The John-Henry Westen Show - EXCLUSIVE： Bishop Joseph Strickland - America's Bishop ｜ Part 1

00:00:00.000 The way I would describe what's happened in, you know, the Pope Francis years,

00:00:04.900 rather than looking up, looking the vertical, it's all horizontal.

00:00:10.440 And it's not certainly all horizontal, but that's what's emphasized.

00:00:14.800 Everything's about looking to each other and having conversations

00:00:17.860 and frankly, talking about things that are answered questions.

00:00:23.140 My friends, it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to this next guest

00:00:34.960 because you know him very well.

00:00:36.160 None other than Bishop Joseph Strickland.

00:00:38.440 We were very, very blessed to be in Tyler, Texas with Bishop Strickland.

00:00:42.460 We were there for the final vows of Mother Miriam, which I know you've already seen.

00:00:46.640 And if you haven't, go check out the show with Mother Miriam.

00:00:49.960 And we were down there for her making her final vows,

00:00:52.280 taken by Bishop Strickland.

00:00:54.360 Now, Bishop Strickland, he's like an enigma to people.

00:00:57.800 How can this one bishop seem to get it when almost none of the bishops on the entire planet get it?

00:01:05.040 With a few notable exceptions, Bishop Schneider, etc.

00:01:09.160 Why? How is that even possible?

00:01:11.060 You know what? We were able to find out.

00:01:13.820 I was stunned to learn this from a close friend of his.

00:01:17.620 And I'm just going to read you this.

00:01:19.540 This is from Rich Conin, who was gracious enough to work with us as we were going down to Tyler.

00:01:24.980 This is his explanation right before you get the bishop's own of why Bishop Strickland gets it,

00:01:33.300 whereas nobody else seems to.

00:01:34.480 Listen to this.

00:01:35.000 If you go to our cathedral at 7 a.m. on Friday, you'll find the bishop saying Mass.

00:01:41.800 But if you go at 5.15 a.m. that same morning, you'll find the good bishop on his knees before the Blessed Sacrament.

00:01:48.420 He's there for at least 90 minutes, and all are welcome to join him in the adoration of our Lord.

00:01:54.440 If you go to the chancery at noon, you'll find the bishop celebrating Mass there at its small chapel.

00:01:59.900 And again, before his Mass, you'll find him in adoration for at least an hour.

00:02:05.340 If you want to know who is Bishop Strickland, says Rich Conin, then you have to pursue our Lord,

00:02:10.300 because the good bishop is simply always in prayer.

00:02:15.340 That really answered my question about how can Bishop Strickland get it.

00:02:19.860 But I want you to hear for yourself, from the man himself.

00:02:25.120 Stay tuned for this episode of The John Henry Weston Show.

00:02:27.160 Hey, my friends, now is the time to stand up and fight.

00:02:32.460 We are just about to have the Synod on Synodality,

00:02:35.880 and everything that you've seen indicates that it's going to be an absolute disaster.

00:02:41.820 We have Fr. James Martin as a personal appointee of the Pope speaking at it.

00:02:47.340 We've got Cardinal Cupich, Cardinal Tobin.

00:02:50.640 These picks of the Pope to engage in this synod are indicative of where we're going.

00:02:57.160 We're going into heresy.

00:02:59.860 And at these times of great crisis, the church, especially those called in the laity to work for the glory of Christ and his church,

00:03:10.160 are called to gather and strategize.

00:03:13.420 Back in 2014, LifeSite launched something called Rome Life Forum.

00:03:16.980 It was a gathering at that point of some 75 life and family leaders from all around the world to strategize as to what we could do.

00:03:25.800 And when we gathered, the majority of people were most concerned about what?

00:03:30.140 About Pope Francis, about what was going on in Rome.

00:03:33.440 But this was 2014.

00:03:36.060 But the life and family leaders saw it first.

00:03:40.460 Now, a decade on, we are confronted with some of the most severe challenges the church has ever faced.

00:03:47.800 And so, our tradition at LifeSite is to continue with Rome Life Forum,

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00:03:59.240 Please come, if you feel so called, to Rome.

00:04:02.800 October 31st and November 1st, the very end of the synod on synodality.

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00:04:14.560 and with many life and family leaders from around the world.

