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Speaker 1: Madiem Media manaia am Man Madiem manaia manaia am Man

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Speaker 1: get A.

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Speaker 2: It's Jerry here from the Headachy Breakfast. Just letting you

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Speaker 2: know that if you're listening to the podcast but didn't

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Speaker 2: know that we also do a live radio show, we do.

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Speaker 2: And if you're wondering how to find out what frequency

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Speaker 2: to listen to us in your area, just takes north

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Speaker 2: or South as an Island to three four eight three

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Speaker 2: and we'll let you know. And now let's get on

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Speaker 2: with the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcoman to the podcast. No Jerry and no matter that

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Speaker 1: he has had to head off to work. What are

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Speaker 1: you guys laughing at?

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Speaker 3: I'm laughing because someone what happened walked baby? And the

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Speaker 3: fifth then that came into my head was on Cheers

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Speaker 3: when they just go Norm and that was the and

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Speaker 3: I couldn't shake it. And you're trying to intro the

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Speaker 3: podcast and I'm just going, Norm.

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Speaker 1: I don't get that reference. I'm imagining Zoe at all

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Speaker 1: of twenty one years old, doesn't get that either, Norm. No, man,

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Speaker 1: he had to bounce. He has an actual job, a

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Speaker 1: real job, but he'll be back in tomorrow morning. And

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Speaker 1: I think maybe we can, because we've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of texts coming through on three four eight three this

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Speaker 1: morning saying whatever happened to that show? I think we

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Speaker 1: can delve into the history of the of the show tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe Medi doesn't want to talk about it, but.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he mentioned PTSD a few times this morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh look, and you know people always ask us what

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Speaker 1: happens what the songs are playing? What happened today was

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Speaker 1: he was killed in the fetal position, crying in the

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Speaker 1: corner of the studio. But you know, we picked them up,

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Speaker 1: dusted them off a couple of times, and got him

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Speaker 1: back in. I've just become away this morning that I

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Speaker 1: paid no attention to zod Or because you were looking

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Speaker 1: for a flat, you men, and you found one.

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Speaker 5: Oh god, it's such a hassle.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's such a fuck around.

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Speaker 5: It's so awful.

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Speaker 1: And are there a lot of people competing for the

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Speaker 1: same flats at the moment.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's the most awkward thing when you go to

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Speaker 6: be you in the relton and there's like fifty other

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Speaker 6: people there and they're all it's all like solo people,

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Speaker 6: but they're all a flat mate. So they're all videoing

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Speaker 6: around the house, walking through videoing the flat and you're

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Speaker 6: like in the video like piece like here, so hey,

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Speaker 6: and so it has the bathroom.

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Speaker 5: Oh god, I don't even dude.

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Speaker 1: We could put like grandstand couches in here and then

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Speaker 1: we could get all the boys around and watch the football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: When they talk like they already have the place, you

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Speaker 6: don't know who's going to get the places us here?

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Speaker 1: And so who? How many did you look at it?

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Speaker 1: First of all?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Way, too many?

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Speaker 1: Way way?

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Speaker 6: And I looked at some shockers, like you know when

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Speaker 6: they say it's three bedrooms but it ends up just

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Speaker 6: being two bedrooms and a study, which is just like

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Speaker 6: a close it really, so you can't get three people

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Speaker 1: And how many people were you looking for?

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Speaker 6: Well, we were looking at a three bedroom with my

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Speaker 1: I will say, once you go to having your own place,

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Speaker 6: See this is why we were his attempt, just moving

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Speaker 1: And you guys have been on the rocks lately. I

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Speaker 1: think that once you lately while when member must has

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Speaker 1: moved into our first flat together with no flat. But

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Speaker 1: who was that? It was in Seattle to west Auckland.

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Speaker 1: It was a massive house and to be fair, we

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Speaker 6: It's also quite cheap usually when you do the couples

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but then try because it we didn't do like

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Speaker 1: once you go to your own place, you will never

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Speaker 1: go back to flating again. Yeah, it's nothing in your

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Speaker 1: house is there by mistat. Everything in there is something

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Speaker 1: you bought, you know what I mean, Like when you

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Speaker 1: go back into your flat and you're like, fuck, that

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Speaker 1: thing's ugly over there, but we're going to keep it

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Speaker 1: because it's you know, Sarah's thing or cups and pots

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is very true.

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Speaker 1: No more group chats, oh the group chats man, No

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Speaker 1: more who left the blah blah blah, who did the

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Speaker 1: dishes wrong? Whatever, None of that kind of shit. I

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Speaker 1: used to have a flat mate and Timoru, who I

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Speaker 1: I'll say his name, I don't think of mine, Josh.

