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Glenn Robbins

Glenn Robbins

Australian comedian and writer

Oct 29, 2026

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You still surf? I'm like,
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I'm what? Why does he have that tone towards me when I do something? It's hostile.
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Yeah, it's accusatory.
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Funny you should say that because that's kind of what I've come in to talk about in McFanning.
1:12
What about? Well, I'm reading his biography at the moment.
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And I've got to say, thoroughly enjoying it.
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I highly recommend it.
2:09
You started writing the music.
speaker_8NARRATOR
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a surfer.
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Yeah, I still surf.
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You're still a surfer.
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Why does he have that tone towards me when I do something? It's hostile.
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Yeah, it's accusatory.
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Funny you should say that because that's kind of what I've come in to talk about in McFanning.
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What about? Well, I'm reading his biography at the moment.

7 MINS LATER

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Now, we were in Sydney doing the upfronts, and what happened?
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Look, I know what I'm about to talk about is really indulgent, so don't yell at the radio.
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But I'm reading Mick Fanning's autobiography at the moment, and I'm really enjoying it.
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And then I got to thinking about sporting autobiographies, and often they are written by a ghostwriter.
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I'm not suggesting his is, but often they are.
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And then I'm thinking, well, I'm not going to do a biography, but if I did, would I use a ghostwriter? And then I'm thinking, who from history, in the writing sense, would I get to write my biography? And then I also thought, would it be a biography, or would it be a play, or would it be a musical, would it be a telemovie, would it be a miniseries? Glenn
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I going to say?
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No, he implied talent.
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He had brevity.
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Glenn
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Robbins.
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Look, I know what I'm about to talk about is really indulgent, so don't yell at the radio.
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But I'm reading Mick Fanning's autobiography at the moment and I'm really enjoying it.
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And then I got to thinking about sporting autobiographies and often, you know, they are written by a ghostwriter.
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I'm not suggesting his is, but often they are.
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And then I'm thinking, well, I'm not going to do a biography, but if I did, would I use a ghostwriter? And then I'm thinking, who from history, in the writing sense, would I get to write my biography? And then I also thought, would it be a biography or would it be a play or would it be a musical? Would it be a telly movie? Would it be a miniseries? Glenn
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There we go.
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Nineteen after eight, Glenn Robbins.
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Look, I know what I'm about to talk about is really indulgent, so don't yell at the radio.
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But I'm reading Mick Fanning's autobiography at the moment, and I'm really enjoying it.
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And then I got to thinking about sporting autobiographies, and often, you know, they are written by a ghostwriter.
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I'm not suggesting his is, but often they are.
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And then I'm thinking, well, I'm not going to do a biography, but if I did, would I use a ghostwriter? And then I'm thinking, who from history, in the writing sense, would I get to write my biography? And then I also thought, would it be a biography or would it be a play or would it be a musical? Would it be a telemovie? Would it be a miniseries? Glenn
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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I've got to say.
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No, he implied talent.
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Glenn Robert.
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Well, I've got to be honest with you.
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I do.
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I walk away from this show always feeling a little bit better.
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But today, as you know, I come to you for therapy.
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And what I'm going to talk about may well help you realize something about yourself.
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Okay.

7 MINS LATER

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I turn all my alarms off.
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But, um, they're another smokie as well, but they've just got a couple of their superstars that've had off-season surgery that will miss the tournament, which is unlucky for them.
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Yeah.
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But of course all the coverage is gonna be on Seven and Seven Plus across the tournament.
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Chervo hosting with Mel Glock and Corey Parker.
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And Matty White, hey, you've been doing some good stuff this year on the, uh, the Agenda Setters-
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Well-
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Well, mate, we love, uh, we love your work.
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Uh, keep up the great work on Triple M Breakfast in Sydney as well.
Ann McMullenMODERATOR
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Welcome.
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Yeah.
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Thank you, Ann.
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I appreciate always being on here with you.
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Karen, you made me think about how long I've been on here as well.
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I know it's been a couple years, um, and it's always a delight to be part of that panel with all of you.
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Um, I'm on my-- in February, it'll be my seventh year working at the Brigantine, uh, Public School District in Brigantine, New Jersey, right next to Atlantic City, right at the beach.

