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Speaker 1: This podcast.

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Speaker 2: We have a very special guest in the studio. Do

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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm going to call her a friend

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Speaker 2: of the show because I would like to say she's

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Speaker 2: been on our show many times over the past fifteen years,

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Speaker 2: Kate Richie, and she's been spending a lot of time

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Speaker 2: too in this great country of ours, Melody. See what's

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Speaker 2: good to be bad?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm wanting to be a friend of the show.

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Speaker 2: How good is that? We don't hand that out lightly,

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Speaker 2: friend of the show?

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Speaker 1: No, well, you you hand it out lightly. You'd like

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Speaker 1: to think that everyone's a friend of the show, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they think that they're a friend

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Speaker 1: of yours.

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Speaker 2: No, okay, so it works one way.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get to some of the times we've

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Speaker 2: had on this show soon, Melanie. But it is so

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Speaker 2: great to have you here, and it's so great that

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Speaker 2: you've got new music. Before we get to that, tell

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Speaker 2: us about New Year's even how it went.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, it is such an honor and a

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Speaker 3: privilege as an artist to get that, Geek. But it

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Speaker 3: was surreal because I obviously I wanted to do my

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Speaker 3: absolute best, but you're under this I'm restriction and I

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Speaker 3: didn't realize that I'd gone on a little bit late

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Speaker 3: and I'd only been given thirty seconds to speak in

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Speaker 3: between songs. So because of like getting caught up in

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Speaker 3: the moment, I spoke a little bit more than ad

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Speaker 3: rehearsed and timed on my phone, and then their hosts

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Speaker 3: were to come back on and say, yeah, great show,

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Speaker 3: and here we go, it's nearly time start the countdown.

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Speaker 3: But actually they had to run on and go six

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Speaker 3: and I was so relieved. I didn't know how close

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Speaker 3: it was to get into because what would you do.

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Speaker 3: They just have to cut you off. You can't go

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Speaker 3: over midnight, No you can't.

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Speaker 1: I think you were saying that because Sydney is one

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Speaker 1: of the first cities. You can't kind of say, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, Milton, she's got something really exciting to say.

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Speaker 1: We're going to do it at like yeah, twelve oh.

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Speaker 3: One, so yeah, so yeah, like I say, thank goodness.

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Speaker 1: I just have to take the opportunity to say I'm

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Speaker 1: very excited to be sitting beside you. And my daughter

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Speaker 1: is eleven, she's her name is May. It's amazing how

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Speaker 1: I'm forty seven. This is like this whole new generation

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Speaker 1: of discovering music and recently I had to listen to

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Speaker 1: the songs Spice calls in the car because she was

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Speaker 1: really intrigued as to which voice belonged to which of

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Speaker 1: the characters. Right, So when I got to you, I

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Speaker 1: had to describe you and kind of which character and

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Speaker 1: woman you were. I'm not going to tell you what

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Speaker 1: I said, because I want you to describe yourself to

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Speaker 1: an eleven year old child. If I had to say, well,

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Speaker 1: sporty Spice was this one?

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Speaker 3: Okay, So sporty Space was the sporty one. Yeah, obviously

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Speaker 3: Warrior Truck is. Yeah, was very athletic, probably you know

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Speaker 3: a word we don't like to use, but a bit

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Speaker 3: more tomboyish, yeah than some of the other girls. Now

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Speaker 3: as feminine as maybe your posh Space, not as cute

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Speaker 3: as your baby, not scurmy as your malby. Yeah. So

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Speaker 3: I think the beauty of this Spice girls was that individuality.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think we really suit and are the

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Speaker 3: characters that we were perceived to be. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 3: love being Spotty. I fully embrace it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love her listening to what I was saying

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Speaker 1: about all the characters, like you're saying she's discovering who

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Speaker 1: she is. And you don't have to comment on this,

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Speaker 1: but I said, see that one there that smells she

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Speaker 1: was the best singer. But but do you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean? Like that was my memory of the Spice Girls.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I'll stop talking now because it's.

