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Speaker 1: All right, time for double thumbs Up Friday, where we

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Speaker 1: go around the team and we share with you the

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Speaker 1: things that were into this week. Perhatsy. What's it for you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we caught the Wham documentary on Netflix last Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Prop of my list too talk about that. It's great fun.

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Speaker 1: Do you like it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know what I learned a lot. I know it

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Speaker 2: sounds silly because that was my you know, Wham was

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Speaker 2: my era and everything, but you know, had the Choose

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Speaker 2: Life t shirt and everything, But I didn't actually didn't

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Speaker 2: appreciate the relationship between George and Andrew, like just how

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Speaker 2: close they were.

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Speaker 1: That's quite amazing story to be reminded of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually quite beautiful. And they were school schoolmates

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Speaker 2: but had this really strong, obviously really strong connection that

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Speaker 2: you know, extended into this amazing four years or whatever

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Speaker 2: it was of Wham. So I really loved that, and

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Speaker 2: I also got a greater appreciation of just what a

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Speaker 2: mastermind George was and just how Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The documentary really shows what an amazing writer and the producer.

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Speaker 2: You amazing, amazing, and also how it was very obvious,

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Speaker 2: you know, towards the end of Wheam that that he

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Speaker 2: needed to project into a solo career like he was

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Speaker 2: just the showman on stage. He was just so ready

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Speaker 2: for it. And how Andrew supported him in that and

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Speaker 2: and said, no, this is what you need to do,

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Speaker 2: fully support you.

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Speaker 1: How about that bit there with that friendship where it

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Speaker 1: just goes to voiceover and says Andrew going. And George

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Speaker 1: sat me down and said, maybe it's better if he

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Speaker 1: just has one hundred percent of all the royalties for

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Speaker 1: the songs they get it tough conversation out with his schoolmate.

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Speaker 1: You don't have any more money. I just give you

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Speaker 1: like a weekly sort of cash. It is quite high,

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Speaker 1: hasn't it ever? Split? Thinking I'm writing all the songs,

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Speaker 1: you're out there dancing with your sock down your underpants.

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Speaker 1: We've got to readdressing Siah a bit.

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Speaker 2: But the royalties at the start were quite like, really putrid.

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Speaker 2: They gorible, something like was it two percent in the UK?

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Speaker 1: All it's the same. It's the same what I get

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Speaker 1: here as soon takes ninety eight, she says, to cover

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Speaker 1: costs like the light here. Aparently it's very expensive at

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Speaker 1: the moment utility. But it was literally keep the lifetime

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Speaker 1: and I get two percent which seems very fair. Well

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Speaker 1: she's about to scause it's a deal. You've got a

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Speaker 1: ram of all deals, and oh my god, sit you down.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, now I thought it was I thought it

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Speaker 1: was a really really it's a really well made documentary

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Speaker 1: that doesn't outstates welcome as well as punchy, isn't it. Yeah? No, what.

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Speaker 2: We loved it, and I actually wanted more, like at

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Speaker 2: the end of it, it's like, I wish there was

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Speaker 2: more to this.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 2: I think I'll watch it again this weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed

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Speaker 2: it and highly reckon.

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Speaker 1: You know why. I found interesting as well, And I

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Speaker 1: don't know if this was true for you guys as well.

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Speaker 1: There was a bit in their relationship when they first met.

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Speaker 1: Well I didn't know this because George you always think

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Speaker 1: he was like the front man. He was charismatic, he

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Speaker 1: was good looking, he was the main singer, and he

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Speaker 1: was there with his buddy. But I didn't know in

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Speaker 1: real life George was this very shy Greek kid at school, right,

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Speaker 1: Andrew was very, very charismatic. They've got all this like

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Speaker 1: old sinny eight footage. You see Andrew is like early George,

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Speaker 1: and then bit by bit Andrew even says George became

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Speaker 1: me ate him and then spat him.

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Speaker 2: Out, So he took his royalties, he took his personality

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Speaker 2: in charisma. So Franz, what did Andrew have left? But

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Speaker 2: the documentary it's so true though.

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Speaker 1: I know, meeting friends where you do absorb some of

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Speaker 1: their sometimes, especially when you're younger. You know, you're not

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Speaker 1: trying on out, influenced a bit a bit like them,

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Speaker 1: a bit a bit like and you. Originally it's so.

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Speaker 2: True though, because you know, at one point Andrew was

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Speaker 2: You're looking at that old footage and you're right, it's like,

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Speaker 2: hang on. George was actually almost like a reluctant singer

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Speaker 2: at the very beginning. So I thoroughly enjoyed it.