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📰 Michael Usher critiques newsreading... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: And Michael Asher is joining us live right now. You
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  Speaker 2: would have heard the news that Nat is stepping into
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  Speaker 2: the newsreader position here at Kiss.
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  Speaker 1: I am, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And we thought we'd bring in Michael Asher.
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  Speaker 4: One of the most respected journalists in the country, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Good morning, mate. How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Good, yeah. Welcome to the esteemed club of news anchors
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  Speaker 1: in Australia.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Yeah, I don't have much experience.
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  Speaker 5: I do have a journalism degree, though. How much do
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  Speaker 5: you think that actually matters, or is it all, like,
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  Speaker 5: on the job that I'll learn?
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  Speaker 1: That's bugger all experience, yeah. That'll get you nowhere. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: So don't bother studying, kids.
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  Speaker 1: It's all in the experience. But, look, it's a good start. But, yeah, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'll help you along the way. It's a great thing
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  Speaker 1: because you are delivering some, you know, news that sometimes matters,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes is informative, sometimes is entertaining.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So there's always a good mix. There's lots of variety.
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  Speaker 3: She hasn't done, like, the hard yards, right?
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  Speaker 2: What's the hardest story you've had to cover, maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 2: out on the field or.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the Iraq War.
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  Speaker 3: You were there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Iraq two or three times and lots of
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  Speaker 1: terrorist attacks around the world. My CV is fairly grim.
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  Speaker 1: It just goes lurching from one bad event to another
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  Speaker 1: around the world.
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  Speaker 3: That CV is interesting though.
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  Speaker 5: But it would be the most difficult because you've got
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  Speaker 5: to know how to present each story, right? So when it's,
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  Speaker 5: you know, there's a bit of light and shade. So
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  Speaker 5: if it is a more serious story, it's tone of voice.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to change all those things. You've got to
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  Speaker 5: sound empathetic. and that's all the stuff that I think
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  Speaker 5: I still need to learn.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we are going to find out because we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: With the autocue, which is what we'll have here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh, you're going to have an autocue. Have you
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  Speaker 1: read an autocue yet?
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  Speaker 5: I've done some presenting jobs that required an autocue, but
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  Speaker 5: nothing reading so strictly from a script because the other
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  Speaker 5: thing is you've got to be accurate with journalism and
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  Speaker 5: you can't add any personal opinion. Yeah, so I've got
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  Speaker 5: to read exactly what's being given to me and I
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  Speaker 5: have no idea.
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  Speaker 4: What they've written.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit of a.
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  Speaker 5: A ridiculous script this morning, I think. But I also
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  Speaker 5: don't know what my newsreader voice is because why does every.
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  Speaker 4: Female journalist in the country sound like this?
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  Speaker 1: Please don't do that. Okay, don't.
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  Speaker 3: Do they train you to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Look, I think it just becomes an affected pattern, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's, I don't know, maybe it's insert story here.
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  Speaker 1: It's a default way of speaking. But that era has gone,
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  Speaker 1: if I can give you any advice whatsoever. Be you.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone just wants to hear you.
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  Speaker 3: Be completely you.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely you. And the whole skill of newsreading is you've
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  Speaker 1: got a fairly important job. You've got to tell people
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. Yes. And people have to listen and
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  Speaker 1: understand clearly every word you say, light, shade, dark, you know, anything.
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  Speaker 3: And be yourself. And be yourself.
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  Speaker 2: With the autocue, do they train you how to use it?
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  Speaker 2: Are you like a Ron Burgundy? They'll put anything up
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  Speaker 2: there and you'll say anything?
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  Speaker 1: It can happen if you're not paying attention because you've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot going on, right? Because you've got people
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  Speaker 1: talking in your ear and this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Chaos in the studio, and it can be last minute,
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  Speaker 1: and it can just appear on the autocue. But I
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  Speaker 1: read ahead. I try and get what I'm saying, but
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  Speaker 1: my eyes are looking a few lines down to sort
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  Speaker 1: of see what's coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Because you've got another sheet in front of you as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. But I only had one on Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: and there was a medical term that someone had put
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  Speaker 1: in the script. And it was my fault. I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: got to it early enough and had a look at it.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm reading and I could see the word coming up.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going, I'll just skip over that quickly. I
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  Speaker 1: just said, a very bad condition.
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  Speaker 5: And if I do make a mistake, I notice that
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  Speaker 5: newsreaders will say something and then correct themselves and go like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: The words, current affair. Sorry, current affair rather.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Again, be authentic or be yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: know what? I've said it a few times, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try that again and start the sentence
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  Speaker 1: over again.
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  Speaker 4: So just don't say the F word or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: You'll get dumped off there and get another code complaint.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want that.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to go there again.
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  Speaker 1: No more code complaints.
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  Speaker 3: Are we ready then for the– I'm really nervous. For
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  Speaker 3: the challenge.
