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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Seven years Mary Godbody brings his own in.

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Speaker 3: Get that that dramatic music means one thing. Mark Ferguson, Hello.

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Speaker 1: Hello, I thought I was running late for work there.

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Speaker 1: As soon as I hear that theme, I sit up straight.

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Speaker 4: Do you mind if I let off?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing?

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Speaker 4: I'm sniffing at party poppers. We're celebrating forty years of Mark.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of celebration on one side of the day.

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Speaker 1: Someone hasn't blown their hasn't popped there.

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Speaker 2: I blew it a long time ago, and I don't

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Speaker 2: want to make a message.

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Speaker 4: You got cupcakes with your face on them.

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Speaker 1: And mind it's a lovely effort, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: But someone has poked out the eyes on this one

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Speaker 1: in front of you.

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Speaker 2: Have to talk to the people at the bakery, mate,

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Speaker 2: Obviously there's some sort of agenda there.

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Speaker 3: Look, Brendan, I think you're going to have to face it.

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Speaker 3: When the two of you did a job swap, it

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Speaker 3: was decided that Mark had won. Two of you did

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Speaker 3: the roller derby downstairs, which was like watching Will Ferrell

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Speaker 3: in Blades of Glory.

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Speaker 4: Mark one again, So what do you think, Mark?

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Speaker 1: Well, as I drove over here. I was listening to

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Speaker 1: the show and enjoying most of it. I heard you

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Speaker 1: say that in a very warm tone, we're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to talking to Mark this morning. Radio silence for about

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Speaker 1: three seconds, absolutely nothing from Jonesy. So I was approaching

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Speaker 1: here a little bit tentatively thinking as undefeated champion, he

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Speaker 1: might not welcome me with open arms.

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Speaker 2: Again, Look, I think you're fantastic. I just I think

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Speaker 2: if you just stay in your lane, just come over here,

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Speaker 2: talking to all the girls and walking around here.

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Speaker 4: Don't tell me walk around.

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Speaker 1: He's always had a problem ever since. I remember I

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Speaker 1: suggested a few years back, Mandy and Mark in the morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I got my name first, and I think

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Speaker 3: that's very respectful.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: It's a nice change.

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Speaker 1: That was part of my move.

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Speaker 4: Can I ask you because when one need to?

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Speaker 3: Phillips moved on from the ABC after twenty being the

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Speaker 3: news reader there. She said she found it harder and

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Speaker 3: harder to have a thick skin to not be affected

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Speaker 3: by the stories. What's your strategy to cope when things

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Speaker 3: are hard?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to look away, you really do. There

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Speaker 1: are sometimes you're involved in the story, you know what's

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Speaker 1: about to come up. You get through that intro, but

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Speaker 1: there are times when some of the material is so

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Speaker 1: emotional and so heartfelt that you do have to look

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Speaker 1: away at times because you know you've got to come

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Speaker 1: back on camera maybe ninety seconds later. You've got to

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Speaker 1: be composed, you've got to be authoritaive, you've got to

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Speaker 1: get on with a job. But there are times that

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Speaker 1: that is very, very difficult.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and would be as I get older, I find

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Speaker 2: I'm becoming a bit more emotional. Do you find that

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Speaker 2: to get older?

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Speaker 1: You do?

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Speaker 2: You do?

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Speaker 4: You just find a bit more, get a bit suckier, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it would be very hard to read some

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Speaker 1: Stories you do. And also I remember very clearly that

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Speaker 1: Any story reinvolving children, children in harm's way, I found

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Speaker 2: I must say reading that or AQ that is very hard.

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Speaker 2: There's a real skill, a real cadence to reading the

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Speaker 2: auto AQ. Do you do any vocal exercises before you

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Speaker 2: go on. Do you say red Leather, yellow Leather or

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Speaker 4: Don't you give us your other favorite one brand?

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Speaker 2: Now I'm just I'm asking Mark, I'm asking your boyfriend here,

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Speaker 2: if you know how I'm trying to glean information so

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Speaker 1: I like that you said it's harder than it looks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do like to look back at that time that

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Speaker 2: There was a buzz around seven. I just remember those

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Speaker 2: A lot of executives going to know, who is this kid?

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Speaker 1: I think you stole Cosh is tired.

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Speaker 2: You don't see many hula girl ties these days.

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Speaker 1: I don't do any sort of really warm up type exercises.

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Speaker 1: I did had one stage in my career when I

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Speaker 1: of that ten worth twain. So I did have a

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Speaker 1: little series of elocution lessons back in the day, and

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Speaker 1: my earlier attempts in journalism. And there is a stage

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Speaker 2: That's what happened back Amanda, when you get her from

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Speaker 2: Beyond two thousand, she sounded like Clancy from Skippy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly he's bokened me up.

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Speaker 1: I sounded like Skippy from Skippy.

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Speaker 2: But I found in Australia we don't open our mouths

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Speaker 2: was going to Max Rolly's media academy, he said, my

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Speaker 1: So you've got that. I know your threat is sounding

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Speaker 4: That's the one he likes to get out.

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Speaker 2: That's why did you want to say that you could

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Speaker 2: go viral like Barnaby.

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Speaker 1: I still have words that I would rather not say

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Speaker 3: And how do you go with some of the foreign

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Speaker 2: Have you ever thought of just saying, old mate, he

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Speaker 2: Second.

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Speaker 1: And I had a young producer come up to mountain

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Speaker 4: Why wouldn't have Roman new Vision North Korea?

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Speaker 1: Exactly my thoughts exactly about twenty two years ago. So

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Speaker 1: that was a very good lesson earlier in my studio career.

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Speaker 1: If in doubt, check twice, and that was your last mistake.

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Speaker 1: I bet I'm glad that you've pointed that out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so, I think.

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Speaker 2: I know, and I know around the corridors of Channel

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Speaker 2: seven they still say there's a bit of a buzz

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Speaker 2: when that kid came.

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Speaker 4: How many years ago was that? When that kid went

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Speaker 4: in came O kid Young off the bench.

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Speaker 2: Work experienced kid King John the first and she said,

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Speaker 2: my god, the kid's a natural, that's what she said.

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Speaker 1: And Sander's my lovely neighbor, which that's what she said. News.

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Speaker 2: We went through the stuff and she said, look, you know,

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Speaker 2: don't worry about pretty boy. They said, there are a

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Speaker 2: diamond dozen people like you.

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Speaker 4: You are pretty.

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Speaker 1: You had your chance, Josie, and.

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Speaker 2: If we wish you nothing but success, and we've got cupcakes.

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Speaker 4: Can I look your face? Your face is on them.

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Speaker 4: Here go about I'll do in the privacy of my

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Speaker 4: own time.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the highlights of my forty years.

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Speaker 2: Watch Channel seven News tonight with our boy Mark Ferguson.

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Speaker 2: Would just going to clean up the studio for Ugly Phil.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations mate, thank you so much, thank you for having me.