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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: I will you love me?

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Speaker 3: You know I'm hurting for you.

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Speaker 2: It seems now that it's sober, but there is nothing

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Speaker 2: I can do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: What.

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Speaker 1: Does them do this too?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. Born out of the three more than

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Speaker 4: forty years ago, the Exponents are Kiwi rock legends, have

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Speaker 4: lodged their sound indelibly in the national psyche and there

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Speaker 4: a guaranteed play at the pub or a summer barbecue.

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Speaker 4: You know, once upon a time I was a twenty

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Speaker 4: first DJ. Honestly best job I ever had, and I

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Speaker 4: reckon if I was to go back and look through

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Speaker 4: the playlists of those about eighty percent of the nights.

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Speaker 3: Would have finished with this song.

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Speaker 4: Later this month, the Exponents are going to reunite on

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Speaker 4: stage in front of more than twenty five thousand for

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Speaker 4: the Symphony Festival, and Exponents front man Jordan Luck is

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Speaker 4: with me this morning.

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Speaker 3: Killed her.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good magic day, Jack. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm very well. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: You sound very upbeat given what you've been through over

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Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks. Dare I ask have you

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Speaker 4: got dry feet this morning?

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Speaker 2: I do humming gun boots.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the key.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what I'm going to ask about all

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Speaker 4: of that, because you have really been through it recently.

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Speaker 4: I'll ask about all of that in a couple of minutes.

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Speaker 4: But let's start off with symphony. So how does it

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Speaker 4: feel to have the band back together for an event

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Speaker 4: of the side.

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Speaker 2: That's how it feels. Feels very excited about this one.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it's an Exponents kig, so that's kind

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Speaker 2: of odd for a start. We we only do a

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Speaker 2: handful of shows and really looking forward to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's always bringing playing with those younger fellas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so how does it actually work?

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Speaker 4: Explain the kind of mechanics of it to us?

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Speaker 2: Well, I suppose in a serious way. Exposed last played

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Speaker 2: back in April twenty twenty three when we did we

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Speaker 2: did a tour yea, and of course that that that

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Speaker 2: entails the whole production, the whole lot organizationally. Yeah, we

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Speaker 2: had got a weak rehearsal down in Aerrow Town and

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Speaker 2: then well then the then the logistics of it are

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Speaker 2: just larger. You know, you're doing concert halls and yeah,

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Speaker 2: but this one just walk in, walk out? What But yeah,

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Speaker 2: a fabulous show to be involved with, I mean faith

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Speaker 2: Less and Black Seeds and yeah, really excited.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna it's going to be an amazing, an amazing

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Speaker 4: event and so so so like talk to us about

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Speaker 4: the kind of symphony side of things.

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Speaker 3: Have you been to synphony gigs before?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: And that's another reason why I'm thrilled. I've not seen

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Speaker 2: a show.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, what have you heard?

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Speaker 2: Just that people that have done the shows. I think

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Speaker 2: there was a new premouth one that folk raved about

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Speaker 2: a while back, and yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's I mean that they're a real experience thing. I

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Speaker 4: think one of the things that's amazing about them too

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Speaker 4: is they kind of kind of cut across generations. Not

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Speaker 4: that the exponents don't. I feel like you guys could

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Speaker 4: say that as it is anyway, but you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean, like it's you sort of you know, people

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Speaker 4: music and find their own thing with it very much.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, genre crossing, Yeah, enterprise.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So like you say, you did that big tour

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Speaker 4: in tw and what did that experience tell you about

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Speaker 4: the place that the exponents still hold in New Zealand's

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Speaker 4: music fans hearts and.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got a rehearse with the black band Boom Bash.

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Speaker 2: We're just on fire, consistently jigging up and down the nation.

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Speaker 2: But exponents, Yeah, we have Brett Adams on board, but

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Speaker 2: Brian Jones, Harry David Gen. Yeah, we will go back together.

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Speaker 2: I mean we see each other occasionally, but not that often. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and then yeah, we get locked into a rehearsal room

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Speaker 2: and yeah. It's it's work in the sense that it

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Speaker 2: depends on how much everyone remembers. And mind having said that,

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Speaker 2: the very very short set it how short I think

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Speaker 2: it was affording the net maybe, oh yeah, so we

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Speaker 2: could do who Loves to Victoria? Well do this to

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Speaker 4: I don't think you don't think what's going to be

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Speaker 4: upset about that seat list. It's going to be it's

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Speaker 4: going to be a type. It's going to be a

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Speaker 4: come out of course.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, bang so.

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Speaker 4: So when you're in that rehearsal room, though, describe that.

