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Speaker 1: You're going to have to get in quick at this stage.

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Speaker 1: Tickets available through ticket Master for Jesus Christ Superstar, which

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Speaker 1: is still on at Crown Theater until March eight, so

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Speaker 1: just over a week and Javon King, who plays Judas,

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Speaker 1: has come in this morning. Hello, so absolutely lovely to

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Speaker 1: meet you.

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Speaker 2: It's a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: It's been no secret that I just loved the you

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Speaker 1: know what out of this?

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Speaker 2: Have you met your marketing champion Lisa Listen? I hire you?

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Speaker 1: Okay, No, I've always been a fan of Jesus Christ

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Speaker 1: Superstar and this is this has.

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Speaker 2: This is a ripper. Oh thank you? Yeah, thank you?

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Speaker 1: So you you sing the very opening notes I do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I start the show and show things in between

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Speaker 2: of course, yeah too. I love it. Yeah, it's so

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Speaker 2: much fun.

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Speaker 1: So how have you enjoyed being in Perth?

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Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah. I've never been to Perth.

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Speaker 3: I've never tore it to Perth, so coming over to

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Speaker 3: this side of the world was really cool. Just coming

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Speaker 3: to Australia in general has been amazing for me. It's

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Speaker 3: been almost three years since I came over, so I've

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Speaker 3: been wanting to tick off Perth on my list.

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Speaker 2: So I'm happy I got.

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Speaker 3: The chance to come here with this show because I

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Speaker 3: just know how much the show means to Australia and

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Speaker 3: to be able to come here and do it, it's

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Speaker 3: been amazing. And now I get to meet you lovely

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Speaker 3: people and all these people, like, it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Are you impressed with the caliber of our you know,

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Speaker 1: our show scene here?

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Speaker 2: I mean because you come.

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Speaker 3: From yeah, I mean, I'm from New York. I'm used

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Speaker 3: to a much bigger dynamic in terms of there's so

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Speaker 3: many different theaters. But listen, the Perth audiences have been

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Speaker 3: amazing and they can give New Yorkers for a run

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Speaker 3: for their money off how much they love the theater here. Truly,

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Speaker 3: they really can. I'm not just saying that, like they

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Speaker 3: they're very passionate. When we when we finish the show

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Speaker 3: and we see them stand up and there are loving it,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, great. Because the crown is so wide,

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Speaker 3: like we can't really hear a lot of the reactions

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Speaker 3: of what's happening on stage, so like when we finish

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Speaker 3: the show, that's how we know if people loved it

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Speaker 3: or not. And people seem to really be loving it,

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Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of people out there, so it's

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Speaker 3: been yeah, yeah, can you.

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Speaker 2: Take this behind the curtain? You're telling you at least

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Speaker 2: mentioned that first note first the number, what's it like?

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Speaker 2: Is your experienced performer? But what's it like when you

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Speaker 2: go out there? Because there's got to be nerves as.

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Speaker 3: Well as I still get nervous because this show is

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Speaker 3: so iconic and it's been around for fifty plus years.

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Speaker 3: And I get excited from the overture because the overture

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Speaker 3: is so wacky and weird, and just like you're like,

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Speaker 3: are we in a musical or is this a rock concert?

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Speaker 2: Like what's happening?

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Speaker 3: And then and then Heaven on their Minds starts and

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Speaker 3: the guitar hits, and then it's like.

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Speaker 2: And then I'm walking up and I'm like, oh, I'm ready,

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Speaker 2: Like this great. So I kind of like I'm nervous

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Speaker 2: for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: And then you're with everyone on stage because our overture,

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Speaker 3: you're you're going to see it in a tomorrow. The

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Speaker 3: overture is cool because we all just kind of rush

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Speaker 3: the stage and it's like a mass of just chaos.

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Speaker 3: It comes from it and that's that's it suits And

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Speaker 3: then it's just so it just kind of stops right,

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Speaker 3: and then Heaven on their Minds starts and then like

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Speaker 3: we start into this this song and people start to dance,

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Speaker 3: and then I started to sing in the zone and

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Speaker 3: I'm there and it's cooled.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so much fun.

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Speaker 1: And there is more dancing in this show than I've

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Speaker 1: ever seen and they're fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yea, our ensemble is dancing the ensemble.

