Think we wrapped up George Washington in one episode? Cute. Absolutely not. We’re back with the bonus content you didn’t know you needed—and frankly, neither did we until Eric said, “Wait, I’m not done ranting.”

This episode is the presidential blooper reel meets historical hot goss. We’re talking Washington’s hot older brother Lawrence (who basically kickstarted George’s hero arc), a tropical getaway gone wrong (hello, smallpox!), and the real tea on those so-called wooden teeth. Spoiler: they were bougie ivory, not splintery lumber.

Plus, find out why our founding daddy was very pro-vaccine, how the whole "cherry tree" thing was a full-on fanfic, and why Field Marshal Marshall never became a thing (yes, that’s a real sentence).

Come for the myth-busting. Stay for the sass. Leave knowing George Washington was somehow more iconic than we were taught in grade school. Who knew?

You thought we were done with John Adams? Think again, history rookie. We’ve got one more cannonball into the colonial chaos, and this one’s juicier than Franklin in a bathtub with a Parisian chess partner.

In this wrap-up to our accidentally five-part (!) miniseries on the OG cranky patriot, Kyle and Eric dig into all the spicy sidebars and head-scratching historical hot takes that didn’t make the first cut—like whether Adams’ sweet tooth doomed his dental future, and why Franklin’s breezy (and breezy naked) diplomacy had John clutching his waistcoat in horror.

We're debunking dramatized documentaries, sipping tea on the Adams-Franklin bromance fallout, and marveling at John’s casual recognition of Haiti's independence while everyone else was losing their powdered wigs over it. Oh, and did you know Abigail crossed the freakin’ Atlantic during the war? Power couple energy. 💥

What You’ll Hear:

Was John Adams really at the Boston Massacre? Spoiler: No, but HBO thinks so.

Why Franklin slept naked with the windows open (you’re welcome for the visual).

The Haitian Revolution shout-out that made Adams enemies real fast.

The political shade of the 1800 election… plus, Adams’ delightfully confusing mistress clapback.

Pull up a chair at Peacefield, pet the cows, and get ready to hear about the most misunderstood Founding Father like never before.

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Grab your powdered wigs and brace yourself for a full-speed gallop through the myth of Jefferson the “common man”—because this episode is less “Founding Father” and more “Founding Flop (feat. someone who actually deserves to be on a stamp).” Kyle and Eric are here to drag Thomas Jefferson for his aristocratic farm-core nonsense, his baby-soft hands, and his whole "I'm a man of the people" schtick—played on a very out-of-tune violin. Spoiler alert: he wasn't fooling anybody.

But the real star of the show? BENJAMIN. FREAKING. BANNEKER. That’s right—clock-making, star-mapping, tide-charting, letter-writing genius Benjamin Banneker, who casually read Jefferson for filth and predicted solar eclipses for funsies. This man made a clock out of wood that kept perfect time for 50 years and still found time to sneak abolitionist essays into almanacs like an intellectual ninja.

It’s part history, part roast, and full-on sass. You’ll laugh, you’ll rage, and you’ll wonder why the hell he’s not carved into a mountain somewhere.

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Alright history nerds, buckle your breeches—because this episode is blowing the powdered wig right off the sanitized story you thought you knew.

We’re diving deep into the life of Paul Jennings—James Madison’s enslaved footman who didn’t just wait on the president, he witnessed wars, wrote a bestselling memoir before it was cool, and helped bankroll the boldest escape attempt of enslaved people in U.S. history: The Pearl Incident.

That portrait-saving story? Yeah, that wasn’t Dolley. Paul did that. Dolley delegated. (First Ladies—they’re just like us.)

Kyle and Eric are in full form this week: there’s righteous indignation, historical name-dropping, and the kind of chaotic good energy only this podcast can deliver. You’ll hear about Paul’s decades-long proximity to power, the shady aftermath of The Pearl, and why Millard freaking Fillmore is weirdly part of this redemption arc.

There’s also a Frederick Douglass cameo, a shady typo we will not let slide, and enough butterfly effect moments to make Ashton Kutcher cry.

So get ready—this one’s heartfelt, hilarious, and just a little bit furious. Because history deserves better than "Dolley saved the painting" and "enslaved workers were just… gone."

