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Speaker 1: This is the City with Kate podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey guys, got to be an entry for the worst

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Speaker 2: human that's ever lived.

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Speaker 3: One of those entries about yourself and it's.

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Speaker 2: Certainly not me. I haven't feel performed.

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Speaker 3: It's actually love. We love you, mate, you have your pro.

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Speaker 2: There's some ups and downs at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: I'm here and anyway, this girl, this woman, she's married

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Speaker 2: to the man and they don't have a lot of money,

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Speaker 2: but she's so focused on her daughter's education. She has

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Speaker 2: said to him, why don't you sell one of your kidneys?

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Speaker 2: You know, we don't have a lot. Our life is

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Speaker 2: nearly over, but we have a daughter who could excel

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Speaker 2: and start a new life when if we had the

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Speaker 2: money for her to be educated.

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Speaker 3: Well, this is a huge industry, isn't it. I first

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Speaker 3: heard about this on squid Games.

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Speaker 1: Must be real. I thought it was always an urban

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Speaker 1: myth sort of.

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Speaker 2: The body organ trade is roaring, Who on earth would

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Speaker 2: do that?

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Speaker 1: Kidney?

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Speaker 3: Can you give us their heads up? If you donate

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Speaker 3: a kidney? What what that? What happens to your body?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 3: Deficient?

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Speaker 1: In? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Are you like it? Does it? Does it affective? When

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Speaker 3: you consume alcohol and stuff like that isn't that a situation.

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Speaker 2: It's like a filter for the body. Tommy is our

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Speaker 2: resident nurse. Tommy, what happens with your kidneys? You've got

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Speaker 2: two of them?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can pepe.

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Speaker 4: Most people can live a full healthy life with one kidney,

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Speaker 4: which is which is amazing. But you might have you

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Speaker 4: might get some high blood pressure and reduce kidney function

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Speaker 4: because it's all, of.

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Speaker 3: Course, all going on to the one you can get.

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Speaker 2: Can't you get a piece of kidney put in these days?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do that for you after nine.

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Speaker 1: Fine, he's already got to it. Though. Good for spare parts,

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Speaker 1: pig valves, everything. I'm getting one of those little curly

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Speaker 1: tails added to the back of my spine.

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Speaker 3: It looks so cute on you, cute.

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Speaker 1: Little holes cut out of all my pants.

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Speaker 3: To watch that, to carry you back on it. How

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Speaker 3: much do you get for a kidney these days?

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Speaker 2: He's twenty thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars sort of the

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Speaker 2: kidney right. So for a family that has nothing and

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Speaker 2: wanting the daughter to excel in life and have a

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Speaker 2: proper education, he said, do you know what I'm going

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Speaker 2: to do it. I'm going to sell my kidney for

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Speaker 2: the twenty thousand dollars. Right, So you're thinking, where's the

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Speaker 2: terrible part of this story. I understand that these guys

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Speaker 2: are doing it tough. The saddest part is the money

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Speaker 2: came through. The wife, on seeing the money come through,

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Speaker 2: took the twenty thousand dollars and ran off with her

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Speaker 2: boyfriend that she'd had on the side for the past

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Speaker 2: two years to start another life.

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Speaker 3: So he lost a kidney and the love.

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Speaker 2: Of his life, and the daughter goes on to achieve nothing.

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Speaker 2: Now is that the worst human on the planet?

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Speaker 1: That is diabolical? That poor man, you know what he was?

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Speaker 2: Then he passed out because of the operation, was eaten

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Speaker 2: by a pig.

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Speaker 3: Look ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: And I was going to invite him to Backyard Crickets.

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Speaker 3: And sits in with Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm a very unusual person. We know, very unusual.

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Speaker 2: Which part do you think is weirdest?

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Speaker 1: What do you think is the weirdest?

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Speaker 2: Knowing me as your session with children's food?

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Speaker 3: Mmm, Jesus, three bottles in your backyard? I found and

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Speaker 3: there for a.

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Speaker 2: Tea the other day.

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Speaker 1: I did not authorize that drone footage and Big Brother

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Speaker 1: housemates igor he buried himself Caine with a k all dead.

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Speaker 1: What I want to tell you is something that happened

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Speaker 1: yesterday when I came up to play with you guys

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Speaker 1: from Melbourne to Sydney. I've so enjoyed it. By the way,

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Speaker 1: had I loved it? I you know, I'm not a

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Speaker 1: high powered career woman, so I don't travel for work,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I had to buy some

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Speaker 1: carry on luggage to go on the plane. Ten year old. Yes,

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Speaker 1: anyway I arrived. And because I'm not really o'fai with everything.

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Speaker 1: One of the unusual things about me is that I

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Speaker 1: don't do well in rooms with windows that don't open,

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Speaker 1: and so for hotels, on the rare occasions i stay

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Speaker 1: in them, I have to ask does the window open?

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Speaker 1: Because otherwise I feel like I'm in a cell. Right.

