Covering a wide range of topics related to acting, making money, and staying balanced, The Acting Income Podcast with Ben Hauck includes insights, interviews, and advocacy for the professional actor, inspired by Ben's own acting journey in expensive New York City. AIP produces compelling episodes on what so many people want to know: how to earn an income as an actor.
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If you're buying or selling a home, get all the latest tips, tricks and more from your professional St. Cloud real estate agent, Chris Hauck.
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AIP038 | The Return to Work: The Coronavirus, SAG-AFTRA, and Some Uncommon Sense about Actors’ Rights and Safety
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In this long-form episode and sonic journey, host Ben Hauck questions the logic that actors cannot always wear personal protective equipment (PPE) while they do their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. Ben explains how the "common sense" SAG-AFTRA's president Gabrielle Carteris and others hold that actors can't always wear PPE runs counter to da…
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AIP037 | The Split-Earnings Problem: SAG-AFTRA's Elephant in the Room
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Show Notes: http://actingincome.com/episode37 In this long-form episode, host Ben Hauck dives into the ongoing problem of "split earnings" that continues to plague many SAG-AFTRA actors interested in qualifying for a union pension. Ben explains how the merger of SAG's and AFTRA's health plans did not solve the split-earnings problem, putting member…
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AIP036 | SAG-AFTRA, Stand-Ins, and the Photo-Double Rate, or The Scandal of the Missing “Upfront Increase of Nearly 17%”
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Show Notes: http://actingincome.com/episode36 In this extended episode, host Ben Hauck narrates his saga of trying to learn from SAG-AFTRA the rate for stand-ins when they photo double in New York. In the process of researching that rate, Ben reveals how he uncovered not just SAG-AFTRA's misrepresentation of the increases photo doubles would make u…
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How do we help sellers get top dollar for their home in St. Cloud? Here’s a brief overview of our process. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation A question I’ve been hearing a lot recently is, “How can I get full price on my home sale?” Well, the first thing you should do i…
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We have an extremely attractive market in St. Cloud right now for buyers and sellers. Here’s why. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation It’s been an outstanding year for our team so far. We’ve been able to help 83 families buy or sell a home this year, and we’re looking for…
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Our summer market has been great so far, and that trend is expected to continue into fall. Let’s take a look at the numbers. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Now that summer is ending and we’re about halfway through the year, it’s the perfect time for a look at what’s …
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Zillow and its Zestimates have become a common topic of conversation. Here’s what you should know about them. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation One of the most common questions I’ve been receiving lately is: “How accurate is the Zillow Zestimate?” Every time we do a mar…
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What's going on in the St. Cloud real estate market? I've got a quick update for you. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation When it comes to the state of the St. Cloud real estate market, I'm happy to report that it's continuing to be very strong like it has been in recent …
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How do rising interest rates affect you? I’ll go over a couple of things you should know if you plan on buying or selling a home. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation There have been a lot of questions about rising interest rates lately. The good news is that mortgage rate…
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We’ve got an important notice for anyone moving this spring or summer. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation I’ve got some important information if you’re moving this spring or summer. We’ve been talking to a few of the local moving companies this year and it seems that the…
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According to the latest market statistics, it’s a great year to be a buyer or a seller. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Whether you’re buying or selling in our market, I have some good news to share with you today. Let’s start with a few statistics to give you an idea…
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News is good across the board in the St. Cloud market as we head into spring. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation There's good news all over the St. Cloud real estate market as we head into spring. As of right now, there are 717 homes on the market, which is great for any…
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If you’re worried about rising interest rates or having to put down 20% to purchase a home, I have some great news for you. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Do you have to put 20% down in order to purchase a home? How much will rising interest rates affect the market? …
