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

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Speaker 2: Shut Up and Drive. Have you got a bit of show?

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Speaker 2: You can get to your ls.

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Speaker 3: The independence that you get when you get your peas, Like,

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Speaker 3: isn't it one of the greatest times ever?

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Speaker 2: I remember my best mate Simps.

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Speaker 3: He had a little Tirana and the first time he

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Speaker 3: got his peas, he picked me up in it and

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Speaker 3: we were so excited, arms out the window and you

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Speaker 3: know what, Yeah, it was like Filmer and Luise. We

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Speaker 3: drove that car straight off the cliff and you know what.

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Speaker 2: One of the other greatest things we did as well.

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Speaker 3: And I remember this so distinctly whipped because it was independence.

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Speaker 2: We didn't have mum and dad in the car.

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Speaker 3: There was a guy hitchhiking on the side of the road,

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Speaker 3: so Simps pulled over and as the guy went to

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Speaker 3: go get into the car, he just drove off classics

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Speaker 3: do whatever we want. Isn't it such a great time?

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Speaker 2: It was awesome.

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Speaker 3: L plates. I mean, that's quite conf fronting when you

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Speaker 3: have to scary with that, but I there's a poor

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Speaker 3: kid over in the UK that has.

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Speaker 2: Failed her hellplate test.

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Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty eight times.

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Speaker 1: No, she hasn't that's impossible, so impossible.

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Speaker 3: It's twenty three pounds, which equals around about just under

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Speaker 3: fifty bucks a pop. Yep, she's spent over six thousand

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Speaker 3: dollars just to get her l plates. Now, back in

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Speaker 3: our day, it was I think there was four different

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Speaker 3: tests that you could do. So, I mean, if you've

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Speaker 3: failed four times, you're basically getting the same test again.

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Speaker 1: I would have thought too when she I mean, in

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Speaker 1: her situation, you've failed like, let's say fifty or sixty times,

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Speaker 1: she'd be thinking, how good is an e bike?

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Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not for me, And I don't want to

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Speaker 1: know that somebody can fail a certain amount of times

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Speaker 1: and continue to try. I mean try and try and try.

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Speaker 2: But Paul, who.

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Speaker 1: Wants to be onto the road with someone who's spailed

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Speaker 1: one hundred and six times.

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Speaker 2: Thirteen twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 3: If you know someone who was just they were born

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Speaker 3: not to get behind the wheel because people do freak out,

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Speaker 3: and I understand it, but it's very nerve wracking on

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Speaker 3: the road sometime with there's cars going around you and

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Speaker 3: you've got to reverse. People freak out. They get really nervous.

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Speaker 3: They start to shake and the reverse park in.

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Speaker 1: The test was the scary part. Fits And I know

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Speaker 1: that when you had the practical going for your ls,

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Speaker 1: you would hope that you didn't have to do the

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Speaker 1: reverse park. And now you just rip it in mate,

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Speaker 1: you know, you throw your head over the shoulder and

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Speaker 1: rip it straight in.

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Speaker 3: Nikki's from a Lamby Heights. You're teaching your teenage son

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Speaker 3: at the moment to drive. How's it going?

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Speaker 2: Nick?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Lord help me? And I'm praying for all the parents

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Speaker 4: out there who have sixteen year olds with red owls

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Speaker 4: on their car. It's terrifying.

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Speaker 2: Why it is, well, you know, I mean, it's just.

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Speaker 4: It's the first time I've done it, so I'm not

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Speaker 4: experienced in it. I mean I failed my first test

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Speaker 4: againangerous driving, which I thought was a bit rough. But

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Speaker 4: she did say she had to take control of the wheel.

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Speaker 1: So a heavy football, what is it?

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Speaker 4: Listen a little bit. We were driving the other day

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Speaker 4: across We're in a road which has six lanes of traffic,

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Speaker 4: you know, three going one way, and we couldn't see.

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Speaker 4: To his credit, we couldn't see what was happening right

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Speaker 4: in front of us down the hill. But there was

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Speaker 4: a garbage truck, and so as we were driving, there

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Speaker 4: was a current in front of us so we couldn't see,

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Speaker 4: and we ended up in a red light, literally in

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Speaker 4: the middle of We're in the road traffic where there

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Speaker 4: were cars going like seventy k either side of it,

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Speaker 4: and I'll just just keep this one on the break,

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Speaker 4: keep the foot on the break, keep the foot on

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Speaker 4: the brake. Eventually we safely got across, but it was terrifying.

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Speaker 1: All in a lesson, though all in the perfect lesson,

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Speaker 1: it does freak you out.

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Speaker 3: And see, Nikki, my son's on his ears at the

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Speaker 3: moment as well, and I've said to him, what you've

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Speaker 3: got to realize, And I said, there's a lot there

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Speaker 3: is a lot of people out there that don't care

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Speaker 3: if you've got your l's on today, they will still

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Speaker 3: give it to you. So I said, you've got to

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Speaker 3: be really patient with this. There's going to be some

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Speaker 3: really awkward, embarrassing moments. But don't panic. You can't pack

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Speaker 3: it panic, Nikki, can you?

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Speaker 4: No, you can't panic. You can't worry about who's right

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Speaker 4: up your bum behind you. You've just got to go

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Speaker 4: with it.

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Speaker 1: Nikki, maybe sort of seven o'clock on a Sunday night

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Speaker 1: might be a better time to do the driving experience.

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Speaker 4: You're not wrong, I think, I think you've.

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Speaker 2: Got yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's hard to find

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Speaker 2: a time, but god, when it's quiet, maybe that's the

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Speaker 2: perfect start.

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Speaker 1: In the car parking.

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Speaker 3: We have, we've been going, we've been East Gardens a

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Speaker 3: couple of times in the car park and stuff. And

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Speaker 3: he started with no cars around parking, that's fine, then

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Speaker 3: you go. And then I said, okay, there's one car

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Speaker 3: over there park next to that.

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Speaker 2: How do you go?

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Speaker 3: And I said, well, that's a joke. You're about five

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Speaker 3: meters away. Then I said, okay, now there's two cars together.

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Speaker 3: See if you can get in between those two fail.

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Speaker 3: And we were just to hear back from the insurance company.

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Speaker 2: So it's too bad.

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Speaker 1: Around Balmain you've got some tight streets because you're right in.

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Speaker 2: The really tight streets. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Then you know what, bow Main is a great place

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Speaker 3: to learn because if you can drive there, you.

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