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Speaker 3: To us a little bit like you see that, you

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Speaker 4: It's work working that it's working, that it's not fun

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Speaker 2: That honestly, Jack, it is great fun because people, well,

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Speaker 2: it's intriguing because folk may not be used to a

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Speaker 2: section or actually just everyone does still play, but playing

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Speaker 2: together that's a different chemistry. That's always intriguing. And exponents

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Speaker 2: were always volatile kind of unit.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, has that changed at all over the years.

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Speaker 2: I found I found on the tour it was very professional.

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Speaker 2: Britt Adams probably brings that on board. I was just

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Speaker 2: earlier in the year I know he was. It was

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Speaker 2: not only a mocker, but he was also a dude

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Speaker 2: at the same show. So yeah, he brings a lot

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Speaker 4: But it is there, still is the volatility still a

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Speaker 4: little bit of a component? Is it still there?

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Speaker 3: Deep down?

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Speaker 2: I think that can edge itself, will present itself on stage.

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Speaker 2: That's when Yeah, it kind of like, Oh, you're looking around,

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Speaker 2: You're going, has he got this? Has he got this? Yeah? Nails?

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's good. Yeah, it's a it's your seat stuff.

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Speaker 4: I was going to say, in a way, you can't

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Speaker 4: you don't want to stamp it out a like that's

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Speaker 4: the that kind of that volatility might be the secret source.

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Speaker 4: That might that might be another word for Rex factor

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Speaker 2: I concurt that really made the live shows during the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're listening to Jack Tame. I'm speaking with Jordan

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Speaker 4: Luck ahead of the Exponent's performance at the Symphony Festival.

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Speaker 4: So when was the last time you reckon you played

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Speaker 4: in front of twenty five thousand people?

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Speaker 2: Gosh, I'm thinking that would be for the band together

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Speaker 2: of course the second one hit.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and then and then everyone's lives changed and

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Speaker 4: my gosh, I mean you are still in it. So

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Speaker 4: from christ Church to Akard or Little Rivers before just before.

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Speaker 3: You get to the big hill.

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Speaker 4: So you go go through Ti Tapo, you kind of

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Speaker 4: skirt around. Well, you know, I know it super well.

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Speaker 4: It's my old stomping ground. So but people might know

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Speaker 3: Last month? With these with these floods. Yeah, it's flooded.

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Speaker 2: I've been here since twenty sixteen. It's flooded five times.

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Speaker 2: It wiped out two of our rooms. That's gone through

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Speaker 2: And yeah, it was I mean exciting to it and adrenaline. Yeah, way, but.

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Speaker 4: Sort of as in the moment a but then you know,

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Speaker 4: like we learned this in the earthquakes too. It's the

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Speaker 4: All the mess and the cells and the damage and

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Speaker 4: everything else, and you're exhausted, and you know, lots of

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Speaker 2: Absolutely no power, no sewerage. We've been lucky in that respect.

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Speaker 2: that you'd never think would ever have seen water flooded

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Speaker 3: Just happens all the time. Much Yeah, Yeah, the one in.

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Speaker 2: One hundred years. That's kind of wow. That one hundred

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Speaker 2: years came up quickly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a it's it's a pretty worrying thought. Really,

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Speaker 4: So is your place okay?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: It's try probably moving. No, I wouldn't be able to.

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Speaker 2: I can't estimate it. Very lucky Farmer's Mutual Group have

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Speaker 2: been very good. Yeah, we'll see probably, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: actually a month maybe hopefully.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I really hope it's all right. And I'll tell

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Speaker 4: you what it'll be. It'll be nice just to as

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Speaker 4: great as it'll be to have everything at home sorted

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Speaker 4: I can imagine that actually getting out of the valley

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Speaker 4: just a little bit and putting on some shows. It

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Speaker 4: might be a little nice distraction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've we've got we've got into the actually two

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Speaker 2: shows in the Roads with the trom I'm grown. Yeah

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Speaker 2: it's good. And then the Exponents Symphony. Yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be amazing.

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Speaker 4: Well, look, we're delighted to speak with you. Really really

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Speaker 4: looking forward to the Symphony Festival. It's gonna be it's

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Speaker 4: gonna be an extraordinary thing to behold. Good luck with

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Speaker 4: everything at home. Keep your chin up and we look

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Speaker 4: forward to speaking soon.

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Speaker 2: Well, Love, thank you so much, Jack, thank you for

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Speaker 2: your time.

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Speaker 4: So good Jordan. Luck from the Exponent. So symphony is

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Speaker 4: next weekend. You can get tickets at symphony dot com.

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Speaker 4: And of course it's Symphony not Symphony, so s y

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