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1:12

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1:19

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1:22

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1:26

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1:28

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1:30

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1:44

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1:58

A fixed grill back on. and

2:01

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2:04

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2:06

you reckon ready for another adventure

2:09

come on then my

2:15

name is dr. John Watson once

2:17

of the British Army Northumberland Fusilier

2:19

Regiment now a

2:22

true crime podcast they're based in central

2:24

London I don't

2:26

have much experience in criminology so

2:29

this is mostly a record of how

2:31

I met possibly the most brilliant and

2:34

bizarre person I have ever and

2:36

will ever know join

2:39

me as I document the

2:41

adventures of Sherlock

2:43

Holmes and

3:02

there you have it dr. Al

3:04

Bamaoui is not responsible for the

3:07

death of Lord Harmsen it

3:09

was not a mishap during surgery

3:11

or even a miscalculation by the

3:13

anesthetist here dr. Joy Applebaum as

3:15

was speculated by not only the Met

3:18

but by all leading pathologists in this

3:20

country somebody knew

3:23

somebody knew that Lord Harmsen was

3:25

coming into surgery today they knew

3:27

that his prep had taken place

3:29

the day before they knew that

3:31

he had begun his fasting a

3:33

practice to avoid vomiting while under

3:35

anesthetic and they knew his final

3:37

blood test would be the morning

3:39

he was scheduled to go under

3:42

the knife in this very operating

3:44

theater well

3:47

for me to arrive at

3:50

that conclusion it was my dear companion

3:52

dr. Watson

3:57

here that remarked that he had a real

4:00

B in his bonnet about this

4:02

whole ordeal. A whimsical idiom

4:04

relating to one feeling slightly frustrated about

4:06

something. But it was that

4:09

expression that allowed my mind to shift

4:11

focus to the events before the surgery,

4:13

not during. At

4:16

9.48am Lord Harmsen took a phone call

4:18

outside in the hospital garden where he

4:20

complained of what upon his return? A

4:23

B. He was stung by a B.

4:26

Stung by a B indeed. But

4:28

this B did not contain melatin, f***ing,

4:30

histamine, phosphoridase A2 and anything else you

4:33

would find in the venom of a

4:35

common B. In fact this B

4:37

did not contain a single chemical on the account

4:39

of being a fabrication.

4:44

Lord Harmsen was not

4:46

stung but he was

4:48

indeed punctured. Not

4:50

by a barbed stinger from one

4:52

of our buzzing anthropilic friends but

4:54

by a needle. A

4:56

needle containing a potent

4:59

anticoagulant. So potent it

5:01

would stop Lord Harmsen's blood

5:03

from clotting during surgery. It

5:06

would become so thin that even

5:08

this elite surgical team assembled right

5:10

before us couldn't stem the flow.

5:12

Well then who did it Mr

5:14

Harmsen? We simply must ask

5:16

ourselves who planted the idea in Lord Harmsen's

5:18

head that he was stung by a B.

5:21

Who was in the hospital garden

5:23

that very morning to do so

5:25

and who was sleeping with his

5:27

wife? Dr

5:29

Sir Michael Winstanley.

5:32

Please, you must listen to me.

5:36

He didn't love her. He

5:39

doesn't deserve her. I love you

5:41

Hazel. I love you ever

5:43

so. Just take

5:45

Dr Sir Michael away. Show

5:47

him to resell. He

5:49

can do with a lie down. He's been a

5:52

busy little B. Oh

5:57

please, you're too kind. These

6:00

must go to my companions and

6:02

the whimsical idiom. What did you

6:04

call me? LAUGHTER Dr

6:16

Watson. Porchezka. I

6:19

am calling in sick for the

6:21

catwalk tonight. Would it

6:23

make you happy if we had dinner?

6:27

Happy? I'd be

6:30

positively buzzing. Oh,

6:32

Dr Watson. Oh,

6:36

that was so good, mate. Ah, thank

6:39

you, Watson. Incredible. The

6:41

listeners? The listeners

6:43

are going to explode. Oh,

6:45

completely, completely. This is

6:47

our best adventure, yeah. It was

6:50

like a novel. This is going to be an eight

6:52

or a ten-parter, honestly. Oh, yeah. I think it has

6:54

to be. Excellent. What's going

6:56

on with that? What? That

6:58

there on your mic. The red circle thing.

