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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks, that'd.

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Speaker 2: Be time to catch up with our sustainability correspondent Kate

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Speaker 2: Hall is here with us this morning. A good morning.

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Speaker 2: What are you counting down the days to Christmas? Are

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Speaker 2: you into it in a big way?

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Speaker 3: I'm into an a medium way, I'd call it.

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Speaker 2: I would have thought any excuse for unfeitted consumption would

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Speaker 2: be right up there, all Kate.

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Speaker 3: Christmas mixed feelings because you can, you know, do an

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Speaker 3: awesome Christmas that has great impact and do some fun

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Speaker 3: sustainable day things. But just looking at all the sales,

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Speaker 3: even I get bombarded with pop up it just makes

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Speaker 3: you feel that sick sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's your first Christmas with your daughter though, that'll

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Speaker 2: be cool. Yes, yeah, I mean sure have absolutely no

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Speaker 2: idea what's going on, but that's not the point. Yeah. Anyway, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you've got some really useful little tips for us this

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Speaker 2: morning on sustainable activities to do over the summer break

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Speaker 2: and as well as you know, a bit of a

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Speaker 2: time to kind of relax and disconnect, and also with

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Speaker 2: those hours in the day, there's a bit of opportunity

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Speaker 2: to go and do some things that you know can

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Speaker 2: can push sustainability forward a little bit. So let's begin

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Speaker 2: with a waste audit.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is one that takes a bit of time

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Speaker 3: and a bit of thought, so it's a great one

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Speaker 3: to do over the summer break. So a waste audit

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Speaker 3: generally it can look like how big or smaller you

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Speaker 3: want it to, but I advise looking through a week's

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Speaker 3: worth of your waist, so keep it asize. And then

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Speaker 3: when you look through and you can find kind of

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Speaker 3: the lowest thing for the main waste culprits. It may be,

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Speaker 3: you know, a plastic bread bag, and so you may go, Okay,

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Speaker 3: how can I do this more low waste. I'm going

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Speaker 3: to go to my local bakery. I'm going to bring

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Speaker 3: my favorite bread bag and that's what I'm going to

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Speaker 3: do in the new year. Or you could find a

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Speaker 3: bread recipe. Anything that kind of the main waste kind

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Speaker 3: of culprits are really good to start with first because

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Speaker 3: you're reducing a lot of your waste all at once.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, was can you know can sound a little messy,

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Speaker 3: and if it is messy, that's probably a big sign

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Speaker 3: you need to start composting and dealing worth your organic waste,

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Speaker 3: because your rubbish bin should actually not really smell or

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Speaker 3: be messy if you're dealing with organic waste properly. And

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Speaker 3: that's another great one to do is start a compost.

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Speaker 2: Nice oh yeah, true, okay, yeah, I mean even at

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Speaker 2: the time of year, I mean, stuff's going to be

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Speaker 2: composting pretty quickly in the heat.

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Speaker 3: A yes, yep, yeah, it's very rewarding. I mean it

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Speaker 3: can be a little bit more stinky if you don't

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Speaker 3: have a nice brown matter. So that's your toilet rolls

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Speaker 3: and paper that's really need to add a lot of

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Speaker 3: that over summer, otherwise the slides and things can can

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Speaker 3: get a bit too much. But yeah, starting a compost

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Speaker 3: is a really really good idea compost Pakashi worm farm. Again,

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Speaker 3: when you have the extra time over summer, this is

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Speaker 3: you know, the opportunity to do it.

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Speaker 2: And if you're in the garden, you might as well

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Speaker 2: do some gardening.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's small. If you have never grown anything

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Speaker 3: in your life, start with you know, you may start

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Speaker 3: with some herb. You know, even if you're an apartment

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Speaker 3: you can have space maybe on your windowsill for a

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Speaker 3: few just get stuck into yeah, growing something that you

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Speaker 3: don't have to buy at the supermarket.

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Speaker 2: It's basically impossible not to just grow an enormous tomato

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Speaker 2: plant right now, It's almost impossible. I just cannot believe

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Speaker 2: how quickly tomatoes go every year. I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, you like go, you water the plants at

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Speaker 2: like eight thirty at night, you come out at six

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Speaker 2: o'clock the next morning, you're like, oh, it's just it's

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Speaker 2: growing a foot okay. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: My favorite is compost tomatoes.

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Speaker 2: They kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've got a few that, yeah, grow out through kind

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Speaker 3: of the little vents and so it's just a yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice. So okay, if you have your compost set up,

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Speaker 2: you're doing a bit of gardening. But you want to

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Speaker 2: go even further, you could be picking your own fruit.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: I think that's the fun one that everyone seems to

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Speaker 3: do at some point during this summer is go to,

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Speaker 3: you know, a strawberry field and put here own fruit.

