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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. The

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Speaker 1: announcement yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Fitz Yeah, I know you're a bit emotional about this.

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Speaker 2: And Temmy, our producer, sent a text message around to

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Speaker 2: everyone saying that a behemoth of the radio industry is.

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Speaker 3: Winding it up.

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Speaker 2: Him a behemoth and and you know what, he has

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Speaker 2: had such an imprint on the radio industry and that

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Speaker 2: we had to get him on. Unfortunately, John Laws couldn't

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Speaker 2: join us, so we've got Ray Hadley on the line.

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Speaker 3: Start, Fitzgerald, that's.

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Speaker 4: Not from they aren't my words, mister Audleigh.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, listen the behemoth from the big piece

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Speaker 5: of Pelic and shit.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I know, I know, and I know I need

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Speaker 4: to apologize to you. You've been such a big supporter

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Speaker 4: of me over the years.

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Speaker 1: Ray.

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Speaker 4: Years ago, you were trying to get me out of

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Speaker 4: here when I worked with American Rosso You're like, what

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Speaker 4: are you doing to your career? And I'd love to

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Speaker 4: hear what you think about me being in with these two.

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Speaker 5: I'd have to say my opinion and change. But is

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Speaker 5: this the partner's have changed now? I thought I was

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Speaker 5: listening to someone else. There a very laid back style

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Speaker 5: from one of the presenters, A little bit bit there,

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Speaker 5: and it's great to be with you. And I can

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Speaker 5: tell you there's no danger of me replacing you because

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Speaker 5: I've got a noncomplete falls up until midday. But I'll

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Speaker 5: give you a sit Richard Wilkins, to be very careful

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Speaker 5: to Smooth, because I'll be there playing the what does

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Speaker 5: It Matter up very shortly exclusively. I'm telling you I've

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Speaker 5: had discussions with Laughlin.

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Speaker 6: Awesome.

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Speaker 5: I'm bringing my seat these down the smooth.

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Speaker 1: Country music on Smooth.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to hear you do more of a love

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Speaker 3: songs and dedications because I know on my wedding anniversary

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Speaker 3: my wife would love to hear a couple of sweet

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Speaker 3: nothings out of your mouth.

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Speaker 5: Right, well, let me just tell you that that belongs

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Speaker 5: to Richard Mercer. I won't be you surping him doing that.

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Speaker 5: But look, I'll pop up somewhere, but it won't be

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Speaker 5: on radio. Okay, right, Okay, So you want to do

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Speaker 5: I'm already spoke at the CDC. There are bus drivers

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Speaker 5: jobs going steel specials and the like, you know, outing

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Speaker 5: for age pensioners and the good parties. I don't paid

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Speaker 5: because I'm now on age pension myself. It's all well

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Speaker 5: and good.

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Speaker 6: Would you get back to the taxi.

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Speaker 5: Ray, Nah, I mean that was that was a period

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Speaker 5: in my life I'd rather forget, although it did it

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Speaker 5: was in there. I'll tell you what it was. It

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Speaker 5: was in the day before cap Choch's a bit of

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Speaker 5: cash in it back in those days. It's funny, you

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Speaker 5: know we jaculate the taxis if I wasn't driving. It's

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Speaker 5: actually on a Tuesday night when I was calling the

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Speaker 5: dogs that happened now and bullyye, I would never have

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Speaker 5: picked up Mark Collier at North Sydney at two yu

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Speaker 5: will and taking a man and driveny mad and he

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Speaker 5: eventually gave me a start as the fact that traffic

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Speaker 5: for three months later in a strange and perverse way.

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Speaker 5: You know, the taxis are a vital part of my journey.

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Speaker 1: It's a great story.

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Speaker 2: It's a great story and forty three years right it is.

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Speaker 2: And look I'm going to get a little bit you stare.

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Speaker 2: But Ray, you know what Ray welcomed this fourteen years

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Speaker 2: ago We walked into this building here at Piermont and Ray,

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Speaker 2: I must admit, you embraced us from day one and

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Speaker 2: we've been stitching you up over the years, but we've

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Speaker 2: had a great relationship and we would like to thank you,

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Speaker 2: mister Hadley for accepting us into this building.

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a touch of decency about back you Scully Wags,

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Speaker 5: and I do have great affection for you. I got

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Speaker 5: a note last night. I've got a lot of emails

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Speaker 5: for his reasons, but one came from a black, young

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Speaker 5: black called Matt, who worked there and now he worked

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Speaker 5: up on the Central case. He's a lovely untillary. Yes,

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Speaker 5: reminded me of some things I did for him, But

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Speaker 5: he also reminded me that your mob neighbor put a

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Speaker 5: mister whipby bean in my caspace one day and then

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Speaker 5: put some I don't know whether it's a politically gret,

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Speaker 5: but drag Queen's chancing to discard up U saw in

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Speaker 5: the morning in my car park one day. I responded

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Speaker 5: with a petting zoo with sheep and gates and little

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Speaker 5: that sort.

