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Speaker 1: Producer Liz. Good morning, morning, Liz got and I'm not

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Speaker 1: surprised Liz got something bizarre for Christmas to take us

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Speaker 2: What do you always attract these.

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Speaker 1: You attract the bizarre. It's why we do Life of Liz.

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Speaker 3: So tell us, Well, it's from my parents, and I

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Speaker 3: didn't think it could top the hacky sack I got

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Speaker 3: for Christmas one year. But no. As you'll know, i'm

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Speaker 3: a bit transient at the moment. I'm trying to unsuccessfully

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Speaker 3: buy an apartment and I'm house sitting and I made

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Speaker 3: an off the cuff comment to mom and dad that

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Speaker 3: the microwave was a bit old, you know nothing, thought

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Speaker 3: nothing of it.

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Speaker 1: At the house that I'm hoping she sitting.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and not for much longer. You know, I'm out

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Speaker 3: of there soon in a week, So off the cuff comment,

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Speaker 3: think nothing of it. On Christmas Day, Mom goes, oh,

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Speaker 3: there's something really big for you in a big box

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Speaker 3: and it's really really heavy, and I got really excited.

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Speaker 3: It was a microwave, and I got so, what am

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Speaker 3: I meant to do this? And she goes, oh, take

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Speaker 3: it to the house. Your house sitting, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: and then what take it home. You told me I

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Speaker 3: can't bring anything back to your house.

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Speaker 1: And do what with the one that's there? Yeah, and what.

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Speaker 3: Just throw out stuff in the house that I'm houseitting.

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Speaker 3: And they also got me like a nineteen eighties microwave

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Speaker 3: recipes book and they thought it was really sweet.

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Speaker 2: Well they never go out of star your parents.

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Speaker 3: Sound lovely, And I had to say, I feel bad. Actually,

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, look, I don't think I can

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Speaker 3: take it. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it.

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Speaker 3: The back it just seems like it's a lot of

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Speaker 3: logistical stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's a pain in the us. And then it is

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Speaker 1: and then I know, really thanks, But and then.

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Speaker 3: Mum goes, oh, well, you know ours is a bit

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Speaker 3: on the way out.

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Speaker 2: See this is the old time.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking, truth, Oh.

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Speaker 3: You know, the enamel's coming off a bit of ours,

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Speaker 3: so maybe we'll just keep it.

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Speaker 1: Ah, she's already made six recipes out of the.

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Speaker 4: Go and go and use it for a few weeks,

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Speaker 4: then bring it back and we'll swap our old one out.

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Speaker 2: Try it out on the verge.

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Speaker 1: That's hilarious. That is a bizarre present, though, to get

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Speaker 1: someone an appliance a large appliance for a house at

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Speaker 1: their house, sitting for another week. I love it you, Liz,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Lize.

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Speaker 2: So you've had a bizarre gift, Yes, I have.

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Speaker 1: When I moved back from to Perth from Melbourne in

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Speaker 1: the late nineties, my dad was very you know, keen

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Speaker 1: on you should buy property young, and he gave me

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Speaker 1: a beautiful, a beautifully gift wrapped brick. And this was

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Speaker 1: his subtle hint that you need to acquire a home

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Speaker 1: of your own, you know, like a property of some sort.

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Speaker 4: It was a brick drive home the message rather than

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Speaker 4: just words that go in one ear and out the other.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it did drive home the message. And I

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Speaker 1: didn't because I wanted to live in you know, somewhere

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Speaker 1: or other and I couldn't afford to buy as I

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Speaker 1: think it was SUBI I wanted to live in Suba,

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Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to buy there. Then I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to buy. I want this, Daddy, and I want it now.

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Speaker 1: But you know, fast forward to the climate that we

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Speaker 1: live in now. And who was a clever Daddy and

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Speaker 1: who was a dumb Lisa?

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Speaker 4: And he wasted a perfectly good house brick which are

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Speaker 4: not cheap that's why houses are so expensive.

