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Speaker 1: The Christian Connall Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: My Dad the Hero. What is your story that tells

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Speaker 2: you your dad's a great dad?

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Speaker 1: Michelle?

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Speaker 2: Good morning? Hello, good morning Michelle. So first of all,

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Speaker 2: tell us your dad's name Ralph?

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Speaker 1: Ralph? Good dad? Name that Ralph? All right? So Dan Ralph?

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Speaker 1: Why is he here? I mate?

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Speaker 3: Oh, a thousand years ago when I was doing Year twelve,

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Speaker 3: I was running really late with an assignment and Dad

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Speaker 3: bodies type ride a home from work and I'd write

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Speaker 3: my page, he type it out. I'd write my page,

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Speaker 3: he type it out, and it was an old night out.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's great.

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Speaker 2: I mean, now it's easy to type something out, isn't

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Speaker 2: he deal with our thumbs?

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Speaker 1: But to make writes a big old clunky machines.

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Speaker 3: With carbon paper? I needed a coffee a copy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Ah, that's a lovely story that.

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Speaker 2: It's those little things, isn't it, you know about being

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Speaker 2: a parent, that just showing up when you need them

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Speaker 2: without being asked.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's awesome.

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Speaker 3: And I called my dog after here.

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Speaker 4: So I've got a Ralphie at home and a Ralphie

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Speaker 4: so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Michelle, what lovely talk to you? Are two?

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Speaker 2: Dad Ralphil Michelle, thanks your story. Have you and Ralph

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Speaker 2: have a lovely day Sunday?

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Speaker 3: Wait will thank you? All?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 1: Here we going ahead, Debbie?

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Speaker 7: Hi, here are you going?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Debbie. So, what's your dad's name? So, my

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Speaker 1: dad's Bob, Bob another great, solid solid name. Then it bob,

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Speaker 1: three letters bob.

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Speaker 4: It is it is?

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 7: I was coming home late one night when I was

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Speaker 7: in my early twenties, just dropped a friend. If we've

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Speaker 7: been out clubbing all night. So like three or four

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Speaker 7: o'clock in the morning, I saw this big, massive spider.

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Speaker 7: Is that I thought it was on the outside of

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Speaker 7: my car. Oh, no, he was on the inside of

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Speaker 7: my car. So I've pulled over on this duck dark

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Speaker 7: part of the monash rang my dad. There there's a

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Speaker 7: spider in my car. He's like HOAt pumps dumped in

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Speaker 7: the cart, came out, found me.

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Speaker 1: One time of day? Was it three in the morning?

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Speaker 7: This is like three or four o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 1: I love that twenty four hour dad.

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Speaker 2: That is so we need to all aspire to.

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Speaker 1: My rapid response.

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Speaker 2: Oh, per oh, Bob sounds like a legend. Thank you

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Speaker 2: very much, Debbie. Enjoy your Day Sunday with your dad, Bob.

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Speaker 7: I will thanks so much, guys.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we've heard great stories about Gary, We've

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Speaker 2: heard about Bob, We've heard about Ralph.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about your dad. The Heroes Christian Connell's show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Father's Day on Sunday, we get lovely stories this morning,

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Speaker 2: my Dad the Hero on nine four one four one

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Speaker 2: oh four three. Michelle, Good morning, Good morning, Michelle. What

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Speaker 2: is the name of your dad?

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Speaker 5: It's Stuart.

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Speaker 1: Stuart, okay, tell us why Stewart is your hero?

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Speaker 5: Okay. Well, of all the wonderful things my father has

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Speaker 5: done for me, that the one that stands out. I

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Speaker 5: was in that grade one and we had like those

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Speaker 5: special order McDonald's days at school for lunch, and I

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Speaker 5: was sitting there and every single child had their McDonald's

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Speaker 5: with them. They all had a happy meal, and you know,

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Speaker 5: to be left out kind of makes you sad, you know.

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Speaker 5: So all of a sudden, the door opens and my

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Speaker 5: father comes in like the hero he is, and brings

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Speaker 5: me a big macmeal. So not only if you remember,

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Speaker 5: he actually got me the biggest meal out of all

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Speaker 5: the class. And that's just something I will never forget,

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Speaker 5: you know, because he works full time in the city

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Speaker 5: and he took the day off to come and do

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Speaker 5: that for me. It was really sleep Oh, I love that.

