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The Newest Michael Jackson In "MJ The Musical" Joined Us In Studio · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One of six point seven might have mcubby and Christine
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, and it is an honor to have
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  Speaker 1: in studio now leading MJ and MJ the musical. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the studio, Matt Martinez.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody that was a You've been a part of the
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  Speaker 2: show for two years, right, I have, so you're not
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  Speaker 2: new to this, not new to this, new to this
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  Speaker 2: new role taking it on full time. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: was a standby for two years prior to this congratulation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's wonderful, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of wild.
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  Speaker 3: I was telling Cobby, this isn't like a guarantee in
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  Speaker 3: the world of Broadway that being the standby or understudy
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  Speaker 3: means that when the role opens up you automatically get it.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is a huge deal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm very I'm very lucky to be in
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  Speaker 2: this position currently.
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  Speaker 1: You're twenty two years old. Yeah, and you're from North Bergen,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Yeah hometown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you're currently living in Manhattan. Are you still
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  Speaker 2: doing the Jersey track? I'm currently in Manhattan right now. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about Jersey, but then I was like,
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  Speaker 2: every day, you know what I'm saying, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of travel.
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  Speaker 1: You tell us about your journey from how it all
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  Speaker 1: started and to where you are now. I mean, did
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  Speaker 1: it begin kind of with the kids pop days?
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  Speaker 2: I maybe was four or five. I mean my mom
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  Speaker 2: owned a dance studio in Jersey, so like I was
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  Speaker 2: dancing since I was that age, right, So, like we
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  Speaker 2: were doing recitals and like competitions, and it all started there.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: My love for dance and my love for theater also
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  Speaker 2: came from my mom too, because she's a big theater fanatic,
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  Speaker 2: and we would try to go see shows every every
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  Speaker 2: now and then in the city. The first show was
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  Speaker 2: The Lion King saw in the Heights. Right after that
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  Speaker 2: changed my life. It was like incredible, you know. So
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  Speaker 2: started there and then got a little bit older, started
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  Speaker 2: you know, auditioning for things here and there. I was
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  Speaker 2: booking commercials and then kids Bob came around, and that's
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  Speaker 2: that kind of where it really took off, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Like that I booked that when I
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  Speaker 2: was ten. So the songs you sang, sorry justin Bieber,
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  Speaker 2: we did, like but if it was like a song
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  Speaker 2: that was a little dirty, I'd clean it up, right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Always, that was the entire idea, right, Like there was
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  Speaker 2: no way that we could just sing any song, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was a very mysticulous process between just
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  Speaker 2: getting the songs and rewriting them and then releasing them,
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  Speaker 2: right yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then did you work with Elijah who was our
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  Speaker 3: former jes Right, you guys were together on that show.
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  Speaker 2: So he he was in Kids Bop before I was Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So he was doing it for I think the same
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  Speaker 2: amount of time that I was doing it, like three years, right,
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  Speaker 2: So he was doing it and then right as soon
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  Speaker 2: as he was over, I kind of came in and
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  Speaker 2: we and then our group kind of continued the Kids
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  Speaker 2: Bop legacy.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like stepping foot on stage every single night
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  Speaker 1: as Michael Jackson and MJ the musical? What's your favorite
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  Speaker 1: song to perform?
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  Speaker 2: My favorite song to perform is Human Nature? Every time.
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  Speaker 2: I love Human Nature. I grew up in let song,
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  Speaker 2: playing on guitar and just like jamming out to it.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean stepping, like stepping on that stage every day?
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  Speaker 2: Is it never gets old?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: No? Yeah, it's like it's weird you would think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like getting to do a show like this every single day,
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  Speaker 2: the same show you would get tired of it, But
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  Speaker 2: I don't to be the most famous person of all time.
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  Speaker 2: It comes with the consequences, you know what I'm saying. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's not an easy fee at all. I can't even
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  Speaker 2: begin to imagine what his life must have been like. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I get to play it in a in
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  Speaker 2: a in a Broadway musical, like I'm you know, very
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  Speaker 2: privileged in that way, but like, I can't even begin
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  Speaker 2: to imagine what he must have been through through all that,
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  Speaker 2: through all those moments and when he was a child older, Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's a lot, it's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of baggage, you know, And and yeah, we don't try
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  Speaker 2: to shy away from that, and we make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we treat it respectfully. And and also we have you
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  Speaker 2: dancing in your seat too. Yeah, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice little like balance we got.
