Hour 3 - Election Math Meets UFO Talk

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depending on how the litigation goes. If Ron DeSantis is successful in the litigation, it bumps Republican numbers up to 209. Then you get into the South redistricting. The South is currently redistricting Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, and Louisiana, and maybe Mississippi this cycle. They may have been passed the date by the cycle. So. A big question is, does Louisiana and Alabama go for all the districts, or do they leave a Democratic district in those two states? If they decide to give the Democrats one seat in Alabama and one C in Louisiana, you're between 213 to 216 seats. It's 218 to win a majority. So Republicans have really never been so close as they are right now to maintaining the majority. It is really, really, really slim. But they're in... a shockingly strong position for a midterm election. Okay, so right now, thanks for coming on, Ryan. The polymarket calci odds would give Republicans around a 25% chance to win the House. Based on what you are saying in that just analysis, you think it's better than 25% chance when you look at the numbers that Republicans retain control of the House. Yeah, I would say it's close to a third, maybe a little more than a third. Here's the problem is that once you get to 216, 215, depending on how these redistricting go, and they're probably not weighing in those redistricting efforts yet. Where do you go for the extra three seats, right? Main second is an obvious one. That's a Trump plus 11 seat. It's a seat that Susan Collins always wins. The former governor, Paul Lepage is running as the Republican nominee. He's very favorite to win there. And that should be an easy pickup. And then after that, it gets pretty dicey. You have three swing seats in Pennsylvania. You have one in New Jersey, one in Wisconsin, two in Iowa, one in Colorado, and two in Arizona, and then one in New York. Those are really, that's really where you get to. If you think maybe one in Washington State, maybe you can make an argument that's a really swing district. But after that, it gets kind of dicey to find that extra seat or two. The two seats in South Texas seem pretty strong in favor of Democrats. There's been some internal polling. Republicans have a chance to pick them up. If they can win the South Texas seats, they're good. There's the Long Island seat. There's a guy named Mike LaPetchie running in New York's third district. That's a big pickup opportunity. It's a Trump plus four seat that a Democratic has. But really trying to find that extra two or three seats is. difficult, but it's absolutely possible. So, Ryan, the conventional wisdom, I think, among a lot of the commentary class, at least, was that Republicans can get away with all kinds of stuff. in very red states and somehow are not held to account. That seemed to get a big slap down in Indiana alongside the Trump doesn't have the juice anymore to make a difference. Can you take us into Indiana a little bit with what happened there because of the refusal to gerrymander from some of their state senators? But also, can we extrapolate a little bit about just Trump's influence when he's not on the ballot?

Yeah, I mean, not only did, well, it's two things. There's Trump's influence and also there's $10 million of spending. That also really goes a long way. The Republicans invested a lot to kick out these state senators, and it looks like they ousted all but two of them that refused to gerrymander in Indiana, which would have given the Republicans those two seats. Had Indiana and Georgia gone along with the redistricting, there really wouldn't be a question if they hold the majority or not anymore. So that's the big irony. They would have really had an amazing chance to holding the majority. Trump's opinion does matter, especially in these on these primary elections where such a small percentage of the population is voting. And he's really spent a lot of time and energy juicing them up to say they're going to cost us the majority when that means I'm going to be impeached again. And Trump does have that. incredibly loyal 30% of the country who votes in primaries uh republican base that are unmovable and unwavering and that's really where he uh he's been able to dominate in these primaries and that's why you see loyalty for him that you haven't seen in past republican presidents Let's talk Senate for a second. In Maine, Graham Platner, the Nazi tattoo guy is going to be the nominee for Democrats running against Susan Collins. In Michigan, increasingly, it looks like a guy named El Syed is going to knock out two moms that are trying to run in the Abigail Spanberger. I'm a moderate lane. I'm curious how you would assess here. We still have to wait and see who the nominees are going to be in, for instance, Texas to look at this. But is there a possibility that Democrats are overreaching and going too far left? Because in Maine in particular, there is no pathway, basically, to Democrats winning the Senate back if they don't flip Susan Collins out in Maine. In Michigan, if Republicans flipped a seat there. That would be basically ending their chances. Is there a potential overreach going on in some of these candidate choices that the Democrats are making? Yeah, I mean, the biggest. person who's been the loser this entire time is Chuck Schumer because Chuck Schumer's nominees have been going down one after the other and these people as much as they hate israel they also hate Chuck Schumer all these democrats running for office you also miss uh miss fleming lieutenant governor in minnesota who's possibly the craziest of them all the rest of them look way she is she is or he is whatever this is the trans person right she no no it's a woman she identifies as a woman but she is he is he is clay Okay. This is not the crazy trans person in Minnesota that's popular. Isn't it one somebody high ranking in Minnesota trans? I don't know about the trans person, but she's definitely a woman. I want to look this person up. I thought this was a trans person. My bad. So she isn't, no, she is, she's three sheets to the wind crazy. Look.

