WEBVTT - Bonus: Ask Us Anything (Excerpt)

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, film Spotters, Josh and Adam Here. Wednesdays are when

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<v Speaker 2>we usually drop something in the feed from the Film

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<v Speaker 2>Spotting archive. You know, twenty years worth of shows we

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<v Speaker 2>can dig into, so we do that from time to time.

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<v Speaker 2>This week, however, we're going to share some of the

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<v Speaker 2>bonus show that we shared with the members of the

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<v Speaker 2>film Spotting family this month. Ask us anything we do

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<v Speaker 2>this from time to time. Open it up the mail

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<v Speaker 2>bag segment if you will, and yeah, touched on some

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<v Speaker 2>fun stuff. I was asked about this master's I'm pursuing

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<v Speaker 2>right now in Scotland. We learned a little bit more

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<v Speaker 2>about how Adam ended up teaching in Iowa and the

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<v Speaker 2>moment that you know, film Spotting became something more than

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<v Speaker 2>Adam and producer Sam, who always joins us for these

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<v Speaker 2>shows initially planned. So that's just some of the good

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<v Speaker 2>stuff we dig into on this ask Us Anything.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there's several more questions that the entire Film Spotting

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<v Speaker 3>Family gets to listen to. That's one of the benefits

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<v Speaker 3>of being a Film Spotting Family member is getting those

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<v Speaker 3>November bonus shows. I loved that question. I think that's

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<v Speaker 3>the one we ended with because I had no idea

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<v Speaker 3>what Sam was going to say, and we ended up

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<v Speaker 3>having very different answers. So you can check that out.

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<v Speaker 3>You're going to get a taste of it here. I

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<v Speaker 3>believe it depends what producer Sam has decided to excerpt

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<v Speaker 3>for you, and that's what you get to hear. Now, Hello,

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<v Speaker 3>film Spotting Family, it is time for ask Us Anything,

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

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<v Speaker 3>after episode ten forty where we talked about the Running

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<v Speaker 3>Man and Nouvelle Vague and I'm sure I said this,

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<v Speaker 3>I sound a little froggy. We recorded this actually before

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<v Speaker 3>that episode and it's head cold season at least for me.

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<v Speaker 3>Sounding perfect as always are Josh Larsen and Sam van Halgren.

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<v Speaker 3>Josh how are you doing?

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<v Speaker 2>I am dodging all the coughing going around me on

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<v Speaker 2>Is this how universities are? Adam, Like everyone seems to

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<v Speaker 2>be sick. Like everyone in my cohort is coughing. No

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<v Speaker 2>one wants to skip a seminar, you know, and look bad.

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<v Speaker 2>So far I've managed to avoid it. But now I've

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<v Speaker 2>probably just cursed myself.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, you're good right now, though, Sam, how are you doing? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>I'm just saying just this, just this talk. I don't

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<v Speaker 4>want to hear this. I just feel like we've cursed

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<v Speaker 4>everyone that's listening right Just you've made me aware and

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<v Speaker 4>grateful that I am feeling one hundred percent healthy this

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<v Speaker 4>very moment.

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<v Speaker 3>We put out the call to the film Spotting family

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<v Speaker 3>about a week ago, maybe less, and said, hey, it's

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<v Speaker 3>ask us anything time, send us in some questions. We

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<v Speaker 3>need to replenish the mail bag, and wow, do they

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<v Speaker 3>deliver it. I didn't even get a chance to transfer

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<v Speaker 3>all of them. You haven't even seen the complete list.

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<v Speaker 3>So many came in, so many we want to answer.

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<v Speaker 3>We only have about forty minutes to get as many

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<v Speaker 3>in as possible. And for us, the way we talk,

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<v Speaker 3>and there's so many there are so many good questions.

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<v Speaker 3>We might only get to like four of them because

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<v Speaker 3>they're so good and we can't stop chattering. But well,

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<v Speaker 3>we'll see what we can do. Let's go ahead and

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<v Speaker 3>jump right in. We are going to start with this

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<v Speaker 3>one from Zach Brooks, who wants to know as we

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<v Speaker 3>get closer to twenty twenty six, do you have any

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<v Speaker 3>film related New Year's resolutions? And as we close out

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<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty five, are there any movie objectives you'd like

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<v Speaker 3>to complete before the clock strikes midnight?

