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Hey, y'all, it's Monica. Happy New Year. And as a little treat for you for this new year,

2025, I am releasing all of my content on the Monica Perez show

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Welcome to the sixth edition of Cognitive Dissidents Hour.

Monthly Roundtable, I'm Hudebuea from Geopolitics and Empire.

I'm Monica Perez from the Monica Perez Show.

And I'm Parallel Mike from the Parallel Mike podcast and Parallel Systems Broadcast.

All right. This transmission, this recording, was delayed a bit because Monica's house almost burned down. In fact, it's the last house standing. I'm glad your house didn't burn down. Monica,

tell us what is going on.

Hi, guys.

Well, it's not the very last house standing, but it's basically the last house standing.

We have a little, if you can see a map, it's Cal Fire is that if you just Googled Cal Fire,

it comes up with a map that's pretty accurate down to, like, the two houses across the street for me did not burn.

And like two on one side and four on the other, and then a few behind me.

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