The Democratic Party after Kamala Harris loss of we are sober now. We're serious. We're past the BLM stuff. We're past the pronouns. We're going to have a real adult party. And they nominated Graham Platner who in his mid-30s was saying that he was a communist. It wasn't when he was like 19. He was in his like mid-30s writing on Reddit that he was a communist. There's the candidate in Michigan who's nuts. The woman who's likely to be the next governor in Wisconsin, I forget her name Fong, is I think her last name. She's completely crazy. And Penny Flattigan. is crazy than all of them. And there's just no way of showing that this is really where the Democratic Party is. And it's not going to go change or moderate, really, in the case of a 2028 election cycle. This is who they are. It is the full, as Bucket likes to say all the time, you could not get a serious Democrat on here to say how many genders are there. They would not answer that question. That is fundamentally who they are. As far as the Senate goes, as far as can Republicans win this? There is not a single. Democrat, there's on a single Democrat in a single state where that Trump has won three times. So in order for them to do that, for them to win this, they have to win North Carolina. They have, they have a very strong chance at winning. So that was, that would be the one. Alaska, it's 50-50. They were just ousted. The candidate running, the Democrat running was just ousted a year and a half ago. Will they vote for the person they just kicked out? Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? And aside from that, Ohio is very difficult. Iowa is very difficult. It's hard to get that thirsty. Even with Texas, it's very difficult with James Talarico. By the way, the person, Lee Fink, I thought that was the person running. So whoever the trans person is, Lee Fink. And I'm not sure if that's a guy. Clay apologizes to the non-trans person for thinking that that person was trans. I thought that was a dude pretending to be a girl. It's actually just a girl. My apologies. Clay thought this about Katie Porter, I think, too. Clay's rough. I just, I'm very, they're very pro trans, so I can't even keep up with who's actually male, who's actually female. I thought the Flanagan chick was actually a dude. I get somebody we can just guess is if someone's trans or not. That'd be great. That's, but yeah, but, but it's very difficult for them to find a third seat for them to win. Alaska would be the easiest of the options, but after that, Ohio, Iowa and Texas are very, very big stretches. Ryan, can I ask you to just, and we're speaking to Ryan Goddowski. It's a numbers game. This is this fantastic podcast, which I highly recommend. This weekend, guys, go listen to it as you're catching up on everything. You know more than all your friends about politics. Tell me about gas price. This is now a thing. It's a... it's kind of like taken as a given that the gas price is going to matter, it's going to matter, high, low, medium, going to affect the midterms a lot. Historically is that, how locked in is that? I mean, if the gas prices are high, all other things looking like they do right now, is it a tough night for Republicans, you think, in November? I mean, just because this is going to be something we're looking at month the month, day to day, actually, until then, does it matter a lot? Yes. I mean, but the redistricting effort does. The redistricting being successful the way it is, it definitely limits the pain that we would normally, the Republicans should have felt. It's not going to be a 2018 style 40-something seat landslide loss. It's just, there's just not enough swing seats for that to happen. But it absolutely matters. I mean, gas prices are the thing that is an advertisement of inflation everywhere you go. It's what people, you know, use to go on. People have to cancel some vacation plans or can't go to the beach because they can't afford gas prices and gross at the same time. It absolutely.

