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Speaker 1: And with with Katechi podcast.

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Speaker 2: There is a brilliant new show on STAN original series

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Speaker 2: Population eleven and streaming now only on STAN. And I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what when you get an actor of this

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Speaker 2: caliber to come to Australia, Ben Feldman, come to Australia. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you'll hang out in Sydney Harbor, You'll have an amazing

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Speaker 2: time with your family. But then you get sent to

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Speaker 2: the middle of Australia in the outback and he joins us.

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Speaker 1: Now, Benny Filman, welcome, but hello today, thanks for having me. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: it's nice of being in Sydney where there's buildings and.

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Speaker 3: The people, restaurants and running water, staff signs, the people.

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Speaker 4: That hopefully you can understand when they talk.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well here I understood that they understood everybody out

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Speaker 3: out in Northwest.

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Speaker 1: It was quite a culture shock. And where were you?

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Speaker 1: I was winder through that derby so so well.

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Speaker 3: The pro getting there was interesting because they flew from

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Speaker 3: La to here to when I arrived. So I'm in

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Speaker 3: this fancy hotel on the rocks here in Sydney and

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Speaker 3: then went out to this fancy dinner like a boat

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Speaker 3: and then flew to Broom.

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Speaker 1: Which is also nice. Yeah, but for me, Broom is

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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then you get in a car and you drive

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Speaker 3: on some dirt roads for a couple hours and you're in.

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Speaker 5: Oh we there yet day Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And then it was just like I mean, it was

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Speaker 3: It's it's why you get into acting. You get to

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Speaker 3: go to crazy places you can't imagine ever going to.

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Speaker 4: But what I love about this show to think that,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's based on a true story, right, and

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Speaker 4: there's a there's a mystery in a town of only

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Speaker 4: twelve people. Yeah yeah, And to think that that could

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Speaker 4: actually happen, that someone could go missing and nobody knows.

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Speaker 3: Anything to where everybody knows at one point yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: And and then I think that's I mean, that's what's

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Speaker 3: fascinating about it. I think that's why people were really

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Speaker 3: interested in that original the story that was sort of

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Speaker 3: like a jumping off point from us. Yeah, we're not

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Speaker 3: telling that story. We've made up a bunch of characters.

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Speaker 3: There was never an American. We just kind of took

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Speaker 3: it and ran with it and came up with a

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Speaker 3: bunch of crazy, ridiculous people love that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's when you go to those small towns,

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Speaker 4: even as an AUSSI because we were up in Darwin,

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Speaker 4: and Darwin is a big culture shift from Sydney, you know,

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Speaker 4: to walk into those local bars where there's there's always

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Speaker 4: a crocodile on the wall, isn't that we're at.

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Speaker 1: The back.

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Speaker 3: I came here thinking this was everybody just lives with crocodile,

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Speaker 3: just Australians. They're just you just have crocodiles in your backyard.

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Speaker 3: And and so when I got there, the cast and

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Speaker 3: the crew like constantly just like mate, just so you

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Speaker 3: know this is not this is They were like, we're

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Speaker 3: tourists too, They're they're taking They're standing behind me taking

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Speaker 3: pictures of the crocodiles too.

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Speaker 5: Did you learn any new skills new outta Aussie skills out.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't swim in water?

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Speaker 3: Water?

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Speaker 1: Surely there was a trick at the bar or at

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Speaker 3: The whole Like the water thing was such a crazy

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Speaker 3: thing because like the vibe out there, and I think

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Speaker 3: this is sort of universal in Australia is is essentially

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Speaker 3: like don't don't worry, You're probably not going to die,

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Speaker 3: Like it's just you're probably not going to do like

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Speaker 3: but aren't there crocodiles And like, yeah, they're freshies. Yeah

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Speaker 3: they're not salties. And just go where there's no crocodiles

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Speaker 3: to swim there.

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Speaker 4: I know what you mind. We get a bit relaxed

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Speaker 4: about it. The chances are you want to.

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Speaker 3: Die, Yeah, that's the Australian motto is most likely you'll live.

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Speaker 4: Can we talk about Adam Sandler because I know I've

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Speaker 4: done some work with him and said, see that he

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Speaker 4: was your first boss.

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Speaker 1: This was my first real life boss. Yeah, how did

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Speaker 1: that work? What was that I did?

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Speaker 3: I did a show called The Mayor, Yeah, and it

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Speaker 3: was about an eighteen year old kid who was the

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Speaker 3: mayor of his own town. And it was on a

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Speaker 3: network that doesn't exist anymore. And Adam the company was

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Speaker 3: called Happy Madison. It's Adam's company. And so yeah, like

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Speaker 3: my first I went to LA and went to the

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Speaker 3: office and there was like a bulldog chewing on a

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Speaker 3: like it was like visiting a frat house, but it was.