00:04:18.420 For LifeSite News, this is John Henry Weston.

00:04:20.820 And may God bless you.

00:04:23.340 Bishop Strickland, welcome to the John Henry Weston Show.

00:04:26.020 Thanks, John Henry.

00:04:27.240 We always begin with the sign of the cross, if you wouldn't mind leading us.

00:04:29.740 And the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

00:04:32.040 Amen.

00:04:33.500 It is a great joy.

00:04:34.600 And it's a great privilege for me to be here with you and to support you

00:04:40.260 and to do whatever we can to help you in this beautiful diocese.

00:04:44.340 We want to learn a little bit about you.

00:04:46.980 How did you get to be a bishop?

00:04:49.720 You are a farm boy from Texas, and here you are a bishop.

00:04:54.820 How did you get there?

00:04:56.640 Well, it's just been an interesting journey.

00:05:00.560 Nothing too dramatic about it.

00:05:02.180 I grew up, as you allude to, on 100 acres outside of a little town, Atlanta, Texas,

00:05:08.420 here in the Diocese of Tyler, which was at that point the Diocese of Dallas.

00:05:13.240 Grew up in the Diocese of Dallas, went to the seminary,

00:05:17.240 a diocesan seminary in Irving, a suburb of Dallas,

00:05:21.640 associated with the University of Dallas, a great Catholic school.

00:05:26.340 I was there for eight years in the seminary, ordained for the Diocese of Dallas.

00:05:31.560 And my first assignment was to Immaculate Conception Church here in Tyler,

00:05:37.340 the only Catholic church in the county at that time.

00:05:40.440 We're in Smith County.

00:05:42.500 A year and a half later, it becomes the Diocese of Tyler.

00:05:46.360 So I became one of the founding priests of the Diocese of Tyler.

00:05:51.140 There were 35 priests when the Diocese began.

00:05:54.900 I was the youngest at that point for a while.

00:05:58.140 And then we, you know, gradually added seminarians and all.

00:06:01.880 How did I get to be a bishop?

00:06:05.120 Honestly, I think what happened with the Diocese being created,

00:06:10.200 then it just created a situation where I worked closely with my three predecessors.

00:06:16.780 Bishop Herzig, the first bishop, didn't live very long, sadly, but I worked with him.

00:06:22.480 He asked me to be vocation director.

00:06:25.200 So I was already getting pulled into not just, I always envisioned, just working in parishes.

00:06:30.820 Because I really didn't know the bishop in Dallas very well as a seminarian.

00:06:35.200 And so I never even dreamt of being a bishop, you know, didn't, you know, not wanted, didn't want.

00:06:41.620 I mean, I just wasn't in my world in the seminary and in early priesthood.

00:06:46.780 But then I remember going to Mount Pleasant, and this was my second assignment.

00:06:52.220 I was here for four years as associate.

00:06:55.520 I was pastor in Mount Pleasant for three years,

00:06:59.060 then went to study canon law at the request of the bishops,

00:07:03.380 and then came back and was made rector of the cathedral where I had been assistant.

00:07:08.960 I've told people I lived in that rectory longer than any other place in my life because I was rector for 16 years.

00:07:17.220 It's very often that men become bishops that work closely with bishops and work in the chancery.

00:07:25.440 And with, like I said, all three bishops, especially Bishop Carmody as rector of the cathedral.

00:07:31.580 I was also with the canon law degree.

00:07:34.080 I was the judicial vicar of the diocese, worked in the tribunal for 15 years.

00:07:39.420 So all of that puts you in the chancery world and, as much as anything, makes you known to the bishop

00:07:47.440 and sort of makes you more of a close associate than a lot of the priests are

00:07:52.060 that may be a great priest out in a parish, but they just aren't in the chancery so much.

00:07:58.600 And then I was chosen by the consulters to be the administrator between Bishop Edmund Carmody and Bishop Alvaro Corrada.

00:08:09.860 That was the year 2000. I was administrator of the diocese.

00:08:13.800 So I think that that really propelled me more toward, you know, one day being a bishop

00:08:21.460 because being an administrator, I was administrator for about a year.

00:08:26.160 And, you know, you're administering the diocese.

