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93. Leap Over Your Language Barriers as a Digital Nomad | David Giles
The magic of speaking someone's native tongue isn't just about ordering food without pointing at the menu; it's about creating a connection with another human being. But SO many digital nomads and travelers struggle with this when you're visiting so many places or are somewhere with a more challenging language.
That's why we brought language coach David on for a second time to share more insights about language learning with us! We talk about mindset shifts for language learning, gaining confidence, and how to approach others in countries where you don't speak the language.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- The Language Habit course with David
- Visit David's Instagram account
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Speaker 2:We're Austin and Monica. We're a digital nomad couple here to help you develop an entrepreneurial mindset, ignite your passions and develop a purpose-driven online business.
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Speaker 1:So now we are live streaming from Facebook and inviting our guest, david, to join us. We love David. You're going to see here in just a second when he pops on the amount of energy he brings. He is absolutely hilarious. He's going to keep you rolling this whole conversation and he is so knowledgeable, and so I'm really excited to have him on here again.
Speaker 1:And one of the big reasons we wanted him on here again is that David is a language coach and we recently have gotten a couple of questions about handling language barriers as you're traveling, which is such an important part of traveling, especially because we are really big advocates of integrating with local culture and being a part of the place that you're living and being a good citizen. It's really, really important to us, and language barriers make that really hard. Okay, david, I would love for you to just like start off by introducing yourself to the audience. Some of our audience members are already a little bit familiar with you from our podcast from before, but in case people are completely new to you, please feel free to share whatever you want and introduce yourself to our audience.
Speaker 3:All righty sure thing. So my name is David surprise. I am a language coach and life coach currently focusing on helping people make changes in their lives, particularly like seeking out new opportunities, traveling to new countries through developing their language. I've come to this after a long career of language teaching, so I was a teacher for 13 years. During that time I was also a director of studies, so like managing schools, training other teachers, and that was for about four years. And now I'm really dedicating myself to helping make a real difference in people's lives through language and that came through previous jobs, but we may get into that a bit more in the future. I've lived in a lot of countries. I speak a couple of languages and I love traveling hot damn, I love traveling, and by a couple you mean like eight, right yeah, yeah, pretty much yeah.
Speaker 1:So, um, one of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a long time was one of your latest reels, where you just like switch between languages like so smoothly and I was like, wow, that was incredible. Um, so, such such an amazing gift that you have, and I love that you are able to now turn around and share it and teach it to people so that we can all learn languages, and you make it so simple, which is absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 3:It's great to be here and I mean one thing that I want to pick up on straight away is you mentioned, like this gift, and I think this is a really interesting thing to look at, because I actually don't have a gift. I have experience. And the great thing is with a gift, if you have it and you give it to someone else, you don't have it anymore. It's something that you have, you lose, but with experience, when you share it with others, it doesn't disappear. The best things don't Like knowledge, love, consideration. When we share them, they grow, they don't disappear. So the great thing about what I know and what I have learned over these years is I can share it like I wasn't just born speaking loads of languages yeah, that was a great distinction.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you brought that up yeah, I feel the gift is maybe more in your genuine love for what you do and the love for travel and language learning, and then also the ability. I mean I guess by your definition that would no longer be a gift, but your ability to teach is fantastic but I will still take the word gift.
Speaker 3:I mean, gift is beautiful and I will. I will take that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a gift that can be shared. Yeah, there you go, it's a the gift that keeps giving. So one of the main reasons, david, that we wanted to bring you back is we had some people talking to us about how they've really struggled with traveling and dealing with language barriers and not feeling like they're able to communicate, to integrate, to ask questions, and I know that you have a really interesting take on this. But I'm curious to, as a language coach, like what is your approach to helping people overcome language barriers, especially when we're talking about digital nomads who are moving place to place, place to place really fast and might not have the time they feel adequate to be able to learn a language enough to really fully express themselves?
