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Speaker 1: And Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, Sydney Lauper has wild audiences time after time.

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Speaker 1: See what I did.

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Speaker 2: And she's bringing an incredible arena tour to Australia. It

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Speaker 2: will be her farewell tour. We are delighted to be

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Speaker 2: joined by the woman herself on Zoom Sydney Lauper.

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Speaker 3: Hello, look at you sitting in front of your fireplace.

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Speaker 3: You would have a great fireplace, I'd imagine.

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Speaker 4: Now we have a fireplace that doesn't work because we're

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Speaker 4: in Manhattan. Fireplace that just says a picture of place.

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Speaker 3: Well you can you can get those TVs now and

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Speaker 3: it looks like a fireplace.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 3: This is.

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Speaker 2: I'm loving your hair. I haven't seen you with blue

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Speaker 2: hair before.

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Speaker 4: It looks great.

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Speaker 1: Ah well, there's a time I thought it was kind

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Speaker 1: of mint perfect.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: We're excited to have you uh to Australia a big

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Speaker 2: arena tour. But it must be a bittersweet for you

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Speaker 2: because you've said this is your last one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not bitter sweet. It's exciting. It's what I've

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Speaker 1: always wanted to do. I've played a lot of different places.

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Speaker 1: I haven't played an arena tour in Australia since I

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Speaker 1: don't know.

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Speaker 4: Eighty nine eighty six.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've gone down a lot of squiggly roads

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Speaker 1: and they were right and.

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Speaker 4: Along with me.

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to do something that was joyful and

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Speaker 1: that I brought people together and that was fun.

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Speaker 3: You know. I've always been such a big fan of yours,

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Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, you get a new

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Speaker 3: appreciation when I watched that greatest not in pop because

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Speaker 3: when they did, but.

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Speaker 4: Well, you forgot how I know.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I took you for granted. Cydia.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I was watching this and

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Speaker 3: when you watch I think when that song came out,

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Speaker 3: we all appreciated how big it was. But just see

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Speaker 3: that documentary how it came together, and you were actually

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Speaker 3: not going to be in that in Where Are the World?

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Speaker 3: You weren't going to be in there. You didn't think

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Speaker 3: your boyfriend at the time said it wasn't going to work.

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Speaker 3: And then you're one of the ones that steals the

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Speaker 3: show in that and your vocal. I watch it back

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Speaker 3: and I just I love just watching you back, just

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Speaker 3: the way you singing that is just You're a gift.

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Speaker 4: Well, everybody.

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Speaker 1: And this was the genius of Quincy that he put

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Speaker 1: all these people together in a circle.

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Speaker 4: So you standing there and basically I was.

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Speaker 1: On the end of the line and I'm watching Diana Ross,

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Speaker 1: who when I was nine years old, and they meet

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Speaker 1: the Supremes.

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Speaker 4: I met them and I really liked them, so I

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Speaker 4: was hanging with them.

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Speaker 1: I thought, oh my gosh, these guys are so great,

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Speaker 1: and sang with them all the time, right, and there

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Speaker 1: she is, and then is Paul Simon, and there's all

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Speaker 1: these I mean, one after the other after the other,

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Speaker 1: and Bruce and you kind of like standing there a

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Speaker 1: little like gobshite, that's a word, because you can't believe

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Speaker 1: that you were actually the right like this far away

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Speaker 1: from you.

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Speaker 4: It was so surreal that And I know they wanted

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Speaker 4: me to sing Hi, and I guess that's why I

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Speaker 4: was there. It because I could sing Hi.

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Speaker 1: And by the time it got to me, though I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what I was doing.

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Speaker 4: I just was like wet loose because I couldn't even

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Speaker 4: believe it. I mean, see Perry, yeah down hole like

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Speaker 4: and then Hueye, I knew Hueye.

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Speaker 3: You know that bit with Huey Lewis as well. That

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Speaker 3: was supposed to be the bit for Prince and Hue

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Speaker 3: was just happy to be there in the background, and

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden I said, oh, hueye you're up.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't know. I guess he didn't think

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Speaker 4: he just did it. But I found it quite remarkable.

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Speaker 2: But also, as you say, it was a moment of

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Speaker 2: the people who are in the zeitgeist at that time.

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Speaker 2: But look at all the people you've just mentioned, and

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Speaker 2: obviously your self included, who've gone on to just be

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Speaker 2: the icons that they are. That moment, that zeitgeist continues today.

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Speaker 2: Here you are touring the world filling out arenas. It's

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Speaker 2: quite extraordinary the number of people that are still major,

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Speaker 2: major performing stars from from then.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it was pretty amazing to me too. We

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Speaker 4: came out with the documentary and I was like, well, wait,

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Speaker 4: how old am I?

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Speaker 3: You're thirty two, aren't you? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Right now, seventy not yet in June.

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Speaker 3: You know what they say, seventy two is the new

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Speaker 3: thirty two. It's the new thirty two and Sydney, we

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Speaker 3: just love it. We say that. We say that because

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Speaker 3: I look at you and you look fantastic, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you're still putting bombs on seats. That's what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Well, I want to want to make a show. You know.

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Speaker 1: The whole idea of doing this was to bring people

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Speaker 1: together to say goodbye in a big way, and to

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Speaker 1: bring people together in a joyful experience, you know, to

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Speaker 1: you know, make them laugh and make him cry, made

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Speaker 1: them dance, everybody together, will all be doing this thing together.

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Speaker 4: And and to me, that's a celebration. And I think

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Speaker 4: that people in this sport, with the way the world does, needs.

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Speaker 2: A little joy and the other person to bring us

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Speaker 2: to the joy and reminding us of the of of

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Speaker 2: how great the world can be. So thank you.

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Speaker 3: And do you have any plans after your last concert?

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Speaker 3: What's going to happen? What are you going to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to La Joia in California and

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Speaker 1: do Working Girl. It's gonna open there. That's the pre

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Speaker 1: Broadway thing. And then the next year goes to Broadway there.

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Speaker 1: You go.

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Speaker 3: See, you're never stopping. You're making me tired. Tickets for

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Speaker 3: Cindy Laupers girls just want to have fun, farewell to

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Speaker 3: on sale now at ticket Take Cindy. It's always a

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Speaker 3: tread and I promise I will always appreciate you.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, listen, we have the Baronicas. It's going to

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Speaker 4: be a huge show. But I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I've been going to Australia most of my career,

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Speaker 1: so I just wanted to.

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Speaker 4: Be able to go and say goodbye.

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Speaker 2: Do it right, I, We'll see you there.

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Speaker 3: We'll be there with our hankies.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Well, thank you Cindy for your time. We really

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Cindy, have a great.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Bye bye.

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Speaker 1: The came