Hello friends and welcome to the last episode of the Exophonic writer Podcast of 2025.

I have great company! Join me on my chat with Mages Ruiz Diaz from Acts of Imagination, as we discuss how we both brought our Argentinian cultural backgrounds to our work here in Australia.

Also, we touched on particularly interesting topics such as Mages' branding work for an Azerbaijani client, changing names after migration and  some pondering on the Spanish language.

This one is a must-listen-to, so I hope you tune in! 😎

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Hi exophonic friends,

We are here again with yet another amazing guest! 

Dr Gabriel García Ochoa is a Mexican-born academic and writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches at Monash University, where his work explores cultural literacy, world literature, and translation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is the author of the 2019 science fiction novel The Hypermarket. 

Join me in my conversation with Gabriel as we discussed cultural literacy, English as birth right, cultural expectation on exophonic writers and, —surprise, surprise— imposter syndrome!

We also delved into Gabriel's first novel (linked below) and what he's writing next.

https://www.amazon.com.au/Hypermarket-Gabriel-Garcia-Ochoa/dp/0578650967

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Hello Exophonics,

As promised, here are the first few chapters (poems) of my debut novel Tango Masala.

I tried my best and I hope you like it (but much respect for voice actors!)I read the first 46 pages, and the following poems:

1. Comfort Zone 
2. Hamster Palace 
3. The Millers 
4. Liam
5. Micro 
6. Lila and Rim 
7. Pink House 
8. Castle-hotel 
9. Check Mate 
10. Milan
11. Hindi 
12. Here to work 
13. New Teacher 

If you want to see more, head to my website www.zoegomezcass.com or read a sample on Amazon:

 https://www.amazon.com/Tango-Masala-Zoe-Gomez-Cass/dp/1763595234?asin=1763595234&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

See you on the next one.

Much love,

Zoe Xx

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Hi, exophonics! ✨

Let me share with you all that I'm learning as a newly self-published exophonic author. We'll talk about: 

• why your friends may not read your book
• stocking your book in real-life bookstores and libraries
• where is a good place to promote your indie-publish book.

Plus, if you stick until the very end I'll tell you one surprising marketing technique I'm deploying 🙃

In the episode, I mentioned Creative Pep talk Podcast  (which is pretty famous), but just in case you didn't know it here is the link: https://www.creativepeptalk.com/

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Whether to reach a wider audience, or to detach yourself from saying hard things, or because your native language has a very complex writing system. Whatever the reason that brings you to write in a non-native language... this is a story that only you can tell, so write it!

In conversation with author and book coach Karmen Spiljak, we talked about grammar skills, cultural expectations, opportunities for exophonics in the publishing world and her own trajectory in being an exophonic writer.

If you want to know more about today's guest, you can find more here:

https://karmenspiljak.com/

https://storyallegiance.com/about/

Tune-in and add to your exophonic reality a little piece of truth from the point of view of other exophonics from across the globe ✨🙂

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Once upon a time... when I was researching for exophonic resources (right before launching the very first episode of this podcast) I came across a website that was boasting exophonic poetry and short stories. I was surprised because honestly there wasn't much for and about exophonic writers other than a bunch of articles that were all recounting the same thing.

Danae Spyrou is behind Lite House, a website for Exophonics and in this episode she shares what inspired her to start this project and how you too can share your writing in this website that celebrates diversity of voices, accents and experiences. :)

✨Here's the link for you to check it out and submit your writing:

https://tothelitehouse.com/

✨Also, join the exophonic writers group on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/16r86gPqEf/

I hope this episode has been informative and inspiring. Please share this valuable information with your exophonic friends and let's take over the world with our Exophony (😈 *she laughs maliciously*  😈)

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Hiiiii 🙃 

The Exophonic Writer Podcast is back, baby!  💪 😎 And we have a great season ahead...

In this season, we'll talk about early lessons of a self-published author, a website that's especially looking to publish exophonic writers, a book coach who works with exophonic writers, the relationship we have with our second language, the exophonic landscape of Melbourne, Exophony as taught in university, and so much more!

5 beautiful guests are joining us for this first half of the season (and I could not feel more honoured 🥺).

Also, exciting news... we have EXOPHONIC MERCH! 

