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YOU AM I Pull Some Strings To Give New Life To Some Old Loves · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: It's Andy from your eye here.
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  Speaker 2: We're heading out of the road in October November, and
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  Speaker 2: we are taking out those string quartet, So come along
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  Speaker 2: and enjoy.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Heavy mag You absolute legends and icons of
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  Speaker 3: my misspent youth, mister Rogers and the rest of the band,
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  Speaker 3: and you've got some pretty exciting announcements that you're making.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to tell our listeners about that?
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  Speaker 1: We decided to take a string quartet out on tour
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  Speaker 1: and play Lovely plus theaters and nine, pull out all
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  Speaker 1: those songs that suit that treatment, and yeah, give us
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  Speaker 1: some energy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be low energy just
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  Speaker 2: because it's not you know, you know, rock and roll
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  Speaker 2: on eleven. I think it's going to be quite beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it could even be quite powerful.
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  Speaker 4: So we were sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the idea that you know, we see it all
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  Speaker 2: the time, and it's just kind of like why do
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  Speaker 2: people do it? Is take you know, a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: rock songs and just you know, boltons and string players
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  Speaker 2: who are only ever trying to keep up with it,
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  Speaker 2: which sometimes it just sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Like sounds like shit.
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  Speaker 2: So we kind of avoid that and we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: have the strings and the arrangements be really worked together,
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  Speaker 2: and to be working properly and to have the whole
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  Speaker 2: things sound really good rather than two things trying to
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  Speaker 2: work together, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, No, it's definitely it's been done before, and
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  Speaker 3: as you said, it can really elevate music, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it recently.
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  Speaker 4: There was in and.
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  Speaker 3: Some I forget off the top of my head the
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  Speaker 3: name of the band from Europe, like a tiny little
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  Speaker 3: country and middle of Angola i think it was, and
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  Speaker 3: they joined with their symphony.
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  Speaker 4: Choir and they and like that heavy stuff and they did.
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  Speaker 3: A whole release of with their orchestra which was just insane.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, and the string quartet, that's different.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 3: I think the last time I seen something like that
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  Speaker 3: done was the hilltor PUDs added.
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  Speaker 4: The string section, and that's very cool. It was that
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  Speaker 4: it worked, it did.
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  Speaker 3: It was that you know, polar opposites and it was,
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  Speaker 3: like you say, something quite beautiful. And of course Silver
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  Speaker 3: Chair have famously done it before in the past, adding
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  Speaker 3: that with some of their tracks. So I'm really looking
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  Speaker 3: forward just seeing, you know, Purple Sneakers and Kathy's clown
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  Speaker 3: come out with the string cord section added, which you know,
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  Speaker 3: as you say, they're great songs on their own and
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  Speaker 3: got that style you and my sound really does you know,
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  Speaker 3: leave that space open for something like that to come through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And there are lots of songs that won't suit
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  Speaker 1: it at all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we won't go near that.
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  Speaker 2: But there's tons of songs over many records that really
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  Speaker 2: will suit it. Yeah, and we'll be right and hold
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  Speaker 2: arrangements for them, and maybe the songs will change slightly,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, to give it this treatment that might work,
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  Speaker 2: but some some will work for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I feel quite blessed.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually going to be getting there both sides of you,
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  Speaker 3: am I coming up? See you guys are playing in
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  Speaker 3: my local coming at the end of this month.
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  Speaker 4: I think it is that cooly hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, at the it the og Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to catch you guys at the Tip. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's the day before ZE fifty one, which is
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  Speaker 3: another insane line up.
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  Speaker 4: It's a big weekend. Yeah yeah, and then.
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  Speaker 3: See you when do with the quartet, which tically is
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  Speaker 3: such a beautiful theater. I've seen many a band there.
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  Speaker 3: It's just such a gorgeous place.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So you know, is it just the five
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  Speaker 3: shows that you're doing with that, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it is. Yeah, it's expensive to put these things
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  Speaker 2: on yeah, past thousands. Yeah right, so yeah, we just
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  Speaker 2: thought we'd keep it tired, see how it went, and look,
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  Speaker 2: if it goes well and people love it and we
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  Speaker 2: think it's something that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, is worth doing again, then maybe down.
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  Speaker 2: The track will just do a full full tour. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to test the water a bit.
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  Speaker 1: When it works.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, nice. And it's some anniversaries. Which is what number
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  Speaker 4: of anniversary that were?
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  Speaker 1: It's Ali daily thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Ah right, thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're twenty five thirty in mark, which is you know,
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  Speaker 3: no good to realize how old were.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, everybody's doing it, but all it does is.
