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Speaker 2 Hey, Phil, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan. Phil, how are you? Hey, Conan, Sona, Matt.
How's it going? There's no particular orders of the way I said your name in terms of hierarchy. It's fine.

Speaker 2 It's fine, and uh, it's nice to talk to you. Phil, uh, Phil, tell us a little bit about yourselves.
I like to,

Speaker 2 you know, get the parameters of a man before we continue speaking.

Speaker 2 Where are you right now? So I live in Vermont.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you've got that Vermont accent.

Speaker 2 I was almost going to say it and you said it fully. I know.

Speaker 2 Traditional Vermont accent. Yeah.
Where are you from originally?

Speaker 2 I'm originally from a town called Ipswich in England on the east coast. Okay, very nice.
I felt I should experience New England, and so that's where I live now. It's so funny.

Speaker 2 I I grew up in New England and really believed when I was a boy that England had stolen the names of our towns.

Speaker 2 I really believed that. Is that what they tell you? No, I just was, I found out that, you know, because I grew up in Boston and there's Cambridge and just on and on and on.

Speaker 2 And I just thought, you know, Sturbridge. And then I started to hear about these places in England and thought, well,

Speaker 2 why can't they get their own names?

Speaker 2 I remember

Speaker 2 I went to Ipswich Mass. So you may be familiar, but they have an Ipswich Mass brewery.
And I went in and I said, I'm from Ipswich. And they said, well, no shit, we're in Ipswich.

Speaker 2 The original. And I expected to be carried on shoulders, but that did not happen.
No, there's not a lot of, ever since we got rid of your king,

Speaker 2 we don't go carrying people around on our shoulders.

Speaker 2 But, well, I'm, so you live in Vermont. How did you choose Vermont? What made you say, okay, you have the entire United States to play with? What made you choose Vermont?

Speaker 2 I would say the beauty. If you've been

Speaker 2 a beautiful state.

Speaker 2 And it also happens to be Howells, the location at which I work. So it was through work that I ended up in Vermont.
It wasn't necessarily a choice, but I am very glad for the choice. Very good.

Speaker 2 Beautiful state to me.

Speaker 2 I like New Hampshire. I like Vermont.
I've spent a lot of time in both.

Speaker 2 And I'm curious what you do. You mentioned a job.
What is your job?

Speaker 2 Yeah, so I work for an organization called High Five Adventure Learning Center.

Speaker 2 And I use adventure-based activities for team and leadership development from fifth grade kids all the way up to the Boston Bruins. So a spectrum.

Speaker 2 It's very interesting to me that it's the same principles. If you're talking to someone in the fifth grade or if you're talking to a professional athlete, it's the same principles, I guess.

Speaker 2 Leadership, how to work together, how to have fun.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and I would say I'm unique in that I get to take people on a ropes course in Vermont. So, you know, we bring

Speaker 2 participants up to 40, 50 feet in the air and kind of have stretch moments for them. So really have kind of really

Speaker 2 extreme experiences, really, that allows them to kind of develop more as a team.

Speaker 2 And it doesn't matter if you're a fifth grader or you're a professional athlete, the heights is the great normalizer or the great equalizer. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Now, okay, let's get into the safety of it because you send a fifth grader up a pole. How many feet in the air?

Speaker 2 Let's say 40, 40, 50, make sure anywhere within that range.

Speaker 2 Is the child tethered

Speaker 2 or is there a good chance the child could fall to his or her

Speaker 2 or her doom?

Speaker 2 I would assume that if we did it untethered, we wouldn't be allowed.

Speaker 2 So, no, it wasn't. It was a weird way to go out.
Yeah, that seemed very late.

Speaker 2 I would assume that were one to have an untethered child, that if found out, one would be discovered and one could be in trouble. I think you have untethered children.

Speaker 2 And I think kids are falling like apples.

Speaker 2 Apples in October. I think they're tumbling.
And you're just catching them. You start to get calls from parents immediately after this.

Speaker 2 No, they're on a rope. We belay them.
And I would say

Speaker 2 I've seen you climb. I believe there was a Konamosko episode where you climbed.
Your incredible physique mastered the climb. Hey, I like you, by the way.
You're fantastic. And clearly

Speaker 2 you don't have a very good television screen.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 I did a rock wall. Yeah.
In Thailand, I believe. Yeah.

