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Speaker 1: From the Zidium podcast network.

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Speaker 2: It's Flea Sborn and Hayley's It's a little bit of pot.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to a little bit of pot.

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Speaker 2: And turns out Vaughn, we work with a shiny klepto magpie.

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Speaker 1: No, lessen, this is what I love doing when I'm hotelling,

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Speaker 1: and I'm been I've been hotelling a lot.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what I forgot to get at the

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Speaker 2: hotel last weekend? At the box of tissues? And I

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Speaker 2: keep forgetting It was a hotel that had a built

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Speaker 2: in tissue box and they'd only you steal it easily.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you that right now.

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Speaker 2: Won't be going back to that hotel that's on my

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Speaker 2: ship list.

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Speaker 3: Yeah takes.

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Speaker 2: Most people worry about amenities, like, you know, a nice

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Speaker 2: comfortable bed, a view and I know you TV, not me.

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Speaker 3: Can I steal the tissues?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Well, I I've been hoteling because I've been on tour

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Speaker 1: with my own show and with Seven Days Live, and

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Speaker 1: so everywhere I go I have to take the pin,

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Speaker 1: the complimentary pin.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a pencil.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a pencil, And I say, get fucked you.

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Speaker 1: You knew what you were doing.

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Speaker 3: Bootique hotels.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's naturally wooden, no plastic.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, because it's eco friendly, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not human friendly anyway, I thought maybe we

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Speaker 1: could go through. I've got a small collection of six

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Speaker 1: pens that I've collected late to give them a bit

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Speaker 1: of a review. Now let's start with this guy here.

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Speaker 1: We've got the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson.

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Speaker 3: Hotel, that one. I've stayed there before.

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Speaker 4: Now look at that. We've got Blender slender.

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Speaker 1: Gold gold lady hen beautiful stink. But we spin it

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Speaker 1: around and we have already broken the tip.

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Speaker 2: Oh see, okay, so the elegance has just gone out

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Speaker 2: the window, then, Hasn't it sucks?

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Speaker 1: Because boy, oh boy, that's a lovely that's beautiful inky black.

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Speaker 4: Sack laughly ink. But the tip has come off easily

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Speaker 4: in my handbag.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So what are we giving that? Out of five? Well?

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Speaker 2: One it's unusable now yeah, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Now I have the Crown Hotel in Napier. Now we've

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Speaker 1: got a thicky here, but it's giving a stiff, stiff nip.

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Speaker 2: That's a stock standard free pen. You see that kind

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Speaker 2: of pen?

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Speaker 4: A lot?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this has been well represented that when I selected

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Speaker 1: this one. Rubber grap It does have a rubber grip,

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Speaker 1: which I quite like. The printing's nice and sort of

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Speaker 1: an ombree effect on it. And just to do some

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Speaker 1: writing here, okay, with a blue ink consistent for do

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Speaker 1: you want.

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Speaker 4: To wrap your lips around that one?

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Speaker 3: Beautiful? Beautiful? It's nice. That's nice. That's a fly that's

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Speaker 3: a fairly sort of standard design.

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Speaker 2: You see this, that's exactly literally what I just said

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Speaker 2: moments ago.

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Speaker 4: Gone apologize.

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Speaker 2: I was still fiddling with the pen for the Rutherford. Okay,

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Speaker 2: which thing's gone?

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Speaker 3: It's still usable. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now I did stay in a Where was it? It

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Speaker 1: was somewhere in Todunger. We've stayed there before, Fletcher and Fletcher, No,

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Speaker 1: have I said that with you guys before?

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Speaker 4: Why would we have been in Todunger. I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: But they gave me an unbranded back, and for me,

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Speaker 1: I just think, what if we will?

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Speaker 4: You know, we've missed a trip there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's dry. It's dry, so we don't.

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Speaker 4: I'm moving up to my best one because I've already

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Speaker 4: selected that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, here.

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Speaker 4: We have the more about that one? That one you

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Speaker 4: you don't go too.

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Speaker 1: I said, that's my best one, and wait out you

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Speaker 1: were moving up to your best I know. We're at

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Speaker 1: the Ascot Park Hotel and in Vicago, one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite hotels. To say, I'm going to say, when you

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Speaker 1: click it, it's got some resistance. It needs a bit

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Speaker 1: of loub.

