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Speaker 1: Are you ready to meet someone weird?

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that bit soon, but now it's time

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Speaker 1: I'm the Gordo's at Simone, and being ridiculously good looking

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Speaker 2: Only thing I'm good at.

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Speaker 1: I'm shockingly good at uncovering who people really are, whether

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Speaker 1: that's very strange. I will uncover what they're concealing. This

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Speaker 1: is concealed. But met Simone. All right, let's not drag

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Speaker 3: Rall that time?

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Speaker 4: Hello, Simone and someone you know. You know me very well,

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Speaker 4: except there's one thing that I've been concealing from you.

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Speaker 4: I have a skill that some people consider that I

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Speaker 4: am the best in the world are So not only

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Speaker 4: do you have to guess what I'm concealing, but you

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Speaker 4: need to guess who I am.

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Speaker 2: This is cook, Oh my god, this is a horror film.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I guess we're doing things differently here this week.

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Speaker 1: My guest this week is anonymous. So far I don't

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Speaker 1: know who they are. I can't see them. What I

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Speaker 1: have in front of me is a hooded and masked

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Speaker 1: figure scarily looking at me. Across from the studio. I

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Speaker 1: only see two little eye holes, but I can't see

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Speaker 1: sound like because we've got a voice changer on them

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Speaker 1: as well. So that's what's sitting in front of me.

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Speaker 1: But the way we do things that conceal it is

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask our guests three questions, and from

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Speaker 1: the answers from the three questions, I need to work

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Speaker 1: out not only what they're concealing, but.

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Speaker 2: Also how the hell they are.

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Speaker 1: So guest, anonymous figure, scary horror movie person, The first

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Speaker 1: question I have for you is do I know you

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Speaker 1: from this special skill?

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Speaker 4: You know me through one of my skills, but the

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Speaker 4: one I'm concealing is much more unusual, and no one

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Speaker 4: would believe the two can work together.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so I know you from a different skill. Okay,

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Speaker 1: two different skill. No one would believe the two could

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Speaker 1: work together. Okay, so the one there, I know you

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Speaker 1: from one skill, but this world's best skill is something else.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Question number two, anonymous figure, how long have you been

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Speaker 1: working on this best in the world skill.

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Speaker 4: I've been perfecting this skill for many years. In fact,

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Speaker 4: when I was running around in nature working on it,

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Speaker 4: you were busy listening to my chemical romance and learning

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Speaker 1: This is getting creepy. I don't like this. Am I

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Speaker 1: able to leave? Can I quit this episode? Can we

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Speaker 1: end now? When I was a teenager, you were running

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Speaker 1: around in nature perfecting whatever this skill is. Okay, nature?

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Speaker 1: Oh I could be on on the Maybe you are

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Speaker 1: a landscaper. Maybe you work for Jim's mowing and you've

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Speaker 1: been doing it since I was fifteen. Okay, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: final question? Then, a final question I have for you?

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Speaker 1: Is you say that I know you? Do we have

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Speaker 4: Birds of a feather flock together?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, birds of it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you must be a drag queen or something

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Speaker 1: related to that, because or you could be you have

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Speaker 1: to be a drag queen. I don't know anyone else

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: I know you from something and something that I do

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Speaker 1: And all right, so you've been doing this your best skill,

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Speaker 1: Feather Okay, you are. It's the thirtieth anniversary of Priscilla. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's go Priscilla. Oh my god, I'm going to

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Speaker 5: Ruffle's Drag Race down Under. But what she might not

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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not a Hugo Weaving from the film Priscilla.

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Speaker 1: It's my good friend, it't citra e cra How does

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Speaker 1: she hide this from me? And she twitches? Well, I've

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Speaker 2: All right, so we're not here with Hugo Weaving.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it is my drag sister, miss et cetera,

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Speaker 2: Hello, Dowling, how are you?

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Speaker 6: Hi on?

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Speaker 5: I hope I'm a welcome surprise.

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Speaker 5: I just thought you have a successful podcast, though I

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I do have issue because you've done me

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I look really beautiful and stunning and gorgeous. I'm

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Speaker 5: wearing a large asparagus green vig Yes, I smell a

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Speaker 1: And they are absolutely stunning. So so yeah, look, when

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Speaker 1: So it is a happy surprise to see you here

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Speaker 5: I've been waiting for this day to jump scare you

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Speaker 2: Boom, here we are.

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Speaker 1: So you've been concealing a talent from me that I

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Speaker 1: And when you first said Twitcher, let's clarify that's nothing

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Speaker 5: I'm not a nerd, so I don't know what that is. No,

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Speaker 5: I'm joking because my special skill is actually potentially the

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, are you comfortable to share

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Speaker 5: Well, I was rather going to share this. I'm going

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Speaker 5: this would be slightly better for myself and my mum

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Speaker 5: is far more tame. It's actually something most people would

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Speaker 2: So tell us about twitching.

