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Speaker 1: He's fits you remember with you on over for your

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Speaker 1: Thursday morning. Well we I mean the Fire Festival documentary.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most riveting documentaries you'll ever meet, fascinating.

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Speaker 1: The standout for us, without doubt is a man by

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Speaker 1: the name of Andy King. You may remember him from

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Speaker 1: the documentary saying this.

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Speaker 2: We had four eighteen wheeler trucks filled with avy on water.

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Speaker 2: Billy called and said, Andy, Winn need you to take

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Speaker 2: one big thing for the team. You're our wonderful gay leader,

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Speaker 2: will you. Cunningham is the head of customs. You will

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Speaker 2: save this festival.

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Speaker 1: And we're very, very lucky to have him in Australia

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Speaker 1: right now and in the studio Andy King.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, oh my god, good morning guys. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: having me Andy.

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Speaker 3: This is I mean, it's obviously changed your life. But

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Speaker 3: let's go back to the start. Because you talk about

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Speaker 3: kids getting scammed into buying these tickets, but really it

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Speaker 3: wasn't a scam because Billy the entire time thought he

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Speaker 3: could pull this festival off.

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Speaker 2: Didn't he? Oh yeah, in a crazy way. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: as you know, the aftermath wasn't quite what he planned.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of talk Andy that I mean it

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Speaker 1: was a disaster. I mean, he's in jail now, but

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Speaker 1: there is a lot of talk that they that they're

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Speaker 1: thinking about doing another five festival the brand, even though

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Speaker 1: now it's got such a bad reputation. Do you think

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Speaker 1: there is merit of using that name still and maybe

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Speaker 1: putting a festival out there and doing it.

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Speaker 2: The right way? Potentially, you know, obviously from a social

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Speaker 2: media perspective, Fire took the world based storm And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean there are rumors that jau Rule is planning

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Speaker 2: the next firefa.

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Speaker 3: I suppose the first question is Andy, would you be involved?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure. I'll be the ultimate team player

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Speaker 2: on this.

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Speaker 3: Your face on the flag, though, you'd definitely be on

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Speaker 3: the bottle of water, wouldn't you, Andy?

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Speaker 2: I heard too.

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Speaker 3: I remember when the when the documentary came out. Fits

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Speaker 3: he saw it before I did. He came in he said, man,

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Speaker 3: you've got to go and watch this fire first and

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Speaker 3: what goes on. But then I also read that you

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Speaker 3: once it had been filmed and you delivered that line

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Speaker 3: about what happened with the water in the truck, you

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Speaker 3: wanted that deleted. You didn't want that in the documentary.

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Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah. You know, my business partner and

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Speaker 2: my lawyer like, Andy, this is going to ruin your career.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh boy, So I call Chris Smith, the director.

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Speaker 2: It's like, Andy, you know, I can't pull it. And

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, why said you don't understand? But this documentary

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Speaker 2: is so intense that your one little statement just gyrates

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Speaker 2: the world where you are like, oh my gosh. And

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Speaker 2: basically it demonstrated just how crazy it got. So has

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Speaker 2: it had a negative effect on your career? Though obviously not.

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Speaker 2: I'm one of the most popular memes and five TV

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Speaker 2: show offers and guess what, I'm about to launch a

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Speaker 2: podcast called mouthwash I love you.

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Speaker 3: You know what, when you film something like this, you

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Speaker 3: never really know just how big it's going to get. Like,

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Speaker 3: you don't understand that when the documentary dropped, how long

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Speaker 3: was it until you realized wall everyone's talking about this?

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I mean you guys know I

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Speaker 2: when I only agree to do the documentary because I

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Speaker 2: wanted to pay back everybody in the Bahamas. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: he wanted to use this as a vehicle for the

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Speaker 2: GoFundMe and and that's worked out pretty well and we're

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Speaker 2: still pushing hard with the real Andy King and with

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Speaker 2: a link to the Zumba Foundation. But what ended up happening, obviously,

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize it until the premiere in New York City,

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Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out why all the other cast members

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Speaker 2: had like hoodies on and sunglasses. They were sitting in

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Speaker 2: and I'm in like like my pink sweater waiting to

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god. And you know what, it

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Speaker 2: that point that I realized that my life was really

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Speaker 2: going to change, because guess what, Historically nobody watches documentaries

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Speaker 2: and they don't make any money. Well, guess but twenty

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Speaker 2: broken every record around the world, and yeah, four We've

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Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. So, you know, it does show in today's

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Speaker 2: world the reach of Netflix, first of all. And then

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Speaker 2: President of the United States right now? Oh my gosh. No,

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a disaster. And so suddenly I'm the

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Speaker 2: gray haired guy in the room. I'm the guy who

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Speaker 2: got to take one for the team, you know, and

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Speaker 2: the kids. I mean, I have the gen zs honestly,

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Speaker 2: and the millennials that they love me. So you did.

