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Speaker 1: Our next guest is a tennis player who was ranked

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Speaker 1: world number one in women's singles. She's won three major titles,

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Speaker 1: including the Australian Open. Ash Barty is the Australian Open.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, yash Body.

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Speaker 2: Yes, she is in the building, Ash Body, good morning you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for me.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm so excited to see you in here.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're an icon and it's been so good

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Speaker 4: to see you back at Rod Laver Arena in the

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Speaker 4: last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 3: It was it's been good fun and first time actually

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Speaker 3: in radio studio. Is this your first first time in really?

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you saying yes.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean obviously we're hard hitting journalists.

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Speaker 3: You're get kind, be kind.

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Speaker 2: It's talk going to be three a w situation.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I love seeing you with the legends. The other night,

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Speaker 4: so there was Leyton Hewitt, Andre Agasi, who I've had

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Speaker 4: a crush on since I was probably Chris. I loved

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Speaker 4: him growing.

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Speaker 5: Pre or post when he went balls the whole.

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Speaker 4: Thing, put Rafter, Roger Federer, and then Ash Barty comes

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Speaker 4: out as a surprise appearance. What a night that must

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Speaker 4: have been for you.

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Speaker 3: It was, it was so much fun and really we

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Speaker 3: tried to keep it a bit of a secret. But

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Speaker 3: I only found out that we were sort of going

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Speaker 3: to be involved a week or so before. So I

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Speaker 3: had messaged my next door neighbor and when I found

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Speaker 3: out at home, I don't hit a lot of balls

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Speaker 3: these days, and I texted him, I said, oh, do

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Speaker 3: your body chance still play tennis? Like I need to hit.

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Speaker 3: I kind of got an emergency situation. I need hit

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Speaker 3: some tennis. Calls you're available.

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Speaker 2: I went to full train.

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Speaker 3: I actually think because you're full training. I went hit

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Speaker 3: for twenty minutes with him on the back courts near home,

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Speaker 3: just full training. And that was last Saturday. So I

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Speaker 3: prepared a week out and then I came in ice cold,

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Speaker 3: So I was ready. How's your first serv Were you like,

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Speaker 3: I've still got it in the practice with the neighbor, No,

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Speaker 3: it was abysmal, absolutely like it's the serve and kind

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Speaker 3: of overheads, hardest thing. It just feels so foreign when

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Speaker 3: the ball goes up.

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Speaker 5: And then you add fifteen thousand people to the mix

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Speaker 5: and you're like, oh goodness, it's the heart.

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Speaker 3: Was beating pretty fast.

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Speaker 4: What were we nervous?

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Speaker 5: I was?

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Speaker 3: I messaged Krowe. Actually, when I was driving in, just

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Speaker 3: before I got into the car to drive onto side,

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Speaker 3: I see Krowe. I have some really strange emotions going

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Speaker 3: on right now. The last time I did this was

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, and you won the Australian Open.

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Speaker 3: But this time I had Roger on my team. So yours, mate,

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Speaker 3: just take it all? Are you got some mate?

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Speaker 4: Like? I just assume you're all on tour together. Everyone's friends, like,

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Speaker 4: are they friends of yours? Andreagasy and Roger? Not that

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Speaker 4: you and Andrea Gassy really played together much, but Patty,

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Speaker 4: I know you and Patty are after a close I

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Speaker 4: would love to say yes, but I think when you

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Speaker 4: just you know, I think of Roger and everyone loves

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Speaker 4: him because he's so personal and he makes you so

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Speaker 4: feel so welcome.

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Speaker 3: And I walked out in the court and he wrapped

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Speaker 3: his arm around me. I'm like, yeah, my mate.

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Speaker 4: And when you walked out onto rod Laver Arena, did

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Speaker 4: it like take you back to winning the Australian Open.

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Speaker 3: It was pretty loud. I'm very lucky that I was

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Speaker 3: still received so graciously and everyone was excited, and you

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Speaker 3: know something that was really cool for me is my

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Speaker 3: two youngest nieces were there watching and they'd never seen me.

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Speaker 3: And my youngest niece, Gabby is three, just turned three,

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Speaker 3: and she said said to her, Mum, is that the

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Speaker 3: real Ash? She's like, oh, And I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: this is, but it can't be. It's it's honey Ash,

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Speaker 3: like the real honey Ash. And she could not wrap

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Speaker 3: on the pot. That was really cool.

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Speaker 2: You guys want to come watch me at the accounting firm.

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Speaker 4: And the weekend and now tell us what are you

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Speaker 4: doing now? Because I know you've got this involvement with Rally,

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Speaker 4: which is paddle and pickle apparel. God, that's mouthful. Is

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Speaker 4: paddle and pickleball? Like, is this going to be around

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Speaker 4: for a long time? I feel like is it as

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Speaker 4: stage we're all going through. It's sticking.

