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[we with perhaps one more reason for americans to be frail. oil prices dropped again today after opec decided not to drop production. the average price is now $2.80. some duns have called for a cut in production to help boost prices. john that hall has the hatest. >> not all of opec's 12 members can afford to see oil prices fall. but with deeper pockets in an increasingly competitive marketplace saudi arabia holds sway
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here, it and the other producers say no change. in the interest of the market decided to maintain the protection level of 50 million barrels a day as was agreed in december 2011. >> before the meeting some members were hopeful, shackled by international sames. [i am not sure in this meeting but i am sure we will do it. as i said, we have faced many many problems before, and has managed it, many producers have little else to sustain their economies they have come to rely on the high prices of recent years. >> let us hope that we can come to an agreement, because it impacts many of our economies. but the saudi oil minister knew something they didn't, he was tight lipped. >> get out of here [why is that. >> i don't want to talk
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to anybody [seaning they con to produce at current numbers and without the change of dynamics it is hard to see how crude oil prices can to anything other than slide further, and we'll get a taste of that on monday, where the u.s. markets return from the thanksgiving holiday, and yes, it looks as if lower oil prices are here for some time to come. >> the message seems to be don't panic, we have seen prices follow, and this before the market will correct itself. but the risk for opec is that it may be seen as a hostage to market forces. and he is of a potent innuance than it once was. al jazeera. vienna. >> a taliban attack today in the capitol of gaffe ban stan. in a upscale district,
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the taliban spokesman says the target was a guest house, this is an yeah ire with a number of foreign embassies and international companies. the attack came just hours after a suicide car bomber killed five people outable over the disappearance of 43 students in mexico could lead to a majorover haul. mexico's president says he will ask congress to ahow the immediate and swift takeoff of any corrupt local governments. well, the disappearance of four students here was the last straw nor many, and it has generate add massive movement that put so much pressure on the preponderate to announce reforms that forced them to come out on the air waves and explain what he is going to do to provoke change. this was one of the most significant reforms that he is doing to undertake. >> mexico can't keep
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waiting. this monday i will send congress anishtive for congressional reform to create state police forces. this umpire as new mismodel that will be quantitative and qualitative companying. to move for more than 1800 weak municipal misforces that can be corrupted by criminals to 32 solid bodies of state security, that will be more trustworthy, more professional, and more efficient it took the president two months to address this mill crisis and final hi he is promising that he is going to tackle the security situation, and fix a broken justice system but people here are saying they are very skeptical, because the levels of violence, because of the drug cartels are still very high. there's mass graves that are found almost every week, for the past month, and tens of thousands of disappeared that have not been accounted for. >> monica, the world health organization says
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sierra leyon will soon have more cases of epole roxanne that has more. >> researchers have been working on ebola vaccine for years. they say this one seems the most promising. within a month, all of them developed antibodies needed to fight ebola the results with the higher dose were most favorable. current outbreak is the worst yet, it's taken nearly 5500 lives so far. the world health organization says sierra leyon must soon replace liberia as the worst let. scientists have been scramling to find ways to cure the violence. fast tracking drugs like
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z map. the levelers h continue to test it internationally. >> the save for the volunteers it is save for the people today they also plan to expand the research to healthcare workers in liberia, starting in january [the vaccine needs to be kept at 112 degrees below zero. in a country with an unreliable power system, but the scientists are optimistic. >> maybe by the mid to end of the summer, of 2015, hopefully we will get enough good data to be able to determine if the vaccine works or not. [the british good company is manufacturing the
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experimental vaccine, is based on a cold virus found in him pan disease. the company says it can produce 1 million dose as month, the rearmers reported no serious side effects. >> it has been a calm day in ferguson missouri, the focus now trying to heal the wounds on this this thanksgiving day. a good thank giving night to you, dianne. >> thank you, thomas. no protestors out on the streets of ferguson this evening it seems hike they are home celebrating the holiday, but others spent this thanksgiving trying to bring this community together. >> a lot of green beans that time. >> it was a small step in healing his community. we need to be positive
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out of everything. >> this was no sign of the racial tension sense the white suburban police officer shot and killed a mac teenager. here, 500 blacks and wines dined together. >> everybody was really nice. >> and work together to make the homeless feel at home. >> more than 200 volunteers bus tables. and pulled kitchen duty. >> it's an issue, it is a very real human issue, being home he is or not having what you need the
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general activities of daily living. food, shelter. >> are you getting enough to eat. >> he says he was stunned by the number of volunteers. he has been hosting these. he says he only hopes the goodwill will last longer than a day. >> we have had a cancer i have seen for years going on in st. louis. i want to see hearing but i want to see healing take place [unfortunately, though, it could take a very long time for this community to heal. thomas? >> peace on this night, dianne joining us, diane, thank you. >> i want to welcome jamane williams, he has been oning of the leading advocates for reform what do we learn from this past week. >> that remains to be
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seen. we have been here before, and didn't learn anything, so i am hoping that maybe we got some lessons this time. we began to realize we can use a culture shift, in how we police in new york, and ferguson, but across the country young mac, and brown, young men are shot unarmed. and that's a problem. >> are you afraid when the dust settles that michael brown will be just another statistic very concerned about that, because this has happened in the past. people are arguing about peaceful protests. when are we going to make reforms. people are listening.