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  Speaker 1: To remind everybody else. So well everybody is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I said before, I'm absolutely loving this moment
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  Speaker 3: and time because all my favorites of my you know, misspent,
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  Speaker 3: you guys said yourselves, and we're all doing anniversary tours.
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  Speaker 3: So spider Man of the Weekend, Green Spoon last year.
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  Speaker 3: You know, in regard to the data have just come
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  Speaker 3: off the back end, they're off to Japan tomorrow morning,
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  Speaker 3: I think. So, yeah, you guys are all just come together,
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  Speaker 3: and even getting to see Custard as well with the
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  Speaker 3: boys on Friday, said right, yeah, they're playing, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They're playing.
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  Speaker 3: They're playing with their swooding spider bait and then they're
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  Speaker 3: doing Z fifty one, so it's good and yeah, then you.
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  Speaker 4: Know the lineups. I just they look like an old
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  Speaker 4: big day out for us. So it's quite good.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, it's so yeah to see you guys and twice
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  Speaker 3: in one year, like that's just that's a blessing.
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  Speaker 4: Actually will be three times because.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Tim with when he was with The hard
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  Speaker 3: Ones with Ela in the year Red Cross.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeahs yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So briefly got to see them and which was great.
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  Speaker 3: So which is a really that's it. I mean I
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  Speaker 3: love the hard Ones and I loved him, and I
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  Speaker 3: still my mind has a.
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  Speaker 4: Hard time putting the two together. Mind you, it does.
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  Speaker 3: It does them an absolute favor. It's the best things
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  Speaker 3: they've done. But it's just quite that a marriage that
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  Speaker 3: was never foreseen, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: In world. Yeah, so you guys got any plans for
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  Speaker 4: new music coming up in the year or what's the look.
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  Speaker 2: Like we haven't done much about it, but there's always
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  Speaker 2: tunes bouncing around.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it feels like it's the place, the people we're
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  Speaker 5: working with, and the timing works, and yeah, I think
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  Speaker 5: we're all came to make music. Yeah, yeah where hell,
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  Speaker 5: it will work that out. I mean, maybe it's a
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  Speaker 5: house in the hills and we will just pile out
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  Speaker 5: there and give us something for a.
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  Speaker 1: Week or something.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Yeah, I might try and.
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  Speaker 2: Do something different, but you know, it's whatever works for
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  Speaker 2: everybody for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And it's getting that timing right, isn't it When you've
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  Speaker 3: you've got other other things to pay, the bills.
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  Speaker 4: Going on as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's some for sure, a arrange everything logistical nightmare. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of the Northern Rivers. There's plenty of hills
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  Speaker 3: and houses around here.
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  Speaker 4: They got you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys wrong, Yes, were very blast. So it's a melting
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  Speaker 3: pot of absolute talent, which I can't I can't say
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  Speaker 3: it's not a great thing.
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  Speaker 4: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that's good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, so that's exciting.
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  Speaker 3: So it's so October November is it with the quartet,
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  Speaker 3: that's their plan to come out. Yeah, so in just
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  Speaker 3: the two shows in Brizzy, Sydney, Melbourne.
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  Speaker 4: And is the path two Melbourns, Oh two Melbourne.
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  Speaker 3: Oh there you go over Lucky two Melbourne's too brisy
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  Speaker 3: and Sydney and yeah nice, nice, Well get along, you know,
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  Speaker 3: give the give the boys some love, and you know
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  Speaker 3: they're all the love that we can give them. We've
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  Speaker 3: been doing for the last thirty years. It sounds terrible
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  Speaker 3: to say, doesn't it. As I said, blessed to be
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  Speaker 3: catching you again in this first off this month. So
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be interesting seeing in the OG and
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  Speaker 3: then with the quartet, it's certainly not going.
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  Speaker 4: To be overlooked.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, reflection, you're.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely am No I think too late, and seeing that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so close in time, it'll be a really
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  Speaker 3: good chance to win in for a quartet to reflect
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  Speaker 3: on that, and but yeah, it'd be nice to digress
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  Speaker 3: and dissect that one and do some nice reviews of
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  Speaker 3: which we'll do anyway. Yeah, we can't have too much
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  Speaker 3: of a good thing. It's never enough for sure. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll look congratulations on your thirty years and the anniversary
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  Speaker 3: tour and the quartet and hopefully it all comes together
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  Speaker 3: and it's the rest of the country and wherever else
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  Speaker 3: the lands may take you might get to see it
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  Speaker 3: next year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah great, Oh, thank you, no
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  Speaker 4: Worries Andy, thanks for having your ch other's heavy and
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  Speaker 4: do you take care