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Speaker 1: Podcasting. Now we are talking about the hashtag free Brittany,

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Speaker 1: and we think we've got the perfect guest to come

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Speaker 1: on and discuss that with us right now. What was your.

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Speaker 2: Biggest accomplishment as a teenager? Well, at just thirteen, our

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Speaker 2: next guest was performing to two point one billion people

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Speaker 2: and find through a stadium on Wires Dinner then Wells hairline.

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Speaker 2: If that wasn't enough, and let's be honest, it should

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Speaker 2: be a daby release became one of Australia's defining songs

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Speaker 2: of the naughties. Here's to talk to our thirty something

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Speaker 2: year old teenagers. It's here the ourself. Nicky went there.

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Speaker 3: Nicky, what an open I thank you guy.

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Speaker 1: He no worries it all. I mean, let's not drill

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Speaker 1: in the past. We are going to be talking about

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Speaker 1: the past a fair bit before we get there. You've

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Speaker 1: got a brand new record. It's called Girls.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's just a bunch of tracks that I wrote

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Speaker 3: over in Nashville a little while ago, and it's kind

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Speaker 3: of just about let's just forget all our inhibitions, let's

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Speaker 3: not judge anyone, and let's just sing and feel good

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Speaker 3: about ourselves, whether that's dancing, singing or expressing ourselves for

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Speaker 3: who we are.

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Speaker 1: Well done. Well done as well, because, like I mean,

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Speaker 1: as what happens to anybody who has sort of like

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Speaker 1: one of those big moments in history which punctuates everybody's life,

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Speaker 1: You get frozen in time.

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Speaker 3: So I do get more wrinkles.

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Speaker 1: But in our memories, you know, everyone's imagining that little

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Speaker 1: girl on the swing with the red hair rising up

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Speaker 1: in front of this at and two point one billion

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Speaker 1: people watching you. People must just let it all the time.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, look at you now, and you're like, man, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was twenty years ago. Like put it down.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's not such a bad thing to be

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Speaker 3: remembered by, you know, an iconic moment in this country.

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Speaker 3: I didn't win a gold medal, which maybe I kind

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Speaker 3: of would have liked to, but it's nice to be

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Speaker 3: remembered against such you know, awesome athletes that really that's

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Speaker 3: what the Olympics is about.

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Speaker 1: Gold, gold medal. I was more impressed with you. Well,

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Speaker 1: look it was twenty years ago, Nikki, And it's really funny.

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Speaker 1: We were just talking before about being a young child

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Speaker 1: star like that in two thousand and we couldn't help

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Speaker 1: but draw some analogies to you and Britney Spears and

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Speaker 1: everything that's going on with the Free Britney movement at

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Speaker 1: the moment. What's your take on how hard it is

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Speaker 1: for somebody in that situation and if you can extend

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Speaker 1: on that, particularly from a woman's perspective and the sense

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Speaker 1: of being sexualized and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I think we'll never really know what she

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Speaker 3: exactly went through until she speaks out, but we can

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Speaker 3: all empathize with her and remember that she was a

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Speaker 3: young child. I was lucky enough where I had great

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Speaker 3: family support, but I can only imagine that overseas and

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Speaker 3: with the use of the media, how she was exploited

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Speaker 3: and feels like that, And you do have to think,

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Speaker 3: as a woman and as a young girl, what damage

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Speaker 3: that has done to her. But I think we also

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Speaker 3: have to remember on the other side, as artists, we

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Speaker 3: need the media, we need press to make a career,

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Speaker 3: and we want it because we love what we do

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Speaker 3: and love to perform. So it's about finding that balance

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Speaker 3: of it being enough to let you fulfill your dreams,

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Speaker 3: but also enough to remain who you are and truly

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Speaker 3: inside you and not you know, get caught up in it.

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Speaker 1: Interesting balance, isn't it. You constantly walk in this tyrote

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Speaker 1: where you need people to spread what you're doing and

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Speaker 1: like what you're doing and talk about what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: But there's obviously a tipping point where.

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Speaker 3: That and I think the media has to play some

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Speaker 3: kind of part in that, in respecting the age of artists,

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Speaker 3: and we have to support them and also take responsibility

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Speaker 3: of when they do do things that are wrong, and

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Speaker 3: take that responsibility because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: she may be Britney Spears, but at home she's probably

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Speaker 3: just Britney.

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Speaker 1: I heard that if the Olympics are coming back here

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighty in Australia, you're gonna be doing the

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Speaker 1: same routine, but there'll be a wheelchair.

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Speaker 3: A frame.

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Speaker 1: Up above the crowd.

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Speaker 3: You know. Just just mind it up again.

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Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure to talk to you for the

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Speaker 1: for the first time. I think it is our first chat.

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's a second.

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Speaker 1: That's embarrassing. Hey, thanks for joining. I think it's been

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Speaker 1: a pleasure. Mat and all the best.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: You have a great afternoon.

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Speaker 3: I want you too.

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