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Speaker 1: Whenever Josh got out of the shower, he would go

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Speaker 1: like scream o music. This is like nine o'clock at night,

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Speaker 1: And so one night I was just like, I've had

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Speaker 1: that and he goes, my music speaks to me the

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Speaker 1: way your music speaks to you. I was like, can

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Speaker 1: in the day. Exactly who wants to listen to screamators

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Speaker 1: before they go to sleep? But apparently that's what put

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Speaker 1: him to sleep. That kind of shit that all that

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've locked in a place for just the two

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Speaker 6: about that because it just it's it takes so long

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Speaker 6: gonna get brought by investors and they can just stay

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Speaker 6: there as renters, and they're like, now we want it

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Speaker 1: We had one of those situations as well. We oh

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Speaker 1: it is because you're like, you pretty set up and

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Speaker 1: then they're like, you're going to get out in six weeks.

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Speaker 5: It's six weeks.

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Speaker 6: That's the thing as well, Like sometimes if you're moving

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Speaker 1: We we did a spike move. The last time that

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Speaker 1: like a block away shitolf flat. We were only supposed

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Speaker 5: While we also because it was a contract.

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Speaker 1: No, it was because we had bought a new built

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Speaker 1: It was just all it was just a shit show.

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Speaker 1: And then once you move into your own place, so

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Speaker 1: you're never going to go back.

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Speaker 4: Well, I hope this doesn't happen to you, guys, But

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Speaker 4: tried being in a relationship a marriage for instance, and

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Speaker 4: the like four of those no two well unless you count,

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Speaker 4: the same person, so it's fine, Like we broke it

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Speaker 4: and got back together.

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Speaker 1: If you got married to the same woman twice.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, we didn't get married twice, but we

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Speaker 5: To get a bit of a Ross and Rachel situation.

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Speaker 4: Look, yeah, similar to that, but after wife number one,

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Speaker 4: missus ruder number one, and we lived together because we

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Speaker 5: Would you say, your current wife is missus ruder number one?

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Speaker 4: No, she's current missus ruder missus rudh No sorry, no, okay,

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Speaker 4: the number one, missus ruder first, missus ruder.

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Speaker 1: She's top of the chart.

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Speaker 4: She's number one, the current one, not the other one

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Speaker 4: x missus ruder. Anyway, we broke up and after that

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Speaker 4: So that was late twenties, and it occurred to me

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Speaker 1: You're in a relationship.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it was. It was so odd going back.

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Speaker 1: How old were your flatmates?

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Speaker 4: They must have been about thirty. There was two of them.

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Speaker 5: There was Oh okay, what'd you say is the max

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Speaker 1: Well, I've heard of It's funny you mentioned the divorce thing,

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Speaker 1: because I've heard of dudes, you know, in their i

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Speaker 1: don't know, late forties, fifties, and then they get divorced

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Speaker 1: and then them and the mate it just like well,

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Speaker 1: fuctually moving together. We were talking at So I had

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Speaker 1: were sitting there going, fuck it, should we just move

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Speaker 1: in and flat again? Because you know, when you're flatting

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Speaker 1: on the bones of your ass and it's like you're

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Speaker 1: just getting by, but you have such a blast. And

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Speaker 1: then he was just like, we all now have like

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Speaker 1: adult jobs with the exception to me, how good would

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Speaker 1: a flat be with like six seven of your best

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Speaker 1: mates and actual incomes coming in? Yeah? Six seven, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it'd be. I mean, now our partners and

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Speaker 1: a lot of their kids would probably not be too

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Speaker 1: happy about that. But yeah, so how did that go

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Speaker 1: for you? Flooding?

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Speaker 4: Yeah it was. It was no fun. I didn't think

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Speaker 4: I immediately looked for another relationship so I could move

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Speaker 4: in with a woman though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. You were saying anyone to do just.

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Speaker 4: About anyone, And that's how yeah current came about.

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Speaker 1: Should take a quick break, can come back. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't think I could do that anymore. Jesus. Funny how

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Speaker 1: that happens, does anyone else's sense of time warped since COVID.

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Speaker 1: I felt like that was last week that we did that,

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Speaker 1: But that was six years ago. Yeah, you were saying

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Speaker 1: before because you should the Yeah, twenty nineteen. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 5: No, it started twenty twenty. It started in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 5: not twenty nineteen.

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