In this original series, Humanist and Greens Leader Bob Brown, Silverchair’s Ben Gillies, Tim Ross, Once Upon a Time in LA's Damon Herriman, the iconic Australian Myf Warhurst, and Presidential Photographer Ben Baker join Writer and Founder of Reny®, Ben Rennie and Filmmaker & Director Luke Shanahan for a drink and an improvised chat on creativity, the arts, and change-making. What follows is a conversation that will make you laugh, squirm, and feel oddly inspired. Luke and Ben aim to feed t ...
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Welcome to the podcast. The theme is no theme! Exploring the human condition through experiences, pondering, discombobulation and otherworldly intervention. There's nothing to lose...maybe nothing to gain. But we're all part of it, let's shake on that.
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FBI Agent Phil Carson has held onto a secret for fifteen years, which will prove for the final time that there was a cover-up of the murder of Hip-Hop Superstar The Notorious B.I.G. by officials at the LAPD. Agent Carson is talking, and journalist Don Sikorski has the FBI Files to prove it. This ground-breaking podcast spans 20 years inside the underbelly of crime in the dark forces of the LAPD that used power and influence to hide the evidence and facts. LAPD Officers orchestrated the murde ...
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Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.
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Previously "The Masters of Modern" The MMCast is your weekly insight into the various Magic: the Gathering formats, with hosts Alex Kessler, Ben Bateman and Michael Grothe. We break down all aspects of the game, from deck archetypes to new releases, deck techs and predictions!
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Your weekly insight into Modern, a competitive Magic: the Gathering format, with hosts Alex Kessler and Glenn Jones. We break down all different aspects of the format from deck archetypes to new releases and predictions!
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Let's talk about tech (maybe). ‣‣‣ Lee (@lee_crossley) writes software that sounds awesome and music that's bug-free. His primary duties include ensuring no prep and adding bugs to the podcast during the edit. ‣‣‣ Lauren (@lcolledge1983) is a healthcare bore and loves data and finding out about memes about a year after everyone else. She enjoys long debates about blockchain and being mansplained to. ‣‣‣ Andy (@azd_lowry) is a software developer, manager and semi-professional yak shaver. From ...
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Lady Palace is the union of Bella Rothel and Amanda Waaldyk, two women on a mission to shake up the status quo around women’s health. This is a platform to bring forward conversations that perhaps could be considered taboo. To put it really simply, we want to connect women back into their lady palace, empower them about their divine powerhouse that is their womb space and how to really thrive, throughout every stage of life.
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As a life purpose coach and a grief doula specializing in widows and widowers, I interview people who have suffered grief and have used that grief to bring about a positive change in themselves and/or the world around them. Occasionally, there will be interviews with someone who is still actively grieving and is willing to share their story as a sort of online session with me with the hope of helping others going through the same thing.
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Aaron Curnow: 25 Years of Spunk & Rock Music!
