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Speaker 1: You're listening to the FITZI and whipp A podcast.

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Speaker 2: It is good to be back for twenty twenty three Pumped.

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Speaker 2: I just want to talk about a little trip that

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Speaker 2: my wife and I did. It's the first time that

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Speaker 2: we went to Vietnam.

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Speaker 3: Did you love it? It was amazing.

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Speaker 2: It's such a beautiful country. So I'm just going to

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Speaker 2: give you just a couple of things that happen on our.

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Speaker 3: Trip, Sarah.

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Speaker 2: When we first got there, we flew to Bangkok first,

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Speaker 2: So we went to Indonesia first, and we went sorry

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Speaker 2: Thailand first. We went there first, and we were going

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Speaker 2: to do the Bangkok markets, Yeah you love, which is huge,

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Speaker 2: the big weekend market. So we're there for a couple

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Speaker 2: of days in Bangkok. And when you do these markets,

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Speaker 2: it takes They are so big that it takes you

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Speaker 2: two days to go through them. And there's massage parlors everywhere, right,

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Speaker 2: So you are so buggered from walking around all day

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Speaker 2: that this guy said, you want to come in and

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Speaker 2: wee can massage your feet. And you walk into this room, Sarah,

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Speaker 2: and there would be thirty of these comfy chairs. You

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Speaker 2: sit down and they massage your feet and your legs

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Speaker 2: from walking all day and I had this I had

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Speaker 2: this beautiful old lady and she would have been I

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Speaker 2: reckon sixty five years of age, and it was quite

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Speaker 2: hot in there, and you know what, there was a

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Speaker 2: moment where I'm thinking to myself, this lady is massaging

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Speaker 2: my feet and I felt sort of uncomfortable that she

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Speaker 2: just doing.

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Speaker 4: It, because your feet would have stunk and been sweaty,

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Speaker 4: and you've had a footy career.

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Speaker 3: Those things are like hoofs.

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Speaker 2: She was laughing with this friend that she had next

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Speaker 2: to her, and there was a boss lady there, and

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Speaker 2: I think that they were having a go at.

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Speaker 3: The boss lady. Right.

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Speaker 2: I didn't understand what they was saying, but you know what,

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Speaker 2: at the end of it's here, I felt, you know what,

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Speaker 2: I just really want to look after this lady for

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Speaker 2: what she's done. So what I did because I knew

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Speaker 2: that I didn't want to give the I was going

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Speaker 2: to give her a thousand bart which was about forty

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Speaker 2: fifty bucks, all right, and this was a tip for her,

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Speaker 2: and I didn't want it to go to the boss lady.

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Speaker 2: So I said to this lady just secretly, I just

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Speaker 2: said to her, here's a thousand bar, that's for you,

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Speaker 2: And there's this pause. MDG, you will love this. There

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Speaker 2: was this pause and she looks up at me. She

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Speaker 4: I was going to say in a message parlor giving

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Speaker 3: I was like, no, no, it's for you. It's not

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Speaker 3: for boss lady, it's for you. Why did you say no?

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Speaker 4: What she'd already worked on his bunyons the day was

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Speaker 4: She's gone, well, it can't get any worse than this.

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Speaker 5: For that to be a highlight, for that to be

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Speaker 3: So then okay, so we leave.

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Speaker 4: We've had a great time in Bangkrukt.

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Speaker 3: So we leave, and then we go to the airport

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Speaker 3: to go to Hanoi.

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Speaker 2: We're on our way to Vietnam, which is only an

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Speaker 2: our eur and a half flight. It's not that much,

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Speaker 2: but because it's into another country, you've got to go

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Speaker 3: And had no idea and.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen twenty four ten I'd love to hear from people,

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Speaker 2: but Vietnam have a visa system exactly the same as

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Speaker 3: Yes, they do.

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Speaker 2: So we rock up and I'm just like, yeah, here's

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Speaker 2: our name. I just want to go in. And they

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Speaker 2: said where's your visa and I said, oh, no, don't

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Speaker 2: have one. And she said, well you're going to apply

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Speaker 2: how long does that take it? She said, well, it

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Speaker 2: could be two days, it could be two weeks. And

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Speaker 2: but there are certain Asian countries that do this.

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Speaker 3: Ye Bama, you need a visa.

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Speaker 5: I reckon you thought, you know America, it's a lot

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Speaker 5: But Vietnam, like that'd just be glad to have it,

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Speaker 5: exactly right.

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Speaker 6: Think.

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Speaker 2: So there was this moment where I was like I

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Speaker 2: was looking at Bijo, going, we're stuck here, we can't

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Speaker 2: get out. You actually go on to the website though,

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Speaker 2: and there's and this is where, this is where it's

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Speaker 2: quite smart. Where Okay, you can apply for your visa.

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Speaker 2: It might take up to two weeks to get back.

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Speaker 2: That's for free. Or if you want to get it

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Speaker 3: Amazing. So we just had to.

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Speaker 2: Wait at the airport for two hours, pay the extra money,

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Speaker 2: and then we got into Vietnam.

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Speaker 4: Do you know yesterday my husband shared a story where

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Speaker 4: he was backpacking many years ago and on a train

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Speaker 4: they were going into the Czech Republic and they hadn't

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Speaker 4: got visas, him and a mate and they're on this train.

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Speaker 4: The guy says, where are your visas? All of the

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Speaker 4: rest of the traveling party go here. He and one

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Speaker 4: of his mates go, oh, we didn't think we needed visas.

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Speaker 4: We're just passing through the country. They handbrake on the train,

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Speaker 4: holding guns, tapped the door and threw them off the

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Speaker 3: Are kidding me? That's it nothing?

