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Speaker 1: Welcome to them.

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Speaker 2: Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 3: It is the last week on Who's Calling Christian so Fi.

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Speaker 3: I've got twenty three celebrities.

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Speaker 2: From all over the world to give us a call.

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Speaker 3: The last one towards the end of Friday show call

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Speaker 3: from La was sale. Someone's on the line right now,

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Speaker 3: let's find out who it is. Good morning, who's calling Christian.

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Speaker 1: It's Belinda Carlisle calling.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Belinda, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Oh my pleasure. I'm just good to be here now remotely.

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Speaker 2: Where is here? Where are you in the world? Are

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Speaker 2: you in America? Where are you?

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Speaker 1: No? No, no, I'm in Mexico City right now. It's

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Speaker 1: five o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, so it's Monday

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Speaker 1: morning for you.

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Speaker 2: And what are you on holiday? Your tory? What's going on?

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Speaker 2: How come you're in Mexico?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, well it's it's you know, I live

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Speaker 1: in Thailand and it was getting kind of crazy there.

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Speaker 1: So we just left. I hadn't seen my phone and

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Speaker 1: over a year and a half because of this whole mess.

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Speaker 1: So we came to Mexico and which we love, and

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Speaker 1: we go back and forth to La to see family.

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Speaker 1: And friends until this whole thing is over with and

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Speaker 1: then we'll go back to Thailand.

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Speaker 3: What a life you've got then, So you got homes

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Speaker 3: in Bangkok in You're amazing.

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Speaker 1: I have one home and that's in Bangkok's but I

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Speaker 1: have I do have, you know, friends and family in

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Speaker 1: La So it's a good place to be in. Mexico

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Speaker 1: is wonderful. We love it and yeah, you know I'm

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Speaker 1: here for the foreseeable future.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Now, who's else you to give us? Call you

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Speaker 2: quoding on behalf of a charity.

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Speaker 1: Blinda, Yes, I am calling on behalf of a charity

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Speaker 1: I co founded in twenty fourteen called Animal People Alliance,

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Speaker 1: and we're based in Calcutta, India and in Shanghai, Thailand.

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Speaker 1: We've we've saved and serviced over sixteen thousand animals in

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Speaker 1: seven years and we provide employment for women who've been

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Speaker 1: trafficked and also people who are at risk of far

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Speaker 1: below the poverty line. So it's my little baby that

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Speaker 1: I work on when I'm not singing oh awesome.

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Speaker 2: And hell things.

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Speaker 3: At the moment, it's a tough time for charities, isn't

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Speaker 3: it getting the funding and whateverthing's gone.

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Speaker 2: On the world.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we've been really lucky because our overhead costs

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Speaker 1: are pretty low and we've you know, we've had to

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Speaker 1: be really creative with our fundraising. So yeah, it's been difficult.

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Speaker 1: We were lucky we got a grant earlier in the

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Speaker 1: year to take us through till next year. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's tough out there for all the NGOs and charities.

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Speaker 2: Now tell me this on You Meant to Be? Are

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Speaker 2: you still coming here to Australia? You touring?

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Speaker 1: I yes, I am. I hope, so I'm crossing everything.

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to come to Australia for a month's long

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Speaker 1: tour in February. So everybody seems to think that it's

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Speaker 1: going to happen. I'm just you know, I'm I haven't

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Speaker 1: I haven't sung a note for almost two years, so

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Speaker 1: it'll be well, it'll be it'll be amazing to get

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Speaker 1: on stage there. And I love the country. I've been

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Speaker 1: coming to us earlier for about thirty years.

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Speaker 2: Really, when do you say you haven't sung a note?

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Speaker 2: Do you really mean you haven't sung anything?

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Speaker 3: Not even a shower or wandering around the house or

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Speaker 1: In the shower, I have and in a car cours.

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Speaker 1: But but what I mean is like a proper show.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I have actually a proper show next week,

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Speaker 1: So that'll be the first time I've sung in you know,

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Speaker 3: Well I imagine that. Are you still keeping in shape? So

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Speaker 3: are you still singing in a shower? You're still doing

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Speaker 3: someone like having? Yeah, circle in the sand?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my go to. Yeah, I do. I do

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Speaker 1: vocal lessons and all that, just so you know, to

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Speaker 3: I think I've seen a few singers who get a

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Speaker 2: Now, what is also going on the go Gos?

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Speaker 3: I was reading the other week, you going you're going

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Speaker 3: to be I thought you'd already be in the Hall

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Speaker 3: of Fame because it's such a pioneering female rock group.

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Speaker 3: I think you're still with the successful ones of all time.

