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Speaker 1: Jason Lauren d very important match on the forty calendar

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Speaker 1: coming up this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Clint, Saturday Night at the mcg It's always a

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Speaker 2: special night because it is the Pink Lady Match. It's

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Speaker 2: a time when footy rivalries a shove to one side,

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Speaker 2: albeit very briefly. It supports the work of the Breast

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Speaker 2: Cancer Network Australia, and this year it strikes I think

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Speaker 2: you could say, for me a little closer to home.

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Speaker 2: Forty one year old Nicole Riddle is battling breast cancer.

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Speaker 2: She's a school teacher, she's a beautiful mother of two,

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Speaker 2: and she's also my best friend and she joins us

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Nicole, Good morning, Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 1: Well, first up, Nicole, you would have some dirt on

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Speaker 1: our Clint's channelway.

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Speaker 4: Ah, Look, I was hoping we weren't going to go

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Speaker 4: there because I don't want to embarrass him. There's actually

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Speaker 4: that much after forty one years that I could shout

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Speaker 4: his career.

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Speaker 1: Actually, so you guys.

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Speaker 5: Have known each other since.

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Speaker 6: You were baby?

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Speaker 1: Did you meet?

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Speaker 2: Our moms were in a mother's group together basically, and

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Speaker 2: so it was so cool. Every sort of every birthday,

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Speaker 2: every sort of momentous occasion in our lives have been together.

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Speaker 6: I love family.

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Speaker 5: It's like those unofficial cousins that you go up with.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Nicole, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: I mentioned in the intro that you know, you found

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Speaker 2: a lump not so long back, you had the operation

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Speaker 2: and yet you're now undergoing treatment.

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Speaker 6: You look beautiful, are you? How are you faring right now? Look?

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Speaker 4: Actually, I'm going really well. I feel really positive. And

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Speaker 4: you know it's been it's been a year, but I

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Speaker 4: think overall, I'm feeling really good. I've got a bit

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Speaker 4: of balance back now. So yeah, feeling positive.

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Speaker 3: Hate Nicole. Breast cancer. We know it doesn't discriminate. Over

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Speaker 3: twenty thousand Australians are diagnosed with awful disease every year,

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Speaker 3: and that includes men as well. How did you discover

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Speaker 3: that you had breast cancer?

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Speaker 4: I just found a small lump just before Christmas. I'd

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Speaker 4: always been pretty vigilant with myself checks, knowing that cancer

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Speaker 4: doesn't discriminate, and just some really positive things on social

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Speaker 4: media that I saw to remind myself and I did

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Speaker 4: something about it straight away. I found the lump and

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Speaker 4: I called my doctor within the hour. So yeah, we

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Speaker 4: went from there.

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Speaker 1: Basically, do you remember the moment you got diagnosed? It

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Speaker 1: just I can imagine it just brings your life to

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Speaker 1: a screechingholt.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely. I was home on my own and my

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Speaker 4: GP call, who is just a beautiful man, and yeah,

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Speaker 4: it times stood still, It really did, because I just

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Speaker 4: never expected it. I remember just trying to catch my breath.

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Speaker 4: It was almost like I nearly entered a panic attack

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Speaker 4: and I just had to stop and breathe, and I

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Speaker 4: messaged my husband and I said get home now.

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Speaker 1: I was about I was about to ask how hard

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Speaker 1: is it to have that conversation with your partner and

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Speaker 1: you've got two young daughters.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, look it is heard. But at the same time,

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Speaker 4: because you're going through the process of having tests, your

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Speaker 4: mind starts to go that there could be something wrong.

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Speaker 4: I guess so. But we just sat there and we

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Speaker 4: just knew that everything was going to be okay as well,

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Speaker 4: which you know, you're doing a lot of self talk

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Speaker 4: in that in that process and then telling our little

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Speaker 4: girls was hard, but again we've tried to remain really positive.

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Speaker 4: I think there's so much fear around cancer. People here

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Speaker 4: that you've got cancer, and straight away they think you're

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Speaker 4: going to die, and that is not the case thanks

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Speaker 4: to places like BCNA who are continually advocating for more research.

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Speaker 4: So I think that's what we've tried to do all

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Speaker 4: the way through. Not think about cancer as death. Think

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Speaker 4: about cancer is something that is part of my journey

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Speaker 4: and something that we will beat and now it's just

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Speaker 4: time to spread awareness on you.

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Speaker 2: Has the fact that you've got your daughters, your beautiful

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Speaker 2: daughters around you always has that empowered you as you

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Speaker 2: fight what is a beast of a disease?

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Speaker 4: Oh absolutely absolutely, Like you know, when you're young, you've

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Speaker 4: got so much to live for, but when you've got

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Speaker 4: gives you even more drive to be positive and you know,

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Speaker 4: change their perspective on things, and you know it's all

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Speaker 4: about resilience and for them to actually see that these

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Speaker 4: things happen and you can be okay. That's what motivates me.

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Speaker 4: And my girls are just hilarious. They're so different, so

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Speaker 4: they bring different things like may see my little one

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Speaker 4: and she loves me being bald and rubs my head

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Speaker 4: all the time. And pipe is a little more emotional.

