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Speaker 1: Hey, time travelers. This has Head the Iron Horn, co

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Speaker 1: creator of Nikki Fixes Time Mix Up. Next, be kind

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Speaker 1: and rewind to the nineties for a most epic episode

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Speaker 1: of Nicki Fix. But first, a quick word from our sponsor,

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Speaker 1: Iron Horn's Epic Productions, and I Heart Radio present Nikki

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Speaker 1: Fixes Time mix Last I checked. I'm the boss around here,

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Speaker 1: so what I say goes, and I say shows canceled.

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Speaker 1: We need this show to get home. We're pulling off

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Speaker 1: a minor miracle getting this show together and on an

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Speaker 1: absurdly short timeline, all for the rink to make sure

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Speaker 1: it has a future. And you don't have a future.

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Speaker 1: Just fine, no matter what these kids say, But for

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Speaker 1: how long? And then what the world isn't going to

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Speaker 1: wait for you, Ben, It's gonna keep moving forward, and

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Speaker 1: if you're left behind, no one's going to care. Well,

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Speaker 1: then I'll go out on my own terms and that'll

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Speaker 1: be fine. I'm not going to stick around to watch

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Speaker 1: you and this place slowly waste away your prerogative. Good

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Speaker 1: luck with whatever you do next, kid, goodbye? Did you

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Speaker 1: just fire me? Did he just fire me? I think

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Speaker 1: he did. He's going to rue the day he let

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Speaker 1: me go. Can believe that I've been here Norman through

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Speaker 1: the day, who says that old people super villains? What

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Speaker 1: are we gonna do? If we don't save the rank,

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Speaker 1: we may never get out of here? No show, no strings,

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Speaker 1: no portal back home. I feel lightheaded. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: lay down right here. Yeah, the floor is nice. Nikki,

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Speaker 1: where are you going? We need a new plan and

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Speaker 1: I need some space to think. Nicky fix his time, Nix,

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Speaker 1: oh rink, I'm so sorry I messed up and let

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Speaker 1: you down, didn't I of course Ben hates the idea

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Speaker 1: of a big, huge concert, but I'm smart enough to

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Speaker 1: know you need this or else Ben's going to lose you.

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Speaker 1: Leonard saw that too. I don't know what to do. Okay, Nicky,

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Speaker 1: what do you do that makes you think? Clearly? Easy?

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Speaker 1: I usually write a song a piano. I've never seen

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Speaker 1: this before. Ben must have gotten rid of it at

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Speaker 1: some point before we got here. I haven't played on

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Speaker 1: ENU can fine? Fine? Let us do that? Trees, No not?

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Speaker 1: Can you help me find the way? Days past? Oh? Nicky,

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Speaker 1: it's you. I didn't know who was in here Leonard,

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Speaker 1: I thought you left. I'm just messing around. Is this yours? Sorry?

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Speaker 1: Not mine? I don't work here anymore. Remember, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I'll leave. No, you can stay keep me company while

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Speaker 1: I pack up. You should have known that Ben wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to go for it. Don't blame yourself. I've been

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Speaker 1: I finally got fed up enough to force it. I

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Speaker 1: This place is super personal to him. If he was

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Speaker 1: thinking it through, he'd probably see your right. But he's

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Speaker 1: We all are, aren't we. Well, I don't really have

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Speaker 1: redoing the books, the vendor contracts, I was so close

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Speaker 1: if it'll ever be. Yeah, I know, but I still

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Speaker 1: squandering at all. Hey, what's that you're playing? Just a

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Speaker 1: song I'm noodling around with. It's not good. I know

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Speaker 1: it sounds good when you said you played music. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know you played music. Keep going. That's one of

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Speaker 1: places like the rink, even the nights when it's only

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Speaker 1: a handful of people, which is like all of them.

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Speaker 1: That's a really nice song. Do you know what the

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Speaker 1: lyrics will be about? I was thinking there's a tech

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Speaker 1: revolution coming that this century doesn't understand. Computers and stuff.

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Speaker 1: Before we know it will all be interconnected and it

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Speaker 1: will seem like a miracle, but it will actually be

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Speaker 1: a giant curse. I guess it's really about how I

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Speaker 1: feel like I'm fading away, like I'm home but not home,

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Speaker 1: and if I don't grab onto something, I might just

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Speaker 1: This deal with Mr Ruby opened a door, but it's

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Speaker 1: another and then another. This is my moment to be

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Speaker 1: who is the real me? Not the selfie instant me,

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Speaker 1: not the digital feed me, the organic me. You're a

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Speaker 1: bit of a kookie girl, Nikki. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: your slang is, but I like it. It's a good

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Speaker 1: branding thing. I could work with that. Do you think

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Speaker 1: But I think the real reason I'm here is to

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Speaker 1: save the rink. Yep, you convinced me. We're going to

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Speaker 1: empty lot next door, just the building. I have a

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Speaker 1: separate contract with the owner. He thinks it's for parking,

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Speaker 1: but the paperwork says I can do pretty much anything

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Speaker 1: not illegal. What are you saying. I was reading this

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Speaker 1: self help book and there's this whole thing about envisioning

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Speaker 1: your future, aiming high and achieving your goals. Picture it

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Speaker 1: to make it happen. So picture this. This show is

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Speaker 1: going to be legendary, and it's going on whether Ben's

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Speaker 1: on board or not. Dan and keV said they'd only

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Speaker 1: do the show because it was at the rink. I

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Speaker 1: bet they back out now we don't need them. I'll

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Speaker 1: slap on another one of the acts that Mr Ruby's

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Speaker 1: have you. Yeah, you'll be the opener me. Yeah, you look.

