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Interview: Sense & Sensibility Stars Daisy Edgar-Jones & Esmé Creed · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, time to introduce some A-list actors.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Daisy O'Jones and I play Eleanor Dashwood.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Esme Creed-Miles and I play Marianne in Sense and Sensibility.
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  Speaker 3: Forgive me, Edward Ferris.
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  Speaker 1: Eleanor Dashwood. I like him. Ladies, hello. Hi. Hi. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Australia. Thank you. Congratulations on the movie. Before we start,
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  Speaker 1: The book is 235 years old. Where are we at
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  Speaker 1: with spoilers? Good point. Yeah. Where are we at there? Well...
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  Speaker 1: Esme's looking at me like, people haven't read it yet.
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  Speaker 1: I know. There's lots of people that haven't.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what's so cool about the film is
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of bringing Austen.
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  Speaker 2: To a new generation.
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  Speaker 1: To a new generation. If you haven't... I know. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe we'll skirt over it. Skirt over the spoilers. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be very vague. Yeah, yeah. Leaving people who are
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  Speaker 1: late to the party who have not yet known the story. Yeah. Daisy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling this the year of yearning, okay? I love that.
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  Speaker 1: You love that? Okay, let me just talk you through
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  Speaker 1: some of the yearning we've done so far. Okay. We
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  Speaker 1: yearned in Heated Rivalry. We did big yearning. Big yearning.
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  Speaker 1: Big time yearning. Then we yearned in Bridgerton. Bridgerton. Always
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  Speaker 1: yearning for Bridgeton. Wuthering Heights. Big time yearning. Off campus.
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  Speaker 2: Big time yearning.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And now in Sense and Sensibility. I know. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I mean, who doesn't love a good old yearn? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like Austen, she's sort of the, like,
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  Speaker 2: she began the yearning. Well, I suppose there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of yearning in Shakespeare, too. But she really, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you think about all the great rom-coms, the kernel
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  Speaker 2: of them is usually an Austen story.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Even the enemies to lovers, that's sort of Darcy. And
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  Speaker 2: also Clueless is based on Emma. You know, she really.
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  Speaker 1: She really captured.
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  Speaker 2: The stakes of yearning and what that brings to story.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a no-brainer when someone offers you a role
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  Speaker 1: or you find out there's a role and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be an Austen book? As actresses, do you just go, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: sign me up. This is like a period piece. This
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  Speaker 1: is what we studied acting for for so many years
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  Speaker 1: to do this or that.
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  Speaker 2: I think growing up in the UK, period dramas and
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  Speaker 2: in particular Austen adaptations have been just such a part
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  Speaker 2: of the fabric of my life. And so I definitely,
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  Speaker 2: when I heard that this was in the making, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I would give anything to play Eleanor Dashwood.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think so much of it is down
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  Speaker 2: to whether you think the filmmaker really has something to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, you know?
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  Speaker 2: And that's why we have a brilliant Sense and Sensibility,
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  Speaker 2: the 95 one, and there's a series as well. And
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  Speaker 2: I think for me, I was so excited because it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been explored for film for 30 years, what a
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  Speaker 2: filmmaker like Georgia would want to find in it that
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  Speaker 2: we haven't maybe discovered before and bringing it to a
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  Speaker 2: new generation. So for me, it's always, is the filmmaker
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  Speaker 2: the right person for this story?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nice. Now Esme, your character, Marianne, is she the
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  Speaker 1: original ghosting story?
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  Speaker 3: The original ghosting story?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Thought she was in love, found love, man disappears. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of, Girls are probably going to
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  Speaker 3: relate to that experience.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe some boys, too. Totally. I think people be ghosting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: People ghost each other. It's not cool. No. It's really not.
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  Speaker 1: It's not very considerate. It's not. It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 1: And she gets her heart broken. Absolutely. But it's also
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  Speaker 1: interesting to know that 235 years ago, humans were still
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  Speaker 1: ghosting each other. We have not learned, have we? Humans
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  Speaker 1: are humans. I know.
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  Speaker 3: We're the same.
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  Speaker 1: We're the same. Yeah. Obviously, you're both English. Was there
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  Speaker 1: any slang that you learned, old English slang in the
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  Speaker 1: script that you were like, oh, that's an interesting word.
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  Speaker 1: How do, I didn't know that was a. We did
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  Speaker 1: a day recently. We did, didn't we, of English, of slang.