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Speaker 3: I do this in quite a full on way because

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Speaker 3: I try to bring as many buckets as possible and

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Speaker 3: get a whole lot that I can freeze them so

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Speaker 3: I don't have to buy berries and packaging and a

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Speaker 3: lot of the ones that we have at the supermarket

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Speaker 3: and the frozen section that we get, you know, all

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Speaker 3: year round. For us, moodies and stuff are actually from overseas,

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Speaker 3: so it's a great opportunity to make them yourself. Even

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Speaker 3: if you're into preserving, you could preserve the berries and

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Speaker 3: just kind of stuck up for winter stores so you

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Speaker 3: can still enjoy summer fruits.

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Speaker 2: All of us love going to the beach over summer,

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Speaker 2: and you reckon, there's a really simple way for us

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Speaker 2: to give back a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yes, there's often beach clean ups that are organized by

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Speaker 3: your local groups, but you can also just do a

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Speaker 3: diy one. I think, you know, we spend so much

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Speaker 3: time at the beach and it's nice when it is clean.

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Speaker 3: I know I've seen some pretty horrific waste and mess

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Speaker 3: left behind from people who think they can enjoy your

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Speaker 3: day at the beach and leave their rubbish, which is

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Speaker 3: really unfortunate. But I think if we're enjoying something, it's

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Speaker 3: only fear that we give back. And it may sound like,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's my holidays, Kate, I'm off, you know,

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Speaker 3: but this is our country and we need to be

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Speaker 3: proud of it. And we need to look after their

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Speaker 3: natural environment, especially when it's so busy. So yeah, just

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Speaker 3: do a d why de x clean up. If you

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Speaker 3: don't want to get to an organized one, just take

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Speaker 3: a rubbish bag and when you're out there next just

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Speaker 3: you know, allocate thirty minutes, even even ten minutes. Anything

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Speaker 3: is better than nothing.

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Speaker 2: And if you're in summer barbecues over the next few weeks, Kate,

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Speaker 2: what are you going to be doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be starting polite and positive conversations about sustainability.

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Speaker 3: So I think, you know, there's I think sometimes at

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Speaker 3: these Christmas events, you know, conversation staters. They are helpful

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Speaker 3: with your you know, family members, you may not talk

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Speaker 3: too so often. So I'm just throwing a conversation starter

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Speaker 3: out to everyone who's listening to talk about you know,

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Speaker 3: one stainable thing that you've done this year, or you

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Speaker 3: know a random and statable thing you heard Jack and

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Speaker 3: Kate talk about on air. Just start the conversation and

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Speaker 3: see where it goes. Really, that's how culture changes, you know,

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Speaker 3: to be more sustainable and aware, we need to keep

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Speaker 3: talking about it.

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Speaker 2: Good on you, kay, Hey, thank you so much for

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Speaker 2: everything this year. Have a wonderful summer, won't you. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you too, and yeah really look forward to talking again

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Speaker 2: really soon, Kate Hall. You can find her on the

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Speaker 2: social media platforms by searching ethically Kate. All of her

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Speaker 2: tips for a more sustainable summer will be up on

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Speaker 2: the news talks he'd be website. And I've got to

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Speaker 2: say that point around the beach cleanups is so so accurate.

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Speaker 2: So I mentioned I went for my first proper ocean

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Speaker 2: swim of twenty twenty five the other day. We just

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Speaker 2: popped over to tuck up in a beach and while

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Speaker 2: I was in the water, my wife just went up

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Speaker 2: and down the beach, honestly, only over a stretch probably

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Speaker 2: of about fifty meters of sand, and she was going

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Speaker 2: back and forth for about ten minutes or fifteen minutes

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Speaker 2: as the water was lapping in. So here's what she found,

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Speaker 2: and she collected it all. Five pairs of sunglasses, two

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Speaker 2: pairs of goggles, an ID, a hop card, plastic disposable vape,

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Speaker 2: a set of headphones, a shoe, and a small plastic doll.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. She found that I reckon, honestly, in about

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Speaker 2: fifteen or twenty minutes, and she collected them all and

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Speaker 2: you know, lifted them above the high tide line and stuff.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, just unbelievable how much trash there was even

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Speaker 2: in you know, what is a pretty pretty beautiful beach,

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Speaker 2: you know, and not a beach that we necessarily think

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Speaker 2: of as being massively polluted, but nase. So if you

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Speaker 2: do have time, even when you're at the beach, I

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Speaker 2: reckon doesn't even need to be a big formal cleanup thing.

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Speaker 2: If you go for a bit of a swim and

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Speaker 2: you're just warming up afterwards walking along the beach, you're

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Speaker 2: actually doing a bit of a cleanup as you go

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Speaker 2: and as you warm up under the sun's rays. I

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Speaker 2: think makes so much sense.

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