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Speaker 1: I have an idea of how to make someone like

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Speaker 1: you into a thing, a real artist and my first client.

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Speaker 1: I don't have an album. I don't even have a band.

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Speaker 1: We do the show, then record your single. We release

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Speaker 1: and R to hear you play. You do have other songs, right?

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Speaker 1: I have like a million songs. I'm a song machine.

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Speaker 1: But no I can't. I'm here to get the money

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Speaker 1: for the rink and then I have to go home.

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Speaker 1: How about we make a deal. What kind of deal?

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Speaker 1: If you play my show and let me be your manager.

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Speaker 1: Will use the profits to help Bend buy the rink,

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Speaker 1: but as a partner, will bring him into the future

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Speaker 1: with us, and in the end he'll thank us because

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Speaker 1: he'll still own half of something instead of of nothing.

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Speaker 1: You do that. I mean, you wouldn't have to, it'd

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Speaker 1: be your money. But I want to be a manager.

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Speaker 1: I want to work with talent to help them become

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Speaker 1: real artists. Helping you, helping Ben, helping the rink. It's

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Speaker 1: I get my start. Okay, I'll do it. I'd be

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Speaker 1: lying if I said I wouldn't love to play for

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Speaker 1: a real, big audience when that's there for the music

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Speaker 1: as much as the skating. Good. We're going to make

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Speaker 1: this happen. We're going to make you happen. What's that

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Speaker 1: my page er? I gotta call Mr Ruby back. Say yes, Nikki, Yes, Leonard,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to play your show. Nikki and Leonard the

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Speaker 1: dream Team. Oh my god, I'm finally going to play

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Speaker 1: a show in front of more than five people. We

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Speaker 1: should celebrate, that's right, rink, celebratory Ski, Hey, don't be

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Speaker 1: such a party pooper, Rink. This is how I'm going

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Speaker 1: to help you. We're gonna make the money we need

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Speaker 1: after all, Nicky kick, Wait up, we have news. We

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Speaker 1: saved the show. Wait what really? How we chased Ben

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Speaker 1: and he told Ben all about how his parents would

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Speaker 1: Leah broke his own rule. Really, what did you tell him?

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Speaker 1: I told him about your dad's and how they stay

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Speaker 1: So where's Leonard? Ben said he'd fire him, but he

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Speaker 1: also sent the Boa Constrictor back and he said he

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Speaker 1: hinges on delivering what he promised. But he has no venue.

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Speaker 1: He's got a contract with the guy who owns the

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Speaker 1: stop him. I have heard my dad shoe out promotors

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Speaker 1: that try to cancel a show. That's wow, They're going

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Speaker 1: I made a deal with Leonard. If I opened his

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Speaker 1: all the proceeds towards saving the rink. Wait, what what

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Speaker 1: do you mean, client, He's going to be my manager

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Speaker 1: and that snike you to it to the snack bar?

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Speaker 1: You do want anything popcorn? So does? No? No takers?

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Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, I got it, Nicky. I thought like that.

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Speaker 1: I was kind of your manager, you know, with all

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Speaker 1: the stuff I do to help you. Well, you help

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Speaker 1: me out a lot, like a ton. But Leonard offered

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Speaker 1: band for it. Like that's what a manager does, gets

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Speaker 1: the whole band. I don't have my laptop with me.

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Speaker 1: I don't have all my tracks already programmed. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: I can play drums. You said I was getting good.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Bobby, what oh I get it? You think

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Speaker 1: I can't that I'm not good enough. This show is

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Speaker 1: going to have like a real crowd. This isn't time

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Speaker 1: to experiment. Wow, just wow, Nikki, don't be like that.

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Speaker 1: You know this is just temporary. It's not like I'm

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Speaker 1: going to have some binding contract with Leonard. Since I'm

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Speaker 1: technically like negative ten years old right now. No, I

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Speaker 1: get it. Have fun at your big real concert. I'm

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Speaker 1: just glad you don't have to slum it over here

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Speaker 1: with us users, Bobby Waite, I didn't need it like that.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Bobby, check it out root string like mind alone?

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Speaker 1: What one sure? He nicky stands. Want to uncover more

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Speaker 1: always loved this piece. Girls holding hands and skating and smiling.

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Speaker 1: wood talk to me. Well that's what it is in

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Speaker 1: my time. Anyway, I was watching you and your friend

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Speaker 1: that was on my mind while I was working trying

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Speaker 1: to find something hopeful for you too. What we love

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Speaker 1: staff Erroni Executive produced by iHeart Radio head writer Cecil Castellucci,

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