Speaker 3:I mean excellent, excellent topic for us to jump into. And here there are two things that run in parallel that we can look at this idea of language barriers and limiting beliefs, because the good news about both of them is that actually we put them up, which means we can take them down. This idea of a language barrier is this thought that there is this invisible wall between us and someone who speaks a different language. The great news is it's not actually there. So the first step is actually learning to see through that barrier, learning instead of looking at the things that I don't have that stop me from communicating with this person. What things do we have in common that can allow us to communicate? So a big part of what I do like one of the three pillars is this idea of mindset and reprogramming the way we look at situations. So, to give you an example, I started telling you this story just before.
Speaker 3:So I was in Laos for a little while and before I went there, I always learned, like the basics before I go to a country. And if you're going to learn anything before you go to a country, I would recommend really, really simple Learn the numbers, learn how to say how much something, ask how much something is, and learn how to say this is delicious. Then your basics like please thank you. And, just in case, learn how to yell help and fire. As you know, sometimes help won't get answered, fire definitely will. So, like, just with those phrases, you can do an amazing amount.
Speaker 3:And so when I was in Laos, I was staying in this gorgeous hostel overlooking a river and all of the staff there spoke English, so that wasn't an issue at all. But I really like to go to the places where they don't speak English because that feels so much more authentic and it's the kind of experience that not everyone has. It's these little hidden corners of the world that we find ourselves in. And so I was walking down the street and there was this little house just kind of tucked in the corner of a field down the road, and there were tables laid out in the driveway of this house. But like no one was there, so I just kind of wandered in and just kind of said hello to see if anyone would come in and the whole comes out. She spoke not a word of english, not a word. But there was a little menu with some pictures, um, printed out on the table.
Speaker 3:So, like I did my hello, I pointed at what I wanted, I said thank you. She went away and brought it back. I asked her how much it was. She told me I paid her, I ate. I said it was delicious and through this interaction she was kind of looking at me out of the corner of her eye just smiling, like what is happening, because it is unexpected in some parts of the world that you will speak any of the language.
Speaker 3:So if you go somewhere like Laos, vietnam, cambodia, in Thailand not so much, but even there, to be honest, just saying like hello, please, and thank you, you already know this person because you've made an effort, you've shown that you see them and a word is enough to do that, because the greatest strength and the greatest gift that you can give to someone, particularly a stranger, is your vulnerability. And so, to travel down towards the end of this story, she got her phone out and translated for me that her grandson spoke English and I should totally meet him. This all led to me that evening in that house again, with about 30 or 40 Laotian folks celebrating this grandson's daughter's second birthday, and I learned that in Laos they play spin the bottle, but not as we know it. They stand the bottle up, they tie a pair of chopsticks together, put them in the bottle and spin them round. And I was there in this Laotian party, didn't understand most of what was going on, but didn't need to because the connection was already there.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I mean they had Laotian rap battles where you had, like, all the women on one side, all the men on the other side. So I mean I did that with maybe 15 to 20 words, and that is an experience you could never book, you could never buy, you couldn't even ask for it, you can only be given it.
Speaker 1:There's so much I want to unpack here because, as digital nomads, I believe this is what we're all seeking for. I believe we all are looking for these kind of experiences, but not all of us feel brave enough to go find them. But not all of us feel brave enough to go find them. So the first thing I want to talk about here is like how the heck do you even find the confidence, knowing you know about 15 words of the native language, to go out of the places where people speak English to find these more authentic places, these more like hole-in-the-wall kind of places? How do you find that confidence?
Speaker 3:I mean that's a fantastic question and the answer is, as with so many changes, bit by bit. Like my first experience, like that I didn't just like walk out into the countryside and find out. I mean, the first time I really really lived abroad by myself, I was in China and I went there for a job. I was with a big company, so they brought us in, they did training and so my adventurous moments were going off by myself to a supermarket. Adventurous moments were going off by myself to a supermarket.
Speaker 3:Um, but I mean a supermarket in a big city where I knew like if I really got stuck I mean this was before smartphones but if I really got stuck, point at stuff and nod and shake your head like I figured what's the worst thing happening? It's a supermarket. So start really small things and build from there. Like, okay, going to the supermarket in a foreign country is not the most exciting thing that will ever happen to you, but one of my favorite stories actually happened in a supermarket, but I won't get into that just yet.
