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Speaker 1: The Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: Get yourself ready for a few tears tonight when you

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Speaker 2: tune into a ninety minute series finale of Neighbors seven

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Speaker 2: point thirty on Channel ten and ten Peach and this Man.

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Speaker 2: One of the most iconic characters in Australian television is Tony,

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Speaker 2: and Ryan Maloney joins us Zarah line.

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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, thanks for having mere Tony. This must mean

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Speaker 1: a hell of a lot. I mean, how the hardest

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Speaker 1: part I would think about filming the final episode was

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Speaker 1: just would just be trying to take it all in

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Speaker 1: and realize the moment. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the hardest part definitely trying to soak in every

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Speaker 3: last moment you could get and then try to deliver

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Speaker 3: your lines without getting emotional at the same time.

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Speaker 2: Well, is it true I heard I've already read already

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Speaker 2: that you couldn't you couldn't stop yourself getting emotional, like

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Speaker 2: it was really really tough.

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Speaker 1: Nah, no one could.

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Speaker 3: There's always moments where you just kind of catch yourself

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Speaker 3: and you go, oh, well, I mean pretty much the

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Speaker 3: way that the works as that you know, the storyline

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Speaker 3: is right about five six weeks ahead of us. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so you know from from that point on, we're actually

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Speaker 3: saying goodbye to people as their jobs finish up all

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Speaker 3: the way through.

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Speaker 1: Of course, can I.

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Speaker 2: Ask you, mate, let's go back to day one and

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Speaker 2: you know, for any young actor getting onto Neighbors or

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Speaker 2: Home and Away, it's a huge thing, but it'll also

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Speaker 2: be very intimidating.

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Speaker 1: How old were you and who were some of.

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Speaker 2: The big players around at the time when you first

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Speaker 2: started on Neighbors?

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Speaker 3: Well I was fifteen, and some of the big players there. Look,

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Speaker 3: I can't even really remember the cast to be honest.

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Speaker 3: I mean Carl and Susan with it. They start at

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Speaker 3: the same time as maybe Robinson he came.

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Speaker 4: Back, he wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but probably that The people who really kind of

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Speaker 3: make the lasting impact are actually the crew.

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Speaker 1: They're the ones who kind of, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, take you on board and kind of guide you

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Speaker 3: and shape you into the human being you turn into. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: are you able to tell us Ryan who says the

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Speaker 3: last line of tonight's episode.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, go on, I will very last one.

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Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to, but I'm going to.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not me. Who is that? Yeah, Harold Bishop?

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Speaker 4: Actually no, who is it?

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Speaker 1: Who's Susan?

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Speaker 4: And Carl Yeah, that's fair enough. I thought that.

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Speaker 2: Can we can we because we don't know because leading

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Speaker 2: up to is it true that you so Tody has

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Speaker 2: had his seventh wedding?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, yeah right yeah three this his third wife.

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Speaker 4: Hang on, this is his fourth.

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Speaker 1: He loves him wedding cake, Tody.

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Speaker 6: But I also read that you're you're really happy with

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Speaker 6: your You don't mind if I call you to go

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Speaker 6: for a radio man, good point total, I mean, Ryan,

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Speaker 6: don't worry. I've been called a lot worse. That's fine, Ryan.

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Speaker 6: I read that you're really happy with your line with

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Speaker 6: my final Yeah, well yeah, your last line, well, that's

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Speaker 6: in context of that. We actually shoot out of sequence.

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Speaker 6: So the final scene that you'll see tonight was actually

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Speaker 6: shot a week before, and so in studio it is

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Speaker 6: actually that was the last scene that we shot.

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Speaker 3: Sure, and the line in that scene was just like,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, powerful, oh my god. It was just tears,

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Speaker 3: brought tears to your eyes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, are you supposed to cry as you deliver the line?

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Speaker 4: No? No, no, no, it's in context.

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Speaker 3: So you'll see we're all in the Kennedys watching some stuff,

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Speaker 3: right right, and that's the scene.

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Speaker 4: There we actually shot last.

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Speaker 3: So if you're going to watch it tonight, then those

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Speaker 1: Can you give us a list of the stars from

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Speaker 1: Neighbors that are going to be joining us for sort

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Speaker 1: of this reunion final episode? Mate?

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Speaker 4: There's so many. I think there's about sixty in the

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Speaker 4: last scene.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: So I had to write I had to write down,

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Speaker 4: let's a little cheat sheet.

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Speaker 3: Hello, We've got Margot, Robbie Delgi a good room, Jesse

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Speaker 3: spends that, Kim Valentine, Carla Bonner, We've got Peter O'Brien,

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Speaker 3: who's in there, Nat Bass, Benji McNair, Olympia of Lance,

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Speaker 3: Ian Smith, Dan Mack came last night. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 3: you know, Kylie and Jason and guy guys back for

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Speaker 3: just threw him at did you guys?

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Speaker 4: Was everyone okay with them all coming back?

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Speaker 3: Because obviously they're taking eating into your time to finish

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Speaker 4: Well, that's right, it is all about me, so.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, come on, these are these are

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Speaker 3: these are iconic people from our history.

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Speaker 4: So let's get him back.

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Speaker 2: What there's going to be one thing that you flogged

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Speaker 2: from set?

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Speaker 1: Mate, What do you want? What do you want to?

