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

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Speaker 1: done a John Farnham. Can you believe it? I mean,

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Speaker 1: we saw the news late last night as it broke.

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Speaker 1: It'll be the biggest news around the world today. Neighbors

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Speaker 1: is coming home to Network ten. It's not over, mate,

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Speaker 1: It's coming back. So celebrate. Tommy gets some glitter cannons

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Speaker 1: in the studio.

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Speaker 2: So Channel ten or is it Amazon?

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Speaker 1: Channel ten and Amazon right Stream Boats. It's a joint

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Speaker 1: venture here, and what's exciting is fits with Amazon, you're

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Speaker 1: going to be able to see past episodes and series,

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Speaker 1: so you can go back to thirty seven years of Neighbors.

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Speaker 2: Well, I might start binging it from the start.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, sure, on board to five.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if I wonder if Tody, I wonder if

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Speaker 2: all the old actors, if there was an element of

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Speaker 2: oh god, you know what, we had a great run.

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Speaker 2: It's all over. I'm glad. What are we done now?

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Speaker 2: I mean, what are your feelings that you're going back?

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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing. I mean, if you love Neighbors

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Speaker 1: right which I did growing up, and I sat down

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Speaker 1: and I watched the finale, it was a bit clunky,

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but it had all your favorites

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Speaker 1: back in there, and everybody celebrated around the street and

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Speaker 1: also at home on the couch. I thought that was special.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if any of them went out with a

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Speaker 2: bang right and you know, disagreed with a few producers

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Speaker 2: or told them. Just had to go at him on

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Speaker 2: the way out when we said, you know what, you've

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Speaker 2: been a real prick the whole time, and I've been

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Speaker 2: meaning to tell you down for now. The show's over.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you right now. So Stephan Dennis

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Speaker 2: settled down.

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Speaker 1: Stephan, it's back. We're not finished. Sorry, guys, I've done

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Speaker 1: the gun. Because when we spoke to Tony after the

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Speaker 1: final episode, he was focused on his construction work. He

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Speaker 1: was in a digger, he was building a house. He

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Speaker 1: wanted to move on.

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Speaker 2: Well, he's moved out of the country.

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Speaker 1: And now apparently a lot of the cast only found

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Speaker 1: out when I saw the promos flying around on social

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Speaker 1: media yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Do you know who was the highlight in that final show?

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Speaker 2: Guy Pierce by a Mott absolute as it's been talk

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Speaker 2: would Guy come back in some capacity? That was a

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Speaker 2: one off for him? He couldn't come back again, could he?

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Speaker 1: You know it was missing from the finale, Craig mcgott, Oh, no,

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Speaker 1: know about it. What was amazing too was the final scene,

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Speaker 1: which I think was Susan Kennedy.

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Speaker 3: If we got that in the system, everyone deserves a

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Speaker 3: place in the history of Ramsey Street, even those.

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Speaker 1: Who watched us from afar. That was Susan.

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Speaker 3: Together we have been Susan, the perfect blend.

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Speaker 1: Susan, where were you just now? I was home? A

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Speaker 1: beautiful line to finish. I was home.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean anything now they're coming at the time.

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Speaker 2: What about for the people who owned those houses?

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Speaker 1: They thought they were off the hook?

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Speaker 2: Gutfu' been paid a fortune for years, haven't they Now?

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Speaker 1: They want to renovate and things, don't they We can't

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Speaker 1: do that, don't.

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Speaker 2: Tenne ten hon them.

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Speaker 1: Don't ruin Aroundie Street? No they don't. This is exciting, guys.

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Speaker 1: There's someone on the line and I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Her name is Jackie Woodburn. She is Susan Kennedy. Susan,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the.

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Speaker 2: Show, stood warning.

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Speaker 3: My thought it was very strange to think of that

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Speaker 3: play over again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was. It was a beautiful moment, and

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Speaker 1: as a neighbors fan sitting on the couch, it felt

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Speaker 1: like the final goodbye, of course. And now I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't know how to react to I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to react to the news.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you think Tanya was excited about winning the kids,

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Speaker 3: You've got no idea how excited I am. I couldn't

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Speaker 3: be more through Yah, the most wonderful, wonderful news. Just

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Speaker 3: think all those jobs back for those Yeah, all those

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Speaker 3: those fans and viewers who white you are still every

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Speaker 3: day telling us how much they missed the show and

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Speaker 3: how much they back. It's it's a little it's a

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Speaker 3: little Christmas miracle.

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Speaker 1: I love this, Jackie.

