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Speaker 1: We kind of joke to First Lady Michelle Obama that
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Speaker 1: after the White House and her experience of music, her
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Speaker 3: Well, I am excited, I am honored. I love you
Speaker 3: first of all, so you know, give us time to
Speaker 3: chat the wonderful break.
Speaker 2: Thank you first of all.
Speaker 1: I mean, just in general, how has this whole experience
Speaker 1: been for you? Did you expect to sell as many
Speaker 1: units and come out the gate like this this book
Speaker 1: is changing, Like to go in the chat rooms and
Speaker 1: see people's reaction to the book and the staggering sales, Like,
Speaker 1: did you expect any of this at all?
Speaker 3: Honestly, no, no, I don't expect anything that has happened
Speaker 3: in my life. You know. I'm a girl who grew
Speaker 3: up on the South side of Chicago. Every day Barack
Speaker 3: and I wake up and go what so we're still
Speaker 3: doing that. But my hope was that the book would resonate,
Speaker 3: would resonate. I knew that I would be writing a
Speaker 3: book because all first ladies, all for presidents, are expected
Speaker 3: to write a memoir of some sort, so I had
Speaker 3: to I had some time to think about what I
Speaker 3: wanted this to be. And you know, this could have
Speaker 3: been just a chronology. I could have just sort of
Speaker 3: walked through the days of those eight years blow by blow.
Speaker 3: But I knew I wanted to book the book to
Speaker 3: be more than that. I wanted it to be a
Speaker 3: book that would inspire people to dig deep into themselves
Speaker 3: and understand their stories in the way that I've had
Speaker 3: the luxury of doing over the course of my life.
Speaker 3: So I feel like I'm just maybe the muse that
Speaker 3: my story is the framework. But my my overall goal
Speaker 3: was that people would start having these conversations about, uh,
Speaker 3: their memories and the the context of their lives and
Speaker 3: how it's shaped them and you know what, what they
Speaker 3: want to do going forward. So I'm excited that, uh,
Speaker 3: not just for the sales and the units and the
Speaker 3: arena crowds, but more of what you're seeing the comments
Speaker 3: and how how it's moving people to think differently about
Speaker 3: their own lives and stories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll say that even and well, first of all,
Speaker 1: thank you for granted me the honor of of of
Speaker 1: of scoring the the playlist that goes with the book,
Speaker 1: but even with me, like I have to dig so
Speaker 1: deep into memories, and you know, songs for me are
Speaker 1: like polaroids of moments in my life. So songs aren't
Speaker 1: just songs for me, they're they're like audio polaroids.
Speaker 2: And you know, even for me.
Speaker 1: Knowing your your vast music tastes, which I really want
Speaker 1: to get into, I you know, for me, it was
Speaker 1: also an experience like trying to figure out what moment
Speaker 1: you were uh or trying to guess what moment you
Speaker 1: were feeling when this particular thing happened or that particularly
Speaker 1: thing happened. In classic questla form I forgot to mention, yes,
Speaker 1: the name of your book is becoming.
Speaker 3: Duh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm one of those people that will have the
Speaker 1: guests on the show and be like, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: we were talking about someone's going to keep wifelies and
Speaker 1: gentlemen good night. You so knowing that the how big
Speaker 1: of a role that music plays in your life, I
Speaker 1: always start this question with all my guests, do you
Speaker 1: what was your first musical memory or.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the first album you ever brought or
Speaker 2: first single year? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, I talk about that Talking Book. Stevie
Speaker 3: Wonders Talking Book was the first album I remember getting
Speaker 3: as a gift, and I got it twice, That's how
Speaker 3: good an album was. I got it as a gift
Speaker 3: for Christmas from my parents and then from my grandfather Southside,
Speaker 3: who I wrote about, who is sort of the musical
Speaker 3: core of our family, my maternal grandfather, who he gave
Speaker 3: me the album. You remember there was the album you
Speaker 3: could get with the lyrics and brail. Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 3: I remember spending time just not only listening to the
Speaker 3: record over and over again, but trying to feel the
Speaker 3: brail and understand the words and to think about and
Speaker 3: I would memorize the cover because there's something about that
Speaker 3: cover with Stevie without his glasses, sitting like in a
Speaker 3: canyon area in that Dashiki Afghan sort of thing with
Speaker 3: the braids and all of that was, you know, that
Speaker 3: cover to me was as much the experience of the album.
