BONUS: We Invited Prince Harry. He Actually Turned Up.

Watch on Spotify. Before Prince Harry stepped into the office, there were a lot of questions. What do you ask a Prince? How do you prepare for one of the most surreal podcast bookings imaginable? And is this actually happening? In this behind-the-scenes special, Joe Marler and Jake Bhardwaj take you inside the build-up to their interview with Prince Harry and veteran JJ Chalmers at the home of The Invictus Games Birmingham 2027. From pre-show nerves and last-minute debate over what they can (and definitely can’t) ask, to revelations about Joe’s previous encounter with Harry, preparations are unorthodox. There’s also the small matter of Joe and Jake attempting to get each other dressed, a growing sense of panic amongst Joe & Jake as Harry’s arrival gets closer, and the aftermath of an interview neither of them will forget. Go behind the curtain and see what really happened on one of the most extraordinary days in the history of Joe Marler Will See You Now. Featuring Joe Marler (@joemarler17) and Jake Bhardwaj (@jakebhardwajtv)Follow the show on Instagram: @willseeyounowshowJoe Marler Will See You Now is a Platform Media production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  Ugh, I hate Mondays.

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  Uh, Taylor Hansen? Sure, I'll try one. Mmm.

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  Mr. Charles here. Oh, male changing.

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  Do you want to get changed now? Or do you just get changed later? Get yourself settled first. Come on, here he is. Connor, how are you? Why are you in high vis?

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  Uh... Because... They made me.

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  Yeah, sure.

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  Have a choice.

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  Another question. How come you've come to this one?

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  Uh, because it's a big one. It's a huge one.

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  Yeah. Shall we have a look at it, Joe? Shall we look? Well, I am looking. Is it in here? Yeah. I'll tell you where we are. We're in Birmingham at the NEC, one year away from the Invictus Games. Today, we are talking to someone very special. Joe?

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  I can't, I don't think I can say it.

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  Say it out loud.

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  No, because it's bonkers.

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  He's not fucking Voldemort, he's not gonna appear.

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  The boy, Lily, has come.

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  It's Prince Harry.

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  Prince Harry.

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  Prince Harry.

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  The Duke of Sussex.

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  The Duke of my county.

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  Yes, and we probably need to come up with some stuff to ask him.

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  When was the last time you shit yourself?

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  I think that's good. I think it's a good opener.

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  It's a good opener.

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  I don't think we should change anything that we do on the podcast. Namely because he's the one who had the idea to come on.

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  Yeah.

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  So.

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  So give him both barrels. Has he got armpit hair? You certainly have.

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  Can you see it through those?

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  Well, yeah, when we were hugging earlier, shirtless.

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  Oh, right, okay.

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  Sort of, it didn't actually feel like you were shirtless because you're so hairy it felt like a shirt.

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  Sure, sure, sure, sure. I wouldn't mind asking him, why have you chosen this podcast?

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  Shall we ask him that?

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  I feel it's a real privilege that we've been given to do this. Because I haven't seen him on anything as silly as what we do, to be honest.

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  Right.

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  But we've got an existing relationship, so maybe I can open up with, all right, cheese tits?

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  Rather than, oh, hello, your highness, or anything like that, or jukey boy.

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  Yeah.

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  I'd be like, all right, cheese tits, sit down, because...

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  We're pals.

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  No way. Sorry to quote the internet, but duh fuck. Duh fuck. Look at you, so fresh faced.

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  Very young, aren't we?

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  You're so fresh faced, a little beer in your hand, why not, it's party time. He looks like he's just come from sort of like...

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  School.

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  A day at HSBC, sort of like work experience.

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  Wow. There we go.

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  Keep that in my bathroom.

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  That's really nice.

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  I think that's not the best angle for it. I think that's better. It's less creepy there, isn't it?

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  Yeah, it's less in your face, isn't it, for him, it's the first thing he sees.

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  What about in?

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  I think, put it where the light was. Put it on the desk, I think, Joe.

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  Yeah.

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  Joe?

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  Last chance saloon, fair enough.

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  He's gonna be here in like two minutes now.

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  Just wait, one last go.

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  We went to... Oh.

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  Oh wow, it was worth it in the end.

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  Was worth it, wasn't it?

• 4:40Speaker 06

  Wow, it's sort of, it's metaphoric in the way it's sort of, he's always been in your heart.

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  Well, more in my, more in my gap.

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  And just to reiterate, you said wherever you place that picture, you don't want him to be freaked out. So you're hanging it on a, on a, on a dead man's skeleton.

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  Yeah.

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  Yeah, it doesn't, doesn't it?

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  Are you nervous?

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  I would say fractionally nervous compared to how nervous I thought I should be for it.

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  So glad one of us is as calm and cool.

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so.

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  Because I'm gonna struggle to keep my voice.

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  What do you mean?

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  Hello, Harry.

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  Oh, you're gonna do a Harry Kane?

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  Welcome to, to my office.

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  And what I wanna learn from both of you is this. How do you deal with trauma and find a way to move forward from it?

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  We're gonna have a game, this bit of team bonding we do.

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  It's just, it's a thing that we do to help any nerves leave. Put it this way, we're gonna flush away any nerves.

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  We're going for a game of bat.

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  You do a double winzo? You do a double winzo?

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  You're doing that because of him?

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  Oh no, we're just doing a double winzo. Come on. Do you understand it?

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  Yeah, briefing's done, you could have got that in earlier. I don't actually know, it's a little bit.

