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Speaker 2: Look, there's a beautiful bird.

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Speaker 3: I loved bird watching when I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: How can you tell one bird from another?

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Speaker 4: So I like to be able to get out of

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Speaker 4: family life. Appearance is one way to identify birds.

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Speaker 5: How does it look?

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Speaker 4: I had a little bird book, the Observers Book of Birds.

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Speaker 4: In yards or in pipes, wherever people are, you are

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Speaker 4: likely to find another small bird with a beautiful song.

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Speaker 4: The wren was a great favorite because you wouldn't see

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Speaker 4: that often, just suddenly see it flit from one little

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Speaker 2: This small brownish bird is a wren.

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Speaker 3: And singing as it goes.

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Speaker 5: We can learn to know ren's by their sounds.

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Speaker 3: So I loved birds.

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Speaker 4: Because of that, I started being able to recognize the birds.

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Speaker 2: I'm Paul Monteaux and I've been fortunate to spend time

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Speaker 2: with one of the greatest songwriters of the era.

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Speaker 3: And will you look at me?

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Speaker 5: I'm going on too.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually a.

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Speaker 2: Performer, that is Sir Paul McCartney. We worked together on

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Speaker 2: a book Looking at the lyrics of more than one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty of his songs, and we recorded many

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Speaker 2: hours of our conversations.

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Speaker 3: Songwriter, my God, well, that crypt homie.

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Speaker 2: This is McCartney, A life in lyrics, a masterclass, a memoir,

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Speaker 2: and an improvised journey with one of the most iconic

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Speaker 2: figures in popular music. In this episode, Jenny Wren, The.

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Speaker 6: Girls, Jenny Wren to King, she could See.

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Speaker 5: And'sche Way.

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Speaker 2: Paul McCartney has been a nature lover and birdwatcher since childhood.

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Speaker 2: His song catalog is teeming with feathered friends. There's single

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Speaker 2: Pigeon from nineteen seventy three.

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Speaker 7: Single Pigeon through the railent did she throw you out?

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Speaker 2: There's Bluebird from the same year.

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Speaker 7: Night Window, WILLI p DoD blind.

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Speaker 4: Your don't?

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Speaker 5: And you know what love this?

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Speaker 7: I'm a blue bed.

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Speaker 2: And there are a couple from the Beatles era.

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Speaker 1: I am a rabbit ornithologist. I like my birds say.

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Speaker 2: When Paul McCartney went off bird watching as a kid,

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Speaker 2: he was trying to escape the daily grind of school, errands,

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Speaker 2: work and other people. Even though when he's looking for

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Speaker 2: same impulse.

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Speaker 4: When you're writing something as embarrassing, as potentially embarrassing as

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Speaker 4: a love song, it's best to hide away in the

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Speaker 4: furthest corner cupboard you can find so that no one

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Speaker 1: Do this process.

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Speaker 4: So I will often literally try and get away so

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Speaker 1: It's got to just be me and this guitar.

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Speaker 4: Then I can touch this sort of inner place where

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Speaker 4: I am the troubado wandering around in the forest thinking

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Speaker 4: of love, thinking of the beauty of it, the mystery

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Speaker 4: of it, and the strength of it. You know.

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Speaker 1: But I say it's potentially embarrassing because you know, someone.

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Speaker 4: Could walk in and go, oh god, you know, and

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Speaker 4: So but once I get on that trail, I really

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Speaker 8: Your impulse to get into that coboard. Yeah, to get

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I think it's mainly privacy. I think it's

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Speaker 4: I was in Los Angeles and there's a canyon that

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Speaker 6: Like so many girls, Jenny Wren could sing bird.

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Speaker 6: Girls, Jenny Wren good sing bud.

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Speaker 5: Talker, song away.

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Speaker 4: I remember just sitting there thinking, yeah, just said. The

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Speaker 2: The protagonist of the song, Jenny Wren, is halfway between

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Speaker 6: Girls, lightly the girls, Jenny Wren tooking.

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Speaker 5: She could see the world.

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Speaker 6: AND's nge way.

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Speaker 2: In fact, McCartney may have derived the name from a

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Speaker 2: character in Charles Dickens's eighteen sixty five novel Our Mutual Friend. Here.

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Speaker 2: Jenny Wren is a dressmaker for dolls she's a teenage

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Speaker 2: Despite her struggles, Jenny Wren has a sunny outlook and

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Speaker 9: And if it were an eye, it was Jenny Wren's eye,

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Speaker 9: bright and watchful as the birds. Whose name she it taken.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's the name is has currency beyond that.

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Speaker 8: Jenny Wren was a term we used, perhaps you used

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, which is often think it's probably my

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Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.

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Speaker 4: So it's very little, very private, very sweet little thing.

