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Speaker 1: This Gentleman Being podcast. Hey that's us, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Hello Fresh, the Experts and Tastes that kiwis love

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Speaker 1: and Sandy very lovely to meet you. Thanks for coming

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Speaker 1: all the way to see us. Well not I know

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Speaker 1: you haven't come just to see us, but it's great

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Speaker 1: to have you in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for having me. I've never been here before.

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Speaker 3: I thought you'd come just to see us.

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Speaker 1: I told John.

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Speaker 3: Lovely to have you here. Now you've been doing this

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Speaker 3: gig for over thirty years.

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Speaker 2: Long time. It's a great journeys.

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Speaker 3: Stressful job. I imagine captaining a huge ship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you know, well you know there's perks and there's stress.

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Speaker 2: It comes with any job, right.

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Speaker 1: Because I wanted to know, like we knew because we

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Speaker 1: all watch We love watching the show, but when like

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Speaker 1: how much do you see or do you know what's

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Speaker 1: going on? Until the show maybe comes out, you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: the crew were doing what.

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Speaker 2: Yes all the time, Like when the viewers see it,

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Speaker 2: I see it for the first time. They're always on

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Speaker 2: their best behavior with me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and then do you reprimand them on the

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Speaker 3: show goes to it? No, No, what's under the bridge?

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's you know, they got to live with

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Speaker 2: it now.

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Speaker 3: You kept in the vocal the Wellington, Yeah, I did did,

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Speaker 3: because we were Wellington here in New Zealand. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Really, yeah. You know they changed the name for the show.

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Speaker 2: It was the Wellesley.

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Speaker 3: What they changed the name so no one knew what

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Speaker 3: the boat was security reasons.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about security, but sometimes they just change

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Speaker 2: the name. No, the owner wants it changed, but it's

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Speaker 2: not for security, just for the bad behavior that's on board.

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Speaker 3: Ah yeah right. And so you would get very affluent

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Speaker 3: guests on board, I imagine, do any of them have

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Speaker 3: what's the wildest demand a guest has ever had?

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Speaker 2: Well, they're not. I don't know. In my opinion, when

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Speaker 2: you're paying that kind of money, there's no wild demand.

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Speaker 2: It's just a request that it's an expectation that we

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Speaker 2: should be able to provide. Unless you know, we've had

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Speaker 2: people want us to fly truffles in from Paris, fresh truffles.

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Speaker 3: So did the truffles get flown in?

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Speaker 2: Of course they have the money, the budget. We're like, sure, no.

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Speaker 3: Problem, she's really gonna want treffles.

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Speaker 2: Don't you read like fresh lobster or fresh you know,

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Speaker 2: but the wild requests are not They're attainable most often

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Speaker 2: times if they have the budget for it.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing that show money come by flying a helicopter

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Speaker 3: to pick up a couple of traffles doesn't rettle you.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean, because that's part of the business, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: So that's what they're used to. That doesn't really happen

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Speaker 2: since you know, that's kind of cost.

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Speaker 3: Of living crisis.

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Speaker 2: You can't fuel prices, not every.

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Speaker 1: Day, once a week maybe like that because like as

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Speaker 1: glamorous in people's minds when you're working on the boat,

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Speaker 1: as it would be.

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Speaker 2: Of course, but there is like I was just sharing,

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Speaker 2: when you see us drop the tender in the water

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Speaker 2: and people go, oh my god, your job is so cool.

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Speaker 2: We get to see all these places. We take the

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Speaker 2: guests ashore and come back to the boat. The only

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Speaker 2: way we see the shore line is if we do

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Speaker 2: garbage runs. So we all like, I'll do the garbage run.

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Speaker 2: Why were you gone for three hours? But we go

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Speaker 2: in so the guests go to lunch, like you know,

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Speaker 2: before below deck I would say everybody in the water,

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Speaker 2: we'd play with the toys, and after we would you know, dock.

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Speaker 2: But because usually you stay around where you're you depart from,

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Speaker 2: you go explore.

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Speaker 3: Do you find when you come to New Zealand and

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Speaker 3: we say below dick, But does it have different to you?

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Speaker 2: You know, I've had a lot of Kiwi crew over

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Speaker 2: the years.

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Speaker 3: You've got used to them saying Dick, but right, And.

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Speaker 2: Like all nationalities, everybody has their thing and you learn

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Speaker 2: to train your ear and say wait a minute. So

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Speaker 2: and I've learned a lot like.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything in particular you know about Kiwi stuff?

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Speaker 2: Just Asia series? Yeah, so know just how much she

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Speaker 2: loves it here, that this is her base and she's

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Speaker 2: never going to leave it, which I love. Which is

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Speaker 2: such a beautiful representation of a country. So many people

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Speaker 2: that do the show don't want to live in their

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Speaker 2: country and they want to move wherever, but Asia comes

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Speaker 2: back here to live. So that speaks volumes about the

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Speaker 2: quality of life here.