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Speaker 3: It's massive and obviously coming coming on board with Rally

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Speaker 3: is working with Pat Rafter and a few of his

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Speaker 3: come on board and and we can hopefully grow grow

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Speaker 3: this company. It's it's very much in its infancy, but

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Speaker 3: it's it's really exciting and I think, you know, with

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Speaker 5: So you've got an entrepreneurial now, so you're a like

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Speaker 5: a business woman and and a superman as well.

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Speaker 3: So that's pretty crazy, absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 4: But I love it.

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Speaker 3: I love it full chocer's full of beans. I love it.

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Speaker 4: Hey, And as you're turning thirty this year, I think

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Speaker 4: we all forge. I mean, I forget how young you are,

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Speaker 4: hard cool? What what are your plans for the next

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Speaker 4: decade of your life in your thirties?

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Speaker 3: Who knows? Who knows where it will take me? I

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Speaker 3: think I my life has changed dramatically in the last

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Speaker 3: four years. Who knows where it'll be in ten or fifteen.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's you know, it's just taking it

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Speaker 3: forward to this at the moment, obviously being able to

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Speaker 3: do some cool things with Pat now and almost like

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Speaker 3: we rally like try some new things, try and grow

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Speaker 3: a business, try and grow a company. Like it's I'm

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Speaker 3: not it's exciting.

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Speaker 5: I'm happy to do some party planning. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 5: a Vegas guy. Vegas and you scream Vegas.

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Speaker 3: More Brits vague she gets, yeah, as long as we're

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Speaker 3: finished by four o'clock, that's a lunchtime.

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Speaker 2: He brought the kids down as well. Jeez, that's good.

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Speaker 2: That's all the traveling and everything hands a full.

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Speaker 4: Jason refuses to get on a play with these children

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Speaker 4: and they're twelve.

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Speaker 3: So you jumping on a plane on the no fly list.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, no way, where do I.

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Speaker 3: Enter onto that list?

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Speaker 4: And just quickly before we let you go, who do

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Speaker 4: you think of the two people to beat and the

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Speaker 4: men's and the women's for the Aussie Open?

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, it's hard to go past the best. I

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Speaker 3: think Arena for me. On the women's side, she's just

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Speaker 3: she's got the she's got the game, she's got the

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Speaker 3: accolades here, she's just hard to stop on a hard court.

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Speaker 3: And then for the men as well, Youngxinner, he's he's

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Speaker 3: almost been unbeatable on hard courts in the last couple

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Speaker 3: of years and I think it would take a very

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Speaker 3: very special performance performance from someone to knock him off

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Speaker 2: Can I take you back to that night in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. Everyone was glued to their TV's watching, they say,

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Speaker 2: and you mentioned it before. Life changes overnight on something

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Speaker 2: that happens. Did it feel like that the next day,

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Speaker 2: like it was a totally different life?

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Speaker 3: It didn't really. I mean, funny story, we sort of

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Speaker 3: obviously my husband was there, my mum and dad were there.

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Speaker 3: And the next morning we kind of woke up. I

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Speaker 3: was the last one to arrive at our Screams party, right.

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Speaker 3: I was the last one to arrive at our sort

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Speaker 3: of victory party, right, And I stayed for one beer

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Speaker 3: and said, we're going home. I'm tired. Yeah, So, I mean,

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Speaker 3: we probably got home at about twelve ish. Everyone else

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Speaker 3: kicked on until I don't know what time. I just

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Speaker 3: paid the bill and said I'm glad you guys had

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Speaker 3: a good night. And then we had an appearance for

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Speaker 3: the photo like shooting the next morning. But before I

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Speaker 3: went to the photoshop, I needed to do my washing.

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Speaker 3: So I was literally up the next morning on that

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Speaker 3: Sunday morning doing washing and hanging up, and a friend

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Speaker 3: of mine came over to help me with my hair

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Speaker 3: than five or six hours. And I said I'll be

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Speaker 3: there in a minute. I'm literally just hanging the clothes

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Speaker 3: out of the line. So my god, I didn't change that.

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Speaker 4: She didn't change that. What was more exciting winning the

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Speaker 4: Train Open or Richmond winning a premiership?

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Speaker 3: Which premiership?

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Speaker 4: You know what would be good? If we could just

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Speaker 4: win a game this year, I'd be happy with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you've been rebuilding. This is let's just hope we

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Speaker 3: don't win the spoon. I'm confident. Come on the tigs

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Speaker 3: with you.

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Speaker 2: This is your year.

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Speaker 3: We love it.

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Speaker 2: Go tags, Ash, We love you. I just love how

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Speaker 2: you keep it so real. It's so good and genuine

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Speaker 2: and such extrange way to do it. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for joining us. Good luck with the clothing brands,

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Speaker 2: kids line, any chance with kids lying down the track.

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Speaker 3: We'll work on it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, looking forward to seeing it.

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Speaker 2: You can check it out rallyclub dot com, The Great

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Speaker 2: Ash Party, join us in the studio. Enjoy AO.

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Speaker 3: Thanks guys, Jason Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good.

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Speaker 4: Follow them on the socials.