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Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah. Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Robbie Williams. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm really good, Thank you very much. How are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm good now, Just so I can work out where

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Speaker 2: you are in the world. Are you in London? Are

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Speaker 2: you in Larlowland, La La Land? Where are you right now, Robbie.

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Speaker 1: I'm in La La Land, in the hills of Beverlyshire

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Speaker 1: nine O two one zero.

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Speaker 2: Look at you. You've done very well for yourself.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm right posh me.

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Speaker 2: You can take the boy out of Stoke, but surely

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Speaker 2: not still the stoke out the boy. Surely you've still

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Speaker 2: got some of that in you?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, No, he still exists, loud and kicking,

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Speaker 1: very proud.

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Speaker 2: And have you just sold that don't need to get

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Speaker 2: out soon? Hasn't? Isn't Drake like moving in as we talk,

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Speaker 2: because there is removal vans coming in for all your stuff.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe a Canadian is moving further up the hill,

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Speaker 1: but if he is, I would have signed an NDA

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Speaker 1: to not just close any of those things.

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Speaker 2: Good for you now, Robbie, great news. You're coming to

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Speaker 2: Melbourne very soon in April, doing Rod laver Arena, and

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Speaker 2: also your movie, your biopic, Better Man, is being made

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Speaker 2: right here as well. First of all, tell me about

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Speaker 2: the biopic.

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Speaker 1: Well, the biopic for a narcissist like me is wonderful

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Speaker 1: news because it's solely about me and my life, and

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Speaker 1: it's all of the good bits, all of the bad bits.

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Speaker 1: There's bits of fantasy in there. I obviously disclose too

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Speaker 1: much about what I've been up to that people don't know.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, it's directed by Michael Gracie, the driving force

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Speaker 1: behind the Greatest Showman, genius and close friend, and I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm more than lucky to have him on board because

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Speaker 1: you know, he's like one of the most wanted directors

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Speaker 1: on the planet. So I'm very excited.

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Speaker 2: And why now, I know you're sort of what two

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Speaker 2: years away from turning fifty and like Eltonstone his and

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Speaker 2: there's been the Freddie one as well. Yours is a

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Speaker 2: great life story? Is it turning to fifty? And you

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Speaker 2: want to put something down permanently now to make sense of,

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Speaker 2: you know, the extraordinary life you've had.

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Speaker 1: No, it's just because that Michael happened to ask me

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Speaker 1: if I wanted to do it at the time that

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Speaker 1: you wanted to do it. I'd never really thought about

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Speaker 1: it before or dared to even suggest really that one

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Speaker 1: should be made.

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Speaker 2: Come on with a career like yours. You must have

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Speaker 2: sometimes thought, Oh God, who should play me in the movie?

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Speaker 2: You know? Does Kevin Costner play the older me? You know,

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Speaker 2: in ten years from now? I played by Kevin Costner.

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Speaker 2: I know you're a fan of Yellowstone or Who. I've

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Speaker 2: just finished season two. Please tell me the rest of

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Speaker 2: the seasons are as good as that. I think it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: So they're all good, apart from season four, which is

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Speaker 1: like weh okay. But I adore that show, so season

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Speaker 1: four can be season four for me.

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Speaker 2: Why is that show so important for men? It's like

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Speaker 2: Catnet for men. My wife doesn't really care for it.

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Speaker 2: I have to watch it alone, but I really like it.

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Speaker 2: What is it about that show? Do you watch it

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Speaker 2: with your wife or do you watch it alone?

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Speaker 1: No? I do watch it with my wife. She covers

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Speaker 1: her eyes when there's like violence, and I have to

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Speaker 1: tell of what's going on. But I think that it's

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Speaker 1: it's sort of aspirational for the rugged masculinity that would

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Speaker 1: hope to exist in our very poors somewhere, so much

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Speaker 1: so that, like, I went to the County General Store

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Speaker 1: the other day and bought a whole outfits so I could.

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Speaker 2: Look like, rip, what did you buy, chaps?

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Speaker 1: No? No, no, no, I bought, you know, the black

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Speaker 1: cowboy boots, a black cowboy hat, a black shirt, you know.

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Speaker 1: And you know because I said to the wife, I said, so, babe,

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Speaker 1: where do I exist on, like, not two hundred percent

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Speaker 1: on the rugged masculinity scale? And she said thirty eight percent?

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Speaker 1: And like I can I concur and I agree with her.

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Speaker 2: That feels fair.

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Speaker 1: I think that feels fair. But I also feel as

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Speaker 1: what Yellowstone does to guys.

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Speaker 2: You're right, actually, I think it does. It does it

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Speaker 2: It wakens a part of us which is quite dormant.

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Speaker 2: Around the thirty eight percent, I'd think I'd score myself

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Speaker 2: probably a wee bit lower than that. I think. Also,

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Speaker 2: gloves as well. They have those really beautiful leather looking

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Speaker 2: gloves that are well worn. If you or I got

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Speaker 2: not they'd be like brand new, and they wouldn't give

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Speaker 2: them for years. Rain and shine. It's the proper gloves

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Speaker 2: that someone who works the land would wear.

