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JONO AND BEN CHAT WITH TEDDY SWIMS · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: He had to go ahead. Now, are you teddy?
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  Speaker 2: Alright?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really good man, happy to be back finally.
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  Speaker 3: Right, hell's Christ's treating you?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely breath beautiful men. A little view from my hotel too,
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  Speaker 4: is just so beautiful. I mean you could see the
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  Speaker 4: little you could see you can see the city, but
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  Speaker 4: you can also see the mountain behind it with the
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  Speaker 4: snow caps on it. It was just absolutely gorgeous. I'm
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  Speaker 4: so happy to be back.
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  Speaker 5: It's nice to have you back here. Last time you
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  Speaker 5: were here you ended up going to Hafa, getting a
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  Speaker 5: whole lot of clothes stolen girlfriends club as well jewelry.
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  Speaker 5: Have you come back for more clothing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Absolutely. I already talked to my good power Richie.
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  Speaker 4: He said, where you started, Man, you gotta you gotta
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  Speaker 4: come over here and let me dress you out again.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, just a few years ago you were
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  Speaker 5: you were putting out covers, amazing covers, and they blew up,
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  Speaker 5: and it's pretty amazing to look back just a few
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  Speaker 5: years and to see what's happened over the last couple
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  Speaker 5: of years.
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  Speaker 1: It's so remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so grateful and lucky and blessed to you know,
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  Speaker 4: come on, I feel like God's favorite kid.
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  Speaker 1: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: Man so Glass and it's that's so odd because of
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  Speaker 4: you know, because of you Man, And it was so cool.
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  Speaker 4: You know, remember we did the six sixty cover two
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  Speaker 4: and he just they've recently. I mean it was a
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  Speaker 4: couple of months ago now had did a cover of
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  Speaker 4: Losing Control too, which was so wild. He's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I did their cover four or five years ago now
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  Speaker 4: and then and now it's now they're doing mine.
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  Speaker 1: It was so beautiful, full circle.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine, imagine your life quite surreal.
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  Speaker 2: Now, What's what's been the one moment where you're like, man,
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  Speaker 2: things have changed.
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  Speaker 4: You know, as much as I get spoken to, I
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  Speaker 4: guess now and and uh, you know when we play
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  Speaker 4: shows now, I can't quite just go out and get
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  Speaker 4: food anymore with the boys, you know, in my band,
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  Speaker 4: or they're they're just wanting to go take a walk
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  Speaker 4: through the park or something. Or if we play we're
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  Speaker 4: near a casino and everybody wants to go head a
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  Speaker 4: casino or something, and I'm like, well, guys, I can't come.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a blessing. But you know, it's just so
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  Speaker 1: it's that's what's so different.
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  Speaker 4: About it is that there's there's certain little things that
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  Speaker 4: I never really thought about, like not being able to.
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  Speaker 1: Go down the street and grab some food every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while. But I think it's really beautiful though too.
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  Speaker 2: That is a big adjustment though, not being able to
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  Speaker 2: go out in public by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, I mean it's not it's not. It's not everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's just kind of where.
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  Speaker 4: If weren't aware where I'm playing a show, then yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm not that famous yet, but you know getting there.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know Tenny Swim is not your real name,
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  Speaker 5: and I wanted to pitch another name to you because
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  Speaker 5: my wife big fan. It was probably six months ago
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  Speaker 5: and we're driving around the car. She does the driving
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  Speaker 5: and I get to choose the music. But I was like,
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  Speaker 5: what do you want to listen to? She's like, that
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  Speaker 5: guy's got amazing voice, tattoo's beard, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy Fish.
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  Speaker 5: I think his name is So what do you think
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  Speaker 5: of Jimmy Fish.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Jimmy.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I was like, Jimmy Fish, I think you've been
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  Speaker 5: Tenny Swims, but I loved.
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  Speaker 2: Jim Maybe that's what you can chick into hotels now
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fish.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jimmy Fish is someone out. No, I can't those
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  Speaker 1: that you just gave it away.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, I was I like Jimmy first, but Tenny Swims
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  Speaker 5: is also really good as well. Now, I love your tattoos,
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  Speaker 5: and I was watching a video last night explaining some
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  Speaker 5: of your tattoos, and you're like, My first tattoo I
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  Speaker 5: got was a real douchebag tattoo.
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  Speaker 1: What was it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got so I was sixteen, and it was
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  Speaker 4: a freight here in my arm it said, h it
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  Speaker 4: was a cross with my last name in one banner
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  Speaker 4: of last name Dimsdelle and then another better instead established
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  Speaker 4: nineteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: It was, so.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get that coming up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean by the time I was eighteen, I was
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  Speaker 4: like a completely different person, you know, And so I
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  Speaker 4: I always I always tell people don't let sixteen year
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  Speaker 4: old get tattoos. You know, they're just they're just different
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  Speaker 4: people by the time they're eighteen, you know, kids just
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  Speaker 4: too early to.
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  Speaker 1: Make a long life decision like that. I see that.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to take tattoo advice from.
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  Speaker 3: I see you, there's something on your eye lids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sure are Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: Hell is that it's kind of like it doesn't hurt
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  Speaker 4: as bad as you would think when it's just as
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  Speaker 4: a wild sensation. You know, the needle's so small, so
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  Speaker 4: you kind of feel your eyeball bouncing.
