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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, Welcome friends to the Christian o'connells show podcast,

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Speaker 1: No Claim to Famous two week for us the best

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Speaker 1: one we get between now on eight o'clock Robbie Williams

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Speaker 1: tickets double pass to go and see him at Amy

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Speaker 1: Part Wednesday, the second of November next year. Robbie Williams

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Speaker 1: is playing sold out shows obviously after his amazing barnstorm

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Speaker 1: performance at the Grand Final. Tickets are selling fast for

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Speaker 1: the added show, second and final shows at Amy Park Stadium.

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Speaker 1: If you want to go and see him, he is

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Speaker 1: amazing live you saw what he did at the Grand Final.

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Speaker 1: Have even bigger in the evening as well fronted touring

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Speaker 1: dot com. You can win a pair right now. Business,

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Speaker 1: my show Business.

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Speaker 2: I did an upflush with carlimin O, Jason Dollavan and

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Speaker 2: Lollie Meldrum. My uncle made the wedding cake from the

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Speaker 2: movie to Castle for the moment to Kickboxer on Top.

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Speaker 3: I was rescued from walking into traffic.

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Speaker 2: By Michael Caine.

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Speaker 3: Christian O'Connell's weakest claim to face.

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Speaker 1: But that one sort of fell apart a bit, did

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Speaker 1: it with upon examination? Like an old art fat that

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Speaker 1: sort of crumbles in your fingers when you hold it

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Speaker 1: up to the light. Wait a minute, Oh right, knowing

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Speaker 1: for one for one O four three, you're weak pain

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Speaker 1: to fame?

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark, Hey, good morning, Christian, Good morning all.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, my welcome show. And what is your week

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Speaker 1: claim to fame?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my weakest claim to fame is I once worked

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Speaker 4: as a bodyguard and I was able to guard Nicholas

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Speaker 4: Cage and his bodyguard while they were in Melbourne filming

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Speaker 4: a show. Filming goes right actually, and I was able

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Speaker 4: to guard their home while they had a sleep.

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Speaker 1: So you're a bodyguard who guarded the bodyguard. It's the

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Speaker 1: Russian dog of bodyguards and you're the big dog.

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Speaker 4: They have to have a rest as well, so it

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Speaker 4: was just pretty much disguarded.

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Speaker 1: But he can't need to rest. What a great question

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Speaker 1: guards to bodyguard when he needs to rest? Oh? Man,

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Speaker 1: mind does?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 4: It was an interesting time, so it was a good, good, fun,

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Speaker 4: fun job as well. Just had to keep people away

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Speaker 4: from the building pretty much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh so how do you get selected for that?

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Cage, in my mind, would make you fight ten

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Speaker 1: men while he watched sat on a throne drinking blood.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I was just.

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Speaker 1: A job and yeah, paying conditions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, the boss picked me out and asked me if

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Speaker 4: if I do it. I had just recently got the

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Speaker 4: bodyguard license a few years back, and yeah, got the job.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, luckily, no, there was no trouble. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: some other exciting things happened on the job elsewhere. Yeah

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Speaker 4: that what Oh no more more just you know pists

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Speaker 4: with other other shows and other campaigns. Just regular pists

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Speaker 4: or people drunk, drunk and loitering and causing trouble.

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Speaker 1: But now tell me about that. I'm fascinated by the

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Speaker 1: bodyguard license. What do you have to do to get

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Speaker 1: qualified as a bodyguard? Because often thought about doing it

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Speaker 1: after the show, so just being a bodyguard for a

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Speaker 4: It's probably more regulated now, but this is going back regulator.

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Speaker 1: The regular is not the fun out of it. Bash

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Speaker 1: A few people in those kick a few balls and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: I would bring some leaterers in if you could finish

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Speaker 3: itet practiced.

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Speaker 4: About twenty years ago. You do like a certificate three

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Speaker 4: in security and then there was extra courses to do

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Speaker 4: to do bodyguard training as well. But but yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: definitely more heavily regulated these days.

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Speaker 1: And what do you use Do you usually use the

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Speaker 1: diamond formation when you're out with the principal?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, looked there was. There was a lot of

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Speaker 4: practical tips in the training.

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Speaker 1: Defensive driving and evasive driving. I seriously looked into when

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Speaker 1: I had daughters, I was like, I might take a bodyguard.

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Speaker 1: I'm not joking. I looked into all the modules. It

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Speaker 1: was like evasive driving and they were talking about the

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Speaker 1: triangle to protect the principle. I still do this now.

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Speaker 1: The triangle were out about put a potential boyfriend in

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Speaker 4: The driving would be fun. I didn't do those courses.

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Speaker 4: I was more on foot.

