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It’s time to pick a winner for the biggest prize of the year.
Remember! Our MegaSack draw is for our subscribers. But there's always time to join them and be in it to win it. When the draw takes place the winner will be checked against our live subscriber database.
Draw happens at 6pm Christmas Eve, live from our publisher, Mark's front room.
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live. Hello everybody. Right, I'm actually going to do this.
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Uh, let me just tune in and make sure I can that all the text working. Is there
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a chat? Can anybody see the chat? If I tap that, I can see the chat viewing up. It's live chat. Show me all the live
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chat. All right, if you're just tuning in, uh, give us a shout. Say hello just
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while I get myself sorted here. And
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just bear with me while I bring up all my different screens. I'm
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actually going to go live over on Instagram as well.
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First thing I need to check with everybody is is the how's the sound? Sound okay?
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Uh let me just sort out.
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All right. And I'll put that there and I press that. Okay. Hey, thank you. Who's that? Just
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said the sound's good. Brilliant. Okay. Yes. Thanks to one of our sponsors, DJI.
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Uh, right. Okay. I can see your chat. Sound is good.
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We'll wait for a few more people to join us, but I think the first job I've got to do is I've got to have my Christmas
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drink. I've been holding off. It's Christmas Eve.
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Always make a cocktail on Christmas Eve. Anybody um tell me what cocktail I'm
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about to make. Go in a glass. It doesn't get shaken. There's a bit of orange peel in there.
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There's a few things we got to do today. We got a bit of admin to do. We've got some prizes to give out. It's not just
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the mega sack. Um we've got the final day prize that we
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have to give away. That was the invisy frame that's not been picked.
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There we go. Okay.
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Bit of maple syrup. Okay. It's my little special recipe for this.
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All right. Give it a swirl. All right.
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You can name that cocktail I just made there. Oldfashioned Nigel. Well done. Yep. There we go. Okay. I'm making this
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one with Some would say making a cocktail using a really nice single malt is anathema to good whiskey drinking.
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This is um single malt. This is a 10-year-old uh Aaron uh non-chilled natural color. So anyway,
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single trackers, cheers, and thanks for joining in.
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Oh, merry Christmas. Oh, that works.
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So, let me just give you a quick rundown of what's going to happen. Um, there's a few things to to sort out today. There's
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obviously the mega. We're going to build up to that. We'll come to that. This is a live draw, which means that the winner
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I don't know who the winner is. I'm literally going to do it on my laptop in front of you, which is what we do every
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year. And whoops, there we go. And yeah,
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what a year it's been so far. I hope everybody's got to the end of the year and is feeling ready for 2026. I'm
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certainly ready for 2026. I'm certainly ready, to be honest, for the back of 2025 as far as single track goes. It's been a
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bit of a tough one. It's been a bit of a tough one this year, but it ended on a high. And uh that high
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is the fact that now there's 203 of you people out there
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um who are actually shareholders. We now have 203 extra shareholders in addition
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to myself and Chips. There's 205 people who actually now own a stake in Single
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Track. So, and we've always said Single Track is a a magazine um by mountain
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bikers for mountain bikers. And now I think we can expand that. It's by mountain bikers for mountain bikers
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owned by mountain bikers. So, yeah, really, really, really proud of that. That's absolutely fantastic. Really
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happy about that. Are there any shareholders tuning in now? If you are, give us a shout in the in the comments.
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Let's have a look. Uh who have we got?
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Uh, oh, Roland needs cheering up. Um, he's got the Lergie for Christmas. Sorry
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about that, Roland. And, uh, who else have we got here? We got 4x4
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Pikester. Oh, you're not feeling so good either. All right. Um, hope you're feeling
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better tomorrow. Three. Oh my. What's going on? Is this Is COVID back? Are you Is it time for
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lockdown again? Because um beg pin pint pot beg begb's point pot. Good
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reference there to transport spotting. Like that one. Yeah. But you're not feeling so well either. Right. Sorry
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about that. Okay. Yeah. Oh, right. We got a we got a shareholder, Simon McN. Yes. Welcome, Simon. And welcome to the
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team. So Simon, for you especially uh the paperwork and everything, all our
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shareholders, it was a long process. A lot of admin had to be done, a lot of paperwork and form filling by me and
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everybody else. But just I think in the last week or so, all the shareholders, we've been given, you've been given your
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little owner certificate in your crowd cube account. So you're now officially uh you've got proof that you own a piece
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of Single Track. So, the next thing that we're going to do is get on top of getting in touch with you all. Uh
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there's a lot of things we've got to do. We got to sort out your perks. There's um hoodies, certificates, badges.
