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Speaker 1: The great actor who plays Daredevil himself. Charlie Cox joins

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Speaker 1: the show this morning. How's it going, Charlie, I'm being good,

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Speaker 1: thank you. So yes, I'm fantastic now. Charlie, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I got to say happy birthday. I know you got

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Speaker 1: a birthday coming up in a couple of days, right,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's right.

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Speaker 2: You know what, I actually forgot about that. See.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna see if you had any big plans.

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Speaker 2: No, big plans, be with my fam.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's nothing special for the big day, all right.

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Speaker 1: Is it tough having a birthday close to Christmas?

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Speaker 2: I think it's great. I've always loved it. It feels

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Speaker 2: like everyone's the whole world is starting to get ready

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Speaker 2: to celebrate your birthday. You know.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people feel like they get

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Speaker 1: short changed because sometimes you get those combo gifts and

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Speaker 1: you're like, wait a minute, No, my birthday is separate

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Speaker 1: from Christmas.

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Speaker 2: No. I think people have over compensate because they feel

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Speaker 2: like they worry that's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's good.

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Speaker 2: Like it.

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Speaker 1: Well, Charlie. First of all, you know when whenever I

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Speaker 1: see you in an interview or whatever, and I hear

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Speaker 1: you talk, it always catches me off guard because yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you you know, most of your acting has been

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Speaker 1: you know, with an American accent, and people don't, I think,

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Speaker 1: realize that you're you're not American. You know, it always

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Speaker 1: catches me off guard.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, as of last year, I am American.

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Speaker 1: Well yes, yes, there you go.

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Speaker 2: Big Patis, I know what you mean.

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Speaker 1: Do people always kind of get shocked when you first

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Speaker 1: speak to them, are like, oh, you're you're you're an Englishman.

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Speaker 2: I do get that. A lot of people didn't. People

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Speaker 2: didn't realize that I was not American.

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Speaker 1: It just shows what a great actor you are. Wow,

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Speaker 1: how long did you have to kind of study the

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Speaker 1: accent to kind of nail it down?

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Speaker 2: You know. So that's the great irony about it is

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Speaker 2: that I find accents really hard. So I work my bustle,

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, to get the accents as opposed to the

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Speaker 2: perfect as they as I can. Do You like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: Like there's some accents I in the month leading up

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Speaker 2: to a job, by just talking it the whole time,

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Speaker 2: don't come out of it.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of smart because it's got to be tough. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine. Have you ever been on set

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Speaker 1: and you're, you know, doing an American accent and then

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Speaker 1: you accidentally just lose it and start talking and you

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Speaker 1: don't realize it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah all the time. Yeah. I tried to

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Speaker 2: stay an accent when I'm on set, just to kind

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Speaker 2: of just to keep it going and keep it sounding

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Speaker 2: feeling normal and all those kind of things. But then

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Speaker 2: often off, you know, you start telling talking to your

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Speaker 2: co stars and telling a joke or telling a story,

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Speaker 2: and the next thing you know, you've completely lost it.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy, Charlie. Before I get to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about Daredevil, I want to talk to you about your

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Speaker 1: new project MERV because this is great and I know

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of people, first of all, love dogs,

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Speaker 1: and this toy is kind of centers around a dog, right, just.

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Speaker 2: The dog who's tremendous. Yeah, it's it's a dog Collar

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Speaker 2: Day Christmas movie.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't get better than that. Tell me a little

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Speaker 1: bit about the story, right, So the.

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Speaker 2: Story is Russ and Anna are recently separated. They've they've

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Speaker 2: broken up. They are navigating the very tricky waters of

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Speaker 2: co parenting a dog. Yeah, which is actually it turns

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Speaker 2: out much more common than I realized. Oh yeah, they've

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Speaker 2: had this experience. Yeah, so the dog is depressed. He's

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Speaker 2: become very sad because of the breakup. So I take

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Speaker 2: my character takes him to a special dog beach in Florida.

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Speaker 2: Anna played by Zoe gets so she crashes the party

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Speaker 2: hilarity in twos, with a lot of silliness and a

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Speaker 2: little bit of maybe rekindling romance.

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Speaker 3: And just to be clear, the dog doesn't die right,

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Speaker 3: because I can't this.

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Speaker 2: Is a question. I can't believe how many people have

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Speaker 2: off that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Charlie, but I have to ask because as

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Speaker 3: soon as I see a dog in a movie.

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Speaker 1: I cry.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, there are a lot of dog movies that I

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Speaker 2: don't know about. I don't think it's too much of

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Speaker 2: a spoiler to say the dog surmich.

