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Speaker 1: Steve Prices with us in Australia. Mate, how are you

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Speaker 1: very well?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Lydia thought, what an embarrassment of a woman. What are

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Speaker 1: they going to do about her?

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Speaker 2: Well, not much they can do about her. This, of course,

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Speaker 2: is the woman who decided to storm into the Great

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Speaker 2: Hall in Canberra and start shouting about how King Charles

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Speaker 2: succeeded their land and how he should give back their babies,

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Speaker 2: and he was killing he was involved in genocide. She's

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Speaker 2: on a six year term. So the way our parliament

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Speaker 2: system works, she was elected at the last election as

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Speaker 2: a Green. She had a falling out with the Greens

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Speaker 2: and so the Greens kicked her out of the party.

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Speaker 2: She now sits as an independent and she's got three

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Speaker 2: years to go and there's nothing anyone can do. So

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Speaker 2: she said, see, she doesn't represent anybody, doesn't represent a party,

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Speaker 2: and so there you go. So she sits in the

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Speaker 2: Australian Parliament and it was headlines around the world. We

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Speaker 2: interviewed on the project on Monday night and got from

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Speaker 2: ITV that was his lead story. And so the British

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Speaker 2: we all saw King Charles being smashed by this crazy woman.

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you I was very impressed about

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Speaker 2: the king. It was short but sweet trip. But look,

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Speaker 2: he's in his mid seventies. I think he Miller is

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Speaker 2: two years older than him. They did twenty seven engagement

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Speaker 2: ship today across Sydney, including a barbecue in Paramatta which

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Speaker 2: was very spectacular. Ended the day on the harbor on

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Speaker 2: a boat. The crowds were substantial and I thought the

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Speaker 2: age profile of the crowds was extraordinary. Yeah, they busted

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Speaker 2: in some school kids, but Mike, in general there were

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Speaker 2: younger astrainers and I'm talking about you know, eighteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty five year olds standing waiting for hours to just

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Speaker 2: simply shake the hands of King Charles the third I

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Speaker 2: was very impressed on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the guy. I think he's brilliant. I

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Speaker 1: think he's a life of service. There's a poll out

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Speaker 1: here this morning said fifty five percent of New Zealanders

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Speaker 1: think he should remain or we should remain as part

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Speaker 1: of the monarchy, and twenty seven percent would flip it.

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Speaker 1: What do you what's your guess at what Australian thinking.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if the number wouldn't have been slightly higher

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Speaker 1: towards the monarchy as a result of what he's just done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, spot. I think the figures would probably be

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Speaker 2: pretty similar and the Republican movement Lydia Thilp's done. The

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Speaker 2: Republican movement the biggest favor in the world because that

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Speaker 2: would flip more people back the other way. I don't

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Speaker 2: think there's going to be a referendum on Australia becoming

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Speaker 2: a republic in my lifetime. And look, I'm seventy next year,

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Speaker 2: so I might have another what twenty years to go.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they'll thank you thanks. I don't think

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Speaker 2: there will be a republic in our lifetime. I think

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Speaker 2: we'll stay within there in the con How.

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Speaker 1: Long are you going to stay on the show? If

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Speaker 1: you're a hundred, would you still do the show?

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been doing it since I was about twenty two.

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Speaker 2: I think you ah, so probably don't. Let's talk.

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Speaker 1: I don't like to talk about it. It's how you feel,

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Speaker 1: as that spice girl wants it, or who you're feeling

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Speaker 1: or whatever. It was so Costello, when you say the

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Speaker 1: Andrews government, we mean the Dan Andrews government.

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Speaker 2: No, yes, the Dan Andrews government. And he spoke Costello

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Speaker 2: Peter at a Conservative conference in Sydney yesterday. Now this

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Speaker 2: is a guy, of course, he hadn't had a great year.

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Speaker 2: He was chairman of Channel nine. He shouldered a journal

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Speaker 2: in at Canberra Airport. He was forced to quit, but

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Speaker 2: he's still regarded as the best treasurer we've had in

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Speaker 2: living memory. Left it after the government that he was

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Speaker 2: treasurer in was defeated. There was no deck in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Now this huge deck. So he stands up yesterday and

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Speaker 2: he talks about arrogance in government. He gave Dan Andrews

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Speaker 2: a slap on the way through saying that he shouldn't

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Speaker 2: be involved in treaty negotiations and joining China's Belton road system.

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Speaker 2: But he saved his best quotes for the COVID reaction. Now,

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Speaker 2: you and I've spoken regularly about how Victoria was lockdown

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Speaker 2: longer than anyone else in the world, he said, quoted

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Speaker 2: in Melbourne during COVID they closed playgrounds, swings and slides

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Speaker 2: were chained up to stop children using them. And then

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Speaker 2: he went on to talk about how we of course

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Speaker 2: had our You know, you couldn't go out after night.

