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Speaker 1: Time for catch up with her. I will make Graham Norton,

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Speaker 1: who now does not a book or a television show,

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Speaker 1: it's a tour not has hited our wife for what

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Speaker 1: appears to be a growing number of shows in this country,

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Speaker 1: arrives next month anyway, Graham Norton, good morning, Hello sir,

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Speaker 1: how are you? I'm extremely well and happy New Year

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Speaker 1: to you. Quick question. I had been Elton on the

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Speaker 1: program last week and I asked him about Christmas New Year.

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Speaker 1: He said he cooked two turkeys, a roast pork, vegetable

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Speaker 1: options plural plus rose vidgeties for the family. Can you

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Speaker 2: Elton John did that?

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Speaker 1: No, not Elton John being Elton wrong.

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Speaker 2: Elton, Oh, Ben, I'm thinking I really can't imagine Ben

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Speaker 2: Alston or Elton John Brook two turkeys. No, we struggled

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Speaker 2: with one here and actually it was really my Christmas

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Speaker 2: dinner was very, very bad this year. I miss timed

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Speaker 2: and all the eduports were close to raw. But didn't

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Speaker 3: Matter to cook it.

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Speaker 2: I did, but yeah, it was not my finestality.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic you're back into it from my wife. By the way,

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Speaker 1: who's just finished Frankie two questions. One she can grete.

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Speaker 1: She said, this is your best yet and by some margin.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think she's a big fan of your

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Speaker 1: so she's not saying you were useless and now you're brilliant,

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Speaker 1: but she's just you've hit your stride. Do you feel

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Speaker 2: It's my favorite one of them so far. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I suppose you're you know, you're young. It's always your favorite,

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Speaker 2: and stuff. So yeah, I'm really I'm really people thank

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Speaker 2: your wife. That's very kind of her.

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Speaker 1: Not at all. And having said that, I mean I

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Speaker 1: read the books as well, but but she was particularly effusive,

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Speaker 1: she says. And here's I hadn't thought about this, she says,

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Speaker 1: Do you write in your voice? Because she can't read

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Speaker 2: It's a weird thing, isn't it, Because normally when you

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Speaker 2: faund like, But of course when it says great Norton

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Speaker 1: The next part. And can I congratulate you on these shows.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it started out nine shows you're bringing here,

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Speaker 2: It's listen because you know you put these things on

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Speaker 2: saying and you're kind of dear God, let me come

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Speaker 2: So I think they are all sort of I think

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Speaker 1: I mean, you must have had enough success so far

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Speaker 2: You know? All that stuff you do, you do because

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Speaker 1: Good the business of leaving your television program to do

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Speaker 1: this tour strikes me as a large one.

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 2: No, because in fact I'm only missing one week? Is

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you explained that, because I literally, because

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Speaker 1: show and I'm assuming it's yours. And your show is

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Speaker 1: not just a show. I mean, you know, it's people

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Speaker 1: what you bring. And therefore, if I was employing you,

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Speaker 2: No, she's been on the show earlier this year and

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Speaker 2: she'll be recording the show. So I'm doing my final

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Speaker 1: As far as the the Neighborhood, I've got to talk

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Speaker 2: with interest. Yeah, we're doing that in June and it

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Speaker 2: It's all these families and Households living in houses and

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Speaker 2: be a New Zealand version of goggle Box.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a seat that it's going places in

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. Well, listen, we're looking forward obviously, we're looking forward

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Speaker 2: All right, take care, sir, bye bye.

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Speaker 1: Nice to talk to Sir Graham Norton in the country.

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Speaker 1: Let me give you the date. Apparently you're telling me

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Speaker 1: there was a goggle box google Box here a local

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Speaker 1: of year two. Left that everything else is sold out,

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