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Speaker 1: It fits in Whippie Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm still Jenny from the Black Hi Lovers.

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Speaker 3: This is Jennifer Lopez.

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Speaker 2: You know, hello, Oh my gosh, this is an honor

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Speaker 2: Jennifer Lopez.

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Speaker 3: Well, why are you guys?

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Speaker 2: I'm Richie Show.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, congratulations. First of all, we want

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Speaker 4: to address a super Bowl has become so messive here

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Speaker 4: in Australia and we just First of all, I wanted

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Speaker 4: to say how good the Duncan din Out said was

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Speaker 4: with you and a lot of fun making that.

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Speaker 3: Jo It was so much fun that we had such

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Speaker 3: a ball. There's so many amazing outtakes of that commercial

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Speaker 3: that you guys, I wish you could see. There's so

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Speaker 3: much fun eat Ben Is, you know, obviously an amazing

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Speaker 3: director and really funny, and Matt and Tom and everybody participated.

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Speaker 3: All the guys who made my album were in the

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Speaker 3: studio with me. It was a time we had a ball.

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Speaker 4: And also I want to talk to you about we

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Speaker 4: were watching Usher just before he's about to go and

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Speaker 4: those lights come on. We want to Jennifer, what is

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Speaker 4: it like that moment when you know that there's billions

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Speaker 4: of eyes on you and you're about to go perform

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Speaker 4: at the Super Bowl halftime. What is that feeling like?

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Speaker 3: I don't know what it was like for him, but

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Speaker 3: for me, I was incredibly focused. And you know what,

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Speaker 3: I can describe it as it's like, you know when

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Speaker 3: you have like a thoroughbread in the gates, M yep no,

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Speaker 3: and you're just kind of like there and I was

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Speaker 3: like making punches and kind of just trying to keep

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Speaker 3: myself like just kind of let.

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Speaker 4: Me out, let me go.

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Speaker 3: I'm ready. Ready. You're like rehearse for this thing for

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Speaker 3: months and you're like you're hearing the music, and Jagiro

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Speaker 3: was finishing her sad and I was like, let me

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Speaker 3: go and so and it was an incredible focus that

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Speaker 3: you get. And there's also a kind of a calm

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Speaker 3: once I got up and I positioned myself and was

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Speaker 3: rising up and to the air on the top of

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Speaker 3: the Empire State Building that I felt like super like

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Speaker 3: this is amazing and I'm very just focused and ready.

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Speaker 1: Jayla, I think I'm in awe that I can actually

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Speaker 1: hear your voice at the other end of the line. Please,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this incredible musical experience that we've all

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Speaker 1: sat down and watched. This is me now a love story. Firstly, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: it is amazing, but I just want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you a bit about love and about what you get

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Speaker 1: from from watching this. I think there's a line where

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Speaker 1: it was about when they asked you when you were

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Speaker 1: a little child what you wanted to be when you

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Speaker 1: grew up and you said in love? Is that a

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Speaker 1: true depiction of j Lo? And when did that change?

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Speaker 1: When did you want to be kind of a worldwide success?

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Speaker 3: You know it is true. It was one of the

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Speaker 3: lines that I wrote and this is me now on

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Speaker 3: the first day in the studio that I wrote along

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Speaker 3: with with Ink and Cadence. That day when I was

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Speaker 3: a girl, they'd asked me what i'd be A woman

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Speaker 3: in love is what I grew up wanting to be.

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Speaker 3: And when I played that for Dave Myers, he was like,

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Speaker 3: we have to put that, we have to put that

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Speaker 3: in here. So the music really inspired the musical experience

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Speaker 3: which is going to be on Amazon, which is what

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Speaker 3: I think you guys saw, and I'm very excited about

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Speaker 3: it. It is very much about a hopeless romantics journey. It's

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Speaker 3: a very meta story. It's me and it's not me

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Speaker 3: because not all the details are exactly my life, but

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of things in there that were informed

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Speaker 3: by my own life. But in general, it's like the

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Speaker 3: story of a romantic hopeless romantics journey through life in

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Speaker 3: their search for love.

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Speaker 2: Well that's how one line, because I know that it's

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Speaker 2: a sort of a dramatized version of your story. But

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Speaker 2: that part where they talk about your friends getting together

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Speaker 2: and saying you're a sex addict, I know, did that

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Speaker 2: really happen? Was there an intervention for your best friends?

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Speaker 3: No? No, that that didn't really happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's the bit that we saw in

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Speaker 1: the trailer. And he was like, I'm sitting down and

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Speaker 4: He was the opposite, Jennifer. He was the opposite. He said,

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Speaker 4: you got to go out and get something.

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Speaker 1: I think it's really interesting though you're saying there so

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Speaker 1: much that is in line with who you really are,

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Speaker 1: and so much is kind of, you know, dramatic choice.

