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Natural Progression With CALLUM From SEMANTICS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Gooday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Callum, I play guitar and I sing in semantics.
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  Speaker 2: We're made up with myself, a drummer Mitch, other guitar
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  Speaker 2: as Zachi bass player Madeline, and that's us. We've got
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  Speaker 2: a new album out September twenty seven on Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: called out I Feel It All at Once, releasing by
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  Speaker 2: a Sidewe Dummy, and yeah, we're so stoked to be
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  Speaker 2: finally sharing it.
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  Speaker 3: Great, good mate, thanks for joining us this evening.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having us my pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: Semitics to release your second album, I Feel It All
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  Speaker 4: at Once on the twenty seventh of September May.
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  Speaker 3: So how are you feeling about it?
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've all been sitting on these songs for
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  Speaker 2: a few months now and waiting to put them out
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  Speaker 2: and see what everyone thinks and share it with everyone,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, we just can't wait for the big day.
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  Speaker 1: We're almost there, you are.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell us a bit more about the album
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  Speaker 4: from a musical point of view and what are you
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  Speaker 4: going forward it.
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  Speaker 2: We're aiming to kind of encapsulate everything we love about
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  Speaker 2: rock music guitar music, so we wanted to basically pay
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  Speaker 2: tribute to all of the you know styles and artists
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  Speaker 2: that have kind of influenced us, and you know, from there,
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  Speaker 2: just play from the heart, make songs that we believe in,
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  Speaker 2: you know, write about content and subject matter that it
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  Speaker 2: is important to us or is relevant to our lives.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also you know, we hope translatable and accessible
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  Speaker 2: to everyone else.
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  Speaker 4: The press release it represents a bright new chapter for
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  Speaker 4: the band.
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  Speaker 3: So can you elaborate on that? What's what's the new chapter?
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  Speaker 2: Well, in the last couple of years, there was some
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  Speaker 2: you know, hiccups in our personal lives. There were there
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  Speaker 2: were deaths, there were you know, all kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: going on, and line up change as well. Zach, you
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  Speaker 2: only joined the band a couple of years ago, and
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  Speaker 2: so this was our kind of chance and our ability
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  Speaker 2: to represent where we're out now as the most uniform,
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  Speaker 2: solidified group and as friends and everything. So the new
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  Speaker 2: chapter is just us kind of in the best shape
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  Speaker 2: we've ever been in musically and you know personally.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So today you release the singles Love Language and
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  Speaker 4: port Alan. So would you say they're a good sonic
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  Speaker 4: representation on what do you expect from the whole album
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  Speaker 4: or do they just scratched the surface.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, they're they're kind of we've put them out
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  Speaker 2: of singles to kind of give you a rough idea
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  Speaker 2: of kind of what's going to be happening. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's a lot more to unpack in the album.
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  Speaker 2: No two songs are the same. We have a kind
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  Speaker 2: of same song phobia, so we kind of never do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing twice, and it's turned into what we
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  Speaker 2: think is a pretty cool kind of mix, a broad
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  Speaker 2: palette of, like I say, all all the styles that
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  Speaker 2: inspire us, you know, the kind of dipped into each song.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I noticed that there's no song on the album
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  Speaker 4: called I Feel It All at Once, So the title
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  Speaker 4: must have the greatest significance.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guessing it's We actually decided on the album title
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  Speaker 2: because it was the final lyric of the final song
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  Speaker 2: on the album, and we thought it was a good
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  Speaker 2: kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Representation of kind of.
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  Speaker 2: The contrast and the chaos and the emotions and energy
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  Speaker 2: and everything that we go through in the album musically,
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  Speaker 2: lyrically and otherwise. And the same goes for kind of
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  Speaker 2: the artwork. You know, they all kind of create, they
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  Speaker 2: have meaning to us, and it's about that accumulation of
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  Speaker 2: feelings all kind of hitting you at once, And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a little abstract, but that's kind of where we
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  Speaker 2: pulled it from.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, how does this album differ musically to your debut album,
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  Speaker 4: Paint Me Blue?
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  Speaker 2: Musically, it's just an evolution of what we've done before.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's we haven't drastically changed.
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  Speaker 1: I think the.
