2MC Podcast Eps 88 - All Together Now

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MAK
Hey, everybody, I'm MAK

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Courtney
And I'm Courtney. Welcome 2MC.

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MAK
Today we are talking about the joint meeting.

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Courtney
We are right.

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MAK
We usually talk about a lot of things Martin County.

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Courtney
But this time we're talking about the joint meeting because it involves the City of Stuart, Village of Indiantown and the Martin County School Board District. Martin County School District.

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MAK
In Martin County.

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Courtney
And Martin. Yeah.

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MAK
I'm like, I feel like there's some that thing missing.

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Courtney
Us too. Yes, yes.

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MAK
All that. So we've got a lot of updates. We should get after it.

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Courtney
Get to it?

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MAK
Yeah. So here. My knee crack.

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Courtney
I did okay.

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MAK
That was weird.

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Courtney
Moving on. So, in Port Salerno, they're doing a research project by Bayview and Park Drive. The construction is going to take place starting in November.

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MAK
And there's a multimodal pathway. I've been very excited. You might be.

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Courtney
Past this already.

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MAK
Yeah. It's on Dixie highway and,

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Courtney
Kind of on Monterey, like over.

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MAK
Yeah. From like the airport up.

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Courtney
Yeah.

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MAK
Through Monterey. Right. And so they took out this tiny little sidewalk doing a multimodal pathway, which is something I believe I learned from you.

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Courtney
Yes. In the multimodal pathways are to be utilized by bikers, walkers.

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MAK
Roller skaters.

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Courtney
Roller skaters, people pushing strollers.

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MAK
Okay. Right. Yeah.

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Courtney
Multimodal.

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MAK
Yeah. Any type of wheels or feet.

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Courtney
Are allowed on this path.

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MAK
Anyway, that's a cool project. It was an MPO, project. So it was a long range, planning project that we are now seeing take place.

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Courtney
Yes. And construction is about 20% complete. Good. There also is a new signal going in at southwest Kanner Highway and southwest Waterside Way.

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MAK
Do they call that signalized?

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Courtney
They do. Okay. And that is a 90% complete. So I'll keep your eyes ready for a new signal there.

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MAK
Yeah. We've talked briefly about this, but the county line bridge replacement project. Construction set to start mid-October, and that's going to be a detour.

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Courtney
It'll be a long country club lane.

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MAK
It sounds so enjoyable. I know right. Right. Just take the detour down country club lane.

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Courtney
Yes. That's going to be a full bridge replacement. And, an updated pedestrian walkway.

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MAK
Nice.

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Courtney
Yeah. Kanner Highway. Another thing for Kanner and Locke's Road. They're adding an additional left turn lane to improve congestion. And that's at 60% design. So it's still in the design phase. They haven't started construction yet. Onto the next one is Dixie Highway and Cross Strip Street. They're adding. So they they I believe there's a traffic signal there now, but they're doing some.

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MAK
Additional rail safety. Right? Yes. And that is down in my.

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Courtney
In the home.

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MAK
In my area. Yes. And that's.

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Courtney
Just that the design right now. So that's 90% complete in design. Then it'll move into construction and all of that stuff.

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MAK
Yeah. Also they did an update on right on our Environmental Lands Oversight Committee. Almost 3200 acres conserved so far.

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Courtney
Yeah. And that's through different ways. Land acquired or conservation easements. So that's really awesome.

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MAK
It's so exciting to see that just continuing to move forward every every month.

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Courtney
It is. Yeah. And then we also have towards our CERP IRL South estuary restoration project.

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MAK
Say it again.

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Courtney
Right. I know it's a lot of, a lot of things there. Yes. But, we had a dredge spoil site donated to the county for environmental purposes such as storage, grading, management of muck soils and sediments.

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MAK

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Courtney
Like I said, that's so flowy. That was so good.

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MAK
You did. You've been practicing that I think.

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Courtney
So that's a really nice. It's a 125 acres. They'll be donated for the county to use for that.

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MAK
So that's out in Western. Right. The stuff about western Martin County. It is. Okay.

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
Cool. Oh. Seagrass restoration. We just had John male and here. Right. And we talked about a lot of projects, but we didn't make it to the seagrass stuff. We did not. So, in the Indian River lagoon, 100 acres of planned restoration. And that's funded through, DEP grants. Yes. Yeah.

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Courtney
And then we moved into the growth and development transfer report from Martin County.

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MAK
I think this is cool. This comes out of our growth management department every quarter, I guess.

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Courtney
And this just is like a summary of development activity in unincorporated Martin County.

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MAK
Right. Well, they do include some for, City of Stuart, Sewell's Point, village of Indian Town. But it breaks out, breaks out all the different areas. Right. Also, and I think we've talked about this before that I the project maps, I think on MPO, it takes all of the all of those projects, not just the county related ones, but takes them for all of those municipalities.

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MAK
And it's all on one map.

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Courtney
That's awesome.

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MAK
Yeah. So we'll drop that. Yeah. Drop that link down there.

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Courtney
And so it shows the growth chart for Martin County in Florida from 1998 to 2025.

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MAK
I think that's kind of cool.

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Courtney
Is a .87 percent.

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MAK
For 20 2020.

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Courtney
Four and 2025. Wow. Florida overall experienced a 1.58%.

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MAK
Yeah.

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Courtney
So when I did those calculations in my head.

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MAK
Yeah.

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MAK
I if you watched last podcast, she also did those calculations. Not.

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Courtney
Yes. And then.

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MAK
Yeah, it also gives a residential and nonresidential approvals in, in Martin County. They talked about the January through August 2026. The residential units and the nonresidential and I think residential. They do units and then nonresidential like commercial stuff. Square feet. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah, I think so.

