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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: That'd be my Yards travel correspondens with a snack.

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Speaker 3: Go to Mike, Good morning, Jack.

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Speaker 4: Greetings from cap'in show week in christ it's been very yeah,

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Speaker 4: very much fizzing in the city.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it hasn't been because I mean you you've here.

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Speaker 2: I say, you've probably done a few of these over

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Speaker 2: the years. I would have thought, makee.

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Speaker 4: I have. Indeed, I did go to the Royal A

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Speaker 4: m P show on Thursday. It was really good, even

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Speaker 4: though the weather was shite on Thursday. The show it's yeah,

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Speaker 4: but it's been good for the last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the show's fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Racing racing, Jack, I think that's you'd be into that,

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Speaker 4: wouldn't you?

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Speaker 2: Am My racing? You know what I actually love most

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Speaker 2: about going to the AMP show. I love a bit

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Speaker 2: of wood chopping, and yes you do, well, you just

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Speaker 2: I don't really engage with wood shopping when i'm I

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Speaker 2: don't you know they have wood chopping on TV. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: I don't ever watch the wood chopping on TV. But

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Speaker 2: just going to the show, it's just I don't know

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Speaker 2: what it is. There's something about for those of us

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Speaker 2: with pretty soft hands you have. You know, its been

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Speaker 2: a bit too long plunked on office years. You know,

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Speaker 2: it does broughd your horizons a little bit. I realized

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Speaker 2: what this country.

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Speaker 3: Was built on, you know what I mean, that's true.

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Speaker 4: I was watching two burly women do the wood chopping.

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Speaker 4: They were doing it like as pears. Yeah, and oh

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Speaker 4: my god, I just felt exhausted for that.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's crazy. My favorite one when they do it

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Speaker 2: and then they put the plank in the side and

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Speaker 2: then they climb up a little bit, you know. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: you know I can barely change the light bulb when

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Speaker 2: here you are. Anyway, Hey, this morning, we're focusing on Doha,

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Speaker 2: which is a bit of a sort of a spot

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Speaker 2: of increasing popularity when it comes to a stopover for

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Speaker 2: forty eight hours or so. And what, in your view

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Speaker 2: would be the quintessential Dohart experience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of things to do, but I

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Speaker 4: reckon blending old world Doha with the new and shiny

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Speaker 4: as we had to start, and the best way to

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Speaker 4: do that is to jump on board a traditional boat,

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Speaker 4: a dow on Doha Bay, take a sunset float. You

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Speaker 4: look at those futuristic skyscrapers of West Bay lighting up,

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Speaker 4: and then you think about the boat you're on and

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Speaker 4: how over the decades it was the pearl divers who

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Speaker 4: used those dows powering the Qatari economy until Japan pioneered

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Speaker 4: cultured pearls and bug it up the whole natural pearl industry.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, those dow boats, they are just gorgeous. They're

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Speaker 4: little wooden cuties and as you take away leisurely float

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Speaker 4: aboard one of those, it just provides a really tangible

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Speaker 4: link with Kuttars past. And then just watching that sun

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Speaker 4: setting over the desert and all those high rises spangled

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Speaker 4: in the nighttime lights, that really is quite something.

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Speaker 3: In Doha.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an area stack with history and it's a

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Speaker 2: city stacked with museums. So where would you go first?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you have time only for one, I would

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Speaker 4: say the New Useum of Islamic Art.

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Speaker 3: It's a cracker.

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Speaker 4: I mean architecturally, it's like this chiseled jewel floating on

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Speaker 3: But inside the museum it just gives you such.

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Speaker 4: A great walk through the artistic brilliance of the Islamic world.

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Speaker 4: You know, calligraphy, Islamic geometric patterns, jewelry, textiles, it's all

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Speaker 4: on show. One of the big star features is the

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Speaker 4: necklace that once belonged to Shah Jahn of taj Mahal fame,

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Speaker 4: studded with these huge diamonds and emeralds. Thankfully, Jack, the

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Speaker 4: British did not get their hands on that one.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if you go just north of the city, lou

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Speaker 2: Sale is drawing travelers to Lousail.

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Speaker 4: Well, of course it would be a name very familiar

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Speaker 4: to you, as in Leonel Messi because that's where he

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Speaker 4: raised the trophy at the FIFA World Cup. The Lusale

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Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago. The place is exploding. It's Cuta's

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Speaker 4: edgy starchitecture. One of their latest skyscrapers is Gatara Towers.

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Speaker 4: It's the most magnificent, far fetched crescent shaped scraper. It

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Speaker 4: just looks implausible, you know, the way that it's been designed.

