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Speaker 1: to another sub sub sub sub sub segment of fictional

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of pressure, Samantha, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: have not done it yet, not the one that I

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Speaker 1: originally intended though, as I told Samantha, because I originally

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Speaker 1: meant to do Aowen, the feminist papers on her were

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Speaker 1: going to table that for now, and instead we're talking

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Speaker 1: You know. Actually, the last time I watched Lord of

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Speaker 3: It's like a comfort show because I just recently watched

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Speaker 3: I mean, it feels very like timing of Tolkien and

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Speaker 2: That seems very token esque. Yes, you really cared. You

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Speaker 1: You don't know who the great great great grandfather of

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Speaker 3: The detail about lineage, which yes, could be said about

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Speaker 1: Technically, Eric Gorn and Irwin are related.

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