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Speaker 3: Got anything good?

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Speaker 2: Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: All right, So we begin this chap.

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Speaker 2: When you're doing these interviews, you're in a waiting room

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Speaker 2: for them to finish doing the most previous interview. So

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Speaker 2: we were waiting about half an hour forty minutes. It

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Speaker 2: was all running late. Then when Robbie was there, there

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Speaker 2: was a lot of technical problems, so trying to keep

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Speaker 2: my call, I suddenly realized I hadn't done that morning

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Speaker 2: my shoulder exercises. So I'm in the studio, I'm on camera,

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Speaker 2: I'm filling time, waiting for Robbie to be available, and

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Speaker 2: I'm using the time to do these shoulder exercises. And

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Speaker 2: I suddenly realized that actually he's been watching me for

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Speaker 2: about thirty seconds. And why am I saying all this?

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Speaker 2: Because it begins in a strange way.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Oh sorry, I didn't know Robbie. This is Christian.

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Speaker 3: Hi Christian. I used to speak to man.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, can I just explain what I was doing? Then?

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Speaker 2: I was doing some shoulder stretching because I've hurt my

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Speaker 2: shoulder and I'm in my fifties, so I was supposed

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Speaker 2: to be doing these exercises and I was just doing them.

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Speaker 1: Then. I just want to explain why I was doing that.

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Speaker 4: Oh there's always something going on for the middle aged man.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what are your ailments?

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Speaker 2: I was on holiday with my family last year and

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Speaker 2: we walked past one of those outdoor gyms and my

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Speaker 2: two daughters go, what are those? And it was like

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Speaker 2: parallel bars, you know the people used to do dips

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Speaker 2: on And I said, oh, I used to do a

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Speaker 2: better do like twenty or thirty of those, and they.

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Speaker 4: Went, when's the ninety degree angle and completely ripped it off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that is a but no Robbie on the second one.

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Speaker 2: And my daughters are nineteen and twenty one. They were laughing.

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Speaker 2: So I was my wife and I heard my eldest

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Speaker 2: show us what he had and it was nothing.

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Speaker 3: Less than nothing.

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Speaker 4: I think it's been described to me as we used

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Speaker 2: Let's what war wings what's it for you right now?

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Speaker 2: You know you're you're in the middle of the European tours,

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Speaker 2: so there must be what knees?

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Speaker 1: Is it knees? Shoulders?

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Speaker 4: No, I've got arthritis in my facet joints at the

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Speaker 4: base of my spine, and I've got two discs that

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Speaker 4: in the lumber. What I did my groin in by

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Speaker 4: just sitting down? I did my groining by sitting down.

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Speaker 2: Well, what did you land on your nuts or on

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Speaker 2: your land, on your testicles or what do you mean

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Speaker 4: I did that for the first time this year. Sagon

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Speaker 2: May because again, as we get older, they get they

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Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, I put my back out

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Speaker 4: by sneak. Actually the worst one was I put my

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Speaker 2: You know, we're a similar age, So how do you

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Speaker 2: I feel sorry for my kids now. It's quite a

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Speaker 2: tough time to be growing up, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure that my father would have said the same

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Speaker 4: My kids are having such a fantastic and varied and

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Speaker 3: I was never in the house, and I was.

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Speaker 4: Up to all sorts of things with all sorts of people.

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Speaker 3: It's and we're still alive.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you're right. We survived the eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 4: How survived. So yeah, I hear what you're saying. But

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Speaker 1: I love that, Robbie. What is it like when you

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Speaker 4: The great thing about Australia and the worst thing about

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Speaker 4: how incredible it is might be best kept a secret.

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Speaker 1: Good point, you know.

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Speaker 4: That's how I feel, you know. But you think about

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Speaker 4: lot of the time I just think, what you.

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Speaker 3: Don't just move to Australia. It's better. It is no Christian?

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Speaker 3: Am I right?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I love it? It is. My family do. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's a fantastic place. They're very they're very sort of

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Speaker 2: don't talk to strange as. You just keep moving, keep

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Speaker 2: making it weird. And so people ask me how my

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Speaker 2: I thought they were odd at first. It actually changes

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Speaker 2: on a singular level, how much more friendly people are here.

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Speaker 4: I just think that in Australia there is a freshing

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: I'm constantly everywhere else scanning and thinking and what is it?