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There's all sorts of stuff that we haven't forgotten about. And you guys, we're going to sort you out as soon as we get to the new year. December is
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always absolutely mad uh busy for us. The mega takes up so much of our time.
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Um so, I haven't been able to get on top of that sort of stuff yet, but as soon as we get into 2026, we'll be in touch.
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We'll get all that sorted out for you. Cool. Right over on Instagram. Oh, lots of people waving. All right. Uh, hi Kale
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Gardner Denol. Uh, Dan 8R Mikey Ban75.
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Thanks for joining us over on the Instagram. And who? Let's give some shout outs. Who we got here? Um,
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yeah. Uh, Nigel. Yes. Well, I said you you
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told me it was a um an old fashioned, so you've already had your shout outs. Right. Anyone's got any questions about
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anything to do with single track, give us a shout in the comments and we'll answer them. Before we get on to some of the giveaways, uh I want to just thank
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the single track team. We've got to the end of 2025. It's been a massive struggle. Uh but we've done it.
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notwithstanding the help that you guys, our reads, especially our um new shareholders have have uh have helped
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get to the end. Thank you so much for that. But yeah, um we're a small team and uh we've made it thus far.
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Thanks because it's a massive team effort. So Benji, Heather, Chips, especially Ross and Sean for bringing in
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the money. Uh Anthony and Andy, the tech guys, uh constantly battling with um the
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website. Uh and and and Sammy, our non-exec director, who has been an absolute
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uh just an absolute boss this year in helping us get through. So, we're we're
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looking forward to um 2026. Hopefully, it's going to be a lot better than 2025.
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And yeah, that's about all I wanted to say right now before we get on to the uh
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the re the reason why you're all really here.
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So, got a few um spot prizes to give out the people who joined in. So the first
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thing we have to do is we've got the final day's mega sack sort out on the
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final day which was the um the final day
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15 that was the invisy frame. I have not yet picked the winner. We always do this every year. We always wait the last day.
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We always wait until Christmas Eve to pull the winner out. So, let's go into
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day 15 and I'm going to hit the pick a winner button and we'll see who's won the
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Invisy Frame kit. So, don't worry about the Invisy Frame kit will be custom provided to you for your bike. So,
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whatever your bike is, that's what Invisy Frame are going to sort you out with. Um, so you won't have the one in
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the office because that one's for um a privateier. That's for Ross' privateeer. So, let's have a quick look here. Choose
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the winner. And the winner of day 15
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is I'm going to do usernames only. We won't read out the email addresses. So the
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winner is Tracy. Tracy T R A C E Y. You are the winner of an Inf Invisy Frame
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kit just custom made just for your bike. So well done. That's the first prize
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given out. Now I've got a few more um prizes to give out. I got something special here that um is very very unique
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and I'm going to give that out in a dry run of picking the megaac winner. So I'm
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going to do like two runs of the megaac draw and the first is going to be for a special prize I've got here and then the
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final one is going to be for the um for the megaac itself. And yeah, I mean if
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you have a look at what's in the me made it into the megaac this year, there's been some amazing prizes. It's over
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about three grand, all well over £3,000 worth of prizes. So, day one we had the
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Shimano XT DI2 upgrade kit, 650 quid, followed by Madison clothing bundle and
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then there was the True Flow tire package. Uh, day four was the Gtechnique
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Care package. There's helmet laser helmet on day five hunt trails. Uh, day
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six tail fin day seven met helmets. Uh,
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day eight, uh, Ortle, day nine, uh, Tubalito, who are in every single year.
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Tubito, really love those guys sending those tubes in every single year. They're really, really good pieces of
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kit as well. Uh, DMR, uh, grips and pedals and and um, yeah, it's pedals and
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grips, wasn't it? On day 11. Day 12. Uh, now day 12 was us. It was single track. gave away a100 pound voucher and then
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Pembbury then stands on day 14 and then invisy frame which we've just done the draw for. Now if you are already one of
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those winners if you go back and click on any of those megaax stories you'll see if you're a winner. If you are a winner don't worry that we haven't been
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in touch with you yet. We haven't forgotten. Um it's one of these admin jobs we've got to get back on top of and
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over the first week in January we'll be in touch. We'll get you prizes to you. Don't worry about it. Right. Okay, now
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got a couple of single track prizes to give out now. Spot prize for the people who are watching. So, I'm going to ask
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you a question. You're going to stick your answer in. The first person with the right answer is going to win a single track beanie. All right. So, uh
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let's see. Now, this is this is to test whether you've been paying attention to what we've been publishing on the website in the last week. So,
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specifically um to do with our editor's choice this year. Uh, first question is,
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Chips picked a Gilelay, which was his Ed's choice product of the year. I want to know the name of that Gilelay. So,
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first person who can throw that into the comments is, let me get my thing up, is going to
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win a a beanie. Then there's a second question, which I'm going to go straight into. Yeah, MC Magnet, I need more than
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just that. So, uh, you know, yes, you're half right, but I want the
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name of the Gilelay and its model. All right, so come on, quickly get it in there. And then the second question,
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Benji chose a fork is his editor's choice. I want the full name of that
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fork. Okay, so that's the brand and the model. Okay, give us that and you will
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win a beanie. Let's see who comes up with these first. Uh, Roland. Nope. No,
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we didn't call it Dave. That's just nice. Um, uh, Daniel foxes in the background. It's
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all wallpaper. Uh, wife's choice. I don't get to choose things to do with decoration in the anything that involves
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colors. I'm It's It's I'm vetoed. Fox podium. No, sorry. Keep going.
