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Speaker 1: the same show.

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Speaker 2: For what aren't you lucky?

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Speaker 3: That's a discount.

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Speaker 2: We can't see you. Should we be seeing you?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, I can't but you can see No. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: well I wish we could see. But can you see us?

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Speaker 2: I can?

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Speaker 1: We can.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me show you what I've got here, Barbara.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have got there.

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Speaker 4: I have the Barber Strides and Barbie collectible. It's been

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Speaker 1: That's the first, one of the first things I ever

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Speaker 1: designed for myself, the MIDI blasts out of Saturn. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I know I need I need. I can't have

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Speaker 1: anything tight around me when I sing, So that's why

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Speaker 1: I designed that.

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Speaker 2: And you did and dolphins, dolphm replicated.

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Speaker 3: Don't understand how it works.

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Speaker 4: I don't think Barbara wiped it up on her own

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Speaker 4: sewing machine for each dog.

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Speaker 1: No, I didn't sew it myself. I just drew it

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Speaker 2: We are so thrilled to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: And I know that so many people over the duration

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Speaker 2: Even Jackie on Nassas when she was an editor and said,

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Speaker 4: How does it feel to have done it?

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Speaker 1: It actually feels quite good. Not while I was doing it,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking what am I doing here? You know, gushing

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Speaker 1: of not gushing? Wrong word? Sorry? What am I doing? Writing?

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Speaker 1: Reliving my life? You know, been there, done that. But

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Speaker 1: as the years went by, it was actually helpful to

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Speaker 3: And did it come easy to you as you writing?

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Speaker 1: Certain certain things did because I kept I kept journals,

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Speaker 1: you know, many journals at thirty five at least. I

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Speaker 1: thirteen years old, little contents and talked about my experiences

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Speaker 1: as a child, but not a child, I was a teenager.

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Speaker 1: Rather than talk about myself personally, I prefer talking about

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Speaker 1: the process, which I knew, really never had to talk about,

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Speaker 4: We learned a lot about your character. I just find

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Speaker 4: and yet you had this, You found some tenacity to

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Speaker 4: keep going. I just find that extraordiny. Where did your

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Speaker 1: Maybe it came from the lack of confidence In other words,

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Speaker 1: because their parents didn't believe in them. That actually gives

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Speaker 4: And I loved how you grew your nails so that

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Speaker 4: you couldn't learn to type because you didn't want to

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Speaker 1: From exactly exactly. I knew in a way she was

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Speaker 1: But to work in the office like my mother did

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Speaker 3: It's a gift. Did you curse the fact that you

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Speaker 4: Can I tell you about a young girl. I know

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Speaker 4: So she lives the spirit of me the Jewish. She

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Speaker 4: When I told her I was going to be talking

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, that is so interesting to me. That

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Speaker 4: She's sixteen now, and she's been loving you in an

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Speaker 1: Well, do you realize that that whole time is the

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Speaker 3: So good. And do you still have your shop in

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Speaker 1: Well, I like to design things and I like to

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Speaker 2: Of me and the optimism of a young German.

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Speaker 3: This is great. This could be a range of stuff

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Speaker 3: Barbarstreis and hot water bottles.

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Speaker 1: What do you think, Well, maybe if it's Barbara Streis

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Speaker 2: Did we are we are bad in Australia?

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Speaker 1: Swallow England?

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Speaker 3: Swallow it? Oh, yes, of course, yes, yes, that's yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's not interesting the way you say it.

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Speaker 3: It's like, you know, because we have like it's like

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Speaker 3: Susan Sarandon, but.

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Speaker 2: We'll say and we say Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: What did you call her?

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Speaker 3: We call her Susan Sarandon, but surrounded like abandoned. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 3: Will Farrell.

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Speaker 4: But we also say Brisbane rather than Brisbane. We swallow

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Speaker 4: all that we go in the back of the nose.

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Speaker 1: And yes, that's that's right.

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Speaker 3: Blame the blame, the the you know the translation, I guess.

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Speaker 2: Blame our convict parts, the colonialism.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. In my show, I remember saying, why do they

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Speaker 1: mispronounce my name so much? You know, like you don't

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Speaker 1: I never thought I was that famous, tell you the

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Speaker 4: But you're as some one who's just known by Barbara

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Speaker 4: as well. You're so famous you only need one in Australia.

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Speaker 3: You're known as Babs.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Robert Redford calls me bab really you're so loved.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, you are so loved.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that story about that girl.

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Speaker 3: Little Violet. I will tell her she's listening to this,

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Speaker 3: she will be going.

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Speaker 4: She will beside herself, she will be beside herself.

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Speaker 1: What is her name?

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Speaker 3: Violet? Violet, Violet.

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Speaker 1: But that's the name of my dog. I have a

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Speaker 2: This is getting spooky now.

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Speaker 1: I have I have and her twin is scarlet. They

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're made of silk, you know. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell Funny that her name is Violet. Oh she

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Speaker 1: must be special, she must be very special. So hello, Violet,

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Speaker 1: I send you lots of love.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Oh my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Bye.