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Speaker 1: The Southwest Bike Track is back for its twenty first year.

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Speaker 1: This time we're a bit of a twist which will

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Speaker 1: allow us to take part anywhere in the world. So

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Speaker 1: to find out what it is, Justin Langer, the ambassador

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Speaker 1: for the Child Councer Foundation Research Foundation, is with us.

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Speaker 1: Hello Justin, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Guy, it's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: How are you good. I can't believe this has been

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Speaker 1: going for twenty one years. I think it used to

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Speaker 1: go from Augusta to Perth and now we're going the

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Speaker 1: other way, aren't we now.

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Speaker 2: The other way. I've actually been patron of the foundation

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Speaker 2: for twenty odd years as well, right, yeah, so it's

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Speaker 2: something more really proud of. Raises unbelievably important funds for

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Speaker 2: cancer research and it's a fun way of doing it actually,

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Speaker 2: so we call it a big child cancer on your

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Speaker 2: bum So that's the nice, easy way to think about it.

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Speaker 2: And like I say, it's for a great cause.

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Speaker 3: What about the twist this year, the any part? We're

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Speaker 3: going international this time jail.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you can't get everyone dry getting on their

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Speaker 2: bikes going down to the south West. Yes, and with

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Speaker 2: the world we currently live in, we're going virtual actually,

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Speaker 2: so anyone families, teams, individuals can get on board. They

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Speaker 2: can get nice and fit and healthy themselves and the

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Speaker 2: same time and really important funds for kids with cancer.

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Speaker 1: That is cool. It allows workplaces and schools to get

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Speaker 1: involved as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big time. And like I say, everyone's looking for

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Speaker 2: different ways. I mean, we read about all around around

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Speaker 2: the world now about the health of our ninety kids

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Speaker 2: but also adults. So really good way to do it

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Speaker 2: with your mates. It's almost like a little of teams.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing better than team sports and team sport for

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Speaker 2: a worthy cause. What could be better.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you get a lot of people approaching you

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Speaker 3: to be patron, ambassador or maybe join their company or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But this one's been special for you for a long time,

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Speaker 3: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and for a long time, as you say, I've

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Speaker 2: been patron of Children's cancer research for probably twenty three

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Speaker 2: or four years now, so it is important. I've been

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Speaker 2: very lucky to have healthy children. But I've also because

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Speaker 2: of my involvement with this, I've seen you know, one

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Speaker 2: thing I always recognize is that sort of the look

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Speaker 2: in the parents and their siblings' eyes. You know that

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Speaker 2: it just feels health care. Yeah, yeahs horab help us.

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Speaker 2: So this is important to me. When I started, I

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Speaker 2: think it was about a twenty percent survival rate, and

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Speaker 2: now it's from most cancers children it's about eighty percent

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Speaker 2: survival rate and in Lakeana up to ninety five percent.

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Speaker 2: So that's why the research is so important. I remember

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Speaker 2: the great Fiona Stanley saying to me once, you know,

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Speaker 2: if your child ever gets cancer or lakemia, one of

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Speaker 2: the best places in the world to get it is

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Speaker 2: in Western Australia because we've got such amazing facilities and research.

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Speaker 2: So and she said it so beautifully and so eloquently,

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Speaker 2: and it's so and then I've never forgotten so that

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Speaker 2: it's definitely helping. And any way that every single dollar

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Speaker 2: helps to keep this research getting stronger and stronger.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've always thought we have such amazing minds here,

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Speaker 1: We've just got to be able to give them the

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Speaker 1: funds to do the research with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the truth. I mean we have this often

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Speaker 2: one of the worries we have these brain drains to

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Speaker 2: other parts of the world or even other other states.

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Speaker 2: So the more we can keep here in Western Australia,

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Speaker 2: the better.

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Speaker 3: Joe has life. Mate, you get to spend a bit

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Speaker 3: more time at home these days.

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Speaker 2: Ah, I'm literally loving life. I can't believe that for

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Speaker 2: thirty years, I've lived eighty percent of time away from

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Speaker 2: home and twenty percent at home. So now I'm trying

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Speaker 2: the tail of my life where I'm living eighty percent

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Speaker 2: in wa and twenty percent doing different things you know, elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: So I'm really joy. I love them being home. I

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Speaker 2: wish my footy team has been a few more games.

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Speaker 2: That's the only thing. That's the only thing I'm sad

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Speaker 2: about it at the moment. Really good, Thank you. I

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Speaker 2: loving being back at home.

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Speaker 3: Especially when you're on the board of that team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, we're working on it, but we're

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Speaker 2: not far off. We're not far off. But like I say,

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Speaker 2: it's just great to be had. I'm doing amazing things.

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Speaker 2: I'm meeting amazing people and really enjoying life effects for asking.

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Speaker 1: You did make a comment though about it, because you

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Speaker 1: are on the board and you said the thing about

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Speaker 1: the situation that the Eagles are in right now, it's

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Speaker 1: when you see a team really stick together and dig deep.

