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Speaker 1: This is a Will and Woody podcast niniards Friday feels

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Speaker 1: at the right time for us to test this. For

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Speaker 1: a long time, you and I have been fascinated with

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Speaker 1: the idea that an opera singer could break a glass.

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Speaker 2: A bit of a myth, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: It is a myth.

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Speaker 2: I've certainly never seen it in real life.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we sort of came in here on

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Speaker 1: Friday and we were like, gee whiz, if only we

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Speaker 1: had like a world class opera singer studied in London,

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Speaker 3: Worked overseas, who's.

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Speaker 1: Touring in an opera right now and who's hopefully not hungover,

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Speaker 1: that would be that would be the goal. And then

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Speaker 1: lo and behold, Kathy de Jang walks into the studio.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for that introduction.

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Speaker 5: No worries.

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Speaker 1: She's currently touring with Opera Australia the Barber of Seville.

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Speaker 1: They've got lots of more shows to go all throughout Australia,

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Speaker 1: So head al on to Opera australiaf you want to

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Speaker 1: see Kathy in action. But Kathy, welcome to the studio.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me, and I hope Hr is

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Speaker 4: not listening to this interview. Thanks for that.

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Speaker 1: Oh your hr yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, because you had

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Speaker 1: a huge night last night, No, no.

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Speaker 5: Opera.

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Speaker 1: No one expected the opera singer is on tour to

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Speaker 1: have a wild night, though, like, how does that?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 4: I think there's just too many misconceptions about opera singers anyway,

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Speaker 4: myths that needs to be dispelled.

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Speaker 1: Right, so this is a great First of all, they

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Speaker 1: wear expensive perfumes.

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Speaker 4: And they have I'm not five hundred kilos because.

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Speaker 2: You think about Pavarotti, right, when you think about an

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Speaker 2: opera singer, you think big, meaty Pavarotti. Would you say

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Speaker 2: most opera singers are quite trim nowadays?

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Speaker 4: You know, we live in a world of you know,

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Speaker 3: Oh you've got to look good as well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's not quite acceptable like it used to

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Speaker 4: be back in the day. I could do with a sandwich,

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Speaker 4: to be honest, is.

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Speaker 2: The opera putting you on like a.

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Speaker 3: No, no opera thrilled with this interview? Thrilled?

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Speaker 5: No, No, it's not.

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Speaker 4: It's not like that anymore. And we're not on stage

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Speaker 4: wearing porns. And it used to be all the all

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Speaker 4: the glamor the traditionals. Yes, no, no, we have really

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Speaker 4: modern modern shows. Now, the last show I was in,

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Speaker 4: I was just in some underwear and see through.

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Speaker 1: Slip right, great, yeah right, it's not no, no, not

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Speaker 3: How to make our silence very very quickly.

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Speaker 2: Gaddy without answering this question, by the way, So what

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Speaker 2: we're talking about is an opera singer being able to

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Speaker 2: smash a glass? Do you know if you can or not?

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Speaker 4: I've definitely heard about it, Okay, yes, okay, I personally

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Speaker 1: You haven't tried it, okay, So what's the high us

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Speaker 1: note that you can hit?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like we actually, we've got some audio

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Speaker 2: actually of you, Kathy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to hear that.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe you should take your headphones up.

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Speaker 5: But this is Kathy.

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Speaker 1: Her jokes are out of a job.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I haven't seen the video.

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Speaker 5: Kathy.

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Speaker 6: Wow, wow.

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Speaker 1: Z did you breathe in that?

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Speaker 3: You didn't breathe No.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's so impressive. How long do you have to

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Speaker 4: I've been doing it for about oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 4: almost fifteen years. I used to be an auditor before it.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow. Okay, but like an accountant.

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Speaker 1: So unlike opera singing that used to be unsexy and

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Speaker 2: But so did you have like the gift or something?

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Speaker 2: Was there a potential there?

