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Speaker 1: Our next guests have sold millions of albums worldwide, one

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Speaker 1: countless of what.

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Speaker 2: The win is, and earned a pleas in our hearts.

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Speaker 1: By granting some of the most iconic singles ever.

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Speaker 3: Please welcome to the show.

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Speaker 4: Legendary body Man, Hey, my god, Hello, Hello, let's hello's

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Speaker 4: cracked Drew?

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Speaker 1: What's great today?

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Speaker 5: Mate? We apologize three sorry for We apologize for God.

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Speaker 6: Yet straight off the bat, your attitude, out your attitude?

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Speaker 7: Oh my god, no fighting, You can't break up now.

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Speaker 7: We're excited to see all five of you back together.

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Speaker 3: Boys, Can I ask twenty have you since you've been

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Speaker 3: on stage together? Have you guys caught up in that time?

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Speaker 3: As the friendships remained, We have.

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Speaker 8: Caught up separately, and you know, there have has been

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Speaker 8: contact here and there. Some of us have even been

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Speaker 8: on holidays together and stuff like that. But all five

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Speaker 8: haven't been in or hadn't been in the same room

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Speaker 8: for like twenty three, twenty four years. And we realized

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Speaker 8: that and we were like, well, why, like that's crazy

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Speaker 8: that that's never happened since we pushed to meet up

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Speaker 8: and we actually got an airbnb and had a couple

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Speaker 8: of beers, had a right laugh buried some hatchets, had

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Speaker 8: some deep conversations and really enjoyed each other's company. And

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Speaker 8: then offers came in for a tour and we were like,

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Speaker 8: let's do this. Let's put the past behind us and

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Speaker 8: make it a really happy memory.

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Speaker 2: The conversations.

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Speaker 8: The conversations may have drifted between us, by the buns

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Speaker 8: always remained one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what that is.

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Speaker 9: That's a risky move forever. Put that stay on their

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Speaker 9: Imagine that goes wrong.

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Speaker 10: Did you get your bond back?

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Speaker 5: No, we're well behaved gentleman nowadays.

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Speaker 7: Well, I was going to say, like, I'm a huge

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Speaker 7: fan of you guys, and you were riding my hitting

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Speaker 7: zone when I was in my final years of school.

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Speaker 7: It was five and it was like the boy band.

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Speaker 7: Ere are we still calling ourselves a boy band? Or

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Speaker 7: are we a man band now?

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Speaker 11: People?

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Speaker 5: Because as it's not too offensive.

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Speaker 8: Probably a man band is more applicable.

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Speaker 2: You boy, I love the band.

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Speaker 3: I love this is chaos.

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Speaker 7: Are you guys having a great time together?

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Speaker 5: Can you tell how horrible a time we're having?

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Speaker 8: The atmosphere is awful?

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Speaker 3: Where are you?

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Speaker 8: What time is it?

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Speaker 5: We've been missing from each other's lives for a long time,

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Speaker 5: and we're we're very very close friends. I mean, we're family,

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Speaker 5: and we've missed we've missed each other, We've missed big

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Speaker 5: parts of each other's lives, and we're making up for

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Speaker 5: lost time now and loving, literally loving every second of.

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Speaker 1: One We've we've had so much time away from each

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Speaker 1: other and from the whole thing that you know, we've

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Speaker 1: just got a massive, massive appreciation and understanding of what

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Speaker 1: is actually happening to us.

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Speaker 2: Whereas the first time round it was all just too much,

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Speaker 2: too soon, too young.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't as it's like rabbits trapped in headlights, Whereas

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Speaker 1: now we're ultra awareness of the privileged position we're in

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Speaker 1: and a massive appreciation for each individual. You know, as

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Speaker 1: before we've got such a crazy energy as children, it

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Speaker 1: was quite overwhelming.

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Speaker 2: You didn't know how to absorb. She just come, I

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Speaker 2: mean I came out of school into this madness.