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Speaker 2: It's what I've been most proud about it. I see,

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Speaker 2: I was asked by a journalist about a month ago,

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Speaker 2: I must be really hard being on the board at

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Speaker 2: the moment, but actually it's the opposite. For me. This

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Speaker 2: is the best time to be on the board because

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Speaker 2: you find out about people and you find out about

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Speaker 2: the direction we're going. It's been such a successful club

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Speaker 2: for so long, and you're right. I've been so proud

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Speaker 2: of the way everyone's stuck together. They've hung tough, and the

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Speaker 2: boys are trying hard on the field, and I honestly

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Speaker 2: believe that the turnaround will be a lot quicker that

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Speaker 2: most people think.

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Speaker 3: AJL. I thought of you a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 3: that Wildcats legend one of the sweet arts of Australian sport.

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Speaker 3: Damien Martin's had another daughter. You've got a house, and

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Speaker 3: what's your advice for Marto with a house full of

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Speaker 3: women as they grow up.

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Speaker 2: The first thing I say is I say to all

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Speaker 2: my mates have got sons and I haven't got any sons,

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Speaker 2: is that champions produced boys, but legends produce girls to

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Speaker 2: anyone will listen. And the thing, the other advice, the

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Speaker 2: other advice I'd give Damien and anyone else with daughters

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Speaker 2: is enjoy it until I get to come about well

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Speaker 2: a thurday or four years of old, absolutely princesses. Then

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Speaker 2: they don't like you much for a few years, and

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Speaker 2: then they turned back in the princess. That's right. And

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Speaker 2: they love their dads. They always love their dads. But

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Speaker 2: moms and daughters there's always a bit of tension there.

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Speaker 2: But you know, the first person that daughters go to

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Speaker 2: is their mum when it gets hard. So I've learned

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Speaker 2: lots of lessons by being a dad, and for Marto,

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Speaker 2: respect brother, I'm very another beautiful princess in the world.

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Speaker 1: Now, I can't let you go without asking you about

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Speaker 1: the story that we've seen recently about you throwing your

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Speaker 1: hat into the mix to join politics.

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Speaker 2: What have you really well, let me say some of them,

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Speaker 2: some of the things I've read about me in the

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Speaker 2: paper in the last twelve months. Yes, yeah, it's hardly surprised.

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Speaker 2: I've heard all sorts of things I'm doing. But you

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Speaker 2: can hear first, I will not be entering politics.

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Speaker 3: You have buying no blue tires, no just I will.

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Speaker 2: Not be entering politics. But again, thanks for asking.

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Speaker 3: Because you did say earlier on Loving Life you really

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Speaker 3: want to be in politics.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can't. I can't add for that because I've

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Speaker 2: never been in their shoes, but I can't imagine that

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Speaker 2: I'll be walking in their shoes.

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Speaker 3: All right, yeah, and you you're on the way out, mate,

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Speaker 3: But I didn't remember. I do remember vividly having a

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Speaker 3: chat with you many years ago, and you talked about

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Speaker 3: how much you loved leeting the Queen and it must

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Speaker 3: have been a little special for you, with your old

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Speaker 3: your dear old friend turning ninety six now and having

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Speaker 3: seventy years on the throne.

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Speaker 2: I well, actually, I'm doing an enormous amount of corporate

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Speaker 2: speaking now and I always tell the story about leading

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Speaker 2: the Queen. So when I saw the Platinum Jubilee, it

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Speaker 2: was beautiful, and yeah, she taught me a great lesson

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Speaker 2: in life. And she looked me in the eyes, the

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Speaker 2: she looked me in the eyes and straight in the eyes,

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Speaker 2: and she said please to meet you. And people say, well,

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Speaker 2: is that a big deal? I'll tell her why that's

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Speaker 2: a big deal for leadership and in life is because

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Speaker 2: the Queen of England made me feel special for two seconds. Yep,

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Speaker 2: And that's what great leaders do. They make people feel

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Speaker 2: special and I'll never forget that in it. So and

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Speaker 2: I still tell that story. I've got three speaking engagements

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Speaker 2: this week and everyone I talked and I'll be telling

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Speaker 2: that story because it made had a big impact on

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 1: I make you love that cuick at that time.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, good.

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Speaker 3: Well when the boys.

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Speaker 2: Prince Charles, I met Prince Charles brain and he said, oh,

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Speaker 2: what are you doing in England? I said, oh, the

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Speaker 2: ashes starts tomorrow and he said, oh, the Ashes. I

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Speaker 2: didn't know that he was looking under a rock, hopefully.

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Speaker 2: Queen Elizabeth thought it was about the cricket. But the

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Speaker 2: other thing I learned if about meeting the Queen was

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Speaker 2: we're speaking. She was talking about her Corgies and she

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Speaker 2: tawd me her grandson so we now have become very famous.

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Speaker 2: And how she was worried I was spending too much

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Speaker 2: on PlayStation and she's talking about the horse races. And

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Speaker 2: what it made me realize, even the Queen of England

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Speaker 2: is a human being. We're all everyone's the same. Now

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Speaker 2: they just got different titles, of different positions, of different roles,

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Speaker 2: but we're still everyone still has the same challenges, still trying.

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Speaker 1: To get them off Fortnite one way or the other.

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Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure to talk to you beat child,

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Speaker 1: canser on your mom. The Southwest Bike Trekkers back for

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. All the information you need is on

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