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Speaker 1: I heeart podcasts.

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Speaker 2: You can hear more gold when I four point three podcasts,

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Speaker 2: anything good? Hey, this is the Christian Oconnell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: So for the last two weeks we've been on a

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Speaker 2: I'm actually about to say school break. That's how I

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Speaker 2: regard this job. It is a kind of school break.

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Speaker 1: Patsy, welcome back to the show. Thank you. It's so

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Speaker 1: good to be bad. It is really good to be back.

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Speaker 1: I tell you why the last two weeks.

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Speaker 2: I'm now starting this show in far worse shape.

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Speaker 1: I'm on heavy medication for kidney infection.

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Speaker 2: I have torn and done something awful to my left shoulder,

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Speaker 2: my glasses on holiday with the kids in Fiji. The

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Speaker 2: hot that the break has done me Irre, I've wasted

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Speaker 2: so much money now. It's like the game of life

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Speaker 2: is snakes and ladders. I'm way down the bottom of back.

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Speaker 1: Ladder that life insurances there is it? Oh my yeah.

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Speaker 2: There was one point when where my wife and I

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Speaker 2: were in the doctor surgery on Friday afternoon and the

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Speaker 2: doctor what is it these days? I don't know if

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Speaker 2: this happened to you, Patsy or ear where they start googling,

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Speaker 2: they get a taba's not very assuring. This happened to

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Speaker 2: me and I could see that she was googling what.

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Speaker 1: My condition was and could it lead to the big sea?

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Speaker 1: This is this is in front of me. My wife

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Speaker 1: and I are sitting there in cancer.

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Speaker 2: My wife, and I said, my wife and I was

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Speaker 2: sitting there in cans hopefully not my wife, and I

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Speaker 2: was saying it. Fortunately, It's like, what do you meant

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Speaker 2: to do? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is he going to.

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Speaker 2: Because normally I tell you this a bit on those

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Speaker 2: those those meds for five days, two weeks and get

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Speaker 2: yours in all.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, hey, siy, what is wrong with this man? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean I can.

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Speaker 2: My wife was trying to reassure me afterwards as we left,

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Speaker 2: she said, look at least she was doing her.

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Speaker 1: Do that. You do that in your time? What's that

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Speaker 1: teeny's of study? Exactly?

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Speaker 2: It's not like I've come in with a red tropical Okay.

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Speaker 1: She should know. So.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and now we need to welcome to the show someone.

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Speaker 2: We're really excited to be joining the show and our

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Speaker 2: family as well. And that isn't just me, Pats and

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Speaker 2: Rio and the team here. It's actually everyone who listens

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Speaker 2: to the show and makes the show with us every day.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Alex Cullen. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Well, a genuine, big, warm hearted Welcome to the team, Alex.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's making you film very welcome already. Already you've created

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Speaker 2: a buzz. Let me tell you why. When I came

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Speaker 2: in this morning, right Alex, a senior engineer goes to me,

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Speaker 2: he pulls me so and goes, hey, Alex has been

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Speaker 2: in since five a m.

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Speaker 1: Now for this team, this is already.

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Speaker 2: Remarkable because a certain former team member never came in

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Speaker 2: till like, well six, are you already?

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Speaker 1: Times are changing. I'm very conscientious. You've got to be

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Speaker 1: on your first day. There's a lot going on, you know,

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Speaker 1: So what are you going to be in like five

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Speaker 1: to six tomorrow? It's a one day thing, is it?

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Speaker 1: But welcome.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Look, it's wonderful to be here.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's been so lovely and friendly and welcoming. It's a

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Speaker 3: big move for us, as you will well know. It's

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Speaker 3: my girls are starting school this morning as well. So wow, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's all happening in our family. But it's wonderful to

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Speaker 3: be We love this kiss the girls. The twins are

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Speaker 3: six yep, and they're starting well term three today here

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Speaker 3: in Melbourne.

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Speaker 1: It's totally new school in New city.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're brave girls.

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Speaker 3: They're in the same class, which is really lovely.

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Speaker 1: And how was the drive over them from Sydney?

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Speaker 3: The drive down was a nightmare Christian cats that ages had.

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Speaker 1: We're sitting in the military insurgents are in the car.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so we're about to go and one of

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Speaker 3: the girls, Evenie, just starts vomiting in the car now,

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Speaker 3: you know, and we're like, really, is this happening right now?

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Speaker 3: And then she's just continuing to do that for most

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Speaker 3: of the trip. Then about halfway Audrey does the same.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like Carliles was.

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Speaker 2: One goes off, starts chundering, the other one does and

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Speaker 2: then you start try heaving and your wife.

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Speaker 1: Starts try heaving. It's a it's a funny. It was

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Speaker 1: just awful. But you know, was there any point were

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Speaker 2: Sign to the vomiting on the way As we leave

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Speaker 2: Sydney it's to Melbourne and that wonderful blowy episode where

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Speaker 2: they're moving but they actually stay, they stay.

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Speaker 1: But today we're going Yeah, if only you hadn't lost

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Speaker 1: that Channel nine.

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Speaker 3: I just saw it out of the corner and by

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Speaker 3: actually on one of the screens. You're like, oh, that's interesting.

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Speaker 3: There they go this morning.

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Speaker 1: Very well.

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Speaker 2: Now I just have to mention as well that you

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Speaker 2: do appear to have a brand new black eye.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know Melbourne's a bit rough, and I'm

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Speaker 2: really sorry in your first weekend you've already had a

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Speaker 2: punch on.

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Speaker 3: I've come in here about it and bruised. And it

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Speaker 3: was funny. We bought some walnuts from South Melbourne markets.

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Speaker 2: Come on that old story you got into a pub

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Speaker 2: five TV guy, you got the shit kicked out.

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Speaker 1: Don't insult the show. And day one with some story

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Speaker 1: about walnuts.

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Speaker 3: Car looks like, so, anyway, we're at the back of

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Speaker 3: where and we we're opening these walnuts. The kids love walnuts,

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Speaker 3: and so there's the shells everywhere throughout the backyard and

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Speaker 3: I'm picking them up. Anyway, My kids are a million

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Speaker 3: miles an hour, like proper, proper million miles an hour,

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Speaker 3: and so I'm meaning now to pick them up. Edie

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Speaker 3: runs over and she starts picking them up, and then

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Speaker 3: as I stand up, she takes off, and in that

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Speaker 3: exact millisecond she has taken my just taken me out,

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Speaker 3: smashing into my eye, my eye full of blood.

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Speaker 1: The girls are screaming.

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Speaker 2: It's not a good look for down if you can

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Speaker 2: be wiped out by a six year old, she like

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Speaker 2: sat soon is at that age.

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Speaker 1: Man, get a better story, Alex.

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Speaker 3: He said to your last night, he said, Daddy, tomorrow

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Speaker 3: on the show, you have to say that you were

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Speaker 3: beaten up by a six year old.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, Alex, welcome to the show. This song

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Speaker 1: is for you. It's the Black Eyed Peace. Thank you.

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