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Speaker 8: We literally joined the circus.

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Speaker 6: We ran away and joined the circus now and I

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Speaker 6: started to hit it after a while because it was

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a magic.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: Can I ask you about the audience, because twenty five years.

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Speaker 10: As you and us get older, so did the women

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Speaker 10: in the crowd. That's me what you're going to ask

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Speaker 10: if Lauren's still in there hitting as well as Lauren

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Speaker 10: still got today? And what's the demographic like of the

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Speaker 10: ladies in the audience?

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Speaker 8: No, the democrat obviously, it's like a lot of people

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Speaker 8: that were there before. But there is this like younger generation,

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Speaker 8: whether it's like kids of the moms and dads that

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Speaker 8: have played the music, you know, just in the same

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Speaker 8: way you got into Okay, I've been to see Neil

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Speaker 8: Diamond three times because my parents gone.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: But look, I will put my hand up and say

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Speaker 7: I can't move or recover from a late night like

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Speaker 8: How do you guys go? Can you still you still

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Speaker 2: We'd still? We can not me?

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Speaker 10: Not me?

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Speaker 2: It takes me three days to recover. Yeah, me and

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Speaker 2: you were on the same page.

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Speaker 7: Seriously, do you need a few nights off in between

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Speaker 7: eights so just to lie down and put you.

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Speaker 2: Say that, I'm coming to find you chilling out your Yes,

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Speaker 2: no problem.

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Speaker 3: Scott looks happy just to get out of the house.

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Speaker 3: He's like, no, no, no, actually, just one there. Surely

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Speaker 3: some of you have had kids, and are your families like,

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Speaker 3: are they supportive? Are some of them like, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: what are you doing? What are you doing?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 8: No, No, they're really really supportive, and they know what

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Speaker 2: He was.

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Speaker 8: They know, you know, like I said about the reunification

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Speaker 8: of people spiritually, and yeah, they're buzzing about it. They

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Speaker 8: can't wait to come to some of the shows and

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Speaker 8: and see us in action, as you know, a full

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Speaker 5: And three of the guys have got kids, and their

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Speaker 5: kids have never seen us. They obviously know what the

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Speaker 5: dads did so and they've yeah, and they've seen them

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Speaker 5: in different incarnations, but they've never seen all five of

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Speaker 5: us doing our thing together. So their kids are just

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Speaker 5: kind of they are buzzing about seeing the whole thing.

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Speaker 11: They're so excited because so I've got four children and

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Speaker 11: I've gone for every stage of So the two boys

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Speaker 11: thought I was cool. Then they got to teenage years

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Speaker 11: and they were the fact that I was in five

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Speaker 11: the twin girls who are eleven, who are so incredibly excited.

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Speaker 11: They went down here today with my wife and they

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Speaker 11: see all the boys, they are buzzing for these talks.

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Speaker 2: And my children, Yeah, except do.

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Speaker 8: You know what, my daughter gets the lyrics wrong all

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Speaker 8: the time. I'm like, will you learn those things?

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Speaker 1: I was just going to say with my children. It's

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Speaker 1: just hit me as I was thinking in this interview,

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Speaker 1: I've got eleven year old and an eight year old

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Speaker 8: That actually quite cool because the first.

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Speaker 10: One is there on one of your songs, boys, that

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Speaker 10: gets you all buzzing, like what's what's what's the song

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Speaker 10: that really brings you together.

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Speaker 8: We're we're lucky enough, like you know, not blowing our

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Speaker 8: own but we have got actually quite a few hits

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Speaker 8: and bangers up sleeves, so like there's quite a few.

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Speaker 8: Like if you're getting down, everybody, get up, keep on moving.

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Speaker 2: We will rock you.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm excited. I love that.

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Speaker 3: What else we got it's been a few years. I

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Speaker 3: was just laughing. You have to look at the band

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Speaker 3: and go, guys, what's ther other ones?