Speaker 3:Um, so yeah, start with something small, something that feels a little scary but not completely out of your depth, and start not by trying to do the whole thing in the other language, you can actually prepare the person you're talking to for what you're about to do. It's kind of like a switch and bait. So when you go in, let's say you're going to go to the supermarket in this foreign country and you want to speak some of the local language. One of the things that people often get really worried about is if you speak foreign language, the other person goes oh dude, you speak my language. Oh, I learned hello and you just said a whole lot of stuff. If you're worried about that happening, start by speaking your language and then change to theirs. By doing that, you are setting the expectation Like I'm not here just to speak that language, like I'm foreign, and then you get that extra element of surprise.
Speaker 1:So you go and say like, hello, how are you?
Speaker 3:and I say, and then you're like, oh, we are. And they're like, oh, hey, there, um, so you get this extra little free zone of excitement as well, because you've started in your native language, probably not a language they speak. And then they're kind of like okay, yeah, like it's, it's a foreigner, like so, I'll try and speak their language. Then you switch to theirs, even one sentence. You've given them that little surprise, that excitement, that oh, that's different. Yeah, out them thinking like cool, you're fluent, let's go yeah, yeah, I love that I.
Speaker 2:So, first of all, I know exactly what story you're talking about it, or what you're talking about within the supermarket. I love that story. I think we should save that, though, because you shared that story in the podcast and I want people to go listen to it. It was a hilarious story, so great story. Please go listen to it, because david's gonna make you rolling on the floor laughing.
Speaker 2:But also, like I wanted to point out, I absolutely love your approach to language learning because you have a very human first approach to it.
Speaker 2:Going a way back in the conversation, when you first started, you were saying language barriers are like limiting beliefs, and it's things that we put up ourselves, which means we can take them down and, in a sense, it doesn't really exist. It's kind of our own mental limitations. What you're saying right now is similar in my mind. It's a very human connection forward approach to language learning, where you can set expectations to the person you're talking to, and I love that about you and I love that about your approach to learning a language, because that's one of the main reasons why we want to learn languages is, I mean, it's cool to show off to your friends and speak. You know a handful of different languages, and it's sure it's impressive. Ultimately, I think we want to do it so we can have a connection with other people who speak that language, and so I love that. That's your approach to it and that's your forward, like that's what you lead with when you're teaching.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, as you're saying, like the feeling really is the key, not just the feeling that you have, but the feeling that you give someone else, whether it's in a foreign language or my own language. I have this little game that I play when I go into like supermarkets, shops, restaurants, bars, and it's basically just to get a smile out of the person I'm talking to. The thing about foreign languages is pretty much as soon as you do it particularly if it's unexpected boom, you win, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's such a fun feeling to too, to see that. Look in their eyes. They're like, oh my gosh, like you can say something to me in my own language, it's awesome yeah, I mean it happens all over the place.
Speaker 3:I mean I, because I speak mandarin and japanese.
Speaker 3:They're not so common, so when I come across people from those countries and start speaking to them, yeah, so there's a like a takeaway here where they make like ready meals to go and the family that runs it are originally from china, um, but they've been over here for a long, long time and I went in there the other day and I I said to them like, oh, do you speak chinese? And they said, yeah, we do. It's like, can I order in chinese? And I said yeah, of course, and then I ordered and they were like, oh, but, but this is an important thing.
Speaker 3:If you want to practice these languages, if you want to learn them outside the country where they are naturally spoken, really good strategy is ask first. The reason is people may have like the appearance of being from a certain country or culture, but they might not identify as that anymore. When I was teaching in Italy, there are quite a lot of young Chinese kids or Chinese heritage kids, I should say who live over there, either because their families came over or they were adopted. And it was a really interesting conversation I had with some of these kids about how do you identify and all of them said, well, I'm chinese, apart from one who said I'm italian. And if you ask that person, where are you from, that's not nice for them, but if you ask them what languages you speak, great, so it's a really safe way to connect because you're taking an interest.
Speaker 2:That's great. That reminds me of a scene from the newer Karate Kid, I don't know if you've seen it. They're on their way to China and you sit next to this Chinese guy on the plane. So he starts like I'm going to practice my Chinese. And he starts like spouting out this whole sentence and the guy leans over. He's like dude, I'm from detroit. Yeah, yeah, I love it, yeah, okay. So I want to ask apart from being invited to laotian parties and ordering chinese food, in your experience, how does learning a language open up doors of opportunity for people?