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Speaker 2: Jackie, were there we spars of this going on around

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Speaker 2: the time it finished up, or you honestly thought that

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Speaker 2: was it, it was done, industed, No hand.

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Speaker 3: On heart, I thought it's done. Industed it was I mean,

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Speaker 3: obviously behind the scenes they were looking for another broadcaster

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Speaker 3: or another platform for us to be on, but it

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Speaker 3: didn't happen, and that was it and the story and

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Speaker 3: we all got our heads around that, and everyone was

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Speaker 3: so focused on sending the show off in the best

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Speaker 3: way that we possibly could but that we just had

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Speaker 3: to accept that that was the case and give it

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Speaker 3: a red hot gull and you know, say goodbye and

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Speaker 3: walk out the doors. So this is you know, we've

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Speaker 3: only known about this ourselves, the four of us, for

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Speaker 3: literally a few days.

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Speaker 1: Jackie, like, at the start of the week, it was devastating.

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Speaker 1: They showed there were some images on a story on

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Speaker 1: the Daily Mail about the sets of Neighbors, because obviously

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Speaker 1: there's Ramsey Street and for the external shots, and then

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Speaker 1: there's some sets and they were all gone. They were

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Speaker 1: all ripped apart, and it was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: don't show me that that's part of my family that

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Speaker 1: you've ruined.

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Speaker 3: There, I know, so I know, it's like seeing it

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Speaker 3: great And.

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Speaker 1: Then here we are the end of the week with

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Speaker 1: this amazing news. So how did how did you hear

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Speaker 1: the news? Were you emailed by the network or you

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Speaker 1: got a phone call.

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Speaker 3: Jason Herderson, our executive producer who has been responsible for

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Speaker 3: all the good stuff that happened on Neighbors in the

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Speaker 3: last decade. He's just been phenomenal, came to the house,

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Speaker 3: he said, because he lives close to me, and he said,

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Speaker 3: I just just need to I'm going some I just

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Speaker 3: need to drop in. And so he dropped in and

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Speaker 3: he told me, and I think I may have kind

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Speaker 3: of grabbed him around the cross. Not again, say that again,

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Speaker 3: Say that again, slowly. I understand were you?

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Speaker 2: I asked you, Jackie? Were you? Was there an element

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Speaker 2: of you going, oh and now I can put my

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Speaker 2: feet up a little bit and relax, or what were

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Speaker 2: your initial thoughts? So you really want to get back

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Speaker 2: into it again?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, there was not a split second indecision. I just thought,

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Speaker 3: I've there, I'm.

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Speaker 2: There, good as good on you mate, This is this

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Speaker 2: is awesome. So when are we talking? Can you give

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Speaker 2: us some time frame here? When will they start filming again?

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Speaker 3: At this stage I believe we start filming kind of

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Speaker 3: mid April, and I think to go back on air

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Speaker 3: sort of you know, second half next year.

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Speaker 1: Great, So neighbors just took long service leave after thirty

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Speaker 1: seven years, that's.

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Speaker 3: All, Yes' just kind of little holiday, lovely, we all

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Speaker 3: just took a took a gap here, I suppose.

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Speaker 2: Do you know he's not happy, Jackie Rayma. He thought

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Speaker 2: he had the monopoly of Australian drama. Finally Home and

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Speaker 2: Away got the number one spot. This is ours. We've

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Speaker 2: got it now and now you're back, Jackie. He's not happy.

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Speaker 3: You know what when we when we got when we

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Speaker 3: got cans, when we got asked. You know, we've actually

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Speaker 3: got some lovely, lovely messages from some of the Home

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Speaker 3: and Away crew. Great, so I think that they will

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Speaker 3: be thrilled. You know. It's it's about the industry as

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Speaker 3: a whole, and you know very well that it's an

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Speaker 3: industry that cannot support all the talent out there. No,

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Speaker 3: I have this opportunity back for all those upp and

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Speaker 3: colors is just a huge Truly, it's a win for

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Speaker 3: all of us.

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Speaker 1: Have you spoken to Tony he'd be pumped.

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Speaker 3: Oh, he's wrapped.

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Speaker 1: Almost worth going another ponytail about.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what, Jackie, Susan has to come back with vengeance.

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Speaker 2: I think you've got to come back as a serial

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Speaker 2: killer to kill half the town.

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Speaker 1: It's coming back.

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Speaker 2: I love that You've then got to have four affairs.

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Speaker 2: What poor Carl has no idea?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, bounce against barbecue. No, he died long

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Speaker 1: while anything happened.

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Speaker 3: He looking world.

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Speaker 2: I Jackie, congratulations, great news, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is

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