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Plus a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas Season Two: as the storm draws closer, two displaced souls find themselves in the same Houston bar on the same restless night."},"annotations":[{"startTime":470.8,"endTime":480.2,"type":"concept","title":"World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series and Late Model Series","url":"/glossary/world-of-outlaws-sprint-car-series-and-late-model-series","quote":"Also, another big sponsor this season is World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series and Late Model Series. I'm getting ready to head to Wisconsin here...","canonicalId":"concept:world-of-outlaws-sprint-car-series-and-late-model-series","priority":0.55,"confidence":0.9,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The World of Outlaws is a major U.S. dirt-track racing organization. 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