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Speaker 2: This is for using news.

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Speaker 1: My name Clarence, and at this time, just after nine o'clock,

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Speaker 1: Barbara Friedman joins us with her topics of stories trending

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Speaker 1: on social media. Welcome Barbara.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, morning, Clarence.

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Speaker 3: So a while Agarding was in feb we spoke about

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Speaker 3: Helen Zilla, the mayoral candidate for the DA in the

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Speaker 3: city of Johannesburg, sitting on the side of a sort

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Speaker 3: of a pothole was actually for e leaked water pipes

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Speaker 3: that created a pool in Linborough Park. Well, she's taken

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Speaker 3: it a step further now and she's posted on her

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Speaker 3: socials in a new area in Johannesburg that she's actually

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Speaker 3: taken a dip in Douglas Delle in a sort of

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Speaker 3: a joke, in a pool that she's calling a snorkel pool.

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Speaker 3: It's an excavation, a leaking excavation on Border Road in

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Speaker 3: Douglas Dell that apparently has been around for three and

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Speaker 3: a half years and residents have complained and nothing's been done. Well, Helen,

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Speaker 3: with her goggles and her snorkel, has actually gone swimming

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Speaker 3: in this pool. We're going to play the audio of her,

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Speaker 3: but I mean, as she's sort of like tongue in cheeks, saying,

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Speaker 3: you know this is probably well, you know, this is

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Speaker 3: probably one of the four the only new pools that

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Speaker 3: has been built in Joburg, and you know, no maintenance required.

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Speaker 3: It's expanding. Just bring your goggles and lower your expectations.

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Speaker 3: Writing on the post, she says, good morning Joeburg. Because

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Speaker 3: I've seen the calls for me to enter the Commonwealth

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Speaker 3: Games this year, my team and I will certainly give

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Speaker 3: it some thought. In the meantime, I'll be training right

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Speaker 3: here an Jeadnesburg with all the new pools opening up across.

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Speaker 2: The city every week. And you know you've got about

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Speaker 2: the poor.

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Speaker 3: Lover her, hate her, like her politics, don't like her politics.

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Speaker 2: She is a candidate in.

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Speaker 3: Joeburg who is going to get this job done. And

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Speaker 3: I can I've always been of the view of all

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Speaker 3: the years that when it comes to local government elections,

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Speaker 3: people across all demographics. Once you get your foot also

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Speaker 3: in the housing market and you've got whatever kind of

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Speaker 3: level of housing it is, and you go into the

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Speaker 3: anonymo ballad ballad box, I think you kind of want

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Speaker 3: to vote for the candidate that's going to actually keep

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Speaker 3: your property pricess who's going to get service delivery from

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Speaker 3: you and make sure you don't have potholes, that your

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Speaker 3: garbage gets collected. Because the truth of the matter is

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Speaker 3: people actually want People are aspirational and they want their

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Speaker 3: lives to work. So I kind of feel like, you know,

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Speaker 3: the other candidates or the Dada morreros. But I suppose

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Speaker 3: Herman and Shaba probably will go neck and neck with her,

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Speaker 3: But the Daddas of the world, you know, the anc

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, whatever their politics, you know, come on, that's

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Speaker 3: really not what you're going to vote for in elections.

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Speaker 2: You know, she's a stickler, she's she's something else.

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Speaker 1: She's pedantic, she really is. And you know what, I've

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Speaker 1: been fortunate When she was mayor of Captin, I did

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Speaker 1: a shew called the mayish Okay and she would ask

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Speaker 1: people from Captin to phone in about their problems and

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Speaker 1: they were like this, this little alley next to my

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Speaker 1: house is dark and there's a lot of crime over there,

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Speaker 1: and she would make a note of it. I'm very

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Speaker 1: I think it was an hour long show, so there's

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Speaker 1: lots of phone calls.

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Speaker 2: She'd report back.

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Speaker 1: The next week or the next month, so absolutely, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean she she is a stickler. I agree, and she is.

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Speaker 3: She's a She's a campaign and a candidate with the

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Speaker 3: most and I don't think anyone else is actually like

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Speaker 3: she means it.

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Speaker 2: She actually wants to get this done right. I'm so I'm.

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Speaker 1: So scared of that woman. Yeah, she has has a presence.

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Speaker 2: She does.

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Speaker 3: I'm so curious to see the election results for the

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Speaker 3: mayorship in Johannesburg with that particular lineup.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be fascinating to me to see.

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Speaker 3: Whether people vote with their sort of politics or with

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Speaker 3: their what's the word lifestyle, with with their hopes for

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Speaker 3: joe Burg to actually be turned around, because I think

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Speaker 3: that whatever they say politically, I think a lot of

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Speaker 3: people think Helen will get it TwixT.

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Speaker 1: People want the job done, that's what they do.

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Speaker 3: The next story, of course, is I mean, I'm like

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Speaker 3: a stuck record. I'm talking about another heist. Can you

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Speaker 3: actually believe it? This is an art heist in Italy

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Speaker 3: that took three minutes in and art. I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: a real life heist movie.

