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You got the pork belly burn in recipe.

It takes three and a half hours and it is delicious.

I got to move on. I actually want to shift gears a little bit. the pork belly burn in recipe takes three and a half hours and it is delicious.

I got to move on. I actually want to shift gears a little bit because there's a lot of other stuff to talk

about, but I actually, I just, I need to have a talk with myself, I guess.

I actually want to revisit something from yesterday.

Yesterday, I had a listener call in and said, can you give us some hope?

And she's a little bit aggravated because she and some friends are being made to feel like they are the bad guys

because they're doing something that is popular but is made to look unpopular.

They are fighting to get age inappropriate books out of local libraries where they're not

appropriate. And of course they're being called book banners in the libraries where they're not appropriate.

And of course they're being called book banners in the light.

They're not trying to ban the books.

They're trying to get them out of accessible to age groups where they're not appropriate.

One of the women actually began to read from one of the books at a local school board meeting.

And the school board silenced her because of what she was reading.

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