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Speaker 1: If it's in with that.

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Speaker 2: Todd Sampson, Well, we know every series of body Hack

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Speaker 2: that he does, his wife tells him at the end

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Speaker 2: of it, please honey for the family.

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Speaker 1: That's no more. But he's already planning his next one.

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Speaker 1: It's great to.

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Speaker 2: See he's back again with another series.

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Speaker 1: On Channel ten.

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Speaker 3: Hello, I love everyone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean my wife doesn't say that. She actually

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Speaker 4: she has two words. She always says the same thing.

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Speaker 4: Life insurance.

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Speaker 5: Can you get life insurance?

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Speaker 2: Though?

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Speaker 5: When you do this kind of thing for living, don't

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Speaker 5: they limit you?

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Speaker 4: No, I can get the life insurance. There was a

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Speaker 4: I think I told you the story a while back

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Speaker 4: where I tried to get Barry Grills's life insurance and

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Speaker 4: they looked at they looked at the content on my

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Speaker 4: show and they said, no, beeping.

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Speaker 1: Way, Wow, Toddy.

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Speaker 6: The thing is, I mean, I know it channel ten

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Speaker 6: because there has been some redundancies there. I think they

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Speaker 6: actually said, well, if Todd goes missing, Todd goes missing.

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Speaker 1: That's OK. That'll that'll just be another number there.

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Speaker 3: That's awful.

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Speaker 1: Toddy, tell me about.

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Speaker 6: The research that went into the new series, Because every

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Speaker 6: time you do one of these, it steps up again

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Speaker 6: and you've got to go out and find and your

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Speaker 6: team has to find the stories that you cover here.

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Speaker 1: So tell me what you go through here.

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Speaker 4: Well, first, I carry around a list of on my phone,

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Speaker 4: a list of cultures, societies, groups of people that I'm

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Speaker 4: interested in. So there's probably forty different groups yep. That

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Speaker 4: So the first thing is I need to be genuinely interested.

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Speaker 4: Then the second filter is do they have something that

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Speaker 4: they offer that people can learn from that an audience

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Speaker 4: can learn from young, old, male, female, you know, cross sections.

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Speaker 4: So that's the second filter, and then then you start

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Speaker 4: whittling it down and then you start seeing if you

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Speaker 4: can get access, you can get local fixers on the

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Speaker 4: ground that are really good, and then that's how that

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Speaker 4: process unfolds. So it's it's complicated. But in this case,

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Speaker 4: for example, with Vudoo, we saw a documentary. We saw

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Speaker 4: a documentary on Voodoo that was on Netflix. So then

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Speaker 4: we immediately and looked at their fixer, because the on

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Speaker 4: the ground fixer makes a breaks feature filmmaking sure make

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Speaker 4: or Break documentary Breaking And we found the fixer who

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Speaker 4: was a bold and priestess and she turned out to

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Speaker 4: be a major character in our film.

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Speaker 3: And that opened the door.

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Speaker 2: Can you just explain to people the fixer? Now, the

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Speaker 2: only reason I know about this job now I'm watching

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Speaker 2: on SBS this is zero zero zero, which is to

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Speaker 2: do with the Mexican and Italian drug cartels and stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. There's always a fixer, serah. So there's someone

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Speaker 2: who just knows they've got a network of everybody Toddy,

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Speaker 2: is that correct? And they know that's to fix anything

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Speaker 2: that you need, anything that.

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Speaker 4: We need, and most importantly, they get access. And in

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Speaker 4: each country there are well known fixers. When we were

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Speaker 4: in Ethiopia filming the Tribes in Ethiopia, the fixture we

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Speaker 4: used was the same fixer who did Anthony Bourdain.

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Speaker 3: He did, he does everyone.

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Speaker 4: It's like he's like the mafia fixers and they have

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Speaker 4: the ability.

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Speaker 3: To get into.

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Speaker 1: Toddy breaking up. They're bigger.

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Speaker 5: I mean he's frozen on a lovely picture.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, got your back.

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Speaker 2: Sorry she was actually yeah, keep going, tom No.

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Speaker 1: We've lost Todd there. But we might just do our

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Speaker 1: traffic and we'll come. We'll read.

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Speaker 3: You just right. I'm gonna go to it. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: go to a different room.

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Speaker 1: Kay, Yeah, interview, I don't actually just on the feet.

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Speaker 4: I mean I could go, I could go outside, crazy

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Speaker 2: Who would be Australia's fixed there, Christopher Pine or who

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Speaker 2: would you go through for Australia's fixer?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. Who would be a really good

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Speaker 3: fixer in Australia. There'd be a lot of them, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But because there who did we use that film

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Speaker 3: I don't know who. I can't remember who we use.

