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Speaker 1: Yesterday, of course, the news making headlines right around the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory was this shooting incident in Coconut Grove. Now

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Speaker 1: joining me live in the studio is the Assistant Commissioner

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Speaker 1: of the Greater Darwin Region and Road Policing, Peter Maley.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Good morning, Katie.

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Speaker 1: Good to have you in the studio. Now, is there

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Speaker 1: a bit of an update on that Coconut Grove shooting.

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Speaker 1: Have any charges been late?

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Speaker 2: They have? We charged a nineteen year old mail and

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Speaker 2: a twenty one year old male with recklessly endangering life yep.

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Speaker 2: And the other nineteen year old female that was arrested

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Speaker 2: at the same time, she's been released, no charge at

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Speaker 2: this stage.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So do we have a clearer understanding sort of

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours to a bit longer later, of what

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Speaker 1: the circumstances were surrounding this situation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. So it's still a little bit cloudy,

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Speaker 2: but it's coming. It looks like there was some family

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Speaker 2: trouble going on and that caused the shooting.

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Speaker 1: And so do we know yet or has that firearm

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Speaker 1: been found at this point?

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Speaker 2: Not at this stage, and we believe it's not a

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Speaker 2: registered type firearm that commercially made. We believe it's something

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Speaker 2: that's just been stuck together and made locally.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, I wouldn't even know where to start with

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Speaker 1: something like that, as most people probably wouldn't, but I mean,

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Speaker 1: how dangerous can something like that then be.

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Speaker 2: Very and some of it doesn't take specialist knowledge, but

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Speaker 2: you know it's very dangerous because of miss fire, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's not good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you said sort of it looks as though

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Speaker 1: it could be family trouble. I mean, we knew that

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Speaker 1: they were known to one another. I mean, does it

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Speaker 1: seem as though these three have rocked up and you know,

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Speaker 1: had beef with this other bloke and obviously taken things

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Speaker 1: into their own hands.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we think. And there's still a number

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Speaker 2: of outstanding offenders that we're looking for on the peripheral

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, Okay, so it is ongoing, but those charges

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Speaker 1: have now been laid against a nineteen year old male

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Speaker 1: and a twenty one year old male. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on things as they as they progress. Now,

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about this vape bus that

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Speaker 1: happened just a couple of days ago. It was massive,

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Speaker 1: so out in Palmerston, the Northern Territory Police seized a

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Speaker 1: large quantity of illegal nicotine vapes. It happened on Friday

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Speaker 1: after you had received intelligence of illicit substances at that

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Speaker 1: residence in the Palmerston area. What exactly happened.

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Speaker 2: So we went to that address, We went looking for vapes,

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Speaker 2: we were looking for other substances. So we executed a

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Speaker 2: drug warrant there and while we were there and we

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Speaker 2: found a number of other We found cannabis, and we

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Speaker 2: found so much killed ammunition, and we came across the

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Speaker 2: two three hundred odd vapes.

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Speaker 1: It's a massive amount. I mean, when you look at

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Speaker 1: the amount that they were going to be able to

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Speaker 1: make on the street, one hundred and forty grand. Will

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Speaker 1: you surprise them when you're sort of you know, when

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Speaker 1: you're rock up, you're looking for the other stuff and

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Speaker 1: you find that, Yeah, it's a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Of a surprise. Because we still do a lot of

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Speaker 2: work in the illegal tobacco space and so we're you're

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Speaker 2: working in there, you do invariable come across the nicotine vapes.

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Speaker 2: So but yeah, we didn't expect that we'd find them

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Speaker 2: in a house in Palmerston. And you know, if you

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Speaker 2: can get them through you might be able to purchase

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Speaker 2: them a three or foward bucks each, and you know,

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Speaker 2: then you're selling them to people for forty or fifty,

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Speaker 2: so it's a great return, but of course it comes

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Speaker 2: with risks when we catch you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I suppose it's you know, like it's become

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Speaker 1: something that no doubt is a bit of an issue

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Speaker 1: for the police with this, you know, with people purchasing

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Speaker 1: these vapes illegally and then on selling them here in

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Speaker 1: the Northern Territory, now that you know realistically that is

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Speaker 1: not okay to do it.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not. And more to the fact that it's

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Speaker 2: actually a border controlled substance, so it's an illegal import.

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Speaker 2: But it's it's also the health issue with it as well,

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Speaker 2: so when they're sold from commercial premises, we tend to

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Speaker 2: get involved. Other than that, it's also a health issue.

