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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: This man could probably play the trumpet. He's multi talented

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Speaker 2: and play the trump. Whizz is back Andy Lee's latest book.

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Speaker 2: Do not open this book series. It's out now, and

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Speaker 2: he joins us, now, welcome.

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Speaker 3: Back to Hell. Can I tell you number of women? Trumpet? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Tail, I stood up, vance joy, What do you mean?

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Speaker 4: So he asked me to play trumpet for him. I

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Speaker 4: think it was at the I think it was at

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Speaker 4: the Grand Final, a Grand final party. No way in

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Speaker 4: his in his brass section.

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Speaker 1: You would have been labricated by then.

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Speaker 4: I said yes, and I was down the beach having

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Speaker 4: I was meant to drive back to do it, and

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Speaker 4: I was watching the final was a great Grand Final,

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Speaker 4: and I had way too many and thought, oh my god,

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Speaker 4: I can't drive back.

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Speaker 1: So I just said to.

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Speaker 5: Sorry't find another trumpet?

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Speaker 1: Just what he wanted. I won't be available. What was

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Speaker 1: your instrument of choice at school? What did you start?

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Speaker 1: You started with trump?

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Speaker 3: Trump trumpet in grade three.

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Speaker 5: I've seen you on the trumpet.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so a heart instrument.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you'd start with a superman thing, wouldn't you on

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Speaker 5: the trumpet?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's about your We call ombushir sets. So it's

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Speaker 4: how you press your lips together and how good you

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Speaker 4: are holding that lip pressure?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? And lip pressure you can use another errands. There

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Speaker 3: are you going?

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Speaker 4: Carrying you a little trumpet place to school? Did you

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Speaker 4: cop a bit or no? I was okay. I mean

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Speaker 4: the violinists were the ones that you top a bit more.

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Speaker 4: But also worse. Did my brother chose this instrument? I

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Speaker 4: can't believe it because he went on to be a

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Speaker 4: a flute this ty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but what about.

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Speaker 5: When you saw the guy who decided on the double

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Speaker 5: bass or the cello at the time, and he was

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Speaker 5: like the thing was on wheels.

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Speaker 1: Wheel around.

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Speaker 4: I think my brother used to say to me, I

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Speaker 4: can't believe is the flute because the face you make

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Speaker 4: while playing it. Yeah, just kind of downwards and you

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Speaker 4: have to kind.

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Speaker 5: Of almost it like a smoker's top.

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Speaker 1: Left.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: It a bit more about your family. Can we talk

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Speaker 5: about the fact that your sister married one of your mates?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, what I love.

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Speaker 5: About this story is the fact that he put in

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Speaker 5: a phone call to you guys to ask for permission.

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Speaker 4: Yes, oh, I mean, I'm on for the book today.

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Speaker 4: And my first book I ever wrote was formed Be

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Speaker 4: a Kid for George. Yes, but my sister, one of

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Speaker 4: my base mates, Paul, we were made since we were

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Speaker 4: about ten, and then he obviously took offense. It must

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Speaker 4: have been using me to get to her for.

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Speaker 3: A long time, the long.

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Speaker 1: Play, the people out there in the cars, stick with

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Speaker 1: it and you work out.

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Speaker 4: But he rang my brother to ask permission to take

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Speaker 4: her out on a date, and rang and rang me

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Speaker 4: as well, and Hamish, I was hosting the arias at

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Speaker 4: the time, and Pink had just pulled out from doing

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Speaker 4: this sketch we wanted to do, and so we were

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Speaker 4: anically trying to write something different. Was the night before

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Speaker 4: the arreas, and I ignored the call and then we

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Speaker 4: went out. The areas went well, Hamish and I drunk

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Speaker 3: And I rang him on the Wednesday and I got it. Mate.

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Speaker 4: He's like, oh, get a buddy, and I said, yeah, good,

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Speaker 4: just wanting if you want to play golf that so

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Speaker 4: he said yeah, they'd be great, to be great, all right,

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Speaker 3: So I'll pick you up.

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Speaker 4: I was like, what the hell are you doing? He said,

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Speaker 4: you haven't listened to your voicemail, have you? I said no, no,

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Speaker 4: I just called you back and he said, I rang

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Speaker 3: Out in the date. He thought I'd been freezing him

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Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, go for your life.

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Speaker 1: How did you go? Did to do it?

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Speaker 3: He says, yeah, I did it. It was it went

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Speaker 3: went well? How well? I said, that made great? Awesome?

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Speaker 4: It'd be awesome to have someone around family functions that

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Speaker 4: a boke's boyfriends were idiots.

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Speaker 5: But you say, I mean, it's almost like asking a

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Speaker 5: parent for permission to marry the daughter. But did you

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Speaker 5: ask what his intentions? Were?

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Speaker 1: Well? Do you see this? To me?

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Speaker 4: This is a very different response to your brother. Then

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Speaker 4: your brother gave me and my older brother, my brother said,

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Speaker 4: if you know, be sure about this decision, because you're

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Speaker 4: not just meddling with her relationship.