00:08:30.740 You don't have the authority of a bishop, but you have limited authority to basically make sure things continue.

00:08:38.140 Even had the delegation to celebrate confirmation for the sake of the faithful.

00:08:43.660 And so I had celebrated a lot of confirmations before I ever became a bishop.

00:08:48.560 And part of my whole routine was to say, you know, it was sort of a teaching moment that I'm not a bishop,

00:08:54.980 so what am I doing confirming?

00:08:56.800 But I had the special delegation of being administrator.

00:09:00.160 And that, you know, just, so that was my routine of celebrating confirmation.

00:09:05.140 And then I had to shift a bit when I actually became the bishop.

00:09:08.260 That was back in November of 2012.

00:09:11.000 So as I tell people, I'm about 100 miles from that 100-acre farm that I grew up on.

00:09:20.880 And it was, it's not like, you know, we lived off the farm.

00:09:25.640 I mean, we grew vegetables and had horses and cows and dogs and cats, you know, just typical country life.

00:09:32.960 But my father actually worked for Motorola Communications most of the time as I was a kid.

00:09:40.020 Two-way radios is what I always heard about.

00:09:43.060 That he would, and interestingly, as I've thought about it, his sales territory was pretty much the Diocese of Tyler.

00:09:50.960 He used to go to Lufkin and the Nacogdoches and Tyler.

00:09:54.280 As kids, we would come to Tyler for the big city vacation.

00:09:58.480 You know, we'd come, my father was still working.

00:10:01.840 Our families, seven kids total, five still living, and six of us grew up together.

00:10:09.740 And we had sort of an older three and a younger three.

00:10:12.680 I was part of the younger three.

00:10:14.600 The older ones said, we ain't going to have, like, vacation anywhere.

00:10:17.640 But we had a couple of days staying in a hotel here in Tyler.

00:10:21.560 And people always ask me, you know, what's it like being a bishop where, you know,

00:10:25.700 I was the kid priest and then I was the rector of the cathedral.

00:10:29.220 I was one of the priests for all those years.

00:10:32.100 And I think it really helped to have been the administrator because I already, you know, 0.99

00:10:38.700 by the grace of God, I didn't get stupid and I didn't, you know, say, oh, I'm a big dog. 0.95

00:10:43.580 I'm the administrator. 0.95

00:10:44.340 And I just served and tried to cooperate with the men and tried to help them deal with things

00:10:49.600 that they needed to deal with, even though we didn't have a bishop.

00:10:53.600 And I think most of the priests appreciated, you know, my kind of low-key approach and just

00:10:59.900 trying to help and not lauded over them or anything, which, you know, to me would have

00:11:04.720 been kind of ridiculous.

00:11:05.660 But it can happen. 0.90

00:11:06.780 You know, it kind of goes to your head to think even temporarily you're administering the

00:11:11.980 diocese.

00:11:12.420 So I had a good rapport with the priests and I have to say I was very humbled all the

00:11:18.660 way through.

00:11:19.220 And I've really felt a deep call in prayer and just as a bishop to really care for the

00:11:27.580 priests, to be there for them, to try to help support them.

00:11:31.760 And in recent years, there are many priests from really around the world.

00:11:36.520 I mean, not hugely around the world, but some men in other countries and a lot of men here

00:11:41.440 just reaching out to me for support, just to answer questions or whatever.

00:11:46.980 And I've been glad to do that because I've really felt a call to support priests and encourage

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00:13:23.300 And now, back to the program.

00:13:24.920 You entered the Church at a very interesting time.

00:13:29.760 November 2012 is right on the cusp of a kind of a revolution in the Church.

00:13:33.960 A lot in the pro-life movement would describe it as a time before that, when there might

00:13:39.460 have been a lot of bishops, maybe even priests, and maybe even bishops, or sometimes a lot

00:13:43.940 of bishops, who didn't agree with what you were doing in the pro-life movement, without

00:13:47.240 thinking, oh, they're too rigid, and, you know, or they're daring to confront the law

00:13:52.480 with rescuing, or with even suggesting, you know, going up front of clinics and suggesting

00:13:58.320 to women, please come, we have something else, a better way for you. 1.00

00:14:01.220 And so you weren't supported, but you were massively supported by John Paul II.

