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<v Speaker 1>This is Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast

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<v Speaker 1>More what you Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.

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<v Speaker 2>You know Camden Matheson from General Hospital and All My Children,

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<v Speaker 2>He's starting to stretch his abilities into game show hosting

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<v Speaker 2>and that will be on the new episode of Beat

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<v Speaker 2>the Bridge on the Game Show Network. Welcome Cameron Matheson.

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<v Speaker 2>I understand this is based on a BBC import.

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<v Speaker 3>It sure is, Yeah, Bridgealize, which was a great show

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<v Speaker 3>in the UK, and then we took it over here

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<v Speaker 3>and in the US and Game Show Network and everybody

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<v Speaker 3>just kind of reworked it a little bit and made

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<v Speaker 3>it fit in for the American audiences. And I think

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<v Speaker 3>we've done a really good job. It's been airing and

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<v Speaker 3>people are loving it. And I usually never watch myself,

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<v Speaker 3>like in any of the acting jobs I have or

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<v Speaker 3>hosting jobs I have, but this and I have a

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<v Speaker 3>good time and I get excited because I don't remember.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't remember how each episode ends, right. We shoot

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of episodes, and it's been very very exciting

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<v Speaker 3>and also new for me to be able to watch

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<v Speaker 3>a show that I'm on and kind of get into it.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's even for me, it's been fun.

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<v Speaker 2>Being a game show host is considerably different than acting

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<v Speaker 2>behind the camera or in front of the camera.

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<v Speaker 3>Rather, uh, it's definitely very different. It's it's way more

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<v Speaker 3>it's way more dreamally draining. Like you know, you're you're

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<v Speaker 3>basically it's you're in that fight or flight state the

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<v Speaker 3>whole time. I love to you know, very enthusiastic, very

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<v Speaker 3>high energy, very positive with the with the teams and

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<v Speaker 3>the guests, and obviously acting you're you're just trying to

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<v Speaker 3>be I mean, here's the deal. It's when I went

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<v Speaker 3>to my hosts, I try to be very you know,

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<v Speaker 3>very positive and like I say, I have a lot

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<v Speaker 3>of energy going, but at the same time, very authentic

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<v Speaker 3>and genuine. It's it's just who I am and just

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<v Speaker 3>how I am. Naturally, when I'm acting, you're a lot

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<v Speaker 3>more grounded in the moment, and you're playing a different

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<v Speaker 3>character and you're you know, it doesn't typically call for

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<v Speaker 3>you to be up there kind of yelling and screaming

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<v Speaker 3>and cheering, and you know, you're just kind of talking

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<v Speaker 3>and listening and reacting and also trying to be as

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<v Speaker 3>authentic and grounded and genuine as you can. So there's similarities,

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<v Speaker 3>but there's a lot of differences.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I imagine you have live theater experience as well.

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<v Speaker 2>I would imagine it's closer to live theater than it

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<v Speaker 2>is when you're when you're rehearsing and then recording or

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<v Speaker 2>taping an episode of say General Hospital.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I suppose it is. But at the same time,

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<v Speaker 3>even in like theater, you're not you know, you're not presenting,

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<v Speaker 3>You're not you're not like you know, you're you're not

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<v Speaker 3>hosting anything. You're just trying to be super grounded in

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<v Speaker 3>the moment and listen, react and spontaneous and truthfully in

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<v Speaker 3>that way, it's the same whether you're acting on a

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<v Speaker 3>TV show or not. But I know what you mean

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<v Speaker 3>in the sense of like projecting. When you're on live theater,

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<v Speaker 3>you want to project in the back of the house.

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<v Speaker 3>And so there's similarities. For sure, there's similarities, but there's

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<v Speaker 3>definitely a lot of differences.

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<v Speaker 2>Cameron Mathison, he's the host of the all new game

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<v Speaker 2>show Beat the Bridge. What's our premise on Beat the Bridge?

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<v Speaker 2>If you don't get across the bridge, you fall into

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<v Speaker 2>the London, you fall into the Thames River.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's that's I mean, I mean maybe that's like

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<v Speaker 3>sort of the the essence of it. But nobody's falling

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<v Speaker 3>into any rivers here. There's no like wipeout contingent, you know.

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<v Speaker 3>Part of the show. Uh, it's basically just you got

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<v Speaker 3>this huge interactive bridge that's got a personality to it,

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<v Speaker 3>and you're and so you've got a team of three

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<v Speaker 3>people and individually they're trying to make it across this bridge. Now,

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<v Speaker 3>the interesting thing is the surface of this bridge. It

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<v Speaker 3>is the actual game board, right, so the contestants are

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<v Speaker 3>stepping there. There's sort of the game pieces, stepping on

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<v Speaker 3>the right answers, avoiding the wrong answers, trying to make

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<v Speaker 3>it across the bridge, accumult money in their bank as

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<v Speaker 3>they do it. Every successful crossing they get a little bonus.