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Speaker 1: But this is the thing, Andy, and it wasn't in

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Speaker 1: that you could tell with Jarrow and Billy. There were

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Speaker 1: a lot of points You look at them and you

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Speaker 1: You were trustworthy, and I think people picked that up

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Speaker 1: straight away. It's been it's been a huge positive in

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Speaker 1: your career, I think, and I mean companies getting you

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Speaker 1: I would book you in a second just by watching

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Speaker 1: that bid on the fire.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what is the most ridiculous offer that you've had

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Speaker 3: come to you, Andy in terms of product?

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Speaker 2: And oh boy, there's been quite a few which I

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Speaker 2: haven't been able to take you any To align myself

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Speaker 2: with the rape brows, the irony of ironies, as you

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Speaker 2: guys mean now, is that I run a zero waste

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Speaker 2: event business. The fact that I was going to give

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Speaker 2: plastic events. I mean, it was crazy, but I'm like,

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm the gay guy in the room. It

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Speaker 2: not tell anybody. But of course now fifty million people

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Speaker 1: Well did Ron Reynolds Ivy Gene I saw that one.

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Speaker 1: That was such a good ad.

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Speaker 2: That was great. He is the nicest guy in the world.

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Speaker 2: You know. Boom, he said, Andy, here's a check for

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Speaker 2: twenty five grand send it to the Bahamas. How nice?

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Speaker 1: Is that awesome?

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Speaker 2: And he but he did say listen, welcome to my world,

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Speaker 2: because you're about to you're joining the world of baseball

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Speaker 2: caps and sunglasses. Yeah, because I can't go anywhere. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm everybody recognized. We're here in Brisbane yesterday trying to

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Speaker 2: buy some shoes from my sister, and the girl who

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Speaker 2: manages the shoosters like, do you shop here? I'm like, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm not from here. Oh my god, it's you. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh yeah, I mind that guy. Yeah, oh

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Speaker 3: Even Andy, when you go out for dinner and someone says,

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Speaker 3: it must be nonstall.

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Speaker 2: Well if the waiter is cute, you know.

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Speaker 3: I want to know too, Andy, have you spoken to

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Speaker 3: Because obviously, you know, he looked at he looked up

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Speaker 2: But is he still buddies. We've kind of broken communications.

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Speaker 2: Girlfriend did reach out to me a few weeks ago

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Speaker 2: and wanted to have a catch up. But but you

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Speaker 2: guys know that. You know his two roommates right now

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Speaker 2: are Michael Cohen, you know, Trump lawyer and the situation

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Speaker 3: There's there's a show in that, isn't there?

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Speaker 2: My show? They're going to get out and rule the world?

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Speaker 3: How are the parents, what did they how did they react?

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Speaker 2: They're devastated. Yeah, so many of their friends invested and

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Speaker 3: Sixteen million dollars gone.

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Speaker 2: Though he says he's promised he's paying everything back, Like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you're going to do that. I'm

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Speaker 2: the only one that's paying everybody back right now. That

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Speaker 1: So it's amazing you are in Brisbane at the moment

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Speaker 1: for Big san which is sort of that's the Australian

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Speaker 1: south By Southwest, which which is showcases all the best

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Speaker 1: young Australian bands. But you're there to talk. You're the

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Speaker 1: keynote speaker. Have you Have you done that yet? What's

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Speaker 2: Pretty amazing. Everybody's been great. And you guys know listen

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Speaker 1: I just love this.

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Speaker 3: It's a phenomenal story.

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Speaker 1: It's a great story.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 1: It's so good to have you here in our country.

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Speaker 2: Andy.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know it's a long way to come

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Speaker 2: Hey, we're excited to be here. We're hoping to hit

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Speaker 2: we have to fly home for me to start shooting

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Speaker 2: my new TV show on Monday.

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Speaker 3: What's the TV show?

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Speaker 2: Andy? I know I'm sworn to secrecy. I keep getting

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Speaker 2: in trouble when I mention it. But it's going to

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Speaker 2: be something kind of fun and exciting. Yeah, we're gonna well,

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Speaker 2: let you guys know. The second the deal is signed properly, it.

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Speaker 3: Is a cold take one for the team.

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Speaker 2: Well that's yeah, read between the lines, blush.

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Speaker 1: Just get the deal downe at the moment just before

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Speaker 1: you go as well. Obviously the last twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen what's been trending on Twitter, Andy,

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Speaker 1: but one of the Australian artists, Flume as had maybe

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Speaker 1: a similar experience to what you were going to have

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Speaker 1: in the Fire Festival as well. Did you see that

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Speaker 1: at burning Man a DJ up on stage.

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Speaker 2: No, what happened?

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Speaker 1: Well, we won't tell you Andy. When we get off,

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Speaker 1: go on go on to Twitter and just put in

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Speaker 1: the word Flume and see what comes up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I need to give him a big hug.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you do you do? Maybe a couple of mints, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: a couple of maybe a bit amount.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Andy, thank you very much for coming on the

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Speaker 1: fitz emp show. I really appreciate it here you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Andy, take care of mate.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye ye cheers.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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Speaker 3: That was brilliant, awesome,