In this video we here at Hack Hollywood consider who actors should trust. There are so many people on the internet, in casting director workshops, former casting directors making a living now by selling their services as consultants, talent agents writing articles on acting websites like backstage.com and it’s normal for an actor to be confused.
Click on the link to see the only person an actor can really trust at the end of the day.
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another awesome coronavirus Cova 19
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video but of course it’s applicable at
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any time of year but since we are going
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through such a strange time and you know
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I have to say I am guilty of the fact
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that I’ve been watching way too much
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news which I swore I would not do
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because I remember when 9/11 happened it
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made me depressed for months in fact I
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don’t know if I ever got back to the way
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I was before and you know just a more
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serious person now so for those of you
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who didn’t really go through 9/11 you
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know maybe you can’t relate to that yet
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but maybe you will relate to it after
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you know 30,000 50,000 a hundred
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thousand people died just in the United
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States alone possibly so anyway the
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question is who should you trust during
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a pandemic an epidemic a gigantic global
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problem and how does that translate into
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who you should trust in your acting
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career now first of all I should let you
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know I’ve been out playing a little disc
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golf practicing I’ve got several discs
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but anyway that helps me get a lot of
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this stuff off my mind and just makes me
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feel more normal even though you know I
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could get kicked out of the park at any
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time I’m kind of hiding right now but
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anyway who you should trust well let’s
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let’s look at the coronavirus I mean if
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you listen to Cuomo the governor of New
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York he’s got one opinion and then
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you’ve got the president Donald Trump
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who’s got another opinion the two
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opinions are diametrically opposed and
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you have to ask yourself well who do you
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trust and the answer is well don’t trust
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anyone
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don’t trust anyone except for yourself
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because everyone has ulterior motives
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okay I mean let’s just look at you know
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Cuomo is a Democratic governor his
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brother his father was the governor of
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the same state New York his brother is
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on CNN which is a very liberal leaning
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News news outlet I don’t know I’m sure
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they would argue with me but it’s pretty
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plain and so they’re Democrats right and
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there’s upcoming elections in November
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so you know even though I trust them
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maybe more than the other guy they also
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have ulterior motives they yeah sure
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they care about people but that’s
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typical more of Democrats they’re more
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you know worried about everybody being
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okay whereas you know Republicans tend
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to be more hey take care of yourself
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good luck to you you know
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congratulations if you do well and make
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billions and if you don’t do well and
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you suffer well you only have yourself
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to blame whatever not commenting on
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what’s better just noticing the two
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differences right and that’s how you
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have to make judgment calls is what is
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their traditional position on things and
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why are they giving you this opinion
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because when you ask somebody their
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opinion they will give you one it’s
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almost inevitable people love to give
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their opinions so same thing in acting
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when you ask somebody your their opinion
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about what you should be doing with your
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acting career for instance you know if
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you ask a casting director what to do
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with your acting career they’re gonna
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tell you things if you ask a producer
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they’re gonna tell you things if you ask
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another actor
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they’re gonna tell you things
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everybody’s gonna tell you something
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different and I’m not even talking about
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casting directors producer directors
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actors I’m talking about each single
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individual will have their own viewpoint
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and of course they’re giving it as
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though all actors are the same okay so
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they’ll just give them the same
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instructions like you should send
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postcards well what if I look terrible
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in photographs but I look good on camera
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that’s me I mean well I don’t even know
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if I look good on camera but it’d look
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terrible in photographs because I’m so
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pale so it’s really hard to get a camera
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to take the picture of me where I you
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know either my are either too dark or my
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skin’s too light and anyway so listen
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you’ll get all these opinions and then
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you get all caught up in that and you’re
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like oh my gosh I’m trying to do what
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they told me to do and it’s not working
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so it must be me no it’s not you the
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problem is you’re not paying attention
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to yourself so who do you listen to
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listen to yourself and listen to the
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facts and then listen to who’s telling
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you the facts as to whether it’s really
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a fact or if they are skewing the facts
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slightly because the same set of facts
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can mean two different things to
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different people again back to the
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coronavirus 10,000 20,000 30,000 dead to
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the governors of those states that have
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the deaths it’s like oh my gosh it’s the
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worst thing in the world imagine to the
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families who the people who are dying
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they’re the set of facts is awful
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terrible to the president he’s like
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these are numbers we got to get the
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economy going because I got an election
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coming up and if the economy goes down
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the toilet because maybe I didn’t
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prepare enough for this or I didn’t get
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the ventilators out or you know I blamed
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China or whatever and now the Democrats
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are gonna use it against me I’m not
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gonna get reelected right so listen to
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the facts but listen to who’s telling
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you the facts and then make a judgement
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about it and still completely decide for
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yourself because really you are the only
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one whose viewpoint matters it doesn’t
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matter what any casting director thinks
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about what you should do it doesn’t
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matter what any producer or any other
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actor or anybody else what matters is
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what do you want to do and what is it
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that you have going for you that’s gonna
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help you get there okay guys so who do
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you trust you trust yourself there’s
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really nobody else who knows you well
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enough to give you an accurate
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assessment of what it is you should do
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whether it’s what you should do for the
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coronavirus or what you should do with
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your acting career of course we are a
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community as society actors are sort of
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a community it’s more like the
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entertainment community we are also a
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society of humans who have to survive
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this thing so there are certain things
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that you’re probably going to want to do
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to act as a group to protect the entire
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group right we can’t just run around
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doing whatever we want even though
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that’s what some people think they
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should be able to do so there is a
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certain community aspect like you can’t
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just run amok and act like you know what
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do you call it our arc arc
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okay the only word you know those people
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who don’t believe in government I can’t
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think of the word for it whatever I’m
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sure you’re you’re going it’s this it’s
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that not archaea not guys I can’t think
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of the word anyway you know there goes
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my brain anyway there it is guys who
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should you trust if it comes to the
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coronavirus if it comes to your acting
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career
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trust yourself but and when you’re
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trusting yourself and thinking what you
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should do please don’t keep in mind
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don’t base it on what other people have
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told you come up with what seems like a
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logical plan for yourself and then just
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go for it
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trust me you’re gonna fall all over the
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place you’re gonna plow nor you’re gonna
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make a fool of yourself that’s great
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because when you you may you’ll feel
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like a bigger fool than anybody else
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feels like you are they’ll just be like
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you know that’s too bad we hope that
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that person was the right person for our
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acting job but they weren’t because they
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either weren’t good enough they weren’t
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prepared enough or they’re just not
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right for the part so don’t worry about
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it everybody’s gonna have your opinion
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do what’s right for you guys and I will
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talk to you on the next one
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