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

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Speaker 2: Can I talk about it? I mean, there's a moment

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Speaker 2: there where you when you hit fourteen fifteen, when you

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Speaker 2: can start working part time there and your first thought is,

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Speaker 2: I'd love to go to one of the takeaway joints

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Speaker 2: and work there. And I think, as a young person,

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Speaker 2: you go, well, you know what, you get half priced

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Speaker 2: off your KFC or whatever. This is an amazing story.

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Speaker 2: Well it's also a sad story. But ever listened to this.

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Speaker 1: For nearly five decades, Pauling Richard's has served chicken along

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Speaker 1: with her warm welcome at KFC Restaurants in Somerset. Now

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Speaker 1: she's bagged the world recorders the company's longest worker.

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Speaker 2: She's worked there, She's worked there over fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a photo she actually looks a bit like

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Speaker 3: the colonel.

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Speaker 2: Look at that, and I don't know if she's happy though.

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Speaker 2: I ever listened to the interview here, paul In.

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Speaker 1: Some people might say, at the age of seventy four,

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Speaker 1: it's time to hang up your hat.

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Speaker 2: D you say that?

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Speaker 1: I like your here.

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Speaker 3: The girls and then the boys here, they don't never

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Speaker 3: look up and say.

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Speaker 1: About my age. Yeah, you know, they're.

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Speaker 2: Quite good for me.

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Speaker 1: Actually, is it nice working with c Yeah? Are you

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Speaker 1: what they do? I'm here about while they're at college.

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Speaker 2: And uni keeping? You know, do you want to be

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Speaker 2: making chicken at seventy four? Listening to the teenagers? This

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Speaker 2: is how far it goes back? Have listened to Pauline

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Speaker 2: unbelievable Like generation a generation of KFC workers.

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Speaker 1: Pauline's daughter and grandson have also worked for the film.

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Speaker 1: Over the years. KFC estimate she served more than six

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Speaker 1: million chicken drumsticks.

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Speaker 3: Six chicken drumsticks. Well, do you know what, at any

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Speaker 3: stage during your fifty year career, when you know how

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Speaker 3: to run a KF store so well, did you think

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Speaker 3: about launching your own chicken shop?

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, that that to think. But do you

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Speaker 2: know what? She just loves. The unfortunate thing about this story, Whip,

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Speaker 2: is that Pauline's just passed away a couple of days ago.

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Speaker 2: She wanted to keep working until she wanted to. She said,

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to retire at all. I love KFC

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to keep working there. Worked there for

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Speaker 2: over fifty years, and she took the eleven herbs and

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Speaker 2: spices with her to the grave an amazing story.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to make light of anyone's passing, but

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Speaker 3: I can only assume the coffin some sort of family

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Speaker 3: box what deep Fried looked like one of the boxes

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Speaker 3: you get where they fold the tabs and the lid

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Speaker 3: in and just said breasts.

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Speaker 2: You could say that she finally kicked the bucket.

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Speaker 3: Well she did, didn't she and it landed on her

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Speaker 3: head and she wore to the crowd realized we were

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Speaker 3: on hang on well, I.

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Speaker 2: Had no idea of the news until it popped up

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Speaker 2: on my two piece.

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Speaker 1: Rest of the case.

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Speaker 2: Just one more. Apparently she wasn't doing well and she

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Speaker 2: was heard saying to the paramedic, shut up and take

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Speaker 2: my blood pressure.

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