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This is the overnight flight from London Heath Road to Beijing.

Flight time 11 hours, 237 passengers on board,

and one murderer. There's no escape.

At 35,000 feet, red eye.

Stream now on ITX.

This is the Jerry Kelloggin show.

A quick update on the fret boys at the University of North Carolina, those American heroes who protected the American flag.

When the scumbags tried to take it down and throw it in the dirt, they started the go fund me page to throw a rager and it's up to,

you ready for this, Ironhead?

Five hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and seventy two dollars. That's quite. 16, 672.

It's quite the party.

I believe their goal was 20 grand or something.

They got 10 grand from a bunch of people,

including Bill Ackman, the billionaire that went to war with Harvard

who's fed up with all the anti-Semites in this country. They are going nowhere.

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