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Speaker 3: You're going to meddle with the whole family.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it friendship mafia?

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Speaker 2: How you want to mess with the leaves, you mess

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Speaker 2: with all the leaves. I was also looking of love

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Speaker 2: as well. And we've got Patti Cummens on the show.

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Speaker 2: He's coming on in a half an hour. Yes, we

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Speaker 2: try to get him on the same time as you,

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Speaker 2: but he's flat out this morning. He's doing a bit

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Speaker 4: But we've got media from six till seven, six am

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Speaker 2: Crazy And okay, you've got to give us something from

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Speaker 2: the wedding that we can play about the pat You've

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Speaker 2: got to give us something. Was there a speech that

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Speaker 2: stood out in your mind your day or anyone on

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Speaker 2: the dance floor?

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Speaker 5: And have you got time to stick around? Can you think, well,

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Speaker 5: when we're going to a song or ads, Tommy, you've

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Speaker 5: got traffic to come up with a story from the

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Speaker 5: wedding perfect.

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Speaker 1: Andy Lee's latest book, Do Not Open This Book.

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Speaker 2: The series is outsold over two million copies and he

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Speaker 2: been translated into the thirty five languages around the world.

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Speaker 3: I know them all on fire one one I don't

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Speaker 3: so you did all the other the translator audio and

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Speaker 3: you don't know Icelandic.

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Speaker 2: Won Yabba Awards as well, which is the Young Australian's

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Speaker 2: Best Book Awards. The Are Big, Are Huge, Are you.

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Speaker 1: Well, you will always be young.

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Speaker 5: And I love this here and I know that wasn't

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Speaker 5: the only one. The amount of kids addressed as your

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Speaker 5: book for book Week.

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Speaker 1: I love.

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Speaker 4: I love people send me the pictures of their children

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Speaker 4: or nephew as were's the main character. And look, paper

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Speaker 4: and so you see their parents that have made a

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Speaker 3: And then you see the.

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Speaker 4: Dads that have literally got a blue texter and just

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Speaker 1: Oh you'll win it.

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Speaker 2: Worry about the Australian cricket captain Pat that's right, we're

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Speaker 2: speaking to him in about twenty minutes time you went

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Speaker 2: to his wedding.

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Speaker 1: He looks magnificent. You guys have been closed for a

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Speaker 4: It was awesome. And Becky, his partner is from England,

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Speaker 4: And then there's Nathan Lyn so you could see the

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Speaker 1: Such such a ballad themselves.

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Speaker 4: Well, I won't mention which cricketer, but there was one

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Speaker 4: I mean maybe you could ask this about Patty to

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Speaker 1: They'd been tripped up the stick.

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Speaker 4: He lost them both, and then just went, oh, well,

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Speaker 4: and and I hope I'm.

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Speaker 1: Still loud in this is when we're different.

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Speaker 4: So you could ask about that and then hopefully if

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Speaker 4: they don't came from.

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Speaker 5: Play in the audio?

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Speaker 1: How much fun is that? It was?

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Speaker 3: It was, you know, pretty awesome.

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Speaker 4: I mean I was beck and I were both to

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Speaker 3: But they have they're all exhausted.

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Speaker 4: Because they've got such a small window, the cricketers where

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Speaker 4: traveled so much. Of course, and so they piled on

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Speaker 4: and then and then hoff Hazelwood's wedding, all within eight days.

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Speaker 4: I think, Oh man, they were just riding this. You know,

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Speaker 2: And you can roll the arm over a very good

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Speaker 2: golfer and cricketer yourself. Actually, we've got a backyard cricket game,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Albanese said, we can use Kira Billy House.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen you guys do this before? I've been

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Speaker 3: so jealous. Really are you guys doing this?

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Speaker 1: You've got a play I've never been and Tom write

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Speaker 1: it down?

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Speaker 3: When is it, Tommy November?

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Speaker 1: It's with me as well. I would love great. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And how serious it does it get?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well it does.

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Speaker 2: And this is Albanese's opportunity. Dominic a pair of our premis.

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Speaker 2: This is very nervous because you know the cameras are

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Speaker 2: on them. We know Johnny Howard back in the day

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Speaker 2: and Bob Hawk got his glasses trying to pull shot. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is a big one for them. What about this

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Speaker 2: for a deal music? I'm going to jump in early.

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Speaker 2: I want to and on my team. You can have Hamish,

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Speaker 2: you have your mate.

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Speaker 5: You are with me, You've got Homish.

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Speaker 3: No comment.

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Speaker 4: Hamish did tell me, oh man, he was the under

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Speaker 4: twelves wiki keeper batsman at Brentwood Primary or something like that.

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Speaker 4: But then he also has told me that he did

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Speaker 4: Circus Strix instead of sport in high school.

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Speaker 5: Sounds anybody that's read so many books on sport just

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Speaker 5: to be able to have a conversation about.

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Speaker 1: He's like, good, you've got him one.

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Speaker 2: Andy Lee's new book, Do Not Open. This book is

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Speaker 2: out now. The series is out now world I made.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for coming in here.

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