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Speaker 1: It was Happy medisone.

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Speaker 3: Offices and it was cool that the show was like that.

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Speaker 3: My parents were these big Broadway legends. My girlfriend on

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Speaker 3: the show was Lizzie Kaplan and my sister who just

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Speaker 3: had like a couple of lines here, and there was

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Speaker 3: Anna Kendrick.

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Speaker 1: It wow, yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy.

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Speaker 2: We've heard a whisper as well that you can throw

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Speaker 2: a good party yourself. Benny, can you tell us about

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Speaker 2: your Valentine's Die party research?

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Speaker 1: What was what was going on? We used to it.

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Speaker 1: I don't I can't tell you most of the things

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Speaker 1: that was going on there.

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Speaker 3: We used to have a party. There's two iterations of it.

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Speaker 3: There was one when we were in our twenties and

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Speaker 3: it was just like hundreds of people and like dirty

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Speaker 3: stuff happening in the laundry room, and we would hire

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Speaker 3: like there'd be like a magician and a fortune teller

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Speaker 3: and then like all these weird like like balloons with

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Speaker 3: like Karma Sutra.

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Speaker 4: Physicians like yeah someone aura go yea yea yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well there was by the way, would not be would

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Speaker 1: not be out of place.

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Speaker 3: So when we grew up and we had kids and

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Speaker 3: it was and we're adults now, we had a we

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Speaker 3: had a version of it a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: right before COVID, and we still had like bondage performers

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Speaker 3: like these women that like tied ropes around each other

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Speaker 3: and then ate fire. Yeah, because nobody has a Valentine's

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Speaker 3: everybody at that time of the year. You've already done

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Speaker 3: all the parties and there's nothing going on.

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Speaker 4: It was a shure that was getting around. I think

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Speaker 4: Kelly o'sbom was involved, and you would go along where

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Speaker 4: maybe we were at the Roosevelt one time fits and the.

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Speaker 1: Show Cat's Place kids place. Yeah, what was that called?

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Speaker 1: I know, Yeah, it was big. And then there's one

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Speaker 1: I think in Vegas as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was kind of like sign off here

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Speaker 4: that you won't take any photos, you're not allowed to

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Speaker 4: tell anybody what goes.

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Speaker 1: There was a place like.

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Speaker 3: The Box in New York City, and I think there's

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Speaker 3: one in the Box is like, uh, this cabaret type thing,

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Speaker 3: but they're doing extremely disgusting offensive, like crazy, crazy, crazy

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Speaker 3: stuff that I also probably can't talk about it.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, I've got the Box coming to your next Valentine's.

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Speaker 1: Day where we do The Box with my in laws.

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Speaker 3: My wife at the time invited them and there's like

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Speaker 3: people walking around with like in mirror trays in this club.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was crazy.

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Speaker 5: You don't even know it too.

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Speaker 1: See it makes it a lot easier now.

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Speaker 5: Okay, before we all got can get canceled, I need

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Speaker 5: to ask you quickly about somebody else you did work

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Speaker 5: with years ago.

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Speaker 1: Is Hillary Duff.

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Speaker 5: And of course we saw you as the heart throb

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Speaker 5: opposite her. Lizzie here standing in the studio was a

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Speaker 5: very big fan, not only of you but of Hillary.

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Speaker 1: But are you are you still in touch with Hillary?

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Speaker 1: For the people who.

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Speaker 5: Grew up staring into your eyes as Hillary did.

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Speaker 3: It was funny is people are finding because we live

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Speaker 3: in a world now where you can you can discover

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Speaker 3: something that existed four thousand years ago, like that movie,

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Speaker 3: and someone someone like your age will come up to

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Speaker 3: me and be like I love like they probably just

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Speaker 3: saw it. And to see the look in their face

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Speaker 3: when I'm like, yeah, Hillary and our kids go to

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Speaker 3: the same school, like we're on like ptas and stuff

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Speaker 3: like we're we're we have like I see her at

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Speaker 3: drop off or pick up, like.

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Speaker 1: When the kids are getting on knees.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, to think all these years later, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Tell Benny, congratulations on your career made and and it's

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Speaker 2: great that you've got to experience, you know, most of

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Speaker 2: Australia already. You're here in Sydney but also up Northwest

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Speaker 2: as well. And the standing original series population eleven. It's

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Speaker 2: streaming right now only on stand. We appreciate you, We

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Speaker 2: know how busy your your time is. So thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for coming into the studio this morning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for having me. I'll come back anytime.

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Speaker 1: I love it here your party, yeahs Vale.

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