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My name is Scott Bertram.

Find me on Twitter at Scott Bertram.

My tag team partner standing by, as always,

is Jeff Blair.

Jeff, how are you?

I'm actually doing all right, Scott. I'm here

finishing up the setup. I'm directing the roadies to get both drum sets into place, and we're

making sure that the amps are working, none of them are fried. Do you feel like you need to do a

sound check, or do we want to just go ahead and blast off with our tightly interwoven vocal takes?

We've been working into this for so long.

I think we're good to go.

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