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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know our next guest from her trademark

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Speaker 2: Pink Mohawk, you know her for her delicious desserts. Well

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Speaker 2: now the pastry chef and Pollyvoo were sharing her rainbow

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Speaker 2: story as part of Pride Month. Hello Anna, how are you?

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Speaker 3: You know Amanda I'm fantastic and has always loves to

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Speaker 3: see and Jones as well. We give you some attention there.

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Speaker 3: I can hear music at the back of It's gone,

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Speaker 3: there we go.

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Speaker 2: That was your intro.

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Speaker 3: I was waiting for socker push it.

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Speaker 1: That's MacArthur park in the rain.

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Speaker 2: You'll never have that recipe again. What what does your

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Speaker 2: rainbow story mean?

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Speaker 3: You know, I think everyone's got a story, you know,

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Speaker 3: and a coming out story as well. I've obviously been

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Speaker 3: Casey for thirteen years, you know, and you've met her Amanda. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that's my partner, and I think you know my story

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Speaker 3: was more about, you know, coming from a Greek Cypriot background.

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Speaker 3: The parents are not homophobic, but they also don't understand it.

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Speaker 3: And now they're absolutely fine. I mean, mum sens emojis

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Speaker 3: and hellos and good mornings to Casey every single day

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Speaker 3: in Greek, but case he doesn't know how to speak Greek.

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Speaker 3: But either way, you know she loves it and the

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Speaker 3: sense of love heart back. So I think the fact

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Speaker 3: that they've accepted it is a great thing as well.

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Speaker 3: And I think Pride Month that we have in June

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Speaker 3: is fantastic. And I mean, so to stream all behind

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Speaker 3: it as well. I mean I bought a soda stream machine, guys,

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Speaker 3: so you can write your rainbow story as well, because

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Speaker 3: everyone's got a story. If that means you know someone

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Speaker 3: that is trans gay by I think it's fantastic. And

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Speaker 3: I mean we are so open now these days as well,

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Speaker 3: especially when I was coming out. I mean you wouldn't

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Speaker 3: even talk about it, and now everyone's so accepting.

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Speaker 1: How did you actually brook the subject with your sexuality

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Speaker 1: with your mum and dad?

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Speaker 3: She sat on Instagram, on Facebook, Facebook battle.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of a recent thing.

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Speaker 3: About it, I believe about three or four years ago

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Speaker 3: in cases like you better like obviously people can.

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Speaker 1: So you and Casey were together and that you yeah,

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Speaker 1: and she was quite.

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Speaker 3: You know, She's like, you know, we've been together for

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Speaker 3: nineteen years and you still have an actually sat down

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Speaker 3: with mum and you family and told him that you're gay,

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Speaker 3: and Mom said, I love you no matter what. I'm

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Speaker 3: more upset the fact that I have to see on

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Speaker 3: Instagram or Facebook back then then you're actually sitting down

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Speaker 3: and talking to me. And I really love the fact

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Speaker 3: that Mum it's been a struggle for her, but she's

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Speaker 3: adapting to it, understanding it and loves Casey so much.

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Speaker 3: And I think it takes a lot out of a

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Speaker 3: parent to understand something like that, especially you know, immigrating

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Speaker 3: over to Australia and stuff. And I think it was

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Speaker 3: a struggle for me coming out, you know, because it

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Speaker 3: was so hidden. Obviously you can see it, but no

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Speaker 3: one really spoke about it either.

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Speaker 2: And so with Pride Month, because I know we have

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Speaker 2: Marighty Gras, but Pride Month, this is a relatively new thing.

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Speaker 3: No, it's been around for years, and it's obviously over

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Speaker 3: in America, so it's more celebrated in America. I know,

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Speaker 3: though Australia has got Pride Month coming here in a

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Speaker 3: couple of years, so it's going to be another big

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Speaker 3: festival like Mardi Gras. And it obviously started off with

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Speaker 3: the riots over in America at Stonewall, you know, and

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Speaker 3: you know, and don't forget Marty Grove as well. For

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Speaker 3: us was quite a big thing where people's names were

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Speaker 3: published front cover of a newspaper in the seventies, I believe.

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Speaker 3: So it's good to see that, you know, the world

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Speaker 3: is understanding what's going on. There's a story out there,

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Speaker 3: people talking about it more.

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Speaker 2: And not everyone's story is easy, is it?

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Speaker 3: No, not at all. And I mean we you know,

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Speaker 3: it's more accepting now, but people still have struggles and

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Speaker 3: people are still processing it and everything. So the fact

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Speaker 3: that we are talking about it, the fact that I'm

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Speaker 3: on radio, the fact that you know, we do talk

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Speaker 3: about soda Stream because I'm the ambassador for Pride. But

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Speaker 3: the fact that they're giving a donation of the machine

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Speaker 3: and allowing people to write on the machines as well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I believe they retired one hundred and twenty

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Speaker 3: nine dollars and there's some proceeds a percentage that goes

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Speaker 3: back into the community. I think that's quite big.