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<v Speaker 5>Guys?

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<v Speaker 3>Objectives? Resolutions? Are you movie resolutions?

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<v Speaker 6>Guys?

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<v Speaker 2>I am not a resolution guy of any kind, really

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<v Speaker 2>not opposed to it. That just I have enough tasks

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<v Speaker 2>in my life. I don't need to make them up.

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<v Speaker 2>But you know, this question prompted me to think about it.

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<v Speaker 2>And funnily enough, Zach, I was just in discussion with

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<v Speaker 2>Michael Phillips because I'm hoping to finagle a way to

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<v Speaker 2>get to the Venice Film Festival next fall, and he,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, we just got a report from him this

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<v Speaker 2>past fall from his time there. He's been going for

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<v Speaker 2>a number of years and it will line up, I

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<v Speaker 2>think when I am going to have to be closing

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<v Speaker 2>out my master's program, so I'll have to be back

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<v Speaker 2>here in Saint Andrew's, Scotland right around the time. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, why not try to, you know, put those

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<v Speaker 2>two things together and actually attend the Venice Film Festival.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's maybe more of a bucket list item for

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<v Speaker 2>me next year, but I hope to make it happen.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I feel like I need to make the same

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<v Speaker 4>resolution we made when we started film spotting at him just.

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<v Speaker 6>A movie a week?

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<v Speaker 4>Could I just get a movie a week in that

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<v Speaker 4>isn't a movie that I'm just happened to be watching

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<v Speaker 4>with my kids, which I love.

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<v Speaker 6>I love to do that.

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<v Speaker 4>My eleven year old is always wanting to watch something

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<v Speaker 4>some kind of nonsense, but it's it's a joy, it's

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<v Speaker 4>a pleasure to watch with her. But it's not necessarily

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<v Speaker 4>the kind of movies I'm trying to check off my list.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you in charge of programming in Spring Green? I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>aren't you programming in two different venues at this point?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean you would seem to have some controls three venues.

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<v Speaker 6>Now. I just had a great meeting.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh, we're doing because yeah, we was programming

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<v Speaker 4>so tally Essen. Right, we had this series of tally Essen.

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<v Speaker 4>Franklin writes tally Essen in their old playhouse. We screened

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<v Speaker 4>three films this summer, a great Hitchcock series. Just had

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<v Speaker 4>the meeting a couple days ago about next summer, it's

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<v Speaker 4>going to be sick films. We're gonna do screwball comedy.

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<v Speaker 4>We're gonna do classic movie homes, Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard.

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<v Speaker 4>Rebecca manderlay, I'm so excited at Talis and you kidding me.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm living the dream.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh so you programmed, but you don't.

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<v Speaker 6>I don't watch.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm there for the intros usually, But I have certainly

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<v Speaker 4>made to Zach's question, I have made resolutions in the past.

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<v Speaker 4>I remember, I think it was about ten years ago,

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<v Speaker 4>and this is how long it's been probably since I

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<v Speaker 4>made my last resolution where I was like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I was in that sweet spot where on Saturday mornings

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<v Speaker 4>everyone was sleeping a little bit late, and I'm like,

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<v Speaker 4>I have got to start seeing more movies that are

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<v Speaker 4>like big, big movies that many of them on the

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<v Speaker 4>Criterion Channel. I'm going to get up early and I'm

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<v Speaker 4>going to watch I'm going to watch a movie by

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<v Speaker 4>myself Criterion Channel. I remember like there were like three

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<v Speaker 4>weekends I watched like Red Shoes, which I hadn't seen

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<v Speaker 4>in a long time. I saw only angels have wings.

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<v Speaker 4>I saw the young girls of Roche for. I remember

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<v Speaker 4>distinctly these three beautiful Saturday mornings that I had these

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<v Speaker 4>ecstatic experiences with.

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<v Speaker 6>It never happened again, and I had a.

