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Lisa & Russell - Matt Parkinson (Goliath from The Chase) · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: You're going to be hearing this a bit over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It's Telethon weekend. It's going to be a.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful weekend for it too. It's that time of year.
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  Speaker 2: Telethon is back and so is Matt Parkinson. Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello. Great to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Look, it's a homecoming for you. You get to come
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  Speaker 2: home for Telethon.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Because you are, of course, from Perth. Grew up here, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up here.
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  Speaker 2: We all went to Curtin Uni.
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  Speaker 1: You won half of the Empty Pockets.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And then over you went to Melbourne next minute.
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  Speaker 2: You're promoting an album on South Century. Fast forward a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of time and you are the original on
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  Speaker 2: the chase.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm doing this really. I'm answering questions on television.
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  Speaker 3: And mucking around at the same time and having fun
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  Speaker 3: with Larry Emder. I can't quite work it out. I'm
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  Speaker 3: waiting for the white goods to be wheeled out at
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  Speaker 3: some stage. When do we go to the gift shop?
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  Speaker 2: He seems, I hope that what you see is what
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  Speaker 2: you get with Larry because he seems like one of
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  Speaker 2: the nicest people on television.
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  Speaker 1: He's a terrific bloke. He really is. He's been great
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  Speaker 1: to work with on the show. He always is.
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  Speaker 3: And I look forward to the opportunity to just come
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  Speaker 3: out and sit down and start mucking around. And we're
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  Speaker 3: always saying we want to have another show called The
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  Speaker 3: Chase Up Late.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Because a lot of the stuff that we do on
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  Speaker 3: the studio floor to get the mood happening is maybe
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  Speaker 3: not suitable for the five-minute time slot.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like something I would watch. Well, surely there's
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  Speaker 1: enough stuff edited out for a special at least. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: At least.
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  Speaker 3: We want public demand to come in and make them
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  Speaker 3: do it because we know that a lot of our
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  Speaker 3: best work is hitting the cutting room floor, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: It's the chaste. Yeah. That's what we call it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, growing up in Perth....
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  Speaker 2: We grew up with telethon where it was the only
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  Speaker 2: thing that was on overnight that once a year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the only time stations went 24 hours.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you get to our age, it's such a–
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  Speaker 2: it is iconic. And I hate to overuse the word iconic,
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  Speaker 2: but telethon is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: So it is such a buzz to be involved with it,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it, when you're from here and.
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  Speaker 1: You do that?
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  Speaker 3: So my first one, which I think was 2016 or something,
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  Speaker 3: I was standing there in the phone room going, doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like I should be calling up to talk
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  Speaker 3: to myself in the phone room. And what's happened since
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  Speaker 3: is in the 10 years that I've been on air
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  Speaker 3: and Perth started to.
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  Speaker 1: Expand, I used to know all the suburb names.
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  Speaker 3: I used to be like, yeah, Nullamara, got that, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: And now Coburn. You knew how to say Coburn. I
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  Speaker 1: can say I'm a swan without laughing. Yes, Innaloo. Mandurah, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And now there are so many more new suburbs that
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to pronounce, so I actually have
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  Speaker 3: to do a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of homework sometimes. Don't feel too bad because even we
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  Speaker 1: have trouble keeping up with them. They're growing so fast.
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  Speaker 1: Even we make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think they'll get you to do anything– crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're Goliath. They're brave to take you on.
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  Speaker 3: When you do your first telethon, you take an oath
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  Speaker 3: that you will do whatever is required or asked of
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  Speaker 3: you on the telethon weekend. That will happen tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 3: for all the newbies who are doing their first telethon.
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  Speaker 3: But once you take that pledge... It kind of lasts
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  Speaker 3: for every year afterwards and it's understood that if you
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  Speaker 3: are called on to do something for the right amount
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  Speaker 3: of money, you'll go ahead and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And I, like you say, Lisa, it goes back. So
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  Speaker 3: I have memories of staying up till, you know, one o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: two o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Just so that I could see, you know, people like
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  Speaker 3: Stuart Wagstaff.
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  Speaker 1: Get his shirt off. Smoking his, no, not just smoking,
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  Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette. It was like, wow, somebody's smoking a
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  Speaker 1: cigarette on the panel.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Lim and everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Lined up without their shirts on. Graham Kennedy used to
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  Speaker 1: come over. We talk about the first time you did it.
