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

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Speaker 2: Christian, So does Jack currently like to hang out with

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Speaker 2: his friends when he has to get them to work

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Speaker 2: on his property installing solar panels? You make of that story?

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Speaker 3: I think I've been misunderstood. I love hanging out with No,

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Speaker 3: you haven't.

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Speaker 2: It's been a longing politician at a press conference who's

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Speaker 2: been caught cheating like Boris.

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Speaker 3: I've just realized as well. I didn't. I don't know

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Speaker 3: what excuse Yankee used to my friends to tell them.

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Speaker 2: So if you just tuned in, you just need to.

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Speaker 2: We've had quite a few texts about it. Actually, Jack's

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Speaker 2: birthday was yesterday, and obviously your wife has obviously planned

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Speaker 2: some kind of nice night to night with all your

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Speaker 2: mates going bowling.

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Speaker 3: And then I've just it's been a busy week and

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Speaker 3: I'm just looking at Friday night. Oh God, wouldn't it

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Speaker 3: just be great to put your feet up on your

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Speaker 3: birthday and watch your movie?

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Speaker 2: Speaking do that any night of the week.

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Speaker 3: So I said, can we cancel bowling?

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Speaker 2: And I didn't what he mean? It was, can you

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Speaker 2: cancel bowl? So she's obviously given them some excuse.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she told her when we were double booked that

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Speaker 3: it was going to be a surprise for.

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Speaker 2: Me, and you just told everyone on the radio you

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Speaker 3: I am double book I'm gonna have my feet up

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Speaker 2: Oh Jackie, Oh to be a friend with Jack close?

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Speaker 2: What a ride you have? All right? Not on Friday?

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Speaker 2: What time you knocking off today? And what is the

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Speaker 2: highlight of your weekend? I'm just imagine loads of Jack's

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Speaker 2: friends now going. I don't have any highlight because I

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Speaker 2: was looking forward to hanging out with my bestie Jack

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Speaker 2: going bowlding. Your friends should just go bowling anyway. Toast

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Speaker 2: you say, happy birthday and your absence.

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Speaker 3: Guys, if you're listening, I'm looking forward to seeing you

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Speaker 3: again soon.

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Speaker 2: All right, sir, Let's go to Pete here. Good morning, Pete,

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Speaker 2: We're good pizza. Tell me knock it off today? And

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Speaker 2: what's the highlight of your weekend?

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Speaker 4: About half to mate, I've got to go to tezy.

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Speaker 4: I've bought a car for the walk, so I'm four

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Speaker 4: into and coming back on the boat.

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Speaker 2: That is a long way to pick up a car.

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Speaker 2: When you know you got to carsales dot com dot

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Speaker 2: are you there's hundreds of cars on there, Victoria.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, this is this is a pretty special one.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, now I'm going to go over there.

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Speaker 2: I've got to answer what's the special about the car?

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Speaker 2: What is it rare make or something.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's just a Mesadey's being to say. Okay, convertible,

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Speaker 4: I m J five point five, you know, one of those.

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Speaker 2: Sort of sounds beautiful. Why do you vailable to say?

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Speaker 2: He's Ben's Berrick as well? At very affordable rates.

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Speaker 3: Much easier to get to.

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Speaker 2: It's very very easy to get through.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm also going to take the sunny Will too.

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Speaker 4: it's a bit of a trip thing in me. Actually,

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Speaker 4: when I told him, he actually said, I do I

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Speaker 4: know the passport to go to Tey. I went, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Oh I've got to get a passport.

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Speaker 5: I've got to get it.

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Speaker 4: So it's quite a bit of a wind up, but

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Speaker 2: Well, enjoy your weekend in test It's a beautiful place.

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Speaker 2: Tast Manua anyway, right, take care, peap Let's go to

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Speaker 2: Lucas here. Good morning, Lucas.

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Speaker 1: Gooday team, how's it Gollon, We're.

