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Speaker 1: Sits in. Let's go. Jeez. We love this man.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna brand new book out how to be a

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Speaker 2: complete and as a plant. It's a funny man what

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Speaker 2: he's struggling with his Internet at the moment though, when

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Speaker 2: technology James Blundy, you're there.

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Speaker 1: Buddy, Hey, I'm so sorry. I'm minute abtha and my

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Speaker 1: internet has been a nightmare.

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Speaker 2: We love that because I was going to ask you.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's that the borders have been opened over there, James.

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Speaker 2: You can travel around, but we're gonna ask if you

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Speaker 2: if you got to I Betha's so, how long have

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Speaker 2: you been there for?

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Speaker 1: I've been here since March A so and so my

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Speaker 1: my tours was rolling and I got as far as

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Speaker 1: Germany and literally everywhere I went the next day the

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Speaker 1: virus got there. Maybe with someone in my.

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Speaker 3: Band had.

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Speaker 4: Sure and the funny thing is where we went.

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Speaker 1: And then I got to Germany, it was canceled and

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Speaker 1: I got sent home and I and I had to

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Speaker 1: do it. So I had to lock down in Spain

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Speaker 1: and a Betha with my mother in law.

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Speaker 4: Okay, wow, how long did be mate? Have you been

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Speaker 4: keeping a town?

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Speaker 1: That was? That was sixty eight days? Eleven hours and

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Speaker 1: thirty six minutes.

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Speaker 2: Wow, she does she go to the nightclubs with you sometimes?

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Speaker 1: James, Well, not anymore. I dug a shallow grave just

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Speaker 1: behind the house.

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Speaker 4: I won't find her until it's a big storm.

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Speaker 2: She's not buried in Blunty's backyard.

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Speaker 1: Is she just dumb? Her and a dog? I got

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Speaker 1: a dog too.

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Speaker 4: But do you know what?

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Speaker 3: People I feel like used lockdown as an excuse to

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Speaker 3: we got to we've got to team up. We've got

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Speaker 3: to work together as a population, we need to bond,

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Speaker 3: we need to bunk it down. Did you invite her

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Speaker 3: or did it just happen like that?

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Speaker 1: I may I'm not an idiot, No, of course, you know.

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Speaker 1: I just you know, it's one of those things when

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Speaker 1: of the vicar and the priest says, you know, do

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Speaker 1: you I just hadn't anticipated exactly how many people I

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you said yes to them all monent, and then.

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Speaker 2: You've purchased yourself a motorbike, mister Blunt?

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Speaker 1: Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: In lockdown to get away car?

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Speaker 1: Exactly that? Well, you know, I'm a smaller man. I'm

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Speaker 1: I tried the army, I tried the uniform that wasn't trying,

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Speaker 4: Have you have you come off in and all and

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Speaker 4: you're learning to ride?

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Speaker 1: I haven't, but I did play. I did play a

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Speaker 1: clip of Mission Impossible to my children the other day

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Speaker 4: What about your pub? Mate? Did that shut down as well?

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Speaker 1: The pub is closed down, which is very sad. I'm

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Speaker 1: in the wrong business, I mean music, and that got

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Speaker 1: closed down. I've got closed down. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: in fact, I know exactly what's going on because the

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Speaker 1: That's why I put this book out to try and

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Speaker 2: Can I just say, mate, you, I mean, this has

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Speaker 2: been a good year for you, because mate, the content

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Speaker 2: that you've been giving us in twenty twenty has now

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Speaker 2: spawn into this book, which is how to be a

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Speaker 2: complete and utter blunt. It's your tweets make you even

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Speaker 2: you know reference obviously this pandemic that we've had in

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Speaker 2: Suddenly seems a little dated. Don't you don't even have

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Speaker 2: to write this book. I mean you've already done it.

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Speaker 2: These are your tweets throughout the year. It's very funny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, And you know that's exactly it. I thought,

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Speaker 1: how am I going to make some money this year?

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Speaker 1: I might as well cobble something together. And specifically, this

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Speaker 1: book is really my experience. It's a diary of my

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Speaker 1: life online on Twitter, compiling for a year, and really

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Speaker 1: it's perfect to give as a book over this Christmas,

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Speaker 1: coming out to people you either don't like or specifically

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Speaker 1: you read on the lou Here in the UK, we've

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Speaker 1: had many problems. We're buying too much Loue paper and

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Speaker 1: so that's why this book has come out entirely the

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Speaker 1: right time. It on the loop and if you didn't

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Speaker 1: manage to get lou paper, tear it away. But it's

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Speaker 4: That's really not going to go so well for some people,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't use the cover.

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Speaker 2: Do you just put in the search engine, James Blunt

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Speaker 2: And if there's anyone writing something mad about you, you

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Speaker 2: grabbed that and turn it into something positive for the

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Speaker 2: next book.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I try not to go online too much, actually,

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Speaker 1: trying to live in the real world. It is a

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Speaker 1: much nice as world. But once a month I'll go

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Speaker 1: on and just and you know, and yeah, I'll it

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Speaker 1: called this vanity search.

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Speaker 3: How long do you think you're going to be there

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Speaker 3: and beta for with the with the mother in law

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Speaker 3: and the family forever forever?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, why not? It's really nice. I'm

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Speaker 1: not I'm not moving.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, I agree.

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Speaker 2: Are people partying they're still giants.

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Speaker 1: No. Our clubs are closed. My nightclub, Blunty's Nightclub, and

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Speaker 1: is the only one that's open, and uh and both

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Speaker 1: of us having an amazing time in it. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's kicking off. Otherwise everything's closed here. We have

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Speaker 1: a curfew ten pm curfew, right, you know that's it.

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Speaker 4: We are also wondering.

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Speaker 3: We're talking off here before. We're trying to find out

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Speaker 3: more information about this big night that you had with

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Speaker 3: Carl Stefanovic. We loved, beloved carlos here. We believe it

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Speaker 3: was a big night. You won't give us any information.

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Speaker 3: He won't give us any information. Can you let us

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Speaker 3: know anything about that night you had with Karl Stefanovic.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was on top right, that's all.

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Speaker 4: No wonder he wouldn't tell us what happened.

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Speaker 1: This is.

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Speaker 2: So are you sticking around there for Christmas? Or are

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Speaker 2: you going to go home for Christmas?

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Speaker 1: James?

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Speaker 2: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't do everything's you know, you guys

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Speaker 1: in Australia have really nailed up the pandemic and you

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Speaker 1: and so attempting it is to go and do some

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Speaker 1: pandemic tourism. I think maybe the sensible thing would be

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Speaker 1: stopping it and not moved.

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Speaker 2: Well, James, the new book is how to be a

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Speaker 2: complete and utter blunt And also we might give one

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Speaker 2: of these ways away as well, if you don't mind.

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Speaker 2: But you've also tweeted anyone want to sign? Set list

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Speaker 2: of mine from two thousand and six and Sarah. The

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Speaker 2: set list is, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful,

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Speaker 2: You're beautiful Into Sandman and you're beautiful.

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Speaker 4: James Blunt, we love you, buddy.

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Speaker 1: It's so nice to see your faces. I haven't missed

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Speaker 1: you so much and I can't and I really hope

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Speaker 1: i'll get to you sometime next year.

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Speaker 4: Well, you have a lovely Christmas early.

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Speaker 1: Take care, guys, Let's go on