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People could argue that the month of July and the words freedom and independence are synonymous.

And I'm not just talking about the United States in the 4th of July.

There's best deal day, 10 days later in France, Sagnautriene, even though the French are all about

good food. I think our hot dogs are better. Our hot dogs good food. Also, I didn't know that the

French ate hot dogs. I think they eat them in secret. Oh, right. Well, no wonder ours are better.

And thanks to our right to freedom of speech, Karen, you are free to have that opinion that American

hot dogs are better than French hot dogs. May we? Don't act Karen. Anyway, let's we forget Karen

Grieg's debates. July also marks independence days for a lot of other countries. Algeria, Argentina,

the Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Burundi, Cape Verde, Colombia, Komoro, Skiribati, Liberia, Malawi,

Maldives, Peru, Rwanda, Sautomia and Priscipe. I hope I pronounced that right. Slovakia.

The Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Vanuatu and Venezuela.

Sireen, do you really know your liberation? Or were to find that list? Oh, well, thank you. It wouldn't

be right to just shout out a couple of colonizers independence days, you know what I mean?

I think that's a very fair point. So during this month, July, because the energy of freedom is

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