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Staging and preparing your home the right way are more important than ever, and most home sellers know this. However, things are a little bit different this time of year. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation When you sell your house, how much staging and preparation work s…
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Happy New Year! What can you expect from the 2017 market? When does the spring market begin? I’ll tell you everything you need to know today. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Happy New Year! Lately, a lot of people have asked when the spring market starts. I have excit…
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Here’s a look at what is happening in our spring market so far. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation I wanted to take a second to give you a quick look at what is happening in the 2017 spring real estate market. We are off to a pretty tight start when it comes to inventory…
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If you’re planning a home sale this upcoming spring, have a real estate professional walk through your home now so you can make the right improvements. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation If you plan on putting your home on the market this coming spring, what can you do t…
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We want to thank all of you for your support. You have made this a great year, and we are looking forward to 2017. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation We just wanted to stop by today to give you a quick recap on the year and extend to you our warmest holiday greetings. Fi…
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Interest rates can have an enormous impact on your purchasing power as a home buyer. When we say they’re good, you need to strike while the iron is hot. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation We’ve had a lot of people calling us lately and asking what it means when we say th…
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The St. Cloud market is strong with good inventory, record-low interest rates, and homes moving at a steady, predictable pace. Tune in for more details. Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Today we wanted to give you a quick recap of the spring and summer markets, as well…
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Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Lately, we have been getting a lot of questions about professional photography. Should you use it? How much should you use? Is it really important? Photography is important because it is the first introduction to your house. In today’s …
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Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation This spring has been great for the real estate market. In fact, the market is the best it has been since 2005, before the recession. I’m here with a quick update on some exciting numbers from St. Cloud real estate. As of right now, we h…
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AIP035 | 5 Reasons Casting Directors Should Be Happy to See Workshops Go - with Anne DeAcetis
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Show Notes: http://actingincome.com/episode35 Actress and writer Anne DeAcetis is a guest contributor for this episode,reading from her essay on Medium.com which listsfive reasons why casting directors should happilyplay a part in the disappearance of casting director workshops. Host BenHauck shares introductory content that motivated Anne'spiece -…
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AIP034 | Why You Should Vote No for the SAG-AFTRA Commercials Contract
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Show notes: http://actingincome.com/episode34 Host (and actor) Ben Hauck explains in detail why SAG-AFTRA actors should vote no on the proposed 2016 Commercials Contract. In the episode, Ben outlines some of the important losses SAG-AFTRA actors will experience should they ratify this contract negotiated recently between the union and commercial pr…
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Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation Today, we’ve got some exciting news for you: the market is shifting in St. Cloud. Every two weeks, we run a quick set of numbers to see how many listings and pending sales we have in order to get a pulse of the market. Last week, invent…
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Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation We’re experiencing a shift in the St. Cloud market. We had 833 listed homes on the market last week. That’s the lowest we’ve seen since in about fifteen years! In January 2015, we had inventory this low with 989 listings, but it only la…
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Looking to buy in St. Cloud? Get a full home search Looking to sell in St Cloud? Get a free Home Price Evaluation We've got a short message for you today, but it's an important one. In the last few weeks, the stock market has been going wild. This instability has pushed mortgage rates down below 4%! We aren't sure how long this is going to last so …
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AIP033 | How Podcasting Is Affecting My Acting Career
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Host Ben Hauck explains the responsibility that comes with producing a weekly podcast, and how that responsibility overlaps with his acting career. The episode includes details on the goals he took on in starting the podcast, the kind of work involved in producing it, plus an important announcement on the next stage of The Acting Income Podcast.…
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AIP032 | How to Act in New York City with No Income - with Mandy May Cheetham
