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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at Me.

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Speaker 2: Best friends, best friends. You and me we friends forever,

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Speaker 2: friendship mats everything bad.

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Speaker 3: You and me, we stick.

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Speaker 2: Together, side by side for ever and over.

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Speaker 4: Oh my head will dance each other through the range.

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Speaker 2: Without you, my life just wouldn't be the same. You're

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Speaker 2: my range in the sun sky blue. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: perform a friend like you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's a bit cheesy, isn't it. I canna

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Speaker 4: appreciate it. I'm probably not the target audience, but that's

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Speaker 4: all right. Go an amazing voice, incredible musicians. No one's

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Speaker 4: doubting that. So yeah, this is a bit of a

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Speaker 4: different turn for John Legend. That's diplomatic, isn't it. He's

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Speaker 4: just released a new album called My Favorite Dream. That

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Speaker 4: song is called Friendship. As you may have guessed, this

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Speaker 4: is a song for children, and Estelle Clifford's been listening

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Speaker 4: to it.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Estow, I've embraced the cheesy lullaby tones of John Legend.

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Speaker 3: It has gone there. I kind of had a laugh

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Speaker 3: about this because there was probably a time in my

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Speaker 3: life where this would have been really good, and I

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Speaker 3: reckon it's the whole baby toddler sort of age group

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Speaker 3: for kids. Yeah, and then my child from about three

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Speaker 3: went full rock and nineties grunge punk. So I haven't

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Speaker 3: really listened to subtle music with her for quite some time.

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Speaker 3: But there is a time and place where parents, grandparents, caregivers, No,

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Speaker 3: you need some music that isn't overstimulating for your kids. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and so why not embrace John Legend. That guy's got

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Speaker 3: four children of his own. So if that's what you're

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Speaker 3: surrounded by at home, the chaos, the madness, then then

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Speaker 3: go there right, like, write some music for children. The

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Speaker 3: weird thing is this actually started where he did, like

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Speaker 3: this playful little cover of a song. Has kids like

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Speaker 3: that one of their Fisher and Pi call toys play

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Speaker 3: and I don't know the song my stuff, Like, obviously

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Speaker 3: we did not get gifted this fisher and pipe. I

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Speaker 3: generally don't like too many toys that are with batteries,

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Speaker 3: you know, they make a lot of noise plastic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But anyway, he did a little cover of the

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Speaker 3: song because his kids really like it, and TikTok went wild.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's like, you should do a kid's album, and who's like, you.

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Speaker 4: Know, what I will good.

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Speaker 3: So then the album's kind of a mix of some covers,

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Speaker 3: Like he even covers Bob Marley in here, and I'm

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Speaker 3: kind of like, well, that's cool, but also I'm okay

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Speaker 3: with my kid listening to the original Bob Marley version.

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Speaker 3: But I guess he's going with that whole sunny vibe.

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Speaker 3: He's singing about all the emotions al Tamabeki go through

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Speaker 3: in one single day, and there's highs and lows very quickly,

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Speaker 3: and I love that he's going there with a very

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Speaker 3: positive spin. That there's lots of orchestral stuff in Quoie.

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Speaker 3: It's sort of like opening up the magic music box.

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Speaker 3: You know, you can imagine you open and the light

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Speaker 3: comes out, or you're skipping down Sesame Street. Like I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if he has a feature on Sesame Street.

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Speaker 3: It's some stage. So what that song there that you

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Speaker 3: played friendship? But it's actually one of the bonus tracks,

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Speaker 3: so it's very late in the run for me. I

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Speaker 3: would have liked the songs he put his bonus tracks

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Speaker 3: to be higher up in the track listing, right, because

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Speaker 3: the covers are beautiful and everything, but they've got a

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Speaker 3: little bit more pace and beat and probably a little

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Speaker 3: bit more playfulness to them. But I think he chose

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Speaker 3: to go lullaby, and so he chose all the songs

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Speaker 3: that kind of fit into that, you know, And it's

