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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whipper podcast.

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Speaker 2: We absolutely adore this lady. She's got a brand new

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Speaker 2: inspiring book out. It's called fifteen Seconds of Brave The

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Speaker 2: Wisdom of Survivors decided to do this during the pandemic.

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Speaker 2: It is the magnificent Melissa.

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Speaker 3: We love it when you come in. Firstly, had a

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Speaker 3: big night the other night radio awards.

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Speaker 2: Radios Night of Night hasn't been carried out now, which

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Speaker 2: was a bit interesting.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's just how I roll. My feet

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Speaker 4: were sore, I was done and dusted. No, it's so

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Speaker 4: much fun. And you know, the thing I really like

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Speaker 4: is when somebody wins, all their mates, all their colleagues,

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Speaker 4: everybody from the network gets up. And she is a

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Speaker 4: little bit different from Telly, so.

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Speaker 3: A little bit different. Did you go to an after party?

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Speaker 3: Did you make it to an Actually.

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Speaker 4: Didn't a lot about it, but yeah, it's wise.

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Speaker 2: Okay, can you well, can you frame us what's the

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Speaker 2: radio in n Stryt like compared to the television industry.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to go into this, do you?

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Speaker 4: I really regretting saying that?

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Speaker 1: Are so? Are we looser?

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Speaker 4: Or should I say yes?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the thing. What would you if you

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Speaker 3: could go to one awards out of the acress, the

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Speaker 3: radio awards or the logos all the logis switch one?

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Speaker 1: Are you're wondering?

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Speaker 4: I had a great time on Saturday night. It was

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Speaker 4: nice to see you both. Absolutely Now we always say

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Speaker 4: this splinters out of my bottom?

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Speaker 5: Mail?

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Speaker 1: Or did you win for Best Newcomer one year? Mail?

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Speaker 5: Did? No?

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Speaker 6: Is it you coming back in twenty thirteen?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 6: I know it's funny.

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Speaker 4: I've had I've won more awards for radio than television,

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Speaker 4: is it right?

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Speaker 1: And I've done radio for five minutes?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: That is awesome.

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Speaker 1: You are magni ver fun. How do you find the

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Speaker 1: time to write a book?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not very good at sitting still, which I

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Speaker 4: probably need to learn. I maybe think maybe meditation and

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Speaker 4: yoga is what I should be doing, But I just

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Speaker 4: like to do stuff, and so COVID hit. I was

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Speaker 4: out of full time work, I had time on my

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Speaker 4: hands and decided to write a book.

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Speaker 3: So when you say fifteen seconds of brave, is that

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Speaker 3: the moment or the length of time people go, I

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Speaker 3: need to act now or I'm in real trouble.

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Speaker 4: It's named after one particular person in the book, a

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Speaker 4: little boy Noah, who is so it's all different people

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Speaker 4: who've had different experiences, have been through things that have

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Speaker 4: been pretty tough. How they've got through it. One little boy, Noah,

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Speaker 4: it's told by his mum Cat, And when he was born,

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Speaker 4: he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and not told

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Speaker 4: how long he would have to live. They didn't know.

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Speaker 4: And so he's got to go to hospital and have

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Speaker 4: blood tests and needles and operations as you can imagine,

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Speaker 4: And every time he goes, he's nervous quite rightly, and

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Speaker 4: he says to his mum, Okay, I can be brave

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Speaker 4: for fifteen seconds. My mom says, well, what if it

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Speaker 4: takes longer and he goes, okay, I can probably find

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Speaker 4: another fifteen seconds.

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Speaker 1: But that's it. What a survice.

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Speaker 4: And I just thought, you know what if a little

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Speaker 4: twelve year old boy who's living on borrowed time can

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Speaker 4: find his brave to get through something, then nice lesson

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Speaker 4: from it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I love that.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell me, I mean, outside of the book

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Speaker 3: or possibly within the book, is there one interview that

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Speaker 3: you did, most likely in your TV career which has

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Speaker 3: never left you?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: So many and I actually fine that a lot of

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Speaker 4: those people never leave me. I had this habit of

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Speaker 4: keeping them because I feel I can't sit down in

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Speaker 4: front of somebody and ask them to talk about the

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Speaker 4: most traumatic thing they've ever been through and then you

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Speaker 4: button off and you walk out and thanks very much.

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Speaker 4: You know, I like to check that they're okay, particularly

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Speaker 4: in the aftermath of an interview, but also years later.

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Speaker 3: What about loose interviews celebrity interviews that have gone a

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Speaker 3: little bit eyewall, where you've thought, oh my god, what

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Speaker 3: am I going to do here?

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Speaker 7: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: There's been a few of those, or that you tend

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Speaker 4: to cut them short, or language comes out that you

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Speaker 4: know is not going to make it on.

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Speaker 1: Telling you what about the baby day, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: We had to smuggle him into the building and the

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Speaker 4: back of it.

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Speaker 1: You didn't know it was going to blow up, that beag,

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Speaker 1: not that.

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Speaker 4: Big, no, not to the point where girls were just

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Speaker 4: passing out against the window.

