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Speaker 1: Good morning, Happy Friday. Sam. How are you doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing so much better. After Jess Fox won her

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Speaker 2: first gold medal in three Olympics, it was probably my

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Speaker 2: favorite moment of the Olympics so far. There's been so

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Speaker 2: much to this story and I was absolutely thrilled.

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Speaker 1: I'm a bit horrified by the prospect of us not

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Speaker 1: having the Olympics to talk about, but until that time,

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Speaker 1: we are going to bring you some good news via

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Speaker 1: the Olympics, and we're also going to bring you the

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Speaker 1: latest COVID news from across the country as well as

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Speaker 1: some news from the US. SAM kick us off.

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Speaker 2: It seems like even when the Olympics and we are

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Speaker 2: still going to have COVID as our constant. New South

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Speaker 2: Wales recorded two hundred and thirty nine locally acquired cases

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Speaker 2: of COVID yesterday. Was sixty six of those cases infectious

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Speaker 2: in the community.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to jump in there because while it

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Speaker 1: was sixty six who were infectious in the community, there

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Speaker 1: was also another seventy cases where authorities are investigating their

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Speaker 1: isolation status, so it's likely that that number is actually

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Speaker 1: a lot higher.

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Speaker 2: After these numbers were announced, additional restrictions were also announced

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Speaker 2: for the ace LGA hotspots in Greater Sydney. There's about

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Speaker 2: two million people affected by these new restrictions. Masks are

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Speaker 2: now required in those LGAs everywhere except for home, and

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Speaker 2: those in the LGAs can only move within a five

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Speaker 1: If you're dreaming of traveling overseas, Quantus had some news

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Speaker 1: yesterday that you might want to pay attention to. Quantus

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Speaker 1: announced that it'll require passengers to carry a new digital

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Speaker 1: health pass with information about COVID nineteen test results and

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Speaker 1: vaccination status, so basically a vaccine passport. The International Air

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Speaker 1: Transport Association has developed the pass, which Quantus trialed on

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Speaker 1: overseas repatriation flights earlier this year. We know that the

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Speaker 1: pass will exist in the form of a free smartphone app,

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Speaker 1: but the development work for the pass is currently underway,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully it'll be up and running by the time

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Speaker 1: international flights resume.

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Speaker 2: Over to the US. Now and the US Senate voted

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Speaker 2: sixty seven to thirty two to advance a one trillion

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Speaker 2: dollar infrastructure bill after weeks of negotiating. So five hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty billion dollars of that bill is new federal

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Speaker 2: funding and that's going to be invested in areas such

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Speaker 2: as rebuilding the electric grid, passenger and freight rail, broadband,

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Speaker 2: internet access, water infrastructure bridges, and the first federal network

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Speaker 2: of charging stations for electric vehicles.

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Speaker 1: That was a big piece of legislation for the Democrats

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Speaker 1: to push through. So it is pretty substantial political news

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Speaker 1: there from the US. But today's good news though. We

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Speaker 1: are getting back to domestic news. And there were more

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Speaker 1: Australian gold medals yesterday. So my Isaac's doublet Cook, who

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Speaker 1: has the best name on Earth, won gold yesterday in

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Speaker 1: the men's two hundred meters breaststroke. Then of course there

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Speaker 1: was also jess Fox, who the whole country was barracking

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Speaker 1: for and she won gold yesterday in the canoe slaleon

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Speaker 1: CE one.

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Speaker 2: Here is what I suspect will become a really famous

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Speaker 1: Into the final upstream gate.

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Speaker 3: The time is looking strong for Jessica Fox.

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Speaker 1: One gate to come.

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Speaker 2: Fox is flying to walk to loneh Is this the

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Speaker 2: moment chief to cover a career side? If you're anything

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Speaker 2: like me, you've been watching upwards of eight or nine

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Speaker 2: hours of Olympics coverage every day and I have a

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Speaker 2: and you'd be hearing a lot of music. There's that

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Speaker 2: orchestral theme that plays with every gold medal. And Channel

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Speaker 2: seven do a lot of packages of highlights and it's

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Speaker 2: pretty hard not to miss some of the key moments

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Speaker 2: from our Australian athletes in Tokyo. But Holly otherwise known

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Speaker 2: as Jack River, who's one of Australia's leading artists, had

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Speaker 2: a different take on the music choice by Channel seven.

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Speaker 1: Here's what Holly posted on her Instagram a couple of

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Speaker 1: days ago. She said, and I quote dear Channel seven

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Speaker 1: and Corporate OZ, how great would it be if we

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Speaker 1: all played Australian music in your coverage of the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: These are Australian moments and they deserve Australia in music.

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Speaker 1: And while we're here, how good would it be to

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Speaker 1: hear Ozzie music in Cohle's, in woollies, audi and in banks,

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Speaker 1: on hold, in stores and on ads being shown to

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Speaker 1: Australians for the next few months. We need you more

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Speaker 1: than ever. We want to be your soundtrack.

