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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: She's the British singer songwriter who only a couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago became the first British female solo artist to

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Speaker 2: have thirteen top ten hits in the UK.

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Speaker 3: Extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: Well, she's in the country as a coach on the Voice.

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Speaker 3: We're thrilled to have her here. Rita Halala, that's lovely

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Speaker 3: and true.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what an incredible thing. Did you just have

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Speaker 2: this run of songwriting singing? How did it all come

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Speaker 2: out in a rush?

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Speaker 3: I guess that's exactly what it was.

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Speaker 4: I just really didn't stop, you know, I just went

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Speaker 4: forward and kept pushing and kept making music and luckily,

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Speaker 4: you know, the responses but has been phenomenal, and you know,

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Speaker 4: we ended up making a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit of history there, so that I'm really really happy

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Speaker 3: with that.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're always making history.

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Speaker 5: You've got the Mardi Grass Show was great, and then

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Speaker 5: of course the Opera House show on kim Or And

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Speaker 5: you've always wanted to play at our opera house?

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Speaker 1: Are you just saying that to you know, just suck

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Speaker 1: up to us, or did you really no?

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Speaker 3: I always wanted to play.

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Speaker 1: It was a great root.

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Speaker 3: It's so iconic, you know.

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Speaker 4: You've had the best of the best performing at this

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Speaker 4: Sydney Opera House and I was in Australia and I thought, well,

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Speaker 4: what a better time to do it than now? And

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Speaker 4: we made a crazy sort of string orchestra and I

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Speaker 4: really wanted to make a moment out of it because

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Speaker 4: it was special for me to be at the Sydney

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Speaker 4: Opera House.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, traveling anywhere in the world at the moment is hard,

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Speaker 2: quarantine and all of that. So you want to make

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Speaker 2: you trip with you while don't you do something iconic?

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Speaker 3: Yes, and also have a memory.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to remember that forever with your

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Speaker 2: new music has Lockdown influenced the kind of mood you're in,

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Speaker 2: the kind of songs you're writing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, what's this whole EP that I've just

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Speaker 4: put out, which is different to an album.

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Speaker 3: I know some people may be like, what's an EP?

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Speaker 4: It's basically like a short version of an album, but

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Speaker 4: it's not too short to not be anything, you know.

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Speaker 4: So it's about four or five songs of music. And

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Speaker 4: that's my experiment. I call it the product of isolation.

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Speaker 4: I really wanted to just see what could come out

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Speaker 4: of being creatively in that sort of climate. And during

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Speaker 4: that time I made some friends virtually because we did

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Speaker 4: the whole our virtually.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we had a whole bunch of global artists.

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Speaker 3: We had David Ghetto.

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Speaker 4: Who wasn't in was in Miami or something, and then

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Speaker 4: Gunner who's from California, an amazing rapper, and Imman Beecher,

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Speaker 4: I actually co produced the album with is in Kazakhstan.

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Speaker 3: So it was definitely a global affair.

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Speaker 4: And then we went to Argentina and found Kia, who

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Speaker 4: is an amazing Spanish rapper, and yeah, I just wanted

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Speaker 4: to experiment, you know, and I think with that came

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Speaker 4: a really cool project and a really cool video.

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Speaker 1: Well you proved that with the times like these, the

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Speaker 1: David Gral.

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Speaker 5: Thing, yeah, the midway through last year.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 5: Just extraordinary how all you guys came together. So it

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Speaker 5: can be. It can be done.

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Speaker 4: It can you just have to have that dedication and

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Speaker 4: just understand also it may not just be perfect because

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Speaker 4: you know you're doing it your own home, you're still

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Speaker 4: trying to figure it out. I learned a lot about

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Speaker 4: how to record myself during this process instead of going

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Speaker 4: also you save a lot of money.

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Speaker 5: Do you get the old cassette player in the triangle.

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Speaker 3: Stop, oh gosh again one more time?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: He recorded you're swearing.

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about the voice. Yeah, I mean, this

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Speaker 2: isn't your first time as a judge on a program

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Speaker 4: I always sort of don't have a plan, and I

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Speaker 4: think that's when you get the most real instinct reaction.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of different strategies that people use on

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Speaker 4: these shows and coaches.

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Speaker 3: That they have.

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Speaker 4: I really like to be as authentic as possible, so

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Speaker 4: I don't really go in like this is what I want.

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Speaker 4: I have an idea, you know, i'd love I love

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Speaker 4: pop music and I love helping especially pop vocalists to

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Speaker 4: and have a sas to them.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I always relate to music.