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Speaker 1: I want to Catherine has had their share of issues

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Speaker 1: over recent weeks, but I know that a number of

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Speaker 1: youths have been charged over some Catherine robberies.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Cody, there was a number of robberies

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Speaker 2: and you're right, there'd been occurring at Catherine over a

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Speaker 2: number of weeks aggravated robberies and just damage and real

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Speaker 2: nuisance behavior. But last week, early last week, we charged

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Speaker 2: five youths with some of those offenses in relation to

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Speaker 2: those robberies.

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Speaker 1: Some of them like bloody young ten, twelve, a thirteen

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Speaker 1: year old of fifteen year old. Like at beggars belief

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Speaker 1: when you think that kids this age are getting involved

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Speaker 1: in what many would consider to be pretty serious issues.

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Speaker 2: Yeahs, it is serious offending by young people. You know.

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Speaker 2: The question is, of course, way out there at home

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Speaker 2: with their mum and dad. So yeah, there's a few

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Speaker 2: issues there, but quite a good clean up by the

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Speaker 2: police in relation to that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, overnight much going on around the place.

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Speaker 2: Overnight wasn't too bad, but we had an assaulted nightcliff

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Speaker 2: where a fifteen year old female was assaulted by a

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Speaker 2: twenty year old female known to her and that was

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Speaker 2: with an edge weapon. And we believe that prior to

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Speaker 2: the assault, there were some vehicles damaged in the area,

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Speaker 2: some tire slation, some windows broken on some cars, and

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Speaker 2: we think that was associated with the assault.

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Speaker 1: So not to put words in your mouth, but are

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Speaker 1: we thinking this fifteen year olds maybe allegedly you know,

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Speaker 1: been damaging vehicles and the twenty year olds taken some

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Speaker 1: issue with that.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think. So. We believe that group of

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Speaker 2: people have damaged the vehicles and there was a fair

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Speaker 2: sized group of them of young people, but it looks

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Speaker 2: to be domestic related.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so there's end well known to each other. Yeah, right, okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that one. Hey, before I

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Speaker 1: let you go, we were talking a little bit earlier

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Speaker 1: this morning about one hundred and twenty people being fined

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Speaker 1: for public drinking. How have the police sort of found

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Speaker 1: things in terms of you know, since that legislation has

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Speaker 1: been introduced and obviously going out and you know, keeping

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Speaker 1: an eye or finding people that are drinking in public places.

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Speaker 2: It's an extra tool that we have with the changing legislation.

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Speaker 2: Since the second of November, and so we've made three

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Speaker 2: arrests in relation to it. An issued one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty and it's one hundred and ninety seven dollars is

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Speaker 2: the fine since that time. So yeah, look at it's

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Speaker 2: a great extra power for us to be able to

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Speaker 2: issue those fines. And you know, two hundred bucks is

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Speaker 2: a lot of money, so yeah, just we see it.

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Speaker 2: It's making a difference.

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Speaker 1: Do you reckon it's deterring people? What's the reaction do

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Speaker 1: you know when they kind of get told we are

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Speaker 1: actually getting a fine for this?

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Speaker 2: Now? Yeah, mixed. It's a hard one to measure, but

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Speaker 2: I think, look, it will affect some people, and other

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Speaker 2: people have no intention to pay in the fine anyway,

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Speaker 2: so they don't care about the two hundred bucks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still I suppose, you know, the argument is

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Speaker 1: to try and at least deter people from drinking in

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Speaker 1: those public places because I guess we find and we

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Speaker 1: were speaking about this a little earlier with the doctor

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Speaker 1: from the Menzie School of Health Research, but we've sort

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Speaker 1: of found over the years or at different times, that

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Speaker 1: people will be drinking in a public place and it

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Speaker 1: might not be too much of an issue to begin with,

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Speaker 1: but then it escalates, and you know, some of the

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Speaker 1: behavior that you see then as a result of them

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Speaker 1: continuing to drink over an extended period is more what

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Speaker 1: the concern becomes.

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Speaker 2: Yespot on and it's almost the accumulation of the intoxication,

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Speaker 2: and then the fighting starts, and then the damage, and

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Speaker 2: then the assaults and then the domestic violence, and it

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Speaker 2: rolls on and on so the quicker we can get

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Speaker 2: interdict that situation and with the extra powers, it has

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Speaker 2: been great to be able to make a difference to

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Speaker 2: the community.

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Speaker 1: Well Peter Marley, Assistant Commissioner, thank you so very much

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Speaker 1: for joining us this morning and no doubt we'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, thank you.