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Speaker 1: half months old. He woke up early and I just

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Speaker 1: picked him up and put him on my chest, stopped crying,

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Speaker 1: and we just laid there. I just foundered that moment,

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Speaker 1: how simple it was, but how much it affected me.

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Speaker 1: And I definitely have other moments professionally, being on a stage,

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Speaker 1: being part of bringing together one hundred thousand people in

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Speaker 1: South Africa to celebrate my grandfather's centennial. Being in nature

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Speaker 1: and realizing that I can connect with something that's bigger

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Speaker 1: than me, it was just something, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: now that I've gotten older, I try and do more

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Speaker 1: and more. I've made a concerted effort to move out

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Speaker 1: of cities, and so even though I'm speaking to you

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Speaker 1: from Johannesburg, I typically spend my time in a place

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Speaker 1: called the Garden Room, which is about four hours outside

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Speaker 1: of Cape Town, and it's got the most amount of

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Speaker 1: biodiversity in Africa. But it's also just a really majestic,

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Speaker 1: magical place where the scenery changes every ten to twenty minutes.

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Speaker 1: There's always a new adventure around the corner.

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Speaker 2: Wow. And is that somewhere that you go with your

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Speaker 2: kids as well, or is that somewhere that you go

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Speaker 2: to retreat just you?

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Speaker 1: You know, I go there with friends, have gone there

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Speaker 1: with some of my family as well. We went when

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Speaker 1: I was younger, and now it's mainly become a place

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Speaker 1: that I go to.

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Speaker 3: Like my retreat.

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Speaker 2: It's maybe obvious to say, but it's an enormous legacy

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Speaker 2: that you live with it in like the paradigm of

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Speaker 2: your name and your life and how you're choosing to

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Speaker 2: live within your life. When you said at the very

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Speaker 2: beginning that you would say that you were happiest now,

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Speaker 2: but that we are living in such a deeply unhappy

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Speaker 2: time like in our world. Do you think that you're

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Speaker 2: constantly looking at the bigger picture just because that's part

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Speaker 2: of how you have always lived or is it something

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Speaker 2: that you consciously faster to stay connected with all of that.

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Speaker 1: Going back to the question, everything's about framing and how

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Speaker 1: we frame our minds, how we frame ourselves in any

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Speaker 1: given time. There was a large part of my life

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Speaker 1: where I was so sheltered from everything that I barely

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Speaker 1: knew that there are different continents that existed. And this

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Speaker 1: was my early childhood, growing up in liberal Arts America

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Speaker 1: and New England, and so the idea of understanding that

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Speaker 1: there's conflict or turmoil, all of those things evaporate. And

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Speaker 1: it was only when I was ten I moved to

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Speaker 1: South Africa and it was a vibrant place but also

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Speaker 1: a very chaotic place that was finding itself that I

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Speaker 1: really started to get a grasp of the rest of

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Speaker 1: the world.

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Speaker 3: And what that meant and the impact that had.

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, I would say I'm definitely always looking

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Speaker 1: at myself personally, but then also the larger scope and

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Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. And I've had many a

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Speaker 1: moment where I've had to challenge my own perceptions of things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we all do. And maybe it's a

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Speaker 2: good thing. Maybe that is like the sort of soulful

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Speaker 2: checks and balances that we check in with. Sometimes I

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Speaker 2: feel like if I'm having a bad day, it's because

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Speaker 2: I have to trace it back to things that I've read,

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Speaker 2: or things I've been made aware of, or things that

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Speaker 2: I'm giving my time to that you just can't stay

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Speaker 2: immune to what is going on around us. But it

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Speaker 2: then somehow piggybacks onto the way that you're looking at

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Speaker 2: your own life.

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Speaker 3: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: So maybe it's just about awareness. What question would you

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Speaker 2: most like answered?

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Speaker 3: Probably are we alone in this galaxy in the world.

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Speaker 1: There's so many questions, but that would probably be the

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Speaker 1: big one, because I think it would push us as

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Speaker 1: a human civilization to maybe think bigger, more considerate, and

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Speaker 1: lose the.

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Speaker 3: Elements of selfishness and greed that we have.

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Speaker 2: If we thought we weren't sovereign in this galaxy.

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Speaker 1: If we actually knew there was more out there and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a debated topic, it wasn't something that was secret.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I feel like just since all of those videos with

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Speaker 2: the flying pyramid and everything, I was like, are we

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Speaker 2: seriously still debating now that the government declassified all of

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Speaker 2: these We're.

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Speaker 3: Just confused at this point, right right, we don't know.

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Speaker 3: It's the way.

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Speaker 1: It's been sold to us now is like it's like,

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Speaker 1: oh that's yeah, that's probably believable, but I don't really care.

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Speaker 3: You know. It wasn't like this.

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Speaker 1: Thing where they're like they exist, right, and this is

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Speaker 1: how they exist and this is where they come from.

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Speaker 1: It was just like one of those well maybe because

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Speaker 1: there's this evidence, but then there's also these people that

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Speaker 1: say this, so no one really knows.

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Speaker 2: It's so human, I think, to think that we are alone,

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Speaker 2: like it's so typical like man as a species, to go, yep, no,

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Speaker 2: it's just us. It's like, it's highly unlikely that it's

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Speaker 2: just us.

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Speaker 1: True, But would you go to your kids' school and

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Speaker 1: tell him and all his classmates and as parents that

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Speaker 1: you believe.

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Speaker 3: That audience success?

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Speaker 2: You know, I definitely take that video of like the

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Speaker 2: US Air Force with that very shocked pilot. I'd take

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Speaker 2: that video and no, no, look kids, watch this TikTok

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Speaker 2: and now let's talk about aliens. And I want you

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Speaker 2: to draw me a picture because what kind of alien

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Speaker 2: do you think lives in a pyramid? Is like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I could see you doing that, many I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: it would answer any questions. I might frighten the children. Oh, Quakie,

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