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

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Speaker 1: night on the ABC and I have view. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: Charlie Pickering, and yes, congratulations on turning ten.

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Speaker 2: Charlie, thank you very much. It's very funny. It reminds

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Speaker 2: me of my actual tenth birthday, and not just because

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Speaker 2: I have to ring around to ask people to be there,

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Speaker 2: but I well, I was very accident prone as a child,

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Speaker 2: and I remember the tenth birthday invitation that my mom

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Speaker 2: sent out was a photo of me, and it said

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Speaker 2: he made.

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Speaker 3: It, he got out of the line.

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Speaker 2: And so it's kind of like I was lucky to

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Speaker 2: make it to ten because I was always hurting myself,

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Speaker 2: and I feel like I'm lucky to make it to ten.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I've been figuring it out every day

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Speaker 2: that I go to work doing the Weekly, but we

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Speaker 2: made it. The whole theme held me up. We got there.

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Speaker 2: I've had a lot of help on the way, but

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Speaker 2: very happy to be ten.

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Speaker 4: I think that.

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Speaker 1: Turning ten birthday invitation said everything about where you were

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Speaker 1: going to end up in life in comedy.

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Speaker 2: I think clearly Mum.

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Speaker 4: Had a good sense of humor.

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Speaker 3: You were surrounded but Adre Crime love it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's Tom Gosh flashback right then, curea Chrime. I

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Speaker 2: think I'm yeah, I'm fifty percent Cure Chrimes.

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Speaker 3: Very good.

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Speaker 1: It would have been some of your highlights of doing

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Speaker 1: the ten years.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's hard to pick things out. I

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Speaker 2: would say that I've been very lucky with who I've

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Speaker 2: worked with to start the show and have great friends

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Speaker 2: Tom Gleason and Kitty Flanagan on the show. That was

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Speaker 2: just an absolute highlight, and also just what they've both

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Speaker 2: gone on to do with with their own shows that

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Speaker 2: I'll be honest, they don't thank me enough when they

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Speaker 2: went towards Yeah, but they owe me everything. But I'm

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Speaker 2: very delighted to have worked with them. I remember, I

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Speaker 2: remember Tom Gleason hard adding celebrity medium John Edward.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Roger Rodrick a Rick Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, but it was one of the funniest things I've

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Speaker 2: ever seen. And I was in the room when he

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Speaker 2: did this interview. He said to John Edward, so, do

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Speaker 2: you see the dead around you all the time? And

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Speaker 2: he said yes, and he said all the time. He

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Speaker 2: said yes, and he goes even when you're having sex,

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Speaker 2: and it's like like that thought. That thought had never

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Speaker 2: crossed John Edward's mind before, and it broke him. He

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Speaker 2: couldn't stop laughing at it, and I and and I

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Speaker 2: bet the ghosts around him at the time are going, yes,

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Speaker 2: we're there. So that was great. I have to say

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Speaker 2: that our first ever guest on the show was Sam Neil,

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Speaker 2: who I just have always loved as an actor. And

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Speaker 2: we couldn't get a guest for love nor money for

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Speaker 2: the first episode because our show didn't this yet, no

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Speaker 2: one knew what it was going to be trusted the

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Speaker 2: first to say yes, which helped us out a lot.

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Speaker 2: But since then we've become very good friends. He named

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Speaker 2: the duck after me Winery.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Sadly the duck is no longer with it and we

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Speaker 2: didn't but we didn't eat the duck with a lovely peanuts.

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Speaker 4: That would be nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, surely that's not far off.

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Speaker 5: The company thing is that duck's ghost is with you

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Speaker 5: all the time, even during sex.

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Speaker 2: And apart from that, just look, the thriller has been

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Speaker 2: doing the job. I've had wonderful guests on the show,

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Speaker 2: been able to make jokes about everything that happens in

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Speaker 2: the world, and I still feel like it's an absolute

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Speaker 2: privilege to do it. So yeah, I've very lucky.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, not only would it have been hard,

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Speaker 1: and you know, Sam Neil, what a great generous guy.

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Speaker 1: Not only would it have been hard to get a

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Speaker 1: guest for the first show that a show that you

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Speaker 1: know it is. You got to tell them it is

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Speaker 1: a show, but you were filling a slot previously occupied

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Speaker 1: by the likes of Andrew Denton and Will Anderson.

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Speaker 2: You know, he's good, a couple of heavy hitters who

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Speaker 2: both have helped me out enormously over the years, like

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Speaker 2: I'm genuine mentors of mine. And it was funny. I

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Speaker 2: actually had a conversation with Andrew Denton before I said

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Speaker 2: Weddnesday at the ABC. He said, are you sure you

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Speaker 2: was telling me to be careful, but it sounded like

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Speaker 2: you said, I wasn't ready. But but no, it's funny.

