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Elf Unwrapped You Know The Movie But Not The Story Andy Richter And Aaron Karo · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: How's everything going today?
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  Speaker 3: Good, Arrow.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? absolutely fired up about what you guys
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  Speaker 1: are doing with this project in the way that, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: who would have ever thought elf unwrapped? I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: has been the most, I'm glued to it because I
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  Speaker 1: want to know everything that's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, good.
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  Speaker 3: Then we did our job. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 3: letting us know. No, I mean, that's that we, I wanted,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to write a very readable, fun and funny
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  Speaker 3: book that will, that is just a good accompaniment to
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  Speaker 3: the movie. Just a good companion to the movie and
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  Speaker 3: capture the same sort of spirit. And people seem to
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  Speaker 3: be getting that from it. So it's very, very rewarding.
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  Speaker 2: To hear that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's so interesting that you say that because that's
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that I did was I went and
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  Speaker 1: I sat down to watch the movie because it really
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  Speaker 1: does develop that a stronger relationship with Will Ferrell and
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  Speaker 1: everybody else that's a part of this. Because now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, I feel like that I'm part of
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  Speaker 1: the set itself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's great because there is a lot to
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  Speaker 3: find out about the making of this movie, even for
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  Speaker 3: people who have seen it a hundred times, that I
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  Speaker 3: think is going to really sort of.
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  Speaker 3: Fill in some gaps that they didn't even know were there.
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  Speaker 1: I like the way that it opens up with Will Ferrell.
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  Speaker 1: That was a very touching moment for we who are
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  Speaker 1: fans because it just shows his human side. Plus, he's
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  Speaker 1: very playful. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in the foreword he talks about, he was afraid
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  Speaker 3: that he'd made a terrible mistake. And on his first
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  Speaker 3: day on the movie, they shot the New York City
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  Speaker 3: exterior stuff first. And he was there in his trailer
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  Speaker 3: in his yellow tights wondering... You know, he just left
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  Speaker 3: SNL and wondering if maybe he'd made a terrible mistake and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, derailed his career before it began.
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  Speaker 1: Would you say that this is a modern day Clarence
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  Speaker 1: moment in the way that Buddy is like Clarence getting
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  Speaker 1: his angel wings? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, oh, at the end, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he stands on the bridge and contemplates suicide, you know,
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  Speaker 3: which is so Christmassy. But, you know, that's a definite,
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  Speaker 3: that's a definite sort of nod to It's a Wonderful Life.
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  Speaker 3: And then luckily Santa flies by.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the way that it really does, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all have our little crashes and burnouts before Christmas
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  Speaker 1: gets here. And it's almost like we could relate with
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  Speaker 1: Will Ferrell's character, Buddy, in the way of going, OK,
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  Speaker 1: if he's having a bad day, it's not as bad
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  Speaker 1: as my day. But, you know, but we're all having
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  Speaker 1: a bad time, but we all enjoy the movie and
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  Speaker 1: we laugh with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that Buddy is a little
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  Speaker 2: Buddy in all of us, right? And he's like, he's
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  Speaker 2: a big kid and he just wants to have fun
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  Speaker 2: and he wants to eat sugar plums. And that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like, well, it's wish fulfillment enough, really.
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  Speaker 3: Like spaghetti and maple syrup. Everyone wants to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Please don't move.
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  Speaker 1: There's more with Andy Richter and Aaron Caro coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Elf Unwrapped. It is quite the gift. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not going to watch the movie the same.
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  Speaker 1: We are back with Andy and Aaron. Now, Aaron, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you like to write your next book? It would be
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  Speaker 1: Andy Richter Unwrapped because I would love to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what this guy is holding inside, too, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to all the comedy he's been involved in.
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  Speaker 2: He's got some dark, dark secrets.
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  Speaker 3: You do not want to unwrap this.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I've peered into his eyes and it's all black. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's a lot of darkness there. It's a different
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  Speaker 3: holiday tale.
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  Speaker 1: The collaboration between the two of you, isn't it great
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  Speaker 1: to be able to tap into an imagination that's on
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  Speaker 1: the same page that you are and you build together?
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  Speaker 1: I just love it when people come together with their art.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time we've been in the same
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  Speaker 2: room together, actually.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it really was. And I mean, and I
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  Speaker 3: also people have said to me, and this is something
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  Speaker 3: that we set out because, you know, I was the
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  Speaker 3: first one hired to write the book. And then Aaron
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  Speaker 3: came on to help me is that people have said
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  Speaker 3: that they feel like the book is really in my voice.
