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Speaker 1: The Perth International Burlesque Festival begins this Friday and runs

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Speaker 1: until the ninth of November. All information and tickets through

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Speaker 1: Perth Burlesque Festival dot com and one of its stars

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Speaker 1: is joining us right now.

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Speaker 2: This is a lot of the more we did there

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Speaker 2: already too young.

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Speaker 3: Oh, to be honest, I don't know what you did there.

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Speaker 2: We should have played it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm feeling fabulous. If only the listeners could see

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Speaker 4: how I look right now.

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Speaker 1: I know you look amazing.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I did this time in the

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Speaker 4: morning because you did show.

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Speaker 1: Up a little early, and I'm just wondering if you

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Speaker 1: popped across the road and sat outside the cafe and

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Speaker 1: it attracted any attention.

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Speaker 2: Prop their wife.

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Speaker 4: I think we're nine to five workers by a little

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Speaker 4: bit confused.

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Speaker 2: Maybe if you're milling around too much. Probably spectacular.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate read.

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Speaker 1: This is the eleventh year of the festival. How did

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Speaker 1: you get I mean, you haven't been doing it eleven

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Speaker 1: years because you're not that old. But how did you

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Speaker 1: get into burlesque?

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Speaker 4: So I used to be a Mulin rouge dancer dancing

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Speaker 4: in Paris for three years and whilst I was over there.

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Speaker 4: Ditavontice was touring her show and I went and I

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Speaker 4: had a meet and greet ticket, so I got to

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Speaker 4: talk to her and she said, oh, you should do burlesque,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, really, maybe I should. And all

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Speaker 4: the performers were so incredible. I loved the individuality they

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Speaker 4: brought to all their performances and that's something that as

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Speaker 4: a chorus line dancer you can't really do.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying. I'm just sort of breaking this all down.

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Speaker 1: I was with Moulin Rouge and I was pretty much

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Speaker 1: discovered by Dita Vontine.

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to take.

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Speaker 3: That in as you just casually.

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Speaker 1: Talk about it, like you know over across on TV.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, just a casual life from nineteen year old.

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Speaker 2: That's unreal. But three years of dancing, a lot of

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Speaker 2: hard work.

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Speaker 4: And yes, extremely hard work, many a camp and it's

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Speaker 4: twelve shows a week, so that's one day off, you know.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of sacrifice, lots of injuries to imagine, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Yes, a lot of falling on stage two.

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Speaker 2: Over each other, get those steps right, and you're tired.

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Speaker 3: But you were a ballet dancer, weren't you'd know about

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Speaker 3: so I was a ballet dancer for sixteen years. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so we've.

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Speaker 4: Been on a journey that when you were three, like

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Speaker 4: two two point, they just started walking.

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Speaker 2: And they're not Yes, amazing.

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Speaker 1: So you've been described as I don't know who describes

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Speaker 1: you as this, but as the Eiffel Tower crossed with

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Speaker 1: an eighties rock show, okay, which is damn cool. What

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Speaker 1: is it about the Parisian style of burlesque that resonates

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Speaker 1: with you so much?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 4: While I was in Paris dancing at the Mulan Rouge,

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Speaker 4: I would go and see the other cabaret shows that

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Speaker 4: were there, For instance, the Crazy Horse in Paris. That

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Speaker 4: was my favorite show to go and watch.

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Speaker 3: I loved that.

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Speaker 4: All the dancers, well they all had the bob haircut,

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Speaker 4: they all looked really similar.

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Speaker 3: They had these French stage names, and I was just

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Speaker 3: really jealous. It's like I want to do that.

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Speaker 4: So then I came back to Perth and originally I

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Speaker 4: was like, I'm going to be Perth like Crazy Horse dancer. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: had the bob haircut, had the French name. But my

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Speaker 4: music influences come from my dad. So my dad's a rocker.

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Speaker 4: He's in a band, I've grown up with all of

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Speaker 4: that music, so I kind of fused the two the

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Speaker 4: Parisian style, but I do a lot of eighties rock songs,

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Speaker 4: so that's kind of how branding came about. So as

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Speaker 4: you can both see sitting here, yes, addressed as a

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Speaker 4: show girl, but also covered in tattoo, that.

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Speaker 3: Is very much my style.

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Speaker 4: Or there, barb're talking about Barb.

