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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Shares How Emotional Song "Your Dad" Was Rewritten · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Seacrest here, and I don't know anybody that doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: want to run up to him to say thank you
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  Speaker 1: or I love you and all the nice things. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's Dwayne the Rock Johnson is here. Dwayne johnsonlet's just
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  Speaker 1: call him Dwayne Johnson. Welcome is hey?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, fam. I appreciate you having me on.
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  Speaker 1: I saw you on Sunday as we did the D
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  Speaker 1: twenty three Legend Award. Congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you brother, it was great to see you too.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a minute. But what a night, what a
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  Speaker 3: special night. I was so moved by that night. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you go into those things as you know, you're prepared,
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  Speaker 3: and you think you have an idea of what it is,
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  Speaker 3: and I thought I did so when I got there
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  Speaker 3: and you feel that crowd and you feel that kind
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  Speaker 3: of love in the room and that kind of mana
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  Speaker 3: spirit in the room, and it just really just took
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  Speaker 3: me over.
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  Speaker 1: But you had such a remarkable acceptance speech, and it's
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  Speaker 1: really a philosophy. I subscribe to it. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I've leaving it, I you know, and when I don't
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  Speaker 1: hit it on the mark, every day I think about
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  Speaker 1: what you said. Let me play some of that back.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, here's a guy Cisani and Tanya that has
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  Speaker 1: worked super hard, that has had tremendous success, but has
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  Speaker 1: remained this kind human being. And I say that like
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  Speaker 1: that shouldn't be some great achievement. We should always be
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  Speaker 1: kind human beings no matter what's going on. But listen
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  Speaker 1: to what he said, and everybody in the Honda Center
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  Speaker 1: was focused and listening to these words.
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  Speaker 3: Trends will come and go, and algorithms will do what
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  Speaker 3: they do, but being kind and being good to people.
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  Speaker 3: And I heard this quote when I was fifteen, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll never.
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  Speaker 2: Forget it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to be important, but it's more important to
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  Speaker 3: be nice. I mean that from my heart.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it's true. It's true. And just by doing that
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  Speaker 1: and living that way, you feel better about yourself. People
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  Speaker 1: feel better about themselves. Tell me, how is it that
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  Speaker 1: you subscribe to that day in and day out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I heard that.
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  Speaker 3: Quote when I was fifteen, and I you know, at fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: I was still getting arrested and in trouble, but I
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  Speaker 3: just I do remember that feeling of Wow, if I
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  Speaker 3: am important one day and whatever that means, it's just
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  Speaker 3: a reminder to be nice and kind. And then as
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  Speaker 3: you get older and you roll down the road of life,
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  Speaker 3: as we know, man, the algorithm will do what it does,
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  Speaker 3: meaning like the algorithms these days, as we know, will
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  Speaker 3: amplify the outrage and the division and the noise. So
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  Speaker 3: the challenge for us is to maintain that thing that
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  Speaker 3: we have, that anchoring integrity that we have, and try
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  Speaker 3: to try our best to block out the noise. And also,
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  Speaker 3: in addition to blocking out the noise, try our best
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  Speaker 3: to treat people good and treat people kindly, because that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff matters.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: Today, whether it's our younger generation and our young folks
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  Speaker 3: out there, or even just us as not young folks
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  Speaker 3: or me the age of Toronto source Rex, you still
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  Speaker 3: have to that idea of treating people good and being
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  Speaker 3: kind to them.
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  Speaker 2: That's the kind of stuff that never goes out of style.
