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Interview: Laufey · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: A small show, the smallsy show. Hi, what's up? This
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of cons it is to be a book.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Smallsey now.
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  Speaker 2: On kiss Hey on the show. Leave. Welcome to Australia,
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I had the pleasure of seeing you in December in
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  Speaker 2: New York. For people who haven't seen you before, they
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  Speaker 2: are in for a treat on this tour.
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  Speaker 1: It's so fun. I'm really really been enjoying taking this
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  Speaker 1: tour around here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, have you enjoyed your time? Not your first time
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  Speaker 2: in OZ, but I did see you have been meeting
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  Speaker 2: the locals on your Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: I have been meeting all the pythons and the Quakers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you saw a quaker, right, I saw many Quakers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: I've never actually seen one. So what was that like?
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  Speaker 1: It was so much fun. I feel like it was
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  Speaker 1: one of those things where it felt like being in
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  Speaker 1: a Disney movie or something where they were just animals
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  Speaker 1: running around people and it was it was so cute.
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  Speaker 2: For people who don't know you do. You have an
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  Speaker 2: incredible story, an incredibly huge fan base. What is the
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  Speaker 2: lave aised story?
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  Speaker 1: The love story well, I'm from Iceland, yes, and I
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  Speaker 1: have Chinese as well, and I make music that's a
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  Speaker 1: blend of jazz music, classical music, barson nova pop music. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: very reminiscent of the past. But I like telling stories.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. And then in the process, you have
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  Speaker 2: a massed and incredible fan base.
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  Speaker 1: The nicest people in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they. As I said, I saw you in December
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  Speaker 2: and there was a girl next to me and she
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  Speaker 2: when you came on, it was like something took over her.
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  Speaker 2: She was so excited.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cute. Yeah, it was. I feel so lucky
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  Speaker 1: to have such a beautiful community of people who are
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  Speaker 1: quite like minded. I always say I became the musician
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  Speaker 1: that I was missing when I was growing up. So
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've grown a community that's very similar
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that because like, yeah, I like that
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  Speaker 2: that you became the musician that you were looking for
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  Speaker 2: when you were growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I grew up playing cello, piano, classical music, singing
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  Speaker 1: jazz standards, but I was ultimately a very moderate girl
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted somebody to listen to and found over
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  Speaker 1: and get to go to concerts too. And I also
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  Speaker 1: didn't want it to be something that felt, you know,
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  Speaker 1: old fashioned or old in anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Which is what it is so beautiful about your music
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  Speaker 2: is you have managed to craft it in a way.
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  Speaker 2: And as I said to you, she must have been
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  Speaker 2: maybe sixteen, and I was, and I was like, you are, like, like,
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  Speaker 2: well crazy into It was great to say, I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to see the show tonight and watch the fans
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  Speaker 2: go crazy. Do you do you get recognized in the
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  Speaker 2: street or are you going to account? Yeah? Oh, can
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  Speaker 2: you be a little bit incognito when you're off visiting
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  Speaker 2: the Quakers and stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I well, it definitely depends where I am, and it
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  Speaker 1: definitely depends on how I'm dressed. When I'm with my
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  Speaker 1: twin sister. I think it's really obvious because there's two
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  Speaker 1: of us, and sure any question in your mind is
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  Speaker 1: that her? Like if we're both there, then most likely
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  Speaker 1: it is me. Yeah, it depends on where it is.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I kind of have the perfect blend
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  Speaker 1: of it where I get to meet fans who are
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  Speaker 1: usually very dedicated. They know a lot about me, have
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  Speaker 1: listened to the music, like I've touched their life in
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  Speaker 1: some way, and therefore they touch me. In some way.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always a very honest and beautiful exchange, or
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  Speaker 1: most of the time is a very honest and beautiful exchange.
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  Speaker 1: So and then you know, I'm still live a very
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  Speaker 1: normal life, joy doing so.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have a staff of one hundred or people
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  Speaker 2: around you cooking and cleaning, living the pop star dream.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm from Iceland. I'm like, that's such such an
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  Speaker 1: un Icelandic mindset. And yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is that still home or did you move? Have you
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  Speaker 2: moved to the US?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I live in La Yeah. I think it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I definitely see that kind of star life and whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I get my little moments of it.