00:14:06.760 You always felt the Pope had your back as a pro-life activist.

00:14:10.440 And you felt the same with Benedict, because you knew while John Paul II was rah-rah with

00:14:14.980 you, Benedict was writing the documents that supported everything you did.

00:14:17.520 So it was beautiful.

00:14:19.540 That changed right after 2013, where that feeling was gone.

00:14:25.200 You've been in that milieu, the new milieu, almost your whole life as a bishop.

00:14:30.300 What is your take on all this?

00:14:32.580 The Church is in a very different time.

00:14:33.920 You grew up in a time under JP II and Benedict, and the Church was one way.

00:14:38.700 It's a very different time right now.

00:14:40.680 I'm a simple guy.

00:14:41.620 I don't claim to be a theologian.

00:14:45.380 I believe profoundly in Christ and His Church.

00:14:51.300 Really, honestly, it's easy for me to get emotional about it, because it is just so profoundly

00:14:59.160 important and beautiful to me.

00:15:02.380 And in that context, I think that the best way I can describe where we are, and, you know,

00:15:10.340 I went in the seminary in 1977, and really, as I look back on the years of St. John Paul

00:15:19.900 the Great, that's what I like to call him, that was, it was sort of rebuilding, making

00:15:26.140 the Church, again, robust in its beauty, in its clear theology, and in, and I guess the

00:15:33.820 way I would frame it, I mean, the cross.

00:15:38.480 John Paul II and then Benedict were really pulling us to the vertical again, to look to

00:15:45.280 the heavens, to look to God.

00:15:47.280 I mean, here we are celebrating the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, you know, look to

00:15:52.140 the heavens.

00:15:53.140 That's why in architecture, churches are built to just drive the eyes up.

00:15:57.700 I mean, the great technologies and everything of today, I mean, a lot of it's used in the

00:16:02.540 internet world.

00:16:03.820 They know how to get people's attention.

00:16:06.760 And, you know, in the ancient church, architecture got people's attention.

00:16:12.320 And it said, look up, look to the heavens and the beautiful ceilings and domes, and just

00:16:18.680 the whole sweep of the architecture was to look up.

00:16:22.120 And I think John Paul, like you said, Benedict and John Paul, in different ways, were saying,

00:16:29.280 look to God, look to the heavens, look to your higher self.

00:16:33.640 And I think the way I would describe what's happened in, you know, the Pope Francis years,

00:16:39.660 and it's certainly not all Pope Francis, but it's a whole milieu, as you say, of rather than

00:16:47.900 looking up, looking the vertical, it's all horizontal.

00:16:52.760 And it's not certainly all horizontal, but that's what's emphasized.

00:16:57.160 Look to each other, be in community, have conversations.

00:17:01.860 But instead of saying, well, the answers are up there, let's look up there.

00:17:06.580 Instead, it's, well, let's just all have conversations.

00:17:10.040 That to me is a very basic change.

00:17:13.780 And honestly, I think that's what has put me where I am, and where I've kind of grown

00:17:21.040 to be as a bishop of, in November, it'll be 11 years, of more or less in conflict with

00:17:29.700 that new worldview, in a sense, of the church, that everything's about looking to each other

00:17:35.520 and having conversations, and frankly, talking about things that are answered questions.

00:17:41.980 We don't need to have a discussion, in my opinion, about things where we have the answer.

00:17:47.320 I mean, going, and if anything, and I hope and pray that, you know, after I'm gone, they'll

00:17:56.340 say Bishop Strickland stood for the sanctity of life and the sanctity of the unborn.

00:18:03.240 To me, that's the preeminent linchpin of all of it.

00:18:07.920 If the life of the most innocent, sacred child in the womb, the potential that a newborn

00:18:16.020 child or a newly conceived child has, it's the potential of God in the world, of all

00:18:23.540 kinds of possibilities.

00:18:25.480 We should treasure that beyond anything and foster that and just celebrate every time a

00:18:33.180 child is conceived.

00:18:34.260 And we're so far from that in our culture, and sadly, even as you allude to, with too

00:18:39.420 many in the church, it's a little bit shaky.

00:18:43.340 We should be absolutely crystal clear that the greatest gift the world has is a newly conceived

00:18:51.260 child.

