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I get the distinct pleasure of briefly introducing Wayne Sermon.

A few years back, I'm going to be honest.

I'm old.

I've always liked to imagine dragons, but I didn't know a ton about them because, you know,

I don't know what I've been doing all this time, but I didn't know a lot about them.

So when I got a beautiful email and some support from a guy named Wayne Sermon, I kind of,

you know, didn't know that name from out of them, but then I read the email and I thought,

wow, one of Imagine Dragons supports me and that's pretty powerful.

But, you know, a couple years went by and, you know, I hear from Wayne once or again and

because I got to work with Dan Reynolds and others on that HBO documentary, I became

more and more familiar with the band.

I got to see him a few times and I think Imagine Dragons is one of the coolest rock bands

in the history of rock and roll.

I love their music and when I saw them on that Beatles special, celebrating my favorite band

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