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Speaker 1: The premiere. Roger Cook is with us. Good morning, Good

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Speaker 1: lots to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with something very important. Is the WA government

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Speaker 2: trying to get Oasis here?

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Speaker 1: Like Coldplay?

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Speaker 3: How are you a fan?

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Speaker 1: Are we hearing these rumors?

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Speaker 3: I'm more of a Blur guy.

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Speaker 4: But look, so let me just this is really important

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Speaker 4: actually because a lot of the time people say one

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Speaker 4: of the things they said to us, why didn't you

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Speaker 4: get Taylor Swift? And I have to explain to folk

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Speaker 4: that the reason why we get these bands is only

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Speaker 4: if it's an exclusive deal, because what we're trying to

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Speaker 4: do is to get people to buy airline tickets and

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Speaker 4: come into Perth and spend their money as tourists. It's

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Speaker 4: a tourism play rather than entertainment play. Okay, so look,

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Speaker 4: I don't know if we're negotiating for Oasis, but if

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Speaker 4: we do, it would be on the basis that they

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Speaker 4: only come to Perth, don't do Sydney, Melbourne and so on,

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Speaker 4: because otherwise why would people come come to the town

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Speaker 4: to experience.

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Speaker 3: I like Coleplay, who came back to Australia later. But

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Speaker 3: that was well, that's.

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Speaker 4: Right, but that was the secret in the source for

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Speaker 4: Coldplay is that they were on an Asian tour, right,

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Speaker 4: So what we said to them is, you know, we

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Speaker 4: don't know if you're coming to Australia anytime soon, but

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Speaker 4: why don't you include Perth as part of your Asian tour.

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Speaker 5: And it was a huge success, tangible results that we've

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Speaker 5: got more money in than we spent.

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Speaker 4: Well absolutely, I mean, you know there's some rumors about

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Speaker 4: how much we spent on it, but the actual number

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Speaker 4: of people who came to Western Australia twenty thousand tickets

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Speaker 4: on both nights.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of people coming from outside the state.

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Speaker 1: It's amount of jobs we're looking to have a good time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well that's right.

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Speaker 4: So they feel our pubs, they feel like cafes, restaurants,

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Speaker 4: and that means more jobs for Western Australians and that's

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Speaker 4: the focus boosting our tourism industry and the people they employ.

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Speaker 3: We're still talking about Coldplay. It was a huge concert.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a wild Colplay fan. I just plant there,

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Speaker 3: but Jesus was an amazing comment.

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Speaker 1: Yea. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now on a more serious issue, Way's road toll is

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Speaker 2: horrific right now, we here a lot of talk about

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Speaker 2: speed but everybody I talked to says talks about police

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of the announcements we made on Friday

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Speaker 4: following the round table, the road safety roundtable, and we're

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Speaker 4: open to ideas. We want to continue to make sure

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Speaker 4: that we are open to any new ideas about how

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Speaker 4: we can drive down our road toll because this is

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Speaker 4: a huge issue which impacts on families and lives first responders,

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Speaker 4: so it's important that we get on top of this issue.

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Speaker 4: We've had record funding around road safety measures in our

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Speaker 4: big regional roads. Almost ten thousand kilometers of roads have

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Speaker 4: and I think everyone agrees that that's an important safety measure.

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Speaker 4: But on Friday we also announce that we're going to

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Speaker 4: buy another two Booze buses where we're starting to put

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Speaker 4: new detail on our police around highway patrol presence because

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Speaker 4: we know that if we have more polic coops on

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Speaker 4: the roads, higher visual presence that continues to remind people.

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Speaker 3: That they're out there and you will be caught if

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Speaker 3: you break the rules.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, it has been so heartbreaking for so many families. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and we look at these and we look at

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Speaker 4: And I think we also need to be aware that

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Speaker 4: we need people to make good decisions. So last year,

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Speaker 4: for instance, twenty six people died in our roads because

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Speaker 4: they weren't wearing a seat belt. Basic decisions that we

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Speaker 3: And also I think courtesy plays a big role.

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Speaker 1: Patience is a big problem on our own.

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Speaker 4: There were some alarming stats I saw the other day

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's easy to under underestimate how what an impact

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Speaker 5: that has as a driver when someone's right in your right,

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Speaker 5: we're not talking about road rage incidents. You know, that's violence.

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Speaker 4: Of course, we have laws to stop that, it's just

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Speaker 4: that day to day stuff which really it can ruin

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Speaker 4: your whole day exactly. Someone's aggressive route or car is

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Speaker 4: absolutely absolutely at Leasta and I had to chat in

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Speaker 5: We heard a news report somewhere that said used the

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Speaker 5: initials DV, and we both agreed that the words domestic

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Speaker 5: violence should always be used. Yeah, you don't want to

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Speaker 5: in any way abbreviate or cover it up. What about DVV? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you want to sound so throw away confronting as they are.

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Speaker 3: This is what this is. This is exactly. So what

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Speaker 3: about a new legislation Roger where we're moving to next.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So the legislation we have in Parliament at the

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Speaker 4: moment is around the guiding our courts and our prison

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Speaker 4: monitoring on serial family and domestic violence perpetrators. So if

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Speaker 4: they're out on bail or out on parole and they

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Speaker 4: with regards to electronic monitoring. We need to make sure

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Speaker 4: actually earned the right to move in and around our

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Speaker 4: community in a normal fashion. And these are people who

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Speaker 4: have done it once done it twice, maybe even broken

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Speaker 4: bail conditions previously.