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Speaker 2: He said, children weren't dying from COVID, they wouldn't die

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Speaker 2: by using a swing. This moronic government even decided to

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Speaker 2: institute a curfew. Now you're not going to catch COVID

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Speaker 2: driving alone in your car up to nine o'clock at

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Speaker 2: night exactly. And Costello did say he was scared and

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Speaker 2: concerned that citizens people in Melbourne gave up their freedom

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Speaker 2: so easily. It was a very powerful speeches today.

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Speaker 1: Good on them. This weekend I watched for my sins.

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Speaker 1: There was a debate. There's been several on Sky News,

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Speaker 1: which is where you work at one of your many jobs.

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Speaker 1: But this Christophiley guy who's in Queensland, who I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: is going to win and win, well, he strikes me

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Speaker 1: as relatively impressive.

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Speaker 2: I watched the debate same as you did yesterday, so

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Speaker 2: we both got not much of a life. Yeah. Look,

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Speaker 2: Stephen Miles was took over as Premier of Queensland his

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Speaker 2: labor from Anastasia Palichet. They've been in government for ten years.

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Speaker 2: Miles was always handed at ticking dime by. They were

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Speaker 2: never going to win. The LMP will win probably reasonably easily,

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Speaker 2: although some of the polls are going back the other way.

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Speaker 2: But Christophull he've got beaten in the first debate tied

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Speaker 2: the second one, and this is the third debate they've had,

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Speaker 2: and I thought he was pretty impressive last night. He

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Speaker 2: got a bit tangled up on this question of abortion rights.

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Speaker 2: Why that's a thing in Australian politics. I've got no idea,

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Speaker 2: absolutely no idea. It's an American thing. There is a

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Speaker 2: very conservative wing of the LMP under a boat called

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Speaker 2: Catter in Queensland. They've started talking a bit about abortion laws,

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Speaker 2: but no one else takes that seriously. Everybody knows that

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Speaker 2: the rights of a woman or the rights of a

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Speaker 2: woman and we just get on with it. And that's

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Speaker 2: what Christop fully in the end had to manage to

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Speaker 2: spit out and say that's what he thinks.

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Speaker 1: I was reading yesterday you've gone and purchased seven billion

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of US missiles and I'm thinking that's a

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Speaker 1: tremendous amount of money. And Miles is going on about

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Speaker 1: how this is the greatest arms race since WW two.

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Speaker 1: Would you ever see yourself firing off a missile in

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Speaker 1: he is Australia in the business of shooting people down?

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have thought so. But it's to terrence, isn't

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Speaker 2: it New Zealand probably should go. Well, that's not a

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Speaker 2: bad thing in Australia spending the money. At least we

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Speaker 2: didn't spend it. Look, weapons procurement in this country is

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Speaker 2: a mystery to everybody. The Defense Department is the worst

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Speaker 2: public service in the country. They don't know what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: They've signed up to this submarine deal. Again. I hate

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Speaker 2: to talk about my mortality, but I'll be dead before

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Speaker 2: the first submarine set sale. So look, those missiles can

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Speaker 2: be used by the Navy. Seven billions a lot of money,

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Speaker 2: but not really in terms of military requirements. So we've

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Speaker 2: got them where we have to ever have to fire

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Speaker 2: them in anger. I wouldn't have thought so, because I

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Speaker 2: presume if we get into a conflict with China, they'll

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Speaker 2: simply turn off a switch in every electric car and

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Speaker 2: the country stopped running and that'll be it.

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Speaker 1: Hey, what are you going to do now that Harald's

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Speaker 1: was closed? You hear that Heralds went bankrupt yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe that I used to go once a

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Speaker 2: year to that sale. I've still got some magnificent suits

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Speaker 2: from the book from there, Melody.

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Speaker 1: See, this is what saddens me. Harold's for people who

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Speaker 1: don't know. Everyone who's been to Melbourne Sydney knows Harold.

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Speaker 1: Harold's been around for forty years. They've seen it all.

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Speaker 1: And if you can't survive in retail now, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that says something fairly poor about the economy, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: Well. I suspect anyone with a dollar who could get

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Speaker 2: out of Victoria has That's probably why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, go well, we'll catch up next week.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it very much. Harold's is I mean Colin Street.

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Speaker 1: They had an outlet in Sydney in the Westfield, in

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Speaker 1: the downtown area, but they did really high end stuff.

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Speaker 1: That's why I raised it with Steve, because that's all

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Speaker 1: Steve wears. He wears a lot of tom Ford and

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Speaker 1: Balenciaga and you know, a lot of silk, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the Sachi stuff like that's a little colorful for

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Speaker 1: my taste. But nevertheless, that's what Harold's did and for

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Speaker 1: a forty year veteran of the industry, suddenly yesterday tipped

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Speaker 1: into liquidation, just like that.

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