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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Jonesy and Amanda. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: the theme to the Love Boat. Our next guest is

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Speaker 1: very versatile. We've seeing him hosting The Voice, getting yelled

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Speaker 1: out on Celebrity Apprentice. Well, now he's helping singles find

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Speaker 1: love on the high seas. This is the very first

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Speaker 1: reality show on a boat. It's called The Real Love Boat.

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Speaker 2: Captain stubing flashbacks all over the place. Darren McMullen, Hello, Hey,

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Speaker 2: it's your time.

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Speaker 3: It's this Let it flow, is your time. It floats

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Speaker 3: back to you.

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Speaker 4: I want to come back and live my life as

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Speaker 4: you because I was, and I was so jealous when

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Speaker 4: you got that job. I went, oh, man, that'd be

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Speaker 4: a great job.

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Speaker 3: It's a good question. It's a good one. It's one

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Speaker 3: of those ones you kind of pinch yourself and go, God,

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Speaker 3: I do this for free. Not that I tell the

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Speaker 3: network that obviously cruising around the Mediterranean. Been locked up

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Speaker 3: in Australia like everyone else for the last two and

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Speaker 3: a half years. It was just so good to be

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Speaker 3: back in the world again. And the great thing about

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Speaker 3: cruising is you've got this lovely suite. You fall asleep,

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Speaker 3: you wake up, and you culture new place, new language,

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Speaker 3: new food. The very next day you jump on into

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Speaker 3: that and you you absorb it and then onto the

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Speaker 3: next one. So it was a good way to pack

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Speaker 3: in all that two and a half years of drought

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Speaker 3: of travel that we'd had. I think it was brilliant.

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Speaker 2: But does this show work because it's not. It's a

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Speaker 2: reality show. It's a dating show. So what happens?

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Speaker 3: So essentially we have a bunch of singles on the

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Speaker 3: ship that are looking for love. There's always a mismatched

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Speaker 3: number of females to males, and that that'll that'll chop

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Speaker 3: and change depending on who has the power. And whenever

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Speaker 3: we come into a new port, whoever's not coupled up

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Speaker 3: and phone a connection gets booted off the ship. But

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Speaker 3: then just to spaice things up a bit, we we

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Speaker 3: bring in new singles along the way. So the paradynamic

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Speaker 3: hall was shifts what port?

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Speaker 4: What if they get stuck in mogod issue see ya

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Speaker 4: see yaou want to be.

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Speaker 2: How many cruise lines go to mogod Isshue.

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Speaker 4: Lovely this time of year?

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Speaker 3: That's that's season twenty five we'll be doing.

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Speaker 4: Did you watch the original Love Boat?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: You know, I never seen it until I got the gig,

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Speaker 3: and then in my cabin at night it would play

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Speaker 3: on the TV, and that was the first time I

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Speaker 3: had the opportunity to watch it, which was quite interesting

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Speaker 3: under the lens of twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 4: And which character did you relate most to because you're

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Speaker 4: playing I guess the cruise director, so you'd be.

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Speaker 3: Like, go, no, that's Hannah Hannah. Hannah Ferrier plays cruise director.

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Speaker 3: And then we've got duty. Daniel Dooty plays head of

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Speaker 3: entertainment and we actually have the real captain of the ship.

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Speaker 3: We're going to cast that role. But he was just

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Speaker 3: such good talent, this really suave Italian man. He looks fantastic.

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Speaker 3: His grandfather actually was the chef on the original love

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Speaker 3: Boat cruise ship, and he would go visit his grandfather

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Speaker 3: on the cruise ship and he fell in love with boats,

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Speaker 3: and that's why he wanted to be the captain. One

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Speaker 3: day in Lo and Behold he is, so we kept

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Speaker 3: him and then I just play host. So anytime I

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Speaker 3: rock up, it's usually with bad news and somebody's getting

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Speaker 3: kicked off the ship, so they're not always that happy

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Speaker 3: to see me.

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Speaker 1: Because love Boat was really been attributed to a giant

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Speaker 1: increase in Australia's love of cruising.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a big deal for Australians until the Love Boat.

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Speaker 1: I remember the Love Boat actually came and filmed in Australia.

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Speaker 1: And remember this, seeing the Dilvin Delane, I think you've

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Speaker 1: noticed they were throwing any australianisms into this.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to have a couple of days off

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Speaker 5: and I was kind of hopping. Maybe you'd like to

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Speaker 5: show me around the train. I'd love to go. I'll

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Speaker 5: tell you what you'd like. You can stay with it

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Speaker 5: at my house.

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Speaker 6: Oh well, if.

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Speaker 3: And I have already talked and I'm going to be

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Speaker 3: staying at her house.

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Speaker 5: He is, he is, But no worries. You can go

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Speaker 5: to stay with me a great time. Have you ever

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Speaker 5: see my china plate? You can go play with my

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Speaker 5: billy lids.

