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Speaker 1: Started off the week this Sunday with Remembrance Day, very

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Speaker 1: of time, but it's still, you know, five years of

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Speaker 1: you think about it's the longest time, but it's still

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Speaker 1: it's still a long enough time. And then like I

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Speaker 1: say after that, it was just things like bossing a

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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about another day, I'm sure, but there

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Speaker 1: you go. I'm waffling on now about bits and pieces.

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Speaker 1: So let's now talk about something else which is absolute

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Speaker 1: passion to me, which is a d C. And I've

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Speaker 1: been looking at these bracelets, okay that have just been

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Speaker 1: been to all that. They've been on the market for

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Speaker 1: a long time. But there's some great of these parachorded

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Speaker 1: bracelets on the market now, which is which is really cool.

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Speaker 1: If you go on on my Facebook page, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to profile a few of them in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: But there's some really cool stuff and the complements your

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Speaker 1: d C when it comes to things like tornicks or

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Speaker 1: it comes to even splints and all that sort of

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Speaker 1: stuff with the first oh side, a great length of

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Speaker 1: parachord is a massive acit to you. So my e

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Speaker 1: d C thing this week is He's bracelets and some

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Speaker 1: of them have even got compasses and whistles, and I

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Speaker 1: as well, actually, which was which was quite cool on us.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you've managed to get onto the planes.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the bracelets that we've been looking at for

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Speaker 1: the DC are really really cool, so have a look

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Speaker 1: at that. I'm sure at some stage Great Club will

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Speaker 1: bust out a parachord bracelet if they haven't done so already,

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Speaker 1: and I haven't seen one yet, but I'm sure they

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Speaker 1: will do, or some stage one will come out a

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Speaker 1: great piece of kit. And like I say, the connotations

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Speaker 1: You know, even if you just strip it down as

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Speaker 1: a spare bootleage one day, or tie your kit onto

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Speaker 1: your back, or secure something to the top of your car,

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Speaker 1: you can see where we're going when it can't you

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Speaker 1: the parrot. Having a great length of parachord on you

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Speaker 1: is a super bonus. And been able to keep it

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Speaker 1: on your risk. Forget about it. It's there, okay. So

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Speaker 1: I've been wearing these bracelets now for for the last

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks to trial them out, and I'm having

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Speaker 1: a I'm having a good time with them. I think

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Speaker 1: they're cool, they look they look all right. You can

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Speaker 1: get them in various different colors. I've got them in black,

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Speaker 1: I've got them in olive, I've got them in green,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean you have to have them in

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Speaker 1: those kinds. I mean we're using this as a first

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Speaker 1: aid piece of it. I could have it in red,

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Speaker 1: I could have it in yellow, I could have it

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Speaker 1: in blue if I've got a yellow and blue one,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of these guys now are doing regimental

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Speaker 1: colors with them as well. So the point being at

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Speaker 1: our stress this again, the point being that we have

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Speaker 1: a large amount of parachord on my person at any

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Speaker 1: one time, which I can do hundreds and hundreds of

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Speaker 1: cool things with. I mean this is extreme, but with

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Speaker 1: the belts that I wear, the five eleven belts with

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Speaker 1: the loops on the front of them, I can even

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Speaker 1: prusse it. So I can strip this down. I can

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Speaker 1: make what's called a prussic and I can climb robe.

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Speaker 1: I can climb robe, I can climb poles. I can

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Speaker 1: make the connotations with this. And I think as we

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Speaker 1: get into these bracelets, I think I'm going to actually

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Speaker 1: showcase some of this stuff on my live show of

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Speaker 1: what we can do when we strip these bracelets down

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Speaker 1: and how we can get this stuff out and going.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be really cool. So look forward to

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Speaker 1: that and soft rap, because that will be something to

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Speaker 1: look forward to. It will be really cool. A d

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Speaker 1: C with myself showing you some of the cool tricks

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Speaker 1: you can do. We've really inexpensive kid that doesn't cost

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Speaker 1: a lot of all these bracelets. I mean, jeez, if

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Speaker 1: you pay more than two or three dollars for him,

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Speaker 1: you'd be you'd be you'd be paying too much, you

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Speaker 1: really would. And of course if you've got really cute

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Speaker 1: I know some guys that tie their own and make

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Speaker 1: their own out of these tell you a series of

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Speaker 1: retaining type knots, which which which are quite cool when

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Speaker 1: they look at you seriously, have a look at them.

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Speaker 1: I have a look at the paracole bracelets. They're a

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Speaker 1: great bit of kit. They've covered a DC. We've looked

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Speaker 1: at me in Northern Ireland, and we've talked remembrance, which

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Speaker 1: is always always close to my heart. Let's see if

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Speaker 1: I can play the last post. The last post is

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Speaker 1: always played on Remembrance Day. That's what starts. I don't

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Speaker 1: have too many sorts. Was always done still bothered m

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Speaker 1: m I see, I see, I see sister m h

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Speaker 1: m hm hm ah ah. There we go, don't forget

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Speaker 1: to check things out on Create Club and to check

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Speaker 1: everything out on soft rep dot com hopefully next time

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Speaker 1: without a soft right. As you can tell our come today,

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Speaker 1: I was seeing all very shown where else. You'll clover

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Speaker 1: some more topics for you until then over James Winds

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Speaker 1: as ours and I'll see you all later. You've been

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