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Speaker 1: Seven o'clock tonight on Channel seven seven on seven, Better

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Speaker 1: Homes and Gardens is back and Joanna Greeks and Colin Fassij.

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Speaker 2: Are joining us. Now, good morning, we go to.

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Speaker 1: New to the team and an absolute legend of the team, Joanna. Congratulations,

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Speaker 1: you're celebrating twenty years.

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Speaker 2: With the show.

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Speaker 3: Has just thank you.

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Speaker 1: I imagine flown by. I know how the last twenty

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Speaker 1: years are flow by. Just still remember your first episode,

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh.

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Speaker 3: You so, I remember just thinking out such a massive

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Speaker 3: shoes to go in following on from Nony Hazelhurst. So

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Speaker 3: that Niny and gone.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, that's right, twenty.

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Speaker 3: Thirty years for the show. Yeah, I seen so many

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Speaker 3: changes over those years, but it's still at heart just

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Speaker 3: the gorgeous, positive show that hopefully brings loups of inspiration

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Speaker 3: and ideas into people's launderies.

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Speaker 5: And Colin somebody that feels like it's always been there

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Speaker 5: for Australian Spater Homes and Guardens. It must be a

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Speaker 5: bit of an honor to be joining the crew, joining

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Speaker 5: the cast.

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Speaker 4: I was just saying, I've been in the country for

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Speaker 4: twenty five years. I have a citizen five years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't.

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Speaker 4: Realize the figure was. So I'm walking them the street

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Speaker 4: and the buildings are coming up to me and shaking

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Speaker 4: my heart and say congratulations. And in the Super American

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Speaker 4: people have stopping me. It's seemed so many people's hearts.

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Speaker 4: It's a huge honor.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, we were talking about what's kept

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Speaker 1: it going thirty years, what's behind its success?

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Speaker 2: I think it is it truly is relatable for people.

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Speaker 1: It's not show offfee, it's not you know, this is

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Speaker 1: me it really it really is things that people can

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Speaker 1: relate to and do it home and follow along.

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Speaker 2: And do you think that's the secret to its success.

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Speaker 3: I think there's quite a few things that make it successful,

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Speaker 3: Like that's definitely. The relatability is one thing. The fact

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Speaker 3: that it's relevant to what people are at in their

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Speaker 3: lives at different stages that we have lots of people

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Speaker 3: who talk about they used to sit with their names

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Speaker 3: or used to sit with their parents. So it's the

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Speaker 3: fact it's a family friendly show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Through COVID, we had a huge amount of feedback where

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Speaker 3: people were saying it was just how much negativity on

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Speaker 3: airwaves and on screens. They just wanted to have something

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Speaker 3: that felt comfortable, but it could still occasionally surprise them,

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Speaker 3: and I think that is also important, Like we have

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Speaker 3: actually continue to evolve the show so that every now

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Speaker 3: and then you can watch an episode and it's completely

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Speaker 3: what you don't expect to see, and there might be

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Speaker 3: something that's really emotional, or it might be a harder

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Speaker 3: story to tell. But you're also never being mean. It's

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Speaker 3: just it's just celebrating everything that is good in the world.

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Speaker 5: You don't know each other for a long time. I

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Speaker 5: know you, mate, Colin. When did you meet? When was

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Speaker 5: the first time we was that during your swimming career?

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Speaker 3: Mate?

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Speaker 5: Did you jump in your speed down? I was still laps, I.

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Speaker 4: Throde at the bike's frog. I've got then, I was

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Speaker 4: saying when I started MK or eleven years ago, so

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Speaker 4: they do a better home, so I come around. Your

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Speaker 4: whole also introduced the new holes or whatever, so I said,

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Speaker 4: we used to have family dinners for the last eleven years.

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Speaker 4: So I don't come around and we all my family,

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Speaker 4: we all pretend to get on and Joanna interviews and

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Speaker 4: then when needs we all just get back to normal.

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Speaker 4: Out of me the stalker.

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Speaker 3: I've been to three of his homes.

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Speaker 2: You're following it lovely.

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Speaker 4: But in real life, I possibly am officially a steals

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Speaker 4: something from.

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Speaker 1: Me thank of your segment. Yeah, stuffing your pinched from

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Speaker 1: Colins colony. You're going to you're going to juggle the

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Speaker 1: two this year. You juggle it with m k R.

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Speaker 3: M k R.

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Speaker 4: It's a staple and Better Homes. I'm very wholesome on

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Speaker 4: Better KR.

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Speaker 1: You're just following the brief that's been given to you,

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Speaker 1: just doing.

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Speaker 3: What the people want.

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Speaker 2: It's actually not.

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Speaker 3: The beautiful thing with him is is on our show.

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Speaker 3: Unlike reality, which is so formulated. He enjoys seeing if

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Speaker 3: you if you see Colin's Instagram accounts and all his socials,

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Speaker 3: he does what he's doing on the show regularly at

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Speaker 3: home and with his family and with band.

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Speaker 4: Going off in every direction.

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Speaker 3: And that's what we wanted to capture. We just want

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Speaker 3: him being him and some food that he actually.