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Grab your parasol and your passive-aggressive fan, because in this episode of Buck Wild, we’re sailing straight into the humid, horrifying aftermath of America’s attempt to “solve” slavery by… checks notes… giving formerly enslaved people a whole new country and zero resources. Genius!

Join Kyle and Historian Supreme Eric Mason as they take you on a tragicomic ride through:

🇱🇷 The American Colonization Society, aka: “What if racism, but make it philanthropy?”
🧻 The disaster that was Sherbro Island (10/10 on Google Reviews if you’re into dysentery)
🎩 The all-white board of governors—including Francis Scott “I Wrote the Anthem, Now I Run Liberia” Key—who played geopolitical puppet master from across the Atlantic
🥴 The painfully awkward land deals, militia mayhem, and economic faceplants that followed

Let’s be clear: this story has everything—failed utopias, cringey altruism, malaria, a Monopoly board of misplaced intentions, and the haunting realization that Monroe’s name is still on a place that was never built to thrive.

This ain't your high school history class, darling. This is colonization with receipts, shade, and way more emotional damage than we signed up for.

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Ever wondered what happens when science meets snake oil and the president doesn’t immediately run screamin'? Get ready—because this episode is a one-way trip through 19th-century pseudoscience, political lobbying, and feral frontier fanboys.

In this gem of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle and Eric dive headfirst into the bizarre tale of John Cleves Symmes Jr.—a man convinced the Earth was hollow, habitable, and just begging for a government-funded expedition. Was JQA really about to greenlight an Arctic voyage into the planet’s donut hole? Did Congress nearly fall for it? And what does all this have to do with science, grift, and being too online in the 1820s?

Spoiler: Adams didn’t believe in Hollow Earth, but he did believe in flexing America’s brainy biceps on the world stage. Meanwhile, Symmes’ manifesto tour drew packed houses out West and ridicule back East—because nothing says “scientific rigor” like a Russian nesting doll made of dirt.

So grab your sextant, pack a fur coat, and join us for a meandering descent into presidential madness, Manifest Destiny vibes, and the eternal question: how far would you go for science (or clout)?

Unroll your canvas and dip your brush in the tea, friends. Your charmingly chaotic hosts Kyle and Eric are back, and they’ve dragged along fan-favorite Rae Faba—our resident art history assassin—for another trip into the glittery, grimy world of early American portraiture and the messy marriage between art and truth.

We’re talking OG selfies (read: daguerreotypes), presidential portraits with side hustles, and a whole lotta propaganda disguised as patriotism. Ever wondered if George Washington really stood like a Greek god mid-blizzard while women rowed him across icy death water? Spoiler: he did not. But the Germans sure liked to pretend he did.

From crossing the Delaware to crossing the line of realism, we decode paintings that scream, “This definitely didn’t happen—but it should have!” Plus: Rae drops a WWII teaser, Eric spirals into philosophical musings, and Kyle brings trench art to a shelf-off.

This mid-season interlude of The Buck Starts Here is raw, uncut, and 100% less polished than what usually makes it through our producer’s editing scissors. Kyle and Eric go off-script on Andrew Jackson’s disaster legacy, Martin Van Buren’s Darth Vader vibes, morality scores for presidents (yes, that’s a thing now), and even Hurricane Katrina economics. It’s messy, it’s unfiltered, and it’s the perfect reminder of why we normally cut 25% of every episode.

Buckle up, buttercup, it’s time to talk States’ Rights. You know, that magical phrase every bad-faith politician has whipped out since 1789 whenever they’re on the wrong side of history.

In this Buck Wild bonus episode, Kyle and Eric take off the presidential gloves and dive headfirst into America’s longest-running gaslight. From the 10th Amendment’s humble beginnings to John C. Calhoun’s fever-dream PowerPoint on “compact theory,” this is the messy origin story of how “freedom” got turned into “you can’t tell me what to do, Dad!”

We’re talking nullification crises, Jackson’s big federal flex, slavery excuses dressed up as liberty, and a crash course in how every “states’ rights” tantrum eventually leads to someone threatening secession. (Spoiler: they always lose.)

