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Speaker 1: Let's head across and catch up with the Lord Mayor

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Speaker 1: of Darwin right now. Convat Scarlets, good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie from beautiful Money Grida. I'm visiting Money

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Speaker 2: Grida as the president of Local Gum Association of the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory and I'm in the company of the Mayor

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Speaker 2: here of Money Grida, Matt Ryan, which shows me around

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Speaker 2: the community, the infrastructure of the houses, your houses, the

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Speaker 2: new houses. And yes, we discuss exactly the same plot problem.

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Speaker 2: We're discussing law and order in the general community.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, Conn, my mum lives out in Maden Grida.

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Speaker 1: So if you head out and head out and and

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Speaker 1: catch up with Leslie, you have to say.

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Speaker 2: Hello, find another wolf. I say hello the girl.

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Speaker 1: But she has said, yes, there are some issues in

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Speaker 1: Maden Grida at the moment when it comes to crime.

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Speaker 1: So there's no doubt this is something that we're experiencing

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Speaker 1: right around the territory. Con Can I ask you, I

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Speaker 1: know we raised this on the show last time you're on,

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Speaker 1: but wondering if there has been a bit of an

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Speaker 1: update around the Jingly Water Gardens, the footbridge there. It's

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Speaker 1: been raised by well a number of a number of people.

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Speaker 1: Is there any update on that foot bridge?

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Speaker 2: Well, the update Katie is at the moment is closed

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Speaker 2: for the same reason because we have to get the

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Speaker 2: engineers to actually put a plan for repairs, and then

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Speaker 2: we have to get the subcontractors and material. What appalls

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Speaker 2: me is the fact that we close the bridge. We

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Speaker 2: extensively advertise why the bridge is closed because it is

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Speaker 2: a risk to the public, and we secured it. People

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Speaker 2: cut the ropes. We secured it with metal barriers. Somebody

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Speaker 2: use an angle grind or to cut it. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what people don't understand. When we say it's a

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Speaker 2: risk to the public, that means if you walk on it,

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Speaker 2: you might fall through, might hurt yourself. Then of course

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Speaker 2: you have nobody else to blame. The bridge is going

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Speaker 2: to be fixed, and it's going to be all the

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Speaker 2: faulty paths are got to be replaced. But it can't

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Speaker 2: be done overnight because it has to have an engineering

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Speaker 2: study and we have to actually do it properly. I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to cut corners just because somebody wants to

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Speaker 2: actually ride it tomorrow. It has to be done properly

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Speaker 2: because the danger to the public is what worries me

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Speaker 2: a lot.

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Speaker 3: So how long do you reckon it's going to be

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Speaker 3: closed for corn.

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Speaker 2: Kerry At the moment, I've got believed a lot. I've

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Speaker 2: got problems getting contractors to do some of the gardening

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Speaker 2: and some of the menabers in the park. There are

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Speaker 2: enough people out there or they're all fully occupied. Darwin

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Speaker 2: is buzzing at the moment. So it's going to be done.

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Speaker 2: I can't give you a timeline for the same reason

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Speaker 2: because nobody can actually give me a timeline where they

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Speaker 2: can do it. But it is going to be done,

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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to do it as soon as practically possible.

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Speaker 3: Corn A message from one of our listeners this morning.

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Speaker 1: Are the down City Council going to start lending cat

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Speaker 1: traps again?

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Speaker 2: Well, the only thing they have to do is speak

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Speaker 2: to our people. The city Council is actually prepared to

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Speaker 2: address the issue of the cats because they can be really,

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Speaker 2: really significant problem with a native life. And if you

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Speaker 2: see what's happening in the statistics, their cats are terrible

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Speaker 2: and kill more birds and more native life than anything else. Yes,

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Speaker 2: we are prepared to give cut traps. The only thing

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Speaker 2: we have to do is talk to our people in

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Speaker 2: their council and make the arrangement.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm sure to that person listening that answers

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Speaker 1: that question for them. Colney's been a bit of media

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Speaker 1: today well or over the last couple of days about

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Speaker 1: the bus exchange at Casuarina Square. I know that it's

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Speaker 1: something that Sentinel had raised in the past about whether

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Speaker 1: that bus stop there at Casarina Square may or may

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Speaker 1: not move. Do you have any update from the council's perspective.

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Speaker 2: We haven't got anything concrete yet. The only thing we

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Speaker 2: hear is rumors luck it's going to be relocated in

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Speaker 2: the trial roads out of Casarina. What really works me,

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Speaker 2: it's already a hive of undisocial behavior. Why you want

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Speaker 2: to put an exchange bus exchange cender and next to

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Speaker 2: the liquor store, which is going to create more problems

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Speaker 2: because whether they're proposed to put it is next to

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Speaker 2: the Casurina Club. Now, I don't say that Casuna Club

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Speaker 2: would do the wrong thing. Our go to everybody, but

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Speaker 2: of course the temptation is there. And my biggest problem

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Speaker 2: is not direct sale. It's secondly supply. I think the

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Speaker 2: department of the Depot has to think seriously where they're

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Speaker 2: going to put it, because sometimes we're asking we're inviting

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Speaker 2: troubles ourselves.

