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Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: So got back early yesterday morning from Ireland. I've been

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Speaker 2: for the last two ten weeks ten ten how many

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Speaker 2: pre recorder shows we.

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Speaker 3: Do check lack?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, very confusing at the moment I was there, I'm

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Speaker 2: here now, but me still back in Ireland. But I'm

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Speaker 2: right here in Melbourne at ten minutes past state Tuesday

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Speaker 2: morning while someone's so, you know, two flights to get

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Speaker 2: back from Dublin senters the UK so changed that.

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Speaker 3: I had a fifteen minute turnover in Dubai. I actually run.

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Speaker 3: I had to run. They were calling my name and

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Speaker 3: it went. That plane only landed.

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Speaker 2: I've not been like in duty free shopping running through it.

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Speaker 2: Then they changed the gate and I'm like, is someone

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Speaker 2: screwing with me?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: And you're the type of person who gets to the

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Speaker 5: airport five hours early Channel flight.

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Speaker 2: For the Dublin flight, right, because I didn't know how

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Speaker 2: busy it would be. I was there six hours early.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I sat there in that main course of two hours.

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Speaker 3: There's there. The lady was like, literally.

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Speaker 2: Checked two hours, there's no rest, what's there?

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Speaker 3: They're the other side two.

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Speaker 2: Hours hanging around and even security people are like what's

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Speaker 2: that staring at me?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: And we checked out this suite here I kept repacking

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Speaker 2: a suit you know, person just in front of me,

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Speaker 2: one like unpacking.

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Speaker 3: Their suitcase on the floor.

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Speaker 2: Do you know while someone's on the the flight coming

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Speaker 2: back from Dubai to Melbourn. Right anytime we want to

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Speaker 2: watch a movie, and there were quite a few movie

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Speaker 2: I watched. You had to put up this twenty second

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Speaker 2: advert right basically saying move to Costa Rica in just

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Speaker 2: twenty seconds. And it was just a load of slide

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Speaker 2: shows started with move to Costa Rica.

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Speaker 3: They've got you okay.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seconds later after a load of slide shows, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that looks funny. Nice move to Costa Rica. I don't

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Speaker 2: her website you can go to? And I'm thinking, who

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Speaker 2: the hell? While she's sat in his stale farts right

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Speaker 2: on a big old, long old flight to Australia, is.

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Speaker 3: Thinking, do you know what? That's it? That turn the

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Speaker 3: plane around? We're going to Costa Rica?

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Speaker 1: Kids?

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Speaker 2: Why I watched a twin second advert You can't even

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Speaker 2: google to find out more about it. It was just

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Speaker 2: twenty seconds moved to Costa Rica. I thought, that is

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Speaker 2: such a big life decision. But the point is this

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Speaker 2: about life decisions. Sometimes people must just make a snap

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Speaker 2: decision a moment ago.

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Speaker 3: That's it. We're not we're leaving this suburb, or we're

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Speaker 3: leaving the state. That's it.

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Speaker 2: I want to know people have actually made a life

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Speaker 2: changing decision. But it really was a snap one. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't like weeks and months of thinking about it, researching.

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Speaker 3: You went, you know, I've had enough. This is it

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Speaker 3: for the ad said to do it.

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Speaker 6: Turn the plane around.

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Speaker 5: Biank told me she's just come back from Italy on

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Speaker 5: a big, hot holiday with her family. She said, there's

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Speaker 5: a small village there that is losing residents and they

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Speaker 5: want to keep the village alive, so they're offering people

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Speaker 5: to fly into Italy and live there for one dollar

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Speaker 5: a health.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder what you say.

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Speaker 2: I thought they were inviting people to go and basically

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Speaker 2: have sex with the Tonian lectis bin.

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Speaker 3: You version of El Farmer? So WiFi. I'd do that

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Speaker 3: for a dog what had.

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Speaker 2: Become a mum? Oh, just a crystal clear. If you

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Speaker 2: get a Donna house in Italy.

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Speaker 6: It's so You'm going to send you this article. It's

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Speaker 6: so picturesque.

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Speaker 2: It's a stunning Italian village in the hills.

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Speaker 4: Where's everyone going though, If it's so stunning, why they

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Speaker 4: leave it?

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Speaker 5: You must have an aging population, aging population, and it's

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Speaker 5: in the middle of nowhere, still in Italy, in the

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Speaker 5: middle of nowhere Italy.

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Speaker 3: But that's like saying move.

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Speaker 2: To Australia and they're like, where we buy the Harbor Bridge?

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Speaker 3: And no, you an a chuka.

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Speaker 1: Christian Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever made a snap life changing decision? If

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Speaker 2: you have, we want to hear about it. You can call

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Speaker 2: me nine four one four one O four three. You

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Speaker 2: can email me Christian at Christian O'Connell dot com dot au.

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Speaker 3: Yes. Soon.

