6 O'FIVERS WAKE UP IT'S MONDAY 8/10/26

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Make a friend's Tranpoint Radio quick again. Liz Callaway, Nick Summers. Picking up your wake up with news, opinion, and insight every weekday morning on Talk 94.5106.7.

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It is 6.07 on the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers. And you know what? Nick will be back on Tuesday. Yes. But today is Monday, August 10th, and Glenn Dye Radio is here. We had a lot of work done at a studio over the weekend. Um, and we are uh just realizing um some things that have gone awry. Uh, but that's okay. We're here, and we can everyone hear me okay. It's okay. It's okay. Uh Glenn, you may have to check someone right away.

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Yes, we will.

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Thank you. All right. So I hope you all had a great weekend. And I'm wondering, we had a couple of great weekends, uh, I mean, events over the weekend. We had the Eric McTaxis event with Alex Mc McFarland. I know my friend Peggy Davis uh was at uh not only that one, but she also joined me in uh meeting Jason Redman yesterday, which was pretty cool. So we are um looking for any kind of sound, uh any kind of texts from the Budget Blinds text line, 843-798-talk 798-8255. If you went over to the um Eric McTaxis event or the Jason Redman event, uh Autry Benton threw that one uh last night for veterans. And uh he was very inspiring. Uh when you talk about someone who's been through it, man, his story is really incredible, one about survival, but also um about overcoming. And uh he's written uh like four books, and he's uh working on a new project called Turbo Vets, and I invited him to join us on the air sometime soon uh to find out more about this new venture that he's involved in. And it's called uh the Turbo Vets Foundation. Um, and it's talking, it was really very interesting. Uh he was talking about how when you're born in America, you have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But when you sign up for the military, you really are basically signing all of that over. So when you think about it, uh it's pretty shocking uh when you put it that way. And uh, I really think about how brave our veterans are and what they have done for us. And there were so many veterans in the audience. It was very cool. And Autry Benton is a veteran himself. Of course, Jason Redman had been um, you know, he was shot in the face and in the arm um and during uh some kind of combat mission in Iraq. And uh his face was disfigured, and he said he had um, I think it was 40 surgeries or something. Um, insane to try and put his face back together. But um is really incredible how brave people are, and that really brings me to my story um that we we uh that I wanted to share that uh everybody heard about over the weekend about the swimmer who had died trying to rescue a child. Uh a lot of people asking questions about the child being in the water, but this happened uh near Fourth Avenue South about 5:30 p.m. on Friday. So it was about a half hour after the uh lifeguards have left the beach and there were strong rip currents in the area. Why this child, and I I had seen reports that the child was eight, but I'm not sure now. Um uh why this child was in the water when there were one or two red flags out, I don't know. Uh, but a man there vacationing in the city of Myrtle Beach with his wife and kids, 47-year-old Derek Moore of Georgia, decided to run into the water to assist that struggling child. And when he got her back to shore, something happened. And he was dragged out to sea. Uh, some people said he collapsed, and other people say that the waves took him. He went missing and he was later found washed up. His body was found washed up on the shore uh the next day. Horrible, horrible story. Yesterday he was identified as the 47-year-old Derek Moore. Very sad story. So uh pray for his family, but I also am thinking of this young girl's family. A lot of people were saying, what kind of parents let their child play in the water and you know, be in the water when there's no lifeguard and not be near the child, and why didn't her family go in and rescue this child and all of that, all of the above. People have a lot of questions. And you hear you have a man who lost his life. And we had a similar incident in Polly's Island. Um, I don't know if you remember that a few years ago, where a man, um, I want to say he was a police officer from somewhere. Let me just see if I can find it real quick. Um, but he was uh he died while trying to rescue a family, also. Uh so or a child. Um, so people do amazing things. I mean, we had just seen the incident where um that young man who's a um uh a a lifeguard in California overcome all the waves to go rescue an 11-year-old boy. And it was like unbelievable how he was able to navigate those waves. But uh they said that it was all his experience as a water uh water polo person and uh how they totally know how to move in the water, and so he successfully uh was able to rescue that 11-year-old and himself. He was able to get out of the water, but the other man was Chase Childers. He was 38. He was um was a father, an officer, and a former professional baseball player. Uh, he said he saw a family of five, it was a family, uh caught in a rip current in Pauli's Island, and he saved them. Um, and he died trying to do that. So it's um something it's a story you hear too often. In fact, we knew of a um uh there was a man within our family, young man, he was in his 20s, and there were a couple of girls in uh, I want to say New Jersey who got swept out by a rip current, but I think they were like on a surfboard or had a boogie board or something, and he swam out there to bring them back to shore, and he drowned in the process of that. The girls ended up getting back to shore. So uh he did save that woman, that young girl. So it's pretty sad actually that that happened. So and you know, um, living at the beach, we always hear these stories of people that come here for all this enjoyment and uh famil making family memor memories only to hear something horrible like this happen. Uh uh, you know, something in a hotel pool or um at a um, you know, at the beach. Uh it's just heartbreaking uh to hear these stories. So all right, Glendai Radio. How was your weekend?

