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Matchbox Twenty · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, y'all? Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 3: Joining me right now, Rob and Paul from the Grammy-nominated
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  Speaker 3: rock band Matchbox 20.
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  Speaker 2: How you gentlemen doing?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, man. How are you, brother? Good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Always great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: And this is exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: You guys are going on a tour to celebrate 30
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  Speaker 3: years of music. What's the feeling in the group knowing
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  Speaker 3: you've been doing this for that long and just as
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  Speaker 3: good as ever?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're hoping that we still do it as good
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  Speaker 1: as ever.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's a lot of joy. It's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of, like, kind of gratitude and joy. It's
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  Speaker 4: the fact that we've been able to sort of stick around,
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  Speaker 4: that people have kind of wanted us to stick around. Like,
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  Speaker 4: the older you get, the more you really start to
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  Speaker 4: appreciate how rare that is.
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  Speaker 1: It really is.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think that we've all sort of kind
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  Speaker 4: of fallen into a place of just real gratitude for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's been, like, such a... You know, over
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  Speaker 1: the years, it's now.
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  Speaker 5: that demographic gets wider and wider, you know, in that
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  Speaker 5: there's people are bringing their kids, people that were fans
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  Speaker 5: in 96, and now they're bringing their kids and their
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  Speaker 5: kids are bringing their kids. And Paul, you know, said
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  Speaker 5: something that was really interesting. That's been such a journey
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  Speaker 5: that we've been fortunate enough to be able to have that.
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  Speaker 5: Like there are some people who were younger and they
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  Speaker 5: found us on our third or fourth record.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's their moment.
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  Speaker 5: So like planning out this tour and figuring out to
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  Speaker 5: make sure that throughout the tour, we try and play
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  Speaker 5: as much of these songs as we can and, Because
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  Speaker 5: you never know what somebody's there to listen to. It's
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  Speaker 5: not just those singles or that handful of whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing about art.
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  Speaker 3: It stands the test of time and it can carry
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  Speaker 3: on to generation to generation. You guys are playing 52 cities,
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  Speaker 3: which is great. Is there anything in particular you're excited
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  Speaker 3: the most about regarding the tour?
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  Speaker 4: We're definitely playing some venues that we love. We're playing
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  Speaker 4: the Bowl here in L.A. We're going to play Red Rocks.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of venues that aren't as well known, but
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  Speaker 4: we've been playing them for so many years, like Blossom
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  Speaker 4: in Ohio.
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  Speaker 5: I love that one to Houston.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a regular amphitheater, but for some reason it's
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  Speaker 1: never had a bad show.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's just some places that, because, again, we've been
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  Speaker 4: lucky enough to do this for a long time. We've
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  Speaker 4: been lucky to do it at a certain level for
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  Speaker 4: a long time. A lot of these venues are just
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  Speaker 4: so familiar to us. So it's always kind of nice
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  Speaker 4: to go check back in. Also, we have friends, man.
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  Speaker 4: And you know how this is because you travel a lot.
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  Speaker 4: There's some friends that I've only been able to keep
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  Speaker 4: that friendship up because I get to see them every
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  Speaker 4: now and then when we come through their city.
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  Speaker 1: They'll bring family and you get to catch up.
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  Speaker 5: So once you get out there, it's like this is
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  Speaker 5: your new persona and your road family. And now you
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  Speaker 5: and your road family are traveling around through the whole summer.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm just looking forward, I think, to the camaraderie
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  Speaker 5: of it all.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Red Rocks in Colorado, which is an iconic,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful venue.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited about the Hollywood Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: In L.A.
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  Speaker 5: That's another iconic venue.
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  Speaker 2: That's got to be a great one right there. Looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to checking that out.
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  Speaker 3: And before the actual tour starts, you guys are playing
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  Speaker 3: at the Stagecoach Festival as well, right?
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  Speaker 1: We are.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I'm planning on attending this year for the
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  Speaker 2: first time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nice. It'll be our first time as well. Oh, awesome. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You got to come say hey. I would love to
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  Speaker 2: come say hey.
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  Speaker 1: Never been.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hearing awesome things. The lineup looks great.
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  Speaker 3: As far as these sort of festivals, what are your
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on– I got to imagine everyone's just, it's very tight, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because with all the different groups, you got to get
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  Speaker 2: in there.
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  Speaker 5: It is, but you know, like when we first started out,
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  Speaker 5: that was all you were doing because you play radio.
