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hey everybody it's tony here a

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before the show starts today first off

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apologies for the bad sounding voice

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member were recording from my phone or

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i am on the road about to start

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a tour with my band motion city soundtrack

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we're going to be all over the us so

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a if you live in the united states near a major city

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are going to be pretty much everywhere over the next two months

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june and july a so come out and

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see us if we you can a

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and because if you see me around and say hi i'll

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have a few stickers and some pins with me

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and and a if you want one

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they hi mommy no armor

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, the event crammed

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with rehearsals or week i'm in minneapolis

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right now i'm in no time

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to work on the new episode this week my

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apologies so to

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hold us over this

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is gonna be as our singles episode

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released on ,

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before and the

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n b a finals are happening right now and

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i figured let's go with the basketball themed

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episode here and ,

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just still f way i over the next the

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couple of months the gonna be some remastered

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episodes as you know kind

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of like reruns but with additional content

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done a few those in the past before arm

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yeah i just can't third do full

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episodes episodes the on

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like i did this in twenty twenty because

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i nearly died of exhaustion ah

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so anyways i'm rambling there's

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an episode bizarre singles

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thank you for support the you for

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understanding take it away me

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hi

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my name is tony facts like anyone

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else i love a great song well

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some of those strains on that might make

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you wonder how wouldn't why they even exist

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i'm not here to make fun of i'm here

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to celebrate them and tell their story this

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the bizarre being don't i'm

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sure you know and be a legend the bryant

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died in a helicopter crash earlier this

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year he was beloved by many

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but hardly but hardly reputation

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due to his sexual assault accusations

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back in two thousand and three he

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later admitted to it in adulterous

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sexual encounter with the accuser but denied

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the sexual assault allegation in

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september two thousand for the assault case

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was dropped by prosecutors in the accuser

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decided not to testify

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then they filed a separate lawsuit against

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him which was subtle privately out of court

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the know you to talk about

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that or his and be a career

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really and , is a little different

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than usual cause i'm not here to celebrate

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him either i just

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just get mad out french ah i'm

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just here to share the story of his brief

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music career so let's get into

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growing up in philadelphia his parents literally

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named him after kobe beef

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and his middle name is been that's one

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hundred percent true has nothing to

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do with anything but anything just need to share that

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the father was a former and be a player named joe

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brands and when coby was in high

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school he was recognized as the top

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high school basketball player in the country when

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he graduated highschool you bypass

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college and went straight to the and with

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, thirty six in the nineteen ninety

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six mb a draft draft

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charlotte hornets select kobe

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bryant maryann

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i see

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the was quickly traded to the ellie lakers

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where he then played the rest of his career

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the circle back

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to his high school days in

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high school coby was a part of a rap group

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called cheese off i'm

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not positive i'm saying that right but i'm triumphs

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and they were named after a gang from the

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martial arts film a kid with the golden

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arm the nineteen ninety

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nine three years and we've

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and be a career cheese all was

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signed to sony entertainment and

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unfortunately for the rest of the group sony

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really only have their eyes on coby the

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dirty dip his toes into the music world

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and being featured on a remix

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of brian mcknight thinking length

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yet when

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also in nineteen ninety eight he appeared on

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a song on shaquille o'neill fourth

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liverpool is the raf momentum again

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and he appeared on our destinies child

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Silver

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Bow Fishing,

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how many stamps in a was a background?

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Steve Stoute

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was the man who signed Kobe to Sony

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technically

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Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony in

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an interview with The Breakfast Club, Stout

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said, quote, as

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a rookie. I met him and he wanted

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to put out an album. He

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was actually a part of a group. And I signed group

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over at Columbia Trackmasters.

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We sign them.

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We're just coming off LL

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Cool. J. And Will Smith. We

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thought we can make this thing work and

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quote. He

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goes on to say that Kobe lots of time in

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New York with Nas and Foxy, Brown

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trying to learn how to get better at

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being a rapper. His

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routes have been an underground hip hop, but

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the label was pushing him. More toward radio

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friend. that

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the recorded an entire album entitled

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divisions and the label set a release

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in january of two thousand the

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first single k o b he

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was released their

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lives

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the thing also featured super model tyra

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banks and to the best the my knowledge

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people and have much experience in the music

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industry outside of appearing in some music

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videos for michael jackson

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tina turner and george michael that's

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just a few there's actually more

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coby and hi really even performed

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the single at and be a is all star

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weekend in two thousand

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that would that be

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going for foreign for the for someone

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else is over my

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guess

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the thing had a few credited producers

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one of them cyrus

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no idea if i'm saying that right

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this song is the only credit that he has under

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that name but he's actually russell howard

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who does have does have of writing and producing

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credits with jeezy

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the other credited producers or poking tone

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you can turn to the us production team comprised

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of jean claude alleviates and samuel

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barnes when

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by the name the track masters

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they're known for successful single than remixes

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and they weren't seven gold and twenty

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platinum records through their career

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career that seen them working with artist like fifty

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cent nars r kelly

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i ll cool j marriage he blogs

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mariah carey will smith jennifer

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lopez daisy and than

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the tories

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the thing was very poorly received by

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both fans and critics a

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music video for the song directed by hype

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williams and that video was actually

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were coby would meet his wife vanessa

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the video never saw the light of day and

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neither did neither rest of the album become

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were poor reception sony shelved

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the album and not long after they completely

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drunk money

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to be made

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afterward bryant cofounded an independent

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music label called his high entertainment

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the we will didn't last long either folding

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within a year now

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pretty much the end of brains musical career

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with the exception of appearing on three when he singer

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j channels single the heaven

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and earth challenge

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ended up being used by sprite in it's

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two thousand and eleven market

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that gonna do it for this week thanks

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as always for your support and i

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will see you guys in the main feed on tuesday

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for , amazing as maps

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from nineteen sixty nine that's

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right the are

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you there yeah

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we usually