Lisa Loeb talks the 90s, cats and being on tour with Straight No Chaser

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It is the KJ Today Show, your place for the

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positive vibes of pop culture, people to

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know, and pets. And we have two guests with

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us, and I am so pumped about both of them

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going on tour together. Straight no chasers.

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Segi is here with us and singer-songwriter

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Lisa Loeb also here to talk about the Straight

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Note Chaser Summer the 90s Tour. I just want

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to say first a warm welcome to both of you.

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Thanks for being here with us.

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Thank you so much for having us.

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And I've got to start off by letting you

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know, Segi, that We're in Indianapolis, and

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Indianapolis loves Straight No Chaser.

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Sure do. We love Indy. One of our favorites,

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for sure.

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Uh, you had an amazing run here, uh, last

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year, so many, uh, sold out shows. And now

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let's start off, uh, by talking about the,

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uh, the nineties tour and why, I mean, obviously

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we love her, but, uh, how, I guess you got

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Lisa Loeb to join you.

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You know, when we were thinking about the

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nineties, you think about all those quintessential

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songs that really take you back to that time.

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And, you know, I don't know if there's a

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bigger one than Lisa Loeb's Stay, I Miss

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You. I mean, that's, it's like the 90s song.

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So it just made sense. And, you know, the

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way she performs and the way she sings, it's,

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it pairs so well with us because our audience

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is gonna absolutely love everything she does

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on stage. And we're hoping that her audience

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will also love what we're doing. So it's

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going to be a nice crossover. I think there's

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going to be a lot of the same demographics,

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but it's just easy to listen to. It's fun.

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It's relaxed. We're going to make sure everyone's

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having a great time.

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How is it for you, Lisa, to hear Segi talk

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about you and Stay, I Missed You and realize

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how iconic and meaningful that still is to

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so many of us today?

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It really means a lot, especially coming

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from him. I mean, their group is so talented.

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And like you said, I'm so excited to play

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because playing concerts and getting to connect

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with people and the audience I've got a great

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audience. They love to listen to music. They

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love to tune in and really hear what's happening.

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And they've got so much to give on stage

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that whether you know them well or not, the

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songs they choose, the way that they perform

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them is really magical. And I'm excited about

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that. And it feels great. I'm still connected

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to my song. And as somebody who grew up listening

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to a lot of music, I get it. bands. I went

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to go see a concert last night and I was

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talking to some of the musicians I loved

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from the 80s. Thomas Dolby, I'm a huge fan.

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I got to talk to him last night. Tom Bailey

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from Thompson Twins. And to be able to hold

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both things that you really love, like the

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big hits, but you just love them as musicians,

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that can all happen at once. And it's amazing

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to be inside of that.

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Yeah. And, you know, while we're, we're talking

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about that, you just had an amazing cameo

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and that song played a big role in that 90s

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show. Can you talk a little bit about being

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on set with that cast?

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Yes. You know, you've made it when somebody

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is like changing the lyrics to your songs

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at summer camp or on live or on TV, you know

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what I mean? We actually did. I think we

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actually sang the song, the actual song,

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but it was amazing on that 90s show. They

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completely recreated the set of my song Stay,

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at least through the camera lens. It looks

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like it's the exact set. One of the main

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actors was dressed exactly like me. We recreated

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my dress, my Betsy Johnson dress, and I was

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in it as well. But it was just such a cute

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moment, a really fun plot that happened in

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the TV show, that 90s show. And it's just

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so much fun. I grew up also watching musicians

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like Paul Simon on Saturday Night Live. or

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Martin Mull, people who had comedy and music,

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and you could be really serious, and you

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could have a lot of fun with your music as

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well. So I love being in that, you know,

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group of musicians who can do that.

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Lisa Loeb is here with us, and so is Sagi

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from Straight No Chaser, which as, you know,

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we know here in Indy, formed originally at

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IU. And I believe, Sagi, did you cross, you

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crossed paths with Ryan, with Ryan Allworth,

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right?