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Speaker 3: So in other words, because she doesn't sing, but she

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Speaker 3: can see the world in its foolish ways, how we

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Speaker 3: spend our days. Cassin love society. You can see the

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Speaker 10: Spay, you can see all these sad things happening.

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Speaker 5: Side of life.

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Speaker 11: Dab No, that broken world is not unreminiscent of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Blackbirds singing in the dead.

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Speaker 7: Nd take these broken wings and learn to fly. All

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Speaker 11: Which I think again.

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Speaker 8: Songs being in conversation with songs from the tradition, but

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Speaker 1: They're talking to each other. Yeah, and that's a good thing.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you're sitting down with an acoustic guitar,

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Speaker 4: Bet it's a little part. It's a guitar part that

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Speaker 4: I think I was probably intentionally writing another blackbird.

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Speaker 7: Black bird lie, black bird line.

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Speaker 6: Into the line of a dark black line.

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Speaker 2: If the guitar part of Jenny Wren echoes McCartney's Blackbird,

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Speaker 4: A little guitar part which is so much a part

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Speaker 4: of it was something that George and I it was

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Speaker 4: And we knew the tune, liked the tune, and but

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Speaker 3: Do do do do do do do.

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Speaker 4: Do do do do do do do you do do

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Speaker 4: And then we kind of ran out. We didn't know

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Speaker 1: Handy with that became the blackbird singing in the dad

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Speaker 5: Black bird singing in the dead n.

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Speaker 7: Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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Speaker 5: All your life.

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Speaker 4: So I had that, and then I just I don't

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Speaker 5: Into the light of a dull black light.

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Speaker 2: The loneliness of the blackbird is reflected in the simple

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Speaker 2: instrumentation of that famous song no orchestration, justin McCartney and

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Speaker 7: Blackbird singing in the Dendam take the broken Wings and

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Speaker 5: On your line.

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Speaker 4: And I there's such an all encompassing record company of

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Speaker 4: the old variety that they had a sound like. So

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Speaker 7: You were only waiting for this moment do a rise.

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Speaker 7: You were only waiting for this moment to ride.

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Speaker 4: You were only waiting for.

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Speaker 5: This moment, do a ride.

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Speaker 2: The song may have started out as a simple image

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Speaker 2: into the dark, but when McCartney wrote the song in

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Speaker 2: the spring of nineteen sixty eight, he was also speaking

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Speaker 2: to the turbulence of the American civil rights movement, including

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Speaker 2: the enforced desegregation of schools.

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Speaker 4: Then it started to be about arising. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: black said to take these broken wings.

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Speaker 12: So in others I was writing about the civil rights

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Speaker 13: Much, the right of color children to attend, that all

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Speaker 13: white schools have been upheld by the United States, have

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Speaker 13: been caught city and state police had cordened off the school,

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Speaker 4: You know, your broken wings, sunken eyes, seeing broken wings flying,

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Speaker 4: you know, this is your moment to arise and be free.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, then I realized I was sending.

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Speaker 4: It in that direction. Who now wasn't just ornithological piece.

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Speaker 6: Really, she saw pity breaking up Home Wooded Warriors Took

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Speaker 2: The Blackbird, McCartney writes about is singing and protest and

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Speaker 2: this song, McCartney included a du duc An Armenian woodwind

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Speaker 4: sympathize with the person new protests. Oh, she's even lost

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Speaker 6: Other girls Jenny Wren took Queen.

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Speaker 5: She could see.

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Speaker 6: And it's ways.

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Speaker 3: What did Jenny Wren see?

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Speaker 11: You saw who we are?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What did she see? Who are we?

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Speaker 4: She saw our foolish ways and the way we cast

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Speaker 3: Up homes regular and we wounded warriors.

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Speaker 5: Took a song away.

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Speaker 3: She saw, sure the screw up that society is. And

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Speaker 3: World, really, and I do think we screw it up.

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Speaker 2: In typical McCartney fashion, he ends the song on a

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Speaker 4: The day will come. There you go, it's going to

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Speaker 6: It will come.

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Speaker 5: Jenny will sing when the spoken word, when's it's foolish.

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Speaker 5: Ca uh couser, Jenny?

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Speaker 8: Where can you hear a little bird singing? At the moment?

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's a rain? Is it really yes it is.

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Speaker 8: The Indian name for it, I happen to know is

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Speaker 8: But also, you know what that gives one faith that

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Speaker 14: Too, Jenny Wren from Chaos and Creation in the Backyard,

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Speaker 2: In the next episode, an argument through song.

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Speaker 3: Now again.

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Speaker 4: It was at a time when John was firing missiles

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Speaker 4: at me with his songs. I don't know what he

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