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  Speaker 3: And that's real credit to Aaron in helping me do that,
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  Speaker 3: to maintain that. Because my voice, only on listening to
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  Speaker 3: it is annoying. When it's on the page, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I said when I was writing, I would say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what would a 15-year-old say?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And that's why there's so many fart jokes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in developing this, though, where you say that it's
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  Speaker 1: your voice, but at the same time, we do hear
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  Speaker 1: that voice, but we also hear our own voice when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to reading the paragraphs, because it almost feels
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  Speaker 1: like you're saying exactly what we want to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 3: You're saying all kinds of great stuff, Errol.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because this movie is it's got to be when
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  Speaker 1: when people call it the Christmas movie, I go, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so, because I watch it in March. I'll
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  Speaker 1: watch it in October. I will watch it whenever it's
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  Speaker 1: on TV and I'll sit there and just be glued
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  Speaker 1: to it just as if it's the first time I've
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  Speaker 1: ever watched it.
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  Speaker 3: We hear that so much that where people, you know,
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  Speaker 3: have told us, oh, I watch it in July. I
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  Speaker 3: watch in the middle of summer. If I'm feeling too hot,
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  Speaker 3: I'll put it on just to cool down.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. What did you guys learn from this project?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of Hollywood magic inside Elf, and
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  Speaker 1: you're this close to it when you unwrap it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think going back to Will and what he
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  Speaker 2: wrote in his foreword, obviously now it seems like it's
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  Speaker 2: a foregone conclusion that this movie was going to be big.
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  Speaker 2: But Will was sitting there on the first day of shooting,
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  Speaker 2: wearing his Buddy the Elf costume, staring into a mirror
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  Speaker 2: and being like, did I just ruin my career? Because
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  Speaker 2: he hadn't done old school yet. He hadn't done Anchorman.
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  Speaker 2: All he had done is SNL. And that really struck
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  Speaker 2: me because Andy and I sat down with Will for
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  Speaker 2: many hours in person and how this was not a
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  Speaker 2: slam dunk. This was a potential could have torpedoed his career.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we didn't we all as fans of Will
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  Speaker 1: Ferrell sit there and go, this is everything that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted from Will Ferrell because of the costume and the
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  Speaker 1: antics and the fun and the vibration from him.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that existed out in people, but they
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  Speaker 3: did not know that, you know, even up until. The
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  Speaker 3: first screenings of the movie, especially having Hadwill succeed so
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  Speaker 3: well in stealing old school, which is quite literally a
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  Speaker 3: frat comedy, that they were afraid that those kind of
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  Speaker 3: audiences were not going to respond. They had their first
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  Speaker 3: test screening and it was just kind of regular folks.
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  Speaker 3: They loved it, but they said, well, we better do it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it literally was fraternity boys saying, came
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  Speaker 3: in and watched it, and they loved it maybe even
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  Speaker 3: more than just the regular folks. So that's when they
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  Speaker 3: really knew that they had done it right.
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you who done it right. Them
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  Speaker 1: picking you guys to do this book. They picked the
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  Speaker 1: absolute right people to do it because you've got the quirkiness.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the understanding. Plus, more importantly, if people go
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  Speaker 1: and they really research the two of you, you are
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  Speaker 1: connected to us like an umbilical cord. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: really are because you understand who we are on this
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  Speaker 1: side of the entertainment screen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. That was that was our goal. We
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  Speaker 2: were definitely saying umbilical cord.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah now let me let me put it
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  Speaker 1: through chat gpt to see if i spelled it right
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  Speaker 1: okay oh my god and and let me give you
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  Speaker 1: a big heads up here andy i love what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing with dancing with the stars you're you're humanizing it
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  Speaker 1: there too so you got to hang out with this
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  Speaker 1: aaron guy more often because we're seeing a lot more
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  Speaker 1: you of you today and we are loving it dude.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you yep aaron aaron booked me on dancing with
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  Speaker 3: the stars i've I'm forever indebted to him.
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  Speaker 2: I want him to stop doing Dance With The Stars.
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  Speaker 2: If anything, he should stop hanging out with me.
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  Speaker 3: We got to run, Arrow.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have a brilliant day today. And thank you
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  Speaker 1: once again for connecting us to something that is just
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  Speaker 1: very special in all of our lives.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Be brilliant today, you two.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Will do.