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Speaker 2: Breaks are expensive.

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Speaker 1: And you know in short supply, so if anyone needs

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Speaker 1: that one final brick for their house, listen, jun Dana,

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: Morning morning.

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Speaker 1: What is the bizarre gift you've received?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: I just met this guy and it was my birthday

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Speaker 6: not long after, and he bought one of those fire

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Speaker 6: packs of cheese that you get at the supermarket.

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Speaker 1: For a cheese board, you know, the five different types.

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Speaker 1: What was bizarre fancy?

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Speaker 6: He took one out mated because he was hungry.

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Speaker 4: So it was a cheese wheel, not one of those

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Speaker 4: little bags of baby bells.

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Speaker 1: No, no, and the most five pack Yeah cheeses, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sweet baby cheese.

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Speaker 2: Did you did you enjoy did you end up enjoying them.

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Speaker 6: The other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Betty, Betty took the best piece of cheese.

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Speaker 6: At the moment, that's doing it alarm testing.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, that's the cheese equivalent of when you've got

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Speaker 1: a lottery tree ticket in a card from somebod who

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Speaker 1: said if you win, we'll share this. You can't even

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Speaker 1: share it.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like you have to evacuate the building. There

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Speaker 2: at Brown.

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Speaker 6: They're just doing testing at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Brown at Brown's dairy out there where you're working.

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Speaker 1: Looking for the missing cheese. Thank you? Actually, can I

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Speaker 1: ask did you did you keep seeing him?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: Not after we took the best piece.

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Speaker 1: You took the breeze.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, you.

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Speaker 4: Better better just make sure that's not a test and

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Speaker 4: that you don't have to actually evacuate out.

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Speaker 2: Onto the street.

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Speaker 1: We have Sandra on from East Cannington on the text

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Speaker 1: line I said the most bizarre gift she got was

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Speaker 1: actually it was embarrassing, not just because of the gift,

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Speaker 1: but because she was meeting her new partner's friends and

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Speaker 1: there was her birthday and they presented her with a

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Speaker 1: she wi.

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Speaker 2: That's a stitch up.

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Speaker 1: And it turns out she is that friend that needs

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Speaker 1: to go at the most inappropriate times and places. So

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Speaker 1: word had.

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Speaker 2: Got ahead, but there is a time and a place

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Speaker 2: for the him. Such a bizarre gift.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you don't want to be unwrapping it over you know,

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Speaker 1: lunch there we go.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well can you top that bizarre gifts? Bizarre can

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Speaker 4: be good, though, let us know.

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Speaker 1: If it doesn't have the words she or we I had.

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Speaker 4: I had a slightly bizarre gift but useful, Yeah, but

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Speaker 4: a little bit bizarre. It was from my son.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was you know too, Dad, And it was.

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Speaker 4: Like a little sort of well sort of little rectangular

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Speaker 4: box and I thought, oh, I don't know, maybe it's

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Speaker 4: a little Bluetooth speaker or something from JB high five.

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Speaker 4: This fantastic, Yeah, And I unwrapped it and it was

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Speaker 4: a box containing a tube of voltaarn because said son

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Speaker 4: had noticed that Dad had a couple of appointments to

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Speaker 4: the physio for his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: It's it's very thoughtful actually, but still it's not a

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Speaker 1: Bluetooth speaker, but very thoughtful.

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Speaker 4: It is thoughtful, and I guess I didn't have to

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Speaker 4: just what about it my collection of other Bluetooth speakers

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Speaker 4: that will sit in the box so the Voltaro will

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Speaker 4: come in handy.

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Speaker 2: But that's I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that is actually very observantly thoughtful.

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Speaker 2: Than anyway, Thank you Jack. Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 4: Rod is at Millbridge which is down Bumbery way, right.

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Speaker 2: What did you get? That was good?

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Speaker 3: Mine?