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It was good.

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Yeah? Okay.

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Yeah, I'm thinking that I can't look at you.

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Well, just take off while you talk because you shut the door so I can't hear you now.

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You know what? That's probably a great idea. Take off my headphones.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

You don't need headphones. And you shut the door so I can't talk to you. So now I gotta open the door so I can hear you.

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Okay, that's a better idea. I like that idea.

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We're gonna fly without headphones.

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We've got a serious delay between uh what we say and when it comes through our headphones. So my my weather report really sucked this morning, but um we do know it's gonna be hot.

SPEAKER_02 8:51

It's I heard it's gonna be hotter tomorrow than it is today.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Yeah, today's the only day this week that the beaches will be in the 80s.

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Okay.

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Uh other than that, we're going up into, like you say, a real feel of 110 beginning tomorrow. So it's gonna be a very hot week.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that was a great idea taking off my headphones, man. That was really confusing, wasn't it? Uh you know, I have voices in my head, but they don't normally talk like that.

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I'm telling you. Um hey, listen, uh, we're gonna have a uh couple of guests on this morning. 735 Congressman Russell Fry will be joining us talking about his Senate campaign. Uh today there's no voting, but tomorrow is the final day to vote, actually, election day.

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Yep.

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Um he has he doesn't even know like where he is at all at any time because he's been criss-crossing the state. I saw him last night. I also saw um the GOP nominee for governor Alan Wilson. He was at the uh the event last night. I was talking about Jason Redman's event. Uh Autry Benton had the second annual salute to veterans. And it was it was really cool. I mean, there were just the whole audience was veterans, mostly, uh 99% veterans. And they were all ages. And uh Jason Redman wrote a couple of books and maybe four books, four four very different books. Um, and he was um, he had two of them with him last night. But he gave a kind of a motivational speech that seems like he's done this type of presentation before, but he was talking about how military members, um, you know, people who sign up for the military suspend their life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I really never thought of it that way. But I mean, you know, you know, to verbalize it in that way. I mean, we all know this the uh that they sacrifice so much, but they literally put down their life. They can't do anything they want, they have to do exactly what they're being told, and they have to go wherever they are told to go and do whatever they're told to do, whatever the mission is, and they suspend their life, liberty, and they pursuit of happiness um until they can go back, uh, but go back home. And many of us are just enjoying that every day. And a lot of the people that go into the military come home, um, especially if they've seen combat uh with so many invisible scars, uh, mental scars, emotional scars, and physical scars. And Jason Redman was caught in uh the crossfire of an ambush gone wrong, and that was um uh uh back in Iraq, and I think it was 2007, it was September 13th, 2007. Um, I remember it flashing on the screen. And I mean he his face is disfigured from it, uh, and so uh you are taken aback by that. But the fact that is is that he's a Navy SEAL, and he said that uh you don't have to lay there and be a victim, that you could be a victor. And he went on to use the tenets of being a Navy SEAL to apply to all of our lives. Like we didn't have to go through the training to understand how you need to overcome um whatever adversity you're up against. So I you know, I I think about like for example, this this man, Derek Moore, I I don't know if he served or anything like that, or um, I don't even know what he does for a did for a living, the man that ran into the water. But the amount of bravery it takes to blindly sign your name on the dotted line and say, Yeah, I'm I'm ready to serve this country, whatever it takes, uh that alone is really brave. Um, and then you're going off to God knows where, doing, seeing unbelievable things. I mean, he said some of the things that he saw in Iraq and what Al-Qaeda would do. Um, he said, and I mean, these are things that you never hear about that there were young girls that had their ears and their nose cut off because they went to school. How can anybody support these countries and people the way they um you know, they talk about Al-Qaeda and um Iran uh being like a death cult, you know, and how that's basically the the pain and suffering of their people. I mean, they they torture and kill their own people for I guess sins of whatever they think is their um their their caliphate or their government. Um I don't I don't know. It's uh those are things that you just don't think about, and then you see protesters, you know, protesting in favor of these regimes, and I I just never get it. I I just don't understand it. So uh he said that when he was serving and you know, going and seeing all these things, you just learn so much that he can't understand why there is a faction of young people pushing for things like socialism and communism, um, and also um the fact that there are people that believe that the American dream is dead. I literally had this conversation, and I don't want to talk about him when he's not here because Quinturne has moved on, but I remember having a conversation with him about how he doesn't feel like they'll he'll ever earn enough money, if he'll ever have a, you know, uh a good job, well enough to get married, have kids, buy a house, you know, all these things. Like they literally feel that socialism is the answer.