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they can make changes before they do. and mr. furl and hoping that her lessons and will hold everyone accountable, and will make the thanksgiving a better system. >> you talk about people listening. what are the young voices saying about real reform in the community. >> well, many -- i think people have lost faith that change can come or that it is coming. they have lost faith, they have lost faith in hearing the same words over and over again. so it is time that we have to show committed action committed policy change, that effects police interaction on the drowned. until that happens i don't think people will bee it will happen. in how we address crime, and one of the problems is the only thing that we said to this, often times happens.
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and we send them to do the job of many many agencies. they can only do the job of law enforcement but they deal with jobs and agencies and youth services. they teal with mental health, where are all of these agencies in conjunction with the misin these communities? dealing with a number of issues that many of these communities look the same, are dealing across the country? we have to rethink how we deal with crime? how we deal with many issues in this communities. until we do that, we will always have police. >> how they communicate with mis. >> they often have a mind set that all police, all police officers, are bad? >> everybody comes out of their corners because this' a mind set on both sides i don't know that it is helpful. what i doe know is often young back men end up dead, and they are unarmed.
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misare human beings we should hook at them as well, and make sure young people know how to interact with mights, and also understand the concerns they have are real and they are deadly. my mother had more conversations with me about police than she did about criminals on the street. >> what did she tell you? [she bout me the little black book which told you how to survive interactions with police. these are not conversations that everybody has to have. that's unfortunate. but she told me always to make sure to make sure to listen to what a police officer tells you to do, and to not answer back, and to respond and how to get the information of an officers badge, without having to heighten the situation. it is challenging.
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someone is challenging your manhood, although i tell them they just should-to what is being done, so they don't get killed. >> our people seconds here, what does real reform look like? i know michael brown's family has been calling for it. for police officers to wear cameras is that the answer. >> i think that's part of it. c. i think everybody is hooking for one particular answer, when it is a culture shift of how we think of mac and brown communities in general. it is body cameras and making sure here in new york, that rookies are not going by themselves into the most highest crime area. it is making sure that policing is done across the board evenly, with it's marijuana, with it's riding bicycles, on the sidewalk, thes a real cultural shift with all that is going on. >> a conversation that needs to continue.
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council member here in new york city, appreciate your time. >> thank you the faa says this' been a uptick in crashes between manes and drones. since june, this have been 25 reported close calls. most took place near the runways of busy airports. the faa is working on a set of rules and is expected by the end of the year. coming up next your thanksgiving cranberries why some are worried about the future. and their son died far too young, now they are hearing his heart beat in another man's chest.
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without those larger than life floats. it takes about 70 hand hers to maneuver the giant balloons. producers work year round to put together this event. many americans thanksgiving is also time to give back. down in houston, thousands turned out to serve neighbors in need today it is part of an annual thanksgiving super feast. volunteers took part in this year's event. >> it felt good, it really does, just to see how everybody can come together on this day, giving thanks. >> tens of thousands of meals were expected to be served, attend dees are also provided with clothing and medical information if you shop for cranberry sauce, you know cranberry prices have been dropping that's because of a huge crop this year. usda found a demand by buying $55 million worth and using them to low income food programs. on what the bumper crop means for growers.