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Speaker 2: Moment in the making.

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Speaker 3: This was very near the city of Palma and about

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Speaker 3: twenty kilometers out of the city is a museum called

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Speaker 3: the Magnani Rocca Foundation. It's in the rural sort of countryside.

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Speaker 3: The thieves got through a back gate in the dead

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Speaker 3: of night and they were in and out, as I said,

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Speaker 3: within three minutes.

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Speaker 2: They managed to.

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Speaker 3: Get away ahead a minute ahead of the police arriving,

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Speaker 3: and they stole three paintings that I think are really

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Speaker 3: beautiful paintings. One is Fish by Renoir, one is The

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Speaker 3: Odd Lisk on the Terrace by Matis, and one is

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Speaker 3: Sizan Still Live with Cherries. All together worth seven point

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Speaker 3: eight million pounds. That's about one hundred and seventy seven

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Speaker 3: million rods.

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Speaker 2: And interesting.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I studied art and I adore all of

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Speaker 3: those artists so interesting because if you look at the

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Speaker 3: three of them, you know, one of them was an Impressionist,

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Speaker 3: one of them was a post Impressionist, one of them

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Speaker 3: was a Forvist, and they all sort of followed each other.

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Speaker 3: Then came artists like Picasso who followed on from that style,

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Speaker 3: so they were very seminal in my studying of art.

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Speaker 3: My particular favorite is Sesign, who I just adore is

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Speaker 3: a post Impressionist artist and I just love his work,

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Speaker 3: and you kind of wonder who's going to buy those paintings.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not something it's going to be some.

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Speaker 3: Underground, wealthy person who's going to keep them in his

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Speaker 3: basement forever because he wants to own a Renoir Matisse

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Speaker 3: and sesign Or Are they going to try and flog

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Speaker 3: them somehow and get cash, you know, in a more

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Speaker 3: like what the cops are saying there is that they're

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Speaker 3: going to maybe sort of secretly on another channel, offer

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Speaker 3: luck get a reward for them, but giving clues to

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Speaker 3: their whereabouts.

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Speaker 2: That sounds a bit complicated to me.

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Speaker 3: But whatever the case may be, these three quite small

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Speaker 3: paintings went up on the back of you know, with

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Speaker 3: these these thieves in three minutes flat. Clearly they knew

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Speaker 3: what they were doing, they knew what they were after.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this was not this was not them just

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Speaker 3: going on a wild goose chase for whatever artworks were available.

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Speaker 3: And the bottom line being that we are in the

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Speaker 3: era of heists, are we not? I mean, how many

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Speaker 3: have we discussed It's what they're saying here. The cops

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Speaker 3: were saying, it's the smash and grab period. Thieves taking

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Speaker 3: sledgehammers to the windows of jewelry shops getting into museums.

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Speaker 2: I don't know when that's going to end.

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Speaker 1: And explosive explosives to cash and transit.

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Speaker 3: Exactly which is exactly on high over the place it

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Speaker 3: really is. And then finally I know it's been discussed

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Speaker 3: ag nauseum, the petrol price and whether we should be

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Speaker 3: getting fuel and why are we're getting fuel now?

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Speaker 2: I filled up my car.

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Speaker 3: Is today at the VP right outside our offices on

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Speaker 3: the way home, and it was no issue. I needed fuel.

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Speaker 3: I was very low on fuel. It was going to

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Speaker 3: save me quite a bit of money. I don't think

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Speaker 3: that we are we should all be going crazy.

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Speaker 2: I get that.

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Speaker 3: But this UK woman caught on camera piling her boot

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Speaker 3: with petrol filled plastic Sainsbury shopping bags. I don't even

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Speaker 3: understand watching this video she was. She took the plastic

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Speaker 3: carrier bag.

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Speaker 2: She filled with fuel. I don't know how she propped

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Speaker 2: them up.

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Speaker 3: She didn't even seem to be sealing them, and she

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Speaker 3: put them in her one and next to the other

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Speaker 3: in her boot. And a man filmed this at night

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Speaker 3: of her filling Sainsbury plastic shopping bags, not Jerry cans,

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Speaker 3: not petrol cans, with fuel, and we're going to play

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Speaker 3: out with just the audio of this motst watching her

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Speaker 3: in disrelief, thinking that's like an explosion waiting to happen, right,

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Speaker 3: keeping a bit of a disc since let's listen to

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Speaker 3: what he had to say. Just imagine her with her

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Speaker 3: boot open, filling up the bags and putting them in

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Speaker 3: her boot.

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Speaker 2: You know, are we going to run out of fuel?

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Speaker 3: And if we are and you manage to stash a

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Speaker 3: bit of fuel for how long, then what we all

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Speaker 3: could be the same boat.

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Speaker 2: Eventually we'd all be working from home people. Okay, top

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Speaker 2: training stories every day.

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Speaker 1: My nextroduce Thursday,