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<v Speaker 4>Point now in my life where I'm just like, it

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<v Speaker 4>seems even more impossible to imagine starting a resolution following

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<v Speaker 4>through one one. So no, Zach, No, there are no resolutions,

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<v Speaker 4>but here's porn one out for all failed resolutions in

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<v Speaker 4>the past.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think I have one similar to you, Josh,

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<v Speaker 3>not a resolution. I'm not resolved to do this, but

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<v Speaker 3>there have been some conversations about possibly fulfilling one of

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<v Speaker 3>my longtime movie related dreams, which is going to the

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<v Speaker 3>can Film Festival, and that happens in May, usually right

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<v Speaker 3>after the spring semester ends. So if I can get

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<v Speaker 3>my grades turned in, I could actually potentially be a

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<v Speaker 3>free man and could go to the can Film Festival.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm hoping. I'm hoping that could happen. This might

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<v Speaker 3>be the first year of twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 6>I tell you how it's going to happen, Adam.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the way it's going to happen is I'm going

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<v Speaker 4>to make a film that's going to screen at.

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<v Speaker 6>The can Film Festival.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, and you're going to be sitting in the audience

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<v Speaker 4>at the premiere shaking your head that this is the

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<v Speaker 4>only way you made it.

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<v Speaker 6>And when am I going to make my film? And

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<v Speaker 6>this film is going.

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<v Speaker 3>To yes, exactly, yes, See Josh doesn't know, Josh know

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<v Speaker 3>what we're talking about.

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<v Speaker 2>So still you still can't see it. I'm crueless, but

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<v Speaker 2>you know, let me know how that goes, Adam. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>halfway there already, so that's true. I'll be I'll be

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<v Speaker 2>in the neighborhood. Uh next spring, Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>Before we get to the next question, I promise I'm

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<v Speaker 3>not going to take time with this, but I think

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<v Speaker 3>listeners might appreciate this. So I'm going to throw it

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<v Speaker 3>out there, and of course, if you, if you do

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<v Speaker 3>have any Josh, Sam, go ahead and chime in. But

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<v Speaker 3>just earlier today, about three hours ago, my daughter, my

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<v Speaker 3>oldest daughter aka film spotting Pa, Sophi Kempanar, sent me

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<v Speaker 3>a text out of the blue. She sent me a text,

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<v Speaker 3>and it said, this film spotting things I say in

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<v Speaker 3>my regular life as if they are widely understood, And

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<v Speaker 3>I again, I think our family members could possibly relate.

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<v Speaker 3>So if they have any like this, send them to

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<v Speaker 3>us feedback a film spotting dot net, and maybe we

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<v Speaker 3>can feature them on the show or at least in

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<v Speaker 3>a future edition of Ask Us Anything. The three she

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<v Speaker 3>sent me were blind Spotting, over Review, and on air

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<v Speaker 3>production Meeting. Curiously, no one knows what she's talking about

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<v Speaker 3>when she says those three things. So do you have

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<v Speaker 3>any of those? I'm asking you, I suppose, but also

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<v Speaker 3>I'm asking the listening public here, do you have any

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<v Speaker 3>of those that you say? And you realize that the

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<v Speaker 3>person you're talking to has no idea of which you speak.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm glad to hear Overview has lodged itself that strong. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like it had its moment and then it

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<v Speaker 2>kind of faded away. And so yeah, for it to persist,

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<v Speaker 2>for Sophie's encouraging absolutely blind spotting and frequently, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like I'm at about a sixty percent rate

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<v Speaker 2>of people. I think they can put it together. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's enough even without reference to the show, they

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<v Speaker 2>understand what you're getting at. So, yeah, I use that

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<v Speaker 2>one all the time, A blind spot, blind spot. I

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<v Speaker 2>have to do some blind spot, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I get it. I think I say Sacred

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<v Speaker 3>Cow a lot and then really have to explain what

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<v Speaker 3>that is. So throwing that out there again. Feedback at

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<v Speaker 3>filmspotting dot Net. Fern Joseph's wants to know for each

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<v Speaker 3>of you, what's the best thing personally that's come out

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<v Speaker 3>of doing the podcast? How hard is that? I'm not

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<v Speaker 3>going first.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like, Sam, you need to take this one first.