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Speaker 1: When we're not talking about involuntary convulsions, we're talking about

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Speaker 5: So twitching is the colloquial term for people in the know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've watched a documentary on this exact thing.

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Speaker 1: Would you say this is almost like Pokemon, but in

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Speaker 1: trying what happens when you find one? You just tick

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Speaker 1: The bird sounds always the same? Or is there a

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Speaker 1: Yet would you have to I don't know YouTube to

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Speaker 5: Top. And I didn't just listen. I spoke back. I

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Speaker 5: Well, he's actually a funny story. When I was in

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Speaker 2: That's actually very good.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I used to be better before my voice broke.

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Speaker 5: I would sing to the magpies and feed them little worms,

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Speaker 1: Could you give me because I'm just so impressed by

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Speaker 5: that is copying me. Hi, my name's etcetera, etcetera. That's

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Speaker 5: Probably that they actually make chainsaw noises and everything. It's

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Speaker 1: So has there been any moments in your life where

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Speaker 2: No, except for this moment right here.

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Speaker 5: Well, actually, the only moments that I think it has

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Speaker 5: you know what I was a teen interested in birds?

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Speaker 5: Do you want me to do some bird calls for you?

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Speaker 5: Suddenly know what to be seen? It's perfect.

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Speaker 1: So I want to clarify something because in your introduction

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Speaker 1: What this sounds like, sounds like you've lied on your

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Speaker 5: Is this true? Well, you did ask me to impersonate

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Speaker 5: a liar bird, didn't you? And I'm a bird that lies.

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Speaker 1: So you haven't stayed in the field of bird watching

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Speaker 1: which I don't know if I'm outing you here, but

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Speaker 1: is drag You are a drag queen?

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Speaker 5: Oh my god? How could you tell?

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Speaker 3: Do you.

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Speaker 1: Think there's any crossover there's been any crossover for you? Like,

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Speaker 1: have you been able to identify drag queens squawking down

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Speaker 5: I mean, to be honest, most drag queens are too

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Speaker 4: Look.

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Speaker 5: To be honest, it's all color and movement. It's all

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Speaker 5: color and movement, And I think I've become the bird,

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Speaker 5: like a magpie or a little bower bird collects little

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Speaker 5: One day I will be a bird enough to buy

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Speaker 1: I want to put your claims to the two because

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Speaker 1: I still don't believe any of this. All right, So

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Speaker 1: what I'm going to be doing is playing some bird

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Speaker 2: Can you do that? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, I'm fully prepared. I've got it. I've got

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, first bird sound effect?

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Speaker 5: Oh okay, now let me tell you what that is.

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Speaker 5: You may not know it from my earlier impression, but

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Speaker 5: that's an Eastern whipper.

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Speaker 2: That is an Eastern whip bird.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you've got that one one down, all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Sound number two.

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Speaker 5: Here we go. Yep. You'd think that was my knees

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Speaker 5: when I stand up, but that's actually a ganggang cocka.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that is correct.

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Speaker 1: I also would have accepted one of the fung guy

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Bird three? What's that?

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Speaker 5: I believe that would be a magpie?

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Speaker 6: Wrong?

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Speaker 5: Was it currawong?

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Speaker 3: Wrong?

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Speaker 5: What is that?

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Speaker 2: That's a noisy fryer bird.

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Speaker 5: That's a noisy fryer bird.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, you've got two out of three so far.

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Speaker 5: I've said that ain't bad. Bird number four okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't like that one.

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Speaker 5: What's that home? I think that might be? Is that

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Speaker 5: Wait what is that?

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Speaker 2: It's a cassillary?

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Speaker 5: Oh see it.

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Speaker 5: Little never got near one of those.

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Speaker 2: Oh so you didn't collect them in your book?

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Speaker 5: Well, not many of them down in Canberra.

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Speaker 2: Well okay, okay, this is the break up.

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Speaker 1: This is what's going to define whether you are in

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Speaker 1: the world's best or you're a cheap phony.

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Speaker 2: It's our final one.

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Speaker 5: Okay, are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Here we go me? What bird was that?

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Speaker 5: Is that? Road runner? I'm the best, I'm the best

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Speaker 1: Okay, et cetera. C keep your claim to fame as

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Speaker 2: At twitching. Oh well done.

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Speaker 5: How do you feel that actually stressed me out? I'm

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Speaker 5: in that stressed ages. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Wow, well you maybe I believe you a little bit now,

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Speaker 1: maybe just a bit.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know what, Thank you, because but my childhood

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Speaker 5: and maybe one day we can go bird watching together.

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Speaker 2: That we'd lovely take me out into the forest with

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Speaker 5: I was trying so hard not to laugh under that, Mars,

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