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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about this amazing footage. It came out yesterday.

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Speaker 2: This young boy from Melbourne fits Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I got really emotional watching this. Archie Wilson. Archie Wilson

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Speaker 3: is his name. And for anyone that's out there, look,

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Speaker 3: the NFL is probably the biggest sport in the world.

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Speaker 1: It's massive, the amount of money that's behind it.

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Speaker 3: And you know what, we're very lucky that AFL has

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Speaker 3: been producing some unbelievable punters that have gone on to

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Speaker 3: have amazing careers. Ben Graham was one of them back

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Speaker 3: in the day. I think he was the first to

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Speaker 3: do it. But if you can work on your kicking

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Speaker 3: from a young age and get over there, oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: NFL clubs are picking up Australian young Australian men and

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Speaker 3: they're getting paid a lot of money. This guy is

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Speaker 3: eighteen years of age. His name's Archie Wilson. He's over

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Speaker 3: there doing very very well and he is going to

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Speaker 3: be trying out for Nebraska. So he's over there yesterday

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Speaker 3: and he was asked in a press conference how he's

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Speaker 3: feeling and what's it like being away from mom and

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Speaker 3: dad back home?

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Speaker 1: So I'm eighteen right now. So what's it like being

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Speaker 1: the first time you're away from them? Yeah, that part's hard.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sorry. Yeah, I love it a lot. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I got two little brothers and a mum and dady. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's the tough part about being here. I love them

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Speaker 4: a lot and I missed them. But it's I mean,

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Speaker 4: they know this is what's best for me, and it's

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Speaker 4: let's go. I can still talk to them plenty of

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Speaker 4: the phone, and they're coming here to see the first

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Speaker 4: first few games, so I'm looking forward to that.

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Speaker 3: What a huge moment for an eighteen year old kid.

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Speaker 3: And we've tracked down his mum and dad, Lee and

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Speaker 3: Jess from Frankston down in Melbourne now and they join us.

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Speaker 2: Lee and Jess, welcome play guys.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I've got.

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Speaker 5: To be the sny true.

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Speaker 2: I'm just kind of feeling that Artie might have put

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Speaker 2: this on because the entire world has fallen in love

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Speaker 2: with him, and I know, I know that.

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Speaker 5: His social media has gone through the roof.

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Speaker 2: He does miss you, and it's true emotion, Is that, right,

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Speaker 2: Lee and Jess?

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Speaker 6: Yes, well I shouldn't say sadly, but yeah, that is

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Speaker 6: that is the truth. That's that's him being him.

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Speaker 5: What a beautiful moment.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you know him better than anybody else,

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Speaker 2: but what a what an opportunity. I suppose that's what

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Speaker 2: he's realizing in the heart of the moment. But he

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Speaker 2: has he spoken to you about feeling homesick.

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Speaker 6: So not to not to sort of kill the story

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Speaker 6: of homestick, I just I sort of mentioned that one

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Speaker 6: of the TV shais last night. It's I think homestick

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Speaker 6: is when you're sort of stuck in the place where

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Speaker 6: you really don't want to be and you're miserable, And

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Speaker 6: he's actually extremely happy. He's just he's just really missing

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Speaker 6: his family, if.

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Speaker 1: That makes sense.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think we talk every day and obviously

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Speaker 6: we're going to oversee him in probably ten or eleven days,

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Speaker 6: been probably two and a half months now and probably

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Speaker 6: just hit a peak just right and provided that moment.

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Speaker 3: Jess, can you tell us how long has he been

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Speaker 3: over there for? Because I mean, these kids now they're starting.

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Speaker 1: From an early age. You go over there, you go into.

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Speaker 3: The high school system, the college system, hoping to be

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Speaker 3: picked up by an NFL team, Like, is his schedule ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: The amount of training that he's doing.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, at the moment he's in full camp, so it's

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Speaker 7: pretty hectic for him. He's up at the training facility

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Speaker 7: by six point thirty in the morning and then he

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Speaker 7: gets back to his dorm about ten o'clock at night,

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Speaker 7: so it's pretty long days. And he's still studying doing

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Speaker 7: academics in that as well. So yeah, he's pretty it's

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Speaker 7: pretty crazy. It's pretty tiring for him, but he's he's

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Speaker 7: handling it quite well.

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Speaker 5: So and Jess, the aim is to be a kicker,

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Speaker 5: is that correct?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Puna, Pump Hunt, Sorry Pump.

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Speaker 3: So guys, you know when he's back playing AFL back

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Speaker 3: home in Frankston, he's like, I mean, he's obviously showing

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Speaker 3: a little bit of talent, but did you is he

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Speaker 3: just a stand out when it comes to punting Lee

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Speaker 3: Like he just he can kick the ball an absolute mile.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: He was a key back at Hayleibury with Lloydy and Penlebury,

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Speaker 6: the coaches there, and that was his there was his

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Speaker 6: sort of main thing off the back line was to

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Speaker 6: you know, to help the wingers with on the on

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Speaker 6: the run and he was kicking was probably his real

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Speaker 6: sort of strong point and across the other parts of football,

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Speaker 6: but that was his real probably stand out, and I

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Speaker 6: guess he sat down and thought about it and said, well,

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Speaker 6: how do I sort of utilize that tool? And he

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Speaker 6: looked up the punting thing went there. And then they

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Speaker 6: sort of pulled us aside after the first training and

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Speaker 6: said this and this, this kid's pretty special.

