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Speaker 1: Rockstar Detectives New books teenagers. If you want to get

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Speaker 1: stuck into this, Adam Hills is your man, the author

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Speaker 1: behind it.

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Speaker 2: We love Hills, he joins us. Now, Adam, Adam else

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Speaker 2: horning mate morning. You did want to come in, I

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Speaker 2: come on and talk about the book. But at the

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Speaker 2: same time you mentioned you needed to be on the

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Speaker 2: show because you're so excited about us sending a bottle

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Speaker 2: of spaghetti up into space.

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Speaker 3: So I really am, And partly because we did a

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Speaker 3: thing on the Last Leg over here, the TV show

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Speaker 3: that I hosted in London where we sent a prosthetic

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Speaker 3: leg into space a couple of years back.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, what was the story behind that?

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Speaker 3: We just wanted to like there was no story, But

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Speaker 3: what we loved was the idea that if people didn't

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Speaker 3: know that it was us behind us, then they would

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Speaker 3: just see a leg coming back to Earth from space.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. How long is? This is what we're trying to

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Speaker 2: work out. Next week. We're going up to Musclebrooks. But

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Speaker 2: we understand that the balloon goes up to twenty five kilometers, right,

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Speaker 2: so we're really high and then it pops and there's

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Speaker 2: a small shoot that lowers it back to earth. I

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Speaker 2: don't think it'd be lowering. I think it'd be plummeting.

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Speaker 2: But I think there's then the mission to try and

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Speaker 2: find it, because there's a GPS tracker on it. How

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Speaker 2: did you go finding the leg?

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Speaker 3: Well, we had a go pro on it so that

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Speaker 3: you could film it the whole time, and it ended

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Speaker 3: up in a pig farm.

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. Do you guys go out and retrieve it?

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Speaker 2: Or who went and got it?

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Speaker 3: I have some lowly producer. Someone was someone's job to

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Speaker 3: go and find a prosthetic leg and.

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Speaker 1: A bit of pig farm.

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Speaker 2: How good is that? Oh, it's to see your face again.

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Speaker 1: And did you get back for Christmas? We know you've

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Speaker 1: had a great career over there with the last league.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations Adam. But did you get a chance to come

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Speaker 1: back to Australia and see the family?

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Speaker 3: I did, so I had at that point. I made

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Speaker 3: it home in December. I had been away for seven

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Speaker 3: months last year because I just couldn't get because of

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Speaker 3: the pandemic. So but I still had to quarantine at

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Speaker 3: home for three days. So my wife said, look, the

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Speaker 3: neighbors are away, we'll go and stay at their place.

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Speaker 3: So you can at least quarantine in the house, but

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Speaker 3: we can't touch you, like, so I couldn't hug my kids.

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Speaker 3: After a day, my eight year old went, Daddy, I

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Speaker 3: just want to come and quarantine with you. And I

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Speaker 3: was like, well, that's fine, but you won't be able to,

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Speaker 3: like neither of us can leave the house for two days,

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Speaker 3: and she went, oh, no, do you mean we'll just

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Speaker 3: have to eat take away and watch movies for two days?

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Speaker 2: Are they?

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Speaker 1: The inspiration behind the book, Adam is this rock star Detectives.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us a bit about it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So it came about because my eldest, who was

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Speaker 3: eight at the time, was very concerned one morning in

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Speaker 3: the way that you know young kids get concerned about things.

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Speaker 3: And she said, Daddy, I'm really concerned. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if I want to be a rock star or a

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Speaker 3: detective when I grow up.

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Speaker 2: Two very different things. Is she a good singer?

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Speaker 3: She is a good singer. She loves detective stories. And

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Speaker 3: I said, and I was trying to be, you know, encouraging,

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Speaker 3: So I said, well maybe you can be both. You

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Speaker 3: crimes by day. Is We both went do you know what,

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Speaker 3: that's a really good idea for a book. So she

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Speaker 3: and I then sat down and plotted out this idea

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Speaker 3: of like these two twelve year olds who've just become

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Speaker 3: rock stars. They're doing their first effort tour, but everywhere

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Speaker 3: they go, like a valuable piece of art is stolen,

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Speaker 3: like a bangof or something from a local art gallery.