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  Speaker 2: The first time I ever did it, I was in
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  Speaker 2: the green room with Stuart Wagstaff, and I thought if
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  Speaker 2: I could have told my eight-year-old self that this would
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  Speaker 2: be happening, it was the greatest moment of my life. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you've brought all the other chasers with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're here in full strength. We're happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: You're full strength. Issa, everybody loves Issa.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's because they feel like they could– put him in
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  Speaker 1: their pocket and take him home. They want to.
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  Speaker 3: No one feels that way about me. Everyone's like, oh, Goliath.
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  Speaker 1: Has he actually ever gone missing? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, we actually have to keep a very close eye
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  Speaker 3: on him because he has some very devoted fans who,
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  Speaker 3: if they get hold of him, he's going to be
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  Speaker 3: in their basement forever.
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  Speaker 1: Pop him in their pocket. He'd be the.
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  Speaker 2: Politest hostage ever.
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  Speaker 1: He would. Thank you so much for abducting me. It's
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  Speaker 1: lovely in this country. It really is lovely. He really
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  Speaker 1: is a nice man. What got you hooked on this whole,
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  Speaker 1: you know, trivia and quiz shows? Because obviously you're exceptionally
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  Speaker 1: good at it. What's anything that... It started when I
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  Speaker 1: was young.
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  Speaker 3: And look, we're doing a school play in maybe grade
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  Speaker 3: two or grade three.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not a school play, like a class play.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing this little play and it called on somebody
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  Speaker 3: to recite a very long list, to come out and
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  Speaker 3: kind of just recite this long.
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  Speaker 1: It was literally a laundry list. of things that you'd
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  Speaker 1: use for cleaning somebody up.
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  Speaker 3: And I was the only one in the class who
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  Speaker 3: could remember this list from way to go. So I
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  Speaker 3: got the role and I don't know where that came from.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my father was a teacher and my mum
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  Speaker 3: was a librarian. So we were kind of, uh, we
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  Speaker 3: were not a serious bookish house, but, but I can
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  Speaker 3: see how that kind of fed into the ability to
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  Speaker 3: kind of, you know, remember what you're reading and, Keep
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  Speaker 3: facts in your head and everything. But it was that,
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  Speaker 3: that jump, that is the one single jumping off point
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  Speaker 3: that I can put it down to is at that
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  Speaker 3: point I became, oh, I.
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  Speaker 1: Can remember things. I'm good at remembering things. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And ever since then, I've always been, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: have that person in your social group who everyone's talking
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  Speaker 3: about a film or whatever, and they can't remember the
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  Speaker 3: actor's name.
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  Speaker 1: And you go, oh yeah, it's Jesse Plemons. Oh, how
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  Speaker 1: did you remember that? That's, I've always been that person.
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  Speaker 1: And Lisa.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're like that. You're that person, sure, are you? I
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  Speaker 1: am a little bit like that.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a head for, well, you retain, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sort of important things. I just retain all the sort
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  Speaker 2: of the nonsense, the pop culture stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing on the chase. It's all important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It can all come out of nowhere. Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: Suddenly it's really important to know what the name of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Kim Kardashian's third child is.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes a crucial thing. Some.
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  Speaker 2: I watch every night. I do watch every night. And
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  Speaker 2: I would love to go on the show, but I
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  Speaker 2: just fear that I'd be that person who I'd get there.
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  Speaker 1: Freeze. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And just be, I'd just be frozen.
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  Speaker 3: That really moves me because I can see that sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: People step to the bottom of that big board.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you can see that even though they're their pub
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  Speaker 3: quiz champion, they're suddenly thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, everyone's watching me. Yeah. Oh, what if
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  Speaker 1: I get one wrong?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't have a minute to go down to
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of the board and say, relax, just relax
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  Speaker 3: your brain. What I've learned in 10 years of doing it,
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  Speaker 3: your brain works better when you're relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Which is why everyone at home is.
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  Speaker 2: Can sit there yelling, I know the answer to that.
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  Speaker 1: You're not there. You're not in this.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we could do a quiz show in a new
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  Speaker 3: format where people are streaming live from their couch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: And after a few wines or something.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The answers will be wrong, but they'll be quick. As
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  Speaker 1: long as I get a few lines in too, we're good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Telethon, of course, it starts 7 o'clock tomorrow night,
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  Speaker 2: 26 hours of madness.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely to have you in town. Terrific to be here
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  Speaker 1: and honoured to be part of Telethon. And what time
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  Speaker 1: are you taking the shirt off again? Well, it depends
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  Speaker 1: how much money you're putting up there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll dig into the piggy bank.