July 7, 2025

Ringo Starr

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Celebrate Ringo Starr's 85th birthday with five questions about The Beatles' beloved drummer. From his pre-Beatles days to solo success and the All Starr Band, explore the career of the musician who brought joy and rhythm to the Fab Four. Get all our episodes commercial-free at caloroga.com/plus.

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Callaroga Shark Media.

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Greetings trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and today we're celebrating

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the eighty fifth birthday of Beatles drummer Ringo Star. Question one,

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What was Ringo Starr's birth name before he adopted his

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famous stage name.

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Question two?

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Which Beatles song features Ringo Star on lead vocals and

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includes the line I get by with a little help?

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Question three? What was the name of Ringo's band before

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he joined the Beatles in nineteen sixty two? Question four?

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Which nineteen seventy three solo hit gave Ringo Star his

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biggest success as a recording artist after the Beatles disbanded.

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Question five? What touring group has Ringo Star led since

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nineteen eighty nine? Featuring various rock and pop musicians. We'll

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be right back with these rhythmic answers after this break.

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Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's reveal today's answers. Question one,

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What was Ringo's birth name? Answer? Richard Starkey born in

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Liverpool in nineteen forty. He adopted Ringo because of his

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habit of wearing rings, and Star evolved from his surname Starkey.

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He legally changed his name to Ringo Starr in nineteen

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sixty five. Question two, which Beatles song features Ringo on

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lead vocals? Answer with a Little Help from My Friends.

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This track from Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts club band showcased

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Ringo's distinctive vocal style. The song was later famously covered

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by Joe Cocker, whose version became a hit, and the

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themes song for the Wonder Years. Question three. What was

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Ringo's band before the Beatles? Answer Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.

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Ringo was the drummer for this Liverpool band when he

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first met the Beatles. He occasionally sat in with the

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Beatles when their regular drummer Pete Best was unavailable, which

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led to his eventual permanent recruitment. Question four. What was

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Ringo's biggest solo hit? Answer? Photograph. Co Written with George Harrison,

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this nineteen seventy three single reached number one in the

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United States and became Ringo's most successful solo recording. The

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songs nostalgic lyrics and catchy melody proved Ringo could succeed

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as a solo artist. Question five. What touring group has

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Ringo led since nineteen eighty nine? Answer Ringo Starr and

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his all star band. This rotating ensemble has featured various

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rock legends, including Joe Walsh, Doctor John and Peter Frampton.

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Each member performs their own hit songs, making it a

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celebration of classic rock rather than just a ringo showcase.

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That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison,

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and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology.

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dot com slash plus see you tomorrow. Stick around now

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for this interview our sister.

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I'm going to bring forward and yours and give it

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to you now. He said, oh wow, that's great, thank you,

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that's so generous of you. Call that's great. But his wife,

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my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is

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too much money, this is wrong. I don't want anything

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to do with and stormed out of the room. And

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I thought, well, that's not what I expected. Oh my god.

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So I realized from that that this was not an

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easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that,

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and I knew that I had to do this authentically.

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I had to do it right, otherwise it was not

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going to work. So that happened. And then the third

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thing that happened was that I was looking at my

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financial statements and I had more money there than I

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was really using. It was sitting there. I mean, it

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was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn't

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being used. I wasn't using it for me. I wasn't

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using for things that I really cared about, not for

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my people. So I thought, well, if I have all

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this money, now, why should I wait until I die?

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Why don't I bring it forward? And then it was

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a long process for me to come around to that,

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but that's what finally started this, and I said, well

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I'll do it. Now.

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Let's back up just a bit. Tell us a little

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bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.

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Well, this is a recording of the real events with

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real people who I decided that I would bring forward

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the inheritance the money I had for them in my

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will and made it a prequest. So it was a

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chunk of money that they were going to get while

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they were still enough to enjoy it, and I was

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still alive to see it happening. So I saw what

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they were doing. So when I sat down with them,

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I talked about money and happiness and how one can connect.

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And I said, look, I'm going to bring this forward

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and give it to you, but what I want from

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you is a plan so that you use this money,

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so it's really a big benefit for you. I don't

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want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind

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of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and

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they said, a happiness plan? What's that? So so you know,

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nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it's

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one of the most important plans you can get, and

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it doesn't have to be very complex. What is it

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that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue?

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You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and

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you can pursue them. And so I got them to

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write a happiness plan. And then when I saw the plan,

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I gave them all the money all at one time.

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And so then they took it and I watched them

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with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did,

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and how they became happier, and so you know, that

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had to be written about so because I wanted other

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people to see what they did, so they too could

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do the same thing.

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Which prequest is the most unique one you've come across.

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Well, it was a very very painful and sad story

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because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter

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and she was hit head on by a drunk driver

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and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at

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the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also

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their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and

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they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never

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be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy.

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They didn't deserve to be happy because their darling daughter

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had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they

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were grieving six years later and I met with them

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and I told them how much they had added to

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my life and how much I I was so grateful

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to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude

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and I put them in my will and they could

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accept that. And I said, but I want you to

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have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we

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can't accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well,

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we worked and I said, look, I'm leaving it open.

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So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him

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to do it. Actually you know and you know, so

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they said, okay, we'll do it, because say we're going

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to wait until you die, why not do it now.

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And they did that and it wasn't the money interesting life,

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they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference,

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that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative.

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You know, we'll never be happy again. We don't deserve

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to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their

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mindset around and said, look, you know it can be

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you can be happy again. And they started to get

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the mindset of happy people. And now you cannot believe

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what these people. They're traveling all over the world. They're

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in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimung Garrett. These people

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are loving life. And it was a at change that

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is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the

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And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this

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prequest changed or saved my life because we were no

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longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back

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to life.

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Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us

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have I have. You know, when you're in those depths,

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it's really it can be really difficult. To find your

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way out of it, and you know, often it looks

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like there isn't a way out of it, and you know,

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sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like

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this concept could be a good map for you, if

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it sounds like it was for these folks. I always

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like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that

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I didn't ask that I should have?

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How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should

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they do? What would be good for them? And so

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I'll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think

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about being happiness. You deserve to be happy, and you

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can be happy, but you have to make it as

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a choice. I'm going to increase my happiness just that

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if you make that realistically, I want to and I'm

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going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk

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to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife,

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or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach,

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talk to somebody about it and say, look, I'm made

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the decision that I want to be happier, and I'm

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like you to help me create a happiness plan and

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then work on it. And it's not that hard, but

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it is challenging, but it's a wonderful exercise and if

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they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

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I guarantee it.

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Carl Barney is the author and the book is called

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The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl,

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where can people find the book?

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Wherever books are sold? And it's now available for pre

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order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness

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Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there,

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and I hope they will.

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Carl, thanks so much for the time. I really appreciate it.

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Yeah, thank you, Dan, It's been fun.

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