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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fearlessly Failing hot Seat.

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Speaker 2: In this app, I fire rapid.

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Speaker 1: Questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests.

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Speaker 2: PS.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good

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Speaker 3: at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the

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Speaker 3: awesome answers. Now a new app is going to drop

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Speaker 3: every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest style episode.

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Speaker 1: Of Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat.

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Speaker 3: Hot Seat with Aaron Smythe Now you were on the

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Speaker 3: pod already, episode thirty eight, my friend.

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Speaker 4: I was one of the ogs apparently.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent thirty Yeah, we're literally nearing the

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Speaker 3: kind of like three hundred yep marks.

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Speaker 4: So it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: So you're in the first ten percent of that exactly.

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Speaker 4: There you go and pre covid.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we figured out.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 2: That's now a timestamp covid.

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Speaker 3: So we can do a hot seat and I'll just

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Speaker 3: rapid fire questions at you. Have fun, enjoy there's no

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Speaker 3: rules love it other than just enjoy yourself.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what's your full.

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Speaker 4: My full name is Aaron Smythe middle name Aaron John Smith.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love yeah, Okay, do you have a favorite book?

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Speaker 4: My favorite book? Yes, so I would I want to

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Speaker 4: say Harry Potter. Oh yeah, yeah, I love. I know.

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Speaker 4: It was my first book. Mom kind of gifted me

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Speaker 4: when I finished dance one day and I was like,

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Speaker 4: it was hooked.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite of all the Harry Potters?

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Speaker 3: I would prisoner ask man, Okay, is that the one

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Speaker 3: that Robert Pattinson is in.

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Speaker 2: That's when I got right.

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Speaker 4: Into that's Goblet of Fire?

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Speaker 3: Okay, love Harry matt will love. This is a big

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Speaker 3: Harry Potter fan. Okay, So then is this the answer?

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Speaker 3: What's your favorite movie?

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Speaker 4: I was going to say Harry Potter, but the other

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Speaker 4: day I was coming across my best friend's wedding with

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Speaker 4: Cameron Diaz and just a really good film prom con

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Speaker 4: and I can. It feels like you can watch it

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Speaker 4: like any any time of the.

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Speaker 3: Yeah day, or like it's always going to make you

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Speaker 3: feel good. We're recording this in Los Angeles. You have

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Speaker 3: you been to Harry Potter World?

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Speaker 4: I have not, but I've been to one in London.

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Speaker 2: Same.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's weird. I need to. And actually, when I

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Speaker 4: was in Philly recently, they had a Harry Potter exhibit.

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Speaker 4: No I couldn't because I was working during the day,

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Speaker 4: so I have to go.

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Speaker 3: Back, yeah and pop it on your list. Do you

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Speaker 3: have a favorite movie soundtrack?

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Speaker 4: Yes? It is Interstellar.

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Speaker 2: Oh zimm anything you and I big Hans fans.

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Speaker 3: I just remembered. I thought you're gonna say Harry Potter,

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Speaker 3: which is also great.

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Speaker 4: Actually there is. There's a track called Obliviate, which yes, exceptional.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, great, great, great. Okay. Do you have a fear?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have to say spiders.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you can't do it.

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Speaker 4: I can't do it.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a failure?

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Speaker 3: Have you ever had something happen when you like that

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Speaker 3: kind of felt like a failure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I've tried a lot of kind of business adventures

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Speaker 4: throughout my life, and like I used to own, I

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Speaker 4: used to have like a dance well line, I remember, yep,

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Speaker 4: And then I had like a converted this kind of

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Speaker 4: loft studio into like wellness yoga space and they didn't

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Speaker 4: go far, and like, yeah, I guess in a way

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Speaker 4: they were failures, but from from that I learned so

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Speaker 4: much growth and experience you learn, so I turned it

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Speaker 4: around absolutely, But I would say those were pretty big

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Speaker 4: kind of well to do that, to do absolutely.

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Speaker 3: What's something on your bucket list?

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Speaker 4: Travel to grease?

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Speaker 2: Have you been seeing all the euro.

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Speaker 4: And probably just Broadway would be magical.

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Speaker 2: What do you have as a hobby. Do you have

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Speaker 2: a hobby?

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Speaker 4: I do. I read tarot and astrology charts.