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>> a sparkling fall day, perfect for a deep hit harvest, normally dry beds ared threed the berry shaken off vines corralled on the surface, and pushed into a holding machine. but in a continuing trend, there are too many berries this year, and the prices you remember faaers can command are dropping well, cost about 30 sent as pound. and if you are getting 10 cents a under po you can hang on for a while. >> which happenled nearly two-thirds of the country's crabberries should be okay. prices are prearranged smaller independent farmers could take a holiday hit they are struggling. they are trying to mind alternatives. there's only so many niches information there is one example, pure unfiltered juice, from washington's only commercial organic cranberry operation. >> it is good. >> with do all of our own
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description. >> part of the survival strategy is a narrow target, they sell to bars and restaurants. >> for the tart unsweetenning juice is mitched into high end cocktails. 2014 could be a biller harvest. >> small family farmers, 5-1040-acres that are the salt of the earth and there's hundreds of them, they are going to be hurt. >> the shake out might last several years. allen al jazeera, on washington's long beach peninsula. >> now the dash is on for holiday shopping. here with your holiday forecast. >> we are looking at things getting quite cold out this, first, let's talk about the northeast,
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where the last 34 hours the snows a it pushed up through pennsylvania, the largest accumulation ultimately in the overnight hours and through today have been into maine, where temperatures are quite cold, you can see we still have snow showers around the great lakes we will get a couple of inches out of this. around parts of michigan and wisconsin. joe wise, the focus on the west where we get quite a big after rainfall, and a couple of rivers are at nod stage. omaha in the he to mid 20's. we are expecting to see showers continue, and snow ahonk the boarder in the great lakes. in fact, well below normal, so you may have close to chilly record high temperatures. and if you look at our hes to sort out the day friday, i want to point out how chilly seattle is, you are going to do from 52, to 32, as cold air masts in from the north for all of us, lows
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on saturday morning in the mid 20's and we could have a few spots of snow friday night into early saturday, around the seattle area. we will keep you up to date with that forecast. >> another big change on the way, thank you. a special story on this thanksgiving, a wonderful gift born out of tragedy, bringing high to one man and healing to a family. >> the minnesota joined more than 3,000 americans on the waiting list for a newhart. >> sometimessing the quick, and other times it is not quite so quick. >> matt was a student at the university of north dakota when a house fire took his life. >> he was very tender, from a little boy, he was always just -- he had a huge heart. >> when he was just 16 he
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became an organ donor. >> the hurt i grew up, is when i hucked him, that it is still out there. >> his organs would go to as many as 60 other people including tall, the fact that gives his parents and sister comfort. >> a 46-year-old woman received one of his kidneys. a live tore a 61-year-old man. you look awesome. >> i am telling you i feel awesome. >> he has wanted to meet the family ever since he received their heart. that meeting happened. >> is i am exciting to feel it beat again. >> they are always going to carry a very very warm spot in my heart. >> an emotional meeting between a family, that lost so much and another that gained more.
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and one more act of thanks. the chance to listen to matt's heart beat again. >> they hope the son's gift, and the man that received it will inspire others to become organ donors. >> you think it is just a small thing. >> a powerful demonstration of what this season of giving and thanks. >> that's awesome. >> is all about. >> beautiful story on this this thank giving, by the way, they man to reunite in march, right around the anniversary of his death and tom's fist annual check up. to some of america's top musicians. >> a conversation with roseanne cash on her career and her album of songs about the south,
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>> the stories. >> i was poor, i couldn't pay my rent. >> they are inveigh tors and trail mazers. >> tonight we bring you the best of our spotlight conversations. >> this the picture you were in the foreground, and the star is in the background. >> hi, everyone, over the year we brought you memorable interviews and not just with news makers i sat down with legends from the world of music. the conversations were revealing and at times surprising. we bring with rose ann cash, johnny cash's caughtser a super star in her own right, she talked about her life, career, and her newest album. >> it feels amazing.
