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Listen to native speakers pronounce “hotbed” as a noun in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
I was getting letters from Orange County and Danville and all thesehotbeds of conservatism and they would write me and say, "We're boycotting Joie de Vivre because we're boycotting all French companies." And I would write them back and I'd say, "I'msorry. We're not a French company. We're based in San Francisco." And they would write back and they would say, "Oh that's worse."