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Speaker 1: Busy.

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Speaker 2: You know what.

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Speaker 1: We've got a great relationship with GQ Australia GQ Awards.

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Speaker 1: We go every year. We've been in there a couple

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Speaker 1: of times. We've been pushing for a front cover. Unfortunately

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Speaker 1: we've been beaten to the punch by a good mate

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Speaker 1: of ours.

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Speaker 2: It's the magnificent Adam Helly buddy, it's a takeover. Who

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Speaker 2: did you pay? Who did you pay to get on

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Speaker 2: the front cover of GQ?

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Speaker 3: They're going to pay me this is what happened. Well,

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Speaker 3: it's just just get on my level.

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Speaker 4: I mean, fifty kicks it off by say we're good

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Speaker 4: friends with the team at GQ. But then hang on.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking to.

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Speaker 4: Them about moving it to a Friday night for the

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Speaker 4: past seven years. That awards night comes on a Tuesday

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Speaker 4: or something and we're going to leave at eight thirty.

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Speaker 2: It is our highlight of the year. It's a great night, though,

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Speaker 2: is it.

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Speaker 1: It's good fun and Mike Christiansen, who's who works there

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Speaker 1: as well, good friend of ours mate.

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Speaker 2: This is awesome. So when they ask you, did you

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Speaker 2: freak out a little bit like.

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Speaker 3: No, I just go and get it, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, I just figure out how to how to

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Speaker 3: make a dope, how to make it mine?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, full of good stories? Yeah whatnot?

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Speaker 1: Like as killer mate, your your life is unbelievable. And

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Speaker 1: where you've come from. You talk about ship life all

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Speaker 1: the time and ship just give.

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Speaker 2: Us the story out of ship mate.

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Speaker 3: Well that's where I'm from, Like, that's where I grew up.

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Speaker 3: What was it like, Victoria?

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Speaker 2: It's like you know, it's it's like all those rural cities.

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Speaker 3: You know what they call them a gateway, yes, when

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Speaker 3: they don't know what else to call them, gate gateway

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Speaker 3: to the fruit bowl of Australia, fruit ever dreamed of.

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Speaker 1: You've become an advocate for racism in Australia and standing

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Speaker 1: up to it, and sometimes I look at your briggs

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Speaker 1: as a mate and I go, mate, this is a

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Speaker 1: huge responsibility that you have on your shoulders. And I

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Speaker 1: know Adam Goods as well, but you boys handle it

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Speaker 1: so well. Is that because of your background and where

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Speaker 1: you come from and dealing with this your whole life?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: For really, I grew up you know, Sheperdon is a

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Speaker 3: pretty racist kind of town. So like you know, your

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Speaker 3: face with that every day, so you learn, you know

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Speaker 3: how to navigate that and also like, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: a racist town, but it's full of good people as well.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I've got some great ally, some great mates.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm looking at you.

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Speaker 1: It's huge what you're doing, Briggs, and I love it

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Speaker 1: as well. You're also mate. The way that you express

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Speaker 1: yourself is through your lyrics, which are unbelievable ab original

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Speaker 1: that you do with your great mate indigenous mate trials.

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Speaker 2: New music coming out, Briggs.

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Speaker 3: Always I dropped a new EP. Always was with the

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Speaker 3: single go to War with Elma Plumb obviously GQ.

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Speaker 2: I dropped the kids book. You know, I got painted

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Speaker 2: for the Archible.

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Speaker 4: Mars.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, Like, I'm not I'm not

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Speaker 3: star for stuff to do. This is the takeover, you

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Speaker 3: know what i mean. I'm like you let me in here.

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Speaker 3: Now it's a problem you guys have to figure out

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Speaker 3: amongst yourself. Is it going to be Fitsy and Briggsy

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Speaker 3: Brig and Whipper? This is this is This is.

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Speaker 1: Exact same conversation I have with Briggs over a few

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Speaker 1: beers at the lord.

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Speaker 2: Aside, and I said, Whip is going to have to

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Speaker 2: go job. See this is between you guys. I can

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Speaker 2: leave the room if you need. But you're just going

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Speaker 2: to have to figure it out. It's you have to

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Speaker 2: go to the phones on this, can I ask you?

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Speaker 1: And I know there's a certain generation here in Australia

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Speaker 1: that I don't think you can get the point through too, right.