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Speaker 1: But tell me just a little bit then about what

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Speaker 1: I got out of it was that external validation can

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Speaker 1: be either really powerful or really damaging. Like and I

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Speaker 1: guess there has to be a journey that you go

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Speaker 1: through where you realize that that if that's if that's

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Speaker 1: where you're getting all your love and that's where you're

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Speaker 1: being validated is externally, it doesn't end well, especially in

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Speaker 1: well in love.

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Speaker 3: No. I think sometimes when you grow up on fairy

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Speaker 3: tales like I did, and thinking of Prince Charming was

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Speaker 3: going to come and save you. Even though I was

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Speaker 3: a strong independent woman I was, you're always like kind

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Speaker 3: of I think a lot of people do this. They

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Speaker 3: look for love outside of themselves, somebody to kind of

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Speaker 3: fill that hole, and that was you know love, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, and looking for that. And I

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Speaker 3: think when we do that and we don't have that,

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Speaker 3: we can't give people something that we don't have for ourselves.

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Speaker 2: Right Like when you look at when you look at relationships,

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Speaker 2: the fact that you and Ben were, you know, together

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Speaker 2: earlier on and now you're together now, Well, then you

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Speaker 2: talk about fairy tales, that's a beautiful story.

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Speaker 3: It's a beautiful it is it is. But that's why

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Speaker 3: I think it was important not to just write the

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Speaker 3: album and I wasn't done there with the story that

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Speaker 3: I had to make the kind of eighteen year journey

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Speaker 3: in between to show what it took to get there.

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Speaker 3: In a way, I was very inspired, you know, to

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Speaker 3: write this is Me. Then when we were together the

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Speaker 3: first time, I was so in love and we were

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Speaker 3: so in love, and da da da dah, and I

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Speaker 3: wrote that album, wound up breaking up and you know,

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Speaker 3: calling off a wedding back then, and then you know,

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Speaker 3: eighteen years later, we wind up in this kind of

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Speaker 3: miraculous twist of faith, watch twist back together and get

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Speaker 3: a second chance at this you know what you know

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Speaker 3: I would say, is the love of my life. And

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Speaker 3: then we did this. But it wasn't magical. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: a fairy tale. It's the opposite of a fairy tale.

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Speaker 3: There was a lot of you know, struggle and pain,

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Speaker 3: self realization that had to happen for us to even

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Speaker 3: get to a point where the universe would conspire to

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Speaker 3: bring us back together in that way. Now, obviously I'm

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Speaker 3: talking in a way where I really believe in love,

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Speaker 3: the universe, you know, signs all of these kinds of

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Speaker 3: things like I put in the in the visuals.

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Speaker 1: I have to say, though, j Loo, I'm sure I'm

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Speaker 1: not the only one who was absolutely rooting for you

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Speaker 1: to be back together. I think it's like one of

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Speaker 1: those and I mean this so sincerely. It's like one

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Speaker 1: of those moments in history. When I read that, I

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Speaker 1: got up in the morning and I looked at my

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Speaker 1: phone and j Loo and Bennet.

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Speaker 3: Like a TimewARP.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I read sound really daggy to you, But I

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Speaker 1: just think you represent so many of us, you know,

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Speaker 1: in that sense.

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Speaker 3: It's true And I think a lot of people have

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Speaker 3: told me that about that way, and I believe like

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Speaker 3: that was part of the inspiration to go in and

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Speaker 3: write the album. It was like, yes, I want people

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Speaker 3: to know, like true love does exist for some things

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Speaker 3: are forever. That doesn't mean it's a straight role. That

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Speaker 3: doesn't mean it's easy, and that's why I had to

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Speaker 3: make the musical film. But that does that is real

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Speaker 3: and you should not give up on that. And I

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Speaker 3: don't want to give up on that. I want people

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Speaker 3: to remember that love is the most important thing in

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Speaker 3: our lives. And if we have a human experience and

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Speaker 3: you're on this planet, you're on this earth, and you

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Speaker 3: don't get to experience that, or you don't allow it in,

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Speaker 3: or you don't get yourself right to actually be able

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Speaker 3: to accept that and give that to somebody, you're missing

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Speaker 3: out on life.

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Speaker 2: So that first kiss with Ben, like, I know that's

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Speaker 2: a personal point and a personal question, but it must

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Speaker 2: have felt like coming home. It must have been like

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Speaker 2: it must have been at such a moment.

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Speaker 3: It was a moment, that's all I'll say.

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh my god, is this really happening.

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Speaker 3: When we came face to face for the first time

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Speaker 3: in eighteen years. It was. It was quite a moment.

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Speaker 4: We know how busy you are. Well, you appreciate your time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much for coming on the shower, Ji.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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