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Speaker 3: What's still being proposing? Well, it sounds a bit like

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Speaker 3: the show we made, to be fair. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: of partner swapping. There's a lot of love triangles. I

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Speaker 3: think we even have a love square at some point

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Speaker 3: in the show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and how did you go in all of this?

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Speaker 4: Were you?

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Speaker 3: I was staying well away? From all the drug A

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Speaker 3: good Catholic boy. I was at the nice end of

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Speaker 3: the ship with all the oldies on their fiftieth wedding

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Speaker 3: anniversary playing bingo.

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Speaker 4: Because I look at this show and you did Celebrity

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Speaker 4: Apprentice and you were so good on Celebrity. I thank you,

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Speaker 4: you were so good on it, and am and I've

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Speaker 4: been trying to get a man across the line because

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Speaker 4: I want us to.

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Speaker 2: Be the due celerity celebrity stas.

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Speaker 4: I want us to be the next Will and Woody. Yes,

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Speaker 4: but a man is saying that's a hard It looks

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Speaker 4: like that's a hard.

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Speaker 3: Well, they'll trick you into saying, oh, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: Monday to Friday nine to five, it's very easy hours.

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Speaker 3: Cut to the reality. There's no days off and you're

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Speaker 3: doing fourteen to fifteen hour days, sometimes overnight. And I think,

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Speaker 3: I remember, we've got dropped off at one challenge in

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Speaker 3: the Blue Mountains at six a m. Having only got

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Speaker 3: to bed the previous night at three from another challenge,

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Speaker 3: and then they said, oh, you're going to throw this

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Speaker 3: wellness camp and I got home ten pm the next

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Speaker 3: night sleeping intent in the Blue Mountains. That right, Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 3: it was lok to be honest, it was the hardest

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Speaker 3: show I've ever done, but the mush rewarding for sure,

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Speaker 3: because you know, to get to hand six hundred thousand

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Speaker 3: or thereabouts to the charity feel the magic was just

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Speaker 3: it made it all worthwhile.

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Speaker 4: But you are the best TV host in the business, anyone,

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Speaker 4: anyone that can wrap up. And my favorite thing from

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Speaker 4: you is on the voice when you're wrapped up, seal that.

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Speaker 6: I had a conversation with Hannah. She wrote me this

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Speaker 6: beautiful letter that will perhaps give you an insight into

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Speaker 6: who she really is and what she's discovered about herself

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Speaker 6: through being on this show. Can you share that with us?

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Speaker 3: Anna or you don't have time unforcedly see tonight you're

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Speaker 3: afraid and perhaps if you do want to find out,

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Speaker 3: you can hit hand up on on Twitter and she

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Speaker 3: could share.

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Speaker 1: It with you.

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Speaker 4: Then that is the greatest.

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Speaker 3: What is that guy showting in read the letter had

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Speaker 3: the letters about fifty pages.

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Speaker 2: Producer in your ear saying wrap.

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Speaker 3: It up, wrap it up. Wrap No, they didn't actually

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Speaker 3: remember that particular day, my eye and my my earpiece

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Speaker 3: went on the blink and I just kind of I

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Speaker 3: was like, I hope I made the right move there

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Speaker 3: because they were quite precious about the coaches. Back then.

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Speaker 3: You never backchated the coaches, the coaches, the superstar coaches.

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Speaker 3: It was all about that. And I came off at

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Speaker 3: the break and oh, look, sorry about that, and like no, no,

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Speaker 3: we were like, oh my god, thank goodness, you wrapped

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Speaker 3: them up. That would I went for fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 4: We interviewed Seal five years ago, and he's still talking.

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Speaker 4: He's still in the background talking about Busky. Oh god, darn,

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Speaker 4: I'm so happy for the real love bait. So that's

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Speaker 4: coming up on Channel ten October five Tober five.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we could have announced that today.

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Speaker 4: You're you're the first to hear the news. Okay, October five,

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Speaker 4: seven thirty. So it's at the family friendly time.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah it is family Is that family friendly?

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Speaker 5: Seven thirty?

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Speaker 4: Well that's a nice time. The living room's on at

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Speaker 4: seven thirty.

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Speaker 2: Yes, But I do a bit more cruising action.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't hope, so certainly hope.

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Speaker 2: You hope. So you're not chi in just to watch someone,

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Speaker 2: you know, make it case.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to see someone dropped at Mogadishue.

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Speaker 3: I was pushing from walking the plank, but apparently how

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Speaker 3: for safety couldn't.

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Speaker 2: And it may not be a cookie.

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Speaker 4: Darren, thank you, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy it. And you know I sing

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Speaker 3: the theme tune for this as well. Did you know

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Speaker 3: that I sing the theme tune.

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Speaker 4: Now, we're going to wrap him up.

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Speaker 3: So we don't have time.

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Speaker 4: We don't have time. It's for to.

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Speaker 3: Us exciting and you come aboard. We're expecting you