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Speaker 1: We've got a couple of witches joining us in the

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Speaker 1: nicest possible way. Wicked the Musical is coming to Crown

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Speaker 1: Theater this December. It's on December fifteenth, January twelve. Tickets

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Speaker 1: gone sale today through Wicked the Musical dot com dot

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Speaker 1: Are you Sheridan Adams and Courtney Monsmurra with us this morning?

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Speaker 2: Hello, welcome ladies.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Hi, thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. So, Courtney, you are Glinda, Glinda

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Speaker 1: is the good Witch, Nda the good Sheridan your Alphaba,

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Speaker 1: the bad Witch or the Wicked Witch?

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Speaker 4: Correct?

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Speaker 1: So you are the one that sits there for a

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Speaker 1: long time to get greened up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So I come in around about an hour before the

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Speaker 4: show begins and actually find neditative and like calming process.

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Speaker 4: It's very, very quite difficult for my artistic I really

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Speaker 4: love it to help me get into the Wicked Witch.

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Speaker 4: To know.

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Speaker 1: Is it hard to get that green off again? I'd

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Speaker 1: you'd be going through pillowcases like no one's.

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Speaker 2: Business, are you ever without some green on you?

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Speaker 4: It's actually not too bad because it's water bays and

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Speaker 4: like a microfiber towel. My pillow cases our bed, they

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Speaker 4: are not why that group.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, some of your predecessors have had that problems with

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Speaker 5: the oily stuff.

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Speaker 2: So they're green permanently.

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Speaker 6: So as if we could.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't already a popular enough musical With the movies being

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Speaker 1: made right now, and in fact, part one of the

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Speaker 1: Wicked movie will come out just before you start the

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Speaker 1: show at Crown, It's going to bring in a whole

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Speaker 1: other audience.

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Speaker 6: It's just going to go through the roof.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's so exciting. I think when we started this

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Speaker 4: process we kind of knew that the films were being made,

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Speaker 4: and it made us to bring that new generation in.

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Speaker 4: They're also you know, makes the shows more accessible and

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Speaker 4: I think you'll bring more people to the theater because

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Speaker 4: experiencing five, I think, is a whole nother thing.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, what a choice of wizards with Simon Burke and

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Speaker 5: Todd McKenny playing these Coast productions. I'm not sure who's

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Speaker 5: the wizard here, but top notch. You've got two blokes

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Speaker 5: from the top shelf.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people have the wonderful put the pun top McKenny.

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Speaker 6: Oh, we will have Todd. That's fantastical.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool, love Todd loved on stage and he's a

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Speaker 2: funny man, isn't he It's super cheeky.

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Speaker 6: What was it like auditioning for the roles?

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Speaker 4: Oh, you know what, it was very intent this show

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Speaker 4: like no matter you know what you've done before, it's

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Speaker 4: a whole other beast. And we went through quite a

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Speaker 4: few stive processes with the original creative so it was

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Speaker 4: an opportunity. I think we definitely earned our roles throughout

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Speaker 4: that process. I know Sheridan's got a beautiful story with that. Well,

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of I look back on It's been a

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Speaker 4: year actually since we started the rehearsal, so of looking

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Speaker 4: back on the audition process is very nostalgic. Ready, I

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Speaker 4: went in my first audition hoping to be in the ensemble,

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Speaker 4: just some wow. Yeah. I signed up online on the

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Speaker 4: Wicked website as a little CEO and I was so

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Speaker 4: lucky to get an audition. And I'm even luckier that

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Speaker 4: the creative team obviously saw something in me and with

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Speaker 4: this role. I know, it's so cool.

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Speaker 5: That's that's not quite discovered on the street or at

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Speaker 5: a cafe. That's because it as you tell it already,

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Speaker 5: but it's it's not real. Dreams come through.

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Speaker 4: But I'm walking. I'm a walking evidence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we love to know where you were when you

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Speaker 1: got the call, you know, from whoever it does. You

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Speaker 1: get the call from your manager or whoever it is

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Speaker 1: to say you got the role.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was in a hotel room. Then my agent

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Speaker 4: gave me a rink and I honestly, like, and I've

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Speaker 4: said this views before, I just put the phone down.

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Speaker 4: I just kind of stared at the wall. I didn't

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Speaker 4: really believe it. And then it wasn't until later then

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Speaker 4: I kind of had that emotional moment. It was a

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Speaker 4: bit of a delayed process. I went straight onto YouTube

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Speaker 4: and I'm looking at videos of the girl flying in

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Speaker 4: a bubble and I was so excited. And for me,

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Speaker 4: I was at Southern Cross station in Melbourne. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: and I similar to Courtney, I did fall onto the

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Speaker 4: ground and cry immediately. But I remember sitting on the

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Speaker 4: train with my friends, who actually got a video of it.

