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Speaker 1: Well, last night was the grand finale of the mass

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Speaker 1: Singer Dummy m AKA the Snow Fox was crowned the winner.

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Speaker 2: The runner up was The Grim Reaper.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Darren Hayes who joins us now, Good morning, Darren.

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Speaker 2: I'm good.

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Speaker 3: It's such a funny title. I love it, The Grim Reaper,

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Speaker 3: such a funny show.

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Speaker 2: Well, did you get.

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Speaker 1: Any say in which costume you've got? I mean, isn't

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Speaker 1: the Grim Reaper a little well grim?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I say, Actually, it's funny.

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Speaker 3: I think, Well, I got approval over costumes, but they

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Speaker 3: sent that through and I loved it, so I just

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Speaker 3: went yeah. I thought it was hilarious and it threw

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Speaker 3: people off the scent a little bit until the first

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Speaker 3: episode when I was guessed immediately.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually really like the costume.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of a bit Willy Wonka meets Pirates of

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Speaker 1: the Cabin Caribbean needs a feed.

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Speaker 2: It's it's a good you don't want you don't want

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Speaker 2: me to style you for your next event?

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Speaker 1: No, I like it.

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Speaker 2: I do want you to style me from my next No,

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Speaker 2: it was really cool.

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Speaker 3: I was just grateful that I had legs and I

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Speaker 3: didn't look like a tennis ball.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, go that way, but a few costumes. Now

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Speaker 4: it's hard to hide your voice. Did you think about

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Speaker 4: trying to sing poorly at some stage or you just

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Speaker 4: went I'm going to roll with this.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I love you for saying that about me.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think about that.

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Speaker 3: I know some people do, and we talk to the

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Speaker 3: producers in the beginning, and honestly, I think I have

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Speaker 3: a voice that's unique. People either love it or hate it.

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Speaker 3: But I thought, here's what's going to happen. I'll be

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Speaker 3: guessed immediately and then I'll be sent home. Ah, And

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Speaker 3: it didn't happen because I guess I didn't realize how

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Speaker 3: the show works and if they like the.

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Speaker 2: Way you sing, you get you get a good score.

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Speaker 3: So I ended up having an amazing month in Sydney,

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Speaker 3: and just it was so Abbey knew who I was.

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Speaker 3: I guess a lot of Australia did, and either Melby

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Speaker 3: was playing dumb or she really didn't know.

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Speaker 2: But I got to hang around. It was amazing, really amazing.

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Speaker 1: You know. Just on the subject of the costume again,

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Speaker 1: I imagine some of them would be very, very hot

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Speaker 1: and very hard to maneuver around him when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to perform.

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Speaker 3: Listen, it was almost impossible. I'm so lucky that I

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Speaker 3: could move my head around in it. You know, I'm

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Speaker 3: twenty five ten. That thing was I don't know, twelve

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Speaker 3: feet tall. So I had almost like a grid iron

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Speaker 3: sort of brace on my shoulders, and it sat on

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Speaker 3: my chest.

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Speaker 2: I had to have my arms up in the air,

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Speaker 2: which not ideal for breathing. I mean, it's very very humiliating, guys,

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Speaker 2: Let's face it. I called it the mook a costume.

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Speaker 3: I had to just come to terms with that and

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Speaker 3: just pray to God I was hitting the right nose.

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Speaker 1: A totally different type of night out.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't it? Hands are up? You just don't care. It's

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Speaker 2: near like a memory. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your return to the music industry last

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Speaker 1: year after well, you know, it has been a bit.

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Speaker 2: Of a hiatus years. What triggered the return?

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Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, you know, I this is a lot grim

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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of the people that I really

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Speaker 3: like that, but a lot of people that I had

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Speaker 3: to or had passed away. I grew up with idols

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Speaker 3: like George Michael Michael Jackson. Just this year, Madonna almost

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Speaker 3: passed away, you know, And I think I was really

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Speaker 3: aware that I've been given such a beautiful life and

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Speaker 3: that was making me really sad, and I devised a

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Speaker 3: plan to come back. I got to play in Perth

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Speaker 3: earlier this year. It was an incredible experience to see

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Speaker 3: people who had patiently waited for me to get my

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Speaker 3: a into gear. If I can be Yeah, it was

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Speaker 3: a beautiful experience. In the show showed me the same thing.

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Speaker 3: I think just seeing Abby's reaction and knowing that I'm

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Speaker 3: enough to have grown up with people who have memories

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Speaker 3: associated with some things I've done is a real privilege.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like Savage Garden never ran its course

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Speaker 1: in terms of you know, people were but no one

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Speaker 1: was pleased to see you got it only ever felt

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, it definitely was.

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Speaker 3: You know. The band absolutely ended on a high note. Yeah, prematurely.

