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Speaker 1: The Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: Spencer Tunic invites you to strip off down at Bondi

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Speaker 2: on Saturday and raise funds and awareness to beat skin

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Speaker 2: cancer and he joins us right now.

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Speaker 1: Spencer, thanks for coming in mate. Your work has been

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Speaker 1: celebrated here in Sydney before. What year was it that

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Speaker 1: you did the Opera House? And how many people turned

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Speaker 1: up and took their clothes off?

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Speaker 3: Ten and five thousand people.

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Speaker 1: Five thousand people on the steps and the flat of.

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Speaker 3: On the steps of the Opera House. And also I

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Speaker 3: convinced the Opera House to let me inside and work

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Speaker 3: in it in there as well.

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Speaker 1: It was fascinating.

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Speaker 2: That is an amazing photo. I mean it basically the

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Speaker 2: fore court of the Opera House. You can't even see

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Speaker 2: the stairs and that's with people who decided to get down.

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Speaker 2: Are you surprised to get people down there sometimes, Spencer?

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Speaker 1: Is it getting bigger and bigger every time you do it?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: I was surprised when I did my first work in

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Speaker 3: Melbourne in two thousand and one. I expected maybe one

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Speaker 3: thousand people and four thousand up in Melbourne, so I

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Speaker 3: was like, something's happening in Australia.

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Speaker 1: People just need they needed to get nude because I

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Speaker 1: think you know in Matt Degrud, who's not with us

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Speaker 1: today unfortunately, but he joined you for your opera House one.

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Speaker 1: And what I think is fascinating is there's this nervous

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Speaker 1: energy behind dropping your clothes if you're not naturally a notice.

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Speaker 1: But once they're off thirty seconds in he said, it's

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Speaker 1: just like any other day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the streakers have clothing, you know, and

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Speaker 3: so people walking by with clothes are at the ones

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Speaker 3: that are quite odd. Yeah, it's just a transformative moment.

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Speaker 3: It's one that you'll remember for the rest of your lives.

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Speaker 3: And this is my seventh trip to Australia and so

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Speaker 3: Lucky Seven's I hope people really take off their clothes

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Speaker 3: for skin cancer for the charity skin Check Champions, and

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Speaker 3: we still have room for people. We still can squeeze

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Speaker 3: like maybe five hundred more people in there.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So which part of Bondai Beach you are going

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Speaker 1: to be on and how many people who are expecting

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Speaker 1: on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Definitely the dry and the side that's above sixty degree fahrenheit. No,

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Speaker 3: we're going to be right in the middle and we're

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Speaker 3: going to be doing many setups, ending it with a

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Speaker 3: big surprise and so okay.

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Speaker 1: One thing's interesting about some of your work is the

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Speaker 1: positions that people get into, some more confronting than others.

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Speaker 1: You might say, if you're nervous about nudity, because sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's just stand up, could be a lie down, almost

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Speaker 1: like a plank. Other times you can be in the

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Speaker 1: downward dog position, which of course if you look up

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Speaker 1: and you're in that position, it could be quite confronting.

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Speaker 3: Right, definitely. I you know, I have to keep the

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Speaker 3: positions quite basic because some people their body shapes are

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Speaker 3: quite larger and they're not as flexible, and so I

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Speaker 3: don't want to embarrass anyone with any crazy yoga posas.

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Speaker 3: But we just try to create, you know, this new

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Speaker 3: sort of organism that exists that kind of juxtaposes the background.

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Speaker 3: So we'll have this beautiful ocean and the sand will

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Speaker 3: be taken over with skin.

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Speaker 1: Can I ask, because you're obviously encouraging people to come

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Speaker 1: down to Bondai on Saturday. For someone like Sarah, who

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Speaker 1: is a never nd, she showers with cut off shorts,

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Speaker 1: denim shorts on what would you say to somebody who's

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Speaker 1: nervous about it or at this current stage uncomfortable, but

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Speaker 1: might be one percent considering Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I never try to convince people to do it.

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Speaker 3: I try to get the if you're fifty to fifty,

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Speaker 3: then I'll start convincing you. So if you're fifty to fifty,

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Speaker 3: I say, you know, this will be one of the

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Speaker 3: moments in of your life that you'll tell you grandchildren about,

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Speaker 3: or it's a story that you'll take with you, not

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Speaker 3: because only for yourself, Because you're seeing all these bodies

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Speaker 3: in front of you of all shapes and sizes, and

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Speaker 3: for this one people will be showing their scars. You know,

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Speaker 3: their skin cancer scars are from the removal of skin cancer.

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Speaker 3: Lot of people who have had scars, whether it's for

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Speaker 3: skin cancer for other operations come and there's body acceptance,

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Speaker 3: and you know, it's it's quite liberal.

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Speaker 5: It's very different coming from my perspective where I don't

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Speaker 5: want to get news. Obviously I can appreciate, but I'm

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Speaker 5: not going to be in supposed to someone who would

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Speaker 5: find it quite exhilarating to be part of something like that.

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Speaker 3: Right you know, Fortunately, not everyone wants to do it.

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Speaker 3: If everyone wants to do it, I wouldn't be able

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Speaker 3: to do my work that I'd have fifty thousand people

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Speaker 3: I couldn't control on.

