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Speaker 1: Have we got Eric Banner? Eric?

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Speaker 3: Are you there?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 3: Betsy? How are you? How are you?

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Speaker 1: Buddy? It's like you're in a recording studio there, Eric.

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Speaker 2: Do you actually play a musical instrument or anything like that?

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Speaker 2: Are you multi talented? Mister Banner?

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Speaker 4: I'm a closet closet solo guitarist. But you'll no one

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Speaker 4: will ever hear that.

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Speaker 2: Well, who's your inspiration? I mean, what's some of the

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Speaker 2: first songs that you learned to play on the guitar?

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Speaker 4: I reckon old John Cougar Mellencamp might have been trying

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Speaker 4: to self teach in the early days, for sure.

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Speaker 5: Tell me this, Eric Banner, how close will you in

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Speaker 5: your mind when you let it run to think maybe

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Speaker 5: I could be a musician, Maybe I should release something.

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Speaker 4: No, never, never, never, wouldn't even audition for a rough

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Speaker 4: There was a role, if there was if there was

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Speaker 4: a drama that was two hours long, and it was

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Speaker 4: the greatest script I've ever read. And in that two hours,

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Speaker 4: there was a ten second gap where the lead character had.

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Speaker 3: To sing it. It's a pass.

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Speaker 1: You passed it over to Rusty.

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Speaker 3: I passed it over to to all of that. I'll

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Speaker 3: just put it in a bread in one bracket. All

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Speaker 3: of the other male out, well.

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Speaker 5: All of them. In terms of your performance, do you

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Speaker 5: have you played for the wife? Have you played friends? Family?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 4: My daughter has a lovely voice, so occasionally I might

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Speaker 4: have a strum with her. So when I when I

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Speaker 4: see someone like like Brad Bradley Cooper do a star that,

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Speaker 4: you know, you lucky. It's just an amazing perform, what

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Speaker 4: a beautiful voice. And and yes, so no chance, not

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Speaker 4: even not even Back in the stand up comedy days,

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Speaker 4: you know, there were guys that I worked with love

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Speaker 4: getting the guitar out for a bit of inverted inverted comments,

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Speaker 4: a bit of comedy.

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Speaker 3: She strated news a never never was tly.

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Speaker 1: Guy Piece is a good musician as well. I heard

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Speaker 1: now he's got a band.

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Speaker 5: Well, when I used to watch Neighbors, guy played the

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Speaker 5: saxophone and I thought he looked so cool because.

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Speaker 3: He can play everything. I think he's like a proper,

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Speaker 5: He was Mike on Neighbors and it was Mike and

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Speaker 5: Jane You and bord a saxophon. I went, and I

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Speaker 5: said I want to have saxophone lessons at school and

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Speaker 5: they said, yeah, well first you got to learn the clarinet,

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Speaker 5: and I went, oh, man, I look like a loser.

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Speaker 5: So I never hit the sacks. I kind of warmed

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Speaker 4: Well, it's funny you should say that because I had

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Speaker 4: a similar experience at my school. I also wanted to

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Speaker 4: play the saxophone, because who didn't at all school? And

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Speaker 4: so when I went to you know the day where

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Speaker 4: you get interviewed by the musical headmaster and they decide

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Speaker 4: what you're going to play, they were like, what do

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Speaker 4: you want to play?

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Speaker 3: And I said, I'll go.

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Speaker 4: I'll go with a saxophone to drums.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 4: Apparently I forgot to forgot to tick the box c

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Speaker 4: which was just handed to me without any conversation, which

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Speaker 4: was the euphonium.

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Speaker 5: What is euphonians?

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Speaker 4: Just picture picture a kid in grade five being handed

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Speaker 4: a slightly shrunken tuba. Oh and that's the euphony.

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Speaker 5: Leave it on the tram deliberately, did you, Eric?

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a band with that instrument in it.

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Speaker 3: The good thing about the euphonium back in the.

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Speaker 4: Days where there were a lot of gives one lot

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Speaker 4: of gangs in the area. When I got the bus,

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Speaker 4: I could hide behind the case.

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Speaker 5: It just looked like a storage corner.

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Speaker 1: I know that's Eric, batter.

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Speaker 5: I can see some food coming out of the bottom.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what you've You've dubbed yourself in the

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Speaker 2: next time we get you on our show, you are

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Speaker 2: getting that instrument out and playing it.

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Speaker 1: On the horn.

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Speaker 5: Mate.

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Speaker 3: How good is that?

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Speaker 2: Mate?

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Speaker 1: It's so good to see you.

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Speaker 2: We love getting you on this show. This is really

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Speaker 2: interesting because an audible This is from audible, but we've got.

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Speaker 1: A podcast now of this.

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Speaker 2: It's a supernatural murder mystery. Can you tell us a

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Speaker 2: little bit about it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's like an old fashioned radio play in

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Speaker 4: a sense that it's a drama series basically in audio form.

