uncomfortable, because I know you already mentioned earlier you don't like Well, you got to get used to getting uh, compliments. But I tell you, one of my most favorite videos you just produced I told you I was going to wait to the show is the one you produced on June the 1st on your Instagram account when, uh, y'all had the bag in the parking garage. Hey, everybody listens to viewers. If y'all, y'all need to get on Meetspeaks, get on his Instagram. Check out that video. June the 1st man I like that man. Y'all got to make sure. Hey, is the product good? Yeah, we got Marine Corps flyers, strength and honor. Let me check the bag. No conversation. Yeah, oh, that's not me, that's PZ. No, but you dropped it on your channel though.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Yeah, yeah, pz had collaborated with me. I know you did. Yeah, it was a collab-o. Yeah, yeah, I liked it too. I thought it was one of the. I liked that video. It was definitely very. How do you say like paid in full? Yeah no-transcript.

Mario P. Fields:

You know why? Don't you just give it up?

Demetrius Thigpen:

Um, a couple of times. You know, when I very first started. You know people. You know one thing that people are real good at they ain't gonna say a lot of things to me face to face. You know, like before I was Meech Speaks. You know like, yeah, think about Mario, I was a whole thug out here. You know, like a lot of people always see me like all motivational and positive and stuff like that and forget that I was in the trenches at one point. You know, acting a fool, and I slowly got my stuff together. I slowly got my shit together, but as far as like people that did not believe in me in the very beginning, like I couldn't get a share, I couldn't get a like Wow, it was a lot of people that just did not see what I was doing. And I remember one of the biggest times where it kind of like stood out and kind of like really irritated me. It wasn't necessarily like family, friend or anything.

Demetrius Thigpen:

I ended up getting pulled into this coaching program and the two people that were running the coaching program they had been. They went to Eric Thomas's overall coaching program and made them certified speakers and I'm just like, all right, whatever. So they reach out to me and they say like, hey, we're going to be doing this coaching thing for speakers and content creators, you know, so we would love to get you on so that way we can share. What we learned from Eric Thomas, and I'm like, all right, bet, so I end up on the show I mean, well, not the show, but I end up in the course and you can already tell and this is something I've learned is that toxic leadership isn't a military exclusive thing. Toxic leadership is something that is very prevalent across the board when you put a person in power that should not be in power. And here I am on this thing and it's very apparent that the jealousy of what I'm already doing is starting to come out. And it was one of the guys, and actually it was both the coaches, but it was one coach in particular.

Demetrius Thigpen:

I'm talking about like you pick and choose the things that you want to say to me and not want to say to me, and I'm just trying to be coachable. I'm just trying to be coachable. He's looking at my following and he's like you got 4,000 followers, but you got $4,000 in the bank account and I'm like I got more, I got more, but what does that have to do with coaching? What does that have to do with coaching? And they kept telling me you're not a podcaster, you're not a podcaster, you're a speaker. You're a speaker and you need to change your name so that way it reflects the fact that you're a speaker. But they would tell me to do things that just weren't necessarily aligning with my brand, and I just really want to just stop for a second, because you can't have somebody proofread the message that God gave you. He gave it to you for a reason, you know, and I learned that the hard way. When you try to have somebody else tell you what you're supposed to be doing, you're always going to end up doing things not that you don't want to do, but what they want to do.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And at the time, my Instagram name was Extraordinary Podcaster and it was like see, how are you a speaker? But you talk about being an extraordinary podcaster. How are you a speaker? But when we see you online, you wearing a beanie and stuff like that and I'm just like what does this have to do? He's like you look like you sell drugs and I'm like I look like I sell drugs. Okay, whatever, dude, and yeah, it was out of control. So then he said you need to change your name. You need to change your name so that way it fits.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And I was like, all right, well, what would a speaker's name be? And at the time one of them their last, their name was also Speaks, so it was so-and-so Speaks. And then it was the other guy, he was so-and-so speaks. And then there was the other guy, he was so-and-so, and then he had speaks in his and I was like, all right, we'll find it. My name is Meech Speaks. And so that's all I'm doing right now is talking. I ain't doing nobody's pull-ups, I ain't doing nobody's running, I ain't doing nobody's exercises, I'm just Meech speaking. And it stuck. Unfortunately it stuck and everybody liked it, and then I became East Feets.

