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Speaker 1: Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm even more excited because Whip has got to rap

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Speaker 2: against a professional today. When I mean professional, I'm not afraid.

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Speaker 2: Josh Pitterman. You will see him. He is the star

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Speaker 2: of Phantom of the Opera. It starts next Friday at

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Speaker 2: the Sydney Opera House. You can go get your tickets

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Speaker 2: at Sydney Opera House dot com.

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Speaker 3: Are you Josh? Welcome?

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Speaker 4: Josh?

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Speaker 5: I love that you said I'm a professional. I'm clearly

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Speaker 5: not a professional.

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Speaker 1: Rapper's fascinating to look at you.

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Speaker 4: You're just your average guy, right.

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Speaker 1: I'm picturing you sitting at a bar having a beer

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Speaker 1: and a bloke comes up and says, oh, what do

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Speaker 1: you do? And you go, oh, well, I'm actually the

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Speaker 1: Phantom of the Opera performing at the Opera House.

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Speaker 3: They say, no, you're not.

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Speaker 4: That's a massive achievement. That's a massive accomplishment.

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Speaker 3: It is amazing.

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Speaker 2: Is it the highlight of your career so far?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, but hang on, you've been playing Phantom in London

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Speaker 1: for a while.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's equally highlight to play it the house.

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Speaker 5: Ever been on at the Opera House before, so it's

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Speaker 5: it's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: So can I can I ask you when you auditioned

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Speaker 2: for it? Can you were you confident walking out of

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Speaker 2: there that you did really well? Like we're confident you

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Speaker 2: were going to get it.

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Speaker 5: I'm pretty sort of pragmatic about audition processes. I don't

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Speaker 5: get too emotionally charged about. I go, what's the best

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Speaker 5: version of me and this interpretation of the role that

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Speaker 5: I can give to these people in this moment in time,

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Speaker 5: And then I go, it's out of my it's out

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Speaker 5: of my hand, it's out of my hand.

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Speaker 3: Let it be.

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Speaker 2: What's the one song that you're confident about the most

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Speaker 2: out of the whole musical? Wow?

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Speaker 4: Music of the night?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Music.

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Speaker 5: I feel like I've sung that so many, probably thousands

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Speaker 5: of times now and it never gets old.

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Speaker 2: What's your favorite part in the song?

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Speaker 4: Too much to best?

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Speaker 5: Is it when you hit the high notes? That's always

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Speaker 5: when you hit the high notes? I build up, the

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Speaker 5: build up is the build up is good? Let your

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Speaker 5: soul take you where you long to be? Like that's

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Speaker 5: the line, like I'm.

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Speaker 1: So sorry you can't ask you, and I know it's can.

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Speaker 2: We just get that? Can we get that line? Can

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Speaker 2: you put everything into it for us? So I want

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Speaker 2: to hear your voice mate.

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Speaker 5: You can go to YouTube and go to my Instagram

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Speaker 5: and you'll find or you can buy some tickets like.

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Speaker 2: That would be blew out his voice right now?

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Speaker 1: Doing that? That would be the number one thing, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: it be Like if you're at a party or you're

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Speaker 1: anywhere and someone finds out what you do, they would go, Josh,

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Speaker 1: you have to sing for us.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's just send them straight to my management.

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Speaker 4: If we got a little bit of Josh in the

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Speaker 4: system here, let's have a listen.

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Speaker 5: Beyond mine off Hata sees on in this darkness not

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Speaker 5: you know you can.

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Speaker 3: The darkness of music. Off. We want you to.

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Speaker 4: Rap like that today. O, God tell me this. When

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Speaker 4: you started out, how did you go? Hang on a minute.

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Speaker 4: I've got a good set of pipes on me.

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Speaker 3: What was the terrible? So?

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Speaker 5: I I got caught moonwalking once in the school cafeteria.

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Speaker 5: I could do that, and someone, the director of the

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Speaker 5: school musicals, Yeah, literally tapped me on the shoulder and said, oh,

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Speaker 5: you could be really useful. And I've never sung a

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Speaker 5: note in my life, and I just fell in like

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Speaker 5: literally fell in love with it. Tom ou out our

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Speaker 5: producer here out step up, to the mic. So Tommy,

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Speaker 5: good to see you, mate. So Tommy's partner gave me

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Speaker 5: my first note. We went to school together. She gave

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Speaker 5: me my first she note like not even the director

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Speaker 5: of the school musical. I remember she said to me,

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Speaker 5: I think you need to keep your eye levels a

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Speaker 5: little bit further up towards the brow.

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Speaker 3: And I've never forgot.

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Speaker 5: Literally sometimes will be in a show like you know.

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Speaker 5: That's that's when I was seventeen, so it's a twenty

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Speaker 5: years ago. I remember going. Oh yeah, the school, Wesley

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Speaker 5: College in Melbourne. We did Fame the musical and.

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Speaker 3: She was the Andrew Lloyd Webber of Wesley. Was she

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, yes, she was that and more.

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Speaker 4: And she bosses me around, Josh. She guides Tommy in

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Speaker 4: a different one. Yeah, to the kitchen was in Fame.

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Speaker 2: She wasn't the main lead in that one doing the

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Speaker 2: little quick step?

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Speaker 4: Was she?

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Speaker 3: She was just the one giving the leads notes it

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Speaker 3: Maybe she was. I just remember the note.

