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Barra Bit's - Lot's Of Carrot Juice · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Could be one of those moments where, well, I've discovered
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  Speaker 1: something this week. You can spend years pretending that you're
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  Speaker 1: a really tough guy. And then it takes one very
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  Speaker 1: small rabbit to bring you undone. Please.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry about Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin. We've lost Kevin. Hit me harder than I expected. Yeah. Kevin!
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  Speaker 2: Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make me laugh. It's a tough time in the
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  Speaker 1: barrel household, I've got to say. Especially my wife and daughter.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter got as a support animal, I suppose you'd say,
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  Speaker 1: without any permissions. And my wife had to do all
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  Speaker 1: the work. That normally is what happens around most people's houses,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Kevin was a support rabbit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: They're good. I mean, I never thought I'd be grieving
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  Speaker 1: a rabbit, put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a mini lop or a dwarf lop, if
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  Speaker 1: you know rabbits. Oh, adorable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, how long... Was Kevin in the house?
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  Speaker 1: Seven or eight years.
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  Speaker 2: That's a long time.
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  Speaker 3: That's a long time to build up a relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a long life for a rabbit? Or what
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  Speaker 2: is their lifespan?
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  Speaker 1: No, I think around 10 is a long time. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just, I mean... This is the tough bit,
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  Speaker 1: is that people don't take it seriously.
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  Speaker 2: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: I do. Not saying you guys aren't, but it's just,
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  Speaker 1: because when a dog or a cat passes, then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of sympathy around.
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  Speaker 2: People totally understand a dog.
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  Speaker 3: Because more people are likely to have a cat or
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  Speaker 3: a dog as a pet than they are.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes. Rabbit. A lot of rabbits out there, little kevvies,
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  Speaker 1: scooting around the kitchen, chasing the dog, twitching the nose
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  Speaker 1: like he's looking for Wi-Fi, you know. Yeah. Anyway. They
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  Speaker 1: nudge you with their nose as well.
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  Speaker 2: Did Kevin get on well with the other animals?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, beautifully, yeah. He stood up for himself.
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  Speaker 2: Good on him.
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  Speaker 1: But he'd hit you with his nose going, where's the food, Bozo?
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  Speaker 1: Where's the food? Come on, give me some food. So
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  Speaker 1: I was, when, well, mate, if you've got kids in
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  Speaker 1: the car, probably, you know, talk over it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit here. But, and did you reckon you get more
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  Speaker 1: emotional as you get older?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, yes, I think you do.
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  Speaker 1: Do you reckon? Probably.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon since I've turned 50, I've just cried at
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  Speaker 1: the drop of a hat. Whatever happens. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I cried an ad sometimes on TV. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I cried the other day when I watched 70 up
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  Speaker 2: because I'd been watching it for so many years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Which, which, which person did you cry over? Like, The, the,
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  Speaker 1: the pommy one that went to.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're all pommy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know, the really pommy one or.
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  Speaker 2: The English one. Well, I cried at Neil every, every
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  Speaker 2: time there was a new season, but, uh, yeah, at
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  Speaker 2: least he was still there.
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  Speaker 1: So I had to take him to the vet and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, when you go to the vet,
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  Speaker 1: you just know, oh, this could end badly. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: and why am I doing it is mostly what you think. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: cause they, cause you know, you know, rabbits to be
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  Speaker 1: serious for a minute, they actually hide their weakness and
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  Speaker 1: pain because they're In the wild, if they show that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the birds come from.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, right. They make themselves a target.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't know that. By the time they're struggling,
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  Speaker 1: they're really struggling. You know what I mean? So I
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  Speaker 1: take it in there and, you know, like he's... The
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  Speaker 1: trip's excruciating just driving there thinking, oh, what if he says,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why am I here? Can I ring my wife?
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  Speaker 1: Is it too late? Or one of the kids can
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  Speaker 1: come down and what if they have to say goodbye?
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  Speaker 1: Do I have to get all the family down and,
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  Speaker 1: you know... It's bloody tough. It's tough. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it can be a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: And it happens to just about all of us.
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  Speaker 1: I know. And you're looking for a miracle. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 1: you know the best thing to do is the kindest thing.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, taking that whole trip. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was amazed. I'm talking to some footy guys about it.
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  Speaker 1: And they go, oh, just be like Justin Longmire. I go,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about? And he said, well, Steel
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  Speaker 1: Sidebottom had lost his dog and he needed a day
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  Speaker 1: off at Collingwood. This is when J-Lo was at Collingwood.
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  Speaker 1: And because he's from a farm, it's a different attitude,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it, when it's not a pet? It's more of
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  Speaker 1: a working dog or whatever. Yeah. An employee. And he
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  Speaker 1: basically took a very practical view and said, mate, down
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  Speaker 1: on the farm, they get sick. We just shoot them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you do see more than your fair share of
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  Speaker 3: death on the farm.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Longmire said that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. To steal a side bottom.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: But that's a farmer, you know, speaking.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, that's what happens out there. Yeah. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Surely he knows the difference between a farm animal and
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  Speaker 2: a pet.