Mario P. Fields:

He said my fortune. Now it's a brand. You know this, you're a fellow podcaster. That's why I love podcasting, because you learn so much. And your journey kind of reminds me of Oprah. You know Oprah got fired. You know Oprah had a vision of being an anchor in the news or whatever, a news anchor for a news media channel or whatever and she got fired. And when she got fired, that put her in her purpose and passion.

Mario P. Fields:

The same with you. You're like this is I know, this is what I want to do, this is it. And now, look, boom, like you said, there's your plan and then there's God's plans, and normally they just they just don't align at one. And the thing I love about this I'm not going to hold it too much longer because you're out there in the West Coast inspiring and motivating people, and I don't want to be a selfish host here. Looking back, you have many of times, I believe, that you could have said I'm done. You know you have envious people. You have, like you said, you have things that you're dealing with internally, but you kept going, which was a choice. You got through your emotions. If, looking back, what do you believe is what drove you, the motivating factor that made you say, nope, I'm going to keep going with this.

Demetrius Thigpen:

You know, the funniest thing about all of my content, you know, is that it was never made for a particular person. It was. I didn't have a target audience in mind. The only person that I had in mind when I made everything was myself. That was really it. I didn't make content for people. I didn't make content for Marines. I made content for Sergeant Thigpen at the time. I made content for Demetrius Thigpen at the time. I made content for Staff Sergeant Thigpen at the time.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And the reason why is because I felt like I was just. I felt like I was always stressed out. I felt like I always was anxious. I felt like I was always not good enough and I would make videos reflect or echoing what my thoughts about myself were. And it just so happened that a lot of what I was saying was things that a lot of people within our community were already feeling. So I ended up just making videos. So it ended up being videos that started off for myself, but they ended up being for videos for everybody else and, as I would always be under distress, I will always just make a video as a way. That was just very therapeutic.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And then, when the message became bigger than me in a sense of when people start coming up to me like yo, like your content really like it's gotten me out of some dark places, and I'll tell you right now ain't nothing more weirder, or let me rephrase that Ain't nothing. It's such an honor. It's an honor. It is a weird feeling. I'm not going to lie. It is a very weird feeling.

Demetrius Thigpen:

It's very humbling when someone tells you that your content got them out of a dark place. Because I look at them, I was like this I was in a dark place when I made the content. That's crazy. Wow, what a coincidence. You were the person I was too. Wow, look at us.

Demetrius Thigpen:

And that's happened where somebody pulled me off to the side. And they had pulled me off to the side, away from everybody. And they cry and they tell me, like your content really got me through a dark space in my life. And I'm like dog, like I was in a dark space when I made that episode. I was in a dark space when I made that video, I was in a dark space, helped you get through yours. It's very humbling. It's very, you know, I appreciate it. I still feel weird, you know, but at the exact same time, it's one of the driving factors behind a lot of what I do now, because I know that if I'm feeling it, somebody somewhere in some platoon company or battalion is definitely feeling it too, somebody at home's probably feeling it, some veterans definitely feeling it.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Somebody is probably going through what I'm going through and if I don't say it, somebody else better.

Mario P. Fields:

That is if I would take it a step further. There's about 8.5 billion humans on earth I believe At least a quarter of them probably feeling it Demetrius. But you know, wonderful message. You know, if you guys didn't get some of the points, I'll let you know real fast. It's a choice to keep going. Don't let your emotions paralyze you in following things that are meaningful to you. Number two, you guys heard it If you're doing anything, it starts with you. How can you motivate and inspire other people when you're not even motivating yourself? And well said, my friend, and last but not least, I'm going to give you another compliment, because I'm a mess with you. As your big brother, as a veteran, I love what you're doing, I am one of your fans, my friend, and just keep doing it, because you inspire Mario P Fields as well. And if you ever need anything, man, you hit me up. You got my number, you know where I'm at and keep doing great things out there on recruiting, all right 100%.

Demetrius Thigpen:

Thank you so much, sir.

Mario P. Fields:

No, thank you, so so much. Well, everybody, I got to let him go because I will stay on this thing with Meat Speaks for a long time, because he motivates the hell out of me. But you guys know the deal Another episode coming up in a week or two, depending on how I drop it, publish it, and that's on YouTube or audio. Well, you guys know I signed off. I will pray that God continues to bless you, the listeners and viewers, your family and friends and anyone else around. You guys Be safe. Thank you for listening to this most recent episode and remember you can listen and watch all of the previous episodes on my YouTube channel. The best way to connect to me and all of my social media is follow me on the parade deck that is wwwparadecom, or you can click on the link in the show notes. I'll see you guys soon.

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