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<v Speaker 3>And then the final round of the show is this

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<v Speaker 3>timed around where they try to make it back across

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<v Speaker 3>the bridge. If they do, they get to keep their

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<v Speaker 3>money and a huge bone of us up to fifteen

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<v Speaker 3>thousand dollars in total. And it's it's just a fast paced,

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<v Speaker 3>lots of energy of trivia base show that is really

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<v Speaker 3>really engaging in fun to.

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<v Speaker 2>Watch chess with. But they are the pieces.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, and it says they're the pieces. Yeah, exactly right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we're talking about Beat the Bridge. It is on

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<v Speaker 2>now on weeknights at six o'clock Eastern on the Game

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<v Speaker 2>Show Network, and the hostess cameraon matheson what are some

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<v Speaker 2>of the questions? Because I know, you know, it takes

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<v Speaker 2>probably a whole team of people to come up with

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<v Speaker 2>these really good trivia questions that people may or may

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<v Speaker 2>not know the answers to.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it takes a whole team of people, and it

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<v Speaker 3>takes a whole team of people, like months to do it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's you know, we shoot a lot of these episodes.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess its on the Game the Show, et cetera.

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<v Speaker 3>But we we shot one hundred episodes, and so just

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<v Speaker 3>think about all those trivia questions. Each each episode has

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<v Speaker 3>several rounds and different categories, and so you know, we

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<v Speaker 3>could have a category that would be movies that were

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<v Speaker 3>inspired by TV series, or we could have summer summer

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<v Speaker 3>Olympic games categories, or we could have you know, there's

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<v Speaker 3>a million million different categories and then subcategories within. So

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<v Speaker 3>the category could be sports and then like what's the

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<v Speaker 3>Bridge looking for? Well, we're looking for summer Olympic games,

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<v Speaker 3>categories or we're looking you know whatever, or you know

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<v Speaker 3>the the the category of the overall category could be

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<v Speaker 3>famous people and then we could be like interest, Elvis movies,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, like, it could be a lot of different

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<v Speaker 3>specific things. And the beautiful thing about this game, I

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<v Speaker 3>feel like is even if you have no idea the who, like,

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<v Speaker 3>let's say this famous person is could be like Beyonce

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<v Speaker 3>albums or something like I don't listen to Beyonce. But

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<v Speaker 3>there's still the ability because it's like process of elimination,

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<v Speaker 3>you could still make it across. We've had people make

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<v Speaker 3>it across the bridge even if they have no idea

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<v Speaker 3>what this category is or whatever, and just by using

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<v Speaker 3>their deductive reasoning and process of elimination, they're still in

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<v Speaker 3>the game.

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<v Speaker 2>And that game is Beat the Bridge with Cameron Matheson

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<v Speaker 2>as the host. Do you know them from General Hospital?

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<v Speaker 2>All my Children? And more? Do you have to go

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<v Speaker 2>over some of the pronunciations of the questions beforehand or

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<v Speaker 2>are they as a mount is a surprise to you

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<v Speaker 2>as they are to the to the to the player.

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<v Speaker 3>I go over the pronunciations beforehand, but inevitably, you know

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<v Speaker 3>how when you like see a word or a pronunciation

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<v Speaker 3>and you just get it in your head like this

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<v Speaker 3>is the one that's gonna trip me up inevitably. Inevitably,

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<v Speaker 3>I'll still get it wrong and we'll do like an

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<v Speaker 3>audio pickup or something. So that's happened. But they tell

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<v Speaker 3>me when we shot this that I had like the fewest.

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<v Speaker 3>I had very few different I had very few pickups comparatively,

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<v Speaker 3>but I definitely needed a few a second take at

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<v Speaker 3>some of those pronunciations.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, that may be where a lot of your soap

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<v Speaker 2>opera practice came into came into being, because you have

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<v Speaker 2>so many lines that changed daily when you're shooting a

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<v Speaker 2>soap opera versus a game show.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, like we you know, but people don't realize shooting

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<v Speaker 3>I'm on General Hospital, and I was on All My

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<v Speaker 3>Children for a long long time before that, but I uh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>people don't realize you've got to memorize between twenty and

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<v Speaker 3>sometimes up to fifty sixty pages of dialogue and one

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<v Speaker 3>day on a soap. Yeah, and it's uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>you can't really be getting you know, second and third

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<v Speaker 3>takes on these shows. These shows we shoot one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>plus pages a day every day and they got to

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<v Speaker 3>keep it moving, and so that kind of training really

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<v Speaker 3>comes in handy for a lot of things like being

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<v Speaker 3>able to be prepared, being able to get it in

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<v Speaker 3>the first take, memorizing certain things, all of the above.

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<v Speaker 2>Cameron Mathieson of General Hospital and All My Children, host

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<v Speaker 2>of the all new game show Network A game show,

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<v Speaker 2>Beat the Bridge. It is on weeknights at six pm

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<v Speaker 2>on the sixth Eastern. Yeah, sorry about that. Yes, speaking

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<v Speaker 2>of not knowing your lines. Karen Mathison, thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>joining us.

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<v Speaker 3>You got it, you got it. Thank you so much

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<v Speaker 3>for having me. I hope everybody chicks out the show.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a lot of fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee

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<v Speaker 1>Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live

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