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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you when you were born with such

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Speaker 1: a cool, cool name, Sir Robert Bryson Hall the second, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I followed that, I love your name though. Your name

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Speaker 1: is so regal. It's just like dang. I mean, how

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Speaker 1: God created you for the limelight. I know. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: I kind of lived up to the name. That's pretty rad.

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Speaker 1: It is pretty rad. And boy, you had every opportunity

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Speaker 1: you never make those choices? Me personally, I was never

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Speaker 1: He's a singer, a rapper, a writer, a producer. We're

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your song, Thank you eight to five five.

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Speaker 1: so much. All right, thank you logic God bless you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being on the Delila Chew amazing. Have

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