negatively impacts them. There's just no other way around it. So, yeah, they need to get gas prices lower. They need to get them lower as fast as possibly can. But there's kind of no other work way around there. And it kind of is a bit of how it is for the time being. But they probably have another month and a half before this really sinks in. Okay. So that would be my question for you. If you could give President Trump and his team one bit of advice right now, entirely political, would it be? Hey, gas prices is the thing. We need them back down. Yeah, holiday on gas tax would be a good, would be a good start. Just do a holiday on the gas taxes nationwide would be, would at least remedy the situation by a couple of cents. And then, yeah, and then any other way you can get the gas to reduce because gas affects everything else. It affects your food. It affects, you know. transporting all of our goods and services to the middle of the country it is it is everything is the economy right now americans really don't care about many other things than the economy and kind of cutting there was a there was a talk about trying to cut the capital gains tax that's not where people are people are where can they can can they feed themselves their family pay mortgage pay rent and make sure that their kid has a summer vacation and that's really that's the entire that's the game right there so if they can get gas prices down and even if they start going going down without reaching the level they were at before the war started, there would be a feeling of, okay, we're moving in the right direction. They just have to say, oh, things are actually starting to go in the right direction. Where do you come down on aliens? Big debate here on the show so far. Do you have a strong alien take as the UFO files are beginning to be released? I do not believe in aliens. They are as hardly intelligent life on this planet. I don't believe there's more another planet. See, I was going to say, Ryan only focuses on illegal aliens and deal with deported. That is absolutely true. Yeah, I don't believe. I'm not a believer in aliens. I can't. Yeah. There's plenty of room here on Team Buck. Thank you, Ryan. Great to have you. Guys, go check out. Go check out. It's a numbers game. Listen, Ryan's podcast over the weekend. And also. If the roof over your head requires repair, you know it. It's your home, right? But what you don't know is who to trust to get the job done right. The company you can rely on is Erie Home. They've been at this for more than 50 years. Erie Home is a roof specialist. They start their job on your property with a free 25 point roof inspection. If your roof needs replacement, Erie Home has all kinds of options, including newer material that will mimic the look of the roof that you're likely to have now. whether it's dimensional shingles, woodshake, or barrel tiles, your new roof will look great and last up to two or three times longer than traditional shingle roofs with proper care and maintenance. Your new roof from Erie Home comes with a 50-year transferable warranty. So if you sell your home, you're providing even more value in the selling process. Schedule your free inspection at eeriehome.com slash buck today. Get up at $1,200 in discounts. Go to Eriehoree, eeriehome.com slash buck. That's eerie home.com slash buck. This discount is maximized at $1,200. Valid on new roofing installation only minimum purchase required and restrictions apply so you rep for warranty or promotional details. When hanging, you're not just learning. You're also laughing. Playing buck, just preset them on the eye hard. If you're trying to grow spiritually while juggling a busy life, in touch.org is a really helpful place to pause and catch your breath. Sometimes you just need a moment to refocus and that's exactly what you'll find there.

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I like Blur song, too, which is just the woo-hoo song, which is there's not a lot to it, but it's super great. All I do is win by DJ Khalid is pretty awesome as a get fired up song off the top of my head if I'm thinking through things that I hear. You're trending toward a little bit more urban music than I would have anticipated. I'm very intrigued here, yes. Well, Blur is rock, DJ Khalid and Eminem. I'm trying to think of other songs that you would put on the playlist to get fired up for. Hero by Foo Fighters would be very high on this. That would be for me. That's the 90s version of Eye of the Tiger for the 80s. You know where that song initially became famous hero. Of course, the original Friday Night Lights movie, which was... I'm sorry, no, the original varsity blues movie, pardon me, which is kind of a Friday Night Lights rip-off, which is why I was thinking of it. It's so good. Varsity Blues back in the day. Whip cream bikini, Ali Varder, now of Landman fame, but she initially became famous for those of you who remember that scene when James Vanderbeek's character is... Propositioned by her in a whipped cream bikini. It's a great look. All right. Look, Buck. Speaking of not great looks, right now there is a woman screaming incoherently outside the Virginia Supreme Court building. This is real. It is arguably spectacular as well. Cut 26. Shame! Shame on every single Supreme Court justice who voted to take away.

