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Speaker 1: Lena Wouldley have joined us.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, and what a great nice to see,

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Speaker 2: great pleasure it is to be here from from Melbourne

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Speaker 2: in sunny and warm purpose.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome to be here, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: In the garden we also get a bit of winter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you know it's usually all in one week. Happens to be.

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Speaker 3: By Thursday again, right, okay, looking forward to it.

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Speaker 4: Right because our show is we're doing a show or

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Speaker 4: they're talk about maybe Dick and actually part of the

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Speaker 4: show is we uh this is at interval we hand

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Speaker 4: out scuba gear and then in the second half week

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Speaker 4: and the second half or show, he's underwater. Maybe this

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Speaker 4: will be like just helping people acclimatize to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's maybe Dick slash aquarium. We bring in live, live,

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Speaker 2: live whales and and it's just like an our hour

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Speaker 2: and a half lecture about the zoology and anatomy of wales.

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Speaker 3: Swimming lessons, yes, swimming.

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Speaker 2: Lessons, mouth to mouth results, tation with bodysurfing, surfing, bookiey boarding,

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Speaker 2: some smart base skin.

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Speaker 4: Actually I really love body.

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Speaker 3: Are we on air?

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Speaker 4: A big fan of body shirt and it's one of

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Speaker 4: my favorite things to do. Don't ask me where I

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Speaker 4: get the bodies, because that's.

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Speaker 3: It's fun.

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Speaker 2: It's actually a new joke, Frank, well done every thirty years.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Dick is not a short read. No, it's not pages.

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Speaker 3: I read it in lockdown.

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Speaker 1: I hope this is a bit of a byby Diggar.

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Speaker 3: Bridged, maybe digger Bridge. Maybe Digar Bridged. Have you read it, Lisa, No,

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Speaker 3: I have not.

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Speaker 5: I haven't been there.

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Speaker 3: Frank, let's go mini series on Netflix. It is seven

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Speaker 3: hundred pages and it is.

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Speaker 2: I did read it during lockdown because that's how we

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Speaker 2: come up with the idea if we did the right

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Speaker 2: Brothers last time and show good Fly. And then I

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Speaker 2: said to Frank, why don't we do another classic novel?

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Speaker 2: What about maybe dig And he went great, sounds good,

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Speaker 2: quite a lengthy discussion.

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Speaker 4: That he hadn't been reading fifty Shades of.

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Speaker 3: Performing.

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Speaker 4: Although I'm stilling enthusiasts, I put my heart and soul

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Speaker 3: I read it first and can be done.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's it's it's kind of weird because there's

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Speaker 2: there's many chapters on the Anatomy of the Whale that

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Speaker 2: the mysteriousness of the fact that white is seen as.

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Speaker 3: An evil color, not a cheerful color. There's we don't

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Speaker 3: get into any we don't get into any of that.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, But it's but it's but it's it's so

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Speaker 2: dense and so it's like philosophy, zoology, faith. But as

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Speaker 2: Frank has mentioned many times, everybody knows what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: You know, he goes out to fight the whale, He

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Speaker 2: finds the whale, and the whale kills him.

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Speaker 3: But everybody knows. Everybody knows that it's going to end badly.

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Speaker 2: But but it's a bit like the audience watching our

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Speaker 2: Showbody knows that it's going to end badly, and everybody

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Speaker 2: knows that.

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Speaker 3: It's doing from the start.

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Speaker 1: There's really only two characters, isn't.

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Speaker 2: There Well this Ishmael the main guy, and the whale

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Speaker 2: and the whale and captain a had.

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Speaker 1: Okay, of course there's captain.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So there's there's only two characters, or there's not.

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Speaker 2: This more it's a weird.

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Speaker 4: Kind of story. In essence, it is this. It is

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Speaker 4: this voyage where the captain goes crazy because he's had

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Speaker 4: his leg bitten off by the whale and he wants revenge.

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Speaker 4: And then the whole crew get caught up in the

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Speaker 4: thrall of this madman captain who ends up the whale

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Speaker 4: sinks the ship. But you're right that basically it is.

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Speaker 4: The story is very slim. It's just you know, that

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Speaker 4: is crazy. And then yeah, so seven hundred pages was

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Speaker 4: a bit of a stretch. You could have born in peace.

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Speaker 4: You could have written it in probably a paragraph. In fact,

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Speaker 4: if he had an editor, it would have been a pamphlet.

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Speaker 4: But nevertheless, if you're studying, maybe Dick at at university,

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Speaker 4: don't come to our show. Okay, right, because Frank, the

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Speaker 4: research that I did, I've got about a stand of

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Speaker 4: the way through the wicked Pedia page. I don't know

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Speaker 4: that much about it, but it's really just grissed for

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Speaker 4: the mill, for us to run around and being stupid.

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Speaker 4: And I suppose the whale is kind of like Captain ahem,

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Speaker 4: hehabs nemesis, and I'm sort of Cole's nemesis in terms

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Speaker 4: of the whale has been shitting. I had annoying, annoying

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Speaker 4: for an eternity, and I've been doing the same col

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Speaker 4: these days. I put on quite a bit of weight

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Speaker 4: since you I saw me. I'm a massive weigh like

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Speaker 4: two hundred kilos. I've stopped talking now, kind of working

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Speaker 4: out that I'm playing the whale. Stop talking.

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Speaker 5: I stopped talking because Colin's caught up with friends and family, right, Yeah, dangerous,

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Speaker 5: isn't it catching up with friends and family and doing

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Speaker 5: radio the next day?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, Clazy, if you want to mention that, Yes,

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Speaker 2: we had a we had an afternoon yesterday and we

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Speaker 2: hadn't seen each other for a while, so we.