Eric’s yelling, Kyle’s doing emotional damage control, and somehow West Virginia comes out looking like the gifted kid who transferred schools halfway through the semester.

It’s constitutional chaos, political delusion, and historical shade at its finest.

In Part I of this two-part chaos saga, Eric and Kyle take you on a high-speed, bilingual roller coaster from Mexico’s independence to Texas being… well, Texas. Mexico is trying to run a brand-new country, American settlers are showing up with slavery like it’s an unauthorized carry-on, Santa Anna is busy reinventing the government structure every fifteen minutes, and both sides seem deeply allergic to reading their own treaties.

Then Polk enters the chat with full Manifest Destiny energy. He sends diplomats south, troops to the Rio Grande, and vibes into the universe that say “We want your land but politely.” Mexico, understandably overwhelmed and unimpressed, refuses to answer his texts. Troops shuffle into disputed territory, cavalry crosses rivers, and suddenly everyone is screaming “AMERICAN BLOOD SHED ON AMERICAN SOIL!” without confirming whose soil it actually is.

Kyle and Eric break down every messy ingredient:
🔥 Mexico’s political instability
🔥 A U.S. government aggressively manifesting destiny
🔥 Texas insisting it owned land it couldn’t point to on a map
🔥 Polk claiming innocence while playing geopolitical Jenga
🔥 The embarrassing weapons-tech gap between the two armies
🔥 The U.S. Navy politely telling Europe to sit down and stay out of it

It’s petty. It’s loud. It’s historically unhinged.
And best of all — this is only Part I.
Part II is where the cannonballs start flying.

If Part I was the slow, awkward buildup, Part II is where the war actually starts acting like a war: loudly, violently, and with absolutely no chill.

In this episode, Kyle and Eric walk through the moment the Mexican–American War flips from political tension to full-scale conflict. Zachary Taylor digs in and dares anyone to move him, flying artillery enters the chat and instantly changes how battles are fought, and the U.S. military realizes it has accidentally become terrifyingly efficient. Mexico, meanwhile, is fighting a war while its government is still arguing with itself… never ideal.

We break down the early battles, the shockingly lopsided firepower, Santa Anna’s refusal to accept that artillery is now a personality trait, and how the U.S. Navy quietly locks down coastlines like it owns the place. This is the phase of the war where things move way too fast, victories pile up, and no one in Washington has fully processed what they just unleashed.

It’s innovation, improvisation, and imperial ambition colliding in real time, with consequences that will echo for decades.
Buck Wild, indeed.

This is not a history episode. This is a reckoning.

In this Buck Wild installment of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle and Eric stop the presidential march dead in its tracks to do something arguably more dangerous: revisit their own rankings. After nearly a year of scoring presidents, things have gotten a little weird. Criteria have shifted. Long-term consequences have crept in. And somehow James K. Polk is still causing problems.

So they do what any responsible historians would do. They argue about it.

This episode breaks down how the ranking system evolved, where it drifted, and whether presidents like John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Jackson, and even George Washington himself were treated fairly. Should we be scoring presidencies only, or entire lives? Does quiet competence deserve more credit? Should slave ownership always be an automatic ding? And at what point do we admit that timing matters more than talent?

Along the way, there are detours into military leadership, unionism, political restraint, and why being really good at your job sometimes makes history forget you. There is also open regret, mild chaos, and at least one moment where Eric realizes his beard is older than the Confederacy.

This is Buck Wild in its purest form.
No script. No narrative arc. Just arguing with ourselves in real time.

This is not a biography. This is a Buck Wild lightning round.

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle and Eric rip through 13 facts about Frederick Douglass that explain why he kept winning in a country that was actively trying to stop him. Fast, focused, no filler. Just the moments that show how Douglass used literacy, rhetoric, and sheer force of intellect to bend the national conversation around slavery and freedom.

Douglass learned to read in a system designed to keep him ignorant, then learned to write in a country terrified of what he might say. He escaped slavery, took the stage, and made pro-slavery arguments collapse under their own stupidity. His speeches hit hard. His books hit harder. And when allies disappointed him or movements lost their nerve, Douglass did not hesitate to say so out loud.