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Speaker 3: What do they need? Where do I go?

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Speaker 4: What are they going to say to me? And how

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Speaker 4: And oh my god. And when I'm in Australia, I

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Speaker 2: But they in Australian Tourist Board, Robbie, they should put

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Speaker 2: on the posters come to Australia.

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Speaker 1: They don't give us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, huge biggest marketing campaign ever. Oh, that's what

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Speaker 2: we all want is to be Yes, that's a great idea.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to speak to the Australian Tourist Board the

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Speaker 2: moment we conclude this chat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, come to Australia. We don't give.

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Speaker 1: Them zero fs hashtag zero fs.

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Speaker 2: Now when you're here, you're here in novemby it towards

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Speaker 2: the end of the year, and I'd love to do

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Speaker 2: a thing where you come and do the show with me.

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Speaker 2: I don't mean just like, yes, we've said this, but

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Speaker 2: now let's commit to it. We don't know how many

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Speaker 2: more summers we've got, Robbie Peter Williams. We don't know

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Speaker 2: how many winters, more springs, more autumns we've got. Why

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Speaker 2: don't you come and do the show with me? Not

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Speaker 2: just an interview, actually do the show, Do the travel news,

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Speaker 1: Are you still up for that? Come and do that

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Speaker 1: with me in November May.

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Speaker 4: I've wanted to do this. I want to be the

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Speaker 4: Robin to your Batman.

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Speaker 2: I want to be but I want to be the

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Speaker 2: Batman to your Robin. So listen, let's do this one

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Speaker 2: year over and if you're up for it, you can

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Speaker 2: either come in this studio with me and we can

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I'm saying to my management here we've been

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Speaker 4: go in. So can you make a note of it

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Speaker 4: or something.

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Speaker 1: I'll make it a note of it.

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Speaker 3: How long's your show?

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Speaker 2: Three hours? But listen, you can do all three. You

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Speaker 4: I would do too. It would be a ripper mate.

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Speaker 4: It's good for two.

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Speaker 1: This is great.

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Speaker 2: And what you're going to do six to eight, I'm

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Speaker 2: guessing you're doing seven or nine. I'm on them up

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Speaker 2: for an hour and then bang, you're on.

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Speaker 4: Just depend what my jet lag is telling me, you

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Speaker 4: know jet Lag. Accordingly, we will cut our cloth. I'll

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Speaker 4: be in may I know we keep saying this. I'm

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Speaker 4: sorry that I haven't done it yet.

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Speaker 1: It's correct, you've been busy.

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Speaker 2: Or I'll tell you what because obviously you'll be probably

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Speaker 2: towards the end of the world tour, you'll be naked.

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Speaker 2: We could do it anytime of the day. I could

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Speaker 2: even do it. We could call the late breakfast show

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Speaker 2: and it could be at six o'clock in the evening.

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Speaker 2: I'll build it around your schedule.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well there's an offer. Yes, let's look.

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Speaker 2: Don't you don't get out of bed till about one

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Speaker 3: I seem to remember, mate, I don't get out of bed.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, listen, you do the show from the bed.

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Speaker 4: in bed. All of my face tims to lawyers, management

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Speaker 4: friends are all spent with me stark bollocked naked.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And I only found out that this was unusual when

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Speaker 4: I called somebody that I facetimed them and they were

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Speaker 4: also stark, bollocked naked.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, mate, mate, put some clothes on.

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Speaker 3: This is weird.

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Speaker 4: And then I thought, oh shit, that's how people are

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Speaker 4: experiencing me. They're they're experiencing weird. Robbie Williams with his

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Speaker 4: I've got bizarrely per nipples and I'm not turned on

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Speaker 4: or cold. It's just their erect They're always just direct. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: nothing else is anymore.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, is gone there on that? Yes, we just

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Speaker 1: need to move on to the next one. I'm so

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Speaker 1: sorry to wrap you out.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, because shame because we were just talking about

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Speaker 2: Robie's AREC nipples. That's a real shame to get that

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Speaker 2: kind that kind of champagne radio cut off. Hey listen, Robbie.

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Speaker 2: I'll see you in November in a bed in a

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Speaker 2: listener's house.

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Speaker 3: Peace be with you, brother, Let's make it happen.

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Speaker 2: All right, take care, lovely chat to you again, ye

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