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The Voice Of Defiance With ENVY MARSHALL · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You might have money, he's securing your bomb.
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  Speaker 2: That's known on it.
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  Speaker 3: You can be birth, but to me, that's not up.
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  Speaker 3: You're a paper tugger. Day can be famous friends in pleas.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm Embie Marshall. The song I've got coming out
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  Speaker 2: is called like a Man or flam as you call it,
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  Speaker 2: which sounds like getting punched in the face in the
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  Speaker 2: comic book. That sounds and I think that this song.
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  Speaker 2: People keep asking me, what does the song sound like?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, imagine John Cena being thrown through a
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  Speaker 2: table by Dolly Parton and then Nicol Back comes in.
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  Speaker 2: There's a royal rumble, and then hul Cogan comes in
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  Speaker 2: and just bashes them.
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  Speaker 3: All in their head.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of what I want to say about this song.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of it's wrestling. It's there's women in it,
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  Speaker 2: there's guys in it, there's fighting in it. There's so
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  Speaker 2: much going on. It's a yeah and at the end
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  Speaker 2: there's a hell yeah. Because I love Stone Cold Steve
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  Speaker 2: Louston and I think he should be in everything, so
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  Speaker 2: you know that. I just I love it. For me,
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  Speaker 2: it's a combination of lots of different things and all
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  Speaker 2: parts of people's personalities and it has a sense of humor.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't take yourself too seriously and I want everyone
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  Speaker 2: to dance and go yeh do it too.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's a lot to expect from people for one song,
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  Speaker 4: but I reckon you go.
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  Speaker 2: About this. I hope you like my song. Is that better?
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  Speaker 4: That's more proper? Thanks to join us today. It's a
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  Speaker 4: pleasure to make your aquaintance.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to make and see Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pleasure to make your acquaintance and see your next Tuesday. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So the track like a Man did come out a
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  Speaker 4: little while back. So how was the reception for it?
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  Speaker 2: It's been amazing so for in the first the pre
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  Speaker 2: teaser that I put out on social media got over
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  Speaker 2: half a million views, and I love that that people
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  Speaker 2: were really connecting with the song, the words, the lyrics
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  Speaker 2: I think has a bit of shock value to it.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like, it's because people are really wanting
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  Speaker 2: music like this. Now I'm finding it's I didn't write
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  Speaker 2: it to be popular. I didn't write it to because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted any to react to it. I wrote it
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  Speaker 2: because I just really freaking needed to say it. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the response has been really good. I mean I sang
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  Speaker 2: it live the other night in Hollywood, and I kind
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  Speaker 2: of watched the crowd and I saw a girl go
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  Speaker 2: it was the first time she like hid behind her husband,
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  Speaker 2: like it was really scary to her. And then at
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  Speaker 2: the end she was like at the front, because when
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  Speaker 2: you're confronting you know. Yeah, richid good.
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  Speaker 4: So you mentioned the fact that the teasier release had
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  Speaker 4: half a million views on social media before the song
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  Speaker 4: was So was that a clever marketing campaign or was
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  Speaker 4: it just lucky?
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  Speaker 2: It's a really good question. I don't believe in luck.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously there's a team of people. We're all pushing
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  Speaker 2: it and we know what we're kind of doing, and
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  Speaker 2: I surround myself with very good people. I just think
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  Speaker 2: we've got a really good hook and I think that matters.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when people are putting this song out,
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  Speaker 2: they just go, hope you like my song. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've worked really hard to find the people that know
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  Speaker 2: how to make really hooky, strong, light songs. And that's
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  Speaker 2: taken me a long time to get here. And it's
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  Speaker 2: been working with people like what We're seen and Brian Howse,
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  Speaker 2: who masters at songwriting, to get to understand what people
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  Speaker 2: care about and what connects to people. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: not an accident.
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  Speaker 4: I could tell us a more about the song, first
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  Speaker 4: musically and then what it's actually about. Like I could
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  Speaker 4: try and pick it apart from what I heard, but I
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  Speaker 4: want to hear what you wrote it about.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to hear what you think it's about
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  Speaker 2: after you ladies first, Okay, well, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: You can't call me that, just remember that. So it's
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  Speaker 2: not really about anything. So I'll tell the story. So
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  Speaker 2: I was my partner was away. I was at home
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  Speaker 2: and I was writing an album and all I remember
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  Speaker 2: was cooking and I was really bored, and I was
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  Speaker 2: writing an album at the same time, and then I
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  Speaker 2: was walking around. I'm in the writing process. So when
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  Speaker 2: you're a writer, you write songs. Yeah, you've written songs.