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Think we might have to move on from this while you all go rushing away to the website to try and find the answer. Uh Roland, it's the uh Benji's editor's
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choice fork.
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Hey, we got a winner. Paul, you've you've won. Yes. Well done.
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Okay, you've got a beanie coming to you. Now, the way this is going to work, Paul, is you need to email me marks singletrackworld.com and say, "I've won
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your beanie." And then I will sort you out with a beanie. If you can email me with your address, that's going to make
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things a lot simpler and we'll get that in the pro and oh yes, everyone's coming in with the answers now. But
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unfortunately, Paul got there first. Now, what about that gilelay? Come on.
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No one's No one's claiming the gilelay. Yeah, the prize for the gilelay. Chips is um Chips's favorite gilelay.
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What is it?
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No one throwing that one in. Come on. It's here in the story. Just
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get the story open. No, there we go. M magnet. You went back and
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you got Yeah, that's that's more information than I was actually requiring. But yes, well done, Mukmagnet. You've won a beanie. So again
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for you what you need to do email me marks singletrack world.com and um
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give us your name your address and I'll make sure that first week of January we
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get a single track beanie in the post to you right now. There's one thing I want to do. The next thing I want to do is
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I've got a competition. Now it's a bit unfair. If you haven't read the latest issue of the magazine you're probably
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not going to win this but I want to show you something I've got here. Okay, I think the cover shot of this Decemberish
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is one of the best covers that I think we've ever done. And to celebrate that,
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we've got Everybody loves a poster, don't they? We got an enormous A1 print
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on really nice 250 g matte I think it's silk paper. This is the cover for issue
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165. This is the only print of this of this
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size in existence at the moment. We did this one as a test to see if it was any,
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you know, the quality was any good and it is. The quality is fabulous. So, if you would like to win this, all you need
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to do is tell me in the chat
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who took that shot. Who is our 165 cover photographer?
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First name, second name in the chat. First one wins this print. Okay, it's
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the only one in existence currently. We'll probably uh get some now we know how good the Ah, we got a winner. That
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was quick. Okay, Moz69, Kristoff Johan. Okay.
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Um Oh, we've got Amanda. Hi Amanda over on Instagram. I keep forgetting to look over there. And James has joined us. Hi
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James. How you doing? And let's have a look who else have we got over here.
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Uh oh, the Instagrammers, you are always
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forgotten. Sorry. Yes, I was I was just my attention was over on YouTube, so
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really sorry about that. But anyway, we've I think even even the
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Instagrammers were not as quick as Moz 69. Kristoff Johan was the photographer
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for this cover shot. Uh Kristoff, this was his first proper mountain bike photography gig. He's actually normally
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he is he he's a a winter snow photographer. So, this was one of the first times he's actually been out and
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done some professional photography for mountain biking. And we're really really happy that we we managed to take one of
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his first images and actually put it on the cover. Absolutely amazing cover. Of course, we have it's one of the
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candidates for image of the year which were is
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currently live on the website so you can vote for that. And I think there's two other covers. So, um Oh, Roger, you're
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getting a subscription for Christmas. Brilliant. Happy to have you on board. Okay.
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Oh. Oh, Amanda, is it cold? Where are you, Amanda? We all want beanies. I'll
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probably sort you out with a beanie, Amanda. Don't worry. Where are you? Why is it so cold? Just cold. It's always
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cold. Right. Next job.
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a50 pound shop credit to spend on our merch.
