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Speaker 1: CAUs Media. You're listening to the Away Days podcast on

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Speaker 1: the ground Outside, reporting from the underbelly with me Jake Hanrahan.

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Speaker 1: To watch Awaydays documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash

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Speaker 1: at Away Days TV. This is Part one, No Rules

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Speaker 1: Is No Rules, Episode four. This podcast is a production

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Speaker 1: of h Leven Studio and Call his Own Media. Since

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Speaker 1: we first met Joey in episode one when he thought

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Speaker 1: bash in Hastings, he's been having a bit of a

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Speaker 1: hard time getting fights. He tried to sign up to

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Speaker 1: go at it in just about every fight club or

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Speaker 1: bernacle event there is, but he's been having no luck.

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Speaker 1: A decent fighter and completely dedicated to violence and raising

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Speaker 1: his own profile in the underground. Still though, something wasn't

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Speaker 1: hitting personally. I think it might be his flamboyant character

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Speaker 1: and attitude. As I've mentioned before, Joey is really quite

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Speaker 1: different from most of the clandestine fighters out there. He's

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Speaker 1: loud as fuck, he dies his beard, he wears Neon colors,

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Speaker 1: and lives with his heart on his sleeve at all times.

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Speaker 1: Joey is about as stoic as a Jerry Springer contestant.

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Speaker 1: He cannot help but shout loudly about what he thinks

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Speaker 1: and who he is. Joey, whether you like him or not,

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Speaker 1: is a one of one. I think it's great. However,

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Speaker 1: I'm unsure the scene as a whole is quite ready

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Speaker 1: for someone like him. Generally, there's a hardcore, tough guy

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Speaker 1: element to underground fight clubs, as you can obviously imagine

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Speaker 1: Joey running in with his Neon pink trainers and three

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Speaker 1: different haircuts, all bleached ye different ways.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't quite fit the mold.

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Speaker 1: The whole point of clandestine fighting, though, is that it's

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Speaker 1: a counterculture outside of society. Anyone taking part has to

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Speaker 1: in every way possible, even if you're just in attendance watching.

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Speaker 1: There's one King of the Streets video, for example, where

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Speaker 1: someone in the crowd grabs onto a fighter through a

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Speaker 1: corrugated fence, literally trying to limit his movement so his

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Speaker 1: opponent can get the upper hand. God knows what he

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Speaker 1: was thinking, but let it be known that no rules

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Speaker 1: only applies to what's happening inside the fight. Everyone else

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Speaker 1: better behave. In the video, the mysterious boss Man of

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Speaker 1: Cots instantly spots the grabbing and leaps over the fence

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Speaker 1: like a gazelle. Several other Hype crew members follow him

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Speaker 1: and a fight breaks out in the crowd. The edit

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Speaker 1: then cuts to a be right back technical difficulties had

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Speaker 1: that day that the lad who grabbed the fire to

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Speaker 1: I was told he's banned for life from all COTS events.

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Speaker 1: There's even a rumor he was kicked out of the

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Speaker 1: hooligan firm he was a part of for embarrassing everybody

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Speaker 1: involved with his antics. No rules is not a game,

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Speaker 1: it's not a sport. That's just one specific example that

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Speaker 1: was caught on video. There were many more that are

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Speaker 1: or when fights broke out between rival hooligan firms close

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Speaker 1: people on the concrete. Every so often he'd have an

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Speaker 1: issues of his own. I won't go into too much

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Speaker 1: up recently, putting a pause on his training on fighting, down,

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Speaker 1: He called me up for no real reason, talking about

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Speaker 1: The discipline of the gym, the ring and the concrete

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Speaker 1: Trying to get Joey to rest for anything is obviously

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Speaker 2: It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Instead, I'm headed out to Spain to meet Joey a

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Speaker 1: few days before the fight. I won't get to see it,

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Speaker 1: but i'll see him before and after I land in Spain.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep the city undisclosed, but it's busy, it's hot,

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Speaker 1: and the traffic is bonkers.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday he was.

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Speaker 1: Flown out by Hype crew, all expenses paid, and he's

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Speaker 1: Generally the fights are held in warehouses or empty multi

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Speaker 1: It's like Tekan. The one that's planned for Spain is

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Speaker 1: apparently unlike anything else. A cool Joey. He's full of

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Speaker 1: energy as usual. He tells me to come through. So

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Speaker 1: and his mate there with his top off mate fucking

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Speaker 1: size on it. Man, Are you feeling top Yeah, you're

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Speaker 1: Joey is easily half a stone heavier than when i'd

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Speaker 1: and he's practically vibrating on the spot. He's just throwing

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Speaker 3: Let's fight.

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Speaker 2: So I just thought, yeah, spoke to some boy.

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Speaker 3: It's a polished boy who fought with them sucking the

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Speaker 2: And then yeah, he was speaking to.

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Speaker 3: Me, so I just fucking yeah, he said, I was

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Speaker 1: in the end was messaging a previous fighter who was friendly,

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Speaker 1: As Joey said, some Polish lad had fought on Cots before,

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Speaker 1: you can fight at Cotts. Joey will be fighting Alex,

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Speaker 2: In episode one. He's the guy who got half.

