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Speaker 1: This is the fitsy and with Kate Richie podcast Cost.

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Speaker 2: Of Living, It's horrible at the moment. Rents just through

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Speaker 2: the roof, groceries bring her down, government classic stuff. I

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Speaker 2: spoke to him, mate, Actually, kay, you've never heard my

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Speaker 2: segment thrifty fifty have you? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Well, of course when I was a big fan.

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Speaker 3: He's back in the dark.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I've had the pleasure of sitting here

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Speaker 4: in the studio.

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Speaker 3: And yes, please, he's demanded prey.

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Speaker 5: He's teaching you to say, stingy.

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Speaker 1: What do you think that?

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Speaker 4: I think it's brilliant and ahead of its time, because

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Speaker 4: I'm guessing you with thrifty thrifty fifzy for long, long

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Speaker 4: before the cost of.

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Speaker 2: Living crisis, being frugal most of my life. But no,

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Speaker 2: I spoke to him mate about this, and it blew

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Speaker 2: my mind. And while I was putting together that thrifty

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Speaker 2: fifty hope, now I've also got another sting because I

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Speaker 2: want to hear from people thirteen twenty four to ten.

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Speaker 3: And living on the cheap right, Okay, all right?

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Speaker 2: So I got a mate who is so sick of

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Speaker 2: his rent going up. He's bought a van and he's

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Speaker 2: done the van up. He's pimped up the van. He's

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Speaker 2: put a bed in the back. He's got a little

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Speaker 2: mini barbie and stuff like that. And I'm going, mate, okay,

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Speaker 2: let me sit down, because that's fair enough. You're living

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Speaker 2: in your van. That's fine, you're saving on rent. But

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Speaker 2: where do you have a shower? He goes Mate Plus

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Speaker 2: Fitness over two hundred gyms around Sydney fourteen dollars ninety

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Speaker 2: five a week. Now he goes in and does a workout.

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Speaker 2: But that's where he has a shower and he cleans

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Speaker 2: his teeth. Here's two showers a day. He goes into

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Speaker 2: Plus fitnesses all around Sydney and that's.

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Speaker 3: Where he showers.

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Speaker 2: That is seven hundred and eighty bucks a year, right,

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Speaker 2: and that's his shower, that's his water.

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Speaker 3: He plugs in there.

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Speaker 2: He goes to office works to download stuff on his

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Speaker 2: phone and his iPad.

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Speaker 3: Kate. He knows.

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Speaker 2: He knows heaps of places to plug in for free libraries,

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Speaker 2: Apple Store, but Plus Fitness is his big one.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 4: I think this is a mud body and is he

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Speaker 4: fit as well? Is like rig he's working on his rig.

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Speaker 1: He's just saving money.

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Speaker 3: Yes, skates so he skates most of the day as well, Kate.

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Speaker 3: And then he goes and has a share plus Fitness

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Speaker 3: for fourteen dollars ninety five a week. What to catch

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Speaker 3: and they're everywhere you're talking about he's saving money.

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Speaker 1: And he's got the best tenure in Australia.

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Speaker 4: Oh you can wear you can wear your if you're

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Speaker 4: worried about that stuff.

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Speaker 1: When I've been up to Byron and I've seen the

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Speaker 1: people living at the back of their van and they've

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Speaker 1: got to get everything out to get one thing out

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Speaker 1: and put anything back in, to put one thing back in.

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Speaker 4: But don't you fantasize about that a little bit? For

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Speaker 4: when you wander past and you're looking down at Carbury

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Speaker 4: to Beach and the sun is shining and there's somebody

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Speaker 4: like making porridge out the back of their van and

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Speaker 4: having coffee in there.

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Speaker 3: I agree with your eyes rusting.

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Speaker 2: And then that shot when you wake up in the

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Speaker 2: morning and you open the back of your vanner.

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Speaker 3: And you've got a beautiful view of the beach. You're

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Speaker 3: right there and have to.

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Speaker 1: Live in a van to do it, mate, You know

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Speaker 1: I made of mine. He hired a juicy van and

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Speaker 1: went to bar and Bay.

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Speaker 4: Oh, the green Ones.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Greene.

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Speaker 3: Well that's just a hiring Evan.

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Speaker 1: His wife wasn't too happy about the holiday, did she goes,

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Speaker 1: If you get a little bit of trumpet bump in

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Speaker 1: a van like that, there's not a lot of places

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Speaker 1: to escape, and you can't leave the windows down at

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Speaker 1: night because of the mossies, so it wasn't a very

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Speaker 3: Did he get windows. He's got screens on the windows.

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Speaker 2: He's got it all sorted, mate. It's the other one

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Speaker 2: as well. Thirteen twenty four to ten living on the cheap.

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Speaker 2: Do you know someone who's made this decision with the

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Speaker 2: cost of living? Because before, when I bought my first house, Kate,

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Speaker 2: I was like, this is ridiculous prices. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if I can do this. I had a mate who goes, mate.