These are not fun trivia facts.
They are strategic facts.
The kind that explain why Frederick Douglass was always several moves ahead.

Read.
Wrote.
Won.

At the founding of the United States, the North and South looked like they were building the same country. Same flag. Same Constitution. Same “we’re totally fine” energy. Under the hood? Not even close.

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, Eric drags us from the 1770s through the early 1800s and shows how two regional economies quietly went their separate ways before anyone started threatening secession. The North leans into education, skilled labor, economic diversification, and early industrialization. The South commits to land, agriculture, enslaved labor, and an extractive system that rewards control over adaptability.

We talk early American economic history, class formation, housing patterns, and why incentives matter more than vibes. The North starts building human capital. The South builds an economy where one sector dominates everything else and calls it stability. These choices don’t explode right away, which is honestly part of the problem.

Nothing breaks in this episode.
But the union is already awkward.
And everyone in the room can feel it.

Two economies.
One country.
And a growing list of future regrets.

If Part I was the slow drift, this is where the consequences kick the door in.

In Part II of this series, The Buck Starts Here moves into the 1810s and watches the North and South get stress-tested by real events they can’t ignore. War. Credit collapses. The Panic of 1819. And a near-perfect case study of Dutch Disease in the American South.

We break down how an extractive, monoculture economy built around cotton sucks up labor, capital, and attention until everything else exists only to support that one industry. Supporting industries become dependent. Talent stops developing. The ability to pivot disappears. And when cotton stumbles, the entire Southern economy faceplants with it.

Meanwhile, the North bends. Because diversification, education, and industrial growth turn out to be pretty useful when the economy hits turbulence.

By the end of this episode, the divergence isn’t theoretical.
It’s structural.
And it’s expensive.

This is the moment the awkward union stops pretending everything is fine and enters the find out phase.

Every podcast has an editing room floor.

Most shows quietly sweep it under the rug.

We… turned it into an episode.

Normally The Buck Starts Here is a relatively disciplined history podcast about U.S. presidents, political power, and the strange personalities that shaped American history. But every once in a while the conversation wanders off the path - into physics arguments about airplanes on treadmills, economic theory explained with medieval farmers, debates about Buffalo sports logos, and the occasional reenactment of 19th-century American gunboat diplomacy.

Those moments usually get cut.

This week, life got in the way. Recording schedules collapsed, the archives were opened, and the tangents escaped.

So instead of a standard episode, you’re getting a supercut of the conversations that normally never make it into the show, the weird side roads, historical rabbit holes, and completely unnecessary arguments that happen when the conversation loses the guardrails.

Somehow this chaos still includes:

Andrew Jackson speaking in an accidental Boston accent
The legendary “747 on a treadmill” physics debate
A crash course in Adam Smith, free markets, and economic specialization
Why American universities quietly dominate the world
Presidential libraries and the art of heckling museum exhibits
And the moment the United States essentially told Japan:
“You’re going to trade with us now.”

Is this a normal episode of The Buck Starts Here?

Not even close.

Is there still history in it?

Somewhat.

Mostly this episode explains one thing:

What happens when the guardrails disappear.

Free speech sounds simple, until someone actually uses it.

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, we take a detour from presidents and step straight into the courtroom, where art, satire, and the First Amendment collide in ways that are anything but tidy. Joined by Rae, who brings actual legal and artistic expertise (a dangerous combination), we break down how the U.S. legal system has tried (and often struggled) to define the limits of artistic expression.

We start with the fundamentals: what the First Amendment actually protects, why it’s a “negative rights” framework, and how case law - not vibes - ends up determining what artists can and can’t get away with. Then we get into the real fun: landmark legal battles where artists pushed the boundaries of taste, decency, and legality… and dared the courts to keep up.

From Hustler v. Falwell (yes, that Hustler) to modern controversies like the Afroman case, this episode walks through how satire, parody, and outright provocation have been tested in court. Along the way, we unpack defamation, precedent, and the uncomfortable truth that just because something is protected speech doesn’t mean it won’t cost you.

This one’s less powdered wigs and more legal chaos, but the stakes are just as high. Because when it comes to free speech in America, the question isn’t whether you can say it.

