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Speaker 1: Hey and Jason Brown from The Fred Show. And I

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Speaker 1: am super amped for our guests today. I am talking

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Speaker 1: to the guy who I'm sure you have heard the

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Speaker 1: song string by everywhere you go, all over your for

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Speaker 1: you page on TikTok reels everywhere, give it up for

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Speaker 1: Matt Geiger. How are you man?

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Speaker 2: Good? Good to be roll? I appreciate you having me on.

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Speaker 1: And I got to ask about it because you are

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Speaker 1: halfway across the world, right you are in Australia right now.

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Speaker 1: How is Australia on this lovely Well, it's probably Friday

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Speaker 1: where you are lovely Friday. How's Australia today as good

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about eleven am here, so i'd say it's

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Speaker 3: pretty light for you.

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Speaker 2: I think we're on opposite.

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Speaker 1: Sides, Yes, literally opposite sides. Yes, we are working on

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be sending a winner to see Harry Styles

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Speaker 1: in Australia, and so like I've been trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out the time zones and the time change in my

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Speaker 1: brain is in a pretzel. I'm like, I'm learning so

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Speaker 1: much about Australia right now. But yeah, it's it's late

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Speaker 1: here on a Thursday night, but it's all good. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for taking the time to do to sit down

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Speaker 1: with me today. You have like a dual life going on,

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Speaker 1: right because not only are you blowing up with music,

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Speaker 1: your song string Buy is huge everywhere You're teasing new music,

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Speaker 1: but you're also like still working. And do you live

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Speaker 1: on a farm?

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Speaker 3: Yes, well I'm based in a small town. I've been

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Speaker 3: like all all this week, I've been on a family

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Speaker 3: family farm working there. I still do. So yeah, Look,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to be doing a lot of I love

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Speaker 3: doing music, you know, it's my thing. But every day

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Speaker 3: I'm not in the studio and I'm out working cares

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Speaker 3: and fixing fences and things like that.

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Speaker 1: So that's crazy. How like how big is the farm?

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Speaker 2: Well, like a family has a few different ones.

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Speaker 3: So there's one I work up in the top of Queensland,

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Speaker 3: which is the state I live in, and uh, it's

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Speaker 3: sixty thousand acres up there.

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Speaker 2: It's my uncle and nannie.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The one I've been on is a thousand acres just

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Speaker 3: south of the town I live in. Mom and Dad

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Speaker 3: they got like a few thousand acres that they run

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Speaker 3: chaos on and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So that's great. Like the the like stark differences of

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Speaker 1: like you're in music and you have this insane voice

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Speaker 1: and it's so authentic and so real, and you're recording

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Speaker 1: music and then you leave and you're going to work

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Speaker 1: out a fire. What time? What's your normal like week

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Speaker 1: up time? What time is farm morning?

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Speaker 3: Week up?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Five thirty am, six six am. It's not too bad,

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Speaker 1: That's not too bad. We're up at three here for

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Speaker 1: a morning show. So yeah, yeah, you git a couple

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Speaker 1: more hours than me. So tell me a little bit

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Speaker 1: about you know, what made you finally sort of really

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Speaker 1: if you if you're listening to this and you haven't

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Speaker 1: heard Max song String Buy is how I found you?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, this is like real authentic nineties,

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Speaker 1: just like country, just throwing it back to like when

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Speaker 1: country was so good before I got all poppy. But like,

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Speaker 1: your voice and your sound is so authentic.

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Speaker 2: Is that?

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Speaker 1: Where did you grow up with it? Do you just

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Speaker 1: love certain artists? What sort of made you take that

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Speaker 1: when it came to your music?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess it wasn't something my Bland growing up Dad,

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Speaker 3: the Non East, and yeah, he was fully surrounded. The

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Speaker 3: soundtrack to his upbringing was was nineties country American stuff

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Speaker 3: and so guys like Alan Jackson Brooks and Dun Travis Tripp,

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Speaker 3: you name it like that at Clint Black, all of them.

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Speaker 3: And I guess when he grew up a bit and

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Speaker 3: Mind you, Mum's got a fair share of pink CDs

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Speaker 3: and uh and pop and stuff. But you know, I

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Speaker 3: guess the stuff that seeped into my veins was that

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Speaker 3: stuff that are into it. But I just started playing

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Speaker 3: I think it comes pretty naturally to go down that

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Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, I mean that comes through. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you have a couple of songs out now, but I

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Speaker 1: hear some teasers all over social and like, one thing

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Speaker 1: that's sort of a consistent string between all your work

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Speaker 1: is it sounds real, Like it sounds like you are

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Speaker 1: making it and you care about it and this is

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Speaker 1: your passion like and a lot of artists you don't

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Speaker 1: get that. And so that's what really made me stop

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Speaker 1: in my tracks, like holy shit, like this guy is

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Speaker 1: like the real deal. Like it doesn't get any more

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Speaker 1: authentic country than like the music you're making. So just

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Speaker 1: know that that is huge and that makes people want

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Speaker 1: to be fans of you, right because you know you

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Speaker 1: mean what you say and your meaning and your art

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Speaker 1: it's not some manufactured thing. Take me back to like

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Speaker 1: when you started seeing string by getting used and getting

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Speaker 1: spread around the internet. What was that feeling like where

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Speaker 1: you're like, holy shit, like my music is touching so

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Speaker 1: many people.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we released it. I think it was thirty

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Speaker 2: I think like that.

