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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: I read a great local story. Actually have a man

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Speaker 2: who passed away by the name of Lofty. Everyone knew

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Speaker 2: Lofty at Bondai Iceberg's. Yeah, he passed away on the

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Speaker 2: fifteenth of October. His real name was Ronald Petree, but

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Speaker 2: it says here, don't you dare him call?

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Speaker 3: Don't you dare call him by that name?

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Speaker 2: He was always known as Lofty and the Bondai Iceberg's

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Speaker 2: weekly racers. He was the man that was in charge

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Speaker 2: and he ruled it with an iron fist. Right, you

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Speaker 2: had to report the Lofty. If you missed a race,

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Speaker 2: he had to report the Lofty. If you didn't, you'd

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Speaker 2: had to report the Lofty. And if if you had

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Speaker 2: an excuse that wasn't very good, he would give you

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Speaker 2: the benefit of his wisdom and tell you. He was

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Speaker 2: the judge, jury and executioner. They used to say, go Lofty.

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Speaker 2: But he also had old school values. If a lady

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Speaker 2: into the room, Kate, he would he would look after them.

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Speaker 2: And everyone loved Lofty. He had one eye as well, Kate,

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Speaker 2: so you can imagine the jokes that Lofty would have

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Speaker 2: done with his one eye.

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Speaker 3: Over the year, you'll swim and circles good gear. It's

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Speaker 3: this is the one that I want to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Though there was no there was no Lofty moment more

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Speaker 2: iconic than a fateful week. In nineteen seventy two, Lofty

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Speaker 2: had just won the handicap race at the Bondei Icebergs

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Speaker 2: Weekly Races.

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Speaker 3: The prize was a week of free beer. Never won.

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Speaker 2: To shy from a challenge, Lofty took the entire week

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Speaker 2: off work to smash down at least forty beers a day.

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Speaker 2: By the end of the week, he had consumed two

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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety seven beers.

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Speaker 3: Lofty, don't look.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to glamorize drinking here, but that.

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Speaker 2: Is as mean you've had a week off work. I

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Speaker 2: think you might need another week off work just to

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Speaker 2: get over your week off work.

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Speaker 3: Even with one eyes really focused on it.

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Speaker 2: I'm fascinated by these supplies of free food or drink

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Speaker 2: that you win and people win if you've capped.

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Speaker 4: I love those stories because they say, where you're going

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Speaker 4: to get a lifetime supply of ice cream if you

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Speaker 4: eat half an ice cream every year?

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Speaker 2: How you quoted out of the average person minus the

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Speaker 2: abuse that someone's going to take of the privilege thirteen

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, if you have, and what were the rules

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Speaker 2: and what were the conditions? Samantha's giving us a call

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Speaker 2: from heath Kit. What did you get a lifetime supply

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Speaker 2: of Sam.

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Speaker 5: As far as a year supply of Toba and chocolate?

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Speaker 3: How did you get it? Sam?

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Speaker 5: It was I remember years ago there was a Coca

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Speaker 5: Cola auction thing and you could you think auction for

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Speaker 5: certain things had the wrinkles, and then one of them

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Speaker 5: I had some tokens left over the wrinkles left, and

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Speaker 5: I thought, I'm going to get a use for a

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Speaker 5: year supply of chocolates, so I picked that.

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Speaker 3: So how many did you get? Like, what was the quota?

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Speaker 5: I think it was over just over four hundred bars.

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Speaker 4: Of chocolate that's not a day one to day.

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Speaker 3: Did you get them?

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Speaker 2: Did you get them all Sam and distribute them to friends?

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Speaker 2: Or you just went, now, I can't be stuffed anymore

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Speaker 2: with tablar?

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, I've got them all one and then sorry,

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Speaker 5: turn that off?

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Speaker 3: You normally, but at the base of it you switched off.

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Speaker 6: And then.

