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The Oscars, Coronavirus and Politics - Episode 10
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My Spiel on the speech by Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars and the general overreaction to everything by people ie coronavirus and what not! BECOME A PATRONHey guys, if you enjoy my work then you can support it with as little as $2 (one time or monthly). It goes towards paying for equipment, time, all my comedy work including the podcasts, youtube videos and live events I do and MOST IMPORTANTLY towards my family. Help me feed my baby here:www.patreon.com/join/salmanzq?
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Introduction & Podcast Overview
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Hi everyone, welcome to the Expat Brad podcast.
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This is Salman Qureshi.
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If this is the first time you're listening in, then welcome, welcome to my show.
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I'm a comic, I'm a comedian, I do stand-up comedy, I do improv, and I talk about lots of great stuff.
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Everything important under the sun.
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I know.
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I know.
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You guys just fell off your chair.
Comedians & Podcasts
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Another comic with another podcast.
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That is amazing.
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That probably, you know, there's just that thought.
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You probably just jumped off your chairs and are throwing yourself around.
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But calm down.
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Calm down.
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Sit down and listen to my podcast.
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I don't care where you're listening to this.
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You might be on the treadmill.
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Well, then keep running.
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Don't sit down.
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Because if you sit down there, oh, that's going to hurt.
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I've done that before.
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Well, kind of.
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I did.
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I did kind of do something stupid.
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I don't want to get into that.
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I just I keep talking about how stupid I am.
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And let's stop talking about it, because today I feel a little
Joaquin Phoenix's Oscar Speech
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bit smug.
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I'm going to tell you why.
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I just heard about, you know, there's a little bit of controversy going around with the Oscars with Joaquin Phoenix and his Oscar speech.
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I'm sure you might have heard about it.
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He went off a little bit about how, you know, we as a species are not living right and about veganism and whatnot.
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And I just can't help but think my last podcast, which came out about a week ago, was about veganism.
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That's right.
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I talked about veganism and suddenly Joaquin Phoenix is talking about it at his Oscar speech.
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Coincidence?
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I think not, sir.
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I think not.
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But it's okay.
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Let him, you know, take the glory of it all.
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It's fine.
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Just a fact.
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Let me be a little bit honest with you.
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I had to look up how to pronounce his name before I started this podcast because I was like, why is it spelled with a J?
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I don't get it.
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Why do you guys have to do that?
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Like, just make it phonetically easy to read.
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I hate when languages do that.
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Like, it's a C, but you pronounce it as a F. What?
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Why?
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Why?
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Why are you doing that?
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Just put an F in there, right?
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I don't get it.
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Is there a reason behind why people do this?
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Anyway, did you guys have to look up how to pronounce his name or you happen to hear it on TV?
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I mean, I knew about him, but I never bothered to check how his name is spelled.
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And I never heard someone talking about him.
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And so I just didn't know.
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I thought it would be pronounced Jo-keen, Jo-keen Phoenix.
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which kind of sounds nicer, right?
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Instead of Joaquin Phoenix.
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Joaquin Phoenix is lucky he's white because if he was any other color, Joaquin Phoenix would be stopped at an airport and taken away for a double check or whatever.
Joaquin Phoenix's Name & Airport Privilege
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Or he'd be in one of Trump's banned countries or, you know,
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He just, let me just say, with that kind of name, he's lucky where he is.
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All right.
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So, Joaquin Phoenix, congratulations on winning the Oscar.
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But, I mean, for the Joker, Heath Ledger's already done it.
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So, hmm.
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I don't know.
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It kind of seems, yeah, I'd like to be the first person to win it for it.
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Now it's just like, oh, well, you know, all the jokers win.
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Oh, well, I shouldn't say that.
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Sorry.
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Oh, you know who I'm talking about.
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We'll not mention his name.
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That was even a proper role.
Joaquin Phoenix's Joker Comparison
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Come on, let's face it.
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The guy didn't even have 10 minutes on stage.
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I'm talking about Jared Leto.
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He spent more time preparing for the role than actually getting to perform it, which is kind of sad.
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It's a little bit like my life, though.
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It's just...
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What was he thinking man?
