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Speaker 1: special guests are you there? Yeah, a special guest probably

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Speaker 1: their life. It could could be Special guest is a

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Speaker 1: Let's not lie now. No, it's true. No, it's it's true.

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Speaker 1: And Special Guests will be someone you'll be familiar with

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Speaker 1: as you move down the hall to rock five. Okay,

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Speaker 1: is this a rock star? Is it is? Is it's

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Speaker 1: is this somebody from Motley Crewe? Who is this? Nikki?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Oh? My good? Hi Nikki? And hey,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Wow? This God? I mean Caitlin said

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Speaker 1: there'd be a reaction, but I wasn't. No, you don't understand. Hi, Nikki.

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you so much for calling. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, I'm crapping myself. I'm shitting my shorts. So listen.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm so excited to have you on. You have

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. Hi going on guns not much, I'm thrilled.

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Speaker 1: So okay, now I'm going in a full interview mode

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Speaker 1: Probably not. I'm just curious too, because like you're talking

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