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Backstage chats with LORNA SHORE At GOOD THINGS 2025 · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: As we're here are good Things with Heavy magazine, sitting
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  Speaker 1: with Will and Adam from Lorna Shaw.
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  Speaker 2: How are we, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you and good Yeah, it has been
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  Speaker 1: sticky in Queensland. Sorry about that. Now you guys would
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  Speaker 1: just hear not what I would consider not too long ago?
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  Speaker 1: Can we claim you as like this is your second home?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I'm looking them up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm already like, how do we live here?
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  Speaker 2: Right now?
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty nice you guys at this, you're geting pretty
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  Speaker 4: close to call it gets the second home?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll take that.
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  Speaker 2: Then is your second if not here? Probably Europe for me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Europe for him. Honestly, I have to say Europe.
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  Speaker 5: My girlfriend is gonna get really upseted.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so play it safe pass Europe. Yeah, obviously
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  Speaker 2: about feeling. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen you recently on the Downbeat podcast talking about
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  Speaker 1: your Moto Compacto.
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  Speaker 3: How did this make it to this interview? That's crazy,
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  Speaker 3: It's fucking hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I love the video. He looks like a.
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  Speaker 1: Local drug deal, just going to Batty's business.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, not I could do it.
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  Speaker 3: We're traveling around, we could do things.
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  Speaker 2: You know exactly something multi years. Did you get sponsored
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  Speaker 2: from Hondur.
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  Speaker 3: Or No, they don't give a shit about me.
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  Speaker 2: It's the biggest yes.
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  Speaker 3: Honda Compact deveilable in a period in your ear.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep it to I can't keep tagging you. People
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  Speaker 2: will help me, please, He'll leave you alone for good.
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  Speaker 1: So, growing up, I was enamored by the fields but
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  Speaker 1: Billbowsburones and missus as the world. Does it blow you
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  Speaker 1: away that now you're in that list and you're considered
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  Speaker 1: right up there with the deathcoll Grace.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just don't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's I like doing I like the whole denial
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  Speaker 3: thing is.
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  Speaker 2: Easier to accept.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just like, yeah, thank you, I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you think so. I'm I don't think.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's a part of us that we all
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  Speaker 5: have some kind of nostalgia to growing up. So we're like,
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  Speaker 5: this is for It doesn't matter what change, what happens,
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  Speaker 5: they will always be the best to us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and similar on that vein.
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  Speaker 5: But the.
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Cross doing that. I watched the video that come
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  Speaker 1: out and you kind of look like like a proud
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  Speaker 1: son standing there like you.
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  Speaker 2: For pase Hell, yeah, I did this.
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  Speaker 1: How is that experience? And is there anything that you
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  Speaker 1: took from that that you imply every day?
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  Speaker 2: She's a sweetye pie. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 5: We did the vocal lessons so that Moke can do
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  Speaker 5: more vocals. I kind of just hung out.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out. I learned a lot, That's what he would say.
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  Speaker 2: You did that, You learned a lot. You did. We're
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  Speaker 2: very proud of them. Listen joined the band, probably not
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  Speaker 2: expecting to do vocals. Yeah, he's doing vocals now and
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna just do the vocals. Yeah, I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: for that. Is there a time from this run or past.
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  Speaker 3: Aussie tours that will stick with you for life?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? You can say right now, that's fine. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I won't lie.
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  Speaker 4: The festival we played in Melbourne, which is really awesome,
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  Speaker 4: Like it was just really cool because it was like
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  Speaker 4: I felt like we were playing in Jurassic Clark.
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  Speaker 2: The sun was setting. It was a really awesome time.
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  Speaker 4: I like, I definitely enjoyed that because we never played
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  Speaker 4: at festival here, so that was like our first festival
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  Speaker 4: being played here.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, most of my good times here have
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  Speaker 4: been not at shows. So it's been it's been really awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Like we were in a like Freemantle or the Perth area.
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  Speaker 4: We like to go to the hell yeah, which was
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  Speaker 4: like incredible.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was really awesome. Sixteen kangaroos.
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  Speaker 4: When we first came here just doing all like the
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  Speaker 4: stereotypical tourist stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Was really a great time coming here. So I loved
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  Speaker 2: it all. Big fan of per Freemantle air we went
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  Speaker 2: to that you guys literally don't know it was ever said,
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  Speaker 2: and then I was like I had the best time there.
