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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: Well, our next guest used to get me in trouble

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Speaker 2: on Dancing with the Stars. We'd be a little bit

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Speaker 2: rude together, and then the producers afterwards ago, yeah, maybe

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Speaker 2: maybe not go down that line of jokes. But Courtney Acts,

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite humans, is going to be hosting

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Speaker 2: the live broadcast of the Mardi Gras parade.

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Speaker 1: Courtney Hello, whoo oh, Mary Happy.

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Speaker 2: It is a daunting task. I hosted this years and

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Speaker 2: years ago, and it's it's pretty scary because there's a

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Speaker 2: thousand floats and at the last minute all the order changes,

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Speaker 2: so you've got a book of who's what, and you're

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Speaker 2: looking at a TV screen rather than out the window

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Speaker 2: and trying to work out who's doing what.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what happens. I remember you hosting Marty Gras.

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Speaker 3: I have vivid memories of watching Mardi Gras sort of

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Speaker 3: squirreled away in my bedroom in Brisbane as a youth.

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Speaker 4: You were also a youth. We were all thank you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: And last year was my first year hosting it on SBS,

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Speaker 3: and I actually had a little what do you call it,

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Speaker 3: a folding chair, and I was sitting just outside the

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Speaker 3: sort of official studio, and I was doing interviews on

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Speaker 3: the street, and I had no idea that the order change.

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Speaker 3: I had no idea in the booth that they were like,

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Speaker 3: papers were flying, everything was going wild. I was I

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Speaker 3: just felt like Beyonce at the basketball just sitting there

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Speaker 3: like enjoying the breade.

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Speaker 4: And I'd wander up and be like, how are you going?

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Speaker 2: What's And they're having a nervous breakdown.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, and I was like, are you okay?

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Speaker 3: That was the first thing I said to Joel Creasy

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Speaker 3: when I saw it.

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Speaker 5: But this is curious this year now it's going to

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Speaker 5: be all around the SCG, which is quite extraordinary when

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Speaker 5: you look at the history of the Mardi Gras.

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Speaker 1: It started off as a.

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Speaker 5: Protest all those years ago and now it's at one

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Speaker 5: of the I guess the male bastions of the time.

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Speaker 5: There's no way you could imagine the Mardi Gras, imagine

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Speaker 5: back telling the people of those days, Oh, We're going

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Speaker 5: to have a gay Mardi Gras around the sea.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? You know?

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Speaker 5: And what I love about the enlightened times that we

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Speaker 5: live in that no one's really no one's really noticed that.

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Speaker 1: It's just sort of it's just happened.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you might come as a shock to

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Speaker 3: you to know that I've never stepped from the SCG,

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Speaker 3: and I think that goes the same for a lot

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Speaker 3: of well at least the gay men who will be

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Speaker 3: there tonight. Perhaps some of the ladies have been along

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Speaker 3: to the SCG.

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Speaker 4: But it is just amazing that during these.

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Speaker 3: COVID times, you remember Marti Gras twenty twenty happened, and

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Speaker 3: then four days later Tom Hanks got COVID in Australia.

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Speaker 3: I'm not blaming Tom, but that was sort of like

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Speaker 3: where it all began. And then there hasn't been a

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Speaker 3: Pride parade since like all around the world. That all stopped,

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Speaker 3: and this is the first Pride parade anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 3: And so the fact that we still get to have it,

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Speaker 3: it's a little bit different. And the fact that it's

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Speaker 3: in the SCG. Yeah, it is like a real millannge

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Speaker 3: of like alpha male culture and I don't know whatever

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Speaker 3: the opposite to alpha male culture.

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Speaker 2: Bo and perfume. We'll have it all happening. Sweaty shoes

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Speaker 2: and high heels, grass everythings, everything on grass.

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Speaker 3: I've had to get little stoppers to put on the

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Speaker 3: bottom of my heels.

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Speaker 2: Well that's the thing. Walking in heels on that grass

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Speaker 2: isn't easy. But you'll be rating the field, so they'll

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Speaker 2: be happy for that.

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Speaker 1: Handy, very handy.

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Speaker 2: So a whole lot of people all around the world

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Speaker 2: will be tuning in for this, so lush.

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Speaker 1: It's so lush.

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Speaker 2: But this, as you say, the first Pride Parade in

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Speaker 2: a year, so the whole world will be looking at this.

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Speaker 2: This is brilliant for you, no pressure.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And the cool thing is SBS have released the

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Speaker 3: geo block for the evening so people from all around

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Speaker 3: the world can tune in and people all around Australia

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Speaker 3: can tune into channel to SBS at seven point thirty

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Speaker 3: or SBS on Demand at six pm.

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Speaker 1: There you go and the geo block.

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Speaker 2: And let me ask you this, are you going to

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Speaker 2: be wearing some kind of geoblock? What are you thinking

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Speaker 2: of wearing?

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Speaker 3: I do have some tape that I got from Bunnings

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Speaker 3: that's made to hold tiles on the sides of buildings

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Speaker 3: while the blue drys which will be blocking my geo

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Speaker 3: and I do.

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Speaker 4: Have a gorgeous, glamorous gown.

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Speaker 3: I've got a gorgeous pair of high heels with little

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Speaker 3: stoppers on the bottom so I don't fall in the cracks.

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Speaker 1: I did hear that you have been.

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Speaker 4: Not talking about the lesbians.

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Speaker 2: I did hear that you've got a whole You've got

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of Shurowsky crystals arriving for your outfit.

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 4: I can show you. I can show you. I mean

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Speaker 4: it's radio but yeah.

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Speaker 3: On the that I won't reveal any excuse me, that's

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Speaker 3: a tucking g.

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Speaker 4: String right, industrial strength Stevens, very colorful and very crystal.

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Speaker 1: Oh n ice, you need a geo block for that.

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Speaker 3: Cricket box.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps you'll find wildg.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's always great to talk to Gosh.

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Speaker 3: You just reminded me the first time I the first

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Speaker 3: time I did drag, I was dressed as wonder woman.

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Speaker 3: I was about fifteen years old and a like outfit

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Speaker 3: from the stume shop, and I didn't know the art.

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Speaker 4: Of tucking, so I bought.

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Speaker 3: A cricketer's box, which was very unsightly, but it made

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Speaker 3: me feel more comfortable than having like repressed against my genitalia.

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Speaker 3: But I just had a flashback.

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Speaker 4: That's well, my connection of.

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Speaker 1: The technological stuff.

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Speaker 5: But wouldn't it have ruined wonder Woman's look with a

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Speaker 5: big cricketer box down there?

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Speaker 4: It completely ruined the look.

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Speaker 2: Then you did a trip to Bunnings and bought some tape.

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Speaker 4: Exactly. And now when you nobody you do better.

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Speaker 5: Catch the Sydney Game Lesbian Mardi Graund live tomorrow at

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Speaker 5: six pm on SBS Courtney Act.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, Jonesy and Amanda's