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Is The $220 Price Tag On The Air Jordan 11 Concord Justifiable? What Does The Inflation Say
Feb 20, 2025
On my way home from work on Friday around noon , I called my partner Chris from ARCH and told him about the surprise release of the Concord 11 on the SNKRS app. He obviously knew about it and proceeded to remind me that I hadn’t written an inflation article in a while. I was wondering where he was going with his thought. He mentioned the fact that the 2018 Air Jordan 11 Concord was coming in the original 1995 box and then made the following statement, Why is Nike charging $220 for the shoes if they are coming in their original box from 1995? That's what I'm going to explore today
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it was up guys on this his type for
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masochists and I got a little bit of
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time today so I wanted to do all his
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showroom quick so we're gonna be talking
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about the Concorde now last week we all
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heard actually let me share my screen
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real quick last week Nike did a surprise
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with leezar Concord and outdoors I guess
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I don't know what day it was so I'm
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gonna way back from work I called Chris
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from arch - USA and I was like Chris did
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you hear that our Nike actually dropped
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the shoe is like yeah nobody I mean he
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move about it like this thing spread
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like cancer and then he he didn't told
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me look you haven't written on the
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inflation article on it
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inflation I'm like yeah that's right I
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haven't written a inflation article on
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it so that's what let me to write on my
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website there a day so basically my
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whole thing was he he told me that the
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90 under 2018 was coming out in the 1995
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bucks which is they are show original
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box the Concorde came in if you see this
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picture here that's from East Bay so
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this shoe is coming out in the 1995 box
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just like the original the only
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difference is Dottie in the back it's
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not 23 but it's 45 so I was like yeah
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you're right man you know what let me
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talk about the inflation so I went and
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wrote an article on it
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and that's what I wanted to share with
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you today like Nike is charging $220 for
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the shoes and they are coming out and
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are we in a box or is that fair and
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that's what we're gonna be talking about
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right so and to understand that we need
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to go back to 2011 like in 2011 the
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Concord came on the slide our box right
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the box of sturdy he was really hard
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like a good box solid box he came in a
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Concorde colorway which is white and
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black or jump on the side it's 23 on the
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box and then he had all kind of
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accessories in the slave or home this
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purple box were 11 on it then those shoe
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trees and to sort of tissue paper
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and it was pretty nice you know what I'm
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saying like it's a good solid box and it
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was only that one 6
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c17 five I'm not mistaken right no the
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2018 box doesn't have all that so the
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thing is this if they are going back for
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the 1995 Concord that means they have to
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follow the inflation and it changes so I
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went ahead and in calculate the
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inflation so when I use the calculator
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here the original price was one $24.99
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that's the original part of the Concord
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in 1995 so using the Inflation
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Calculator I came up with two hundred
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and ten dollars so that's we are the tax
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so you should be paying if you live in
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Maryland right about 220 for the shoes
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right - 2002 - something like that so
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you plant about nine dollars and sixty
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two dollars more than you're supposed to
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pay basically they are supposed to
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charge you two hundred and ten dollars
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for the shoes now based on inflation so
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if you are paying twenty and ten dollars
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if you're supposed to pay two and ten
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dollars and they charge you to twenty so
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you put a little bit extra
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now you think like this ten dollar bond
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does just a $10 problem most people are
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like you know what I don't care some ten
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dollars so it doesn't really matter to
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me but the question is this this is the
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box that this is coming in that's the
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question
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this box right here the promise boxes
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dist I had this in 1995 per account for
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Davao from Japan you cannot put anything
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on top of this box it's gonna collapse
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so the box is not sturdy she take this
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box right and if you look at this box
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it's no sturdy and guess what it
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includes nothing else it's just a tissue
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paper and a shoe now I'm not as people
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are getting caught up in the sentimental
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value of the concorde yeah yeah they're
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like yeah you know yeah this reminds me
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of the 1995 and all these and all that
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which is fine I'm not against it but the
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question is this are you supposed to be
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paying 220 for a shoe that does not have
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all the accessories and on top of it is
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costing $10 more now if you don't
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believe me look if you go out into the
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ten hours times like I said a million
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pair were made a million six hundred
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thousand and so Nikes basically make
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sixteen dollars 16 million dollar bonus
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on this box alone now
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I was talking to a friend of mine on
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LinkedIn and this is what she had to say
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she got the shoe from the sneakers out
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well read what she says here this is an
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interesting now she's that she's been
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his gift for a long time she said I
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would have thought the box would have
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been doper and maybe a snake a car I
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mean like give me a story on the
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Concorde either way I work on them home
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she likes the shoes but she would have
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liked something else with her shoes say
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a retro card story on the Concorde while
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Nike included no absolutely no parks in
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his box and it's costing you actually
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more I mean the 2011 edition at least
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had all these perks and you paid 170
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right now based on inflation you should
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be paying to ten if that's the case I
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mean at least give me some if you could
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charge me like ten ten dollars more than
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inflation
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give me something with a box like a
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retro card or something else you see
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what I mean and by the way the issue is
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massively produced and actually what
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about it I'm going to be talking about
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it maybe next time but uh I wrote about
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it oh that's a bunch of them man like I
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want to all I want to wall and you know
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before I before I show you know what I
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want to point this out look like I say
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we need your help I need your help
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because if you want me to produce this
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kind of content you know Chris and I are
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part of this network all eh a network
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and a lot of the things that we write is
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basically based on our own resources we
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use our own financial resources we go
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out we blow a lot of it scouting and it
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takes hours to kind of think through all
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these topics and write these things and
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that takes away from our productivity we
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still gotta you know bring some daily
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bread in the house and we still need to
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supply our needs so that takes away from
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my work is only he and I so if you
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really want me to continue to do this
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kind of stuff you know a lot preciate if
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you can give me a little bit of a boost
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right here what I'm asking for is a
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commitment of $1 a month you know one
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dollar more for your two dollars more
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free or if you don't wanna do that if
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you feel like donating any amount of
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money I'll work on it you can go on my
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website and see but I want to get back
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to the topic
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so this is just within quotation marks
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so let's go back to this I what he saw a
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couple of days ago now DT alot is doing
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a toy drive for guaranteed ticket and I
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went to the store I was talking to them
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look like I want to lick first of all
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which is next to my house they got a
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whole gang of shoes in there man this
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Concord are not going to be too hard to
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get
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so my final thing is this like the 220
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it's a little too much and if you charge
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in 220
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you should be at least be getting more
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than just a flimsy box
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I know the Bark's carries with it a lot
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of like emotions and back you know like
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a lot of memories and everything but at
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the same time 220 and Nora perks in it
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it's not very fair for a consumer
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alright that's what I wanted to say
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today now I'm gonna share the post about
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on the toy drive maybe some other time
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today or tomorrow but like I say to keep
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running we definitely need your help and
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and and go in and check the website you
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can click on our link and go onto our
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website
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Pathak it's calm and and and then let us
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know what you want us to talk about
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because it takes a lot of time and
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energy and in strength and a lot of
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manpower and Sony he and I and I run a
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psychic separately runs our our stash us
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it sets a thesis so we'll I appreciate
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your support on this all right
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