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Hello and welcome back to close reads here on the SIRC Institute podcast network. I am David

Kern and as always on Close Reeds I am joined by two people who like Maddie Ross also mean business all the

time. Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh. Angelina, has everyone ever said that about you that you

always mean business all the time? Of course they do. That's like, that's my tagline. Also, I think the

phrase no nonsense is used about me a lot okay Tim do you think maybe she's making

that up David I think that she's making that up I got a gun in my sugar sack that says otherwise

okay no it's true though so before I started reading it

this book a friend of mine who's really into this book had you know he was very excited that I was

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