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Summary Aaron Curnow, the founder of Spunk Records, discusses his career in the music industry and the relationships he has built with artists. He reflects on the success of the label and the challenges he faced, including the impact of COVID-19. Curnow also talks about the importance of being connected to the music and the artists he works with. H…
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 6 - THE GRAVEYARD MURDER
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Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned from their years of investigative work on the topic. From the Biggie and Tupac murders, to the twenty plus killings that are tangentially related to Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the Bloods, …
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Crowded House formed in 1985 in Melbourne, Australia. They’ve released eight albums, including their most recent one, Gravity Stairs, which came out last month. But on their very first album, they had a big hit with "Don’t Dream It’s Over." Crowded House made “Don’t Dream It’s Over” with Grammy-nominated producer Mitchell Froom, who they went on to…
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 5 - THE EXECUTION OF YAFEU FULA
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Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned from their years of investigative work on the topic. From the Biggie and Tupac murders, to the twenty plus killings that are tangentially related to Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the Bloods, …
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Lizzy McAlpine released her first album in 2020, and her second album in 2022. And between the two, she’s had a lot of success. One of her songs, "Ceilings," was a viral TikTok hit, and has been streamed over half a billion times. So you might think, with all that success, you’d want to keep working in way that’s been working. But while Lizzy was m…
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In Stranger things, The Upside-Down is an alternate dimension existing in parallel to the human world. It contains the same locations and infrastructure as the human world, but it is much darker, colder and obscured by an omnipresent fog. The Upside Down is devoid of human life, instead being overgrown with ropy, root-like tendrils and biological m…
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BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 4: THE VIDEO FROM HELL
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As the media scrum has gone quiet and the news cycle has moved on from the Homeland Security raids into Diddy’s homes, I am sure many media operations, and gossip hounds are really curious about what is next in this story? What is going to be the next puzzle piece in all of this? I propose a quick game of looking into the uknown future for just a s…
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The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma City in 1983. Over the last four decades, they’ve put out 16 albums. In 1999, they put out their album The Soft Bulletin, and that brought them a new level of success. And then, in 2002, they followed it up with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, which was their biggest album to date. Pitchfork named it one of the …
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Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned from their years of investigative work on the topic. From the Biggie and Tupac murders, to the twenty plus killings that are tangentially related to Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the Bloods, …
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HIP HOP VS. THE COPS EP. 8: WHAT'S REALLY CHANGED?
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In this final episode of this audio series, I needed to come full circle with an idea that I started twenty years ago as a young man, my instincts to uncover a battleground between Hip-Hop music and law enforcement was way ahead of the curve, and at that time with the completion of my documentary film Rap Sheet, I thought I had some answers, and cl…
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 3 - THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF BRUCE RICHARDSON
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Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned from their years of investigative work on the topic. From the Biggie and Tupac murders, to the twenty plus killings that are tangentially related to Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the Bloods, …
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BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 3: THE GAME IS THE GAME
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As the news cycle churns, and people search for more answers around the HSI investigation of Puff, this last week an excellent article dropped in New York Magazine by acclaimed journalist Craig Jenkins, someone I admire, and a damn good writer. The New York Magazine article stood out for various reasons, because as of now with no breaking news, Jen…
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One of the songs I keep coming back to is “Mohabbat” by Arooj Aftab. It’s really special to me. I listen to it all the time. I’ve been listening to it so often that I wanted to revisit Arooj's episode about it. In the time since the episode has come out, she has released a collaborative album with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily called Love In Exile…
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HIP HOP VS. THE COPS EP. 7: SCOTT LA ROCK TO TYRE NICHOLS
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91 MURDERS in Hip-Hop, that is the current number of Hip-Hop artists who have been killed since 1987 when Scott La Rock was killed in the Bronx, and TakeOff was tragically taken from the world in 2022. 91 Murders, wherein close to 50 of those murders remained unsolved by the police. Some are long running investigations and some of these cases have …