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  Speaker 2: You write songs, of course we will. That's what we
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  Speaker 2: songwriters or peers. When you're in the writing precess and
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  Speaker 2: you have to write something, the process is usually ship
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  Speaker 2: I got to write something. So you know that your
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  Speaker 2: brain's looking for ideas and it's looking for things everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: While you're going through that process. Then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: your mind's cleared for two minutes and boom, and I
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  Speaker 2: just got this like a man, just sort of and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, well, that's amazing. And then I just
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  Speaker 2: wrote it down, but it was like a man, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I started there, and then I
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  Speaker 2: just got my guitar and then I played four chords
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, yep, I got it. That's that's
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  Speaker 2: what I want to say. And I took it to
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  Speaker 2: my producer and he was like, I don't know, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, come on, and he was like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right. So yeah, it was a team thing, and
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  Speaker 2: it was like a you know, I was really certain
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  Speaker 2: of what I wanted to say, yeah, and so really
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  Speaker 2: the rest sort of filled in itself, like the grid
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  Speaker 2: kind of filled in. After I knew what I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to say. The rest of the song sort of fell
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  Speaker 2: into place. I didn't try to write it, if that
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  Speaker 2: makes sense.
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  Speaker 4: Like it did so strong, powerful song and it would
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  Speaker 4: caught controversy into some circles. But I like the fact
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  Speaker 4: that that you've owned it, and like everything I've read
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  Speaker 4: about you and everything I've seen about you, you haven't watched
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  Speaker 4: shied away from the fact that you can do and
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  Speaker 4: say whatever the fuck you, like at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the day, you know, like it in this day and age,
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  Speaker 4: it's beautiful to see someone so willing to stand behind
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  Speaker 4: their art. I guess, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: And even to the point where thank you that means
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  Speaker 2: a lot, Even to the point where we have you know,
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  Speaker 2: women who who first of you will go oh and
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  Speaker 2: then come up to you later and go, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. So it's it's nice because
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  Speaker 2: it's I really care about women, I really want I
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  Speaker 2: really really love women. I love men, and I love
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  Speaker 2: women and whatever you want to be called, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: But like for me to have a woman come up
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  Speaker 2: to me and give me a hug and say thanks,
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  Speaker 2: that was awesome. That means a lot. Yeah, especially when
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  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of female fronted rock bands writing
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  Speaker 2: songs for women. You know, it's some Yeah, I liking
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  Speaker 2: it too, that kind of rolling their eyes first through.
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  Speaker 2: How did a gig the other night and a guy
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  Speaker 2: walked up to me afterwards and he goes, he's from
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  Speaker 2: Texas and he said, I don't know, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about that like a man song. I go, why he
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  Speaker 2: was one of my mask bowls to do.
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  Speaker 4: If you're in a one fucking like a Man enough
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  Speaker 4: you would have lost your shit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, You're just gonna have to work harder.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually good to you in the respect that, like
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people take music on face value, and
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  Speaker 4: if you just read the name of that song, fuck
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  Speaker 4: like a Man, you'd think that, like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people wouldn't get into it just by that. But if
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  Speaker 4: you do listen to it and you get through to
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  Speaker 4: the end, you realize there's a lot more to it
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  Speaker 4: than just a sexual gesture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it's more just yeah, it's about
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  Speaker 2: stop it. Because there's a line in the song that
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that my producer actually wrote and I
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  Speaker 2: don't like it. I don't like it. At the start,
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  Speaker 2: I love it, everyone loves it. Now I hated it
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  Speaker 2: and it was wait, won't bake your brownies? And I
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  Speaker 2: said to him, I hate that line. He's like, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I hate it. No, it's good. It's good.
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  Speaker 2: And then when I sing it, I'm like, oh, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes sense. Like what I was trying to say
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  Speaker 2: was I'm not going to fry it in a pan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to fry it in a pan. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not doing your lawndry. I'm gonna not let the boys
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  Speaker 2: have all the farm. Let's go, I'm gonna I can
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  Speaker 2: do this. Blah blah blah, let's go. Let's go girls.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like Chania Twain's man, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: a woman for today. And I didn't like that line
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  Speaker 2: and I love it now though, because it makes sense
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  Speaker 2: to me. But that's why you're going to collaborate with smart,
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  Speaker 2: good people that get you. Because he was kind of like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you don't like that, and I'm like, oh, so it's
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  Speaker 2: a battle of wheels the songwriting process, which I love
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I thought that line was abouder got
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  Speaker 4: ampletely wrong. I want you talking about a Dutch Oven.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm not saying I didn't write a song about
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  Speaker 2: a dirty Sanchez and put it out. Thank you, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you magazine have awesome media skills. No, it's actually just
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  Speaker 2: literally about It's literal, it's about baking brownie. So it's
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  Speaker 2: just a woman saying I'm not baking your brownies. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not doing your laundry, I'm not frying shit up in
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  Speaker 2: a pan. Stopped telling me to act like a woman.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the gimmick. But that's who I am, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're still very much in a you can't
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  Speaker 2: even say this anymore, can you? I can? Yeah, male
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  Speaker 2: dominated society, you know, and it is the it is.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of gender roles going on. So
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  Speaker 2: this song is not about women, it's not about men.
