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Speaker 1: Get your hairs together, and we're going to start to party.

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Speaker 2: In the start the part I'm Ready to Party, The

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Speaker 2: Elvis Duran After Party.

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Speaker 3: The after Party podcast, You're Ready for It, The Party

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Speaker 3: podcast Let's Do It. So did you ever have one

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Speaker 3: of those teachers that just connected with you in such

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Speaker 3: a fantastic way that you wanted to reach out and

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Speaker 3: find them later in life to say thank you. I

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Speaker 3: know for a fact, favorite teacher of mine that you

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Speaker 3: saw something in me that other teachers didn't see.

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Speaker 4: We had a bond. It was awesome, and you want to.

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Speaker 3: Reach out to them years later to say thank you.

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Speaker 3: And you just kind of assume even though it's been

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Speaker 3: years since you talked to this teacher that you had

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Speaker 3: this bond with, they would remember. You would be totally

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Speaker 3: festive with it, and they would roll with it, and

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Speaker 3: they make you feel good about where you are in life.

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Speaker 4: This happened to Gandhi. Yeah, tell me what happened?

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Speaker 1: Well? Oh no, We talk about here all the time

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Speaker 1: that if somebody has opened your eyes like that, reach

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Speaker 1: out to them. Give people their flowers while they are

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Speaker 1: still alive. It's important, especially for teachers, you know, they

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Speaker 1: maybe don't hear it often. Yeah, So I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about one of mine, specifically my choir teacher for middle school,

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Speaker 1: who really opened my eyes to a lot of things,

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Speaker 1: and musical theater was one of them. He had us

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Speaker 1: sing a song from Rent, which at that time was

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Speaker 1: apparently very controversial for a lot of the parents. They

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Speaker 1: didn't want us singing something from Rent because oh my god,

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Speaker 1: this gay musical. But he was like, no, this is

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Speaker 1: a beautiful song. We're gonna do it. It was awesome

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Speaker 1: and I got the bug at that moment when we

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Speaker 1: did that song, I was like, I love musical theater.

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Speaker 1: I made my parents take me to see Rent. From

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Speaker 1: that point on, I just really enjoyed it and appreciated it.

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Speaker 1: And when Danielle you and I got to be on Broadway,

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Speaker 1: even though it was like a very short moment, it

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Speaker 1: was one of the best days of my life.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And on that day I thought about mister O'Neill and

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Speaker 1: I was like, I wonder if this would like mean

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Speaker 1: anything to him or what's going on? But I waited

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Speaker 1: for a while. I finally found him. I sent him

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Speaker 1: a very long message about how he changed my life

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Speaker 1: and he opened my eyes to musical theater. And all

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Speaker 1: these great things have happened in my life and thank you.

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Speaker 1: It was about this long I'm showing you guys in

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Speaker 1: the room.

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Speaker 4: Wow, a very long long message. You really went back

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Speaker 4: and recalled a lot of stuff that he did for you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I did, And when he finally read it, he

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Speaker 1: wrote back, thanks, I'm retired now, and that was it.

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Speaker 1: I always choked laughing. I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I've been let as stray by the stupid show. Make

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Speaker 1: me reach out to someone.

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Speaker 4: That's rights.

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Speaker 3: We always tell you on this show, reach out to

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Speaker 3: people from your past and say thank you. Maybe you

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Speaker 3: didn't say thank you enough when you were with them.

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Speaker 3: You went out of your way for mister O'Neill. Nothing, thanks,

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Speaker 3: I'm retired.

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Speaker 4: Click.

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Speaker 2: My goodness.

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Speaker 1: I laughed so hard and I was like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what I was expecting. Like, maybe

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Speaker 1: that's all he really felt that thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: I'm retired now, Okay, cool. I don't know, but I

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Speaker 1: was like, this dumb show and this dumb advice.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, we give bad advice.

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Speaker 3: I guess no, you know what, maybe maybe he touched

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Speaker 4: Maybe I don't know, very possible.

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Speaker 5: Maybe maybe he just his memory wasn't as good as

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Speaker 5: it once was and that he couldn't exactly remember you.

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Speaker 2: I had no doubt he doesn't remember me, and just said, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: I'm so happy I made an impact.

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Speaker 4: That's all I needed to say something. Or maybe mister

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Speaker 4: O'Neil is just a little bitch.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. He was real cool and I was

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Speaker 1: like this guy whatever. I'm sure he's still cool.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. You know, something was kind of fishy here.