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Speaker 2: That has a click like I'm about to sign some

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Speaker 2: fucking ship.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I know, but it's stiff. Okay, you have a

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Speaker 1: feel of the stiffness of that clerk.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you wouldn't want to be an arthritic old name.

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Speaker 4: You struggle, struggle, have a right, See what you think?

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Speaker 4: I'll have a little right here.

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Speaker 1: You're not bad, It's fine. I'm going to give that

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Speaker 1: a three. Okay, that's a three. Okay, my second to

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Speaker 1: last one year, I'm on that one.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: I like the But listen to this clique here. Now

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Speaker 1: we've got the Distinction Hotel in Duneda. Now listen to this.

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Speaker 3: It's a good hotel, hotel, it's beautiful building.

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Speaker 4: Look how fast and smooth can click?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's good. That's good. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also, do you know like Haley's got Hayley's got one

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Speaker 2: pin Togo, She's like, this is some of them this

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Speaker 2: is some of them.

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Speaker 4: Man, I'm getting around. That's a beautiful right, that's a

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Speaker 4: four out of five.

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Speaker 2: You're going to turn into one of those old people

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Speaker 2: with a pen room in your spear room.

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Speaker 3: I've had one of.

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Speaker 4: These, lovely, aren't they?

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Speaker 3: And they last this distinction.

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Speaker 4: Distinction, distinction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, pin. Now let me introduce to you my

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Speaker 2: This is free nice are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: This is free?

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: I will say that this hotel, this is Sydney, and

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Speaker 1: this is when we went there, and I've included this

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Speaker 1: one from my hotel collection of the year. Okay, because

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Speaker 1: this is a hotel in Sydney called the Old Clear.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what it's the most expensive. No,

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Speaker 1: don't look up the don't look up the fucking rate.

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Speaker 4: Don't look up.

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Speaker 2: The right was four point two out of five with

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty Google reviews the Old Clear. Find

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Speaker 2: he doesn't hit me with number one, because there's obviously

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Speaker 2: a couple of one stars in the midst there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can go back to that.

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Speaker 2: I've just it's number thirty seven out of one hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety six hotels in Sydney, so it's up there.

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Speaker 1: What we've got here is a pin that you could

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Speaker 1: write your signature on for a marriage certificate or a

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Speaker 1: legal document. It's inky, it's calligraphy friendly.

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Speaker 3: As a lefty though.

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Speaker 1: See I can see the value outside of my own experience.

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Speaker 4: That is a pin that I think signature.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, always have a right with the old clear.

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Speaker 4: Little, inky, beautiful, a handful of the so I've called

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Speaker 4: that lovely, lovely, lovely.

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Speaker 2: Is what we should do is put up a photo

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Speaker 2: of all the pins, just on the desk, with a

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Speaker 2: link to Today's a little bit of pod. You can

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Speaker 2: see it because otherwise here these pins, dear listening devastated.

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Speaker 1: It's devastatingly broken. Rutherford Hotel Nelson pen which stunning, lady pin.

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Speaker 3: Stunning, just lost time.

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Speaker 2: Recently, we were with a friend who were has stationary

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Speaker 2: for no other purpose than to test the pop.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: You told us this, and this is why when I

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Speaker 1: was clicking these pins, I was like, do you know

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Speaker 1: who's gonna fucking love the slitching.

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Speaker 3: For yeah, yeah, a green pin. The green pins, it's

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Speaker 3: always you're gonna choose it.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be blue or black. The green pins

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Speaker 4: are too dry.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I found a one out of five Okay review for

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Speaker 2: this hotel with the amazing Pine Sunday.

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Speaker 4: The most expensive stow I've had this year.

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Speaker 2: Sunday evening, fourteenth of August twenty twenty five, I paid

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Speaker 2: forty one dollars for drinks for three in the ground

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Speaker 2: floor bar, but which Bell had four plus dollars added

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Speaker 2: onto the charge, making it forty five ten percent edition.

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Speaker 3: Really not the normal one to want. Blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: It's they having a bitch and a wonge about drinking

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Speaker 2: at a hotel bar and are being expensive.

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Speaker 4: See this bar, It's like a five stuff in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Even just drinking in Australia is so expensive.

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Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna give that a fuck off. Actually,

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Speaker 4: it's a beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Hotel, a real big fuck off.

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Speaker 4: Pin.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely the reflection makes up for these forty eight dollars

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Speaker 2: drinks