It’s what happens after you do.

(And yes, this is a bit of a format break—but when the law gets this interesting, we’re not skipping it.)

Jean and Pierre Lafitte are usually remembered as pirates.

Which is adorable.

Because what they actually built wasn’t some ragtag band of guys yelling “yo ho” and hoping for treasure. This was a well-run, highly efficient black-market enterprise operating out of the Gulf of Mexico.

They weren’t just stealing things.

They were:

Intercepting ships offshore
Moving goods through hidden bayou routes
Warehousing, sorting, and distributing inventory
Selling back into legitimate markets at scale

That’s not piracy.

That’s logistics.

Capitalism… but with cannons.

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, we break down how U.S. tariffs, embargoes, and limited enforcement basically handed the Lafitte brothers a business model, and how they scaled it into a smuggling operation with hundreds of workers and a footprint all over Louisiana.

And then, because history loves irony, the War of 1812 shows up and both the British and the United States decide they’d really like to hire them.

So Lafitte does what any rational actor would do:

He shops the offer.

We cover the Barataria network, piracy vs privateering, the British recruitment attempt, the U.S. raid on their base, the deal Lafitte cuts to save his operation, and what he actually contributed to the Battle of New Orleans.

And yes, we talk about the “Patriot Pirate” label.

Because calling him a patriot is a little like calling a hedge fund “mission-driven.”

Technically… you can say it.

But it’s doing a lot of work.

Lafitte didn’t have a grand ideological awakening.

He lived in Louisiana, protected his business, and sided with the United States when it became the best available option.

Which is a lot less romantic…

…and a lot more accurate.

“Remember the ladies.”

That was Abigail Adams writing to her husband John in 1776, politely reminding the future president that maybe building a new republic while treating half the population like decorative livestock wasn’t the strongest long-term strategy.

John Adams, naturally, laughed.

And then America spent the next 250 years proving Abigail had a point.

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle is joined by Rae to dig into the women of the American Revolution: the spies, smugglers, writers, organizers, fighters, and absolute lunatics who somehow helped hold the country together while technically possessing fewer legal rights than a wealthy goat.

We cover:

Sybil Ludington’s 40-mile midnight ride through New York
Deborah Sampson disguising herself as a man and fighting in the Continental Army
Nancy Hart holding Loyalist soldiers at gunpoint for days because apparently Georgia produced action movie protagonists in the 1770s
The women running farms, businesses, and supply networks while the men were off revolutionizing
Mary Patton literally making gunpowder from bat guano
The massive web of female spies the British kept accidentally confessing military secrets to because they fundamentally did not believe women were capable of understanding politics

Which, historically speaking, was not their strongest strategic decision.

We also get into Republican motherhood, the legal status of women during the Revolutionary Era, correspondence culture, the mythology around Betsy Ross, and the deeply inconvenient reality that many of the Founding Fathers depended heavily on highly educated, highly capable wives while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge them as political equals.

So yes, the Revolution involved lofty ideals, liberty, and freedom.

It also involved:

women sewing uniforms through the night
smuggling intelligence across enemy lines
supplying militias with ammunition
and occasionally blowing up their own homes before letting the British take their gunpowder

You know. Civic engagement.

Because the American Revolution was never just a bunch of powdered wigs arguing about taxes.

Somebody still had to keep the country running while the men were busy inventing the concept of “we’ll deal with that later.”

And shockingly…

it was the women.

Some Founding Fathers wrote constitutions.

Some fought wars.

Gouverneur Morris somehow found time to do both while conducting romantic diplomacy across two continents with the confidence of a man who had clearly never once considered the phrase “maybe don’t.”

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle and Rae dive into the wildly entertaining life of the man who wrote the preamble to the Constitution, helped design New York City’s grid system, fiercely condemned slavery at the Constitutional Convention…

…and developed a reputation for loving women almost as much as he loved liberty.

This is the story of the peg-legged revolutionary who:

survived a catastrophic carriage accident
became one of the most influential voices at the Constitutional Convention
defended the idea that women were intellectually equal to men centuries before most politicians would dare say it out loud
navigated the chaos of the French Revolution
attempted to help the French monarchy escape execution
carried on scandalously public affairs with aristocratic women across America and Europe
and somehow still earned the respect of nearly everyone around him

Even the people gossiping about him.

We cover Morris’s anti-slavery speeches, the creation of “We the People,” his years in Paris during the French Revolution, the famous jealous-husband rumors, and the genuinely surprising realization that beneath all the scandal and chaos was a man who seems to have sincerely admired intelligent, educated women in an era when most powerful men absolutely did not.

Because the deeper you get into Gouverneur Morris, the harder he becomes to categorize.

He was:

reckless but brilliant
elitist but deeply principled
romantic but intellectually serious
and somehow both a shameless flirt and one of the more forward-thinking voices of the Founding Era

Which honestly feels unfair.

So if you’ve ever wondered what happens when you combine:

Enlightenment philosophy
revolutionary politics
French aristocracy
a peg leg
and the absolute inability to stop falling in love

…this episode is for you.

Every friend group has one.

You've got the charismatic chaos goblin. That's Ben Franklin.

You've got the dramatic overachiever. That's Alexander Hamilton.

You've got the handsome troublemaker. That's Gouverneur Morris.

And then you've got John Jay: the guy standing in the corner holding a stack of paperwork, wondering why nobody can just follow the agreement they already signed.

In this episode of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle and Rae dive into the life of America's first Chief Justice, co-author of The Federalist Papers, diplomat, governor, anti-spy spymaster, treaty negotiator, and professional sufferer of other people's nonsense.

We cover Jay's Huguenot roots, his education at King's College, the bizarre New York–New Jersey border dispute that somehow ended with nobody getting paid, and his role trying to hold the Revolutionary cause together while Congress was busy discovering new and exciting ways to be broke.

Then things get weird.

There's a shipwreck in the Atlantic.

A diplomatic mission to Spain where the Spanish government essentially says, "We're not recognizing your country, but thanks for stopping by."

A hyperinflation crisis.

Secret spy networks.

A mob of angry New Yorkers throwing rocks during the Doctors' Riot.

And enough treaty violations to make a modern lawyer burst into tears.

Along the way, Jay becomes one of the strongest advocates for national unity in early America, arguing that geography, language, culture, and shared interests should bind the states together into a single nation. Which sounds obvious now, but in the 1780s was apparently a controversial position.

We also get into his complicated views on slavery, his role in the Treaty of Paris, the origins of the Supreme Court, the Election of 1800, and the surprising number of times John Jay's answer to a political problem was simply:

"No. That would be against the rules."

It's not flashy.

It's not glamorous.

But considering America survived its first few decades without immediately flying apart, maybe the guy obsessed with procedure deserves a little more credit.

Because while other Founding Fathers were busy chasing glory, writing manifestos, and starting arguments, John Jay was quietly trying to keep the whole experiment from collapsing under the weight of its own paperwork.

Somebody had to.

And apparently that somebody was John Jay.

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Washington part 5 - the myths, the mojo, the smallpox

John Adams Part V - Scandalous Send-off

Thomas Jefferson Part V: A Founding Father Gets Clocked

James Madison Part V: Paul Jennings' Epic Effects

James Monroe Part V: You Have Died of Colonization (The Monrovia Trial)

John Quincy Adams Part V: Journey To The Center of The Earth

Buck Wild Bonus: Rae’s Really Real Emporium of Realness

Buck Wild Bonus: Unfiltered, Unhinged, Unnecessary (But Hilarious)

States’ Rights — America's Original Gaslight

Mexican–American War Part I: Border? Never Heard of Her

Mexican–American War Part II: This Escalated Immediately

We Regret Nothing (Except Some Scores)

Frederick Douglass: Read, Wrote, Won

Two Economies, One Awkward Union | North vs South Economics

The Economy Enters the Find Out Phase | North vs South Economics

The Lost Tapes (What Happens Without Guardrails)

From Hustler to Afroman: FAFO, Legally Speaking

Buck Wild: The Lafitte Brothers - Capitalism… But With Cannons

Buck Wild Bonus: Remembering the Ladies (Finally!)

Gouverneur Morris - The Filthiest Founding Father

: John Jay – America’s OG Deal Maker

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