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All right, Janice Spangler, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. How are you, Bill?

Excellent.

Awesome.

Grateful for the chance, folks, to sit down and have this conversation with Janet today. She had asked last week kind of what we would be talking about this week. I thought, man, it'd be fun just to have kind of an off-the-cuff conversation about a few topics that as you and I went to lunch the

other day, you came down to southern Utah and we had a conversation around various topics,

some of them part of this. And I just thought the conversation was so good and I thought it'd

be fun to pick some kind of controversial topics and have a conversation from them. So before we get started, any thoughts from you?

Anything that kind of roaming around in your mind or things going on this week that are

worth mentioning?

Oh, off the top of my head, I can't think of anything in particular, but I did enjoy our

conversation.

We probably should have just turned on a recording device.

Get a little editing and had ourselves, yeah, an hour, hour and a half podcast there.

That's right. But I don't know. I'm always up for controversial conversation. I don't always

know everything that I'm willing to admit what I don't know. And I love to have this

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