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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, my next guess is one of Australia's favorite people.

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Speaker 2: He's been an actor in some of our favorite television

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Speaker 2: shows and he's also extraordinarily loved for his dedication to

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Speaker 2: raising money for cancer research. One of the ways he's

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Speaker 2: been doing this is through his beautiful book series. Here

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Speaker 2: to tell us about his latest book called Dear Lover

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Speaker 2: is our Dear Friend. See what I did there? Samuel Johnson, Hi, Samuel.

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Speaker 1: Red Eye, Hello, I wrote.

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Speaker 2: Something for your last one before this letter to your mum,

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Speaker 2: which was I must say my mum's been gone for

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Speaker 2: about eighteen years now, and it was the easiest thing

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Speaker 2: I've ever written. I just sat down and poured out.

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Speaker 2: So tell us about this one. What's Dear Lover?

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Speaker 1: I had? I had the same experience writing for Dear Lover.

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Speaker 1: I wrote my letter in about nine and a half

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Speaker 1: minutes and I didn't change it. It just came out.

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Speaker 1: Some of the letters just come out easily and others

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Speaker 1: are hard fought for after many weeks. It really does.

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Speaker 1: That really does depend on the book that we're doing

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Speaker 1: and the person that you're writing to. But basically, the

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Speaker 1: Lover is an assembly of letters to lovers from notable Australians.

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Speaker 1: So we've got famous people in there, like like we

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Speaker 1: had you for dear Mum. We've got famous people in there.

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Speaker 1: But did you know that there are traples?

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Speaker 2: I've heard of trupples. Have you got a letter from

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Speaker 2: someone in a thrupple?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah? And I mean I mean is it one

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Speaker 1: person with two others? Or is it? Or are all

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Speaker 1: three with each other? That's the question I've got.

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Speaker 2: I think it's all three with each other? Intriguing, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: Mate? It does me? Does it? Man? It's bananas, It's

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Speaker 1: absolutely bananas. Before I did this book, I'd never heard

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Speaker 1: of a traple. I'd heard of a threesome, but I've

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Speaker 1: never heard of a traple, but I reckon. The letter

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Speaker 1: that got to me the most was comedian Bev Kellix.

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Speaker 1: She wrote about her partner that it wasn't going very

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Speaker 1: well and maybe she should have left a year ago,

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Speaker 1: and maybe if she was patient for another year it

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Speaker 1: might improve, and it was. It's just kind of really

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Speaker 1: really honest and really sad. Anyway, she texted me two

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Speaker 1: days ago, she just she's just gone on a date

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Speaker 1: night with her partner. And things are going really well.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to report.

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Speaker 3: And so did the partner read the letter?

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Speaker 1: No, not yet. They might go into another I reckon

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Speaker 1: they might go into another bed. Bet after.

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Speaker 3: As they walked past bookstores, she say, nothing to see

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Speaker 3: in there.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, I mean people of people. One thing that really

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Speaker 1: surprised me Jonesy and Amanda is that people have and

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Speaker 1: I didn't ask this of them. They've been really honest.

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Speaker 1: Jackie Lamby's letter is very direct, very honest. She's currently single,

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Speaker 1: so she's got a list of rules for any partner.

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Speaker 1: They must like Rambo fair enough. That's but there's no

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Speaker 1: argument there.

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Speaker 3: I love I love Rambo sept for I will say

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Speaker 3: this Rambo five, he disrespected the character. But up until that.

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Speaker 2: So you and Jackie can never be together. I like

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Speaker 2: the line.

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Speaker 3: I'd have to ask my wife, but I'd like to

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Speaker 3: discuss with Jackie what her thoughts of Rambo five.

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Speaker 1: I've been well, but but do you like dag with dogs?

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Speaker 1: Because because you've got to like dag with dogs as well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I.

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Speaker 3: Do like them once a year.

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Speaker 2: Don't talk yourself into going out with Jackie Lamb if

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Speaker 2: it doesn't come naturally to you the.

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Speaker 3: Next minute, I'm married to Jackie Lamb.

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Speaker 2: But I like the notion that it's not all happy

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Speaker 2: long term partners. There's there's some challenges in here, or

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Speaker 2: people writing that as to people they didn't end up with.

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Speaker 1: Maybe exactly, it's not just stunning tributes. I mean, I'll

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Speaker 1: bet you know Grant and She's Dade's tributes to each

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Speaker 1: other are very brilliant. But it's not just that's so,

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Speaker 1: it's really I mean, it really goes everywhere this book,

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Speaker 1: like it's it's funny. It's funny that I've curated it

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Speaker 1: because for about four decades I didn't believe in love

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, how do you feel about Rambo?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, Rambo is a bit more in my

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Speaker 1: old self. Rambo is a bit more albal. I just

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Speaker 1: I was very confused while love. I didn't know what

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Speaker 1: it meant. And you know, I'm in my mid forties now,

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Speaker 1: so I kind of know what it means now. But

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Speaker 1: it took a long time to grapple with.

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Speaker 3: Are you in a relationship very happily?

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Speaker 1: Well, Well, we don't. We don't. We don't fight at all.

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Speaker 1: There's no tension, there's no there's like like, I don't

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Speaker 1: go oh no about anything.

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Speaker 2: Are you sure you're in a relationship with someone else.

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Speaker 3: It was a person? Because you actors get a bit weird.

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Speaker 1: I know that. Oh well, I mean, yes, admittedly I

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Speaker 1: have to blow my girl friend up.

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Speaker 3: Are you happy that you know because you played Molly?

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Speaker 3: Are you happy that you didn't have to blame? In

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Speaker 3: the most recent incarnation of him bearing his bum on

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Speaker 3: the stage at Elton John's.

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Speaker 1: Concept, hey listen, can I be honest? Can I be honest? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Please?

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Speaker 1: It's time for him to hang up his hat. Man. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I look, there's a lot I haven't said, and I'm

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Speaker 1: trying really hard to be diplomatic, and and I've seen

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Speaker 1: the same type of thing happen over and over again,

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Speaker 1: including him when I told him not to coming up

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Speaker 1: on stage during my gold LOGI Win and ruining my

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Speaker 1: curried Beanie moment where I was going to try and

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Speaker 1: raise a lot of money for cancer research by getting

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Speaker 1: up uncles are skunk and babbling for eight minutes to

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Speaker 1: finish the logis that night? Not a word? Did we

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Speaker 1: understand who's looking after him? He must not be out

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Speaker 1: in public during the PM, not with the way that

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Speaker 1: he drinks. Hang up your hat on mate.

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Speaker 3: Well that's that's maybe that's what we need. That's the

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Speaker 3: message to Molly Well Sam. It's always great to catch up.

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Speaker 2: With you, Sam, and we love your level of honesty too.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: My pleasure and thank you. So if anyone wants to

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Speaker 1: buy the book, please buy it from Please buy it

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Speaker 1: from us, Love your Sister dot org. If you click

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Speaker 1: on market and buy it to us, you get bonus letters.

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to sign it for you, and more goes

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Speaker 1: to Kicking Cancer in the Face, which we quite like.

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Speaker 1: So please do buy it from us.

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Speaker 3: That should be in Rambo. That should be when he

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Speaker 3: kicks cancer in the face.

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Speaker 2: Samuel, love you to talk to you. You take care.

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Speaker 3: Bye.