00:18:52.280 And instead, it's all the negative is just heaped on that reality to the point where, I mean,

00:19:01.080 we have presidents and other world leaders that, I mean, too many people in Congress, too

00:19:07.100 many people in the church that are saying, oh, well, you need to have options.

00:19:10.860 I mean, I just saw another political candidate coming out that, you know, said, oh, well, you

00:19:17.500 know, he supports abortion from up until birth.

00:19:22.220 It's diabolical.

00:19:23.360 It really is. 0.51

00:19:24.620 It is anti-God.

00:19:26.340 It is anti-human.

00:19:28.480 And, you know, people go after me constantly.

00:19:32.940 I'm glad to, I mean, there are a lot of things that I can make mistakes, or I don't know that

00:19:38.300 clearly.

00:19:38.880 But the sanctity of the life of the unborn, there are no questions.

00:19:44.380 Science supports it.

00:19:46.100 Every rational being supports it.

00:19:49.420 We have to always be compassionate toward the people that are deluded.

00:19:54.860 But sadly, too many, even leaders in the church these days, are deluded to think, you know,

00:20:03.020 something less than the sanctity of the life of every child conceived.

00:20:08.960 There are no exceptions.

00:20:10.280 There's no, because, again, going back to this is God's gift, and whatever the, yeah,

00:20:17.040 there's tragic circumstances and unintended circumstances.

00:20:21.100 But when a child is conceived, it always has the potential of transforming the world.

00:20:27.880 I mean, think about the great saints.

00:20:29.900 They were conceived in a womb, just like you and I were, just like every human being.

00:20:35.000 I mean, they're trying to even mess with that now. 0.98

00:20:37.340 But, you know, that's ridiculous.

00:20:38.980 How do we come into the world, a man and woman come together, hopefully, in a loving relationship 0.79

00:20:45.920 of matrimony for life and open to those children? 0.98

00:20:49.660 That's part of the brokenness as well.

00:20:51.720 But a lot of what the pushback I've gotten is that, and again, it's the vertical understanding

00:21:00.440 of that child in the womb is directly from God.

00:21:04.340 The man and woman didn't create it. 0.99

00:21:07.680 They cooperated.

00:21:08.560 That is pro-creation, but it's God who gives life.

00:21:14.600 And that child is a pristine gift from God.

00:21:18.420 Yes, original sin, and we need to get them baptized, but, you know, they've not committed any personal sin

00:21:24.480 when they're conceived in the womb, and they have the potential of being the greatest saints

00:21:30.360 and transforming our world by keeping that vertical connection with God from their conception.

00:21:37.220 So, it's our mission to foster, as I know you and your wife have done the best you can,

00:21:43.500 to foster that connection to God because we're created in His image and likeness.

00:21:48.940 We are of God.

00:21:50.400 And that would be, I guess, that even, you know, certainly the church is affected deeply by it

00:21:57.040 and in some ways corrupted by a world that has turned its back on God.

00:22:03.140 And too many people in the church are sort of giving God a cold shoulder, even claiming to be Catholic,

00:22:10.320 claiming to be committed to the church.

00:22:12.600 But you can't sort of be halfway Catholic.

00:22:15.980 I mean, so, I think that that image of looking too horizontal and just sort of staying in the world,

00:22:27.540 looking to each other and forgetting we came from God.

00:22:30.580 We need to keep looking to God and being lifted to our highest potential by God's grace.

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00:23:21.460 One of the things that often people say with regard to the life issue is that, you know,

00:23:28.780 what about immigration, for instance?

00:23:30.880 It's a big issue.

00:23:32.120 It's an issue coming up in politics right now, and we've been dealing with it for years already.

00:23:37.620 It's a life issue.

00:23:39.380 Every bit as important, maybe more important than abortion, than the right to life in the womb. 0.99

00:23:44.440 There's also people outside the womb.

00:23:47.140 How come you pro-lifers don't care about people outside the womb, and so on and so forth.

00:23:53.140 How does abortion compare to immigration on that kind of, you know,

00:23:57.700 what are Catholics to discern about that relationship?

00:24:00.700 I believe we have to see that all of the evils, and there are tremendous evils.

