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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whippo podcast. Where's Johnny?

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Speaker 2: Listen to that voice up? We're just trying to get

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Speaker 2: him up now you Oh John Legend, the man, the

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Speaker 2: myth man.

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Speaker 3: What a talent he is?

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Speaker 2: Is he there?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: Johnny Legend? You got us?

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Speaker 3: Johnny's here?

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Speaker 1: Does anyone call you Johnny?

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Speaker 5: My parents and my immediate family do anyone that grew

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Speaker 5: up with me in Springfield? Pretty much caused me Johnny?

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Speaker 1: Because that's the problem we have here in Australia. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: we can be overly friendly too early on in a

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Speaker 1: relationship and maybe I should have just started with Sir

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Speaker 1: John or the legend.

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Speaker 3: Sir John's that's a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's a bit much, that's the honorable John.

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Speaker 2: What about when you're in trouble with your wife? John?

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Speaker 2: What does she what? Is there a full name that

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Speaker 2: she gives you when you're in trouble?

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Speaker 3: No, just first words.

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Speaker 2: I congratulations mate, third child son. That's amazing news.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: We're very excited you're settling in buddy.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've known for a while. It's news to you, guys,

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 1: It's so exciting. It's no great to give fits he's

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Speaker 1: got a couple of kids. I've got three, and we're

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Speaker 1: still trying to juggle it here.

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Speaker 2: And when you have multiple kids, John, we do.

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Speaker 4: We worked out very early that work is important just

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Speaker 4: to get out of the house sometimes, if you know

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Speaker 4: what I mean, I bring them with me.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes they traveled with me on tour this summer. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: but there's plenty of times when work means I get

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Speaker 5: to be away from them too, So you know, a

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Speaker 5: healthy balance.

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Speaker 1: You've got to balance it out. And during COVID, did

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Speaker 1: you have somewhere you could run off too, because that

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Speaker 1: was probably the issue with having a studio at home.

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Speaker 5: Well, our studio is a separate home, so it's like

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Speaker 5: we're about fifteen minutes from where we live, Brilliant. We

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Speaker 5: drive over there and work there, but it's still our space,

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Speaker 5: but it's it's separate from where we live.

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Speaker 2: John, I've always wanted when you have your own studio.

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Speaker 2: I love this stuff.

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Speaker 4: And you know, like I just I watched The Food

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Speaker 4: Fighters back and documentary again the other day and they

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Speaker 4: recorded a whole album out in the back of Dave's house.

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Speaker 4: And you know, when you went collaboratives and people to

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Speaker 4: come around just to your studio at all hours. It

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Speaker 4: could be two o'clock in the morning, Like, can you

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Speaker 4: just give us some names where you.

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Speaker 2: Just got people rocking up to your studio and helping

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Speaker 2: you out.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't work late like that. I worked dad hours.

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Speaker 2: You're dead hours, but you can just cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I would usually work during the day and while the

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Speaker 5: kids are at school and then try to be home

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Speaker 5: by dinner time I could put them to bed. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm not living the rock star life in that sense, Mike.

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Speaker 5: But you know, we would have all kinds of folks

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Speaker 5: come over, but these days you don't need to have

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Speaker 5: them in the same space all the time. So a

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Speaker 5: lot of a lot of our collabes, people you know,

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Speaker 5: did them in their own studio, particularly during COVID. You know,

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Speaker 5: people were all over the world and they got their

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Speaker 5: vocals in. But it sounds like we're in the same room,

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Speaker 5: but a lot of times we're not.

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Speaker 1: That's truck John. Do you find like if you have

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Speaker 1: something come into your head where you think that that

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Speaker 1: could be a song and you're trying to parent at

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Speaker 1: the same time, are you just recording little notes into

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I do voice notes, but I like I said my studio.

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Speaker 3: Being away from home is on purpose.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, because that way I can, you know, separate

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Speaker 5: my day. You know, when I'm there, I'm focused on music.

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Speaker 5: When I'm home, I'm focused on home.

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Speaker 2: Can wait, John, can we please for everyone out there?

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Speaker 2: Because we are absolutely adoring the new song? All she

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Speaker 2: want to do? He's the chorus for you.

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Speaker 1: Does she want to do?

