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Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 2: What Blew Away? Samantha, good morning, good morning?

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Speaker 1: Why are you Christian?

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Speaker 2: Good month? I had a great weekends actually called in the show,

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Speaker 2: so what blew Away?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm in Geelong and I got a call from

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Speaker 1: the Sees saying that there was a trampoline ended up

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Speaker 1: in my backyard from my neighbor.

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Speaker 2: Up the road, blowing down the road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it ended up in my backyard. And all I

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Speaker 1: said was to the Sees guy, not my dogs. But

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Speaker 1: I wasn't worried about the dogs. First thing I said,

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Speaker 1: is it jumpable? Can I come home and jump on it?

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I lost my barbecue smashed. It's gone up

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Speaker 1: the side of the house and my dog kennels went

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Speaker 1: flying and my dogs were huffing and puffing.

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Speaker 2: When I got cudda, this just sounds like the Wizard

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Speaker 2: of Oce. What do you mean the dog kennel flew

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Speaker 2: up in the air.

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Speaker 1: Well, they flew, They chew plastic dog kennels and they

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Speaker 1: ended up down near the clothes line. So you imagine

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Speaker 1: if they were in there. I would not like to

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Speaker 1: think if they were in there when that happened.

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Speaker 2: I've never heard if not. Dogs sort of been blown

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Speaker 2: up in the air and sort of down the road,

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Speaker 2: tumbling along with the trampoline, dogs in their kennels.

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Speaker 3: So that's sad.

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Speaker 1: That's terrible, isn't it?

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Speaker 4: It is?

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Speaker 2: And so how many doors away? Was the was the

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Speaker 2: trampoline from the top end of the street?

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Speaker 1: All houses down?

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Speaker 2: Bloody? I was strong with the winds. Where was this? Then?

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Speaker 2: That's chaos?

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Speaker 1: It was pretty bad. I lost I've lost a few

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Speaker 1: tiles and different things. And the guttering is a bit mangled,

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Speaker 1: but that's all right.

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Speaker 3: It can be fixed.

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Speaker 2: Samantha, thank you very much. You kill me. I have

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Speaker 2: a good day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to kristin Bay, Maria coom Oning gang.

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Speaker 2: How are you where, Maria? What blew away?

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Speaker 5: My son?

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Speaker 6: When he went to school. We sent him to a

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Speaker 6: private school and part of the uniform was a ridiculously

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Speaker 6: expensive hat they had to wear. And about three weeks

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Speaker 6: into his first term, he was standing on the train

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Speaker 6: station and the wind caught the hat and off it

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Speaker 6: went and it was rolling down the station and he

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Speaker 6: went after it, and pretty similar to you in your cabana,

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Speaker 6: he went rugby diving just as it was about to

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Speaker 6: go off the station onto the tracks. Managed to catch it,

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Speaker 6: but came home with extremely badly Gray's knees and elbows.

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Speaker 6: But he said, I didn't lose my hat.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you can't lose the hat because no hat, no

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Speaker 2: play shed all lu stream wind.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't that's not a hat, Jack. It was

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Speaker 6: a hat that they had to wear going to and

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Speaker 6: from school. They didn't have to wear it when they

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Speaker 5: That.

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Speaker 6: Oh, it was ridiculous. They used to refer to it

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Speaker 6: as the summer of Kubra and it looked like all

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Speaker 3: How have I never seen these students work in the street?

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Speaker 6: He was on the other side of town, Jack, you

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Speaker 6: lived on.

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Speaker 2: I think they'd go to school under the cover of darkness.

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Speaker 6: You'd know which school I was talking about, and every

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Speaker 6: godbody who goes there knows about it as well.

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Speaker 2: They're still wearing the felt the coobra's today, are they No?

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Speaker 6: I think they faced them out in the last couple

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Speaker 6: of years. That this was about ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: Amazing scenes, Maria, very funny story. Thanksgiving us to call mete.

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Speaker 2: This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast, asking you right now?

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Speaker 2: What blew away? Good morning, Adam at work already, Christian.

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Speaker 2: One of my early memories is the day we moved

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Speaker 2: to Melbourne from Regional VIC. I was about five years old.

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Speaker 2: To cheer me up about leaving and moving to the

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Speaker 2: big Smoke, my parents had got me a yellow balloon.

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Speaker 2: We're about to get in the car and leave forever.

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Speaker 2: The balloon blew out my hands and took off down

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Speaker 2: the driveway my feckless father. This is still obviously burns.

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Speaker 2: This happened in nineteen seventy eight, my feckless father, which

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Speaker 2: way back in nineteen seventy eight, but an even greater

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Speaker 2: out from the driveway moments later, Christian. It was in

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Speaker 2: the stratosphere. All during the two hour drive to our

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Speaker 2: points in the sky and yell, there's your balloon. Each

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Speaker 2: time I'd strained to look up and not see anything.