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Speaker 3: But you think you've been. Have you been inducted this year?

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Speaker 1: Yes, we're going to be inducted next month into the

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Speaker 1: Rock and Hall of Fame, And yeah, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: we've been eligible for twenty five years. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean there's quite a few people there oppositely didn't

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Speaker 1: and they knew they had to be more inclusive. And

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Speaker 1: I was in shocked when we got on the ballot

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Speaker 1: this year and was even more shocked when we got in.

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Speaker 1: So we're being inducted on October thirtieth.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible.

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Speaker 3: You should be in there by now. I think it's criminal.

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Speaker 3: You're not such a pioneering important grop grip And are

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Speaker 3: you are you able to be there? Are you all

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Speaker 3: going to play live?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to We're going to play live. So far,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they say it's going to go ahead,

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Speaker 1: So I'm really hoping it happened. I think it will.

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Speaker 2: I hope. So, yeah, aren't you just sick of seeing

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Speaker 1: Oh? I you know, I'm so over zoom. I'm so

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Speaker 1: I now, I say my camera's broken and I just

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Speaker 3: Fatigue. We've turned into movie director. Does I know more

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Speaker 1: I think I know exactly right. It's it's annoying, but

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Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, it's it's it's the way

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Speaker 1: it was. And you know, I've been approached to do

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Speaker 3: So I'm holding out for that awesome now balloon to

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Speaker 3: everyone who gives us a call way ass and what

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Speaker 3: what is the song that's a guilty pleasure for them?

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Speaker 3: The song that you're embarrassed in that you like but

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Speaker 3: when there's no one around you do turn this out?

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Speaker 2: You listen to it? What is the song for you? Belinda?

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Speaker 1: I love Andy Gibbs. I want to be I just

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Speaker 2: I haven't listened to this then, And to give perform

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Speaker 3: What a song? So when did you first start to

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Speaker 1: I was, well, actually, you know, because I was a

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Speaker 2: It was your secret shame, it was exactly.

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Speaker 1: But you know, at the same time, during the whole

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Speaker 1: punk thing, someone was we were talking the other day.

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Speaker 1: the punk rock movement? When when I was listening to

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Speaker 3: And how are this is talking about great bands that

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Speaker 3: heard the new stuff from Abba?

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Speaker 1: Yes? And I love but too, and it's it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's really really interesting. How how they're I guess they're

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Speaker 1: going to be on tour, right, I mean they're they're

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Speaker 1: going to be holograms, right, That's what I was told.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be interesting to see how that turns out.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that's going to be a lot the

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Speaker 3: future for artists touring because you can then just you know,

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Speaker 3: you can be in Bangkok and then suddenly we can

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Speaker 1: I know, but but you know something, that's not my style. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: do live shows. So I don't know. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: They write perfect pop songs and I've always been a

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Speaker 3: Had a couple of billion in the bank. I get

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Speaker 2: That's the big thing, is one.

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Speaker 3: I guess they've got so much money that they can't

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Speaker 1: I know, well I weren't they like the most profitable

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Speaker 1: Swedish import or export but something. Yeah, so I'm there

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Speaker 1: our business. Yeah yeah, one.

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Speaker 2: Final thing, Blinda. I do hope you come here.

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Speaker 3: I think you're at the Palais actually, because every day

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Speaker 3: on the way home I drive past the Palais, which

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Speaker 3: I think the venue you're supposed to be playing next year.

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Speaker 3: I really hope you make it over and Australia gets

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Speaker 3: to see you live again.

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Speaker 1: I know. I love that Venu. It's it has such

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Speaker 3: Beautiful, big old venue with a real history there as well.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, you know, sometimes when people talk

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Speaker 3: they do like a cover version. I'd like to hear

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Speaker 3: you do this.

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Speaker 2: You should do your version of it. You know what

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Speaker 2: you could do? You could sing with a hologram Andy.

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Speaker 1: Gibb and I know Nappy something. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I would like to see the audience their faces doing

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Speaker 1: something like that. Bizarre, But yeah, I love that song.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll put it in my set.

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Speaker 3: Who knows, Please, please please, I turn up with a banner.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to go home until you've done that.

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Speaker 3: All right, Belinda, A real joy.

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Speaker 2: Talking to you.

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Speaker 3: I cannot believe that you and the Go Gos not

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Speaker 3: in the Hall of Fame. I hope you can play

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Speaker 3: their live next month thoroughly deserve and we'll see you

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Speaker 3: fingers crossed in Februar here at the Palais.

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Speaker 1: Whoada fingers cross. Thank you so much for having me

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Speaker 1: for you know, on and take care. Okay.

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