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Speaker 4: So I play a detective who is investigating a slightly

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Speaker 4: supernatural elements crime that may have been committed at an

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Speaker 4: all girls' school.

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Speaker 3: And I loved it.

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Speaker 4: It was so much fun. So it was basically like

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Speaker 4: working on a film, but being in a sound stage

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Speaker 4: and relying on nothing other than our voices and a

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Speaker 4: really beautiful high end audio post production to make it

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Speaker 5: Because there's a real talent to it. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 5: not sure what the direction was for you in this role, Eric,

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Speaker 5: but I know FITZI and I have pretended to be

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Speaker 5: a couple of beavers in a movie called Wonder Park.

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Speaker 1: But the weirdest thing was it was so hard to do.

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Speaker 5: The voice coach and the instruction and the inflection. Did

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Speaker 5: you have somebody telling you how you needed to be

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Speaker 3: I know we had a director and so forth.

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Speaker 4: But it's interesting you mentioned that because the approach is

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Speaker 4: not dissimilar to when you're working on a film in

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Speaker 4: terms of, you know, you have to be prepared.

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Speaker 3: You have to.

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Speaker 4: Basically act as though you were working, you know, shooting

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Speaker 4: a film. We're not seeing your face, and in some

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Speaker 4: ways you're kind of flexing a different muscle in a

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Speaker 4: larger way because you're relying on nothing but the voice

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Speaker 4: to tell the story in terms of both you and

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Speaker 3: And it was a great challenge and it was.

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Speaker 4: A really good a really good little workout and a

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Speaker 5: So it's a clever idea.

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Speaker 2: Is it just acting, Eric or is there narration in

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Speaker 4: No, So it's a it's all just acting, like literally,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but isn't it.

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Speaker 5: An amazing Eric, When you do listen to someone something

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Speaker 5: like that, very quickly, your own mind creates the world

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Speaker 5: around what you're hearing, Like, oh, absolutely, So you almost

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Speaker 5: become the director in yourself. You become the creative director

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Speaker 5: because you're when I hear it, I've got a different

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Speaker 5: I love that about it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And it took me back to I remember

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Speaker 4: when I was a kid listening to War of the Worlds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first time, the radio play.

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Speaker 4: And it's amazing just how much you're able to fill

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Speaker 4: in the gaps in terms of your imagination and so forth.

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Speaker 4: But like I say, the we're so used to podcasts

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Speaker 3: Obviously, this is different in the sense.

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Speaker 4: That it's a whole world that's created in terms of

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Speaker 4: its sound design. So if you listen to this with

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Speaker 4: with like proper headphones, you'll really get a pretty special experience.

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Speaker 1: Tell you what the detective role? You're nailing it at

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Speaker 1: the moment. Your last two big roles have been detective roles.

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Speaker 2: What I want to ask We've done this on the

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Speaker 2: radio before, actually got some great calls. We've asked people

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Speaker 2: what they've learnt from movies. So people have rung in

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Speaker 2: and said, oh, we've learned how to break into hotel

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Speaker 2: rooms are with a credit by watching a movie with

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Speaker 2: do it this way and.

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Speaker 1: That way from your last two roles.

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Speaker 2: Have you learned anything in your detective role that you've

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Speaker 2: used in everyday life.

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Speaker 3: I've learned that i'd make a crap detective.

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Speaker 5: Hang on a minute, you're talking yourself down. Crap singer,

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Speaker 5: crap detective?

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Speaker 1: What is going on? Eric Banner?

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Speaker 3: Look do you look at?

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Speaker 2: Do you scope around a room now and go okay,

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Speaker 2: this is a dawn scene.

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Speaker 1: What clues or do? What evidence do I need here?

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Speaker 4: I must admit, and I'm sure we all do this.

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Speaker 4: I mean we all probably think we'd make good cops. Right.

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Speaker 3: There was a tipping.

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Speaker 4: Point when I was seventeen eighteen and not doing terribly

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Speaker 4: well at school. It mean, a really good buddy of

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Speaker 4: mine thought about joining the police force and didn't.

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Speaker 3: But I'm fascinated by crime.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people are and watching those true crime shows,

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Speaker 4: whether they're trying to solve a crime or show you

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Speaker 4: how they solved. It. Always been fascinating that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, mate, Well it's so good to see your face again.

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Speaker 2: We're really really always about and I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: in lockdown, In this hard lockdown that we have here

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Speaker 2: in Sydney at the moment, content like this is just hey,

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Speaker 2: it's very vital.

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Speaker 1: Eric. It's the new supernatural murder mystery podcast, The Orchard.

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Speaker 1: It's out now on Audible.

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Speaker 2: Go and check it out if you've got nothing to

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Speaker 2: do at home, which a lot of us have to do.

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Speaker 1: And Eric, it's great to see your face again, mate,

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Speaker 1: to talk to you guys.

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Speaker 5: Thanks, take care mate.

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Speaker 3: It fits in Whipper