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Speaker 2: We are very excited to have this man in the studio.

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Speaker 2: The Jamie Oliva restaurant group is officially back in this

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Speaker 2: man's hands. His Australian portfolio. He's back and he is

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Speaker 2: here to talk about a little bit more love his work.

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Speaker 1: Jamie who.

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Speaker 3: I don't think we've actually met in person. We've spoken

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Speaker 1: And it's always it's always kind of interesting to doing

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: I just can't see what you can see. But actually

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we take Sarah out in the balcony here with

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Speaker 1: No, they didn't. They do not at all.

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Speaker 3: They take me out there and threatened my life and myself.

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Speaker 2: You know what, Thanks for coming in because you used

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I did that for like five or six years.

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Speaker 1: And I think that we've you know, when you work

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Speaker 1: just never stops, even when I'm stopped to have a

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Speaker 1: you snore? Apparently? So yeah, does Jewels complying? Does she

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Speaker 1: You know, it's ridiculous, isn't it. I know everyone likes it, but.

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Speaker 3: Why can't we run reruns of The Naked Chef? Why

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Speaker 1: You know, you know it's so that you know it's

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Speaker 2: Do you know what you need a couple of big

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Speaker 2: Well that he hasn't called an Australian too yet, But

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Speaker 1: I think he might be coming over here.

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Speaker 1: How people live the longest as they grow and they

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Speaker 3: Do you maintain those relationships, Jamie?

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Speaker 3: I mean, would you god reach out to Hugh if

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Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. By the way, have you got

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Speaker 1: just download and apps downloading, app down down, Lily, three

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Speaker 1: you here. We appreciate you coming in on the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks very much.

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