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 2 - EAST VS. WEST TURNS DEADLY
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Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned from their years of investigative work on the topic. From the Biggie and Tupac murders, to the twenty plus killings that are tangentially related to Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the Bloods, …
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When the ticker came across the screen on CNN on March 26th, 20024 there was news footage of a HSI or Homeland Security tactical team raiding Diddy’s home, and it was at that moment people started to wonder what HSI is and why do they look like a paramilitary operation in the United States…. So, I wanted to be clear and really understand where did …
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HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 6: DERRICK PARKER, THE HIP HOP COP
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The story of the Hip-Hop Cops when I started the documentary back in 2004, was that it was a secret unit, and it was shrouded in mystery, for many reasons. The journey of going inside Hip-Hop and law enforcement for two years, left me with a few takeaways, but more importantly it left me with a question inside my head that played over and over. Why…
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: EP. 1 - THE MURDER OF KELLY JAMERSON
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Join hosts Nicole Luciano and Johnny ‘The Greek’ Anagnopoulos, two of the producers of The Dossier, as they break down all things crime and hip-hop, gleaned from their years of investigative work on the topic. From the Biggie and Tupac murders, to the twenty plus killings that are tangentially related to Death Row Records, Suge Knight, the Bloods, …
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The band War formed in 1969, in Long Beach, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Friends? The song was a hit as soon as it came out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts. And it’s just had tremendous lasting power ever since. Besides being in Dazed and Confused, where I heard it, it’s been sampled by The Beastie Boy…
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BAD BOY 4 LIFE EP. 1: DIDDY IN FEDERAL HOT WATER
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Where to begin, with the news of Homeland Security Investigations raiding the homes of Diddy in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami, it is very clear to me that something is afoot, combine that with rumors being reported that the Southern District is interviewing 3 what they are identifying as Jane Doe victims, and one John Doe, and Diddy has really h…
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HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 5: DARK TIMES IN NYC
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As my persistence to tell the story of the Hip-Hop Cops increased, my “fixers” —Steve Lobel and Pistol Pete, delivered on their promise to secure me interview subjects. What sounded good in theory, was in reality far different, as their strategy was to merely accost artists and executives pretty much anywhere—at studios, at parties, concerts, on th…
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HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 4: HINDSIGHT IS 20/20
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As I have started the introspective study of my life since the documentary I created 17 years ago, I don’t want to stray from my initial inspiration that catapulted me into my fascination with law enforcement and Hip-Hop, but more specifically, the nuances, perception, and uneven legal ground created by criminal prosecutors using lyrics, and their …
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Shania Twain is a singer and songwriter from Ontario, Canada. She’s the only female artist to have had three consecutive Diamond albums — albums that have sold over ten million copies. Actually, her 1997 album Come On Over is the best-selling album by a female solo artist of all time. One of the most iconic songs from that iconic album is "You’re S…
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HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 3: MURDER INC. AND SUPREME
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If you have been listening in, a New York Times article about rap lyrics that I read by a pool in the Spring of 2022, really brought me back 17 years when I decided to explore the origins of a secret Hip-Hop dossier, and why the NYPD and federal government wanted to surveil, track, arrest and indict Hip-Hop Superstars. The way I chose to tell my st…
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HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 2: THE HUNT IS ON!
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In Episode one, I talked about securing a weird dossier that was compiled by federal and state law enforcement to track Hip-Hop superstars, and their entourages, associates, and record labels. With the book in hand as a young journalist, I decided the best route to tell the story of the book was to actually make a documentary, but I had no experien…
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Danny Brown - Y.B.P. (feat. Bruiser Wolf)
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Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit, where he’s from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, XXX. Since then, he’s collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and JPEGMafia, but he’s also worked with electronic bands like Purity Ring and The Avalanches, and he did a verse on a remix for K…
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HIP HOP VS THE COPS EP. 1: WHO ARE THE HIP HOP COPS?
