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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Your story is about drive throughs. Do you have an

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Speaker 2: unusual job? And are you an am mortal being? Your

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Speaker 2: name is up somewhere, Christian, I am a mortal. Maria,

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Speaker 2: I'm in all of you. Immortal Marie is amongst us.

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Speaker 2: My name is on a shield in the local Amateur

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Speaker 2: Swimming club club room for most improved swimmer. Drive through

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Speaker 2: story here from Carol many years ago. I was moving

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Speaker 2: from Adelaide to country essay. I was driving a U haul,

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Speaker 2: decided would get a Macca's on my way back, and

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Speaker 2: just casually drove through the drive through. I got stuck

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Speaker 2: halfway on a tight bend. I was there a very

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Speaker 2: very long time side process. Get myself free, Gail. Early

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Speaker 2: one Saunday morning at Maccas, there was suddenly a standstill

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Speaker 2: in a drive through line. When I collected my order,

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Speaker 2: the staff and apologize and said someone had run off

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Speaker 2: into the street and grabbed all the cooked hash browns.

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Speaker 1: What's up with people these days? Johnny?

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Speaker 2: I was in the Red Rooster drive through many years

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Speaker 2: ago and was close to closing time.

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Speaker 1: They took my order. I drove forward to wait.

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Speaker 2: While I was waiting in the window, I kept seeing

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Speaker 2: them like they were clearing up and turn all the

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Speaker 2: lights off.

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Speaker 1: They've forgotten the just go knock on the front door

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Speaker 1: and get a refund.

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Speaker 2: They guys that widow on The've seen them out there waiting.

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Speaker 1: It's been there a while.

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Speaker 2: Unusual jobs and as a giny genealogist, I do foinally

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Speaker 2: researching people like get them to do their DNA and

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Speaker 2: I can work out from the families from their DNA matches.

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Speaker 2: Mail manually cuts the tread patterns into professional race car tires.

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Speaker 1: It's manually done. I think that would be wow.

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Speaker 2: Demo is a paranormal investigator doing ghost tours. Do you

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Speaker 2: remember when we got them in here?

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's why they brought all the equipment.

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Speaker 2: Is well, you say that one was just a small

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Speaker 2: digital camera that took photos of It was a special

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Speaker 2: a special camera.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Leslie's got an amazing job. She makes phone calls for

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Speaker 2: deaf people. Christian, I love it. It's wonderful, Letsie, what

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Speaker 2: a great thing to do. Rich is a stage manager

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Speaker 2: of large music festivals. I tell all your favorite artists

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Speaker 2: what time it is.

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Speaker 1: They just rock it.

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Speaker 2: They don't know it's it daylight now, Elton John, it

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Speaker 2: is not this guy. How a little time they've got

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Speaker 2: left to a pull the plug? If they go on

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Speaker 2: too long, the power with you.

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Speaker 1: I would love to know who he's pulled the plug on. Rich.

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Speaker 1: We need more details. You've got an unusual job.

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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, I own my own petsitting business and I

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Speaker 3: offer pet taxi and wedding show furs.

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Speaker 1: So in my mind, the dog's calling you up.

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Speaker 3: So it's more if like ourner can't make it to

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Speaker 3: their grooming appointment or to the vech, if they don't

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Speaker 3: have a car or anything, I'll pick up the pets

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Speaker 3: and take them for them.

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Speaker 1: Great idea. When did you start doing this?

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Speaker 3: I pivot through COVID, so obviously people couldn't go on holiday.

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Speaker 1: People pivoted during COVID and are still pivoting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it's still still going. It's going.

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Speaker 1: What's your business goal? Give it a plug? More interested?

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Speaker 3: Peach king pets ping peche pech gotcha?

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Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was peeping pets.

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Speaker 3: No pt my dog, Princess Pete.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm guessing it's a small, little annoying dog.

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 3: She's a two hours.

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Speaker 1: So have you picked up recently this year? What sort

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Speaker 1: of pets at weddings? Now, that's the thing, is it? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So people often want them to like walk down the aisle,

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Speaker 3: or some people just want them for the photos. So

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Speaker 3: uh really just tailors it to them. So sometimes I'll

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Speaker 3: take the dogs straight to the wedding, look after them

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Speaker 3: throughout the day so no one else in the wedding

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Speaker 3: party needs to look after them. I'll take the dog

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Speaker 3: homes while lay party on for the rest of the night.

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Speaker 3: Or sometimes I'll take the dogs just to a photo

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Speaker 3: shoot at a park or at a venue so they

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Speaker 3: can get those lovely fridage with the dogs. Take the

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Speaker 3: dog back my house for the night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And so who have you got today? Got cut the pickups,

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Speaker 2: p ob, passenger on board or poot on board?

