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Speaker 1: Good morning to you. Broadcasting live this morning from well

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Speaker 1: under the Big Dime in front of the Entertainment Center

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Speaker 1: on Port Road at Heinmarsh. The RAA Street Smart High

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Speaker 1: program is what's happening here. There are twelve thousand students

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Speaker 1: over three days. Today's day two who'll be coming through.

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Speaker 1: It's the highest attendance they've had in the fifteen years

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Speaker 1: of the program running, and this year for the first

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Speaker 1: time over three days. Maybe it'll be extended. We spoke

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Speaker 1: with the RAA at the start of the show. Let's

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Speaker 1: have a chat with police and from Sapohl's Road Safety

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Speaker 1: Section Program Coordinator, Senior Sergeant Susan O'Connor. Good morning, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 1: what you hope will be achieved here over the three days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've got several police officers participating in the event.

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Speaker 2: We've got our major Crash officers who are involved in

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Speaker 2: the mock crash, which is what the students see first

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Speaker 2: thing this morning, which is a realistic crush theme. So

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Speaker 2: it's pretty confronting for people to actually watch and view.

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Speaker 2: And we've also got members of our road safety team

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Speaker 2: who are here. They also do a present time this

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Speaker 2: morning on distraction and the fatal five and they're involved

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Speaker 2: in the lunchtime setup and engagement with the kids with

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Speaker 2: the photo booth and the ditt Think Road Safety Team.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mentioned this to Child's Mountain from the raa earlier,

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Speaker 1: the number of years this has been running, and that

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Speaker 1: the numbers of kids that have come through. Yet we

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Speaker 1: still see, you know, a twenty year old odd and

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Speaker 1: even up to thirties now who might have been through

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Speaker 1: this way back in two thousand and nine. And while

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Speaker 1: not every child, every teenager has come through the program

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Speaker 1: around the state, a lot have, hundreds of thousands now have,

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Speaker 1: and yet that age group is still so highly represented.

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Speaker 1: You wonder why isn't that message getting through.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just an experience on the road. They

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Speaker 2: go from having a qualified driver sitting next to them

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Speaker 2: giving them instruction for a year and then then suddenly

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Speaker 2: on their own, and there are other people in the car,

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Speaker 2: friends that have peer pressure. There's been legislated to legislative

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Speaker 2: changes that, you know, stop the hours between which they

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Speaker 2: can drive and how many people can be in the car,

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, they're still young people,

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Speaker 2: not always making smart decisions. And there are lots of

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Speaker 2: programs across the state, lots of organizations in this space

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Speaker 2: providing them with content that tries to get that message across.

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Speaker 2: But the end of the day, we still have people

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Speaker 2: making silly mistakes.

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Speaker 1: On the roads. Absolutely, talk us through what happens after

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Speaker 1: a serious crash for people listening who've never been here

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Speaker 1: and never will probably come through this and have their

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Speaker 1: license and hopefully are never involved in anything more major

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Speaker 1: than something minor in a car park. What happens when

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Speaker 1: there's a serious crash, what's the police response, what a

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Speaker 1: victims witnesses go through.

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Speaker 2: So we've had sixty one lives lost on our roads

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Speaker 2: this year, and I guess from a media perspective of

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Speaker 2: what the normal community see in relation to that is

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Speaker 2: that they hear on the news that someone has died

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Speaker 2: in a crash, that's the end of the story for them.

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Speaker 2: We've had six hundred and ten serious injury crashes for

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Speaker 2: those families, those injuries are usually quite significant and they're

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Speaker 2: not necessarily crashes that are reported in the media. Otherwise

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Speaker 2: that's all the media would be full of. It's those crashes,

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Speaker 2: But those are the injuries that last a lifetime. They're

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Speaker 2: the traumatic brain injuries, the spinal injuries, the people that

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Speaker 2: end up in wheelchairs, the people that need lifelong care.

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Speaker 2: So for the families of someone involved in a serious injury,

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Speaker 2: they have just as much of a life sentence really

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Speaker 2: left caring for that person for the rest of their life.

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Speaker 2: They might not be able to return to work. So

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Speaker 2: the ripple effect of a crash where it's a fatality,

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Speaker 2: people mourn the loss of that person and then they

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Speaker 2: those injuries around forever, and it impacts community, sporting teams, friends, family, employment,

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Speaker 2: the whole of community, especially on our regional roads where

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Speaker 2: we're still so highly overrepresented.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's a really tight knit community that that ripple

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Speaker 1: Why are regional roads and your own advertising in crash

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Speaker 1: messaging is that most of the fatalities are regional people,

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Speaker 1: and you'd think people living in the country in a

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Speaker 1: the highest speeds needed, the longer distances travel than people

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Speaker 2: It's complacency I think. I think if you ask regional

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Speaker 2: the people coming up on a weekend or a long weekend.