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My name is Don Sikorski. I grew up in the confines of suburban Norwalk, Connecticut, a fan of the hip hop music of Public Enemy, KRS One and Rakim. In 1994, at the age of 18, I left to pursue an interest in journalism and New York University. I was always fascinated by the rumors I heard surrounding hip hop culture, about murder, extortion, the lau…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 23: THE DEATH ROW SEARCH WARRANT
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In 1999, LAPD detectives Buford Watts and Fred Miller (whose name should ring a bell) served a sweeping search warrant on the following places while investigating the murder of Biggie Smalls: A 1995 Chevy Impala SS that was in the possession of Michel’le Toussant Knight 8200 Wilshire Boulevard – at the time the home of Death Row Records’ Company Of…
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Rhiannon Giddens has released five solo albums since 2015. Before that, she was a member of the Grammy-winning band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She is now also the artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble, the musical supergroup that Yo-Yo Ma founded. Rhiannon Giddens is one of those people where I feel like they have to start inventing new aw…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 22: INVESTIGATIVE LEADS
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As we get deeper into the FBI Files data dump, one correlation came to mind: at every step of the investigation by the FBI and Phil Carson, he had to constantly communicate to his bosses and many investigators within the FBI. He had to provide the path he wanted to take to get further evidence and information that would lead to a prosecutable case.…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE 7: THE DOSSIER OBITUARY- "REST EASY CHUCK"
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Here at Dossier HQ, it is with a melancholy sadness that we end our years long quest to get disgraced former LA Times journalist Chuck Philips to come clean regarding his knowledge of the players and forces behind the murders of Biggie & Tupac. As many of our listeners know, Philips died in late January with Dossier Producers hot on his trail. Don …
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Binks Brews 002: The Meta of the One Piece TCG
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Binks Brews Podcast: Episode 2 Are you a fan of One Piece but find the idea of learning a new game daunting? Good news! We have a new show that will teach you the very basics of the One Piece TCG. This week Xell joins us to talk about where the met is right now and what if anything should be banned Join in the conversation on our Discord! https://d…
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Binks Brews 002: The Meta of the One Piece TCG
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Binks Brews Podcast: Episode 2 Are you a fan of One Piece but find the idea of learning a new game daunting? Good news! We have a new show that will teach you the very basics of the One Piece TCG. This week Xell joins us to talk about where the met is right now and what if anything should be banned Join in the conversation on our Discord! https://d…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 21: THE POLITICS OF MURDER
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The FBI investigation documents are broken out into a few categories: the last two episodes really looked at the idea of evidence, but more importantly witnesses, and informants that hold information. The documents that we find more interesting, and really speak to the cover-up or a lack of effort on the part of the LAPD are contained in internal F…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 20: FULL FIELD INVESTIGATION PT. 2
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Don Sikorski continues dissecting what we’re calling the ‘Origin Document’ of the FBI’s investigation into Biggie’s murder, and this is where it gets interesting. FBI agent Phil Carson is outlining to his FBI bosses, the confidential informants, confidential sources, and witnesses to interview. Now, one caveat: in the world that any FBI agent steps…
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I wanted to revisit an episode about one of my favorite songs from 2021, “Black Dog” by Arlo Parks. A few months after this episode originally came out, Arlo Parks won the Mercury Prize for Album of the Year. She was also nominated for two Grammys: Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album. Since then, she released a new album called My Soft Machi…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 19: FULL FIELD INVESTIGATION
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In Season One of The Dossier, retired FBI agent Phil Carson walked listeners through the origin of his investigation into the murder of Biggie. After receiving approval from his bosses at the LA Field Division, agent Carson began a months long fact finding mission, as he gathered evidence and spoke to witnesses. He then wrote an Electronic Communic…
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We are back to talk all things Modern, rom the current meta to what needs to go. And to help us break it down we are joined by Magic Pro Tour winner Eli Loveman. Join in the conversation on our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/7zAZV8JK If you want to customize you deck even more check out the Alter Sleeves link below! It really helps support the…
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We are back to talk all things Modern, rom the current meta to what needs to go. And to help us break it down we are joined by Magic Pro Tour winner Eli Loveman. Join in the conversation on our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/7zAZV8JK If you want to customize you deck even more check out the Alter Sleeves link below! It really helps support the…
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DOSSIER SEASON II - EP. 18: FRANK LYGA INTERVIEW PT. 6
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Detective Frank Lyga had already been through more in the last few years than most officers deal with during a career. From the Gaines shooting to the multiple investigations into the incident, to the theft of his cocaine and the scrutiny that followed…Lyga needed a break. That wasn’t remotely what he got, however. First, he had to face off with po…
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How to Play The One Piece Trading Card Game for Magic Players: Bink’s Brews Ep 1
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Binks Brews Podcast: Episode 1 Are you a fan of One Piece but find the idea of learning a new game daunting? Good news! We have a new show that will teach you the very basics of the One Piece TCG. We hope you like it! Join in the conversation on our Discord! https://discord.com/invite/7zAZV8JK If you want to customize you deck even more check out t…
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