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Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman Kate Hudson new movie for Neil Diamond fans. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: they star as Mike and Clear Sadina who are Lightning

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Speaker 1: and Thunder, a group Lightning and Thunder. It's a duo

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Speaker 1: Neil Diamond tribute act. Get some attention to Milwaukee now.

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Speaker 1: The movie itself is based on a documentary of the couple.

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Speaker 1: It was called Song Sung Blue that came out in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. It's a story of hope amidst

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Speaker 1: a tragic love story, generating Oscar buzz and d four

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Speaker 1: Hudson herself and her role. Anyway, Hugh Jackman Kate Hudson

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Speaker 1: are with us. Good morning, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, morning mate.

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Speaker 1: Now correct me if I'm wrong, Kate, you two didn't

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Speaker 1: know each other before this project.

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Speaker 2: Not really.

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Speaker 3: We had met a couple times, but we had we

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Speaker 3: didn't really know each other. Now.

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Speaker 1: So having said that, what's the creative risk you rickon

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Speaker 1: of putting two people together in these roles that you

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Speaker 1: two have if you don't know each other really well?

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Speaker 2: I will let Hugh answer this because I said it

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Speaker 2: to Hugh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: On day one, Kate said to me, you know, if

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Speaker 5: we don't work this movie, doesn't work, and.

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Speaker 4: She was right.

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Speaker 5: But I I had a lot of confidence because it

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Speaker 5: was it was Michelle, my friend, who said, you watching

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Speaker 5: CBS Sunday, and I said, Kate Hudson has done an

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Speaker 5: album and there's a great story about her and I

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Speaker 5: and she should play Claire.

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Speaker 4: And I went and I turned on. It was like

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Speaker 4: as soon as she said, I was like yeah.

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Speaker 5: And then I turned it on and I watched it.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, I could just see it and i'd met,

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Speaker 5: we'd actually met. We've done like a reading of something,

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Speaker 5: so we'd met a little bit along the way. But

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Speaker 5: I had a sense. So I had a strong sense

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Speaker 5: that it was going to be great, but I didn't

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Speaker 5: know it was going to be this great or this easy, Mike,

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Speaker 5: if I'm honest, So.

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Speaker 1: Kate, when it clicked for you, I mean, basically, how

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Speaker 1: did you know? Was it instant?

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Speaker 3: I mean yes, But I have to say, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't mean to I don't want this to sound reductive,

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Speaker 3: because it wasn't. But when we kissed, I have to say,

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Speaker 3: it was It's like we've we'd been kissing each.

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Speaker 2: Other for years. It was the easiest kiss and kissing

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Speaker 2: the whole it was like it was like he was

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Speaker 3: But I think part of that started when we, you know,

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Speaker 3: started to get to know each other. My thing with him,

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Speaker 3: which was really important to me. It's like, you know,

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Speaker 3: we have to I also wanted Hugh. I didn't know Hugh,

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Speaker 3: so I was like, I'm very tactile and I want

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Speaker 3: to get to know you, and if I ever weared

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Speaker 3: you out, you know.

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Speaker 2: Just let me know.

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Speaker 3: Found out that we're very similar, connective people and very open.

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Speaker 3: We found each other really really like transitional time in

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Speaker 3: our lives spiritually, and I think it just opened us

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Speaker 3: up to each other. And it was like, I know

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Speaker 3: this sounds silly a little bit, but it's like the

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Speaker 3: universe just sort of put.

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Speaker 2: Us exactly where we were supposed to be, and we

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Speaker 2: felt that immediately.

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Speaker 5: We said, although I might just remind you of that.

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Speaker 5: We were doing a scene and stopped to snow and

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Speaker 5: it was freezing and we it wasn't snowing on the

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Speaker 5: wide shot or on my close up, and then it

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Speaker 5: stopped to snow. We went we filmed it so beautiful,

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Speaker 5: and we went back and shot my side. So we're

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Speaker 5: out in the cold quite a long time, and you know,

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Speaker 5: when you get cold and you know it starts to run.

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Speaker 5: So I just remember after one of the kisses, this

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Speaker 4: I'm right, it was my nose running and go and

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Speaker 4: we had three more takes.

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Speaker 2: You like, you'll never look at me to say them again,

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Speaker 5: Right when you're going in for a kiss and it's

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Speaker 5: on camera but the woman's doing this.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't do a lot of your confidence, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Somebody I read a review suggested this could well be

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Speaker 1: your most ambitious role. Yet do you see it that way?

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Speaker 5: In many ways, I do.

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Speaker 4: I think it combines a lot of different things that

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Speaker 5: But in many ways it was asking things of me

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Speaker 4: I don't know about u, Kate, if you feel the same,

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Speaker 4: I always want to feel a little bit of a

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I can pull this off. Like

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Speaker 4: It's not like I want something like I.

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Speaker 5: Go, ah, I know exactly how to do this. I

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Speaker 5: want to dive into unknown waters a little bit. And

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Speaker 5: I think what's different about me now is I'm more

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Speaker 5: comfortable with not knowing how it's going to turn out

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Speaker 5: each scene each.

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Speaker 4: Day, or the movie and and going on with that ride.

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Speaker 5: And then that's for me. Back to your question, when

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Speaker 5: did I know? It was when I could communicate being vulnerable.

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure if I don't know how to do this,

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Speaker 5: and I could say it with my acting partner, with

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Speaker 5: my on you know, it was my colleague, and I

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Speaker 5: could just say the thing that I would normally have

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Speaker 5: kept to myself and ambitious for you too, Kate.