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That was a sad one.
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That was a sad one.
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But here we are and that's your Oscars.
Eminem's Oscar Return
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Eminem showed up 18 years later to sing his Oscar winning song at the Oscars function.
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I thought that was pretty funny.
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I thought, actually, I take that back.
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I think that's pretty inspirational because no matter how much time has passed by, it's never too late.
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18 years?
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So what?
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People loved it, apparently.
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A lot of people in the audience loved it.
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And then, of course, you have these people on social media, Twitter, who have to have a problem with everything.
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And so they're complaining about it and saying,
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Oh, what's he doing there?
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Why is he there?
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Dude, it's a performance.
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He gave everyone a good time.
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Shut the fuck up and enjoy the show, all right?
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I really don't get it with these people.
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Just calm down.
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Just, you know, the things you should...
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Trump's the only thing
Trump, Politics & Personal Focus
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you should be.
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You know, you don't even have to be upset about Trump.
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Like Trump's beyond it.
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I think he's distracting you with all the bullshit he does.
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So stop listening to it and just ignore him.
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The biggest problem with people is we're not ignoring Trump.
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We're feeding the monster.
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And that's true for everything Trump like.
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So just stop feeding it.
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But people won't.
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We're dumb like that, man.
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Politicians, I swear to God, they know how to distract you and keep you busy.
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This isn't meant to be a political show anyway.
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I like doing my comedy and I got to say, there's enough in my life going on for me to worry about politics and whatnot.
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I do get riled up a little bit, but as I grow older, I'm just like, whatever.
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Let the youth deal with that shit.
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Done.
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I am checking out people.
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You know what's really in the news?
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What's really going viral?
Coronavirus Panic & Humor
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Coronavirus.
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That's right.
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Ironically, that's what's going viral.
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It's kind of scary to some people.
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And I don't get it because, hey, you know, it's a viral thing.
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And it's just take care of yourself.
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stay clean, don't kiss strangers, I don't know, and hope for the best.
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But people act like it's a zombie apocalypse coming for you.
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And it just makes me realize how easy it is to get people heated up about anything.
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So how do you sort that out for humanity?
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Like, what do you do?
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I feel like when I say this, I feel like
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the old guy in a loud bar music on and I'm the one going, excuse me, could you lower the volume a little bit?
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Let's all just talk a little, you know, let's have a little bit of fun.
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I want to have a nice conversation instead.
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I know it's sad.
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I've become that guy.
Reflections on Aging & Career Shift
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I realize I'm growing older.
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For those of you who don't know, I do some kids shows as well.
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We do some improv comedy and we do some kids shows.
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And I know I'm hitting up on age because when I used to do them at the start of my career, I would be one of the guys that might play the protagonist and the kids loved it.
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Now I find myself having to play the villain, the kid's father in the story and whatnot while I'm improvising.
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And it just makes me go.
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Yep.
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That's how they see me now because I'm an older, I'm a grown up, which is sad.
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That's sad.
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That's what everyone should be worried about is me aging because, you know, you want me around longer.
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I'm a fun guy.
Episode Wrap-up & Listener Engagement
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I don't know if you.
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Okay, fine.
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I think we're done with this episode.
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We are.
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We are done with this episode because I wanted to get this Joaquin Phoenix thing off my chest and I wanted to get this virus off my chest.
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Not literally.
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I don't have it.
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Don't come for me.
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If you're listening in, don't come for me, please.
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I don't have it.
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I was just talking about how, you know, people are dumb about it sometimes.
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I wouldn't call it dumb.
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I acknowledge the fear, man.
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But really, I think just people just need to just take it easy with things.
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Like our kids, like I took my...
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one-year-old to a fun block like a fun kids playing area and it was deserted it was maybe i'm a little too gung-ho maybe i should be a bit more careful but i don't know he he's good we're good so i'm not one of those who say don't get vaccinations i'm anti anti-vaccination people does does that make sense
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Yeah, so I'm not one of those who say leave everything to chance, but also relax a little, people.
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And on that note, chill out.
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Listen to my next podcast when it comes out.
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So help a guy out.
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Share it.
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me thank you very much thank you for listening guys till next time