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  Speaker 2: It's about quality. It's about us all just having a
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  Speaker 2: good time, no matter who what the gender is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we should all be able to raise a fist in
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  Speaker 2: the air, raise a beer in the air, and go.
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  Speaker 4: Damn straight, damn straight. Now, you released a single first,
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  Speaker 4: and then the video came out a few weeks later,
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  Speaker 4: so it's not because did you have to run the
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  Speaker 4: video by the censorship board before you put.
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  Speaker 2: It out yet? So the teasers have come out in
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  Speaker 2: the video, we're still waiting for the video to come out.
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  Speaker 2: So there is a premiere. There was sitting there, so
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  Speaker 2: we've got it's just waiting. We're just waiting. It's like
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  Speaker 2: a little peep show, like everything sort of comes out
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  Speaker 2: over a period of time, like some artists, and I
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  Speaker 2: love them for it. A concrete top content content creators.
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  Speaker 2: They create so much content, always putting it out whereas
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  Speaker 2: I'm more just one thing, just ride it until you know,
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  Speaker 2: because there's a lot of work goes into doing these
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  Speaker 2: tracks and putting them out. Yeah, so it's not out yet,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be out in April, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Can you tell us what it's about? What a video
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  Speaker 4: for it's going to be about.
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  Speaker 2: I've got two different people that directed it, so I've
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  Speaker 2: got two different videos. One of them was the incredibly
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  Speaker 2: talented Steve Wels. She's also in a band called Density Ruins.
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  Speaker 2: He did the first the first part of it. He's
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  Speaker 2: an incredible director. So Steve Welsh at the first part
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  Speaker 2: Out of Deity, and Ian Ridder, who's you know, local
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  Speaker 2: royalty in the scene for capturing amazing rock and roll
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  Speaker 2: everything's in essence of this industry, did the second part.
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  Speaker 2: So I put them together and we're about to put
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  Speaker 2: it out. So one part's really really feminine and sexy
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  Speaker 2: and the other parts really masculine and ballsy. And we've
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  Speaker 2: two parts coming out.
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  Speaker 4: So we were really fun, very cool and like a
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  Speaker 4: man follows last year's single, rock Star. So are they
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  Speaker 4: standalone songs or are they part of a bigger picture.
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good question. So Rockstar I put out
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  Speaker 2: because I was I hadn't put it out yet, and
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  Speaker 2: Paulie and I did an album together and I only
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  Speaker 2: put two supporter saying from the Screaming Jets. He and
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  Speaker 2: I worked together on the first, my first ever EP.
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  Speaker 2: We did eight nine songs together. Two of those saw
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  Speaker 2: the Light of Day that was drowned and the Fire
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  Speaker 2: that was in twenty twenty, so great time to release music.
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  Speaker 2: And then after Pauli passed away, I was sitting on
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  Speaker 2: a lot of songs and I thought to myself, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to put rock Star out and dedicate it to him.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why that came out. That was actually written
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  Speaker 2: three or four years before that, but I put it
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  Speaker 2: out and promoted it last year while I was working
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  Speaker 2: on the other stuff. So it's not a new song,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a tribute to my my really dear
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  Speaker 2: friends paul and he's the rock star fumy.
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  Speaker 4: But what's what's going on with the albums? Are you
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  Speaker 4: gonna release the album? You're right, we PAULI did to
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  Speaker 4: say so.
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  Speaker 2: So we just did a showcase in Los Angeles at
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  Speaker 2: SO Studios for a lot of industry peace. We've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of interest in who's going to take over
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  Speaker 2: that side of things for us, So very exciting times.
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  Speaker 2: And we've got a really great album. It's been produced
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  Speaker 2: by Brian House, mixed by Mike Fraser who did a
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  Speaker 2: CDC stuff, so it's it's next level. We're so so
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  Speaker 2: excited about it and that will be out when it's out,
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we're just we're just doing the wedding
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  Speaker 2: process right now. And yep, we've got a great management team.