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Speaker 3: Not a very nice It is a compliment. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know. I think Sporty did a lot of the

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Speaker 3: ad libs. I did a lot of showing off in

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Speaker 3: the singing stakes. We could call it showing off or

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Speaker 3: heavy lifting.

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Speaker 2: That's a great line. Can I ask? We were talking

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Speaker 2: about a performance that happened and it wasn't a Spiccyts performance,

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Speaker 2: but it was an over event and it was a

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Speaker 2: and then there was a band that was behind a

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Speaker 2: curtain ready to perform, and the curtain was meant to

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Speaker 2: drop at the right time. The curtain couldn't be opened.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell me what's gone wrong at a show

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Speaker 2: that was going well? Yeah, I'd love to know. When

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Speaker 2: you're in those moments such as almost like New Year's Eve,

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Speaker 2: things have to go to planning.

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Speaker 3: I mean, things go wrong all the time. That is

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Speaker 3: the beauty of a live performance, isn't it. You never

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Speaker 3: know what's going to happen. My mind went back to

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Speaker 3: our stadium shows in twenty nineteen, and we had these

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Speaker 3: lifts that bring us up right, and we had these

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Speaker 3: different acts within the show, and there was one particular

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Speaker 3: one that started with Viva Forever. We had these lovely

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Speaker 3: new costumes on the lighting. Girl went me on this stage.

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Speaker 3: We're rising up, but then it stops halfway so we're

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Speaker 3: just like really on the game. You're like fine, so

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Speaker 3: we can make it up there for the song. But

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Speaker 3: this is the thing, you know, when things go wrong,

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Speaker 3: you just got to get on with it.

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Speaker 2: Trying to climb out of the pool. This would have

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Speaker 2: been a special moment. Cruz Beckham on guitar and you

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Speaker 2: girls singing awesome, A bit slow, but it must feel

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Speaker 2: so good when it was so nice.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what was lovely about. I mean, Cruise's

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Speaker 3: doing so well. He's such a great musician and artist.

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Speaker 3: We hadn't sang together for ages, I mean not with

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Speaker 3: Victoria because she didn't join us in twenty nineteen, and

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Speaker 3: we just you know, sadly, Melanie wasn't there that night.

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Speaker 3: She was off on her honeymoon another one, and yet

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Speaker 3: we just started singing and you know, we were filming

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Speaker 3: it for funny. We were like, let's all listen, and

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Speaker 3: we're like, actually we sound all right. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we still got it and.

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Speaker 2: It almost became my favorite version of the song. But

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Speaker 2: then I remember this moment of you and.

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Speaker 3: I always.

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Speaker 1: Is that you perfect.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever considered the voice.

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Speaker 1: He'd play the chairs?

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Speaker 2: Can we have a listen to your brand new song?

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Speaker 2: We're playing it at the moment? What could possibly go wrong?

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Speaker 2: Love it? What do you call that?

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Speaker 3: An?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? It makes you want to run?

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Speaker 2: You want to move? It'd be great to run to.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you run?

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Speaker 2: Nothing to do?

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Speaker 1: I love this?

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Speaker 2: I love this.

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Speaker 1: I know that we're on the radio and people can't see,

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Speaker 1: but the sweat cover is amazing.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty iconic, isn't it. This album aesthetically is very

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Speaker 3: inspired by my time in Australia. It's a really fun,

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Speaker 3: joyous album.

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Speaker 2: You're a superstar. I Love you. If you want to

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Speaker 2: catch MELANIEC on the tour, the world tour presale starts

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Speaker 2: ten am this Wednesday, the eighteenth. We love having you.

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Speaker 3: In Oh I love being here a superstar. Good to

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Speaker 3: see you come back soon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks. This is the Fitzy with Brandon Tate Podcasts.

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