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Speaker 1: The Will and Woody Podcast That Fight Sized.

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Speaker 2: We have the one and only Anthony Albanezy, leader of

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Speaker 2: the Opposition, in the studio right now.

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Speaker 3: Welcome mate, nice support from the audience.

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Speaker 2: We've actually got you in these German DJ style white

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Speaker 2: headphones which you've just gracefully put on. A look fantastic.

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Speaker 3: They are a bit they are a bit DJ out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're looking cool.

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Speaker 1: Are you a fan of the German Underground?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: No, not really?

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Speaker 1: What do you what do you listen to in the

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Speaker 1: I assume you have a.

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Speaker 3: Driver sometimes, but usually I describe myself and I listened

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Speaker 3: to You can look at my my playlist when I've

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Speaker 3: done DJing. I've done a lot of DJE DJ for

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Speaker 3: the Community Cup. I've played at the Corner Hotel in

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Speaker 3: Richmond with the with the support act was Tim Rodgers

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Speaker 3: and the Draft Dodgers. That was a support act.

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Speaker 1: So what were you called when.

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Speaker 3: You're on d J Albo? What else?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 3: When was this? Look? It would have been about about

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Speaker 3: four years ago. I shouldn't do this, but we can

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Speaker 3: talk about Hottest one hundred even though it's not Triple J.

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Speaker 1: We've done it now, we've done it now free They

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Speaker 1: need it, you do whatever you want.

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Speaker 3: So when I put my my list, yeah.

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Speaker 2: This year you voted for the hottest one hundred, of

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Speaker 2: course I do.

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Speaker 1: Where did you go for?

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Speaker 3: I get sledged. I put it mainly Australian.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you just keep voting another one.

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Speaker 3: And Alex speaking, I get I get sledged online saying

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Speaker 3: this can't be you. How can Albow know kid Leroy?

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Speaker 2: You know the boiler Roy?

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Speaker 3: Wow? And he well good? How's a kid indigenous Kidatloo?

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Speaker 3: But he's like.

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Speaker 4: Huge As for a segue, Albow, I know the kid

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Speaker 4: LaRoy had a pretty tough upbringing.

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Speaker 1: Is that the same for you as well?

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Speaker 3: Mate? When I grew up in housing commissioning, the city

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Speaker 3: council housing not far from where he grew up as well.

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Speaker 3: So I go up in Campadown. My mum was born

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Speaker 3: go up there. Yeah, son of a single mum.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can I ask you? I let me know if

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Speaker 2: this is two on the nose. But I know, is

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Speaker 2: it right that your dad left your mum before you

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Speaker 2: were born? Is that right?

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Speaker 3: No? Well, not quiet, It's not even quite that elegant.

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Speaker 3: My mum traveled overseas had a relationship with him. He

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Speaker 3: said he was his Italian Carlo Albanezi, and he was

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Speaker 3: marrying someone from his town in Pulia, in Italy. So

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Speaker 3: she came back from overseas, and I was due to

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Speaker 3: be adopted out, because that was good. Catholic girls didn't

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Speaker 3: have out of wedlock in wedlock in nineteen sixty three.

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Speaker 3: So I was supposed to be adopted out, and my

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Speaker 3: mum made the courageous decision just so, no, she was

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Speaker 3: going to keep me. And but so I was raised

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Speaker 3: being told that he had died before I was born,

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Speaker 3: because that kept the respectability. If you like the family, the.

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Speaker 1: True, the truth is that you were the fruits of

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Speaker 1: a spicy affair.

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Speaker 3: In around Now. Well, they met on the ship going

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Speaker 3: over on the ship on the ship, and then they

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Speaker 3: obviously had some further liaison. When these put it the

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Speaker 3: ship was docking in Southampton.

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Speaker 1: Were both docking.

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Speaker 3: And now now it's my mum.

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Speaker 2: Where's the lion?

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Speaker 3: Where the line?

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Speaker 2: The line?

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Speaker 3: The line is about four kilometers back.

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Speaker 1: But he just crossed He can talk about his own

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Speaker 1: his own mom.

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Speaker 2: You can't say anything more to your microphone off.

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Speaker 3: You have crossed the line.

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Speaker 4: You turn my Michael, No he did. You've got a

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Speaker 4: great way of making you feel very comfortable. I was

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Speaker 4: talking to a mate, but well, sorry about that.

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Speaker 2: You're talking to him mate or not you're laughing about

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Speaker 2: his sorry?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, no, fair enough, fair enough sorry.

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Speaker 2: Could be the Prime Minister cracked a gag about his mom.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure whether he'll be back for part two.

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Speaker 2: But Anthony Albanez, he is in the studio.

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Speaker 3: It's real, Woody, I've.

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Speaker 2: Got the one and known the Anthony alban who joins

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Speaker 2: the boys in the studio right now. If you're just

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Speaker 2: joining us what he did? Make a crack about his

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Speaker 2: mum and the night that they conceived him. Anthony Anthony

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Speaker 2: in the studio.

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Speaker 1: Please please continue.

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Speaker 3: So so she made the courageous decision as to raise me. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I was. He was dead.

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Speaker 2: Have you met have you tried to meet you?

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Speaker 3: I did? She told me. When I was about fourteen

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Speaker 3: or fifteen, She sat me down and said, well, no

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Speaker 3: jokes in this one around A couple told me that

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Speaker 3: what had actually happened, and at the time I wasn't

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Speaker 3: interested in you know, I think she needed to hear

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Speaker 3: as well that she was enough for me which she was.

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Speaker 3: You know, families are diverse, and what matters is love,

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Speaker 3: and I had a loving mum and we're a two

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Speaker 3: person family. So I didn't was an interest in searching

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Speaker 3: for him at that time. But as you get older,

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Speaker 3: you get that sense of identity and who you are.