7:00

It keeps popping up and flashing. I don't

7:03

know. It's just a light or something. Is

7:05

it OK? Yeah. Yeah,

7:07

but I need to get the mic

7:09

looked at generally because it's been really

7:12

dodgy. Did it definitely record? Yeah, I

7:14

think so. The whole adventure? Yeah, gotcha.

7:17

I mean, the mic's in a bad way, yes, but

7:19

it's not completely. Fucked! Oh, my

7:21

God! Oh, my God! What? It wasn't

7:23

recording. I'm going to be sick. Oh,

7:26

what? Stupid, stupid

7:28

mic. Everything OK? No.

7:31

Why not? The adventure didn't

7:33

record. We only have the end.

7:35

But that was the best adventure yet. Yeah, I

7:37

mean, no, that. Ah,

7:42

how very intriguing. What

7:44

an interesting and singular case. I must

7:46

investigate it further and take my dear

7:48

companion, Dr. John Watson, along on one

7:50

of our signature award-winning adventures. We

7:53

must hurry to the Metropolitan Police. I

7:56

wouldn't say that. I'd say Scotland Yard.

7:58

I said didn't I? I said stick to

8:00

the script unless you feel there's something unnatural

8:03

in there then just ad lib. I really

8:05

don't want to do this. Yeah neither do

8:07

I. Then why are we trying to recreate

8:09

this adventure if neither of us want to?

8:12

Because it was the best one. I

8:14

really must get back to hanging upside down. Why

8:17

do you have to hang upside

8:19

down? I thought Dracula broke into

8:21

the flat earlier. It's not necessary

8:23

Sherlock. It aids hypersensitivity. It enhances

8:25

vestibular response. It decreases pressure

8:27

on nerve roots in the spine. Oxygen

8:30

rich blood runs directly to the brain

8:32

and... He's dead. Dead

8:34

I tell you. What are we

8:36

to do? Hold on, Mari. He's struggling with

8:38

it again. What are we to do? I'm

8:40

sorry, what is that? Why would

8:42

I talk like that? Because you're

8:45

worried, right, and you're coming to me

8:47

for advice about where we go from here. I

8:50

wouldn't go to you for that. I'd

8:52

go to him. Then you could come in

8:54

and address me. Oh no no no no,

8:57

come on, I was pivotal in that adventure.

8:59

Hmm, not sure about that. What do you

9:01

want about me? Be in the bonnet. Hardly

9:03

pivotal. Yeah, that's not cracking the case, John.

9:06

Oh sorry, you mean the

9:08

whole case that literally came together after I

9:10

said that exact phrase? Huh? Interesting. Two of

9:12

the very very few upsides of your inane

9:14

Waffle Watson is you can often open new

9:17

pathways of thought in my mind, purely due

9:19

to the sheer volume of words coming out

9:21

of your mouth. Oh thanks, and the other

9:23

upside? You can host a podcast. Great.

9:26

Eh, anyone can host a podcast. Yeah, don't

9:28

I know it. Look at the charts, mate.

9:30

Okay, can we try this again? I have

9:32

to go. We're not doing it again. Oh

9:34

what? Okay, okay, okay, there's loads of time.

9:37

Right, let's have a

9:39

break. Yeah, you know, cut there guys, that's

9:41

a wrap. Back on set tonight. Oh, I

9:43

can't do tonight. She's right,

9:45

there's already something on the calendar for

9:47

tonight. Oh yeah, right. I

9:49

can't do that either. I'm out. Okay,

9:52

what's tonight? Movie night.

9:55

Ah, right. Yeah. What am

9:57

I missing? I believe it's gangster night.

10:00

Ah, that's a

10:02

shame. Where are you going? I'm meeting

10:04

your friend from the Hudson's days. Oh,

10:06

cool. Yep, so I'm gonna... Yeah, yeah,

10:08

sure, sure. Have a good one. Enjoy.

10:10

Bye! Okay,

10:13

from the top. I thought we were back on

10:15

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10:20

stop working out so vigorously. Lord

10:23

Harmsen is dead. Dead,

10:26

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The football season is back. Join

12:16

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12:18

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12:20

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12:22

on everything going on in the

12:25

Premier League. I'm going to say

12:27

if Man City get any injuries.

12:30

Oh, Jesus Christ, come on. We

12:33

haven't even got a Man City yet.