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Speaker 1: Now, what about with the you know, with the bus

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Speaker 1: stop that's there at the wool Words CB day do

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Speaker 1: you reckon We need to have a recink on that one.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Katie for raising that one. We've been asking

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Speaker 2: for that one to be rethink they relocate the bus stops.

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Speaker 2: The answer we get this, we don't know where to

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Speaker 2: put them. Well, that's the idea where you pay consultants

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Speaker 2: so much money to find a place to put them,

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Speaker 2: because it looks like the concentration of the bus stops

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Speaker 2: next to Woolworths it creates problems for the public and

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Speaker 2: suddenly for the shopping center. We've seen some footage video

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Speaker 2: about the issue with the fight between people from Port Kits.

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Speaker 2: Even Matt Ryan, the mayor of Money Good that he

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Speaker 2: watched this footage and he was a pole that people

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Speaker 2: will behave like that when you've got indigenous leaders because

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Speaker 2: this other people for the way they behave in the cities.

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Speaker 2: That tells you something that is a serious problem. And

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Speaker 2: people used to be standing up and be counted for it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm glad that matt Ryon does that conn with the.

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Speaker 1: Wool Worth one or with the you know, with that

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Speaker 1: bus stop. Have you got any idea where you reckon

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Speaker 1: it could go?

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Speaker 2: Well, we have no say on that one of the decisions.

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Speaker 2: It's by people, and people will decide where to put it.

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Speaker 2: We can only advise them that this is not the

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Speaker 2: right location. It can be further up, further down, or

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Speaker 2: even split the bus stops and do them in different areas.

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Speaker 2: But they keep telling us that if they do that

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Speaker 2: to underre disturbing the bus network. I mean, how much

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Speaker 2: how difficult it is actually to get somebody to provide

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Speaker 2: some solutions and then consult with the community.

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Speaker 1: Where it should But so con is it something that

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Speaker 1: the council has actually written to Dipple about about having

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Speaker 1: it moved.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's not only the council that talks to people

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Speaker 2: about it, but if you look the newspaper and the

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Speaker 2: comments in Facebook, you find out that the whole public

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Speaker 2: is concerned about this issue you and they want something

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Speaker 2: to be done about it.

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Speaker 3: All right, Corn, a very quick one.

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there is any update on that Bayview

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Speaker 1: issue that we'd asked you about about last week. I

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Speaker 1: know the wet season's coming soon. Apparently the poll's not

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Speaker 1: cemented in concerns about lack of lighting.

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Speaker 3: Any idea where it's at.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I asked for that one after we finish Kate.

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Speaker 2: The answer I got is the problem we have is

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Speaker 2: in the state. Supplies haven't arrived yet and we can't

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Speaker 2: finish the project with get without getting the unnecessary equipment.

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Speaker 2: The problem is that the necessary equipment have to come

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Speaker 2: from overseas, mainly from China, so it's a logistics problem.

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Speaker 2: We were trying to sour local material now with not

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Speaker 2: much access on my head, but will continue to do so.

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Speaker 1: Corn, Before I let you go this morning, I understand

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Speaker 1: that there's another plant give.

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Speaker 2: Away, another plentad plants.

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Speaker 3: You know your plans, you tray.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Well, actually you're right. It's a price giveaway

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Speaker 2: for the local residence because giving plant away it's a

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Speaker 2: big price. Yes, it's coming up in the first weekend

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Speaker 2: to August. Heavy look our website. We're going to give

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Speaker 2: it another three thousand plans Already this year will be

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Speaker 2: six thousand plans giveaway and will continue to sow for

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Speaker 2: the rest of the year. We already allocated three million

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Speaker 2: dollars for more trees in Darwin, and that's what it

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Speaker 2: will be done by us. But at the same time

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Speaker 2: we want to give plans to people to actually plan

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Speaker 2: their own verges or their backyard. Well contacts free and

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Speaker 2: only for people in Darwin, not Palmerston, not surroundings, well Conn.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time this morning, saget

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Speaker 1: I to everybody in Maddeningrada for us. I know we've

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Speaker 1: got a few listeners there. We've interviewed the may from

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Speaker 1: mad and Grador a couple of times before, so I'm

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Speaker 1: make sure you say hello.

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Speaker 2: And I'm promised to chase your mother here for you.

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Speaker 3: Good on you. Thanks God,