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Speaker 5: So second winning anniversary, which is thirty six years ago,

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Speaker 5: we unpacked a swing. We were like a swing, like

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Speaker 5: okay swing the grand parent of the parents putting on

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Speaker 5: a bit of pressure for you know for kids already

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Speaker 5: it's like our second wedding in a version of swing.

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Speaker 5: The story this is, yes, you need a very solid

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Speaker 5: beam in the roof to mount this swing too.

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Speaker 2: In laws that kind of The in laws.

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Speaker 5: Were noody and quite open, like you know. Third time

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Speaker 5: I went around to their house, they walked in on

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Speaker 5: me on the shower. No big deal. They were very

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Speaker 5: adventurous married couple. For the time. We didn't have Google.

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Speaker 5: You couldn't take a photo and work out what this

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Speaker 5: swing was for. And so we did a bit of

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Speaker 5: research and I suppose in the long run, yes, it

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Speaker 5: was to help get grandchildren to the in laws. But

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Speaker 5: you know, I've come from a Catholic dairy farming family,

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Speaker 5: and I'm thinking, what are these.

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Speaker 2: People not the kind of swing they used to put

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Speaker 2: the cow in when.

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Speaker 5: They no, I don't know, you know, define what the

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Speaker 5: cow is?

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Speaker 1: Six years later?

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Speaker 2: Do you still have it?

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Speaker 5: Thirty six years later?

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Speaker 4: Yes, we're still married, but do you still have the swing?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, broke.

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Speaker 4: Went out on the birds when buy nothing by nothing,

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Speaker 4: by nothing?

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Speaker 1: There I was thinking that the traditional gift for a

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Speaker 1: second wedding anniversary was cotton, And it turns out its

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Speaker 1: sex swing living a very existence.

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Speaker 4: Might have been made of cotton, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, there we go. Wow, that's bizarre.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bizarre. That's all kinds of awkward from you.

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Speaker 5: Ye.

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Speaker 4: We've got Helen on the line from Gooseberry Hill Morning, Helen.

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Speaker 1: Money, Helen. Guys, what was you a bizarre gift?

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Speaker 6: A crocodile girl?

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Speaker 2: What part of the crocodile?

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Speaker 5: Entire?

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Speaker 6: Baby crocodile?

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Speaker 2: Not a baby? No baby crocodile?

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Speaker 5: Shoot?

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Speaker 1: Is what?

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Speaker 6: Idiot?

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Speaker 1: Like my grandmother's old fox stole where the head was

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Speaker 1: on one shoulder and the tail was on the other.

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Speaker 6: Was it like that exactly? We're still threatening to bedazzle eyes.

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Speaker 4: When I know that kind of thing was quite stylish

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Speaker 4: once upon a time. But it's a bit frowned on now.

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Speaker 4: Who was it someone close to you who gave it

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Speaker 6: My husband, he was.

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Speaker 1: Working in Africa and was coming back for Christmas.

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Speaker 6: I had to find something at the airport, and.

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Speaker 1: At the airport one of those sweaters or something.

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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, he was quite chucked with himself, Sambal

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Speaker 6: Christmas morning.

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Speaker 2: Just for making it through customs with it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe he was like I had a choice between

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Speaker 6: buying something from the jewelry store or this. But I

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Speaker 6: was so unique and you would have it forever. He

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Speaker 6: was so please himself.

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Speaker 1: I hope he made sure he never that mistake again,

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Speaker 1: to choose that over the jewelry store.

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Speaker 6: We told him plan, I always go with, always go.

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Speaker 1: With the jewelry. Oh, Helen, that is a bizarre Still

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Speaker 1: got it?

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Speaker 2: Have you still got it? Helen?

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Speaker 6: We still got it, and we're still give him for it.

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Speaker 2: He deserves it. He comes out, thank you, Helen.

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Speaker 1: I did not do it again.

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Speaker 2: It comes to crocodile