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Speaker 1: Great to flick with ben Oshe then I say, good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys. I'm so jealous.

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Speaker 2: You guys got to talk to Dev Patel.

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Speaker 3: Oh he was just lovely, lovely six minutes with them

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Speaker 3: because he was a very busy man.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was.

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Speaker 2: What an awesome dude though, right, absolute sweetheart, so softly spoken,

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Speaker 2: so intelligent, and so many amazing movies. But you know,

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Speaker 2: forget slum Dog Millionaire. We're talking slum Dog Killionaire with

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Speaker 2: monkey Man. Oh my gosh, Like what the thing for

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Speaker 2: me that makes it so interesting is that juxtaposition between

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Speaker 2: everything we've seen previously from Dev Patel and all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden he's ripped, he's kicking butt and also getting

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Speaker 2: his butt kicked quite a lot as well. And to me,

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Speaker 2: that's what makes this film so cool. And as he

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Speaker 2: spoke to you guys about, you know, like the effort

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Speaker 2: that he put into his prepperration, the thought that he

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Speaker 2: put into choreographing the fight scenes to give us something

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Speaker 2: that we hadn't seen before working with the stunt team.

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Speaker 2: To me, it's so interesting. And as you guys spoke

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Speaker 2: about like that that Hindu folklore and mythology around Hanemann,

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Speaker 2: which is the kind of the monkey Man of the title,

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Speaker 2: the monkey deity of Hinduism is what elevates it above

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Speaker 2: say a john Wick franchise, right, because, like I would

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Speaker 2: honestly say, for me, I like the better than John Wick.

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Speaker 2: I'm not talking about you know, the second, third, and

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Speaker 2: fourth John Wick movies where the action was great, but

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Speaker 2: the storyline made no sense at all. I'm talking even

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Speaker 2: the original Baba Yaga john Wick whereas Dog Dies. I

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Speaker 2: think The Monkey Man is even better than that.

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Speaker 1: Certain gravitas, doesn't it that it does incredible?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it's It's got like a kind

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Speaker 2: of like a cultural element that's really authentic to the

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Speaker 2: story that I think adds another dimension to the film

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Speaker 2: and it just comes like elevates it into Okay. It's

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Speaker 2: like it's not a direct adaptation of the Hannamann miss

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Speaker 2: but at the same time, it's got elements of it.

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Speaker 2: And the thing I like the best about it, I

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Speaker 2: think is, you know, if with the Joel Wick movies,

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Speaker 2: john Wick arrives straight from the very very start of

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Speaker 2: the film, he's able to kick anybody's butt like he's

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Speaker 2: the ultimate assassin, indestructible, all that.

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Speaker 1: Kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: That's not the case with dev Detel's character and Monkey Man.

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Speaker 2: You know, the audience has to earn it throughout the film.

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Speaker 2: So he starts off kind of you know, down and out,

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Speaker 2: down on his luck, being beaten up for money in

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Speaker 2: this underground boxing organization run by Chalto Copley, the South

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Speaker 2: African actor who hadn't been in for a while. It

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Speaker 2: was good to see him back. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: he's dealing with this childhood trauma of his mum dying

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Speaker 2: in really quite horrific circumstances at the hands of the

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Speaker 2: you know, sort of the Mumbai Chief of Police. And

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Speaker 2: then there's this conspiracy that chief of Police is involved in.

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Speaker 2: So you've got you know, sort of childhood trauma, you've

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Speaker 2: got a conspiracy, all the ingredients you need for an

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Speaker 2: old fashioned rampage of vengeance, but you don't get that

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Speaker 2: straight away. You have to really be patient as all

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Speaker 2: of this kind of builds up and builds up and

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Speaker 2: builds up, and Dev Pattel's character gets to the point

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Speaker 2: where it's like, okay, I'm not going to take anymore.

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Speaker 2: I'm finally going to stand up not just for myself

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Speaker 2: but for everybody else who's been downtrodden in this city.

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Speaker 2: And then I don't know about you guys, but I

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Speaker 2: have to say it's one of the best kind of

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Speaker 2: fighting montages that I've seen in this genre. For ages

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Speaker 2: with the drummer drumming away while Dev Pattel is beating

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Speaker 2: up the bag of rice, I thought, I thought that

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Speaker 2: was super cool. And for people who are just going

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Speaker 2: to watch this movie, who don't really care about the

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Speaker 2: cultural stuff but just want to see some good fight scenes,

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Speaker 2: well you covered with this with Monkey Man as well,

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Speaker 2: because the fight scenes are absolutely awesome, especially in the

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Speaker 2: second half where you know where Dev really starts to

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Speaker 2: get his vengeance. Some of those fight scenes are just unreal,

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Speaker 2: spectacular stuff. I don't know if it's really encouraging me

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Speaker 2: to ever go to India. You see some films that

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Speaker 2: are a wonderful postcard for the places where they're set.

