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A&E's Squatters Hosted By Flash Shelton · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration by Ero. Hey, good morning. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing today? Flash?
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  Speaker 2: I am doing well. Thank you, dude.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta ask you the question. You've got the fervor
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  Speaker 1: of my father, who took no excuses as an answer,
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  Speaker 1: and you just have that embodied inside everything that you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: He was World War Two, a veteran of that. Where
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  Speaker 1: are you getting this courage, this confidence and this vision
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  Speaker 1: that something has got to be done?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think it's just growing up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: having to fight for anything and everything I've had.
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  Speaker 2: I grew up poor, I was homeless.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know, I've just worked a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: different jobs, including training bouncers for years, being certified in
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  Speaker 3: de escalation for over thirty years. I think I just
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  Speaker 3: I went from you know, getting trouble out of bars
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  Speaker 3: to getting trouble out of houses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's really cool about what you're doing? Flash, There's
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  Speaker 1: two different angles here, and the first one is is
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  Speaker 1: that listeners need to understand this is not an a
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  Speaker 1: twenty four scary movie where we've seen people invade homes.
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  Speaker 1: This is the real deal. And how you're able to
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  Speaker 1: go in there and not catch a spook, well, actually
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  Speaker 1: you do, they're human being spooks. But I mean, but
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  Speaker 1: you're really doing it at a very a high level
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  Speaker 1: of anxiety level, dude. I mean, I don't understand how
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  Speaker 1: you're able to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I have to prepare for it mentally
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  Speaker 3: every single time. I you know, I do take some
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  Speaker 3: time to myself, do a little bit of meditation, lower
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  Speaker 3: my heart rate so that I can go in calm
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not already started escalated. But you know, it is,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's very much an adrenaline thing. It's like running
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  Speaker 3: onto a football field, you know, and it and it
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  Speaker 3: can be dangerous, But we spend a lot of time
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  Speaker 3: prepping and being ready for anything that comes our way.
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  Speaker 1: Now, my question is, let's let's play devil's advocate here.
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  Speaker 1: Like in my own forest here in South Charlotte, there
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  Speaker 1: are so many professional owners that own these homes that
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  Speaker 1: they're not even living in them. Why can't a squatter
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  Speaker 1: come in? What I mean, they're sitting there empty in
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful forest.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's if it's an abandoned property, and somebody
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  Speaker 3: is actually going through the squatter process, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: yet adverse possession. They're filing the proper paperwork. They're going
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  Speaker 3: through the proper process than all the power to them.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, to take someone's home that might be
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  Speaker 3: something that the family worked for for generations and you know,
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  Speaker 3: has had and owned since their great great grandfather or
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  Speaker 3: Civil War veteran, you know, own this property. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't believe that anyone has a right to
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  Speaker 3: take that from a family, regardless of condition.
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  Speaker 1: You really bring up something very scary inside this, and
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  Speaker 1: that is people who live in your basement. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: now my crawl space is eleven and a half feet
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  Speaker 1: up there. It pretty much qualifies as a basement. I
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  Speaker 1: fear that every day that someone's going to take up
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  Speaker 1: shopping there. How can the consumer protect themselves? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can we just It's like Ghostbusters, we just get you
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  Speaker 1: on the line.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yeah, you know I think that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: before you become a victim, you just need to protect
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  Speaker 3: your home. You know, in my situation with my mom's house,
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  Speaker 3: for example, if I had cameras or a security system
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  Speaker 3: there to where I could say this is the day
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  Speaker 3: that they broke in, this is who broke in, then
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  Speaker 3: I would have never had a squatter. I would have
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  Speaker 3: had a trespasser and they would have been arrested.
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  Speaker 1: You come in with so much vision, dedication, perseverance. But
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  Speaker 1: why is the rest of the decision makers hanging back
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  Speaker 1: here so far? It's like we're relying on you to
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  Speaker 1: go in and clear the way, and then everybody else
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  Speaker 1: gets to come in and take credit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess because I don't rely on votes, I
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  Speaker 2: can just be me.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that about you, and you can pick
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  Speaker 1: up on that and then to share it inside the
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  Speaker 1: storyline with everybody else involved on that camera. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're bringing the experience. You feel it first, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you've been on this side of the
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  Speaker 1: screen yet to feel it. Oh, my god. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's like we are so glued to what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes I feel like I'm being robbed that
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  Speaker 3: experience because I'm having my own experience, so I'm not
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  Speaker 3: feeling the same thing that others are seeing it from.
