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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you for being here today. It's me Art Simone,

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Speaker 1: and yes, I do love the limelight. It looks so

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Speaker 1: good on me, but I'm actually so generous and I'm

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Speaker 1: sharing my limelight with other let's just say, not as

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Speaker 1: glamorous people. Oh. I know they may be a bit drab,

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Speaker 1: but trust me, it's worth sticking around for because they're

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Speaker 1: concealing something from us. I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 1: but I promise it'll be good. This is concealed with

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Speaker 1: Art Simone. Hello.

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Speaker 2: My name is Cassidy La Crem. I am a DJ,

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Speaker 2: a speaker, a woman of a few different talents, but

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Speaker 2: I am concealing a whole other side of myself that

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Speaker 2: you'll only know depending on where I am in the world.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Cassidy, how are you Hello? Oh we have to

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Speaker 1: come clean. I know exactly who you are, cassid La Crem. Yes,

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Speaker 1: oh hello, I know. I wanted to play along, and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to pretend that I've never seen you before

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Speaker 1: in my life. But I can't lie.

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Speaker 3: I can't live in this face.

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Speaker 1: Once a couple of times, very excited to have you

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Speaker 1: sitting in front of me than you We're very Marilyn

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Speaker 1: today aren't we we are.

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Speaker 3: That may play a little bit into what we're It

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Speaker 3: could be a.

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Speaker 1: Little beautiful red sequin head to toe and I mean

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Speaker 1: head to toe. We've got a beautiful pillbox hat on,

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Speaker 1: beautiful Marilyn esque blonde hair, very very nice, vintage, a

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Speaker 1: red glitter lip, and more jewelry than me today, which

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Speaker 1: is saying something you out did me. So we have

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Speaker 1: got a necklace, we've got bracelets, we've got rings, we've

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Speaker 1: got more jewels. And so you're a DJ. What's favorite song?

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Speaker 3: Oh, we like to party the you know, you put

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Speaker 3: me on.

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Speaker 1: My spot Of all the songs in the world, I

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 3: The vibes are high.

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Speaker 2: Today was extremely Marilyn.

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Speaker 3: See, I told you a multifact.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things to you. Okay, and

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Speaker 1: did a speaker? What's your favorite word?

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Speaker 2: Super color, fragilistic, exper Okay, I won't get you to

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Speaker 2: spell it because please don't, no, please don't.

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Speaker 1: Okay, time for that now. I'm not going to reveal

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Speaker 1: how we know each other just yet, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like I know a lot about you. We've known each

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Speaker 1: other for many years, but maybe you're hiding something that

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Speaker 1: I don't even know. Maybe I so to find out.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you three questions, and from the

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Speaker 1: answers to those three questions, we have to work out

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Speaker 1: what it is you're concealing from us here today. Are

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Speaker 1: you ready?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready?

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, Cassidy la crem. The first question

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Speaker 1: I have for you is what is a sound you love?

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Speaker 3: Can you gaga sound?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: A round of applause.

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Speaker 1: Around applause.

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Speaker 3: I know you like those two?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Look, you know, like they say, drag queens are

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Speaker 1: like tinker Bell. If you don't get applause, we die.

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Speaker 3: That is very true.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there have been a lot of drag queen

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Speaker 1: deathes of recent Now. Question number two, who would play

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Speaker 1: you in a film? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Hillary Duff in a twisted version of the Lizzie McGuire.

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh, sing po? And question number three, what's something

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Speaker 1: you did as a kid that you still like doing? Now?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Can I say? Playing dress?

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Speaker 1: Dress up? Okay? I wouldn't get that from you now,

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Speaker 1: quite a surprise, the subtlety so dress ups dying drag

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Speaker 1: queen applause, Hillary Duff, DJ Vinger busy all right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm rounding about Okay, glitzy lamb dressing up.

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Speaker 2: I'll give you a riddle and see if you can

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Speaker 2: get it turned the tables back on you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: When we first met, I was a vixen who performed

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Speaker 2: for veterans, also known as Marilyn Monroe. But now I

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Speaker 2: double M, I'm now known somewhere as something triple M.

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Speaker 1: But it's the most beautifully written. It's very clever. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very clear. Okay, triple M, vixen, veterans, Marilyn applause.

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Speaker 2: And where I am in the woods.

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Speaker 1: Lizzie McGuire, Hillary, all the good.

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Speaker 3: Things, very gay?

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Speaker 1: All right? Should we put them out of their misery?

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Speaker 1: Should we tell them what you're concealing from us?

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Speaker 4: Here today, Triple M stands for Marilyn Monroe Malaysia.

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Speaker 2: For those of you playing at home, I have a

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Speaker 2: little Malaysian flag I had hiding in the back of

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Speaker 2: my dress, never.

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Speaker 1: Had again in front of me. Marilyn Monroe, Malaysia. What

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Speaker 1: is this? Hold up? Hold up? What do you want about?

