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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whippo podcast.

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Speaker 2: If you ghosts at the Australian Commercial Radio Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: it's a big, huge room. There would have been over

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Speaker 2: a thousand people there night of nights the radio landscape.

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Speaker 3: Sir, we missed you. Sir had a sister's wedding on

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Speaker 3: so that was a big one for her.

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Speaker 2: But you were sending us messages there, we were sending

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Speaker 2: you photos.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations to the team because we took our best syndicated

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Speaker 2: Australian program.

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Speaker 3: Very proud of our team. We love them.

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Speaker 4: It's not easy to syndicate something, so to all the

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Speaker 4: team here and everybody involved.

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Speaker 1: Just quickly, what's what's the award for? What is it?

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Speaker 1: Where do we go?

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Speaker 2: Our show is syndicated around Australia right to regional areas.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so well under the team on putting that together

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Speaker 4: and the trophy cabinet becomes that little bit heavier.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's not too.

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Speaker 2: Many of them matter and we were reminded that of

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Speaker 2: that yesterday when we both received a message from Ray

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Speaker 2: Hadley and a photo of his thirty four actors that

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Speaker 2: he has and he said, Saire boys, congrats on your

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Speaker 2: second actress in a decade.

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Speaker 3: Below, I've done a comparison to your.

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Speaker 2: Two mine at Home and my Hall of Fame induction

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Speaker 2: from twenty seven eight. Soon I'll retire and I'll figure

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Speaker 2: at the current rate of one every decade, you'll equal

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Speaker 2: me in about three hundred years.

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Speaker 1: Got on your raybel.

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Speaker 4: Well Radios Night of Nights and we put together a

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Speaker 4: bit of a video too, which I don't think we

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Speaker 4: can put online due to the language, but it did

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Speaker 4: Veger ray Hadley. Thank you Raye for being part of

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Speaker 4: our presentation.

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Speaker 1: It isn't happy when we surprised him in the car.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't happy, and I wasn't happy as well.

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Speaker 2: Mate. When Whipper was half an hour late to the

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Speaker 2: radio awards had already had, was already started, Welcome to

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Speaker 2: Country had started, and there was Whipper coming from a

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Speaker 2: long lunch and coming in hot with two bottles of

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Speaker 2: wine that he decided to bring himself.

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Speaker 4: They were awards and thank you awards for what Best

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Speaker 4: program Director Provincial. An email from Commercial Radio Australia saying, Hey,

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Speaker 4: we're short on acras. Is there any chance you could

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Speaker 4: bring some wine to the awards?

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Speaker 2: Did you give that one to the organizer, Tommy said,

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Speaker 2: you sat at your table and smashed it.

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Speaker 5: Well, tom was obviously you got the same email because

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Speaker 5: he turned up with two bottles of white wine.

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Speaker 3: Did you tell what's interesting?

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Speaker 1: He snitchy bought an award al and they love whiskey.

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Speaker 3: An award or a reward.

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Speaker 1: Either way, we all had a great night.

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Speaker 2: Josie and Amanda did a great job. They hosted it

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Speaker 2: as well. We had to get up there present an award.

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Speaker 2: It is a long night because it is regional, provincial, Metropolitan.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of awards to get.

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Speaker 1: Eighty five awards a.

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Speaker 2: Long night and then by the end of it you've

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Speaker 2: had a few and you know we won as well,

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Speaker 2: so we're celebrating with the team.

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Speaker 3: Then you know what nov was known for their after party.

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Speaker 3: Let's kick on. Where was it? The Park Region Park

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Speaker 3: Hyge down the road. But you know what, you're waiting

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Speaker 3: for hours in the.

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Speaker 4: Park, Yeah, Centen your park, hanging out of the park

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Speaker 4: main oval with whippers wine.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, look at the end of it, like we're

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Speaker 3: all fired up and this is how old that we're getting.

