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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fearlessly Failing hot Seat. In this EPP, I

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Speaker 1: fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests. Ps,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be answering you. I'm not so good at

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Speaker 1: the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the awesome answers.

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Speaker 1: Now a new EPP is going to drop every Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: so enjoy this shortest style episode of Fearlessly Failing hot

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Speaker 1: Seat heart seat full.

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Speaker 2: Name Michael Stephen delay.

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Speaker 1: Nice, Okay, what's the bravest thing you've done?

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Speaker 2: Bravest thing I've done?

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Speaker 1: I've done setting up this place.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's like definitely like yeah, I think, yeah,

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Speaker 3: setting up of small business is definitely brave.

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Speaker 2: I guess totally.

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Speaker 1: That's a perfect answer. Do you have a favorite score

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Speaker 1: from movie?

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Speaker 3: Because you used to do composing famous score from movie?

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Speaker 2: I do love all the class like John Williams stuff.

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Speaker 3: But you know the Star Wars Harry Potter, Yeah, in

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Speaker 3: the Jurassic part and UHD is the Lost Arca I.

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Speaker 1: Have not seen. Yeah, I haven't seen, but I know

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Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about.

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Speaker 2: Movies that may or may not stand up in today's time.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, So is there something on

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Speaker 1: your bucket list you haven't done yet?

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Speaker 2: I've never been in Europe.

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Speaker 1: Ah, okay, you know that's a good bucket list thing.

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Speaker 3: Travel, travel more. That's one thing I do. The bravest

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Speaker 3: thing to do is started a small business. But if

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Speaker 3: you don't want to ever leave your place of residence

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Speaker 3: start a small business, you'll be stuck at home.

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Speaker 1: Have you been to Australia?

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Speaker 2: I never have.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you have to go. Every person that

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Speaker 1: I meet here, I say Byron Bay. Americans don't know

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Speaker 1: about it. It's where I live when I'm in Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's a little surf town.

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 1: So it's just like being in a whole other world.

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Speaker 2: Is it on the East Coast?

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Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's just like forty minutes from Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: And if you forget it, just google where Thor lives

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Speaker 1: it lists.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's yeah, bar and babe.

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Speaker 3: That's my tip fee honestly, like anytime I ever meet it, like,

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Speaker 3: you guys are amazing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what chill right, it's a pretty chill yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, if you ever meet an Aussie

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Speaker 1: in this industry. We've had to work so hard to

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Speaker 1: get here, from like a visa and green card perspective,

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Speaker 1: it took me three years. Yeah, so like they've they've

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Speaker 1: usually got a pretty good work ethic to even beyond

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Speaker 1: American soil in a work capacity.

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Speaker 2: I met a guy who came in for this totally sidebar.

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Speaker 3: I met a guy who came in for a job

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Speaker 3: and I got talking to him, and they run acting

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Speaker 3: classes specifically for Aussie's and they try to like help

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Speaker 3: people through the like visa program because it's such a weird.

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Speaker 1: It's so hard. It cost me eighty thousand dollars eight

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Speaker 1: zero thousands to get a green card, so I better

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Speaker 1: fucking make it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that's crazy. I mean that's yeah, that's.

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Speaker 1: Hard because it got rejected and you only get one

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Speaker 1: green card in your life if they rejected a second time.

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Speaker 2: So did you go through several visas before you?

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Speaker 1: So I did five years of applying for green card,

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Speaker 1: didn't get it in a lottery, and then I was like,

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Speaker 1: fuck this, I've got a really great career in Australia.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I can prove my worth and so

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Speaker 1: I hired a lawyer and so I did it with

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Speaker 1: a lawyer's help. Yeah, mental, yeah, wild, That's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: If you meet in Ossie in La that has worked

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Speaker 1: their butt off to get here, they're going to have

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Speaker 1: the work ethic, but then the chill like Ossie mentality.

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Speaker 2: You've got that vibe from the Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good it's a good litmus test. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not as favorite city, but I feel like you

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Speaker 1: feel like you're going to want to travel more before

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Speaker 1: your ensity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah right, I don't know. I do love getting back

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Speaker 2: home to Seattle.