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  Speaker 5: Because not only is this my first time reading a
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  Speaker 5: ridiculous script that I know is coming and the producers
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  Speaker 5: have stitched me up with, but I'm reading in front
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  Speaker 5: of Michael Usher.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I won't judge you much.
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  Speaker 3: No, please do. Be harsh. Tell her whether she's got it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to help.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to help. All right, Nat, you ready?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we ready with our teleprompter? We're all good to go? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: here we go, Nat.
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  Speaker 1: And on air in five, four, three, two.
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  Speaker 4: Petty pizza princess paroled from prison. Good morning. I'm Nat Penfold.
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  Speaker 5: 23-year-old Monique Mabac says she suffered... A snack attack claiming
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  Speaker 5: her insatiable hunger forced her to pilfer a piece of
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  Speaker 5: pizza from a piazza in Palermo. It was my back's
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  Speaker 5: best friend, 22-year-old Amanda Huggenkiss, who realised her mate had
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  Speaker 5: mooched a margarita from none other than the enchanting Chanteuse
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  Speaker 5: Delta Gudrum.
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  Speaker 4: Huggenkiss was apologetic. Gudrum was apoplectic.
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  Speaker 5: Ah! She was Delta when held to skelter and tried
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  Speaker 5: to belt her. Palermo police, this is going way too quick,
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  Speaker 5: apprehended my back by her neck.
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  Speaker 4: We need to go back up. Sorry, guys.
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  Speaker 5: Palermo police apprehended my back by her neck, which gave
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  Speaker 5: a loud crack as she was whacked into the back
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  Speaker 5: of a truck on the track. She was detained and
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  Speaker 5: arraigned before being unchained, an experience that left her feeling drained.
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  Speaker 4: To some local news.
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  Speaker 5: The city was overrun last night by adult babies protesting
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  Speaker 5: for the legal recognition of adult babyhood. Dressed in oversized onesies,
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  Speaker 5: sucking on dummies and waving their adorable little blankies, the
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  Speaker 5: marching munchkins brought traffic to a standstill as they chanted,
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  Speaker 5: we want rights and night nights. One adult baby told
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  Speaker 5: Kiss News, me no big person, me stay baby forever.
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  Speaker 5: Another said, Prime Minister is big scaly man, he stinky
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  Speaker 5: bum bum. The protest was organised by the advocacy group
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  Speaker 5: Babies Organising for Official Babyhood. The president of Boob Binky
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  Speaker 5: McBottle Bib Cribsworth said in a statement... For too long
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  Speaker 5: have we suckled on the bottle of injustice. We want
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  Speaker 5: our diapers. We want our rights changed. We will not
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  Speaker 5: nap until our demands are met. And if you stand
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  Speaker 5: in our way, you are a big poopy head meanie pants. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: The adult babies may chuck another tanty next week.
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  Speaker 4: But for now, the streets are no longer goo goo gaga.
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  Speaker 5: And scientists have finally answered the age-old question, what are
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  Speaker 5: you going to do with all that junk, all that
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  Speaker 5: junk inside your trunk? New research has found that I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to get you drunk and get you love drunk
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  Speaker 5: off my hump.
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  Speaker 1: My hump.
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  Speaker 4: My hump.
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  Speaker 5: My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
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  Speaker 5: my hump, my lovely lady lumps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go.
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  Speaker 4: Natalie Penfold. And that's the latest.
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  Speaker 1: Well done.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Nat Penfold, driving these brothers crazy and doing it
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  Speaker 5: on the daily.
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  Speaker 4: Now back to Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, not bad.
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  Speaker 4: That was stressful.
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  Speaker 1: And you hadn't seen that before.
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  Speaker 4: Never saw that before.
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  Speaker 1: You've done a very good job there.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Bit of a stitch up with the script there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, total stitch up.
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  Speaker 4: But given you've seen that and do you think I've
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  Speaker 4: got what it takes to be a newsreader?
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  Speaker 1: I'll hand you a Logie right now for best news presenter.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Thank you. Well done.
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  Speaker 4: From Michael Usher himself.
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  Speaker 3: A Logie. Not even on TV and you get a Logie.
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  Speaker 1: A gold Logie? Everyone gets a Logie. No, well done. Look,
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  Speaker 1: as your first read, I'd question your copywriter there or
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  Speaker 1: your producer. Content aside... Good news read.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie, you'll be a stellar news reader.
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  Speaker 5: Too bad I already signed the contract because that got
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  Speaker 5: me an extra 20K, I reckon.
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  Speaker 4: What Michael Usher said right there.
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  Speaker 1: I endorse you.
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  Speaker 3: Well done.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's a great fun gig, so
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  Speaker 1: go for it.
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  Speaker 5: And can you officially be my mentor?
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  Speaker 1: I'm there. Anytime.
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  Speaker 3: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Usher.
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  Speaker 5: Well done.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.