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  Speaker 5: Explain to me how you could not enj Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 5: I guess you guys are on the beach out time
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  Speaker 5: year from New Jersey where the beach is like brown water.
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  Speaker 5: So we had a day where we were like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we go to this little island where they got like
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  Speaker 5: quocas and ship, and then we had days where we
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  Speaker 5: were just like going to the beach and just cooking
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  Speaker 5: there like so.
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  Speaker 4: And then also that it was in February, so like
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  Speaker 4: back home it would have been like dreary, cold and gray.
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  Speaker 4: It's like this is amazing right now, you know, So
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  Speaker 4: like I think it was. That was really awesome. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you guys love runch out here, so I had a
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  Speaker 4: lot of it good. So those are those are fond
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  Speaker 4: memories of going to a cafe.
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  Speaker 1: Having you guys start brunch in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: We do we do well like you guys like have
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  Speaker 2: an abundant amount of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Like there were a samples of fly of it.
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  Speaker 4: So and everyone talked about how great it was, and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I don't I'm using contrary at heart,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm like, I don't believe this until I have
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  Speaker 4: to like see it for myself. So I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna put it to the test. And I've enjoyed
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  Speaker 4: brunch here.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of have to as well. Okay, I've been
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  Speaker 2: to New Jersey. Hell, yeah, it's the best place. It's
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: But what the hell is wrong with your coffee?
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  Speaker 2: You gotta go places? Now, that's the thing. Do you
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  Speaker 2: like the coffee?
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  Speaker 1: Heat?
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  Speaker 2: Coffee? Coffee is solid. It wakes me up. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work as much as I would like it to,
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  Speaker 2: but it definitely works. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I am a utilitarian coffee guy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care like you can give me. I always drink.
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  Speaker 3: Espresso and people are like, oh, this espresso tastes great.
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  Speaker 2: Fucking know it doesn't. It tastes terrible. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: I want to go from here to like here, and
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  Speaker 2: how quickly can it be? I don't care what it
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  Speaker 2: tastes like. If it tastes horrible, but it does the
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  Speaker 2: job perfect, I don't like doing it.
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  Speaker 5: But liquid cocaine is basically how I want to have
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  Speaker 5: my coffee.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a caffeine pill. No do so you can
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  Speaker 1: have two of them.
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  Speaker 2: Truck truck drivers take them. Yeah, yeah, they do. It's
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  Speaker 2: truck drivers having and stuff like that. It's it's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 3: He's like half fiend garma type.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I mean coffee. It was a way probably
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  Speaker 2: a healthier option. Yeah. Honestly, if you don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know the place of the go in New Jersey, you'll
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  Speaker 4: get really bad stuff. Okay, So like there is really
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  Speaker 4: there is snobby, like pretentious coffee shops all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to snow where to go.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you gotta go to a city.
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  Speaker 2: Also, just literally go to the search.
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  Speaker 5: Coffee co op and Nick Chance and you'll find you'll
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  Speaker 5: find it.
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  Speaker 2: A photographer.
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  Speaker 4: Yet there's an exposed ceiling and like some minimalist design, he's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna he's gonna be there.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking black and white everything, and everything would and
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  Speaker 4: then like probably someone on a laptop like trying to
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  Speaker 4: write something like that's probably good coffee.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Essentially, again, I will never have a Jersey don't come
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  Speaker 1: from me place.
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  Speaker 2: I love New Jersey. Everyone should.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm in Atlantic City though, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: bit scary, but that's okay, scary.
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  Speaker 3: I got nothing to say, nothing good on that.
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  Speaker 1: Not your guitar taste is sensational orthon so myself. Traditionally
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  Speaker 1: in your death core you've got like black Jackson or nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's you. You come out with this this
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  Speaker 1: wicked like zebra sparkly yeah yeah, and the other ones
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  Speaker 1: like fireburst or.
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  Speaker 2: Something oe sunrise.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is, and like it's like sunbursts.
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  Speaker 1: That's offender, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone is slowly following suit. Now we got Molke with the.