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Speaker 3: everything you would imagine John Legend. It's his beautiful voice,

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Speaker 3: it's crooney and swooney, and and it is exactly the lullab.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful piano, the orchestral arrangements are gorgeous, like you know,

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Speaker 3: like on a morning when you're feeling a bit sensitive

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Speaker 3: and maybe your child is too. It would be quite

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Speaker 3: a nice album. Like I can. I can understand all

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Speaker 3: the emotions he's going through when he's putting an album

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Speaker 3: together like this, Yeah, all the end of the day

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Speaker 3: wind down, like you can chuck it on again. In

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Speaker 3: our household, we've kind of sometimes gone for quite upbeat

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Speaker 3: children's albums because we need to shake off our sillies

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Speaker 3: and get some energy out. But but I like that

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Speaker 3: he's gone somewhere beautiful for preschoolers to go. It's safe,

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Speaker 3: you can put it on and not worry about what

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Speaker 3: sweets are going to get out of someone's mouth.

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Speaker 4: In Yeah, that's certainly certainly mummy, what blah blah blah me. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's and look I probably still go this over like

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Speaker 4: a baby shark or something.

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Speaker 3: You know, absolutely, because the melodies that you're going to

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Speaker 3: get stuck in your head are quite beautiful songs, and

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Speaker 3: people will think you're just singing some beautiful John legend

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Speaker 3: totally yeah, not driving them crazy.

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Speaker 4: But you're my friend, and I'll hold your hair.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like as opposed to psycholtic, I mean, I

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Speaker 3: won't even start because people you say baby sha and

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Speaker 3: they already can hear that. So a little less repetitious

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Speaker 3: and something a little bit different. He's actually now teamed up,

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Speaker 3: i think, with Fisher and Pykel to do something right,

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Speaker 3: like in the test the test audience. He's got his household,

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Speaker 3: he's finding another way to Yeah, like you say, put

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Speaker 3: some money in those musical money boxes.

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Speaker 4: At the moment, yeah, I was.

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Speaker 3: I was literally a little bit like that when I

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Speaker 3: was listening to it, like, oh my gosh, it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's cheesy, but but some kids things just are sometimes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I probably would still play a

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Speaker 3: Nick Moore's Children album.

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Speaker 4: That was going to be my next question, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Because it's a bit different than storytelling and characters, and

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Speaker 3: I don't always want to sit with the lullabys. I

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Speaker 3: think kids need a bit more through an album.

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Speaker 4: Do you want just a complete off piece option as well?

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Speaker 4: If you're on Spotify or streaming service, search trap songs

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Speaker 4: for kids. Really Yeah, yeah, there's a whole there's a

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Speaker 4: whole genre of for any of our listens who aren't

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Speaker 4: familiar with trap music, it's kind of a form of

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Speaker 4: like really kind of grimy R and B hip hop

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Speaker 4: rap kind of music. Yeah, it's it's like it's from

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Speaker 4: like from the South, like from from Georgia in the US.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, you know that there are no like this like

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Speaker 4: trap songs called I Love my Mum and stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: That's so cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and that's that's kind of probably more our

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Speaker 3: realm checking out some of the more yeah, fun but

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Speaker 3: kind of music that you as an adult can stand

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Speaker 3: to listen to as well. This is always the hard.

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Speaker 4: Balance, yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 3: But if you if you need some quiet moments and

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Speaker 3: round the piano with with John, then you know.

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Speaker 1: What do you do?

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Speaker 3: It's it's okay. Generous things Christmas time when he's got

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Speaker 3: and toys coming up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's Christmas album, no doubt, get re released

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Speaker 4: for an extra song or two. You go hey, Thank

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Speaker 4: you very much to stell all Right seven out of

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Speaker 4: ten for my favorite Dream by John Legend. Like we say,

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Speaker 4: the right time and place, the right audience could be

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Speaker 4: a great option. We'll have a bit more of a

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Speaker 4: listen to it. In a couple of minutes, we'll pick

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Speaker 4: up one of the good.

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