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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning, Sam, This.

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Speaker 2: Is Bigger Love.

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Speaker 3: This is a new single from John Legend. He also

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Speaker 3: has a new album, Bigger Love. I mean, what a guest.

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Speaker 3: He's got an Emmy, He's got a Grammy, He's got

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Speaker 3: an Oscar, He's got a Tony.

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Speaker 2: He's been crowned the sexiest man alive.

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Speaker 3: He has the unofficial title of being the nicest guy

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Speaker 3: in Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: We are thrilled to have him on the show. John Legend, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 2: how are you great?

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Speaker 4: Can you do any more? Can you stop? Give us

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Speaker 4: mere Mortals a break?

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Speaker 1: Bait? Not this week? It's been a busy week, but

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Speaker 1: I look forward to taking a little holiday in July.

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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting with Bigger Love. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is a beautiful song. The clip with it is just gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: It's all about inclusiveness and people have been uploading their

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Speaker 3: own versions of listening to this and dancing.

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Speaker 2: How could you have known that this was what the

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Speaker 2: world needed right now?

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Speaker 1: Well, I didn't you know. I wrote that song last year.

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Speaker 1: I wrote it with Ryan Tedder and the Cautious Play.

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Speaker 1: Ryan's written many many hit songs and is a great

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Speaker 1: guy and a really talented guy, and we just sat

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Speaker 1: in a room and wrote together, and we didn't know

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Speaker 1: what the conditions in the world would be when we

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Speaker 1: released it, But obviously the world's been through a lot lately,

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Speaker 1: particularly the last few months, and I feel like folks

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Speaker 1: need this kind of song, and I'm so happy that

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Speaker 1: so many people have received it so well around the

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Speaker 1: world and that we can include so many of them

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Speaker 1: in the video.

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Speaker 3: What's beautiful about your music is you absolutely wear your

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Speaker 3: heart on your sleeve. And there's been a lot of

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Speaker 3: heartbreak in the world the last few weeks. How have

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Speaker 3: you been responding to what's been happening, particularly in the States.

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Speaker 1: Well, of course, you know, on top of coronavirus in

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Speaker 1: the States, we've had a long standing issue in this

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Speaker 1: country with racism and the way black people have been

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Speaker 1: treated in this country and our relationship with police and

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Speaker 1: the rest of the criminal justice system. And of course

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Speaker 1: we saw that laid there in a very painful to

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Speaker 1: watch video, and that's been really traumatic for a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks of all races, but particularly for black folks

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Speaker 1: who are once again being reminded that too often our

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Speaker 1: lives aren't valued enus in this country and so it's

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Speaker 1: been tough. It's been tough for all of us. And

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Speaker 1: the only silver lining I see in all of it

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Speaker 1: is that you've seen so many people marching in the streets,

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Speaker 1: so many people of all races and all genders and

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Speaker 1: all age groups, all religions coming together saying this nation

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Speaker 1: needs more equality, more justice, and it needs to value

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Speaker 1: black lives. And I think that's a beautiful thing. We've

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Speaker 1: seen people protesting with us, even in other countries, in

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Speaker 1: solidarity with us, and I think that's been beautiful thing

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Speaker 1: to see. And hopefully, based on that momentum and that energy,

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Speaker 1: we'll see real policy change in this country and get

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Speaker 1: closer to freedom and get closer to justice and equality

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Speaker 1: for everybody.

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Speaker 4: So do you feel that you're randing a corner over

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Speaker 4: there in the stits?

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Speaker 1: You know? I hope, so, I hope so. I really

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Speaker 1: do believe that this movement has been really escalated and

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Speaker 1: really hope inspiring for me because just seeing so many

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Speaker 1: people in the streets, such a diverse group of people

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Speaker 1: in the streets, it makes me believe that there's a

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Speaker 1: real movement for change.

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Speaker 4: Because I noticed that NASCAR have stopped running the Confederate

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Speaker 4: flag which is a big deal for them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big deal. And you know, some

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Speaker 1: of these statues of Confederate generals are coming down as well.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, can you imagine the thought of honoring

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Speaker 1: these folks who led an army that tried to leave

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Speaker 1: the United States, that fought against the United States army,

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Speaker 1: and the principal reason that they fought was to maintain

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Speaker 1: slavery in this country. The idea of honoring those people

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Speaker 1: is just a slap in the face to freedom loving people,

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Speaker 1: to black people in particular. Something was long overdue getting

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Speaker 1: rid of those symbols and monuments of such a terrible movement,

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Speaker 1: the secessionist movement that fought to maintain slavery.

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Speaker 3: I love following your wife also on social media, and

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Speaker 3: I love that she's such an oversharer. She said a

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Speaker 3: few weeks ago, she's threatened to leak your album if

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Speaker 3: she got.

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Speaker 2: Cranky at you. And she said that there are some

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Speaker 2: lyrics it must be very hard.

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Speaker 3: She said, there's a lyric in one of your songs saying,

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Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of women trying to take

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Speaker 3: your place, And she was.

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Speaker 2: Furious with you over that.

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Speaker 3: That must be hard to have all your lyrics coped

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Speaker 3: over by Chrissy.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't really furious. She was being playful, but she's

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Speaker 1: good at at ribbing me on social media, and uh,

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Speaker 1: it's part of our you know, it's part of our

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Speaker 1: way of interacting on social media. And I know our

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Speaker 1: fans love it and it's funny. But she wasn't worried

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Speaker 1: about the line. But it was a funny thing to

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Speaker 1: point out. And I loved it because, like I said

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Speaker 1: in my tweets to her, she was giving me a

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Speaker 1: lot of free promotion, so I appreciated it.

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Speaker 4: You know, you maybe should start writting songs like would

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Speaker 4: it que you to make Me a stake or something

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Speaker 4: like that. That could be that could be a new

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Speaker 4: that could be a new song to follow up Bigger Love. Well, John,

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Speaker 4: It's always great to talk to you, but bystream or

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Speaker 4: download John Legend's new album Big Love, with the title

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Speaker 4: track big a Love. John Legend, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, such a pleasure, Have a great day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: John joined and Amanda in the morning at one point seven.

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Speaker 1: Tell you