Speaker 3:oh well, I mean, just look at my profession. I mean I have worked now in, I think, five or six different countries over the years, and so opportunities are everywhere. The key thing is whether you are a native English speaker originally or you are a speaker of another language. It's really important for you nowadays because English is an international language. So if that's not your first language learning it opens doors, naturally, because it means you can communicate all over the world. If English is your first language, it's not going to be enough anymore, because the thing is, as we just said, the world is learning English. The world has learned English. I mean some of the Dutch people I've met. They speak better English than me. Just speaking one language nowadays doesn't give you the edge just because it's the lingua franca. Like you're coming up against people who speak English just as well as you, but they probably speak one or two other languages.
Speaker 3:So, professionally, massive difference In terms of connecting with people around the world. That, too, because the fact that English is spreading actually just means that when you learn that other language it's that much more special, because you're meeting people where they are, not because you need to, not because you want something from them, but because you have decided to, and then cognitively, damn. So I mean, something I'm very, very interested in is like longevity and like staying young, both mentally and physically, for ages, like I mean, when I'm 20, I'm going to be climbing mountains and speaking languages I have decided.
Speaker 3:I'm going to climbing mountains and speaking languages. Decided right, I'm gonna be up there and basically, like, two of the things that have been proven to just be amazing for your long-term cognitive well-being is things like learning music and learning languages. The great thing about a language is it's a combination of, like, logical and structural, almost mathematical, if you think about grammar, if you want to think about grammar, but it's also creative. Like, once you get to a certain level, language is it. You can do whatever you want with it. So in all areas of life, it's the bomb, I believe.
Speaker 2:So what you need to go do then is learn a new song in a new language, absolutely.
Speaker 3:Learning one of my favorite Chinese songs at the moment. It's called Little Apple and if you talk to most Chinese people they will know it and it's so great. So like. I'm walking down the street at the moment like, and people are just like the street at the moment, like, and people are just like what is this english dude in?
Speaker 1:france doing that's hilarious oh, my goodness, absolutely love it.
Speaker 1:So I want to circle back here for a second, because I feel like you said something that was super cheap but also like struck terror in the hearts of everyone listening, and that is you said the most important thing that we can get people is vulnerability, and I know from personal experience that that is one of the only ways to learn language is to open yourself up, to make mistakes, to look stupid, to be laughed at, and that's the only way to actually learn, to improve, because you have to like, just like little kids, like you have to learn, you have to make mistakes.
Speaker 1:That's a whole like little subtopic we can go into. But talk to me about number one, the importance of that, and number two, a little bit more about like how you can be vulnerable with people you've never met before, or like how you can be vulnerable in a place, like when you're traveling by yourself. There is a level of caution that you need to be having and you need to be paying attention to what's going on. So how can you balance the like I need to be safe with I want to be vulnerable?
Speaker 3:how do?
Speaker 1:you balance two things.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's an amazing, amazing, uh path to go down. I would say safety always come first. If you don't feel like physically safe in a place, it is not the time for vulnerability. Um, so you need to feel like there is not actual danger going on. Um, like again, like, let's be honest, like your sex can have a real impact on this, like I am very aware that I am blessed to be traveling the world as a man. Like it can't be easier, it shouldn't be easier, but let's be honest, like it can be so I absolutely am aware like that is a factor.
Speaker 3:So, with that in mind, start with someone you know, like start with a cheerleader who is there, just like dude you, just you just said hello and hi. Have someone with you, because the great thing is when we make mistakes and when we get nervous. Sometimes we get this nervous, laugh right. Well, get into it, laugh, because you laughing and your friend laughing when you're doing this thing, when you're showing this vulnerability, shows the other person it's okay, they can laugh too. And then they're not laughing at you, they're laughing with you. And the key thing is they never were laughing at you, they were always laughing with you. We decided that they were laughing because we felt like it was judgment. Yeah, never was.
