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Speaker 1: It's a woman woody podcast meanings.

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Speaker 2: But when you're in a rush or just can't be

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Speaker 2: bothered listening to them blather on for half an hour.

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Speaker 3: We're going to be talking to a Melbourne bloke called

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Speaker 3: Scott Copeland who accidentally booked himself a trip to space.

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Speaker 3: Just before we chat to Scott, it's worth mentioning if

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Speaker 3: you weren't across it earlier this week that Richard Branson,

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Speaker 3: the billionaire, launched Virgin Galactic, right, which is a service

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Speaker 3: we can go and have these trips into the stratosphere.

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Speaker 3: Here's a little bit of audio of Richard from the spacecraft.

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Speaker 4: So, oh, you kids down there. I was once a

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Speaker 4: child with a dream looking up to the stars. No,

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Speaker 4: I'm an adult in a space ship.

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Speaker 3: That was the moment they realized they'd given him the

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Speaker 3: happy gas and not the oxygen.

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Speaker 2: But we are joined by Scott who joins us right now.

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Speaker 3: He's booked himself a flight accidentally on verneon Galactic.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Scott, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: How did you accidentally upgrade yourself to space class? Hey?

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Speaker 5: You going?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you how that happened. Is that when they

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Speaker 5: send out the email to all their frequent flyers. They said, oh,

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Speaker 5: here you go upgrade to space class and I, oh,

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Speaker 5: you riper, I'm going to get an upgrade to business class.

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Speaker 5: And so I've clicked on the link and it's an

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Speaker 5: upgrade to a space ship. So I thought I'll have

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Speaker 5: a crack at that, and so yeah, so I just

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Speaker 5: clicked on the link and then they go, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 5: what would you do to jump on the ship. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and so I've gone off. I just I just remember

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Speaker 5: getting laughed at when I was a kid proclaiming I

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Speaker 5: was going to be an astronauts. So I did, Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'll go and contact my grade five teacher and stick

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Speaker 5: it up. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, have you have you done that? Scott?

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Speaker 2: You have you?

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Speaker 1: Have you given it to the year five teacher?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I did. Actually I actually found it within twenty

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Speaker 5: four hours, which I couldn't believe. I hadn't seen it

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Speaker 5: for thirty five years. And she pretended she still knew me.

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Speaker 5: So that was cool.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, so I'm reading here that

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Speaker 3: you were in you you were in grade five in

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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine, So yeah, so you've called her forty

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Speaker 3: years later to have a.

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Speaker 5: Well Yeah, as I said, like, and then then she

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Speaker 5: started to bring up some of the things that I

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Speaker 5: stuffed around in class. But anyway, look, she said, you

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Speaker 5: remember me, so mate, sad you she did.

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Speaker 3: She probably would take any a call from anyone in

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Speaker 3: the nursing home. She probably thought you were one of

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Speaker 3: her grandkids.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Scotty, can I ask you? So you are you're

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Speaker 1: officially going to be going to space?

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Speaker 2: When are you going?

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Speaker 5: Can? I? Well, I'm still waiting for them to give

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Speaker 5: in the exact date because I think they're still got

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Speaker 5: to confirm that they've got to kick the program off

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Speaker 5: in really early twenty and twenty two, and then it'll

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Speaker 5: just go. It'll just go in order of when people

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Speaker 5: bought the tickets, right, So I've had a ticket for

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Speaker 5: seven years now, So I'm hoping. I reckon I'm in

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Speaker 5: the front half rather than back us.

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Speaker 1: And do you need to train or anything, Scotty before

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Speaker 1: you get shut up there?

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Speaker 5: Not really, I mean, I suppose rich Ricky Branson seventy one,

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Speaker 5: So I reckon I'll be okay. But they they have

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Speaker 5: said they've said that they sort of recommend you go

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Speaker 5: training because you've got to be copying all the g

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Speaker 5: forces and stuff. When you hit sort of three times

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Speaker 5: a speed of sound, they sort of recommend, oh you

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Speaker 5: go and do go and jump into a centrifuge. But

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Speaker 5: there but most of the people they're recommending do that

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Speaker 5: are billionaires. And the cost you're like about ten grand

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Speaker 5: a going one. I said, I'll just walk down to

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Speaker 5: learn a park and jump on the gravitron.

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Speaker 3: Now, Scotty, I'm reading here that you're you're a senior

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Speaker 3: banker with A and Z in Melbourne's northeast. So have

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Speaker 3: you got a partner, Scotty, or or a wife or

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Speaker 3: anything like that.

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Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, well sort of having a bit of downtime

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Speaker 5: with my partner moment. That's a tricky question, trying to

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Speaker 5: work things out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's over. And any kids or anything like that, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I got three.

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Speaker 5: So I've got three kids are all adults. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: All of a sudden seeing you as you know, super

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Speaker 3: special superhero style figure, now that you're going to be

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Speaker 3: flying off in a spaceship.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm having my fifteen minutes of fame this week.

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Speaker 5: So I also asked do they want more ahotograph? But

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Speaker 5: they just declined.

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Speaker 1: Scotty, we played before the audio and we're playing again,

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Speaker 1: I mean Richard Branson and will and I just find

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Speaker 1: this message fine. I don't know why it does sound

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Speaker 1: like he's hit the happy games is Richard Brandson when

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Speaker 1: he gets into space?

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Speaker 4: So, oh, you can't do that. I was one for

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Speaker 4: child with a dream looking up to this starze. No,

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Speaker 4: I mean adult in the spaceship, Scotty.

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Speaker 1: If we're crossing to you, if you're you've just hit

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Speaker 1: the stratosphere or out of space or whatever, I mean,

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Speaker 1: what message are you sending back to Earth, Scotty.

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Speaker 5: Well, it depends if if I indulge in in flight service.

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Speaker 5: I'm assuming that they're going to have some like Crystal

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Speaker 5: or Kruegriight. I reckon I would have I reckon I

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Speaker 5: might sound like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say are you gonna be are

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Speaker 2: you going to be dropping LSD?

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Speaker 3: Like Richard clearly did before he went up in the

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Speaker 3: I went up in the reship or.

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Speaker 5: The other issuld like that. If I'm sitting next to

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Speaker 5: Summer like Margot Robbie, you might not even get to

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Speaker 5: look out the window.

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Speaker 2: Oh, not mad at all, Scott Copland, all the best man.

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Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure to have you on willing it's

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Speaker 2: been a hurt. Thanks for joining us. Thanks, is it

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Speaker 2: all good luck? He's gonna be on Merchant Galactic Space Boys.

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Speaker 2: What a buddy legend. I love that he called his

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Speaker 2: teacher from forty years ago to shove it up that

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Speaker 2: he was actually going into space. Gee, is that guy

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Speaker 2: to be a hood around the office. He's welcome back

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Speaker 2: on the show at any time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, more of the boys on the full show podcast.

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Speaker 4: You know you want to