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Seizing The Moment With ARAMIS JOHNSON From ENUMCLAW · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my name is Aramis. I'm in Eaenamclaw. Uh. We're
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  Speaker 1: a band from Tacoma, Washington. We just put out a
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  Speaker 1: new record, Home and Another Life, on Run for Cover
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  Speaker 1: Records here in the States and on Cooking Vinyl in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know. Uh, And yeah, we just got
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  Speaker 1: off tour like a week ago and here I am
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  Speaker 1: gautiful brother. Thanks for joining us today, Thanks for having
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  Speaker 1: me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: So as you say Inpour released your recent album be
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  Speaker 2: Home in Another Life back on August the thirties.
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  Speaker 1: Mite's probably made close to three weeks now.
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  Speaker 2: Baically, how's the early reception being for right?
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  Speaker 1: Really good? I feel like I'm not really on the
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  Speaker 1: internet anymore, so I don't know what people are saying
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  Speaker 1: on but in real life it's been really cool. I've
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  Speaker 1: like I ran into a couple of people all over
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  Speaker 1: towny who have I don't know personally who said they
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  Speaker 1: really like it. So I mean something's working right.
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  Speaker 2: That's a stod So tell us a bit more about
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  Speaker 2: the album from a musical point.
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  Speaker 1: Of view, I guess, and what you guys are gone
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  Speaker 1: forward with it? We were pretty much just trying to
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  Speaker 1: do something that was a lot more direct and not overproduced,
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  Speaker 1: like we we did it in four days. We did
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  Speaker 1: the drums in one day and then just spent like
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  Speaker 1: two days doing guitars and bass and a day doing vocals.
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  Speaker 1: And we're really trying to not completely like replicate the
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  Speaker 1: like Steve ab Beanie sound. But that was like definitely
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  Speaker 1: like our north Star where it's like big drum, it's
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  Speaker 1: like like really well recorded guitars and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the sound of the band in the room, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and not really doing too much studio magic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Cool, And the lead up you released the singles
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  Speaker 2: not just yet and changed so just so somebody had
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  Speaker 2: just heard those songs on the radio. Are the good
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  Speaker 2: sonny representation of what to expect for the whole album?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, I'd say, yeah. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: think those are those are two high points of the record,
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  Speaker 1: but I definitely think in the context of listening to
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  Speaker 1: the album as a whole, like are great representation of
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  Speaker 1: what it is like musically. Excuse me now.
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  Speaker 2: The press release says that the album is a natural
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  Speaker 2: expansion of what dan Clad built with their twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two debuts, save the Baby, which was you agree with
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  Speaker 2: that statement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think I think that statement is
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  Speaker 1: true just because I think we're like continuing to come
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  Speaker 1: into our own as a band. You know, it like
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  Speaker 1: definitely like doesn't sound like Save the Baby, But I
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  Speaker 1: think if you've heard Save the Baby, it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: like a step forward from that. But if you haven't,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like a great introduction point into like
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  Speaker 1: what Enumclaw is as a band.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not to say there's no song on the album
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  Speaker 2: called Home in Another Life, so that must mean the
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  Speaker 2: titles got great a significance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I heard the truth is, uh, we were
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  Speaker 1: gonna call the album or the working title for the
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  Speaker 1: album was I Don't want to Go Home, not just Yet,
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  Speaker 1: and so not Just Yet was supposed to be the
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  Speaker 1: title track. But then then we decided to change the
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  Speaker 1: name of the album, and so then there became no
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  Speaker 1: like title track. The new name does I feel like
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  Speaker 1: represent like the greater themes on the record. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's like I had heard somebody use that phrase ah
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  Speaker 1: when I was staying with a friend in London, and
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  Speaker 1: I had never heard of it before. I would assume
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  Speaker 1: it's something on the British people say what they what
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  Speaker 1: they were explaining to me that it meant was just
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  Speaker 1: like they were saying that it just feels it means
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  Speaker 1: like you feel like you've known somebody forever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like they feel so like lived in, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: you you've already you know, like you've known them in
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  Speaker 1: your whole life essentially, And I thought that was like
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  Speaker 1: such a great and like special like sentiment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now there's one song on their cord. I still
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  Speaker 2: feel bad about Masturbation made like tell us about that.
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  Speaker 2: That's I'm tad a little the century.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I just like I take a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pride in like the song titles for our song,
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  Speaker 1: and I wrote, usually when I write a song, it's
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  Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to my mind when I
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  Speaker 1: like finish writing, and that's I guess that's like what
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about that day. I wrote that song
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago there, so I can't quite remember
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  Speaker 1: like what the what the whole backstory was, but.