Speaker 3: For me, I was trying to really find I was
Speaker 3: really trying to figure out what goes on in his mind,
Speaker 3: what is he thinking, what does it feel like being blind?
Speaker 3: How does he feel music? So that was the first
Speaker 3: album that I ever owned as a child. But then
Speaker 3: There was the music that I bought myself that was
Speaker 3: the forty five version of something with the Jackson five ABC. Okay,
Speaker 3: you know Stop the Love You Save. That's when those
Speaker 3: were the forty fives that you played on your little
Speaker 3: makeshift record player thing. It wasn't like the big stereo
Speaker 3: that your parents allowed you to use, but the thing
Speaker 3: you plugged in and you had to put the little
Speaker 3: round thing in the hole, right, you know. That was
Speaker 3: the music that I was allowed to play on my
Speaker 3: own keep the record in my bedroom kind of thing.
Speaker 3: But the Jackson five that was what young people. That's
Speaker 3: we grew up imitating the Jackson five and putting the
Speaker 3: record on and cousins would be Tito and I'd be Michael,
Speaker 3: my brother would be on the drums. You know. We
Speaker 3: spent the whole afternoon like just shaping our performance to
Speaker 3: Stop the Love You Save. So those were some of
Speaker 3: my first memories.
Speaker 1: I always tease, I always tell them that when I
Speaker 1: want to see the Jacksons that you know, for a
Speaker 1: lot of us that were young and you know, like
Speaker 1: they were the first superheroes that we really had, the
Speaker 1: Jackson's were an occupation almost.
Speaker 3: Well, and it was interesting culturally because there were the Osmond's, remember,
Speaker 3: were the big sort of white family group back then,
Speaker 3: and there were the big debates about who was better,
Speaker 3: the Jackson five or the Osmond's, and that was a
Speaker 3: sort of a political statement. So how did you fell
Speaker 3: on the lines?
Speaker 2: How did you feel about One Bad Apple when it
Speaker 2: came out? Were you fooled?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: You know it? It was cute because back then you
Speaker 3: didn't have like fifty million stations, right, you had the
Speaker 3: one station and that played all the pop music. So
Speaker 3: you heard stop the Love You Say along with One
Speaker 3: Bad Apple and that. You know, you had your little
Speaker 3: grooving dances to that too.
Speaker 2: But where was your heart?
Speaker 3: You know? Yeah, your heart was with the Jackson five.
Speaker 2: Okay, you always call it first, and you were Michael.
Speaker 2: That's funny because I was.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those friends in the group of friends
Speaker 1: that it is always last to call something, So I
Speaker 1: was always Tito.
Speaker 3: Everybody right, Yeah, I was like, well, I was also
Speaker 3: surrounded by my brother and my male cousins, so I
Speaker 3: was the only girl in the in the in the
Speaker 3: posse then, so it was just natural that I stood
Speaker 3: out as Michael. You know, I felt I would justified
Speaker 3: in being Michael. If I had to hang out with
Speaker 3: all these boys, I should at least be able to
Speaker 3: tell them what to be around my grandniss.
Speaker 1: So even then, you knew, you knew you had a
Speaker 1: role to play, without even knowing what your future was
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 2: Obviously, do you remember your first concert?
Speaker 3: You know that's that we were too broke for concerts.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I'm trying to think, because my
Speaker 3: kids go to concerts all the time, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: you all are so lucky. We were too poor for concerts.
