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Striking A Nerve With NIAM HEGARTY From DENTAL PLAN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: No explanation, no point, what the point? So part of
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  Speaker 1: Cosmic Conscious cool.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm name from General Plan uh where indie punk,
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  Speaker 2: hyder rock, grungemand out of Melbourne, Australia. And yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: just released a debut album, Raw on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Ye had the phename. Thanks for joining us today, brother
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  Speaker 1: you thanks having me my pleasure.
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  Speaker 3: So, as you say, Dent, you're playing the last month
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  Speaker 3: to release your debut album. So how's the early reception
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  Speaker 3: been for it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been really good. I mean we've uh, we've
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  Speaker 2: gone to do a lot more streams did I expected,
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, people seem to have been digging it like
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  Speaker 2: it's it's could have done what it's needed to do,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is kind of get the word about
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  Speaker 2: the band out there because we've been banding for a
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  Speaker 2: while and it's our first record. So yeah, it's been good,
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  Speaker 2: like yeah, a long time coming, but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: people are responding and I'm just looking forward to kind
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  Speaker 2: of getting out and playing some shows to support it.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now you've got a couple of EPs that have
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  Speaker 3: come out earlier on before this made. But what sorts
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  Speaker 3: of things as the band do you discuss going into
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  Speaker 3: your debut album, Like I said, there'd be a lot
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  Speaker 3: more more process going to just an EP, wouldn't they.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the first I mean, the first thing we
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  Speaker 2: put out was essentially a demo that we said it
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  Speaker 2: was an EP, you know, and that was like I
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  Speaker 2: think we recorded that before we played the show. The
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  Speaker 2: secret one was just like yeah, a couple of tracks,
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  Speaker 2: and then yeah, the album was sort of more of
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  Speaker 2: a full band thing, like we had two guitarists, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a permanent drummer and Joe and I who started the band,
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, it was it was kind of like
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  Speaker 2: definitely more of a thought out like what are the
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  Speaker 2: songs we want to have to represent ourselves so far?
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  Speaker 2: So one of the tracks on Their Way Down was
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  Speaker 2: like the first track we ever wrote. We re recorded
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  Speaker 2: that for the record Whole on Me, which he recorded
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  Speaker 2: a video for a couple of years ago. We remixed
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  Speaker 2: to me, mastered that, and the rest of them are
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  Speaker 2: like all new, all new tracks over the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. So yeah, it's pretty much just production was bigger,
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  Speaker 2: like we wanted to sound bigger. We wanted to kind
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  Speaker 2: of have like, you know, everything to be there's more
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  Speaker 2: guitar tracks, on the on the album, like I've done
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of additional guitar tracks and yeah, just make
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  Speaker 2: it fuller and bigger and just kind of you're more
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  Speaker 2: of an album. I guess there's more more pressure, I suppose. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: how you been.
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  Speaker 3: Quote saying that this album is a representation of the
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  Speaker 3: life of the band so far, so you a laborate.
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  Speaker 4: On that a bit for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I suppose just what I said where it's
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like it's got everything from our very
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  Speaker 2: first track to our most recent stuff, and you were
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  Speaker 2: the band is a lot different now than when we started,
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  Speaker 2: like it was just three of us mucking around for
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  Speaker 2: a laugh, and yeah, it's I think it's a good
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  Speaker 2: representation of what we've done so far. And it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like I'm delayed. It's finally out so we can
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  Speaker 2: kind of support it and move forward and do new
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  Speaker 2: stuff as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, now you mentioned this before, brother, but there's
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  Speaker 3: a covered a wide variety of genres on Rhando. You've
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  Speaker 3: got everything from punk to rock, chick brunchy stuff in there.
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  Speaker 3: So how do you find the balance between those genres
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  Speaker 3: in the writing process and how do you know when
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  Speaker 3: you've gone too far with one maybe, or note enough
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  Speaker 3: with another.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's honestly just stuff that we like.
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  Speaker 2: Like we all grew up listening it kind of like
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, nineties when an alternative rock and
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  Speaker 2: punk was like it was really big, you know, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, growing up as kids on you know, watching
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  Speaker 2: MTV or whatever and getting super into all that stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and obviously you know, delving further down the path after that.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's just honestly stuff we like. Like
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  Speaker 2: I'll just sit down and play play a song, and
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  Speaker 2: if I think it's a good song, I don't really
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  Speaker 2: care too much about what the genre is. Like if
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  Speaker 2: I'm pissed off or something and feel in a certain way,
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  Speaker 2: I might write a song like hole in Me, or
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  Speaker 2: if I want something to do, like it's something a
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  Speaker 2: bit more melodic, or do something like Can't Get what
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  Speaker 2: You Want. But I think all the themes honestly are
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  Speaker 2: pretty dark. Like even if the songs are I'm kind
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  Speaker 2: of like happy, the lyrics are actually pretty pretty dark stuff,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So I think that it sort of ties
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  Speaker 2: it all together that it's not really an upbeat, have
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  Speaker 2: a party sort of sort of band, but yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: do comes a few genres.