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Speaker 1: We need to get in the program and horse.

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Speaker 6: And we'll get him in this. We'll get him into

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Speaker 6: a big university. And obviously the parents are a little

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Speaker 6: bit unsure what you're what you're hearing because you don't

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Speaker 6: know how to compare it or you know. But then

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Speaker 6: everything that as a pro kick have said have come

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Speaker 6: have come true in you know, without without a wout,

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Speaker 6: skipping a beat. It's been impressive.

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Speaker 3: Have you guys been over there? Can you tell us

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Speaker 3: what the facilities are like? Like the amount of money

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Speaker 3: that goes into the NFL, it's has it blown you away?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Like what's surrounding.

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Speaker 7: Him, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 8: I don't think any of the a f L clubs

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Speaker 8: in Australia would have facilities like they do over there,

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Speaker 8: Like he's getting fed meals the training table or the

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Speaker 8: buffet is ridiculous.

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Speaker 7: The recovery rooms, Stauners bars.

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Speaker 6: Medicales in there, next level crazy, Who's who's the biggest

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Speaker 6: star that he's run into?

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Speaker 1: Guys that just blew him away?

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Speaker 3: Is there anyone that he's gone, oh my god, how

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Speaker 3: am I in the same room with this person?

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Speaker 7: There's been a few, but you don't even know who

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Speaker 6: He was, Oh, he won a guy that prints someone

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Speaker 6: I can't think of his name. He won a he

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Speaker 6: won a super Bowl and he came down to the

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Speaker 6: facility and he wanted to catch catch some of Archies

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Speaker 6: punts and put on his Instagram. And he's had spars

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Speaker 6: with an extended that the big spa they had with

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Speaker 6: an extra. Couple of NFL players have come down to

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Speaker 6: try at the facility, and so yeah, there's always there's

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Speaker 6: always someone big walking through the joint.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what's amazing too? When you see these

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Speaker 2: blokes and they got their shirt off. They're just massive guys.

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Speaker 2: So they're ripped and their fit as they come. How

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Speaker 2: tall is Archie?

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Speaker 6: He's six y two, right, it's about he was. He

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Speaker 6: turns fifteen pounds, it's about nine ninety eight kilos.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, it's you know, I'm so excited for Archie.

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Speaker 2: It's a long way from Frankston and this is it

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Speaker 2: he's on.

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Speaker 3: Can you can you give us a bit of an

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Speaker 3: idea if he gets a contract, Like, I mean, what

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Speaker 3: what do they get the punts first up? I mean,

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Speaker 3: what are we looking at around about Lee and Jest

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Speaker 3: the average.

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Speaker 6: Well, he's being a starter. It's all a bit like

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Speaker 6: to give you an idea. The guy that left his

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Speaker 6: UNI for Archie to come in to un and he

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Speaker 6: picked up about one hundred thousand US as a starting payment,

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Speaker 6: which is which is probably above the starting salary, but

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Speaker 6: of here, but he's sort of still organizing that, like

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Speaker 6: he's not really doing it getting any funny at the moment.

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Speaker 6: He's just obviously there to he's Kevin. He's paid for

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Speaker 6: and covered for him for the accommodation and all their

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Speaker 6: expenses and stuff. So he wants for nothing. But I

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Speaker 6: guess they'll work out that stuff as he goes.

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Speaker 2: Really personal question after the tears on camera yesterday, I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what. There's been a hell of a lot

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Speaker 2: of interest from the girls around the office.

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Speaker 5: Does he have a girlfriend?

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Speaker 6: I don't think it'll be too far away.

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Speaker 5: Make it plural.

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Speaker 6: Well, well, there's about thirty thousand unique students about to

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Speaker 6: come back into campus in about two weeks time.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Jess, you don't want his mates from Frankston

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Speaker 3: guard over there.

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Speaker 1: That could be a rabble as well, couldn't it.

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Speaker 7: Oh look, yeah, sure, I'll have a bit of fun,

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Speaker 7: but him do what they want to do.

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Speaker 5: Send everyone from Frankston now there's a party.

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Speaker 6: I'll be careful speaking for him, but he's pretty focused

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Speaker 6: on the task. He's got a hand for his first

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Speaker 6: few games and just just sort of cementing that that

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Speaker 6: position there, I think.

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Speaker 5: So I love what a great story. This is awesome.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is an amazing story.

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Speaker 3: Can you send all our best to Archie and we

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Speaker 3: appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: We know you've been busy this morning. Land Jess, thank

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Speaker 1: you right, thanks for your time.

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Speaker 5: Go take it easy.

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