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Speaker 1: I love this movie. Okay, that's fantastic. So it is

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Speaker 1: on Prime Amazon, Prime Video. You could check it out.

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Speaker 1: It got released yesterday, so it is streaming now. It

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Speaker 1: sounds great, Charlie. I'm really excited to check it out.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: So I gotta talk to you about Dared Devil because

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Speaker 1: I'm a massive fan. I'm a big nerd, So I've

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Speaker 1: been watching, you know, since day one and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: How did you feel the transition from Netflix over to

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Speaker 1: Disney Plus kind of went. I thought that the latest

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Speaker 1: season was fantastic, didn't miss a beat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was a little rockie at first. We

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Speaker 2: tried they we tried to go in a slightly different direction,

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Speaker 2: which actually was a really interesting idea, an admirable effort.

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Speaker 2: It didn't quite work, but no real fault of anyone's

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Speaker 2: in particular, just wasn't quite right tonally. And I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, when we had the actors strike and the

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Speaker 2: writer strike, the producers had an opportunity to look at

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Speaker 2: what we'd shot, which I think was about six episodes.

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Speaker 2: They were able to see that we were maybe not

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Speaker 2: quite on track, and we then ended up pivoting and

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Speaker 2: going kind of slight back towards what we had kind

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Speaker 2: of established on Netflix. And to that end, you know,

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Speaker 2: huge credit to Disney and to Marvel in particular, for

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Speaker 2: you know, not only having the guts to try something

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Speaker 2: so you knew, but also recognizing when it wasn't working

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Speaker 2: and being and being willing to you know, make it

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Speaker 2: kind of a U turn, and which comes with a

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Speaker 2: huge amount of stress and money and all those kind

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Speaker 2: of things. An absolute dream from my perspective, working you

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Speaker 2: know with Disney and Marvel, and you know, we have

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Speaker 2: a season two coming out in March. We're going to

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Speaker 2: start shooting season three round time, so a lot of

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Speaker 2: a lot of Daredevil to come.

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Speaker 1: Were you a fan of comics or anything like that

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Speaker 1: before the role?

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Speaker 2: I was not. Never, but then I've ever read a

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Speaker 2: comic book in my life.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow.

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Speaker 2: When they asked me to audition for Daredevil, first I

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Speaker 2: thought it was I thought it was like evil can

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Speaker 2: eevil kind of stuff like, I didn't really Yeah. And

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Speaker 2: also in my first audition, I neglected to play the

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Speaker 2: character as blind because I didn't know that they had. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: when they recalled me they had. They said, you know,

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Speaker 2: we'd like to see him again book. Can he can

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Speaker 2: he acknowledge the fact that the character his mind?

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Speaker 1: Wow, that that does help. That is part of that

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Speaker 1: is part of the role for sure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Charlie, Uh, you said you didn't know the characters blind,

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Speaker 3: But did you know that the Ben Affleck movie that

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Speaker 3: came out in the earrow two thousands like bombed terribly

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Speaker 3: And when you found that out, did you feel like, oh,

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Speaker 3: this is kind of a risk because people associate Daredevil

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Speaker 3: with that bad movie before this series.

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Speaker 2: So important to say for the record, I'm a huge

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Speaker 2: Benefleck fan.

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Speaker 1: Yes, of course.

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Speaker 2: I will watch anything that that I think it's great.

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Speaker 2: I don't. Yes, I think it's not a secret that

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Speaker 2: that movie didn't perform brillantly. But actually, the way I

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Speaker 2: looked at it was like kind of slightly the opposite.

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Speaker 2: I had a friend of mine when he found out

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Speaker 2: I got the role as Daredevil. He caught me up

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Speaker 2: and he said, is it true You're going to be

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Speaker 2: in the new show? And I said yes, and he said,

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Speaker 2: well the bar is love.

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Speaker 1: Good point. True. Well, Charlie, I love the show. It's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see merv happy the dog is okay.

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Speaker 1: I just added it to my Prime watching There you

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Speaker 1: go check it out. It is on Prime Video. It

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Speaker 1: is streaming now. Great. Catch it up with you in

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Speaker 1: a good time, are you, Charlie?

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Speaker 2: Thank you, guys. I appreciate it absolutely.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Charlie Cox Daredevil himself so nice. Yes,

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Speaker 1: nice guy. I did not know he was English and

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Speaker 1: it came on. I was like, whoa, yea I know

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Speaker 1: it is. It is such a trip when you hear that.

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Speaker 1: Definitely