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Speaker 2: I did this for two years and it was the best.

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Speaker 2: He bought a cheap mooring at a marina and a

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Speaker 2: in the marine.

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Speaker 5: Terrible.

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Speaker 4: I think I'd rather a van over a boat. I'm

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Speaker 4: in show of hands man.

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Speaker 1: Van Mooring's expensive boats are expensive about Rose Bay. We're

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Speaker 1: not boat sharing in Rushcutters boats of problems, mate, I just.

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Speaker 4: Want a friend with a boat to invite me on

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Speaker 4: for New Year.

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Speaker 1: Well, you play your cards right, we'll get a phone

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Speaker 1: call and a text lesson.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I do want to hear from people though, if

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Speaker 3: you know.

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Speaker 2: Someone who's packed up and done this living on the cheap,

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Speaker 2: when they've just maybe living on the boat or in

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Speaker 2: their vans. Give us a Eric in Liverpool. You tell

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Speaker 2: us about your colleague Eric.

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Speaker 6: Yes, who's a resident and he lives a bit too

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Speaker 6: far the hospital, so he catches like showers and he's

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Speaker 6: been living out of his car for the past six months.

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Speaker 1: Doctor living out of his car? Yeah, it doesn't really

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Speaker 1: marry does it?

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Speaker 6: No? No, No, he's definitely.

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Speaker 3: Is this just a is he saving for a house

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Speaker 3: or something? Eric? Or why does he do it?

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Speaker 6: This is this is like the first thing you do

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Speaker 6: at the hospital before you could become like a full

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Speaker 6: fledged doctor. And because he lives so far away from

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Speaker 6: the hospital, like two hours drive all that all the time,

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Speaker 6: it's not viable from the drive, so he's dig it

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Speaker 6: and it's hard to find accommodation. So he the car.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen he set up, Eric? What's he set

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Speaker 3: up like? In the car.

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Speaker 6: I mean, fortunately he lives in suv, but still it's

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Speaker 6: not comfy.

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Speaker 1: No really makes sense to me.

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Speaker 4: Think if I had a doctor arriving at the foot

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Speaker 4: of my bed in the mornings, I'm not thinking about

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Speaker 4: him coming straight from his car.

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Speaker 1: Having kind of fresh and I love it.

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Speaker 2: We love a share at the hospital. They give us

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Speaker 2: some good food there in the canteen as well.

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Speaker 4: Talking about good good quality of sleep so we can

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Speaker 4: make your decisions.

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Speaker 1: Or she someone's being on the car window in the

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Speaker 1: middle of I slashing his tires.

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Speaker 2: It's also hidi, that's when you look back in your

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Speaker 2: life and go, you know what.

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Speaker 3: I was living out of my car for a while

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Speaker 3: there before.

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Speaker 2: Before I became a boob surgeon, and now I'm a

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Speaker 2: multi million.

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Speaker 1: You know what.

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Speaker 2: I know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Next in Blacktown, going to help us out with a tipnic.

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Speaker 1: How do you live long cheap?

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Speaker 7: Well, I was kind of forced to do it because

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Speaker 7: I was separated. My son was only eight months old

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Speaker 7: when I was I had an office in Bondi Junction,

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Speaker 7: two rooms, so I was sleeping in my office to

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Speaker 7: save money, and then the landlord found out I got

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Speaker 7: the ladder. So from then on for a whole year.

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Speaker 7: I had a Nissan L grand I put a bamboo

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Speaker 7: mattress in the back.

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Speaker 6: Later seat flaps.

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Speaker 7: I would drive to the end of Clovelli. You know

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Speaker 7: where Clovelli is, there's that big car park Clevelli.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, there overlooking the water.

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Speaker 7: Honestly, I would go to sleep at night listening to

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Speaker 7: the ocean. And here's the thing about plus plus fishes.

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Speaker 7: I was doing that too. It doesn't get used very much.

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Speaker 7: Who goes to the gym and showers there? They go

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Speaker 7: home and shower is cleaner than my shower at Halpen

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Speaker 7: thirty and thirty.

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Speaker 6: They're very ely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Majority of them are twenty four at twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 3: So I mean you can go in early in the

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Speaker 3: morning or late at night and there's nobody in there.

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Speaker 2: I think this is you're paying seven hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: bucks for the whole year, you never get one water bill,

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Speaker 2: and you're using other people as electricity.

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Speaker 7: And I've got the cheap show and easy. You know

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Speaker 7: when you go to a food court at three o'clock,

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Speaker 7: they passage everything up trying to get rid of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: it's like five bucks for a big and that would

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Speaker 7: last me two days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd got this, see Nick sting it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah on the cheap forty eight hours old dumplings still

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Speaker 1: taste break with enough soil on them, don't they. Sins

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