Whitney Houston Top 5: Ranking the Vocal Queen's Hits

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are back with our top five episode on the catalog and our favorite songs of one Whitney Houston.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I like to kind of go through some of these songs that may not be on my top five, but I'm just interested in what Mike thinks about some of these songs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's just kick it off with some rock with it or stop with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the number one song that I mentioned in

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[SPEAKER_01]: is I will always love you like are you when when this song comes on or I will okay I'll say two different things somehow some way if you're listening to the radio or if you're listening to some streaming or some playlist and this song comes on are you fast forwarding it and skipping it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you actively seek out to listen to this song?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you though, I will listen to it if I if I hadn't listened to it in a little while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if I had heard it recently, I may find something else to listen to just because it's

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[SPEAKER_01]: the tempo, like you just have to sit with the tempo.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's not something that if I'm driving and I'm like, I'm gonna sing along too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's not what that song is for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it is still incredible, the story of that song and dolly and stuff, and I kind of wish, and I'm sure a lot of people wish this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would have been awesome if they performed it together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Together, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, how to be cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That song when it was popular was everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You could not avoid it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was every radio station.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just one of those things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was inescapable and

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[SPEAKER_00]: Back then, I hated it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, if I hear this song one more goddamn time, I'm going to kick a hole in the radio.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as time grew, I grew to appreciate, what needs vocal performances and credible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just appreciate the song as a whole, like the highly part and wrote an amazing song.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So now if it comes on, I don't want to kick radios.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you'd asked me this question in 1993,

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[SPEAKER_00]: fuck the song, fuck the bodyguard, like I all of it, just like don't want to hear it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's go with, I want to dance with somebody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rock with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that is that's in my top five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like I like the song too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it does feel like a version of Whitney that I don't know that she ever tried to get away from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it is that polished version of that we talked about in the first episode, or in our 50 for 50 rundown.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's funny, I heard that song this morning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was at the doctor's office getting some blood worked on and that song came on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the greatest love of all, and I'm not talking about sexual chocolate's version.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the only version I'm mess with if you did Randy Watson and nothing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You might, you know, my buddy, Prakash, he's got a Randy Watson world tour shirt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I so do I.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you got it too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a story about this song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't we almost have it all?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I also have a story about this song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to guess my story is way different.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So go ahead and you can tell yours.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know if you ever did this in elementary school with junior high school.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We actually have a chorus class where

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, teacher would just give you like sheet or lyrics or sheet music to a bunch of songs and you had to, you know, she'd play the piano and you'd sing the songs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when I lived in Michigan, like, 5, 6 or 4, 5th and 6th grade, we had music class.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the last songs I remember us having to learn was didn't we almost have it all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Also a song that I don't like, which is it's just really like the type of balance that Whitney got criticized for singing, greatest level of all, and didn't we almost have it all both kind of fitting to that bucket for me, and they're not my favorite songs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do have one of these Serapy ballads on my talk five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not those two, but I do have one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My story about that song is 1987, NLCS.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My San Francisco giants are playing the St. Louis Cardinals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My San Francisco giants take a three-two lead in the best of seven games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: they come home so they're coming back to candlestick park to win one out of these next two games the cardinals win the first game because our right field or loses the ball in the lights and it's like a two to one game or it's a very close game and then game seven

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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... the giants get blown out it's like six zero or six one or something and so vinscoli the famous dodgers and answer is also doing the nlcs for nbc i believe and as my giants are losing it they're not that's the game's not even close like pretty much by the mid-mid part of the game you're like okay they're not winning and so

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[SPEAKER_01]: they decide to punish me as a giant's fan as a 11-year-old giant's fan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As Vince Goli is saying goodbye, this series is over, we'll see you in the world series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't we almost have it all, is what they're playing the game off, and so I'm already so mad and angry and my dad's looking at me like he's like, you can't be sad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got killed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't even close.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, again, yeah, but still like the one of the times ever uttered.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but still in this world, and I was so sad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And every time I hear that song, I think of the Giants losing and I'll see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You go back to your 11 year old man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 11 year old man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a crazy story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not right, but it's okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also not with his stop with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, good, good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, heartbreak hotel rock with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, rock with it too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This will be the last one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we both like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if we necessarily rock with it, but I didn't know my own strength.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's very much like