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you put out a body of work, and you hope that it connects with people. and you never know. marly in this day and age so after all this time i still feel hike an beginning and to have it accepted hike that, and the praise come back to it, it feels amazing, i feel hike the luckiest person in the world. >> when i have heard you describe this album, it sounds like it started with a road trip, is that? >> kind of it. >> kind of. arkansas state university wanted to purchase my dad's boyhood home, in a new dell era coltny in arkansas, and they wanted the family to be involved. so i started going down to fund raisers it was a perfect storm of inspiration being back in the south, and reconnecting with people i knew, and seeing my own
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an zest rail musical heritage. i thought it was behind me, and being born in memphis was a footnote, it turned out i was connected to it all. >> there's a song called the sungle land, where is it. >> in arkansas, in that spot in arkansas where my dad's boyhood home is. >> who will hold your hand in the sunken land. >> well, going back to his home, was really about my grandmother. seeing how her life really was. that she picked cotton, raised seven children. was married to a man who was unkind, often, and she never chained. and it was medievally hard. but the one thing that kind of took this all together in my mind, was i have a friend natalie chan, and in florence alabama, and she had this
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studio she employed women and they hand stitch beautiful clothes. and i went down and she taught me to sew. and she said you have to-the thread. and i just -- tears came to my eyes it was chilling. and i kept thinking about that, you have to love the thread. i took it to be a huge metaphor. as we were driving think the south, i was thinking about the thread. >> and these songs started coming. >> when did you know you were an arties how young were you? when you fell in love with music. >> really young, really young. i felt myself to be odd and i came to understand that that was an artistic instinct, and that it was valuable, instead of being something that you needed to push away. although it took me a long time to understand
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that. >> what drew you -- everybody would assume you are from nashville and the south, what drew you to new york. >> you know the saying we always thought she was weird, turns out she was just a new yorker have you ever heard that. >> never. >> that was me i knew it was my home. i loved the south, and i feel connected to the south, but i'm a new yorker. had you stayed away from the south for 20 years. >> i had been back plenty, many of times and for a long time i felt myself tighten up, i don't belong here any more, i am being judged, this isn't my place, now i go back, i love it. i have my friends, i know a good restaurant. two of my daughters are there. they-the south. >> did you start writing
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more when you came to new york. >> i did. i was a songwriter always, and i wrote a lot of songs in california and in tennessee, but i started wrying pros in new york, and wrote my memoir, and a book of short stories. >> and you write in the new york sometimes. >> right. >> i have read that you don't share it all, but you share a lot of your life, and your life has been in the spotlight since you were a child. >> i do share a lot, that doesn't mean i don't have a private life. but i am a writer. if i were a dancer i would have to dance. it's just -- what is in the dna. >> you wrote your father a letter, about your love for music, and art. >> yeah. >> what did he say. >> i was 12. he said the greatest thing he said, i see that you see as i see. >> thank you. >> great to see you, appreciate it. >> good to see you. >> the band okay go is
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not just known for their music, their ground breaking videos continue to go viral, we talked about how they pulled off their most memorable ideas and how they got their start. >> tim i and have been best friends since we met at summer camp, so the band has -- all of our projects it is like a life long thing for us, and i have known dan for 18 years now. almost 20. so it's this just sort of the collective sensibility. >> so you were doing this a long time, before you hit viral video with here it goes again. >> how did that change what you were doing. >> it certainly made us a lot bigger band, it also helped to solidify in our minds that we should just
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chase our best ideas. trying to play the game, fitting the exact way radio format and all that stuff, it is a whole lot of anxiety, and sort of strategy work that has nothing to do with art or music. >> does somebody have a thing for treadmills. >> we all have things of treadmills we are terrified of them now. >> how many takes did it take. >> twenty one. >> 21 takes i think. >> for the treadmills. >> jody: so you come one the music, you record the music, and then you do the video, and what's the process. >> we try to put ourselves in a situation with a lot of stuff to deal with. >> we are in the studio, that's the instruments and corporations and beats and lyrics.
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we basically just sort of throw a whole bunch of stuff together and figure out where the emotions are jumping out. when you put a beat together, sometimes you just get a beat and a core progression. but every once in a while you get lust, and sort of combined. and once the songs are there, we get to sort of keep on chasing those creative instincts wherever they go, and the videos have been an incredible outlet for us. we can come up with any type of project we feel like doing. >> ♪ [it was made originally i guess for the super bowl commercial, but -- are the sounds that we hear actually the sounds that were heard while you were making that video. >> yes, technically they
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are the songs. that is all live what they call -- it is what was reported while we were filming. however, this are went mikes on the car, the we get about 20 takes. by the time we had final mix, there were seven or 8,000 tracks all together. so we could pick which bits we wanted you to hear, can you do an impression what it sounded like. >> it sounded like -- and dan, how long did it take to film that. >> i believe it took five shoot days. >> let me take a look at another video, i think it is called white knuckles. how difficult it is it to get those dogs to do what you want them to do. >> those dogs are
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incredible, they can do your taxes if you ask them to. >> there's a spectrum of treats for then. they will do anything for raw chicken, anything. >> well, it is incredible, who, we-to watch and listen to your music, and thank you for taking this time. we look forward to what is coming up next, thank you, again. >> thank you for having us. >> darlene love on her career and the movie that changed her life. what it takes to make it big.