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Speaker 4: I was always singing. I played the piano, but I thought,

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Speaker 1: Well you're a gun mate. We know that you trained

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Speaker 1: at the Royal Academy of Music in London. You winner

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Speaker 1: So she's a weapon, right, We've got the right person

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Speaker 1: in the studio for the right job. Yes, we might

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Speaker 1: get you to have a look at our texas in

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Speaker 1: the song. But on the other side, on the other side,

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Speaker 1: you are going to try and break a glass. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is it. Stay with as well, Boody. You and

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Speaker 1: I been doing about for a long time. Can an

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Speaker 1: opera singers in the studio right now in Kathy Dejane, Katy,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, Thank you mister. Before this is Kathy strutting

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Speaker 1: her stuff on the stage.

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Speaker 3: So impressive.

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Speaker 2: You've said before, you've never done this before.

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Speaker 4: There is there's.

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Speaker 2: This myth that incredible opera singers can sing at a

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Speaker 2: certain pitch to make a wine glass smash, or to

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Speaker 2: make glass smash. So we have a wine glass here

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Speaker 2: in the studio. Are you are you confident you'll be

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Speaker 2: able to get this bad boy to smash?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean that's a pretty thick glass.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we really got some like cheap Kmart glasses. We

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Speaker 2: That's our champagne.

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Speaker 3: Which one's thinner?

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Speaker 2: Our audio producer Tim seems to think that this one

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Speaker 4: It's it it resonates, had a lower frequency.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, so I think we should go for

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's a pretty low figuacy. You could

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Speaker 3: Glasses. I don't I don't even Oh that was I

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Speaker 5: There, I thought the glass. Everyone's coffering, what is going on?

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Speaker 4: I'm just coughing up the poisons from last night.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go handing the glass to Kathy

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I should start lower than goop.

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Speaker 1: Maybe is it going to be better if you don't

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Speaker 1: hold it like if you put it on the table.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's going to have more of a

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Speaker 2: Do you want to put safety glasses on, Kathy? Or

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Speaker 2: even your sunglasses?

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Speaker 1: Yes? No, Kathy, you've got to put the safety glass on.

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Speaker 1: I'm being told that's that's protocol.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I will do that.

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Speaker 3: Wow, it's actually.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is legit.

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Speaker 2: This is amazing.

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Speaker 4: Oh Jesus, start medium, do.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you need to do. We've got a professional operation

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Speaker 5: Can she break glass?

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Speaker 2: Nod get?

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Speaker 3: Wow, didn't get it?

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Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was going to happen.

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Speaker 5: That is amazing, it was.

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Speaker 3: Going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to Can you have another crank? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Here we go, get there.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I can't believe I listen to my goodness, it

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Speaker 2: was like you were trying to put a curse on

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Speaker 2: the glass us like.

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Speaker 1: Kathy, Wow, amazing, Thank you so much for coming in. Wow, Hey,

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Speaker 1: not the second time you've been looking at an empty

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Speaker 1: wine glass in the last twelve hours. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for coming in. If you want to go see Kathy,

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Speaker 1: she's touring at the moment, Barbara Seville with Opera straight

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Speaker 1: head on the Opera Straate. You want to get tickets.

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Speaker 1: They still got dates coming up all over the country.

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Speaker 1: But before we end this thing, Woods, I already gave

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Speaker 1: the glass smashing a crack with my voice.

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Speaker 3: Would you like to try I'd love to give it

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Speaker 3: a go e of their cars?

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Speaker 1: Maybe, just you know, watch your volume.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I was born with Kay.

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Speaker 1: You're actually putting you're putting the you're putting the glasses on.

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Speaker 1: You're putting the hazard glasses on. You do not stand

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Speaker 1: a chance. Are you serious?

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Speaker 5: I do know.

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Speaker 1: You don't sing at that frequency.

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Speaker 4: Just just go for it, Just see it and hold

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Speaker 4: it as loud as you can. There you go, don't bust,

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Speaker 4: don't hemorrhage yourself.

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Speaker 6: Or hemorrhoid yourself. More importantly, now

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