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Speaker 1: But it's a big cooperation like that gets involved in

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Speaker 1: this story.

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Speaker 3: Oh one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: And I remember my sisters Gay and I remember years

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Speaker 1: ago my dad ringing me and she was young when

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Speaker 1: she came out and I was in Brisbane at the time,

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Speaker 1: and Dad rang and and of course you know your

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Speaker 1: sister's gay. And at the time, I was watching the

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Speaker 1: final episode of water Rats and Colin Friels's character goes missing.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, yeah, Dad, yeah, I know that. And

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Speaker 1: then he set a pause for a bit in the

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Speaker 1: ad break out and I said, hey, Dad, did you

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Speaker 1: say that the die is gay? And he goes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I want to know how you feelt about that, and

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Speaker 1: I said, well, it's not my business, it's not Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but that was in the nineties, and it was really

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Speaker 1: there was a bit of trouble in our family. It's

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Speaker 1: all good now, you know, she's been married for sometimes,

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Speaker 1: got two kids. You know, it's been fine. But back

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Speaker 1: in the nineties it was a very difficult firm.

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Speaker 2: And how hard it must be for a child to

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Speaker 2: say to family and friends here's who I am.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's so hard, you know, because general public you

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Speaker 3: get upset about it, but kind of like whatever. But

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Speaker 3: I think family, like I was so hidden for a

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Speaker 3: very long time, and even now, you know, like I'll

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Speaker 3: have newspapers or publications, so can we write about it.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, well, not really, because it's still quite private.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know that I'm in a relationship for

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Speaker 3: a woman and I love it very much, quite open

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Speaker 3: about it. It's not a conversation that I have about.

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Speaker 1: Because it's not anyone else's business.

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Speaker 2: Really, and it's not the only thing that defines you.

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Speaker 3: And I never wanted to be the celebrity lesbian female chef,

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Speaker 3: you know. I wanted to be just a chef, but

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Speaker 3: necessarily female. I just wanted to be a chef, and

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Speaker 3: that's what I always wanted people to know me as

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Speaker 3: I didn't really want him to talk about my sexuality

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Speaker 3: or my gender or anything like that. And I think

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Speaker 3: it's just people want to know. People want to know

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Speaker 3: about your private.

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Speaker 1: But no one talks about my sexuality. No one talks

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Speaker 1: about aman A sexually.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but we were quite open about our families and things.

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Speaker 1: But it takes me a long time. I've never readily

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Speaker 1: admitted that my sister was gay for a long time.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think I would say it very often.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time I've said it. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: for a long time on the radio. It's not something

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Speaker 1: I really publicly admit. Firstly, it's not anyone else's business. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but secondly, there is that stigma. And I remember at

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Speaker 1: the time Dad had great turmoil about you know, how

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Speaker 1: should it how should he react to it? And so

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Speaker 1: he asked his old eldest son how he feels. So

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Speaker 1: imagine if I went the other way, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I'm cutting around of my life. I don't want anything

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Speaker 3: Well, Mae never did that.

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Speaker 2: We also talk about, you know, gay kids coming out,

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Speaker 2: but imagine trans that's a big job.

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Speaker 1: That's another kettle of fish.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and the bravery that takes oh so much, you know.

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Speaker 3: But I do love drag shows. I'm a huge fan

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Speaker 3: of drag shows. I love it. And I remember, you know,

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Speaker 3: going out in the nineties and all the shows and

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Speaker 3: stuff and the strong personalities and the way that they

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Speaker 3: hold themselves as well. I mean, I just did a

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Speaker 3: photo shoot with Minnie Cooper and she's one of my

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Speaker 3: favorite drag queens and she was a legend. We're doing

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Speaker 3: photo shoots at Oxford Street on the Rainbow Crossing and

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Speaker 3: everyone was loving it and stopping and taking photos and

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Speaker 3: getting involved in it. And I love the fact that

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Speaker 3: we're in Australia and people are accepting. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's such a nice feeling and we had so much fun.

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Speaker 1: And that's the first step. And Amanda is a dab

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Speaker 1: hand to come up with drag names.

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Speaker 2: Actually I heard I heard an actual journalist the other night.

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Speaker 2: I misheard their name, but I thought they said Gina Kolado.

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Speaker 2: I thought, what a great tragon. Do you like Gina Kolada?

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Speaker 1: Andah, it's great to talk to you. How to Stream

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Speaker 1: wants you to share your rainbow story this Pride Month

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Speaker 1: hashtag rainbow story. Annapolofood, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: I think you so much. Guys, I love I love

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Speaker 3: seeing guys all the time.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's