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Actor Mandy May Cheetham speaks with host Ben Hauck on how to act in New York City -- with little to no income. In this interview, Mandy shares what motivated her temporary move to New York City from Toronto, Canada, and how she quadrupled the length of her initial stay. Mandy divulges the sources of her funding that financed her stay in NYC and ho…
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AIP031 | What I've Learned about Fame - with Victoria Libertore
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Actress Victoria Libertore talks with host Ben Hauck about fame, and what she has learned about fame after years of pursuing it as an actor in New York City. In the interview, Victoria talks about her recent solo show My Last Attempt at Fame, as well as what fame was to her when she moved to NYC and why she believes she wanted it as an actor. She a…
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AIP030 | My Recap of Episodes 21 through 29
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Host Ben Hauck recaps Episodes 21 through 29 of The Acting Income Podcast. In this episode, in addition to summarizing the past nine episodes, Ben adds anecdotes about the episodes and explains what he's learned in the process of producing them. Ben concludes with comments on what these episodes reflect about his own acting career to date. Quick li…
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AIP029 | How to Navigate Diversity Issues in Improv Communities to Increase Your Acting Opportunities - with Keisha Zollar
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Actor-comedienne Keisha Zollar talks with host Ben Hauck about diversity issues at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and in the improv world in general, and what actors can do to increase the population of diverse voices in performance. In this interview inspired by a Washington Post article on diversity issues at UCBT, Keisha explains her curre…
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AIP028 | Why I Went from Non-Union, to Union, to Fi-Core All in One Summer - with Eric S. Robertson
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Actor Eric S. Robertson returns to talk with host Ben Hauck about his personal journey from proudly being a non-union actor, to joining the union SAG-AFTRA, to declaring financial core status soon after joining SAG-AFTRA. In the interview (which serves as an addendum to his interview in Episode 9 titled "Why I Choose to Stay a Non-Union Actor"), Er…
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AIP027 | How to Work as a Stand-In and Not Lose Sight of Your Acting Goals - with Alanna Blair
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Actor Alanna Blair talks with host Ben Hauck about pursuing her acting career while also taking work as the lead stand-in on two television series. In this interview, Alanna describes what a stand-in does, and she goes into the benefits of standing in for the income and the tremendous filmmaking education it provides the actor. She also goes into t…
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AIP026 | How Self-Sabotage Affects the Actor and What to Do about It - with Jenn Lederer
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Life and career coach Jenn Lederer talks with host Ben Hauck about self-sabotage and how it affects actors and their career pursuits. In the interview, Jenn explains what self-sabotage is and its psychological origins, offering up overt and subtle examples of self-sabotage especially as they relate to the actor. When it comes to finding what goals …
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AIP024 | How to Be a Person First and an Actor Second - with Aleisha Force
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Actor Aleisha Force talks with host Ben Hauck about how being a person first and an actor second helps to organize her life and finances as an actor. In the interview, Aleisha shares how she categorizes and organizes her various "person" and "actor" expenses, as well as how she prioritizes what categories she spends her money on. She also explains …
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AIP023 | How the Word "Professional" Applies to You as an Actor
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Host Ben Hauck was called "professional" on a set -- but what did it mean? In this episode, Ben covers several meanings of the term "professional" when it comes to your acting career, contrasting dictionary and union definitions of the term with his own personal definition which has nothing to do with compensation or union membership.…
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AIP022 | How to Strategize Workshops with Casting Directors, Agents, and Managers to Achieve Your Acting Goals - with Gianmarco Soresi
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Actor Gianmarco Soresi talks with host Ben Hauck about his incredible year of paying for workshops with casting directors, agents, and managers. In the interview, Gianmarco shares what strategies he used as he spent a large amount of money on workshops and how those strategies evolved as he figured out their function in his acting career. His goals…
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AIP021 | How Network Marketing for Arbonne Funds My Acting Career - with Sarah Ittner
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Actor Sarah Ittner talks with host Ben Hauck about how her work as a network marketer for Arbonne funds her acting career. In the interview, Sarah explains Arbonne and the range of health and wellness products it offers, and what makes network marketing a great business for actors. She details how her sales -- seeming more like product recommendati…
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AIP020 | My Recap of Episodes 11 through 19