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  Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, I am so you guys fall back
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  Speaker 3: in two thousand and eight in mate, like we've got
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  Speaker 3: over your music a little bit, but what sorts of things.
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  Speaker 3: I guess if you learn about the band and your
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  Speaker 3: music in general since you started to an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's just always playing to our strengths.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I always wanted to seck and guitarists, and
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  Speaker 2: I think now, I honestly think it's only been probably
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  Speaker 2: the last six months to a year that we've really
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  Speaker 2: been the band that we want to be live. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it took us a long time going to
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  Speaker 2: get a solid lineup into you know, stuff that happened
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  Speaker 2: over the plague or whatever just set things back a
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  Speaker 2: few years, and and then yeah, I think that we
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  Speaker 2: just now we're at a point where we've got a
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  Speaker 2: record we're happy with and we're we're performing. We're the
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  Speaker 2: band that I think that we want to be, and
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  Speaker 2: that it's just taken us a long time to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get there. You know, It's just been a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a journey. But yeah, I think what we've learned
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  Speaker 2: is let's just sea, we rehearse a lot of rehearse
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  Speaker 2: every week, and just having that friendship and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of the outlet of the four of us that we've
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  Speaker 2: made sort of a regular routine and a regular thing
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  Speaker 2: I think really helps us come together and play better
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  Speaker 2: and sort of get more motivated and get stoked about
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  Speaker 2: everything that's happening.
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  Speaker 3: You know, now you touched on before, brother, but you
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  Speaker 3: re recorded a version of the first song that you
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  Speaker 3: ever wrote, called way Down Mate, So a been a
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  Speaker 3: nostalgia point man. But was it Did you make it
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  Speaker 3: different to the original version or did you just keep
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  Speaker 3: it the same?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we made it different, Like I just said, it
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  Speaker 2: a couple more guitar parts and just kind of gave
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  Speaker 2: it a bit more flear like this kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a production technique with Dan Anticks, who mixed it. He
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  Speaker 2: also makes the Saints and stuff. He kind of flipped
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  Speaker 2: just a few little sounds and he kind of flipped
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  Speaker 2: like the roof to go backwards, so it sort of
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  Speaker 2: checks in before it goes into the chorus. Just like
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  Speaker 2: little production techniques and vocal and guitar stuff. We have
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  Speaker 2: just made it a lot bigger sounding, Like I listened
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  Speaker 2: to the old one and it's essentially sort of a
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  Speaker 2: demo and the new ones definitely have flished out, so
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  Speaker 2: and I guess the reason we included is because we
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  Speaker 2: played every show and it's one of our most well
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  Speaker 2: known songs. Were like, we may as well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to probably always play the song. We may
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  Speaker 2: as all put it on a record, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it wouldn't be an album release Broke without some shows.
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  Speaker 3: So tell us what you got coming up and promote it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So Saturday August thirty first, we're releasing it in
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne at the Old Bar. We've got a really cool
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  Speaker 2: grun drop band called Snub supporting, and a couple of
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  Speaker 2: hardcool punk bands Krull and Side Splitter. So yes, Olba
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  Speaker 2: thirty first of August, last day, I want to hopefully
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  Speaker 2: for Melbourne and then we're going into We're going to
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  Speaker 2: heat up to Queensland, New South Wales, Adelaide and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff later in the year. I just going to
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  Speaker 2: find lose those dates. And you were want to do
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  Speaker 2: a proper sort of run you know for the album.
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  Speaker 3: All right, brother, Well, thanks for your time. Neverous bed
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  Speaker 3: the play to speak with you made the yah Boo album.
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  Speaker 3: Guess we're playing called Roar and Lamp. He's out now
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  Speaker 3: and she's got to beat everything in there. Like you said, Brob,
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  Speaker 3: I had listened before the interview and she said, mom
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  Speaker 3: to quality stuff might go on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, I appreciate it. Christen you thanks for you, lady.
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  Speaker 1: It's all part of cospict unconscious.
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  Speaker 4: Che we are no sa be Yeah, guess up, dude,
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  Speaker 4: good dear.
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  Speaker 1: He says, a lesson coming to show.
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  Speaker 4: Ain't no job for chess. Stop wh song? You can't
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  Speaker 4: call this one? What song? Come mock? And no you
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  Speaker 4: a sa so it's just wanting swans.
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  Speaker 1: I can.
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  Speaker 4: I can't hear any comings no time.
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  Speaker 1: And no you sad?
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  Speaker 4: Can't can this one? No, it's so so