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Speaker 1: Do you think our youth of Australia is starting to learn?

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Speaker 1: Do you find that there's light at the end of

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Speaker 1: the tunnel for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I feel like there is, man, because, like you know,

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Speaker 3: the youth are way more receptive. They're hearing different things,

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Speaker 3: They're getting the you know, their points across. They're hearing

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Speaker 3: different points and different points of view all the time,

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Speaker 3: and they're exposed to, like, you know, different nationalities, different

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Speaker 3: ways of thinking, different you know, because social media, yes exactly,

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Speaker 3: Like yeah.

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Speaker 2: Mate, what do you social media? I mean? But you're like,

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Speaker 2: don't say it like that social You love it, don't you?

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Speaker 1: I mean you love and the just that you would

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Speaker 1: cop online would be ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: It's a tool, you know what I mean. It's a tool.

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Speaker 2: You just use it for what it is, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. I don't love it, like, yes, give

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Speaker 2: yours all the way up.

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Speaker 3: This is what I'm doing today engagement, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean, It's just like I just use it as

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Speaker 3: a tool you with the.

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Speaker 4: Abuse that you cop right, do you reply to.

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Speaker 2: That sometimes if it's funny, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Sure, that angle because when I look at the position

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Speaker 4: you're in, I think, you know, you do have a

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Speaker 4: weight on your shoulders in terms of the profile that

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Speaker 4: you have. But at the same time, it must be

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Speaker 4: extremely tiring draining some of the ignorance.

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Speaker 3: That's the way I grew up, Like I grew up

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Speaker 3: with the face to face abuse and like, you know,

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Speaker 3: that stuff coming to blows, like like if you know,

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Speaker 3: if you're talking trash and just running your mouth online,

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Speaker 3: it's like it's.

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Speaker 2: Like like who are you? Man?

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Speaker 3: Like, Like, bro, I'm on the cover of GQ. What

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Speaker 3: are you going to tell your kids on the internet?

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Speaker 3: It's like OK, yeah yeah, And he added me back,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like they wear that like

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Speaker 3: a trophy, man, Like that's you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: They show people like that.

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Speaker 2: Briggsy wreck me there, Briggs you ab originally did it

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Speaker 2: go number one? The album? I think it did? Did

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Speaker 2: you go on?

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Speaker 1: We got all the awards for it, might as well

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Speaker 1: have I want to say number one album. Now you're

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Speaker 1: on the front of GQ. You've been painted for the

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Speaker 1: archerboard as well. Where do you go through from here?

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Speaker 1: I'm told you man is Briggy and Whipper and Briggsy

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Speaker 1: is next?

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Speaker 4: What you said first?

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Speaker 2: What about writing as well? Briggs? What's going on over

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Speaker 2: there with Chartman will be back?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: With groaning and Josh my friends.

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Speaker 3: You know it's crazy, an I get to live this

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Speaker 3: fortunate life that I get to do all these cool things.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You haven't forgotten ship life though?

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Speaker 2: Have you go back every now and then? Yeah? When

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Speaker 2: I can are out of the borders. I was there.

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Speaker 2: I was there just before they close.

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Speaker 3: I go like twenty four hours notice to you've got

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Speaker 3: to get out. I'm not being stuck here again for

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Speaker 3: another thirty years.

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Speaker 2: If you've got the mates there that haven't left.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, everyone's got mates in their hometowns that

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Speaker 3: haven't left ship life.

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Speaker 2: That's the country. Where do they go with the gold Caps?

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Speaker 2: Do they like them? In spir They love us? They

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Speaker 2: love us so good.

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Speaker 3: I was very proud of my gold teeth. Take them out, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I know, to try them on. Leave his teeth, al mate,

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Speaker 3: get your hand out of his mouth. This has just

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Speaker 3: got weird, no it, Briggs.

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Speaker 2: We just wanted to get you on and say well done, mate.

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Speaker 2: This is a huge achievement.

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Speaker 1: You are wearing something that's very close to you as well,

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Speaker 1: a shirt that says always was, always will be, and

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Speaker 1: you've got the tats on your hands with it as well.

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Speaker 2: We know how much mate, on behalf of us.

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Speaker 1: We just want to say keep up the good fighting inspiring.

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Speaker 2: When we're gonna have a party, we'll be back. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: thank you.

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Speaker 3: Than