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documentary, 20 feet from stardom. >> i haven't felt like i was 20 feet from stardom for a long type. it was just doing this movie that brought everything back what did it feel like back then. >> well, i was a back up singer. the great thing about being a back up singer when i started nobody treated me like one. they were always so excited about me and my group being on their record, so it was great. you go in the studio you felt like a star, the thing that ed ma it great we were black, and we were the first background singers to do recording sessions. it was a white world, they were what we call the readers they could read music, we could not read, but we had great ears.
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>> whattance financially, did you make good money? sometimes -- i don't know why i became an artist, during the 60's, scale and the union was $22.50 an hour. so i made in a year i can make over $100,000 in a year. >> and residuals in. >> just -- we didn't get residuals we started getting residuals a couple of years ago. >> why didn't you get residuals. >> because there was no law in our union that said as a background singer. you got residuals. >> they just passed that law a couple of years ago. >> so you have begun to get some of that back? >> big time. i got a check from it's called sound international, i got a check from them for $56,000. for back money that we had not got. >> what was it like
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working on that's life, and the do run run. >> amazing. it wasn't as much fun working with frank sinatra, because he was such a great guy. he was very funny, and he plays with us, and all right, guys make me sound good. >> and monster mash. >> monster mash, i think the biggest thing we did at that time was working with elvis presley doing his back up on his 1968. >> you didn't read music. >> not at all. no. >> we could site read, give us the key and we could poll he the notes we could hear where to go or you go down -- what we call sight music. >> phil specter has a huge impact on your life, talk about working with him? >> during the dime it was great we didn't find out
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later that he was trying to make himself a name, not us a name, so that held me back for years. but he was a great producer. you rah in the foreground, and the star p is in the background. >> i love that. that is when i got inducted into the rock & roll hall of fame. and the writer said we saw this guitar and nobody was playing it but the minute you started singing bruce picked up the guitar and started playing that's what made everything that i have done over the last 50 years so much fun. that these people said years ago i should be a star, and i finally got my dues. you are getting ready to release your first fum length album. >> yes. >> in your life, all these years and never done a full length album. >> because back this the days when we recorded people didn't make albums they made 45s. or singles. almost what they are
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doing today, you go and buy one record. my very very good friend, years ago, when i met him, he said we will get together and i will do an album with you and here we are just doing it. i think what strikes me about having a conversation with me, i watched you on documentaries -- and i honestly, you seem to have absolutely no regrets. you seem to be joyful about everything you have done, and continue to do despite some of those set backs how do you remain so positive? >> it's something i want to do. it is something i love to do. there's nothing more precious to me than standing on the stage in front of your friends and lifting their spirits. you have given office lot of joy and we thank you for it. >> i talked to fits and the tantrums about their
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influences and their rise from humble begins. plus, their unique blend of pop r & b, soul, and fung. >> and miles was this incredible teacher, they provide a path way, so you can find the answers yourself, miles always did that. >> >> global warming is gravest threat... >> every saturday, join us for exclusive... revealing... and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time... talk to al jazeera, only on al jazeera america
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and we always knew that the development of this would take a while, the we wanted it to be kind of slow and healthy, and to start with a cult following, and to play the life circuit to travel a lot, and to gain really organic fan base, and then all of a sudden we had a song that all the record labels were kind of fighting over, and the song on the radio now. >> what inspired that song. >> funky, kind of electrofunk. it has a heavy 80's innuance. >> yeah, it is there, but we took cues from a badged like steelly dan, who were disciples of soul music. the signature sense of humor.
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>> very much. bands that have -- that are rooted in black music, that and blend it with a sensibility that's their own. >> things -- our music works on different levels so the title is a reference to the photographer your live shows from what i have seen are incredible. what is the creative process. >> it is a routine. we don't really indulge, a lot ofnd bas improvise, and jam, we don't think about that, we just want
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it to be the most entertaining spectacle for the kids that paid to see us. >> something airtight, everybody will get the same thing every night. >> we'll sort of make changes between the tours but we just want it to be the tightest routine possible. so we rehearse over and again, and every step, every little move that we have. >> everything and coordinated and. >> jody: what does the name mean. >> chrome missed with robot. after a decade of playing smaller bigs what is it like to have that big crowd? >> scary. and daunting. >> really.