I can't. This is our show, and I can't hear it. I don't think I can hear it. She is screaming shame. The video is very funny. This is, she is walking around on the sidewalk by herself, screaming shame at the building over the decision rendered by the Virginia Supreme Court. We've got a bunch of fun talkbacks. We'll hit those for you. It is the Friday edition of the program. Buck, you and I were talking about off air. This is what Democrats do to their base. They convince them of things that don't end up happening and then those people lose their minds and they're just walking around screaming on the streets like crazy people. It's not a day that goes by without our one-year-old doing something so adorable and so cute that we want to capture it on video. The iPhone makes that easy, but you know how much fun it's going to be re-watching those videos with Carrie a few decades from now when our son is off at college or doing whatever he's doing? This Mother's Day weekend, if you have old family movies that you have digitized, take the time to relive those moments. Let the laughter and emotions flow. while you rewatch those moments. If you haven't digitally transferred your memories from VHS tapes and Super 8 film reels, Legacy Box can do it for you. Their facilities in Tennessee are well equipped with the kind of gear that allows their 200-plus technicians to hand-transfer your videotapes one by one. They put your family memories on digital files that live in the cloud. You can access them on your phone, your smart TV, your tablets. Legacy Box makes it that simple. Legacy Box's sole mission is to digitize family memories. Go check them out. Legacybox.com slash buck at 50% off today. That's legacybox.com slash buck. Pretty good here. Pretty good on the, you know, that's the Chicago Bulls. You know, listening to this. Yes, I was going to ask you if you remember where this became super iconic. Yes. At Shooting Guard, 6-6, North Carolina, a lot of you out there have heard this as the introduction for Michael Jim Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. That was old school, but that's great. Alan Parsons Project, you did that song? It's pretty cool. No, no one. VIP email from the best hype songs out there. VIP email from Jason. Here's a song when you absolutely have to kick ass. You're the best around by Joe Esposito, which was featured in the original Karate Kid. That is a great. That is a great song. And you go right into the karate tournament when you hear that song. I don't care. If you've seen that movie, which all of us have, you are ready to do the crane kick, which might be, by the way, the least effective martial arts technique ever devised. Going up on one leg and lifting your... That's why it worked. Johnny had no idea what to do. That's true. Cobra Khan. Totally threw him. You got like a 10 to 14 year old in the household and you want to watch a great show. It's a little bit for the 10 year old, a little bit risque early on. But my goodness, they will love it. It is such a good show. My kids, my boys were obsessed with it. And anyway, good suggestion there. And a great VIP email from, or from, let's see, Jason.

We got a ton of talkbacks, Buck. Do you want to play some of these catch-ups? Oh, absolutely. I'd love to get into some of these talkbacks. Let's see. We have, well, let's start with C in Houston, Texas. Jeff, hit it. Clay, the Supreme Court of Virginia's has struck down this new map as unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that constitutional everywhere else. Won't they do the same here? No, so this is like, this is me getting into the legal weeds here. So what the Supreme Court ruled in the Louisiana Calais case is that you cannot redistrict based on race. You can redistrict based on partisan related issues. But the challenge is the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the Virginia... Constitution has been violated by the referendum that they put in place. In other words, this is not a U.S. constitutional issue that is being examined. This is a state constitutional issue. And generally speaking, I say generally, generally speaking, the United States Supreme Court would defer to the interpretation of the Supreme Court of a state. Now, to be fair, in Colorado, as we talked about the colorado supreme court people forget ruled that Donald Trump's name couldn't be on the ballot because he had violated the U.S. Constitution and therefore, I know this is getting into weeds, but a lot of people I forgot about this case. Therefore, he shouldn't be allowed to appear on the Colorado Supreme Court, but that was an interpretation of the United States Constitution that was misattributed by the Colorado Supreme Court. And that was the 9-0 decision that the United States Supreme Court said, you can't take Trump's name off the ballot. So this is diving into the weeds. The easiest way maybe to explain it, Buck, for people out there is this is a Virginia state constitutional violation according to the Virginia Supreme Court. It does not implicate the United States Constitution in its ruling. I do not think that there is a... any likelihood at all that the United States Supreme Court is going to weigh in on Virginia state constitutional law. Did you go into a similar legal monologue the first time you were trying to get Laura's phone number? Because, wow, let me tell you, the ladies out there right now are like, give me some more of that state versus federal constitutional analysis, baby. I will say, I did meet my wife in law school that she may have been impressed with my ability to analyze constitutional dicta. A little bit of legal humor there for you. On a Friday. There you go. Allison in California. That's a little dad humor and lawyer humor all rolled into one.

