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The Changing Tides Of Battle With FRANCESCO CAVALIERI From WIND ROSE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Hmm and Francisco comalated from wind Rows, and we are
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  Speaker 1: the first, I guess, and the only dwarf metal band
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  Speaker 1: in the universe maybe or maybe just as the planet Earth,
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  Speaker 1: because in other in the universe there are other bands
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  Speaker 1: that make dwarf metal. You know they already and they
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  Speaker 1: made also Diggy Diggy old too.
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  Speaker 2: I could.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks good, nice to say you again, brother, nice nice.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was great. I mean we we met
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  Speaker 1: in Brisbane and it was a very good a very
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  Speaker 1: good show and we had fun. We had a funny
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  Speaker 1: day mate.
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  Speaker 3: But there is a little bit of serious stuff to
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  Speaker 3: talk about here because Windrows is set to release a
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  Speaker 3: new album, trolls Player.
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  Speaker 1: On October the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: How you feel about it?
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  Speaker 1: But it's a it's a good thing because we also
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  Speaker 1: start the tour with power Wolf and hammer Phone in
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  Speaker 1: the same day. So what is a better, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a better thing to to promote an album than a tour.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's fantastic for us.
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  Speaker 3: It is, my friend, So tell us a bit more
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  Speaker 3: about Trollslayer from a musical point of view and what
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  Speaker 3: you're going forward.
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  Speaker 1: It tross Layer. It's for the ones that knows already
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  Speaker 1: our music style. It's a mixed bit between Winter Sagond
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  Speaker 1: and Warfront. Why because Warfront, our previous album didn't have
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  Speaker 1: any party songs, party songs and also the theme of
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  Speaker 1: the album. Let's say that the main characteristic of the
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  Speaker 1: album was to be uh, you know, more solid, more epic,
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  Speaker 1: but uh no party songs, no light sounding. So it
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  Speaker 1: was different from the previous albums of Winter of wind Rows,
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  Speaker 1: so it was different also from from Winter Sagond as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now we got back the keys of the dwarf metal
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  Speaker 1: and then we made a new, a new dwarf metal
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  Speaker 1: album more in the style of Winter Saga, but with
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  Speaker 1: the with the new vision and more experience of before.
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  Speaker 1: So we created at the end more complete album. So
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  Speaker 1: we are happy about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah and sci fi.
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  Speaker 3: It released the singles Rock and Style and to pay
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  Speaker 3: a Dwarfs are the good? Odear what you expect from
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  Speaker 3: the album as a howl? Or is there a few
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  Speaker 3: surprises in it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean in the album compared to the version that
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  Speaker 1: you see on YouTube. You mean this or I mean
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  Speaker 1: I mean the songs are the same of the videos
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  Speaker 1: of the official videos on YouTube, But in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: there are more There are more songs you know, with
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  Speaker 1: these vibes in the album, so if you like them,
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  Speaker 1: you will have a good time listening to trans Layer.
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  Speaker 3: You spent two years making the album, right, so what
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  Speaker 3: sort of the things were you focusing on? Like, what
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  Speaker 3: were you're trying to get right? In those three years?
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  Speaker 1: It was difficult to compose an album because I mean
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  Speaker 1: we were most of the time on tour. Even twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, we were always on tour, so it was
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  Speaker 1: very hard. But we also had all the ideas when
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  Speaker 1: we were back home, so it was useless to to
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  Speaker 1: wait more time. No, yeah, for sure, what's better. What's
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  Speaker 1: better to release it now and then the next year
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  Speaker 1: just spend more time doing the the tour's headliner.
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  Speaker 3: So True starts off with a beautiful instrument. Okay, scored
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  Speaker 3: of Ice and Blood. Now what was the thought process point?
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  Speaker 3: I was actually to set things up for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the album.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean with us and Blood. We made the
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  Speaker 1: intro of the album that the interest, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of explaining to the listener what you will
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  Speaker 1: listen in the album. You know, all the elements, all
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  Speaker 1: the soundings, all you know, So it's the perfect intro
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  Speaker 1: for our for our towards the album. And then the
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  Speaker 1: first song starts, and it starts with a faster piece
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  Speaker 1: and strong, strong guitar rifft, So I mean it has
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  Speaker 1: a good start, and then the rest of the album
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  Speaker 1: is it's you know, it's like a sort of roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster because some pieces are some tracks are more you know,
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  Speaker 1: like slow, some are party songs, some are battle songs.
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  Speaker 1: So it has a lot of different tasties all around
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  Speaker 1: the album. And I guess that it's an album that
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  Speaker 1: can make happy also people with different tastes, like the
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  Speaker 1: one that likes more the stuff technical. We have also
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  Speaker 1: technical and more com complex let's say songs, but we
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  Speaker 1: have also the party songs. We have also the the
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  Speaker 1: let's say, more classic folk songs. It's a cool thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now, one thing that that I think is really cool
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  Speaker 3: about you guys, Like most of the time, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you'll you'll listen to a band on record and then
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  Speaker 3: you go and see them live, you know, and you
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  Speaker 3: compare the two like that. But my first introduction to
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  Speaker 3: you guys was seeing you live. And then I've listened
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  Speaker 3: to this album today and you managed to capture that live,
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  Speaker 3: that live sound, and that live feel on record, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is it's very rare.
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  Speaker 3: Is is that a hard thing to do? Is that
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  Speaker 3: something that you that you focus on is trying to
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  Speaker 3: bring that live sound to the recordings, the.
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  Speaker 1: Live sound to recordings. I don't know. I mean probably
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  Speaker 1: it is because uh, I don't know, we played good. No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the thing is to be honest, the sound
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  Speaker 1: of the live in the recordings. We don't look for it.