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  Speaker 2: Well you can use it. Imagine I should mite this
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  Speaker 2: guy gotta be a good one. So, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: the last album side the Baby came out in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, mates, So what's changed within the band?
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  Speaker 1: I guess that in that time, We've just gotten to
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  Speaker 1: play a lot of shows. Like when we recorded Save
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  Speaker 1: the Baby, I think we had played maybe a total
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  Speaker 1: of thirty shows as a band, and I think, like
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  Speaker 1: more than anything that, like you can if you're really listening,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear that where it's like since then, we
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  Speaker 1: probably played like two hundred and fifty shows, And so
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  Speaker 1: I think we've just like have gotten to a point
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  Speaker 1: as a band that a lot of things are starting
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  Speaker 1: to happen musically, like unconsciously, you know, we're It's just
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  Speaker 1: like I think we're just finally starting to gel together
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  Speaker 1: as a unit and to have a better understanding of
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  Speaker 1: like what what Edemclaw is as a band and being
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  Speaker 1: able to work within the like framework that we're building
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carl, this is only your second album Bright, So
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  Speaker 2: would you say that Adam Klore have found your defeated
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  Speaker 2: in sound yet or are you still still working on it?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're still trying to work out the kings.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think I would like to get to
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  Speaker 1: a point as a band where our influences aren't so
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  Speaker 1: easily identifiable, you know, Like I don't think I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we've found our sound until we feel like we're
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  Speaker 1: doing something not completely like new, but something that is
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  Speaker 1: like definitively like uniquely Enumclaub very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Remember before you let you go, I've got a new
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  Speaker 2: segment that I've introduced for I basically troll through your
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page. I come up with a couple of photos
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  Speaker 2: and issue you with a please explain it all right,
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  Speaker 2: So I've got the first one for you. Here, This
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  Speaker 2: one now that looks to me like death by drum Sick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know why. He has the drumstick in
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  Speaker 1: his hand. He's got a histue with it. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: this is an Amsterdam and we during one of our songs,
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  Speaker 1: the band cuts out and I'm playing guitar by myself,
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  Speaker 1: and this is our rhythm section, and obviously La Daniel
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  Speaker 1: with the drumstick is the drummer, and Eli here is
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  Speaker 1: our bass player. And they like to jump in the
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  Speaker 1: crowd and kind of stir things up. But I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even I've never even seen this photo. I feel like, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they were about to fight and I was too
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  Speaker 1: busy playing the guitar to notice.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like like a child that's been whipped too
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  Speaker 2: many times.
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  Speaker 1: He's cowering in front of the drugs. I didn't all right,
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  Speaker 1: And then we got this next one.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know, how did you fit so many
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  Speaker 2: people into that van?
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  Speaker 1: Dude? What's craziest? Half of the people in this photo
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  Speaker 1: did ride in this van? All tour?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, this is from This is the coolest thing
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  Speaker 1: I think we've done as a band so far. This
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  Speaker 1: is like the trip. It was this tour we did
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the summer last year, and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was Enumclaw, this band, Hotline, T and T,
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  Speaker 1: this bag or this band. They're getting a body of
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  Speaker 1: water sword to in Toner And this is like the
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  Speaker 1: end of tour. Like this is everybody who was at
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  Speaker 1: the show? Wow? Five bands? All right, right, well that's
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  Speaker 1: what we got time for today.
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  Speaker 2: The album Home in Another Life is out now available
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  Speaker 2: an All Good Record Outlets, and hopefully we see it
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  Speaker 2: out on this side of the world one day in the.
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  Speaker 1: Future, right, yes, hopefully sooner than later. I take care.
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  Speaker 1: Let you get to bed now, right, all right?
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  Speaker 2: You take care?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you the only father girl.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, No, I'm going thought get you. If I could
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  Speaker 3: always stay go out to scan of be true to
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  Speaker 3: Scampy the true to Scampy, true to Scampy true. Why
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  Speaker 3: where it be? With thout of my I can't tell
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  Speaker 3: the oldy?
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  Speaker 1: So how can be for for get.
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  Speaker 3: Me when he telling me? What you say? To Scan
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  Speaker 3: be the true, the scad of dread true, the scan
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  Speaker 3: a breed true, the scar of being true. Not just
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  Speaker 3: as we're not just ass we're not just as we're
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  Speaker 3: not just as