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Speaker 4: But thankfully one of the guys then let down into

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Speaker 2: All good there it is cash is King L's giving

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Speaker 2: us a call from Bao main.

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Speaker 3: Where did you get stuck on holidays?

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Speaker 7: L Oh, my god, this.

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Speaker 1: Is going to be funding so boring now after your story.

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Speaker 1: It's exactly what happened to us. We got into hanoid

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Speaker 1: no visa and we were under house of in the motel.

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Speaker 1: We had guards with guns out the front. We could

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Speaker 1: not leave the motel until we think, I'm feeling like

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Speaker 1: it's such a boring story now after yours and exact you.

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Speaker 6: Know, there's guys with guns.

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Speaker 1: We had guys with If we wanted to go outside,

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Speaker 1: like there was a cafe sort of thing outside, they

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Speaker 1: had to stand with us. They walked us to the

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Speaker 1: or whatever, and they were guards with guns. We were

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Speaker 1: under house arrest for three and a half days. Three

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Speaker 1: and a half days and a half days. We couldn't

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Speaker 1: next door. But yeah, it was like we've got photographs

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Speaker 1: with them after the third day. They were our best us.

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Speaker 1: They had guns on us. We could not leave anywhere

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Speaker 1: until these bees came through. And yeah, you're right, it

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Speaker 1: costs like one hundred and fifty US dollars.

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Speaker 2: Nothing worse than going on holidays and getting stuck in

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Speaker 4: Same anywhere as a guy who used to be train

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Speaker 4: travel agent fits. Yeah, yeah, how to google a visa

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Speaker 4: for the country You're.

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Speaker 3: Going to Bride's business college six month course. I can't

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Speaker 2: Diane's given us a god from Saint Clair. Where did

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Speaker 2: you get stuck, Diane?

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Speaker 7: We actually got stuck in Tahiti. You think that's a

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Speaker 7: lovely place. Shut but in the resort's beautiful, But in

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Speaker 7: the actual airport not We've just got a beautiful holiday

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Speaker 7: to Hawaii. We have a lot of friends on my

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Speaker 7: ex husband. This visa through to New Zealand. We needed

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Speaker 7: a twelve dollars piece of paper. But we shouldn't have

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Speaker 7: been able to even get out of Australia to start with.

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Speaker 7: But because you had to get this thing to go

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Speaker 7: and the whole airport shuts down. So we were stuck

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Speaker 3: So you're looking out, you're looking out from the airport.

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Speaker 2: You can see the beautiful weather, the crystal clear water,

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Speaker 8: Can't get out, couldn't get out.

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Speaker 7: It was terrible, So that whole airport shuts down. It's

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Speaker 7: the fight outside for we were stuck there and had

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Speaker 7: to get back into the main So it's very, very gummy.

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Speaker 3: In the worst.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you budget for a holiday and you say,

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Speaker 2: this is how much we can spend. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: get a little bit more. We can get a better

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Speaker 2: but when something like this happens and then you have

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Speaker 4: You've skimped on the actual hotel for the holiday.

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Speaker 3: Cheryl and Cronulla, where did your husband get stuck Cheryl oh.

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Speaker 3: Tiawana? Was he by himself or you with him?

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Speaker 6: Cheryl himself with st Diego And so what do you

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Speaker 6: do today? Off, Juana need my passport? Just a driver's

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Speaker 6: license and down through TI singing around for a while.

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Speaker 8: A ho, I've had.

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Speaker 6: Enough goes to get out, lines up his driver's life.

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Speaker 6: What's that drivers? Where from Australia?

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Speaker 3: You need your pass How did he get out?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 6: He ended up. He went to another line right, I'll

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Speaker 6: try someone else there the visa office. Remember a lot

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Speaker 6: of dodging deep, he said. But he managed to get

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Speaker 6: a card off the driver, so he don't the hotel.

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Speaker 6: Here's my code to say he's the driver's name and number.

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Speaker 6: The passport sends you down. So he's waiting for a

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Speaker 6: few hours in a bar room killers and the driver

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Speaker 6: turns up passes passed through epense and then he walks out,

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Speaker 6: gets in the car and I druve him back.

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Speaker 4: To it feels like a boys trip that he didn't

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Speaker 4: tell you about that went horribly wrong. Just to be clear,

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Speaker 4: sitting in a bar with te quiller and then the

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Speaker 4: pastor you know what, share.

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Speaker 3: All that's not bad. I might use that on my wife.

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Speaker 3: I brought my driver, Yeah, bought my driver's licens. Is

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Speaker 3: not my passport? Love it. Let's go to Maddie in

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Speaker 3: Borgham Hills. Where did you get stuck? In the world.

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Speaker 8: Matte I was in Paris last week and me and

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Speaker 8: my wife were going to fly home to Sydney and

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Speaker 8: we got to the airport and the airline stuff wouldn't

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Speaker 8: let a sign because we're flying by Vietnam and we

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Speaker 8: didn't have a visa, and we thought, well, we're just

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Speaker 8: going through the transit zones, so we don't need one.

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Speaker 8: They said, no, you need to get one. So we

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Speaker 8: scrambled around, found the links that you guys are talking

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Speaker 8: about with the urgent visa. You dropped, you know, five

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Speaker 8: hundred bucks on it. And we said, send us on

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Speaker 8: got stuck in Paris for twenty four hours, scrambled to

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Speaker 8: to Vietnam. No one looked at the visas.

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Speaker 3: That's heartbreaking.

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Speaker 8: One looked at it and there was a death next

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Speaker 8: to your visas.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, someone got you bad.

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