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  Speaker 5: There was a lot more of these kind of just
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  Speaker 5: straight radio festivals. Every town you'd go to, they'd have
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  Speaker 5: a big festival. And we got to meet all of
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  Speaker 5: these other bands that we loved and you get to
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  Speaker 5: watch all these other sets. And there was like, There was, like,
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  Speaker 5: this kind of cool thing that was happening between all
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  Speaker 5: the bands, and you'd catch up.
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  Speaker 1: And we stopped doing that.
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  Speaker 5: So, like, we played this one in Kentucky not too
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  Speaker 5: long ago, and it was just like, we're all like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: my God, our friends in the Wallflowers are over here,
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  Speaker 5: and let's go see Sting over here. And, like, we
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  Speaker 5: get to also just be fans of music and watch
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  Speaker 5: all of these bands as well.
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  Speaker 4: And then you do something like Stagecoach, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: traditionally it's a country-oriented festival, and we're not a country band.
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  Speaker 4: So there's going to be a lot of uninitiated people
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  Speaker 4: You know, people that we're going to go play for.
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  Speaker 4: And it kind of brings us back to those early
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  Speaker 4: days where it's like, OK, we got to go win
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  Speaker 4: some win some hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And let's it brings us a little challenge because you
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  Speaker 4: can you know, when you're playing every night to a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of people who bought tickets to see you a
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  Speaker 4: little of the pressure is off.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they already like your music. Right.
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  Speaker 4: But in these kind of things, you don't know if
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  Speaker 4: they're going to like your music.
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  Speaker 1: And it's kind of, it's a nice little challenge. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want people headed over to the canteen when we
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  Speaker 1: start playing, Mario. I want them to be there listening.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to have a canteen? Yeah, of course they are.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you're going to win over a lot of
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  Speaker 3: new fans. I like that they opened it up. I
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  Speaker 3: thought that was very smart.
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  Speaker 1: Very, very cool.
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  Speaker 3: Any chance you may get into some new music on
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  Speaker 3: the way to celebrate the 30-year anniversary?
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  Speaker 1: Very, a lot of chances of that. Yeah, without a doubt.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we're, it's the whole idea for us is
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  Speaker 5: to try and figure out how we can find a
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  Speaker 5: new and fun way to kind of release a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of music. And then eventually, maybe at the end of everything,
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  Speaker 5: we can have a package where everybody can have it
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  Speaker 5: all in one place.
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, the universe provides that.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Mario.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you can make your own greatest hits package. You
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  Speaker 5: can put everything together. You can have your own playlist
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  Speaker 5: any way that you want it. So, you know, our
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  Speaker 5: thing is just let's make some great new music and
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  Speaker 5: let's get it out there for people.
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  Speaker 1: Let's, you know, let the radios play it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you can just go to your computer and hear it
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  Speaker 1: however you like. Yeah, and you don't have to do
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  Speaker 1: things in the traditional way anymore. You can kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can.
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  Speaker 4: kind of tailor how you put your music out into
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  Speaker 4: the world to what works for you.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Which is not a thing that ever existed when
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  Speaker 1: we were younger.
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  Speaker 4: And so we want to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, that does make it a lot of fun. Last
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  Speaker 3: thing I just want to mention, Rob, I always appreciate
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  Speaker 3: your text during the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: You watching.
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  Speaker 5: It's so funny because you don't look any different.
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  Speaker 1: But how long ago was that movie?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: That would. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: 17 years or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Holiday in handcuffs. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And I had to let you know, man, there's top
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  Speaker 5: tier movies and then there's our second tier movies. Top
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  Speaker 5: tier is always like It's a Wonderful Life and Family
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  Speaker 5: Man and Elf. And Holiday Handcuffs is one of those.
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  Speaker 5: It's in our top tier.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I love that.
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  Speaker 5: We don't watch it until it gets closer to Christmas.
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  Speaker 5: It's got to feel super Christmassy. And I can almost
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  Speaker 5: quote that movie at this point because we've watched it
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  Speaker 5: every year since it's come out.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. Dude, you make my day. I love that.
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  Speaker 4: That was the most Christmas-loving person I have ever met.
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  Speaker 1: So this totally tracks.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I got that beautiful spirit right there. Well, I appreciate it,
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  Speaker 3: my friend. Thank you so much. And again, gentlemen, congratulations
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  Speaker 3: on everything. Look forward to checking out the show. And
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  Speaker 3: I will hit you up. We go to Stagecoach.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, do.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone else, listen, head over to Matchbox20. com for all the
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  Speaker 3: tour dates and ticket info for their 30th anniversary tour.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for taking the time.
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  Speaker 1: Cool. Thank you. Good to see you, bud.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.
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  Speaker 1: You too, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. On with Mario Lopez.