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Um the history says it doesn't work. Yeah. Like everywhere.

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But they say, oh, but it'll be the American, you know, Democrat socialism and the DSA and all these people saying, you know, abolish ICE and defund the police, and they, you know, they're still kind of saying it. So I I wonder, I heard two different thought patterns. I heard from Jason Redmond saying, if we don't do something to let people know, he told this to me in a private conversation, but he repeated it on stage that the American dream is not dead. They're winning that marketing, that propaganda right now. Um, and that's why there are just so many young people that are supporting socialism, which is probably something they never really truly learned. Socialism is bad, communism is bad. I mean, like I grew up thinking that.

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Yeah.

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You know, so there is power in education because look at us.

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Sure. I mean, now they got influencers in social media that's influencing their their thoughts. If if if socialism healthcare for everybody, let's just do that. Okay. Healthcare for everybody would command one-sixth of our entire economy in our country. It would it would wipe us out as a country. It wouldn't take long. So it's not gonna work.

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CNN poll says right now a third of Democrats and Democrat leaning adults say they are democratic socialists.

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A third.

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A third. Wow. And what's really interesting to me about this was I talked to another man, also um his name is uh Dan Gilbert, and he sang um uh God bless the USA last night. And uh I was talking to him before w we went into the event, and he said, I'm not worried about it. It's going to collapse, it's it's you know, they're gonna go away. And I'm like, you know, I have to look back and see when AOC was elected because I thought she was a joke.

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Yeah, it it hadn't gone away.

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She was a bartender, plucked out of obscurity. She was put in this role to run in this um this district in, you know, New York City, and she was propped up. She sounded dumb, she was she said she never had a garbage disposal, and it sounded like a monster under her sink, like totally ridiculous thing. But she appealed to so many young people, and people can see themselves in her, and she harnessed social media, then there was the squad. She was the most successful of the squad, I would say. She's kind of held on. Um, and everybody laughed at them. But you know what? They have really gained footing and they have a place. And somehow they went this way. And the Democrats of yesteryear, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, they're embracing them and allowing them to grow. They didn't stomp that out of their own party. So now they have to contend with it. And now if they win the primary, these DSAs, they have a higher chance of losing in the general. But when will that change? Is it possible that more and more of these people look at look at Nashville? I didn't know this, but Nashville elected this like socialist mayor. I never thought in a million years we would see a Mamdani type be in the in in New York City. And that has been the direct result of giving them an inch and they take a mile. And you hope that it'll be a quick and painless experiment, but it's lasting a long time now and it's getting worse. So I don't know what the solution is to it. If the Democrats keep putting up flawed candidates like Andrew Cuomo, of course Imam Dani's gonna win. What how did Andrew Cuomo get into this mix? Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 19:59

Well, and how do we get to the point where AOC's thinking about running for president?