12:35

Just what Arsenal are going to do. And

12:37

if they get that striker in, I think they'll win

12:39

the league. Hold on, you've just

12:41

done exactly the same with what I've done. You've

12:43

just said about if Man City get a lot

12:46

of injuries, then Arsenal are going, what the f***

12:48

has that got to do with it? I

12:51

will, of course, be on Match of the Day. You're

12:54

on Alan, aren't you? I am. And

12:57

Mica's not. Mica's because you're doing Sunday,

13:00

aren't you? Yeah, Super Sunday. What

13:02

happened? I thought you were on

13:04

with us. I can't work Saturday,

13:06

Sunday. What? Mica's working. I've

13:08

been knackered. It's

13:12

either or, I can't do both days.

13:14

What about listening to it? I can't

13:16

do Saturday and Sunday. See you in

13:18

a room with you two idiots for

13:20

12 hours doing Match of the Day.

13:22

You better wobble, will you? You can't

13:24

work Saturdays and Sundays. Oh,

13:26

no wonder he's career petered out.

13:29

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13:36

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13:38

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13:40

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13:43

PLAYS Don't

13:52

do it, Tony. Put your hands up,

13:54

you son of a bitch. He's not an

13:56

officer. Why is he telling him to put

13:58

his hands up? But he doesn't have

14:00

the authority. He has the gun, that's the authority. And

14:02

it's a call back to when Hank told him to

14:05

put his hands up at the start of the film

14:07

and tell him to have time. It's a what? Josh!

14:10

Tony, you're my guy, right? You're

14:12

my familiar. Can we

14:15

discuss this over in the pizzeria like

14:17

old times? Like

14:19

old times, huh? Exactly,

14:21

Tony. Exactly. Well,

14:24

time's changed, Hank. Nasty way

14:26

to go. Not terrible. Bullet

14:29

to the head. Yeah, but bullet to the head and

14:31

then he fell down that cliff and into the lake.

14:34

Yes, but he's been shot in the head. So?

14:38

So, he's totally unaware of the cliff and

14:40

the lake and the... what on earth is

14:42

that? A shark, I

14:44

think. A shark in a lake

14:46

in New Jersey. It's just... it's

14:48

creative license, that's all. What

14:50

does that mean? That they can lie

14:52

to their viewers? No, they're not... they're not

14:54

lying. It's just... it's a sort of filmic

14:56

language. I beg your pardon? It's

14:59

filmic language that we... it...

15:02

right, we sat down to be entertained.

15:04

Apparently. And in order to do

15:07

that, sometimes the creators of these

15:09

sorts of things have to move us into a

15:11

different sort of universe type thing. It's New Jersey.

15:14

No, I know it's New Jersey. I'm not

15:16

saying it's another planet. I'm just... I'm

15:18

saying there is an alternate media reality that

15:20

we have where we're stereotyped and exaggerated and

15:22

thrilling things are commonplace. Have you ever been

15:25

to New Jersey? Sherlock...

15:27

right, no, it doesn't matter. Forget it. Tony the Collar. Ah,

15:30

my dear sweet uncle,

15:33

Gio. Oh dear,

15:35

shoot him. Tony, shoot him. Sorry, why should Tony

15:37

shoot him? Well, Tony's found out that the guy

15:39

who got shot in the head was his brother

15:41

that went missing ten years ago in Queens because

15:43

his uncle kidnapped him and the sister to play

15:45

Kate, the great uncle who runs the mob ring

15:48

on behalf of the grandad. The grandad who was

15:50

actually an informant? Well, no, he's

15:52

a double agent. The Attorney

15:54

General thinks he's informing, but he's actually

15:57

counter informing as an informant. Oh,

15:59

bad news. Bang! Dead. Can Tony just

16:02

shoot everyone and we can all go to bed?

16:04

Dornoch. Very observant. Is

16:06

that sarcasm there? Exceptionally observant.

16:08

Well done. Thank you. Hey,

16:12

the door is opening. I'm

16:14

not joking, look. Stop it. It's

16:17

okay, Harge. I think. Shh.

16:20

Who's there? Maybe

16:22

I left it on the latch. Ah! Brianna!

16:26

Caught you. You're the

16:29

sake of spill-pity. Sorry. Sorry.

16:32

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.

16:34

It's too funny, I'm sorry. I will remind you

16:36

that we are a crime agency. We're

16:39

not children. Actually, the crime agency is

16:41

221A and this is 221B and this?

16:45

This is Imani Warren. Hello, Imani.

16:47

Hi, this is John Watson and

16:49

that is Sherlock Holmes. The

16:52

colleagues. Yeah, yeah,

16:55

the colleagues. So,

16:57

what are we watching? Old Blood 2.

