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  That sound means it's time for our whiff weekend flick picks. Joining us is
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  the one, the only, the incomparable. The executive director of the Windsor
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  International Film Festival, as well as their chief programmer, Vincent Georgie, joins
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  me right now. Vincent, how are you John? I'm doing great And
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  after that introduction, I can have to make sure this the interview is fantastic.
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  But that was really good. I have to live up to that interest.
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  Thank you, You're welcome. Swing for the fences with it. Oh,
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  we're going to be coming at you with the hard hitting, heavy questions
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  for the movies that you picked that people should be watching this weekend. But
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  first, there is something that I wanted to talk to you about. Vincent
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  came across on social media. An independent cinema has announced that they are closing
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  their doors. Review Cinema regrets that we have been unable to secure a renewal
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  of our lease. While we continue to attempt to negotiat in good faith,
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  we are unsuriff we'll be able to open past this thirtieth of June. We
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  will communicate more information as available. This is one of those situations that I
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  guess is happening more and more often. We're losing independent cinemas, aren't we,
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  Vincent we are, we're seeing that. So Review Cinema is in Toronto.
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  It's in the area of Parkdale, and I've been to it many,
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  many times. And the beauty of that cinema is it's really like the neighborhood
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  Cinema's like the neighborhood bar. It's very very popular. People go to it
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  all the time. And it seems that this cinema is in some sort of
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  conflict between the building owner and the board of directors who run the cinemas of
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  that for profit. And again I don't know the players involved, so they're
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  sure's different angles to the issues, but the bottom line is just for that
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  neighborhood and that community, potentially losing that cinema is really really unfortunate. And
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  you've seen so many of these, you know, historic cinemas that are you
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  know, in and around one hundred years old, all across Canada, you
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  know, disappear and turn into something else, which is a loss. And
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  it's actually giving this some thought. And I think too, you know,
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  the amazing job that this community did in saving the Capital Theater, and I
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  think in terms of the great thing that the city of Windsor has done that.
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  Now, I mean the Capital Theater in downtown Windsor. It's hopping,
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  there's stuff going on there all the time. You know, it's actually heavily
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  booked throughout the year. And I'm thinking of all the different capital theater equivalents
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  across the country that closed down, I think by people that didn't have the
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  foresight to see what it could do and see how much it could offer in
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  terms of just use and the quality of life for community. You know,
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  I'm looking at a photograph here of the interior of the Review Cinema and it's
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  just it's so charming. It's like a old palace cinema or forest glade cinema,
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  you know, not too big, actually fairly narrow. It's only about
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  as wide as the screen itself. Yes, but these are you know,
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  cinemas of past, but they serve such an important role. Still. What
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  happens when we lose out on these not only these spaces that operate as cinemas,
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  but just these spaces generally. Yeah, well, I mean I think
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  what it does. It takes to the heart of a neighborhood, and you
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  know, I'm all for shopping or a coffee shop or whatever, but these
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  are places where people gather, people enjoy, you build memories of your families
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  and friends. And from what I understands, at the Review Cinema in Toronto,
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  they are showing a lot of like you, past favorites and classics and
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  this type of stuff that you can go and relive and enjoy and some of
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  you know, light hearted and you know it's I think it builds memories.
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  It built memories of bring people together and and you know it's I think it
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  says a lot of good of a community like windsor that you say something like
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  the Capital Theater that's you know, so beautiful people love, and I think
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  in other communities across across the country. And if if Toronto end up losing
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  the Review Cinema, you know you've lost it. To put in what you
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  know, a dry cleaner or what have you, it's not as exciting now.
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  Hopefully again, from what I understand that the ownership there want to keep
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  it at the cinema, They just want to change the model around it.
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  I think there's some politics going on between the folks that run it. Now
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  is without a profit and need to the landowners. But the bottom line is
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  it just you just want to make sure that the people that live around there,
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  that neighborhood doesn't lose that theater because they use it's actually very very popular.
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  It's also very well attended. It's an important community space. Well it
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  is. Thank you for chatting about that with me. Let's shift into the
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  regular programming of this segment, the with flick picks for this weekend. You've
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  put together some good picks here today. Why don't you tell us just off
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  the bat about a family affair. Yeah, so family Fair Just just Loanda
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  Netflix. This is a myrand new film starring Nicole Kidman and Zach Efron and
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  the young actres named Joey King. It's a really enjoyable light somewhat romantic comedy.
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  So the central premise is Nicole Kidman ends up having a relationship with zach
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  Efron and that gets awkward. Is Nicole Kidman's daughter works for him, So
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  it's a little awkward, but it's actually quite funny, quite quite enjoyable,
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  some good family dynamics. Again, not a film that's going to change your
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  life, but if you want something that you know enjoyable, watch with a
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  couple of family members, or maybe in a date night and have a couple
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  of drinks. It's a perfectly good piece of entertainment for a long weekend.
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  I think it's a bit of fun. Yeah, it's also reuniting Zach Efron
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  and Nicole Kidman as lovers twelve years after they were in The paper Boy together.
