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Hi, my name is Ken.

I'm an alcoholic.

It's good to see all you sickies.

I've told this story the other night, and I'll repeat it this morning,

but I was born and raised in Brooklyn.

It's just like Phoenix.

But I'll tell you, we don't have the hustle, you guys. in Brooklyn. It's just like Phoenix.

But I'll tell you, we don't have the hustle you guys have.

I mean, you've got a hole in the ground,

and people come from all over the world to fill it in.

We had that stuff in New York.

We call them Subways.

But it reminds me of when I moved out to California which was in 1974 and I had come from New York and I went to a to a meeting there was the

first meeting I went to and Clinton was there and the of July, that will be 15 years.

And when I was four years, my anniversary is July 5th of 70, and I was three days away from

taking a cake.

And I went to this meeting, and I had never been to California.

In fact, that hadn't been too many places.

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