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Speaker 3: And then when my son came along, we were visiting

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Speaker 3: her grave. She died very young. She had a tough life,

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Speaker 3: so she died at six. Yeah, she was an in Pensier.

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Speaker 3: She just crip it up with rheumatodat, had all sorts

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Speaker 3: five years of age. And so she died and my

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Speaker 3: son were born in two thousand and we were at

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Speaker 3: her graveside at Rookwood Catholic Cemetery there in Sydney, and

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Speaker 3: my son said to me, you know, where's your daddy.

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Speaker 3: It's not really at that point I could search for

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Speaker 3: him without disrespecting her and her legacy. Yeah, So I

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Speaker 3: searched for him and I found him at age forty six. Wow,

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Speaker 3: so we met for the first time.

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Speaker 2: You caught up with him?

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Speaker 2: Over there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, over there found him through luck as a whole

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Speaker 3: book about it. Karen Middleton Road book my biography, but

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Speaker 3: it's in part about that called telling It Straight. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: I found him and I have a half brother, half sister, nieces, nephews,

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Speaker 3: and nine, and then in Easter at Easter we went over.

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Speaker 3: I went over with my son and introduced him to

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Speaker 3: his grandfather. Wow, he's story.

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Speaker 1: What was opening line to you? Like, what did you

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Speaker 1: know him? But then drop docking jokes we had.

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Speaker 3: We went through an intermediary at the Australian embassy because

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Speaker 3: could have been a shakedown or something. Yeah, this is

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Speaker 3: in Italy. Yeah, I'm here to claim my inheritance or something. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I went to this meeting with the lawyer who

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Speaker 3: was the intermediary. It was a friend of my half brothers,

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Speaker 3: and I just put my folder on the table that

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Speaker 3: had my business card, you know, the Honorable I was

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Speaker 3: a minister in the government, and I said, look, because

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Speaker 3: I like, why do you want to see him? And

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Speaker 3: I was like, I think he's my father and I

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Speaker 3: don't want anything from him. I'm not here for financial

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Speaker 3: reasons or anything else. I'm a minister in the Australian government.

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Speaker 3: I want to meet but I would just like to

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Speaker 3: meet him and have a discussion, of course. And I

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Speaker 3: had a photo. I had one photo of my mum

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Speaker 3: with him, and he had the same photo.

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Speaker 2: So it's a shocking reference.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so he.

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Speaker 3: Then she went off and said, look, I'll try to

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Speaker 3: morning I'm sitting in there, got a call they'll be

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Speaker 3: he'll be here in an hour, and in walked my father,

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Speaker 3: my half brother and half sister I didn't even know existed,

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Speaker 3: of course, walked in and he just walked in and

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Speaker 3: was a huge risk because he could have said, I

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Speaker 3: have no idea what you're talking about. Of course you

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Speaker 3: know great, feel bad now, don't you awful?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll vote for you now.

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Speaker 3: How many times?

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Speaker 1: How many times I need to?

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Speaker 3: But you can get ten people to change their minds.

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Speaker 1: All right, done?

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Speaker 3: Now now we have you've got to keep going.

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Speaker 2: You've got if you're just tuning in this isn't Australian

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Speaker 2: story just in the studio with an unbelievable your life

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Speaker 2: Will and.

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Speaker 3: That was an amazing story.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get to get the full chat

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Speaker 2: in the podcast, Will and what if you want to

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Speaker 2: hear the ins and outs that that's totally wild mate.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's just talk very quickly about the big task

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Speaker 2: you've got coming up in a few months. Big question

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Speaker 2: for you. What were you least impressed with how things

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Speaker 2: have been done and how do you do it differently?

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Speaker 3: Lack of leadership, just not accepting responsible and the national

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Speaker 3: government has got a lead and there's been two crisis

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Speaker 3: the bushfires, he went missing and on vaccine rollout. You

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Speaker 3: know it's not a race rapid energy and tests. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's easy to get COVID than is to find a

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Speaker 3: rap in so many places yet and just not accepting

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Speaker 3: for a problem to become a crisis before he acts

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Speaker 3: and then it's too little, too late.

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Speaker 2: Now the accountability thing is bloody frustrated. We have one

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Speaker 2: of the breakfast show hosts, Jason, trying to get him

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Speaker 2: to say sorry because he've been gone. See his dad,

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Speaker 2: and he just couldn't. He just wouldn't say it. Wos

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Speaker 2: you had one final thing for Anthony read his election camp?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah mate, you don't have a jingle jingle for

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Speaker 1: your campaign?

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Speaker 3: Oh we might have? Oh really, yeah we just have.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, I've got a better jingle for you. Do

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Speaker 4: you know the Adele song go easy on Me?

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: So there's a little tweak on that.

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Speaker 3: I can I can see what's coming here.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty obvious, isn't it. I can give you maybe

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Speaker 1: a rendition.

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Speaker 3: Of us we can where you go yeah, yeah, and then.

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Speaker 1: You know obviously you're yeah, sure, vote for Alban easy

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Speaker 1: on election day?

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Speaker 3: Brilliant Britain.

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: Did you want to you're forgiven for the previous.

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Speaker 1: Did you want to give it a go?

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Speaker 3: No? No one wants that perfect, No one wants that.

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Speaker 4: Sure.

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Speaker 3: Think of the listeners, think of the ratings.

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Speaker 1: No, that's true.

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Speaker 2: And you also did him one after you made a

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Speaker 2: joke about his dead mum and his conception, which was

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Speaker 2: totally out of line, if I'm being totally honest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry again about that.

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Speaker 3: Forgiven?

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Speaker 2: Goat stuff, Anthony Alban Easy see you.

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Speaker 3: Have to say sorry. See if you can say words

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