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Hitman Talks to Rick Springfield · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: We're one O five to five the X. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: It is hit Man with you and I've got on
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  Speaker 1: the phone with me an author, an actor, a performer,
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  Speaker 1: mister Rick Springfield. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Very good?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Now you have a new CD DVD that just
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  Speaker 1: actually just came out a couple of weeks ago called
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  Speaker 1: strip Down right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a live DVD in my solo storyteller show.
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  Speaker 2: That's DVD and a CD in that.
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  Speaker 1: Now are you is this the what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing at Borderfest this Sunday? Or are you doing
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  Speaker 1: a full band?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? We're doing the full band show there. It's a big,
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  Speaker 2: loud and hot and sweaty show. Strip Down Show is
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  Speaker 2: a named a story more about as much about the stories.
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  Speaker 2: It is about the songs. And it's just me and
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guitars. But the show we're doing with
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  Speaker 2: you guys is a full band show.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of cool, all right? Looking forward to that,
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  Speaker 1: of course it's this Sunday's tickets are still available. It's
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  Speaker 1: a Rick Springfield with lover Boy and the Romantics. Everything
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  Speaker 1: starts at about seven pm at State Farming. To make
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  Speaker 1: sure you still get your tickets. Of course, I'm been
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  Speaker 1: sitting you reading your bile. One of the things I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of is the documentary on Sound City,
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  Speaker 1: and you actually had a big part of this with
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  Speaker 1: Dave Role of the Food Fighters. Tell me about your
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  Speaker 1: experience with that.
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  Speaker 2: It was great because it was a real important studio
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of people in Sound City. It was
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  Speaker 2: my manager owned that actually, which is why it became
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  Speaker 2: such a deep part of it, of the of the
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  Speaker 2: story that you know, and I recorded all my early
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  Speaker 2: hits there. They said, you know, his life changed the
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  Speaker 2: moment he you know, from before and after never mind
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  Speaker 2: Yavana so and that was recorded there too. So it
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  Speaker 2: was at the important studio for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a great cross paulin Meker days. He got
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  Speaker 2: us all together and I wrote a song with the
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  Speaker 2: Food Fighters and then we went on tour with Stevie
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  Speaker 2: Nanx and John Fogerty and a bunch of people connected
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  Speaker 2: to Sound City and it was just a really great
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  Speaker 2: experience at the end of the main thing too.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's I mean, I'm a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: Dave Grole. So anything that has to deal with with you,
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  Speaker 1: with Dave Grole and stuff like that. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: really cool. The one thing I'm also uh, you're a
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  Speaker 1: best best author with your first fiction novel called Magnificent Vibration.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, it's I wrote my own autobiography and anout a ghostwriter,
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  Speaker 2: and my publisher like my writing stuff, so she just
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  Speaker 2: suggested that, right, you write a novel. And it is
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  Speaker 2: the first one, and it's uh, basically a story about
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's just finds the phone number uh and
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  Speaker 2: it says call God, and so he does, and God
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  Speaker 2: is actually on the other end of the line, and
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  Speaker 2: God is pretty pissed off the way he's been mishandling
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  Speaker 2: his current planet. And h there's a bit of an
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  Speaker 2: attitude about it. It kind of you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: dark comedy for sure, and uh has some surprising twists
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  Speaker 2: and turns in some of my philosophy about uh my
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  Speaker 2: view of the world.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Wow, that that's actually pretty deep.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You now you've also been you're still doing films. You
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  Speaker 1: actually just finished wrapping up doing a movie with Meryl
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  Speaker 1: Street that's going to be coming out this summer.
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  Speaker 2: Right, coll work in the Flash and uh Well Street
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  Speaker 2: and Kevin Klein was directed by Jonathan Demmy, who did
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  Speaker 2: Fons to the Lands and actually written by the Diablo
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  Speaker 2: Cody's look. You know, so it's been a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great people at home.
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  Speaker 1: Well so so as so you've won a Grammy. Uh
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  Speaker 1: what what would be like if you won an Oscar?