22 MINS LATER

Ann McMullenMODERATOR
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Glen, you're thinking on this one.
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Oh, poor you.
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[laughs] But, uh, uh, yeah, poor me.
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A- And I went, "Do I go to the chemist and get a tablet, Panadol or something? Or do I buy a hot jam donut, have a coffee?"
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Talk to your dog.
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See, that's, that's like talking to the others.
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That's like, I'm not gonna say talking to God, but not far away from it.
speaker_16AUDIENCE
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Oh, boy, you...
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Yeah, poor me.
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And I went, do I go to the chemist and get a tablet, panadol or something, or do I buy a hot jam donut, have a coffee, and then maybe go and get a little shoulder massage?
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massage.
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There are things that we can do besides taking a tablet that make us feel good.
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Okay.
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And I would like to know what people do, you know, what they do when they're feeling a bit poorly.
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You know, I'm not suggesting, you know, if you've got an ailment that's bad, you've got to go to the doctor.
speaker_24AUDIENCE
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Oh, poor you.
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[laughs] But, uh, uh, uh, yeah, poor me.
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A- and I went, "Do I go to the chemist and get a tablet, Panadol or something? Or do I buy a hot jam donut, have a coffee?"
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Talk to your dog.
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See, that's, that's like talking to the others.
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That's like, I'm not gonna say talking to God, but not far away from it.
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they have to do the heavy lifting in the convo?
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N- uh, yeah.
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But no, but I think what I would do is go into what's the worst thing that's happened in that, in that world.
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Because i- i- if you go into a story of where they were in pain, it's interesting.
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If they just get...
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If they're making a speech-
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I really like that.
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That, that is the key.
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What was a game of pinball? It was 20 cents, wasn't it? I
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reckon it was 20 cents for pinnies.
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Pac-Man.
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Pac-Man, I reckon, was 20 cents when it first came out.
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How much was it right at the show? Probably 20 cents.
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How much was it? I don't know.
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You know, it's $25 now.
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$10.
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Obviously.
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Yeah.
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It's important for, for a number of reasons.
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But don't, if you're a j- oh, I'm gonna say Gen whatever.
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If you're a 20-year-old or a 30-year-old-
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37 cents.
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Yeah.
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I could, I, I, when I left primary school and I was walking to, I'd go to the Napier Street Fish and Chip Shop, and I reckon for 20 cents I could get three potato cakes-
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What did you say?
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Well, hang on.
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I tried to say it, and then you just went off at me.
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Why would I say something nice about you now? Like, I'm upset.
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I thought this was a, a big step in our relationship.
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But I always think-
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Oh, 'cause those elevators take forever.
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And they take forever, and they end up jam-packed.
Ed Kavalee
Ed KavaleePANELIST
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There's a wrinkle, though.
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Yeah.
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Did you do it as yourself? No, I did it as Uncle Arthur.
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What? It's quite funny, actually, because I gave her a card, a card with $5 in it, and then I said to her, I used to sing you a song when you would go to bed, which was called The Locomotion, and I said to her, you should bring that out as a single when you get a bit older, and your success is thanks to me.
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How's
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I'll give you the
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trick.
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If you want to work out if it's an IKEA product, you do a little announcement.
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Ah.
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So when I got the hole-in-one...
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I didn't know what to do.
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And I went...
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He went for the fist pump and I went for the chest pump.
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Oh, no.
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Chest pump.
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Do you want to know the
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about their experiences uh in and around the movie so i hope you're looking forward to it it's just yeah i've been so excited to show it to you the trailer's up so you can see it on my instagram uh on youtube and uh all right let's hear thank you over to you tony glenn you're in this film am i do
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you know what it is No, I meet with Ed regularly.
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We have coffee.
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He talks about a project that he's doing.
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I try to work it out.
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Yeah.
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And they all sound like great projects.
Tony Martin
Tony MartinCORRESPONDENT
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But this film, won't it be interesting when you sit down to watch this film and find out what it's about?
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Wow.
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I love these people.
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What modelling agency did you go to to get these beautiful people to come out today, stand around, and congratulations to all the people that are drinking at 8.30 in the morning.
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Yeah.
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That's my people.
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That is your people, Mick Molloy.
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And it's funny, you know, that that should come up because I was watching this documentary on Netflix called The Twin Flames, I think it's called, and it's about a cult.
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What would your list of demands be? What would you...
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What would your list of demands be? What would you do?
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Well, the m- the, uh, the byline of the, the byline of the show is the idea is that a single soul is split into two halves destined to find each other.
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Oh, right
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... what would be in your cult that your followers would do every day and you would come together and worship in, in the house of Mick? For example, what would Mick Molloy's cult do?
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Twenty after eight, Glen Robbins, good morning to you.
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There's a sign for real estate near my house that says bespoke apartments.
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And I often think if my dad was alive and I said to him, hey dad, do you know what bespoke is? He'd go, nah.
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And I'd go, do you want to know? He'd go, not really.
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There are words out there.
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I'm in the catch-up mode of trying to work out what things, and I often see a word like bespoke.
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What's that mean again? So are there words out there that your dad or mum wouldn't get if they were around today?
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Big obvious.
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20 after 8, Glenn Robbins, good morning to you.
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There's a sign for real estate near my house that says bespoke apartments.
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And I often think if my dad was alive and I said to him, hey, dad, do you know what bespoke is? He'd go, nah.
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And I'd go, do you want to know? He'd go, not really.
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LAUGHTER There are words out there.
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I'm in the catch-up mode of trying to work out what things, and I often see a word like bespoke.
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What's that mean again? So are there words out there that your dad or mum wouldn't get if they were around today? Oh,
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Okay.
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You've just got to keep it
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up.
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The conversation following.
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Can I give you my trick? Sure, go for it.
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My trick is a thing called endowment.
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Oh.
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What I do is I have a problem and I say something like, Mick, you're good at this sort of stuff.

5 MINS LATER

speaker_1NARRATOR
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This is Mick in the Morning with Roo, Titus and Rosie.
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Oh.
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What I do is I have a problem and I say something like, Mick, you're good at this sort of stuff.
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What do I do about this? And that makes you feel like- I've got the stage.
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You've got the stage.
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You've got all the answers.
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I'm doing a TED talk on this.
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Yeah.

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I've
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I'm liking the grey hair.
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I don't mind it.
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You don't have to comment.
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I'm saying it about myself.
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The silver fox look is sensational.
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Well, thank you very much, which is pertinent to my question.
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Getting older, you often hear the statement, you know, getting old is not fun.
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It's just those sort of

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