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This is me actually rehearsing to make sure I don't screw up the mega sack because I'm going to pick the winner
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from people who've already entered in the daily draw. So, I'm It's as if this is the mega sack draw. But if you win
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this, you're not winning the mega, you're going to win a 50 voucher to spend in our shop. Now, the way we do
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the megaack, remember the rules. The rules are first of all we're only
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picking a megaac winner who is a subscriber. Okay. So to enter our
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megaack competitions this year to win the daily prize, you had to be either a subscriber or signed up to our
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newsletter. Okay. Very sort of um overt way to try and grow our newsletter
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audience. But anyway, so what I'm going to do now, I've got tabs open here. So, what I need
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to do for this is although I have a button that will pick a winner for each
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day, I don't have a button that will pick a random winner for all of the days
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competition. So, I'm going to random.org. We've got 15 days. So, the first draw is going to be a random
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number between 1 and 15. And this is going to tell me the day that I have to go to to pick the winner. So, I'm going
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to hit the generate button. And it's given me the number three. So, if you were on day three, if you entered
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on day three, you're still in the game. Okay. So, now I'm going to go to
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day three. If I can find it. Where are you? Day three.
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Give me a minute. And now I'm going to pick a winner from
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day three. And actually what I need to do because it doesn't tell me on whether
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this person is actually a subscriber or not. So I then have to do a bit of a cross check with our live subscriptions
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database to verify that they're a subscriber. So it might not be the first
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person that I pull out. Right. I'm going to hit the button
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and let me see. I'm not going to tell you who this is because it might not be the
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winner. Okay. All right. So, what I do now is I take that email.
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This is exciting, isn't it? And I'm going to put it into our user database
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and do a cross check. See if they're in there. Is this person a subscriber? We're about to find out.
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Uh, they're not. They're not. I've got to do it again. Uh
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they're they're not a subscriber. So, I'm going to pick another winner.
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If you're actually really quick and go to day three, you'll see who didn't win.
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Uh right, there we go. Right. Is this person going
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to be the winner? Second attempt. Is this person a subscriber?
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Reys, sorry, mate. You've not really done
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anything to earn yourself a beanie yet, have you? Sorry about that. Uh, yes, we have a winner. All right, so uh
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usernames only. This person has won a uh 50 pound voucher. I've got to write
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their name down so I don't forget. Um, to our shop. So, this is testing that
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the Megasack draw is going to work, which we'll do next. So, the winner of a £50 voucher to spend in our shop is
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username bell FM. Okay? If that's you, give us a shout. If it's not, we'll be
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in touch. Okay. Right. You ready for the megaack? Now, the big one. Now, I know that the system works.
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Who's excited? How's the chat going?
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Oh, there there's another competition we have to draw tonight as well, isn't it? I'll do that on the forum later, which is uh I set off a best Christmas tree
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competition on the forum. I don't get to choose that one. That's all down to how many likes the person the Christmas tree
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gets. So, there's a there's a there's a thread about likes on your Christmas
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tree, a poll. And it turns out that single track readers are very very classy because the majority of us all
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have single color lights which you know is very bourgeoa these days but you know
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uh what's what is your opinions on Christmas tree lights multicolored or single color single track for and
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spoken. As you can see behind me we've gone single warm white um although we do
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have multicolored around the room as well. What's your opinions on uh on
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this? Are you these single color lights or multicolored?
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Right, do that one on the forum later. Right now, I think it's time for the megasack. Okay,
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so in the same vein of what I've just done, I'm going to go to random.org and
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I'm going to choose the day 1 to 15. If you entered every single day, you've got
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nothing to worry about at this stage. you're still in. If you didn't enter every single day, you could fall at this
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hurdle if you're not in the day that I pick. So, this is why every year we say make sure you enter every single day.
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Even if you're late and you know the 24 hours has passed, go back and enter. And
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uh to be technically accurate, you could still do that now, right? So the day
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the day of the megaack winner 2025 is day 10.
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Day 10 was what was day 10? What was the prize on day 10?
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Day 10 was it was the uh day 10 it was the tubilito jubilito tube. If you
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entered that competition and you got the answer right, you're in the mix. So now I go to day 10.
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And I'm going to choose the winner from day 10. I'm going to do the same checks again. I'm going to make sure that they
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are a subscriber. Day 10. There we go.
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The day 10 winner who won the prize for day 10 Jubilee Tour was Mark Finch. Okay. So now I'm going to actually
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choose another winner. Do a double check and make sure that they are an actual
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subscriber. I'm not going to tell you who that is,
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but if you really quick and go over there and have a quick look, you'll see who I've just pulled out of the uh
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the hat. Let's see. Are they a subscriber?
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And the answer is Oh, no. They're not. They're not.
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They're not a subscriber. Let's go back and try again. We need to pick another winner.
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probably some regret going on right now about being a subscriber or not. And
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there is All right, I've got another name. I'm going to go and double check. See if
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this person is a subscriber.