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Speaker 1: an even win by a brutal double eye gouch. Alex

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Speaker 1: is a serious fighter with a lot more experience than Joey. Joey,

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Speaker 1: though genuinely does not seem anything but excited. No nerves,

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Speaker 2: He's like a kid in a sweet shop. Visualized in

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Speaker 1: Like God looking down at me telling me you're this

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Speaker 1: is like, this is like a big thinking. This is

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Speaker 1: what you've been aiming for thoughn't it? What is it

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Speaker 2: Like? Mate, you want to be honest.

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Speaker 3: The scenery and now I think, but the scenery and

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Speaker 3: all that fucking it's like a movie and every clip

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Speaker 3: and I just will fuck out And he looks nastiest

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Speaker 5: Obviously, yes, a lot of things, but you know.

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Speaker 1: Certain men don't think like you don't think that. Whilst Joey,

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Speaker 1: as you can hear, is a bit of a madman

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Speaker 1: in person, there's something almost endearing about him. He's a

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Speaker 1: young man from South Wales where there is honestly not

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Speaker 1: much opportunity. The idea that he'll soon be taking part

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Speaker 1: for him. I hate it all love it. This is

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Speaker 3: I'm waiting for any did I have, but you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for that like and I'm going on

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Speaker 2: Nothing more harder or better, is it?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: You're not feel any nerves, that's all. No, I don't

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Speaker 3: I don't see I'm not a bad person, you know.

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Speaker 2: What I mean. I'm doing this out of what I

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Speaker 3: I'm practicing. I'm fucking getting more Bayler and I just

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Speaker 2: They want to do it as well.

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Speaker 5: So if you you know, you both want to be

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Speaker 3: But no, I don't get wordied or shadow new this

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Speaker 3: WHAT'SU all?

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Speaker 2: That?

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Speaker 1: Something that often comes up when I tell people I've

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Speaker 1: been filming underground no rules fight clubs like the one

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Speaker 1: Joey's about to take part in, is the idea that

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Speaker 1: everyone involved must be some kind of lunatic. Their lives

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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. That's definitely true for some fighters. But

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Speaker 1: Other than the fighting, most of them are really nice.

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Speaker 1: Even Joey, for example, is a family man who's very

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Speaker 3: I haven't been through nothing to fucking get myself that way.

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Speaker 3: I'm just happy.

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing. A lot of people are like.

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Speaker 1: Oh, you must have something wrong with you, there must

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Speaker 1: be something in your childhood.

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Speaker 3: But I got raised fucking perfect on my parents, like

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Speaker 2: My mom doesn't know about it.

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Speaker 3: You don't know about.

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Speaker 1: The thing with cots is it's more than just the fighting.

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Speaker 5: Not obvious the UK and fucking another fight teram and

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Speaker 3: You know you have money back to spend this gone

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Speaker 6: So, I mean I never thought anything from it. I

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Speaker 1: I leave Joey to shadow box in the dust and concrete,

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Speaker 1: Alex is no longer fighting back. The boss man at

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. Joey has won the fight. His hand

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Speaker 1: It's just what Joey wanted.

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Speaker 1: Alex is back up on his feet, beaten, blooded but

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Speaker 1: It was a brawl, very scrappy, but honestly, what an

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Speaker 4: Right, all right, you look all right, broke the nose.

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Speaker 4: Look what did you call your parents?

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Speaker 1: Joy?

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Speaker 6: Only we need to ring the most season?

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Speaker 2: My parents and brother what they say?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they were loving it, having a drink at the moment,

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Speaker 6: But then you know, some just do it for the

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Speaker 4: It's proud, you know, he is, Like he said it

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Speaker 6: He always said, you'll never be as mad as me.

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Speaker 2: Joe I was fucking mad he was.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, two years since now and then he said, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like to be honest, I can. I can see it

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Speaker 1: I'm not happy though, not with Joey, but with access.

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Speaker 1: We were free to film whatever we wanted as the

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Speaker 1: there's been a journey through recreational ultra violence on which

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Speaker 1: And yet still the biggest detractors of no rules want

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Speaker 2: If they are above the violence. They're not. No one is.

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Speaker 1: It is all around us, but it's been sanitized and

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Speaker 2: Put it this way, if.

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Speaker 1: You have ever cheered on a politician, you have almost

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Speaker 1: definitely promoted, whether you liked it or not, extreme violence

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Speaker 1: rules fight. And you can cool clandestine fighters, thugs and

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Speaker 1: criminals if you want, but they've never since seventeen billion

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Speaker 1: excuse it. They just don't realize it. At least with

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Speaker 1: that was part one of the Away Days podcast. No

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Speaker 1: Rules is No Rules. Next week will be starting part

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Speaker 1: two of the podcast, where we'll take you on a

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Speaker 1: life is like when a gang takes on the role

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Speaker 1: of a government. Remember if you want to watch our

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Speaker 1: Away Days documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash at

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Speaker 1: Away Days TV. You've been listening to the Away Days podcast.

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Speaker 1: Next week part two to watch independent Away Days documentaries,

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Speaker 1: Away Days TV. You Await Days podcast is a production

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Speaker 1: of H eleven Studio for Cool Zone Media. Reporting, producing, writing,

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