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  Speaker 1: But what's interesting, what strikes me here is that you
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  Speaker 1: said you weren't always that way. You got into trouble
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  Speaker 1: growing up. You've been through some rough stuff growing up,
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  Speaker 1: so it wasn't always that philosophy, and also discipline, you
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  Speaker 1: weren't always so disciplined either. Now you seem very disciplined,
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  Speaker 1: you work hard. I'm curious to know about the blessings
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  Speaker 1: and the curse of discipline, because it can be fantastic
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of things, but I also think it
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  Speaker 1: can be sometimes it's a curse when you're over disciplined.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: So what I've learned over the years is there is
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  Speaker 3: really really true value in being disciplined, and there's discipline
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  Speaker 3: and then the devotion to being disciplined about something and
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  Speaker 3: when you're and a lot of times it's happened to
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  Speaker 3: me too, I know what you're saying, we can be
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  Speaker 3: a little bit over disciplined where it kind of has
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  Speaker 3: this counter reaction to what we want and what I
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  Speaker 3: have found. And you tell me if you've experienced this,
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  Speaker 3: or the fan here at the radio station has experienced this,
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  Speaker 3: is that when a lot of times, when you're so
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  Speaker 3: super focused and disciplined about something, you can sometimes, unbeknownst
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  Speaker 3: to it happening, you lose focus in sight on the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that not only is equally important in life, but
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  Speaker 3: then you realize, oh, that's the stuff that really matters. So,
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  Speaker 3: for example, it's happened to me in the past where
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  Speaker 3: I would be so devoted to the discipline and the
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  Speaker 3: thing and think I must put in the work from
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  Speaker 3: sun up to sundown, and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 3: you realize, a couple of years later, you know the
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  Speaker 3: things that are really the most important things are the
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  Speaker 3: things that are right in front of you, and that's
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  Speaker 3: family and your babies as they're growing up. And before
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  Speaker 3: you know it, you look up and you're like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 3: I just missed a couple of years because I was
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  Speaker 3: so disciplined trying to chase the thing you want to chase.
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  Speaker 2: So you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I think the discipline is a good thing, and you
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  Speaker 3: have to be devoted to it, but also be devoted
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  Speaker 3: to being as present as you possibly can in the
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  Speaker 3: moment with your family, your loved ones, your friends, the
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  Speaker 3: things that matter to as well.
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  Speaker 2: So it's that act of balance that you that I've
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  Speaker 2: tried to maintain.
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson with us. Let's take a quick break, we're
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  Speaker 1: coming back. Got to talk about Molwana, Voices across the
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  Speaker 1: Ocean and a little album that in his wife put
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  Speaker 1: out too. I was checking out so many these tracks
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  Speaker 2: Now you go move those mountain sail across the show
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing you can do, Obrey, while your sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Watch you, while your dream man.
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  Speaker 4: Hoop.
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  Speaker 2: You understand.
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  Speaker 4: Just how proud to be your day, the deeper that
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  Speaker 4: I never.
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  Speaker 1: Knew kind of feel good? Don't you feel good now?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you feel like evering a better day? That's Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: Johnson there singing. The album is Voices across the Ocean,
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  Speaker 1: obviously inspired by Mowanna. So tell me about this? I
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  Speaker 1: see em. Tunkey was involved as well in this way.
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  Speaker 3: He was, Yeah, and I'm so happy and you know, Iam,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm so happy to talk about this album
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  Speaker 3: because you know, the idea of this album my wife
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  Speaker 3: and I was actually her idea, Lauren, and she.
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  Speaker 2: Comes from a musical background.
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  Speaker 3: She's an amazing writer and singer, and she a couple of
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  Speaker 3: years ago, about god years ago, I think the first Mawana,
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  Speaker 3: she thought, oh, this, what if you guys did an
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  Speaker 3: adjacent album that was inspired by Milana? And the Maana
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  Speaker 3: came and then we started thinking about it for Mowana too,
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  Speaker 3: and then we realized, hey, the best opportunity here is
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  Speaker 3: let's create this album that's an inspired by album and
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  Speaker 3: deliver it over the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Now after Live Action Majana has come out.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, guys, what I love about this album
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  Speaker 3: is that the whole idea behind this was just to
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  Speaker 3: create opportunities for artists in the Polynesian genre of music.