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Speaker 5: I'm a huge Barb Barb Barbara. When we were talking

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Speaker 5: about break up songs, Yeah, there's a couple of.

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Speaker 1: The because we're Barbara. As you would know, Barbara loves

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Speaker 1: a victim song. And yes, you know so my man

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Speaker 1: funny girl.

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Speaker 3: So this is a funny girl.

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Speaker 5: It must have been great to get out from, you know,

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Speaker 5: dancing with so many other people, to find your individuality

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm a very creative person.

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Speaker 4: And that's the joy of burlesque is that everyone gets

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Speaker 4: to share their creativity. And it's amazing watching other burless

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Speaker 4: dancers perform and thinking how did they think of this concept?

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Speaker 3: How do they do this costume?

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Speaker 4: And it's you're just constantly inspired and you just want

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Speaker 4: to keep creating, and then you just keep spending lots of.

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Speaker 3: Money and you just don't stop.

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Speaker 1: I mean it does seem to be an area of

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Speaker 1: you know, stage that you definitely shared your inhibitions and

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Speaker 1: anything goes, so.

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Speaker 3: That makes it very liberating.

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 1: Now I have to ask living in Paris, was it

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Speaker 1: like Emily.

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Speaker 2: When I was just.

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Speaker 4: Talking about this, I'm going to say Emily in Paris Is.

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Speaker 3: She lived a more glamorous life.

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Speaker 4: So I mean, you're Mulan maruge Is obviously still a

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Speaker 4: very glamorous lifestyle, VIP and all the clubs, free drinks,

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Speaker 4: invited to shows.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Paris can be a bit grubby too.

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Speaker 2: You're not like me with my wife on the honeymoon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no lights, no bit different. I was nineteen at

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Speaker 4: the time. I was having fun. Of course I'm not

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Speaker 4: a ballet dancer anymore, that's loose.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely when in Paris now the show's head out

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Speaker 1: of Perth as well. You're going to Geraldton, you're going

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Speaker 1: to Albany. How do you find the audience is different

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Speaker 4: So I've done a couple of the regional shows past.

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Speaker 4: I've done Gelton and I've done cal Ghooley and yeah,

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Speaker 4: but like my Miller, Queen of the Desert always like

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Speaker 4: burl dances and a little bus on their way to

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Speaker 4: the festival. The crowds love it because for them it's

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Speaker 4: so exciting to have these.

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Speaker 3: Shows, live shows.

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Speaker 4: I love entertainments, especially burless shows, because for some people

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Speaker 4: this is still something that can seem controversial.

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Speaker 3: For us. It's in Calgoley probably.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But so at first I was like, I wonder

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Speaker 4: how this like regional town is going to take it.

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Speaker 4: They loved it. Oh, they were screaming so loud. The

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Speaker 4: theaters are beautiful there. Some of my favorite performances I've

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Speaker 4: done have been regional shows.

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Speaker 2: Diggers and Dealers that would have gone you would have

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Speaker 2: gone down very well.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely. I was going to ask about the crowds. Do

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Speaker 5: you see a lot of like you see a lot

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Speaker 5: of men in the crowds as well as women when

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Speaker 5: you're doing normal shows.

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Speaker 2: What do you think.

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Speaker 4: We have a lot of like a lot of burlesque

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Speaker 4: husbands that come and watch, a lot of partners like

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Speaker 4: I wat, we do have a lot of men in

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Speaker 4: the audience. But I find that because burlesque is built

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Speaker 4: off feminism, it is women predominantly, and it's actually great

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Speaker 4: because we have so many women come through and because

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Speaker 4: burlesque is so diverse. We have people from all different backgrounds,

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Speaker 4: different races, different body sizes, different sexualities, like everyone's coming together.

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Speaker 4: People come and watch burless shows and they feel so

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Speaker 4: represented because they see someone on stage that looks like them,

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Speaker 4: and then it makes them think, I'm going to be

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Speaker 4: able to do this because I'm seeing myself on stage

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Speaker 4: and that's something that's so incredible about it.

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Speaker 3: Our community is beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Well, we thank you for your service because it's embowering.

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Speaker 1: The festival begins this Friday. It runs right through to

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Speaker 1: the ninth of November. Information and tickets can be obtained

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Speaker 1: through Perth Burlesque Festival dot com.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining. Thank you you at the coffee shop

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Speaker 2: over the road. What are you to go back?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean and green sign a let's go. Thank you,

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you