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Speaker 1: Talking with the biggest stars from our Mercedes Benz Interview

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Speaker 1: Lounge Jack Stage at one hundred jingle Ball. This is

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Speaker 1: Elvis Durant in the morning shows jingle Ball Diaries.

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Speaker 2: I got Nellie? Does anyone care that I've got Nellie?

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Speaker 2: A We're live. This is the.

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Speaker 3: Mercedes Been Interview Lounge at Elvis duran with.

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Speaker 2: Nelly well Man. Thank you boys, Such an honor to

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Speaker 2: have you.

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Speaker 3: But I want to take you down memory lane. Okay,

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Speaker 3: twenty three years ago at jingle Ball. That's you and

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Speaker 3: Kelly Rowland. Yoh, look at that. They just showed me

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Speaker 3: that picture.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: I had so much energy then and I had hair

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Speaker 3: back then. Now all my hair's on my back. You

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Speaker 3: don't want to see that, dude.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm good. Chat.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let me take you back twenty three years ago, Nelly,

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Speaker 3: you performed here at Z one hundred jingle Ball, Avril Levine,

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Speaker 3: Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Coddie Minogue, and someone named Ashanti.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was here that night. Yeah. Isn't it weird? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Same name, different last name. There it is there you go.

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Speaker 2: So were you guys good friends back then? Or was it?

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Speaker 2: Was it on back then.

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Speaker 4: No, it wasn't on back then. I think it was

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Speaker 4: just admiration from Afar. I mean, you know she was

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Speaker 4: basically probably just getting started right and O two and

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Speaker 4: I was on my second album, so you know, I

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Speaker 4: was a wild boy at then.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't ready for that. You still are. I can't

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Speaker 2: see wild. I smell wild all over. You got to

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Speaker 2: wild stank all over. That's what that is, hey, Nelly?

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Speaker 2: Uh isn't it great?

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Speaker 3: You can do one of these shows, you sing one

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Speaker 3: of your songs and people who were listening to you

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Speaker 3: back then and people are just now discovering who you.

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Speaker 2: Are now they're all singing your songs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called stamina.

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Speaker 4: Yea. That's what you that's what you hope for. That's

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Speaker 4: the only way you can have a career, you know,

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Speaker 4: twenty six, twenty seven years and counting right, and you're

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Speaker 4: just very thankful man. You know, everybody don't get those opportunities.

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Speaker 4: So I always like to thank all the people, and

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Speaker 4: jingle Ball and Ieheart has always been there for Nelly.

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Speaker 2: Well, having you here is an honor. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: But wait, you were honored with the iHeart Radio Landmark

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Speaker 3: Award celebrating in the twenty fifth anniversary of Country Grammar.

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Speaker 2: Ye, God, look at the height. Yeah they did that.

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Speaker 2: Were you in Detroit the other night? You did well?

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Speaker 3: You have a show the other night they said you

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Speaker 3: came out on stage and even though there was a

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Speaker 3: set lest you said, nah, I want it all changed. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: and you started doing You started bringing people up and

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Speaker 3: dancing with the morning show from the State Man.

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Speaker 2: We we just wanted to have fun.

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Speaker 4: The crowd was electric, energy was amazing.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you just try to keep it going.

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Speaker 2: But see what you do, Nellie, because you've been around

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Speaker 2: long enough.

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Speaker 3: In these up and coming artists today, they should witness

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Speaker 3: you get up there and just have fun.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to follow a set list, just do

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Speaker 2: what feels right. You try to get comfortable, though you

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Speaker 2: know it wasn't always like that.

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Speaker 4: I know you're talking to veteran Nelly now, so I

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Speaker 4: get that moment, and I think that's what separates the

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Speaker 4: legends from the up and comers.

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Speaker 2: It's not the love, it's just the lineage.

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Speaker 3: Now, are you closing out the jingle Ball season in

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Speaker 3: Miami with us as well?

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Speaker 2: Well? I hope. So. I love Nelly's like I don't

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Speaker 2: know where I'm going.

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Speaker 4: Well, listen, you know I love Detroit, Chicago and New York.

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Speaker 2: But it's cold. The least you can do is take

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Speaker 2: me to Miami. There you go.

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Speaker 3: The last jingle Ball of the jingle Ball Tour is

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Speaker 3: the best one because everyone's kissing each other goodbye, because

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Speaker 3: everyone got to know each other on the tour.

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Speaker 2: So that's gonna be a special night. But tonight it's

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Speaker 2: the Garden. I mean, not too bad, not too bad. No,

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Speaker 2: this is this is, this is a mecca.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for the gift of you, Nelly, all

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Speaker 3: these years, and I'm so so great to have you

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Speaker 3: here at jingle Ball.

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Speaker 2: You're the best, Nelly. I appreciate it. Happy Holidays.