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Speaker 1: Neither the magnificent John Legend. Thanks for joining us. John,

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Speaker 1: it's so good to have you.

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Speaker 2: We've spoken to you.

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Speaker 1: Once before, back in twenty seven eeen, but you haven't

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Speaker 1: been in Australia and then obviously it's not a good time.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty has been a horrible year for everybody. But

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Speaker 1: I think twenty fourteen was the last time you were

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Speaker 1: in Australia.

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Speaker 2: John, it's been a while. I don't remember the exact date,

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Speaker 2: but it's definitely been a while. I miss you, guys.

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Speaker 2: I want to come see you, mate.

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Speaker 3: We are always here. I said to Tommy, our produced

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Speaker 3: the other day. Tom's one thing you need to do.

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Speaker 3: Get the Man, the Myth, the Legend on the show

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Speaker 3: because it's been far too long between drinks. Have you

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Speaker 3: been How many times have you been called.

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Speaker 2: The Man, the Myth, the legend.

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Speaker 4: Oh more than I can count. It's not the most

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Speaker 4: original way to introduce me.

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Speaker 1: Take off, John, You've got a brand new album, Bigger Love,

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Speaker 1: and You've I've got some friends helping you out on

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Speaker 1: this album as well.

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Speaker 2: Gee, you've got some good friends, John Lynchen.

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Speaker 4: I have some great friends and great collaborators, great musicians,

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Speaker 4: great artists, great producers and writers like Ryan Tedder and

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Speaker 4: Oakfelder and Anderson Pac and mister Hudson, And it was

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Speaker 4: really just a lot of fun making this music with

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Speaker 4: such talented people, and we put a lot of love

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Speaker 4: into it, a lot of joy, a lot of soul

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Speaker 4: into it. And then a couple months after I was

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Speaker 4: done writing, or actually a month after I was done

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Speaker 4: writing everything for the album, the whole world goes on lockdown.

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Speaker 4: And it's weird because you're like, well, I made this

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Speaker 4: really happy, joyful, loving album and everybody's depressed and locked

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Speaker 4: the house, and you don't know if you're supposed to

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Speaker 4: wait and put it out later. And then you're like, well,

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Speaker 4: I don't even know when the the pandemic will be over.

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Speaker 2: It might be another year or two.

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Speaker 4: I figured, you know what, people need a lift right now,

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Speaker 4: so let's put it out now.

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Speaker 5: John. The other day you were pepped because you were

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Speaker 5: is this right? You were filming a video for one

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Speaker 5: of your new songs on the street. Was it tough

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Speaker 5: to do that? Now that you know you've got to

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Speaker 5: do social distancing and all those things, does it stifle

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Speaker 5: the creativity?

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Speaker 2: Well, this was the first time the city was allowing

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Speaker 2: people to do it.

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles has been pretty strict about maintaining physical distancing.

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Speaker 4: We were pretty distant from each other, and what we

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Speaker 4: were actually making was a music video.

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Speaker 2: It kind of looked like that, but it was a.

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Speaker 4: Performance that we were doing for a Father's Day special.

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Speaker 4: Today is this Sunday here in the States, and we

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Speaker 4: are going to do a Father's Day special that I

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Speaker 4: host and have a lot of famous friends, comedians, musicians join.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna have some comedies and music and have a

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Speaker 4: good time celebrating Father's Day.

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Speaker 3: John on the topic, how you doing as a dad?

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Speaker 3: I've got kids as similar age to yours inside of

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Speaker 3: Sayer and Tommy. How are you holding up? Because the

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Speaker 3: juggle is real, you know, trying to parent at the

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Speaker 3: same time is do what you do and all those

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Speaker 3: sorts of things. You're having a good time.

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Speaker 2: We are having a good time.

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Speaker 4: I'm lucky that my wife is so good with them

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Speaker 4: because she's the more creative one when it comes to

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Speaker 4: figuring out fun things for the kids to do. Has

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Speaker 4: a real sense of play and adventure that I'm a

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Speaker 4: little more boring when it comes to that, and so

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Speaker 4: a great mom to keep them entertained. I'm a good dad,

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Speaker 4: and since I'm very attentive, I'm very loving. I'll indulge

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Speaker 4: Luna's imagination and play with her as much as she wants.