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Speaker 4: Of yeah, how can you possibly survive without that nice

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Speaker 4: things happening?

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Speaker 6: I think on that club two ray, I'd like to apologize,

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Speaker 6: and I FITZI will as well. I mean we should

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Speaker 6: have never. I think it was a bad taste fits.

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Speaker 6: He printed out a bonnet size picture of you in

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Speaker 6: the nude holding a radio water as a giant sticker

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Speaker 6: and put it on your car.

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Speaker 5: Sorry about well, you did the worst thing you remember

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Speaker 5: you sent the so called in turn up the interview

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Speaker 5: me because he said he was a young blake that was,

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Speaker 5: you know, in need of a bit of a guide,

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Speaker 5: and so I thought it was serious. So this young

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Speaker 5: blake comes up, it's opposite you're outside by offers taking

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Speaker 5: it all live, and then he starts asking me sensible

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Speaker 5: questions about how I've got the radio and what the

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Speaker 5: pathways were like. Then he said you've got a daughter.

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Speaker 5: I said got three? Actually he said the youngest one

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Speaker 5: was hot, mate. I said, what are you talking about,

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Speaker 5: you idiot, and he said, no, she's really hot, or

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Speaker 5: seen her on Instagra. I said, listen, I'll put your

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Speaker 5: head up your and so did keep going, nickning you

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Speaker 5: tillage comes from that got me again.

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Speaker 1: What about the time.

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Speaker 6: We said we're going to be here all morning.

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Speaker 1: Save seconds the summer, we said, a young up and

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Speaker 1: coming artist it was into country music in for quick

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Speaker 1: chat and do you ask them to play a little something,

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Speaker 1: And it was the boys for five seconds of summer.

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Speaker 5: That was And I tell you the funniest part about that,

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Speaker 5: My daughter and SAPEI thought it was filthy because they

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Speaker 5: love yourself. I've got these young boys coming to do

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Speaker 5: a country music The boy said, they got good. And

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Speaker 5: then it depended on they said, you're idiot. It's a

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Speaker 5: famous group concert. Oh yeah, biggest man in the world.

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Speaker 5: And so you got me plenty of things you got

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Speaker 5: me for. But you know what, it's been a wonderful

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Speaker 5: journey boys, a wonderful journey. It finishes on December thirteen,

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Speaker 5: and I'm very it's funny. Last night I had plenty

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Speaker 5: to do. I promised I made those see your function.

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Speaker 5: So I went and did that, and then I did

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Speaker 5: a bit with Paul Murray Lake Laws it's not on

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Speaker 5: Sky News. And I got home and so I said,

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Speaker 5: how are you feeling? I said, really content, really content,

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Speaker 5: because sometimes it wasn't a rash decision. It was quite

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Speaker 5: some months in the making. But when you make it,

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Speaker 5: you know, you think, jeez, what tomorrow. I don't really

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Speaker 5: want to do this. If I keep going, there's that

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Speaker 5: doubt in your mind. But I'm out walking at the

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Speaker 5: moment and I feel really content with it. And I said,

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Speaker 5: we had a meeting this morning with my staff. I said, right,

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Speaker 5: what happened yesterday, we forget, We moved to the next step,

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Speaker 5: and for the next six week we go our hardest

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Speaker 5: and no more mentions of the retirement, and we'll move

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Speaker 5: to the next step. And so you know. And I've

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Speaker 5: been due to BEEP for twenty four years. Before that,

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Speaker 5: I was at two year week for nineteen years. So

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Speaker 5: I'm not someone who moves about so anyway I might

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Speaker 5: call a bit of foot if someone wants me to

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Speaker 5: next year somewhere, I don't know. That's why I started

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Speaker 5: loving you know. If that happens, it happens. If it doesn't,

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Speaker 5: it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, it's going to be sad to

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Speaker 2: see you go, but it's going to be great to

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Speaker 2: see Alan come back and feeling your shift after you've

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Speaker 2: got well.

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Speaker 5: That's a funny thing thinking that, because when Whipple was

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Speaker 5: doing introduction and I thought, you got him there there,

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Speaker 5: it's got a couple of show here, wonderful talent, absolutely talent.

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Speaker 7: I love you, I love I love her In neighbors case,

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Speaker 7: you're just wonderful. For the other thing is it's a

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Speaker 7: shit a hand and watch.

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Speaker 5: It and I had my do toss there and a

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Speaker 5: bold next me and the dots. How beautiful. Oh, thank you,

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Speaker 5: thank you?

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Speaker 4: All right, So that means we've got six six weeks

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Speaker 4: to plan.

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Speaker 1: Your hats right, all right?

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Speaker 5: Okay, guys is always lovely good.

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Speaker 2: We love you, we we do love you, rabile chetty

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Speaker 2: before you do, well done.

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Speaker 5: Congratulations, you're a good cruise. Thanks very much, appreciate you.

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