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  Speaker 1: Like with the needle. Oh my gosh, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: like irritates it. You cry a little bit underneath it. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't hurt. It's just weird.
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  Speaker 5: What's it like though? When you you know, because your
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  Speaker 5: music gets used in special occasions, people use it for
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  Speaker 5: winning songs and and you know, moments like that, have
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  Speaker 5: you got you hit around?
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  Speaker 1: How cool that is? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: That is the most I think honorable thing that I
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  Speaker 4: could ever be to be a part of somebody's big day,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And and the amount of times a day
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  Speaker 4: I'll go through messages and be like, hey, could you
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  Speaker 4: sing at our wedding in twenty twenty nine?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And I love.
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  Speaker 4: I love to be the person that gets to be
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  Speaker 4: a part of somebody's huge days and something that you know,
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  Speaker 4: because no matter what happens, and no matter all the
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  Speaker 4: songs that ever come out in the world, if you
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  Speaker 4: have a true love song that was your first dance
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  Speaker 4: at your wedding. I will always be a part of
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  Speaker 4: that beautiful moment. Thirty years from now, Teddy swims song
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  Speaker 4: will still be the song that is always timeless and
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  Speaker 4: forever for their family and there. So that is like
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  Speaker 4: such an honorable thing to I think there's no better
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  Speaker 4: privilege and honor than to set somebody's like big day
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the most beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you can just tell your appreciative of every
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  Speaker 2: moment of your of your career too. But someone locking
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  Speaker 2: in the wedding in twenty twenty nine, that's not like
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  Speaker 2: you can say, oh, I've got something else on.
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  Speaker 1: There's no smart play on them too far away.
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  Speaker 5: And she got a number of someone. Do you mind
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  Speaker 5: if we call them right now in surprise them? Someone
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  Speaker 5: takes in a while ago saying my wedding song was
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  Speaker 5: the Teddy Swim's version of a Shanaia Twain song that
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  Speaker 5: you do the one? Do you mind if we surprise
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  Speaker 5: them with a quick call?
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  Speaker 1: I would love that, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Her name, her name is Brittany.
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  Speaker 2: She has no idea we're calling, and like Ben said,
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  Speaker 2: she actually text into the studio just on an unrelated
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  Speaker 2: matter a few months ago, so this will this will
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  Speaker 2: catch you by surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear the phone ring there?
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  Speaker 2: Titty?
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Brittany speaking.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Brittany, It's John I've been and Meghan from the
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  Speaker 5: Hats radio station. How are you doing? Hey? Good?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Hey. We're just talking.
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  Speaker 5: About our wedding song. So what was the song for you?
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  Speaker 5: The special song we chose?
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  Speaker 4: Titty Swims?
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  Speaker 5: You're still the one? What do you love about that song?
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  Speaker 4: Everything?
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  Speaker 5: Really, we loved it when it first came out by Celandion.
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  Speaker 5: But nothing beats Titty Swim's voice.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, speaking of Teddy Swim's voice, I think he's right
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  Speaker 5: here right now.
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  Speaker 1: You're there, Titty, Hey, Brittany, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god? Hey?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they to send a surprise and color and I
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  Speaker 4: just want to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's such an honor to be a part of a
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  Speaker 1: big day.
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  Speaker 4: And I hope, I hope you're just absolutely crushing it
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  Speaker 4: in your marriage and it's still as beautiful as it was.
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  Speaker 2: And where is you coming to see you today?
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  Speaker 1: All? Right on? I can't wait to see you. Guys.
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  Speaker 5: You you wouldn't mind doing that doing that song and
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  Speaker 5: maybe a little shout out?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? Well, look, I'll write it down right now. What
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  Speaker 1: what's what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Brittany, Britney and Richard Richard, all right, shout out still
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  Speaker 5: the wide all right, he'll get it tanned on if
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  Speaker 5: he forgets that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and you're getting a shout out of the concert,
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  Speaker 2: Brittany and Richard.
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  Speaker 5: That is amazing things so much. Thank you to Now
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  Speaker 5: I know why you're hear you, brick supporter of Read
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  Speaker 5: Nose Day. It is Read Nose Day in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm super super excited. We're going to do some
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  Speaker 4: busking on Commercial Bay two five thirty this evening. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna go over there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I am so commission back.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're gonna go raise some money for it,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, just do some old school busking with
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  Speaker 4: a little guitar open, you know, and just hopefully we
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  Speaker 4: can raise a little money and uh, you know, give
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  Speaker 4: some hugs and some kisses and you know, just raise
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  Speaker 4: some money for the best cause in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Well listen, well we'll come down. I connect as I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what your security teams like. If I could be security,
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  Speaker 2: I've learned the ancient art of sobbing. If anyone starts
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  Speaker 2: attacking us. Mate, just kind of weirs them out and
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  Speaker 2: they stop.
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  Speaker 1: Beating you up. Well, I cannot wait.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, tell everybody though, come on down there and
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  Speaker 4: tell your mom and your dog, your next door neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna party. We're gonna have a good seging.
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  Speaker 2: Teddy, well, look after yourself. We'll see you this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Downtown Auckland. Tea Swims is busking live for Red Nose
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  Speaker 2: Day round five point thirty Commercial Bay.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait to see your buddy in the flesh and
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  Speaker 3: have a safe trip.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Ken, wait to see you guys.