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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast. The reason why

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Speaker 2: I know it's five weeks away from Christmas because I

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Speaker 2: know that today is November the eighteenth. My youngest daughter,

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Speaker 2: Lois is nineteen today birthday.

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Speaker 1: Lois said goodbye to good night to her last night.

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Speaker 2: I was I cannot believe that when I see you today,

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Speaker 2: you need nineteen years old, and you know Alex and Pats,

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Speaker 2: you guys have got kids.

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Speaker 1: It goes so quick. I remember her being born. It

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Speaker 1: was a home birth.

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Speaker 2: It's a very unusual kind of birth to be part of,

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Speaker 2: wildly exciting and wildly terrifying as well, because you're at home.

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Speaker 2: This is like this should be in a hospital. Note

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't be a significant part of this, you know.

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Speaker 2: And at one point it all started to go very quickly,

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Speaker 2: and rang this midwife that we'd hired would come and

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Speaker 2: be part of it, who is trained and if anything happened,

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Speaker 2: could deal with it.

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Speaker 1: And so she was like, I'm in traffic.

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Speaker 2: There's a high chance that Lois is going to come

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Speaker 2: before I get there.

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Speaker 1: It was just me and Sarah, and I remember just

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Speaker 1: whispering to that I can't happen.

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Speaker 2: Just the skill set I have is flimsy at best,

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Speaker 2: and it isn't delivering babies. It's just it was just

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Speaker 2: so scarce responsibility. Ever, it's a child. She did make

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Speaker 2: it there and that now it's the time. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: I was just last night, I was rapping all the

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Speaker 2: presents and it's funny how in the relationship you just

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Speaker 2: have roles and you never discuss them being given out.

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Speaker 2: You just kind of like morph into who does what

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Speaker 2: for certain things. And I sort of realized that I've

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Speaker 2: always been the person that gets the presence and wraps

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Speaker 2: them in our family. That's the way it's always been.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely love getting the presence. I love wrapping them.

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Speaker 2: It makes me so excited. Anyway, I was doing Lewis's

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Speaker 2: card yesterday. We don't use our handwriting pay often now,

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Speaker 2: do we No, Almost never. We're on our phones typing

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Speaker 2: all everything out. Everything is typed out auto. It suddenly

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Speaker 2: now when you got to fill out a card, I

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Speaker 2: get really anxious.

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Speaker 1: Act she was getting. I get performance anxiety. Same when

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Speaker 1: you have to.

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Speaker 2: Put that squiggle on the back of the credit card.

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Speaker 2: The no one checks anymore? Why is that still there?

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Speaker 2: Tap and go? It's irrelevant. Why we got no one

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Speaker 2: goes and hang on a second, do it again? Do

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Speaker 2: it five times? You used to have that signature to

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Speaker 2: do it, people would actually examine it, whereas now no

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Speaker 2: one cares, do they?

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Speaker 1: No, no one? You're right, and then ask for other

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Speaker 1: forms of our day too.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's it. So anyway, I'm filling out this card yesterday,

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Speaker 2: and I'd spent about an hour writing a poem. I've

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Speaker 2: never done this before. I thought, I'm going to do

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Speaker 2: something with a different I'm going to write a poet about him.

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Speaker 2: When she was a very young girl, I used to

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Speaker 2: call a little ray. If you've met my daughter Lowis,

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Speaker 2: she's she's like a ball of energy, okay, and so

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Speaker 2: she was like this, just constant ray of energy.

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Speaker 1: So I still called a little ray. So I thought,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to write a poem about little Rain.

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Speaker 2: And what's happened to little Ray who's now you know Lois,

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Speaker 2: who's nineteen today today Little Ray.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to tell how hard it is to

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Speaker 1: write poetry.

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Speaker 2: It's like, really and then once you start with the

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Speaker 2: rhyming thing and little ray and nineteen today, I was like,

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Speaker 2: I don't have any other rhyming words, and why have

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Speaker 2: you started this work?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm halfway through this. The rhyming has ended.

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Speaker 1: Now it's just like a speech of some sort in couplets.

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Speaker 4: You should have started with an acrostic poem like l

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Speaker 4: L is full. No no no no heid.

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Speaker 2: No no no no no no no no no no.

