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Speaker 1: Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Each week on the show we pick a country, then

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Speaker 1: we ask for your stories across the week anything to

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Speaker 1: do with that country. This week, our country of the

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Speaker 1: week is USA. America American. Anytime you're on this week,

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Speaker 1: you've got a story about America, and you give us

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Speaker 1: a call thirteen fifty five twenty two. If I'm not

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Speaker 1: here when you feel like calling, email me for sure,

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Speaker 1: Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au. But you Si,

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Speaker 1: Rio has got three facts about America. Three billion pieces

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Speaker 1: are sold annually in the USA. Three billion lollipops were

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Speaker 1: invented in the USA. And this is not a killer fact.

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Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore took fourteen years to calm, wouldn't it, Jackie boy?

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Speaker 1: What have you asked chat GPT? What great facts has

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Speaker 1: chat GPT got about America?

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Speaker 2: GPT has got you this one, Rio, There's a town

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Speaker 2: that elected a dog as mayor multiple times. What the

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Speaker 2: US government has a one point four billion pound cheese stockpile.

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Speaker 2: Tell us more about the dog mayor of the dog

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Speaker 2: mayor Rabbit Hash Kentucky, that's the name of the town.

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Speaker 2: Has a canine mayor since nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: You are the current mayor.

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Speaker 2: Is French bulldog named Wilbabeast.

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Speaker 1: What did he run on? How did he get in?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but he got thirteen thousand votes, which

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Speaker 2: was enough to secure him the position. Great facts the

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Speaker 2: cheese they keep in Missouri underground in underground caves in

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Speaker 2: Missouri as a dairy subsidy subsidy subsidy program. This is

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Speaker 2: not a good fact. And you can eagerly.

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Speaker 1: Own asmore car is going right, so the top in

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Speaker 1: their power ranking.

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Speaker 2: This one is interesting. You can legally own a flamethrower

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Speaker 2: in forty eight of the American.

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Speaker 1: Country. No one has any business having a flamethrow at home.

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Speaker 1: What basinis of you're needing or ever acquiring a flamethrow.

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Speaker 1: My wife is a real hoarder, and yesterday I was like,

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Speaker 1: we need to throw some stuff out, right, you know what,

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Speaker 1: Sunday you felt like it's the day of life. We're going

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Speaker 1: to tie you and throw some stuff out. I found

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Speaker 1: that we had a brand new mink condition pair of crutches.

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Speaker 1: I went, I don't know how we own these. I said,

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Speaker 1: these have to go. She goes, no, no, we need them

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Speaker 1: just in case.

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Speaker 2: What what do you know is going to happen?

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Speaker 1: I slept one eye open, Peratsy, if you've got the

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Speaker 1: story about you.

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Speaker 3: As a Yeah, we went to America and went to

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Speaker 3: Universal Studios on the tour and then at the end,

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Speaker 3: you know, you get back on the bus and we

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Speaker 3: were staying in downtown LA. It's about an hour's drive.

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Speaker 3: It's quite a ways out Universal Studios. Anyway, this driver,

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Speaker 3: this dear lady we had, it was her first day

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Speaker 3: in the on the job, and very clearly was lost.

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Speaker 3: So it should have taken an hour. Three hours later

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Speaker 3: we are still driving round and round. Anyway, we had dinner,

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Speaker 3: a dinner booking at this restaurant we really really wanted

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Speaker 3: to go to. It was nighttime. We missed the dinner's

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Speaker 3: dinner booking, and we were clearly lost. And there's the

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Speaker 3: you know, welcome to Beverly Hills sign. We kept passing

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Speaker 3: it like every twenty minutes and it'd be on one side.

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Speaker 1: Of the bus. He's stuck for a day on that

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Speaker 1: round about, just like.

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Speaker 3: A game of speed. It was ridiculous. Anyway, Chris just

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Speaker 3: lean over and he said, would you mind, you can

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Speaker 3: pull over I think I know how to get back

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Speaker 3: to where we're staying. And she goes, oh no, and

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Speaker 3: he goes, no, seriously, it's okay.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to drive the bus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he said, I know where the hotel is. Like,

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Speaker 3: this is ridiculous. We're just going to keep driving around

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Speaker 3: and around and around. Anyway, So she pulled over and

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Speaker 3: he drove our little minibus.

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Speaker 2: That's so funny.

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Speaker 3: It was so funny, and everyone was so.

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Speaker 1: She said, to you to make your way around either

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Speaker 1: of confusing.

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Speaker 3: You're like the back of our hand. It was ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: What happened to the step in between, which is just

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Speaker 2: tell her the way. If he knows where to go,

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Speaker 2: just tell her where to go.

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Speaker 3: She wasn't listening. It was a bit of an intervention,

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Speaker 3: and he said, sperience, isn't it. We're going to be

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Speaker 3: here all night. It's okay, pull over and I'm going

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Speaker 3: to drive us there.

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Speaker 1: Son A is just a crazy, crazy pace. And then

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Speaker 1: we years ago, I took the radio show there and

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Speaker 1: we did three shows there. There's like in the early

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Speaker 1: two thousands, and whenever I'm in a new city, I

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Speaker 1: just like to go for a walk around it for

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Speaker 1: a couple of hours a great way to discover it

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Speaker 1: turns out you do not do that in La Suddenly

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Speaker 1: I'm somewhare a long way from where we were staying

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Speaker 1: on Sunset Strip. Next time, though, the police have pulled

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Speaker 1: over and they asked me what I'm up to, and

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm just you know, I've just arrived. I'm

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Speaker 1: just going for a walk. You don't wander around this neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: They put me in the back of the cart. They

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Speaker 1: churned back to my hotel for my own safety. They

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Speaker 1: said it is not safe. You just be wandering. And

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Speaker 1: they'd had a complaint where someone said there was a

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Speaker 1: suspicious man wandering around the neighborhood.

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Speaker 2: There should be any one walking on the foot past

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Speaker 2: checking out the houses.

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