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Hi, I am Ki Kuan, and this is Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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All right, come on, let's do this now.
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Actually, I don't Google that much.
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I've heard other celebrities say they Google themselves.
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Maybe I should, I don't know.
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What did Kian win an Oscar for?
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Of course, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
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I play Waymond.
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It was the first movie I did after I got back into acting.
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You know, I was so grateful and I was so excited to step in front of the camera again after a 20-year hiatus.
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I was just happy to be there, to be working with Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, love the Daniels.
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Never thought I would win anything.
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I thought winning the role was winning the lottery to me.
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So when the movie came out and, uh, and when we won all those accolades, uh, that was the, was not something that I expected.
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Pretty incredible that movie brought me back and I'm so, so, so happy, so grateful to the Daniels.
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All right, what languages does Kian...
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Oh, I just did the bottom one, but it's okay, it's okay, we'll get back to the top.
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Uh, speak.
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I speak Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
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And as you can tell, not great in all three languages.
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I can't read Chinese, I can only speak it.
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To the day I'm very, I'm so happy my parents made me speak Chinese at home and that's how I, you know, that's how I still remember to speak it.
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And of course, Mandarin was not a language that we spoke at home, but when I went to uh China to work, I started to speak more and more and that's how I learned Mandarin.
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What did Ki Kuan do for 20 years?
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I think these 20 years was, uh, really the ult in my life because it was a time where I decided to step away from acting, went to college, got back out, and started working behind the camera as an assistant director, action choreographer.
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And I, you know, I was content for a little while doing all of that and I thought I'd be happy and then later I found out I wasn't.
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I was lying to myself and I'm so glad I found that out otherwise I wouldn't be here talking to you.
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The knowledge that I gained going to film school and having this appreciation for the cast and the crew and really finally understanding that moviemaking is a collaborative process, because as an actor, you know, we get pampered.
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So having gone to film school and having done various different, uh, jobs in different departments made me appreciate that process a lot more.
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And then also after graduating from college, having done action, all that stuff, and also part of the development process really, um, uh, gave me the knowledge that I needed to be a better actor and also life experience.
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Life experience makes you a better actor.
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What is Ki Kuan doing now?
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I'm doing this now.
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I'm looking on, well, I, I have a movie that's coming out called Electric State for Netflix with Chris Pratt, Millie Bobby Brown.
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The Russo brothers are the directors.
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Incredible cast, John Kani, Esposito, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson.
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I mean, the list just goes on and on, Jenny Slate and that incredible, what was his name?
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Um, yes, Ki Kuan is in it too, and and Zootopia too for Disney.
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I play Gary the snake and this is the gear of the snake, so it's really special.
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Okay, we're done with this board, uh, you know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to go gently right now.
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Here it is.
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Tada!
3:52
Who was Ki Kuan in X-Men?
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I wasn't in X-Men, I worked behind the camera.
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I was one of the action choreographers, part of the action team, and I helped, uh, choreograph the Wolverine, Mystique fight at the end of the movie and I'm very proud of that.
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That was my first job right out of college.
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Who did Ki Kuan play in Indiana Jones?
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My character's name was Short Round.
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Uh, I tried to pick Indiana Jones's pocket when I was little.
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I got caught but I think he liked me so I ended up going on this incredible adventure with him.
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I was 12 years old, it was my first movie ever and that movie is also the reason why I fell in love with acting.
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Come on, how often do kids get to ride an elephant in Sri Lanka?
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That was the beginning of the movie and then walked on these incredible sets.
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They were all practical back then and I didn't know who I was working with at that time, so I wasn't nervous.
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Not until after the movie, I go, "Holy, these people are really famous!"
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Who did Kiu Kanan play in The Goonies?
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I love this character.
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I play Data, Richard Data Wang, and he's this incredible character that has, uh, these amazing gadgets, but his gadgets never work unless his life depends on it.
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You know, he's part of this incredible gang who found a treasure map and go on water slides and set booby traps and finally found the treasure they were looking for to save the home.
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Incredible movie, very proud of it.
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And to this day, so many people have come up to me and told me that Goonies is part of their childhood memory and we might get to do Goonies too, who knows?
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Who does K Kuan play in Kung Fu Panda?
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I play Han the pangolin.
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Had a lot of fun, I, I love that franchise.
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It was also my first, uh, voiceover, never done it before.
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It was foreign to me, so being in the mic booth, recording these lines by myself, that was something interesting and, uh, and I loved it.
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I'm doing more now, I'm in Zootopia 2, I'm going to do what everybody does, so here it is.
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Nobody gets hurt.
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So first one is, is Ki Ho Kwan a martial artist?
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I studied martial arts for a long time.
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I have a black belt in Taekwondo, but I don't consider, consider myself a martial artist and the reason is because to me, a martial artist is someone who practices their craft every single day, who's really good at it.
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They live and breathe martial arts mats and martial artists.
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To me, I know martial arts, I've done it many times, I know how to do fight scenes for movies, so I, I appreciate the art form, but there, there are incredible, incredible martial artists out there and I have tremendous respect for them.
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I like to clarify stunt in action.
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Stunts to me, uh, is people falling off 10-story buildings or getting run over by cars.
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That is very dangerous.
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Actors don't do that, we don't do that.
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If we tell you we do that, we're lying.
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We do action and that's the difference between stunts and action.
