Hi everyone, thanks for joining me. It's a spectacularly good opportunity that presents itself to us now.

Not just one excellent guest, but two, two for the price of one. And I'm looking forward genuinely to a fascinating conversation.

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Okay, let's get to that wonderful, in-prospect, three-headed conversation.

I am very excited this morning because my guests, and it is a plural,

I am joined by the co-hosts of the Duran podcast, which is a source of information that I rely on heavily. I go to it all the time,

and I cannot recommend the content highly enough. And so I am joined by Alex Christophoro and Alexander Mercurus.

Welcome and good morning to both of you gentlemen.

Delighted to be here and a great pleasure to be talking to you.

Good morning. Pleasure to be here. Great stuff. Now, my only challenge really is because I want to hear from both of you equally,

I'm not quite sure how to divide up the questions, but I will just throw ideas out there and perhaps with your obvious

compatibilities and the way you interact together so well, you'll be able to do this job for me.

But if I can start by saying, as we watch events at the moment, in the Middle East, obviously,

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