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Speaker 2: I remember last year when they want to do something

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Speaker 2: at the funeral and part of the eulogy, and I said,

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Speaker 2: some of them, daughters, why don't you got together and

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Speaker 2: do something for y Nana, for Jackie Jay, for Joyce. No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: that's what lame people do.

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Speaker 1: If I then go happy nineteenth. Oh you did use

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Speaker 1: that idea? Then help? I love you. Anyway, This poem is.

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Speaker 2: Taken forever and I'm like, why do I even blood

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Speaker 2: start this? She's going to read through and ditch the car.

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Speaker 2: Just start open the Mecca stuff. Anyways, it gains the

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Speaker 2: last line. I've done it. I screwed up the handwriten.

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Speaker 2: I misspelt something well and I was using a fountain pen.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, and I put a line through it and

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Speaker 2: then it was just this ugly splurch and I was like,

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Speaker 2: I have to go and by.

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Speaker 3: Nothing, I had to go out to a servo doing

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Speaker 3: servos and I can only describe as it screams, servo card,

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Speaker 3: servo card.

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Speaker 2: They're so generic. What human is this for? There's nothing

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Speaker 2: relevant to Lois.

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Speaker 1: She's going to know where'd you get this card? Oh wait,

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Speaker 1: there's a poem in here.

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Speaker 2: So I then had to go back again, now even

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Speaker 2: more nervous, to copy out this poem again by hand.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got to do a test one on a

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Speaker 4: just like a random piece of paper, and then maybe

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Speaker 4: you can graduate using handwriting.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it at the end a shake up? It's a skill.

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Speaker 2: I should have got someone on their tip while I

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Speaker 2: dictating my perment to write down who's got a pen license?

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Speaker 2: Because when I moved here to Australia, I organized you've

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Speaker 2: all got pen licensees.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like the best day of my life.

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Speaker 1: I still remember.

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Speaker 4: It's so clearly year five mister Lee's class. When I

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Speaker 4: finally got it after failing a few times, and you

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Speaker 4: get this laminated little piece of green license joking like

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Speaker 4: a driver's license like a driver's license. I think I

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Speaker 4: still have it at home. It's my pride and joy.

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Speaker 2: So you've got yours, you pass first time? Pahts, you've

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Speaker 2: got a maculate handwriting. I have.

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Speaker 1: I haven't got the bit of paper, but it's funny.

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Speaker 2: I found Audrey's the other day.

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Speaker 4: I picked up a book and it sort of fell

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Speaker 4: out of the book from when she was I don't

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Speaker 4: know what grade would have we been.

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Speaker 1: You thought you were grade five? Yeah, mine was grade five?

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Speaker 2: Okay, oh that was late.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, run great.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's the handwrite. I think it's those

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Speaker 2: eyes of yours. Rio has really bad eyes. So if

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Speaker 2: I ever go hey, can you ever quit?

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Speaker 1: Look and Google?

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Speaker 2: I can see him panic. He actually holds the laptop

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Speaker 2: up to like a time traveler. Who a thousand years old?

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Speaker 2: We do, and you're a thirty. So that with the

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Speaker 2: worst eye sights I've ever known for anyone. It's like

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Speaker 2: a mold who's coming out of as a WHOOPI hole.

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Speaker 2: I think that's just why you had to do it.

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Speaker 2: A couple of topics. Did you pass it first time?

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Speaker 1: Alex? I have no recollection of a pen license. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they have farm kids. They don't get them

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Speaker 1: to do them, you.

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Speaker 4: Know how license Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: If you lucky. I don't think the far reaches original

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Speaker 1: in yourself. Well, I don't think they had pen licenses, so.

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Speaker 2: We don't have them. Don't have them in the UK.

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Speaker 2: Handwriting is something, it's a basic. It's not something we

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Speaker 2: need to be rewarded with some kind of certificate a license.

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Speaker 2: It's not a big day in your life because it's

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Speaker 2: a basic that you can write.

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Speaker 4: I think it is just the very Australian thing where

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Speaker 4: you need a license for everything, like you can't do

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Speaker 4: anything in this country.

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Speaker 1: It's so much bureacracy in this country.

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Speaker 4: Even for small children to use a pen has to

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Speaker 4: go through some red tape.

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Speaker 2: You're right the myth of no worries. There are more

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Speaker 2: worries here than there are in the UK, with red

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Speaker 2: tip and licenses for everything in permits.

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