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free with the one-year package. Okay. So one of the reasons that I'm in a mood today, aside from the fact that I had an allergic reaction to fish last night and spent half the night in the hospital, aside from that, the reason that I am in a mood today is because there's a guy who I thought was a very nice guy named Mark Duplas. Mark Duplas, you probably recognize these faces, one of these sort of face guys

from TV, or if you see him walking around on the street, go, yeah, I recognize that guy from TV, but he's not like a top line star where you would know his name. He's apparently very big in sort of the indie director circles. Like he does a lot of indie director films, and he's, you know, somewhat well known in those circles well yesterday he tweeted something

out and what he tweeted out was this he tweeted out fellow liberals if you're interested at all

in crossing the aisle you should consider following ben Shapiro i don't agree with him on much

but he's a genuine person who once helped me for no other reason than to be nice he doesn't

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