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Speaker 3: And I think there's a really beautiful sort of place

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Speaker 3: that people hold those songs, and if I don't sing them,

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Speaker 3: they don't really get performed, and I'm really aware of

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Speaker 3: that now. I think I feel very lucky. Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: feel very lucky to be Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk about that tour, in that show

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Speaker 4: on Perth because I was there. My son loves you

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Speaker 4: and loves your voice. Man so but his birthday present

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Speaker 4: for his twenty fifth was tickets to see your show

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Speaker 4: and going with his dad. We're sitting there at Perth Arena.

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Speaker 4: And to see the joy in your face when the

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Speaker 4: crowd went nuts, not just at the start, but throughout

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Speaker 4: the show you're doing, you know, some of the somebody stuff,

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Speaker 4: talking on the phone and all the rest of it.

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Speaker 4: That must be wonderful to walk back on the stage

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Speaker 4: and get that reaction.

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Speaker 3: It is, And that's the thing I don't take for granted,

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Speaker 3: I really, you know, when the audacity to sort of

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Speaker 3: walk away like I did for so long and to

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Speaker 3: ask people to it's not you know, concert tickets are

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Speaker 3: make that commitment to come out and you know, buy

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Speaker 3: the ticket, take get the babysitter, do whatever you have

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Speaker 3: to do. I understand that now more than ever and

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Speaker 3: just feel really, I don't know, humbled by that. I

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Speaker 3: think moved sometimes you know that people still remember, you

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Speaker 3: can't assume that that's going to be the case.

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Speaker 2: So that happened all around the world.

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Speaker 3: We took that show to England, all around America, and

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Speaker 3: you know, I met thirty year olds who are the

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Speaker 3: children of people who were Savage covers, you know, and

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Speaker 3: that second generation of people who remembered these have these

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Speaker 3: happy memories. It's a it's a very special thing.

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Speaker 1: Another inroad into that, of course, was teaming up with

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Speaker 1: Peaking Duck. It really has been the year of Hayes

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Speaker 1: teaming up with Peaking Duck for the remix of I

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Speaker 1: Want You. I love those guys because they're bonkers? Are

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Speaker 1: they they? That's how they seem to me anyway? Are

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Speaker 1: they as bonkers in real life as they come across.

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Speaker 2: Shirts off, tits out, just like what I just listen.

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Speaker 2: I love them, love them.

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Speaker 3: They They did a remix of the song, and Uncle

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Speaker 3: Grumpy is who I call the other guy in Savage Garden,

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Speaker 3: had said no, and I was so outraged. I was like, you,

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Speaker 3: it's incredible. So I offered to just re sing it

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Speaker 3: for them. So that's me, all right. They flew over

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Speaker 3: recording of me doing that vocal for them as a favor,

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Speaker 3: and we had a blast and they are crazy.

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Speaker 4: So that was the That was the loophole to get

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Speaker 4: through Uncle Crumpy Grumpy that's buddy.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 4: I having watched you so recently, it was only February

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Speaker 4: that show. Which is the toughest song to sing? Is

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Speaker 4: that affirmation? There was some of those songs I'm not

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Speaker 4: easy to sing.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you know. That's so funny.

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Speaker 3: I find that and the animal song really really hard.

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Speaker 3: And the show director is a guy who is actually

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Speaker 3: the guy that directs you too. He's done all of

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Speaker 3: the Savage Garden shows right from the nineties all the

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Speaker 3: done their new show in Las Vegas, that Sphere show

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Speaker 3: and yeah, mister Williams, and he chooses all the songs

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Speaker 3: I sing, and he put those two up front, and

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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, affirmation.

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Speaker 2: It's hard. It is hard, and I want you It

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Speaker 2: was hard obviously because of the breathing.

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Speaker 1: How many times do you reckon? You've been told by

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Speaker 1: people truly Madly Davely was my wedding song.

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Speaker 2: Not enough, This is not enough. It's a beautiful song.

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Speaker 3: It is what an incredible privilege to have been a

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Speaker 3: part of someone's day.

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Speaker 2: I would have thought that you would have heard that

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Speaker 2: a lot. No, I'm saying like you can't say enough.

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Speaker 2: It's a big yeah. Yeah, yeah, and yeah.

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Speaker 3: That and I knew I loved he was often a

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Speaker 3: song that a lot of women say when they were pregnant,

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Speaker 3: they with their babies, and I love that.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to be part of such big things in people's.

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Speaker 4: Lives, the landmarks, that's amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge honor, and how lovely to have you

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Speaker 1: back and doing stuff this year.

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Speaker 2: We look forward to what's next Darren.

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Speaker 1: And nice to get the costume off and and cool.

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Speaker 2: Down finally breathe guys, Yeah, yeah, it's down below.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, glared you didn't have to try and do affirmation

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Speaker 4: with the grim reapers on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the arms in the air impossible. Thanks for having

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Speaker 2: me chat to you.