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Speaker 3: But all the evidence looks like they're the ones doing it,

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Speaker 2: All the same time.

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Speaker 3: And my daughter and I went, I think we've just

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Speaker 3: written an idea for a kid's book.

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Speaker 2: How good is that? When you talk about ideas, and

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Speaker 2: obviously you're always on the lookout for the next idea

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Speaker 2: or a book that you want to write, an inspiration

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Speaker 2: many ideas that you've thought were great and then started

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Speaker 2: why did I start this?

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Speaker 3: I mean, the best ideas like that when you're a

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Speaker 3: great idea for a comedy bit, and then I'll get

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Speaker 3: a nons like. It'll be like broccoli. How weird is broccoli?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means.

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Speaker 2: Also, drinking before I went to bed that night, I.

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Speaker 1: Just point out, for anyone listening at the moment, have

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Speaker 1: you gaffer taped up your glasses?

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Speaker 3: There?

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Speaker 1: Are you struggling to get your glasses?

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Speaker 2: Just the pandemic shut down APSM mate with the tape.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I'll explain what opened. I've been working all

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Speaker 3: day writing the last leg, and I've done a couple

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Speaker 3: of interviews for the book. I'm also hosting rugby league

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Speaker 3: coverage over here this weekend. Halfway through the day, I

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Speaker 3: was cleaning my glasses and the frame broke and I've

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Speaker 3: literally been at my laptop all day.

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Speaker 2: I haven't had a chance.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to super glue them overnight, and I thought,

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Speaker 3: I don't know what to do, And I just added

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Speaker 3: some gaffer tape here because when I play rugby league,

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Speaker 3: a gaffer tape up my prosthety. I just grabbed a bit,

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Speaker 3: and I'm very aware that I look like a nerd

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Speaker 3: from an eighties.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't going to bring it up. But your mate

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Speaker 2: fifties stunt you you.

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Speaker 1: Don't look like a rock star detective.

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Speaker 2: That's not at all.

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Speaker 1: That is brilliant. That is brilliant. You do have the

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Speaker 1: rabbit o scarf in the background. So rugby league still

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Speaker 1: plays a huge role in your life, doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, So I've been playing disability rugby league over

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Speaker 3: here for the past four years. So Warrington Warrington Walls

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Speaker 3: set up England's first ever physical disability rugby league team

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Speaker 3: and so I went up to help him out and

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Speaker 3: then I go up to Warrington's like a two hour

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Speaker 3: And I learnt very early on the only thing English

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Speaker 2: Isn't that great? That's a competition, pretty wild, is it? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It's full on.

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Speaker 3: It's like if you don't if you basically you go

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Speaker 2: But the disabilities vary obviously in the team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you've got there'll be people with one arm.

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Speaker 3: There will be people with one leg that were people

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Speaker 3: with cerebral palsy. And the weird thing is you've got to, like,

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Speaker 3: if there's a guy running at you, about to tackle

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Speaker 3: to you've got a moral choice to make it what

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Speaker 3: you do you side? Am I going to step this guy?

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Speaker 2: Like? You're constantly caught out in your own head playing

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Speaker 2: this game. I've I've been beaten in my own brain

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Speaker 2: by myself trying to do the right thing. But encourage.

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Speaker 3: If they're smart, they're doing it to me because they

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Speaker 3: know which foot I'm going to step off, so we're

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Speaker 3: on the same boats.

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Speaker 2: Hilarious or hillsy. It is so good to see you mate.

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Speaker 1: Rock Star Detectives is out now at all good bookstores.

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Speaker 1: It's great to see your face. Appreciate your time. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming on the show.

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Speaker 3: I am now going to go and fix my glasses.

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Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, byye it it fits you and Whipper