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am William Turimple. White leaning in a bit.

I mean we know.

It's like it's like...

You never know who might forget.

I mean, you want a boat?

So I'm sitting in my house I grew up in in Scotland,

which I haven't been to for four years since my father died and I'm

looking out on the garden I ran around as a child it's a very very nice and unusually

for Scotland it's a bright blue summer day and it's just gorgeous.

Yeah, Call and just said, Willie, can you stop looking at the window and look at the

night?

That's the problem of the window is to my right and I can't stop looking at it.

Listen, the thing with audio magic is that you can pretend you're looking out of the window

So we can hear you.

Okay.

It's still a very foreign form to be.

Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

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