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PRE: Good evening. 
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PRE: I have with me • tonight • • Ann Elk Mistress Ann Elk. 
ELK: • • Miss! 
PRE: • • You • • have a new theory about the brontosaurus. 
ELK: Well, ehm, can I just eh say here Chris for one moment that I have a new theory about the brontosaurus. 
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PRE: Exactly. 
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PRE: What is it? 
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ELK: Ehem. 
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PRE: I mean your/ your new theory. 
ELK: • • • Oh what is my theory? 
PRE: Yeah. 
ELK: Ooh what is my theory that it is! • • Well, Chris, you may well ask me what is my theory. 
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PRE: I am asking. 
ELK: Good for you. • • My word, yes. 
PRE: ((clears throat)) 
ELK: Well Chris, what is it that it is this theory of mine? 
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ELK: Well, this is what it is. • My theory • that I have that is to say which is mine ((0.9s)) is mine. 
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PRE: Yes now I/ I/ I know it's yours. Eh • what is it? 
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ELK: Well! 
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ELK: What is my ah… 
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ELK: This is it. • • • ((clears throat)) 
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ELK: ((coughs)) 
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ELK: ((coughs)) 
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ELK: ((coughs)) 
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ELK: ((coughs)) 
ELK: My theory that belongs to me is as follows. ((clears throat)) 
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ELK: This is how it goes. 
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ELK: ((clears throat twice)) 
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ELK: The next thing I'm going to say is my theory. ((1.1s)) Ready? 
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ELK: My theory by A Elk brackets miss brackets. • This theory goes as follows and begins now. • • All brontosauruses are thin at one end • • • much much thicker in the middle • • • and then thin again at the far end. 
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ELK: That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is too. 
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PRE: That's it, is it? 
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ELK: Spot on Chris! 
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PRE: Well eh this theory of yours appears to have hit the nail on the head. 
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ELK: And it's mine. 
PRE: Yes. 
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PRE: Thank you very much for coming along to the studio. 
ELK: • Thank you, my pleasure, Chris. 
PRE: Next week Britain's newest wasp farm… Yes thank you very much. 
ELK: It's been a lot of fun. 
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ELK: Saying what my theory is. 
PRE: Newest wa… 
PRE: Yes thank you ((inc.)). 
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ELK: And whose it is. 
PRE: Yes thank you, that's all, thank you. ((inc.)) 
ELK: I have another theory.
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PRE: Yes. 
ELK: Called my second theory. 
PRE: (Well) thank you. 
ELK: Or my theory number two. 
PRE: Britain's newest wasp farm. 
ELK: Which I could expand (without doubt) 
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ELK: This second theory • • which • with the one that I have said • forms the brace of theories that I own which are mine and which belong to me ((inc.e)) goes like this. ((clears throat)) 
PRE: Yeah? 
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PRE: No! 
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