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Speaker 5: You know, I gave it away to friends and family

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Speaker 5: and then and then in the end, I was working

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Speaker 5: at a restaurant because I was like a sixteen year

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Speaker 5: old kid working at a restaurant, and then again and

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Speaker 5: up giving them to the patrons that were working at

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Speaker 5: the restaurant because that was the stick of tola.

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Speaker 3: You just get sick of that.

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Speaker 4: I have you seen the ones that are a meat

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Speaker 4: long at the moment? Hello Christmas goodness A mad for it?

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Speaker 2: They take you three years to wait, Pola and Peter,

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Speaker 2: why did you win a lifetime supply of Pola?

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Speaker 7: Well, I came up with a great idea for a

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Speaker 7: Ladys the Tree product and took it to the company

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Speaker 7: and they actually gave me a lifetime supply of tampons.

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Speaker 7: And that was when I was twenty and I'm now

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Speaker 7: forty and I'm still using them.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, elazy which brand?

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Speaker 7: Leverra flir me twenty four boxes of boxes of boxes,

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Speaker 7: like you know.

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Speaker 3: How, lots of box.

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Speaker 7: So my friends loved me.

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Speaker 2: We're about to change your order over the years to

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Speaker 2: do you know what that is? You saved a lot

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Speaker 2: of money there and you're handing it out to mates.

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Speaker 3: Paul is very popular.

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Speaker 7: Paul.

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Speaker 3: Can I ask what was your invention?

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Speaker 7: Well it was. I know it's going to be terrible,

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Speaker 7: but disposing of these things are not very fun. So

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Speaker 7: I came up with a little satchel bag that you

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Speaker 7: could just slip it in and tie it up instead

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Speaker 7: of having to wrap it in toilet paper. And wow,

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Speaker 7: it was a great idea. And they never took it up.

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Speaker 7: I used, no, they didn't. It was very sad. It

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Speaker 7: was a great you know, no one likes to there's

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Speaker 7: not a bin. It's gross, great idea for women, and

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Speaker 7: it was sad that they never took to use it.

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Speaker 7: And I think, wow, I think it stuck up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks s Pauler. Maria's in mascot. What did you win?

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Speaker 7: Hello?

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Speaker 3: Hello Maria.

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Speaker 6: I so my husband went into the local arisl and

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Speaker 6: won the jackpot on the posty and he was given

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Speaker 6: a free meal every day three.

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Speaker 1: Year to get it.

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Speaker 3: How long did it last? But how long did he

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Speaker 3: go in.

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Speaker 6: For it's it's for a year, finishes in December, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: and they said they'll renew it for another year.

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Speaker 3: How often do you use it, Maria?

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Speaker 6: He will go in almost every day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a snitty.

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Speaker 6: Or a pizza. Maria.

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Speaker 4: Are you worried he's putting a lot of money into

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Speaker 4: those bogies, so they're not really losing our Okay.

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Speaker 6: Well, actually he only put one hundred bucks in four

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Speaker 6: K and a free wheel every day, but he has

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Speaker 6: put on the KD.

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Speaker 3: Twenty jars with it.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Brookington, Gab. But you think you got

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Speaker 2: ripped by a year supply, what was.

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Speaker 1: It, brook I was absolutely ripped off. I want to

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Speaker 1: use the fly ole tintents. And it was only forty

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Speaker 1: eight packets, like a week's worth in.

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Speaker 3: Our eight packets. That's not a it's not that's not

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Speaker 3: a packet a week.

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Speaker 1: Not a pack of a week.

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 1: And when you had seven people living in the house

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Speaker 1: at the time.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, So did they send it out all

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Speaker 2: at once?

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Speaker 3: Could you get one a week?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, you just get a carton of timtamps and there's

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Speaker 1: forty eight pack.

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Speaker 3: Of cut right, Okay, tight one, Brookie. At least it

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Speaker 3: was the wind. You got to take it. You got

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Speaker 3: to take the winds.

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