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  Speaker 1: Content day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I wish I could remember some of those. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They were really funny. Can you remember any? I've forgotten
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  Speaker 1: them all. Me of English slang? I wasn't in the movie, no. No,
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  Speaker 1: but from the film. Yeah, no, I just watched it
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, it was such a different time.
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  Speaker 1: Where people were considerate and polite.
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  Speaker 2: I loved the, like, I love to use dearest in
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  Speaker 2: my life. Like, I do a lot of dearest.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure? Yeah. Dearest. Sounds slightly patronising in 2026, though,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it? Dearest. Love to see you, dearest. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: But I do quite, I think it's quite lovely, the
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  Speaker 2: poetry of the way they used to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tell me the effort people put into dressing 235
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  Speaker 1: years ago. As dressing in those dresses, how much effort
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  Speaker 1: went into it? What were we putting on? Because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the correct terminology, but I think both of
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  Speaker 1: you had a little like a bouffant thing underneath your
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  Speaker 1: waist that like extended you out. Petticoats. What are they called?
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  Speaker 1: We had petticoats. Okay, great. Petticoats. It looks like a
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  Speaker 1: lot of effort to dress like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good 30 minutes for me getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: Was it the same? I was a.
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  Speaker 3: Bit cheeky and I was like, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: wear a corset because I wasn't committed.
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  Speaker 1: She was committed. Who blames her? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Also, Marianne's a little bit younger and they didn't start
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  Speaker 3: wearing corsets until they were a bit older, so I
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  Speaker 3: think there was a little bit of leeway there.
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  Speaker 1: She has a different line of her dress.
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  Speaker 3: She's wearing more modern styles because she's sat in with
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  Speaker 3: the trends. I think the boys could really learn something
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  Speaker 3: of the dressing back then. Men really make zero effort
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  Speaker 3: these days.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I love the little heels. Bring it back.
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  Speaker 1: The crampness is so fab. Little tights and the whole thing. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Just taking a note here. Yeah. Next time we see you.
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  Speaker 1: Men make zero effort these days. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I apologise.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry for my sneakers. Yeah, I wouldn't like the little heels. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The little socks all the way with a little embroidery.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple scarves. Yeah. Waistcoats, coats. Bring it. Like, shut up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking notes. Now, obviously, you are Sense. You are
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  Speaker 1: Sensibility in the movie. I'm going to give you both
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  Speaker 1: some dating scenarios and we're going to use Sense... Or
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  Speaker 1: are we waving a red flag and saying, whoa, not
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  Speaker 1: so sensible? Does that make sense? Okay, okay. You match
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  Speaker 1: with someone online, but they only have group photos on
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  Speaker 1: their profile. Sense or not sensible to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Sense, they have friends.
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  Speaker 1: No. No. No. What do you mean? Not sensible. No.
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  Speaker 1: You can't tell who it is.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know who it is in the group. They've
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  Speaker 2: got no solo pics. Yeah, but there's one person who's
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  Speaker 2: at least in every single photo. So you might think, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's that person who's in every single photo, no?
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  Speaker 1: Dare I say she's very much like her character here, looking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking it through logically. She's methodical.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if they've got friends, I'd rather that than
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  Speaker 2: them on their tod the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: Agreed, actually. Yeah. Sense or not sense, you find out
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  Speaker 1: they've got a second phone. Oh, oh. Are they a spy?
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  Speaker 1: That's quite sexy. Again. Not sensible. Are they a drug dealer? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Not sensible. Not sensible. Not sensible. Not sensible whatsoever. You've
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  Speaker 1: been dating for six months, but you haven't been introduced
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  Speaker 1: to their family or friends. No friends. No friends and
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  Speaker 1: no family. Sensual and not sensible. Not sensible. No. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: In the bin. Out. What are you hiding? What's going
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  Speaker 1: on here? But if they're wearing little heels and a
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  Speaker 1: little hat. And wearing socks up to their knees. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I would be concerned. Maybe they're so eccentric in that way. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That people are like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you have
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  Speaker 1: found each other. Yeah. In your cravats. Well. It has
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  Speaker 1: been a pleasure. I will dress better next time. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You are wonderful. No, I'm joking.
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  Speaker 3: No, you are.
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  Speaker 1: I'm joking too. Thank you. Thank you. I picked my
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  Speaker 1: best sense and sensibility jacket that I could find. Pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to meet you both. Nice to meet you. Thank you
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