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Speaker 4: He pulled out his phone as soon as my agent called.

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Speaker 4: He just had this feelings and I just remember sitting

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Speaker 4: on the train thinking did that actually happen? Like is

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Speaker 4: this reality? Is this a dream? And I kind of

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Speaker 4: understand what people talk about when they have those really

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Speaker 4: large moments in life where Oh absolutely, it was pretty great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope you enjoyed every millisecond, but it is huge.

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Speaker 2: That is very cool.

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Speaker 5: Hey, girls, I just want to know how much do

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Speaker 5: you go back and look at past performances or you

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Speaker 5: want to just put your own stamp on it and

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Speaker 5: you start afresh.

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Speaker 4: You know what I think when you get roles as

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Speaker 4: a massive pressure because everyone has opinion about how people

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Speaker 4: paved the way for us. But I think for me,

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Speaker 4: for both of us in this process, which has been

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Speaker 4: so wonderful, is that we really had our own stamp

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Speaker 4: on the roles. People can come to theext you know,

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Speaker 4: the same material, but a different stance on it. I

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Speaker 4: think you naturally take inspiration from everyone. You just can't

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Speaker 4: not these amazing performers, but it's really beautiful to kind

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Speaker 4: of find that for yourself. And I think the audience

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Speaker 4: is like seeing different versions. I think it keeps it

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Speaker 4: nice and fresh.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, you both have some pretty amazing roles in your

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Speaker 1: recent history. Courtney, you, I mean two of the biggest

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Speaker 1: roles on stage. You played Anna in Frozen and Jasmine

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Speaker 1: in Aladdin.

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Speaker 2: Not bad.

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Speaker 6: Can you pick a favorite there? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just in the ensemble in Aladdin. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: but still got amazing story. But such I think I

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Speaker 4: performed that. Yeah, I definitely performed that at Crowd Theater

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Speaker 4: in Perth, which was just so beautiful and I love

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Speaker 4: performing there. So She's taught me a lot for the role.

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Speaker 4: And I think without Anna, I would have said Linda

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Speaker 4: a little bit harder.

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Speaker 6: And Sheridan, were you in Tick Tick Boom?

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Speaker 4: I was?

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Speaker 1: Can I just say I could not love that more?

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Speaker 1: What an amazing story that was? This is the guy

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Speaker 1: about the guy that wrote Rent, isn't it too? So

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Speaker 1: sadly Yes, so sadly died just before it came out

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Speaker 1: and he saw the success that.

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Speaker 2: It hadart breaking story in it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was such a beautiful show to be a

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Speaker 4: part of it. I also like what you said. I

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Speaker 4: don't think if it wasn't a tik Tik Boom, and

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Speaker 4: if it wasn't for that story, I don't think I

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Speaker 4: would be here either. I think every show that you

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Speaker 4: do gives you such invaluable experience. Yeah, but I also

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Speaker 4: love that with Tick Tick Groom and Wicked that both

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Speaker 4: stories that have such complexity and depth and stories that

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Speaker 4: I think audiences really connect with and I loved I know,

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Speaker 4: a laughing to see it, but I also love being

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Speaker 4: able to cry, so.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, and having people say chock is and all

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Speaker 5: the rest of it. Thank Courtney, you talk quite funnly.

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Speaker 6: It's better than brack of leg.

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Speaker 5: You talked funnly about Crown Theater. Do you end up

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Speaker 5: with favorite venues where you love performing? Perhaps more slightly

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Speaker 5: more than others, you know what.

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Speaker 3: I'm just so bucky bit of performing, so I think

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Speaker 3: each theater brings a different energy, which I think is needed.

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Speaker 3: You know, you do these long seasons in each state,

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Speaker 3: in the next state space and you feel so I'd

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Speaker 3: be a little bit biased to say I have a favorite,

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Speaker 3: but actually I do love performing at the Crown.

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Speaker 4: It's really grand. Have you performed this. I've never performed

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Speaker 4: at the Crown Theater, so maybe I'll have a new

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Speaker 4: favorite there.

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Speaker 2: You go.

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Speaker 6: Well, Sheridan and Courtney.

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Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that there's a lot of excitement

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Speaker 1: about WI could come into town and thank you for

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Speaker 1: chatting to us this morning, March.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having us on a lovely day.

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Speaker 2: You chan soon.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Hi