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Speaker 1: Cyndy Lauper is coming to town next March eleven with

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Speaker 1: Rod Stewart to play at the rac Arena. Tickets a

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Speaker 1: three ticket tech and we are so excited to have

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Speaker 1: Cindy join us right now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Now, it's gonna be great. It's gonna be so much fun.

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Speaker 3: The last time I went out with Rod, it was

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Speaker 3: a blast. He is pretty fun, and for me, it's

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Speaker 3: kind of great because you know, when I started singing,

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Speaker 3: you know, he started, he started very young. And when

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Speaker 3: he started singing, I was in cover band and so

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Speaker 3: I was singing his work and I remember trying to

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Speaker 3: squeeze my voice together in the shower, you know. And

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Speaker 3: now you know, when I went out on tour with him,

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Speaker 3: it was unbelievable because I got to sing with him,

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Speaker 3: and it's wild and life turns around like you never

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Speaker 3: think you're going to meet somebody, you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he could have told you to Harold's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't tell myself that.

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Speaker 1: This is a fun fact, Cindy, between you and Rod,

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Speaker 1: you have sold three hundred million albums.

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Speaker 2: Now, when you.

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Speaker 3: Put it like that, well, I think said a lot.

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Speaker 2: Does your mind?

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess you know, I just like to sing,

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Speaker 3: and I liked the whole experience of being in a

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Speaker 3: rock band and singing and performing and the energy of it,

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Speaker 3: you know, because that I think it gives you. That's

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Speaker 3: kind of like vitality, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 3: And I've been watching him on Instagram and he's pretty funny.

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Speaker 4: He's funny.

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Speaker 3: So he's very funny.

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Speaker 4: When you're in the cover band, when you're doing Maggie Mayo,

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Speaker 4: you wear it well, some of these spices stuff. What

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Speaker 4: kind of songs are we doing?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, the faces I was doing you wear

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Speaker 3: it well? And I didn't sing Maggie may the drummer

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Speaker 3: saying that, and uh, you know, hey, they didn't. They

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Speaker 3: didn't give that song to me. But yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: I And you know when he came out with that

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Speaker 3: album with Failing on it, yep, yeah, Lantic Crossing, But

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Speaker 3: that song Failing, I used to sing and I loved

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Speaker 3: that song. I really did, and might put that one

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Speaker 3: in my set. Just surprised him a little.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about you.

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Speaker 1: Your album, She's Unusual, came out the year I finished school, Cindy,

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Speaker 1: so you can at an all girls' school, so you

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Speaker 1: can imagine how important it was to us such and

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Speaker 1: you know, girls just want to have fun with such

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Speaker 1: a feminist anthem?

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Speaker 2: Then and now? Is that what you intended for the

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Speaker 2: song or was it just fun?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? No, it was intended to show everybody that they

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Speaker 3: could have a joyful experience in life, not just you know,

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Speaker 3: not just one color, not just one kind of person,

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Speaker 3: but everybody. And plus, you know, I had I had

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Speaker 3: lived in New York my whole life. I still live

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Speaker 3: in New York, but hey, I'm a stick in the mud.

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Speaker 3: I love this city. And and I think that, you know,

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Speaker 3: it represented what New York was like at that moment,

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Speaker 3: and I always felt like, that's what That's what your

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Speaker 3: work should represent, what life is like at the moment.

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Speaker 3: You're doing that that music, you know. But also I

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Speaker 3: wanted it to be a feminist anthem. Of course, who

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Speaker 3: wouldn't you know? I wanted to lift women up. And

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Speaker 3: you know, because I'm a woman. Hey, you know there

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Speaker 3: there I have like my own civil liberties.

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Speaker 4: Yes you said, you thought? I wrote on Instagram. I've

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Speaker 4: been following you and girls just want to have fundamental rights.

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Speaker 4: Can you tell you've sold a lot of T shirts?

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Speaker 4: That was where that was inspired by that. Yeah, current campaign,

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Speaker 4: it's going off.

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Speaker 3: Because of what happened with the Supreme Court, which when

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Speaker 3: they when they changed Roe v. Wade and they said

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Speaker 3: for fifty years. And I just felt like, for me, honestly,

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's cool, Like if you don't have

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Speaker 3: control over your own body, but the government has control

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Speaker 3: over your body. That's a little too close to the

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Speaker 3: handmaiden scale for me, and it's creepy. So I figured, hey, hey,

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Speaker 3: stand up, say something. Don't take this stuff lying down.

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Speaker 3: There's fifty percent of us in this country. Let's stand up.

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Speaker 3: And of course women did stand up, and what did

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Speaker 3: they call it? The pink wave. That's a funny thing. Everybody,

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Speaker 3: you know, all you know, women from all over just

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Speaker 3: one half control over their own bodies. That's not autonomy.

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Speaker 3: It's not a lot to ask for, is it, you know?

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Speaker 3: So whatever, it's working out, and the money will go

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Speaker 3: to women's organizations and a small organization that will help

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Speaker 3: women get safe and legal abortions, and also healthcare for women,

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Speaker 3: you know, prenatal care after you have your baby, before

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Speaker 3: you have your baby, women screening for cancer, you know,

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Speaker 3: things like that.