Speaker 3: Quite frankly, I never saw the Jackson five live. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to think. Maybe it was in college where and
Speaker 3: it wasn't really a concert. It was like an arena
Speaker 3: orchestra sort of Stevie Wonder was playing in an orchestra.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was in Philly. It's kind of a blur,
Speaker 3: and a girlfriend had the idea of getting tickets and
Speaker 3: going to see it. I do remember that because what period,
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, if I had to have been maybe a
Speaker 3: sophomore in college, so that was what eighty eighty two,
Speaker 3: eighty three, And it wasn't Stevie wasn't like on some
Speaker 3: big arena tour. Maybe it was a benefit. I don't
Speaker 3: even remember, but I do remember that we had front
Speaker 3: row tickets and we both walked in not knowing where
Speaker 3: our tickets were, and then we realized that it's like
Speaker 3: we are in the front row. What happened? We were
Speaker 3: around waiting for somebody to tell us to move, to move,
Speaker 3: but it was just him and his band and he
Speaker 3: played some numbers and then he called his bodyguard. People
Speaker 3: picked some people to come up on stage and stand
Speaker 3: around the piano and sing Ebony and Ivory and me
Speaker 3: and my girlfriend were picked. So I was standing on
Speaker 3: stage with Stevie by his piano thinking what but that
Speaker 3: was yeah, yeah, I never told him about that because
Speaker 3: I figured he didn't see me. Right.
Speaker 1: Remember, well, I know that Stevie has been at the
Speaker 1: White House at least fifty eleven times, maybe any event
Speaker 1: that I've seen between two thousand and eight and twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Like it's almost like Stevie Wonder comes with the package.
Speaker 3: Like, you know Stevie, Stevie is you know that he
Speaker 3: and he is always you know, he's always game if
Speaker 3: there's a cause and it's something he believes in. Ooh,
Speaker 3: the first time he showed up was at one of
Speaker 3: the biggest fundraisers that I had during the campaign. It
Speaker 3: was at UCLA, and this was a big announcement because
Speaker 3: I was highlighting I was the keynote representing my husband
Speaker 3: in the campaign. But Oprah introduced us. It was Maria
Speaker 3: Shriver and that was a big deal because that was
Speaker 3: right when she was going to endorse Barack over what
Speaker 3: her husband, the governor, was doing, and that was a
Speaker 3: big deal. Caroline Kennedy so was a women's empowerment kind
Speaker 3: of thing. The first time I was surrounded by all
Speaker 3: these mega giants and I was the keynote speaker. They
Speaker 3: were passing off these introductions to me. And right before
Speaker 3: I went on stage, one of our staff said, Stevie
Speaker 3: Wonders on the phone and he's in the area. He
Speaker 3: heard about the concert and he wants to come by.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh yeah, so he just shows up.
Speaker 2: How many like I know?
Speaker 1: That happens a lot. I actually wanted to ask, are
Speaker 1: there any other non Stevie wonder moments at the White
Speaker 1: House that stand out to you?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, yeah, Prince, but the first one is Prince performing.
Speaker 3: But of course Stevie performed too. I know.
Speaker 2: So he's all right, Stevee's the ultimate party crash. I
Speaker 2: get it, I get it right right.
Speaker 3: And when Stevie's there, everybody's like, Okay, Steve's got play.
Speaker 3: But Prince and we went back and forth trying to
Speaker 3: get Prince because every time we do our parties and
Speaker 3: you've been to one of the parties, I've been Yes,
Speaker 3: you've been there, and so oftentimes the personal parties were
Speaker 3: around a birthday or something like that, and of course
Speaker 3: Prince doesn't celebrate birthdays, so he was like, I can't come,
Speaker 3: but I want to come. So we had to figure
Speaker 3: out how to create something that wasn't a birthday that
Speaker 3: he could come to, and we finally worked it out,
Speaker 3: and that, you know, that was just that's just amazing.
