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Speaker 1: Welcome to your diary episode. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come

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Speaker 2: to from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,

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Speaker 2: so I'll share with you what's going on in my world,

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Speaker 2: from book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health

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Speaker 2: discoveries to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay beaches. Come with

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Speaker 2: me as I share my adventures with you. Right Oh, Hello,

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Speaker 2: Diary Poto, coming to you from beautiful Melbourne. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to say, on the day that I'm recording this a

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Speaker 2: very chilly Melbourne. It's been like fifteen degrees and raining

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Speaker 2: the last couple of days here. But I've also had

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Speaker 2: beautiful weather as well. So this is a diary podcast

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Speaker 2: from the Melbourne trip essentially. So I came down here

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Speaker 2: for a few reasons. One it's been Dad's birthday. Two

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Speaker 2: I came down to into you an actor Owen Teale,

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Speaker 2: who is the lead in A Christmas Carol. So as well,

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Speaker 2: Dad and I also went to see A Christmas Carol

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Speaker 2: on opening night and it is incredible and I will

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Speaker 2: tell you all about that then. I've also what else

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Speaker 2: I've done, well, I've been out here. I've done a

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Speaker 2: juice cleanse. I've had an amazing dinner out with Dad,

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Speaker 2: so I have juice cleans on either side of it, essentially,

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Speaker 2: which actually worked really really well.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, is that going to make it harder?

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Speaker 2: But in a weird kind of way, it meant that

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Speaker 2: I've just kind of like had all these amazing juices

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Speaker 2: got cheer puddings and I get these amazing like almond

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Speaker 2: milk drinks at night as well. So it kind of

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Speaker 2: like keeps you going and then keeps me feeling healthy

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Speaker 2: while I'm running around like a headless chook, which is

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Speaker 2: what I do when I am in melvs.

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Speaker 1: What else?

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Speaker 2: Boys school, acting school, dentist. I love doing all the

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Speaker 2: all the health things, but I'm back in Australia, so

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Speaker 2: do this chronologically. I got in on last Wednesday. Got

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Speaker 2: in on Wednesday and essentially I was just doing podcast prep.

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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, let's just chill Dad and

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Speaker 2: I had a super chill night. My carmic juices arrive.

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Speaker 2: So there it's called it's called Comet Cleans and they

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Speaker 2: are a Melbourne based Juice Company. I got two different

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Speaker 2: juice cleanses. I got the Zen cleans, which is my favorite,

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Speaker 2: loads of greens, and then I also got the Gut

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Speaker 2: keeps you going. You don't get you feel very say shated, essentially,

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Speaker 2: you don't get the hanger pangs or any hunger pangs

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Speaker 2: they are unreal. I've been made for them since when

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Speaker 2: I lived in Melbourne, like huge fam think they're amazing.

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Speaker 2: So look them up and yeah check them out. Really clean,

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Speaker 2: really really delicious as well, and their cheer PUDs are

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Speaker 2: which obviously is something that's important to me and that

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Speaker 2: And then next day I had therapy. So my therapist

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Speaker 2: I then got my hair chopped. I also get my

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Speaker 2: bustling and bumbling and it felt very summary. So the

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Speaker 1: Such a beautiful theater. I hadn't been to that theater before.

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Speaker 2: But this play has won five Tony Awards and the

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Speaker 2: there's the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, and

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Speaker 2: a fantastic show. Highly highly recommend And on Monday we

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Speaker 1: Incredible human being.

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Speaker 2: Then on that same day, on that Friday, I met

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Speaker 2: amazing sardine dish. My friend Alice got this like savory.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it's a breakfast pasta and that look really cool.

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Speaker 2: for his birthday, to this place in Fitzroy on Smith Street.

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Speaker 2: It's called Flint. It is incredible. It's almost like Japanese inspired.

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Speaker 1: It's all very moody and black.

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Speaker 2: Inside there's this cool private dining room upstairs, very cool vibe.

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Speaker 2: The food is so beautifully thought out and it was

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Speaker 2: so they bought out this delicious chocolate moves with like

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Speaker 2: I had a really yummy martini. I got the Flint martini,

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Speaker 2: got my favorite, which is a gin a dry GM.

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Speaker 1: Martini with a twist lemon. Yummy.

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Speaker 2: So that was really nice and we had a couple

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Speaker 2: They do this amazing carrot on carrot dish and it's

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Speaker 2: like a carrot pure with these roasted carrots. But it's

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Speaker 2: like it almost feels like you're at some like Voodemort

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Speaker 2: or something, you know, I mean like some really you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how to squite, like a Michelin Star restaurant.

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Speaker 2: Feels like the caliber of the food is that good

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Speaker 2: and it is just like we got to sit up

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Speaker 2: and watch the amazing chef's work their magic. So I

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Speaker 2: think the cool thing about Flint, and I might just

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Speaker 2: look this up while I'm talking to you, but I'm

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Speaker 2: pretty sure they don't have ovens. They just have like

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Speaker 2: an open flame. So let me see it, because I know

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Speaker 2: it says it on their insta, but I can't wait

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Speaker 2: to go in. I feel like the boss would love it.

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Speaker 2: So it's It's Flint Restaurant, no ovens, just fire. It's unreal.

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Speaker 2: They've won a bunch of awards too. But yeah, their

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Speaker 2: carrot on carrot it was insane and it is fermented,

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Speaker 2: charred and smoked carrot. Oh order that, order that. But

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Speaker 2: it was all great. We got a meat dish. There

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Speaker 2: was this really yummy dish that was like smoked lettuce,

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Speaker 2: like almost like a half a heart of lettuce, and

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Speaker 2: then it had anchovies and then this like whipped pistachio

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Speaker 2: cream stuff that was insane, like out of this world insane.

