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Speaker 1: It's a special Will and Woody podcast Mini.

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Speaker 2: We have a super special guest on the show right now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you didn't watch it on stand last week,

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Speaker 2: you seriously missed out. But RuPaul's drag Race down Under

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Speaker 2: wrapped up, which means we have a victor.

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Speaker 3: Tell me who is it?

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Speaker 2: We're doing by kidder Man right now, one with a

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Speaker 2: lip sync of this number, a bit of Olivia Newton

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Speaker 2: John to finish things up on Friday, totally wild. What

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Speaker 2: a song, Kedy, What a performance in the safe in

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Speaker 2: the top three for the duration of the show, Like

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Speaker 2: how you feeling?

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Speaker 4: Congratulations?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, thank you so much. It's such wow.

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Speaker 5: What a wild riot it has been in the last

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Speaker 5: couple of days after the announcement on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's so hard to process.

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Speaker 5: But I've just been doing uh the last couple They've

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Speaker 5: just been chatting to the most amazing people that have

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Speaker 5: just been like sharing me with love and congratulations. And

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Speaker 5: it's slowly starting to sink in that like I'm the winner.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm the one that has to like represent

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Speaker 5: down Under now, so I'm just ready to.

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Speaker 3: Hit it hard.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I love that we are being represented by someone called

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Speaker 1: uh and can you can you give us the backstory there,

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Speaker 1: kemene as to how the name came about.

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Speaker 5: I'll give you the backstory if you give me a backstory.

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Speaker 5: I yeah, so I adopted a cat when I was

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Speaker 5: twenty one from the SPCA, which is like the Society

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Speaker 5: for the Protection of Cure of Animals.

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Speaker 4: We've got here as well.

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Speaker 2: Actually, funnily enough, we tend to SCA in Australia as well,

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Speaker 2: pretty much the r s p c A.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we're not totally devoidable.

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Speaker 3: More different.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like in different parts of the world they kind

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Speaker 5: of called different things, like they've got different litter litter.

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Speaker 2: I know that you Kiwis are high and mighty about

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Speaker 2: the protection of animals, though in Australians we are, I mean, like,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, I'm pretty sure we're trying.

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Speaker 4: To wipe off the great barrier y for the moment,

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Speaker 4: so it's fair enough. But yeah, it's not.

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Speaker 3: It is, but we are New Zealand des are very

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Speaker 3: high and mighty. You are correct?

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Speaker 2: You are?

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Speaker 4: You are so sorry?

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Speaker 3: Is it like? Oh who did.

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Speaker 2: You are?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 4: What does a cat have to do with your name? Kemine?

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Speaker 4: My mind is boggling.

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Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was ironic.

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Speaker 5: They use like kiddamine as a vet drug, so I

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Speaker 5: thought it'd be ironic if I called my cat kidd mee.

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Speaker 5: And then I needed a drag name and I didn't

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Speaker 5: have one, so I just stole her name.

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Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm literally named after my own.

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Speaker 5: Pussy, very very very good stuff, and she is now

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Speaker 5: a very old pussy and she does molt.

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure what you're talking about now, but we'll

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Speaker 4: move on.

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Speaker 5: Hey, kidding, got some very I've got some very under

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Speaker 5: understanding friends. They come over even if they stay the night,

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Speaker 5: they're not too bothered if they wake up with a

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Speaker 5: little bit of fear in the teeth.

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Speaker 3: You walk like to sleep on my pillows.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, of course, now, kidd.

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Speaker 2: So the judges on the show that all the guests,

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Speaker 2: I should say, included the Minogue sisters, Joyce Vaughn, the

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Speaker 2: Veronica's Olivia Newton John what was like throughout the show?

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Speaker 4: On Stan? What was in your memory now?

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Speaker 2: And just honestly, off the top of they had the

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Speaker 2: most potent memory for you that was kind of like

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Speaker 2: a bit of a pinch yourself. Wow, this is the

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Speaker 2: person that I'm currently interacting with moment, uh do you know?

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Speaker 5: Funnily enough, I really I really love the fact that

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Speaker 5: they had Al's karat on there, who was one of

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Speaker 5: who's a transgender actor rhyme from Altiora that had just

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Speaker 3: Which is like another key we filmed. So like that

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Speaker 5: Special thing because it was like really cool like representation

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Speaker 5: on RuPaul's Drag Race, and I felt like I already

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Speaker 5: felt like so cool that like Australia and New Zealand

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Speaker 5: was doing RuPaul's Drag Race and then we were still

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Speaker 5: kind of just like driving home. It's like representation and

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Speaker 5: like showcasing like a side of like Australia and New

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Speaker 5: Zealand that also doesn't really get to get showcased to

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Speaker 5: the world, which is like a really colorful rainbow community.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh that's really great to hear.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's what RuPaul's is famous for, obviously, is

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Speaker 2: shining a light on this community which you know so

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Speaker 2: often is repressed and you know in you know, specific

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Speaker 2: bars and places that you have to go and seek

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Speaker 2: it out. It kind of like puts it right in

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Speaker 2: front and center. I mean, it would stand on primetime

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Speaker 2: this thing that's a talking point in it amongst people

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't normally talk about it. So it's brilliant to

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Speaker 2: hear from yours.