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  Speaker 1: It always kind of freaks me out and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to like river it back to being a child
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  Speaker 1: in Iceland.
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  Speaker 2: You have a twin, Yeah, identical identical? Tell me, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever switched out? Have you ever done a sweet?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're not the first person to ask me.
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  Speaker 2: I have no doubt, and I'm sure you're gonna lie
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  Speaker 2: to me no matter even if you have, You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to tell me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I could tell you yes and it would
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  Speaker 1: be a lie. I could tell you no. It would
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  Speaker 1: be a lie, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So, but could you? Could you let's pretend, let's just
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  Speaker 2: play a game. Let's pretend you were a little tired,
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  Speaker 2: right and she's not. Could you send her in your spot?
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  Speaker 2: And would we be able to tell the difference.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd be able to tell the difference. I
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  Speaker 1: mean recently, we used to look very alike, but I
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  Speaker 1: cut my hair short. She has bangs now, yeah, fringe,
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  Speaker 1: so we're quite different. And and I think we also
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  Speaker 1: have grown into our different professions. So I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I could do what she does very well, okay, And
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  Speaker 1: I mean I mean she doesn't sing, so yeah she could.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't meaning that I would push her out for
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  Speaker 2: you to sing. I mean just like, you know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if if you need to be somewhere or walk something,
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  Speaker 2: and you're like yeah, I mean though tempting.
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  Speaker 1: I think I am, like I have some sort of
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  Speaker 1: childhood trauma or something. I'm really afraid of lying, Like
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell a lie to save my life. You
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  Speaker 1: can see it on my face. And I don't like dishonesty,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't like being dishonest, so it would feel dishonest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you would not you would bear me.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm joking. Yeah, hey, this is a random question.
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  Speaker 2: But if people go to your Instagram, it looks different
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  Speaker 2: to other people's Instagram. Yes, it does, okay, because you
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  Speaker 2: have this thing called an Instagram ring. Right, congratulations you
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  Speaker 2: won that too. I think this is explain the award.
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  Speaker 2: I think Instagram give out people who are like culture movers.
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  Speaker 2: Culture make is the platform.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did this really cool thing where they awarded
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  Speaker 1: a handful of creators, artists of many kinds this ring,
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  Speaker 1: and we got a real ring. It was really caused,
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  Speaker 1: designed by Grace Will's bonner, and we all get to
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  Speaker 1: customize our Instagram. And you chose pink custom like button.
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  Speaker 1: Why I can choose it.
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  Speaker 2: You can change it.
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  Speaker 1: Every day if I want. Yeah, I've changed it a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: This is fun.
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  Speaker 1: I've changed a couple of times. It's hot pink right
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  Speaker 1: now because I felt that I was in a hot
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  Speaker 1: pink era of my life. Yeah, I wanted boldness in
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  Speaker 1: my life. But it was late green before, which was
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  Speaker 1: very innocent, very sweet.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. I love that for you. Before I
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  Speaker 2: go sixty seconds with leave lightning round of questions, you ready,
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  Speaker 2: if you had a live theme song right now? What
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  Speaker 2: would it be?
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  Speaker 1: Life theme song? Oh? My god, I'm so bad at
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  Speaker 1: lightning stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well this is not a great one. Do you
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  Speaker 2: believe in ghosts?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: What's giving you the ick recently?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I opened a door on my toe and it
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  Speaker 1: was bleeding a lot, and my toes purple.
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  Speaker 2: The toe in general or a bit of any toes? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a secret talent that has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with music.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very flexible, really very.
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  Speaker 2: Flexible, like stretching, stretching, Like can you do that thing
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  Speaker 2: where people like arch their back and then they go
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  Speaker 2: the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Way over very bendy.
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  Speaker 2: Would it be inappropriate for me to ask to see that?
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  Speaker 2: It would be, wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: It would?
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  Speaker 2: It's on the internet, okay if your camera ole leaked,
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  Speaker 2: would you be concerned?
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  Speaker 1: No? No, I'd be concerned because I have an embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: amount of photos of everything.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Is that so? Yeah? And then last message to
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  Speaker 2: the Aussie fans, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I love you guys, a new cute accidents and your corckers.
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