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Speaker 1: Jump Mission with join Z and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Thrilled to catch up with our next guest, Golden Globe

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Speaker 2: winning actor stars Train Spotting, Mull and Rouge star Wars,

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary new series documenting his road trip on electric

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Speaker 2: motorbikes through the Americas. Thrilled to have Ewan McGregor on

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Speaker 2: the program.

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Speaker 3: How are you one, Hi, guys, how are you?

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Speaker 1: We are very very well.

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Speaker 2: This isn't your first long trick like this, but it's

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Speaker 2: been ten years since your last one. What's changed in

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Speaker 2: that time? And why did it take so long?

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Speaker 3: Oh? A lot? It was longer. In fact, I think

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Speaker 3: we did the last trip in two thousand and seven,

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Speaker 3: so it was, you know, it was over ten years.

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Speaker 3: And I guess you know, we did the first two trips,

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Speaker 3: long Way Round and Long Way Down, quite close together,

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Speaker 3: and they're they're like experiences of a lifetime, you know,

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Speaker 3: so you don't want to you don't want to do

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Speaker 3: them all at once. So I've did the first two

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Speaker 3: too close together in a way maybe, And then when

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Speaker 3: we finished Long Way Down, I moved to the States.

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Speaker 3: Charlie ended up shooting some other TV series shows. I

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Speaker 3: think he did a He ended up in Australia in

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Speaker 3: one of his TV shows. And then in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 3: Charlie was working with Triumph and he was launching one

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Speaker 3: of their motorcycles in Portugal and he had a really

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Speaker 3: really bad accident and he was really smashed up, broke

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Speaker 3: both of his legs. It was through that the you know,

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Speaker 3: I suppose almost losing him, that I realized that, God,

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Speaker 3: you can't let relationship, you can't let friendships that are

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Speaker 3: important in your life drift like that. And because he

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Speaker 3: was he was in rehab for like two years, he

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Speaker 3: was in a wheelchair. He was like trying to mend both.

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Speaker 3: It's difficult when you've broken both your legs to get

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Speaker 3: to get them mended properly. And I think they were

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Speaker 3: broken very in complicated ways. So he was sort of

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Speaker 3: housebound and that meant he was there so when I

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Speaker 3: whenever I was in town, I always got to stay

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Speaker 3: with him and hang out with him. And of course

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Speaker 3: as soon as we're back together again, we start dreaming

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Speaker 3: up another What.

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Speaker 1: I love about the series is just the way that

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Speaker 1: you two guys. I like saying the friendship between you two,

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Speaker 1: but I also just love how nothing seems to phase

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Speaker 1: you and there's a bit where it's looking like it

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Speaker 1: might not happen because you're using electric bikes and the

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Speaker 1: and you sort of apologize for going off your cracker,

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Speaker 1: but it's the least going off the cracker I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: It's like, I feel a bit I'm ashamed of how

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Speaker 1: I behaved. I'm thinking, dude, you didn't. You didn't really

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Speaker 1: do anything bad, you just express concern.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was just so touch and go. Just once

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Speaker 3: we made the decision to go on electric bikes. You know,

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Speaker 3: we didn't. We didn't. We didn't know how it was

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Speaker 3: going to work. There's no infrastructure down there in Patagonia

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Speaker 3: and these huge swedes of land that we've been dreaming

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Speaker 3: of riding across and looking forward to exploring all these years.

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Speaker 3: But it gave us so much more in terms of

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Speaker 3: meeting people, because we would literally not rock up at

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Speaker 3: people's doors and in the middle of nowhere and say, look,

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Speaker 3: we're doing this trip and we're trying to do an

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Speaker 3: electric bikes and could we possibly you know, buy some

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Speaker 3: of your electricity, And so we plug into people's houses

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Speaker 3: or cafes or little hotel hostels or wherever we were,

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Speaker 3: and it sort of it. It became a little event.

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Speaker 3: You know, God, we plunged so many restaurants into darkness,

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Speaker 3: so many fuses. You know, all over the Soup of

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Speaker 2: You know, you were doing maybe like two hundred kilometers

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Speaker 2: every day for one hundred days. How is How is

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Speaker 2: your body? Poor old Charlie recovering from an accident? But

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Speaker 2: how are you bout? How are your bottoms?

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Speaker 3: It's fine, And listen, your bum gets numb after an

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Speaker 3: hour or two, and then you just have to get

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Speaker 3: good to go for another couple of hours. It's just

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Speaker 3: the way. It's just the way of things. You don't

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Speaker 3: really notice it. It's not it's not very hard on

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Speaker 3: the body until you're riding off road. There was a big,

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Speaker 3: long section of off road stuff in Bolivia, which took

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Speaker 3: lulled into a false sense of security on these nice

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Speaker 3: ribbons of road. And then we crossed the border into

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Speaker 3: Bolivia and we're really high out. The altitude up there

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Speaker 3: we just came across some of the worst corrugated roads

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Speaker 3: to bits. And at that point I just became very

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Speaker 3: scared for Charlie because it's quite easy to come off

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Speaker 3: on sand or you know, if you hit a rot

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Speaker 3: or something, it's very easy to come off. And usually

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Speaker 3: that's fine, you tumble away from the bike, but occasionally

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Speaker 3: the butt you can land with the bike, and the

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Speaker 3: stakes were so much hard higher for Charlie if that

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Speaker 3: had happened, you know, I knew that it could it

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Speaker 3: could end badly for him. So that's that my heart

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Speaker 3: was in my mouth there. I mean personally speaking, because

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Speaker 3: I don't like riding in sandy very much.