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not here or here, it's like here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like if I was at the grocery store, whatever, and it came on, I wouldn't be mad, but it's not, I don't even know if I had that song in my album music library anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It I will always remember of it will remind me of her passing whenever I was, even though the song was out, you know, three years before it's or whatever reason I just sync those two things together, this song and Whitney dying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, let's get to our top five.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want to go first?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my top five list is like four hits and one deep cut and my deep cut is number five.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's from the Army of Baby Tonight album.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's called Abelong to You.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was also released as a single.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was like the fifth or sixth single from the album, but you know, wasn't like a big hit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just like a mid tempo joint.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whitney's like very much in her pocket.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: just like a cool record.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not one of the two songs she did with Jermaine Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, she did more than two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's a third song.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, behind me, I have see if I can reach back without falling over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the soundtrack to the movie perfect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh shoot, Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there is a song on this album by Germaine Jackson and Whitney Houston called Shock Me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not on any other album.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's the only reason that's other than the cheesy as cover.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Only reason I still have this record.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Were they a thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So she would have been really she would have been what very early in her career, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like yeah, very she was in her very early 20s remain was very married.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was she was the other woman.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably assuming one of many other, you know, other women, but yeah, Robbins book also goes into detail about that because theoretically at the same time, she and Robin were still a good dating, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That part was actually in the

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[SPEAKER_01]: they don't flat out say that they're seeing each other, but they're very close.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Whitney basically says that she slept with German Jackson and Robin got pissed off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Robin confirmed that in the book.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, my number five, my top five for Whitney is a little bit all over the place.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be less, less hits than yours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mentioned the the Serapi ballad for whatever reason, whenever I hear her sing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All the man I need.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, my ears just go, oh my God, like this is so big and the chorus and her just singing her like big, like that's how I feel when I hear it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now that is not a Whitney song I like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now the flip side of that, it was between this song or miracle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's another one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, it feels, it feels a little magical to me

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I just feel like, oh, man, like this reminds me of something or reminds me of like the first person I heard someone sing like this and so yeah, so all the men that I need man, me and you are on opposite ends we're going to be we're going to be we're going to be we're going to be way different I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, what's your number four my number four is million dollar bill.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just love like the bounce of that song It's got like a little I mean, it's it the record is sampled it sample from like an old disco song So it has that kind of like throwback feel it just feels very like loose and natural and you know

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[SPEAKER_00]: her voice was diminished by that point, but she still had a voice like that's not an easy song to say.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is my number two, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we are, wow, at least.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, all right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My number four is, and I told you how much I liked this album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing but love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the second track on I looked to you, I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a fun song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really like that song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think about kind of like, there's a point where she becomes a little bit of a sad story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And at the end of this sad story, I still find joy in some of those songs and that's one of those songs that I find joy in with her.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's number three for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of joy, number three for me was I wanted to answer somebody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's weird because I did not like that song as a kid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just thought it was corny, which is kind of corny, but I just, it's so like, like it's obviously engineered to make you feel a certain way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it does it, so it's like it's corny, but it does the job it's supposed to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and I just love I, you know, whatever someone is playing it somewhere, you can feel the energy of the room lift whenever someone does it at karaoke, you can feel the energy of the room lift, it just feels like it's just such a fun song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, one of the things about this brandy book that you finish and I'm still working on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Brandy describes very eloquently how she is a child, yet she is also an adult at the same time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And whenever I think of Whitney Houston, I think of her essentially having to be a grown-ass woman pretty much since that first album came out and yet this song, there's a youthfulness to it that I feel in the video too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she's like this giant star, but here, like she still has that youthfulness and probably feels like a kid as she's recording the song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what I like about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's it's so energetic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It also just reminded me that around this time, my uncle used to call her wiggly Houston.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What about is this true that Al Sharpton called her whitey Houston?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I I've heard that before I can't I don't know for sure whether he said it, but that's I don't think he's come out and denied it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man That one's mean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I look like Al Sharpton.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not cast in stones on anybody Wigney is actually really fun though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty clever

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she doesn't wear waves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I did not know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't understand her length.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, her her first album, she's got really short hair on the first one pulled back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, now here's where we get into.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure our differences because.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Take out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Acon and put him with any other male artist and the song is probably exponentially better, but I vibe with like I never left.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's my favorite song, other than million dollar bill, probably my favorite song on that album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that, like there's just a groove to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, you know how,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how much you've messed with AI in your job, but I've messed with it because there are some things that I'm trying to put together and for this podcast too, like I'm trying to create like covers and then there will be like some things and like how that doesn't fit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let me go into my tools and like take this chunk of this thing out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wish I could take out of every song in the universe where Acon goes convict.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Convict?

