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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. In this app, I

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

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Speaker 2: PS. I'm gonna be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not so good at the rapid part. I get

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Speaker 1: too intrigued by the awesome answers. Now a new app

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Speaker 1: is going to drop every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest

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Speaker 1: style episode of Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Hot Seat, Lee Kilton Smith nervous, don't be, don't be.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to answer quick either. Okay, okay. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a favorite city?

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Speaker 3: New York?

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Speaker 2: I had a feeling. What do you love about it?

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Speaker 3: I love that it's alive and demands participation. You can't

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Speaker 3: walk through New York and not participate. Yeah, you're around everything.

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Speaker 1: I also feel like there's no bs in. You know.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes LA can feel a bit too fluffy, and you

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Speaker 1: don't always know where you stand sometimes, and New York

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Speaker 1: you know where you.

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Speaker 3: Stand, you know where you stand, and it's and it's

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Speaker 3: and it is honest. But it's also the kindest people

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Speaker 3: I've ever known in my life. And it might be

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Speaker 3: just because I'm on the street with them. I find

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Speaker 3: LA to be incredibly isolating, which is really hard on

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Speaker 3: any personality, but on my actors. You guys get in

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Speaker 3: your cars and you're alone, and you drive somewhere and

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Speaker 3: you get out for a moment, and then you get

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Speaker 2: You know, we were to.

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Speaker 1: School with you then, because we've got this community, the

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Speaker 1: amount because last week, you know how I put my

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Speaker 1: scene up in the Thursday class instead of the true

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Speaker 1: it was like a reunion.

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Speaker 2: I was the hugging everybody. It was so nice.

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Speaker 1: And that's the community that I had. No I didn't

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Speaker 1: know these souls until I was in your glass and.

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Speaker 2: Then you get in your car and you drive.

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Speaker 3: But in New York, you would get out of class

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Speaker 3: this this person would fail off to go to the subway.

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Speaker 2: It's it's it just I love New York. I just

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Speaker 2: love it.

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Speaker 3: You're me both.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite nature spot?

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Speaker 3: A favorite nature spot? That's such a good question. I

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Speaker 3: think it is a porch next to a stream and

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Speaker 3: there's either snow or rain. Any place that has rain

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Speaker 3: has my attention.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever listen to rainy mood? Have you heard

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Speaker 1: about rainy Mood. No, you just got a rainymood dot

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Speaker 3: I just bought a mushroom that has water that falls

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Speaker 3: from it throughout the night and last night was my

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Speaker 3: first night with it and I slept like a baby.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm going to send you rainy mood after

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Speaker 1: this as well. Do you have a pitt pave?

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Speaker 2: Oh? So not using your blinker when you're driving, that's.

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Speaker 1: A real la thing. I was saying, thank you, Like

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Speaker 1: if I let someone in, I'll always or if someone

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Speaker 1: that's very.

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Speaker 3: Ausy though, yeah, me too. Well that's very taxing too. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I can't uh impatience. I'm not great with entitlement. Entitlement

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Speaker 3: that hits me wrong.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's entitled as hard as I turned forty

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Speaker 1: this year, and so when I see entitlement in young

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Speaker 1: like younger people as well, I'm like, oh, come on, young.

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Speaker 3: And keep your heart open.

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Speaker 1: What's one of the best gifts you've been given? One

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Speaker 1: of the best gifts I've been given other than Harry.

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't want to think materialistically because I'm like, hmm,

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Speaker 3: there was that hat box.

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Speaker 2: Beautiful hat box.

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Speaker 3: I think the greatest gift I've been given was a

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Speaker 3: sense of humor.

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Speaker 3: I think if I couldn't laugh my way through some stuff,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a medicine, isn't it. And like being able.

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Speaker 3: To being able to laugh at yourself, being able to

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Speaker 2: Thank God. My husband thinks I'm funny.

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Speaker 1: Oh and do you notice as well, like if you

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Speaker 1: And it was so much fun to be like.

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Speaker 2: That was so much fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: But also like I was like, oh, we experienced the

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Speaker 1: do you have any.

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Speaker 3: Regrets, Yes, any harm emotionally that I've given someone through

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Speaker 3: youthful stupidity or just careless being careless with my words.

