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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to The K Factor Everything

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Speaker 1: k Pop hosted by Bomhan. I am a former kpop

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Speaker 1: training who toured around the world doing content performances, and

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Speaker 1: I'm here to shed some light on the behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes of the K pop experience. Here's a little reminder

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Speaker 1: that you can listen to this podcast on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Let's get started this week.

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Speaker 1: We have a bunch of news from the K pop

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Speaker 1: world that I wanted to cover.

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Speaker 2: First of all, Black Pink's tour. A couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: I talked.

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Speaker 1: About this Deadline tour coming and it has finally started,

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Speaker 1: and oh my god, is it everything I expected and more.

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Speaker 1: This makes me even more excited for BTS's first tour

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Speaker 1: to come back. And Deadline is amazing. They had like

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Speaker 1: a twenty two set list, like two twenty two songs

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Speaker 1: set lists that they.

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Speaker 2: Were kind of chopping through.

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Speaker 1: They all preview their like solo projects, they perform their

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Speaker 1: solo projects, and they previewed a song called Jump featuring

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Speaker 1: German techno Elements and I am absolutely obsessed.

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Speaker 2: I love that K pop is.

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Speaker 1: Drawing influence from more and more corners of the world.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you see these little jersey elements with these jersey beats.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you see all these hip hop elements.

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Speaker 1: You see these R and B and and now German

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Speaker 1: techno on the grandest stage of k pop yet, which

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Speaker 1: is Black Pink's Deadline Tour. And this Deadline Tour, YG,

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Speaker 1: their CEO attends this concert and he's seen crying. His

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Speaker 1: daughter also came and watched the concert with other fellow

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Speaker 1: k pop members. And this is surprising, and it feels

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Speaker 1: like it feels like a proud dad kind of taking

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Speaker 1: in everything that has been created, you know, because Black

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Speaker 1: Pig is a big project.

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Speaker 2: And and and look at.

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Speaker 1: All the success that Black Pink has brought in all

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Speaker 1: the all the things that they have brought to Korea,

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Speaker 1: to kpop.

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Speaker 2: And to YG entertainment.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of BTS as I have before, and a

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Speaker 1: Winter herself is seen on video inviting BTS's v to

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Speaker 1: Vogue World event in October what in icon On other news,

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Speaker 1: Baby Monster USA reveals that she only graduated kindergarten. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is wow. She's like, what kind of school have

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Speaker 2: Kindergarten? A boom? That is that is done good. That

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Speaker 2: is not a good look at all.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Well, we have actually covered this exact topic,

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Speaker 1: if this interests you in one of our previous episodes

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Speaker 1: with a former kpop training who left school at the

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Speaker 1: age of twelve to go and pursue a career in

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Speaker 1: K pop, and he talks about his experiences and all

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Speaker 1: these things in a previous episode I think is called

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So Asa reveals that she only graduated kindergarten, and she

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Speaker 1: clarifies later. She said, I said I graduated from kindergarten,

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Speaker 1: and I think there were people who were surprised. I've

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Speaker 1: chasing my dream. I went back and forth between school

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Speaker 1: and practice. I said I went to school properly because

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Speaker 1: it felt like I was still in kindergarten. I meant

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Speaker 1: it in a funny way, but I didn't explain it

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Speaker 1: well because I spoke briefly.

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Speaker 2: This.

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Speaker 1: This is a very familiar statement. Every single time I

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Speaker 1: say something stupid. There was one time I went on

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Speaker 1: live and I was like, I should just be president

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Speaker 1: because I can solve all the problems in this world.

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Speaker 1: If like, for example, chat give me examples, and they

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Speaker 1: were like global warming, and I was like, why don't

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Speaker 1: air conditioning the outside. I meant just as a joke.

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Speaker 1: I was joking, and my company made me go onto

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Speaker 1: the next live saying, guys, I have a very advanced,

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Speaker 1: and it slipped my mind at people who would not

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Speaker 1: want me to be president because I am stupid.

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Speaker 2: So I saw, I know what you're going through.

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Speaker 1: On other news, Shiny timm In sparks plastic surgery rumors

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Speaker 1: in the music corge of Pancho after fans are saying

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Speaker 1: that he got a nose job, that whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: maybe's nose filler, with like before and after pictures as saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: he shouldn't have done it, you he was so handsome before,

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Speaker 1: y'all leave him alone. If a man wants to go

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Speaker 1: and and and sniff some more air, let him. Who

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Speaker 1: cares if he looked better before or after? He I

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Speaker 1: think he looks amazing. Either way, it is his choice

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Speaker 1: if he wants to. If he wants a new nose,

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Speaker 1: go get a new nose. King, you don't know what's

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Speaker 1: going on in his head. Timman spoils plastic surgery room.

