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Suzi Quatro - At 69 The Penny Finally Dropped · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Susie Quatro is on our way back to town Frio
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  Speaker 1: Prison Sunday, December sixth, with the special guests our own
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  Speaker 1: Baby Animals and Susie Quatro.
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  Speaker 2: Because it'll be a double Susie Bill is joining us now.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Suasie, Susie, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you very well? Gosh, you've been touring for
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  Speaker 2: more than fifty years?
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  Speaker 3: What excuse me? Oh, sixty to sixty.
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  Speaker 4: Two years, sixty two, many of them to this part
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  Speaker 4: of the world.
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  Speaker 3: This is my forty second tour of Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, you know you've Australian audiences have always had
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  Speaker 1: a very special connection with you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think that what resonated right from the beginning.
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  Speaker 5: I have analyzed that many times. I think I'm real
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  Speaker 5: and you're real.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only reason I can come up. I get you,
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  Speaker 3: you get me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, we like to keep it that simple, I think,
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  Speaker 1: because I think so too.
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  Speaker 4: If we go back to that first sort of charting album,
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  Speaker 4: which was about seventy three, I mean it didn't really
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  Speaker 4: chart that well in America. It wasn't that high top ten,
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  Speaker 4: number five. I think it made to Australia and also
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  Speaker 4: I guess maybe there's that connection to a couple of
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  Speaker 4: those early hits were co written by an Australian for.
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  Speaker 3: You, Yes, by Mike Chapman chap Nikki Chin.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, we had a long association making me actually
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  Speaker 5: and yeah, America took it a little bit a while
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  Speaker 5: to catch up, but then they did catch up.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah they did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so sixty don't forget.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was don't forget. I was based on this
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  Speaker 3: side of the world. Ah everything, you know.
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  Speaker 5: I was going over to Europe, Australia, Japan, that that,
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  Speaker 5: and then I finally got back to America in seventy four.
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  Speaker 3: So I had a year hits and I think I'll
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  Speaker 3: shook up. Got into the charts. They got into the
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  Speaker 3: lower run. They weren't a big until stumbled in and
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  Speaker 3: then that was huge.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy, wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It sixty plus years turing? You still get that buzz
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  Speaker 1: when you walk out. I guess if you didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the buzz, that would be the sign that it was
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  Speaker 1: time to start.
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  Speaker 3: There's no reason to do it. I don't have to
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't need to do this. I do
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  Speaker 5: it because I genuinely have a love for what I do.
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  Speaker 5: The fire is in my belly. I have the need
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  Speaker 5: for what I do. Nothing pleases more than going out
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  Speaker 5: there and taking those people on a journey and seeing
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  Speaker 5: them smile and leave happy.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's my life's all about.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and obviously you continue the tour after a forty
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  Speaker 4: second you know, tour, still recording as well. New album
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  Speaker 4: out this year called Freedom, which is available on all
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  Speaker 4: the formats, although you might struggle to find it on cassette,
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  Speaker 4: but little stream and on vital it's not like the
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  Speaker 4: early album, but it's on vinyl.
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  Speaker 3: It's on vinyl. It's on vinyl, and it's not very
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  Speaker 3: very well. It's charted.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm really proud of this album because it's gone
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  Speaker 5: full circle. That's what everybody's loving about it. It's gone
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  Speaker 5: back to what you first bought.
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  Speaker 4: Oh good, good.
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  Speaker 2: Which is final going full circle too. Maybe we will
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  Speaker 2: set back.
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  Speaker 1: One day, Maybe we'll be winding that thing back onto
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  Speaker 1: the tape as we're driving.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with a pencil.
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  Speaker 1: You've had a lot of hits, obviously, is there any
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  Speaker 1: particular one.
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  Speaker 2: That's like your favorite child? You just love doing it
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  Speaker 2: that little tiny bit more than the others.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're talking about my hits only, I think
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  Speaker 5: the one that always resonates with me is when I go, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I want to go down to double Get Yeah, Bunce,
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  Speaker 5: you can't beat that.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's going to happen. And there's a moment
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  Speaker 3: in can the count as well that I wait for
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  Speaker 3: where I do my scream, and when I scream, the
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  Speaker 3: audience go yeah, because I wait for the scream. I
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  Speaker 3: know a lot of people don't wait for my scream.
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  Speaker 4: I tell you, it must feel good to have influenced
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  Speaker 4: so many female rockers over the years, who hold you
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  Speaker 4: on a you know, put you on a pedestal that
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  Speaker 4: must give you a great sense of satisfaction in a
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  Speaker 4: long career.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, And it wasn't until you know I always very
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  Speaker 5: honest about this. I grew up in a musical family.
