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Wadi Watchi Nino, Hadeh O Maki Ayo, Hadeh O Maki Ayo, Hadeh O Maki Ayo.

And welcome to another episode of The Lines Led by Donkey's Podcast. I'm Joe, and with me is

Francis Horton. Hello, buddy. Hey, hey, I'm excited. Always excited to come here because I always

learn. And if 90s TV has ever taught me anything, it's that knowledge is power, knowing it's half

the battle, and you know, a star wipe that says the more you know. So this is why this is education,

this is uh, edutainment, as the kids say. You know what the other half of the battle is?

Lasers, violence, shooting somebody in the face. You gotta, you gotta know where their face is,

so you can shoot them. You know, I've realized that the last time that we've had you on a regular

episode, a regular series was also something about American history, and that's what we're doing

again. I love, well, I mean, I came on your show and talked about Jesse James, and I love, like,

I love just the, the wild dumb shit that happens like outside of wars around just, especially in

the Midwest, like that, like, you know, I know a lot of people like to say, South Dakota,

Deadwood was the Wild West, but Goddamn, man, was like the wild hinterlands of, of the Ozarks

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