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Speaker 1: Because what was weird was when you came in the

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Speaker 1: other day and said, Inga wants to go to the

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Speaker 1: Phantom of the Opera And I said, I'll get a

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Speaker 1: couple of tickets she said no, she wants to go

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Speaker 1: by herself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is weird. So so she'll be front row,

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Speaker 3: probably drooling Josh. But she wants to be with a

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Speaker 3: guy that's grotesque and kills people.

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Speaker 4: She's got that.

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Speaker 2: She's got her own little beautiful serial killer at all.

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Speaker 3: This is it?

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Speaker 2: You know What's Usually when we get guests coming in

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Speaker 2: for wrap up of the week, they see the lyrics

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Speaker 2: for the first time just before they're about to do it.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like, Josh, you've done bit of research today,

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Speaker 2: Just a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've watched a few of these in preparation for this.

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Speaker 4: Okay, preparation is not something we've seen before on this show.

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Speaker 2: Start wrapping now, safe and Nat, we're gonna be doing it.

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Speaker 3: That.

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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere, Josh Pillerman versus whip.

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Speaker 4: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: When you rap that on Friday, you don't know how

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Speaker 1: much Dad whip away on the bussy.

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Speaker 4: All right, So, Josh, you were just saying you wanted

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Speaker 4: to go first.

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Speaker 3: No, No, you're going first.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, man, I quite quick, Like it's quite quick.

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Speaker 4: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: I need a couple of takes on this one over

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Speaker 1: two pages, mind you. The Phantom of the opera is

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Speaker 1: dead inside my mind, and also this wrap. After I've

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Speaker 1: delivered a few lines, you'll see I'm the musical one

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Speaker 1: on this show. It's hard to keep up. I'll take

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Speaker 1: it slow.

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Speaker 4: The phantom isn't he meant to be hard to see?

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Speaker 4: Who's behind the mask? Who could it be?

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Speaker 1: The fandom went through streets and cities and ports. But

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Speaker 1: he was also purple on my silk boxer shorts, so

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Speaker 1: you can see the play on.

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Speaker 4: Words that people might remember. Josh, he was in the

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Speaker 4: Tantannas group.

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Speaker 1: Why did you stop there? Why not a whole army troop?

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Speaker 1: What did you see him in? West Side story? I

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Speaker 1: turned east and went home. Sorry, Bory, Okay.

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Speaker 4: We go, Josh.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, yes, I've spoken too harshly. I don't like anybody

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Speaker 1: who's more talented than me. You're younger and better looking,

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Speaker 1: we can see, with a voice that can sing high

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Speaker 1: and low in every key. I've always struggled to trust

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Speaker 1: anyone in a cape, like they're going to tie me

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Speaker 1: up with gaffer tape.

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Speaker 4: Leave your mask one, mate, you'll give everyone a fright.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mate, it's time to rest the music of

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Speaker 4: the night. Oh my god, that is impressive.

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Speaker 3: A lot of musical theater references.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it, extremely clever.

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Speaker 3: You're camper than you look.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 3: I love going a bit harder.

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Speaker 4: Well, you didn't do it, mate, it's a back off.

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Speaker 4: We light it up.

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Speaker 5: What finally, the battle is upon us, Phantom of the

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Speaker 5: Opera versus Phantom.

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Speaker 3: Of the Office.

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Speaker 5: Oh sorry, Whip, I thought you were a singer. Props

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Speaker 5: because you're always having aria for dinner. Phantom's the biggest

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Speaker 5: musical without fail. We even got the chandelier from Whipper's

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Speaker 5: garage sale. The mask my face was people with dread, Whip,

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Speaker 5: you don't need a Master's the paper bag on your head.

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Speaker 5: The Fitzier alike, it seems, because they both fell in

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Speaker 5: love with women. Call Christine. Sorry, Whip, that's a low

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Speaker 5: blow about your mum. But Fitzy, you come on. Let

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Speaker 5: Christine out of your dungeon.

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Speaker 3: Whipper. I've got a musical. You should lead it.

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Speaker 5: It's the lead role in the pounds of music. Or

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Speaker 5: I could surely cast an Ova show at least because

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Speaker 5: if Fitsy was the beauty Whip.

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Speaker 3: But played the beat Peter.

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Speaker 5: You can hear a pin drop, just like when all

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Speaker 5: the whippers jokes seem to flop and then there's a

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Speaker 5: cheering and all the applause. Here that's the sound when

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Speaker 5: Whippers Buddha out of Nova's do leave.

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Speaker 4: My mother out of this? To two really good raps.

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Speaker 4: Sarah is really good.

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Speaker 3: Sh This is going to be really hard to.

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Speaker 1: We talked earlier in the because we've said to me,

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Speaker 1: don't just give.

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Speaker 4: It to the guest. But do you side story? Sorry

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Speaker 4: it was boring.

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Speaker 3: You say sorry it was boring.

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Speaker 4: Because boring doesn't rhyme with story. BORI does have to

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Speaker 4: explain myself.

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Speaker 1: You should, but to yourself, winner is John?

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Speaker 3: What's therapy?

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Speaker 2: You were very good at rat If you want to

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Speaker 2: go check it out, go to the pits You and

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Speaker 2: Whipper Instagram account.

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Speaker 3: You can see it there.

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Speaker 2: But if you want to see Josh getting up high

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Speaker 2: Phantom of the Opera Sydney Opera House.

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Speaker 4: Mate iconic, that will be amazing it all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks guys, thanks for having mets at Sydney Opera

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Speaker 2: house dot com.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for coming in Josh, Thanks, Thanks Buddy.

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