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Speaker 6: Loves and that he is a little bit more, you know,

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Speaker 6: quite effective.

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Speaker 3: And what do you say you have two meals out

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Speaker 3: of every link?

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Speaker 6: Well those things.

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Speaker 4: I am now a fifty year old dad with the

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Speaker 4: gray hair and two teenage daughters, so I relate to

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Speaker 4: everyone who watches the show. Yeah, we've all got the

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Speaker 4: mortgages gone off, and everyone's like, what do we do

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Speaker 4: with the price of food's gone through the roof And

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Speaker 4: we're there as a guys to help you a lot

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Speaker 4: because I'm sick of chefs making everything too hard for people.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, a lot of you know, with what he does

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Speaker 6: as well, Like I think you have the two camera

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Speaker 6: men who have been shooting all of his stuff, and

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Speaker 6: even the day that we had, they say the hardest

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Speaker 6: thing to them is actually not shaking the camera when

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Speaker 6: they're giggling, and they're just because he is free.

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Speaker 4: Really, Yeah, a lot.

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Speaker 5: As anyone. When I found out that the first d

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Speaker 5: was leaving and all of those things he's done over

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Speaker 5: the years. But what he's going for with the family

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Speaker 5: restaurant on that but made with all of those scenes

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Speaker 5: he's done. Yeah, I know. Are you cool to be

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Speaker 5: on a windswept cliff with all your ingredients flying? Because

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Speaker 5: there are plenty of those moments for you, those wacky locations.

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Speaker 4: I sort of like, just I just on the moments.

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Speaker 4: That's me. It doesn't always work when so far aheads

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Speaker 4: and I've seen all the f we've done so far,

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Speaker 4: and I have one hundred I'm loving it right.

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Speaker 5: It's quite a vliighty locations to shoot that.

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Speaker 1: So twenty years, Joe, what what have been the most

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Speaker 1: memorable moments on the show for you? Andy standouts putting

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Speaker 1: on the spot a bit I that, but yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, to be honest, if there are so many of them,

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Speaker 3: we went across and we did take near Castle when

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Speaker 3: they were launching down and Abby and that ended up

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Speaker 3: launching number one in Australia.

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Speaker 5: Lucky.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, like it was.

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Speaker 3: And then we just had they had like an Egyptian

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Speaker 3: one of the biggest Egyptian collections in the world underneath

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Speaker 3: that castle, which was by pure chance. We actually bumped

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Speaker 3: into the Countess of the home and had some gas

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Speaker 3: bagging with her like we do, and all of a

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Speaker 3: one or tour or so. You have all these great moments,

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Speaker 3: whether it's in the thra or overseas, like when we're

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Speaker 3: team we did a really big special real a couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago that was absolutely magic. You share with

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Speaker 3: each other, to be honest, it's their friendships and not

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Speaker 3: just like our on camera team is awesome, but we

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Speaker 3: don't have anyone that works in the production team that

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Speaker 3: doesn't feel the way that we do about the show,

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Speaker 3: like they all love the show.

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Speaker 6: A lot of people kind of.

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Speaker 3: I think it's like, oh, oh better homes. We you

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Speaker 3: just go there and you just work for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: We don't ever have anyone who works for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: We have people that work. One of my cameramens shot

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Speaker 3: my very first piece to camera in television thirty.

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Speaker 4: Two years ago.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well that explains the vibe that you know, you really

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Speaker 1: can tell you know, downtown Abby.

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Speaker 2: I believe, no, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I believe that that another season is very much a chance. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, not just one of those movies, but another

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Speaker 1: actual season. So third time over there with the game

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Speaker 6: Wow, that would be epic.

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Speaker 2: You get them walking on that down.

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Speaker 3: T I did through the UK and France with Karen

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Speaker 3: was a highlight because she had booked a restaurant for

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Speaker 3: brunch lunch afternoon too. Okay, I think about ten kilos heavier, but.

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Speaker 2: It was so work, so far out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and Karen Karen's going as well, So you're like

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Speaker 5: you like Lindsay Buckingham in Fleet for back mate. You

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Speaker 5: have to make up for many bitter people.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what, I will say one thing, because

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Speaker 3: I mean, Karen's the.

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Speaker 6: Whole host of opportunities excitely.

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Speaker 3: In the world of hospitality. But with the plans that

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Speaker 3: got so can's going to be our mainstay for the cooking.

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Speaker 3: But we've got some really really exciting plans that we're

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Speaker 3: going to win out soon. But I think it's going

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Speaker 3: it's it's just it's kind of another opportunity that's presented

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Speaker 3: itself that we've just grabbed with both hands and everyone's

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Speaker 2: Well, for the first show.

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Speaker 1: For the first show back first with Colin, the two

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Speaker 1: of you are going to cook together tonight.

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Speaker 2: I believe getting budget conscious with.

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Speaker 4: Us Joe actually does more around.

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Speaker 1: However it works, we can't wait to see it. It's

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Speaker 1: all back tonight on seven at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys, good to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thank you,