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Speaker 1: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. So if you

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Speaker 1: were given a very very very small part in your

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Speaker 1: school play, I want to change that for one, not

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Speaker 1: only I want to get everybody that didn't have a

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Speaker 1: speaking part your chance to have a speaking part for

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Speaker 1: some of you, maybe even a singing part.

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Speaker 2: No business like show business like no business line.

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Speaker 1: All well call us at the moment high school rejects.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to at the end of the year if

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Speaker 1: we could find a school that would have said said

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Speaker 1: to have that stage for one night only, and everyone

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Speaker 1: that had small, minor roles that everyone laughed at them.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the rocks out there the doors. You

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Speaker 1: still feel that pain twenty thirty years later. Let's change

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Speaker 1: all that. If this is you nine four one four

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Speaker 1: one four three, our end of the year play needs you. Gabby.

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Speaker 1: Was this year when you were growing up? Good morning, Gabby? Ah,

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Speaker 1: hi Jack.

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Speaker 3: I think Christian and Patsy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that was me. I was the wind in the

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Speaker 2: Wizard of.

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Speaker 1: Oz, so I think the wind.

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Speaker 2: The wind, Yeah, the key role. If it was out

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Speaker 2: the wind, you wouldn't have had the whole play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. She doesn't get get blown away. From Kansas.

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Speaker 1: It's the coast, really, isn't it. Yeah, but someone else

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Speaker 1: trampled on the wind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I was in a garbage bag and

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Speaker 2: I had streamers in my hand, and I just had

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Speaker 2: to run around the stage going being.

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Speaker 1: All windy Gabby. Okay, you exactly who we're looking for.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You give us a call. Thank you, Nicki.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, nikkiod morning Nikki. So were you a high

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Speaker 1: school reject in the school play? What were you? Well?

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Speaker 2: I didn't even make it because I went for a

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Speaker 2: I wanted to do a dancing role.

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Speaker 1: I'm a dancer, but.

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Speaker 2: You had to pass the singing audition and I never

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Speaker 2: made the singing or so I didn't make it at all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not even on stage. And there'd be a lot

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Speaker 1: of people like this. You would have been in your

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Speaker 1: school play, yes, because you were you in the band.

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Speaker 1: I was in the band. I was the guitarist of

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Speaker 1: the band. Yeah, we were hidden away at the back

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Speaker 1: behind the curtain. Ye, Patsy, what would you have been

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Speaker 1: narratel and getting with good gosh? No, I was a

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Speaker 1: zombie in the chorus line. Ye, seven for Dracula spectacular

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Speaker 1: high to bring an outfit. Just knock it off, all right, Nikki,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much, She called Sarah. Good morning, morning,

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Speaker 1: everybody morning, Sarah, so high school reject for the school play?

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Speaker 1: Was this you? Oh?

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Speaker 2: I was such a loser. I was so excited I

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Speaker 2: got Mary in the Christmas play. But guess what.

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Speaker 3: I went on.

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Speaker 2: Stage for a couple of minutes and the only line

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Speaker 2: I had to say was why Joseph, And in that

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Speaker 2: moment I had to put Baby Jesus in the cradle.

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Speaker 2: As baby jes When in the cradle, I dropped Baby

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Speaker 2: Jesus falling across the stage and my baby happened to

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Speaker 2: have bright orange hair. The entire auditorium cracked up with laughter,

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Speaker 2: and I stood there like a loser.

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Speaker 1: Why Joseph, Why? I was, Well, listen you and Mary.

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Speaker 1: I was Joseph.

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Speaker 3: Oh, hello Joseph.

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Speaker 1: He had no lines. His role was to catch the baby. Well,

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Speaker 1: he had the immaculate conception. He literally did nothing. I

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Speaker 1: was Joseph. There were no lines. Thered just move around

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Speaker 1: at the lines. Parents, focus, just focus.

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Speaker 2: It's right, you know what I'm talking about I do yes.

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Speaker 1: I do. Yeah. I would love to give you another

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Speaker 1: go yes, yes, to be a start. But don't be

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Speaker 1: talking that baby Jesus across the stage. O caase, no promise,

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Speaker 1: hold on to Jesus. All right, Sarah, good morning. You

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Speaker 1: know we just spoken to him. Guys, Let's go Kate here.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Kate, Good morning, guys. How are you that

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Speaker 1: We're good? Kate? So thanks for calling the show. Now, Kate,

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Speaker 1: tell us about your version of this then, because it

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Speaker 1: was hard pluck the carriage as a kid. Sometimes not

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Speaker 1: So did you even audition for this slately?

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Speaker 3: I never did. I was I never got involved in drama.

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Speaker 3: I've never literally never been on a stage. I was

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Speaker 3: always quite shy, so never gave to go. But on

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Speaker 3: the weekend I took my kids to see an amateur

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Speaker 3: production of the Wedding Singer, and I just loved it.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was fabulous and it looked like so

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Speaker 3: much fun. And I did actually think, oh gosh, I

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Speaker 3: And then I heard you guys talking on the radio

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Speaker 3: call up and see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Kate. I can tell you now right, we haven't cast

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Speaker 1: anyone yet, Kate, you are the first person that is

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Speaker 1: going to be casting this. It's for you, Kate. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what it is yet. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the play is yet. I don't have a venue yet.

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Speaker 1: We'll get there with all that. But Kate, it's darts

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Speaker 1: with you. You will be on stage.

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's do all these years later, nobody puts

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Speaker 1: Kate in the corner. Kate, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: having the courage to call the show then to even

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Speaker 3: Good on you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks what all right? So the big thing we need

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Speaker 1: now we've got the headlines coming up next. If there's

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Speaker 1: drama teachers listening to this, or former drama teacher that

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Speaker 1: could have a good idea about what's a good classic

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Speaker 1: play for us to do with lots of various speaking roles.

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Speaker 1: Remember seeing my daughter years ago, she was just a

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Speaker 1: weed in a very strange outfit as well, she was

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Speaker 1: just a no it's a route. She was the route

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Speaker 1: in Rocky Horror Picture Show from on the Vines. But

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Speaker 1: there were quite a few speaking roles in that. So

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Speaker 1: if anyone knows if plays, I've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: number of quite a few decent speaking roles with Grop.

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Speaker 1: You're also gonna need a venue a score that was

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Speaker 1: let us have their venue in their stage and a

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Speaker 1: little mini theater as well. And if you're listening to

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Speaker 1: list and you're trying to call through, email me now,

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Speaker 1: Christian at Christian O'Connor dot com dot you you never

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Speaker 1: got your speaking part. This is your chance, now, Christian

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