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Courtney
And then,

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MAK
That's it for that.

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Courtney
That's it for that. Then we moved into City of Stuart and their utilities and engineering department kind of went over a couple of projects. They have their annual pavement maintenance program.

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MAK
Okay. Are they in zone three?

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
Okay.

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Courtney
That's they are in zone three.

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MAK
That's I knew that.

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Courtney
So it's currently under construction and that is going to be completed October 2026. So coming soon. Yeah. We finished and then, they're in downtown Stuart. The docks? Yes.

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MAK
Right.

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Courtney
Downtown area. So those are getting demolished.

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MAK
I didn't know that.

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
It's that's it's a demolished. Tons of.

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Courtney
Useful out.

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MAK
Of here information from the meeting. But don't worry.

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Courtney
Because they are creating new docks. It'll have 44 boat slips, which is 26 more than was there prior.

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MAK
Wow. That's. That's a big project.

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Courtney
Yeah. It's currently under construction and will be completed in March of 2027.

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MAK
We should take your boat and and use the new docks.

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Courtney
We all have to build a raft first.

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MAK
Okay.

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Courtney
So. But we could do that. Okay. And then, they're also they also have a project on their lift station. Rehabilitation project?

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MAK
Okay. We're very exciting stuff. Yes. Also had presentation from Village of Indian Town. Right. They were doing some drainage projects and neighborhood revitalization.

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Courtney
Yes. They just finished one for Seminole Drive. And, they also have a water project that they're working on which is taking an eight inch water main pipe.

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MAK

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Courtney
And replacing that to a 16 inch.

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MAK
So it conveys a lot more water and at a higher rate of.

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Courtney
Yes.

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MAK
Transfer speed.

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Courtney
Something beautifully put.

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MAK
It's a good thing I'm not in utilities.

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Courtney
And that's going to be from Booker Park to Fernwood Forest.

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MAK
Nice.

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Courtney
Yeah.

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MAK
In their communities. Also. We had quite a bit of discussion about this. The Florida and aquifer wells.

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Courtney
Not to get confused with Floridian.

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MAK
Right. Because that's not a thing.

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Courtney
It's not.

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MAK
A thing. No. The Florida and aquifer wells and that's well the aquifer is how we get our water right. So in Indian Town they drilled four wells. Right. Yeah. And they're providing,

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Courtney
That'll be the water source for their new reverse osmosis water treatment plant. That's cool. Which is currently under construction.

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MAK
Reverse osmosis backwards.

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Courtney
They also, in line with this project have a are constructing a deep injection. Well.

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MAK
That's coming up soon. Right. Yeah. We finished.

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Courtney
Yeah. We finished in December of 2026.

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MAK
Okay. Happy holidays.

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Courtney
Happy holidays. You got a deep injection.

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MAK
Well and they have a new wastewater treatment plant right. Yes. Under construction. Yeah. Okay.

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Courtney
They got all the things going on.

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MAK
Well.

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Courtney
They also.

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MAK
Oh, yeah. They had development activity, comprehensive plan amendments and annexation reports, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.

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Courtney
And then the school board.

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MAK
They always do such cool stuff, I think. I, I just love hearing their reports about, I don't know, children and families in our community, so that's important. Yeah.

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Courtney
Yeah. Their a rating, so.

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MAK
That's good. Again. Super good.

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Courtney
Yay!

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MAK
School district. And I thought this was, this was a good, I don't know, reminder or just, good facts to know because I didn't realize how many schools we had in the system was 12 elementary schools, five middle nine special centers for charter schools, and two district offices. It's a lot of facilities, right?

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Courtney
Yeah, that is a lot.

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MAK
12 elementary schools.

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Courtney
Yeah, that's pretty crazy. Yeah.

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MAK
Yeah. Anyway, thought that was cool.

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Courtney
And then they gave us an update on the Murray Middle School. Replacement of the buildings, gym site renovation.

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MAK
Yeah. And I think that started or when I first started thinking about it was during the the tornados right from the hurricane. So, anyway. They're well underway with that.

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Courtney
Perfect.

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MAK
Then they talked about the littles, right? The peak? Yes. Pre-K programs? Yes.

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Courtney
And it looks like they had a 7.4 increase.

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MAK
In their in the number of students they served. Yeah. Which is amazing. Yeah. It is. I, I just I love, you know, they're so fact based and they talk about the outcomes, the impact and then what their next steps are going to be. So for the pre-K program specifically they had 540 students, 32 classes of them. 76% kindergarten.

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MAK
Ready. Wow. Yeah.

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Courtney
Nice for the littles. I love that.

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MAK
Me too.

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Courtney
And it looks like they had just kind of like, what their focus is, are going to be for the new school year, which is accelerating the students that need additional support. Strengthening the grade level learning for every child and enrich students. Ready for more?

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MAK
I love it. Yeah I love it.

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Courtney
So pretty good meeting.

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MAK
Yeah, I feel like it was. So if you missed the whole meeting, we got the update for you right here.

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Courtney
Yeah. Or you can tune in and watch it all on MC, TV or wherever you YouTube. Where else?

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MAK
Yeah. All those places.

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Courtney
All the places. And, Yeah, we'll see you guys next time, right? Don't forget to like, follow, subscribe, comment, share.

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MAK
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Courtney
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MAK
I'm sorry. Do that. Is that what happens when you click the button?

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Courtney
That's what I think happens in my head. But. Okay. And, Yeah. We'll see you guys next time.

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MAK
Yeah. Thanks for listening or watching or however you get your podcast, but we appreciate you. Bye bye.