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Speaker 3: Oh. Always, I mean it's like it's like saying It's

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Speaker 3: like saying to a ballplayer, like do you want to

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Speaker 3: play in the major leagues or not? You know, you

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Speaker 3: dedicate your whole life to something. What are the things?

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Speaker 3: And who do you want to be playing with?

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Speaker 2: And what are the things?

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Speaker 3: You you know, it's like, no, I want, I want

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Speaker 3: the ninety I want the ninety six mile power, you know, fastball.

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Speaker 2: It's scary, but I want I want, I want in it.

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Speaker 3: And uh and I think that's what always it gets

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Speaker 3: exciting about these things. And for me, I those opportunities

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Speaker 3: they don't make movies like this very often, so I'm

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Speaker 3: so grateful.

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Speaker 2: And and and work. I love hard work.

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Speaker 3: And I like work that gives me a little of

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Speaker 3: the you know, the uh, the the you know, the butterflies,

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Speaker 3: and and and then my and then you know, and

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Speaker 3: and then also it's like then when you're in it

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Speaker 3: just the commitment to it and the sort of like

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Speaker 3: liberating feeling. And so yeah, yeah, definitely enjoy the ambition

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Speaker 3: and the fears and you know, the butterflies and not that.

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Speaker 1: Hugh the line about the movies. That was interesting. So

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Speaker 1: so I look at you, mister Wolverine, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I think to myself, that's modern movie making, isn't it

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Speaker 1: that sort of big picture, big budget whatever. But what

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Speaker 1: you've done here, I guess, is almost like movies of

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it does feel like that. And I've

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Speaker 5: both Kate and I have been a screening with some

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Speaker 5: people I don't name them without their permission, but people

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Speaker 5: big wigs in our business, and they're like, Ah, these

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Speaker 5: were the movie this is the movies we need, These

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Speaker 5: are the movies we used to make all the time.

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Speaker 4: This is this And it does have that feeling and

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Speaker 4: it's funny. There is a line in the movie about nostalgia.

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Speaker 4: There is something nostalgic about it. It's an everyday couple.

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Speaker 5: It's about some battler's you know, and seems like an

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Speaker 5: ordinary story, but it's actually so extraordinary within that. And

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Speaker 5: I have to tell you everybody turned the movie down.

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Speaker 5: Thirteen thirteen knows straight off, no way, Yeah, thirteen out

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Speaker 5: of thirteen. Actually, our producer John Davis has done one

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Speaker 5: hundred and seventeen movies. This is his number one, one

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Speaker 5: seven And he called in a favor. He just rang

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Speaker 5: Peter Kramer from Universe and said, you need to do me.

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Speaker 5: Figures what is it, Johnny, guess you're gonna make this movie?

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Speaker 5: And he goes, I haven't read a guess, just say yes.

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Speaker 5: He goes, okay, And that's how made unreal.

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Speaker 1: Kate Kate, does it fit to sueduced? I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you look at so, this movie is the movie of

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Speaker 1: the documentary. The documentary is of real life. If you

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Speaker 1: had just simply written the plot with the details on

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Speaker 1: a piece of paper, there's no way you could have

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Speaker 1: got it past the studio, was there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't write it like what are you doing?

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Speaker 3: List said, this can't be real, like, you know, you

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Speaker 2: Let's d it. Yeah, and then and and.

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Speaker 3: Boy is it real every every step of the way.

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Speaker 3: I mean, what a wild, fascinating, what crazy life Mike

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Speaker 3: and Claire lived. And even the whole the line, you know,

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Speaker 3: lightning can strike twice, you know, it's that the fact

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Speaker 3: that they lived through all of that is just pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 2: And makes for a great story, you know.

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Speaker 3: And I think that Craig honored that them so wonderfully

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Speaker 3: by by walking such a great line of never getting.

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Speaker 2: Too far down that you can't get out.

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Speaker 3: And there's just he walks this sort of like line

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Speaker 2: And I think, you know, the one, the one thing.

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Speaker 3: And I know he's watching, but like, if Mike could

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Speaker 3: see this movie, I mean it would just I feel

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Speaker 2: Its not bad.

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Speaker 5: I have a weed feeling. This is my feeling that

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Speaker 5: Mike the reason the movie is happening. He is Mike, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: likes that determination, like the never say no.

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Speaker 4: I don't care if they any studios have turned it down.

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Speaker 4: This movie's happening, and it's happened.

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Speaker 3: It's sort of his dedication, his dedication to his music,

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Speaker 3: his art, to Neil, to Claire, to the kids, taking

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Speaker 3: taking on those kids. You know, it's like he's so

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Speaker 3: he he was so dedicated. So yeah, that's the I

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Speaker 3: agree with you. It's like this idea that he is

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Speaker 3: the reason why this movie happened would make.

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Speaker 2: A lot of sense.

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Speaker 5: I just remember, I just remembered, Mike. I haven't shown

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Speaker 5: anyone this, but Claire Claire said. Claire gave me this

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Speaker 5: on the last and that's my actual hat from when

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Speaker 5: he went to see Neil Diamond.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's that's incredible. Well, I'll tell you what. From

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Speaker 1: what I'm reading, we've got some Mosco buzz about this

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Speaker 1: as well. So so thank you too for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Good to catch up and good luck with it all.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Mine Gidson, Hugh Jackman. That was as you probably

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Speaker 1: heard on zoom. So we'll whack that up on the

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Speaker 1: old Where do we wak that up on the zibbie,

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Speaker 1: on the Facebook, on the website, on the social media

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Speaker 1: stuff that's out there. It'll be bad. If you're under sixteen,

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Speaker 1: don't watch it. Oh that's Australia.

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