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Speaker 1: It's time to go around the room with Elvis Duran

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Speaker 1: in the Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Let's go around the room. What's on your mind? I'most

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Speaker 2: start with Scottie b.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Yeah, do you remember that time you went to

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Speaker 3: Uncle Johnny's house to help him with his vacuum cleaner.

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 4: I took the train all the way in from Long

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Speaker 4: Island to the city because you were like, can you, guys,

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Speaker 4: can you just go help him with his vacuum. He

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Speaker 4: can't get it working or whatever. He's having a problem

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Speaker 4: with it. So I'm like, okay, no problem. Went in there.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, hey, Johnny, what's going on. He's like, I

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Speaker 4: can't figure out this vacuum. Can you please help me?

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Speaker 4: Here's the manual? And he hands me the manual for

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Speaker 4: a cured coffee maker and that he was reading it

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Speaker 4: like the whole time, and he's like, I can't figure

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Speaker 4: it out. It doesn't say how to turn it on, Like, dude,

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Speaker 4: this is the wrong thing. And I just all I

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Speaker 4: did is I put it on the charger and it

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Speaker 4: went right on. Okay, and that was that was it.

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Speaker 4: But it was just I don't know, it was just

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Speaker 4: so Uncle Johnny. It was such a fun day for

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Speaker 4: me is as much time as it took me to

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Speaker 4: get there. I love doing That was Johnny. That was

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Speaker 4: Johnny's thing. Man, Hey, what's up? Gandhi?

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Speaker 5: All Right?

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Speaker 1: Just keep thinking, you know it always it's so terrible

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Speaker 1: to lose somebody, And then I think how lucky we are.

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Speaker 1: And I know it's cliche, but how lucky we are

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Speaker 1: to have had someone who makes saying goodbye so hard? Right,

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Speaker 1: And we were so blessed to have him in our life,

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Speaker 1: and he made us laugh so hard. Every single thing

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Speaker 1: that we've played is making me tokle over and over again.

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Speaker 1: And he was just such a wonderful person to know.

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Speaker 1: And I'm really glad that I had him in my life.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Yeah, what did we do right to deserve?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Having Uncle Johnny in our lives? Interesting? Hey, producer, Sam,

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind?

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Speaker 7: I got so many big stories about the guy, but

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Speaker 7: I actually want to share just my favorite little thing

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Speaker 7: about him because it felt so significant.

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Speaker 5: So especially in the other studio.

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Speaker 7: My studio and then our old offices was really far away,

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Speaker 7: and sometimes I wouldn't even get out and socialize with

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Speaker 7: you guys because I'd be so tethered to my computer,

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Speaker 7: and you know it's a bomber. I love you guys,

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Speaker 7: We're all fun. Every time he came to visit, no

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Speaker 7: matter how busy I was, I'd always hear a little knock, knock, knock,

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Speaker 7: and I'd turn around and he'd wave and blow a kiss,

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Speaker 7: or he'd open the door.

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Speaker 5: He came to find me every time.

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Speaker 7: So it's not just these big, ridiculous moments that make

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Speaker 7: him so fabulous. The small things that not enough people

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Speaker 7: do also made him exceptional. I'm never going to forget

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Speaker 7: the smallest gesture he would do every time.

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Speaker 2: Remember we went to Ties, that bar down on Christopher Street.

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Speaker 5: Heavens, I only remember half of it.

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Speaker 3: Elvis, Uncle Johnny got Sam so twisted, oh man, And

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Speaker 3: then you and Uncle Johnny and Alex stood in the

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Speaker 3: front window of Ties and pulled your pants down and

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Speaker 3: mooned all of Christopher's.

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Speaker 5: See, he moved mooned all of Christopher Street.

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Speaker 7: And I just remember looking back at that photo and

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Speaker 7: being embarrassed because I had the whitest ass of all

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Speaker 7: three of us.

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Speaker 5: That's what upset me.

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Speaker 8: And oh my god, hey Froggy, what's up. Well, you know,

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Speaker 8: every single time Uncle Johnny would come to New York.

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Speaker 8: If I wasn't here, he would always make a point,

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Speaker 8: like Sam said, to say hello. So the very last

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Speaker 8: interaction I had with him was a day that he

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Speaker 8: was here and he on the camera said to me, hello, Froggy,

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Speaker 8: how are you s And I'm really good, great to

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Speaker 8: talk to you.

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Speaker 2: We chat a little bit. He said, can you please

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Speaker 2: give me a favorite? Tell Lisa and Kayden that I

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Speaker 2: love them? And I said yes. He says, I love

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Speaker 2: Lisa so much.

