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And I'm Gabby.

And welcome back to the podcast, my hoes.

Welcome back, my friends.

And at the time that I am recording this, it is way past the time that I'm actually supposed to be recording this.

Okay, look, we're making this episode literally over the course of Fourth of July

weekend.

And for that end, we had decided that we were going to take a little bit of a trip randomly

last minute to a convention, which we ended up driving 400 miles to Chicago in order

to have some fun and shenanigans.

But it was while I was on that drive there, that I came to the conclusion that what I really

wanted to do over the course of this 4th of July, over the course of this Independence Day,

is that I wanted to talk about one of the classic American figures of history, an individual that years ago, Gab,

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