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  Speaker 5: Like this purple galaxy and Perry Winkle Perrywinkle purple lavender beasts,
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  Speaker 5: and then uh, you have like a.
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  Speaker 2: Cherry blossom guitar.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well that's kind of my point, it's like,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are breaking what it is to do being
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  Speaker 1: a death core band. You're actually just being yourself. So
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  Speaker 1: you've got like, you know, pink curls, You've got you
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  Speaker 1: actually pop in color, and it's like basically setting the
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  Speaker 1: scene for it's okay to be yourself and still play music.
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  Speaker 4: When I got to guitar, I used to love all
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  Speaker 4: these like hair metal like eighties like guitar players, and
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  Speaker 4: they all had like bright, outrageous color guitars, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: why did.
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  Speaker 2: We just go to like just safe colors?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just like, I just I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: think I just love the ages in general. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's unapologetically itself. I don't care how like potentially tacky
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  Speaker 4: and cheesy it is. They like it owns, it leads
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  Speaker 4: into it, and I think there's something about that that I
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  Speaker 4: just absolutely love.
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  Speaker 1: That makes a love of sense. Actually you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: the stars and what there it is exactly? So what
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  Speaker 1: happens with you near and DearS when you've released an
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  Speaker 1: album like to set the scene and sitting at the
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  Speaker 1: type of going, haven't listen to this?
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  Speaker 3: What do you reckon?
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  Speaker 1: Did they sit there and go that's you know, that's nice,
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  Speaker 1: or do they sit there and go yeah, like do
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  Speaker 1: they guess I don't show them.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know my girl. My girl would just say
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  Speaker 2: like thank you for showing that.
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  Speaker 1: It's experience.
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  Speaker 2: She's like she's supported, but like it's I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think they.
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  Speaker 4: See the other end of us, like struggling trying to
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  Speaker 4: make it. So it's a lot different, like I would
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  Speaker 4: say for me, at least that's kind of.
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  Speaker 5: How I like, there's just more snow that were we
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  Speaker 5: made it through the tunnel that hell is.
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  Speaker 2: I think believe that it's done.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say anything else. It's great, we loved it,
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  Speaker 1: don't do it again, place at least another two years.
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  Speaker 1: What would your guilty pleasure song being for each of you?
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  Speaker 1: Like a Bernie and Rasputan or you know, what's what
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  Speaker 1: do you put on when they like by the way,
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  Speaker 1: freaking banger.
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  Speaker 5: If it's Christmas time, it's gonna be uh rocking around
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  Speaker 5: on the Christmas tree as I have been listening to
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  Speaker 5: that pretty much every single day since December has started.
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  Speaker 1: Oh shit.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't believe in guilty pleasure. I
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  Speaker 2: believe that like you should own.
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  Speaker 4: What you listen to and if if you if you
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  Speaker 4: feel bad about it, Hell yeah, why you know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying. If you like a song, you like a song,
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  Speaker 4: You've not group So like, I would listen to anything
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  Speaker 4: that I enjoyed. But Christmas music and this time of
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  Speaker 4: year is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So I love it all.
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  Speaker 3: What do you But it's a little weird when you
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  Speaker 3: say it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and
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  Speaker 3: then there's palm trees and there's no snow at all.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably my favorite Christmas song, You've Gone mispect It's
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  Speaker 4: a really.
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  Speaker 2: Good Yeah, a shout out.
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  Speaker 3: So the Puerto Ricans out there who made that agrees
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  Speaker 3: on it.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't absolutely blow your mind that we actually stuffer through
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  Speaker 1: at Christmas and we have to have like on everyone.
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  Speaker 4: People's trying to explain to me how it's it's great
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  Speaker 4: because it's like, oh, you can have like you have
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  Speaker 4: the peach, and I'm like, none of that screams Christmas
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  Speaker 4: to me. I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm not trying to like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I understand, yeah, I'm not trying to like knok on
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  Speaker 4: like you know, the holiday over here. But I just
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  Speaker 4: think it just doesn't get the same vibe as Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: White Christmas and you have Thanksgiving. I feel like we're
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  Speaker 1: really missing out on That's.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I think the best thing.
