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Speaker 1: Sitsy and with with Kate Ritchie podcast. This is an

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Speaker 1: article that was written in the Sydney Morning Herald. I

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Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. To Thomas Mitchell, the culture reporter, Tom,

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Speaker 1: you just trying to show off.

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Speaker 2: Is this really a story that's relevant to the show

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Speaker 2: or do you just want to say that you were

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Speaker 2: flicking through the Sydney Morning.

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Speaker 1: You know, I was reading it and I was going, oh, Thomas,

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Speaker 1: this really sings out to me, like there's things that

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Speaker 1: I think you're showing us another tick, Thomas, I really like, yes,

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Speaker 1: I've got a kitchen relationship. It's talking about work relationships

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Speaker 1: in the office, okay, And he kicks it off by saying,

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Speaker 1: for those of us who spend nowadays pinballing around the office,

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Speaker 1: it's not unusual to create funny little relationships to help

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Speaker 1: pass the time. We have work spouses and coffee powers,

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Speaker 1: lunch crews and kitchen buddies, all designed to distract us

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Speaker 1: from the crushing reality that work is life and life

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Speaker 1: as well. Work doesn't have to be bad. And if

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Speaker 1: you're lucky, you retirement arrive sometime before you're eighty. Thomas.

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Speaker 1: If you're kicked off with a neg Tom but he says,

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Speaker 1: usually we navigate this by keeping it brief. There's an

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Speaker 1: unspoken agreement that it's best to pretend none of this

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Speaker 1: is happening, and so a curtain nod and a quick

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Speaker 1: hay is all that's expected. And we do that with

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Speaker 1: a lot of people around the office.

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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, hey, you're very good. You tend to have

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Speaker 2: a bit of a chat. When we finished the show.

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Speaker 2: You wander up the hallway your bow legs.

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Speaker 1: I love it, just my right leg. That's okay.

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Speaker 2: I'll watched you walk up there. And then you go

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Speaker 2: into the office and you pick up your big glass

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Speaker 2: kind of decore or tupperware container. Yes, it's been sitting

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Speaker 2: on the desk for the entire show. The fridge, and

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Speaker 2: you heat it up and you eat a bit of

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Speaker 2: last night's dinner. And you have a chat with Nathan

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Speaker 2: in the.

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Speaker 1: Kitchen always, and so Nathan's my kitchen buddy. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: great buddy all over. Hug with him every now and then.

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Speaker 1: We talk movies. He went and saw Uppenheimer the other day.

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Speaker 1: So we've been reviewing Oppenheimer very okay in detail. He

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Speaker 1: knows his movies really well. But he is my kitchen buddy,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like we only talk in the kitchen cake.

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, no, he doesn't wander into the Have you

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Speaker 2: seen him in the toilet or no?

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Speaker 1: No, this is what I want to talk about, Kate,

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Speaker 1: because this is what Thomas Mitchell is talking and toiler buddies.

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Speaker 1: So he said, Unfortunately, he wants to talk about the

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Speaker 1: bathroom relationship that you have at work. And he says, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: this system comes undone when you find yourself syncing up

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Speaker 1: with someone. He said, for me and my work mate,

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Speaker 1: let's call him Dave because that's his real name. It

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Speaker 1: all began a few months ago. Over several days, he

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Speaker 1: and I found ourselves terrifyingly in sync. I would open

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Speaker 1: the door and there was Dave zipping up. Now, okay,

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Speaker 1: and do you find this? You sync up with other

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Speaker 1: people going to the toilet. I'm sick of Kate slamming

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Speaker 1: the door on me, but when you seem to.

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Speaker 2: Me, I can't even slam it. His fingers and wedged

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Speaker 2: around the corner of it. I'm like, get you, seriously, mate,

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Speaker 2: stand out of bruised.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what?

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Speaker 3: I have a bit of that routine. It's funny when

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Speaker 3: you fall into sync with somebody like that. MDG and

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Speaker 3: I often will chat at the ball if you might say,

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Speaker 3: is that not weird? Colossalmo and I quite often on

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Speaker 3: on the right timing. It's where the big fellows hang out,

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Speaker 3: and I find out when Tom's on routine and avoid

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Speaker 3: the bathrooms as there are dangers.

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Speaker 1: Very good, but when Tom goes in there, I always

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Speaker 1: send a Budgey in in a bird cage fist. That's

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Speaker 1: so funny because you know what I watched on the weekend,

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