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Speaker 3: I was on a cattle station or a ranch is

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Speaker 3: I was on a cattle station with my uncle and

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Speaker 3: Narnie sort of up towards central the top of Queensland

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Speaker 3: there and it's about four hours from like four hours

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Speaker 3: drive to go to your groceries. Very long, very much,

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Speaker 3: that's yeah. And then I also lost my phone like

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Speaker 3: a week after we released it in a paddock. I

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Speaker 3: see that all happen in real time. And my managers

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Speaker 3: were definitely very Yeah, they were definitely very impressed that

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Speaker 3: And I was just up there work and I didn't

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Speaker 3: lot back in these videos about it and reacting while

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Speaker 3: I did. Yeah, it felt pretty cool. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 3: a lot from Texas, you know, a lot. Texas really

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Speaker 3: took to that song a lot. Yeah, which obviously, being

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Speaker 3: expecting out of the gates. But it feels amazing. It

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Speaker 3: feels really good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's giving very much. Texas. Have

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Speaker 2: Or no, no, I left over left the country.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you'll see. Yeah, it gives like a certain vibe.

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Speaker 1: But like definitely when you're in like the Texas area,

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Speaker 1: like you like, it's just a big ass state with

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Speaker 1: a lot of land, so like when you're just driving through,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's just nothing, and like your music is

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Speaker 1: like the perfect soundtrack to that. So that totally one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent makes makes sense. What do we have coming up?

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Speaker 1: I know you're teas and some music on social what's

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year look like for Mac? What's

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Speaker 1: what's the plan?

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, we've just been in the studio recently.

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Speaker 3: We've got a bunch of singles up sleeve, which I

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Speaker 3: cannot wait to do, and and stuff that you you know,

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Speaker 3: definitely pushed the limits of the genre, I mean I think,

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Speaker 3: which yeah, really looking forward to, uh to putting out

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have an album together. So I

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Speaker 3: Other than new music, you know, we're hoping to get

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Speaker 3: left the country, so we get to We've got to

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Speaker 3: get the visa and stuff sorted out. But yeah, definitely

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Speaker 3: want to get over there and see what you guys

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Speaker 3: all about and see the audiences in real time.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we need a Matt Geiger live experience. It needs

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Speaker 1: to happen that we need. We need some shows. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be selfish and request Chicago please. Well you're putting

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Speaker 1: all that together. We need to do that, so we'll

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Speaker 1: get ready for that long ass flake because I hear

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Speaker 1: it is quite the flight from Australia over here, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be so worth it. Mac, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for sitting down with me today. I'm so excited

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Speaker 1: for you and I'm so glad I got to talk

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Speaker 1: to you now before you blow up, because I just

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Speaker 1: your music is going to go everywhere, Like I cannot

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Speaker 1: wait to see your trajectory. What's one thing about Australia

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Speaker 1: that you want US Americans to know?

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Speaker 2: One thing about Australia. There's a lot, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: Like, I guess we're very similar culturally, but Australia is

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Speaker 2: A lot of space between between towns.

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Speaker 3: So I guess, as I said before, like I'm working

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of space here, you know, country and

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Speaker 3: the battle industry is massive here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Trump put that into perspective. I think, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a little land.

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Speaker 1: Right right, It's not just Koala's right, which is what

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Speaker 1: we see on TV of Australia.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, oh man, the things that yeah, we don't

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Speaker 3: we don't draw ran on the back of kangaroos or anything.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, none of that going on. That'd probably try and

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Speaker 2: balks on with us if we trod.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, kangaroos. Okay, so this is so random,

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Speaker 1: but I went down a rabbit hole of like jacked

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Speaker 1: kangaroos like they like buck up like like I did

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Speaker 1: not think like they will like f you up from what.

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Speaker 2: They'd be throwing hands. They stand on business, stand on business.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Matt Gugar, thank you so much. The

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Speaker 1: single right now that is blown up everywhere is string By.

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Speaker 1: There's tons of new music coming, so please follow him.

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Speaker 1: And uh we are going to wish for a twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty seven American some American shows, okay, twenty six saving alright, alright,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching, and even if I need to travel,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come see y'all. Thank you so much, Max

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Speaker 1: for sitting down with me, and good luck on everything

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Speaker 1: all right.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that very much. Jason