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Speaker 2: Hey, film Spotters, Josh and Adam Here. Wednesdays are when

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Speaker 2: we usually drop something in the feed from the Film

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Speaker 2: This week, however, we're going to share some of the

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Speaker 2: bonus show that we shared with the members of the

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Speaker 2: film Spotting family this month. Ask us anything we do

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Speaker 2: bag segment if you will, and yeah, touched on some

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Speaker 2: fun stuff. I was asked about this master's I'm pursuing

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Speaker 2: Adam and producer Sam, who always joins us for these

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's several more questions that the entire Film Spotting

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Speaker 3: November bonus shows. I loved that question. I think that's

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Speaker 3: having very different answers. So you can check that out.

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Speaker 3: You're going to get a taste of it here. I

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Speaker 3: believe it depends what producer Sam has decided to excerpt

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Speaker 3: film Spotting Family, it is time for ask Us Anything,

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Speaker 3: your November bonus content. And yes, you're probably hearing this

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Speaker 3: Sounding perfect as always are Josh Larsen and Sam van Halgren.

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Speaker 3: Josh how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I am dodging all the coughing going around me on

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Speaker 2: Is this how universities are? Adam, Like everyone seems to

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying just this, just this talk. I don't

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Speaker 3: We put out the call to the film Spotting family

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I have one similar to you, Josh,

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Speaker 3: So I'm hoping. I'm hoping that could happen. This might

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Speaker 6: I tell you how it's going to happen, Adam.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, Sam, you need to take this one first.

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Speaker 4: Right and I would think separately be watching a different movie,

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Speaker 6: So we could do this.

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Speaker 3: And so I think about it now, about twenty five

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Speaker 6: It's half exactly, It's exactly half our life. Wow, we

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's it'll only become more a percentage of my

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