00:24:06.520 I mean, human trafficking, the border issues, all the transgender, it's just overwhelming. 1.00

00:24:14.000 I think logically and according to the truth that God has revealed to us,

00:24:20.420 it traces back to a lack of respect for human life.

00:24:24.820 If the respect isn't there for the one who has no voice, who has no wealth, who has no power,

00:24:31.020 who has no influence, who has nothing.

00:24:33.440 I mean, even a, you know, very innocent young child, at least they can scream.

00:24:40.860 The child in the womb can't even do that.

00:24:43.600 They, I mean, we're probably familiar with the silent scream.

00:24:47.100 I mean, that's an image that is very telling.

00:24:49.840 So, and that, you know, I know that many in the church and otherwise in the culture,

00:24:56.880 and, you know, the border issues are devastating, but to me it traces back to

00:25:01.840 decisions that are made and the ways people are treated.

00:25:05.620 I mean, so much of it is the drug trafficking that is tied to that,

00:25:10.320 people being used instead of treasured.

00:25:13.780 And so it all ties together, as I see it, logically and spiritually, it all ties back to,

00:25:21.120 it's almost sadly a consequence, I believe, of, you know, being ready to, I mean,

00:25:28.100 we don't need to get too graphic about the reality of what abortion is,

00:25:32.200 but it's literally chopping up human bodies, ripping them apart.

00:25:36.540 And so, and it's interesting, when we see that happening, sadly, sometimes that sort of thing

00:25:43.520 or that kind of violence toward another child or innocent person happens in our world constantly,

00:25:50.540 at the border or in our broken cities or all kinds of ways.

00:25:54.240 And thankfully, people still respond in horror to an image like that.

00:25:59.800 But we've forgotten the horror of it happening in the womb.

00:26:04.320 And that lack of horror there sort of creeps out to,

00:26:09.120 oh, well, we're a little too complacent about some of the other issues.

00:26:13.940 But we can't start with fighting over border issues, in my opinion.

00:26:20.940 We have to start with a new culture that recognizes the sanctity of life.

00:26:26.100 If you recognize that, then super wealthy means super helpful to the people of God

00:26:33.060 instead of building bigger and bigger mansions and having just, you know, obscene things that

00:26:40.140 because you've got the money, you can, you know, have just things that no person could ever need

00:26:46.880 or should ever want if they have any sort of balanced understanding of what life is.

00:26:52.220 That's part of what drives the border is super wealthy people

00:26:56.120 that are taking advantage of people who have nothing, that are closer to being in the womb.

00:27:02.820 The same thing with, I mean, the border issues, but then you get to the euthanasia and older people. 1.00

00:27:10.380 I just read something about, you know, in California, the assisted suicide rate is just going through the roof.

00:27:16.060 Again, a lack of the value of life and a lack of understanding.

00:27:21.340 I mean, people are just saying, well, life's not so good.

00:27:24.280 Quality of life has gone down.

00:27:25.940 So I'm opting out or we're opting you out for you.

00:27:29.280 You know, it just gets so messed up.

00:27:32.080 And to me, we get sanity when we go back to life is from God.

00:27:38.360 Life is sacred.

00:27:39.320 And we have to have that foundation firm.

00:27:43.380 And then, I mean, you as a successful man have to ask yourself, how much do you need?

00:27:49.760 How do I share what I've been blessed?

00:27:52.760 Well, through a lot of hard work, but also through blessings from God.

00:27:56.460 How do we be brothers and sisters to each other instead of, you know, squandering wealth on, you know, unnecessary luxuries that forget that they're people that don't have a home, don't have clothing, don't have food.

00:28:13.880 And that's all woven into the border issues.

00:28:17.100 I mean, it's very complicated and also very simple to me.

00:28:20.820 As you're speaking, I thought, wow, that whole concept makes for a beautiful rejoinder when anybody says you don't care about immigration.

00:28:28.040 Actually, no, I totally care about immigration.

00:28:30.140 If you don't care about the child in the womb, you don't care about immigration because it flows right to that and to every other issue we deal with.

00:28:37.720 That's the first border that people can't cross is the womb. 0.99

00:28:42.480 They can't even be born.

00:28:44.360 They can't get into the world.

00:28:45.900 Yeah.

00:28:50.820 Hi, everyone.

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