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No. Seriously, no. Ah, you know what I think's happening here? Every year,
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something very strange happens with our Mega Sack, we get an awful lot of new traffic from
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an awful lot of people who aren't actually regular forum users. They all come from one place, and this has been
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the case for the last 5 years. They all come from moneysavingexpert.com.
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uh as soon as we publish there's a thread there's a the whole group of people who live on the community of moneysaving expert who live for
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competitions and when a new competition comes out they there's a community there and they share them and our megaack
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comes up every year so we do get quite a lot of people who are just coming in it's one of the reasons why we have now
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specified that the megaac winner needs to be a subscriber okay so that's two
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down okay I'm going to hit Let's try again.
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Okay, let's see if this person is our winner.
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Winner. Oh, no.
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Sorry about that. I was so so excited there. I thought we had a winner and knocked all the cameras over. That's
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Right. Let's balance this. Oh, this is so pro, isn't it? I'm going to stay
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there. It's cuz I kicked the table with my leg. That's another one that's not a subscriber. I can't believe I'm having
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to do this over and over again. Here's another winner. Press the button again.
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Yeah, it does make it tense, doesn't it? Oh, it's dragging on a bit. Let me just
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Oh. Yeah, there's people hanging up. Right. Do we have another? All right, take that. Got a name.
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Right. I reckon this could be a winner only because
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the email address hints that this person might be
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part of the single track community. Let's have a look.
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No way. It's just not It's not happening. Right. Okay. I can't believe
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I have to press this button again. Right. Surely this Where is that? 1 2 3
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4 five failed attempts. When we did the test for the this it was a subscriber straight away. Who'd have thought it?
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Right. Okay. Right. I've got another one.
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This time we will, you know, fair's fair. We'll keep going till we find a winner.
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Is this person going to win? We have a winner. Finally, we've got a winner. All right.
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How do you do this high-tech way? I'm going to write this person's username down. Where's my big permanent marker on
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a white on a sheet of paper and then I'm going to hold it up. Is Is this backwards, by the way? Is this backwards
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on my shirt?
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Um because otherwise I'm I'll have to say the name right username.
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It's a short one.
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Only four letters in the username. It's given something away, isn't it? Okay. Right. Let me go back to the video.
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Oh, it's back to front. Right. Let me see if I can actually write this the right way around then. Thanks, Nigel. Let me see. Um,
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how do you do that?
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That doesn't even That doesn't even look like a real letter, right? So, the winner Okay. Username the winner of the
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Megasack is the username is
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RG. That's a W. I don't know why it looks like that. has a W. RGWB, that's
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the username. That is a subscriber. They are officially now after I think six
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failed attempts, they are now the winner of the Megasack uh 2025. We will be in
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touch and uh is everybody tuning out right now? One.
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Yeah. So, there we go. Is uh the chance that that person's going to be here?
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Well, we've had so many thousands of entries. Um, chances of the winner actually being
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online with us right now pretty um that is not a W. You're right, Amanda. I'm
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telling you it is. It is a W. I was trying to A W backwards is exactly the same as forwards. So why I ended up in
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my head I I started from the other side. I went like that. Anyway,
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so we will be in touch with all the winners from this year's mega sack. Um,
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so that's everybody who's won the daily winners. If you're one of those people waiting to hear from us, you will and we
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will be in touch with the winner and uh we'll arrange for the prizes. Now, there's there's a lot of touring
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and throwing because a lot of the prizes require sizes and we got a a lot of information from you about that, but we
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will do that. All right. So, I think that's it. That's it. The dog's just
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coming to join. You're right there. Stick up. Come here. Jump. You coming
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up? I'll show you the Instagram people. Stickle, come here. Say hello. Let's say
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hello to Instagram. Hello. This is Stickle. This is Stickle the dog named
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after Stickle Tarn in the Lake District. Although somebody at um the dog club
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that my wife takes this or dog to suggested that we get another one called Tess.
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You can work that one out. Right. Okay. That's about it from me. I've got to go and um get ready for the big day
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tomorrow. So, I'm going to sign off for now. Merry Christmas to everybody. Uh
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hope you had fun this year. Hope tomorrow goes brilliantly. I hope you have a great new year and we'll see you
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on the other side. Okay. Now, I got to work out how to turn this all off. We'll
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stop. How do you stop a a live broadcast on Instagram? I've got no idea. There's
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no stop button. End. Right. That's Instagram gone. Oh, and I'm knocking you over again. It's
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been so pro. This is actually my only my first drink of the of the of the night.
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Right. Goodbye everybody. See on.
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