I created this cute line of products to tell the world about your craft without having to speak at all (because, chances are, you're heavily introverted just like me :p):

Check it out at:

 https://www.zoegomezcass.com/podcast

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New episodes releasing every other week, make sure to follow the podcast to not miss out! 

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Hi, exophonics.  I know... it's been a minute.

But I have a really good excuse. I've been working on the publishing process of my first novel: TANGO MASALA!!!

Tango Masala is a psychological coming-of-age drama written in verse, about Bianca, a language teacher living in Buenos Aires and Milan, an Indian businessman bearing a job proposal that will change Bianca's world.

It's available on hardback and paperback, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. In this episode of The Exophonic Writer Podcast I want to share three valuable lessons I learnt in the process:

1. Don't overcomplicate things.
2. Give yourself plenty of time.
3. Have realistic expectations.

That's a bit generic advice, isn't it? Tune in to find out how these three lessons were relevant in my publishing process. :)

SEE YOU SOON IN SEASON 2! XoXo

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Hello, Exophonics!

In this episode I'll share with you a map of the milestones of my (still very young) trajectory in this writerly life. My aim is to inspire you to do the same with your own journey and, like that, beat IMPOSTER SYNDROME, once and for all!...Or at least try. 😉

Let's gooo!✨

Show notes:

My Paris blog (in Spanish):
https://unaciudadenelmundo.wordpress.com/

Sleeping Beauty of Melbourne (my first ever published short-story):
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65633600/lots-wife-edition-3-2021

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Welcome,  exophonic friends!

It's almost impossible to talk about exophony without talking about Identity, since it's such a  fundamental pillar  for this practice.

Matters of Identity emerge during the phase of choosing to become an exophonic writer as well as during the phase after one has already been writing in a second language for a while (well, duh, matters of identity govern almost everything we do, don't they?)

In this episode, I'm posing a lot of questions about the expectations surrounding   identity and literary voice of exophonic writers and even though they are questions I don't necessarily know the answer to, I think they are important questions to start asking.

✨ SHOW NOTES  ✨

Check out my recently created website:
www.zoegomezcass.com

Read my recently published short stories in multilingual online magazine, Puentes Review:

ENG version "Tale Trapped in a Little Jar of Salt"

SPA version "Cuento Atrapado en un Frasquito de Sal"

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Hop, hop, hop 🐰
Look at what the Easter bunny brought...a brand new episode of the Exophonic Writer Podcast!

In this episode I talk with Cher Chidzey who's an author from Singapore living in Australia. Cher wants to bring aspects from her culture to English speaking societies and what other way to do it if not writing in a language that they will understand, but how to be authentic?

Click here, if you want to know more about Cher and her work:
https://cherchidzey.weebly.com/

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Hello exophonics and exophonic lovers!

In this new episode of The Exophonic Writer Podcast I bring you a new exophonic guest. Meet... Madhuri Karra, who's from Vizag in India and came to Australia in 2013. She writes fantasy novels in English and was highly influenced by the literary tradition running in her family.

Likewise, her mother tongue, Telugu, has a particularly rich literary tradition which she tells us about in this episode. Also, tune in to find out what's her own personal reason to choose exophony!

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Hello friends, welcome.

Omg, this novel of mine is a real challenging linguistic something! 🙀

It l includes English, Hindi and two varieties of Spanish.

Oh, and it's also... written in verse! And there are plenty of calligrams.

(Watch this awesome video about calligrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0x1YOuMwQ )

Why did I enclose myself in this linguistic labyrinth, you ask?

Short answer: because I'm a rebel.

Long answer: listen to the episode to find out! 😉



 

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Hello friends, please join me in my conversation with our first guest to the podcast.
(Woohoo!)

His name is Fabio Motta and he's an award-winning, Italian-born Australian actor and educator who kindly joined us to chat about the importance of bringing our first language selves to the stage (or the page, or the canvas, etc.)

We also talked about his  language-related struggles when he first moved to Australia at 8 years old and he even taught us a cool new word: Grammelot. ✨

I say we really started off with the right foot in the 'having guests' arena, I'm so happy and inspired by our chat! ☺️

You can connect with Fabio at:
https://www.fabiomotta.org/
https://www.theclowningworkshop.com/


Also, thanks so much to my friend Josh for linking me to some awesome exophonic creators. Josh is an amazing writing coach, so if you feel you can use a little companionship in the  writing process, he is your guy.
Connect with him at:  https://www.joshsamuels.com.au/

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Hi, friends! 

