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Speaker 1: The ZM podcast network, please would and Hailey's little bit

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a little bit of Potter And just a

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Speaker 1: reminder that our Christmas Cocktail Special record will be happening

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Speaker 2: People are really looking forward to it now.

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Speaker 1: I received a message on Instagram from Kelly. Kelly said,

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Speaker 1: speaking of your name, this was the other day we

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Speaker 1: were talking about names that you hate. Yes, changing your name.

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Speaker 1: She heard that and she said, well, look, speaking of

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Speaker 1: your name. I'm reading a new book from the author

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Speaker 1: of Flashman Is in Trouble. Oh yes, main character it cool.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that was a cool TV series. I don't read

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Speaker 3: the book, I read the I watch now TV series.

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Speaker 1: This is the I believe this is the synopsis. Hay

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Speaker 1: Brodessa Ratna. Yeah, this is a synopsis for the book.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty a wealthy business name, a businessman named

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Speaker 1: Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway and the nicest

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Speaker 1: part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalized,

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Speaker 1: held for ransom, and then returned to his family miraculously.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call him Fletch. This is how we

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Speaker 1: would call him, miraculously Fletch. His wife and three kids

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Speaker 1: are left to move on with their lives and resume

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Speaker 1: their prized places and the ongoing saga of the American Dream.

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Speaker 2: Ah, so the Fleischman is in trouble to Jesse Eisenberg

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Speaker 2: in it, and Clear Dane and Clear Danes and Star

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Speaker 2: Adam Brody was in that before.

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Speaker 3: He would everybody as the Rabbi and the.

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Speaker 2: They've changed the character, the names as of the people

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Speaker 2: of the characters because on the actual show.

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Speaker 4: That isn't a character called Carl.

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Speaker 3: This is a new book called Long Island Promis.

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Speaker 1: Or Her Her Her Okay, yeah, so what happens to

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Speaker 1: this character? Forty years later? My mother dies. The trauma

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Speaker 1: that's been bubbling beneath the Fletcher's lives all this time

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Speaker 1: surfaces at last, and it becomes quite apparent that Flitch

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Speaker 1: has been quietly pursuing closure for the kidnapping all these

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Speaker 1: years later.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, so I thought that was the book.

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Speaker 3: Fleischman is in Trouble is an amazing book slash TV

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Speaker 3: series for people who are sort of entering their forties

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Speaker 3: because it's about how.

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Speaker 2: When you're in I don't need to watch that for years.

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Speaker 3: You're not the same person you were in your twenties.

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Speaker 3: And so many people get married in their twenties and

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Speaker 3: they were in their forty they're like, this isn't I'm

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Speaker 3: not the same and that isn't the same person.

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Speaker 4: Like we should be able to sleep with other people,

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Speaker 4: we should.

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Speaker 2: Be able to just open things up and change the

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Speaker 2: structure of a relationship.

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Speaker 3: Some people never got married, some people remain single, some

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Speaker 3: people were already divorced. It was just I felt like

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Speaker 3: it was perfectly targeted.

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Speaker 4: Blow The main character is mine.

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Speaker 1: It's like that policeman and you Tanaki the he's always

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Speaker 1: in the news about me and rescue is a policeman

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Speaker 1: and he'll be like, yeah, we found the tramps up

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Speaker 1: on the hill. And it's like Varden Smith said, and

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Speaker 1: it's like.

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Speaker 2: There's a Hailey Sprow, but she's no one. She lives

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Speaker 2: in Scotland. That's that's like, there's not that many others

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Speaker 2: there were.

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Speaker 3: There are some of the Vaughn Smith's. There was a

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Speaker 3: Vaughn Smith that ran for the ACT Party in Wellington

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Speaker 3: Central a few elections ago.

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Speaker 1: Right, and I had a famous footballer like SIMI think,

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Speaker 1: is what messed with your net worth?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Google Carl Fletcher Networks.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I know it.

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Speaker 3: Gives you the football players by the way worth.

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Speaker 4: If it was, I wouldn't be sitting here what I know,

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Speaker 4: wouldn't