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  Speaker 5: I had no idea I was doing anything unusual. My
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  Speaker 5: dad gave me my first bass guitar with his blessing,
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  Speaker 5: so I didn't know I was changing the world. And
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  Speaker 5: it wasn't until my documentary came out in two nineteen
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  Speaker 5: and I went to the premiere at the Regent Theater
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  Speaker 5: and I snuck in to watch it with the audience
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  Speaker 5: because I was booked to come up at the end
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  Speaker 5: of question in a but I snuck in and then
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  Speaker 5: I saw all these women. I was sixty nine when
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  Speaker 5: that came out. I saw Debbie Harry, I saw Katie Tonstall,
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  Speaker 5: I saw Sharika jon jet Racy hind all through the
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  Speaker 5: film and then they all I'm my mouth is hanging open,
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  Speaker 5: and they all basically said the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: They all said. They all said I.
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  Speaker 5: Would not have done, but I did, had Susie Quatra
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  Speaker 5: not done at first, And then I was in tears much.
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  Speaker 2: That's because yeah.
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  Speaker 5: At sixty nine, the penny finally yeah, yeah, Okay, now
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  Speaker 5: I get it. Now I say thank you. I accept
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  Speaker 5: the accolade. I accept it humbly, and I will proudly
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  Speaker 5: take that to my grief.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice. I have to I have to ask one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean another one of the reasons I think why
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  Speaker 1: Australia loves you so much is Leather Tuscadero. I can't
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  Speaker 1: help it. What a great I mean, an incredible show.
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  Speaker 1: Happy days. We loved it. I have had the great
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in this job of interviewing Henry Winkler, and he
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most seemingly genuinely loveliest people that
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  Speaker 1: I have ever spoken to. Do you ever get the
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  Speaker 1: chance still to catch up with him or any of
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  Speaker 1: the people associated with those days?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm very good friends with I'm very good friends
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  Speaker 5: with Henry and Ronnie. We email all the time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they're both given them. They're given me quotes, both of
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  Speaker 5: them for my books.
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  Speaker 3: Speak. We talk.
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  Speaker 5: We discuss Dannie and Anson too. I've made four good
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  Speaker 5: asking friendships on that show.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: And it's one of those shows. I mean that that
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  Speaker 4: you know, the show is a while ago now, but
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  Speaker 4: it's it's still in the What would.
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  Speaker 2: You say that it is still? Yeah, because it's a
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  Speaker 2: last nice show.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great show.
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  Speaker 5: I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was honored to be part of that. That was
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  Speaker 3: my first acting job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice.
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  Speaker 5: And I actually asked Ronnie one time we were talking
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  Speaker 5: and I said, Okay, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Pick your brain.
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  Speaker 5: I said, did I ever feel like a new actress?
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  Speaker 5: He said no, Wow, I said, did I ever did
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I was new to the show?
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  Speaker 3: And he said, no, that's the strangest thing. You felt.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like you were part of that show. From
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  Speaker 3: the beginning. Everybody said that it was a natural thing.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it just yes, it was totally natural.
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  Speaker 1: Well, uh, free I present, interesting setting, beautiful setting.
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  Speaker 2: Really well, you know it's unique, it's unique. It's a
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  Speaker 2: unique setting. What's the most unique setting you've ever played in?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Well, when Glassnose just began in shirt one of the
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  Speaker 5: first we were one of the first Western bands to
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  Speaker 5: be allowed allowed to play there, okay, And and so
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  Speaker 5: they were allowing the promoter to make money, you know
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  Speaker 5: if it's a whole change in Russia. And then they
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  Speaker 5: didn't like it that the promoter was making money.
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  Speaker 3: They can't.
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  Speaker 5: They canceled one of the shows that were sold out
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  Speaker 5: for three notes, and so the and so the guy
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  Speaker 5: had to rent a circus tent and I played my
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  Speaker 5: basol running around the ring.
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  Speaker 2: You do elephant you and know what, Susie?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, And you do know that when you play free
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  Speaker 4: O Prison, it's not not like Johnny Cash, the crowd
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  Speaker 4: will be free to leave after the show.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like I have I am thinking I'm thinking
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  Speaker 3: about doing Jo House Rocket.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you absolutely should should. Well it is Sunday, December
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  Speaker 1: the sixth. Tickets are through face to face touring as
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  Speaker 1: all always, it will be a pleasure to welcome you
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  Speaker 1: back to town Susie.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you and I'm looking forward to being there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks