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Speaker 1: This is the fitsy and with with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: You know what you don't want to be doing today?

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Speaker 1: Fits You don't want to be filming in Palm Beach.

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Speaker 1: That'll be my tip of the day.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm I'm over this.

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Speaker 3: I'm not happy and we need to ask it if

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Speaker 3: this was her decision or not. But after thirty three years,

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Speaker 3: Irene is leaving Summer by Lynn mcgrange, You're welcome to

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Speaker 3: the show.

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Speaker 2: You beautiful, Thank you God, you are a queen.

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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Lina, what do you do on a day like

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Speaker 1: today when it's bucketing down and you might have a story?

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Speaker 4: Well, you just turn up and you just hope that

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Speaker 4: there's a break in the weather. Is this a song,

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Speaker 4: isn't it? Yes, you hope that there's a break in

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Speaker 4: the weather. And if there's not, then you know they

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Speaker 4: might say, well, well we'll pick this up or pick

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Speaker 4: this up. But Linn, you can wait till the death.

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Speaker 4: You can wait till the finish because we need to

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Speaker 4: shoot your scene. And then you wait and it doesn't

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Speaker 4: clear and you go home, Oh my god, and then

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Speaker 4: they pick it up down the track. It's just one

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Speaker 4: of those things where we're a slave to the weather.

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Speaker 2: Thirty three years.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell us some of the sayings that Irene

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Speaker 3: has brought the summer bay over thirty three years?

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Speaker 2: Well, she says, girly a lot, she says.

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Speaker 4: Flipping a lot, flipping neck, pak your bum, girly, you

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Speaker 4: and me need to have a chin wag.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, it's good.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I get to sit a meter from

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Speaker 1: you and witness that live. And that's special for me.

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Speaker 3: Is that that's not written in the script though you

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Speaker 3: would have originally came.

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Speaker 2: That would have been at libbing for you and you

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Speaker 2: just talking.

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't look. Yeah, somebody said to me, way back, way

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Speaker 4: way back when they were still when Moses was playing

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Speaker 4: full back for Egypt, when I first started on the show,

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Speaker 4: that you know, too, in a show like this, if

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Speaker 4: you if you, you know, have an idea about your character,

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Speaker 4: then run with it. And if they don't like it,

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Speaker 4: you'll be out the door real quick. But if they

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Speaker 4: do like it, the writers will kind of follow you.

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Speaker 4: And this is what has happened with Irene. And I'm

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Speaker 4: sure you know Ray has done exactly the same thing

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Speaker 4: with his Flamans and his strike, me owns and all

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Speaker 4: of that, and both of us love the idea that

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Speaker 4: we're keeping the Australian vernacular alive because we're so americanized,

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Speaker 4: you know, with television and whatnot. But I decided that

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Speaker 4: I would start putting in some ironisms. That's what they've become.

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Speaker 4: And in fact, my mom and dad spoke like that,

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Speaker 4: and so I kind of I didn't have to go

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Speaker 4: looking for it. I'll still say things to someone in

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Speaker 4: the younger person in the cast and they'll look at

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Speaker 4: me like I'm from Mars and go what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 4: And I'm like you for real, because it's it's part

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Speaker 4: of it.

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Speaker 1: We don't want you to go. And I know when

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Speaker 1: the announcement was made, Australia through the hands in the

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Speaker 1: air and said, what have we got to live for now?

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Speaker 1: When it comes to the departure of Irene, how is

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Speaker 1: she going out? Do you get to choose that? And

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Speaker 1: what are some of the ideas throwing around?

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, my initial thought was, can maybe she can

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Speaker 4: just get hit by a bus outside the diner because

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Speaker 4: it's quick, it's done, and I don't know, maybe she's

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Speaker 4: not really dead. And then at the funeral.

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Speaker 2: Let me out, flip me out.

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Speaker 3: Flipping it is what everyone walks over to you and

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Speaker 3: just sinks the booty in just to see if you're

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Speaker 3: And then what about blow up a few gas bottles

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Speaker 3: or something at the caravan part.

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Speaker 2: We've done that, We've done all that.

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Speaker 1: What do you do differently?

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Speaker 4: Well, I can I just tell you that I had

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Speaker 4: an idea when I decided that the time was right,

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Speaker 4: I had this idea. But what I think it's a

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Speaker 4: terrific storyline. And I went to the writers and normally

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Speaker 4: they're like, oh, quick, lock the door. She comes. Last

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Speaker 4: time she came, she wanted Irene to get abducted by aliens.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's not a valid storyline. But this time

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Speaker 4: they heard me out and they went that's great. In

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Speaker 4: all these years, I should have been in the writing department.

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Speaker 2: No, but do you have to die though, like or

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Speaker 2: can you leave summer baying?

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Speaker 5: Well, this is what I can't tell you, you see, because

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Speaker 5: it is very the storyline, and once you get into

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Speaker 5: the storyline you'll understand why. But I can't say anything

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Speaker 5: because you know, we want people to watch and we

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Speaker 5: want people to be invested in irene story and god willing,

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Speaker 5: they were, they will be, And I think I think

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Speaker 5: it's a valid storyline. I think it's very pertinent, and

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Speaker 5: I think people will travel.

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Speaker 3: The jury could could just quickly could remember neighbors Madge

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Speaker 3: came back as a ghost, I mean, could kiel you off.

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Speaker 2: And comes back as a ghost.

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Speaker 4: I come back like I could morph through the white

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Speaker 4: goods like Bobby did back in the day when Ailsa

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Speaker 4: was having issues and Bobby morphed through the white through

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Speaker 4: I mean that she did, she absolutely did. But no, Sin,

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Speaker 4: it's been done. That's just we can't go back.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, Lynn, Can I ask like you talk? He talks

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Speaker 1: about neighbors there in the great marathon that has been

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Speaker 1: Neighbors Home and Away right and Neighbors has it's gone

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Speaker 1: that it came back, and I think it stopped again.

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Speaker 4: It's gone again, but not I think they're still filming

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Speaker 4: up until point in the middle.

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Speaker 1: Do you put Home in Away success down to look

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Speaker 1: like why is it the ultimate?

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Speaker 4: I think it's got primarily to do with the writing.

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Speaker 4: Then I think it's got to do with their their

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Speaker 4: turnover of characters. But they're hanging on to to pore

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Speaker 4: older characters and letting the young ones come and go.

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Speaker 4: They've gone a bit, you know, off piece a couple

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Speaker 4: of times, I think, hanging away with storylines. But then

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Speaker 4: the very clever writers have brought it back, and I

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Speaker 4: think that the characters that they get on the show,

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Speaker 4: you know, a new generation of people or even an

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Speaker 4: old generation who have come back to the show will

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Speaker 4: get invested in them. So I think it's a great

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Speaker 4: mixture of the cleverness of the writers and of the

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Speaker 4: the casting and and all of those things and hanging

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Speaker 4: on to core characters.

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Speaker 3: Is there a big goodbye party? I mean with Channel sevens,

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Speaker 3: it'll be at a fish and chip shop at.

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Speaker 1: I can hear you.

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Speaker 4: Look there we are. They are throwing me a shindy.

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Speaker 4: They are, and I'm very excited. Now obviously I can't

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Speaker 4: say when and where, otherwise we'll have you know, another

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Speaker 4: trible ten people turning up and we can't have that. Now.

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Speaker 4: They're throwing me a bit of a shindy, which is

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Speaker 4: lovely because normally we do it on set, but they've

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Speaker 4: decided not to do it from the last scene because

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Speaker 4: you know, I can talk under wet concrete. The people

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Speaker 4: who get up and talk and say goodbye to me,

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Speaker 4: they can talk under wet concrete. Will be there till

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Speaker 4: you know, next Christmas. So they've decided to do it

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Speaker 4: on the night and there'll still be people come down and.

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Speaker 1: Who's not here right now. She will get the loved,

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Speaker 1: she'll get involved, will be there. We might shoot a

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Speaker 1: bit of behind the scenes stuff for Lind's rat party.

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Speaker 1: Couple of grogs you think fits.

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Speaker 3: You'll have a bit more time to go watch the

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Speaker 3: Swanees now as well.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely will because I can't go this Saturday because we're

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Speaker 4: filming on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: That's why she's the best.

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Speaker 4: I'm so disappointed because it's a rematch, isn't it of

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Speaker 4: the Grand Final, which we will say nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's not the story, talk about the GFS football team.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what you're more nervous about finishing up

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Speaker 3: on summer ail or the game this weekend. But it's

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Speaker 3: not over for us. This is not the last chat

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Speaker 3: that were. You are one of our favorites.

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Speaker 4: Lyn.

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Speaker 3: We absolutely adore you, and you don't realize like I mean,

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Speaker 3: and I mean we've had Kate on this show. You

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Speaker 3: know Kate as well, and she talks about you come

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Speaker 3: into people's lives I don't think you understand this as much,

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Speaker 3: but you know, like Tom's wife, Inger is addicted to

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Speaker 3: him in.

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Speaker 2: A way every night, every night.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: You've played a huge part in people's lives, Lena, and

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Speaker 3: we love you for that.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you so much. FITZI and I have

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Speaker 4: loved and I want people to realize how blessed I

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Speaker 4: feel that I have spent thirty three years or you know,

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Speaker 4: best part of half my life doing home and away

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Speaker 4: playing Irene, and she has brought so much joy to

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Speaker 4: me and my environment. My dear dear friends that I

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Speaker 4: have made on the show have brought me so much joy,

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Speaker 4: and the public and the fans and all of that.

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Speaker 4: So I don't want to be little in any way,

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Speaker 4: but I just want people to understand that for me,

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Speaker 4: the time is right, while I've still got my marbles

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Speaker 4: and I can still walk upstairs, I want to go

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Speaker 4: back and do some theater and it's that's wow.

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Speaker 1: You're a superstar. Well proud. I love you, Lin.

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