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  Speaker 3: So we all thought, hey, maybe there's an opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: me to sing on this album as well. And I said, okay,
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  Speaker 3: let me think about it. So I called Iam Tongy
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  Speaker 3: and you guys will appreciate this story. So I called
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  Speaker 3: Iam and I said, hey, brother, do you have anything
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  Speaker 3: in mind you think may work for me. My pen
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  Speaker 3: game is a writer. I'm still learning, but he's an
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  Speaker 3: amazing writer. And he said, he said, I think I do.
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  Speaker 3: So he hit me back a couple of days later,
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  Speaker 3: and guys, he sent me this song. He sent me
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  Speaker 3: a song. The song I sing with him is called
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  Speaker 3: your Dad. Now, he sent me a song and the
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  Speaker 3: name of the song was my Dad. And I listened
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  Speaker 3: to it. It's so emotional and so beautiful. And I
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  Speaker 3: called him and what the song is? The song was?
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  Speaker 3: The original song was Iam singing to his little kids
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  Speaker 3: who he's going to have one day because he's getting
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  Speaker 3: married in a couple of months. And it was a
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  Speaker 3: song that he's singing to his little kids about his dad,
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  Speaker 3: like my dad who is now in heaven, and he's
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  Speaker 3: telling his kids, Hey, you know your grandfather was this
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  Speaker 3: amazing man and he did great things even though he's
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  Speaker 3: not here and you don't know him. And then the
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  Speaker 3: song then transitions to Iam singing to his dad in heaven, saying, hey, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: I got you. I'm going to tell them you move
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  Speaker 3: mountains and you did great things. I have chills now,
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  Speaker 3: and so I called im and I said, I love you.
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  Speaker 3: I am not prepared to sing this to my dad,
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  Speaker 3: I said, even though he's in heaven and I love him.
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  Speaker 3: We had a complicated relationship and I can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: You got to sing from your heart. And I said,
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  Speaker 3: but if you're willing to go down this road with me, Iam,
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  Speaker 3: can we rewrite this? And I think I could sing
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  Speaker 3: it to my daughters and call it your Dad. And
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  Speaker 3: so this song, with the early intention of just hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to join everybody on this album What an Honor,
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  Speaker 3: really turned into the most meaningful thing to me because
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  Speaker 3: it's not connected with you know, a box office opening.
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  Speaker 1: Or but it's its own beast.
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  Speaker 2: It's its own.
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  Speaker 3: Beast, and it's just me singing to my daughters. So
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  Speaker 3: and I am a lucky one to be on this album.
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  Speaker 3: But there's so many beautiful songs on this album and
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait for people to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Mawana Voices Across the Ocean is out now. Check that out.
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  Speaker 1: Duwayne Johnson, thanks for I just remember all the times
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  Speaker 1: over the years and the evolution of your career that
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  Speaker 1: we've had a chance to check in. I'm grateful for it,
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  Speaker 1: and I really respect and admire how you make people
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  Speaker 1: feel You make people feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you well, thank you for that. I really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a superpower I think that we all have.
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  Speaker 3: It's literally the easiest thing we can do is make
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  Speaker 3: people feel good.
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  Speaker 1: And treat superpower tank on you than some of us,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So like I have the
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  Speaker 1: mini superpower tank. Maybe on a good day, you've got
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  Speaker 1: like Arsenal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh no, we we we all do. But by
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  Speaker 3: the way, I mean, if you think about it, it's
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  Speaker 3: like you treat people kindly, you try to do your
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  Speaker 3: best you can and take care of the folks around you.
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  Speaker 2: But what's the alternative to that is? You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: is like being yes stuff. We don't want being being
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  Speaker 2: an e. It's like like.
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  Speaker 1: This, No, did you like to listen to this man?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Tubbs?
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  Speaker 2: Wait? Who's Jeffrey Tubbs?
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  Speaker 1: As my engineer? He's birthday today, so we're having a
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  Speaker 1: good time on him.
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  Speaker 2: Happy birthday, you miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Love you buddy, Thanks again for coming back.
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  Speaker 2: I love you too, Love you guys by Love.
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  Speaker 1: You, Dwayne Johnson, everybody Mowana voices across the ocean. Go
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  Speaker 1: Here always forward and