Don't question my dicta. Allison in California. Hey guys, two quick things. Buck, you don't have to worry about losing your man card over an espresso martini. You've lost your man card a very long time ago. And two, you guys should definitely do a cruise. Rush did one. I went on a couple with Reason Foundation and I think the weekly standard. And they were a blast. Well, first of all, it's very nice about the cruise. Can I just say, I feel like I was just... In the grocery store with my shopping cart and Allison just clotheslined me out of nowhere. You know, like, well, what happened there? It didn't even explain. I get no way to try to regain manned card. It just swiped and gone forever, Allison. That's harsh. Harsh. It is tough to drink an espresso martini and look super masculine, I will say. Doesn't mean the drink isn't great. I'm, for instance, I'm a fan of sangria's. Nobody's ever seen a guy drinking a sangria and been like, that's a badass. It depends. If your name is like Alonzo Alfonso and you have a shirt all the way unbuttoned down to your navel, then the Sangria can be very masculine. The cruise ship idea, they asked us a while back. They said, hey, would you guys be willing to do a show from a cruise? And I said yes. Now I want us to be within sight. I like the idea of a river cruise more than an ocean cruise. Me too. And you just want a hantavirus-free cruise is really what you're at. Now I get nervous because I can you imagine if the Clay and Buck cruise had a hanta virus breakout and we're just unable to go back to land. That's my hell is being on a boat that you cannot leave. I don't like going anywhere that I can't leave. Doesn't mean that I have to leave. I get a little bit claustrophobic with I'm on a boat is basically, a boat is basically a floating prison. You can't leave. You can't jump off and swim to land. That's where they used to put them all the day. Back in the day, you know, Buck, the debtor's prisons were just boats offshore that they would put people in. You couldn't leave. I've gone on a, on a revolutionary war kick lately for my reading list. I'm reading a biography of Ethan Allen. I'm also, I've got a Samuel Adams biography that I'm about to dive into Clay. And it's just a reminder to everybody. First of all, there were some moments with the British where, now the Patriot does a pretty good job of this, the movie, but we always think of the British were kind of like, oh, we'll meet you in the field of battle. Oh, no. We'll put bayonets on. Sometimes they're like, we're just going to kill all of you. And burn down your entire city. I mean, that was a real thing. The Revolutionary War was way bloodier than, and nastier than people think. Just because we think of the weapons as outdated and the silly costumes. They were brutal. There was some really rough stuff that happened. Even like right after Bunker Hill, what the Red Coats did. But speaking of Revolutionary War era, I think people forget about...

But the worst thing imaginable was to be captured alive, actually, and put on one of the prison barges, which were just in the waters off of Manhattan and Brooklyn, essentially. Yeah. The British had a major prison barge there, and you were essentially just left an abject squalor to slowly freeze and or starve and or, you know, succumb to whatever diseases were on that ship. I mean, it was almost a death sentence. It was horrible just to be on that ship. So it wasn't all tea in crumpets is what I'm saying. Wasn't all tea in crumpets. New York listener, W-O-R, he's also teeing off on you, Buck. Cut E. Hey, Clay and Buck. Men should only be drinking brown liquor and beer. The only clear liquor is the choice of the Marines is ever clear. That's the only clear liquor. Have a great day, man. Simplified. I appreciate the Marine call in. Vodka. I don't think that many people are like, hey, vodka is a total loser drink. Some tequila's are quite clear. In general, yes, Buck is a wuss for his drink choice, but I'm going to have to throw a little bit of flag here on the WR. Yeah, no, beer is supermanly if you want to elevate your estrogen levels, drink empty calories, and get man boobs. But other than that, beer is totally the fluid of masculinity. You want to be the fat guy on the boat? I'm going to be the fat guy on the boat tomorrow in Miami with all the... We are going boating tomorrow. There's going to be some boating happening, which we're looking forward to. We did Larry, I think. We have not played Larry yet. Larry in Ohio. Oh, we've not played Larry. F, Larry.