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  Speaker 1: He does now. He does now. Anyway, so back to Kevi.
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  Speaker 1: Back to Kevi.
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  Speaker 3: A working rabbit.
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  Speaker 2: Kevi was a good rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: He was a good rabbit. He lived a good life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. See, that is the thing. He did have a
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  Speaker 2: very good life at the Barrett house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing about animals. You can't
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  Speaker 1: measure the size of them by what, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: they carve out in your life. And he carved a
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  Speaker 1: big place out of now. So he left a bigger hole.
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  Speaker 1: than I would have imagined. And thank you for taking
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  Speaker 1: it seriously and being my support people. Of course, of course.
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  Speaker 1: You're just holding it in.
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  Speaker 2: I will. And I will raise a glass later today
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  Speaker 2: for Kevin. Because you know I will at any excuse.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be a glass of carrot juice.
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  Speaker 2: Stop it. He held on right to the end.
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  Speaker 1: He couldn't get through. You had that line ready already.
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  Speaker 3: We just found out that our assistant producer, who's like
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  Speaker 3: about 16, loves Michael Bolton.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, everyone's got one.
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  Speaker 1: He may not like it.
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  Speaker 2: Mine's Kenny G.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny G.
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  Speaker 3: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 2: My one I love that other people laugh at.
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  Speaker 1: Billy Cyrus.
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  Speaker 2: Kenny G.
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  Speaker 1: Billy Cyrus had the best mullet. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We're not talking about mullets. No, we're not talking about mullets. No,
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  Speaker 3: we're just talking about Kenny G's mullets all over. He
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know who Kenny G is.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't know who Kenny G is. He might like him.
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  Speaker 2: He knows who.
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  Speaker 3: Michael Bolton is, doesn't he?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: He may change his mind now after I reveal what
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  Speaker 1: Michael Bolton is actually like. Oh!
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Gather round.
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  Speaker 3: Now the inside word from Barrow.
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  Speaker 1: This is, you guys would know this story because it's
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  Speaker 1: radio folklore.
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: And I happen to be working at, I can't even
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  Speaker 1: remember what station it was, but there's a bloke by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Gary Shannon.
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  Speaker 3: I've never heard of him.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember him?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm... I'm guessing it was probably a variation of PMFM.
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  Speaker 1: 6pm maybe? Anyway, we got called out to Parry Field,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the baseball field here in person. Yes. And
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  Speaker 1: so Bolton, Michael Bolton was here and apparently he's a
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  Speaker 1: massive softball fan. Okay. And he takes a softball, custom-made
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  Speaker 1: softball equipment everywhere with him and He always wants to
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  Speaker 1: have a hit. And we thought it was just a
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  Speaker 1: photo shoot. So we turn up. Anyway, he's in his
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  Speaker 1: full-blown gear, dressed up. He's got the mullet looking magnificent.
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  Speaker 1: And he's ready to go. He says, we're playing a game.
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  Speaker 1: And you can imagine Gary, none too happy about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's not just a photo shoot, right? I
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  Speaker 1: reckon it got really, really tense such that even his
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  Speaker 1: mind has started getting in there because Gary was poking.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was poking Michael in the chest.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: And sledging is.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't you just say, no, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: No, because I got involved because I started hitting balls
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  Speaker 1: and all this.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. But Gary was getting super aggressive even in
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  Speaker 1: the match, you know, when they hit it away and
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  Speaker 1: they'd run for the slide in and someone tried to
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  Speaker 1: knee somebody. But it was just, it was actually humbling.
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  Speaker 1: But he was so serious about it. I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: this story.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously competitive. I've never heard this.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Bolton is competitive. Obviously, yeah. I've never heard this story.
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  Speaker 1: But you wouldn't have thought that softball would trigger someone,
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  Speaker 1: but he, I mean, triggered Gary, but also.
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  Speaker 2: Was it a Friday?
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  Speaker 1: It was a Friday. After lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Before lunch, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Before lunch. Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: He had lunch to get to.
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  Speaker 3: Gary's not a renowned sportsman.
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  Speaker 2: No, but he does a good lunch.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't take it too well.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he did.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you, when Bolton started ordering him around,
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  Speaker 1: that was the end of it. Listen, mate, you're in
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  Speaker 1: Australia now, pal. I don't care who you think you are.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I thought he was going to get knocked out
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  Speaker 1: by the two African-American bouncers. Two really big guys.
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  Speaker 3: Did you sort of muscle in between just to keep
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  Speaker 3: it apart, boys?
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to tell the boys back at the club.
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  Speaker 3: Let them swing.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what happened today?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Just walk. Michael Bolton.
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  Speaker 2: Just walk the base.
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  Speaker 1: Just walk. Don't slip. Don't slip. My phone lit up.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was Gary Shannon. No, it's Ian Blackley.
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  Speaker 2: He remembers.
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  Speaker 1: He remembers. Black is nice. He knows all. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: I'll add a bit more of that next week. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a bit more of an insight. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's more to the story.
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  Speaker 3: The dark side of Michael Bolton.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I tell you, he takes softball very, very seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Which is not a great thing.