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Speaker 2: Good, Lucas now here. You got something amazing going on

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Speaker 2: this weekend? What is it?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: My partner and I are planning our trip to compete

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Speaker 2: Now, I've watched dragon boat racing before. It is it's

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Speaker 1: Intense, absolutely, and we trained about five times a week

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Speaker 2: That's the match of the dragon boat races.

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Speaker 3: You know my dad was a one time dragon boat racer.

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Speaker 2: No, we didn't. You're like a firework today. There's so

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Speaker 3: What do you mean a one time you did one?

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Speaker 1: Occasionally? Otherwise we haven't been regattas throughout the year, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we've actually had a lot of regadis postponed

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Speaker 2: So you have to qualify to make it to represent

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Speaker 1: Well, we actually were invited, so it's a club to club.

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Speaker 2: This is great. I love that we never knew. Now

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Speaker 2: everybody knows. And when you say you do your training,

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Speaker 2: are you training in dragon boats? Yes?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to be just walking my dog down the

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Speaker 2: someone with a drama at the back. What year have

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So yeah, we do water sessions about three times

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Speaker 2: Well, what do you mean dragon boat, Jym, You need

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So because you know you're mostly doing

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Speaker 2: Time with this job. Really, people don't realize it's a workout. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, usually it's nothing by Core the Lovely Radio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lucas, good luck this weekend. Let us know Monday.

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Speaker 2: How it goes?

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Cheers all right, good luck Robin. Good morning, Robin, Good

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Speaker 2: morning team Robin. What's sohana are your weekend? What time

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Speaker 2: are knocking off today?

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Speaker 5: I am not knocking off until eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 5: I have a sleepover at my work. I'm a teacher.

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Speaker 5: I am sleeping over with one hundred and twelve eight

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I remember this from It's pre camp, isn't it, Robin.

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Speaker 3: Before you go on school camp, you have spend one

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Speaker 5: It is the practice for camp.

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Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you won't get much sleep, Robin.

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Speaker 2: That is a long, long You've got a long day

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Speaker 5: We're supposedly having a normal day to day, but they're

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot. How many eight year olds? Did

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Speaker 5: One hundred and what one hundred and twelve?

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Speaker 3: Where do you put them all, Robin?

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Speaker 5: No, in the classroom. So we're using six classrooms, three

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Speaker 2: I bet it's just such a laugh, isn't If you're

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Speaker 2: an eight year old, that's a great night.

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Speaker 5: That eight year old. Yes, it's just the highlight.

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Speaker 2: And are you teachers secretly in one of the other classrooms,

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Speaker 5: What happens, which is what we wish. We're in the

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Speaker 2: In a No man's land weather sent to space.

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Speaker 3: You'll have to how I remember it. So they push

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Speaker 3: your light up in your sleeping bags. You talk until

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Speaker 3: all hours of the morning, and Robin, you'll be marching

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Speaker 2: Trying to I can hear you, I can hear you.

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Speaker 3: Close your eyes, Alex, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yes, And when it's all quiet, then hopefully we get

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Speaker 2: Well, well done for you and your team for doing

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Speaker 2: that tonight. Good luck rob him, well, thank you. Let's

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Speaker 2: have a great weekend. From Robin, let's go to Marie here.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Marie, Good morning gang, Good morning Marie. So

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Speaker 2: what are you up to this weekend.

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Speaker 6: Mat highlight of my weekend is I've got a baby

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Speaker 6: shower for my first grandchild.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations.

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Speaker 6: And he's only five days away, so we're we're really

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Speaker 6: pressing it. But it's it's coming full circle. This is

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Speaker 2: So sorry, that's heartbreaking it was.

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Speaker 6: But to have this it is just an absolute joy.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I bet Marie. Oh wow, what what a tough

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Speaker 2: time you must have been through your poor thing, all

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Speaker 4: I can't wait.

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Speaker 2: I bet. I can hear it, I can feel it, Marie.

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Speaker 2: And what's it going? A grandson? Granddaughter?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, grandson?

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Oh that's beautiful. You a what a lovely little

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Speaker 2: gift for you to get right now?

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Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, so very excited.

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Speaker 2: I bet you can't wait. All right, Marie, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much for giving us a call. Okay, you look

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