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Speaker 1: Fits in with her nover. Together with Sea, we can diget.

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Speaker 2: I've always loved talking to you guys.

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Speaker 1: I will give you one hundred grand that you can give.

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Speaker 3: Out to people who need up most.

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Speaker 1: Bitsy and whippers. One hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: We've got your bag.

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Speaker 1: This is amazing And we've invited everybody that has a

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Speaker 1: with Sea, I might be able to help out and

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Speaker 2: There's a guy I know. There's a guy who turns

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty will get you very, very emotional. He has

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Speaker 2: see if we can get through to it. Hi, Lauren, Hi, guys,

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Speaker 2: is that Steve? Hello?

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Speaker 1: We boys?

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Speaker 2: Hi Steve. Steve. Hey, Steve. I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: know us. It's Fitzy and we ever here from Nova.

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Speaker 2: How are you legend?

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Speaker 3: I know you are pretty well.

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Speaker 1: We've heard a little bit about your story, and twenty

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Speaker 2: So she got breast cancer back in two thousand and eight.

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Speaker 2: You fixed it, it went away then, but then it

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Speaker 2: Yes, Unfortunately it went into the liver. Can you tell

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Speaker 3: Well, I guess Maggie got back. We're over in Italy

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Speaker 3: Look, it's just it's just an insidious disease. Just don't

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Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what it was like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was on Mother's Day this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, late late Mother's Day, late Mother's Day.

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Speaker 4: We all had a really nice Mother's Day with Mum.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, What do you do then, Steve? What's going through

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Speaker 3: Well, fellas the main my main concern was our two

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Speaker 1: And Steve, thanks this bloody COVID thing. Well again, your work,

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Speaker 1: there was an illness that hit us ten years ago,

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Speaker 3: with Meggie's funeral, you could only get twenty people to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels unfair mate, you We want to say you.

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Speaker 2: First of all, you've got a beautiful daughter sitting next

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Speaker 2: to talk about these feelings. Steve. You've done that today.

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Speaker 2: It's a special day, your sixtieth birthday. We've got an

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Speaker 2: we just want to say mate, we want to we

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Speaker 2: We're going to give you ten thousand dollars just for

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Speaker 3: Boys, that's very nice. Look, you don't have to.

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Speaker 1: Do that, really, Steve. It's one of those things. We

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you boys. That's very much appreciated by myself,

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Speaker 2: Steve, it doesn't stop there because we know Meggie had

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Speaker 2: We're going to we're going to pay off the rest

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Speaker 2: of the car for you, give you another ten thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: But Steve, boys, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: We heard you mightn't be one that would be happy

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Speaker 2: The big one that we wanted to talk to you about. Mate.

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Speaker 2: I think this is the most important one for you. Yes,

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Speaker 2: talking about Tumit before. Where your loved one is and

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Speaker 2: you sit next to her every day, and you want

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Speaker 2: a bucket.

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Speaker 1: Seat, bench seats.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get your bench seat, mate, so you

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Speaker 3: That that really is appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's funny fits in whether it's a it's a beautiful

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I noticed, if I've got a minute just to

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Speaker 2: As he deserves.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: That bench seat will be dedicated to your beautiful wife, mate,

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Speaker 2: Tument and they can sit down next to their loved ones.

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Speaker 2: I know how much it means to you. It's been

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Speaker 2: a horrible, horrible year, Steve. I don't know how you

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Speaker 2: I'm Steve.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you boys, and thank you see for all

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Speaker 3: you've done for our family. It's it's it's you don't

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Speaker 3: have to do it. But really it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable, lucky that we can. Happy birthday mate.

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Speaker 2: Go tip in a few today. Steve i'll have one.

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Speaker 3: I'll have a few quiet months for you tonight, boys.

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Speaker 2: I love you, guys. Thank you again, Thanks Lauren, thank you.

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Speaker 1: If it's in with ver,