In this mini teaser episode, I'll tell you what I have planned for this year (spoiler alert: plenty of awesome stuff).

You can expect some episodes about:

✨ Writing a novel in 3 languages
✨ A chat about Identity when being an exophonic writer
✨A chat about Translation VS. Exophonic Writing
✨More cool literary stuff, such as Constricted Writing

...aaaaand, what I'm most excited of all:

✨EXOPHONIC CHATS! A section in which I'll have exophonic or exophonic-related guests so we can slowly but surely create a space where our exophonic struggles and joys get shared and talked about. 

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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 it'll be an awesome year! :D

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If you only think poetry is rhyming short texts about love or heartbreak... well, you may be missing out!

Listen to today's episode to find out some cool sides of poetry. ✨

SHOW NOTES

📜What is poetry?
https://poets.org/glossary/poetry#:~:text=The%20following%20definition%20of%20the,language%3B%20an%20experience%20through%20words.

📜Infrathin: an experiment in micropoetics -Marjorie Perloff
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57229765-infrathin

📜1000 INFRATHINS
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://monoskop.org/images/2/21/1000_Infrathins_2018.pdf

📜Shortest poem
https://nikkiwordsmith.com/the-worlds-shortest-poem-by-muhammad-ali/#:~:text=According%20The%20Guinness%20Book%20of,and%20a%20half%20letters%20long.

📜Ekphrastic Poetry
https://www.thoughtco.com/ekphrastic-poetry-definition-examples-4174699

📜Acrostic poem - written by me
https://www.instagram.com/p/CukRbNpuEzX/

📜Introduction to Found Poetry - video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K1sMhKiSQ

📜Black-out poem -  created by me
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0djyIYvqof/

📜Newspaper Blackout - by Austin Kleon
https://austinkleon.com/newspaperblackout/

📜Vampire Sestina - by Neil Gaiman
https://angelsalvogomez.blogspot.com/2011/10/vampire-sestina-by-neil-gaiman.html

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Here are some titles and resources explored in this episode, enjoy! ✨

What is Science Fiction Writing?

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-science-fiction-writing-definition-and-characteristics-of-science-fiction-literature

8 Sci-fi sub-genres:

1. Fantasy fiction.
2. Supernatural fiction.
3. Utopian fiction.
4. Dystopian fiction.
5. Space opera.
6. Space western.
7. Cyberpunk.
8. Steampunk.

My favourite sci-fi book:  The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, by Lauren James.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/32601841

My favourite Sci-fi show:  Undone (Amazon Prime original)
https://www.amazon.com/Undone-Season-1/dp/B0875GVR67

Other good things to read/watch:

• Made for love, by Alissa Nutting (also major series by HBO)
• Severance - Apple TV original  (OMG, I love the premise of this show so much!)
• Books by David Wong
• Solos
• HUMANS
• Dark
• The OA

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Welcome and I hope you enjoy the topic of today:
fiction that is playful and magical and interactive and fun. 🌈✨

As I mention in the episode, this is not a category that already exists in libraries and bookstores, but a rather personal mix of my own.

These are the books and authors mentioned:

🪄Alice in Wonderland - By Lewis Carroll

🪄The Jabberwocky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLQos7-Vq8M

🪄The little Prince - By Antoine de Saint Exupery

🪄Lemony Snicket (Alter ego of writer Daniel Handler)

🪄Dailan Kifki - María Elena Walsh (legendary Argentinian singer-songwriter and storyteller)

🪄 Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman

🪄 Novels in verse by Sarah Crossan

🪄 Love that Dog - by Sharon Creech (also in verse)

🪄Calligram  "The Apple" by R. C. Rigg
https://moodle.sd79.bc.ca/mod/book/view.php?id=50335&chapterid=40107


And what do all these books have in common?

Well, they are all for children AND for adults. Maybe carrying a different message for each group.

They make a particular use of repetition for comedic effect.

There's plenty of interaction with the readers and they feature very unusual narrators.