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Speaker 1: Piece of memorabilia do you want?

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Speaker 4: I can't tell you because I've actually got you have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: We can.

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Speaker 3: You can we at least ask what set it's from.

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Speaker 3: It's not from a setup. Actually it's a I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to say. I'm not going to say I'm going

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Speaker 3: to incriminate myself. Nobody knows that that has gone.

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Speaker 1: There's a bouncer.

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Speaker 4: I dug him off and I took the bones.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us Carlie and Jason on set? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Did you see them? No?

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Speaker 4: That was top secret. It was they didn't want anyone

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Speaker 3: And that was including the cast, so nobody knew it

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Speaker 2: Okay, we have got to call the mate Rachel, who

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Speaker 2: is just a neighbour's nerd. Now when we when we

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Speaker 2: say you're a neighbor's nerd, Rachel, first of all say

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Speaker 2: I to Ryan, Hi, how are Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He's awesome? How much are you? How much of a

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Speaker 2: Rach?

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Speaker 5: I've been watching it my whole life, my mum, since

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Speaker 4: How old are you Rachel.

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Speaker 5: I'm twenty six.

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Speaker 3: Twenty six years that's weird in that all of your

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Speaker 4: That's pretty crazy every night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not and I'm not your dad, so weird.

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Speaker 2: So you've got Ryan here right now. I mean, what's

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Speaker 2: the one question you want to ask him? Rach?

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Speaker 5: Hell, how do you stay in characters so well all

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Speaker 4: Well, I suppose that's acting, isn't it. You know, that's

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Speaker 4: that's your job.

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Speaker 3: That's part of the skill, is you know, to be

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Speaker 3: kind of deliver everything that aspect and also in the

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Speaker 3: same way when you don't, then it's funny.

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Speaker 1: Rach. Is there a scene that you remember that really

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Speaker 1: stands out of me in the history of Ryan being

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Speaker 1: in your lounde room?

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Speaker 5: Look, it's it's got to be the the scene where

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Speaker 5: Sonia pass is away. That one, Yeah, just sticks in

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Speaker 5: my mind. On the beach there with Tody and sons.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. That's that's the storyline that I

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Speaker 3: hold closest to my heart because that that was actually

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Speaker 3: a two handed episode and that's the only time in

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Speaker 3: thirty seven years that Neighbors actually did a two.

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Speaker 1: Handed What do you mean two handed?

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Speaker 4: The only two actors in it all the way from

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Speaker 4: start to finish. Yeah, and we followed it chronologically.

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Speaker 1: So unbelievable. Love that.

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Speaker 2: What about when you drove the station wagon off the

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Speaker 2: cliff with Madeline West in the car as well? I

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Speaker 2: mean that's pretty big as well.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was.

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Speaker 3: But that's the thing that probably most you know, most

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Speaker 3: probably that commodore flying through the air and the blonde

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Speaker 1: That's the thing.

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Speaker 3: Were there a T shirt? You know people are printed

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Speaker 3: that on T shirt. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That last thing, you want to say anything you want

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Speaker 2: to say to Tody, right, Toty.

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Speaker 5: I'd just like to thank you for everything over the years.

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Speaker 5: You know what she knew, You've been in inspiration and

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Speaker 5: just thanks for all the haircuts, the wedding, everything. It's

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Speaker 5: been amazing watch for you. But I will miss you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. That's that's great and we'll we'll miss

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Speaker 3: all of you guys as well. We're definitely feeling the

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Speaker 3: love from everybody, So thank you.

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Speaker 1: Ryan did you keep the ponytail.

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Speaker 4: No, I sold it off for a charity.

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Speaker 1: Oh good work. Would have got a fortune. Imagine having

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Speaker 1: that in your housetail. What's that? I'm a collector of

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Speaker 1: fine artists studies.

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Speaker 2: Would you come back for mate?

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Speaker 1: You know what?

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Speaker 2: One thing that we've been trying to do for years

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Speaker 2: we'd love to get you. Would you do wrap up

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Speaker 2: of the week with us? Ryan, Like, just to do

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Speaker 2: a neighbors wrap? Yeah, let's do it? Yeah, great, great,

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Speaker 2: and then down the track what we've been trying and

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Speaker 2: now that neighbors is over and I know seven and

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Speaker 2: ten over the years have been like, we don't want

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Speaker 2: to do it, but eventually we want to go a

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Speaker 2: hardcore home.

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Speaker 1: And Away versus neighbors wrap. Id Oh okay.

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Speaker 2: Where you tea off on home and away and we

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Speaker 2: get someone from home and away to go hard on you.

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, all right, cool, let's do that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah okay, I mean that might affect my next job

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Speaker 3: on Home all Away.

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Speaker 1: So so Tommy, what are we going to give? We're

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Speaker 1: going to give right for hours. Yeah, let's do it

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Speaker 1: tomorrow eight o'clock. I love this, let's do it. Can

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Speaker 1: I wrap against Tony?

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Speaker 2: You got it mate? All right, all right, Yan, congratulations,

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Speaker 2: well done brother, what an amazing performance and we cannot

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Speaker 2: wait to see the finale tonight.

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Speaker 3: Oh cheers guys, Thanks for watching. Everybody greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Buddy, talk tomorrow See Mate and Whipper podcast