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Chad we are continuing in Esther now we didn't get very far because we did a lot of

preamble last episode so we're gonna get into it because we didn't even we didn't even we haven't even met Esther yet

We got through the first 12 verses and all we all we really got was

Hey Xerci's is a dude who will throw a very long party. And once you know, once you've been drinking for like six months, you might want to show your wife off you know what she

wasn't real into that yeah she she gave him a big fat no there was no let me think

about it there's no maybe perhaps tomorrow it's just just

know which of course makes this section really funny because as I think we

pointed out last in the last episode here is this all

powerful ruler who's got this vast international kingdom and yet his wife has her

way it's like no sorry not and yet his wife has her way.

It's like, no, sorry, not gonna happen.

By the way, I don't know if we pointed this out last time or not,

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