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Speaker 1: Sign for another Fringe Festival act with Czy and Lisa.

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Speaker 2: The Fringe World continues. Kevin A. Koppstein is at the

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Speaker 2: Brass Monkey Hotel from tonight until February sixteen with a

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Speaker 2: show called Haunted, and it's joining us this morning.

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Speaker 3: Good, it's good to see you.

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Speaker 2: I've already insulted one of your crops. Did scare the

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Speaker 2: but Jesus out of me? Tell us about your show.

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Speaker 3: Well, the show's called Haunted, and for over thirty years

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Speaker 3: I've been collecting strange and unusual objects connected to the paranormal.

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Speaker 3: So I think vampire hunting kit, cemetery, padlocks and yeah.

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Speaker 3: So basically they've all got a facinating story behind them.

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Speaker 3: So it's a storytelling show. We tell the stories and

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Speaker 3: then strange things start to happen.

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Speaker 4: We don't have any tombstones. And ime, you're not a

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Speaker 4: grave robber, not.

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Speaker 3: A grave robber, a collector of what I call hauntings.

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Speaker 2: A very good tell us about this, Harry spokey looking dull.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is Harriet. Harriet's a haunted doll. I found

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Speaker 3: Harrott in an antique shop and she belongs to a

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Speaker 3: little girl called Miranda who lived about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty years ago, and tragically Miranda died in a fire.

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Speaker 3: But they say that when a child dies.

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Speaker 2: There's Harrott in that fire, because she looks like.

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Speaker 1: She's yes, yeah, but yeah, they say that when the

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Speaker 1: child dies, their spirit stays with that which they held

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Speaker 1: the most precious, which would be Harriet.

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Speaker 3: So I thought, yeah, I thought, I also have what's

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Speaker 3: called a spirit bell here and a spirit that she's

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Speaker 3: a simple bell hanging on a wooden stand, and spiritualists

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Speaker 3: in the late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds would would

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Speaker 3: use that to communicate with the spirit. So the spirits

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Speaker 3: would communicate me by ringing the bell. So I thought, maybe,

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Speaker 3: if you're for it, we could try and contact the

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Speaker 3: spirit of Miranda this morning.

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Speaker 4: Can you just get Harriet's get Harriet's I to stop

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Speaker 4: following me around the road.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she does only have one eye. The other was

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Speaker 3: tragically lost in that fire. But yeah, so maybe Lisa,

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Speaker 3: maybe you look like you might be a good conduit

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Speaker 3: for the spirits. Maybe if if you could just it's

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Speaker 3: it's important that we we create the right atmosphere and

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Speaker 3: see if we can get the spirits to at least

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Speaker 3: join us. This morning. It's a bit early for them.

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Speaker 3: They tend to preture the nighttime. But so listen, maybe

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Speaker 3: you could just say, just spirits, are you with us?

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Speaker 2: Spirits? Are you with us?

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Speaker 4: Well, the bell just rang.

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Speaker 3: That's a good sign told, Yeah, exactly, maybe just a

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Speaker 3: spirits you know, are you Miranda Spirits?

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Speaker 2: Are you Miranda?

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Speaker 3: Well it's rang again. That's good. Let's maybe trouble. There's

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Speaker 3: lots of mirandas that that could have, you know, lived

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Speaker 3: and died over the last one hundred and fifty years.

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Speaker 3: So maybe let's find out I forgot the right Miranda. So

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Speaker 3: maybe at less if you could say, Miranda spirit are

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Speaker 3: you the Miranda who died in the fire?

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Speaker 2: Are you the Miranda who died in the fire?

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Speaker 4: Oh? The bell just a lot?

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Speaker 3: I think we better stop it there.

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Speaker 4: I think she's a little bit angry. I'm just wondering.

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Speaker 4: The sprinklers have come on the fire is now that's

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Speaker 4: quite spectacular.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but there I think. I think Miranda's definitely joined us,

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Speaker 3: but she's not too happy being a weak this early

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Speaker 3: in the morning.

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Speaker 4: I think, isn't that something.

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Speaker 2: To do with the origin of the saying for whom

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Speaker 2: the bell told.

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Speaker 4: Can you just, in that same voice, just apologize for

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Speaker 4: our friends? Thanks Harriot or that.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had found an object that you thought, No,

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Speaker 2: I'm not touching that. I don't want him to do

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Speaker 2: with that because my grandfather. It's funny you made me

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Speaker 2: your conjured because my grandfather he left me his Wigi board.

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Speaker 3: Really.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was quite a spiritual person and like he

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Speaker 2: had all our spirit guides and all of that, and

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Speaker 2: he left me this damn Ouiji board. Now what the

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Speaker 2: hell do you do with a Wiji board that he

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Speaker 2: swore He's you know, communicated with the dead. Throw you

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Speaker 2: don't throw it away? No, I don't want it.

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Speaker 4: Put in the shed, you know.

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Speaker 3: You you bury it in the gardens on the full moon,

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Speaker 3: you dance naked around it. That's pretty much I have

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Speaker 3: to do.