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Speaker 4: But Chrissy is more creative and has more fun ideas

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Speaker 4: for the kids.

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Speaker 3: Do you do nappy John Legend?

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Speaker 2: Do I do nats? Oh? Diapers? Of course I do diapers.

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Speaker 2: I wrote about it.

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Speaker 3: Did you write song?

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Speaker 4: And you know, I wrote a song and I would

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Speaker 4: sing it to Luna when she was first born, and

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Speaker 4: I would change your diapers.

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Speaker 2: I would say, somebody's.

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Speaker 4: Got a sinky booty, somebody.

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Speaker 2: That he's gone to clean it up. And it became

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Speaker 2: like a big thing over here because panthers.

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Speaker 4: They were told by someone on my uh you know,

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Speaker 4: they were told about the song and they were like,

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Speaker 4: you guys got to hear this song John sings to

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Speaker 4: his daughter when he changed her diapers. And they built

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Speaker 4: a whole advertising campaign around dad's changing diapers features my song.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I love that.

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Speaker 1: We we love your wife. She's so funny on social

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Speaker 1: media this week? How is she going, John? Because she

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Speaker 1: had she had an implants removed this week? And this

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Speaker 1: is what we love about your your daughter, Luna as well,

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Speaker 1: gave mama card saying have fun pulling your boobies out.

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Speaker 2: That's Chrissy gowing, is she? I kai?

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Speaker 4: Well, Chrissy is great because she'll she'll be very frank

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Speaker 4: with Luna about certain things. So she was like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Mommy's going to go to the doctor and she's gonna

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Speaker 4: get her bobies taken out. And uh so Luna was

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Speaker 4: like a little bit worried because she was like, is

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Speaker 4: this scary you know, going to do? And she probably

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Speaker 4: had no concept that something inside her mother's body was

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Speaker 1: There was a Booby's cake as well, John wasn't then.

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Speaker 2: There was a cake.

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Speaker 4: Chrissie's manager sent a cake, Chris Jenner sent balloons. All

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Speaker 4: kinds of folks were sending things to commemorate this uh

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Speaker 4: solemn occasion.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that hilarious? I love the fact that she can

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Speaker 3: be so open to celebrate it because it's just real life.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, everyone that she's talked to has gotten

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Speaker 4: them taken out. They're like, I'm so much happier. I

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Speaker 4: feel like physically more healthy and more free, and and uh,

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Speaker 4: I think you know everything heals up.

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Speaker 2: I think she'll feel that way too.

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Speaker 5: Do you guys check with each other, because you both

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Speaker 5: post that you both are so open, particularly about your

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Speaker 5: relationship and personal topics. Do you check with each other

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Speaker 5: before you put stuff on social media?

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Speaker 2: Good question? Oh not really.

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Speaker 4: We used to maybe early on, but I think we

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Speaker 4: understand each other so well and we know, you know,

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Speaker 4: we know what our fans will say, we know what

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Speaker 4: our haters will say, and we know what each other

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Speaker 4: will say by this point, so I think we have

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Speaker 4: a good sense of what works for us and what doesn't.

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Speaker 2: I don't get my tweets cleared by her, you know.

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Speaker 2: I tweet about politics a lot.

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Speaker 4: She couldn't care less about some of the things I

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Speaker 4: tweeted about, but when there are pictures of her, I

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Speaker 4: make sure I get clearance.

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Speaker 1: We're so grateful to have you on the show, John.

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Speaker 1: We are huge fans, mate. We can't wait to have

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Speaker 1: you back in Australia and we know it might be

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Speaker 1: a couple of years now, mate, but the new album

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Speaker 1: Bigger Love is available to stream and download right now.

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Speaker 1: Big fan of your work, and thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for coming on the show.

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Speaker 4: Thank you all it's such a pleasure to see everybody,

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Speaker 4: and hopefully we'll see in person as soon as possible.

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Speaker 2: Thanks John Say my legend. Please simply sitting with her