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27:["$","p",null,{"className":"mt-5 leading-relaxed text-foreground","children":"Doing this by hand means scrubbing through hours of audio with a notepad. It's exhausting, and it's easy for the other side to argue you cherry-picked the bad moments."}]
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2e:["$","h2",null,{"className":"mt-12 scroll-mt-24 text-2xl font-bold tracking-tight text-heading","children":"Step 5: Submit it the right way"}]
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