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Speaker 3: If if I was a teacher and I had you

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Speaker 4: You're not Forgidable at all.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks, I get, But maybe mister O'Neill wanted different.

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Speaker 4: I don't mean. I don't mean that in a good way.

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Speaker 5: Are you still in touch with any of your friends

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Speaker 5: that also had him as a teacher.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, have them.

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Speaker 5: Reach out and see if they get the same response.

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Speaker 1: No, because if they don't, I'll be even more devastated.

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Speaker 1: That'd be crazy. He even posted once because when I

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Speaker 1: looked through his page and he posted Hey, if any

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Speaker 1: of my former students are doing anything that has to

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Speaker 1: do with performance or musical theater, please reach out and

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Speaker 1: let me know. It means a lot to me. So

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, double banger, this is gonna be great. No, no, man.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I can't think of any of my teachers I would

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Speaker 3: You're probably all bad anyway, but yeah, no, there is

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Speaker 3: one I would send a note to, but now I'm

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Speaker 3: afraid to him.

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Speaker 4: Afraid that were like, uh, who.

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Speaker 6: What scy? I would like to reach out to missus Barlem,

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Speaker 6: my third grade teacher. I mean, I don't even know

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Speaker 6: if she's still alive at this point, but she taught

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Speaker 6: she basically was the teacher that would play tricks on

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Speaker 6: the class. She would it was okay to be boisterous.

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Speaker 6: She didn't fault me for being loud, talkative and the

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Speaker 6: and she actually commended us for that. And she helped

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Speaker 6: us develop our personalities rather than the way some kids

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Speaker 6: are introverted, you know. So I would like to send

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Speaker 3: You know what, that's a very good point, and you

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Speaker 3: should and maybe she'll give you more of a fun

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Speaker 3: response than Gandhi received. But let's think about something you

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Speaker 3: just triggered him me scary in a good trigger way.

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Speaker 3: How close are you now to the kid you were

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Speaker 3: in high school? Are you still that same person? Or

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Speaker 3: have you blossomed, as they say, or changed?

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Speaker 4: I haven't. I haven't either.

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Speaker 3: I am still the same guy I was in high school.

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Speaker 3: I swear to God I am. What about you, Gandhi, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: I would like to think that I have blossomed a

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Speaker 1: so I would like to think I'm not the same much.

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Speaker 1: I opened the door on that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, but you, Danielle, are you the

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Speaker 4: saying Danielle you were?

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Speaker 2: I'm definitely the same in a lot of ways. But

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little bit more mature.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes I wonder. I don't know, but I'm the same,

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Speaker 2: like I feel like I'm the same person.

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Speaker 3: Well, then here's one to think about. You probably can't

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Speaker 3: answer it without giving it some serious thought. How are

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Speaker 3: what good and what bad have you have you become

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Speaker 3: since high school? You know, I can think of a

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Speaker 3: few things how I'm different as well.

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Speaker 1: What are they?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not gonna say that loud. I mean, let

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Speaker 4: them think him through.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, it's an interesting exercise to see how

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Speaker 3: have acted then, and what happened to you in life

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Speaker 3: that made you change your look on life.

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Speaker 4: You know, something to think about.

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Speaker 1: I was definitely much more reactive to things than I

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Speaker 1: am now Now I think about them more so reactive.

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Speaker 1: But I'll give it a few days at least before

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Speaker 1: the reaction happens.

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Speaker 4: Right, anyone else can you think of something?

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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm the same as Gandhi like I

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Speaker 2: used to be. Like screaming used to be the way

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Speaker 2: to get.

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Speaker 4: A point across.

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Speaker 2: We knew you then, so yeah, well you know me

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Speaker 2: at the and you knew me at the tail end

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Speaker 2: of it. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Wow, I'm still that way. I still react.

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Speaker 6: I haven't changed much, but I think I have a

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Speaker 6: little bit more confidence than I did then, and I'm

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Speaker 6: a little more sure of myself. Back then, I was

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Speaker 6: just a high school nerd, playing, you know, with the

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Speaker 6: nerd herd in the hallway. We had our own little

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Speaker 6: group of misfits. We were the Land of misfit toys.

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Speaker 6: But but I think, I so, I think I've come

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Speaker 6: a long way in that regard.

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Speaker 2: Are you still the land of the misfit I'm still.

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Speaker 4: Nobody wants to play with in the box. All right,

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Speaker 4: I'm giving you some stuff to think about today

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Speaker 6: After party