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 2: I think there was a moment where everyone just sort

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Speaker 2: of ducks off. You're talking about your ghost story coming up.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of ghosts and runners gone happening.

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Speaker 2: So can I tell you what happened to me? I

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Speaker 2: walked downstairs one of our boss's, Pete Colossmo's there. I'm

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Speaker 2: having a chat to him, and I said, I saw

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Speaker 2: someone else from the radio in history. I said, Pete,

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Speaker 3: There was no one there. I kept.

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Speaker 2: Limiting, but I was made. I was tired, like this

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Speaker 2: was this? It was eleven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: At nine, Oh my god, come on.

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Speaker 2: So I walk through them all there at Darling Harbor

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Speaker 2: and there's McDonald's and it's shining.

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Speaker 3: That big em is shiny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, welcoming you in.

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Speaker 3: And so what I did so, I thought, all right,

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Speaker 3: this is it.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to get a big mac meal and I'm

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Speaker 2: going to treat myself with one and award tonight. So

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Speaker 2: there I order the upsized big macmeal, and people gloss am.

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Speaker 1: I still waiting for you to come back here.

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Speaker 3: I'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, mate, did you even get him a burger or something?

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Speaker 3: No, I'm salivating, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: I've got you all coming out of my mouth, and

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Speaker 2: then I thought I better check I might catch the

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Speaker 2: last faerry back to bow Main. So I look last

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Speaker 2: fairies at eleven ten. I look at the time, Sarah,

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Speaker 2: and it's eleven o eight.

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Speaker 3: Don't order the meal, go get on the phone.

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Speaker 2: Really disappointed in myself. I have paid for my big

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Speaker 2: macmeal and I've had to leave it.

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Speaker 1: I hate those moments.

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Speaker 2: And then I start running. I start running like I

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Speaker 2: don't know one of the terminators or Forest Gump, and

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Speaker 2: I'm running and unfortunately I roll my ankle, Pop me,

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Speaker 2: pop my knee.

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Speaker 1: You are a disaster. You are a disaster.

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Speaker 3: I've kept running, Sarah. It was a four hundred meter run.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And I've got to the ferries just in time. Missed

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Speaker 3: my big macwater for Ryan. I've done my knee and

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Speaker 3: I'm crying on the ferry. Has anyone got the award?

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Speaker 3: I don't even know what the award is.

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Speaker 2: Why didn't you just get an uber?

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Speaker 3: It's still the same amount of time. It possibly fine

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Speaker 3: enough the fairy.

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Speaker 4: You could have had had your McDonald's and gone in

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Speaker 4: a comfortable car home.

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Speaker 3: We'll got a water taxi even on the work uber.

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Speaker 4: You know, that you can't run anymore, you know, your

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Speaker 4: body breaks down. And he's a lonely guy in black

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Speaker 4: tie sitting at McDonald's waiting for his turn.

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Speaker 2: I felt like I felt like Cinderella leaving the ball.

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Speaker 2: I left a glass slipper behind. I've done my knee.

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Speaker 2: The glass slipper was the big Mac. I've left left

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Speaker 2: the big mac behind.

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Speaker 5: And the faery turned into a huge pumpkin. It was

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Speaker 5: just amazing. It was a really weird night. Maybe you

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Speaker 5: had had too much to drink.

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Speaker 3: Worse worse right, I was so proud of myself. I've

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Speaker 3: got home early, I've walked.

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Speaker 1: All the way home.

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Speaker 3: There's a huge hill up, darling, you know when.

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Speaker 2: So I get home, Sarah, I come through the door

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Speaker 2: and be Jay has got all the girls back there

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Speaker 2: and they're still champion.

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Speaker 1: No how sobering and without.

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Speaker 5: A big man, I would have had another glass and

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Speaker 5: ordered uber McDonald's.

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Speaker 4: I would have ordered I should have well done, buddy,

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Speaker 4: Well done to the team.

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Speaker 1: Great job, guys.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.