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Stan Walker Need Your Help Finding His Taonga · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Stan Walker. Great to see you again Christmas. This is
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  Speaker 1: that Christmas chat to. Yeah, it's great to see Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've had a bit of a hectic week. Just
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  Speaker 1: got back from Australia playing over there, and it seems
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  Speaker 1: like someone took a bag of yours.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was taken. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what's happened, but yeah, my bag of like I've got.
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  Speaker 2: I had heaps of stuff in there, all my clothes,
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  Speaker 2: but I had my tallna all of them because I take.
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  Speaker 3: Them everywhere with me.
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  Speaker 2: I wear them on stage, but I just take them everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, so it's just gone missing. So if anybody
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  Speaker 2: sees it or anybody has it or wherever it is,
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  Speaker 2: give it back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to pay money for it because priceless items
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  Speaker 1: and because they mean so much to you and you
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  Speaker 1: and your family.
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  Speaker 2: It's got my whole family stuff in there, like my wife, mine,
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  Speaker 2: my kids, and some of the stuff is like hundreds.
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  Speaker 3: Of years old.
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  Speaker 4: Someone took that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, I hope they get yeah, I say they, well,
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  Speaker 1: then come and they can just give it had.
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  Speaker 2: Well hopefully it's just stuff somewhere and it just got
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  Speaker 2: put somewhere. Like, you know, that's what I'm hoping.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't ever want to assume or blame anybody or anything.
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  Speaker 2: But I started to get like, I'm like, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a week.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I need it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, now the side of song, it's like the conclusion
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  Speaker 1: of what it was almost like seven year project for you, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, there's it's been many years. But because
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  Speaker 2: I had like three songs, I Am Maldil and Back
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  Speaker 2: to the River or they're like a trilogy. I wrote
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  Speaker 2: them last year and it was the first writing camp
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  Speaker 2: that I've ever done for myself, and I just got
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  Speaker 2: my boys to come along. My mate's my fan name,
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  Speaker 2: and literally because we did it in Tota the first
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  Speaker 2: time ever recording there and going back home, I had
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  Speaker 2: just like a pool of like all.
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  Speaker 3: The singers bringing up my cousins. Hey, what do you
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  Speaker 3: have to do?
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  Speaker 2: I need you to come and sing on this. Oh yes,
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  Speaker 2: wee because I'll be there. So all those songs were
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  Speaker 2: written then, but they were just they kind of explained
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  Speaker 2: three different chapters within like a a long season of
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  Speaker 2: my life.
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  Speaker 1: That's very cool because your journey, when you look back
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  Speaker 1: at your career, you've done so many amazing things, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, starting off in Australia and there I was
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  Speaker 1: reading an article last night where you were kind of
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  Speaker 1: told that's to not sound in some ways in your
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  Speaker 1: words too brown. You know, you know, and to do
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  Speaker 1: this now, it must be quite fulfilling to be who
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  Speaker 1: you are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Like I've just been talking about it lately with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of my mates. I was like, man, I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine staying like seven years ago or ten years ago
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  Speaker 2: talking to stand now, Like just the difference of like
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  Speaker 2: a Maori song, I don't think I'll be ever able
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  Speaker 2: to do that to me now. I don't think twice
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  Speaker 2: about it if I'm going to write a song or
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  Speaker 2: do a song on Maori or English, like, it's just
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  Speaker 2: normal for me. Yeah, if I decide to write a
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  Speaker 2: song on Mali, I just decided. I'm not like trying
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  Speaker 2: to force it or trying to be about it. It's
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  Speaker 2: just that's how far I've come.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think changed you? Do you think it's
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  Speaker 4: just age as you get older, You're like, no, this
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  Speaker 4: is me. I'm going to celebrate who I am Or
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  Speaker 4: do you think there was a turning point for you?
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  Speaker 2: I think there was many turning points. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was turning around constantly. Oh just youah, just I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: to know myself more and getting older and becoming myself
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  Speaker 2: more and more authentic and unapologetic about everything of who
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  Speaker 2: I am, where I come from.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm about. I don't mince my words.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't second guess myself maybe what I
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  Speaker 2: look like, but like and it's taken years to become
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  Speaker 2: that version of me, and I'm still becoming the better
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  Speaker 2: version of me, hopefully.
