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Speaker 1: Welcome to them Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so, why were you in your local paper? Barbara? Hi,

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Speaker 2: Hello Barbara, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: So why were you in your local paper?

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Speaker 3: So mine hearted Rekoll was called steamed up about a baby.

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Speaker 3: When I had my first son, it was about a

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Speaker 3: twenty nine and a half hour labor and I spent

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Speaker 3: quite a long time in a hot shower in the hospital,

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Speaker 3: the steam on my back that had actually set off

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Speaker 3: the alarms and caused an evacuation.

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Speaker 2: You're kidding.

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Speaker 3: No, And the best part was my dad was a

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Speaker 3: volunteer firefighter and it was his station that turned up

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Speaker 3: and burst into my room.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Barbara, Oh it's you. So you made it into

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Speaker 2: the local Times. What the weerribe Times.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Weary Times.

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Speaker 2: Amazing photo as well.

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Speaker 3: No, actually in the birthing section. I did get with

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Speaker 3: the announcements, I did get a photo, so technically I

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Speaker 3: got it twice for the same birth.

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Speaker 2: BARBERA great story. Thank you very much for sharing with us.

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Speaker 4: No, thank you, Tony, Good morning, good morning guys. Not

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Speaker 4: to talk to you again, Tony.

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Speaker 2: Tony. Tony was a winner a while ago on the

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Speaker 2: show sing for the serenade for the upgrade the Singing Butcher.

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Speaker 3: I need enough.

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Speaker 2: This is that voice.

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Speaker 4: And my car, my.

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Speaker 2: Home living room, Tony the Singing Butcher. Lovely to talk

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Speaker 2: to you again. So why were you in the paper singing.

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Speaker 4: Good morning guys, I wants to talk to you again. Yes,

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Speaker 4: and I was back in twenty ten when my media

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Speaker 4: name at the Singing Butchers started to take off. So

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Speaker 4: I was off to Italy through some master classes in

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Speaker 4: Sicily and Rome, and the heading was it's time job

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Speaker 4: for operatunity of a lifetime genius.

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Speaker 2: Local newspaper headlight. That's so good, that's great.

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Speaker 5: So were you going to Italy as a butcher as

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Speaker 5: an opera singer?

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Speaker 2: Confused?

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Speaker 4: If I would to a butcher, I wouldn't probably come back,

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Speaker 4: but anyway, No, I was for the opera. Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: I was doing master classes in Sicily and Rome.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I didn't know you'd had lessons. I just thought

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Speaker 2: you could sing like that.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, yeah, that was in the heyday, so yeah,

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Speaker 4: basically I was then with the company for a little

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Speaker 4: while that was short lived, and then yeah, just continued.

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Speaker 4: Myself had a maestroe as well at the time.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, do you know what, they should hire you

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Speaker 2: to sing at the Grand Final this year. I'd enjoyed that.

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Speaker 4: Well, Christian, you always asked the great questions. Gilan McLaughlin

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Speaker 4: and his lovely wife is to shop at our butcher's.

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Speaker 4: And I asked him one day because he asked me

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Speaker 4: how I'm going with the AFL. I said, what, you're

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Speaker 4: doing a great job, but you get work flock meatloafs

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Speaker 4: God bless him, resty soul. But I said, you can

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Speaker 4: give me one hundred thousand dollars over six years and

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Speaker 4: I'll blasting him to your part, and.

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Speaker 2: Here's your jobs for the Grand Finals every year we

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Speaker 2: take the singing.

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Speaker 4: Butcher Well, yeah, that was my offering to him, but

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Speaker 4: he didn't there to be so anyway, Well.

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Speaker 2: They've got a new guy coming at the end of

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Speaker 2: the season. Maybe you should try and picture to him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Andrew, Yeah, what I should maybe have a chat

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Speaker 4: with mister Dylan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tony, lovely speech, you mate, Take care all right,

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Sam now, Good morning.

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Speaker 6: Sam, Good morning Sam.

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Speaker 2: Why were you in your local paper?

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Speaker 5: I was in my local paper back in twoy seventeen.

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Speaker 5: I was actually having a stroke while driving my son

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Speaker 5: to daycare.

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Speaker 2: Wow, what will happened? Do you have to pull over?

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Speaker 3: Or yeah?

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Speaker 5: I pulled over because I thought I was just feeling

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Speaker 5: unwealth so I thought i'd been my boss at the

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Speaker 5: time to say that I wouldn't be coming in. And

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Speaker 5: by that time I had lost the use of my

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Speaker 7: And couldn't get into my phone.

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Speaker 5: Eventually I did and got in contact with her. I

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Speaker 6: And at that time, there was a gentleman walking.

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Speaker 5: Past, and he must have known something was wrong.

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Speaker 7: And he helped my boss and himself find the location

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Speaker 2: What an incredible story. That must have been terrifying for you.

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Speaker 5: It was, and I had my three and a half

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Speaker 2: Is amazing the kindness of a stranger to occurred to

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Speaker 2: come to your aid there as well.

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Speaker 6: Sam Oh, definitely definitely, and the that he was on

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Speaker 6: his morning walk.

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Speaker 5: He had my phone then up to the end of

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Speaker 5: was either, and come back and stayed with me until

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Speaker 5: the ambulance arrived.