Speaker 2 The differing factor I would say for our programs is we actually teach our participants to do the belaying. So

Speaker 2 that is that demonstration of team and leadership development is actually giving them a skill and allowing them to be responsible for their team members.

Speaker 2 And so that is something that I really think

Speaker 2 the three of you, bring Eduardo, bring Blai. But teach Sona how to believe and then have Sona in charge of Conan.

Speaker 2 No, no,

Speaker 2 guess what? Guess what? Phil,

Speaker 2 I've experienced Sona in charge of Conan.

Speaker 2 I think I did about 10 years of Sona in charge of Conan, and I was killed multiple times.

Speaker 2 Shit went half-assed all over the place.

Speaker 2 So you're saying that I would be hanging 50 feet in the air, and the only thing between me and death would be a rope, and Sona's holding onto it? Yes. Yes.

Speaker 2 And then Sona sees a glass of white wine in the corner. Oh, lets go of the rope.
Wine. And I go,

Speaker 2 and you go, shrimp, shrip, ship ship

Speaker 2 yeah i like that idea i think we should do this team building thing i think that would really bring us closer together um so is it all climbing for all teams is it all climbing what other things would we do

Speaker 2 So I would say we range it from ground initiatives. They may be problem-solving activities on the ground.
There is connection activities to get you more connected as a team.

Speaker 2 And then we focus on the development of your trust and your responsibility and your decision making. And then you bring you to that point of belaying each other.
Really, that's that ultimate point.

Speaker 2 We'll get you there, right? But Phil, Phil,

Speaker 2 faith in my abilities. Phil,

Speaker 2 I have a lot of faith in you, Phil.

Speaker 2 Is it possible that it's our dysfunction that makes this podcast popular? That it's our inability to get along, our childishness, our peevishness, our

Speaker 2 just overall,

Speaker 2 I don't know, just refusal to act like

Speaker 2 good people

Speaker 2 that might be the glue here.

Speaker 2 That's right. It's that we don't have a balance.
We have an equal amount of repulsion for each other. We're pulling on each other with equal amounts so we stay tethered.
Yes. Yes.
Is that possible?

Speaker 2 It's highly possible. And actually, I've listened to all of the episodes and from my professional lens,

Speaker 2 I would say you're a really high-functioning team, despite the repulsion.

Speaker 2 I think that repulsion could be there and your team could still be successful. I like the head nods and the

Speaker 2 I am agreeing with you that there is some

Speaker 2 in architecture sometimes an arch works because various forces are acting upon each other in an aggressive way, but that's what holds it all together.

Speaker 2 I've often heard often, I've heard aviation experts describe a helicopter as a machine that wants to pull itself apart, but it's engineered in such a way that it doesn't.

Speaker 2 And that's actually what gives it its integrity.

Speaker 2 I think we're a helicopter that desperately wants to fly apart, rotors zipping in every direction, Adam Sachs walking into the room, his head being lopped off,

Speaker 2 carnage, massacre, flames, but something keeps it all together. And because of that, we're able to fly around through the air and give the local traffic report.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so everywhere around you is destroyed, but this group stays intact.

Speaker 2 Wow, beautiful.

Speaker 2 Where did you first become interested in all of this, Phil? You're a young boy. You're living in Eastern.

Speaker 2 Well, I'm saying he's a young boy. He's in the eastern coast, I'm imagining, of England, the salty air,

Speaker 2 sausage for breakfast.

Speaker 2 Please.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 also some beans, the ever-present beans,

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 some tea. With milk.
Milk, yeah. Syrup.
Yeah. And then something.
Vermont. Please, you're getting ready.
We're talking about generally high tight.

Speaker 2 I thought we were talking about Vermont.

Speaker 2 And then suddenly

Speaker 2 you get into team building. Was there another plan along the way or was this always the plan, do you think? So I was

Speaker 2 my education is in teaching. And so I was going to become a teacher.

Speaker 2 And I came over to the States to do a summer camp program. It's a rite of passage, it seems, like for a European to enter America and work a summer camp program.
So I felt like I had to do it.