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a removid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like give me the AI tool that removes him saying that in every song and I'll be happy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what the future is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, Acon does this song with Whitney.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He does that one song on that posthumous Michael Jackson album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And those thought like he's fine, I just would not want to hear him by himself on a full length album.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Doug, those first couple of eight kind of albums sold really well, and I don't understand what anyone want to sit and listen to this dude for more than like five minutes on somebody else's record.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, he is fine on this song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I again, if you put any other young artists, by the way, one thing we didn't talk about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: didn't she wasn't she dating Ragee for like a short period of time?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know one knows exactly what was going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The optics appear to support that she was dating Ragee, which is like that's

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not gross because of the age difference.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's gross because Rijay is gross.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like the connection from Whitney Houston and Kim Kardashian being like it just, it doesn't, it doesn't make sense.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Rijay was trying to get his two-pop on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, I don't know that Whitney necessarily had the best taste in guys when you look at the whole big picture of things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why I just thought about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was in the back of my mind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, okay, with the song, we better with Ray J on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, wait, Ray J and Whitney, they did a song.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Going from germane to Bobby to Ray J, she should have just stayed with Robin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Totally, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, what's your number two?

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[SPEAKER_00]: My number two is you give good love.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually pulled that song back up today to listen to it and it's just like, you know, it was her first.

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[SPEAKER_00]: single.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember being watching a bunch of VH1 that summer and that video came on every like 15 minutes it felt like it's just still like it's one of those songs that you hear a lot but it doesn't really get old.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just again feels like smooth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not too slow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not super fast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like a good like getting the door and grew song.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah I definitely rock with that song for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My number two is million dollar bill.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what is your number one so my number one is it's not right, but it's okay But not the original version so you mentioned dance remixes a couple of times This crew called Thunderpuss did a remix of it

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[SPEAKER_00]: And believe me, when I tell you that song was everywhere for like a solid summer in New York City.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Particularly, you know, June is Pride Month.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to Pride in New York City around that time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And like every bar on Christopher Street, that remix was coming out of it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was on the radio, it was just like everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and it's a fun song.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a original version.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Rodney Jerkins trying to, you know, replicate like the brandy sound a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, but this dance remix.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think just not sit out of the park.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that she was able to use dance remix is to kind of extend the shelf life of some of her stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was so smart and fancy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't know who's idea that was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like who decided like, hey, let's put like a dance remix on this song, which is not in, not written to kind of be like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I think it extended a lot of her songs, because she did it a couple different times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Something was on the tip of my tongue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if I remember it, I'll think of it before we get out here, but it had to do with whatever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, my number one is I'm your baby tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, it's like one of my favorite

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I was younger and, you know, we had boom boxes and stuff and, you know, you're trying that you're playing catch this song on the radio so you can record it on your tape and, like, that was always one of the ones where I was like, I think I have this on this tape already like three times, but what the hell I'm just in a recorded it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: to hear it on the radio and go like, oh, wow, the windy song is on.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got it, you know, I got to get ready.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got to press the record and I got it and so that song takes me back a little bit to where it was still, you know, I was like 13 or 14 and you're still kind of in that zone and then then, you know, a couple years later, you know, then you're messing with CDs and different things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but yeah, that's a great time for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because a lot of our pop culture things that we've been talking about kind of shift right in the late 80s early 90s and we talked about our scenario.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so Whitney kind of crests perfectly for me, Beverly Hills, 902 and oh Martin like right around those timeframes as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So like my pop culture fandom just kind of explodes and I was still into it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you know, I was the kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: who was like looking at at the newspaper every you know every Monday to see what the box office was for the movies and looking at the ratings how did the cause of show do did it beat cheers you know like those kinds of so I was the same did that stuff very much the same but like for whatever reason like right around this time for him is where it just kind of went through the roof for me so it's a good time it's a good it's a good time for me to to think back about what I was

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[SPEAKER_01]: We, uh, we got, we had a lot of Whitney and I'm so happy that we did this because I, uh, you know, when we dig into some of these artists, you learn things that maybe you took for granted or you didn't really understand at the time and she's just way bigger than I remember

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[SPEAKER_01]: just attractive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The story of the kind of the fallout of her life is is sad, but it's just part of what, you know, part of the thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so yeah, wouldn't you use in man?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What a what a juggernaut.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Shout out to bruh man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Woody, Woody Hutton, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have work for work for work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a picture of Brahman on the t-shirt at the Whitney Houston World Tour, and then also Brahman couldn't spell.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was World Tour, W-U-L-D-S-Tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so that'll be it for this week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said next week, we're going to do our 50th and we'll have a conversation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So to be less about the music though, we're always going to be about music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We talk, but it's going to be about us and turning 50 in this project and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So beyond the lookout for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we got a lot of stuff coming after that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for Mike, I am double G. We will see you when we see you piece out.