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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be Kevin Milne is a weather scutter. Kevin, Happy

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Speaker 2: New Year.

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Speaker 3: Happy New Year to you, Jack. I'm just thinking about

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Speaker 3: you solituding in the woods. Yes, assuming the one thing

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Speaker 3: you didn't tell us was that you chop it out

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Speaker 3: for the anti nagal chet clubs.

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Speaker 2: I you'll be pleased to know I did make the

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Speaker 2: anti natal classes before the before the tramp. It was

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Speaker 2: carefully considered and I and I made sure, I mean

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Speaker 2: as much as one can. I I asked my wife

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Speaker 2: to sort of assess her own state before we headed

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Speaker 2: into the bush, so I was cautiously optimistic that she

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Speaker 2: wouldn't slip into labor in a couple of days that

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Speaker 2: I had disappeared. But nonetheless I was relieved to get

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Speaker 2: out and get back to her. Wouldn't have been a

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Speaker 2: good look, and I and I can it was the

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Speaker 2: only reason I knew she was joking. I knew that

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Speaker 2: her first words to me if I'd missed the birth

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Speaker 2: of our child would not be congratulations. Anyway, You've had

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Speaker 2: a good summer, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Yes, very busy time. I had a very very busy

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Speaker 3: Christmas and New Year, and when that was all over,

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Speaker 3: I really felt like heading to the bosh itself. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's funny, isn't it that you have what we call

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Speaker 3: the Christmas holidays, but they are actually sometimes busier and

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Speaker 3: even more stressful than the work.

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Speaker 2: You always need a holiday after the holidays, there's no

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Speaker 2: doubt about it. Yeah, especially around Christmas. Like you say,

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Speaker 2: you can be exhausted. This is why I reckon one

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Speaker 2: of the compulsory things for the summer holidays are afternoon naps.

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Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of afternoon naps in the summer holidays.

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Speaker 2: For me, it's almost the biggest luxury of the holidays.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Hey, young you want to put an end to

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Speaker 2: something that MC's do at fancy social functions, Kevin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this may seem a small thing, but I

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Speaker 3: think it's something we should get rid of. Why is

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Speaker 3: it often in glamorous circumstances, you know, ahead of sumptuous

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Speaker 3: dinners and stunning entertainment. Why is it that mcs kick

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Speaker 3: off the show with the dullest line in public speaking? Firstly,

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Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, are few household matters, at which point

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Speaker 3: the audience, who all consider they at least half a brain,

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Speaker 3: are told how to find the laboratories and where to go.

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Speaker 3: As an earthquake, it's a total atmosphere wrecker. Household matters may,

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Speaker 3: of course, not be the MC's idea. Event organizers often

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Speaker 3: insist M says kick off the show in this tedious way.

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Speaker 3: You'd swear it was a legal requirement, but it isn't.

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Speaker 3: If I'm asked as an MC to go through the

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Speaker 3: household matters routine, I put up a fight. Here's why.

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Speaker 3: On the way in, guests will likely have noticed doors

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Speaker 3: with a sign that says toilet. Toilet signs are there

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Speaker 3: to tell you that on the other side of the

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Speaker 3: door toilets. If you have a dodgy tummy or a

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Speaker 3: dicky post, you'll make a mental note where they are.

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Speaker 3: Even if you don't spot the toilet signs on the

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Speaker 3: way in, You've already spent decades on this planet. You

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Speaker 3: know how to sniff out a bathroom, and if your

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Speaker 3: instincts let you down on that occasion, you can simply

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Speaker 3: ask someone where are the toilets? No need for housekeeping announcements.

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Speaker 3: When the MT comes out, the audiences wound up for

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Speaker 3: the big occasion. They can't wait for the first joke

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Speaker 3: or permission to eat or the first performance. The last

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Speaker 3: thing they're after are directions to the laboratories. So my

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Speaker 3: plead to event organizes. If you have housekeeping matters to share,

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Speaker 3: stick a sign up somewhere, but do yourselves a favor.

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Speaker 3: Don't kill the atmosphere by starting the whole show or

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Speaker 3: indeed funeral explaining where the dunnies are. We're not stupid.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm one hundred percent with you on this. Kevin,

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Speaker 2: as someone who gets asked to do these things from

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Speaker 2: time to time as well, I think we can draw

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Speaker 2: a distinction, though, can't we. So we can say you

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Speaker 2: don't need to talk about the bogs, because everyone can

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Speaker 2: work that out, and if they can't work it out,

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Speaker 2: hopefully they'll last someone. But when it comes to the

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Speaker 2: emergency information, that's probably reasonable, right, obviously depending on the circumstance,

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Speaker 2: but I usually think it's probably reasonable.

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Speaker 3: I think given that if there's an earthquake, what we're

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Speaker 3: all sold is to drop and hold on something, I

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Speaker 3: think anything beyond that's unnecessary. Telling us where we all

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Speaker 3: should at that point where we should all gather. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be forgotten if there is a lad.

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Speaker 2: One when it's when there's something unusual as well. So

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Speaker 2: for example, I don't know if you've ever hosted anything

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Speaker 2: at Parliament and the Parliament Precinct. I've hosted a couple

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Speaker 2: of things there over the years, and it's one of

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Speaker 2: these places where they actually have a protocol for emergencies

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Speaker 2: where you've got to talk to the parliaments Security first

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Speaker 2: because they need to be able to guide the emergency

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Speaker 2: services through with all of the security and that kind

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Speaker 2: of thing. So it is a bit unusual, you say.

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Speaker 2: So usually you say, if there is an emergency, don't

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Speaker 2: call one one one, actually talk to Parliament Security first

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Speaker 2: and they'll call one one one. Yeah, but you're you're

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Speaker 2: generally right. There's not a lot of space sometimes in

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Speaker 2: this world for just like a bit of common sense.

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Speaker 3: No, there isn't. I'll give you one exception somehow another

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Speaker 3: before it all start, the audience needs to switch off

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Speaker 3: their phone, and so I do accept. But I don't

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Speaker 3: think to tell people that you don't have to create

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Speaker 3: a household matter segment to get that point across. I

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Speaker 3: think a really good MC can do it. Within about

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Speaker 3: the first fifteen seconds that they've been on stage. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: they can pull out their phone, turn it off in

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Speaker 3: front of everybody and say please do the same, do

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Speaker 3: the same, and that's it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, No, I'm with you. I'm with you, Kevin.

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Speaker 2: I think, I think a great miss.

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Speaker 3: Everybody here dies, and gentlemen, a few households, I think.

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Speaker 2: And you never say housekeeping. No one ever uses that

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Speaker 2: word housekeeping or household matters unless you're unless you're in

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Speaker 2: that environment, do you right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Right, Kevin Well said, thank you. Great to have you

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Speaker 2: back for twenty twenty five. So thank you very much, Kevin,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, look forward to catching up you again soon.

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