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Speaker 1: This is the Fitty and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Jeez, we've heard some amazing stories about Stevie Wonder over

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Speaker 2: the years and you know what, this man is so talented.

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Speaker 2: But you know some of the stories of is Stevie

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Speaker 2: Wonder really blind? And I mean we've seen the vision

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Speaker 2: of Paul McCartney knocking over the microphone and Stevie catching

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Speaker 2: at Shaquille O'Neil talks about, you know, getting into the

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Speaker 2: lift with Stevie Wonder, and Stevie Wonder straightaway went how

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Speaker 2: are you going shack? Yeah, and didn't he then press

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Speaker 2: the buttoner and needed to go to in the lift?

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Speaker 3: Is exactly which buttoner was?

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Speaker 2: I mean, some of these stories are amazing. But Stevie

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Speaker 2: Wonder has addressed this. So he was doing a show

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Speaker 2: over in Scotland and Cardiff and he in front of

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Speaker 2: everyone he had to address it. Listen, you know there

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Speaker 2: have been rumors about.

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Speaker 4: Me seeing all that.

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Speaker 3: Seriously, you know the truth. Shortly after my birth, I

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Speaker 3: became blind.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So then he goes it goes on for a

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Speaker 2: while there week, but he said it was a blessing

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Speaker 2: and I'm so glad that I have because you know,

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Speaker 2: I've met these amazing people and all this kind of stuff,

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Speaker 2: but you know, like he's addressed them. And obviously he

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Speaker 2: knows that people are telling stories about it now. But

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Speaker 2: there's more stories coming out that I would like to

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Speaker 2: play on the show. Do you know do you remember

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Speaker 2: Ray Parker ju You remember Ghostbusters? Ray Parker Junior was

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Speaker 2: in Stevie Wonder's band, right, Okay, I didn't know this.

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Speaker 2: So Ray Parker Jr. Did a podcast recently and they

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Speaker 2: asked he was asked about Stevie Wonder and this is

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Speaker 2: what he had to say.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I can't see, but I'll tell you this. You

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Speaker 1: wouldn't know it, no of cour Yeah, it's incredible. I

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Speaker 1: mean we were when I got in the band. Man,

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Speaker 1: I remember he got into an argument with the trump

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Speaker 1: by the way, Stevie, that was he's only a few

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Speaker 1: years on me, so he was young. He was bilt ripped, buffed,

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Speaker 1: and he pushed ups a little thing, and the drummer

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Speaker 1: got an attitude and said, man, I'm tired of Steven.

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Speaker 1: Put a blindfold on me. I'm gonna fight Stevie. This

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Speaker 1: is not a good idea. This is just not a

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Speaker 1: good and we put the blindfold on the drummer and

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Speaker 1: they gonna do good and you should have seen together.

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Speaker 1: Guy man is doing like this. He's trying to find

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Speaker 1: Stevie and every time he went bam, I mean a

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Speaker 1: straight punch. This went off for a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: and we dow the towel. We were like, you gotta

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Speaker 1: stop Stevie. Kill oh he Stevie was beating him down.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he got one punch.

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Speaker 4: On where he was.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to fight Stevie and he had to put

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Speaker 2: a blindfold on to do it. The other one is

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Speaker 2: Cat Williams. Cat Williams is a comedian. He was in

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Speaker 2: farted over to Stevie Wonder's house for I house party.

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Speaker 2: Never met him before. He tells the story Stevie one.

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Speaker 4: Day had this house party. So the whole time, I'm like,

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Speaker 4: how's we even gonna know if there's really Stevie Wonder

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Speaker 4: is damn it probably ain't even his house. Get there.

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Speaker 4: It's probably like on six acres. It's huge, it's on

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Speaker 4: the corner. All the grass is dead.

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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. It's like the footage the other day of

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Speaker 1: andreva Celli. At least he has his eyes shut the

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Speaker 1: whole time, but the next thing you know, he's on

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Speaker 1: a horse, a horse if you.

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Speaker 2: Apply, how do we know this is Stevie Wonder's house.

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Speaker 1: We don't know.

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