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Host Ben Hauck recaps Episodes 11 through 19 of The Acting Income Podcast. In the episode, in addition to summarizing each episode, Ben adds anecdotes about the episodes and explains what he's learned in the process of producing them. Ben concludes with insights about acting and his transformation as an actor that came over these past episodes.…
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Host Ben Hauck opens up about his personal decision as an actor to declare financial core status within his union, SAG-AFTRA. In the episode, Ben describes his journey to becoming fi-core, his process in determining whether fi-core was right for him as an actor, and why he made the difficult choice. He also shares what SAG-AFTRA might do to better …
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AIP018 | How to Work as a Hotel Concierge to Supplement Your Acting Career - with Tom Coll
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Actor Tom Coll talks with Ben Hauck about supplementing his acting career with work as a hotel concierge. In the interview, Tom lists the range of tasks he manages as a hotel concierge in New York City. He also narrates his history in the hotel industry and his route to landing work as a concierge at the same time he started his acting career. As T…
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AIP017 | How to Define Your Relationship with Money to Better Finance Your Acting Career - with Jenn Lederer
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Life and career coach Jenn Lederer talks with Ben Hauck about money. In the interview, Jenn reveals what she learned about her relationship with money when working as the weekend nanny for a famous real-estate mogul (and U.S. Presidential candidate!), and also when working as a talent manager. Jenn has seen both extremes when it comes to people's r…
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AIP016 | Nannying, Sketching, and Singing Backup to Fund My Acting and Music Careers (plus Live Music!) - with Angie Atkinson
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Actor and singer Angie Atkinson talks with Ben Hauck about how she supports her dual careers in acting and singing with income from nannying, sketching, and singing backup. In the interview, Angie describes her jobs, their responsibilities, and the kinds of money they provide. For nannying, she details how she balances nannying with her life and ot…
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AIP015 | The Film "An Open Secret," and What to Do about Child Sexual Abuse in the Entertainment Industry (Part 2) - with Evan Henzi
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In this two-part series on the explosive documentary film An Open Secret, former child actor Evan Henzi talks with Ben Hauck about his involvement in this important film about victims of sexual abuse and pedophiles in the entertainment industry. In this brave interview, Evan shares in detail when he met Martin Weiss, his former manager who was conv…
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AIP014 | The Film "An Open Secret," and What to Do about Child Sexual Abuse in the Entertainment Industry (Part 1) - with Matthew Valentinas
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In this two-part series on the explosive documentary film An Open Secret, co-executive producer and entertainment lawyer Matthew Valentinas talks with Ben Hauck about his involvement in this important film about victims of sexual abuse and pedophiles in the entertainment industry. In the interview, Matthew details how he brought on a production tea…
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AIP013 | How to Develop a Hosting Career - with Lucy Norris
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Host and spokesperson Lucy Norris talks with Ben Hauck about her growth from actor to independent host to sought-after spokesperson for brands and shopping channels. In the interview, Lucy shares about her on-the-job training in England as a producer and host, how her acting and promotional experience aided her commercial hosting work, and how she …
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AIP012 | How to Market Your Acting When You Have a Disability - with Shannon DeVido
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Actor and comedian Shannon DeVido talks with Ben Hauck on the many facets of working as an actor who also has a disability. In the interview, Shannon covers the topic of marketing herself as an actor versus as an actor with a disability, what "PWD" means on a résumé, and what to show (or not to show) in a headshot. She shares what kinds of roles sh…
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AIP011 | What to Do When Sessions Payroll Doesn't Report Your Acting Income to Social Security - with Sara DeRosa
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Actor and stand-in Sara DeRosa shares with Ben Hauck how she discovered her income from Sessions Payroll was not reported to the Social Security Administration, and how the discrepancies she found in her total and reported income could have decreased her retirement benefits and pension and health eligibility. In the interview, Sara explains what st…
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AIP010 | My Recap of Episodes 1 through 9
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Host Ben Hauck recaps the first nine episodes of The Acting Income Podcast, which made iTunes' list of New & Noteworthy Podcasts upon its debut. In this recap episode, in addition to summarizing each episode, Ben adds anecdotes about the episodes and explains what he's learned in the process of producing them. As he goes along, he divulges his own …
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