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Speaker 3: This is a beautiful country. Okay, what's the worst nationalisty?

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Speaker 3: Sandals with us from below dick? Dick is with us?

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Speaker 3: If pirates if you've come across cut across.

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Speaker 2: Really a few times like yeah, you know, pirates are

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Speaker 2: thieves at sea. So between Cuban and Haiti. We were

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Speaker 2: chased by pirates. That's called windward passage because they came

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Speaker 2: from Haiti and we tow very expensive boats and they're

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Speaker 2: just going for the boat. Now in the Red Sea,

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Speaker 2: there was a threat of pirates. When I had a

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Speaker 2: fire in the Red Sea, we had security on board

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Speaker 2: and he goes, uh, the pirates also heard your call

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Speaker 2: for help. So let's see who gets here first. You

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Speaker 2: have to really tell me that who did get there first?

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Speaker 3: The warship, Oh, thankfully, And next stations when pirates are

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Speaker 3: on the way, like what what's the what do you do?

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Speaker 2: We train, We have training, we know what to do,

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Speaker 2: like you know, we're taught how to how to deal

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Speaker 2: with pirates. We don't have guns, you know, we don't

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Speaker 2: carry guns on board. We have fire hoses, we have

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Speaker 2: other means to keep them off.

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Speaker 3: And so because they generally come along like a little

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Speaker 3: dingy with a motor on the back of it.

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Speaker 2: With these we have a lot of fire hoses.

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Speaker 3: Like when they actually do get to the boat, like

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Speaker 3: how do they climb up.

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Speaker 2: These suction cups? But a lot of boats put bob

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Speaker 2: wire around, just like you know, around their boats.

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Speaker 1: Before you go because so nice to have you there.

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Speaker 1: The people say the term mouth like a sailor sometimes

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Speaker 1: means you know, I swear words, which I'm sure it

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen too much. Well, what we've done is we've

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Speaker 1: beat the word from some of your interviews you've done

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Speaker 1: in the past. I want to see if you can

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Speaker 1: work out the word that you've said. Okay, of course

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Speaker 1: we're on some firstly, some amazing up like a seiler,

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Speaker 1: some amazing show. Well these are not sweet words, okay,

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Speaker 1: but this first one comes from Ellen DeGeneres.

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Speaker 3: Now, before we play this, did Ellen bully you when she.

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Speaker 1: Was a huge fan of yours? And I think she

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Speaker 1: starts by talking about it. Her and Porsche watched the

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Speaker 1: show all the time.

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Speaker 4: Have listen, Captain Fanny, it's so nice to meet you.

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Speaker 4: I just we're portion and I are huge fans and

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Speaker 4: we watch every week. Like I said, where are you

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Speaker 4: right now? You're on a boat that's right.

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Speaker 2: In the middle of the Mediterranean and I'm a huge

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Speaker 2: fan of Okay, yours, Yeah, yours, well done.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the next one. This was a

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Speaker 1: UK show, huge UK show called This Morning, a breakfast

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Speaker 1: time show on TV.

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Speaker 2: Were you worried about taking part in it in the

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Speaker 2: first place, because it's quite a secret industry, isn't it. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: it's very What Bravo has done for our industry has

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Speaker 2: en it up, yeah, and has showed people, hey, you

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Speaker 2: can get a job in the maritime industry. There are

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Speaker 2: careers for people.

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Speaker 3: So what have they done?

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Speaker 1: Well, they's something it up.

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Speaker 2: Incredible, No blowing it up. They're blowing it up.

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Speaker 1: That's what you've seen. They're blowing it up and a

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Speaker 1: good way.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: And finally this was Watch What Happens Live, a great show,

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Speaker 1: Andy Cohen, you were on.

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Speaker 3: Seeing the dinner that resulted in Lexi's firing.

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Speaker 1: Who do you think Chuck Lower blows Matt or Lexi?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Matt was an active participate in that.

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Speaker 4: Matt the bear.

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Speaker 2: Matt's a he's good at the bear. And you know

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Speaker 2: you're seeing the dinner that resulted in Lexi's firing.

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Speaker 3: Who do you think Chuck Lower blows.

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Speaker 1: Matt or Lexi?

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Speaker 2: I mean, Matt was an active participant in that. Matt

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Speaker 2: poked the bear.

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Speaker 3: I'm thankful you said we had to clean it up

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Speaker 3: for mett streets credibility.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to kick him on his other knee.

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Speaker 3: He kept in Sandy. Lovely to meet you. We could

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Speaker 3: talk to you all day, but you've probably got other stuff,

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Speaker 3: so I thought you're just coming to see us. So

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Speaker 3: nice to meet you and have a wonderful time in

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Speaker 3: New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.