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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty one past day, Midnight or a front man.

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Speaker 2: Peter Garrett has a new solo album. It's called The

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Speaker 2: True North. My favorite track from the album it's this one.

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Speaker 3: It's called Permaglow.

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Speaker 4: No Nice, It's kind of great.

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Speaker 3: Who are joins us right now?

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Speaker 1: Hello Peter, Hey, good morning everyone, So nice to see you.

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Speaker 5: Do you feel guilty with the rest of the band

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Speaker 5: when you say I'm going to do a little side project.

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Speaker 1: No, not in the least. Now. Look, I think it's

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Speaker 1: incredible that you've just got music in you. And even

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Speaker 1: when you're in a band like The Oils, people would

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Speaker 1: go off and do their own thing, and lots of

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Speaker 1: other bands people do it. In my case, it's a

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Speaker 1: little surprising. I think I just created some space for myself,

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Speaker 1: got a little bit of away from other things that

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Speaker 1: take up my time, politics or environment or whatever, and

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Speaker 1: just let the stuff happen. And lots of stuff happens.

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Speaker 1: So when lots of stuff happens, you've got to catch

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Speaker 1: those magic moments and make a record.

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Speaker 3: And that's exactly that I was watching that We Are

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Speaker 3: the World documentary. Have you seen that? Actually?

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Speaker 1: I have, and you featured completely forgot I pop up

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Speaker 1: at the very end.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because you're at the Grammy Awards when Lionel Richie's host.

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Speaker 1: The Music Awards. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. The American Music

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Speaker 1: Awards were a really big deal in the day, and

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Speaker 1: we were just starting to break through in the States,

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Speaker 1: and they said, do you want to come and you know,

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Speaker 1: announce it, make a little speech into all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Normally would say no, and we thought, why not. We'll

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Speaker 1: get I'll get up and I'll give it to the

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Speaker 1: President of the US. So I so I wore an

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Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln hat with the Abraham Lincoln type jacket and

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Speaker 1: walked out onto the podium, you know, with everybody, those

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Speaker 1: who of the music industry of America out there, and

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Speaker 1: instead of reading my you know, hi, it's great to

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Speaker 1: be here, and you know, et ceter et cetera, I

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Speaker 1: started off, you know, dishing it to them about all

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Speaker 1: the money that was spending on new weapons, and the

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Speaker 1: whole room just went clunk. Well, yeah, well yeah, wind up,

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Speaker 1: wind up.

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Speaker 4: Off.

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Speaker 5: It made the broadcast, so I.

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Speaker 1: Assume they did take it on the broadcast. In the

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Speaker 1: edited version, they sort of had a fiddle with it.

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Speaker 1: They sort of went across to other people. But look,

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Speaker 1: it was just me, you know, mouthing off.

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Speaker 3: But that's hard to do.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: I feel strongly about many things, but it is hard

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Speaker 2: to just get up there and put you you dick

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Speaker 2: on the line, as they say, and just and just

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Speaker 2: do stuff like I think of like the Olympic Games

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Speaker 2: when you guys were the sorry pajamas as they were

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Speaker 2: called at the time. Like, do you ever feel when

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Speaker 2: you're about to do something like that? You think I

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Speaker 2: just couldn't be bothered anymore? Or is it always just

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Speaker 2: get scared?

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Speaker 1: No, Look, I think it's just in our DNA. It's

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Speaker 1: in my dna. You know. I was born with that

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Speaker 1: political gene and you take those opportunities. So no, not

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Speaker 1: nervy about it. You're nervy about stuff going wrong, but

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Speaker 1: not about the actual thing.

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Speaker 5: Do you ever get nervous before an interview? And I

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Speaker 5: can't imagine you would be queaking because Brendan Johnson in

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Speaker 5: your first radio, let's set the scene. You had done

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Speaker 5: community radio and then you.

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Speaker 3: Got your first my first gig six ka ka, and.

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Speaker 5: You were beside yourself because you're about to interview your

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Speaker 5: hero Peter Garrett. Now, Peter, set yourself, you sphincter to

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Speaker 5: tight a tiny little bit of how that interview went.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 6: Now, I have the distinct pleasure of talking to mister

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Speaker 6: Peter Garrett, who is the lead singer for Midnight or Peter,

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Speaker 6: how are you this evening? Are you having a good,

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Speaker 6: good evening so far?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well it's kind of like left an evening where I am, but.

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Speaker 4: Evening where you are.

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Speaker 3: Oh there's more, there's.

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Speaker 6: More, Okay, Peter, this is the second final question in

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Speaker 6: this list of interrogation.