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Speaker 2: It's not it's the regional people dying ten minutes from

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Speaker 2: There's obviously higher speeds in the country, so anytime there

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Speaker 2: means their injuries are significantly higher. There's also a response

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Speaker 2: time for emergency services at those crashes. In metro areas,

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Speaker 2: people get to see it a lot quicker. In a

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Speaker 2: regional area. If you crash, you could be waiting thirty

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Speaker 2: or if no one even knows that you have the crash,

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Speaker 2: so there are longer delays in treatment, which also can

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, what other sessions does your safety section

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Speaker 1: run to help people learn to be better road users?

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Speaker 1: And just on that, I drove down Military Road? Is it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Military Road down at West Beach the other day between

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Speaker 1: the car parks and the big golf center and the

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Speaker 1: climbing thing. New road safety school is out there from

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Speaker 1: the police Barracks of course, has to go because of

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Speaker 1: the new bill that Women's and children. So that's your

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is our new home. So we'll be there

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Speaker 2: opening shortly. But from there and from all across the state,

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Speaker 2: we run a range of road safety sessions, everything from

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Speaker 2: preschoolers through to older road uses. We have about twenty

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Speaker 2: sessions that we deliver. We like to see ourselves as

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Speaker 2: a lifelong learning experience, so we like to touch them

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Speaker 2: at the pre school level, hit them again at primary school,

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Speaker 2: hopefully get them at secondary. And then we also get

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Speaker 2: businesses and other community groups that get us in because

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Speaker 2: they've got fleet drivers and they want to make sure

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Speaker 2: that they're doing the right thing. And then we've got

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Speaker 2: our older road uses as well, so we can deliver

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Speaker 2: those sessions. They are free. People can just jump on

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Speaker 2: our website and make a booking, but they can either

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Speaker 2: be delivered at the road Safety Center or we do

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Speaker 2: travel across the state. So currently this week I've got

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Speaker 2: two members in Port Lincoln Dumbee Bay area and they're

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Speaker 2: out delivering road safety sessions in that area for the

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Speaker 2: next good say, yeah, it's a great service indeed.

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Speaker 1: So businesses is interesting, so as somebody with a Corey

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Speaker 2: I guess they've got obligations to make sure that their

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Speaker 2: employers are safe within the workspace. So again we can

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Speaker 2: come in and provide that drive education. A lot of people,

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Speaker 2: unless they're hitting up one of these sessions, literally go

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Speaker 2: for their license when they're sixteen, and unless they're really

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Speaker 2: up with reading changes to legislation, or they've just had

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Speaker 2: a child that's gone through getting their license, they don't

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Speaker 2: necessarily read what's happened in the space. So it is

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Speaker 2: a really good refresher. We recommend anybody jump on the

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Speaker 2: website and have a look to the quizzes, have a

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Speaker 2: look for anyone who wants to get us in. We're

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Speaker 2: more than happy to come and talk about road safety.

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Speaker 1: Don't know a single person who subscribes to the government cansette.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not going to come in on that.

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Speaker 1: That's right. One message that you'd like the kids to

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Speaker 1: leave with today, what will it be?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So our main session today focus is on distraction.

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Speaker 2: We have young people in our simulator, so they will

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Speaker 2: then everybody can see on the big screen how quickly

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Speaker 2: We then overlay that with a real crush scenario where

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Speaker 2: someone was snapchatting at the time on a regional road,

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Speaker 2: and we can actually show when there's feed accelerated when

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Speaker 2: it's horrific to actually watch because you can just see

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Speaker 2: when they open the app when they were videoing, so

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Speaker 2: they're actually videoing themselves whilst driving. Their speed increases, their

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Speaker 2: ability to stay on the road does not, and then

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Speaker 2: the speed drops quite quickly, and then there's nothing, and

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Speaker 2: then there's a whole heap of miss messages on the

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Speaker 2: So I guess it goes from seeing, you know, a

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Speaker 2: student in the audience participating in a distraction exercise where

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Speaker 2: people go, I look at that, that's a little bit

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Speaker 2: funny because he's crashed the car, actually saying what that

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Speaker 2: looks like in real life, and that person died as

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Speaker 2: a result. So for us, the distraction message of the

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Speaker 2: young people is still really huge, but we obviously focus

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Speaker 2: on the fatal five, so we talk about drinking, drug driving, speeding,

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Speaker 2: seat belts, distraction and dangerous road users as well. So

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Speaker 2: any message that we can get in on that space

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Speaker 2: about saying safe is what we're here to do today.

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Speaker 1: Dude. That's a hard hitting message. I mean seeing it

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Speaker 1: is a real life thing like that. Unfailed, unbelievable. Seeing

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Speaker 1: your Sergeant Susan O'Connor from the Road Safety Section say pal,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I hope it goes well here. Thank you at the

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Speaker 1: RAA Street Smart High program