Speaker 3: That's just Prince doing his thing and jamming in a
Speaker 3: way where he for the first fifteen minutes, he just
Speaker 3: let his band riff, you know, that generosity that he
Speaker 3: has to let his you know, backup singer lead the
Speaker 3: song in and his basses. They were just jamming before
Speaker 3: he even showed up, and that was amazing. Paul McCartney
Speaker 3: singing Michelle to me, Wow, you know Aretha, Aretha has performed,
Speaker 3: performed many a time, and you know she would come
Speaker 3: with her fur and her Medal of Freedom badge on,
Speaker 3: because when she came to the White House, she wore
Speaker 3: all her stuff and she's blown the house down. But
Speaker 3: everyone from Mick Jagger to oh one of the more
Speaker 3: beautiful performances was Esperanza Spaulding before she was really really
Speaker 3: like hot, hot hot the first time I had seen her. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that beautiful head of hair and that beautiful face and
Speaker 3: that body with that big base of hers just tearing
Speaker 3: up a song. I mean I could go on and
Speaker 3: on and on. Gladys Knight, Shaka Khan because one of
Speaker 3: the things I wanted to make sure was that we
Speaker 3: got all of the like the greats to perform, because
Speaker 3: it was like, I don't know if anybody's ever going
Speaker 3: to ask these people to come to the White House. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Diana Ross came and performed just for the staff. Bruce
Speaker 3: Springsteen the show he's doing on Broadway right now, he
Speaker 3: tested that out. It was just a fluke he wanted
Speaker 3: to do. He offered to do something to say thank
Speaker 3: you to the staff, and we were like, of course, Bruce,
Speaker 3: you can do whatever. And he put together what became
Speaker 3: the Broadway Shows.
Speaker 1: ANOTHERMB always shows Hamilton the same thing, like, absolutely, that's
Speaker 1: how he got the inspiration to even go through with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he tested on you first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we thought he was a little crazy. We
Speaker 3: were like, okay, don't do a wrapout Alexander Hamilton. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's nice, that's cute.
Speaker 2: It's funny to say that.
Speaker 1: I always say that, like, I was part of the
Speaker 1: production team that did the cast album, and apparently I
Speaker 1: missed the email of him pitching it to me.
Speaker 2: So I told him.
Speaker 1: I found the email after I did the record and
Speaker 1: I read the email and I told him, I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's probably I would have probably said, no, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: I'll set this one out, because.
Speaker 3: Just looking at it the whole concept, I was like,
Speaker 3: this has the chance being a little corny.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, but somehow, Yeah, he wore me through. You know, absolutely,
Speaker 2: I have you. You and your husband are true chicagoans
Speaker 2: Uh to the bone.
Speaker 1: And probably one of the most touching things that shocked
Speaker 1: me during your administration was the the letter of condolencens
Speaker 1: that you sent to Chicago househeads Uh when Frankie Knuckles
Speaker 1: passed away. And I always wanted to know, like as
Speaker 1: a true blue chicagoan. Are you a househead?
Speaker 2: Like, have you going to any house parties to see
Speaker 2: any of the gods of house music? DJ? Ever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I was old by the time house
Speaker 3: music was like a big thing in Chicago. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: everybody has the music, the house music, you know it.
Speaker 3: But by then I was out of clubbing and going out,
Speaker 3: so I never got to experience the you know, going
Speaker 3: to the club just being all up in it. But
Speaker 3: you know you couldn't. You can't be in and out
Speaker 3: of Chicago without knowing the house music.
Speaker 2: Right. Well, you know what about stepping? Are you a
Speaker 2: good are you in your husband good steppers?
Speaker 3: You know I love to step. Barack is you know
Speaker 3: he can, he can do it. But you know who
Speaker 3: loves to step with me is Sasha, my youngest Uh she?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: She She gets such a huge kick out of me
Speaker 3: leading her through the So that's sort of one of
Speaker 3: the things that we do when we're at a party
Speaker 3: together and we're at a family event, She's like, mom,
Speaker 3: let's step, let's step. But you know, we never had
Speaker 3: the time, Barack and I never had the time to
Speaker 3: like do the step classes. Because that's what couples do
Speaker 3: in Chicago. You go, you go to Kennedy and King
Speaker 3: College where you are taking the step class. H So
Speaker 3: we never we never trained in step, can I say?
Speaker 3: It's just sort of it's kind of just a bop,
Speaker 3: you know, And if you've got like a rhythm and
Speaker 3: you've got the right song, you got a little you know,
Speaker 3: a good step in song. It just comes. But I
Speaker 3: grew up watching it on TV and parents doing it,
Speaker 3: so it's almost like I could imitate it. But I've
Speaker 3: taught Sasha how to step, and that's she's my step
Speaker 3: in partner.
Speaker 2: Really. I will say that.
