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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Mornings.

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Speaker 2: Well that song is a bit of a giveaway, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Our next guest is one of the most loved Australian

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Speaker 1: comedic icons of our time. She was known as the

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Speaker 1: most She was called the most talked about person. Officially

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Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen, for all the right reasons, she's become

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Speaker 1: an Order of an Officer of the Order of Australia.

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Speaker 2: She is also we're doing about mag Dishabanski. Let's put

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Speaker 2: it out.

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Speaker 3: I thought we're on the sale of the season.

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Speaker 2: I know he's twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 1: She released her award winning memoir Reckoning and it is

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Speaker 1: award winning.

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Speaker 2: Book of the Year, Biography of the Year.

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Speaker 1: The Australian Book Industry Awards. Well, she's written a children's

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Speaker 1: book that's released today. Mag did good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Are you the most talked about person? You know? That

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Speaker 3: could be a good or bad thing.

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Speaker 2: I think it was a great thing. I think this

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Speaker 2: was the year of the gay marriage vault, wasn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, So it was it was,

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Speaker 4: as you say, for all the right reasons.

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Speaker 3: Did you feel that your ears were burning at the time?

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Speaker 3: All these people are talking about it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why it is to be on fire.

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Speaker 3: You would have had a bushfire in your hair.

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Speaker 4: I think it's a bushfire in my head. Actually it

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Speaker 4: was like, yeah, it was a pretty full on time.

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Speaker 4: But luckily we came through with, as far as I'm concerned,

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Speaker 4: a very much right result.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, and how are you going?

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Speaker 1: I've seen on your socials you've been very honest about

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Speaker 1: how you're feeling, as we all are through all of this,

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Speaker 1: and there are some days where you're not feeling so good,

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Speaker 1: and you've shared that as well.

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Speaker 4: Well. Look, I mean I've done some stuff, but you know,

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Speaker 4: silly dancing and having fun and stuff like that, and

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Speaker 4: dancing with all the Sharon dancing with all the medical

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Speaker 4: and ambos and people. And I just had one of

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Speaker 4: those lobbly days, which absolutely everyone I know has talked about.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's no one who is just well. I

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Speaker 4: don't know, maybe they do exist, but no one I

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Speaker 4: know is sort of going through this not feeling well.

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Speaker 4: You have to be a bit strange to not feel

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Speaker 4: a bit well by it and uncertain because it's a

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Speaker 4: very weird. We're just as everyone says, it's unprecedented, So

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Speaker 4: I thought, I don't want to create that sort of

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Speaker 4: sense of like, oh, I'm fine all the time and

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Speaker 4: it's all just dancing and songs, and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 4: let's keep it real and also hopefully that will make

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Speaker 4: other people feel less alone and like more normal about

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Speaker 4: those sort of feelings.

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Speaker 2: Sure, and you also said if you don't feel great,

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Speaker 2: get some help, talk to somebody, seek medical help, whatever

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Speaker 2: you need.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's right. It's also an opportunity to sort

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Speaker 4: of get that message across. And there's no shame in it,

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Speaker 4: you know, there's I mean, I'm I'm quite open about

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Speaker 4: the fact that I suffered with, you know, quite debilitating

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Speaker 4: anxiety at times of known about the depression. You know,

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Speaker 4: I'm fortunate that I'm one of the SIPs that does

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Speaker 4: always bounce back. But you know, I think really like

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Speaker 4: is complicated and and most of us, for various reasons,

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Speaker 4: you know, be it Jeanettie or just the circumstances visiting

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Speaker 4: and can face real mental health challenges. I mean, that

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Speaker 4: was that was why Will Connelly and I raised We've

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Speaker 4: got about one hundred and ninety thousand dollars now to

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Speaker 4: help people from the bush fires. It was always a

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Speaker 4: long term mental health program that we were interested in.

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Speaker 4: Of course that's been enormously complicated now by coronavirus. But

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Speaker 4: you know, mental health is something like you know very

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Speaker 4: much with a very strong personal issue for me. But

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Speaker 4: I think our mental well being is enormously is as

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Speaker 4: important as the economy or anything else.

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Speaker 3: Of course, Timmy, the tikt Off Pony and the Pooh

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Speaker 3: of Excitement.

