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Speaker 1: Now we've been talking about ambulance wait times this morning

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Speaker 1: and they're certainly back on the agenda after was revealed

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Speaker 1: by the ABC News earlier this week that a Darwin

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Speaker 1: dancer waited for more than six hours for an ambulance

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Speaker 1: to arrive after dislocating her knee at a dance competition

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. So, twenty year old Banique Drives fell to

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Speaker 1: the ground and started screaming in pain at about eight

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Speaker 1: fifteen pm. Now she was told by emergency call operators

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Speaker 1: or her mum, was to stay pushed until paramedics arrived.

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Speaker 1: The problem is that ambulance didn't arrive for hours. Now,

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Speaker 1: Monique and her mum, Rebecca, joined me in the studio

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Speaker 1: this morning. Good morning to you both, Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for your time.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Now, Monique, what happened on Saturday night?

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Speaker 3: So I was coming to the end of my routine

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Speaker 3: and I went to go do my first lunch and

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Speaker 3: I assume money is like hyper extend and back and

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Speaker 3: then it's just like let and slapped the floor and

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Speaker 3: assume when it did that, it's just like popped my

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Speaker 3: knee cap out.

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Speaker 1: Goodness me, So it's dislocated, you know, Yes, what happened next?

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Speaker 1: You've obviously fallen to the ground and screamed in pain

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Speaker 1: and then laid there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was laying there holding my knee. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: until I looked at it till I realized like, okay,

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Speaker 3: this is something more than just like a twined muscle

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Speaker 3: or something. And everyone like that was there didn't know

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Speaker 3: what was happening until like they saw it.

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Speaker 1: Mannie, can you describe for me what that pain like

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Speaker 1: felt like? Have you ever have you experienced something like

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Speaker 1: that before?

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Speaker 3: So this is my first major injury to myself. It

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Speaker 3: was really painful. Like I don't think like a sprain

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Speaker 3: ankle is nothing compared to what yea and dissocated news.

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Speaker 1: And so what happened next? Rebecca? From your perspective, I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming you've I've seen your daughter go down and thought,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, what's happened here? What happened next?

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Speaker 2: So we contacted an ambulance to come and give some assistance,

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Speaker 2: and we were told like they were pretty busy for

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Speaker 2: the night. We were ringing them every hour for the

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Speaker 2: first couple of hours. Then after about four hours, we

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Speaker 2: decided to try and move her ourselves because I made it.

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Speaker 2: One of the phone calls, I had asked the operator

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Speaker 2: if it would be easier if we did try and

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Speaker 2: move her, and they did tell us that was a

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Speaker 2: choice that only I could make, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: we didn't know how long it was going to be,

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Speaker 2: so I thought, well, I would try at least to

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Speaker 2: get her some help that she needed. We ended up

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Speaker 2: getting her onto a luggage trolley that the hotel had

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Speaker 2: let us use, but then realized because her knee was

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Speaker 2: like her leg was at like a right angle, so

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Speaker 2: we couldn't actually fit her in the car once we

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Speaker 2: got downstairs into the lobby.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's making me sort of WinCE in pain just

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Speaker 1: thinking about it and thinking about you guys trying.

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Speaker 3: To do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you must have felt, you know, like I look

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Speaker 1: at it from a real mom perspective as well, and

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Speaker 1: my daughter's a few years younger. You must have felt

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Speaker 1: pretty helpless in that moment, thinking I want to do

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Speaker 1: everything I can to help my daughter.

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Speaker 2: Definitely, it was quite confronting as a parent to see.

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Speaker 2: And then I ended up bringing the email and service

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Speaker 2: again about two thirty in the morning and just asking

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Speaker 2: them if it was okay if I could give her

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Speaker 2: some pain relief just to try and help until they

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Speaker 2: could get to us. They said that that would be

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Speaker 2: fine because they didn't know how long it was gonna be.

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Speaker 2: And then probably an hour after we gave pain relief,

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Speaker 2: they managed to turn up, which was really great.

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Speaker 1: We spoke to Saint John a little bit earlier this

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Speaker 1: morning and they said that they've been in contact with

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Speaker 1: you guys or they've spoken to you guys, and that

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Speaker 1: they had four crews that were you know that our

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Speaker 1: emergency ambulances on Saturday night. I believe they had about

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Speaker 1: thirty two different categorized incidents, so no doubt they were

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Speaker 1: really busy. But they also revealed that they've spent two

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Speaker 1: thousand hours over the last three months ramping at the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that when you guys arrived, you then

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Speaker 1: you were outside the hospital in the ambulance as well.