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  Speaker 2: They're over in Sweden, they're booking us to at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year over in Europe, so there's lots
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  Speaker 2: to come.
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  Speaker 4: Nice and rock star and like a man, are they
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  Speaker 4: good indication of what the album's going to sound like
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  Speaker 4: or are they just just a couple of small layers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a rock girl. My album is very rock centric,
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  Speaker 2: so it's going to be very it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: super What you hear is what you get. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day, I've got ADHD So I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to have rap, I'm going to have country, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to have metal, I'm going to have rock. But
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  Speaker 2: the heart of it is always me being this rock pig,
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  Speaker 2: So around that is going to be a variety of
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  Speaker 2: of yeah, different sounds, but at the heart of it
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  Speaker 2: is a very guitar centric heavy rocks out.
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  Speaker 4: Ye and you just mentioned actually the year off to
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  Speaker 4: Europe this year, So what's going on there? Are you
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  Speaker 4: just still on the tour or are you playing festivals?
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you yet.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to know anyway. Ah, it's only being polite.
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  Speaker 2: Way to buy a magazine.
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  Speaker 4: They not care whatever, But I had you felt you
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  Speaker 4: thought I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at the end of the day, I can't say
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  Speaker 2: anything because we haven't found anything yet, but we know
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  Speaker 2: it's coming. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: We've got about Australia or any Australian shows coming up
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  Speaker 4: whe people can't catch up.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, that's nothing. You're just going to have to
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  Speaker 2: wait for the music video to come out. And keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on my socials and just the quality quality
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  Speaker 2: line stay changed because there's lots happening after LA.
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  Speaker 4: And what are you socials? Mate? Where can people go
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  Speaker 4: to catch up with you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my name is Envy Marshall. There's only one except
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  Speaker 2: this other guy that I follow on Twitter. Sorry, I
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  Speaker 2: follow him on TikTok because he's only one other Inmvie Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: In the world, and he's the only person I follow
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  Speaker 2: you just and he takes I'm really annoying, but I
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  Speaker 2: like all of the stories, so you can find me
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  Speaker 2: really easily. If you look up any marshall, you might
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  Speaker 2: have money.
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  Speaker 3: You think you ain't your both. Maybe that's not a need.
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  Speaker 3: You can mean both, but to me, that's not tough.
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  Speaker 3: You're a paper tagger an.
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  Speaker 2: You can be famous friends in our places.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't turn me on.
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  Speaker 5: You don't dragon Mazarati will with come Marazi the billy.
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  Speaker 3: It's all bit run.
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  Speaker 5: You say you won't trust me, and then you gotta
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  Speaker 5: impress me.
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  Speaker 3: Hag it dirty, hag it brownies the rug like a
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  Speaker 3: drag a travel won't do you an, We'll make it brownies.
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  Speaker 5: So my edges are related rough, I got big care
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  Speaker 5: act girls, lettle.
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  Speaker 3: Plants, attitude, I drink be readily case.
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  Speaker 1: Stop telling me to act like a woman when you
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  Speaker 1: know that I like a man. Hell, I am hot headed,
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  Speaker 1: I run ono lead and I'm I forget to call
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  Speaker 1: you back. If you try to control me, manipulator moan me,
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  Speaker 1: I'll drump.
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  Speaker 5: You at the drop of a hat.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I drink him with my girlfriends. I don't need
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  Speaker 3: your blessing.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never be yonder your mom.
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  Speaker 3: We always close the barn. Had to kill a cause
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  Speaker 3: of shots. Now I'll tell you when I had enough.
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  Speaker 3: In this page my first rodeo. You can truck to
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  Speaker 3: bone man shop.
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  Speaker 1: Hage dirty, hag it brown?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I talk like I tried a truck. Won't do
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  Speaker 3: your lawry? Will may pick brownies?
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  Speaker 5: How my ages are a little guff? I got big
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  Speaker 5: hairback girls, lellow plants, hattitude, your frank sit a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I stopped telling me to back like a woman. When
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  Speaker 1: you know that.
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  Speaker 3: I like a man, heady.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: I'll watch your mother, not your horn, not your sleve.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Alien yards on the last decision, I have the man.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I get dirty, I get rowdy yet.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Dug like I tried the truck dirty, hag it brown?
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, chug like I tried the truck.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Won't do you lawre? Will they pick brownies? How my
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: entries are.
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: A little buff? I got breck cairback girls, lettow plants attitude.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: I take me in or the case. Stop telling me
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: the bag like a woman. When en you know that?
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: If you stop like a woman, when you know, when
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: you know man, black
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Man