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Speaker 1: And the caramel really scary. I remember it.

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Speaker 4: We went to do it done at the Overseas passenger

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Speaker 4: terminal and then had to smuggle him into the building

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Speaker 4: in the boot of the car up through the you

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Speaker 4: know the yeah.

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Speaker 3: Shell when you started throwing your clothes at him. Is

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Speaker 3: that when Chattel seven steps with Hang on a minute,

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Speaker 3: we need to be professional.

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Speaker 6: His mom, he's still I did get more cred though

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Speaker 6: walking across the scare that afternoon when I picked up

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Speaker 6: my kids from school and the other one was one direction.

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Speaker 4: All the little sixth grade girls just wanted to touch

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Speaker 4: me because I'd met one direction about any cred with

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Speaker 4: my kids ever except for those two moments.

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Speaker 2: We need fifteen seconds of brave from you, mail because

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Speaker 2: you beget in the headline off.

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Speaker 7: She walked in this morning and she just looked at

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Speaker 7: me and she goes, why do you do this tip.

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Speaker 3: Of shame.

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Speaker 1: In my book that I was writing?

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Speaker 2: And fifteen seconds of shockers coming back next?

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Speaker 5: Well, Rida headliness a little bit funny, I think.

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Speaker 1: Oil fine again, Well, metaphor, I.

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Speaker 7: Just asked us, always call it down the middle. Don't

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Speaker 7: be extracted by your friendship.

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Speaker 4: With mel or her fierce right now this is so,

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Speaker 4: what's your strongest one?

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Speaker 2: Because you need to get off to a good start,

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Speaker 2: Maddie degree, is there a story that you want me

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Speaker 2: to focus on?

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Speaker 1: First? Which one? The first? Second or third? The second. Second. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're going to go second, just to give him a

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Speaker 1: bit of a chance. Maddie degree.

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Speaker 2: You can go first with the headline, but the topical

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Speaker 2: story is a woman who married a ghost says it

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Speaker 2: was hard to find a church that would host their

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Speaker 2: big day.

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Speaker 1: Woman who married a.

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Speaker 2: Ghost says it was hard to find a church that

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Speaker 2: would host their big day.

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Speaker 1: Best headline.

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Speaker 7: For the answer you seek, just call and ask bj

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Speaker 7: fits has been a ghost in his marriage for the

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Speaker 7: past decade.

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Speaker 4: Who were trying to get.

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Speaker 1: A rhyme in there? So that was your last It

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Speaker 1: was directed me and I like to think.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I get nervous.

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Speaker 1: It's tough in here. I'm on now.

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Speaker 4: Married at first fry. She is what your friends might say,

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Speaker 4: but don't complain if you get ghosted on the big day.

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Speaker 7: That's true.

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Speaker 3: Youtoos is better?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're going first on this one.

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Speaker 2: Next story, drivers warn that they could be fined six

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars for eating whilst driving.

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Speaker 1: Drivers worn six hundred bucks for eating whilst driving. Best headline.

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Speaker 4: It's coming up next on RBT. It's Michael Whipfley wasted

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Speaker 4: on a lambsub.

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Speaker 7: Larky good rynt love us.

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Speaker 1: Yes, lucky Wow, basically wasn't I didn't like it. I

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Speaker 1: didn't like it. I really liked it.

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Speaker 7: No fat gag about if I won't go down that funnel,

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Speaker 7: I'll just remind you of the five funds you got

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Speaker 7: in the Cross City.

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Speaker 6: Okay, detail, Definitely.

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Speaker 1: It's a draw.

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Speaker 6: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: This is the tiebreaker. Last story.

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Speaker 2: Matt de greet First, Miss Argentina and Miss Puerto Rico

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Speaker 2: revealed that they are now married. I didn't know this

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Speaker 2: still there, Miss Argentina, Miss Puerto Rico now married.

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Speaker 1: Best headline, Matt hot.

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Speaker 7: I've spent a lot of time studying if this story

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Speaker 7: is a sham, but not as much as Tom did

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Speaker 7: on their Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Tells you yeah, bringing home mail, let's.

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Speaker 4: Go two supermodels getting married? Shure sounds like fun. Does

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Speaker 4: this mean Whipper will be running off with his cleaner?

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Speaker 4: Miss bumbo?

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Speaker 2: R bum?

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Speaker 1: I just didn't know we were going to end up there,

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Speaker 1: always end.

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Speaker 3: God, what are we going to do here? Judge for

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Speaker 3: some advices, the judges, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, I love, but you don't deserve women to draw.

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Speaker 1: It's not a.

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Speaker 3: Loss if you can't win, saying bum bum, Well, I.

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Speaker 1: Don't know why well, that's how we know we're comfortable

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Speaker 1: with you in studio.

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Speaker 2: Fifteen seconds to Brave The Wisdom of Survivors Matt de Grootz,

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Speaker 2: chapter eight. You can go get it at all good bookstores. Now,

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Speaker 2: We love you, Mel, thanks for coming.

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Speaker 1: Love you guys. You're listening to the Fits and Whipper

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