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  Speaker 2: Evolution and the real kind of change comes with the
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  Speaker 2: level of kind of production and the additional kind of
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  Speaker 2: song writing effort that we put in for it. So
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  Speaker 2: where Painted Blue was kind of a grab and go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these are some songs and we're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: a kind of punk rock attitude about it and just
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  Speaker 2: kind of put them out in a pretty raw fashion,
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  Speaker 2: this time we really slowed down the making process and
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  Speaker 2: we went into find a detail with every song to
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  Speaker 2: kind of bring out more nuance with everything. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the biggest kind of departure from from our
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  Speaker 2: earlier songs is just the amount of time we put
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  Speaker 2: into refining each of these songs as opposed to just
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  Speaker 2: kind of writing them and banging them out.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just say, someone listen to this and they haven't
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  Speaker 4: heard us semantics before, give us three of your songs
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  Speaker 4: that they can listen to as an introduction to the band.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say the track opener, Last and More is a
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  Speaker 2: good kind of it's a good taste for the whole album.
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  Speaker 1: I would say.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe track seven It's a Lot, which is a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a ballad. It's a love song which gives you
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  Speaker 2: a kind of, you know, a vibe for how things
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  Speaker 2: kind of slow down. And the closer irresolution, which is
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  Speaker 2: a you know, shoegazy kind of song. And so you know, start,
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  Speaker 2: middle and end, those kind of these moods that that
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  Speaker 2: go across the album. That's what I would you recommend
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  Speaker 2: is kind of here how it sounds at the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: how it sounds in the middle, and how it sounds
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  Speaker 2: at the end, because it's pretty synonymous with how we
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  Speaker 2: set up the track listing.
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  Speaker 4: You've also got an album tour coming up, starting on
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  Speaker 4: the Gold Coast on October thirty eighth, before going through Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Cambram,
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  Speaker 4: Melbourne's Along Adelaide and finishing Brisbane.
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  Speaker 3: On November the sixth. Like, it's a pretty deep and
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  Speaker 3: run of shows.
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  Speaker 2: Bright Yeah, it's it'll be the biggest headliner that we've
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  Speaker 2: ever done. We wanted to you know, travel is expensive.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to maximize on that vehicle, higher that time
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  Speaker 2: away from work, book as many shows as we could,
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  Speaker 2: you know, possibly hook up and visit some new places
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  Speaker 2: as well. So it was kind of a no brainer
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  Speaker 2: to you know, try to go big with it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and what can people expect from your live mate
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  Speaker 4: given tell us a typical live, semantic show.
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  Speaker 1: Loud, loud as fuck, and just a good time.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some of our songs can get moody, but
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  Speaker 2: I like to think that we keep the energy really
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  Speaker 2: positive at our show.
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  Speaker 1: And we love to hang out.
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  Speaker 2: So whether it's before we play or after, we'll be
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  Speaker 2: drifting around the venue, catch up with old friends and
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  Speaker 2: making new ones. You know, it's a it's a big hangout,
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  Speaker 2: big loud hangoutassy mate.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thanks very much for your time to know Calumus,
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  Speaker 4: been the pleasure to speaking with you. The album I Feel
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  Speaker 4: It All at Once is out September twenty seven. Tour
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  Speaker 4: kicks off on October thirteen. So where can people keep
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  Speaker 4: up the day with the band and buy chickens and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's all on our Website's on our Instagram. It's on
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  Speaker 2: our Spotify. There's cross links on everything, so point A
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  Speaker 2: will get you to point B.
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  Speaker 1: No worries, just look up smatics and we'll be there.
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  Speaker 3: Easy, brother. I enjoyed the rest of you know, I
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  Speaker 3: made best of luck.
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  Speaker 5: With the album.
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  Speaker 6: Simples of Kindness. Waste it on me, you brunning and
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  Speaker 6: Apple's never full.
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  Speaker 1: From the trip.
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  Speaker 7: Not get close to.
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  Speaker 6: Your pob me u when you stand close to your bag.
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  Speaker 6: Don't want to see norseulf the mother sied eggs and
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying I can't, but I don't want to
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  Speaker 6: hear about it and I can't say it. I mean
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  Speaker 6: that's flying through my taste. So want you hot language
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  Speaker 6: because I've been bian as long for this place.
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  Speaker 7: To feel like gold, not abimation.
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  Speaker 6: Now it's a kindness love terrial.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm coming be out.
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  Speaker 6: I sid so thought your company. I'm counting the yuts
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  Speaker 6: do get so Christmas.
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  Speaker 7: Cards, get rolling land it on.
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  Speaker 6: No man, you will a rego side.
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  Speaker 1: So what's your love language?
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  Speaker 6: Cause I've been yet as wrong for this slice of
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  Speaker 6: feel like.
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  Speaker 7: Not abimation. No, it's a kindness love terri. I gotta
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  Speaker 7: big me up. I'm not saying you say Alan m
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  Speaker 7: I say so your whole language.
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  Speaker 1: Just a big way.
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  Speaker 7: You false all of this place.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like cold, not have the shots, not one
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