Larry. Going once. Going twice. Oh, okay. Well, let's try G. Matt in Minnesota. Yeah, I agree with Buck. My thoughts on the alien thing is the same as my thoughts on the flat earth thing. So let's say that tomorrow they prove that the earth is flat. Okay, cool. I still got to go to work on Monday and gas is still $4.30. So you're saying... This is a bit of what I think is that even if there's stuff that they're saying, it's a little bit of who cares. Like, okay, so there's some little blip on a screen that doesn't do anything that nobody knows about. There's a lot of stuff that we can. We don't understand, as I was saying before. Well, I think if we find out that alien life exists, the first question that is of paramount importance is, is it... benevolent alien life that is just going to observe us from afar or is their potential of alien life deciding to impact in some way our own life? I think that's the number one question you would have. If it's just... some sort of advanced species that is occasionally observing us, then that's different than, hey, this is something that the government has in some way interacted with or we have had communication with. Do I think we might find, like, on an asteroid somewhere, some kind of bacteria or a single-celled organism? Sure, maybe. And will people be like, oh my gosh, like extra trust your life? Until there's little green men running around going, be beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and have like little laser guns and stuff. I don't really care. I'm just here to tell you the truth. I don't really care. You know? Until all the aliens show up looking like Sidney, you're not really going to get that much out of me. Well, first of all, I am very favor in favor of alien life interacting with us if they look like Sidney. In fact, that may be one way to get our birth rate up. Larry in Ohio is now with us. News Radio 640 WHLO. Hey, Clay, it's Larry from Ohio. If you're drinking a James Bond martini, then yes, you lose man points because he's drinking it shaken, not stirred, and so he's diluting the gin with the broken ice, and it's a weaker, wimpier martini. I didn't expect for James Bond to be attacked. I know. I think someone just swiped James Bond's man card there. Is that what just happened? If anybody deserves the man card, I think it would be James Bond. But yes, evidently, unless we're misunderstanding Larry.

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drink down here in Alabama, moonshine. I'll put some hair on your chest right there. So Trevor, all you drink is moonshine? Oh, I drink some moonshine, especially when it's warm in the cold season. I look, I've heard Tennessee. We drink a lot of, there's a lot of moonshine here, Buck. And thank you for the call Trevor. I love Trevor. I love Trevor from Alabama, man. You know, the song Rocky Top, which is one of the great all-time songs for certainly association with any state. I would say country roads. I know it's technically not West Virginia, but John Denver. Rocky Top for Tennessee. Is this the song in the background that I didn't know? Okay, play that a little bit louder, please. It's going to take a second. It's a long buildup. It's going to take a minute. I don't know this. No one is going to trust me anymore. I don't know this song, I don't think. Unless there's some moment where it actually gets going. This is what this guy wants to run out to? It, it has a, it like, you know, builds up. But this would not be my choice because you've got to hang out for like three minutes before anything happens. I mean, did he lose every game? This is what I would play in the visitor locker room if I was trying to psych them down. This is what you listen to alone in the car in the parking lot after you get your ass kick. Is he trying to make the problem queen says she doesn't want to go out anymore? Yeah, is he trying to make the whole team cry together? I mean, I don't even know what's going. This is the worst hype song of all time. I wish you all they have any hype. Here we go. It's coming. It's about to drop. A couple more minutes. I'm telling you, the game's over, by the time. Come back Monday. Maybe you'll be fired up enough to play in a game. Here you go. This is what your Knicks have been listening to for 40 years, Buck. This is why they've never won a series until now. Okay. Now I recognize this, but it took four minutes to get there. You've got to skip the whole intro. Yeah, it wouldn't be my... It's a little too slow for my taste on this one. Who else we got here? By the way, enter the Sandman. It's a little... A little intense. You know, it's like scaring the children away that song. You know, it's like... I mean, it's kind of intense to run on the field. They're modern-day gladiators, Buck. They're trying to scare the women and children away. There's not chicks on the football field, except for cheerleaders. No, but sorry to the cheerleaders. Also to that Minnesota woman that I thought was a man. Top one. Speaking truth and having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Our podcast version of the Clay Travis N. Buck Sexton Show is proud to be supported by Grand Canyon University, an affordable, private, non-profit Christian University based in Beautiful Phoenix, Arizona.

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