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Kevin Jonas Shares the Real Story Behind First Solo Track "Changing" · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: There it is Changing. That is the new track. You
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  Speaker 1: just heard it this morning, Kevin Jonas just heard it
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  Speaker 1: this morning right now on one of two point seven
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  Speaker 1: to Kiss FM and just as if as always right
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  Speaker 1: on time, perfect timing. Here is Kevin Jonas on the
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  Speaker 1: backside of his solo single Changing. Hello Kevin Jonas.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, I'm sorry the service is a little bad.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, Hi, listen.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to complain about the service, don't tip.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, no, I you know I am at a
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  Speaker 3: hotel right now, but no, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good to see everyone. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. You know, we were just reflecting on,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, congratulations on the hands in the cement
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  Speaker 1: yesterday in Hollywood on the.
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  Speaker 2: Walk being a part of it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That was That's incredible. You know, only friends can do
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  Speaker 3: things like that for friends, and I appreciate you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I was thrilled to be asked and so excited to
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  Speaker 1: see all you guys, and as we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: it yesterday, but just thinking back for those who didn't
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  Speaker 1: see this Jonas Brothers hands and cement, it's about time.
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  Speaker 1: Right on the Walk of Fame there in Hollywood, and
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  Speaker 1: we I think we had our first major interview, major
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  Speaker 1: conversation on KISFM seventeen years ago. It was almost whiles ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with the window and everything. I'll never forget. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're just talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: I drove up that morning. It was at the E
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  Speaker 1: building at the time. Tany were you You were there, right, Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Tanya Ellen was there just before Cisini started in the
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  Speaker 1: morning show, and there were more screaming fans than I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen before. And I thought, Wow, our show has
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  Speaker 1: gotten finally popular.
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  Speaker 3: You got you, You have fans, Ryan, and it was
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  Speaker 3: that you had a huge career. I'm pretty sure they
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  Speaker 3: were there for you too.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was. It was really impressive and amazing to
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  Speaker 1: see the fans that they had already had. Obviously you
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  Speaker 1: know that the Jonas brothers were massive back then. But
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  Speaker 1: listen to this conversation that we had about your wife,
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  Speaker 1: Danielle was seventeen years ago. Listen to this Who's Danielle?
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  Speaker 2: Kevin a family friend from New Jersey, Like way back.
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  Speaker 1: How do all these girls I walk outside and they're like, God,
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  Speaker 1: ask Kevin about Danielle? Who's you know?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have friends that are of the opposite sex.
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  Speaker 3: Why can't we you know, I was, I was. I
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  Speaker 3: was like shooting from the hip, just straight line about
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  Speaker 3: friend of the opposite, But would you be also kissing her? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I asked about that? I think, didn't I think you did?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? Look at that. That's right? No, yeah, wow, See
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  Speaker 2: you really like that? That would have been.
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  Speaker 3: It was probably very trying on my relationship that I
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  Speaker 3: responded that way, honestly, thinking back on it, I apologize, Danielle.
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  Speaker 3: You know what we we we stood the test of time.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's okay, So there we go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's great to have you guys and see all
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  Speaker 1: the success over the years. We just played Changing, which
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  Speaker 1: is the solo song that is out circuling in the world,
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  Speaker 1: which we love.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Our favorite moment debut right there. So just tell me
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  Speaker 1: about the genesis of that and that song that we
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  Speaker 1: just heard the lyrics to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I played it for the first time live
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  Speaker 3: at Femiway Park, which was of course, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: really jumping into the deep end, just like the way
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  Speaker 3: the Jonas Brothers do it. Classic you know, nothing bigger
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  Speaker 3: than Fenway Park and saying, hey, let me do this
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  Speaker 3: for the first time here but you know, a little
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  Speaker 3: tequila and everything worked out. But before that we finished filming.
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  Speaker 3: We finished filming a Christmas movie up in Toronto, and
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  Speaker 3: I won't give anything away, but there may or may
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  Speaker 3: not be a thing where I sing in that movie too,
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  Speaker 3: And so I called Jason Evigan, actually texted him, and
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  Speaker 3: was like, Hey, do you have any songs that you
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  Speaker 3: might feel could work for me? Over the last twenty years,
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  Speaker 3: I've worked on lots of music, wrote a bunch of songs,
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  Speaker 3: recorded things, just never felt like it was like the
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  Speaker 3: right thing. Now he does not respond to me. This
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  Speaker 3: is February. He doesn't respond to me until June. He
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  Speaker 3: responds with the song and says, I think I found it.
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  Speaker 3: So timing is everything with this stuff. And the first
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  Speaker 3: time I heard the song, I was just like, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, this is it. This is the one that's
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  Speaker 3: the one I've been waiting for. And I flew to
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  Speaker 3: la almost like immediately within a week and a half,
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  Speaker 3: and I cut it and that was it.
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  Speaker 2: I've had it since then.