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Speaker 3: Not today? I am about to go feed and dash

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Speaker 3: outs before work though, gotcha?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Same here as every Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Just look after I've got a little private gigoo before

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Speaker 2: the show, feeding the dogs on the waiting to work.

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Speaker 1: All right, solo loas dashings. Fiona, give the business a plugin.

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Speaker 2: Peachy Pets, Peachy clean pets, gotcha?

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Speaker 1: Gotcha? All right? Fiona lovely talking to you.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Three Ways every Tuesday if you can to get your

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Speaker 2: what happened at the drive through? Do you have an

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Speaker 2: unusual job? And are you immortal? Is your name up somewhere?

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Speaker 2: Christian dry Through experience. I used to work at a

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Speaker 2: Red Rooster. One day, I had a customer come through

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Speaker 2: in order just a single slice of cheese, literally, just

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Speaker 2: one slice of cheese. They'd ordered KFC. We worked at

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Speaker 2: the Red Rooster, and so they were missing their cheese

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Speaker 2: on the burger.

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Speaker 1: So they.

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Speaker 2: Drove twenty minutes to just get a slice of cheese

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Speaker 2: from us.

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Speaker 1: Extraordinary. Just get a grant now.

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Speaker 4: I hey, Christian, so drive through your story. My mum was

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Speaker 4: in drive through, pulled up to.

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Speaker 5: A rubbish spin and gave her whole order to this

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Speaker 5: rubbish spin before realizing that the speaker was another fives.

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Speaker 4: In front of it.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many people did that back in the

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Speaker 1: day when it was a new thing. Is anyone there? Hello? Hello?

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Speaker 1: How rude?

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for story mate now sorry, thank

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Speaker 2: you em and E dry through story.

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Speaker 5: Well I used to work at macas. I had a

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Speaker 5: customer who was wanting to pay it forward and pay

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Speaker 5: the customer behind them. Unfortunately, the car behind them had

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Speaker 5: just ordered five or six family boxes, so the order

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Speaker 5: was close to two hundred dollars. Once they'd found that out,

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Speaker 5: they were a little bit not wanting to do that

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Speaker 5: kind arter.

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Speaker 1: We like to pay it backwards. Can they pay for rightually? Obviously?

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Speaker 4: Stop it around quickly.

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Speaker 1: Generosity.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that counts.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's great, emy, thank you very much for that. Meg.

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Speaker 1: You've got an unusual job, Meg, what is it?

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Speaker 4: Hello, So I'm about to start studying to become a

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Speaker 4: death dueler.

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Speaker 1: Now, a dueler normally is from midwife.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it someone who helps our women through the whole

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Speaker 2: journey of giving birth?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, but they also have they also help

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Speaker 4: with the other end of things when someone's passing away.

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Speaker 4: So I grew up with parents who had nursing homes,

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Speaker 4: so I was arounded a lot. And it's something I've

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Speaker 4: always had a bit of a fascination for. It's non

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Speaker 4: medical assistant for people in the end of life stages.

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Speaker 1: Wow, we what an incredible thing to do to be

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Speaker 1: someone's friend and guide when they're heading off to whatever

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Speaker 1: goes next or whatever comes next.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, so death do like so in this role,

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Speaker 4: we basically go in, we help the family, We support

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Speaker 4: the person who's in the process that pindassing, and we

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Speaker 4: even do little things like hiding objects they don't want

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Speaker 4: their family to find out.

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Speaker 1: What an amazing thing. So how long will you study

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Speaker 1: for that? Meg?

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Speaker 4: So there's I think it's about a year worth of

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Speaker 4: studying and then I can actually start offering that as

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Speaker 4: a service.

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Speaker 1: And where do you find I don't want to find

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Speaker 1: it sounds rude or with it, but where would you

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Speaker 1: find people to families hire someone like you for someone

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Speaker 1: who's going through that or about together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because it actually costs around eighteen thousand dollars to

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Speaker 4: go to hospice and it's becoming a lot more popular now.

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Speaker 4: And they actually featured them in the Celeste Barber show

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Speaker 4: well Mania, that comedy show that she did on Netflix.

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Speaker 4: So it's actually increasing in popularity these days because people

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Speaker 4: want to have that, you know, the whole experience of

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Speaker 4: being in your own home kind of thing rather than

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Speaker 4: a hospital setting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I bet, well that's in good luck with the studying.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so very much, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, thanks for giving us a cool mate. Christian Connell's

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