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Speaker 4: But you know, we work through it together and we

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Speaker 4: they're going to be even stronger for this. So it's

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Speaker 4: one of those things Life throws us all sorts of

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Speaker 4: things and we have to choose how we're going to

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Speaker 4: respond to that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think you're nailing it with your positive attitude.

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Speaker 5: Honestly amazing.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible.

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Speaker 3: You know they say it takes a village to get

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Speaker 3: through things like this. It certainly does, and it's terrific

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Speaker 3: to hear that you've got this amazing family support behind you.

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Speaker 3: But organizations like the AFL and the Melbourne Demons have

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Speaker 3: these extraordinary platforms where they can help us who often

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Speaker 3: feel really helpless in these situations, make a difference. So

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Speaker 3: tell us what's happening at the Pink Lady match this

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Speaker 3: weekend because it is a really special game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it is, and I think being the twentieth year

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Speaker 4: that Melbourne Football Club have been involved, I think it's

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Speaker 4: really significant because it just shows breast cancer has been

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Speaker 4: here for a long time and it is not going anywhere.

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Speaker 4: We need to continue to get behind events like this

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Speaker 4: and you can support by buying an online ticket as well,

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Speaker 4: or you can come along to the game. There's bays

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Speaker 4: that are allocated Pink Lady bays for people to come

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Speaker 4: and you know, show their support whether they've been affected

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Speaker 4: by someone, a friend, a family member. And with one

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Speaker 4: in seven women and men being diagnosed, I know that

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Speaker 4: so many people have been affected. And again always you know,

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Speaker 4: donating as well.

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Speaker 1: At the game, people got down on the field.

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Speaker 2: It's every year, yes, yeah, yeah, it's quite striking and

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Speaker 2: there's always somebody in their thoughts.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, someone who's.

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Speaker 2: Battling right now, someone that has unfortunately lost their cancer journey.

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Speaker 6: So it's quite a striking, quite a movie the.

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Speaker 1: Topic front of mine and in people's face. It's the

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Speaker 1: one thing I commend the AFL for doing events like this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they really know how to do it. You can log

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Speaker 1: onto Pink ladymatch dot com dot au for tickets, beanies

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Speaker 1: and donations.

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Speaker 6: So what was it like growing up with me?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, give us some dirt now we've done the series.

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Speaker 6: Do you ever hit on?

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Speaker 4: Oh? No, Like Love said, it's it's kind of like

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Speaker 4: a bit of a family relationship. We had many great

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Speaker 4: times together, you know, growing up young, and our parents

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Speaker 4: have remained really good friends, which has meant over the

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Speaker 4: years our friendship has changed. I think, you know, he

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Speaker 4: might have heard before Clint might have shared when he's

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Speaker 4: been purring behind that microphone that we used to indulge

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Speaker 4: in some Whiskers cat food.

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Speaker 3: That he was doing it.

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Speaker 4: Did he ever do that conversation I'm the cat food lady.

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Speaker 1: Did he ever have that conversation you have with a

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Speaker 1: friend of the team's like, Hey, if we don't find

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Speaker 1: people by the time we're forwarding, should we just get married?

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Speaker 4: Married? I think mum Tony might have liked that. I

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Speaker 4: think she had.

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Speaker 2: She's too good for me, still caring here alone in

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Speaker 2: the corner.

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Speaker 3: Was he a wrap back because we always we call

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Speaker 3: him the teacher's pet around here?

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Speaker 5: Was he like that growing up too?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Look, I want to say he was, but he wasn't.

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Speaker 4: He's such a beautiful man. And the fact, you know,

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Speaker 4: I look and think I could bring up some dirt,

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Speaker 4: but I'm not going to do too much. Come on,

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Speaker 4: give a lot of fun.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I just don't mention the trip to.

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Speaker 5: What happened happened in Thailand.

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Speaker 6: We were both we're both at the peak of power.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wait, wait moments, what does it mean Nicole that

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Speaker 3: you were at your peak of your powers together in Thailand.

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Speaker 4: Sorry say that again.

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Speaker 3: What does it mean that he was at the peak

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Speaker 3: of his powers in Thailand?

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Speaker 5: Give us something?

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Speaker 4: Ah, look, let's just say what happens at the full

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Speaker 4: moon party. Stay no matter where you.

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Speaker 6: Are in the world, I love God.

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Speaker 1: I could imagine you with the paint on and the

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Speaker 1: buckets trying to jump the flaming skipping rope.

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Speaker 2: Hey, in all seriousness, I love you and thank you

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Speaker 2: for being with us on our show and for finding

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Speaker 2: a light on what is just an insidious disease and

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Speaker 2: get out there and support the work of BCNA. Lady Match,

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Speaker 2: You're a beautiful mom and a beautiful friend and for

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Speaker 2: that I thank you. Nicole Jelly or Riddle these days.

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Speaker 4: Oh thanks, Clint, I love you too. You're a good man.

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Speaker 4: Clinker's gonna be a good Jason Lauren Jason.

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Speaker 3: Lauren Wake Up Feeling Good on number one hundred.

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Speaker 6: Jason Lauren on socials,