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Speaker 1: The only use I would get out of them is

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Speaker 1: to sort of like make my emails not make sense,

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Speaker 1: you know. And here we are like a pair of

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Speaker 2: I think you should wear your new outfit, all right

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Speaker 2: when you come on stage at rod Labor. Just do

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Speaker 2: a quick sort of outfit change, maybe do the encore

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Speaker 2: and just do sort of cow country and western cowboy

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Speaker 1: Well, regarding that the actual dress for the evening is

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Speaker 1: your best nineties regalia because we are filming it for

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Speaker 1: the film. Oh and you know it, so this bit

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Speaker 1: in the film is set in the nineties. So you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking enough for people to buy tickets, and you

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Speaker 1: turn up in your best nineties gear.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to I'm going to frost my tips

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Speaker 2: as I had frosted tips back in the nineties. Like

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Speaker 2: many young men, I'm going I'll go four nineties and

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Speaker 2: come along to that. And are we allowed to know yet?

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Speaker 2: Who is going to be playing you?

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Speaker 1: Your guess is as good as mine. You know that

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Speaker 2: You make it sound really hard work, Like to get

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Speaker 2: even something half decent on the screen is so much work.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, the you know, the acting bit is you know,

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Speaker 1: but everything else it just feels, it's felt like it

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Speaker 2: So, have you got no preferences right of anyone? You

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Speaker 1: No, not really, No, I think that's best left to

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Speaker 1: Everybody that I like is my age or older, you know,

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Speaker 2: So you'll be saying out there, get that young guy

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Speaker 2: al Pacino. I just saw him in a recent movie

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Speaker 2: is the guy I want to.

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Speaker 1: Play even even longer than that. I'm like Gene Kelly.

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Speaker 2: Ask if he wants to have a meeting on it?

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Speaker 2: Would he just take a meeting on it, Geen Kelly?

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Speaker 2: And so the when you come and do the concert,

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Speaker 2: dress up in their nineties gear to come down to that.

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Speaker 2: That'd be a great night.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, the audience better be good. After I'd be

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Speaker 1: in the media, I'm gonna be amazing.

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Speaker 2: Say, this will be the best Robbie we get in

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Speaker 2: what ten years? You've been saving it for this?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've got I've got to perform like I'm twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: So let's see.

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Speaker 2: I was there at ned Worth, so am I gonna

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Speaker 2: just like that? Have you still got that in your Robbie.

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Speaker 1: Yes, listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna try my.

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Speaker 2: Best thirty eight percent.

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Speaker 1: Thirty eight percent. I might nodge it up to forty

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Speaker 2: Please please you showman.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, I can, I can. I can lie like that.

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Speaker 2: So let's see, and do you install Do you still

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Speaker 2: Is it still quite hard to get on the road

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Speaker 1: I like providing for my family, you know, And you

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Speaker 1: So you know, I find myself in the lofty air

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Speaker 1: I also completely adore the pockets and the moments on

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Speaker 1: those moments are inconceivable and unfathomable, and I live for that.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time. I'm just really exhausted and I'm

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Speaker 1: But there's these pockets that are just full of unobtainum.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a great phrase there, i'n obtainium. I love that.

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Speaker 2: And you think about why does Bruce Springsteen, why does

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Speaker 2: they've made enough money. It isn't about there anymore, and

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Speaker 2: it wasn't ever about that. You're right, And when we're

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Speaker 2: because of COVID around the world. There's something magical that

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Speaker 2: we go on with you, Robbie, where we transcend something.

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Speaker 2: You turn up with your friends or whether you're by yourself,

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Speaker 2: all come together and you do there's this amazing communion

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Speaker 2: with live music. There is something really spiritual. I think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's you know, it's it's tribalistic, it's

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Speaker 1: it's almost you know, the best bits of religion where

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Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of years sort of bright lights and

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Speaker 2: And what do you like beforehand? I love the fact

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Speaker 1: I found the loophole. I arrived at a hotel in

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Speaker 1: This is our boor in my life is now. So

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Speaker 2: It's very responsible as I I canceled Cake is now trending.

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Speaker 1: So you do? So? Do you do a show where

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Speaker 1: you like talk to politicians too?

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Speaker 2: No? No, because you know, I guess, like you know,

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Speaker 2: on Cake that is primetime for me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Do you take phone calls and stuff like that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because you've got that sort of vibe. You've got a

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Speaker 2: I think I'm more agony than the agony art or

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Speaker 2: even maybe the arn't. But when you come to Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: I want to co host the show with.

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Speaker 2: You, dumb. Ahead of that, do you mind if I

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Speaker 2: give you one small piece of homework. I'd like you

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Speaker 2: to pick a TV theme tune, right, maybe one of

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Speaker 2: when you co host a show me, Robbie Williams, you

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Speaker 1: Well, actually, I've got the theme tune in my head

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Speaker 2: Put your lyrics. Do it that, put the lyrics to it.

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Speaker 1: I could write a lyric, do it do that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, new material from Robbie Williams. Okay, deal, deal, no cake,

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Speaker 1: No cake, all TV theme, all.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant. All right, Look, I'll let you go. I really

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Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing it, rod Laver. It's a joy

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Speaker 2: talking to you, Robbie, and I'm glad you're still getting

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Speaker 2: so much out of life live and your family as well.

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Speaker 2: Robbie Williams, thank you very much, take care. Thanks for

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Speaker 2: doing that, Robbie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks.

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