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Speaker 2: What a lovely guy. I loved those stories when you

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Speaker 2: know someone just comes at the right time, it's almost

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Speaker 2: like it was meant to be.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just hadn't been able to find him. I'd

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Speaker 5: done the local radio station and the local newspaper to

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Speaker 5: try and locate him, and I just put it down

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Speaker 5: to it like everyone just said that it was just

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Speaker 5: my guardian angel at that time.

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Speaker 6: He was there at the right time.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, didn't want to be notified to, you know,

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Speaker 5: to have the thing because it was just amazing.

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Speaker 2: So when was this then?

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Speaker 6: Back in or was actually probably eight years ago on

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Speaker 6: the tenth of June.

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Speaker 2: And whereabouts were you? I was in Packingham and where

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Speaker 2: exactly Impacingham because you never know, now, you never know

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Speaker 2: who might be listening. He might be listening or someone

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Speaker 2: who knows that.

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Speaker 5: Guy, Yeah he was.

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Speaker 2: We were in the state, So June about eight years ago.

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Speaker 2: What time of the day is it? Early in the morning,

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Speaker 2: take it to day care?

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Speaker 7: It was about seven thirty, seven o'clock seven thirty.

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable story, isn't it? And how are you now?

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Speaker 5: I've got a full bell of health. The neurologist discharged

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Speaker 5: me a few years ago.

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Speaker 6: He did say, if I hadn't had a court in time,

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Speaker 6: I would have been at a nursing home.

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Speaker 2: So it's sad.

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Speaker 7: I thank my lucky stars for that guardian angel of mine.

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Speaker 2: Only she got goosebumps. Listen to this. I want to

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Speaker 2: try and find him. So, Sam, do you mind if

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Speaker 2: we picked this up to see if we can find him?

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Speaker 2: Would you like that or not you feel like you've

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Speaker 2: moved on.

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Speaker 6: I'd love to find him and say thank you.

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Speaker 5: Even my family and friends would love to be able

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Speaker 2: How old your boy now? So what three at the time,

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Speaker 2: eight years ago? What is he eleven? Twelve?

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Speaker 7: Well, he's probably it was actually.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen, so turning fourteen. And my eldest was is now

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Speaker 2: Incredible though that when you said that if it hadn't

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Speaker 2: been for the kindness of the stranger, that you know,

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Speaker 2: you would have been in a nursing home. It just

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Speaker 2: a very very different life for you.

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Speaker 5: It would have been a very different life. So I

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Speaker 5: wouldn't have been able to talk and probably even walk.

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Speaker 2: Wow, do you think about it a lot? Sort of

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Speaker 2: him saving it?

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Speaker 7: I do often think about it, especially around the anniversary time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this has coming up in a couple of days time,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. Did you say eighth of June, tenth of June,

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Speaker 2: tenth of June, So that's not like in a week's time?

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Speaker 2: Is that next week? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this weekend? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, So Sam, if you'd so you're happy for us

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Speaker 2: to try and sort of see if we can locate him,

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Speaker 2: see if we can find him.

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Speaker 5: Oh, that would be fantastic. I'd love to take you.

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Speaker 2: So I hope you don't mind then, and ask quite

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Speaker 2: the question. So it was the tenth of June. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and it was eight years ago, so this would be

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Speaker 2: in the morning in Packingham. Yes, And what was the

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Speaker 1: Hen to estate.

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Speaker 2: And so do you even know his name?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: I don't have been in what was going on with

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Speaker 5: He I don't even think he gave my boss at

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Speaker 2: Was just was he a local person so he must

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Speaker 7: The morning, Yes, definitely.

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Speaker 2: Did he have a dog or anything, No, he.

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Speaker 5: Was just walking on his own.

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Speaker 2: Old guy. What kind of age would you put them?

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Speaker 7: They probably would have been in his sixties possibly at

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Speaker 2: I feel like we're playing guests who right now and

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Speaker 2: I'm ticking off. Did he have a beret?

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Speaker 5: He didn't, but I do remember he did have a beard.

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Speaker 5: That's as much as I can really remember at the time.

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Speaker 2: So all right, Sam, we'll see what we can do.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, thank you so much. It'd kind of been

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Speaker 2: easy to call us up today and share that it's

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Speaker 2: an amazing story, but I must imagine it's all quite

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Speaker 2: a scary one too to share again as well, Sam, it.

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Speaker 5: Is good, although it's good to actually talk about as well.

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Speaker 5: So it's good. It's a good recovery process as well

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Speaker 5: to try and yeah, deal with with the fear at

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Speaker 5: the time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm in all your courage. Kind of an

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Speaker 2: easy thing to call us today and go back through that,

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Speaker 2: So thank you very much for trusting us with it.

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Speaker 5: Sam, no, thank you for letting me put it out

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Speaker 5: there again.

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Speaker 2: It's an incredible story. I love that it really was

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Speaker 2: a guardian angel, all right, So a sixty ish your

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Speaker 2: old man it is with a bit.

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Speaker 5: That's all I can remember, all right.

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Speaker 2: But you never know, you never know. I hope we

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Speaker 2: can find this guardian angel, all right, Sam, for now,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much, take care, I have a good.

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Speaker 6: Day you too, Thank you.

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