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Speaker 2: This one it reveals, you know, like the real challenges

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Speaker 2: of the Indian society, the class system, the huge difference

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Speaker 2: the authorities I guess maybe not doing enough to address

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Speaker 2: that gap. But as far as Monkey Man is concerned,

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Speaker 2: like this could be a future franchise. I think there's

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Speaker 2: so much potential to this story and I think.

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Speaker 4: You know, as far as Jeff to sell.

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Speaker 2: Ye prequel, Yeah, yeah, we did a prequel. But I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, like the idea of this type of movie

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Speaker 2: being spun off.

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Speaker 5: Into no doubt that it's going to be. There won't

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Speaker 5: be a standalone Monkey.

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Speaker 3: And Ben, some of the shots in this are just phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: Some of those the shaky camera stuff and the under

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Speaker 3: the armpit and all the rest of it just amazing.

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Speaker 5: It's very stylized, but let's be honest, it's the most

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Speaker 5: violent film I've seen in a lot. And granted I

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Speaker 5: don't like violent film, so this movie is not for me.

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Speaker 5: For you, but I can appreciate how stylized it is.

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Speaker 5: It's got an atmosphere about it, but you do not

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Speaker 5: have to wait long to get into the fight scenes

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Speaker 5: that then just become pretty much one big, long stylized

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Speaker 4: Then it gets bity, that's it.

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Speaker 2: The scene in the elevator with the flow emotions and

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Speaker 2: understand more than that, the one that copped it.

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Speaker 1: In the neck.

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Speaker 3: Oh my. But Ben, unlike John Wick, there's no guns,

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Speaker 3: so it gets biting as well, biting and stabbing exactly.

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Speaker 2: And as I said earlier, you know, like I feel

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Speaker 2: like the audience kind of earns the right to enjoy

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Speaker 2: those moments because they are such a long time coming

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Speaker 2: that they don't even though they kind it critically, it's.

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Speaker 5: Pretty good, is pretty good if the Bridge version of

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Speaker 5: the movie, I.

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Speaker 4: Think it's a long time.

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Speaker 2: It's a long time before we see Dev's character winning

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Speaker 2: the fights.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, true, yeah, a bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am going to wait one of those monkey

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Speaker 3: masks and to work one morning.

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Speaker 4: Just sit here at five thirty and look at Lisa.

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Speaker 4: Oh oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's not all it's not all perfect.

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Speaker 2: Like I think you talk about it being stylized, like

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Speaker 2: I think Dev falls victim to what so many first

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Speaker 2: time directors do. They want to kind of show off

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Speaker 2: everything that they can do.

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Speaker 1: Here's my boxIt tricks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think I think the film

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Speaker 2: probably does suffer from a bit too much. More is

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Speaker 2: more when maybe strip back a little bit would have

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Speaker 4: But you know, like I.

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Speaker 2: Think for a first for a first up effort for

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Speaker 2: a director, I think it's phenomenal. And when you can

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Speaker 2: see that he's also starring in the film, Brod it

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Speaker 2: is just I said, he's gone for the behinder quite

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Speaker 2: a thank you.

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Speaker 3: Please tell me can you imagine editing this bend? That

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Speaker 3: was incredible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a phenomenal effort. And you know, like people

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Speaker 2: are talking about Aaron Taylor Johnson is potentially the next

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Speaker 2: James Bond.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to vote for death to tell I'd rather.

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Speaker 2: Dev as the next James Bond.

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Speaker 4: An absolute crack to be a winner. Yeah, and he's

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Speaker 4: only thirty three. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I knew you'd love this movie. But what how many

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Speaker 5: that must have hurts? Are you giving it?

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give this a super solid three and

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Speaker 2: a half.

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Speaker 3: Okay, very nice, all right, yes, very nice and protecting

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Speaker 3: those when possible.

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Speaker 1: My nose lighted day again.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Ben, thank your bed.

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Speaker 1: It is good.

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Speaker 4: I mean it is I did.

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Speaker 5: I sent you a message was like a time after

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Speaker 5: we've been to see it, and I said, I might

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Speaker 5: have hated that, but because it's just it is.

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Speaker 1: Very violent, and if you don't like violence, then you know.

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Speaker 4: I did enjoy. I did enjoy the movie.

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Speaker 1: I certainly appreciated this.

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Speaker 5: It'sized atmosphere where it was shot and everything.

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Speaker 4: Of course, you know, It.

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Speaker 3: Was funny when I got that message to that you

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Speaker 3: said you're having a BES and a light down.

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Speaker 1: At the point I absolutely needed a pan at ale