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I mean isn't that unbelievable?

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It to you and I, yeah, what a joke. But to I guess a lot of Democrats, it's uh it's a it's in game, you know, it's in play. Um what would it be? Her and um uh uh Kamala? Kamala maybe the top of the ticket and her as her vice president.

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Maybe Newsom might run. I don't know. Whitmer, maybe she'll run.

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What a mess.

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I tell you though, that'll be some interesting primary. I don't know. But Democratic socialists overwhelmingly tend to hold favorable views of the Democratic Socialists of America as well as of Democrat socialist office holders among those expressing an opinion. Nearly all have favorable views of Mayor Mamdani of New York and New York Representative Alex Ocasio-Cortez.

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All right, local morning show, Liz Callaway and Nick Summers, weekday mornings and only found here.

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It's like they just get me.

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Good morning. Are you awake now?

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Yeah, I I don't know if you've ever watched the Hangout with Hannity. It is one of the most awful podcasts. Oh, is it? He's so annoying. I mean, I don't know. Some some people love the guy. I mean, I'm sure he's a very nice man, but I mean, it's some kind of personality thing that he has where when you're talking with him, he makes it like he does the same. It it's just weird.

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It's always all about him. And and his questions last ten minutes because he loves to hear himself talk. And and then they gives the person a chance to answer, and then he'll interrupt them and talk about something, you know.

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Exactly. That's exactly what happened. Yeah, I know. And I'm watching Kathy Lee Gifford. I am a huge fan of Kathy Lee Gifford. Huge fan of Regis Velbin and Kathy Lee. I mean, I believe that that's why Nick and I have a show the way we do, is because that's been just inf You know how you're influenced as a kid? You know, um, like someone says, Oh, one of my biggest influences was this, because my parents also always listen to that music. And right. And then you're like, well, you know, how did you come out just writing music like that? And it's it's just ingrained in you because you were immersed in it. Um, and that's how I feel about Regis and Kathy Lee. I just love the show. I couldn't wait to be on a school vacation so I can watch them and I would watch them all summer. Uh, I just love Regis Felbin. And I actually wrote with him, wrote to him when I was, uh I still have the letter. I wrote him a letter when I was in uh high school, and he wrote me back, which was so cool. Uh and so when I I said, I can't wait to watch this interview uh that Sean Hannity did. Man, he interrupted her so much. She couldn't get a word out. I couldn't hear a complete story. I it was all tripped up, and she would lose her train of thought because he would totally he said, Well, I don't want to talk about that. He would ask her the question, she starts answering it, and then he says, Well, I want to talk about go back to something else you've talked, like in the middle of her answer.

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Yeah.

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Oh, so annoying.

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And yet he's supposed to get married. I thought it was this month. Yeah, I don't know.

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He said he's still trying to convince her.

SPEAKER_01 23:37

Oh, really? That's what he's saying. Well, I've been guessing it was jokingly. Yeah, you can kind of see the writing on the wall there, can't we?

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But uh, she just did, she was so great, and I mean, she's uh against organized religion, but loves Jesus Christ. Um and she has like these approaches to life. But what I was saying, I was just talking about this regenerative cell treatment that she got. Um she get this, she fell and broke her hip. And she was telling the story on how even after x-rays and everything, top doctors in New York, people tell me all the time, Oh, only the best doctors are here they misdiagnosed her broken hip. Like she was in such dire pain for so long. And you know what? That puts a lot of pressure on your heart when you're in that kind of pain with a broken bone, and she broke her pelvis, her hip. I mean, she said I could I was couldn't go anywhere, I couldn't move, I couldn't do anything. It was so painful. And I don't know if well, you've broken bones, but the pain from from I had torn a ligament in my arm, it is mind-blowingly painful. Um, where you are just blanked out with pain. Uh, and I've never had that kind of pain in my life. I mean, I've had babies, I've had like all like that is pass out pain. I can't even imagine what a broken bone feels like, and and how she had to go on like that for so long. And then all of a sudden, um, she had these treatments, and you know, they fixed her hip, they got a hip replacement, all this stuff. Um, but you know what? She's 73 years old, and she said she was in so much pain that she was ready to go home. She was like, Oh, yeah, yeah. She Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he kept harping on that. And she's like, No, I'm not not thinking like that now. Right. I'm just saying when I was in so much pain, I was just like, take me, I'm done. I I can't do it anymore. She goes, No, now I'm holding my grandkids, I'm walking around. And he just couldn't understand the guy. I'm like, what is this guy smoking pot when he's on there? Like Bill Maher?