Speaker 2 And at the camp, they had a ropes course. They had team development and they did year-round programming.
And I kind of just fell in. They said, you've got a teaching degree.

Speaker 2 We'd love for you to stick around. And they sponsored my visa.
And

Speaker 2 18 years later, I'm still here. So I've yet to find my way home.

Speaker 2 Well, I think you're thriving. It's reminding me.
I went to summer camp in Freedom, New Hampshire. Yeah.
And there was a camp there called Cragged Mountain Farm. And we had,

Speaker 2 I had a,

Speaker 2 one of my counselors was from Britain.

Speaker 2 So, and I remembered climbing the presidential mountain range, and there was this gentleman with a British accent who would tell us to move our asses, get up that hill.

Speaker 2 And we killed him

Speaker 2 and we ate him.

Speaker 2 It was delicious.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 We were running low on food. We only had six more weeks of food left for a two-day hike.
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Speaker 2 he die and be eaten.

Speaker 2 Phil, I really respect people that teach for a living, and

Speaker 2 it's absolutely wonderful. And do you find ever that a kid

Speaker 2 or even an adult gets up to the top of the pole and they just won't budge and they just won't move? And you're coaxing them and coaxing them, but they don't move. What do you do at that point?

Speaker 2 Push them. BB gun.
So I think it really is. BB gun.

Speaker 2 I said,

Speaker 2 push them in BB gun.

Speaker 2 This is what I'm working with. Are you up there with them? Or is someone up there? No, no.

Speaker 2 But I would say the question to push them does come up often, and it's the number one thing we say not to do.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 can I give you my suggestion?

Speaker 2 Electrify the pole.

Speaker 2 They suddenly spread out like a flattened squirrel and they fall through space.

Speaker 2 I love it. An electrified pole.
That's the answer. You don't have to pick it up because it...
No, it's not my concern.

Speaker 2 What I'm saying is that a BB gun, you have to hit them

Speaker 2 50 feet. That's a whole nother activity for some other children, for some team building.
So you're kind of combining. Another group

Speaker 2 off to the side, yeah.

Speaker 2 So to answer the question,

Speaker 2 there's two parts to it. I like that you laughed at that.

Speaker 2 There's two parts to it.

Speaker 2 We're clearly not trying to learn anything.

Speaker 2 Well, I will, I do, I will answer your question and give you the knowledge you need to the three idiots

Speaker 2 to be gun pushing and electrifying the hole. I'm wondering if I'll find myself in a situation where I have to push a kid down a pole.
I don't know, but I'm eager to hear how to do it.

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Speaker 2 So, either we have adequately prepared the students so that we're not having people up who shouldn't be up there. We don't force them up there.

Speaker 2 Oh, so there's a long, there's a lot of training before they go up the pole. Yeah, I would say there's like loads of sequencing, planning, it's part of the risk management thing.

Speaker 2 And then, but the other component is that I teach, as well as teaching the team building stuff, I also teach rescue training for those kind of scenarios.

Speaker 2 So, we can have participants go up to height or staff members, sorry, go up to height and then help pick a participant off the course.

Speaker 2 So there are, there's like a spectrum or a range of rescue scenarios that we can do and I teach those two. Wow.

Speaker 2 So from a like a risk management lens, I would say you're in safe hands because not only can we deal with the

Speaker 2 mental side of how to help people, but we can also deal with the physical component of getting someone down if necessary.

Speaker 2 We wouldn't want to push someone though. No, no, no.
Unfortunately,

Speaker 2 that would be terrible. I think electrifying much better.

Speaker 2 This is the little pussy.

Speaker 2 Sona brings up a good point.

Speaker 2 Are you

Speaker 2 it could be valuable to

Speaker 2 shame someone who doesn't

Speaker 2 and you know if you're I know your first reaction as an educator is that oh you can't you can't shame a fifth grader, but I was shamed many times as a fifth grader and I think it molded me into the person I am today.

Speaker 2 Case in point. Well hold it.
Excuse me. Okay.

Speaker 2 I'm driving home in three Maseratis all tied together.

Speaker 2 Not easy to do. But what I'm saying, Phil,

Speaker 2 is that if a child fails and has to be brought down, is there any ceremony where the child is maybe drummed out?