Speaker 3:My Mandarin is not super high level, but conversational for sure. When I worked in Shanghai, every time I opened my mouth and said anything in Mandarin, my colleague pissed herself Like tears. I would be like, did I say something wrong? Like, did I say something weird? She's like no, it's just really funny. It's not because it was bad, it's just unexpected sometimes. So I would say, like, make yourself feel safe, go in there with a cheerleader. But the second thing is and this is not just for language, this is for life, and it's one of the biggest things that has changed the way I feel I am comfortable in most situations now, and that's an important difference too. I'm comfortable, not necessarily confident, confident means I know I can do it.
Speaker 3:Confident means nothing's going to go wrong. Confident means I bolded, but I'm comfortable, I'm ready to make a mistake, I'm ready for it to go wrong and that's okay. And the best way to slide into that mindset is the difference between opinion and effect. We spend most of our lives thinking about what other people's opinions of us are, and this is actually inward focused, no-transcript actually a quote from the Dalai Lama which was something along the lines of like if you want to be happy, focus on the happiness of others. That's definitely not it. So, guys, don't get what Dalai Lama said on me, but it was good and this is the same. If I'm more thinking like how, how am I affecting you? Am I making you feel better? Like, am I making you comfortable? Is there something I can do to make you feel better in this situation? Not because I need you to think well of me, I want you to be having a good time.
Speaker 3:well, this is actually a position of power, because we don't think about the well-being of others when we feel we are not safe, like going back to like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Thinking about community and other people comes way after we feel like we are secure and have what we need. So you can actually hardwire, you can hack your mind to think you are okay by being considerate your mind to think you are okay by being considerate.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. This is why I love listening to you talk, david, because you are a language coach, but you're also a mindset coach and it sounds like you dabble in some psychology. You know like I mean I love it.
Speaker 3:I did like a year of psychology when I was like 17. All right pay it off.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it. Yeah, I want to pivot just a little bit because we know, david, you have an awesome course coming out soon. I do, so I want to give you time to talk about that. So tell us about what this course is, who it's for, why you put it together. Give us all the details. Hell yeah.
Speaker 3:I would love to introduce you to my baby. It's called the Language Habit, and this comes from the fact that, as you said, I am a language coach. I am also a life coach, specializing in habit creation and positive mindset transformation. Now, in training, in both of these areas, I really quickly saw how they overlap, and my experience over the last 13 years in language learning environments taught me that actually there's so much missing from them.
Speaker 3:Because we're taught grammar, we're taught how to remember the rules, conjugate the verbs, learn the vocabulary, but no one's telling us how to learn those things. They're telling us what to learn, not how. And no one's telling us what we do when the pulse starts going, what to do when our palms are sweaty, what to do when we feel breath, because people are watching, and if we don't overcome that, then it doesn't work. The other side of it is habit creation. Now there's a really very popular in certain circles quote from Abraham Lincoln about how he had six hours to chop down a tree. He said the first four sharpening the axe. Now, if I gave you the perfect tool but you didn't know how to use it, it's not going to work. If I gave you the perfect tool but you never picked it up, it's not going to work. If I gave you the perfect tool but you were too afraid to use it, it ain't going to work.
Speaker 3:So the language habit is aimed at bringing together these three areas of core competence. We look at skills, looking at how to learn any language. I don't teach people a language, I give them the tools to learn anything. You've heard that old saying of give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Give a person how to fish. They eat for a day. Give a person a person how to fish. They eat for the rest of their lives. I'm going to show you how to make your own rod, so I give you all the language learning skills that I have been using over the last three decades to learn languages. Alongside that, I share with you the way that I build habits so that, while having a full life with friends, with a social life, with a full-time job, I have a lot of hobbies. Guys Like I climb, I do salsa, I do martial arts, I go to the gym a lot.
Speaker 1:I play the guitar.
Speaker 3:I play a bit of piano. I bought a violin. I'm very sorry.
Speaker 1:And he cooks.
Speaker 3:And I can get all of that stuff into my life without just collapsing into a puddle. The reason I can do that is because I've created such strong habits. It's not something I'm forcing myself to do, and so that is what I share with you in this course as well, so that you can learn how to program your language so it fits into your life. The great thing is these techniques, these systems that you learn, apply to anything. So my first life coaching client we focused predominantly on habit creation, and I was talking to him recently and it was incredible, because he was talking about how he's lost a load of weight, he's exercising regularly and he's just got engaged, and so this is something that I wanted to bring into the course.