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Speaker 1: Weren't you for quite some time? Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Like they got me inside and we like I

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Speaker 3: was probably laying there in their bed from the ambulance

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Speaker 3: for like a good thirty minutes waiting for a free

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Speaker 3: bed to go get an extray done on my knee

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Speaker 3: because we tried to get an extra done in the

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Speaker 3: so they had to train.

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like they really tried to sort of

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Speaker 1: do all that they could once you got into their care.

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Speaker 3: Yeah they did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean look for you guys, what does it

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Speaker 1: sort of what does it demonstrate for you going through

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Speaker 1: the situation over the weekend, Because for me, I heard

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Speaker 1: it and I've spoken to other parents as well who've

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Speaker 1: called for an ambulance after an injury at you know,

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Speaker 1: a basketball game, at a footy match, Who've had to

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Speaker 1: wait for quite some time. And it indicates to me

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Speaker 1: that our ambulance systems Saint John are under a lot

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Speaker 1: of pressure and they're bloody busy, but our health system

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Speaker 1: is you know, equally under pressure, and it means that

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Speaker 1: people like yourself, Monik, are waiting for hours to be

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Speaker 1: able to get in. Like what do you think it

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Speaker 1: sort of shows you about the health system and about

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Speaker 1: you know, the way in which things are operating right

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Speaker 1: now across the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 3: I reckon they need a lot more help, and not

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Speaker 3: from just us as a public, but from the government

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Speaker 3: and like more money to be able to get the

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Speaker 3: fundings for the hospital and the ambulance services.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think, mam?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the same, Like we need to invest

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Speaker 2: more in the house system and the emergency services because

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Speaker 2: everyone is doing it tough out there, and we have

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Speaker 2: got nothing negative to say about any of the service

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Speaker 2: that we got because it was all one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic, but it was just that, like that

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Speaker 2: waiting period. But if we don't talk about it, nothing's

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Speaker 2: going to change. So that's why we thought, well, hey, no,

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Speaker 2: we need to speak up and say, you know, this

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Speaker 2: is not okay.

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Speaker 1: Good on you guys, because I know it can be

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Speaker 1: difficult putting yourself out of your comfort zone and speaking publicly,

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Speaker 1: particularly after you've gone through what is a really traumatic event,

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Speaker 1: but your spot on. You know, if you don't speak

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Speaker 1: about it, and if the government isn't aware of the

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Speaker 1: pressures that everyday Territorians are then being placed under as

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Speaker 1: a result of those stresses to our health system, then

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Speaker 1: nothing will ever change.

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Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right. It's just yeah, very frustrating.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I feel for the employees of Saint John one hundred

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Speaker 2: percent more than what I feel for us, because I

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Speaker 2: know how hard that they do do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, look, how long are you gonna be off

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Speaker 1: your leg now? In terms of your dancing.

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Speaker 3: Probably six weeks, but I'm hoping a lot shorter. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: get back quicker.

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Speaker 1: So tell me were you I mean, I'll get to

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Speaker 1: the nitty gritty now that we've gone through the real

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Speaker 1: serious stuff. Will you compete? Was it a competition or

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Speaker 1: was it a you know, like an exam? What was it?

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Speaker 3: So it was an actual competition where they've come up

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Speaker 3: from all parts of Australia. Like, this was my fifth

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Speaker 3: one for the season, and it was like the last

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Speaker 3: one and it was my last dance. I'm probably happy

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Speaker 3: that the dance was that section was the last one

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Speaker 3: from the other three I did. Yeah, probably worked out

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Speaker 3: in my favor.

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness me your poor thing right at the end

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Speaker 1: as well. So did you get like did you get

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Speaker 1: you know, a score or anything or what should hurt yourself?

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Speaker 1: That was it?

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Speaker 3: So from all my other routines, I had a lower

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Speaker 3: score from that, but from the one that I injured myself,

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Speaker 3: I got like eighty seven point five.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, so you did really well, true champion.

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Speaker 2: I reckon definitely.

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Speaker 3: I've never still three of us girls, but I was

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Speaker 3: gone on Place third anyway, but they still okay. Showed

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Speaker 3: up the next day and everyone was just like, so surprised,

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Speaker 3: how I come backlash.

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful, still showing up, still being there to support

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Speaker 1: your mates as well, and to support everybody despite what

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Speaker 1: you'd gone through the night before, your little legend. That's awesome. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thank you both so much for joining me in the

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Speaker 1: studio this morning. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Patie, thank you