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Speaker 3: I'd say that's my be the second guest to come

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Speaker 3: on and say that's another thing.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, no, I love doing that.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite meal? I know you're a

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Speaker 2: health nerd.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's either a Decadence smoothie or a sushi.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's very healthy. Answers. If you had a superpower,

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Speaker 2: what would it be to fly? Oh? Yeah, cool, bravest

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Speaker 2: thing you've done.

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Speaker 4: Uh. I put on a show by myself producder director

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Speaker 4: at arts and called Dance Humanity, And I thought that

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Speaker 4: was that was pretty brave and courageous because it could

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Speaker 4: have flopped and every and I put I put all

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Speaker 4: my money into everything, and I think that is probably

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Speaker 4: the bravest thing and I did, and it was. It

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Speaker 4: did become successful at the end, and we gave money

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Speaker 4: to charity at the same time. So but it was

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Speaker 4: really it was it took a lot of guts and courage.

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Speaker 2: This is a really important one. You kin'd get this up,

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Speaker 2: and I didn't send it to you, so you don't

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Speaker 2: know it.

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Speaker 4: Ah.

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Speaker 3: I pre warned with some of these questions, who's your

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Speaker 3: favorite second cousin?

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Speaker 2: Lola? We are second? Is it second cousins that we are?

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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, second cousins.

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Speaker 3: You go, my my dad, My dad's brother is married

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Speaker 3: to your auntie.

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 4: Dad's brother is married to Elizabeth. Is your auntie? Yeah auntie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be like auntie step body.

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Speaker 4: So basically yeah, step cousins.

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Speaker 2: So good.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what advice do you have for like a young

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Speaker 3: creative wanting to chase a dream?

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Speaker 4: Look, I'd say keep going, just keep going, keep going.

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Speaker 4: If you love it that much, you know it will

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Speaker 4: it will pay off in the end. But look, Rome

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Speaker 4: wasn't built in a day, And just just keep persisting

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Speaker 4: and thriving and enjoy the journey because it is all

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Speaker 4: about that journey. Yea.

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Speaker 3: And I think we see and think that like Chris Hamsworth,

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Speaker 3: my go Rob, it's all overnight successes, but it's really not.

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Speaker 3: It's just that you see that moment that they blow

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Speaker 3: up and go gang buses In Wolf of Wall Street.

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Speaker 2: But there is, like there.

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Speaker 3: Are famous stories of Chris Hamsworth's sleeping in his car,

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Speaker 4: Is on the couch Like, yeah, I think in the trenches.

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Speaker 3: I don't think anyone skips the struggles face No, I

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Speaker 3: don't think anyone does, even like like child actors when

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Speaker 3: they have like a hiatus, like they've then got to

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Speaker 3: prove their worth again.

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Speaker 2: It could even be harder for them, you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 3: I feel like everybody has to go through the struggle

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Speaker 3: like that real La or New York struggle too.

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Speaker 4: It is and it's so real like we're in it.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, if you love it, like honestly, it just

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Speaker 4: you know, yeah, just go for it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So a couple more like funk creative things. Favorite

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Speaker 4: The Nanny? Do you remember remember the friend Dresser? I

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Speaker 4: just it was so funny.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite play or play right?

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Speaker 4: Play or play right? Can I do musical?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? The way you said that's so seriously made eye contact.

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Speaker 4: You play play right?

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Speaker 2: Gosh, you' a Hamilton fan?

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Speaker 4: I look to be honest, I haven't seen it.

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Speaker 2: I'm a massive Jonathan Groff.

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Speaker 4: I love Jonathan Groff. Anything he does is really plays?

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Henry the Crazy King?

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Speaker 3: And he's phenomenal in it, so definitely watching it.

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Speaker 4: It's on Disney Plus. I musty actually curious incident of

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Speaker 4: the Dog in the Nighttime? Have you heard of that one?

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Speaker 4: That was a play actually a play I saw in

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Speaker 4: London and that was pretty wowesome.

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Speaker 2: I'm a sucker for the classics.

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Speaker 3: I love Tennessee Williams Arthur Miller like I just love

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Speaker 3: those classic Americana kings. Thank you so much. That was

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Speaker 3: your hot seat, my friend. Love it having it was

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Speaker 3: nice and easy, not to intimidating, like an actual interview.

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Speaker 3: This is nice and gentle.

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Speaker 4: A lovely Los Angeles afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Now let's go for this hike.

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Speaker 4: Let's go, boy boy,