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Experiencing The Movie Elijah Peel With Malcom Cunning And Evelyn Grace Kite · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: It's Aero Yes, yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of a weird name, isn't it, Malcolm beautiful name. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I thought you said erow In For a second.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Lord of the Rings, Eero, Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: love Lord of the Rings. I'm such a little nerd
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  Speaker 2: for it.
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  Speaker 1: The two of you in this movie. I've experienced it
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  Speaker 1: and it's become such a conversation piece. And what's so
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  Speaker 1: amazing is that I've been with people that have also
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  Speaker 1: experienced the movie. It's been a long time since we've
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  Speaker 1: had this kind of deep conversation between people that have
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  Speaker 1: nothing in common except for this movie. And you guys
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  Speaker 1: are leading that pack.
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  Speaker 2: I think our chemistry, like we didn't do any chemistry,
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  Speaker 2: roots together oddly enough, and we met two days before
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  Speaker 2: the shoot me a whole bit about selling pretend whales,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm gonna yes, and this we're gonna play, right,
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  Speaker 2: and we're both just Hams, and so it was just
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  Speaker 2: pretty immediate, like our banter and back and forth. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think the film really does hinge on that relationship.
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  Speaker 2: And they must have just they must have just known
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  Speaker 2: it down in their their souls, like, all right, these
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  Speaker 2: two are two firecrackers, and you know that relationship that
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  Speaker 2: we have on screen, it's it's it comes from a
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  Speaker 2: very real place because it's just like you know, as
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  Speaker 2: soon as the scene's done, we're just kind of back
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  Speaker 2: to playing, and that friendship I think it really did
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  Speaker 2: come across.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: You can feel that friendship when when he picks up
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  Speaker 1: the phone and she's listening to the music on that phone,
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  Speaker 1: and her facial expressions are so real, and it made
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  Speaker 1: me wonder was she really hearing the song in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, it was so real that we felt
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  Speaker 1: it on this side of the screen.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember. I can't remember if I was just
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  Speaker 3: here years ago, but I do remember. I do remember
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  Speaker 3: some of my lines.
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  Speaker 2: I think I dare you well, they did play the
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  Speaker 2: song for her. Honestly, she wouldn't even need it. She's
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  Speaker 2: so imaginative. She's so like just whip whip smart with it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean again, she's she knew my lines better than me.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, we do a scene. She nails it,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought I nailed it. She's like, great job,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many connections to this story in the
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  Speaker 1: way that First of all, I was part of the
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  Speaker 1: radio industry when Christian music was starting to come on
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  Speaker 1: the scene, and so when Kevin Sorbo does that line
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  Speaker 1: they call all this Jesus music. I could relate with
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  Speaker 1: that because I live that. That's the way it was
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  Speaker 1: in the real world of radio, and I just wondered,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what it was like for you guys to
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  Speaker 1: go through that as well in bringing a story together,
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  Speaker 1: because that, to me was very authentic. That moment when
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  Speaker 1: Kevin really did come out and say that in the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm, yeah, the Jesus music. That's when he says
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  Speaker 2: that to me when I'm in my penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, with the record or the actual record company
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  Speaker 1: where they they said they said, no, yeah, the.
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  Speaker 2: Record company calls it Jesus music. I think he also
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  Speaker 2: hits hits me with the line you know, Kevin distinctly
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  Speaker 2: tried to have a voice with you know, directorially and
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  Speaker 2: then in the songwriting because he you know, he's a
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  Speaker 2: he's a singer, songwriter, phenomenal musician, and you know he
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  Speaker 2: did he did it not faith based first, and the
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  Speaker 2: guy is just so good at it that even when
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  Speaker 2: he writes songs about faith, it feels just it feels
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  Speaker 2: like a hit. I think the last thing you can
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  Speaker 2: do when trying to talk about faith is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times when the hand gets on the steering wheel
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  Speaker 2: of the convers physication, you feel them steering it and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, please, don't like we're just trying to talk
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  Speaker 2: like people. His songs, it's just like his hands off
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  Speaker 2: the steering wheel, and you know, God's just speaking through
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  Speaker 2: its move.