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Speaker 8: And Elvis goes, hey, Johnny, if you love Lisa so much,

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Speaker 8: you should really learn how to say her name. It's Lisa,

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Speaker 8: and it just says, what ever, tell Lisa I love her?

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Speaker 8: I just he brightened every room he ever walked into.

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Speaker 8: He always left it a better place. And we will

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Speaker 8: miss him so so much. We already do.

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Speaker 6: Heyes, you know, oftentimes people pass and then they are

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Speaker 6: celebrated posthumously and they don't get to hear it because

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Speaker 6: they're already dead. But with Uncle Johnny, I love the

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Speaker 6: fact that he got so many opportunities like for to

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Speaker 6: be honored while he was living, like, for instance, the

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Speaker 6: time that he was chosen as the Grand Marshal of

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Speaker 6: the Miami Parade, the Miami Pride Parade, or when he

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Speaker 6: went back to all his glory, to all the bar

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Speaker 6: that he had, you know, he made amends with and

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Speaker 6: they celebrated him on Fire Island. I mean, so, I

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Speaker 6: was just it was just exciting to know that he

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Speaker 6: got to see these moments while he was alive, and

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Speaker 6: he was honored in that way.

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Speaker 2: That's very well put.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and no one loved honoring Uncle Johnny more than

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Speaker 3: Uncle Johnny.

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Speaker 2: What's up, Danielle?

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Speaker 9: So, like Sam said, it was the little things that

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Speaker 9: like sometimes you might not see, but he knew I

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Speaker 9: loved the cocktails with all of the sweetness to it,

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Speaker 9: like anything sweeter. He would sometimes make a special cocktail

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Speaker 9: only say this one's for Danielle. But then behind the

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Speaker 9: scenes he would be slipping me cherries and marshmallows and

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Speaker 9: chocolate and nutella and coconut, and he'd.

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Speaker 5: Be like, you'll take this.

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Speaker 9: I have extra, and I would like eat extra and

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Speaker 9: take some home with me. You can have the whole

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Speaker 9: bottle when I'm done, you just take it home with you,

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Speaker 9: because he knew how much I loved it. And little

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Speaker 9: things like that, like you said, Sam, mean the world

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Speaker 9: and It's those things that like you think back at

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Speaker 9: and you go, wow, you know what, that was so sweet,

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Speaker 9: and when it was happening, you didn't maybe think of it,

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Speaker 9: but then you go back and you think of it and

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Speaker 9: you go, wow, it's nice.

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Speaker 2: He was a very sweet mass He really was. He

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Speaker 2: really was. What's up straight.

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Speaker 10: I'm not sure if I read this on the air before,

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Speaker 10: but we almost lost Johnny a couple of times, remember,

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Speaker 10: and back when he was in the coma in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 10: I sent him this text and I said, I'm not

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Speaker 10: sure if you will read this, Johnny, but I just

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Speaker 10: want you to know that you helped me realize that

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Speaker 10: life is worth living. To see the enjoyment that you

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Speaker 10: got out of even the most mundane things in life,

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Speaker 10: while being almost double my age, gives me hope for

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Speaker 10: my own golden years. You made my life better in

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Speaker 10: numerous ways, and I sincerely hope that you will again

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Speaker 10: one day and the event, in the event that this

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Speaker 10: is the last text I send to you, then when

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Speaker 10: it is my own time to go, I want you

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Speaker 10: waiting at the gates of heaven with that drink you

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Speaker 10: made me for my birthday all those years ago, and

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Speaker 10: if it's not the right one, we will make the

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Speaker 10: drinks that you make until you come up with the

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Speaker 10: right recipe. Saint Peter can wait, and Saint Peter can

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Speaker 10: wait until you do.

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Speaker 2: I love you. So I sent him that, and then

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Speaker 2: we had him for another couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he kept trying to die, but he.

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Speaker 2: Did say that one time.

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Speaker 6: He was like, what did he say that one time

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Speaker 6: to you?

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Speaker 2: When he woke up. It was to let me die?

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Speaker 2: Let me die.

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Speaker 9: No, I told you to let me die the first time.

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Speaker 9: I don't know why he keep me around.

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Speaker 2: He got mad at us because we kept him alive. Inane.

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Speaker 1: He was a really good hugger and he always give

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Speaker 1: you a kiss every time too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And he always said if you said I love you,

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Speaker 3: Uncle Johnny, he can always say I love you more.

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Speaker 2: That was his Uncle Johnny.

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Speaker 10: Is that?

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Speaker 2: And if you can get it up at yours?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I shoot nest.

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Speaker 2: He had a lot of those. I'm gonna play hooky goodbye,

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Speaker 2: tell

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Speaker 5: Mister Wran in the morning show,