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You know, everybody's got a soundtrack when they're growing up.

And for a lot of us, we just lost a big part of our soundtrack growing up.

So we'll get to that here coming up in just a couple of minutes.

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By the way, how does that sound, Mallor, Militia?

When you hear those words, Jonas Knox in for Ben Mallor.

Like, does the air leave your body?

Oh, no.

Like the immediate depression that goes through your body.

Let's discuss that at some point tonight.

And we definitely will.

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Oh, there's no question.

I agree.

So, you know, I've always thought about this.

And this wasn't exactly where I was going to start with the show, but then, you know,

breaking news and stuff happens. And you got to just sometimes you got to go with what's being discussed.

And we've got a whole other show planned and everything else.

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