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<v Speaker 6>Okay.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, it makes me think of a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>ways to answer this question. You know, we often talk

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<v Speaker 4>about how it's just one show after another. We rarely

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<v Speaker 4>get to pick our heads up out of the sand

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<v Speaker 4>and get any perspective like what Fern is getting at.

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<v Speaker 4>So I start there with my head in the sand,

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<v Speaker 4>and I just have to say, it really is the

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<v Speaker 4>creative outlet. This is a creative endeavor, and I love it,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, I really really enjoy it. And I have

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<v Speaker 4>to say I've brought this up a couple of times

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<v Speaker 4>when we have a chance to talk to listeners. I

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<v Speaker 4>don't care how many people are watching the video version

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<v Speaker 4>of the show. I love doing the video version of

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<v Speaker 4>the show. I did not anticipate that at all. I

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<v Speaker 4>really really enjoy it. I'm making my own movie every

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<v Speaker 4>week a little bit, I know, just it feels like,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, flexing that.

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<v Speaker 6>Muscle a little bit. So it's super fun.

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<v Speaker 4>But then occasionally, and it's something like film Spotting Fest,

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<v Speaker 4>or it's an email we get out of the blue

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<v Speaker 4>from a listener we've never heard from that has been

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<v Speaker 4>listening for twenty years or whatever it is, and you're

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<v Speaker 4>just like, what an honor it is to be a

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<v Speaker 4>part of this, this community that has come out of

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<v Speaker 4>this show. I mean, just a completely unintended, beautiful consequence

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<v Speaker 4>of working on the show. It really is just like

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<v Speaker 4>being on the discord and I don't feel like I'm

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<v Speaker 4>interacting with listeners of film Spotting. These are like friends

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<v Speaker 4>of mine or whatever, you know, and it's just like,

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<v Speaker 4>I feel like these are people I know, and some

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<v Speaker 4>every once in a while it kind of clicks that

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<v Speaker 4>that's what's happening, that's what has happened.

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<v Speaker 6>So a lot of pleasures associated with the show.

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<v Speaker 2>But yeah, yeah, as you were talking about it being

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<v Speaker 2>a creative endeavor sam my mind before even said it

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<v Speaker 2>went to the video aspect, which I'm not all that

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<v Speaker 2>involved in, but I know, just from talking about it

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<v Speaker 2>with you, have seen how it's kind of not that

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<v Speaker 2>you need to be rejuvenated but charged you in a

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<v Speaker 2>way to get to explore that way of putting together

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<v Speaker 2>a show like this, So that that's been exciting to see. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>for me, it's absolutely related to what you were just

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<v Speaker 2>talking about. It's the relationships because I don't know that

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<v Speaker 2>I would consider myself naturally a people person. And what

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<v Speaker 2>I mean by that is like I'd be perfectly happy

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<v Speaker 2>just you know, watching movies, thinking about them, writing about them,

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<v Speaker 2>and maybe even you know, talking about them without forming

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<v Speaker 2>any you know, long lasting relationships beyond that. But I

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<v Speaker 2>think about the circles of relationship that this show has

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<v Speaker 2>afforded that you know, the one of us here that

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<v Speaker 2>the people who work weekly on it, so us here

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<v Speaker 2>Joe Toso, you know, and then and then others who

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<v Speaker 2>are you know, more regularly involved, from our production assistants

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<v Speaker 2>over the time to Michael Phillips. But you know, there

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<v Speaker 2>are other film critics who I've been able to connect

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<v Speaker 2>with on just a personal level because of the show

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<v Speaker 2>and then what you said, Sam too, like the listeners,

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<v Speaker 2>there has always been an avenue, whether it was when

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<v Speaker 2>I first joined the message board, you know, I was,

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<v Speaker 2>I was not on message boards at all, and then

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<v Speaker 2>got thrown in and met so many people that way,

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<v Speaker 2>some of whom are still now on Discord And yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so I think for me, it's definitely definitely about the relationships,

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<v Speaker 2>because it's not something I would have sought or been

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<v Speaker 2>able to have fostered myself to.