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  Are you ready? Do you need anything from me?

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  Do you want me to?

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  Do you know what?

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  I'll try and do it.

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  All of this is what I don't need. Anything that you're doing now is what I don't need you to do.

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  Let me help you. Let me help you to calm down.

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  Yeah, I'm ready, mate.

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  I think we're starting to get a little bit giddy now.

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  I'm not, you're not.

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  Okay, by us, I mean me.

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  Yeah, you are.

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  I don't know what to do. Where do I put my hands?

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  Not where you just put them, I'll tell you that much for a minute.

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  Okay, just stand like this. Hello. Hi, what's your name? Can you do my neck for me, please?

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  Uh, yeah.

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  One turtleneck.

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  Yeah, can you, yeah, I'll do that now. I think what's good about this, obviously, is that he is gonna be a very, uh, fun and funny guy, but the stuff that I think we're gonna get to talk about is gonna be, it's gonna be pretty, I mean, it's gonna be pretty eye-opening hearing about these sorts of subjects. Grief, trauma from someone like him, who's had the life he's had. I don't, I don't think we'd ever have really sort of had anything like that on the show before.

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  Do you know what I mean?

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  So what you're saying is we...

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  Let's not cock it up?

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  Yeah, why would I ever walk into a situation being like, "Oh, by the way, let's cock it up"?

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  Yeah, when you put it like that, you're so... What have you done to my neck?

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  I said, "No, I don't think I've done that right."

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  Why can't you do a turtleneck properly?

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  Come on, help us.

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  It's much bigger in real life. Oh, no, I'm there, here, hug him, mate. Thank you so much.

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  Hello, mate, I'm Jake, how are you? Thanks for meeting me, man. So much, Jake, mate.

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  JJ, thank you so much, mate, I'm looking forward to this. Well, I'll have a laugh, mate.

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  We're like, you guys... One minute, one a minute away.

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  We've got to do it all, we think, now.

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  All of it.

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  This is Jake.

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  Speaking of disgusting, hi. Uh, I'm Jake, nice to meet you.

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  You're not disgusting, you're great.

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  Wow, thank you so much.

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  Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday.

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  Happy birthday dear Joe. Happy birthday to you.

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  Happy birthday for last week. Ken Elgud, thank you.

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  He read the room. He read the room really well.

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  That's really kind of you. I don't actually do my birthday.

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  No, but you do cake though, don't you?

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  I do.

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  Mate, this is exactly the feeling I used to get at the end of a massive rugby game. And I know you can't relate to that. Like, okay, quiz, your massive quiz you go and do. Not another quiz night where you get the audience going. It's been yours that high that you have immediately after.

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  Yeah.

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  That's what I'm feeling right now. Please tell me, and I'm looking at you.

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  I'm with you, brother.

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  That is mental. I cannot get my head around what's just happened in that little room.

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  I can't, but at the same time, once we were in it, it just felt like it really, I don't know. This is, this is credit to him. He just makes you feel like you've been mates with him for a while.

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  You specifically, and we can look back on the tape, said, I'll be here for you, mate. Don't worry, I'll protect you. We're, we're a united front. We're in this together. If he comes after you, I'll put him in his place.

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  Yeah.

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  It felt like you didn't.

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  Do that. Yeah, I know.

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  It felt like you actually joined him.

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  Yeah. He's the duke. I can't, he's the duke. I can't stress that enough.

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  He's the duke. Do you only say duke with the hands? Duke? You, you can't say.

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  Duke without going.

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  Duke. For him and JJ and just like, honestly, my only thing is, I wish it could just go on and on and on and on and on. I could have talked to those two for ages. He's just, what a, what a, um.

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  It's on my sex life.

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  Well, could have gone on.

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  I wish it would have gone on for longer.

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  I thought you meant them, Prince and JJ were there.

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  No, no, no, not this time.

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  No, it would have been over in a flash, otherwise, those two boys. My god. Fine, fine fellows. We're never gonna top it like for like, because I don't think anything like that will ever happen again. That's just a once in a, but. It's, it's what a hell of a way to come back. We are back with a hell of a bang, bang. It's a big bang.

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  Bang, bang, he shot me down. Bang, bang, you didn't help me. Bang, bang. You joined in on it. Bang, bang. My baby shot me down.

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  I'll tell you what, chatting to the Duke, it's hungry work.

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  You want food?

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  Let's get some food.

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  Right, but before we do that.

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  Yeah.

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  Hey, a big, big shout out. Big shout out to the Duke.

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  Big up the Duke.

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  Big up the Duke, thank you, mate. JJ.

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  Big up JJ, big up JJ.

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  They were so tight. I wonder what it's like to be that tight with someone.

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  And of course, to all you legends at the Invictus Games.

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  Big up Invictus.

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  Oh, we're going with the big ups for all of them, okay?

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  Yeah, I'll do them all up.

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  Big up yourselves.

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  Big up yourselves.

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  Big love.

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  Ugh, I hate Mondays.

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  King's Hawaiian cinnamon swirl bite?

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  Uh, Taylor Hansen? Sure, I'll try one. Mmm.

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  Hey, let's get back to work, please.

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  But Taylor Hansen's making my day way better with these new soft and swirly King's Hawaiian cinnamon bites.

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  Taylor Hansen? Nice.

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  Try one.

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  Mmm.

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  King's Hawaiian cinnamon bites. There's nothing like it.