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  Speaker 1: But when we recording an album, we used to do
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  Speaker 1: it one another percent of our possibility. And also when
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  Speaker 1: we play, we used to play at one und percent
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  Speaker 1: of our possibilities. Obviously, you don't put something that it's
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  Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone. For example, also the vocals,
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  Speaker 1: you don't put something like a super high noil and
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  Speaker 1: then you you don't reach it, you know, or just
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  Speaker 1: you reach it just one gig on twenty gigs. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense. So we just put stuff
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  Speaker 1: that we are able and capable to reproduce every night
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  Speaker 1: for several days. This is, let's say, the rule that
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  Speaker 1: we have, you know, in order to be always efficient,
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  Speaker 1: you know, always looking good and sounding good. You know
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  Speaker 1: when you are like sick, you know, you you just
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  Speaker 1: sound very very worse and it's not correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, What I'm trying to get out there is,
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  Speaker 3: like I'm saying in my line of why I've seen
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  Speaker 3: so many Bains live for the first time, then you
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  Speaker 3: listen to the record, it's let down because you've got
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  Speaker 3: my pre on the live pedestal. But I've done the
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  Speaker 3: same with you, goes Leo, one of the few bands
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  Speaker 3: listen to the album afterwards, and still that's good.
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  Speaker 1: If that makes sense, Yeah, I mean it makes sense
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  Speaker 1: to this. I mean if you are a different conception
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  Speaker 1: of band, like if you are more a drug, let's say, more.
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  Speaker 5: Rock and roll, but not rock and roll as the
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  Speaker 5: music genre, rock and roll as a attitude. No, it's
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  Speaker 5: normal their live you sound different. And also if you
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  Speaker 5: sund the words back off, I mean nobody cares. But
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  Speaker 5: in our music genre, I guess that. I mean, our
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  Speaker 5: competitors have back in tracks. Our competitors are perfect. Our
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  Speaker 5: competitors are you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, playing every day and doing fantastic show every day.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to compete with these bands, okay with
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  Speaker 1: and so we have to be perfect as well.
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  Speaker 3: We mentioned the term dwarf metal futures for the benefit
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  Speaker 3: of anyone listening to this Might not have sort of say,
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  Speaker 3: he goes, I don't know much about it.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, I met you all and you're not that short.
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  Speaker 3: So where where's wolf metal come from?
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  Speaker 1: Dwarf metal, to be honest, come from come from the internet.
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  Speaker 1: Because we didn't give this gear a name. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It was the people, you know, the community giving this
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  Speaker 1: a name, and uh, we liked it and we kept it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I mean for for us, it's like
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  Speaker 1: a sort of mix between progressive metal, power metal, folk metal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, opera singing. You know, it's a mix between
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. But people called it on the internet. Doorsement also,
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  Speaker 1: we we liked the you know, the name.
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  Speaker 3: It's cool. Before you got Might started this segment where
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  Speaker 3: I got through and look up some fighters on your
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  Speaker 3: Facebook page and I'm gonna just sort of catch you
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  Speaker 3: to give a bit of an explanation, I said, what's
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  Speaker 3: going on in for us?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 3: So I felt this one, what's what's going on there?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Here we were we were in the US, I
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  Speaker 1: I guess with the second No, No, we were not
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  Speaker 1: in the US. Here, we were in London, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: the guy on the ground, you know, we are trying
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  Speaker 1: to we are trying to represent, no represent how it
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  Speaker 1: is two recreate, recreate painting, no, the painting of the
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  Speaker 1: of the creation of God, you know, uh, touching with
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  Speaker 1: the with the human and I mean the guy on
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  Speaker 1: the ground has come them from seven kingdoms and there
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  Speaker 1: is also someone else.
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  Speaker 2: But I know.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean it's it's a cool shot. I me know,
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to. We were, you know, doing this kind
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  Speaker 1: of bullshit every day all the day.
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  Speaker 2: So very cool.
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  Speaker 3: Now I got one more fighter, Like I've heard your
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  Speaker 3: story about this because you guys absolutely loved it.
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  Speaker 1: But this is one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was talking about you guys arrive in New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand at leave.
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  Speaker 1: This one was, uh was really really fantastic. I mean
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic day because uh, in my opinion, New Zealand
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  Speaker 1: was It's also very similar to Tuscany, the places where
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  Speaker 1: the place where I live. But uh, it has the
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  Speaker 1: magic taste of a lord of the Rings of the Hobbit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, So for me it was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: I bet you was, all right, brother Will Thanks very
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  Speaker 3: much for your time, Francesca, I have been a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking with you.
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  Speaker 3: Charles Laya is a out offside for fourth and it's
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  Speaker 3: a ship hot album. So you graduations and I please
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  Speaker 3: say you next to a back area.
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  Speaker 1: Sure it will be a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: It's the mouth, it ain't your brown the god per
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  Speaker 2: down my brother some SI do sign till I died Brown,
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  Speaker 2: I man so till the moment, then dies fine until
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  Speaker 2: I died brought out so the brother being the fire
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  Speaker 2: of the money. So the light of the.
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  Speaker 4: Mountain fall to be a bar face were sweating.
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  Speaker 2: As all the fire of the money. I saw the
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  Speaker 2: light of the mountain, I saw bare faced around the long.
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  Speaker 2: around they got fine they turned out, So we whole
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  Speaker 2: I saw the wire of.
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  Speaker 4: The mountain my father by the bill to be a
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  Speaker 4: bar face at all were swag make.
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  Speaker 2: Us all the fire of the money long. I saw
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