Speaker 1: The party that you guys grant me permission to to DJ,
Speaker 1: I'll say that I was holding back maybe for like
Speaker 1: the first hour or so because like, okay, I'm at
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 2: I can't be too lit at the White House. And
Speaker 2: oh boy, little did I know.
Speaker 1: That you all speak the same vocabulary musically, So yeah,
Speaker 1: for you know, how important is it to also embrace
Speaker 1: because that's the thing I've.
Speaker 2: Just never seen. I've never seen like.
Speaker 1: Parents wholeheartedly embrace the music culture of their kids. Like
Speaker 1: normally the parents I know roll their eyes up in
Speaker 1: the air and kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Whereas you guys were out partying your daughters at you know,
Speaker 1: the last week at the White House party, and I
Speaker 1: was just jaw dropped, like, so, I mean, how important
Speaker 1: is it to you to to bond and also understand
Speaker 1: like the music they like and the artists they like,
Speaker 1: like you know who chanced.
Speaker 2: To rap up?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, absolutely? I mean, I you know, when you
Speaker 3: love music, you love all music. And if it's a
Speaker 3: good song, if it's got a good beat, you know,
Speaker 3: I can tee. I'll tease my kids about how good
Speaker 3: their favorite artists are compared to the greats. I'll play
Speaker 3: that game with them. But I can appreciate a good
Speaker 3: whatever it is, you know. And and I love that
Speaker 3: time with my daughters. I love to let them teach
Speaker 3: me about what they love. And again, Sasha is my
Speaker 3: more musical child. You know. She she's got her room
Speaker 3: set candles lit, you know, colored light bulbs with a
Speaker 3: certain sound, and it just depends on what her mood is.
Speaker 3: You walk into her room and she could be playing
Speaker 3: classical music, or she could be Jama Decissa or you know,
Speaker 3: you're just always surprised by her taste, and that reminds
Speaker 3: me of the how I grew up. You know, my
Speaker 3: grandfather was a jazz lover, but he respected my mother's music.
Speaker 3: He respected our music. And I think that's just when
Speaker 3: you love music, you're open to just something that feels good.
Speaker 3: So there. I love sitting down with Sasha and just
Speaker 3: telling her, tell me what's good, tell me what you're
Speaker 3: liking now. Or she'll say I just heard you're gonna
Speaker 3: love this, and she knows my taste. This is a
Speaker 3: new artist, You're gonna love them.
Speaker 2: Think.
Speaker 3: You know, she's like, I think of you when I
Speaker 3: think of this artist. So in that way, they keep me, uh,
Speaker 3: they keep us both. Uh on point, I don't know
Speaker 3: all the artist names now, I confuse the you know.
Speaker 3: I just recently realized, uh that what Migos wasn't just
Speaker 3: one that I kept saying, you know, let's meet who's
Speaker 3: met him? Right, right, let's meet him? And they're like, no, Mom,
Speaker 3: that's not just that's group. And then then I found out, okay,
Speaker 3: well then who who are they? Uh? You know, so
Speaker 3: I'm not all down with it. But when when I
Speaker 3: like a song, I like a.
Speaker 1: Songer halfway there, I mean your daughter shares music with you,
Speaker 1: like you know, I share music with my parents, and
Speaker 1: that might be grounded for two weeks.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I try not to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's like, don't do that, like that, but I
Speaker 3: try not to be judgmental with the music because it's like,
Speaker 3: that's how I felt about social media throughout the presidency.
Speaker 3: The question is, if we're going to reach kids, we
Speaker 3: have to understand their language. We have to know what
Speaker 3: they're hearing. If we want to get young people to vote,
Speaker 3: we can't get them to vote just talk in our language.
Speaker 3: So we had to figure out, well, what is Twitter
Speaker 3: and what's Vine? And what are the kids listening to?
Speaker 3: And if you're busy judging it, you can't communicate with them.
Speaker 3: So I don't want my kids to feel shut down
Speaker 3: because their music isn't what I grew up with. So
Speaker 3: I think it's very important. But you know, stuff I
Speaker 3: don't like, I don't like, and I will tell them
Speaker 3: if I think an artist is crap, you know, and
Speaker 3: we'll have debates about it. So I think that's a
Speaker 3: good conversation for families to have.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, well I have one more question before I
Speaker 2: let you go.