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Speaker 1: But what if you needed to get Nicholas Cage out

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Speaker 1: there quickly? And it was just like I didn't do

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Speaker 1: the course. It was an one hundred.

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Speaker 4: Bucks his bodyguard, his bodyguard wake him.

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Speaker 1: Up with sleeping beauty. It was less.

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Speaker 4: Regular guy was highly experienced, the really cool bloke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Mark, great, God, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: I send you a prize. Thank you, thank you, Bye bye.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast, Good morning, Simon, Yeah, good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Christian. My wickest claim to fame is that and

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Speaker 2: now live in the house where James and Vince past

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Speaker 2: band members of Pseudo Echo, grew up.

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Speaker 1: There should be a little plaque outside on the walls

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Speaker 1: saying that they should have a different like a colored one,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't they for like rock and music sort of why

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Speaker 1: that building is significant, like your one.

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Speaker 2: Absolute claims to fame. And I mean the most amazing

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Speaker 2: thing is that we've sort of kept it a little

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Speaker 2: still full of all the egg cartons and the soundproofing,

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Speaker 2: and this is where they sort of grew up rehearsing

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Speaker 2: and sound cool. You would have played their funky towns,

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Speaker 2: would have done their all their old old hits sort

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Speaker 2: of thing, getting it ready for that time and place,

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Speaker 2: you know, a few quite a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: It's like you were living in a little museum there.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Yes, it's it's it thinks of history in yeah,

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Speaker 2: which is great.

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Speaker 1: That's brilliant. Simon, Thank you very much, you call mate.

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Speaker 1: So are you desperate to try and win in the

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Speaker 1: show round at yours with Pseudo Worker to play back

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Speaker 1: in that garage.

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Speaker 2: I think I think it'd be a great homecoming for

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Speaker 2: them for them all sort of things. So yeah, we'd

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Speaker 2: love to ye see them.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Simon, good luck and thanks for calling mate,

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Speaker 1: Thanks mate, cheers, Terse, good morning.

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Speaker 3: Oh tell the morning, Kristin. How are you good to

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Speaker 3: speaking to you? And now listen my weakest clime to fame.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready for it? I had lunch with Johnny Farannham.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing to get one on one with John Farnham.

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Speaker 3: When I was eleven eleven years old, I raised the

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Speaker 3: most money in my school for underprivileged children and off

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Speaker 3: to the Hillton we went for lunch.

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Speaker 1: Not those underprivileged kids though you can have the old

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Speaker 3: No, we got the money for them.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, okay double meaning going.

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Speaker 3: On here, yeah yeah yeah, but still that was awesome.

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Speaker 3: I felt like a million bucks.

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Speaker 1: But the bill was so obviously is it you and fancy.

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Speaker 3: Beg your pardon?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So it was about thirty kids from different school.

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Speaker 1: All right, there's a load of you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and we all got to meet him like

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Speaker 3: it was bombarded. We're like eleven and twelve year old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's up the buffet, he's trying to put

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Speaker 3: They're like the rock star then that he was with

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Speaker 3: all his blond hair and everything, and it was just awesome.

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Speaker 3: One of just the nicest person, really nice person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah great, used to hear he's recovering one at the

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Speaker 1: moment as well. And so did he sit with all

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Speaker 1: you thirty kids? What was it like it? It sounds like

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Speaker 1: cares like a long banquet table with him him at

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Speaker 1: the top of it. Go kids, stop throwing food.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, we were all just as quiet as mine.

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Speaker 3: It was, brien, it was the best day ever.

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Speaker 1: Oh lovely, that's a great story. Thank you very much, Teres.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome. You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: It's better thought under privileged kids all outside on the

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Speaker 1: streets and no, not sorry, Simon, Simon, what's your weakest

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Speaker 1: claim to fame?

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Speaker 4: My weakest find the fime is Russell Groo Gilbert grab

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Speaker 4: my hat's foot, slipped it on his head.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's TV goal. This is the pinnacle, the

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Speaker 1: heyday of TV, and I think we've deserted it really,

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Speaker 1: so take us through it all. So what what was

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Speaker 1: it on? Hey?

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Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, hi has that day here?

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Speaker 4: He's doing the pre show warm up and he just

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Speaker 4: pointed to me and he said, oh, Jeremy, give me

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Speaker 4: your hat, and he put it on his shoe and.

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Speaker 1: Flipped it on his head, and that I'm not choking, right,

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Speaker 1: that's all it took years ago to get a career

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Speaker 1: on primetime TV. Simon, what a moment, what a ca

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Speaker 1: to Hey, my friend, there's nothing weak about that. It's

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Speaker 1: too powerful for this, Simon, Thank you very much. The

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