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Speaker 4: It's different here because you can call people and you

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Speaker 4: can make connections in contacts. But in Africa, or in

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Speaker 4: West Africa or in Gaza, you eat your fixer.

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Speaker 3: Your fixer can keep you alive and they can keep

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Speaker 5: Is it like undercover? Is that what you're saying, it's

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Speaker 5: like an undercover job? Or does everyone know who a

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Speaker 3: They're often well known.

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Speaker 4: For example, in the fourth episode of this series, which

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Speaker 4: is not going to air, that fourth episode was filmed

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Speaker 4: in Rio, and it happened when COVID broke So we

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Speaker 4: were in the we were in the slums of Rio

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Speaker 4: and I was about to do somba, which is what

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Speaker 4: And our fixer while we were there, he said, we

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Speaker 4: at the time I was with an axe murderer. He

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Speaker 4: an axe around to enforce and I was interviewing this

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Speaker 4: guy had decided that we were too dangerous as a

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Speaker 4: pulled us aside, and the fixer said, if you disobey

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Speaker 4: and you go back in the favelas, you may never

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Speaker 1: Wow, get out of there now. So we went. Time

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Speaker 1: to go, letting go.

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Speaker 7: If you were hear the next and you die from

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Speaker 7: cohe tony what I love about show, and we were

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Speaker 6: It's that moment where the science versus the actual practical

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Speaker 6: was the moment where you built the wrecking ball. Now,

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Speaker 6: the numbers said that the wrecking ball, if swung like this,

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Speaker 6: got any moments like that?

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Speaker 4: Oh, there's so many of those moments, as you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean remember the AK forty seven. That one was

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Speaker 4: really scary. So I'm in the swimming pool and these

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Speaker 3: Contraption for it, and they're trying to film.

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Speaker 4: It underwater, so they're firing it and on camera they

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Speaker 4: pulled me aside and say, look, we have a problem.

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Speaker 4: Have a look at this, and they show the bullet

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Speaker 4: is traveling through the water.

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Speaker 1: But it's going up.

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Speaker 4: It's going up, And so their fear was the bullet,

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Speaker 4: if shot could potentially come out of the water and

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Speaker 4: hit me in the face. Ah geez. So then you

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Speaker 4: so I'm going, okay, Well that's the downside.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely a negative.

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Speaker 4: So in the end, I just I go with the

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Speaker 4: laws of physics, which say Yeaton should stop this bullet

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Speaker 3: I stood just on three meters just earlier than three

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Speaker 4: He's got a string attached to the thing. I'm standing there.

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Speaker 4: You know, my head just you know, my head is

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Speaker 4: like above water, but everything else is underwater. The AK

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Speaker 4: forty seven is underwater. And the guy pulls back and

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Speaker 4: he says, are you ready? And I looked at him,

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Speaker 4: and I remember thinking, oh God.

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Speaker 3: And I looked I looked up as if I was

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Speaker 3: as a non religious person. I don't know who I

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Speaker 4: But and I said, I'm ready, and he pulled the trigger,

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Speaker 4: and because of the shock wave of the bullet, my

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Speaker 4: body jolt jolted, right, I jolted like this, And the

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Speaker 4: people watching thought I had been hit, They thought because

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Speaker 4: they couldn't see underwater.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I hadn't been.

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Speaker 1: And how large did the bullet stop to your body?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Get your son to watch it.

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Speaker 4: If you google life on the line, it's pretty close.

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Speaker 4: It's less than a meter before.

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Speaker 3: It went down.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, you gotta trust your curR. They tell you don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to piss anyone off.

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Speaker 3: Calculation Tony.

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Speaker 2: We love you to death, mate, Todd Sampson's Body Hacker

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Speaker 2: premiere is seven thirty tonight on Channel ten. And really,

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Speaker 2: we were really disappointed last night. We thought you were

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Speaker 2: the Bushranger on Mask Singer, but it was so.

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Speaker 3: You know, I wish they would stop running.

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Speaker 4: I wish they would stop putting those ads at the

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Speaker 4: bottom of bottom right corner, like my name was up

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Speaker 4: there the whole time.

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Speaker 3: It was annoying.

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Speaker 7: My kids.

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Speaker 4: They're like that, I am not watching that show because

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Speaker 4: you are irritating out.

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Speaker 1: Of seven thirty to night on Channel ten. Body Hack.

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Speaker 2: Love you, Toddy, Thanks for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having mes