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Breaking my wrist wasn't a huge, you know, painful deal. I thought, you know, I just kind of entered it. I didn't realize for a few hours that I actually broke it. And it was, you know, I went to take a shower and noticed I wasn't able to really wash my hair with that hand. And then I went to get my hair cut, and the girl said, What happened to your arm? And it's like, I just entered it, and she said, You need to go have that looked at. Well, by the time she finished cutting my arm, my my hair, the whole arm hurt all the way up to the shoulder. So that kind of told me that I broke it. But when you break three bones at one time, I can tell you it is extremely painful. It sucks really bad. And then, you know, you uh you were influenced when you were younger, and I was influenced by um Johnny Carson. You know, he was my idol, and you know, that's who I what are you gonna do when you grow up? You know, after I got over being the ice cream man where my dad said you'll eat up all the profit, um you know, it was Johnny Carson, and that's the only reason I started doing magic because I figure, you know, following Johnny's footsteps, do magic, which he did.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

I never knew that about him.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Yeah, and that's the only reason I started. That's the only reason my mom took me to the magic shop.

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That is so funny. Because uh, you know, I didn't watch the whole interview, but it kind of switched over to Jimmy Phaela being interviewed by Sean Hannity, and as you know, he's a comic uh that has really um he's so funny. Yeah, he is. He used to be a cab driver. Well, yeah, and he was and I didn't know he's from Levittown, which is the next town over from my house. And of course, Sean Hannity's from Long Island too, and I think Greg Guttfeld or whatever. So I was and even uh Brian Kilmead, everybody's from I think Long Island. But uh what I was w he was interviewing Jimmy Phaela. Jimmy Phaela was trying to tell his story. How did you get to where you are today? That was that's the main thrust of his show. And I did not actually hear the story. I have no idea. I don't even know what Jimmy Phaela's story is. All I know is, you know, that Sean Hannity does martial arts and everything. He worked as a bartender, and that's where, you know, because he was equating it with cart, you know, uh being a taxi driver. And I just couldn't could not get this the story of Jimmy Phaela. I just really wanted to know how did he make it? How did it tell me about it? Uh and I just couldn't get the story. But even Jimmy Phaela said that it was um a teacher that said to him, I think it was in the third grade, that said to him, I want to give you a homework assignment and send this, bring this note to your parents that you need to watch Johnny Carson because I think you would be amazing. This is your calling. And this, you know, he was a kid, he didn't know anything about it, whatever. Uh turned out, you know. I mean, look, he has his own show on on Fox Saturday night. Uh he's funny, and then he was talking about his jackets and why he dresses the way he does and and all that, his shtick. Um, and I I just you know, you think about all the people who influence you. Um, and even, you know, Nick talking about how Kiss influenced him. Right. Um, and you just don't realize it when you're a kid how how like how much your brain absorbs. And here we are, this is why we're in the situation we are, because people like who was it, Lennon or something, who had said you have give me your kids, give me the kids, and we will control the world. I mean, it's only a couple of decades away, right? If you can get the kids early, and that's how they've done this. And now it's much easier with social media. It's much easier with social media, and we're just handing our kids over to the state, state education. We're handing them over to TV and YouTube and social media. No problem. Here, take our kids. Crazy. This is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

Meta did get fined, you know, but it wasn't enough.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

No, it still goes on.

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It's just a drop in the bucket.

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Yeah. All right, it is uh 6 42.