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Speaker 4: And also it's home to the Lusaale International Circuit, which

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Speaker 4: will stage the cutter F one Grand Prix in a

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Speaker 4: can get some track time yourself. They've got these souped

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Speaker 4: up kats and they are really soup dub so you

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Speaker 4: can channel your in Orlando or Liam and rip around

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Speaker 4: the F one track. They've actually got a dedicated kids

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Speaker 3: You know, if you're traveling with families.

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Speaker 2: And what are the kids racing, do you, I ask?

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Speaker 4: Are yeah, go karts, not as soup duck, yes, not

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Speaker 4: as super du as the adult ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right yeah, so for a different form of racing entirely,

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, camel racing season has just started jack,

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Speaker 4: so every Friday between now and the end of February.

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Speaker 4: This is wildly popular in Doha, highly competitive. The camels

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Speaker 4: are prized and pampered. Originally I found this mind blowing.

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Speaker 4: Originally kids were used as jockeys for the camels. That

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Speaker 4: was deemed a little bit maybe not so the last Yeah, exactly, Jack.

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Speaker 4: So over the last decade or so they've been using robots.

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Speaker 4: So you've got these little robots mounted on top of

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Speaker 4: the camels and they're controlled remotely by the camel herders

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Speaker 4: alongside the drink. But I thought, you know, in terms

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Speaker 4: of old and new Doha, that really sort of says

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Speaker 4: it all. And another great way to sample some camel

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Speaker 4: in old town Doha. I've got camel rides there around

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Speaker 4: the clock and also Arabian horses which are just the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, are there you go from the camels if

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Speaker 2: you go down to the souk. Yeah, to speak of

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Speaker 2: the other wildlife attraction. Are there falcons in the suit?

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Speaker 3: Yes? There are. I was actually a bit taken aback.

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Speaker 4: I was wandering through Hammad International Airport, got off the

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Speaker 4: lovely old men carrying their sick falcon through the airport

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Speaker 4: and that'd flown in from Kwait and I was having

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Speaker 4: a chat to them and they said, we're off to

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Speaker 3: At the SOUK.

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Speaker 4: Apparently that hospital is considered the world's best for falcons.

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Speaker 4: Alongside medical care for your falcon, you can buy falcons

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Speaker 4: at the Souk and also the accessories. It's like the

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Speaker 3: For your falcon.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't have falcon chopping on my agenda, Jack,

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Speaker 4: But the SOUK if it is the most magnificent atmospheric

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Speaker 4: leisurely explore through those winding alleys. There are spice stalls,

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Speaker 4: there are perfumeriies, handcrafted goods, great dining and superblo glarts.

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Speaker 2: So what is it? Do you know that when I

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Speaker 2: think of falcons and falconry, I always think of those

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Speaker 2: little hoods they wear. Yes, what would a falconry hood cost?

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Speaker 2: Any idea? As you said to me, was dollars? I

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Speaker 2: would say, yep, okay for it. If you said to

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Speaker 2: absolutely no kind of scope or scale for the falconry

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Speaker 4: I would imagine it would depend on how wide your

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Speaker 4: budget spends, because I did notice you can get Gucci hunts.

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Speaker 2: Of course you can, wow, and I suppose you have to.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if they like tailor them, you know, to

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Speaker 2: sized heads. I just it's one of those past times

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Speaker 2: where clearly the people who are partaking have a lot

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Speaker 2: of money, right, and so I'm sure we're not the

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Speaker 2: there are all sorts of accessories and products that are

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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously it's got a massive expet population because

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Speaker 4: of Doha, which is just extraordinary, isn't it. But if

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Speaker 4: you do want to tuck into the national dish in Kata.

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Speaker 3: It is mac boos.

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Speaker 4: So mark boost is like this mesh up of rice

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Speaker 4: It had like little bits of cucumber and mint in

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Speaker 4: John which is I thought, this is very jactam. Actually

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Speaker 3: Yourself stupid on that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that does sound like a bit of me.

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Speaker 2: And honestly, the watermelon fetter slash and you know, watermelon

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Speaker 2: mint combo always a winner in my prospective, sounds great.

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Speaker 2: Now I've very quickly cheted gpt'ed it apparently that the

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Speaker 2: absolutely can go super luxury. So you can if you want, Mike,

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Speaker 2: and this is probably your end of town. You can

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Speaker 2: spend more than one hundred thousand dollars on a Falconry

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Speaker 2: hood if you need there you go. You can get

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Speaker 2: the TMU version as well, So if you're going with

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Speaker 2: you can afford to pursue falconry, but you feel like

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Speaker 2: you want to go team, you can spend about thirty

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Speaker 2: bucks on a falconry hood as well, So you truly

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Speaker 2: is a scale, isn't it. Yeah, hey, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Do you know I've never been to got lots of

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Speaker 2: friends there of course, and heaps of key wes work

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Speaker 2: out of the Al Jazeera newsroom, so yeah, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: there at some point. But those are very very useful tips. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: we'll make sure all of Mike's advice for into Dohart

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