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Speaker 10: It's been a while.

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Speaker 9: Hey, I imagine if you guys run into another boy

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Speaker 9: band on the street from the heyday. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 9: and and that sort of battle happens, are you because

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Speaker 9: you know everyone we grew up with us back in

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Speaker 9: an instinct just tour of the Backstreet Boys in Vegas

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Speaker 9: at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Are you guys a tight group? Do you do? You

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Speaker 3: know those guys? Do you keep in contact?

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Speaker 7: Are your enemies?

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Speaker 8: We're not enemies.

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Speaker 11: I think when you're when you're younger and you're and

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Speaker 11: you're on the scene, you you know, you're puffing your

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Speaker 11: chest out a little bit and you're going like, you know, well,

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Speaker 11: we're better than you. But in reality, they're really successful.

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Speaker 11: You're already successful, so you should just get on.

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Speaker 1: I used to find it a little bit embarrassing to

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Speaker 1: quite honestly, even as a kid. Yeah you found arrival stuff.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a bit silly, the rivalry just people.

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Speaker 3: Aren't we you know what's called that?

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Speaker 8: You're actually well, I will say we are better than that.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Jason, I mean this is an anniversary few as well,

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Speaker 10: because did you interview these boys twenty five years?

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Speaker 3: So yeah, twenty five. I've been a radio like twenty

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Speaker 3: seven years now.

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Speaker 7: So it's much older than us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not that much, guys, they've just had a lot

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Speaker 3: more work. When ABS came out actually, so it'd be

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Speaker 3: about twenty five years ago. And I still feel for

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Speaker 3: this poor girl. We ran no no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: sorry when he came out to Australia. When he came

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Speaker 3: out to Australia. Oh, we read this, We read this competition.

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Speaker 3: So we ran this competition on the Hot thirty for

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Speaker 3: you to take Abs to your school formal No, and

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Speaker 3: you can imagine how many girls boys entered this competition

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Speaker 3: and Abs you might not remember, but this girl won.

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Speaker 3: And I had to drive you guys there in like

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Speaker 3: the radio station promotion car and stuff. But the problem

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Speaker 3: was now I just remember this morning, ma, Abs could

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Speaker 3: only stay half an hour.

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Speaker 8: That's half an hour too long.

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Speaker 3: So the poor thing had to have then me sit

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Speaker 3: in for Abs, and I'm just like watching this girl's heartbreak.

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Speaker 3: When as was like, all right, let's get I've got

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Speaker 3: to go, and then I have to sit in the seat.

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Speaker 3: I can still see her face.

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Speaker 7: Why I think you.

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Speaker 2: Should take him thing, Should take him back when we come, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just gone back. Take him back.

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Speaker 5: Should find out where she lived, Yeah, do a thing online,

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Speaker 5: find out the details and he's got around house and

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Speaker 5: have a sleepover.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you could go to a forty sleepover?

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Speaker 7: Are you single?

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Speaker 8: Abs? Or dinner? Are you single?

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Speaker 4: Abs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: All right, he's coming to Australia. Well maybe we could do.

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Speaker 8: For the like, yeah, why don't we can't you set

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Speaker 8: up some form of like blind date things? Leave it

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Speaker 8: with us from over in Melbourne. There you go, mate,

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Speaker 8: I'm down and like we can deserve it and sort

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Speaker 8: of point.

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Speaker 5: We'll give you his real phone number to announce on Earth.

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Speaker 3: I can see the enthusiasm on space from here. Hey, boys,

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Speaker 3: we are so excited that that you guys are back five.

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Speaker 3: They're coming to Australia in twenty twenty six. Tickets from

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Speaker 3: ticket Tech. Lads, good to.

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Speaker 2: See you, see you when you're here.

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Speaker 11: To everyone.

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Speaker 3: Thanks boys, pol come and visitors.

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Speaker 2: Are you here? Okay we shall

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Speaker 7: the socials.