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Speaker 2: I am known in Malaysia as a famous pop star

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Speaker 2: for singing in Malay and speaking in Malay, but I

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Speaker 1: You are an ultimate cunning linguist. You know all the

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Speaker 1: dialects and your bloody famous. You are the ultimate Handna Montana.

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Speaker 2: I am because I can go around Melbourne and one

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Speaker 1: How did it all begin?

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Speaker 2: It began as a day I was working and living

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Speaker 2: in Singapore as Marilyn Monroe Universal Studios, and I wasn't

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Speaker 2: allowed to sing, so I started like singing with bands

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Speaker 2: outside of work, and a lot of those people were Malay,

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Speaker 2: so I didn't speak Malay, but they dared me to

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Speaker 2: because no one had else had ever done it before, and.

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Speaker 3: It was the early days of YouTube.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we just made a video of me singing in

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Speaker 2: this crazy thing from being like no one to the

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Speaker 3: And was like, Cassidy, I love your videos, and I

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Speaker 2: And yeah, got nominated for a music award for it,

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Speaker 2: and then it just like my life changed.

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Speaker 1: Wow, so then does everything pivot At that point, you go, right,

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Speaker 1: so I now have an audience. Something's happening. How do

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Speaker 2: I've always been a performer since I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: I was always a bit shy to sing. But it's funny,

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Speaker 2: After that, it would just like I just continued to

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Speaker 1: What was the thing that made you go, all right,

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, actually, because I kept getting offered record

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Speaker 2: Amy Search, and I said to him, like, I really

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Speaker 2: And he said, just move there, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I was like, okay. Then, so I just left my

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Speaker 3: As people heard I was in the country.

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Speaker 1: We worked a Draculas together, Yes we do.

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Speaker 3: That was my little vixen him. That was my floor.

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Speaker 1: Name, Draculas. It's going to sound negative, but I don't

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Speaker 2: That was my entire life when I lived there. I

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Speaker 3: Whenever I'd fly over to do shows, like they would.

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Speaker 2: But then people would assume you spoke the language, and

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Speaker 1: They're playing these clips off you singing these songs.

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Speaker 2: Exactly with the right emotion, and I'm just like mimicking

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Speaker 2: it happened all the time. And like the radio announcers

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Speaker 2: You understand now we can tell because you can engage

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Speaker 2: used to laugh at everything.

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Speaker 1: We'd say, my god, you kept creating these different videos.

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Speaker 1: Did you branch out to different languages at that point?

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Speaker 3: Not till I moved back.

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Speaker 2: Actually, just before I left Malaysia, I was doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of like brand events and things and I did

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Speaker 2: one for Remy martin Mulay and they wanted me to

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Speaker 2: so I Atlanta sung in Mandarin later to find out

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Speaker 2: it was nothing like it. But then when COVID hit

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Speaker 2: then I started singing, Oh, I'm going to try a

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Speaker 3: Okay, well I'll add one in Cantonese.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I was going to say, what would you

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's what's my favorite story about you?

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Speaker 3: Like I remember I was doing a show recently.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like this bit. Groups that shouldn't connect with

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Speaker 1: Yes, so you've you've come back to Melbourne. What what

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Speaker 2: I guess now I'm singing and DJing at the same time.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing that for like the AFLW and stuff

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Speaker 2: I have been starting my own women in business, women

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Speaker 3: And then yeah, a bit of everything, doing some writing.

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Speaker 3: I'm doing some everything. Days never looked the same, that's

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Speaker 2: And then a bit of like cabaret, quick change, whatever

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Speaker 3: I just like to mess it all together.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this makes it fun exactly.

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Speaker 2: I always say I would love to be if, like say,

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Speaker 1: I think it's only fair that you taught me a

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, I'll teach you a Malay rap line.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So the song is called have OC. You can say

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Speaker 2: have have OC, Yes, have OC, have up?

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Speaker 1: Have OC have Yeah?

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Speaker 3: That's it, that's it.

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Speaker 2: And then you say, can guager done?

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Speaker 1: Done?

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Speaker 3: Wait?

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Speaker 1: Can a da Sorry good, chuck up, cano, chuck up, goad,

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Speaker 1: chuck up. Yes, maybe I'll be.

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Speaker 3: Viral now you want to become a rapper.

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Speaker 1: I've put this on the socials and who knows, it

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Speaker 1: could go crazy.

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Speaker 3: I think it will.

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Speaker 1: We could be TikTok superstars. Yes, I'll just do that

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Speaker 1: one line over and over again.

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Speaker 3: That's all there is in the chorus.

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Speaker 1: So you're oh, so that was Cassie La Cram, a

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Speaker 1: real life Hannah Montanna, which I guess it's just like

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Speaker 1: the life of a drag wing. Really see the real

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Speaker 1: lifestyle for yourself. On the Socialism