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Speaker 1: And Amanda gem Nations my favorite.

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Speaker 2: It's caught me act hi.

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Speaker 1: Very well.

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Speaker 3: How are you going?

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Speaker 1: I'm good.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to be here because it's Mardi Gras, because.

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Speaker 4: Of the n r L in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: It's what what does that say? What? And who?

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Speaker 1: And the why?

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Speaker 2: You know, exacttional rainbow lovers.

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Speaker 1: That's it, that's what that stands for.

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Speaker 2: I'm familiar with the NRL. I've made love to a

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Speaker 2: few of their players in the professional league. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, and so when you watch the game, you go, yep, oh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's not that frequent. There's not It's not

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Speaker 2: that the whole football team.

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Speaker 4: This is a.

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Speaker 3: Bomb shell material can I don't want you to say anyone.

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Speaker 2: Because I absolutely wouldn't. And you know what else they

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Speaker 2: they don't. There's there's more than one. And they don't

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Speaker 2: want me to tell them who the other one is

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Speaker 2: because they want to know that their anonymity is safe

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Speaker 2: with me. And it is. Boys, come out, come out

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Speaker 2: wherever you are. To Auntie Courtney, you are a Secrets

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Speaker 2: are safe with you. That's why my head's so big.

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Speaker 2: It's full of secret.

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Speaker 3: It's its own Mardi Gras.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of which you are hosting that this weekend. I've

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Speaker 1: hosted that in the past, and it was the hardest

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Speaker 1: gig I've ever had, because you have it used to be.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it is now. We had an

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Speaker 1: entire folder that had all the different floats, and you

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Speaker 1: have a voice in your ear saying float number twelve

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Speaker 1: and they say, no, float number one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: nine because of all the mayhem backstage, but also your

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Speaker 1: I was looking out a window, but also I had

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Speaker 1: to see what I was seeing in the street, but

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Speaker 1: then remember that I also had to look at a

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Speaker 1: small monitors what the TV was seeing. Is it still

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Speaker 1: a hard gig?

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Speaker 2: Last year was my first year anchoring, and it was

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Speaker 2: very much that in rehearsal where I sat down and

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh God, there's someone in my ear.

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Speaker 2: There's an auto quey, there's a camera, there's a parade

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Speaker 2: behind me, There's.

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Speaker 1: And a changing a changing parade literally, and of changing numbers,

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Speaker 1: all of.

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Speaker 2: It A bit better. Yeahd was your first Mardi Gras?

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Speaker 2: Was it like nineteen ninety four? Better memory than I

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Speaker 2: have I remember because I remember being at home. It

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Speaker 2: was the nineties. Whenever it was. I remember recording the

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Speaker 2: Mardi Gras on a VHS, and I remember my bedroom

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Speaker 2: like was downstairs. Mom and Dad were upstairs, and I

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Speaker 2: wasn't out. I didn't know. I didn't really even know

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Speaker 2: what gay meant because it had just been used as

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Speaker 2: like a negative slur in the school yard, and I thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't sound me. And then I remember people talking

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Speaker 2: about the Marti gra and I would record it and

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Speaker 2: I put it on the VHS and I'd stand there

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Speaker 2: by the door with my finger on the play button,

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Speaker 2: all the stuff under change the channel in case somebody

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Speaker 2: came down. And I remember watching you and Bob down

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Speaker 2: and going across them and everybody on the tower, just

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Speaker 2: seeing a whole bunch of people having a great time

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Speaker 2: and like men in particular, just expressing themselves. There was

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Speaker 2: a freedom because in Australia, I mean even today, but

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Speaker 2: certainly in the nineties, there was such a a a

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Speaker 2: I guess, pardon the punt, a closeted feeling to men,

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Speaker 2: all men, straight men, just like yep, yeah yeah. And

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Speaker 2: then I didn't feel like that. And then watching the

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Speaker 2: Marty Gral was like, look at all of those people

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Speaker 2: just looking free and having fun and not worried about

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Speaker 2: dancing to Kylie Minogue or looking over their shoulder, worried

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Speaker 2: about somebody who is going to bully them or make

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Speaker 2: fun of them. And so I think that's why martiy

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Speaker 2: Gras is still so.

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Speaker 3: Important and it's Coaches on Saturday Night song the film

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Speaker 3: clip is filmed at Marti Grass, and so you look

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Speaker 3: at nineteen eighty four, Coltures was probably the manliest band

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Speaker 3: in the history history of manly bands. And that that's

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Speaker 3: and that.

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Speaker 4: Bit with a guy, well, if you don't like it,

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Speaker 4: what have you been standing there for twenty minutes? That's

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Speaker 4: a guy at Marty Grass like a large drag queen

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Speaker 4: yelling out at someone. That's you know, I didn't know that,

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Speaker 4: but that's what I mean.

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Speaker 3: That's part of our DNA.

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Speaker 2: And Jimmy Barnes like he It's funny because Jimmy and

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Speaker 2: Kylie performed at Mardi Gras the first time. They were

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Speaker 2: the first two sort of mainstream artists. And I feel

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Speaker 2: like a lot of the queer communities love of Kylie,

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Speaker 2: I think is because back then in the nine these

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Speaker 2: big pop artists weren't celebrating queer culture. They weren't performing

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Speaker 2: at pribes like now everyone's before, So Pride it's like

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Speaker 2: the place that artists want to go and perform.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to be standing on a milk crate,

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Speaker 1: cheer you want.

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Speaker 2: I'm wearing sensible shoes right now. I've got a pair

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Speaker 2: of high heels on, my crocs on. I've got crocs on,

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Speaker 2: but I do have look had I'll just put them.

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Speaker 1: It isn't that bad luck to put them on a table.

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Speaker 1: I did that before. We're doing a big performing court

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Speaker 1: me act. We're going to catch all the color of you,

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Speaker 1: Sydney Gay. And there's been mighty Grasparade Saturday, seven thirty

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