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Speaker 1: So when the good people at Nova said, so you're

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Speaker 1: going up to singing and play with the boys, where

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Speaker 1: would you like to say? I said, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't really mind, as long as there's a bed and

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Speaker 1: the windows open. Sure, And then they looked at me, Okay.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, so formula ones out of the question, yes,

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Speaker 2: and let's put her only on level one or two.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I stuck my nose in where it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be because I don't I don't book hotels and I

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Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing. But I think I know

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing. So I was booked into a hotel

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Speaker 1: and I arrived on Sunday night and lobby great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: We checked in, got my little swiping cart, and I

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Speaker 1: went into the room and I thought. My initial reaction was,

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Speaker 1: am I on the run from the police? Is this is?

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Speaker 1: Is this where I'm staying to avoid detection from the authority.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't escape room, was it. It was an actual hotel.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I am not fancy, but it was depressing. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's the lighting. The lighting was fluid. The

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Speaker 1: lighting was fluo, and it was a giant rectangle with

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Speaker 1: no windows anywhere. There was a door at the end

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Speaker 1: with a view of you know, Vivian's living room across

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Speaker 1: the road. And then I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I feel very sad in here, feel sad. And then

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Speaker 1: I went to the toilet, Oh my god, are we

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Speaker 1: And there was a big, very clinical room. It reminded

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Speaker 1: me of where I got ready for my colonoscopy, and

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Speaker 1: it had a top loader washing machine and a dryer

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Speaker 1: and a huge tub. And then I looked at the bin,

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Speaker 1: at the rubbish bin, and it had a big push

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Speaker 1: sign on the top of it. I had a push

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Speaker 1: on it, and I thought, I can't stay here. I

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Speaker 1: can't stay here. So I made other arrangements. I've never

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Speaker 1: done that before.

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Speaker 2: You it down to reception.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So here's the thing this is. This was my

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Speaker 1: initial reaction is I'm just going to leave my key

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Speaker 1: card on the table and go. And then by the

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Speaker 1: time I'm in the uba, they'll realize because I only

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Speaker 1: just checked in, remember saying the same crew was there

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Speaker 1: that checked me in. And then I thought, no, your

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Speaker 1: New Year's resolution, your intention is to say what you mean,

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Speaker 1: say it, don't be don't your light under it. So

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Speaker 1: I thought, this is a good opportunity. I've done nothing

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Speaker 1: wrong and I'm going to communicate that I am going right.

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Speaker 3: I find this hard to do, very hard hard.

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Speaker 1: It's very hard, and I didn't rehearse it. See, and

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Speaker 1: I should whip whippers.

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Speaker 3: The opposite. He's gone into a hotel room, clogged the

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Speaker 3: toilet and then gone back down and said he wanted

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Speaker 3: a change room. I'm not joking.

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Speaker 2: Well, the toilet flush didn't have push on it.

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Speaker 3: I did not make in Hollywood. I'm not joking. What

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Speaker 3: did you, Tommy, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: To the next room that he moved in absolute.

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Speaker 2: I moved rooms because of the noise at a pool party.

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Speaker 1: That's why I moved room. I didn't plog the toilet. No,

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Speaker 1: it sounded like you left because of the Pooh party

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Speaker 1: and for one So this is what I said. I

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Speaker 1: got down in the lift and I had my little rolling,

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Speaker 1: new new luggage behind me, and I looked at the

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Speaker 1: girl at reception and I thought, oh god, I haven't

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Speaker 1: I haven't planned what I'm going to say. So I

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Speaker 1: put the key down on the top of the counter

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Speaker 1: and I said to her, I have to go.

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Speaker 3: Wow, and did you a moment important?

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Speaker 1: And then he said, she said okay, and I went

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Speaker 1: and then I pushed the cart a little bit closer

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Speaker 1: and I said, this place is.

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Speaker 3: Not for me, and she's pressing the emergency button underneath

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Speaker 3: the desk, going oh my gosh, this woman is suck.

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Speaker 2: And does she say what place is for you?

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Speaker 1: No, she said okay, she probably understood. And then I

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Speaker 1: walked out and I was fifty percent proud of myself

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Speaker 1: for saying something in the fifty percent, horrified with how

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Speaker 1: weird I am and waiting for my uber. Guess what

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Speaker 1: the girl behind the candle did what She came out

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Speaker 1: and spoke to me when I was on the street

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Speaker 1: and said, whoa. She said, would you like to see

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Speaker 1: another room? We can upgrade you up. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I said, no, no, I have to go. I have

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Speaker 1: to go, and and she said, please, we can. We

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Speaker 1: can send you further up the thing up, further up

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Speaker 1: the hotel. I said in the window, I've already booked

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Speaker 1: another hotel room, I've already found I've already found myself

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Speaker 1: something else. Power move And I said no, no, please,

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Speaker 1: And then I just could not wait for the uber

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Speaker 1: to come.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So the moral of the story is just stay cowardly.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to tell people. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: tell people. Storm out all right, don't don't look someone

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Speaker 1: in the eye who's quite normal, and go I have

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Speaker 1: to go. I can't be here.

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Speaker 2: And if you're really angry, block the toilet. Yeah sits

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Speaker 2: in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast A

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Speaker 2: great shows like this.

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Speaker 1: Download the Nova player fire the app store, or Google

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Speaker 1: playing the player,