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Speaker 4: That way, Are you going to target now down at

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Speaker 4: Bondi one of the most iconic beaches in the world right,

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Speaker 4: our lifeguards are very well known down that they have

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Speaker 4: their own television show in Australia span Do you know

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Speaker 4: about this?

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Speaker 3: No, no, I thought they were. I was told that

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Speaker 3: they're going to do their own private group work.

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Speaker 6: You had.

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Speaker 2: Have you had any celebrities over the years come down

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Speaker 2: and support your cause?

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Speaker 1: Have they come down and stripped for you? Can you remember? Goodness?

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Speaker 3: Gracious, I know that Lady Gago wrote her thesis I'm

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Speaker 3: one of I'm in her thesis. As far as posing

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Speaker 3: for me, I kind of don't reveal too many people.

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Speaker 3: I know that Drew Barrymore once wanted to pose for me,

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Speaker 3: but I kind of know I kind of got shy

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Speaker 3: and all that you.

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Speaker 1: Have bought images that you've taken.

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Speaker 3: Juliana Moore collects my work.

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Speaker 1: Collects your work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she owns it. Wow, my work. So that's

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Speaker 3: someone Yeah, amazing. We're very comfortable with her body.

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Speaker 1: Do you take Sylphie's of yourself?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes interested to know tips idea.

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Speaker 3: Well, we could meet outside.

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Speaker 5: I guess if you were going to test out my

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Speaker 5: idea though, is that what your main fit? If you

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Speaker 5: were thinking of something just.

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Speaker 3: My wife has been testing my ideas for twenty five years.

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Speaker 3: So I'll go up on top of a small mountain

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Speaker 3: overlooking my town and she'll hold a prop that I

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Speaker 3: might want to multiply by a thout some people. So

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Speaker 3: for this work that I'm doing in Sydney, she did

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Speaker 3: some test photographs with me where she held a special

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Speaker 3: secret part prop that we're using. And then I sent

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Speaker 3: naked photos to scot and he approved not only my

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Speaker 2: Actually Scotty's here as well because we need to raise

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Speaker 2: money for skin Check Champions and you can register if

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Speaker 2: you want to go down to Bondi on Saturday. The

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Speaker 2: website is f is sorry SOFSC.

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Speaker 6: It's a bit confusing. Just go skin Check Champions Check Champions.

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Speaker 1: This is very close to your heart, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: And in an Australia here obviously we need to I

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Speaker 2: mean we need to go and get checked. There's a

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Speaker 2: lot of people that don't worry about it, and they

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Speaker 2: we need to go get checked early, don't we.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and especially now like the last few years, a

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Speaker 6: lot of us haven't been able to do it, and

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Speaker 6: there's massive bottleneck apparently in the healthcare system of people

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Speaker 6: wandering around whiskin cancer they don't even know. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 6: And like, the sooner you get onto it, better off

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Speaker 6: you be. And ninety eight percent, I think is a

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Speaker 6: success rate. If you find it early, you're gonna be

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Speaker 6: You're gonna be sweet. So like, we just want to

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Speaker 6: make as much noise as possible with this and raise

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Speaker 6: as much money as we can to pilot a national

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Speaker 6: skin check program.

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Speaker 1: It's got it. You're also going to the name Jimmy Nichols,

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Speaker 1: which we laugh because you've done so much great work.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy was the man who had the giant beard which

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Speaker 1: we auctioned off. How much money was raised that night?

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Speaker 6: If you raised four hundred and thirty k that was phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this got Jimmy had the biggest beard. How

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Speaker 1: long have you been growing it?

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Speaker 6: For eleven years?

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Speaker 1: Eleven years?

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Speaker 2: And you sprayed it actually came out, it was it

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Speaker 2: was sold.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 6: With me all the time. Yeah, I have someone carrying around.

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Speaker 1: Sprayed it hardened it up.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah. We had Chris hanswiths barber come in and

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Speaker 6: his team like pounced on me after filming thor that

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Speaker 6: during the ball just caked it in hair spray and

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Speaker 6: then look it off my body it was And then

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Speaker 6: like it was like lion king, hold up.

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Speaker 5: Hurt your neck a beard that long? Like just didn't

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Speaker 5: do any one that one would way a bit, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 6: I did that night, But I don't know. I just

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Speaker 6: got to get you.

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Speaker 1: So do you know what I loved about it too,

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Speaker 1: is that when you met your wife, you had a bed,

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Speaker 1: and then you've been together eleven years. Your wife had

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Speaker 1: never seen you without a bed, and you took it

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Speaker 1: off and she went and put it back on. Remember

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Speaker 1: that it again for her and she's left yourself.

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Speaker 4: All right, If you've ever a skinny dip down at BONDI, this.

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Speaker 5: Is no chance. But I'm very excited to see the picture.

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Speaker 2: It is going to be a beautiful day mid twenties

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Speaker 2: down at the most iconic beach in the world. Get

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Speaker 2: down there, Spencer will be down there filming you and

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Speaker 2: taking photos. It's for a great cause. Like we said,

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Speaker 2: go check out skin Check Champions and you can register there.

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Speaker 6: Spencer, thank you very much for coming in.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks mate. Thanks to me, you're listening to the Fitzi

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Speaker 1: and Whipper podcast