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Speaker 3: I stop rubbing it in my face.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So the other fascinating thing is, so you've won thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars cash.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's crazy a U D too. So you know

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Speaker 5: that's where the couple of extra.

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Speaker 4: Is there? Is there any of the thirty k left Kitter?

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Speaker 3: No, I spinned it all on my where at the bar?

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Speaker 4: Exactly the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: The other first, same thing about you for people that

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Speaker 2: didn't see the show, is it used to weigh one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty kilos in now ways sixty five kilos.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, no, no, I now weigh like eighty kilos.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So but there wasn't there was Sorry you

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Speaker 2: lost sixty five kilos, I should say so.

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Speaker 3: So so yeah, I've lost like just under eighty kilos.

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Speaker 4: Wow, Jesus Christ. What was that journey? Like Kitter?

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Speaker 3: It's been Oh, there's been like hips of ups and downs.

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Speaker 5: I mean, like the journey like from doing the weight

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Speaker 5: loss has been like amazing. The journey to getting to

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Speaker 3: Amazing and living that life.

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Speaker 5: But you know, life's full of ups and downs, and

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Speaker 5: I don't I try not to kind of super dwell

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Speaker 5: on the negatives and you know if I if I did,

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Speaker 5: I could never have survived it to this day.

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Speaker 3: So point yeah, but you know, like I got through it.

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Speaker 5: And that's the coolest thing is like, no matter how

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Speaker 5: crappy something is, like if you if you persevere, you

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Speaker 5: will get through it. And everything's everything's so much more

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Speaker 5: chilling hindsight, it always is.

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Speaker 4: That's so true.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you, Kater, the difference between when you

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Speaker 1: you know, seventy five eighty kilos. What's the difference with

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Speaker 1: the just the attention you get in the street or

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Speaker 1: the way that people interact with you or tree. Have

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Speaker 1: you noticed a difference between the two?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Do you know what's funny? It's really interesting on things

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Speaker 3: like dating apps, and there's like people that don't realize

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Speaker 3: they've spoken to me in the past or maybe have

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Speaker 3: even been rude to me in the past, and then

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Speaker 3: like and then they're like trying to head on me

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh.

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Speaker 4: You're not getting this fit rig Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but one of the best parts about weight losses,

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Speaker 5: all of the exquisite positions I can now.

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Speaker 4: Achieve that was the motivation. That was the motivation.

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Speaker 3: Oh for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oll make congratulations in all sorts of ways for

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Speaker 2: the weight laws, for the cash, for winning the competition,

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Speaker 2: but also for being as happy in yourself as you

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Speaker 2: so clearly are. I think maybe that's not because I

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Speaker 2: know that you co own a couple of drag venues

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Speaker 4: So obviously this is something that you live, that you breathe,

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Speaker 4: that is you in so many ways.

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Speaker 2: So maybe for people that are listening right now, it'd

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Speaker 2: be nice to from you. What would you say to

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Speaker 2: life which is so clearly, so clearly nourishing for you

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Speaker 2: and in a way that they can live.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny.

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Speaker 5: It's hard to give advice because it's really I don't

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Speaker 5: And so much of the negative in my life was

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Speaker 5: being so much more real, which just opened up everything

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Speaker 5: So it's not a coincidence, you know it, Truly, all

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Speaker 5: the good happens when you can be good to yourself,

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Speaker 5: and good and good to your heart and good to

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Speaker 5: your your spirit and and living living a life for

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Speaker 5: somebody else because you're worried about what somebody else is

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Speaker 5: going to say about you or the way someone else

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Speaker 5: is going to treat you.

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Speaker 3: That's not doing your self justice.

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Speaker 5: So you have to be selfish in that in that

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Speaker 5: to be the happiest and the most free if I

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Speaker 5: live authentically and and then all the good comes from them.

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Speaker 2: Your a legend, Kater, thank you for Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us, and congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: It's been an absolute treat.

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Speaker 2: Kata is going to be touring in September around Australia

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Speaker 2: and New Zealand with the rest of the Queens from

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Speaker 2: RuPaul's Drag Race down Under. Such a pleasure to meet

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Speaker 2: your mate and all the best. Hopefully you over here soon.

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Speaker 5: Thank you boys, Drive safely everybody.

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Speaker 4: Thanks right loving to meet you. Hear more of your

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Speaker 4: boys on the Pull Show podcast.

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Speaker 5: You know you want to