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Hello, everybody. And welcome back to the Chiluminati podcast episode 121.

As always, I am one of, I know it's getting spicy, man.

We're almost, we're almost at 125, which is nuts to me.

Might as well be 1025 at this point.

Yeah, at this rate, we got hell, yeah.

We got 1,000 topics to cover. Easy.

Anyway, I'm one of your hosts, Mike Martin, joined by Jesse Cox.

And Alex Fossiani, the surfer bros of L.

I didn't really think of anything ahead of time this time.

So the surfer bros of L.A. is what I got.

That's what came off.

Yeah, my tongue.

I saw you're like flowery kind of like chill shirt that you wear in right now.

And I had like beach vibes. And that's just what my brain went.

It wasn't the greatest choice in today's weather.

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