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Speaker 2: We're now joined by Holly Holly. It's been about thirty

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Speaker 2: six hours since you put that post on Instagram. What's

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Speaker 3: The reaction has been unfathomably huge.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, music's been on the sideline for a good year

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Speaker 4: now and it's been incredible to see the overwhelming support

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Speaker 4: want to see and hear Australian music on TV and

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Speaker 4: from their favorite brands, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Do you know if in other countries around the world

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Speaker 2: this is kind of built into the way that TV

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Speaker 2: is produced as well. Is this something that Australia doesn't

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Speaker 3: It is something that Australia doesn't do very well.

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Speaker 4: I can speak to the radio quotas they slide between

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Speaker 4: five and twenty five percent, and it's a self governed thing,

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Speaker 4: so dio stations decide how much they want to include,

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Speaker 4: whereas in countries like Canada there's a thirty five percent

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Speaker 2: Wow. And so Eduen a Buffalome you who has been

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Speaker 2: hosting a lot of the coverage on Channel seven. She

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Speaker 2: responded on Instagram yesterday, tagging you in a post and

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Speaker 2: said to other Ozzie musos. We hear you. I can't

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Speaker 2: speak for Woolworths and Aldi, but we are going to

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Speaker 2: beef up the Ossie music and the AVOs on seven Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Is this seen as a win for Australian music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is absolutely a win.

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Speaker 4: My post came from, you know, watching the Olympics and

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Speaker 4: seeing these incredible Australian moments, yet they're kind of underlaid

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Speaker 4: to American or British music. And as an Australian musician

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Speaker 4: who's experiencing a ninety eight percent downturn in business at

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Speaker 4: the moment with an inability to play live, it's just

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Speaker 4: a bit of a kick in the guts. And more so,

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Speaker 4: it's just a missed of a unity to soundtrack Australian

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Speaker 4: music to these incredible moments. So it was so great

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Speaker 4: to hear Edwina is going to help boost the music,

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Speaker 4: the Australian music that we're hearing in the coverage of

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Speaker 4: the Olympics. It's great, but you know, Jess Fox just

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Speaker 4: one gold and Alicia Keyes was playing at the top

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Speaker 3: A bit to go.

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Speaker 1: I just want to pick up on something you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: which was the downturn that musicians in this country are facing,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like a lot of the political discourse

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Speaker 1: groups that are really vulnerable during this time and need

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Speaker 1: additional financial support. How have you found the COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: pandemic as a member of the arts and as a

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Speaker 4: Well, it's been a big journey for many for Australian

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Speaker 4: artists during the pandemic, there's a range of experiences.

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Speaker 3: Job Keeper was an absolute life saver, and the.

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Speaker 4: Government did introduce a support package in the form of

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Speaker 4: major grants for businesses in the arts, but a lot

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Speaker 4: of businesses slip through the cracks and a lot of

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Speaker 4: small to medium sized businesses don't have the resource to

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Speaker 4: write those grants or even survive the three months or

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Speaker 4: four months it takes to receive that grant money. So

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Speaker 4: now that the majority of states are opening up, there

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Speaker 4: is a light at the end of the tunnel to

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Speaker 4: hopefully find some sense of normalcy early next year when

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Speaker 4: we have a majority vaccinated population. We really need live

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Speaker 4: music to come back to stages and venues, and we

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Speaker 4: need the government to treat us equally, treat us how

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Speaker 4: they are treating sporting organizations and corporations who seem to

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Speaker 4: have potentially different rules to us.

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Speaker 2: So for Australian music fans that aren't executives at Channel

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Speaker 2: seven and can't make those big swing decisions that hopefully

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Speaker 2: we'll see more Australian music through the Olympics coverage. What

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Speaker 2: action can Zara and I take to support our favorite

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Speaker 2: live acts that we can't buy a ticket for at

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Speaker 4: You can listen to them on streaming platforms, you can

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Speaker 4: buy their merch and right now there's an incredible wave

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Speaker 4: of music fans calling out to their favorite brands and

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Speaker 4: favorite companies to playlist Australian music and soundtrack Australian music

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Speaker 4: to whatever they're doing, whether it's you know, a sports store,

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Speaker 4: a bank, a supermarket chain, consumers really do have a

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Speaker 2: Jess Fox wins gold. She throws her arm up in

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Speaker 2: the air. What Australian soundtrack would you like to hear

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Speaker 2: with that moment?

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Speaker 3: I would say Baker Boys, cool as hell.

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Speaker 2: Hell, yeah. That would be an incredible soundtrack to hear

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Speaker 2: as Jess Fox absolutely flew down the final stages of

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Speaker 2: her race to win her first gold in three Olympics. Holly,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. We are so

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Speaker 2: excited to see if this actually eventuates in more Aussie

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Speaker 2: soundtracks being played at the Olympics. We'll have to keep

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Speaker 2: actually eventuates in action.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, guys, so great to join you