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Well, Hey everybody,
Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again.

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Welcome friends.

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Welcome back to the daily podcast.

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a little bit of something that will
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Um, or anywhere else, please
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And, um, let's do this.

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You ready to jump in today?

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We're going to talk.

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About something.

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That's uh, has been a challenge
for me at different times in life.

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Want to talk about.

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Why we need to stop looking for.

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A sign.

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And if that sounds esoteric to you hanging
there, I'm going to make this relevant.

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I've been really reading a really
interesting book lately and yesterday.

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They, there was this simple
moment where it talked about the

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need to stop looking for a sign.

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And it referenced a name.

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If you've ever seen the movie Forrest
Gump with Tom Hanks, but there's a

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scene where this sort of feather.

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Floats down and lands in his lap and
it sits him off on this whole process.

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And.

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The book was sort of saying, we need to
stop waiting for feathers to fall into

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our lap, which is what do they mean?

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They mean this.

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That sometimes we don't take action.

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We don't move forward because we
are waiting for some kind of cosmic

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sign, some kind of confirmation.

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That the direction we are
heading in is the right one.

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I would like to nominate myself as the
undisputed champion of such things.

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I have struggled with this at
different times in life, wanting.

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A deep desire.

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To not just do what I think is the right
thing, but to not want to waste energy

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and time, I've always wanted to go on.

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I'm going to commit to X, but I need
to know, I need a deep internal sense

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that this is 150% the right thing to do.

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And that if I go and do this, there's
going to be a guaranteed result.

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And I think a lot of times I've got
myself in all levels of confusion.

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Uh, somebody decided to me, I've
always, I always need to be careful

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of the issue of paralysis by analysis.

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But I get paralyzed by
analyzing things too much.

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So.

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Do you ever do this?

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Do you ever sort of go, well,
I'm going to do this action.

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If X happens.

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Teaching algebra to my
daughter at the moment.

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And there's this, you know,
if X equals this, then why?

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Right.

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It's like we can get really stuck.

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Because we're not sure
how to move forward.

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So what I'm going to actually suggest
is that the way to move forward is this.

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Move forward.

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The way to move forward is simply to
take action and take the next viable

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logical step that's in front of you.

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This seems to be something about action.

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That's remarkable.

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I'm going to do a full podcast on the
concept of action in a couple of days.

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So stay tuned for that.

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I want to go deeper into it.

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But as I get older in life, I realized
that we don't see the full picture.

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We don't have a guaranteed insight
into exactly the right thing to do all

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the time everywhere on every occasion.

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We can't know.

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We have to develop, uh, intellects.

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We have to read, you have
to become knowledgeable.

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We have to develop our spiritual core.

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We have to try and look after our health
and wellbeing so that we're we're as

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often as possible in optimal states.

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Give you an example?

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Uh, I don't know if you are
familiar with one of the greatest

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inventions in human history.

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No, it is not the printing press.

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It is not penicillin.

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It's not electricity.

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It's cookie cream, commotion, ice cream.

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Cookie cream commotion ice
cream is probably the greatest

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creation in human history.

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The reason I'm sharing this story
with you is because there have been

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times, years ago, I haven't done this.

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Many many years.

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Well, I would eat a tub
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I was a bit younger.

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I was super active.

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I mean, I'm still super active,
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Hey, I can eat.

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Top a cookie cream commotion.

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No problem.

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But every time I did it,
it wasn't that often.

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Yeah, don't judge me.

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It wasn't that often.

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But there would be this time and
I would, uh, I would eat that tub.

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And then you go into cookie
cream, commotion coma.

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You're lying there and you're
like, Uh, he's like fully.

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Bonnie gumball Homer Simpson.

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You don't move him.

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What's my point is that.

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To make good decisions.

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We've got to try and be an optimal states.

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So rather than waiting for.

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You know the universe
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We need to try and get ourselves
consistently in good states of life so

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that we can make reasonable decisions.

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And I guess what I'm
trying to say here is that.

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If we feel terrible, if we're not looking
after ourselves, then good decision-making

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can become more problematic.

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But back to the focus of today's message.

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I really just want to
remind us and remind myself.

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To have the humility to know that
there are things we cannot know.

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To have the humility to know
that we sometimes just have to

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move forward and keep going.

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So now as a parent, my kids are at that
age where they making more and more

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decisions United coming into their teens.

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And there's more and more things going on.

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More decisions to be made
about friendships and time and

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what they do with their time.

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And.

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And their aspirations and goals
and the self-development all

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these awesome things that are a
great privilege to do as a parent.

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It's this awareness that, you know,
They're not going to know the full path.

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I'm not going to know the full path.

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What they need to do is make the
next decision, make the next choice.

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So friends, I think I've probably wasted.

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Important seasons of life.

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I haven't.

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Fully executed at times because I've been
waiting for some kind of internal clarity.

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That didn't come or couldn't come.

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Because I just needed to get
on with the business of living

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and just doing life itself.

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So I hope this is not too
esoteric and a bit too confusing.

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I guess what I'm saying is.

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You get this one precious life.

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And I'm not encouraging
you to be frivolous.

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I'm not encouraging you to be
flippant about making poor decisions.

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I'm just saying.

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Sometimes you just have to move forward.

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You just got to do the next thing
in front of you, whatever it is.

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And then the path opens.

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You know, I've been up since.

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At three 50 this morning and, uh,
You know, I was lying there at some

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ridiculous hour and I was thinking about.

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Many many years ago.

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When I was about 18.

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I applied to a gap here.

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Uh, a year overseas in England
and I researched these 36

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amazing schools where I could go.

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And I got 35 rejections.

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But I got accepted by
the best of them all.

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And it was the most phenomenal
experience and it changed my life.

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And I guess what I'm saying is
that I just had to take action.

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You know, if I'd sat around and
said, you know, God universe magical

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feathers, please send to me a
message about what I should do and

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which school I should apply to.

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I just took action.

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I applied to 36.

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So maybe that's helpful for some
of you today that you're stuck on a

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decision you're, you're waiting for
some kind of cosmic clarification.

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Look, do the practical stuff.

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Talk to the people that love you.

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Talk to the people that know you.

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Well, I've got a bunch of outside
mentors that I can go to at any time.

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So do all that stuff.

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But then after that, just move
forward because you can't.

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No, until you take action, you can't know.

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See, and you can always undo action.

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Right?

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You can always start something and go,
this is the worst decision I've ever made.

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And you're out of there.

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You can change things.

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You've got some flexibility.

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So should I be afraid to
act, take that action?

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Okay.

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Stay tuned tomorrow.

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We're going to be talking
about something different.

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We may be talking about duty.

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I know you thinking, what would we
talk about that it's really important.

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So tune in tomorrow,
we're talking about GT.

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And why we need to be more attuned to our
GT, to ourselves and our duty to others.

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So let's do that.

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Do something with your staff,
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Go and check it out.

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All right, everybody.

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God bless you.

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I love doing these.

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You are made.

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For destiny you are made for
contribution you are made for joy.

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Press ahead.

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Make good decisions.

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Don't wait for that magical feather.

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My name's jonathan doyle and i'm going
to have another message for you tomorrow