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Speaker 1: The Weekly with Charlie Pickering is back at eight thirty

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Speaker 1: on the ABC. Hello, Charlie Pickering.

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Speaker 2: Hey, how are you guys?

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Speaker 3: How are you? I am ready to go for another year.

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Speaker 2: I am Actually I'm so fired up. It's funny. This

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Speaker 2: is this is our ninth season of The Weekly. You

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Speaker 2: know what, Thank you very much, And you know what,

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Speaker 2: I really think I'm going to get it right. I

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Speaker 2: really think, I really think I've learned enough to do

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Speaker 2: the job. And I don't think I can do it.

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Speaker 3: But a tweaking over summer nine.

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Speaker 1: Seasons in TV years, Let's face it, that's nineteen years.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty damn impressive.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's incredible, isn't it. It's although, although at

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Speaker 2: the ABC, I'm not sure. I think that might entitlement

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Speaker 2: a long service lest I'm pretty close.

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Speaker 3: That sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll go on sabbatical, although in TV you never

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Speaker 2: go on sabbatical, go on holiday.

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Speaker 1: So news wise, it feels like the start of twenty

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Speaker 1: two has been a little quieter than the start of

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. What do you think.

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Speaker 2: Has it been?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 2: I think it has because we're not we're not rolling

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Speaker 2: into an election this year, so the politicians. The politicians

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Speaker 2: could hibernate a bit longer over the summer, you know,

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Speaker 2: when there's an election year. There were always out in

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Speaker 2: January going for a swim down the beach, you know,

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Speaker 2: or or helping open schools around the place because they

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Speaker 2: want to get their photos taken. Because there's because there's

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Speaker 2: no election, they're sort of relaxed. But we've had heats

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Speaker 2: of great stories to fill, to fill the show and

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Speaker 2: to fill our lives. The the the lost radioactive capsule in.

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Speaker 4: W Atory, Charlie, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: It was. I don't know about you guys. See we

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Speaker 2: talk about on the show tonight, but I didn't say

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Speaker 2: this on the show. But I don't reckon they found it.

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Speaker 2: Do you reckon they found I don't reckon they found it?

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Speaker 2: Sounds like the kind of the kind of looking I

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Speaker 2: would do for something. It's like it's lost, and I go,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to buy another one and pretend.

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Speaker 1: I found might have been a cheap imitation, hopped out

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Speaker 1: of spotlight and bought a thimble coming that with a

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Speaker 1: bit of olfoil. And I said, oh, I'm here it is.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 2: And none of us have ever actually seen a radioactive

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Speaker 2: capsule before.

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Speaker 4: So Charlie when it was going on, because it was

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Speaker 4: becoming a funny story here in the West, we were

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Speaker 4: calling it WA's G spot.

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Speaker 3: And I think you're right, no one actually.

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Speaker 2: Found it, that's right. And would you like if you

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Speaker 2: were trying to find WA's G spot, would you send

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Speaker 2: a mining company? That sounds very rough. I don't think

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Speaker 2: that's a good idea at all. That sounds very impersonal.

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Speaker 1: What else are you covering off in the first step?

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Speaker 2: Oh well, I mean we had a Chinese spy balloon

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Speaker 2: flight over the United States.

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Speaker 4: I didn't watch that enough. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting with a gender reveal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. Will we go into some of

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Speaker 2: the conspiracy fe who's behind the balloon tonight and cover

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Speaker 2: you know? And it's quite impressive, you know, Joe Biden

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Speaker 2: blew up the balloon and at his age, that's very impressive.

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Speaker 2: And also on the show tonight, I've appointed myself the

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Speaker 2: chief cancelation Officer of the ABC. It seems like everything

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Speaker 2: everyone's getting canceled these days. You're never sure who's canceled. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm resetting it. I'm starting a register and every week

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Speaker 2: on the show, I am going to be canceling people, ok,

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Speaker 2: and so so I'm the official cancelor of the world tonight.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Alberici gets canceled on the weekly all right, and

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to reveal why he is going to

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Speaker 2: get canceled tonight. Yeah, we are starting very big tonight,

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Speaker 2: so plenty on the show as well as the awesome

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Speaker 2: Reece Nicholson is joining the show as a correspondent tonight

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Speaker 2: got a great show.

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Speaker 3: So sorry.

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Speaker 1: Came out this week that you've never been invited back

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Speaker 1: to the Project in the ten years since you left.

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Speaker 3: Probably for the best, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Well, ohow, I look back on my days at the

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Speaker 2: Project very fondly. Now. It's funny like I've gone back

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Speaker 2: a couple of times, like when I've been promoting like

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Speaker 2: stand up comedy shows or something. They've had me on.

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Speaker 2: They've been very welcoming and they tend to get me back.

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Speaker 2: They tend to get me back when someone's leaving the

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Speaker 2: show as well, because they've got they want to show.

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Speaker 2: They want to show old all of us with bad years,

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Speaker 2: so they want to Yeah. So yeah, there's been a

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Speaker 2: bit of a but yeah, look it's it's one of

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Speaker 2: those things. All I'll say is, I think the show's

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Speaker 2: very different to how it was when I was there.

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Speaker 2: I think I feel like I had more fun. I

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Speaker 2: feel like I you know, when I was hosting it,

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Speaker 2: I was trying to I was trying to have a

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Speaker 2: bit more fun with It's what I said.

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Speaker 1: It was your idea, and it was a fabulous idea.

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Speaker 1: But it's completely morphed into something else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's just a very different thing. But that's

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Speaker 2: but that's totally fine. And you know, well the other

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Speaker 2: thing is ever and there is one of gold LOGI

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Speaker 2: except me, So they must know something I don't.

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Speaker 4: So you know, someonees depends how much weight you put

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Speaker 4: in a gold LOGI mat team captains. It looks like

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Speaker 4: they're be and now are going to be announce for

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Speaker 4: season two of What I Lie to You. A couple

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Speaker 4: of stars with Australian slapstick. I speak of Frank Woodley

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Speaker 4: and Charlie Pickering.

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Speaker 2: I believe that is right. That's my my other little project.

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Speaker 2: I cannot tell you. I'm so excited. Yeah, filming this

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Speaker 2: show was the most fun I've had in ages, and

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Speaker 2: working with Chrissy and Frank is just an absolute joinne

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Speaker 2: Country and also Where I Lie to You, I think

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Speaker 2: is just one of the best shows in the world.

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Speaker 2: And I'm so lucky to be one of the co

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Speaker 2: hosts on the ALI version.

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Speaker 1: Tough against Frank because I mean, he would have some

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Speaker 1: ridiculous stories which just could be true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you know there were times where I was

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Speaker 2: positive he was lying and he was not. And at

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Speaker 2: the end of it all, I just had genuine concerns

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Speaker 2: for his safety in the real world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like we all do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to put polystyrene around in front of

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Speaker 4: Frank everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, exactly right.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, there's two things to look forward to then.

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Speaker 1: The Weekly is the first one tonight, returning at eight thirty. Charlie,

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Speaker 1: always lovely to chat to you, always.

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Speaker 2: Enjoyed, Thank you for having me. And look, anytime you

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Speaker 2: need to help finding a capsule over there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I come in the white van. Yeah. All the

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Speaker 3: best challenge no canceling yourself tonight at eight thirty.

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Speaker 2: Ye jeers