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Speaker 1: Dreadful. It's very pioneering stuff. When you look at you've

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Speaker 1: used Hally Davidson live wire matricycles which are electric, which

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Speaker 1: is groundbreaking. But also I look back to the early

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Speaker 1: days in the nineteen hundreds when they used to drive

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Speaker 1: around the world. They used to have to get people

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Speaker 1: to drop petrol, and petrol have never really been invented,

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Speaker 1: so they had to get petrol and place it in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the desert. And then they didn't have

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Speaker 1: GPS or anything like that, so they'd come across the

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Speaker 1: petrol to keep running their vehicles. This is pretty much

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Speaker 1: similar to what you're doing. You're going through places that

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Speaker 1: would even know an electric car and electric vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's totally true. We talked about that a lot

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Speaker 3: that it was very similar to that. It's just it's

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Speaker 3: just the start of it, you know. We did we

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Speaker 3: did have a lovely moment where we were passing unbeknownsta

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Speaker 3: as we came across this huge solar farm and we

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Speaker 3: just we just did a U turn and went up

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Speaker 3: to the gates and we just said, look, we're doing

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Speaker 3: this trip on electric bikes. You think you could show

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Speaker 3: us around, you know, And we went in and we

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Speaker 3: were able to plug our bikes into their solar farm,

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Speaker 3: and while they showed us around and we shot, you know,

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Speaker 3: our little storyline of walking around this solar farm. Our

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Speaker 3: bikes were being charged directly from the sun, and it

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Speaker 3: was just at such a great feeling, you know, you

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Speaker 3: just think, well, that's that's got to be the way

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Speaker 3: it's going to go. You know, if you can do

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Speaker 3: that then and they're not polluting and we're you know,

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Speaker 3: we're not leaving any footprint behind. It's just got to

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Speaker 3: be the way ahead. And they're nice to ride, you know.

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Speaker 3: I have to say the biking fraternity can be a

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Speaker 3: noise and there's no vibration and you're losing part of

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Speaker 3: the experience of riding a bike, and that's you know,

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Speaker 3: people are entitled to their opinions about that. But when

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Speaker 3: you're riding a bike from morning till night every day

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Speaker 3: for a hundred days, taking away the noise from the

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Speaker 3: engine and the vibration from the engine, that I think

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Speaker 3: is only a good thing, and you you get to

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Speaker 3: experience the word, you know, with animals, like we came

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Speaker 3: across all these lamas everywhere and we and we were

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Speaker 3: away because there was no noise. They didn't they didn't

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Speaker 3: sort of bother. We didn't bother them, and you could.

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Speaker 3: You could You could talk to each other as you

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Speaker 3: ride along next to each other. You could just literally

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Speaker 3: hear each other and there's no vibration between you and

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Speaker 3: the road, so you feel the road in a different way,

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Speaker 3: and riding the bike is you just feel the road.

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Speaker 3: You're planted in a different way, as powerful as fast,

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Speaker 3: and when you're pulling away from the lights, it's super quick.

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Speaker 3: The talk's like extraordinary. So it gives you puts a

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Speaker 3: big smile on your face as well. I really liked

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Speaker 3: riding the electric bike a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just gonna watch for keb drivers when they

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Speaker 1: can't hear you going past. That's the only Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what I have to swim all loudly. I do like

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Speaker 1: the lad pipes on my halley at the moment, and

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Speaker 1: obviously we're looking at you on zoom at the moment

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Speaker 1: you and you don't have a bead, so people will

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Speaker 1: be saying, baid watch you bet. Star Wars coming back,

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Speaker 1: so there's no none of that.

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Speaker 3: The Beard's coming back soon. We're going to start that

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Speaker 3: series in the in the spring next year. Well it

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Speaker 3: knows what's going to happen really in the world, but

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Speaker 3: the plan is at the moment that we start shooting

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Speaker 3: the new Star Wars series in February next year.

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Speaker 1: It's great, So it's great to catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: Shiny Side Up long Way app is available to watch

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Speaker 1: on Apple TV from September eighteen, say how did Charlie

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Speaker 1: for us? You McGregor, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Nice to see I've got such phone members of Sydney

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Speaker 3: so I loved everyone there. Thank you, taking as you

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Speaker 3: and bye guys, bye bye bye with in the and

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Speaker 3: Amanda