Speaker 1: Yes, let's hypothetically think, Okay, let's let's go to let's
Speaker 1: pick a year.
Speaker 2: Let's say, let's say twenty twenty four. M hypothetically speaking,
Speaker 2: if you.
Speaker 1: Are accepting the nomination of presidency, just hypothetically speaking, what
Speaker 1: song do you want me to play for you while
Speaker 1: I'm djaying your acceptance speech?
Speaker 3: Oh you know that's just wrong, wrong. Oh yeah, well
Speaker 3: that that hypothetical will never happen, never again, never ever. No,
Speaker 3: And let me just yeah, let's be clear, Okay, the presidency,
Speaker 3: it's it's hard. It's it's not something it's not an
Speaker 3: endeavor you take on without serious considerations. And it's not
Speaker 3: just about whether you personally can do it or whether
Speaker 3: they're people who want you to do it. But it's
Speaker 3: a it's a hard ride to take your family on.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a huge sacrifice to ask the people
Speaker 3: that you love. And it's not I'm not just talking
Speaker 3: about my kids, but anyone that has that is within
Speaker 3: our orbit gets impacted by this. And I just would
Speaker 3: never do that to my girls again. You know it
Speaker 3: it it it shapes their life. You know, there are
Speaker 3: many great things that they got from it, and you
Speaker 3: know they don't regret it for a second, but their
Speaker 3: whole childhood was truncated in a way because you know,
Speaker 3: imagine growing up and trying to go to prom with
Speaker 3: armored guards and trying to you know, have a boyfriend
Speaker 3: or go to a concert. You know, right now, my
Speaker 3: oldest daughter can't can't go to a public place without
Speaker 3: everything she does being scrutinized. And she's and they've held
Speaker 3: themselves up well in it, you know. And so when
Speaker 3: people say that, I know that there's an excitement and
Speaker 3: what people need. But as a parent, I feel like,
Speaker 3: you know, my family has made a sacrifice, and now
Speaker 3: it's time to make room for the next generation. And
Speaker 3: the flip side to that is that if we continue
Speaker 3: to sit in these seats of power and we don't
Speaker 3: train and build up the next people, we look around
Speaker 3: and we find that our bench is empty, you know.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's good for a democracy to
Speaker 3: have the same set of families with the same set
Speaker 3: of ideas, just sort of passing the mantle back and forth.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's good for the country. So that's
Speaker 3: why Barack and I are dedicating our foundation the work
Speaker 3: that we do to really building up that next generation
Speaker 3: because there are a lot of young people out there
Speaker 3: who will be good at this, who will have no
Speaker 3: way of knowing. How do you access politics? How do
Speaker 3: you raise money? You know? How do you go from
Speaker 3: being a nobody to being in this exclusive network where
Speaker 3: you can fundraise and you understand the issues and you
Speaker 3: can build a team. You know, if we're sitting on
Speaker 3: all those resources, using them again and again for our
Speaker 3: benefit and not passing it on, where will we be
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four? You know what kind of Congress
Speaker 3: will we have? How many mayors will we have out there?
Speaker 3: So we want to take this energy and devote it
Speaker 3: to empowering and lifting up and supporting those that are
Speaker 3: coming behind us.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, you convinced me. Okay, I'll still be your
Speaker 2: DJ every moment happens that you Well.
Speaker 3: We'll find some other things to djay around.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I need to read thank you and you don't.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let me say this for the record. I
Speaker 3: don't know why you're tripping. You were just you were perfectionists,
Speaker 3: and you're like, that's not I didn't.
Speaker 2: Everybody had a ball.
Speaker 3: You were amazing. So I'm like, okay, you can get
Speaker 3: a Doover. We will find a party, okay for sure
Speaker 3: if you just want to do it, but you did
Speaker 3: not need a do over. People partied until like it
Speaker 3: was like four in the morning.
Speaker 1: I want to do a lot of that house. I
Speaker 1: need a do over just so I can sleep, all right,
Speaker 1: I thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: lovel On behalf of the Team Supreme.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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