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Speaker 1: Seven thirty Sunday on the ABC, Spicks and Specs returns.

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Speaker 1: Myth Warhurst is joining us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Hello, good morning, homely, good morning.

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Speaker 3: I am excellent, lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Took to you.

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Speaker 1: Look, it's been twenty years since some since Picks and

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Speaker 1: Specs started, twelve seasons across those twenty years, cancelations, different hosts,

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Speaker 1: all the stuff. But can you believe it?

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Speaker 3: I can't. It's I Look, I feel still feel the

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Speaker 3: same age as when I started. And although I don't

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Speaker 3: look at on the outside, that's mentally I'm still I'm

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Speaker 3: still yeah at that age. Physically, yeah, physically things to

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Speaker 3: drop in ways that I never expected. It's terrifying, but

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Speaker 3: it's also it's also very normal and we should embrace it.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, having having to having to watch you know,

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Speaker 3: yet my younger self on the Telly, that's corac. I

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Speaker 3: still put two thousand and five episodes up and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: oh my, I was weary.

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Speaker 2: I was wearing that jumper. Hey, Myth, twenty years. How

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Speaker 2: many could you tell us how many quiz Night invitations

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Speaker 2: you've had since since you first started off?

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Speaker 3: When I first started, I had lots of quiz Night

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Speaker 3: invitations because I used to love going to quiz nights.

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Speaker 3: It was fine, you know, like that was kind of

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Speaker 3: how I cut my teeth, and I was really proud

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Speaker 3: of everything I knew and I was really good at

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Speaker 3: it because I was working in radio. And now I'm like,

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Speaker 3: oh no, no, because there's too much pressure. People are

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Speaker 3: expect me to be amazing. But the good thing about

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Speaker 3: Spicks Inspects is because I'm so old, the people who

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Speaker 3: write the questions, we don't know the answers, but they

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Speaker 3: I feel comfortable because I know that they'll put some

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Speaker 3: things in there that I can answer. They know what

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Speaker 3: I'm good at, so I don't feel too left out

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Speaker 3: because I'm you know, I'm not in a finger on

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Speaker 3: the pulses I was back in two thousand and five

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Speaker 3: when I obviously was working in radio and you know,

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Speaker 3: going out every night of the week these these days

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Speaker 3: when I filmed, when I filmed six Inspecs, that's my

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Speaker 3: social life, which is beautiful because I catch up with

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Speaker 3: everybody and it's a fun time. Like everyone that comes

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Speaker 3: on the show has a great time. Not too late

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Speaker 3: exactly exactly, I've got to drive home there. We don't

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Speaker 3: go out. It's just it's great. It's such a it's

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Speaker 3: the best job in the world, to be honest, and

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Speaker 3: I'm whispering, but I don't. I don't want anyone else

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Speaker 3: to know.

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Speaker 1: Secret.

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Speaker 3: All I have to do is turn up. I turn up.

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Speaker 3: No research beforehand, because we can't I can't really know,

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Speaker 3: and then so just turn up, be fabulous, have have

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Speaker 3: have some fun with my friends.

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Speaker 1: And you keep mentioning two thousand and five. The thing

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Speaker 1: about Spicks and Specs is it was the idea of

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Speaker 1: the show was so one hundred percent up your alley.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember when you were when you first heard

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Speaker 1: about it, and did you think this is this is

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Speaker 1: for me, this is mine? Or was it where you

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Speaker 1: approached and it was given to you.

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Speaker 3: I was approached and it was a weird thing. I

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Speaker 3: remember it because I was doing radio at the time.

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Speaker 3: I was working at Triple Jay, and I remember I

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Speaker 3: got a call in the studio saying from someone un

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Speaker 3: known him Telly, who said, can you come and do

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Speaker 3: a like a screen tech or like an audition for

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Speaker 3: this niche ABP show. And they're like, they were like, oh,

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Speaker 3: it's tomorrow. You just have to go along. So I

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Speaker 3: went along, thinking, oh, you know, this is fun, and

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Speaker 3: it was. It was actually fun. And I met Adam

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Speaker 3: Hills for the first time, so he obviously already had

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Speaker 3: the job. And then then I got a call a

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Speaker 3: day later and they said, can you film on you know,

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Speaker 3: two days later.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: I didn't have a chance to think about it. Someone

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Speaker 3: dropped out or didn't want the job, and they put

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Speaker 3: me in at the last minute. So I was the

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Speaker 3: second pick, but that's fine, and I didn't I didn't

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Speaker 3: even really think about it. And then the first show

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Speaker 3: went to air like two weeks later, and my mom said,

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Speaker 3: did you get a copy of that on videotape at EHR?