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Speaker 1: You might call it.

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Speaker 6: Just just pretend people up here have never heard of Midnight?

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Speaker 6: Or what would you tell a person that's never heard

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Speaker 6: of Midnight?

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Speaker 1: Or what can I expecting with them?

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Speaker 4: I love that answer.

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Speaker 5: And then finally there was this.

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Speaker 6: Pet I thank you very much of the time. It's

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Speaker 6: been an experience for me. Maybe we'll run into one

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Speaker 6: another one day, I hope.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm staked. And I was spaking to Peter Garrett.

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Speaker 4: Hey, nope, I for the kidnapped.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't that with him saying it's been an experience

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Speaker 5: that could be I.

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Speaker 2: Was so nervous and I never interviewed anyone famous before

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Speaker 2: except for Carl Elliott, comedian with the banjo.

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Speaker 3: That was the extent of my interviews. So when that

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Speaker 3: call came through, I remember just studying. I knew I Reckon,

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Speaker 3: I know everything about.

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Speaker 1: Mid No no, no, You're good like that, and.

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Speaker 3: I just it was one of the biggest, biggest moment.

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Speaker 5: Here's my second to last question of this interrogation.

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Speaker 3: You might say that was absolutely but you guys killed.

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Speaker 3: You came up and played in Kartha.

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Speaker 2: We did, and that was part of the Blue Sky

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Speaker 2: Mining tour, and man, that was one of the greatest gigs.

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Speaker 2: I've seen you guys billions of time since, but that

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Speaker 2: was such a great gig.

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Speaker 1: I think the fact that we were it's like it

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Speaker 1: is a long way away and a lot of those

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Speaker 1: people would come from mining background, you know. And Blue

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Speaker 1: Sky was a big record then and it was about

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Speaker 1: important stuff, but there was also lots of big, big bangers.

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Speaker 1: You know that you can play up on the stage.

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Speaker 1: With this album. You've worked with g Flip g Flips producer, right.

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Speaker 5: Interesting collaborations there, and Grace, your daughter was involved with

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Speaker 5: the artwork.

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Speaker 1: She was Yeah, foundly affair and Grays and May singing

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Speaker 1: BB's with me as well.

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Speaker 5: B BS bvs bvs BV in front of Peter.

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Speaker 1: It's just an acronym. Another one. Martin ROSSI from Els

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Speaker 1: playing guitar and some of some really other good players

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Speaker 1: in and around Sydney. I mean, I came off the

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Speaker 1: Oils thing and because we've said, look, we're just not

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Speaker 1: going to do full time touring anymore. But it seemed

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Speaker 1: like the adrenaline tap didn't shut off, which is great.

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Speaker 1: So because it was on, I just kept on going.

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Speaker 1: It was like I was still at thirty thousand feet

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Speaker 1: and I was a bit surprised about it. I didn't

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Speaker 1: plenty of songs and I figured I better do it now.

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Speaker 3: Well it's as hard as well because Bades Hillman passed away.

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Speaker 1: Was exactly yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I guess there's no more mean, not all.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, Adam Entura came out and played with

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Speaker 1: us on that big run and he did a mighty job.

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Speaker 1: And I look, you reach a point where you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the sporting person. You know, at

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Speaker 1: some point they know they're not going to be able

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Speaker 1: to get out on the field. And necessarily do it

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Speaker 1: in the same way. The old thing was so intense,

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Speaker 1: so physical, and I think to find that collective grunt

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Speaker 1: that you need to always get it over the line.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we could see it coming, so we thought, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's it. Now, it's the right time to really have

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Speaker 1: a respectful sense of who we are as a band.

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Speaker 1: And then in my case, it was like, hang on

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Speaker 1: a minute, maybe I've got some more to do.

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Speaker 3: You've got more to do. I want to be here

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Speaker 3: in another thirty years.

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Speaker 1: M Well, you're younger than me. Sa it is your

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Speaker 1: second to last question in this interior.

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Speaker 3: At least you know what BV studs for and lot

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Speaker 3: from me. I've had a lot of bs from you.

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Speaker 2: If you want to catch Peter Garrett and his band

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Speaker 2: The Alter Egos, head to Peter Garrett dot com dot

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Speaker 2: a you slash tour to get your tickets now.

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Speaker 3: Peter Garrett, It's always great to catch.

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Speaker 1: Up with you. I've loved coming out and chanting to

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Speaker 1: my mates.

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Speaker 3: Say hi to Doris too.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we'll do consider it done. Excellent