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  Yes, well done, Yes exactly, John, they were in The
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  paper Boy that that was a much much different film and a much sell fier
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  film. That's something that's always impressed with Nicole Kidman. You know, as
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  much as this role is pretty late, Nicole kidd always takes on these parts
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  are difficult and challenging and put her in difficult situations. She's a very good
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  actress. I have a lot a lot of respect for her. And yeah,
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  it is quite a ref anyone wants to see what they did in The
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  paper Boy years ago, check that with it and hold onto your hat before
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  that one, for sure. So I see that you've got black Bear here
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  on the list, and I just wanted to quickly start. I see that
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  it's being released in Canada as a television show. Yeah, so what they've
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  been doing, there's a chopping up the film and releasing it's sort of almost
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  an episodic form, which I don't know that that that's how I would release
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  it or do it, but the no one asked me, you know what
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  I mean, it's it's an excellent film. We had nominated for with Presentated
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  Film last year. It just won fourteen awards, It's Kane Screen Awards.
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  It's fantastic because it's very funny and it's very smart and the whole history of
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  you know, BlackBerry and all the you know, it's Rise in Waterloo and
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  it's falling globally. You know, it's it's really really well done. It's
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  it's quite comical. The cast, you know, j Barschell, Don Howard
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  and are absolutely fantastic. I think a lot of the film and it's really
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  enjoyable. And this copro in this past year, I was a question rewatching
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  it as a two hour movie that it is. I don't know that it's
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  being chopped up into thirty minute episodes is the way to go. Yeah,
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  I agree with you on that one. Not what I would have done,
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  But then again, I'm sure that someone in the advertising department was like,
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  hey, we can sell a lot more ads if we split it into six
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  different parts. You know, Vincent, you could sell more ads that with
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  if you chop the movies up too and put some ads right in the middle.
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  Well, there, there we go. We could have ads every form
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  and in a two hour movie that you fantastic and think you ever totally love
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  that. It's the Amazon Prime model. Pay us four dollars a month and
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  you can get rid of it. Now. We also have the Great Mouse
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  Detective here. Yeah, we're the great best Detective. A really really good
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  kids movie for the long weekend for people looking for stuff for the kids to
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  watch. It's a fantastic Disney classic from the mid eighties. It's actually kind
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  of forgotten may because it's not on the same level of say, Little Mermaider
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  or something of the sort. It's essentially a Sherlock Holmes mystery done for kids
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  through animation with mice. It's really cute. It's it's setting in London,
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  England, and there's a mystery and the toy maker goes missing. There's no
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  more toys this sych of stuff. But the estyns of the film is the
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  villain. That rating and big, larger in life villain played by Vincent Price.
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  Incredible incredible. It's just the voice is all of it. The villain
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  really makes he's excellent and makes it exciting. And that. Yeah, So
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  if you want something to show your kid that I bet your kids haven't seen
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  but will love. The Great Mouse Detective is a really good story, excellent.
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  I remember it watching it when I was younger, And now you have
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  a double feature, all hail Catherine O'Hara. Absolutely, I mean celebrating your
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  Canada Day weekend thinking of the the I mean the excellent actors and actresses you
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  know, kling from this great country, and thinking of Catherine O'Hara sort of
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  comes immediately top the top of mind of how skilled and funny. And also,
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  I mean Catherine O'Hara is going on five decades of a career, almost
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  on six decades at this point, and this is someone that has stood the
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  test of time. And I was thinking of some of the great films she's
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  been in. When I think of, of course, His Beatle Juice,
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  I thought she was incredible in that film. That the film from eighty eight
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  with the known a rioter Alec Baldwin, Jena Davis and just really it's a
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  film that really knows how to utilize Kasa O'Hara's comedic skills and her physical skills
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  as a comedian, very very very funny in this film. It's a really
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  good one. And I'm also recommending another film where O'Hara is the lead of.
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  It's a film called for Your Consideration, came out about fifteen years ago.
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  She plays a hack actress that is desperately trying to get an Oscar nomination.
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  And she's got this new film that's come out that's super serious, that
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  actually kind of terrible. It's a whole film about this delusional actress desperately trying
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  to get an Oscar nomination. And that lead acts, of course, is
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  played by Katha ma'hara. She's very funny in it. And what's great about
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  this is she's the whole show. She's in almost every scene of the film.
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  She's a really good in it. I mean, who though, don't
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  who doesn't think that they could get an Academy Award for the movie Home for
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  Peram exactly. That's exactly just screams something that you have to absolutely want to
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  run to go see. It also has, you know, a little bit
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  of vibes of shitz Creek as well. Yes, yes, it does,
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  Yes it does. I would I would agree with you match. It has
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  almost this is sort of the earlier version or sort of take that she had
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  on her character. If she has to creak, I agree these those characters
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  are probably Siblics, and you had Eugene Levan as well. So reuniting,
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  well, shits Creek is the reuniting. It's not reuniting. They've been together
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  their entire career is quite frankly, they can't be separated. Well, unfortunately,
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  we have to be separated. Vince, and I gotta let you go.
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  Happy Canada Day weekend. Thank you for sharing your with flick picks with
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  us. It's that pleasure, sure,