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  Speaker 1: We've got more with Malcolm Cunning and Evelyn grace Kite
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  Speaker 1: coming up next. The name of the movie Elijah Appeal
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  Speaker 1: You Will be Moved. We are back with Evelyn grace
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  Speaker 1: Kite and Malcolm Cunning. Evelyn, what was it like for
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  Speaker 1: you too when you first appear inside the hospital with
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  Speaker 1: with a eli. I mean, it's one of those situations
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  Speaker 1: where you're such a bright light to those that are
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  Speaker 1: on this side of the screen because you came across
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  Speaker 1: to many of us as an answer. I mean immediately
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  Speaker 1: it was like, there she is, that's his answer, and
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  Speaker 1: and and and I just felt that was just so
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  Speaker 1: important to you.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy because like she's like she's always looking
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  Speaker 3: out for Elija appeal even when she hasn't met him,
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  Speaker 3: like always researching stuff about it, like Okay, he's in
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  Speaker 3: the hospital, I'm gonna go say, Hi, what room. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But see, that's the realism of this story. That that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes it such a great thing. Eli Elijah peel
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  Speaker 1: Is is such a like it almost feels like you've,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a peeled this from our own everyday life.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, thank you. I think there was a there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of character work on both our parts. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she is way more studious than I am. Uh, she's
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  Speaker 2: she's a drill sergeant with it. Luckily, we just we
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  Speaker 2: had a really incredible team and Kevin had such a
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  Speaker 2: vision with it that you know, he gave us a
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  Speaker 2: lot of freedom, but he was also gave us a
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  Speaker 2: lot of great direction in you know, keeping true to
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  Speaker 2: the vision that he had. But then so we were
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  Speaker 2: just we fed off each other so hard with it.
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  Speaker 3: For him, it asked me perfect for him, like, no,
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  Speaker 3: you have to do it exactly like this.
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  Speaker 1: What would you say, Malcolm that this is kind of
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  Speaker 1: a mouth you know, is a Samson style story because
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  Speaker 1: I me mean, I mean, eli was so big and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden he fell from grace only to
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  Speaker 1: come back up. And I just felt like there were
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  Speaker 1: so many different Bible stories that were featured in this,
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  Speaker 1: but you do it in such a way that makes
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  Speaker 1: it feel so every day, if you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. That is a crazy great compliment. I
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  Speaker 2: think there is there's a you know, there's a Samson
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  Speaker 2: element to him, his hairs. His hair is kind of
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  Speaker 2: cut off with it finds his strength and finds his
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  Speaker 2: strength and on. But you know, kind of a real
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  Speaker 2: everyday ness of it. I would, you know, not to
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  Speaker 2: give him too much for it's not to give him
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  Speaker 2: all that ego in the world. But Kevin really really
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  Speaker 2: pushed for me with the casting of Elijah Peel And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I I know what I look like, dude,
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  Speaker 2: I don't I'm not Jacob Laurie over here. My favorite
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  Speaker 2: actors are like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Sam Rock. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and I think, I mean, I've got I got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of energy, a bit of a chy, little firecracker,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, Kevin saw just a raw kind of grit
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  Speaker 2: in me, and uh, you know he was able to
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  Speaker 2: take that and put it on a an arena stage
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  Speaker 2: and you know, frame it right. And so yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think they just they knew they didn't want a CW model.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry c W love you guys, but they wanted somebody
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  Speaker 2: with some grit.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. I totally get that. I know that
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  Speaker 1: we're down to our final minute here, but I do
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  Speaker 1: want to give you guys a compliment that you're in
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  Speaker 1: one of the most classic scenes I've ever seen in
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  Speaker 1: a long time, and I think it should be on
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  Speaker 1: a poster. It's you guys on the hospital floor and
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  Speaker 1: you're both on opposite sides of the door, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that that would be one of the greatest inspirations
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  Speaker 1: on the planet if it was ever released to share.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, yeah, Kevin, Kevin had that scene in his
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  Speaker 2: mind forever. Yeah, I mean even before I read the.
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  Speaker 1: Whole script, he was pro there's gonna be this scene.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're breaking down on the floor, she's hearing
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  Speaker 2: the song, and they're both of the door together. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that scene has had it forever and they pulled it
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  Speaker 2: off just beautifully.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Please come back to this show anytime in the future.
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  Speaker 1: The door is always going to be open for both
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  Speaker 1: of you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thank you so much for having us.
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  Speaker 1: Will you guys be brilliant today? Okay, all right here, good,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.