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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,

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Speaker 2: the fifteenth February. I'm Zara, I'm Emma, and we are

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Speaker 2: back for another week of good news. Because how better

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Speaker 1: It's the brightness that we need, the stories you might

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Speaker 2: You know what, I was actually going to explain this one,

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Speaker 2: covering this story means that I think I have to

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Speaker 2: hand it over to you, Emma, to tell us about

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Speaker 2: the giant Schnauzer who won best in Show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Zara. I mean the mark of a great

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Speaker 1: boss knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them.

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Speaker 1: That's right, A giant Schnauzer has won the acclaimed best

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Speaker 2: It is a very actually a one person podcast at

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Speaker 1: It is a very prestigious dog show held in the

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Speaker 1: giant Schnauzer who claimed the title is best in Show

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Speaker 2: Records just being broken, left, right and center. Emma, you

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Zara. Now I will hand this

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Speaker 1: A huge effort, the determination raising money for a good cause,

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Speaker 1: three days. Zara, what an amazing lineup of good news stories.

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Speaker 2: Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres

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Speaker 2: Strait Island and nations.

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Speaker 1: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,

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Speaker 1: both past and present.