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  Speaker 1: But like fifteen years, you've been working on things, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about things, you know, almost as long as I've known you. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: if it were me trying to do something in that time,
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  Speaker 1: I'd push, like, I don't know that I'd have the
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  Speaker 1: patience and discipline to wait for the right moment. How'd
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  Speaker 1: you do that?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's all self self, you know, inflicted.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think when you stand next to two
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  Speaker 3: of the greatest vocalists that you know, and it can
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  Speaker 3: be a little intimidating, to be completely honest with you,
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  Speaker 3: but I just also felt like I didn't have the
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  Speaker 3: right song. I felt like it was like one was
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  Speaker 3: trying to say the wrong things, one was trying too hard.
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  Speaker 3: Did that really sound like something I'd want to release, Well,
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  Speaker 3: this one did, and that's when.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fan, I played it. I played it for Tanya.
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  Speaker 3: I played it for Tanya at the show in LA
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  Speaker 3: before it came out, and so I've had it for
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  Speaker 3: quite some time.
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  Speaker 4: The crowd when he performs it live during these shows,
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  Speaker 4: it's like you've never heard screams like this before, Like
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  Speaker 4: everybody's been waiting for this, and like everybody's just so
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  Speaker 4: happy and excited for you.
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  Speaker 2: It's like so cool to see thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's it's been a long time coming,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm just happy that people are responding to it,
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  Speaker 3: and you know there's more, just got to figure out
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  Speaker 3: what to do with it and when as long as
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  Speaker 3: it's not another twenty years, then I'm doing better.
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  Speaker 1: Than I Yeah, no doubt. I mean it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: so great that you guys have all done your solo
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  Speaker 1: things now and you can also balance the franchise that
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  Speaker 1: people expect and want. It seems like that's like the
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  Speaker 1: perfect balance is getting together as brothers and then also
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  Speaker 1: being able to be creative and do your thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's what's so unique about our our
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  Speaker 3: band and our as you know, who we are.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just the one lane that we stay in.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, Nick just introduced in Debut that
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  Speaker 3: he's you know, launching a new album, the coming out
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  Speaker 3: February sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Then you know, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: He played a bunch of stuff at this thing he
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  Speaker 3: did in Las Vegas and it's it. And then Joe's
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  Speaker 3: got stuffy he's doing now he might be doing some
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  Speaker 3: more DNC stuff, like there's just no stopping like the
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  Speaker 3: solo thing.
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  Speaker 2: And then we come back together for the Mothership and
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  Speaker 2: it's great.
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  Speaker 1: There's only one group of people that could bring peace
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  Speaker 1: on earth, and I think it is the Jonas b.
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  Speaker 2: I have. I have yet to be asked to go
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  Speaker 2: to the un so we'll see it. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking like, if you think about the Love
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  Speaker 1: and Joy and the beautiful movie, the Christmas movie that
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  Speaker 1: you put out to on Disney plus that made our season, if.
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  Speaker 3: You will, I cannot believe the response to this film.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a bit a bucket list of item
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  Speaker 3: of ours to do a Christmas film forever. Like when
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  Speaker 3: we were kids back in the Disney days, we were like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: let's what you know. We met with the team and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, what do you guys want to do? And
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  Speaker 3: we had the TV show in the camp Rock at
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  Speaker 3: the time. They're like, we want to do a Christmas
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  Speaker 3: film and obviously it like a holiday film and it
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  Speaker 3: didn't work out then, but it kind of worked out
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  Speaker 3: perfectly now. I think it's so much better now with
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  Speaker 3: our families and just where we are in our lives
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  Speaker 3: and the response is incredible And if you haven't watched
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  Speaker 3: it yet, it's perfect time now to check it out.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure and make sure.
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  Speaker 1: You do it now. What will happen Christmas Day? Will
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  Speaker 1: everybody be apart what you guys do.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm we built a new house this year, so
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  Speaker 3: me and Danielle are going to be at home with
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  Speaker 3: the girls and like her side of the family for
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  Speaker 3: the most part, at our home. There the guys, we
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  Speaker 3: literally wrapped the tour on the twenty second and then
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  Speaker 3: we'll get a ship. We have shows at the hard
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  Speaker 3: Rock in Miami, of course in you know, on New
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  Speaker 3: Year's which is gonna be great. But but we wrap
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  Speaker 3: on the twenty second. So we've seen each other like
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  Speaker 3: every day the way.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm I think we're all gonna like kind of
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  Speaker 2: do our own thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think Nick and Joe we're gonna go upstate a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and try to see some snow even though
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  Speaker 3: it's snow and my kids had a snow day yes,
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  Speaker 3: like two days ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah, in Miami, California, in La awesome to
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  Speaker 1: see Kevin Jonas new solo debut right here in kisipe
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  Speaker 1: here it again is just a little bit and we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what somebody. Thanks a lot less you. Bye bye
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  Speaker 1: Disneyland tickets. Speaking of Disney Plus coming up next,