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Britt Hartley, how are you? Good. How are you doing? So good. Life is good. What's new and exciting in your world?

You know, I think the best thing is that there's nothing like really big happening.

Like no crisis, no, even just chilling out some of my projects that I was working on just in favor of more

social time and just quiet moments of peaceful, whatever, with family and friends.

I had a bonfire on Sunday night with a big group of my friends who have, you know, we've

done some psychedelics together. And so this is a really

intimate group. And, you know, what's new and exciting is that it's just, you know, small,

simple moments that you, that make life valuable. And that is new and exciting enough for me now.

Yeah. I love it. I did. I did several weddings this week.

I'm really enjoying this whole officiant thing.

You're helping people kind of on like one of the best days of their life.

People are happy.

It's a great day.

But the one little thing that did happen, I had to crawl through some barbed wire

to get to the place where they wanted to do the ceremony I had to crawl through some barbed wire to get to the

place where they wanted to do the ceremony and everybody got through the barbed wire except for me

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