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  Speaker 4: I love that about age. That's a really good message
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  Speaker 4: for like younger people because there's been so much time
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  Speaker 4: trying to find yourself and yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah about the bills about I.
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  Speaker 1: Was so great to see you again and write that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this new chapter for you. It's awesome. And
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  Speaker 1: even like last year, you would begin talked about as
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  Speaker 1: an Oscar. Well at the start of the year, like
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  Speaker 1: you're one of your songs up for an Oscar. They
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  Speaker 1: were talking about you like that would be pretty cool
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  Speaker 1: in America been talked about.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's weird.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very grateful for like the opportunity that Ava
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  Speaker 2: Duvenet gave me with the song. It was such a
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  Speaker 2: trip going there doing promo on that scale, and like
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  Speaker 2: having to be at everything, like I haven't done a
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  Speaker 2: recoupled or done photos and stuff for like ages.
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  Speaker 3: I get like nervous.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like going around heaps with people, so I
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  Speaker 2: just kind of stay home and do that thing. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I haven't done this for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. They're like, well, you're going to be doing
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  Speaker 2: it every day and you get that photo right, But
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  Speaker 2: now it was cool.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was cool, it was buzzy.
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  Speaker 1: Just before you go, I wanted to take a walker
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  Speaker 1: stand walker down memory lane for you and you tell us.
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  Speaker 1: I play a little bit of audio and you tell
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  Speaker 1: us where this was in your career. Okay, first up,
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  Speaker 1: you got it. Okay, you've got that already, your crite
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  Speaker 1: cry just.
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  Speaker 3: As we launched you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the video I think played in
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  Speaker 1: the video before and then we won't do that again.
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  Speaker 2: That sound amazing.
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  Speaker 3: This is you on on idol.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Australian Idol. This is the audition.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very good, don't get me wrong. I am so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of the best experiences of my life.
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  Speaker 2: But just looking back and hearing beck one.
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  Speaker 1: You must be so new this as a young kid.
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  Speaker 2: Though, I was, I was like fully shaking every every
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  Speaker 2: performance at Idle. I was shaking at the Beck and
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  Speaker 2: so like, I can't I can't look at anything because I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just like, here's another bet of audio as well. This
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  Speaker 1: is more recent. This is pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 6: How did she find Stan Walker? Somebody in her company,
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  Speaker 6: Paul Garner bought a video of him. So Ava goes
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  Speaker 6: to Instagram to see if they have any mutual Instagram friends,
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  Speaker 6: her and Stan Walker. She finds that they have. What
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  Speaker 6: they have a couple of uh, a couple of mutual
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  Speaker 6: friends reaches out to them through d MS. Next thing
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  Speaker 6: she knows, twenty four hours later, she's on the phone
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  Speaker 6: with Stan Walker.
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  Speaker 3: So this is this is the morning show.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this Morning show.
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  Speaker 1: This is Gail King talking about you and the story
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  Speaker 1: of how you were found just from social media from
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  Speaker 1: the director for the movie.
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  Speaker 2: She's amazing, honestly, she she like had she loved the song.
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  Speaker 2: I met her. I met her in Oprah together and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, thank you so so
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  Speaker 2: dand I'm god, we love the song. We loved the
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah, and they were doing the winning They're
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  Speaker 2: like what does this mean? And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're kind of there walking around the office going hello.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's a great and the final but here from
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  Speaker 1: Walker down Stan Walker's career.
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  Speaker 5: Can I do it? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I actually I don't even want to do this song.
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  Speaker 5: We'll give my good key weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Show them what you really do.
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  Speaker 2: You got it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is when we dress you up in disguise
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  Speaker 1: and it was like a Tuesday night night yeah yeeah,
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  Speaker 1: and put them in a karaoke competition, put them in
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  Speaker 1: disguise and you started singing bad and they were They
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  Speaker 1: started booing you, and then all of a sudden You're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh I can maybe I'll do another song. And then
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you started singing still in disguise, they know,
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  Speaker 1: they knew exactly.
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  Speaker 2: By your voice who it was.
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  Speaker 1: Got a standing ovation at the end, from booing you
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  Speaker 1: to standing ovation.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I was honestly, even then I was nervous.
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  Speaker 5: I was so nice to see you.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've got a little bit of the song.
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  Speaker 5: Now, a beautiful song. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: JE think you so nice to have your heir as well.
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  Speaker 5: It's good to be