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Speaker 2: Each time my uncle would tell me I just missed it.

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Speaker 2: It's gone behind a cloud, before pointing again at some

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Speaker 2: nonspecific cloud. I'm not saying that was traumatized or anything,

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Speaker 2: but I'm forty seven now and I'm still thinking about

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Speaker 2: that yellow balloon. Adamat bestless, restless father? All right? What

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Speaker 2: blew away? Phil? Good morning, morning guys.

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Speaker 3: How are we?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We're good. Feel we'll haping a great weekend? What

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Speaker 2: blew away? Phil?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 6: I was down at the beach at Rosebud. My umbrella

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Speaker 6: blew away and went about twenty meters and a couple

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Speaker 6: of lovely ladies grabbed it, pully, and as they were

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Speaker 6: wrangling mine, there's blue.

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Speaker 1: Lots blow away.

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Speaker 4: So I gave chase for theirs and.

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Speaker 1: Then we're about two hundred meters sprinting bards try and

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Speaker 1: get it back to this lovely group ladies.

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Speaker 6: Who are somebody?

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Speaker 2: What a scene down the beach to be watching that.

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Speaker 2: It's just an innocent bystander, not involved in the frack arm.

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Speaker 6: Will I spent running after attempts?

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Speaker 4: What happened?

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Speaker 2: It's hard giving chase anything in the sand. Brutal, It's brutal.

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Speaker 2: It is fell, thank you very much, and cool mate,

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Speaker 2: that's got a leanne here. Good morning Liam, good morning, An.

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Speaker 2: What blew away? Ah?

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Speaker 4: Well, we were towing home our canravan on the freeway

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Speaker 4: at one hundred kilometers and the roof of the cantervan

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Speaker 4: that wasn't nailed down also blew backwards, causing carnage all

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Speaker 4: over the road and massive traffic jams and a great

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Speaker 2: Ly So basically after a while you're just knowing, well,

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Speaker 6: Yes, it was like a trailer just been stripped away.

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Speaker 2: So what it happened was there a window open or

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Speaker 5: No, no where you hooked it in at the front.

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Speaker 5: The wind had caught that somehow. It was an old

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Speaker 2: Then you caused a massive, a massive traffic jam.

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Speaker 4: Well car's just had to pull over everywhere trying to

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Speaker 2: Did you start to run around and get kick nacked?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we pulled over, and friends of ours that

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Speaker 6: We were all trying to clear it all off the road.

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Speaker 6: And yeah, what.

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Speaker 2: Absolute nightmare, Leanne. Incredible story though, thanks for thank you

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Speaker 2: speak a bit. Why did you cause a massive traffic

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Speaker 3: On?

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Speaker 2: People hate you, they don't care for your backstory. Well,

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Speaker 2: while the car's broken down, if you've caused a traffic jam,

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Speaker 2: you want to hide in that car? We went to

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Speaker 2: be towed away? Have we got here? Kelly? Good morning, Kelly?

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Speaker 3: Can i Christian? How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good Kelly. What what got blown away?

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Speaker 3: Well? We were sitting at a cafe in Regional Victoria,

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Speaker 3: I thought we'd go and check it out. I'm sitting

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Speaker 3: and onto our car, a.

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Speaker 2: Perfect landing, and the Chianges did not give it ten

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Speaker 2: out of ten. Oh my god, Kelly, So what happened?

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Speaker 2: Did it set off or smashing the nod?

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Speaker 3: It did take off a bit of duco and we'd

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Speaker 3: And my husband walks out and I'm just there, no umbrella.

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Speaker 2: You see the brolly take off and land on your.

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Speaker 3: Own above me. It was above me, Chrystal. You know,

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Speaker 3: I was sitting under this huge umbrella which she would

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Speaker 3: we go and check the car and of course it's

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Speaker 3: hit the car. It's gone up the street like it

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Speaker 3: of course the cafe owners tried to get out of

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Speaker 3: playing the insurance, saying it was an act of God,

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Speaker 3: We got our car fixed.

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Speaker 2: Because you get a free breakfast.

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Speaker 3: No we didn't go back. No no, no free breakfast,

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Speaker 3: and we decided maybe not to go back in the

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Speaker 3: recommend a cafe twenty one in case you know, similar

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Speaker 3: acts of God may have occurred.

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Speaker 2: Who knows, I opened a cafe called acts of God's

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Speaker 2: part of the Third of Eating. You don't know what

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Speaker 2: might happen to tornadoes. Kelly, thank you very much, she

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Speaker 2: called my great story, no worries.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. Christian.

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