Long story short (ha!) they are more than the story they seem to be. They carry an extra shot of magic and surprise to razzle-dazzle their readers.

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This is a tiny one, just to chat a bit about our favourite November writing challenge: Nanowrimo!

Nano website:
https://nanowrimo.org/dashboard

Redy, Set, Novel! - writer's workbook
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12590721-ready-set-novel?ac=1&from_search=true

Author Sarah Crossan, from whom I discovered the amazing free verse novel writing technique  😍
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4864330.Sarah_Crossan?from_search=true&from_srp=true

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https://www.instagram.com/the_exophonic_writer/


Happy Nanowrimo! 😄
I hope you smash your goals ✨

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Happy Halloween and welcome to spooky episode 8!
👻🎃🧟

These are some of the things mentioned on the episode:

💀Zombie Teenagers on a Train
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkXI3YRPOz9/?img_index=1

💀Edgar Allan Poe's lesser know story 'Berenice'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_(short_story)

💀Julio Cortazar's story 'CASA TOMADA' (has Fall of The House of Usher vibes)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Tomada

💀Roald Dahl's 8 books collection
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43174378-roald-dahl-collection-8-books-set

💀'The Other Stories' Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/3EvNRXDLIY9UkcavGThNx7?si=630bf472406646f9

My fave episodes are:

83.2 The Ouroboros Bite
79.2 Little Sponge
75.4 An arm and a Leg
68.1 WARNING: DOOR DOES NOT STICK
63.1 Technolepathy (Don't listen to this one before bed!😱)
24.4 Sila's Speculos Hall of Mirrors
24.1 The Nightmare factory
15.1 Din Dins

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What´s Bizarro Fiction? 

Bizarro is like: 

1. Franz Kafka meets John Waters
2. Dr. Seuss of the post-apocalypse
3. Takashi Miike meets William S. Burroughs
4. Alice in Wonderland for adults
5. Japanese animation directed by David Lynch

Read more at:  https://www.bizarrocentral.com/about/


👽 Favourites Authors/ Stories:

• Candy-coated - by Carlton Mellick III

https://carltonmellick.com/2009/07/02/candy-coated-a-short-story-by-me/

•  A Million Versions of Right - by Matthew Revert

https://www.matthewrevert.com/05-A-Million-Versions-of-Right

Other mentions:

• Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• Damned - Chuck Palahniuk
• Unclean Jobs for Girls and Women -Alissa Nutting

👽 Bizarro Podcasts:

• Tales of What!? 

Created by Luke Kondor
https://www.lukekondor.com/

TERROR sardines in  TERROR sauce - by Douglas Hackle, narrated by the amazing Persephone Rose
https://shows.acast.com/talesofwhat/episodes/s1.1terrorsardinesinterrorsauce

• Welcome to Nightvale

https://open.spotify.com/show/0s6Wc5qf8SIvCtKZNC6N7s?si=70760eb7ac9d48d9


👽Bizarro Cartoons

(All the adult cartoons ever!) But I mentioned:

• Rick and Morty
• Adventure time
• Midnight Godspell
• Strange Planet

👽 Bizarro Plastic Artists

•  Aleksandra Waliszewska

https://www.instagram.com/aleksandrawaliszewska/?hl=en

• Patricia Piccinini

https://www.patriciapiccinini.net/


👽Bizarro in Spanish (Literatura Extraña)

• I mentioned the authors: Agustina Bazterrica, Tomás Downey, Mariana Enriquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar.

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Hello! 👋 It's been a minute...

This minisode is about 2 things mainly:

-The podcast passing from being weekly to biweekly (sort of,  consider subscribing if you don't want to miss any episode).

-Introducing a BONUS series on genre. These especial episodes are going to be:

Ep #7 BIZARRO FICTION
Ep #8 SCI-FI
Ep#9 MAGICAL/PLAYFUL FICTION 
Ep#10 HORROR/GOTHIC
Ep# 11 POETRY

They are going to be a lot of fun, don't miss them!

🙃

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SHOW NOTES 

In this episode I share a bit of how my seeking publication looks like and also I share (as always) some pretty cool resources related to this.