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  Speaker 2: I's that'd be kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we've We've seen movies that Meryl Streep
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  Speaker 1: has been in that that have gone on to win
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  Speaker 1: lots of Oscars and a lot of people that have
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  Speaker 1: been best supporting actors, best actor. You know, you never
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  Speaker 1: know what could happen. You never know you might be
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  Speaker 1: on that stage next year accepting an Oscar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm in the acting thing for life,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I mean I think it's it's a
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  Speaker 2: great feal and I love it and I'm being in
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  Speaker 2: as long as as long as I can.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking with Rick Springfield. Of course. He is performing
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  Speaker 1: with Loverboy and the Romantics. This Sunday show starts at
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  Speaker 1: seven pm. Make sure you make it on our tickets
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  Speaker 1: are still available right now. You can get them at
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  Speaker 1: ticketmaster dot com. You can also get him at the
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  Speaker 1: gate it's going to be a huge festival. When's the
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  Speaker 1: last time you you toured through Texas?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know. I'm kind of the wrong guy
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  Speaker 2: to ask that. We'll always had a great I love
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  Speaker 2: Texas audiences, and we've been in and out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think we did. We did Dallas a
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  Speaker 2: little while ago, which appy, that's the DVD CD that
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  Speaker 2: is released was filmed in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's actually pretty cool. What's what's going to
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  Speaker 1: be interesting? And I actually told this to Wally uh
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  Speaker 1: the leasing or the Romantics actually the other day is
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  Speaker 1: you're literally going to be five minutes away from Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: So and actually a lot of people from Mexico come
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  Speaker 1: to this festival, so you know you probably have a
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  Speaker 1: huge following also in Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's right. I did you realize it was
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  Speaker 2: that close? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You you're we're literally going to be from the arena
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  Speaker 1: maybe five minutes away from the border.
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  Speaker 2: Literally, Well, we're really loud to dance, so the ole
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  Speaker 2: here is in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: That's really really cool, now, was it? Uh, you've been
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot, You've done other documentaries. One of the
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  Speaker 1: other ones that you did back in twenty twelve was
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  Speaker 1: an Affair of the Heart and uh, you know where
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  Speaker 1: you did a lot of good stuff with your fans. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: tell me a little bit about that. And it was
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  Speaker 1: actually on Epics, the Epics.
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  Speaker 2: Network, right, Yeah, yeah, they ran it. It's a documentary
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  Speaker 2: that I'm pretty sure director did basically because they were
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  Speaker 2: fans and they saw that it's a pretty special group
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  Speaker 2: of people that had been with me a long time,
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  Speaker 2: some of the hard cores, and we we actually have
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  Speaker 2: an event in April where we ran out club met
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  Speaker 2: in Unfortunate Lucy and Florida and take it over and
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  Speaker 2: you know, fans come down and we hang out for
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  Speaker 2: five days and party and lay you know much of
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  Speaker 2: different songs and sit around the pool and play. And
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  Speaker 2: Robin Zander from the Chief Trek is I'm down a
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  Speaker 2: musical guests, I have active friends that come down and
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  Speaker 2: it's a really great way to kind of say thanks
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  Speaker 2: to the fans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was it. Actually, I was really impressed when
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  Speaker 1: I went on YouTube and I saw some of the
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  Speaker 1: great performances you actually did in a New York City subway.
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  Speaker 1: What how was that experience?
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty weird. We weren't showing how that was
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  Speaker 2: going to work out. But it was, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Got a lot of comments. Shows a lot like Rich Springfield.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're talking with Rick Springfield. Of course it's
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  Speaker 1: happening this Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: One last question for you if I could, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some of the bands down here in the Real Grand
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  Speaker 1: Value we promote local rock here in the RGV and
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  Speaker 1: and help promote local bands. In fact, one of the
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  Speaker 1: local bands recently got signed to Razor and Tie Records.
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  Speaker 1: What advice can you give to up and coming local
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  Speaker 1: artists that are trying to to get further into the business.
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  Speaker 1: What would you tell them?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think anyone has any success
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  Speaker 2: new either, and I think there is no you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's certainly the US changed so much anyway, I almost
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  Speaker 2: don't recognize that that the touring thing is always We'll
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  Speaker 2: always love live music, you know, and I certainly the
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  Speaker 2: internet reis a whole new platform to put your music on.
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  Speaker 2: It's really the only thing I ever tell anyone who's
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  Speaker 2: is you've got to really want it. And the three
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  Speaker 2: important things to remembers never give up, never give up,
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  Speaker 2: never give up.
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  Speaker 1: That advice I have well I greatly appreciate you taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to to to talking to us on the
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  Speaker 1: phone and and looking forward to Sunday with your performance
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  Speaker 1: there at the State Farm Arena. Any last thing you
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  Speaker 1: want to tell your frians?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, what's True Detective Season two?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, oh yeah, I read about that. Yeah, looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to that. And you're actually in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other great shows that are coming up too, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, really starting to focus on acting? Is you know,
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  Speaker 2: taking time to leave some holes in the touring schedules
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  Speaker 2: that I could bark send actor. I willing to step
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  Speaker 2: that up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. We will see you on True Detective.
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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to that and of course looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing you on Sunday. Thank you again, Sarah for taking
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  Speaker 1: the time to talk to us today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks well, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, we'll see it.