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  Speaker 5: About Thanksgiving, And in my mind I thought every culture
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  Speaker 5: had a version of this, But it's literally it's just
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  Speaker 5: bringing the family together, because I honestly half of these
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  Speaker 5: holidays are bullshit, you know, it's all just like how
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  Speaker 5: do we we need an excuse to get everybody together?
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  Speaker 2: That's what it's about.
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  Speaker 4: I will say that's the nice thing about holidays like that,
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  Speaker 4: and said like, especially with us touring as much as
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  Speaker 4: we do, we don't get to see everyone as often,
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  Speaker 4: so like he got home to be able to have
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, So it' nice to be able to catch
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  Speaker 4: up and see people that I haven't see either like
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  Speaker 4: a year or even a few years, so that I
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  Speaker 4: do like happen. That just like something to especially this
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  Speaker 4: time your careersually knock on tour as much, so we
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  Speaker 4: gotta go to Thanksgi and go to have Christmas stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. So it's nice to kind of have those
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  Speaker 4: holidays and get to see our family.
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  Speaker 2: When you get a chance. Like what do you think
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  Speaker 2: about Turkey? I do love turkey. I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 2: I do enjoy turkey. I do enjoy stuffing, but like,
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  Speaker 2: well then never mind.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: It's always try, isn't it. It's well, you need grievy,
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  Speaker 2: sure you don't see it. I mean if I just
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  Speaker 2: hate turkey, myself would be obviously you know me, you like,
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna put any sauce, no gravy, know nothing
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  Speaker 2: about it. I know, so hesn to eat it dry.
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  Speaker 2: So of course he's gonna hate it. It's not good
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 3: He's try checking it.
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  Speaker 2: The drive Turkey is turn mom. It's not a great
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: all the other that's the word I was trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure out. That's I think we got one or two
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  Speaker 2: more questions. Yeah, beautiful Thanksgiving. Have you have you discovered
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  Speaker 2: any bands you like on the lineup that you didn't
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  Speaker 2: know before.
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  Speaker 3: Gold Finger?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know they made that song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't know. I mean that's not I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh ship, Wow, I knew like this band that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I liked them.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's not like I discovered them, but I
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  Speaker 4: feel like I rekindled uh an interest swim is. We've
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  Speaker 4: been watching make them stuff for every every day that's
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  Speaker 4: been they used to love years ago, and like, I
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  Speaker 4: haven't really like listened.
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  Speaker 2: To him, and then kind of started watching them on
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  Speaker 2: those bands. Awesome. Yeah, you can tell them if you
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  Speaker 2: say them, we do, we have, We're not, We're not,
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  Speaker 2: we're not, we have, we have no shame. I literally
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  Speaker 2: went over to them yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, I just want to let you know.
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  Speaker 5: I'm kind of part of the top point zero five
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  Speaker 5: percent of monthly list, so like, oh daddy, it's one.
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  Speaker 1: First, ladies and gentlemen, alright, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry about one. Don't look at beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Okay, what's an aussy thing you love and an
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  Speaker 1: aussy thing you could live with that.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't tried vegamite, but people talk crap about it,
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  Speaker 2: so does it. It doesn't make me want to have it.
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  Speaker 2: We're all out of it. Otherwise I'd be like he
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  Speaker 2: and I do love your brush.
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  Speaker 3: The brush.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna say the same thing about vegemite and everything
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  Speaker 5: that could possibly kill you in this country that I.
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  Speaker 3: Have heard is like literally everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Have you saved one yet? Snails were here, two cases,
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  Speaker 2: probably at least a fist. Like the size of this
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  Speaker 2: room yeah, they do that dome. It was definitely that son.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take Asian food all day because it gets better
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  Speaker 5: here than good.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, you do know what doing out your sunburn? Because
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  Speaker 4: I got really bad and it was I was like
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  Speaker 4: a tomato.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 2: It was obnoxiously bad. It was embarrassing, but it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was. It was cloudy. I was agree about Bok
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  Speaker 2: outside and then like my base blue bird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you guys, so very much, thank you, thank
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  Speaker 3: you for having us worries.
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  Speaker 2: Don't start doing that, you know, don't you knew what knew?
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  Speaker 2: My d I want to feel that my.
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  Speaker 1: Tom my tile time, just my dumb, I
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  Speaker 2: Said when I ad damn my thought all why I