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Speaker 2: Who cares? Tim and Tim and.

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Speaker 1: Timmy got so what if he got a new nose?

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Speaker 1: Maybe he did it, Maybe he did that is his business.

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Speaker 1: Super Junior celebrates twenty years as a group.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, that is a long time.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if stray Kids after twenty years will still

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Speaker 1: be straight kids. If Super Junior after twenty years is

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Speaker 1: still Super Junior and not your your high school super Senior,

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Speaker 1: then stray kids can also do it. They will not

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Speaker 1: be straight men straight dudes be They'll be straight kids forever.

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Speaker 1: And now what I am most passionate about, Twice Twice

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Speaker 1: is back for the first time in four years. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back twice and thank you twice. Thank you JYP for

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Speaker 1: the beautiful masterpiece that is K Pop Demon Hunters. K

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Speaker 1: Pop Demon Hunters is the best movie of all time.

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Speaker 1: There is no movie better than K Pop Demon Hunters.

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Speaker 1: K Pop Demon Hunters has the same appeal and charm

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Speaker 1: as as Barbie it's silly, it's cringey, but they embrace

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Speaker 1: all of that and they make their identity that is cringe.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, none of it matters because the

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Speaker 1: music is perfect. The K Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack has

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Speaker 1: climbed to number three on the Billboard two hundred, according

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Speaker 1: to Billboard on Sunday. The album jumped five spots from

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Speaker 1: last week's number eight. I mean, the highest charting soundtrack

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five so far. What is also the

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Speaker 1: top ranking animated film soundtrack sins Incanto in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: which top the chart for nine weeks.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Your Idol by the Saja Boys is the second group

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Speaker 1: behind BTS to debut top one hundred on the Billboard.

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Speaker 1: Tarks Saja Boys, they are not a real boy band.

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Speaker 1: I am, I am, and you know what. You know

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Speaker 1: who's responsible for this me? You're welcome. Capop Demon Hunters.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, Saja Boys.

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Speaker 2: All of us. We are cooked. They are taking all

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Speaker 1: If you have not watched Capop Demon Hunters, go literally

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Speaker 1: watch Capboe Demon Hunter. I have watched K Pop Demon

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Speaker 1: Hunters four times in four days. Every night before I

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Speaker 1: then I watch Keepop Demon.

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Speaker 2: Hunters wh is so good. Shit Roomy, if you.

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Speaker 1: Know anything about me, my story, my lord of all

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Speaker 1: the of all the years, Roomy symbolism everything that she represents,

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Speaker 1: the scars, not the scars, the mark the markings that

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Speaker 1: she's ashamed of. And she she steps into this new

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Speaker 1: and Wow, Roomy, Wow, k Pop Demon Hunters and Wow Twice.

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Speaker 1: I bring this up because Twice was the leading voices

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Speaker 1: for the fictional girl group Hunters and KOP Demon Hunters.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long I've been talking about this,

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Speaker 1: but but I'm gonna move on now. I love KPE

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Speaker 1: Anyway, upcoming tours, we have a step nine who announced

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Speaker 1: announced Now Tomorrow tour starting in August. Tickets are now available,

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Speaker 1: and they had their first win ever as a five

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Speaker 1: member group. That's so important and so powerful. Wow, have

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Speaker 1: a huge change like that. It's like it's like it's

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Speaker 1: like if the Indiana Pacers lost Tyrese Halliburton in the

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Speaker 1: I to all the people listening to this podcast, I

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Speaker 1: Purple Kiss will have their comeback July sixteenth, and I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: Stacey will come back July twenty third, and Bomhan is

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Speaker 1: coming back as well. My first digital single is called

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Speaker 1: Dancing under Moonlight, and it's a song that we have

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Speaker 1: worked over a year on now finding the perfect sound.

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Speaker 1: If this little part wasn't right, we'll go back and

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Speaker 1: re sing it. We probably have like an total probably

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Speaker 1: I was I was in a room one time, I

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Speaker 1: And then and then my manager will be sitting down

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Speaker 1: and they'll be like, yall, remember that time we worked

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Speaker 1: with Jackson. I'm like, Jackson five, But what Jackson? They're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I'm excited for this project. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: for all the things that are coming. And this week

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Speaker 1: we've been taking kind of like a long break from

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Speaker 1: everything because we've been we've been getting ready for the

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Speaker 2: The music video for d Un will be filmed this week. Finally,

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Speaker 2: I've been waiting for so long. I'm finally going back

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Speaker 1: I've been New York for like the past however long,

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Speaker 1: visiting my family, and now everything, all the gears are

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Speaker 1: We have Oh my god, we editor cut out the

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Speaker 1: We were top ten and music podcasts on the iHeartRadio app.

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