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Speaker 3: We've got to stay on top of this. M absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Did you get a chance to watch the US debates

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Speaker 2: look not live?

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Speaker 1: Did you imagine taking part in that?

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Speaker 4: I don't think I'll ever be part of a political

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Speaker 4: debate where someone says immigrants eat your cats and dogs.

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Speaker 4: It was just the most bizarre And that's the point

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Speaker 4: where where US politics has got to.

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Speaker 3: You'll never see that in Australia. Let's give thanks for

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Speaker 3: that loan.

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Speaker 4: But I think Karmala Harris went on the easiest fishing

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Speaker 4: trip of her career, so throughout the bait and he took.

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Speaker 1: It every he totally did.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and she held back that classic line when she

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Speaker 5: said President Trump got sacked, he got fired.

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Speaker 3: He did wanted to get that with.

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Speaker 5: His history with your pres And look, we're all hoping

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Speaker 5: that things in America settled down.

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Speaker 3: We hope they get on.

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Speaker 4: The get out of this divisive political climate that you're

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Speaker 3: That's not the way we do things in this country.

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Speaker 1: It's not the way we do things.

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Speaker 2: But I guess there people are interested in their election

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Speaker 2: because they say, you know, what happens there can have

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Speaker 3: And this is true, isn't it. Yes, I was saying

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Speaker 3: to some folks yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Look for that hour and a half, Australian politics was

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Speaker 4: at a crossroads because who gets elected as president in

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Speaker 4: the US matters.

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Speaker 5: It impacts on us all in this country. Speaking of elections,

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Speaker 5: how many days I think.

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Speaker 4: About seventy six about it, roughly counting Nicole amongst us.

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Speaker 1: Say, you can tell.

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Speaker 3: You hand out Roger.

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Speaker 1: It's been a bit of a sand traish week, especially

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Speaker 1: for kids under the time to be a kid under.

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Speaker 2: Twelve too passes free travel to Rotto swim classes.

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Speaker 1: Well, swim classes that should be free for everyone.

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Speaker 4: Remember we had that horrible summer last year where we

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Speaker 4: had some kids, particularly New Australians who don't have the experience.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps we all had as kids being forced into swimming

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Speaker 4: classes during the Christmas holidays. Important lessons on vital skills

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Speaker 4: that keeps you safe in and around.

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Speaker 2: Water if you're going to live in a land girt

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Speaker 2: by sea. Don't think we dropped that line out of

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Speaker 2: that No, you know, but we're surrounded by the ocean girt.

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Speaker 4: Is still know what it means, no idea.

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Speaker 3: We got water all around, a lot of water.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of pools to learn to swim.

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Speaker 4: That's why I was really proud of that that announcement,

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Speaker 4: and that's something we've been really focused on.

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Speaker 3: But as you know, we've done cost of living.

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Speaker 4: there are people are doing it tough. So we're doing

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Speaker 4: everything that we can to help them out. And that's why,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's things serious things such as the seven

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Speaker 2: Such as a free date which is yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: your family to do something means a lot to people

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Speaker 3: I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 4: Other things, we've had contact from people who said, I'm

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Speaker 3: You know this is actually, you know, makes a huge

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Speaker 5: And it looks like Royal Show weather out there today.

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Speaker 5: One been while since the kids have gone in for

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Speaker 3: And the raw shows. You know, it's just one of

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Speaker 4: It's you know, you always took your girlfriend when you're

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Speaker 3: It's that place. It's the place we.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember when we got the little mills and

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Speaker 1: But you know it was it was I don't think free.

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Speaker 3: But the originally.

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Speaker 4: The thing I was most excited about the fact that

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Speaker 4: the Birdy Beetle bag is back this.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but beetles and I don't know if you

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Speaker 2: can look into this, but Birdie beetles are not what

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Speaker 2: they used to change.

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Speaker 1: You've changed Bertie.

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Speaker 3: You really really had shrinking Bertie.

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Speaker 1: And I because I do love a Birdie beetle.

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Speaker 3: It's the cheapest bag still at five that's right, and.

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Speaker 4: That everyone who goes to the goes to the Royal Show,

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Speaker 4: even if they don't not have means, they can afford

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Speaker 4: a five.

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Speaker 3: Buck Birdy Beetle bag. And made the tradition continue of course.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, made Bertie never go away, no way.

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Speaker 4: Those changes sort of had a bit of a facelift

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like he's gone through an Instagram filter or something.

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Speaker 5: Bertie He's changed.

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Speaker 1: Bertie is now install.

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Speaker 3: That should be the lyrics by scene. I love him.

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Speaker 3: I've never seen a Birdie Beetle in a shop ever

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it time.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, not last them for a long time. No, Well,

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Speaker 2: on that note, it's a bit I think. I think

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Speaker 2: it's nice to end on a Birdie Beetle chat.

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Speaker 3: Glad to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank him for popping in this morning. Thanks Roger.