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>> but really rewarding. but not in that time slot which was huge. >> we had no idea how it went, everybody on our team was like that was great. >> well they are cheering for you, right. >> yeah, but you aren't hearing that, we are barely looking at each other. >> we are far from the crowd, and we are so stuck in the min knew sha of our show, that everything that goes off for us, even though people don't see it -- >> and then two days hater billboard comes in and says we are one of the best of the weekend. >> what do you think sets songs hike "jealous" apart. >> the narrative is completely antiheroic. a lot of the songs on the radio are written from this very kind of
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perspective of baby i love you, and let's go to bed, and dabs together, and jealous you have this kind of glorified sha mcwhich is i am jealous, but i am too cool to admit it, and it is just cheeky reversal of the rock star persona, and we hope that it is kind of entertaining and relatable for people well, congratulations on your success, and much more success in the future. great to see you. >> thank you. >> thank you to another innovative band, raised on soul and pop. but as they explained to me, the band got it's start in heartbreak it started in 2008. i was heart broken. wrote a song to get over that heartbreak. and it just turned out to be a special song that set a come pass for the sound of the band and i called our mutual friend james king, why went to college with, and called
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him over, and we started working on it, and we just saiding this begging to be played live i said we need an amazing female vocalist, to be the other side of the he said she said story of love. and she said well, i just worked with this amazing talent, we have to call her, the only one you should call. called her, six of us met in the room, and it was magic. ♪ here we go feel it in my soul ♪. >> how is it that you can work for several hours and suddenly know this is it. >> the first thing i thought is this going to be -- is this going to work, are our voices going to blend, and then we started singing. >> and it was magic. >> that was the thing, is we always cut our teeth on the rug playing live, and what we have loved to
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do is so to road test our songs. every night people are like what is that money song. and the thing is we knew it was special, we actually had a different bridge, but we knew that that song was a special song so we wrote three or four different versions to make sure it was as good as the rest of the song. >> how do you describe the song. >> you know, it is interesting it is still soul music, but i call it pop. what we are doing is initially the breaking of what pop music became. saying this is us, and you won't be able to use one adjective. >> and we were very influenced by our per forrens mas. our fan base had a huge
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part in the way that we approached the record from the choruses, to the knewens ways. >> how does that work. >> when you have a crowd singing along to a certain part, and it's an automatic thing. >> you know. >> yeah, it is like that's what our experience was. people learning instantly, the song. after like maybe -- >> they are watching on their computer at home. >> yeah, and you are sitting around and then you are yelling out and they finish line for you. >> can you talk about the experience of exchanging that with the fans on stage. >> it is intense. >> it is what keeps us going. >> there are times when five minutes be ever the show we are exhausted and looking at each other like oh, and the only thing that gets us to be able to find that energy is the crowd. >> yeah. it is incredible, the adrenaline that you get when you hop on a stage, and then just anybody singing to your music at
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that point, it is so gratifying. >> yeah, because it's a hard thing to do, that's what you hope for is that you can translate your message. >> what suggestions can you make to young people who are interested in the business, what to want to do. >> i think what we always advocate is work ethic. work ethic, work ethic. praying. >> yaw really have to know that going into a career of music, is going to be like any other career that you pursue. and the way that if you want to accomplish something, you have to take the footsteps. you can't just go on the fact that you may be talented. when you enter into a business, yeah, you can be talented and have that little spark, but you always have to work for it and prove to people that's what you are. we weren't handed anything. we got amazing opportunities and we took
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them, but we knew what it was going to be. we had to work for it, we went -- we were poor. i couldn't pay my own rent, like that kind of thing. and we went for it. and now we are in this situation like we are sitting in this we didn't know that was going to happen, but we worked really hard, and even before this band, we worked really hard. >> it is emotional. you get emotional when you talk about it. >> it comes with a lot of sacrifice. i don't think people understand what it is hike to be a touring musician. it is a no maddic lifestyle. >> we love your music, and love to hear you talk about it as well, congratulations. you are making a connection. >> thank you. that's our program, thank you for watching. we want to wish you and your family a very happy holiday.
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