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Speaker 3: I have a lot of regrets around that. I have.

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Speaker 2: I'm not that is youthful.

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Speaker 1: You've said youthful, stupid. I'm sure I say.

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Speaker 3: Said shitty things to people, and I've a human Yeah

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Speaker 3: you know, any falsehoods or lies that I've told that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is a tricky one. Some people love it,

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Speaker 1: some people don't. But do you have any fear? Do

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Speaker 1: I have any fear?

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Speaker 3: Oh? My god, the most overwhelming fear at all times,

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Speaker 3: twenty four to seven, especially in this day and age.

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Speaker 3: My gosh, there's so much fear. There's so much fear

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Speaker 3: for the world. There's so much fear for my artists

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Speaker 3: or my actors, my fear for or you know, my health,

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Speaker 3: you know, being an old bride, you've.

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Speaker 1: Got nutritionists now and I've got a nutritionist live forever.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, my fear for the world, my fear for art,

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Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, yeah, Okay, more positive.

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Speaker 1: On a more positive note, do you have a favorite

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Speaker 3: I mean musical Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, the current Jamie Lloyd

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Speaker 1: I've heard that performance is insane.

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Speaker 2: It's insane.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and plays that I've read, Well, there's a play

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Speaker 3: is Dead that your scene was from.

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Speaker 2: And I really like that play. I could see that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, with you directing it, my friend or me.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's such a it's such a goody you and I

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Speaker 1: can see all these books around us right now here

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Speaker 1: that you just love? And I know where both our

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Speaker 2: The War of Art is next to William Asper.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, The Actor's Guide to Creating Character for me,

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Speaker 1: Do you remember you teach us one of our homeworks

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Speaker 1: is random act sorry, anonymous Acts of kind? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: And somebody in audition theory bought all of us anonymously

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Speaker 1: a copy of the War of Art.

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Speaker 2: It was so crazy.

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Speaker 3: Remember, I just walked in and that was that box

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Speaker 3: of all of these books. Yeah, there was eighty There

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Speaker 3: were eighty two people in that class. So some kind

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Speaker 3: human beings who have I have my suspicions but have

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Speaker 3: never been confirmed. But yes, it's in the War of

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Speaker 2: The Bible.

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Speaker 1: I would say that is the most perfect book any

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Speaker 1: creative listening to this. My final question for you is

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Speaker 1: a lot of young actors listen to this pod. Oh good,

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Speaker 1: And if you had like one little nugget for them,

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Speaker 1: what do you want to go at?

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Speaker 3: Liked my darlings, as fast as possible, wherever you go

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Speaker 3: New York, Chicago, La Sydney. Is that wherever you go,

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Speaker 3: as quickly as possible, find your community. Don't worry about

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Speaker 3: an agent, don't worry about a manager. Get your community.

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Speaker 3: And you're going to find your community in your acting class,

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Speaker 3: the restaurant where you serve, You're going to find your community.

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Speaker 3: And your community is vital for sustenance. Sustenance because if

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Speaker 3: grips you in doubt is flooding all over you, there's

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Speaker 3: nothing to keep you here. And here is where you

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Speaker 3: should be. If you've been here, this is where you

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Speaker 3: should be. And the other thing I say is get

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Speaker 3: some training. Get training, and start paying attention to humanity

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Speaker 3: and life. Tell those stories. You're going to be telling

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Speaker 3: them the rare rest of your life. So start making

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Speaker 3: a study of the odd balls that other people judge

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Speaker 3: that you see as possible.

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Speaker 2: Character.

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Speaker 3: Keep your mind fertile and imagining and alive, and never

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Speaker 3: misplace your beginner's mind. All things are possible, they are.

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Speaker 2: You're the best. Oh, thank you you are. This was

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Speaker 2: so fun.

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Speaker 1: You're wonder fun to the listener. I'm going to post

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Speaker 1: all the info about Lee in the show notes, so

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Speaker 1: if you're in LA audition theory, I love seeing study

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: You're just absolutely phenomenal. Thank you, my god, Lolo, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Let's hang out more.

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Speaker 2: Let's do