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Speaker 2: It's such a great story. Right, It's just a little

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Speaker 2: thing like that, but it means everything, doesn't it.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I tell that story to everybody.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure if the Macus Corporation listening, that's your next

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Speaker 2: Christmas advert.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You know when they do those heart felt the contents

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Speaker 2: advert always makes me cry that mummy surprised my son.

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Speaker 2: That advert with your dad coming with a happy meal.

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Speaker 1: That's a TV advert.

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Speaker 2: Although lucky enough to go to a school and you

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Speaker 2: say special day of course quite right now, yes, no

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Speaker 2: greater special day really?

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Speaker 1: All right, Michelle, thank you very much and cool you're welcome.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much. Guys.

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Speaker 1: Julia, good morning, Julia. What's your dad's name, mate.

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Speaker 4: My dad's name's Tony.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about Tony.

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Speaker 4: So he's a typical Italian and hates animals.

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Speaker 2: So I didn't know whether on shoeing a cat away.

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Speaker 4: He was really terrified as cats as well. So my

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Speaker 4: mom got us to cat when we were I was

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Speaker 4: maybe three years old, and then when I was seventeen,

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Speaker 4: she got into a fight and got scratched in the eye.

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Speaker 1: The cat or your mom.

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Speaker 2: Italian family.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so she got really bad list I I have

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Speaker 4: to mind you. My dad wouldn't go near her. He

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Speaker 4: was sitting on the couch and she came near him.

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Speaker 4: He would get up and walk away and pretend he's

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Speaker 4: doing something else. But that day he drove me around

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Speaker 4: to I think six or seven different vets her looked

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Speaker 4: at to get her all fixed up, and it was

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Speaker 4: very He doesn't like to pay for the animals. They're

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Speaker 4: not a part of the family. He doesn't want to

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Speaker 4: pay for her to get fixed. But that day he

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Speaker 4: drove around with me and I think he ended up

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Speaker 4: spending like a good two grand to get her eye

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Speaker 4: fixed up.

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Speaker 1: What a lovely story though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and now she's lived to twenty one years old.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's great. I love that story. Chilia.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. I have a lovely day Sunday

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Speaker 2: with dad. Thank you every day you learned something to

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Speaker 2: you on the show. Two things I don't day never

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Speaker 2: ever ever talk about boundary disputes on the radio. And

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Speaker 2: kryptolite to iteal him when he's cats is mafiosa Evan

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Speaker 2: comes to shoot me.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to get my cat.

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Speaker 2: Larry and throw it out with our vampires at the

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Speaker 2: stage in Garlic.

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Speaker 1: I did not know a Katrina. Good morning Katrina, Good morning, Christian.

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Speaker 6: How are you today?

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Speaker 1: I'm good, Katrina. Now tell us about Dad. Who is Dad?

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Speaker 1: What's his name?

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Speaker 6: Dad was called Aan. This is a story I told

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Speaker 6: at his funioral a couple of years ago. But when

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Speaker 6: I was in Grade one must be their grade one,

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Speaker 6: I came down with the chicken pops and so I

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Speaker 6: missed out on a family day to Luna Park. I

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Speaker 6: stayed at home with Mom while they took my brother

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Speaker 6: and my sister. But then a couple of weeks after that,

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Speaker 6: they had a day off work and I was called

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Speaker 6: to the front office at school, and I was thinking,

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Speaker 6: why am I in trouble? For when I got there,

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Speaker 6: Dad was at the office. He took a day out

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Speaker 6: of work to take me to Luna Park.

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Speaker 1: It was just mean, Oh my god, it's the best.

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Speaker 1: Oh Ian, r I p and what a lovely dad

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Speaker 1: thing to do?

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Speaker 6: That here was the best.

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Speaker 1: I love that story. It's so special. Oh that's beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you'd be thinking of him Sunday and that story.

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Speaker 2: But what a lovely memory to still have of your

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Speaker 2: dad day, Ian, Katrina.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I'm hoping moving Winner's life this year for

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Speaker 6: him because you're the biggest.

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Speaker 2: Days from I Yes, yes, do it for Ian, Come

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Speaker 2: Ony smash the Pies next Thursday, Katrina. I hope you

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Speaker 2: still have a lovely day Sunday thinking about your dad, Ian.

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Speaker 2: But thank you very much for calling us up to

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Speaker 2: us that beautiful story.

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Speaker 6: Thank you have good Way kids.

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