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Absolutely. Indy now is Ryan Allworth. Yeah,

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he was in the group with me in college and

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as a professional. So Ryan is one of my close

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friends, probably the funniest guy I know,

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but he's Indy's darling right now. And it's

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pretty amazing to watch all of his success

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post-Straight No Chaser and Indy.

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Yeah, it is. I've got a guest spot next week

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on the show with Ryan. And actually, he was

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on my radio station for a little while. So

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we go way back and wanted to kind of reflect

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with you. I mean, loving what you do, did

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you have any idea that Straight No Chaser

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would become what it has today?

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No, of course not. You know, this was just

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a way for us to hang out in college and,

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you know, meet some girls and maybe be invited

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to some sorority formals. Um, but it, it's

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just about having a good time. You know,

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I think if you, if you ask any musical artists

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or, or anybody, if they could choose to travel

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the world, uh, with eight of their other

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closest friends and work together, and at

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the end of your work day, people stand up

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and cheer. I think people would jump at that

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chance 10 times out of 10. And we're just

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somehow lucky enough to do that. And it's

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just incredible. And, you know, the love

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we get in Indiana is amazing. Being back

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home again in Indiana is always the highlight

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of our tour. You know, that's why we do four

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shows in Indy. We do Fort Wayne, South Bend,

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Evansville, Bloomington. And now we're adding

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Ship Shawana. I didn't know there was another

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city in Indiana that we hadn't played before,

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but it's going to be amazing. You know, we're

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we're Indiana boys and we can't wait to be

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home.

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And I did see the straight no chaser summer.

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The 90s tour is making a stop in in Louisville

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on July 27th, and that's such an easy drive

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from Indy too. So I'm sure that you'll have

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some Indiana fans represented that show.

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Oh yeah, we see all those IU shirts in the

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crowd, so we love it. Go Hoosiers.

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All right, Sagi, I have to completely derail

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for a second because I am the kitty correspondent

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for Pet Pals TV, and I can't have Lisa Loeb

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here without talking a little bit about cats.

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I love cats. I am a cat woman, not a cat

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lady, first of all. I feel like cat lady

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is the person who's got like a million cats,

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you know, wandering into the food in the

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pantry. But this is like, you know, I love

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my cats, my two cats. And all cats. I will

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walk up to any cat on the street and talk

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to them, pet them. My husband says, watch

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out. I'm like, oh, but it's a cat.

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It's how I am too, out in public or at a

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party. If there's a cat, everything else

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loses my attention. I did have one question

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from Kim who is listening specifically about

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cats. Lisa, she wanted to know if you could

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share the story behind the cat that is in

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the Stay music video.

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Oh yeah, the cat in the Stay video was Ethan

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Hawke's cat. Ethan Hawke, the actor, directed

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the video Stay, I Missed You. He helped me

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get that song into the soundtrack for the

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Reality Bites movie, and it's the movie that

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he was in. He passed that song along to the

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director, Ben Stiller, and the music supervisor.

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But anyway, he helped get the song in there.

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And then he had this great idea to shoot

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a one-take video where literally there's

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no, there's no edits. It's just one take.

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We shot it many, many times, but the one

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that you see, uh, you can see on YouTube,

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it's literally one take. And, um, we thought

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it'd be fun. Well, he thought it would be

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an interesting, um, thing to do, to have

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his cat Mardot in the video, because like,

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it also like emphasizes this one take, like,

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how do you do this? The cat's in the video.

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And then the cat walks out of the video and

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walks through the video, but it was, it was

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Ethan Hawke's cat.

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Amazing. Thank you both so much for joining

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us today. Lisa Loeb and Sagi from Straight

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No Chaser, the summer 90s tour. Go check

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out the dates and check out the show. Thank

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you both so much for being here. Thank you.

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