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Speaker 2: I've always felt that like growing up, and even as

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Speaker 2: a comedian trying to make a career eight thirty Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: I was where the best comedy has always been on TV,

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Speaker 2: and so I always felt pressure. It's like the best

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Speaker 2: piece of comedy real estate in the country, and to

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Speaker 2: go into that slot, I felt a lot of pressure

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Speaker 2: with it, but also just felt very lucky and very

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Speaker 2: just honored to step in. And you know, I always

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Speaker 2: just feel like I'm waiting for someone to tap me

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Speaker 2: on the show or shoulder and go. We made a

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Speaker 2: terrible mistake. Sorry, yeah, we We were meant to get

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Speaker 2: the other guy. But that said, I will defend my

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Speaker 2: patch with my life until I've rippen out of my hands.

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Speaker 5: I would imagine it would have been a bit nerve

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Speaker 5: wracking at the start. Like you said, the show didn't exist,

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Speaker 5: so you're ringing trying to get guests and trying to

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Speaker 5: get some traction, and you're saying the weekly, and people going,

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Speaker 5: what is this a women's weekly? What's going on there?

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Speaker 5: In the early days, it would have been a bit

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Speaker 5: nerve wracking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nerve wracking. And even the name that

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Speaker 2: wasn't the name I wanted to call the show. Initially,

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Speaker 2: I had a name that I wanted to use. It

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Speaker 2: was originally meant to be called The Heart Our News Hour, right,

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Speaker 2: and which I thought was a really good name. And

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Speaker 2: the ABC said nah, we don't like it. Come up

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Speaker 2: with something else to her mouthful. Yeah, And they said, oh,

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Speaker 2: we've already got a lot of news. We don't want

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Speaker 2: to tell people it's more news. And I was like,

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Speaker 2: oh gosh, And so I came up with the weekly

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Speaker 2: in the end, but yeah, it's And then figuring out

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Speaker 2: what a show is like it was just me, a

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Speaker 2: great team of people who'd never done it before and

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Speaker 2: a whiteboard and we just had to figure it out.

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Speaker 2: But it's funny. We've been very count Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Sorry, only old people will get that happen.

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Speaker 2: But we've been very lucky because because we do jokes

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Speaker 2: about the news and politics, we've had an infinite amount

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Speaker 2: of material over the years.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, and as long as there are as long as

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Speaker 6: there are glorified children pretending to be grown nuts, ask

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Speaker 6: for people to take them seriously, I will always have

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Speaker 6: a job.

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Speaker 1: Oh that doesn't look like abaiting. What is on to

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Speaker 1: night's episode, first episode of the year.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean the big thing tonight is we have

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Speaker 2: the wonderful Eric Banner on the show Love a new

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Speaker 2: movie coming out. Yes, he has promised, he's promised to

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Speaker 2: give me some acting lessons the show. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: get acting lessons from Eric Banner, which I could definitely

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Speaker 2: do with. Also on the show tonight, we're actually having

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Speaker 2: Rehece Nicholson, who's a great comedian who's been part of

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Speaker 2: the show over years. He is having a look at ADHD,

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Speaker 2: which it feels like it's everywhere now when more and

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Speaker 2: more people are getting diagnosed, and he is going to

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Speaker 2: deep dive in that because he himself believes that he

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Speaker 2: has ADHD. He's waiting to get a diagnosis. And I

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Speaker 2: would say, having worked with him for two years, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'd say he's got ADHD pretty much. Will Yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited by that.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at because there's.

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Speaker 1: The number of you know, diagnoses, seems disproportionately high to me.

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Speaker 3: We were talking about this last week.

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Speaker 2: It's funny though, because I've got I've got some experience

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Speaker 2: close to this and talking to a psychiatrist about it.

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Speaker 2: And the interesting thing that this psychiatrist said, and this

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Speaker 2: probably a lot of people in prison that have ADHD

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't be there if they'd been diagnosed when they

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Speaker 2: were young. And I thought that would incredible thing. But

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Speaker 2: also then he said, it's easier to get treatment for

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Speaker 2: ADHD if you're in prison than it is if you're

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Speaker 2: in the general population. Yeah, it takes that long to

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Speaker 2: get an appointment and get a referral to a psychiatrist

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Speaker 2: that knows what they're doing. It's so much harder than

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Speaker 2: it is if you're in the prison system. So that's

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Speaker 2: a pretty bleak observation. But I think we're just beginning

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Speaker 2: to really understand the scale of idiot.

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Speaker 3: And kids.

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Speaker 4: Right in the end. Yeah, well, Son's.

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Speaker 2: Good, Charlie, I should say that's not that's not my

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Speaker 2: recommended treatment.

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Speaker 3: No, get the point, that's what we're saying. Maybe I

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Speaker 3: try to.

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Speaker 4: Gentle work membership.

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Speaker 1: So so excited for your your double digit birthday, and

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Speaker 1: you can send that same.

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Speaker 3: Really he fell over the line.

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Speaker 2: Well back tonight, Thank you Gods. I really appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Charlie eight thirty tonight on the ABC and of course

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Speaker 1: ABC I view the weekly, the half hour.

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Speaker 4: Half hour news news hour. Yes they are, we'll.

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Speaker 3: Send them aure crime for you. All the best