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Speaker 4: So if the song is amazing, and it's maybe a

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Speaker 4: country singer that's just has an amazing voice, doesn't mean

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Speaker 4: I can't coach them too. You know. I challenge myself

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Speaker 4: as much as they, you know, need me at the

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Speaker 3: So it's a team. That's what why we call them teams,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And there's a lot of sampling of the music

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Speaker 5: from the eighties and the nineties into the modern parlance

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Speaker 5: of So when you were younger, what was your influence

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Speaker 1: What got you up as a pop star? What did

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Speaker 1: you think, Oh, man, this is me.

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Speaker 4: Oh my dad has so much to do with that.

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Speaker 4: He loves collecting vinyls and every morning, you know, he'd

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Speaker 4: play a vinyl instead of a CD. And I always

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Speaker 4: remember thinking why Now I understand he loves hearing all

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Speaker 4: of the little inflictions and every bit of detail. And

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Speaker 4: it was always soul, everything from BB King, Eric Clapton,

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Speaker 3: My mum loves the Beg's. By the way, have you

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Speaker 3: seen that Beg's documentary? Isn't it fantastic? That really? Wow?

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Speaker 4: I never will forget this. I think Barry mentioned in

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Speaker 4: an interview that you know, he loved me and that

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Speaker 4: made me really happy. And that's one of those moments

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Speaker 4: as an artist you look at the interview and you think, wow, yes,

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Speaker 4: so that's an old probably doesn't even I remember saying

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Speaker 3: But being a fan, you know, you don't forget things

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Speaker 5: That is so cool. Cool And on the judges, So

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Speaker 5: you've got Keith Urban, You've got Jessica mao, boy ye

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Speaker 1: Sebastian, Yeah, we love him too. We were talking to

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Speaker 1: Keith just.

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Speaker 5: Last week when he gets someone up there, I said,

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Speaker 5: as a musician, do you get jealous if you hear

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Speaker 1: Can you be feel threatened? He said, he feels inspired.

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Speaker 4: The truth I mean, definitely, there's a sense of the

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Speaker 4: worst is if some of these things a song better

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Speaker 1: And what do you think to you? Are you worried that?

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Speaker 5: Because there's this story about Billy Joel was performing and

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Speaker 5: his drummer got a Billy Joel impersonator as a joke

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Speaker 5: good job and Billy was so ticked off, and the

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Speaker 5: drama hasn't worked with Billy since. And this is a

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Speaker 5: world famous drama of called Liberty de Vido for a

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Speaker 5: million years. But then I'm trying to find out If

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Speaker 2: Imitated, is not the same, is it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, there's always that saying imitation is the finest

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Speaker 4: form of flattery. And you know, as an artist, again,

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Speaker 4: everybody's got a little unique difference. So there's one thing

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Speaker 3: So I feel like, you know, you can. I grew up.

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Speaker 4: Listening to singers and listening and trying to copy them as.

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Speaker 3: Well all the time.

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Speaker 4: But you know, what makes you set apart is what

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Speaker 1: That's what it is.

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Speaker 2: And also it as a creative force. That's a different

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Speaker 2: another thing for someone to come along and sing it.

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Speaker 3: And there's only one Keith. There's only one Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: That's a strange name for a singer, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Keith. I feel like you have to say the whole name. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's right, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: But then again, he's a country singer and his name's urban.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic.

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Speaker 1: That's so confused, it actually fits perfectly.

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Speaker 4: It's funny because when you just say my name Reta,

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Speaker 4: it's it's like but then when you say Rita, uras

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Speaker 1: I read yeah, maybe that's what you.

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Speaker 4: Reata is always a bit of an old school name,

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Speaker 4: but it's a it's a sexy Hollywood name. Yes, my

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Speaker 4: grandfather used to be a director in Australia.

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Speaker 1: We used to have a lady that sawd margarine and

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Speaker 5: Rita the Eater eat No, she'd appear, she appear at

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Speaker 5: all events with bread and margarine.

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Speaker 3: She's got a good idea going there.

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Speaker 2: The penis Eater which didn't actually smirched.

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Speaker 1: The good name of Rita the Eater reator in front

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Speaker 5: We want to get into rite eaters. The voice is

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Speaker 5: coming soon to seven.

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Speaker 1: Riata or you are great?

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Speaker 3: Oh thank you?

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Speaker 1: There can be only one ah, thank you. Well.

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Speaker 3: I hope you like the show. It's going to be great.

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Speaker 3: We're looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you read thank you,