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Are Ki Kuan and Harrison Ford friends?
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See, every time I say his name, you see how happy I am, because I love this man and yes, we are friends.
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Is Kian, uh, and Loki, have you not seen the show on Disney+?
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What are you doing?
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Yes, of course, Loki Season 2.
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I am so proud of the show.
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Finally, I get to be part of this incredible and humongous MCU family.
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I play a character named Ouroboros.
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He works in the basement.
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I love this character so much.
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I also think that he's the grown-up version of Data from The Goonies, that's how I played him.
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Is Ki Kuan, uh, Chinese or Vietnamese?
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So I was born in Vietnam to Chinese parents, so I consider myself Chinese.
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Yeah, that's why I was born.
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Thank you.
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Uh, where did Kian grow up?
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I immigrated to the United States in 1978, so I grew up in a little place called Chinatown, Los Angeles.
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That's also where I got discovered as an actor.
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I loved it there, that's my childhood.
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And then eventually, uh, my family moved to a little city called Monterey Park, so that's my, that's where I grew up.
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How to say Ki Kuan's name?
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I am so glad you asked this question.
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My name is pronounced Kian Kiwan.
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As long as you're saying my name, I'm fine.
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How did Ki Kuan meet his wife?
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We were both working for a Hong Kong filmmaker named Wong Kar-wai and, and my wife, my beautiful wife Echo, was in, in Shanghai and I flew there from America, walked in the office, there were so many people there but my, my eyes immediately darted to her.
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She had, I remember she had long hair, beautiful eyes, a big smile, just radiating with, you know, with, with, with incredible energy and she was just so lively and I, I fell in love with her right then and there.
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And honestly, I, I feel like the day I walked into that office was the luckiest day of my life.
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How did Ki Ho Kuan return to acting?
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So the year was 20, 2019, right after I, I've seen, uh, a movie called Crazy Rich Asians and this was at a time where I had stepped away from acting for more than 20 years and, uh, something was missing and I didn't know what it was until I saw that movie and it was then that thought of getting back into acting started percolating and I consulted with my wife for an entire year.
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I guess the big reason why I wanted to be an actor again was because that, uh, I kind of saw what my life would be like when I was much, much older and I can see myself regretting and having these, you know, horrible feelings of of not, you know, not giving this another try.
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And so, yeah, so I finally got the courage and and called a friend who was an agent and asked him if he wanted to represent me and he did.
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Luckily, two weeks later, I got that call from Everything Everywhere All at Once producer.
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Do I have more?
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Okay, let me do just for now, I'll save the best for last.
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Okay, K, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
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Yeah, this is, uh, when I, uh, think about this movie, I first think of the Daniels.
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They gave me this incredible second opportunity at acting again.
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I owe everything to this movie, you know, it's a, I, my life professionally wise, my life has, was changed two times.
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The first time was when I starred in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
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Never thought I wanted to be an actor, I was just a kid being a kid, happy being that and then, you know, destiny called, became an actor and for, you know, various reasons had to, had to to to step away and when I came back, this movie changed my life again.
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I owe everything to the Daniels.
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Ki Ho Quan and Jackie Chan.
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You're not going to believe this, but everywhere I go people think I am Jackie Chan.
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I love Jackie Chan, I'm a big fan of his.
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When I was a kid, I loved watching his movies, they inspired me to learn martial arts.
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I love the action, the action genre, it has a lot to do with him and his brothers, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao.
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And so I don't mind it, I think I take it as a compliment but it also means that I need to work a lot harder because one day I want people to say that's Kiwan, that that guy looks like Jackie Chan.
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Kiwan acceptance speech.
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You know, I've been very lucky to be able to give a lot of, uh, acceptance speeches when Everything Everywhere All at Once came out during the, during the whole awards season.
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They were very personal.
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Every speech that I gave, I was so scared to give because they were way too personal.
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Jeff Cohen is my, is my brother from a different mother, we are best friends, we see each other all the time.
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What's incredible about him is, you know, he started his law firm at a very young age and I was actually one of his first clients that he signed and for more than 20 years, I never made him any money, never did.
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But every time I called him, he would pick up and he would give me any legal advice that I needed.
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So when, when on Oscar night, I invited him, I got him a ticket, I wanted him to be there just in case if I did win, I wanted him to see that I can thank him in person, uh, and yeah, I, um, I, I love him, I love him.
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He's my Goonies brother and like, like, like we said in the movie, Goonies Never Say Die.
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Kiwan Glambot.
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Glambot.
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I think I put way too much thought in, in Glambot.
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I've seen people do it, I love it, they're very cool.
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So I think I did one and on Oscar night, which came in number two for the entire year, I was very proud of it.
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It's, yeah, I, I love Cole, I love what he, what he does, it's really cool and, uh, yeah, they're really fun to do.
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It just needs to be timed right and, uh, and lots of movement.
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I think it's because of my martial arts background, so I'm able to like do kicks or punches or jumps and they turn out really well in in super slow motion.
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You know what, actually, I was so afraid that I would rip my pants.
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I kid you not, I, you know, when I jumped up, I thought I was going to rip my pants, uh, luckily it didn't but yeah that was a lot of fun.
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I'm not going to expose this, you know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to try again.
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Hold on, let me see, ready and no, they don't break.
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Okay, okay, that was a lot of fun.
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Thank you so much guys, that was a lot of fun.