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  Speaker 3: I think everything that we're saying, you do leave the
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  Speaker 3: theater inspired and joyful.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we love the music.
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  Speaker 3: So much and your performance and what you're bringing to
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  Speaker 3: it and keeping it real. Halloween is like the Christmas
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  Speaker 3: of em It is this is your time year if
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  Speaker 3: you shine all year, but this is really is this.
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  Speaker 3: We have like a special like two special nights.
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  Speaker 2: We have two special nights.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, Halloween Night, what are you guys
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  Speaker 1: doing Hallowey Night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're doing Thriller. We're doing the Thriller original music
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  Speaker 2: video choreography after the show, right after the curtain call.
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  Speaker 2: And it's gonna be fun. So like, bring your Halloween costumes,
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  Speaker 2: bring your a game, come through to the Neil Simon
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  Speaker 2: Theater see the show on Halloween. It's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: thrilling night if you will. And then on the twenty third,
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, the twenty third, we like to special request
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  Speaker 2: a wink to us because we're gonna be there, yes,
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  Speaker 2: with a bunch of Light FM winners okay, and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna dress up as zombies. Yes, and we're walking from
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  Speaker 2: the radio station here to the theater and to watch
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  Speaker 2: you perform.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't miss us.
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  Speaker 2: No you can't. I'm gonna be with some walking zombies
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  Speaker 2: out the streets, so I would hope not absolutely. So
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  Speaker 2: you think about us on that day. Yeah, I will
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  Speaker 2: think about you guys, and I will look at you
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  Speaker 2: and I will try to give you all the wink.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to scare you. We're not really monster, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I was just gonna under that. Okay, good, good good,
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  Speaker 2: And it's really me and MJ Wig. Just so y'all know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to scare you'all either. So I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: we're on the same page, you know, protecting each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: exactly where can people fin?
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  Speaker 1: You give out your TikTok your instagram?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? So my Instagram is my name Matt Martinez. That's
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  Speaker 2: m A t t E. Martinez. Same thing with my TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: I make music. I have a song called let go
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  Speaker 2: out right Now. Okay, Yeah, it's a fun time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And being from the area, who's your uh well, your
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  Speaker 1: baseball teams? The Yankees?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my my grandfather was a Yankees fan. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't even I don't even watch it like that.
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  Speaker 2: I always rep because my my grandfather about Jets or Giants.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to. I don't want to lose anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that, you know what I'm saying. Can I
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  Speaker 2: be neutral? Is that a thing? You see what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I thought about this, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I gotta make sure about a local basketball team. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: can I say something? I have an answer for this.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go with the Nets, and I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: what I was a I was a Brooklyn Nets kid
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  Speaker 2: dancer when I was younger, so we were we were
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  Speaker 2: dancing Brooklyn both so I started in Jersey with them,
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  Speaker 2: and then they transferred to Brooklyn and then we transferred
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  Speaker 2: with them. So we would just come out during during
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say intermission, oh my god, right during
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  Speaker 2: halftime and perform for the audience. So I have to
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  Speaker 2: go Nets.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Okay, So that we're going to give
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  Speaker 3: a pass.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pass. It's a loyalty thing.
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  Speaker 3: That won't make you choose a hockey team because that
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  Speaker 3: would just be too much.
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  Speaker 1: That would be lat Well, Matt Martinez, you are crushing
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  Speaker 1: it as MJ and MJ the Musical and we highly
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  Speaker 1: recommend everybody to check it out.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we'll see you. Neil Simon Theater will be
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  Speaker 3: there October twenty. Third Thriller Night, of Course is Halloween,
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  Speaker 3: October thirty. First tickets at Mjthemusical dot com. It's really
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  Speaker 3: a pleasure to talk with you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks pleasure for talking to you, guys. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: having me go next next,