Speaker 2 Little epaulettes are torn from his shoulders.

Speaker 2 Pelted. You know, or in some way made to suffer for his cowardice?

Speaker 2 I would say that regardless of anything I do to try to reduce that from happening, that will probably happen in some way. Yeah, kids will be kids.

Speaker 2 I would say the worst people that would, if there's a school group, sometimes the worst people are the teachers.

Speaker 2 And if it's a family group, the worst people are the parents.

Speaker 2 They're the ones who are screaming the obscenity sometimes.

Speaker 2 But for the most part, I think that we are very calm and relaxed about the way that we talk with our students. And we attempt not to shame people if they were to

Speaker 2 fulfill or come down

Speaker 2 because I understand you have a little game yeah

Speaker 2 and maybe work with us okay we've just shown up in Ipswich Vermont our car broke down it overheated

Speaker 2 it was a 1977 Hyundai

Speaker 2 which didn't even exist

Speaker 2 we weren't even planning on going no

Speaker 2 and no we were driving through we're on our way to a yard sale because they have a ton of those in New Hampshire and and Vermont. You've probably noticed that on the weekends.

Speaker 2 Everyone just puts literally toilet seats on their yard and says it's a yard sale. I beg to differ, Vermont.
But anyway,

Speaker 2 and please, no angry letters. I won't read them.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 we come wandering in and we need your team building. What would you have us do?

Speaker 2 So first I would say you're in the wrong place because there's no Ipswich Vermont.

Speaker 2 But after you,

Speaker 2 son of a bitch, he just shamed me.

Speaker 2 You just shamed shamed me.

Speaker 2 And all the other kids are laughing. It does come from the teacher.

Speaker 2 You little pussy. Oh, no.

Speaker 2 You're a geography imbecile. Yeah, I'm going to shut you off from the game.
I'm going to go from New England. I can't.

Speaker 2 Wait a minute. All this shame.

Speaker 2 Stop firing beanies at me. All this shame is molding me into an amazing comedian.

Speaker 2 Thank you, Phil.

Speaker 2 Task done. Task done.
You arrive, and then I say, get back into your car, please.

Speaker 2 My services are no longer needed. Yes, very good.

Speaker 2 No, but if you make it to the right location. And

Speaker 2 I think the first thing we would start with is because adventure, I think, sometimes gets misinterpreted as the climbing parts.

Speaker 2 But adventure is any form of risk, and it could be physical, it could be emotional, it could be social risk.

Speaker 2 The first thing you're going to start with is actually talking about our emotions, which can be a risk for some people. i know and i can see the excitement in your faces um

Speaker 2 and the pointing of other people so uh what we're going to do is i am going to share with you on the screen um a number grid so you've got one through 57

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 what I'm going to ask, I'll ask one of you at a time. We can start with Conan.
I'm going to ask you to pick two numbers. That's a level of risk because you don't know what's behind them.

Speaker 2 But there are emotions and feelings words under these numbers.

Speaker 2 okay what i would like you to do once you see the words is describe an experience or name an experience that you have had where you have experienced both of those feelings at the same time

Speaker 2 because we as humans are not only experiencing one thing at a time when it comes to emotions okay and so But the situation I wanted to be that you have experienced as a trio.

Speaker 2 So an experience you've had that you've experienced these two three of us have had. Okay.
And wow, this is, I got to thread a lot of needles here.

Speaker 2 It's got to be it's going to be two emotions I've felt at the same time with

Speaker 2 these two. Okay, so I'm going to go with chill chums.
Yeah. I'm going to go with 17

Speaker 2 and I'm going to go with 44.

Speaker 2 Okay, so 17 is angry. Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 So far, no problem. All right.
Hang on.

Speaker 2 No scenarios yet.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 you've also experienced.

Speaker 2 Embarrassment.

Speaker 2 How have you both felt

Speaker 2 angry and embarrassed alongside your chill chums? Today, oh, well, I mean, yeah, excluding just now

Speaker 2 and the interview we did before this.

Speaker 2 Listen, I talked to some, you know, I worked hard to become,

Speaker 2 you know, a fairly well-known celebrity. And then these two are coasting on my coattails.
I'm often sitting here with some of the biggest names in the business, or if you're a bumblebee, the buzzness,

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 out of control. He's out of control.
And I'm

Speaker 2 angry about that.

Speaker 2 And I'm embarrassed. I'm here with these two.
I mean, you were my assistant, and somehow you were elevated to the top of the showbiz pile. Yeah.
Matt Gorley is in a Zither band.

Speaker 2 He plays some of the coolest,

Speaker 2 you know, spots in Pasadena.

Speaker 2 And he haunts the Rose Bowl Swamp Meet. And I've put both of them in rooms with Harrison Ford,

Speaker 2 some of the biggest stars in the world. All of the Kardashians have been here at the same time.
And,

Speaker 2 you know, do I sometimes get angry about that and feel embarrassed that they lack the skills that I've spent years in the minds of comedy working? Yes, I do. I feel both of those things.

Speaker 2 But I'm going to specifically name a time. I think it was one of our,

Speaker 2 just pick one, but I think I was angry and embarrassed when

Speaker 2 you guys, both of you, became intoxicated

Speaker 2 in one of our Chill Chums shows.

Speaker 2 One of.

Speaker 2 Well, it's happened several times. And

Speaker 2 time.

Speaker 2 And I, you know, I pride myself on being a professional. And of course, I imbibed a little, but was still in plenty of, I know my levels, my tolerance very well.
And so I still was in control.

Speaker 2 And I was ashamed. I'm going to add ashamed to embarrassed and angry.
Wow.

Speaker 2 I was angry, embarrassed, ashamed.

Speaker 2 And I felt superior to both of you.

Speaker 2 I'm adding that one too.

Speaker 2 I'm also adding.

Speaker 2 Yeah, okay, so I just, I guess I won that contest. Yeah.
Okay, I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 It feels like I've really set

Speaker 2 the idea to win. You don't win.

Speaker 2 Didn't I win this?

Speaker 2 We're on the same team. You are really, you're tearing our team even further apart.
But, Phil, wouldn't you say whatever they say, it's not going to be as good as that. So don't I win?

Speaker 2 And I'm the winner. Do I get, is there a prize?

Speaker 2 I think your experience.

Speaker 2 Are

Speaker 2 Are you questioning your whole professional?

Speaker 2 May that man say, poof.

Speaker 2 Someone's going to get out of the team building business.

Speaker 2 I have worked with professional hockey athletes who have told me to F off. And I, even in this,

Speaker 2 that made me oof.

Speaker 2 But I would say I really set you up there with those, almost those two words.

Speaker 2 I'm going to pass it over, if I may, to Sona. Sona, pick two words.
Let's see if we can think of a situation you've maybe had and let you

Speaker 2 go ahead, too.

Speaker 2 Two numbers: 10 and 40.

Speaker 2 Okay, these are, I can tell they're good. It's serene.
Oh, my goodness. Well, I know.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Matches your gummy.

Speaker 2 And then number 40 is frustrated. That's the number 30.
That's the interesting combo, serene and frustrated. I know, that is pretty.
Crazy felt both.

Speaker 2 You know, chill trumps when I was drunk.

Speaker 2 I was happy I was drunk, and I was also frustrated I wasn't also a little high. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's a really good answer. Yeah.
Yeah, that is. I think

Speaker 2 I picture Sona being serene and frustrated when she's got a bag and it's got four gummies in it and she's had three.

Speaker 2 And so she's serene, but she can't get at that fourth one because it's jammed down into the bottom of the bag. I'm like, we need the poo with the honey.
Yeah, and

Speaker 2 your hands aren't working that well. So you're both serene and frustrated because that last gummy evades your grip.
Yeah, okay. All right.
I like this game. Wow.
I know. I like what you're doing.

Speaker 2 And I'm also sensing that they're both tied to the Chiltrums experience. Yeah.
Yes.

Speaker 2 Beautifully so. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Alcohol involved in both. I will highlight that also.

Speaker 2 Lastly, I'll come to you, Matt, for the last one. Okay, I'll do this.

Speaker 2 Four and

Speaker 2 how about

Speaker 2 57.

Speaker 2 See how we all do explains four is four is surprised. Ah,

Speaker 2 okay. 57 is

Speaker 2 chill. Oh, what an end.
Oh, surprised and chill. Okay, well, I feel like I've got to carry on with this tradition with chill.

Speaker 2 The chill chums, I felt very chill because we were having alcohol and a lot of it, so it kind of mellows you out. Yeah, and you make an amazing drink.

Speaker 2 I want to compliment this gentleman, one of the best mixologists. I'm not even kidding.
Your drinks are superb.

Speaker 2 That's nice. Thank you.

Speaker 2 Still, I got to say, I was surprised when you said that you weren't drunk on the Chilchums thing because I remember you slurring some words and at one point talking to us, but looking inside the drink while you were talking to us like it was a microphone.

Speaker 2 I

Speaker 2 had suffered a terrible cerebral event unrelated to alcohol that night. And for you to mock me for it,

Speaker 2 it was a total coincidence that I had, yeah, an

Speaker 2 eruption of uh blood into the brain um

Speaker 2 well it looks like we're just a bunch of terrible drinkers

Speaker 2 wait do you do anything with that

Speaker 2 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2 And I think what's nice is that what we're able to do in this, in the small moment, is reflect on stuff that's happened in the past, talk about it as a group, share some of these experiences together that have tied us together.

Speaker 2 And that allows us to progress into doing stuff that's a little bit more risky as a group. So

Speaker 2 all of those things are really positive. So, you're saying we should drink more and more out of Vermont.
Yes, sure.

Speaker 2 Or come to Vermont and I'll get you belaying each other. There you go.
That's that next level. That's nice.
I want to belay. I believe it's so.
I want to belay you guys. Yeah.
What? Yeah.

Speaker 2 I want to belay you.

Speaker 2 I want to be in charge of your life. Okay.
Let's get belayed. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Spring tonight we're getting belayed. Yeah.
Cut to me hanging on a rope.

Speaker 2 Hey, tonight I'm getting belayed.

Speaker 2 Me hanging on a rope, you firing away with your 22.

Speaker 2 Well, I think we have to go to the bottom of the world.

Speaker 2 I can already tell the name of this episode, so that's great. That would do me wonderful.
We're getting belayed. Yeah, we're getting belayed.
Thanks, Phil. You're doing all the work for us.

Speaker 2 Well, Phil, lovely, absolutely lovely talking to you.

Speaker 2 You are.

Speaker 2 Again, I say this without irony or just no joke. When people teach for a living, I think that's a beautiful thing.
And you seem like you'd be great at it.

Speaker 2 You've already demonstrated that you're affable and you're funny and you're smart. And so thank you so much for the work that you do.
And I bet you are helping a lot of people of all ages.

Speaker 2 And you never know. I might make my way up to blank, Vermont very soon.

Speaker 2 What's that? Is it

Speaker 2 not Ipswich?

Speaker 2 Sorry for being so fascinated by your British roots.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 maybe we will make it up there someday. And I'd like to shake your hand.
You're a fine fellow. And you look a little bit like

Speaker 2 you look a little bit like a younger Billy Bragg. I'm just going to say that.

Speaker 2 Put that out there.

Speaker 2 He's great. Yeah.
Wow. So the difference is a fifth grader once said to me, hey, Phil, do you know who you look like?

Speaker 2 And it doesn't often go well. And I was a little concerned.
And I said, no, who do I look like? Sona and Matt might get the reference, but they told me I looked like Llama Llama Red Pajama. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I was going to say

Speaker 2 I was thinking Gronk. Oh, no, I was thinking Josh

Speaker 2 Homie from

Speaker 2 Queensland Stone. Yeah, Quincy Stoner.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 But you know what? You sound like Clive O'Connor.

Speaker 2 These are so much nicer. Don't you think he sounds like Clive Online? He does sound like Clive O'Connor.

Speaker 2 Oh, this is so much better. You are better than fifth graders.
Yeah. Is that a compliment? That's the nicest thing anyone said to me in a while.

Speaker 2 Phil, thank you so much. Lovely to talk to you.
Continued success. And I hope we cross paths in the future.
Thank you so much, much, friends. Take care.
Bye-bye.

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