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Speaker 1: You were Seattle kiter. I've never been. If you could

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Speaker 1: have a superpower, what would it be?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 1: Lord, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't I guess who doesn't want to fly? Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? The composer was like, to be better, like to

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Speaker 1: just be better at composing, And I'm like, do you

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Speaker 1: know how good you are?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 1: You're literally nominated for an Emmy? What about book? Do

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Speaker 1: you have a like book that you always go back

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Speaker 1: to if you read something recently you like?

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Speaker 2: Man, I gotta admit I haven't read.

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Speaker 1: You're not a rate up auditory, so that makes sense.

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Speaker 3: It's so, yeah, I don't know, I haven't read a

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Speaker 3: book in several years.

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Speaker 2: I got to admit, like.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm on one a month. I have to

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Speaker 1: get through.

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Speaker 2: Really.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's the acting thing too, like read books.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always like I'm a project person.

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Speaker 3: I like there's always something here that needs to get

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Speaker 3: and it's always like going even back to music, it's

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Speaker 3: like like I would spend my time figuring out the

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Speaker 3: song or figure like making this thing happen, and then

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Speaker 3: learning this and then learning that.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, instrument did you play?

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Speaker 3: I was originally a drummer, and then by the time

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Speaker 3: I was playing guitar, that was my guitar player. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a it was a yeah, I played bass in

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Speaker 3: a band for many many years. Was like, you know,

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Speaker 3: the jack of ball trades master none sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: I like, yeah, I think I might know the answer

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Speaker 1: to this. Fave me because we talked Tacos. I passed

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Speaker 1: the taco place the other day. You told me about

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Speaker 1: which Lost Feelings.

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Speaker 2: One Yahoo Sonatio. Yes you went there, No.

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Speaker 1: I just I was driving from and I was like,

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Speaker 1: that's the the.

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Speaker 2: Little un Yeah, it's a hole in the wall. They're

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Speaker 2: so good.

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Speaker 1: I clocked it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 1: Favorite song, favorite song. Come on, your musician, you've got

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Speaker 2: So I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I I definitely have a soft spot for Deftones co.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't know the I don't know

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Speaker 2: if I have a favorite song that's right, even I

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Speaker 2: don't know whatever.

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Speaker 3: This that's like the one band like from through the years. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I don't know. I enjoy music. Like my wife

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Speaker 3: and I were like an indie synth pop band. Ah,

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Speaker 3: it's like it's kind of co I played. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: mean I don't know the last band I played And

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Speaker 3: I played drums for an electro band and like, but

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Speaker 3: I played in a base in an all metal band.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I enjoy Yeah, Yeah, it's fun. I

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Speaker 3: don't know, Like I always wonder like bands like food Fighters,

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Speaker 3: like no offense to the food Fighters.

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Speaker 2: It's like they're just like they're the food Fighters.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty years congratulations, Like it's amazing, Like I think

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Speaker 3: we'd all want to have that kind of career, but

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Speaker 3: like it's the same ship.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's cool. It's cool that you've got such a

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Speaker 1: broad range of what you love musically, Like I know,

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Speaker 1: when I'm writing a manuscript, I have to listen to

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Speaker 1: like scores or classical but I think it must be

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Speaker 1: something for your brain waves, Like, yeah, you're in a

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Speaker 1: different kind of world. But then like if I'm running,

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Speaker 1: I need more like pump up stuff.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know. Like I love.

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Speaker 3: My wife thinks I'm crazy because I have metal playlists,

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Speaker 3: I have hip hop playlists I have and she's like,

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Speaker 3: what is going on with you?

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't I like all this stuff, Like

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Speaker 2: what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: There's a yoga studo I go to in silver Lake

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Speaker 1: and it's all to hip hop music. You're doing literally

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Speaker 1: like and they'll be like Tomorrow's two chains day, Like

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Speaker 1: it is just.

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Speaker 2: Like fucking awesome. Where's Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I will said it to you. I will send to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much and I loved having you on

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Speaker 1: the pod.

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Speaker 2: Amazing. Thank you

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Speaker 3: And