Speaker 3:The other side of it is mindset, and this is what we've been talking about today. If we don't overcome these limiting beliefs, if we don't see through the barriers that we've created, then none of this means anything, and that is the real difference with this course. That's something you're not going to learn in a school. I wish you did, and that's why I offer it, and I realize I'm very excited to tell you any of the details of the course.
Speaker 2:It's just you can probably tell I kind of like this stuff. I mean, that was a great setup. I love, I love the intention that you've put into this course and like what it covers.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I'll just let you keep going and tell us some of the details of what's in there so it's going to be an eight-week course, uh, live sessions every week, with missions that people choose to engage with between each session. The key is, I'm not coming to people as a teacher here, I'm coming to them as a coach. I show you how to do things, I show you what you can do, you develop the drive to do them, so I will give the people on the course these exercises, these missions, complete that will apply and develop the skills that we learn. As I said, it's going to be an eight-week course, starting the first week of June, every Saturday at 2 pm European time. So at the moment I'm in France, so it's Central European time At the moment Central European summertime, and so, yeah, we'll be doing eight weeks.
Speaker 3:Alongside that, there is a learning platform. So after every session, the sessions that we do are automatically recorded and we'd be loaded up onto their learning platform, alongside a library of techniques that I have been using for, as I said, decades to learn languages. But not just that, I'm also going to be sharing the protocols and systems that I've shared with my clients in the past for habit creation and mindset transformation. All of it's going to be on there In eight weeks. The plan is to realize that when you change your language, you change your life.
Speaker 2:I freaking love it Oof.
Speaker 1:Oof so good. I'm so excited for everyone to join this course. Love it. For anybody listening who wants to know more, we'll drop the link in the chat. But also, how can they just get more of you, david? How can they just like have more of you in their lives?
Speaker 3:I mean just like shout, I kind of have an audible back. That's it in anywhere between an hour and a couple of years. If you want something maybe a bit more reliable, I'm on Instagram as DGLinguaCoach. I'm also on Facebook and basically kind of go anywhere and search DGLinguaCoach Hello, that's where you'll find me.
Speaker 2:Perfect, perfect. Yeah, honestly, you guys like, if you can't tell, david is the guy to learn from, so go check out the course. We're going to have it linked. It sounds incredible. So we're excited for you, david, to run this whole thing. We're excited for anyone who's going to join and go through it with you.
Speaker 3:I mean me too. Me too. I mean I have to be honest Like I can't stop myself with this stuff. I was flying back from Valencia to the UK a long ago and I overheard a guy on Duolingo. You know, you hear that like bling-bling from. Duolingo. Yeah, I just kind of went over and was like are you on Duolingo? He's like yeah, I was like so I'm a language coach. Would you like a couple of?
Speaker 2:tips and he was like yeah, yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker 3:So I just did this mini session with this guy because I was just like, ah, I can see what you're doing, I know what you can do, so it just spills out of me, I love it, that's great.
Speaker 1:I love it so good and I'm excited for it to spill out of you into everyone else Me too. Do you have any like final? Sorry to put you on the spot with this question, but do you have any like final, like parting words that you want everyone to know?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say. The first thing, as with so many processes, is know why you're doing it and then, once you have that answer, ask yourself again and again and again, until the answer that you get is it makes me happy, because so many of us and particularly if we think about learning languages for career advancement, for example what is it you're really looking for? Is it a job title, is it more money, or is it a way of life? Is it something that puts a smile on your face? And once you connect that feeling with the language you're going to learn, nothing will stop you.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to let those words resonate for a second.
Speaker 1:Yeah just like sit on that for a second Beautiful.
Speaker 2:David, thank you. Thanks for coming on and going live with us in our group. Again, david's in this group. If anyone has more questions for him, comment it here, tag him in the post, shout out your David audio Batman call. Thank you so much, david, for being here and taking the time to share all these things, all these wonderful things, with us Guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 3:It's been such a pleasure. I mean, as you know, talking with you guys always is so anytime.
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