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Speaker 1: And that was the first thing that we started on.

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Speaker 1: Oh here we go. I found it.

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Speaker 2: It's charred lettuce, anchovy and pistacio. It was ten out

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Speaker 2: of ten, like I would order fifteen of them.

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Speaker 1: That were so good.

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Speaker 2: So highly recommend Flint, And big thank you to Nicki

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Speaker 2: and Alis Fair getting us in and really spoiling us

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Speaker 2: and Dad had the best time. And then the next

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Speaker 2: day I caught up with my good friend Tim. We

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Speaker 2: went for brecky together at a place called Little Bird

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Speaker 2: where birds spelled b ryd and my dad keeps raving

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Speaker 2: to me about how good the porridge is, so I

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Speaker 2: had to try the porridge.

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Speaker 1: It was really yummy.

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Speaker 2: It was like a keen one oat porridge and it

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Speaker 2: had caramelized banana on top. But gojie berries in the

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Speaker 2: porridge really really yummy. Highly recommend if you're ever west.

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Speaker 2: Next up, Dad and I also went to the Nova Cinema,

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Speaker 2: which is a beautiful cinema in Carlton here in Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: and we saw Barbie. I had can you believe it?

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Speaker 2: I had not seen Barbie. I'd been wanting to see

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Speaker 2: for so long and it wasn't on at many cinemas

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Speaker 2: and Dad and I were like, wow, it's on at

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Speaker 2: the Nova.

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Speaker 1: So we saw it. Loved it.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible, the messaging, the acting, the production values.

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Speaker 2: I think crying Gosling is incredib and so funny. And

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Speaker 2: I did a little bit of TikTok googling after Diane.

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Speaker 2: A lot of his stuff was improvised, which is amazing.

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Speaker 2: And we know he's a triple threat. We know he

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Speaker 2: can act, sing and dance like nobody else. So it

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Speaker 2: was so much fun. And I know I'm very late

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Speaker 2: at the party, but just feel very lucky that I

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Speaker 2: got to see that. And we went to Brunetti. I

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Speaker 2: got Boss a little baby Panatornet to take home because

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Speaker 2: he is a gorgeous little Italian. And I went to

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Speaker 2: the dentist as well, all the hell things you know,

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Speaker 2: as one does, as one does, and.

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Speaker 1: Today what I do today?

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Speaker 2: Today I did, Yeah, dentist, Acting school. Just worked on

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Speaker 2: a monologue that I've really wanted to work on. I

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Speaker 2: never know when I come to Melbourne. My trip is

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Speaker 2: usually like really jam packed. But I was really raped

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Speaker 2: that I was able to sneak an hour of acting

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Speaker 2: school in. I have one other movie review for you,

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Speaker 2: and I discovered it because I was researching Owen Teal

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Speaker 2: for the pod. He is in this movie that is

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Speaker 2: on Netflix. It's got Tony k in it, and it

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Speaker 2: is called dream Horse.

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Speaker 1: It's really inspiring.

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Speaker 2: It's a Welsh It's all set in Wales, should I say,

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Speaker 2: and he is a Welsh actor and I think actually

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Speaker 2: a few of the castle Welsh. And it's based on

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Speaker 2: a true story. It's very inspiring. Our cried Luke five times.

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Speaker 2: Highly recommend Dream Horse. It was beautiful. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 2: he won a bafter A reward for that. It's a

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Speaker 2: type of bafter award he won for that. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: like I said, obviously I'm so excited about him being

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Speaker 2: on the pot on Monday. Are like I beside myself

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Speaker 2: and yeah, he was just so generous but also wonderful

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Speaker 2: to watch him play all these different characters because he

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Speaker 2: plays a villain a lot.

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Speaker 1: He's a villain in Line of.

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Speaker 2: Duty and Game of Thrones and a few other like

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Speaker 2: there's a thing a show called The Rig, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I think he's got this mischievous villain aside. But in

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Speaker 2: Dream Horse there's this beautiful, caring softness in his character.

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Speaker 2: And again in a Christmas Carol that you get to

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Speaker 2: see that joyous side and that softness. Anyway, I'm nerding out,

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Speaker 2: but I yeah, I'm so excited from Monday's app and

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Speaker 2: I head back to Byron Bay tomorrow. That's why I

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Speaker 2: thought I'll record it in melb so it's a proper

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Speaker 2: Malbow's diary, and then back to Byron, back to heat.

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Speaker 2: I go from fifteen degrees here to thirty degrees in Byron,

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Speaker 2: and then I think we were not even back for

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Speaker 2: too much. And then we've got all our early family Christmases.

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Speaker 2: So I'm sure everybody is finding and feeling that things

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Speaker 2: are ramping up coming into Crimbo already. So you know,

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Speaker 2: just take it day to time, soak it up, enjoy it,

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Speaker 2: roll with it, and I love you lots. This is

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Speaker 2: I hope this pod has inspired you a bit, because

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Speaker 2: I think I needed a bit of a Melbourne trip

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Speaker 2: and a bit of an injection of creativity because I

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Speaker 2: was just I think I was telling you a bit

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Speaker 2: like I was feeling a bit of rejection from the

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Speaker 2: acting agent stuff and I just needed this little you know,

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Speaker 2: had to stoke the fire, ignite the fire a little bit.

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Speaker 2: And I think I got that from acting school, working

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Speaker 2: on a voice coach, going to the musical, being able

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Speaker 2: to interview Owen. All these things kind of re invigorated

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Speaker 2: my creativity. And so if that can inspire you in

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Speaker 2: any way to just do a few things that are

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Speaker 2: going to re evoke whatever your passion is, you know,

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Speaker 2: got to do that passion, got to leave that passion

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Speaker 2: all right.

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