17:00

Oh, and what is Old Blood

17:02

2? Move up. Imani,

17:04

you go sit on that couch. He'll move. Well,

17:06

he might not, but just push his legs out of

17:09

the way. Are you talking about the dog or Sherlock?

17:11

Both. Popcorn? Uh-huh. Sweet

17:13

or salted? Both. Mmm,

17:16

yum. Gimme. Ah, is

17:18

gimme Spanish for... Look,

17:20

I... Yeah,

17:23

you red circle on the thing again? Get

17:25

it fixed. Yeah, I'm going to. Why

17:27

is it called Old Blood? He doesn't look

17:29

old. Because it's referring to the

17:32

old country. Is that right,

17:34

John? That's right, big guy. Now, can we all

17:36

shush and watch Tony kill some people, please? Hey,

17:38

what's going on down here? Who's

17:40

that? Nobody. What

17:43

do you mean, nobody? It's just... He's

17:45

just a bloke. Just a bloke? It's just

17:48

a bloke guarding a compa... He's

17:50

not a key character, and the fact that he's

17:52

guarding a compound, holding his gun incorrectly and has

17:54

no attachment to any of the other characters, means

17:56

he's going to have a really cool death and

17:58

you keep talking... Wow. Oh, shh. I

18:00

missed it. Oh, right,

18:03

can we rewind? You're disrupting the flow

18:05

of the drama. Me? Shh. Oh,

18:08

God, I pressed the wrong button. Can we put the lights

18:10

on, please? Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.

18:12

It's lives of treasure. Good. God, put

18:15

the gangster film back on. Oh,

18:17

my God. I'll be really sad. I

18:19

mean, did you see when she scratched her Bentley with a kitchen knife?

18:22

And, um... You f***ing chime!

18:26

F***ing bitch! Oh, thank

18:28

God. I cannot believe you watch

18:30

that stuff. It's not like I watch it. Watch

18:33

it. I just see it on my

18:35

feet and stuff. It helps me

18:37

switch off. What? Women screaming

18:39

at each other? I guess. Why

18:42

do women like that kind of stuff? It's

18:44

cruel, it's vicious, it's destructive. Kill him, Tony!

18:46

Shoot him in the eye! Oh, f***! Yes!

18:51

Keep an eye out, chump. So,

18:53

what do you do, Imani? Hello.

18:55

Movie night. Yeah, it's also nice

18:57

to be polite. I

18:59

work at Hudson's. Ah, yeah, of

19:02

course, of course. How's that going? It's

19:04

probably great since this one buggered off. Ow!

19:07

You deserve it. Yeah, it's okay. We have

19:09

a lot of big commercial new builds now,

19:11

so that's kind of interesting. Not

19:13

just trying to sell the... Ouch! You

19:15

just got shot in the balls. Oh, that is

19:17

nasty. Oh, no, look at

19:20

that. The bullets come out his bum. Through his bum.

19:23

Out his bum. Into his balls and out

19:25

his bum. That has not come through his

19:27

rectum, Watson. You're a doctor, come on. It

19:30

would perforate an arse cheek as an exit

19:32

wound at best. No, that through his bumhole,

19:34

I reckon. Oh, right in the balls and

19:36

out my asshole. See? Told

19:38

you. Filmic language, mate.

19:42

Filmic... language. Yes.

19:44

Watson seems to believe that these movies can

19:46

get away with portraying, saying and doing just

19:48

about whatever they want, as it's not reality.

19:52

Yeah, that is kind of true. So

19:54

it would seem... There is

19:56

a bit of an overlap, though. How so? Nah,

19:59

just... Had some stuff happen...

20:01

shoot him then! Yeah shoot him Tony, what

20:03

are you doing mate? What

20:05

kind of stuff? Oh just, it's

20:07

hard to explain so I won't bother. But

20:10

yeah, just shady shit at one of the... You

20:12

know how Street House Development marry? Yeah

20:14

by the British Museum. Yeah, so we'll

20:16

sometimes have meetings there with the project

20:18

manager, site manager. And

20:21

yeah, just hard to explain.

20:24

Hey, hey, who paused it? I did. Why?

20:27

Tony is about to shoot the barrel of oil that

20:29

will blow up the whole compound. That spoiler...

20:32

Imani, it's hard to

20:34

explain because you're distracted and slightly

20:36

embarrassed. I decided to eliminate one

20:38

of those factors. Please explain.