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  Speaker 1: You know, please don't move. There's more with Flash Shelton
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  Speaker 1: coming up next a and ees squatters your host Flash
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  Speaker 1: Shelton to become the squatter though, Do they have your
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  Speaker 1: picture up on their wall saying you see this dude,
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  Speaker 1: let's we got we gotta prepare for him, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: always thinking about the other side as well. If you're
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  Speaker 1: coming through one of the side doors or a window,
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  Speaker 1: where are they coming from?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, they're they're figuring out any
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  Speaker 3: way to come in. And if they have a picture
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  Speaker 3: of you know, if they don't have a picture of
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  Speaker 3: me up on the wall right now, then I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: they soon will, you know. But you know, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to be careful because squatters are going to they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: look like just everyday people.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna drive nice cars.
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  Speaker 3: They just figure that there's, you know, a flaw with
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  Speaker 3: the system, and they're entitled to take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: And why pay rent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you brought that up, because the average person, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what we've usually seen on this clickbait stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's all over social media is that they're in there
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  Speaker 1: wrecking the house. And I mean, you see what they
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  Speaker 1: do out there with those million dollar homes in California.
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  Speaker 1: They throw parties, they really destroy things. You just gave
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  Speaker 1: us a clearer picture of who this squatter is. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know they're squatting.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. You have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: I typically when I'm talking to neighbors, they have no
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  Speaker 3: idea that they're squatters. Squatters typically, you know, we hear
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  Speaker 3: about stories of big parties, which are typically like you know,
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  Speaker 3: when their squatters are in their twenties and they're just
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  Speaker 3: and they're making money off of those parties. But the
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  Speaker 3: average squatter, you know, they kind of they're quiet, they
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  Speaker 3: stay within their means. They they just they don't want
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  Speaker 3: to draw attention. They just want free rent. So the
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  Speaker 3: neighbors think that they're fine. Yep, you know, so we
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  Speaker 3: have from one extreme to the other, so you knows,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're not homeless people. They're entitled, they're narcissistic
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  Speaker 3: and they're just taking advantage of a system. You know,
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  Speaker 3: most people they think that, you know, their vision of
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  Speaker 3: a squatter is somebody homeless. And you know, homeless people
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  Speaker 3: are not narcissistic. Narcissistic homeless people typically they don't break
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  Speaker 3: into homes. They're they're living, you know, unfortunately, on the
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  Speaker 3: streets or in a cardboard box or a tent. They're
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  Speaker 3: not breaking in your back door.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think there'll ever be a squatter against squatter war?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, if people find out that you're squatting
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  Speaker 1: in this house, I'm moving in beside you, or you
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  Speaker 1: can go, or we're gonna have a war in this home.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean, I who knows anything is possible,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, But you know I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that they want the the exposure that that that
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  Speaker 3: would bring to them, because then their squatter days would
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  Speaker 3: be limited.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I see. And please tell me that you're marketing
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  Speaker 1: your your big logo, the Squatter Hunter, because I want
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  Speaker 1: that T shirt. I really I want anything merchandise from
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  Speaker 1: this show, because this has got to be one of
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  Speaker 1: the most relatable shows I've seen in a very long time.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I do have squatter Hunters hat up on
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  Speaker 3: my website at this point on, there's Squatter Hunters and
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  Speaker 3: get out on the backside.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think you know the you know, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: There will be merchandise will come out for both the
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  Speaker 3: Squatter Show and for Squatter Hunters.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future. Flash. I mean, let's continue this conversation because
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  Speaker 1: I think you're just getting started with something that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be very, very overboard.
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  Speaker 2: All right, man, just send the invite. I'll be back,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Sar, all right, thank you so much.