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Speaker 1: Can you say to them, calculize? Can you tell them

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Speaker 1: that they are not missed that? And we were talking

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Speaker 1: about the tone that they set because of you know,

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Speaker 1: the story that it is where basically, you know, Jesus

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Speaker 1: gets canceled is what happens, and now you betray Jesus

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Speaker 1: with a kiss, but you know you are Judas, You're

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Speaker 1: betraying Jesus. But what do you find What is it

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Speaker 1: about Judas's you know, character in this that you find

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Speaker 3: I think a lot Judas has gotten a bad rap

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Speaker 3: over history, you know, yes, And for me, you know,

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Speaker 3: I get the question a lot of like Carles, if

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Speaker 3: you have played a bad guy in the show, and

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Speaker 2: What, he's a bad guy, but he his intentions were

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Speaker 2: always good. And I always say people at least for me.

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Speaker 3: And when I played Judas, I try to lead with

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Speaker 3: a lot of love and he's just trying to get

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Speaker 3: through to his friend. And he loves his friend so

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Speaker 3: much that he's like, listen, I don't know what you're

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Speaker 3: going through or what who's telling you that you're X,

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Speaker 3: Y and Z, But that's not who you've been for

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Speaker 3: the years that I've known you, and we've known each

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Speaker 3: other for all these years, Like just listen to me.

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Speaker 3: That's literallyne I say in Michelle, and Jesus is just

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Speaker 3: so in his own world about what is going on,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we know.

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Speaker 1: The slariis exactly that.

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Speaker 3: Judas is like, Okay, you're not the person that I

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Speaker 3: thought you were, Like I need to go talk to

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Speaker 3: someone else and maybe someone else will listen to me.

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Speaker 3: And ultimately that decision probably was not the best because

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Speaker 3: then they go and they turn on him, and then

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Speaker 3: they crucify him, and YadA, YadA and.

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Speaker 2: The rest.

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Speaker 3: And then yeah, and then Judas obviously is so filled

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Speaker 3: with so much remorse from that.

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Speaker 1: That I never thought of Judas was the bad guy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, like Judas and Pilot as well,

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Speaker 1: not the bad guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just they're just doing what they think is right.

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Speaker 3: And I think Judash just loves his friend so much

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Speaker 3: that like he just wants to like try to get

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Speaker 3: to him and have a conversation with him.

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Speaker 2: About what it is. Yeah. But all but that being said,

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Speaker 2: it is fun being the villain.

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Speaker 3: Have you said, have you sat down and watched the

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Speaker 3: original movie what was that nineteen seventy three or whatever?

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Speaker 2: I've seen it once.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was right before we started rehearsal. So

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Speaker 3: this was back in like middle of August, probably early September.

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Speaker 2: I was like, what's happening that? Judas was pretty amazing elements?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, incredible, Yeah, incredible cars shooting something like that back

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Speaker 3: in the seventies. I was like, whoa, yeah, because I

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Speaker 3: remember this is Woodstock grooving.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is Woodstock groov But so is this the

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Speaker 1: herod in that was?

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Speaker 2: He's like, real show? Is he the son of someone?

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Speaker 2: The hair in that? We talk about? The herod in this?

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Speaker 2: Our friends must.

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Speaker 1: He's always happy to our friend. Ruben k totally brings

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Speaker 1: the herod. It's worth the whole show just for the

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Speaker 1: high kicks. And you and he have a bit of

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Speaker 1: a nightly battle about who's got the best.

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Speaker 3: The best songs and his one yeah one listen. I

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Speaker 3: love Ruben k with my whole heart and he knows

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Speaker 3: how I love. I love him so much. He is

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Speaker 3: as as chaotic as he is on stage. He is

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Speaker 3: the nicest human off stage. I adore him with my

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Speaker 3: whole heart and he absolutely steals the shell and in

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Speaker 3: acting he just brings the comedy that we are kind

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Speaker 3: of need before things turn left.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well exactly on that opening night, I saw you

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Speaker 1: two leave the stage together with your arms around each other,

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Speaker 1: and I thought, I just know the conversation they're having, Like,

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Speaker 1: there you go.

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Speaker 2: He always has a one liner. Yeah, yeah, I'm like

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Speaker 2: you are quick, Yeah, I love yeah, great energy to

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Speaker 2: the room.

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Speaker 1: Well look, we'll have to let you go. I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad that Clazy is getting along to see it tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: The rest of us have and we loved it, and

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Speaker 1: thank you so much because it is just I just

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Speaker 1: but I couldn't sleep that night and I have to

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Speaker 1: get up at four o'clock in the.

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Speaker 2: Morning, three thirty in the morning to get it. Was

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Speaker 2: worth it. It was worth so worth it. It was

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Speaker 2: worth and I really loved it. Thank you so much much.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate it and I'm so excited for you

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Speaker 2: to look seeing it. Yeah, are you here? Thank you

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Speaker 2: for coming in. Thank you