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<v Speaker 3>Go to the superficial stuff just for a second. We

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<v Speaker 3>never would have imagined. We never did imagine, of course

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<v Speaker 3>when the show started that we would have opportunities to

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<v Speaker 3>interview the filmmakers we've interviewed, to go to the festivals

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<v Speaker 3>we've gone to, just to partake in some of these

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<v Speaker 3>film critic opportunities quite frankly, to be considered film critics,

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<v Speaker 3>to be listened to regularly, and to have people really

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<v Speaker 3>trust and value not just our opinions, but really want

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<v Speaker 3>want to just hear what we have to say, want

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<v Speaker 3>to be part of the conversation with us. All of that.

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<v Speaker 3>That's why it's so hard to pick an answer. And

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<v Speaker 3>I wondered if if you would say what you said,

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<v Speaker 3>And of course I was going there too, But I

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<v Speaker 3>don't think it's just us saying the right answer. It

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<v Speaker 3>is the right answer. The community part of it, the

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<v Speaker 3>relationship part of it, and I was going to be

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<v Speaker 3>even more specific with it. I think it's the larger community.

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<v Speaker 3>But beyond that, you know, when I asked Josh if

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<v Speaker 3>he wanted to appear as a guest on the show,

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<v Speaker 3>and maybe I don't know if he had an inkling

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<v Speaker 3>or not, but he may not have. He certainly didn't

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<v Speaker 3>know all the details that he was actually auditioning for

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<v Speaker 3>the show. I had never even spoken to him before.

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<v Speaker 3>We had no interaction, It's true, like zero, I think

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<v Speaker 3>maybe i'd seen him at a couple of screenings, but

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<v Speaker 3>otherwise we Yeah, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Think we'd chatted back and forth a little.

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<v Speaker 3>On social problem, but otherwise it was we'd never met

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<v Speaker 3>in person, like actually met. So now having this thirteen

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<v Speaker 3>plus year relationship is pretty remarkable. And Sam, I was

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<v Speaker 3>just thinking about this because of this question that we

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<v Speaker 3>were in introduced because of Kevin. We obviously got to

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<v Speaker 3>know each other very quickly and became friends very quickly,

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<v Speaker 3>and because of email at the time, and because of

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<v Speaker 3>the blog that I started way back in the early

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<v Speaker 3>days of blogging, you and I were doing what we

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<v Speaker 3>do right now. We were talking about movies. We were

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<v Speaker 3>having a conversation about movies over a blog. But the

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<v Speaker 3>whole reason we started film spotting, as you alluded to earlier,

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<v Speaker 3>was to force us. We've always said it was to

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<v Speaker 3>force ourselves to watch one movie a week, but it

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<v Speaker 3>was more than that. It was it was actually it

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<v Speaker 3>was to force us to have to watch one movie

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<v Speaker 3>a week so we could get together, at least for me,

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<v Speaker 3>so we could get together in the same room and

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<v Speaker 3>have a conversation about it.

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<v Speaker 4>Right and I would think separately be watching a different movie,

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<v Speaker 4>it was watching the same movie.

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<v Speaker 6>So we could do this.

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<v Speaker 3>And so I think about it now, about twenty five

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<v Speaker 3>years later from the time we met for the first time,

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<v Speaker 3>and without film Spotting, I think we would we would

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<v Speaker 3>still be friends with each other, but there's no way

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<v Speaker 3>we would be in communication with each other as regularly

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<v Speaker 3>as we are. We would not have hung out even

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<v Speaker 3>remotely with each other as many times as we have

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<v Speaker 3>over the years, like our friendship would not be remotely

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<v Speaker 3>what it is without film Spotting. So that relationship life

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<v Speaker 3>part of it too.

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<v Speaker 6>It's half exactly, It's exactly half our life. Wow, we

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<v Speaker 6>didn't have to talk quick math.

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

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<v Speaker 4>life as we move forward from here.

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