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Speaker 3: Had a few wines. That's what's happened. That we had

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Speaker 3: a few wines.

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Speaker 1: And that kind of weather.

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Speaker 3: It was that kind of weather.

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Speaker 2: You stay inside and you you have afternoon tea and

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Speaker 2: then you go back to your friends in Coderslow and

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Speaker 2: you have a lovely steak on the on the fire

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Speaker 2: and you watch footy and it's all.

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Speaker 3: It's it's great to be in pertho.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be you know, because I was born

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Speaker 2: in Perth at a very early age, and you know

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Speaker 2: that's why I've got so much personality.

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Speaker 3: So it's great to be back in the sunny, warm

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Speaker 3: and lovely of birth.

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Speaker 2: W it's been hard being away. I've gone mental. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: thank you, Lisa fly Yes.

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Speaker 4: And then maybe dick Yes, what would be the next

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Speaker 4: classic you think you might rework?

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Speaker 3: That's a good question that we haven't got a joke for.

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Speaker 4: Dickens wrote a Tale of Two Cities, and apparently that's

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Speaker 4: a very that's got a very famous first line. But

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Speaker 4: I've been reading that in bed at.

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Speaker 3: Morning literato warning it's coming.

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Speaker 4: Well, I fall asleep very quickly when I start reading,

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Speaker 4: So as far as I know, it's just a story

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Speaker 4: about it being the best of time right downhill after the.

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Speaker 6: Surprised, give us a call, you know what that joke

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Speaker 6: referred to, Give us a call now pleasy and Lisa literature,

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Speaker 6: humor literature, the literature line, give us a call.

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Speaker 5: So we can expect a few pratfalls, I would imagine

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Speaker 5: with a show, maybe some freaky things, because Frank, I

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Speaker 5: did see one of your shows once and a telephone

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Speaker 5: miraculously bounced across the stage and landed back in the phone,

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Speaker 5: old school telephone. Yes, couldn't happen if you tried it

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Speaker 5: in a million times.

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Speaker 4: No, I don't know if that we've had anything quite

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Speaker 4: so extraordinary happening in this this show. Because I had

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Speaker 4: just this amazing fluke where where I had a cold

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Speaker 4: looking at me because he doesn't understand what we're talking about.

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Speaker 4: And I had I did a solo show and I

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Speaker 4: had a telephone on a long curly lead yes, and

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Speaker 4: I tripped over the lost grip of it and it

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Speaker 4: flew through there and landed back in the telephone holder.

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Speaker 4: Everybody in the theater was like.

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Speaker 3: He's good.

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Speaker 5: Fell off my seat.

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Speaker 4: He is very good. But I don't think we haven't

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Speaker 4: had any comedy gods shining quite like that.

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Speaker 3: So far, have we? No?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean, I mean Frank's only joking.

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Speaker 2: I mean I see all of his solo shows, or

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Speaker 2: I don't that that's you know, you know when we

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Speaker 2: broke up for twelve years, you know, he did a

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Speaker 2: lot of solo stand up shows at the Comedy Festival,

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Speaker 2: and I went to see none of them because I

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Speaker 2: would just sit there and just go, I told you,

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Speaker 2: because he did all the jokes that wouldn't work on me,

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Speaker 2: and then he went off and did them in solo shows,

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Speaker 2: and I sat in the audience just go, I told you,

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Speaker 2: I told you it wouldn't work.

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Speaker 3: So I was just sitting there being really critical.

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Speaker 2: But you know, twelve years apart and then we got together,

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Speaker 2: and then after about three months, I realized that we

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Speaker 2: shouldn't have got back together because he's still as annoying

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Speaker 2: as he has always been.

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Speaker 5: Well, any counselor will say, Frank, you have your say,

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Speaker 5: Now what do you think.

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Speaker 3: About Yeah, what do you think about me?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 4: I've always had the utmost respect, and you know, I

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Speaker 4: appreciate and I'm grateful that I've had the opportunity to

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Speaker 4: work with him. But I'm surprised to hear that we

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Speaker 4: split up. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I didn't you know.

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Speaker 4: I thought I thought you were just taking quite a

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Speaker 4: while to write the next script.

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Speaker 3: Twelve years, it's going.

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Speaker 4: To be good for twelve years.

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Speaker 3: Yes, no, no, only we split up. Yeah, that's right,

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Speaker 3: we split. It's great to be back together.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you got back together. It's been

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Speaker 1: a while. Right now it's going well, it's going to stick.

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Speaker 3: It's like three or four years.

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Speaker 2: But that, you know, quite seriously, it's you know, we

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Speaker 2: did do other things over those twelve years, you know,

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Speaker 2: bits and pieces of television, theater, all that kind of stuff, musicals,

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Speaker 2: and then you get back together and you're on stage

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Speaker 2: and you just go, this is my natural place, you know,

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Speaker 2: watching him being being a dick and me standing there

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Speaker 2: laughing at him, which I still do to this day.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's great to be doing stuff on stage

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Speaker 2: with him.

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Speaker 1: I love you, Franky Dick at the Regal Theater, the

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Speaker 1: beautiful Regal thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm playing maybe and he's playing the Dick Thursday night, Thursday, Friday.

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Speaker 6: Say this weekend, yeah, this weekend Regal through ticket to.

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Speaker 2: Come along or don't do it, and do whatever you want,

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Speaker 2: but come along. And this is my personal guarantee. If

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Speaker 2: you go to the box office and mention this interview

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Speaker 2: and say that we said that you can get half

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Speaker 2: prized tickets, it's my guarantee that they'll say, we don't

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Speaker 2: know what you're talking about. That I stand by that

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Thank you, Thanks guys.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you. Good on you