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Speaker 2: I left it in the back of a caboard somewhere

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Speaker 2: and then forgot about it. It's still there, I think, so,

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Speaker 2: but not my cupboard anymore.

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Speaker 4: How many glasses again slug around on that thing over

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Speaker 4: the years, are anyway?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, weird objects that you thought, not having anything to

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Speaker 2: do with that.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm pretty much collect anything, okay. Yeah. I grew

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Speaker 3: up in Scotland, and as a kid, my mum would

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Speaker 3: take me around castles and haunted houses, and I was embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: It was forever knocking on walls trying to find the secret panels.

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Speaker 3: Of course, embarrassed to death. So I kind of grew up.

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Speaker 3: You know, Scotland's got a great history of ghosts and hauntings,

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Speaker 3: so I grew up kind of with all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: So I was a kid, I was fascinated by the supernatural,

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Speaker 3: and I think what it is, you know, in this

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Speaker 3: day of technology, we everything's all the informations at our fingertips.

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Speaker 3: We can check facts were but with with with with

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Speaker 3: spirits and ghosts and that we don't really know. So

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Speaker 3: I think that's why people are fascinated, because you can't google,

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Speaker 3: you know, things they just do they exist? Do they not?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Miranda got email address, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Well she does actually, but we'll deal with that.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever you said you're interested in bits and pieces?

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Speaker 4: You ever gathered something from somewhere and then found out

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Speaker 4: later it was worth a lot of money And then

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Speaker 4: there's a temptation.

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Speaker 3: And I'm going to go home and check collection.

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Speaker 4: Now, yeah, antics.

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Speaker 3: That's right, bring Harriet Tantic.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had to have an interesting conversation at

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Speaker 2: customs when they've opened up your suitcase and said what

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Speaker 2: we got here?

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Speaker 3: I tell what. I I went to UK last year

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Speaker 3: and I bought an Egyptian Mamma Fight Hands and it

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Speaker 3: was in a box and it's a case, and I

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Speaker 3: it wasn't until I put my case through and checked

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Speaker 3: it in and then I'm thinking, oh, man, if they

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Speaker 3: extray this, they're going to see the hand, this, this,

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Speaker 3: this hand in this box in my suitcase, and I'm

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Speaker 3: never going to make it through customs.

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Speaker 4: Fortunately I did.

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Speaker 3: You're okay, Oh that is classy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But

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Speaker 3: it wasn't until I didn't think about it until I

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Speaker 3: put it through, and I'm going, oh no, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I've got some explaining.

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Speaker 4: Did you get nervous at the movies?

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Speaker 3: Mat?

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Speaker 4: Do you know just creepy movies or you just go

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Speaker 4: It doesn't work that way, you know what.

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Speaker 3: I don't really go to go for creepy movies, especially

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Speaker 3: horror and gore. You know, I like psychological thrillers and

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Speaker 3: I like things like that. But yeah, the blood and Gore.

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Speaker 3: My show wasn't really blood and Gore, it's more about stories.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean you are a storyteller. You are

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Speaker 2: you're putting on a show. You are an entertainer. But

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Speaker 2: so obviously you know there are elements that you're creating.

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Speaker 2: But have you had things happen on stage you have thought, Okay.

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Speaker 3: We have a strange happened every single night, every single

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Speaker 3: really Yeah. Yeah. The other night, I have a story

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Speaker 3: about a girl called Emily, and and I got a

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Speaker 3: woman on stage and we do something with her ring

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Speaker 3: and her name was Emily. And that's happened on the

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Speaker 3: foreign occasions now where I've done the show and the

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Speaker 3: person that I've got up to help had the scene

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Speaker 3: first name as the person in the story got. I've

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Speaker 3: also got a photograph of a Victorian child or black

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Speaker 3: homae poto of a Victorian girl. And one night I'm

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Speaker 3: doing this show and this woman just freaks out because

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Speaker 3: she said that that's my daughter. That's the exact image

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Speaker 3: of my daughter. So yeah, strange things happen every night.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, we get different crowds coming in from different

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Speaker 4: parts of the world all the time. That's right. Oh,

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Speaker 4: that is a a little bit of a.

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Speaker 2: Chill now all right, Well, if you want to see

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Speaker 2: why Kevin is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award

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Speaker 2: at these Scottish Comedy Awards a few years back, and

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Speaker 2: if you want to get scared to deathless scared, yes,

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Speaker 2: scared witless, head along from tonight until February sixteen at

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Speaker 2: a drink to calm your nerves. Absolutely you can get

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Speaker 2: you to get through fridingeworld dot com dot au. Kevin,

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Speaker 2: thank you for coming in and bringing that creepyears old out.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me there.

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Speaker 4: Don't leave Eric time mate. Please, I'm going to go

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Speaker 4: put her back to better.

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Speaker 2: Make that one eye close if you marry

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Speaker 4: That little cyclops bedroom goodness, Thanks very much,