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Speaker 2: On the flight back from Ireland, just saw a twenty

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Speaker 2: second advert urging people, urging people to move to Costa

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Speaker 2: Rica and said there was just a couple of lines

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Speaker 2: like it was just like pretty obvious. Here's this shabby

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Speaker 2: slide show right with some bland lift music. It literally

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Speaker 2: what it said was move to Costa Rica.

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Speaker 6: Usually a country or at least go visit Costa Rica.

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Speaker 2: Come.

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Speaker 3: This was a system.

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Speaker 2: It had a lot of flex going on, and then

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Speaker 2: there's twenty seconds of beautiful beaches and then come to

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Speaker 2: Costa Rica. So and I thinking, who is making a

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Speaker 2: big life changes in that from a twenty second advert

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Speaker 2: on a flight when all your emotions and energy levels

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Speaker 2: are screwed up. Anyway, let's go to Matt then, So

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Speaker 2: we're talking about snap life changing decisions.

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Speaker 3: Morning Matt Hey, Good morning, Christian.

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Speaker 4: Living in New Zealand, twenty years old. Towards the end

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Speaker 4: of one nine, the old man goes to when I

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Speaker 4: was your age. No, I was in Australia and I

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Speaker 4: know something switched. I went to the travel end a

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Speaker 4: couple of days later booked the one way ticket to Melbourne,

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Speaker 4: so I couldn't afford a return flight, had about seven

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Speaker 4: hundred bucks. Yeah, and and here I am still here

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Speaker 4: for kids, rider and two wives.

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Speaker 2: So wow, you got all that when you landed. That's incredible.

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Speaker 2: I mean ten pound bombs. You know they got that

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Speaker 2: TV show now and stand and you when you get

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Speaker 2: that it's two wives.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't muck around.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Australia. Take and pick of these ladies at

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Speaker 2: the harbor here. That's incredible. And even the story there

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Speaker 2: where you said you went to the travel agents. This

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Speaker 2: was in a day before we can book a holiday

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Speaker 2: now all over the word anywhere, just you know, on

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Speaker 2: your on your phone. You had to actually go to

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Speaker 2: a travelations where do you know when we were book

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Speaker 2: an entire holiday based on off photo in a magazine

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Speaker 2: and I'll go to that photo.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And the funny thing, Christian was on the particular day,

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Speaker 4: I just said, look of that's going to fly out

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Speaker 4: of New Zealand. You know, you know on this day,

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Speaker 4: where would I begun? Travel agent goes to Melbourne and

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Speaker 4: I said, what's that? They go, yeah, it seems to

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Speaker 4: be all right, and I'm going, yeah, yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Went Travelation of the Year. That seem like, yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: isn't that incredible? So you could have ended up anywhere

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Speaker 2: depended on what the flight.

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Speaker 3: Was that day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Amazing And obviously this is now.

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Speaker 4: Home absolutely certainly is great.

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Speaker 3: Matt. Thank you very much. You cool.

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Speaker 2: Mat, have a good day, you do, Natalie, good morning,

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Speaker 2: Hi Christian. I'm good Natal, and I hope you will.

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Speaker 2: So your snap life changing decision, what was it?

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Speaker 7: My husband came home from work because he just looked

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Speaker 7: at me. She didn't say anything, and I said where

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Speaker 7: and he said Melbourne and I said cool. And a

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Speaker 7: few days later I saw at the house to my

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Speaker 7: friends on the school run. My brothers bought a cars

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Speaker 7: and then like a month later on the plane and emigrated.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I wish Actually my marriage has a bit

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Speaker 2: o this because we have to talk and plan everything,

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Speaker 2: even really what supermarket we're going to today?

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Speaker 6: Which car.

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Speaker 3: Coming home? Going Guatemala? Okay, Darling, here we go.

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Speaker 4: Oh well.

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Speaker 7: The funny thing was my brother rang a few days

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Speaker 7: later to say ask if he could borrow my mom

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Speaker 7: and dad's camping fridge, and I was like, I really

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Speaker 7: don't care. I'm about to move to Australia, and then.

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Speaker 4: That to him.

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Speaker 7: He was just like, okay, you just make your decision. Fine. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: it was huge, but it was awesome.

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Speaker 3: Look back, how many has you been here?

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Speaker 7: Ten years?

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Speaker 3: This year?

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Speaker 7: I mean it became citizens.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been very cool.

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Speaker 3: Lovely Natalie, thank you very much.

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Speaker 7: You cool, Thank you? Okay, fine, that is a.

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Speaker 3: Very posh lady.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'd imagine that there was a gin in

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Speaker 2: his hand and hers. It's like someone now with Richard

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Speaker 2: Curtis movie, Hugh Grant, Bill Knight, somewhere like that Melbourne.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Darling.

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Speaker 2: When she said Vica comes around, Bring you off to

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Speaker 2: now Melbourne, whatever next.

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Speaker 6: We sold our cars to our brothers.

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Speaker 2: Brothers take the Volvo and the Jaguar and the hes

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Speaker 2: not needing these.

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Speaker 3: Another Gin Vicker

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