20:44

Right. Why are you embarrassed? I'm

20:46

not. It's one of those

20:49

things that makes you sound like a

20:51

conspiracy weirdo, which I'm absolutely not, okay?

20:53

I do not wanna be part of

20:56

this story, honest. It's just something that's

20:58

been happening. Let's hear it. Okay.

21:01

So, how Street House

21:03

is a new tower block building, like

21:06

new builds, luxury flats, Central London location,

21:08

blah, blah. And anyway, the other day,

21:10

I'm waiting out the front of the

21:12

property, which is all boarded up, like

21:15

as in under construction. Just

21:17

for an underground parking thing and lobby

21:19

renovations. And then everything else is on

21:21

the scaffolding up through the building, which

21:24

is basically a showroom apartment and

21:26

then empty concrete rooms. So

21:29

I'm stood out there, out the front of the

21:31

building, as this is before I had keys for

21:33

the locks and stuff. And I notice on

21:36

the hoarding that the builders put up,

21:38

there's this QR code and

21:40

thingies running late, the site manager. So

21:43

I just scan it on my phone, right?

21:46

It takes me to this basic

21:48

one page site. It's

21:50

a map, like a map

21:52

of Italy, like a region

21:54

or something in Italy. And it's

21:57

got this red circle over this

21:59

one town. What town? Oh,

22:01

I googled it, so let me look it

22:03

up. My history, erm... When was this? Two

22:06

weeks ago. Hold on. Bellagio.

22:09

Bellagio? Like

22:12

the casino? Ha, yeah, like the

22:14

casino. But this is a town.

22:17

Anyway, there's nothing else

22:19

to it, but there's a picture of

22:21

this guy above the map, right? Goatee,

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black hair, white guy, kind of bags

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under his eyes, looks maybe 45, 50?

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But yeah, just one page site. This

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map with the red circle and this guy, I

22:35

think nothing of it. Next day,

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I'm at our offices and on Sky News,

22:40

there is the same picture of that guy

22:42

in... In, er...

22:44

In Sherbourne. Frank Calla. Right.

22:47

So rewind, who is Frank

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Calla? Italian male found dead

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in Sherbourne two weeks

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ago. Okay. But

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Frank Calla was from Rome,

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not Bellagio. Where is Bellagio? Let

23:01

me Google it. Um... Oh,

23:04

wow, yeah, like right in

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the north, near Milan. Google

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Frank Calla Bellagio. Okay. Anything

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of note? Um, couple

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of profiles of people. Um...

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Yeah, nothing. Imani, find your browsing

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history on that date and open the site

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that was linked to the QR code. Okay,

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so it's this book. Last time I

23:27

checked, I... Yeah, look, gone.

23:29

Site doesn't exist. Let

23:32

me see who owned this site. See,

23:35

I've got you all into it now. Yeah,

23:37

you've stolen Tony's thunder. I know. Il

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ciocciorosso. The red circle.

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Any contact details? A

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number. That's almost definitely

23:50

fake. The

23:52

number you have called is not recognised.

23:54

Please check the number and dial again.

23:57

Yeah, that sounds fake. Have

23:59

you told Hudson to... about it. No. Why

24:02

not? Well I just assumed, I

24:04

don't know, that there were

24:06

these QR code stickers everywhere. Is

24:08

the QR code still there? Wasn't

24:10

there literally hours later it was

24:12

gone. Did you see any

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more on that street? No. And

24:17

you are certain, Imani, you are

24:19

certain that it was the same

24:21

man? Certain. What are you thinking?

24:24

Il giocco e incorso. What

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does that mean? The game is afoot.

24:31

Ah, very cool. Very nice. Oh for

24:33

fucks sake, the mic is doing the

24:35

fucking thing again. Ah,

24:38

why is this happening now? This is

24:40

supposed to be a proper food crime

24:42

podcast. Hi,

24:45

this is Mariana Mecha Fura. Sorry I

24:47

can't answer right now. Please leave a

24:49

message and I'll get back to you.

24:51

Hola. Soy Mariana Mecha Fura. En este

24:53

momento no pueda tenderte. Por favor de

24:55

jama en sache me podrón contactoro antes

24:58

posible. Gracias. Mariana, it's

25:00

me. I've left you a load of voice

25:02

notes too. Sorry but there's another one. Literally

25:05

just scanned it. Um yeah,

25:08

call me. Please just call

25:10

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