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Now, I've been in the ocean.

I have done that.

I don't know if you do that much.

Maybe you're not in a state near the ocean, but I've done it.

I've been the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean,

I've been all over the place, right? And my experience with ocean water is, especially in the Pacific Ocean region of Southern California, it is polluted, it is toxic, I believe in that, And normally when I get out of the ocean, I want to

immediately rinse off the polluted water from the ocean. I don't recall it having tremendous

healing powers. I don't.

But who knew?

Clay Thompson, who apparently is a basketball player that only has to play well one out of every five games?

How great is Clay Thompson?

Clay Thompson is the luckiest guy in the world.

If Clay Thompson had to carry the freight for a franchise, he would be a disaster.

Is there a bigger fraud than Clay Thompson in terms of what he has to do?

And he checks out three or four games in a row. No one even pays attention. They only pay

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