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Speaker 1: John, we got to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Is he gonna come in? I mean, we gotta talk.

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Speaker 2: We got stuff we gotta talk about. That was amazing.

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Speaker 2: Of course, thank you for Sweet Nothing. That was what

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Speaker 2: a great surprise, right Jean Batiste. The album of course

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Speaker 2: World Music Radio out tomorrow. We're gonna talk about that.

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Speaker 2: We gotta talk about life, we gotta talk about energy,

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Speaker 2: and just so great to have him here.

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Speaker 1: Fly from the Mercedes Sans Interview Lounge.

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Speaker 2: You have no idea, you have no idea what gift

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Speaker 2: you have given us and our listeners today. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much, John Sparkly, and I love it. Yes, indeed, wow,

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Speaker 2: you know what we knew today would be special. But

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Speaker 2: I wish I was there in the room with you

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Speaker 2: just incredible. Thank you for coming in today. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: my goodness, Thank you so much. I'm glad to be here,

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Speaker 2: and I must admit I do have a tear in

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Speaker 2: my eye. I got one when you first when you

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Speaker 2: did rain Dance, and then when you did Sweet Nothing.

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Speaker 2: But also last night, just to kind of brush up

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Speaker 2: on all things, John Batiste, I went back several years

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Speaker 2: and I watched a CBS Sunday Morning Interview with your

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Speaker 2: wife Sileka.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yes, and you. I mean, it was just an

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Speaker 1: amazing story.

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Speaker 2: And you have so many stories going on in your

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Speaker 2: life and you share them with us through your music.

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Speaker 2: That's one way. How are you doing? How is it

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Speaker 2: being John Batiste today?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: My goodness, Well, overall, I'm blessed. I'm so grateful to

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Speaker 3: be alive. Life is beautiful, y'all. Let's just you know,

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Speaker 3: be here and alive and breathing. I'll picked that song

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Speaker 3: sweet Nothing, because it reminds me of my wife and

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Speaker 3: our relationship, and it's so incredible what we have been

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Speaker 3: ourself in the wildness of the jungle out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is a wild jungle. And I tell you,

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Speaker 2: there are so many people listening who are in relationships

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Speaker 2: right now, John, who haven't figured out how to cross

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Speaker 2: that bridge quite yet. And sometimes it takes devastation, as

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Speaker 1: Make you get it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, why does it take that to make us

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Speaker 3: Because when you're about to lose life. You see life,

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Speaker 3: It's something about the closeness to the veil that reveals

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Speaker 3: all that you could be leaving behind. And that's something

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Speaker 3: in the last two or three years. And I knew

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Speaker 2: Yet yet if we don't go through it ourselves, it's

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Speaker 3: Well, I started cooking, and I started actually posting on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: I cooked.

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Speaker 3: If you want my recipes, forget the music, the recipes.

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Speaker 3: Check this out. The red beans and rice yep, oh,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about this album. Tomorrow's day, right, it drops tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: doing rain Dance, I was thinking world music. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. Maybe you can explain it to me.

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Speaker 3: It's so much that we think about when you're talking

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Speaker 2: And you also brought some really cool peace pull along

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Speaker 3: we got some stuff in store. It's amazing that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Is it cray? It's cray? Yeah, scary scary. Give us

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Speaker 2: But your leg on the top, girl, and your hands

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Speaker 1: That game Brook.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I'm sorry about that lollipop.

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Speaker 2: And also there's someone else that you worked with who

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Speaker 2: for years. John Bellyon is, in my opinion, one of

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard the whole thing I'm so excited.

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Speaker 3: But when this record comes out, I'm just so excited

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that. You know a lot of people

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Speaker 2: How do you tell me who I'm not an artist?

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Speaker 3: There's no mistakes, and there's no such thing as failure.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is an artist.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's creating in some way every day, even if you

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Speaker 2: We are we're in the friendship business, right and so

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Speaker 1: Hei. Nicole, say hi to John Patti.

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Speaker 6: I'm from East sounds like New Jersey. I'm currently waiting

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Speaker 1: Nicole. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Nicole there in there by Nicole. A trip in. John.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much for having me. And wow,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to get into it, but we're feeling

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Speaker 2: fine today, John Batiste. Of course, the album is World

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Speaker 1: We love you. Thank you so much for coming in