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Speaker 3: Because that's how old it was, and because it was

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Speaker 3: so bad, I think she thought it was never going

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Speaker 3: to go anywhere. So here we are, seventy five years later,

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Speaker 3: steel around. But I just didn't know. I wasn't prepared

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Speaker 3: for what it was, which is probably a good thing

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Speaker 3: because I didn't think about it too much. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: did it, and we were in the time and there

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Speaker 3: was no social media as well, so I know we're

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Speaker 3: that old again, and we were allowed to develop and

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Speaker 3: get better as we as we went along, and they

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Speaker 3: kind of left us.

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Speaker 2: That, Yeah, we've lost that. And it's all right because

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Speaker 2: the first choice was Jackie. Oh and she's done nothing

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Speaker 2: so good, too fine.

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Speaker 3: Looking to be honest that you're doing fine. But I'm sure,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure she's not. She's not too bothered. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was. I feel like it was kind of made

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Speaker 3: for me because I had so much knowledge in my

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Speaker 3: head and it was a way to it was a

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Speaker 3: way to use it. It came to something, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, your passion. I love that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, had any it would have been some of

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Speaker 1: your favorite memories over there the years.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, so many and yeah, and I don't remember

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Speaker 3: as well as everybody else because it's been repeated so

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Speaker 3: many times. People the audience know it better than I

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Speaker 3: do because I don't watch myself. Yeah, so I and

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Speaker 3: it was twenty years ago, and the memories a bit

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Speaker 3: blank in a few spots. But yeah, I think just

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Speaker 3: moments like when Frank Woodley, like comedian Frank Woody, he's

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Speaker 3: on the show. He he would he imitated Little Nell

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Speaker 3: who was in the Rocky Horror Show originally, and she

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Speaker 3: did this TV performance in the UK where Obaye the

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Speaker 3: top came down when she was doing that swim dance

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Speaker 3: and which is all very controversial at the time, so

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Speaker 3: he recreated that. And I think moments like that that

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Speaker 3: were the funniest things I've ever seen where I laughed

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Speaker 3: up doing them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 3: But then also, you know, a few scollops popped out

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Speaker 3: during that that were you know, pictelated in hindsight, but

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Speaker 3: it was. It was just so funny and so natural

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Speaker 3: and brilliant. And then you know, musically, sitting next to

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Speaker 3: someone like Chrissy Amphlet who's now no longer with that,

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Speaker 3: you know, and for someone like me who grew up

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Speaker 3: Town was written about her growing up in Geelong and

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Speaker 3: having dreams and wanting to get out, and you know,

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Speaker 3: like meeting icons like that from my childhood was just

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Speaker 3: it was so wonderful and I was so lucky.

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Speaker 2: If I can't remember there, it was Sydney on Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: I remember being in one of those cities in a

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Speaker 2: coles one day and I turned my wife. I said,

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Speaker 2: there's Alan from Spicks and Specs, so and like there

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Speaker 2: are a TV star, you know, right there, and how

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Speaker 2: do you go, how have you gone? Have you had

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Speaker 2: lots of fanboys and girls over the years come up

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Speaker 2: and say today.

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Speaker 3: Over the years, But yeah, most viewers of Sticks and

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Speaker 3: Specs are really respectful. You know, they'll they'll come up

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Speaker 3: to me in a chicken shop and just say it

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Speaker 3: really quietly, you know, thanks so much for what you do.

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Speaker 3: And it's lovely. Like I imagine other celebrities probably get beat

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Speaker 3: out in the car and you know that would coop.

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Speaker 3: But everyone's really nice because I think most people love

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Speaker 3: the show. And even if they turned out not very

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Speaker 3: nice as adults, they were kids watching it because it

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Speaker 3: used to come on and ABC two just after in

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Speaker 3: the night Garden when the kids had to go to bed,

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Speaker 3: so they grew up with it as well. So it's yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's been a really lovely experience. And not all jobs

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Speaker 3: are like this, Like you know, people can be very

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Speaker 3: critical of what you do and have very strong opinions

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Speaker 3: about what you do. But I feel like we've been

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Speaker 3: around it so long and we're so much a part

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Speaker 3: of the furniture. People are really generous with us on

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Speaker 3: this particular show. Look, it's differ and elsewhere and other things,

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Speaker 3: but it's just I'm very lucky. It's nice to work

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Speaker 3: on something that people like, and as you know, in

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Speaker 3: this day and that doesn't really exist anymore.

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Speaker 2: Only positive people.

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Speaker 1: Well, we look forward to sing you back on the

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Speaker 1: screen seven thirty on Sounday I am particularly looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the new game will a I Am, will be

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Speaker 1: revealed on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Unreal. Thanks together, Okay, okay, we'll walk.

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Speaker 1: Teveryep happy twenty years.

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Speaker 2: If I if I spot you in a call somewhere,

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Speaker 2: I'll come up and say hello really quietly.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you