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Speaker 3: Is I want to do?

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Speaker 5: Is get there?

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Speaker 3: It is just.

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Speaker 1: Got them wait and great sound, John, congratch.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: It is a dance floor banger. This is the thing

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Speaker 4: I want to All she wants to do is dance.

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Speaker 4: That means she's not into you, John, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean?

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Speaker 3: Like it means.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the whole song is about me being really into

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 5: So you know you've you've definitely had those moments at

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Speaker 5: the club or when you're out where you like you

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Speaker 5: want you see someone that you're really into, but they

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Speaker 5: feel like they're untouchable or unapproachable or elusive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the story of my life.

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Speaker 4: And then Sweety comes in. She says, for first, all

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Speaker 4: I want to do is get my nails done. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: all I want to do in their own world. She's like,

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Speaker 4: I'm not paying attention to you.

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Speaker 1: Now, because when you're talking about the dance floor fits

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Speaker 1: there's two different types of dancing. Of course. Yeah, you've

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Speaker 1: got your dance floor and then you've got your horizontal dancing.

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Speaker 1: That's what I saw you. I mean, that's.

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Speaker 3: That's that's where I want to get us too.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that she seems to be she seems to be

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Speaker 5: just focused on the vertical.

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Speaker 1: You know what hated me? Oh, I hated so much

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Speaker 1: growing up. I could never dance, so and so many

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Speaker 1: and it was almost like people would say, if he

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Speaker 1: can dance, then you're good in bed. But I was

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you?

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Speaker 3: Like, You're like, it's not necessary to be a great dance.

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Speaker 1: Always tiny things you need to do.

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Speaker 4: You know. The first thing that I picked up when

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Speaker 4: don't grind in Australia, John, So when I had someone

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Speaker 5: I was like, what we in America? We used to

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Speaker 3: Or R Kelly. Yes, you know, like that kind of vibe.

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Speaker 5: And that whole era is gone too, So we used

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Speaker 3: Of laid back. A lot of hip hop these days,

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Speaker 5: a little bounce, but it's not like big party music

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Speaker 5: And then you know, but pop music, I think it's

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Speaker 3: Grind, you know. But now I don't know if anybody

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Speaker 1: For when you were younger and you were dancing very

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Speaker 1: in so many different ways when you have that level

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, there was a.

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Speaker 3: Whole song about that. You remember that song by next

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Speaker 3: It was called too Clothes. You remember that song that

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Speaker 3: was That was a song about him getting you know, stimulated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was excited.

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Speaker 3: Man, that was excited.

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Speaker 2: The old three legged rice comes up.

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Speaker 4: That's a tough one, is really.

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Speaker 3: Exactly. You're making it hard for me. That's it right there.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that's what it was.

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Speaker 1: Wow, I think every guy went through that at one stage.

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Speaker 1: How awkward, Well.

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Speaker 3: It's only awkward if it is like.

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Speaker 5: A lot of times, a lot of times a girl

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Speaker 5: would notice and she didn't stop dancing with you.

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Speaker 1: So true, John Legend, That's why your name is John Legend.

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Speaker 4: The embarrassing thing is when she doesn't notice because she

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Speaker 4: does not think there's nothing there.

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Speaker 3: She doesn't notice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very stimulated here, but nothing seems to be happening.

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Speaker 4: She doesn't have any idea what's going on, John Legend Like, okay,

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Speaker 4: so we need to know.

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Speaker 2: John.

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Speaker 4: I know it's everything's opening up now, but is there

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Speaker 4: an opportunity maybe that you could bring the family some

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Speaker 4: stage and tour down in Australia.

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Speaker 3: I would love that.

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Speaker 5: We just did Europe and Egypt this summer and then

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Speaker 5: Christy and I have both been to Australia for me

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Speaker 5: touring and for her working.

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Speaker 3: Yep, and uh so we would love to come back.

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Speaker 3: It's been too long.

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Speaker 1: Mate, Always open read.

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Speaker 2: We love you, John Legend.

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Speaker 4: Dan here the new single All She Want to Do

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Speaker 4: is available to buy and stream now.

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Speaker 2: Mate, Thank you so much. We know how busy you are.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: John, my pleasure. Thank you, Thanks Johnny much.

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