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Speaker 1: On the other side of the country here, we saw

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Speaker 1: it as a very dark day when that was overturned,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, fears for any kind of repercussions

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Speaker 1: that it could mean for our own systems. You know,

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Speaker 1: these things do move out in waves. So we appreciate

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. Yeah, I know, and let's hope that

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Speaker 1: we get back to some logical issue now, the likes

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Speaker 1: of Lady Guards. We have cited you as an influence.

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Speaker 1: Your musical influences, Guy, Well.

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Speaker 3: I told you well, you know, growing up, I would say,

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Speaker 3: because I was a folk singer at first, I would

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Speaker 3: say Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Joan Baez because Joan

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Speaker 3: Baez was a freedom fighter and sang songs about you know,

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Speaker 3: freedom and sang and introduced me to you know, the

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Speaker 3: Martin Luther King and actually probably introduced Bob Dylan, you know,

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Speaker 3: the whole thing. Uh and and uh so she was

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Speaker 3: a very big influence. And also uh I to sing

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Speaker 3: with her records. And Joni Mitchell. Of course, when Joy

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Speaker 3: Mitchell came out, it was like stop my heart right there.

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Speaker 3: Of course, he is a woman doing the art writing singing, playing,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, wow, you can't. You don't have to,

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Speaker 3: not too long ago, they would ask me, well, what

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Speaker 3: when I get that lobotomy, I'll get right back.

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Speaker 4: What do you want to do with your career?

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Speaker 3: You want to No, no, it's not a bimbo. It's

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Speaker 3: just you know, it depends on what you want to

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Speaker 3: do and be. And I had my cap set on being,

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Speaker 3: you know, so here I am, you know, years and

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Speaker 3: years later, and I'm still singing in the rock band

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Speaker 3: and playing and and playing music. And god, the music

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Speaker 3: is everything because in the end, it always comes back

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Speaker 3: to the music, right yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Actually, speaking of music, a lot of big acts

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Speaker 4: selling their rods, back catalogs and that. Have you been

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Speaker 4: tempted to go into that territory and sell sell your

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Speaker 3: M I don't know, because again, thinking about.

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Speaker 4: Them getting big bucks right now, I know, I know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, they I can't really talk

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Speaker 3: about it because you know, I always does that mean

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Speaker 3: that then they can take your stuff and sell it

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Speaker 3: to anything.

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Speaker 2: That moved if.

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Speaker 4: You sell it off with control at all. I think

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Speaker 4: Neil Young's one who's still going to a bit of control.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, possibly, yeah, no you can have control. No

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Speaker 3: you can't, but yeah, no, I understand that. I understand that.

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Speaker 3: I just you know, I'm just honestly, I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: play in the band and write Finish right and working

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Speaker 3: Girl for Broadway. And I just did something for Amazon

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Speaker 3: for the Horrors of Doris Roach, which will come out

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Speaker 3: Doores with with the kids from Power Bottom Ben Hopkins,

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Speaker 3: and that actually it came out so far. Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: So listen, I can't stay away from music. It's what

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Speaker 3: I do. So I think it's I think it's exciting

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Speaker 3: that I'm going to come back to Australia. I used

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Speaker 3: to come back every three years, and then COVID happened,

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Speaker 3: so that way laid. You know, Now it's six years,

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Speaker 3: but I'm coming back and I get to come back

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Speaker 3: with the Rod, which is kind of extraordinary and great

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Speaker 3: because listen, he's a freaking legend more than just the icon.

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Speaker 3: He was one of the guys in the beginning, you know,

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Speaker 3: making Peyton the way, you know, saying, oh, I listened

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Speaker 3: to Sam Cook and you're like Sam Cook and you

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Speaker 3: go look at Sam Cook, you know. So it's uh,

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Speaker 3: it's it's it's kind of a full circle for me,

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Speaker 3: which is odd because you know, hey, who would have

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Speaker 3: is I remember when I was a kid and go

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Speaker 3: into you know, you'd be at a family function and

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Speaker 3: end they go, well, good luck with you.

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Speaker 1: Music that has a question that he likes to ask

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Speaker 1: about bad T shirt?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you might wrap it up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're selling your T shirts at the moment, and

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Speaker 4: I'm making a real difference. But Cindy, have you the

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Speaker 4: last band or out of T shirt you wore? Do

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Speaker 4: you wear a bit of merch?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I have a Blondie I will the Blondie T shirt.

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Speaker 3: I love her. Oh my gosh, come on since she

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Speaker 3: remember when she first came out and she's sang heart

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Speaker 3: a glass and you thought your heart right there, beautiful

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Speaker 3: face the sound I remember, but listen, I remember the

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Speaker 3: Williams down answer. I remember when all that came out,

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Speaker 3: and I was like, oh my god. And I remember

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Speaker 3: comings to you guys and discovering like split Ends and

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Speaker 3: oh the divinyl god she was, Oh she was incredible.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. That that just changed everything. And that

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Speaker 3: was and it was you guys have so many wonderful

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Speaker 3: so much wonderful music that I think it was.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was great to go down there over and over

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Speaker 3: and you have a great ar TNE in Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's it's pretty great and we cannot wait to welcome

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Speaker 1: you to the landdown Under once again next March eleven

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Speaker 1: when you come with Rod Stewart. There's now there's two cents,

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Speaker 1: so much, Sir Roderick, two centss of you.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see on stage.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, it's Cindy, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for talking to us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you. Have a great day.

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Speaker 4: We promise we'll put on our kinky boots coming see you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks bye,