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Speaker 2: I love the title.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's I said, you know, I've been saying, joking

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Speaker 4: that it's semi ordo biographical, and then I saw in

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Speaker 4: some newspapers they said, the semi auto biographical book. It's

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Speaker 4: you know, it's like they say, right with you. And

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Speaker 4: so Timmy is a show pony and it comes from

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Speaker 4: my bost friend Kristen is hilarious. She's actually the one

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Speaker 4: that came up with the phrase foxy moron for the

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Speaker 4: girl Cat and Kim and she she said to me,

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Speaker 4: she said, oh, you know, she said, you know, you

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Speaker 4: good natural a long but when you're in a certain mood,

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Speaker 4: she's around and cute and you like a little ft

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Speaker 5: You know what, it's just a little I got trampled

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Speaker 5: by one when I was a kid and everyone was

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Speaker 5: last last because it's a small but those hooves they heard,

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Speaker 5: I know, and so.

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Speaker 4: It became a nickname for me amongst certain friends, Timmy

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Speaker 4: the ft Off Shetland pony. I have to say, really,

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Speaker 4: those moves are rare, but it's like on Timmy, Timmy

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Speaker 4: ty So anyway, I've just sort of amplified all of that.

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Speaker 4: And Timmy is a he's an instant famous ship show

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Speaker 4: pony with some anger issues and anger management, and he's very,

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Speaker 4: very self absorbed, and he also stuffers from irritable bowel

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Speaker 4: literally because it's when it gets irritable. And he's just

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Speaker 4: about to reach peak fame. He's on the red carpet

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Speaker 4: and his little hook is just about to step into

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Speaker 4: the spotlight when suddenly he does a proove excitement and

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Speaker 4: you know who hasn't done one of those.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking at the drawing in the book and

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Speaker 1: it's quite a poo of excitement everywhere.

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Speaker 5: You're sure this is an autobiographic biographical bag that that.

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Speaker 1: Bit is not autobiographical, But no, it wasn't a logos moment.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's right, that's right. You know you know what,

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Speaker 4: it's like, the glamor the all of that, I just overcome.

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Speaker 4: But it's look, it's being really fun to write. It's

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Speaker 4: just silly. And years ago I worked in a women's

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Speaker 4: refuge and and of course there are kids, you know who,

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Speaker 4: women and kids who are coming in who were really traumatized.

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Speaker 4: And I was young, you know, and I would do

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Speaker 4: my best. But I ended up discovering that one of

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Speaker 4: the things that not surprising me, that one of the

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Speaker 4: ways I could be most helpful was I was telling

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Speaker 4: stories to the kids to distract them. And I've very

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Speaker 4: quickly realized that at the moment you mentioned who hearts

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Speaker 4: a wee, you've got them, you know. I love it,

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Speaker 4: and and it's almost a crime to sort of not

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Speaker 4: to put that in kid books. So I thought, well, look,

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Speaker 4: let's not. Let's just put it front and center. So so,

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Speaker 4: but it's you know, it becomes quite a feature. It's

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Speaker 4: his timper power in there, and it's kind of a oh,

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Speaker 4: greatest strength and vice versa. True, but yeah, it's true,

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Speaker 4: of course it's but it's all so a little bit

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Speaker 4: about the perils of inter fame. You know that if

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Speaker 4: you and there's a lot of like young kids now

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Speaker 4: who are wanting to become influencers and yeah you know.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's very different from from doing something that

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Speaker 4: then makes you famous, right as opposed to wanting to

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Speaker 4: be famous for famous oone sake.

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Speaker 3: So everyone wants to be famous until you.

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Speaker 1: Do a giant there's also Grandma's fart super recipes.

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Speaker 3: This is we need to buy anything else.

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Speaker 4: And that's you can take take that. Kids are loving that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I've talked about that because that it's an old I

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Speaker 4: think it's a Scottish saying. My mum used to have

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Speaker 4: some beauties but it's like I have. Well I say

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Speaker 4: it in the Scotts where that all you could pick

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Speaker 4: burns out of that one.

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Speaker 5: Well this this is great that you book Timmy, The

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Speaker 5: Pony and the Pooor of Excitement is in all good

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Speaker 5: bookstores today.

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Speaker 3: No wonder you're the most talked about person. Your your

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Speaker 3: head must be on fire right now, it must be

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Speaker 3: a blaze.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my ears, my hair evans.

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Speaker 3: Well, well it's always good to talk to you. You

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Speaker 3: look after yourself.

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Speaker 4: Love been talking to you too. Thanks joined the and

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Speaker 4: Amanda in the morning on