Future Me (write a letter to your future self!)
https://www.futureme.org/

Hannah Lee Kidder (check her self-publishing course on SkillShare)
https://www.youtube.com/@HannahLeeKidder

My first ever publication 💕
Sleeping Beauty of Melbourne - Lot's Wife Magazine
https://lotswife.com.au/sleeping-beauty-of-melbourne/

Chill Subs (awesome website that manages lit magazine's submissions)
https://www.chillsubs.com/

Rejection. Ouchie, it hurts! Gamify it with this bingo:
https://rejectomancy.com/2019/01/18/lets-play-rejection-bingo/

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Welcome to episode 5, where I'll talk about my (messy) writing routine, plus the software (or lack thereof) that I use, my favourite places to write, and much more.

This episode is packed with inspiration triggers and curated resources that you can find listed down below (they obviously make much more sense if you listen to the episode).

SHOW NOTES:

✨ Writers' Routine.

https://writersroutinedotcom.wordpress.com/

✨Unpublished Podcast (about romanticising writing).

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hhSJIPZrhAIvyd25CnGdx?si=6f31426cd7444845

✨Neil Gaiman at the Tim Ferris Podcast.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/09Lth2YyWp7gnuoC1gVh13?si=91bf609d36ef4e59

✨Snowflake method for writing novels, by Randy Ingermanson.

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-use-the-snowflake-method-to-outline-your-novel

✨ Australian Writer's Centre (writing course I want to take at Abbotsford Convent).

https://www.writerscentre.com.au/store/courses/short-story-essentials/

✨Several Short Sentences about Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg.
         (I said 'Several short stories', but it was 'sentences')

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13155290

✨ Café Tortoni, in Buenos Aires
         (where Borges and all his literary friends gathered up to write).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Tortoni

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To write exophonically, first you need to read lots in the language you're seeking to write in.

In this episode I talk about:

-How I wasn't a reader growing up and became one only recently.

-Changing schools mid-first grade and having to quickly adapt to cursive (when all I new was printed letters).

-The first book I ever read on my own and liked:

Dailan Kifki by María Elena Walsh
✨ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311950.Dailan_Kifki

-How I used to think I needed to read all the classics to "earn" the right to read modern authors. 🤦‍♀️
 
-Some of my favourite books:

Fiction:

• Neil Gaiman - everything he does!
• Alissa Nutting - Tampa
• Madeleine Ryan - A Room Called Earth
• Sarah Crossan - One (she writes novels in verse!)

Non- fiction:

• James Clear - Atomic Habits
• Mark Mason - The subtle art of not giving a f*ck
• Natalie Goldberg - Writing down the bones

All this and more. Listen on :D

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Words are god-like elements that establish the reality all around us.
Join me in this episode to know about:

• When a word has 2 meaning but we only know 1 of them.
• The joy of making words up.
• There's no such thing as unreal words, only unpopular ones.
• Why linguists don't study words.

✨ SHOW NOTES ✨

The Translator - by Nina Schuyler
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16255224

Babycakes - by Neil Gaiman (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cB2fe60Mdk

Words (allegedly) made-up by Shakespeare
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/words-shakespeare-invented/

Sonder - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder

Vsauce (about words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb0YoRMXIY0

Morphemes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme

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Welcome to this episode about the challenges that we encounter when writing not in our first language.

I mention the obstacles of...

1.  Grammar and syntaxis
2.  Imposter Syndrome
3.  Lack of vocabulary
4.  Falling into literal translation (especially of collocations and fix phrases) 

... as well as some ideas on how to tackle them. Listen to find out!

SHOW NOTES:

Mundo Lingo
https://mundolingo.org/


Masterclass: 68 creative ways of saying 'said'
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/creative-ways-to-say-said-in-writing


Joey uses a thesaurus on every word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcM4zWiikKQ


COCA - English Corpora
https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/

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This is my first ever episode, (yay!) and it's all about (you guessed it)... Exophonic Writing!

I'll talk about what it is and why I choose to practise it instead of simply write in my native language (Spanish)

More specifically, I'll mention 4 reasons why  writing in English is easier to me than writing in Spanish.

As per the how to write exophonically?  you'll have to listen and find out for yourselves.

SHOW NOTES: 

• Qué difícil es hablar el español (difference in Spanish vocabulary among countries)

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyGFz-zIjHE

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