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Speaker 1: The City and with Kate Ritchie podcast.

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Speaker 2: This story went off on Friday when we were talking

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Speaker 2: about the very clever Lithuanian guy. Remember he was going

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Speaker 2: out to dinner and yeah, he went to about twenty

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Speaker 2: different restaurants until he got a really bad name for himself.

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Speaker 2: When he would sit down, he wouldn't order a huge meal,

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Speaker 2: but he would order something to eat, maybe a few whiskeys.

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Speaker 2: I think it said he was not a big fan

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Speaker 2: of a whiskey at the end of the day, and

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Speaker 2: then he would stand up, attempt to leave, and if

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Speaker 2: they stopped him, he would fake the heart attack.

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Speaker 3: That's how he'd get out of paint steal.

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Speaker 2: And because he wasn't there with you know, a group

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Speaker 2: of ten, and it wasn't a huge bill.

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Speaker 1: It was so minor in the in the whole scheme

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Speaker 1: of things, there was no point really doing anything.

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Speaker 2: So maybe they'd put the cops might come and he'd

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Speaker 2: be put in the lock up overnight, and which in

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Speaker 2: the end meant he was smart because he got a

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Speaker 2: feed and he got a roof over his head.

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Speaker 3: Twenty heart attacks in a month, and the heart attacks

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Speaker 3: in a month, A lot of paperwork and he's wrap

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Speaker 3: sheets not too hard either.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure where he was doing this. Admin may

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Speaker 2: have been, it would not have been a strong point.

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Speaker 2: I think it was just a rap over the knuckles

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Speaker 2: and go home. So look, if you if you actually

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Speaker 2: get involved, if you do, have a story about what

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Speaker 2: you fake to get out of something.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it was paying the bill, or maybe it was

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Speaker 1: attending a party.

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Speaker 3: What about every social event we've ever helped, would your

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Speaker 3: stories get bigger and bigger?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, I mean when you have children, you end

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Speaker 2: up having the perfect excuse for anything.

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Speaker 1: The kids are sick, I couldn't get a babysitter.

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Speaker 3: I think, outside of death, pregnancy is probably the best excuse.

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Speaker 3: I think for any woman that is pregnant. Whenever it

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Speaker 3: is and they say, well I'm pregnant, you go right

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Speaker 3: well where around you for whatever you need? How can

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Speaker 3: we help you need to be comfortable?

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Speaker 1: You mean that people are incredibly supportive for pregnant women.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So if the woman says I'm just not sure,

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Speaker 3: I'm oh you're pregnant, Oh, absolutely, whatever you need. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So it is the greatest excuse for anything.

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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, I was thinking about a story which

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Speaker 2: i'd forgotten on Friday where it wasn't me that did

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Speaker 2: the faking, but I was. I was an accomplice.

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Speaker 1: I was an accomplice to the crime.

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Speaker 2: So this is many years ago when I worked on

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Speaker 2: Home and Away, and it must have been like the

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Speaker 2: late nineties, and so so the characters that I was

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Speaker 2: working with on Home and Away, Sally still lived in

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Speaker 2: Summer Bay, and I think she lived in the Summer

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Speaker 2: Bay House with Shannon, you know, Selenatis, Timpani, Deckatt, an

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Speaker 2: Isle of Fisher, and it was that And I loved

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Speaker 2: that period of my time on Home and Away because

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Speaker 2: I'd finally grown from the child into that teen group.

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Speaker 3: Like I was cool.

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Speaker 2: I was in I was part of the cool kids.

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Speaker 2: I mean I certainly wasn't cool. Sally was never cool,

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Speaker 2: but I mean no, I don't think anyone was ever

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Speaker 2: having dance out there. Maybe some of the crew, but

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Speaker 2: I don't think the kids anyway. So sometimes on the

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Speaker 2: stop turning this story to something it's not meant to be.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes on the weekend we would go away. And on

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Speaker 2: this one weekend, Eiler and I decided to go away

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Speaker 2: to the Blue Mountains, and I just thought I was

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Speaker 2: so grown up. I mean, Firstly, Eiler is one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest women you'll ever meet. Great kind of friend

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Speaker 2: and great colleague and very fun to work with.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that we were going away were so exciting.

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Speaker 2: We planned to go to the Blue Mountains and we

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Speaker 2: booked into and I don't know if I want to

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Speaker 2: say the hotel. I guess I can say the hotel

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Speaker 2: because it's since had an enormous facelift and it's the

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Speaker 2: Hydro Majestic there at Medlow Bath.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what have you.

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Speaker 1: During the day? How old were you? How old were you?

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Speaker 2: Oh, well, I would have been about I would have

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Speaker 2: been eighteen. I guess the Blue Sila's a couple of

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Speaker 2: years older than me, I think. So anyway, we can't

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Speaker 2: get into the car until we've finished up on set

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Speaker 2: on Friday evening. And you know what the Blue Mountains

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Speaker 2: are like, as you said, with a beautiful view when

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Speaker 2: you're arriving in the day. When you're arriving at night,

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Speaker 2: there's actually nothing to see. It's foggy, it's somewhat scary.

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Speaker 2: We've booked a gorgeous room with the view. So we

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Speaker 2: get to the Hydro Majestic and this is you know

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Speaker 2: what when I was eighteen, so over twenty five years

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Speaker 2: ago when it was like the whole thing looked like

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Speaker 2: a run down Chinese restaurant full of like you know, ghosts,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, exactly, it's that kind of So we get

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Speaker 2: in there, we get out of the car. It's all foggy.

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Speaker 2: We walk into the Hydro Majestic. There's no one there.

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Speaker 2: It's like a movie where you go to the front

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Speaker 2: that's in the Majestic. You ring the bell, do the bell.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, okay, okay, let's do the bell and there's stillness.

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Speaker 1: No one coming to the desk. So we ring the bell.

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Speaker 3: No, sorry, ring the bell.

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Speaker 1: I've got my bags. We've unfortunately brought our bags already.

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Speaker 3: Okay, go on. That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't use the song anyway.

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Speaker 2: Don't you want to get you because first time on

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Speaker 2: animal way anyway? No, no, no, it's good. I'm reliving

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Speaker 2: this wonderful story. Well it after the news a lot, anyway,

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Speaker 2: it's not Look, I won't waste any more of your time.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: We so they take us to the room down the

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Speaker 2: dark hallway and we go into the room with a

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Speaker 2: beautiful view, but we pull the curtains back and of course.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's just it's an abyss.

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Speaker 2: It's so scary that Eila and I spend the next

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Speaker 2: twenty minutes trying to work out how we going to

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Speaker 2: escape from the hotel without having to pay.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean, we do obviously, we're both brilliant actresses

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Speaker 1: and act you know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there was an argument over who was going

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Speaker 2: to fake the asthma attack. She won the paper scissors rock,

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Speaker 2: and so I have to carry her into the flour,

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Speaker 2: back into the fore.

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Speaker 1: And say I'm so sorry my friends having an as she's.

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Speaker 2: Doing the room must be dusty. We fake the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: get into the car, and then ran. We don't even

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Speaker 2: have good, you know, the internet at this point, so

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Speaker 2: we end up staying at the Fairmont Resort down the road.

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Speaker 3: Did not have a view the Drivewaate was Litten.

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